A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner I WHEN Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old man-servant–a combined gardener and…
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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca DAPHNE DU MAURIER ISBN U 582 419379 First published in the Longman Simplified English Series 1957 Contents Introduction V Chapter 1 Maxim de Winter 1 Chapter 2 Manderley 7 Chapter 3 The Cottage in the Bay 11 Chapter 4 The Shadow of Rebecca 19 Chapter 5 Rebecca’s Room 23 Chapter 6 The Fancy-Dress Dance…
Powder by Tobias Wolff – Focus on Character
Powder is a short story written by Tobias Wolff, who also wrote This Boy’s Life, which is Wolff’s memoir that later became a motion picture by the same name. “Tobias Wolff writes prose that is clean and honest. He deals with the gritty realities of experience, sometimes relying on his own years as a soldier…
Songs As Literature – Focus on House As Theme
Flies On The Butter (You Can’t Go Home Again) Wynona Judd Old tin roof, leaves in the gutter A hole in the screen door big as your fist And flies on the butter Mama baking sugar cookies, we were watching cartoons I heard her holler from the kitchen “Which one of you youngen’s wants to…