Americká literatura
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "Roger Malvin's Burial".
Summary
The narrator offers the reader a tale from the period of Lowell's Fight. This was a defence of frontiers in the year 1725.
The story opens with a portrayal of two weary and wounded men on their way...
>>
———
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "The Gray Champion".
Summary
The narrator relates that before the Revolution, there were other wrongs already. That was James II, a Popish tyrant, who oppressed the descendants of the Puritans. There was a rumour that the Prince...
>>
———
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "Young Goodman Brown".
Summary
Set in the New England Puritan community. The protagonist, young Goodman Brown, has been married for three months. He has to leave for the first time for a night for an errand. Faith, his wife, warns...
>>
———
Heller, Joseph. Catch-22.
Summary
(1) ‘The Texan’
The novel is set on the island of Pianosa in the Mediterranean theatre of operations in the last years of the Second World War. The military camp belongs to the 256th Squadron of the...
>>
———
Hellman, Lillian. The Little Foxes.
Notes
- portrays a Southern family in the opening of the 20th century
- manifests how family relationships can be diseased by individuals seeking power
- the ancient sense of family property, as originally...
>>
———
Hemingway, Ernest. "Big Two-Hearted River".
Summary
Part I
An Up-Hill Hike: The story is set in Michigan, the Two Hearted River being an actual stream which empties into Lake Superior. Nick Adams arrives by train at what was the town of Seney before it...
>>
———
Hemingway, Ernest. "Fifty Grand".
Summary
- Jack, a boxer, prepares himself for a difficult fight
- he suffers from insomnia, drinks to excess in order to fall asleep
- attempts to train, but his attempts are miserable, so instead of training...
>>
———
Hemingway, Ernest. "In Another Country".
Summary
- set in a Milan hospital at the time of WW I
- the first person narrator describes the situation shared by him and his fellow-patients
- the crippled patients daily attend the hospital to do exercises...
>>
———
Hemingway, Ernest. "The Killers".
Summary
The Killers Enter: The story is set in the small town of Summit. Nick Adams is the only guest in Henry’s lunch room. He is chatting with the bartender George when two men enter. They are dressed like...
>>
———
Hemingway, Ernest. "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber".
Summary
- Francis Macomber, aged thirty-five, an American, is on a shooting trip in Africa
- he shows himself publicly to be a coward: on wounding a lion, he panics and runs away from the beast which must be...
>>
———
Hemingway, Ernest. "The Snows of Kilimanjaro".
Summary
- on a shooting safari in Africa, Harry gets gangrene in his leg and waits for a plane to come
- his girlfriend Helen tries to comfort him, but Harry has already given up the hope
- Harry is a...
>>
———
Henley, Beth. Crimes of the Heart.
Summary
Characters
Lenny MacGrath (30), Meg MacGrath (27), Babe Botrell (24): sisters
Chick Boyle (29): their cousin, mother of a little daughter (Peekay) and a son (Buck)
Doc Porter (30): Meg's former lover,...
>>
———
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. "Old Ironsides".
Summary and Analysis
- a poem of response to a newspaper account of the proposed dismantling of the frigate Constitution, victor against the British in the War of 1812
- widely reprinted and credited with...
>>
———
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. "The Iron Gate".
Summary and Analysis
- a poem on the theme of ageing and dying, written for the occasion of the author's 70th birthday
- the speaker welcomes a patriarch coming to his threshold, whom he has known well, but...
>>
———
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. "The Ploughman".
Summary and Analysis
- an occasional poem written for an anniversary of the Berkshire Agricultural Society
- praises the toil of a ploughman who is the first to be on the field and the last to leave
-...
>>