By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Immortal Bard’ is a short story by the science-fiction author and prolific non-fiction writer, Isaac Asimov (1920-92). The story’s title wittily plays on the phrase used to describe William Shakespeare, who lives on and is thus ‘immortal’ thanks to his work. In the […]
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A Summary and Analysis of Ray Bradbury’s ‘I See You Never’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘I See You Never’ is a short story by Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), published in 1947. One of Bradbury’s shortest stories, ‘I See You Never’ is about a Mexican man who, after two-and-a-half years living in the United States, is told he must leave the […]
A Summary and Analysis of Saki’s ‘The Story-Teller’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The English writer Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916), who is better known under his pen name Saki, was a master of the short comic story and, in some ways, a missing link between Oscar Wilde and P. G. Wodehouse. What’s more, Saki was that rare […]
A Summary and Analysis of Ray Bradbury’s ‘The City’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The City’ is a short story about revenge best served cold. Written by the American author Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), the story was included in his 1952 collection The Illustrated Man. The story is about a city which has waited twenty thousand years for man […]
A Summary and Analysis of Sandra Cisneros’ ‘There Was a Man, There Was a Woman’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘There Was a Man, There Was a Woman’ is a short story from Sandra Cisneros’ 1991 collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. In this brief vignette or piece of flash fiction, a narrator describes two people, a man and a woman, who lead […]