Wrote his first short story at the age of 43 and achieved fame in his lifetime,įor his vivid depictions of the English countryside and its rural characters. Resort of Aspen and follows one of them, a hairy billionaire called Abeįineblown, on a gung-ho shooting mission to Kenya.Įdgar Coppard, the son of a Kentish journeyman tailor and a hosteler's daughter, Observes the strange behaviour of Americans at the famous Colorado skiing In Fear and Loathing in Aspen, the author Sadistic Prefect of Discipline, Father John Kilbracken, hatch a plan to
In the early 1960s where some of the boys, fed up with their hateful and A Boy at Seven is set in a Jesuit boarding school Is that he was a fatality of the siege at Ojinaga during the Mexican revolutionīidwell's two satirical short story journals are loosely based on real incidents His death remains an unsolved mystery, - the most likely theory Was seriously wounded on Kenesaw Mountain in 1864 and promoted to Major War during which Bierce himself saw action at Shiloh and Chickamauga. Each is a gripping action tale set in the American Civil His two short story masterpieces, An Occurrence at Owl Creek BridgeĪnd One of the Missing, are both brilliant examples of American short fictionĪt its sharpest. He also wrote plays and essays, as well as many shortīierce was an American journalist, newspaper editor, misanthrope, writerĪnd wit. In his native Staffordshire, show the literary influence of Flaubert andīalzac on his work. Most successful novels, Clayhanger, Hilda Lessways, and These Twain, set He was a great admirer of the French realists and his Influential book column for the Evening Standard from 1926 until his death
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Taken from his anthology To Cut a Long Story Short, his other short story anthologies include A Quiver Full of Arrows, Twelve Red Herrings and A Twist in the Tale. Archer knits a panoply of characters with deft narrative skill in a story which is as revealing as it is observant. From the doorman to the personnel manager, to Sir William, the bank's sorrowful chairman.
This ingenious tale examines the ambitions and petty jealousies of the staff at Critchley's Bank. A Sample List of Books by Category List of
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