"The Sisters (short story) ""The Sisters"" is a short story by James Joyce, the first of a series of short stories called ""Dubliners"". Originally published in the ""Irish Homestead"" on 13 August 1904, ""The Sisters"" was Joyce's first published work of fiction. Joyce later revised the story and had it, along with the rest of the series, published in book form in 1914. ″The Sisters″ gives a portrait of the relationship between a nameless boy and the infirm priest Father Flynn. The priest who has been relieved of his priestly duties has acted as a mentor for the boy in"
"P. G. Wodehouse short stories bibliography The following is an incomplete list of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse grouped by the Wodehouse canon to which they belong, if applicable. ""For a list of Wodehouse's books, including novels and collections of short stories, see P. G. Wodehouse bibliography."" The following 10 short stories feature Blandings Castle, its owner Lord Emsworth or members of his family. There are also 11 Blandings novels including an unfinished novel. There are 21 short stories in the main Drones Club canon. A subset of the Drones Club stories are told by ""Eggs, Beans and Crumpets"":"
"of ""The Oblong Box"" which aired on January 8, 1975. It is available at archive.org. The Oblong Box (short story) ""The Oblong Box"" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844, about a sea voyage and a mysterious box. The story opens with the unnamed narrator recounting a summer sea voyage from Charleston, South Carolina to New York City aboard the ship ""Independence"". The narrator learns that his old college friend Cornelius Wyatt is aboard with his wife and two sisters, though he has reserved three state-rooms. After conjecturing the extra room was for a servant"
"The Oblong Box (short story) ""The Oblong Box"" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844, about a sea voyage and a mysterious box. The story opens with the unnamed narrator recounting a summer sea voyage from Charleston, South Carolina to New York City aboard the ship ""Independence"". The narrator learns that his old college friend Cornelius Wyatt is aboard with his wife and two sisters, though he has reserved three state-rooms. After conjecturing the extra room was for a servant or extra baggage, he learns his friend has brought on board an oblong pine box:"
"know that the books related to people of the neighbourhood. The Brontës used their neighbours as inspiration for characters in many of their books. Anne Brontë published ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" under the name Acton Bell. Charlotte Brontë published ""Shirley"" and ""Jane Eyre"" under the name Currer Bell. Emily Brontë published ""Wuthering Heights"" as Ellis Bell. A well-known example of the former is Mary Ann Evans, who wrote as George Eliot. Another example is Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, a 19th-century French writer who used the pen name George Sand. In contrast, some twentieth and twenty first century male romance"
"in the novel ""Ulysses"" (which is set on 16 June 1904) indicates the failure of his friends' plan. According to Stanislaus Joyce, the three parts of the story recall the tripartite structure of Dante's ""Divine Comedy"" (""inferno-purgatorio-paradiso""). Grace (short story) ""Grace"" is a short story by James Joyce written toward the end of 1905 and published in his 1914 collection ""Dubliners."" The story begins with an unconscious man who has fallen down the stairs in a pub after heavy drinking. A friend of his, Mr. Power, finds him, reveals him to be named Tom Kernan, and takes him home to"
"Brontë family The Brontës () were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848), and Anne (1820–1849), are well known as poets and novelists. Like many contemporary female writers, they originally published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Their stories immediately attracted attention for their passion and originality. Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"" was the first to know success, while Emily's ""Wuthering Heights"", Anne's ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" and other works were"
"Bendigo Benevolent Asylum in Victoria, Australia, on 12 February 1901. The house is a Grade II* listed building and was converted in 2014 into an award winning bed-and-breakfast establishment. Ponden Hall Ponden Hall is a farmhouse near Stanbury in West Yorkshire, England. It is famous for reputedly being the inspiration for Thrushcross Grange, the home of the Linton family, Edgar, Isabella, and Cathy, in Emily Brontë's novel ""Wuthering Heights"". However, it does not match the description given in the novel and is closer in size and appearance to the farmhouse of Wuthering Heights itself. The Brontë biographer Winifred Gerin believed"
"Tintner include ""The Secret Garden"" (1911), by Frances Hodgson Burnett; ""Poor Girl"" (1951), by Elizabeth Taylor; ""The Peacock Spring"" (1975), by Rumer Godden; ""Ghost Story"" (1975) by Peter Straub; ""The Accursed Inhabitants of House Bly"" (1994) by Joyce Carol Oates; and ""Miles and Flora"" (1997)—a sequel—by Hilary Bailey. Further literary adaptations identified by other authors include ""Affinity"" (1999), by Sarah Waters; ""A Jealous Ghost"" (2005), by A. N. Wilson; and ""Florence & Giles"" (2010), by John Harding. Young adult novels inspired by ""The Turn of the Screw"" include ""The Turning"" (2012) by Francine Prose and ""Tighter"" (2011) by Adele Griffin."
