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LC Class. PZ3.C3983 En, PS3505.H6428. The Enormous Radio and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by John Cheever published in 1953 by Funk and Wagnalls. All fourteen stories were first published individually in The New Yorker. These works are included in The Stories of John Cheever (1978) published by Alfred A. Knopf. [1][2]
The Enormous Radio. " The Enormous Radio " is a short story by American author John Cheever. It first appeared in the May 17, 1947, issue of The New Yorker, and was subsequently collected in The Enormous Radio and Other Stories. [1], 55 Short Stories from the New Yorker, and The Stories of John Cheever. "The Enormous Radio" was included in the ...
Edgar A. Guest. Guest on his radio program, 1935. Edgar Albert Guest (20 August 1881 – 5 August 1959) was a British-born American poet who became known as the People's Poet. [1][2] His poems often had an inspirational and optimistic view of everyday life.
The rhyme of "swear for" with "wherefore" and "ecclesiastic" with "(in)stead of a stick" are surprising, unnatural, and humorous. Additionally, the rhyme of "-don dwelling" with "a colonelling" is strained to the point of breaking, again for humorous effect. Further, the rhyme scheme in a Hudibrastic will imply inappropriate comparisons.
The sensation novel, also sensation fiction, was a literary genre of fiction that achieved peak popularity in Great Britain in between the early 1860s and mid to late 1890s, [1] centering taboo material shocking to its readers as a means of musing on contemporary social anxieties.
The English translation by Arthur Wesley Wheen gives the title as All Quiet on the Western Front. The literal translation of " Im Westen nichts Neues " is "Nothing New in the West," with "West" being the Western Front ; the phrase refers to the content of an official communiqué at the end of the novel.
"The Little Match Girl" (Danish: Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne, meaning "The little girl with the matchsticks") is a literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story, about a dying child's dreams and hope, was first published in 1845.
In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed. [3][4] Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and entertainment. It can also have a social, psychological, spiritual, or political role.