F. Scott Fitzgerald may have had a short life, but he is still considered one of the greatest American authors of all time. He was born into an upper-class family but had difficulty finding love. He used his struggles as inspiration for his work, publishing one of his greatest novels in...
The Lottery is one of the most well known short stories of all time for good reason. It’s got an eeriness that creeps up on you, but isn’t clear entirely why until the very last paragraph. It received a ton of responses after its initial publication inThe New Yorker, but Jackson dec...
segregation and unhappiness are the center of this collection of short stories on American life. Pop Culture Classics You’ve more than likely heard of these famous short tales–even if you’ve never read them. 21."The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain: This colorful...
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- Runtime: 1 hour 23 minutes Based on a short story by Louis L'Amour, "Hondo" stars John Wayne as an army dispatch rider who becomes the de facto protector for a widow and her young son after they find themselves in the middle of a Native American battle. The movie is unique among...
THE 50 BEST SHORT STORIES OF ALL TIME The short story is sometimes an under-appreciated art form. Within the space of a few pages, an author must weave a story that’s compelling, create characters readers care about and drive the story to its ultimate conclusion — a feat that can be ...
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The crowning achievement of British directing duo Powell and Pressburger, A Matter of Life and Death originally came about as a movie designed to improve Anglo-American relations. It emerged as a bastion of thoughtful filmmaking about mortality and what it means to be alive. It’s also very fu...
Actually, of course, it’s about a number of things: the improbable love affair between a British pilot forced to bale out of his plane and the American girl who takes his mayday call; the long-tricky ‘special relationship’ between Britain and the US, strained during the later years of...
William Appleman Williams was one of the greatest opponents of US imperialism. The Modern Library chose The Contours of American History as one of the best 100 nonfiction books of the Twentieth Century. More »12. The Origins of The Second World War By A.J.P. Taylor The Origins of the ...