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A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings Summary

In the short story A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a Colombian writer, talks about Pelayo and Elisenda, a couple who found an old man in their yard. This man had wings.

Bartleby the Scrivener Summary

The book Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a short story written by Herman Melville. The narrator is an elderly lawyer who is a successful businessman. He has two employees but expansion forces him to employ Bartleby, who is an efficient copyist but quiet and antisocial.

A Rose for Emily Summary

“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner is one of the classics penned down in 1930. Faulkner called his story a “Ghost story” due to the lurid appeal of his piece of writing.

A Good Man Is Hard to Find Summary

The short story of Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” is arguably one of her best literary works.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Summary

The following Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Summary analyzes three sections of the book briefly.