Washington Irving is considered as the Father of the Short Story, which began as an American literary form. His delightful story Rip Van Winkle is thought to have been the first American short story. In 1916, W. Patterson Atkinson said the following about the short story: “A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can…
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Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving – Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill in 1888 – Read the Book Free
RIP VAN WINKLE. A POSTHUMOUS WRITING OF DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER. By Woden, God of Saxons, From whence comes Wensday, that is Wodensday. Truth is a thing that ever I will keep Unto thylke day in which I creep into My sepulchre—— Cartwright. [The following Tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old…
#MemoirFest Day 2: Write about the Setting for a Specific House – Read about the Settings for One Picture Book & Two Novels
Today, we are going to begin to dig a little deeper into that specific house that you wrote about on Day 1. We are going to begin describing that house’s setting. “Places are never just places in a piece of writing. If they are, the author has failed. Setting is not inert. It is activated…
Louisa May Alcott HER Life, Letters, and Journals
Louisa May Alcott HER Life, Letters, and Journals. EDITED BY EDNAH D. CHENEY BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1898 Copyright, 1889, By J. S. P. Alcott. INTRODUCTION. It is therefore impossible to understand Miss Alcott’s works fully without a knowledge of her own life and experiences. By inheritance and education she had rich and peculiar…