September, 18th Today we discovered a short story by William Somerset Maugham called "Mabel". (To read the short story, clic here ). *The scene takes place in Mandaly (Burma), in a club, probably in 1963. The main character is the narrator but we doesn't know his name (we only know that he's a...

So, today, we return to the short story by Edgar Allan Poe "The Mask of the Red Death". There is fright, gloom etc, but Is this story really gothic ? To answer to this question I have study 2 points. I The adjectives and adverbs of the gothic litterature In this short story, we found a lot of...

The first text which we studied is "The Tell-Tale Heart", a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. In fact we had to analyze it during a test. Clic here to download the short story It's a story of a man who decides to kill an old man because he is afraid by his "vulture eye". He spies upon him every night...

A group of my class studied an other short story : Country Lovers. Here, you can read a book report written by Maïlis .  Book Report : Title : "Country Lovers" Author : Nadine Gordimer Publisher : Olga Kenyon Date of publication : in  Women Writers talk , in 1989 Setting : In a farm, in South...

To close this sequence we studied a short story which is called "Hannah". There is two parts in this short story. Here a book report to sum'up the story ! Book Report   Title : Hannah Author : Malachi Whitaker Publisher : Cambridge University Press Date of publication : 1993 Setting : probably at...

...price of litterature. We have read the first pages of the novel and discovered a little bit the story. The main character are Harriet and David, two young people who lives in England during the 60s. They met themselves at an office party. They are both unassuming and shy. Indeed, the text says...