"them walk towards the theater, to see a Henry Fonda movie. Elaine (short story) ""Elaine"" (1945) is an early short story published by J. D. Salinger in ""Story"". In it, the title character lives with her mom and grandmother in the Bronx. She is a beautiful young girl unaware of the miasma of the city around her. One reason for this is that she is intellectually years behind her peers, graduating from eighth grade at 16 after being ""tested"" at age 7 and forced to stay back two grades. Salinger writes that she is one of only two students wearing"
"Holmes Story"" (1978), Ellery Queen's ""A Study in Terror"" (1966), John Sladek's ""Black Aura"" (1974), and Barrie Roberts' ""Sherlock Holmes and the Royal Flush"" (1998) amongst others. The first influential short story, ""The Lodger"" by Marie Belloc Lowndes, was published in ""McClure's Magazine"" in 1911 and novelised in 1913. It features a London couple, Mr and Mrs Bunting, who suspect that their lodger, Mr Sleuth, is a mysterious killer known as ""The Avenger"", clearly based on the Ripper. Whether Sleuth really is ""The Avenger"" is left open: the focus of the story is on the Buntings' psychological terror, which may"
"(1888), ""Katherine Kavenagh"", ""The Prince and the Pauper"" (1890, adapted from the Mark Twain book), ""That Girl"" (1890, adapted from a story by Clementina Black), ""Holly Tree Inn"" (1891, 1902; an adaptation of a Charles Dickens story), ""Bess"" (1891, 1893), ""Salve"" (1895), ""A Bit of Old Chelsea"" (1897, 1898, 1902), ""My Lady's Orchard"" (1897), ""The Plot of His Story"" (1899-1901), ""Jim Belmont"" (1901), and ""The Agitator"" (1907-1908). She also wrote novels, including ""Beloved of the Gods (After the Danish)"" (1883), ""A Left-Handed Marriage"" (1886) and ""The New Virtue"" (1896). She was one of the commenters in ""The Idler""'s ""The Idlers'"
"Columbus), ""Jules Verne Eats A Rhinoceros"" (about reporter Nellie Bly), ""Punch and Judy"", ""Boar's Head"" (about the lives of the supporting characters at the Boar's Head Inn in Shakespeare's mentioned but unwritten scenes from his ""Henry IV"" plays), ""Loves Labours Wonne"" (about Shakespeare), ""Paganini"", ""Lucia Mad"" (about the daughter of James Joyce), ""Cinderella Waltz"", ""Specter"", ""Monkey Soup"", ""Don Giovanni"", ""The Count of Monte Cristo In The Chateau D'If"", ""Quint And Miss Jessel At Bly"", ""The Girlhood Of Shakespeare's Heroines"", ""Terre Haute"", ""The Transylvanian Clockworks"", ""Seascape With Sharks and Dancer"", ""Henry And Ellen"" (about Henry Irving and Ellen Terry), ""The Dark"
"It features his most memorable character, the engagingly roguish Becky Sharp. The Brontë sisters were other significant novelists in the 1840s and 1850s. Their novels caused a sensation when they were first published but were subsequently accepted as classics. They had written compulsively from early childhood and were first published, at their own expense in 1846 as poets under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. The sisters returned to prose, producing a novel each the following year: Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"", Emily's ""Wuthering Heights"" and Anne's ""Agnes Grey"". Later, Anne's ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" (1848) and Charlotte's ""Villette"" (1853)"
"characters, he also tended to depict a more middle class society than Dickens did. He is best known for his novel ""Vanity Fair"" (1848), subtitled ""A Novel without a Hero"", which is an example of a form popular in Victorian literature: a historical novel in which recent history is depicted. Anne, Charlotte and Emily Brontë produced notable works of the period, although these were not immediately appreciated by Victorian critics. ""Wuthering Heights"" (1847), Emily's only work, is an example of Gothic Romanticism from a woman's point of view, which examines class, myth, and gender. ""Jane Eyre"" (1847), by her sister"
"Ponden Hall Ponden Hall is a farmhouse near Stanbury in West Yorkshire, England. It is famous for reputedly being the inspiration for Thrushcross Grange, the home of the Linton family, Edgar, Isabella, and Cathy, in Emily Brontë's novel ""Wuthering Heights"". However, it does not match the description given in the novel and is closer in size and appearance to the farmhouse of Wuthering Heights itself. The Brontë biographer Winifred Gerin believed that Ponden Hall was the original of Wildfell Hall, the old mansion where Helen Graham, the protagonist of Anne Brontë's ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"", fled from her husband."
