What sort of view of our history do we get from Hollywood movies? Why are some stories told and others not? In this informal talk given at the Taos Talking Film Festival, Zinn turns his attention to Hollywood, the stories it tells and the ones it doesn't and makes a few suggestions for films he'd love to see.
The audiobook includes the unabridged version of some Katherine Mansfield's stories and the extract from "The Forsyte Saga" by John Galsworthy. Read by Cora McDonald.
A collection of supernatural stories, ghost stories and mysteries, linked by the story of Leah. By the author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. Included in this volume are "A Terribly Strange Bed," "A Stolen Letter," "Sister Rose," "The Lady of Glenwith Grange," "Gabriel's Marriage," and "The Yellow Mask."
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A man fell from a very tall building. Why didn’t he die? Why did a dead woman have a frozen chicken under her hat? What fell out of an old man’s ear, and why did everybody laugh? And how did a cow fly? Find the answers in these strange stories.
Short Stories for Students is designed to provide readers with information and discussion about a wide range of important contemporary and historical works of short fiction, and it does that job very well. However, I want to use this guest foreword to address a question that it does not take up. It is a fundamental question that is often ignored in high school and college English classes as well as research texts, and one that causes frustration among students at all levels, namely why study literature at all?
