Francis Marion Crawford: “By the Waters of Paradise” (Short Story).-

Francis Marion Crawford:
“By The Waters Of Paradise” (Short Story):

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Crawford wrote about duels and the nobility, love and adventure, arranged marriages and romance. He wrote of the Italian Republic and the Vatican from his Catholic perspective without preaching. In 1893, defending romance and his work in The Novel: What It Is, (1893) his philosophy was [...]

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Washington Irving: “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (Short Story).-

 Washington Irving:
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (Short Story):

“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”  by Washington Irving  is among the earliest examples of American fiction still read today.-
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  Washington Irving (1783/1859).-
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Plot Summary:
The story is set circa 1800 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It [...]

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Cine: “Una Dama Digna”/”Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont”.-

William Wordsworth: “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” /”Daffodils”:

I Wander’ d lonely as a cloud/ That floats on high o’er vales and hills/
When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils/Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze/Continuous as the stars that shine/And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretch’d [...]

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Stephen Crane: “Three Miracoulous Soldiers”.-

 Stephen Crane:
“The Little Regiment, and other stories of the American Civil War”:
“Three Miracoulous Soldiers” (1896):

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Review:
 
 

Stephen Crane is best known, of course, for his remarkable short novel, The Red Badge of Courage. The Little Regiment” and Other Civil War Stories is a small collection of Civil War tales by the masterful storyteller Stephen Crane. This [...]

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Robert Louis Stevenson: “The Isle Of Voices” (Brief Story).-

 Robert Louis Stevenson: “The Isle Of Voices”:

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General Overview: Robert Louis Stevenson: “Folklore and Imperialism” (*):
Oliver Buckton in his book, Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson: Travel, Narrative, and the Colonial Body (2007) argues that in  “The Isle of Voices,” Stevenson merges realism and romance into a hybrid genre “to expose the shabbiness of European civilization” [...]

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Mark Twain: “The 1.000.000 Bank Note” (Brief Story).-

Mark Twain: “The 1.000.000 Bank Note” (Brief Story):

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Plot Summary:
“The 1,000,000 Bank-Note,” one of Twain’s best-loved tales, is a wish-fulfillment fantasy in which a bet between two rich English eccentrics catapults a down-and-out clerk from San Francisco into wealth, status and fame in London society, a paean to ingenuity and a celebration of its cunning confidence-man [...]

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Anatole France: “La Isla de los Pingüinos”.-

Anatole France: “La Isla de los Pingüinos”:

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Breve Sinopsis:
En esta parodia de la historia de la civilización. Anatole France ha elegido como protagonista a un animal gracioso y endomingado que recuerda a la caricatura de los burgueses de finales del XIX y principios del XX: los pingüinos. La isla de los pingüinos arranca con un [...]

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