Americká literatura
Cather, Willa. "Neighbour Rosicky".
Summary
I... Introducing the Rosickys: Anton Rosicky, a sixty-five-year-old Nebraska farmer, learns from his doctor that he has a bad heart. Rosicky protests and does not welcome Doctor Burleigh’s advice to...
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Chesnutt, Charles Waddell. "The Wife of his Youth".
Summary
The story opens with Mr Ryder planning a ball in honour of Mrs Dixon. Ryder is a respectable middle aged man who intends to propose to the young widow Dixon at the ball. She is also coloured, but...
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Chesnutt, Charles Waddell. "What is a White Man?".
Summary and Analysis
The essay contemplates the status of coloured people and of mulattoes in the prevailingly white society still burdened by the residues of slavery.
Southern authorities claim that the...
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Chopin, Kate. "A Pair of Silk Stockings".
Summary
Mrs Sommers married low but does not seem to be discontent. After all, she has no time to think of the past, the needs of the present absorb her every faculty.
When she comes into possession of some...
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Chopin, Kate. "A Respectable Woman".
Summary
Mr Baroda invites a college friend, Gouvernail, to spend a couple of weeks at his plantation. Mrs Baroda at first does not welcome the intrusion but then she is pleased by the visitor's gentlemanly...
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Chopin, Kate. "Desiree's Baby".
Summary
Desiree is a foundling adopted by the rich Madame Valmonde. Valmonde thinks the child to have been sent to her by Providence, as she herself is childless. Desiree grows up to become a beautiful,...
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Chopin, Kate. "The Kiss".
Summary
Miss Nathalie and her husband-to-be, Brantain, sit by the fire. Nathalie is to marry the rather unattractive Brantain for his wealth. A man enters the room and not noticing Brantain, he presses...
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Chopin, Kate. "The Locket".
Summary
Autumn. A small detachment of Confederate forces waits for orders on the slope of a hill. Edmond, called a French by his messmates, is asked about the locket he wears. He says that it is a charm which...
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Coover, Robert. "Charlie in the House of Rue".
Summary
The Beautiful Woman in the Hallway: Charlie finds himself in the middle of the hallway of a posh mansion. The place is well-kept and in perfect order. The white-and-black chequered floor is waxed, the...
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Crane, Stephen. "A man said to the universe".
Summary
- a man announces to the universe: "Sir, I exist!"
- the universe gives an indifferent answer suggesting that the fact of a human existing means nothing to the universe: "However, [...] / The...
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Crane, Stephen. "Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind".
Summary
- an account of the horrors of war, claiming at the same time that "war is kind"
- young girl should not cry over her dead lover, a child should not weep for his father, a mother should not weep for...
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Crane, Stephen. "I walked in a desert".
Summary
- the speaker cries to God and pleads to be taken from the desert he walks in
- there is a voice insisting that this is no desert
Analysis
- brief, simple; written in an unpoetic, commonly...
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Crane, Stephen. "The Open Boat".
Summary
Background: A note prefixed to the story explains that it is purported to tell the actual experience of four men after the sinking of the steamer Commodore. The author himself survived a similar...
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Crevecoeur, Hector St. John de. "What is an American?".
Moving to America
- every person's country, knows no strangers
- a refuge, an asylum for the poor and the oppressed of Europe
- "Where bread is, there is one's country."
- the refugees regenerate, become men,...
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Dickinson, Emily. "A bird came down the walk".
Summary and Analysis
The speaker contemplates a bird which is unconscious of her observing him. A series of vivid images of the hopping bird is developed, he is being observed by eating a worm, drinking, and...
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