Shades (story)
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shades-story-188-14812000
title:
Shades (story)
text:
"Shades" is one of Bolesław Prus' shortest micro-stories. Written in 1885, it comes from a several years' period of pessimism in the author's life caused partly by the 1883 failure of Nowiny (News), a Warsaw daily that he had been editing less than a year. Prus, the "lamplighter" who had striven to dispel darkness and its attendant "fear, errancy, and crime," had failed to sufficiently interest the public in his "observatory of societal facts," Nowiny. "Shades" is one of several micro-stories by
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1885 micro-story by Bolesław Prus
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_(story)
date created:
2005-01-15T05:57:51Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T22:26:43Z
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