A School Story
Chekhov noted that if, early in a story, mention was made of a rifle hanging on the wall, it would eventually have to go off. Hanging on the window frame of the schoolhouse in Machado de Assis's "A School Story" is not a rifle, but a paddle, complete with five holes drilled in it.

Genre: short story
Length: 3,450 words
Translated from Portuguese (Brazil)
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A School Story
Chekhov noted that if, early in a story, mention was made of a rifle hanging on the wall, it would eventually have to go off. Hanging on the window frame of the schoolhouse in Machado de Assis's "A School Story" is not a rifle, but a paddle, complete with five holes drilled in it.

Genre: short story
Length: 3,450 words
Translated from Portuguese (Brazil)
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A School Story

A School Story

by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Juan LePuen
A School Story

A School Story

by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Juan LePuen

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Overview

Chekhov noted that if, early in a story, mention was made of a rifle hanging on the wall, it would eventually have to go off. Hanging on the window frame of the schoolhouse in Machado de Assis's "A School Story" is not a rifle, but a paddle, complete with five holes drilled in it.

Genre: short story
Length: 3,450 words
Translated from Portuguese (Brazil)

Product Details

BN ID: 2940015856354
Publisher: Fario
Publication date: 11/10/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 44 KB

About the Author

Brazil's Machado de Assis, the greatest Latin American novelist of the nineteenth century (1839-1908), also excelled in the short story.
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