Tag: short stories

21. My Double and How He Undid Me

by Kate Harris, posted in Podcast
In this episode we’ll be reading My Double and How He Undid Me by Edward Everett Hale.  This story was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1859 and brought the American author immediate attention and praise. The son of Nathan Hale, the so-called inventor of the newspaper editorial, Edward Hale possessed strong literary skills from a young age and entered Harvard College when he was only 13 years old.

20. The Schoolmaster’s Progress

by Kate Harris, posted in Podcast
In this episode we’ll be reading The Schoolmaster’s Progress by the American author, Caroline Kirkland.  This story was first published in her collection from 1845 titled Western Clearings. Kirkland is known for her depictions of frontier life and was a highly regarded author  by her contemporaries such as Edgar Allen Poe and Charles Dickens.

11. The Diamond Necklace and In the Spring

by Kate Harris, posted in Podcast
In this episode we’ll be reading two short stories by Guy de Maupassant – The Diamond Necklace and In the Spring. The French author was renowned as a master of the short story form and is best known for his surprise endings. Maupassant was a member of the Naturalist school – a literary movement that depicted characters and scenes realistically and often pessimistically as opposed to the unrealistic portrayals found in Romanticism, a preceding literary style.

2. The Lees of Happiness

by Kate Harris, posted in Podcast

In this episode we’ll be reading the short story, “The Lees of Happiness,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story was originally published in The Chicago Sunday Tribune in 1920 – the same year as Fitzgerald’s first novel, This Side of Paradise. The author stated that he feared the story “would be accused perhaps of being a mere piece of sentimentality, but,” as he saw it, “it was a great deal more.”