"""Oliver Twist"", the failures of the legal system in ""Bleak House"", An early rival to Dickens was William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), who during the Victorian period ranked second only to him, but he is now known almost exclusively for ""Vanity Fair"" (1847). The Brontë sisters, Emily, Charlotte and Anne, were other significant novelists in the 1840s and 1850s. ""Jane Eyre"" (1847), Charlotte Brontë's most famous work, was the first of the sisters' novels to achieve success. Emily Brontë's (1818–1848) novel was ""Wuthering Heights"" and, according to Juliet Gardiner, ""the vivid sexual passion and power of its language and imagery impressed,"
"in London in 1849 and tells the story of the trials of an enlightened drainage engineer whose wife vanishes during a cholera epidemic. It won the 1993 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. ""English Passengers"" tells the story of a religious-scientific expedition that seeks to find the Garden of Eden in Tasmania, a land whose aboriginal culture had been experiencing brutal destruction at the hands of British settlers and convicts. The novel is told by more than 20 voices. It won the 2000 Whitbread Book of the Year Award and was a finalist for the Booker Prize and the Australian Miles Franklin"
"(1917), with Evelyne Hilliard and Kate Oglebay. She published short fiction too, beginning with ""Thursday and the King and Queen"" (""Woman's Home Companion"", 1920), and including ""Devils and Four Gold Cups"" (""The Century Magazine"", 1921), ""Eblis"" (""Harper's"", 1926), ""Circe"" (""The Century Magazine"", 1927), ""King Solomon or the Iceman"" (""The Century Magazine"", 1927), ""A Pirate in the Linen Closet"" (""The Century Magazine"", 1927), ""Martyrs in the Ice-Box"" (""The Century Magazine"", 1928). About half of Du Bois's books featured the characters Jeffrey McNeill, a forensic scientist, and his wife Anne McNeill, who narrates their mystery-solving adventures. Her unflattering depiction of the House"
"Exile. ""Scintillating and rather magical... ""House of Exile"" is an extraordinary book, and a really rare accomplishment.""() ""The Recluse"" (2012) is a long biographical essay about Eliza Emily Donnithorne, who lived most of her life in isolation in a large house in the Sydney suburb of Newtown. She is thought to have been the model for the character of Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens’ ""Great Expectations"", who was jilted at the altar, and became a recluse, wearing her wedding dress, and keeping her wedding banquet set, until the day she died. But did it really happen like this? ""The Recluse"""
"like Herman Melville in works such as ""Moby Dick"" (1851). Early Victorian Gothic novels that employed contemporary rural settings included Emily Brontë's ""Wuthering Heights"" (1847) and Charlotte Brontë's ""Jane Eyre"" (1847). Whereas these early Gothic novels had tended to use the city as a starting point and then moved to rural locations, abandoning the settings and securities of urban civilisation for wild and dangerous rural regions, the Gothic novels of the mid-nineteenth century began to reverse this process, or were conducted entirely in the modern industrial city, which itself became a zone of liminality, danger and adventure, and from the"
"Bondage by W Somerset Maugham (1915) 45. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920) 46. Ulysses by James Joyce (1922) 47. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis (1922) 48. A Passage to India by EM Forster (1924) 49. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos (1925) 50. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925) 51. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (1925) 52. Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1926) 53. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926) 54. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1929) 55. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930) 56. Brave New World by Aldous"
"of Oxford and Cambridge Universities in the United Kingdom, which in turn share many similarities with the house systems of British secondary schools. The first boarding-school story was Sarah Fielding's ""The Governess, or The Little Female Academy"", published in 1749. The genre did not become popular until 1857, with Thomas Hughes' novel ""Tom Brown's School Days"". The house system has since featured prominently in thousands of school stories books, with many authors writing a whole series of books such as Chalet School and Malory Towers which have been published around the world and translated into several languages. The ""Harry Potter"""
"Madeline (book) Madeline is a 1939 book written and illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans, the first in the book series, which inspired the Madeline media franchise. It is considered one of the major classics of children's literature. ""Madeline"" was named a Caldecott Honor Book for 1940. The story is set in Catholic boarding school in Paris, France. The opening rhyming sentences were repeated at the start of the subsequent books in the series: <poem> In an old house in Paris That was covered in vines Lived twelve little girls In two straight lines. </poem> Madeline is the smallest of the girls."
