‘Old Friends’ by Shusaku Endo: Short Story Analysis ‘Old Friends’ by Shusaku Endo is a story centered around the tragedy of the Second World War in Japan and Poland. Endo was a convert to Roman Catholicism and a well-known novelist of a few books. In this story, he mentions about his returning from Poland, a place which was very much devastated by the Second World War … [Read more...] about ‘Old Friends’ by Shusaku Endo: Short Story Analysis
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‘Mr. Know-All’ by William Somerset Maugham: Short Story Analysis
‘Mr. Know-All’ by William Somerset Maugham: Short Story Analysis ‘Mr. Know-All’ is a heart-rending story of a big talker who saved the marriage of a modest woman. The story is penned by one of my favorite short story writers, William Somerset Maugham. Maugham is a British writer of great repute and has had one of the most successful literary careers in the twentieth … [Read more...] about ‘Mr. Know-All’ by William Somerset Maugham: Short Story Analysis
‘A Life’ by Buddhadeva Bose: Short Story Analysis
‘A Life’ by Buddhadeva Bose: Short Story Analysis ‘A Life’ by the famous twentieth-century Bengali writer Buddhadeva Bose is the story of one man’s quest to write a dictionary of Bengali words. The man in question is Gurudas Bhattacharya Vachaspati, the senior-most teacher or professor of Sanskrit. The seed for the idea of the Bengali dictionary was sown the day he was … [Read more...] about ‘A Life’ by Buddhadeva Bose: Short Story Analysis
‘A Lecture Tour’ by Knut Hamsun: Short Story Analysis
‘A Lecture Tour’ by Knut Hamsun: Short Story Analysis ‘A Lecture Tour’ is a hilarious story about a man of literature, likely the author Knut Hamsun himself, who is out to give a lecture on a literary figure that no one wants to hear about. The protagonist’s name is not revealed in the story. What is revealed is that he was presumptuous, a master in literature, and had … [Read more...] about ‘A Lecture Tour’ by Knut Hamsun: Short Story Analysis
‘The Minister’s Black Veil’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne: Short Story Analysis
‘The Minister’s Black Veil’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne: Short Story Analysis ‘The Minister’s Black Veil’ is an American Gothic story of a Puritan village in New England named Milford. It is a tale about the mysterious and odious black veil that their parson wears. One Sunday morning the parson comes out of his house with his face covered in a veil made of two folds of … [Read more...] about ‘The Minister’s Black Veil’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne: Short Story Analysis