“Goodbye, My Brother” kicks off the celebrated collection titled The Stories of John Cheever. The 1978 publication was award the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the next year and the 1981 release took home that year’s top paperback honor from the...

John Cheever’s highly anthologized short story “The Enormous Radio” belongs to the genre of fiction known as Magic Realism in which the normality of everyday life is infused with the unexplained of the fabulous. With this in mind, the story...

The Road to Wellville is a novel written by T. C. Boyle and published in 1993. This novel is titled after a booklet written by C. W. Post, the founder of a cereal business that soon became one of Kellogg's biggest competitors.

Boyle's novel is set...

Greasy Lake is a short story written by the American writer named T. Coraghessan Boyle. The short story appears in a collection published in 1985 with other 15 short stories.

The themes discussed in the collection range from what humans perceive...

“The Golem” is a short story, the genre of which is fantasy. Avram Davidson, who is the famous American writer, wrote it in 1955. E. Drozd translated this story into the Russian language. This story is suitable for readers of all ages.

Avram...

An upper-class member of New York high society, Edith Wharton did not need to write for a living because she was born among what would now be called the top tenth of the "one-percent": a set of fabulously wealthy families whose riches came from...

“Freedom on the Wallaby” is probably Henry Lawson’s most famous poem. Packed with the passion of political revolt, it is a radical act as much as it is a simple bit of verse. The stimulus for Lawson to compose the poem was the Australian shearers’...

The poem Andy’s gone with the cattle was published in 1888 in The Australian Town & Country Journal. The poem is written by the Australian writer Henry Lawson and the poem is followed by a sequel entitled Andy’s return, published in the same...

Henry Lawson’s sketch story “On the Edge of a Plain” features a recurring character who pops up time and again throughout the author’s canon. The character and at least a few of the incidents he get involved was partly inspired by a real-life...

"The No-Guitar Blues," written by Gary Soto, is a short story. It is about a boy named Fausto, who very much wants a guitar. He asks his parents, but they say that guitars are too expensive. He then tries to think of ways to get a guitar. After a...

Sharing its name with tale by Brothers Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom was noted short story writer Eudora Welty’s first novel, published in 1942. A mélange of myth and legend with generous allusions to tales both fairy-based and folk-based, Welty...

Eudora Welty’s “Why I Live at the P.O.” was initially published in Atlantic magazine and then showed up in her 1941 collection of stories titled A Curtain of Green and Other Stories. The inspiration for the tale came during Welty’s days as a...

The Optimist’s Daughter was first presented to a once-idealistic society soured on the cynicism of assassinations, riots, and the comeback of Richard Nixon and took the form of a long short story published in the New Yorker in 1969. By 1972, an...

Eudora Welty is an American author born on April 13, 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. As a child, she was continuously inspired by her mother, a teacher, and her father, an insurance executive. Welty’s mother instilled in her a love for reading and a...

The Confusion is the second in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle series. Published in 2004, the novel received the Locus Award in 2005. It's one of Stephenson's most reputable books, a sign of his ability to adapt to a rapidly changing historical...

Quicksilver is a 2003 novel of the picaresque genre, written by Neal Stephenson and published by a subsidiary of HarperCollins. The book is the first of Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle trilogy, a series of historical novels.

Quicksilver contains...

Anathemis a fictional novel written by Neal Stepheson and published by William Morrow and Company in 2008.

Like Stepheson's other works, Anathemoffers speculation about philosphical theoriesand metaphysics.

While conceptualizing the novel,...

Neal Stephenson, the author of Reamde, is an American writer and game designer who is most known for his works of speculative fiction. He includes a lot of math, science, cryptography, philosophy, currency and economics, and linguistics in all of...

Neal Town Stephenson, born in 1959, is an American Science-Fiction writer and futurist. Coming from a family of scientists, Stephenson studied geography and physics before publishing his first novel in 1984. Besides writing novels under his own...

Published in 1992, Snow Crash was written by Neal Stephenson and is a science fiction novel that involves a lot of history, archaeology, religion, and cryptography.

Stephenson titled this book “Snow Crash” because the earliest Apple Macs had...

The Good Terrorist is a political novel written in 1985 by British author Doris Lessing. Since its publication, it has been highly controversial; Lessing was inspired to write it after the Irish Republican Army left a bomb at Harrods, London's...