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Summary & Analysis of Good People by David Foster Wallace

Published in 1922, D.H. Lawrence’s short story “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” is considered to be one of his best-known pieces and is frequently covered and studied in literature and academia. The whole setting of the story stands to be around 20th-century Europe. It centers on Mabel Pervin, daughter of a deceased horse trader, and her

In the poem “Why I Like the Hospital“, Tony Hoagland satirizes the ability of individuals to hope even when it seems to be lost. People have a strange habit of finding ways to look strong even when they are not. American poet Tony Hoagland, a well-known author. Tony is regarded as one of the greatest poets of the modern

The Migration is the introductory chapter of Gerald Durrell’s book My Family and Other Animals. It describes his formative years in an exaggerated and even fictionalized form while growing up on the Greek island of Corfu with his siblings and widowed mother. The Migration | Summary  The Durrell family is sitting in their living room in Bournemouth, England, on a rainy

“The Third Wish” is a short story written by Joan Aiken. The story was first published in 1978 and has become quite popular in the realm of fantasy literature. “The Third Wish” follows the tale of Mr. Peters, a kindhearted and rather simple man who stumbles upon a magical creature, a swan, that becomes trapped in some metal wires. Mr. Peters

“If” by Rudyard Kipling was first published in 1910 as part of his collection of stories and poems called “Rewards and Fairies.” “If” is a popular and widely quoted poem that offers a series of hypothetical situations and advice on how to navigate life’s challenges with wisdom and virtue. If | Summary and Analysis The

‘First Death in Nova Scotia’ is a poem by Elizabeth Bishop, published in her collection of Poems ‘Questions of Travel’ in 1965. The poem consists of five stanzas and is written in free verse with scattered rhymes in verses; the speaker traces her encounter with death in the family, as a young toddler. It is

Eve To Her Daughters is largely allegorical in its narration, where Eve’s impediments on Earth symbolise her loss of innocence, and the whole poem can be read as man’s destruction of nature and the Earth in pursuit of god-like perfection