Denov institute of entreprenuership and pedagogy social science and humanities department of englishlanguage and literature

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

Mrs. Mallard is informed that her husband has been killed in a train accident. She weeps wildly and retires to her room alone. Her sister and her husband's friend wait for her with concern.

A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

When Emily Grierson dies, her whole town attends her funeral. The narrator recounts memorable incidents from her life. Her father wouldn't let her marry. She also refused to pay any taxes in her town. After her father's death, she started keeping company with Homer Barron, a Northerner whose work brought him into town, but he left her.

The Swimmer by John Cheever

Neddy Merrill is sitting by the Westerhazys' pool with a drink. Several guests comment that they've had too much to drink. His own house is about eight miles south. He realizes that he could make his way home by swimming all the pools along the way. The trip starts well; he's greeted by friends and offered drinks.
Chapter 1. About author Katherine Mansfield.
I.1 Katherine Mansfield and her biography

Birthday: October 14, 1888 (Libra)
Born In: Wellington
Witty, gutsy, belligerent and strong-willed, this 19th century writer’s work and life, is both intangible and grappling. One of the most striking modernist writers of her time, Katherine Mansfield has inspired many of her contemporaries and has also been the subject of animosity among those who never flourished as much as she did in the genre of ‘short-stories’. Her works became so famous that writers like Christopher Isherwood and Aldous Huxley began to draw on her themes and characters for their plots and stories. She is best-known for the short-stories, ‘The Woman At the Store’, ‘A Dill Pickle’ ‘Je ne parle pas Francais’, ‘Bliss’, ‘The Stranger’ and ‘The Canary’. Apart from her literary career, she was an open bisexual and engaged in ravenous sexual relationships, which partly led to her downfall and made her career stagnant from time to time. Her free-spirited yet scandalous affairs with both, men and women, risked a great deal in terms of her career and also put her through considerable suffering in her lifetime. Her influence on the writers of the 20th century has been immeasurable as she constantly strived to explore new horizons with her writing through the expansion of vocabulary. Writing became the first and foremost medium for her to express her ideas and somehow, unburdened herself from her harrowing emotions; a sort of personal freedom she always seemed to yearn for. Scroll further to learn more about this interesting personality. She was born as Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp into a wealthy family in Wellington, New Zealand. She was the third of the five children born to a financier and the chairman of the Bank of New Zealand, Harold Beauchamp.
She first published her stories in the Wellington Girls’ High School magazine and the High School Reporter.
Disillusioned with her childhood, she began writing stories about her experiences in New Zealand and her views on the treatment of Maori people. She then moved to London in 1903, where she enrolled to Queen’s College.
It was here she played the cello and occasionally started writing articles for the university newspaper. Between 1903 and 1906, she toured Europe and was mainly enamored by Germany and Belgium.
Following her graduation, she returned to New Zealand In 1906 and started writing short stories.