Dec 28, 2009

The Day Stalin Died | The Day Stalin Died

At a glance:

Author: Doris Lessing
First Published: 1957
Type of Plot: Coming of age
Time of Work: March 5, 1953
Setting: London
Principal Characters: The narrator, Jessie, Emma, Jean, Beatrice, The host, Jackie Smith
Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
Subjects: Communism or communists, Politics, Authors or writers, Depression, mental, Work or workers, Free speech
Locales: London, England

The Story

The day begins badly. The narrator receives a letter from Aunt Emma in Bournemouth, reminding her of a promise to take her cousin Jessie to have her picture taken that afternoon. Aunt Emma, Jessie's mother, wants the photos because she intends to show them to a television producer who visits his older brother in the boardinghouse where she and her daughter live. Aunt Emma hopes that Jessie will prove sufficiently photogenic to induce the producer to whisk her off to London to be a television star. Jessie is a broad-shouldered girl of about twenty-five who looks...

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The Day Stalin Died | The Day Stalin Died

At a glance:

The Story

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