The Egg and Other Stories
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Содержание:
I Want to Know Why, Seeds, The Other Woman, The Egg, Unlighted Lamps, Senility, The Man in the Brown Coat, Brothers, The Door of the Trap, The New Englander, War, Motherhood, Out of Nowhere into Nothing
Описание:
The stories in the present volume have been selected from `The Triumph of the Egg`, a rich collection of tales published in 1921, two years after the resounding success of Anderson`s masterpiece, `Winesburg, Ohio`. Embracing a naturalistic interpretation of American life, the stories burnished Anderson`s reputation as a major American writer. Recounted in a prose style based on colloquial speech and derived in part from the experimental writing of Gertrude Stein, the stories collected here embody some of Anderson`s characteristic themes: small-town environments, distrust of modern industrial society, and the typically American quest for self- and social improvement. Beneath their surface simplicity, the tales explore remarkable psychological depths, capturing the conflict between the individual`s inner world and the outer world of experience, as well as personal epiphanies, undercurrents of erotic longing, and sudden eruptions of passion among seemingly repressed,...Похожие книги
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