Category: Short Stories
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The Magyar Noble
Sándor Petőfi, the son of a butcher and a laundry maid, was a writer who died fighting against the Austrian Empire in the doomed Hungarian revolution of 1848. Though it was a bourgeois revolution, like many at this time, Petőfi was a radical who dreamed of worldwide revolutions and emancipation for all oppressed people. This…
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The Colonel
By Carolyn Forché What you have heard is true. I was in his house. His wife carrieda tray of coffee and sugar. His daughter filed her nails, his son went out for the night. There were daily papers, pet dogs, a pistol on thecushion beside him. The moon swung bare on its black cord overthe house.…
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The Billionaire
The kings of steel, of petroleum, and all the other kings of the United States have always in a high degree excited my power of imagination. It seemed to me certain that these people who possess so much money could not be like other mortals. Each of them (so I said to myself) must call…
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