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Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts

The Whistle, by Eudora Welty

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  About Eudora Welty Eudora Welty Foundation Interview with the authoress Places in the Heart (film) BIOGRAPHY She was born in Jackson, Mis...

Korea, by John McGahern

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  Audiobook Film Analysis John McGahern He was born in Dublin in 1934 and died aged 71. He was the oldest of seven brothers and sisters. H...

The Last Leaf, by O. Henry

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  Film (minute 41:24) SUMMARY Greenwich Village was, and is, a quarter in New York where artists like to live. They could be famous artist...

The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry

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Film (minute 1:28:43)   SUMMARY This is a very romantic story. It’s, of course, a love story, but also a story of self-sacrifice. A marr...

The Fool-Killer, by O. Henry

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  Audiobook SUMMARY Rudolph Kerner was the son of a very rich man. He wanted to be an artist, and he was in love with a beautiful working ...

An Unfinished Story, by O. Henry

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Review Summary and analysis Audiobook SUMMARY Our narrator is having a dream. In his dream, a group of very prosperous looking spirits (or s...

The Country Girls, by Edna O'Brien

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Obituary BIOGRAPHY & SUMMARY, by Glòria Torner Josephine Edna O’Brien was born in 1930, in Tuamgraney, County Clare, a small rural villa...

The Fishing-boat Picture, by Alan Sillitoe

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BIOGRAPHY Alan Sillitoe was born in Nottingham in 1928 to a working-class family. His father was an illiterate, couldn’t keep a job for long...