"costs. Their publisher, urged on by the success of ""Jane Eyre"", published ""Wuthering Heights"" and ""Agnes Grey"" in December 1847. They sold well, but ""Agnes Grey"" was outshone by Emily's more dramatic ""Wuthering Heights"". Anne's second novel, ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"", was published in the last week of June 1848. It was an instant, phenomenal success; within six weeks it was sold out. ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" is perhaps amongst the most shocking of contemporary Victorian novels. In seeking to present the truth in literature, Anne's depiction of alcoholism and debauchery was profoundly disturbing to 19th-century sensibilities. Helen"
"James Joyce Tower and Museum The James Joyce Tower and Museum is a Martello tower in Sandycove, Dublin, where James Joyce spent six nights in 1904. The opening scenes of his novel ""Ulysses"" take place here, and the tower is a place of pilgrimage for Joyce enthusiasts, especially on Bloomsday. Admission is free. The tower was leased from the British War Office by Joyce's university friend Oliver St. John Gogarty, with the purpose of ""Hellenising"" Ireland. Joyce stayed there for six days, from September 9 to 14 in 1904. Gogarty later attributed Joyce's abrupt departure to a midnight incident with"
"(1910), a burlesque of banking; ""Psmith, Journalist"" (1915) set in New York; and ""Leave It to Psmith"" (1923), set at Blandings Castle. In May 1909 Wodehouse made his second visit to New York, where he sold two short stories to ""Cosmopolitan"" and ""Collier's"" for a total of $500, a much higher fee than he had commanded previously. He resigned from ""The Globe"" and stayed in New York for nearly a year. He sold many more stories, but none of the American publications offered a permanent relationship and guaranteed income. Wodehouse returned to England in late 1910, rejoining ""The Globe"" and"
"Twelves"" in the US), a child finds some magical toy soldiers which once belonged to the Brontës, and are alleged to have been the sources of some of their stories. The married surname of Brontë's paramour Lydia Robinson (née Gisborne) inspired the name of the character Mrs. Robinson, who likewise carries on an affair with an educated but idle young man, in the novella ""The Graduate"" (1963) and the 1967 film of the same name. Branwell and his sisters are the central figures in the play ""The Gales of March"" written by English professor Lee Bollinger in 1987. In June"
"Blandings Castle and Elsewhere Blandings Castle and Elsewhere is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the United Kingdom on 12 April 1935 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and, as ""Blandings Castle"", in the United States on 20 September 1935 by Doubleday Doran, New York. All the stories had previously appeared in ""Strand Magazine"" (UK) and all except the last in various US magazines. The first six stories all take place at the book's namesake Blandings Castle; they are set some time between the events of ""Leave it to Psmith"" (1923) and those of"
"meant for publication. In the spring of 2014, James O'Sullivan wrote an article for Genetic Joyce Studies, “Finn’s Hotel and the Joycean Canon”, which uses computational stylistics to analyze the text of ""Finn's Hotel"" to determine whether the text is merely early drafts or should be part of Joyce's canon. O'Sullivan concluded that ""the fragments within ""Finn’s Hotel"" are most likely drafts for what became ""Finnegans Wake"""" and that statistically ""the criticisms of Ithys Press are seemingly upheld."" Finn's Hotel Finn's Hotel is a posthumously-published collection of ten short narrative pieces written by Irish author James Joyce. Written in 1923,"
"In 1844, Edgar Allan Poe published several works: ""The Spectacles"", ""The Balloon-Hoax"" and his final Dupin story ""The Purloined Letter"". In 1845, Edgar Allan Poe published his poem ""The Raven"" and a short story ""The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar"". August Wilhelm von Schlegel died 12 May. In 1846, Elizabeth Barrett married Robert Browning. Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë published ""Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell"". Edward Lear published his ""Book of Nonsense"". Fyodor Dostoevsky published ""Poor Folk"". In 1847, Anne Brontë published ""Agnes Grey"", Emily Brontë published ""Wuthering Heights"", and Charlotte Brontë published ""Jane Eyre"". Rymer"
"in the series were written by Bemelmans' grandson John Bemelmans Marciano. The books focus on a group of girls in a Catholic boarding school in Paris. Madeline is the smallest of the girls. She is seven years old, and the only redhead. She is the bravest and most outgoing of the girls. The images seem classical and show scenery and Landmarks of the location where the story takes place such as the Eiffel Tower and the Seine River. In the first book, Madeline gets sick, is taken to the hospital and has her appendix removed to the envy of all"
"– originates from ""Finnegans Wake"". Having completed work on ""Ulysses"", Joyce was so exhausted that he did not write a line of prose for a year. On 10 March 1923 he wrote a letter to his patron, Harriet Weaver: ""Yesterday I wrote two pages—the first I have since the final ""Yes"" of ""Ulysses"". Having found a pen, with some difficulty I copied them out in a large handwriting on a double sheet of foolscap so that I could read them."" This is the earliest reference to what would become ""Finnegans Wake"". The two pages in question consisted of the short"