In late 1909, Joseph Conrad broke off working on his political novel about Russia, Under Western Eyes, to write the short story “The Secret-Sharer: An Episode from the Sea.” First issued in two parts in 1910, in the August and… Read More ›
Day: October 7, 2022
Analysis of G. K. Chesterton’s The Secret Garden
A detective story first published in the monthly magazine The Storyteller in October 1910, and subsequently in the collection The Innocence of Father Brown (1911). Father Brown attends a dinner party held by the chief of the Paris police, Aristide… Read More ›
Analysis of Saki’s The Schartz-Metterklume Method
“The Schartz-Metterklume Method” is one of Edwardian writer Saki’s mordantly humorous stories of rebellion against rigid, stodgy adulthood, but this time the attack is launched by another adult rather than a child. The story, which first appeared in the Westminster… Read More ›
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