The Empress’s Ring (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Nancy Hale
- First Published: 1954
- Type of Plot: Fiction of manners
- Time of Work: 1954
- Setting: The South
- Principal Characters: The unnamed narrator
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Children, Memory, Emotions, Rings, Toys
- Locales: South (U.S.)
The Story
The narrator of this story begins with an admission: “I worry about it still, even today, thirty odd years later.” The object of her worry is a child's golden ring “set with five little turquoises.” It was given to the narrator for her eighth birthday by a family friend of whom she was so fond that she thought of her as her aunt. The ring was special not only because it was purchased especially for the narrator by a favorite relative but also because the ring was said to have belonged to Austria's Empress Elisabeth.
The ring is so beautiful and precious...
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