Motherhood is defined in the dictionary as ‘the experience of having and raising a child’. But we know that there is much more to motherhood than the simplicity of this definition. The stories in this book were inspired by purity and pain, by joy and apprehension, by the countless nuances of being a mother.
Discover the seven stories selected by the critic August Nemo that explore the beauty and uniqueness of motherhood.
This book contains:
– Motherhood by Sherwood Anderson.
– The Burglar’s Christmas by Willa Carther.
– The Mother’s Promise by T.S. Arthur.
– Somebody’s Mother by William Dean Howells.
– A Mother by James Joyce.
– Mother and Son by Guy de Maupassant.
– The Aged Mother by Matsuo Basho.For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!
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Sherwood Anderson was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works.
Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains.
Timothy Shay Arthur was a popular 19th-century American author. He is famously known for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There (1854), which helped demonize alcohol in the eyes of the American public.
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century.
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.
Matsuo Bash was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. During his lifetime, Bash was recognized for his works in the collaborative haikai no renga form; today, after centuries of commentary, he is recognized as the greatest master of haiku (then called hokku).
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