‘A Face in the Dark’ by Ruskin Bond: Short Story Analysis ‘A Face in the Dark’ is a simple horror story penned by the most favorite writer of India, Ruskin Bond. Ruskin Bond is known as ‘the writer from the hills’ and most of the themes in his stories are centered in the hills of India, especially in the regions of Mussoorie, Shimla, Landour, Dehradun, to name a few. … [Read more...] about ‘A Face in the Dark’ by Ruskin Bond: Short Story Analysis
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‘Old Friends’ by Shusaku Endo: Short Story Analysis
‘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
‘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