The Lesson By Toni Cade Bambara — Review

The story “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara is narrated by an unnamed black girl living in a poor area of ​​New York City.

Miss Moore tells the narrator and a group of other neighborhood children that she intends to give them a lesson about money, and calls a cab for them to take them to a toy store in downtown New York City.

The children are shocked by the enormous prices of toys. This is probably the main idea of ​​the story - to show social inequality in modern society.

Here is the link to the text of the story:
https://yourhomeworksolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/edd/2017/10/The-Lesson-by-Bambara.pdf

The Christmas Tree and the Wedding by Fyodor Dostoevsky — Review

The short story “The Christmas Tree and the Wedding” by Fyodor Dostoevsky was told by an unknown person. A wedding he saw by chance reminded the hero of an incident at a children's ball.

This is a story about monetary gain, and how greedy a person can be when thirsty for profit. And how strange and difficult were the customs when parents selected grooms for their daughters.

The story will make you smile.

Here is the link to the text of the story:

https://americanliterature.com/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/short-story/the-christmas-tree-and-the-wedding/

«The Drunkard» by Frank O'Connor — Review

The short story «The Drunkard» by Frank O'Connor is a very curious story about a boy who accidentally drank his father's beer and thus saved him from binge drinking, probably forever...

The story will make you smile.

Here is the link to the text of the story:
https://joelfinley.tripod.com/Drunkard.htm

“The New Utopia” by Jerome K. Jerome — Review

The short story “The New Utopia” by Jerome K. Jerome is a vision of the future, where everyone is equal. Today these stories are everywhere, but in 1891 we can imagine the shock of those who read them.

People are practically sexless, the only differences are in their numbers. Bathing on schedule, working 3 hours a day... And wherever you go, the same thing awaits you.

Here is the link to the text of the story:
https://maisliberdade.pt/site/assets/files/3355/jerome_-_new_utopia.pdf

The Schartz-Metterklume Method by H.H. Munro (SAKI)— Review

The short story “The Schartz-Metterklume Method” by H.H. Munro (SAKI) tells about lady who gir stuck at the railway station, she was mistakenly met as a governess, and this mistake led to a rather funy story…

Here is the link to the text of the story:
https://americanliterature.com/author/hh-munro-saki/short-story/the-schartz-metterklume-method

“Mulliner’s Buck-U-Uppo” by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse — Review

The short story “Mulliner’s Buck-U-Uppo” by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse tells about Augustine Mulliner, a quiet and sickly and overly modest assistant vicar, one day received from his Aunt Angela an experimental vitamin, body strengthening remedy…

Here is the link to the text of the story:
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/p-g-wodehouse/mr-mulliner-stories/text/mulliners-buck-u-uppo

“A Traveler at Forty: Paris!” by Theodore Dreiser— Review

In 1913, Dreiser published a book in a new genre of travel writing - “A Traveler at Forty” (1913). The book is interesting for studying Dreiser's journalistic and literary skills, and for identifying his views on the most important social problems.

The story of the creation of the book “A Traveler at Forty” is as follows. In 1911, Dreiser traveled to Europe. He visited England, France, and Germany. He wrote a series of essays about this trip, which he finally edited and finished in January 1912. In 1913 it was published in book form.

Here is the link to the text of the story:
https://loa-shared.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/static/pdf/Dreiser_Paris.pdf