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Literature

A Summary and Analysis of Ambrose Bierce’s ‘The Boarded Window’

‘The Boarded Window’ is a story by the American author Ambrose Bierce, who is also remembered for his witty The Devil’s Dictionary and for his mysterious disappearance in around 1914. Like many of Bierce’s tales, ‘The Boarded Window’ contains elements of the horror genre. The story is about a man […]

Literature

A Summary and Analysis of Jorge Luis Borges’ ‘The God’s Script’

‘The God’s Script’, sometimes translated under the title ‘The Writing of the God’, is a 1949 short story by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986). The story concerns a Mayan priest who is imprisoned with a jaguar; the priest comes to realise that his god has hidden magic writing […]

Literature

A Summary and Analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s ‘A Canary for One’

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘A Canary for One’ is a short story by Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). He began writing ‘A Canary for One’ in 1926 and it was first published the following year. It contains a number of the most characteristic features of Hemingway’s writing: clear, unadorned prose, […]