Types of fiction 1. Flash fiction: Flash fiction has roots going back to Aesop’s Fables‚ and practitioners have included Bolesław Prus‚ Anton Chekhov‚ O. Henry‚ Franz Kafka‚ H.P.Lovecraft‚ Ray Bradbury and Lydia Davis. New life has been brought to flash fiction by the Internet‚ with its demand for short‚ concise works. A ready market for flash-fiction works is ezines; however‚ flash fiction is also published by many print magazines. Markets specializing in flash fiction include SmokeLong Quarterly
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Many plays‚ whether dramatic or comedic‚ have ties into the social issues and setting of the time they were written. Writers such as Anton Chekhov‚ Tennessee Williams‚ and even Mark Twain have used the society of their time to produce satirical and even tragic works of literature. One of the best examples of a play that gathers meaning from societal values is Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband. In 1893 Oscar Wilde began writing his fourth of five works (Tornaritis‚ Nicholas. Shelby‚ C. ed. "An Ideal
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With many social and political changes occurring during the 1800’s‚ the Russian Intelligentsia’s view on the peasantry also saw a shift. Recent emancipations in the country saw millions of former serfs and farmers with newfound rights and statuses but also saw exposed many faults in current labor practices and corruption within the bureaucratic levels of the Russian state. The current nobility took it upon themselves to decide how they handle the new working class problems and restructuring of the
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The Story The setting of “Rothschild’s Fiddle” is a squalid little village where Yakov Ivanov‚ a Russian coffin maker‚ and Rothschild‚ an equally poor Jewish musician‚ both live. Yakov lives in a one-room hut‚ which contains his gloomy wares as well as his humble domestic possessions. Childless‚ the dour Yakov barely notices Martha‚ his downtrodden wife of fifty years. Yakov has an unexpected side to his character‚ for he is a gifted‚ if rude‚ violinist who is sometimes invited to join the local
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Introduction: Bestseller versus classics has been a subject of controversy from the time immemorial. Many readers think of them being located poles apart. However‚ many think them to be complementary to each other. A classic‚ by nature‚ has to be a masterpiece‚ a gem written by the author in such a way that it is almost flawless‚ possess something that no other book has done. But unfortunately‚ by the very nature of the word ‘bestseller’‚ a piece of work has to pass through the rigours of trade‚
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human nature. Working with directors Alexander Fedotov and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko‚ Stanislavsky would eventually co-found the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898. His international success in the early 1900s is tied to the rise of Anton Chekhov’s popularityas a playwright. Chekhov‚ already a
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Short stories came into the literature world as brief‚ single sitting stories‚ yet containing an exclusively developed subject. A short story is packed with descriptive details that form together to grab the reader’s attention in a short amount of time. The authors indulge in rich details to create the narrative into a jaw dropping meaning story from the beginning to the ending. The author begins with constructing the story with the building blocks of literary devices. Short story authors apply the
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Tennessee Williams was a post-modern dramatist following World War II who brought Southern Gothic style to popularity. He conveyed realistic‚ broken characters to his audience‚ drawing inspiration to his own family. In 1947 A Streetcar Named Desire first appeared on the Broadway stage. In 1948 it had brought fame to Marlon Brando and won Williams a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Within the drama‚ themes of beauty‚ desire‚ manipulation‚ and social class draw empathy for the manipulative Blanche. Tennessee
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------------------------------------------------- The Seagull‚ Anton Chekhov ------------------------------------------------- Key Facts full title · The Seagull author · Anton Chekhov type of work · Play genre · Tragi-Comedy language · Russian. English Translation by Paul Schmidt time and place written · Written in 1895‚ Russia date of first publication · Not applicable (drama) publisher · HarperCollins‚ Harper Flamingo edition narrator · None point of view · Not applicable (drama)
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In Anton Chekhov ’s "The Lady with the Dog" the exposition‚ or background information that ’s important to know for the story‚ is almost entirely given at the very beginning. Most importantly we learn that the protagonist of the story‚ Dmitri Gurov‚ disrespects females and‚ "almost always spoke ill of women‚ and when they were talked about in his presence‚ used to call them the lower race‚ ’" (Booth‚ Hunter‚ and Mays 218). This is important to know because it helps the reader understand how profound
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