This week we bring you another story by Anton Chekhov, “The Artist’s Story”. I like this one because it shows Chekhov’s political side with a dash of romance mixed in. One reviewer said of Chekhov “…you realize what a master storyteller Chekhov really is. He constructs a story so elegantly — the characters displayed like fine silver on a table setting.”
James is known as the originator of the "antiquarian ghost story". His style of storytelling was known as Jamesian. One crucial element of this...
This story is “The Gay Old Dog” by Edna Ferber. Many of Ferber’s stories were made into blockbusters you probably recognize, such as “Giant”,...
It’s “Winesburg, Ohio” again this week. The next 3 stories are “Respectability” “The Thinker” and “Tandy”. Some believe that Anderson took stories and characters...