Lots of Hemingway

Hi,

If you enjoy Hills Like White Elephants this week, there's plenty more where that came from!

Miss B recommends 'In Our Time', his first short story collection. Most of the stories can be found in the first section of the file below. Alternatively, read In Our Time here.

Mr M

PS. The Old Man and the Sea is a perfect little novella, for which Hemingway was awarded the Pullitzer Prize for Fiction.

That other giant of American literature, John Steinbeck, has also written plenty of short fiction. If you enjoy The Old Man and the Sea, take a look at Steinbeck's novella, The Pearl.

The Yellow Wallpaper

One more:

I really wanted you to do a bit of work on The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - but we're out of time.

I definitely recommend it though. It would be great if you're interested in the gothic or if you think you might like to look at the feminist section of the anthology.

Another one to check out is Kate Chopin's novella, The Awakening, which you can read at the bottom of this post. Perhaps start with one of her short stories: An Egyptian Cigarette. 

Here is The Yellow Wallpaper in full:

And here's some Kate Chopin: 

Mr M

Winesburg, Ohio

Hi folks,


Below, you will find a pdf version of Sherwood Anderson's celebrated short story collection, Winesburg, Ohio. Find out more here and here.

Like Dubliners, Winesburg, Ohio was "conceived as complementary parts of a whole, centered in the background of a single community." Another example of this kind of collection is Rohinton Mistry's Tales from Firozsha Baag, a collection of short-stories focusing on characters living in a Mumbai apartment building.

It's always worth checking if you can find a pdf copy of a short story collection online before you buy. Try searching the title + pdf.

Here's Sherwood Anderson's collection in full:

Mr M

Katherine Mansfield links

Hello again,

Here are some links to online versions of the short stories of Katherine Mansfield.

Click here for the stories and other resources.

Chick here for an article in the Guardian about Katherine Mansfield.


Mr M