James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882 in Dublin, Ireland and died on January 13, 1941. He was a world renowned Irish author or Ulysses (1922) and Dubliners (1914). We will be reading three short stories […]
Etiqueta: short stories
Flannery O’Connor
Flannery O’Connor was born on March 25, 1925 and died on August 3, 1964. She was an American novelist and short story writer well known for her Southern Gothic style. Her Complete Stories, published posthumously, […]
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Мико́ла Васи́льович Го́голь, was born on March 31st, 1809 and died on March 4th, 1852. He was a Russian novelist and playwright of Ukrainian origin. While he critiqued the Russian elite and […]
Leo Tolstoy’s Pacifist Anarchism
Leo Tolstoy is well known for his novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina. He is less well known for his short stories. The stories that we read in our last meeting were rather didactic and […]
