‘In a New Bottle’ by Arnold Bennett: Short Story Analysis ‘In a New Bottle’ has a similar setting as Arnold Bennett’s ‘Five Towns’ novels. The theme of this short story is about how people try to localize a story they have heard from another place. Such people try to ‘put an old story into a new bottle’ and make the story something closer to home. People, in this case, … [Read more...] about ‘In a New Bottle’ by Arnold Bennett: Short Story Analysis
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‘The Tunnel of Time’ by R. K. Laxman: Book Review
‘The Tunnel of Time’ by R. K. Laxman: Book Review I’ve always been a die-hard fan of R. K. Narayan’s books and it is through him I came to know of his younger brother R. K. Laxman, the famous political cartoonist of India. But I became acquainted with R. K. Laxman’s writings in the year 2010 while teaching English literature to my sixth-grade students. The lesson was … [Read more...] about ‘The Tunnel of Time’ by R. K. Laxman: Book Review
‘The Man Who Robbed His Own Post Office’ by Jeffrey Archer: Short Story Analysis
‘The Man Who Robbed His Own Post Office’ by Jeffrey Archer: Short Story Analysis When Jeffrey Archer was in prison, he collected a lot of real-life crime stories from his inmates and others. These stories have been included in his short story collection, Cat O’ Nine Tales. One of the stories in this collection is ‘The Man Who Robbed His Own Post Office’ which is … [Read more...] about ‘The Man Who Robbed His Own Post Office’ by Jeffrey Archer: Short Story Analysis
‘Salvatore’ by William Somerset Maugham: Short Story Analysis
‘Salvatore’ by William Somerset Maugham: Short Story Analysis ‘Salvatore’ is a sketch of an Italian fisherman who was simple, humble, and a man full of goodness. Maugham in this story wanted to bring out the goodness of the fisherman named Salvatore. He, therefore, tricks us by the first line which states ‘I wonder if I can do it’. We read it and then forget about it … [Read more...] about ‘Salvatore’ by William Somerset Maugham: Short Story Analysis
‘The Student’ by Anton Chekhov: Short Story Analysis
‘The Student’ by Anton Chekhov: Short Story Analysis ‘The Student’ is a very poignant story of a young student studying for the clergy. The setting for the story is the evening of Good Friday, the day when Christians commemorate the Lord Jesus Christ’s passion and death on the Cross. The weather is described as being cold. The world too was cold to the Lord’s death … [Read more...] about ‘The Student’ by Anton Chekhov: Short Story Analysis