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Hometown and host to talents as diverse as Richard Wright, David Mamet, Maya Angelou, Saul Bellow, and Mike Royko, Chicago boasts a rich tradition of writers who have helped shape our sense of the city even as the city informs their best work. With a striking new cover, Chicago Stories collects the most evocative writing on the city, its gritty realism, and indomitable spirit. Mar 24, 2010 Janis rated it really liked it.

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Subtitle Tales of the City. Author Anderson, Genevieve, Miller, John, Dybek, Stuart, Morgan, Genevieve. ISBN13 9780811801645. Subtitle Tales of the City. ISBN13 9780811839747. More Books . ABOUT CHEGG.

A new collection of short stories by a master of the form with a common focus on the turmoils of romantic love Ready! Aim! On command the firing squad aims at the man backed against a full-length mirror. From the prizewinning writer Stuart Dybek comes a superb new work: a novel-in-stories, eleven masterful tales told by a single voice with remarkable narrative power. In I Sailed With Magellan, Dybek finds characters of irrepressible vitality amidst the stark urban landscapes of Chicago's south side; there, the daily experiences of the neighborhood are transformed in the lush imaginative adventures of his hero, the restless Perry Katzek.

America's Second City abounds in literary talent, and this anthology spotlights writers associated with Chicago as well as tales that take the Midwestern metropolis as their setting. Contributors include Richard Wright, Saul Bellow, James T. Farrell, Edna Ferber, Zane Grey, and many others. Farrell, Edna Ferber, Zane Grey, and many others

They seemed part of the streets.

They seemed part of the streets. If anyone noticed, it was only to glance away, but the boy secretly regarded them as if he were witnessing refugees from a cruel fairy tale groping their way through the ordinary world. He wondered where they disappeared to, where they slept at night, and what they dreamed. Beside the daytime apparitions, the silhouettes seemed nearly invisible, camouflaged by night, shadows who’d broken their connections to whatever had thrown them, and now wandered free, like dreams escaped from dreamers.

Tales of the City (formally Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City) is a 1993 television miniseries based on the first of the Tales of the City series of novels by Armistead Maupin. To date, the first three books have been adapted into television. To date, the first three books have been adapted into television miniseries; the first, Tales of the City, was produced by the UK's Channel 4 and was first screened in the UK in 1993, then shown on PBS in the US in January 1994.

The Miller's Tale" is also about a love triangle, but it's far from highbrow.

Although the Host has asked the Monk to continue the game, the drunken Miller interrupts to declare that he knows a tale "sumwhat to quyte with the Knightes tale" (11). By "quyte," the Miller means "answer" or "respond to"; one way of reading "The Miller's Tale" is as a response to "The Knight's Tale. The Miller's Tale" is also about a love triangle, but it's far from highbrow.