The movement towards realism in the English novel of the nineteenth century reached its acme with the works of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thakeray. Charles Dicken was a prolific writer. Among his copious works are Oliver Twist, a candid exposure of the poor laws; Nicholas Nicklebery, in which the life of boys in a …
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Victor Hugo
The epitome of Frech romantic writers in the nineteenth century was Victor Hugo. With the most utmost dexterity he wrote poetry, novels, and drama. His highly popular novels, NOTREDAME DE PARIS and LES MISERABLES, are replete with melodramatic situations and grotesque characters. He had a profound sense of social justice and a compassion for the …
A Lady Novelist
The nineteenth century saw the woman novelist attain the same prestige as men. England was prolific in producing woman’s writer. One of the in this genre was Charlotte Bronte. In Jane Eyre she presented a portrait of a woman caught up in a clandestine affair with a married man. Miss Bronte’s reader were engrossed in …
Another Surprise
Thurber’s stories are written in a jocose manner, but they contain enough serious matter to make one pensive. He tells us some builders who left a pane of glass standing upright in across the field, struck the glass and knocked inert. He rushed back and divulged to his friends that the air had crystallized. The …
Things Have Changed
Thurber modernizes an old story that everyone has read or heard. It has to do with a nefarious wolf who kept a vigil in an ominous forest until a little girl came along carrying a basket of food for her grandmother. With alacrity, this vivacious youngster told the wolf the address to which she was …
Modernizing a Parable
Thurber punctures in an incisive way the platitudes that come from stories handed down through the generations. These old saws are accepted by everyone. One such tale is about a tortoise who had read in an ancient book that a tortoise who had read in ancient book that a tortoise had beaten a hare in …
A Modern Aesop
The telling story in the simple term that has an inherently important message is a venerable art form. The parable may be found teaching a moral lesson in the bible. Aesop is an incontrovertible master of the fable. This story form is far from antiquated, as shown by the whimsical approach to life taken by …
Evelyn Discovered
Failure was imminent, and Robert was bereft of hope. It was now Friday. Despite his abstemious and parsimonious way of living, his money has been reduced to a mere pittance. A perverse impulse brought him to the section where young people in strange clothing and with uncouth manners made him recoil in unmitigated disgust. He …
To the Police
Thursday was his next-to-last day. He had been tenacious in following every lead. Now he has behind the eight ball. He could hardly galvanize himself to do anything else. The facade of hope he had worn for almost a week was crumbling; there was nothing left to be sanguine about. In desperation he turned to …
A Hope Dashed
The next day, Wednesday, saw Robert become more frustrated. He would fluctuate between high hopes of finding Evelyn and unmitigated despair when he was almost ready to desist in his search. The phone calls had elicited almost nothing. Robert had rushed to one women’s residence when the clerk described a girl who might just be …