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                                                   TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA A.J. Cronin was a doctor by profession. He gave up his profession as a doctor and started writing novels and short stories. Some of his novels have been made into films. The title of the short story, “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” is one of the early plays of Shakespeare. The story is about the sacrifice of the two little boys to bring hope to their sister. “Yet, gazing at the two little figures, with their brown skins, tangled hair and dark earnest eyes, we felt ourselves strangely attracted” A J Cronin and his companion were driving through the foothills of the Alps. On the outskirts of Verona, they saw two boys selling wild strawberries. They were brothers. Nicola, the elder, was 13 years old while Jacopo was 12. They met these two boys in several places. Their behavior attracted ...

                                                    The Village Schoolmaster by Oliver Goldsmith Introduction:             Oliver Goldsmith was an English poet, playwright, and novelist. His well-known works are The Vicar of the Wakefield , ‘The Deserted Village’, and She Stoops to Conquer . In the poem, “The Village Schoolmaster”, Oliver Goldsmith talks of a school that is situated by a rambling fence with a yellow flowering shrub called furze. About the Poem: “There, in his mansion, skill’d to rule”             The poem portrays an imaginary village school master. The village is empty and deserted as the people have emigrated for a better living. The main cause of the emigration is the enclosure movement also calle...

 "I am a Cat" by Natsume Soseki Introduction:             Natsume Soseki is a Japanese Novelist. His best-known works are Kokoro and I am a Cat . The narrator, the nameless cat comes to live in the house of a teacher, where it gains a greater knowledge and reality of human beings. Introduction to “I am a Cat”             The prose “I am a Cat” is a satire on human pretensions and hypocrisy. The cat is removed from its birth place by a student, who throws him in a bamboo bush. After gaining consciousness, the cat realizes that it has entered the human world, City. The cat, out of hunger, roams the place and enters a school master’s estate. The daughters of master torture the cat by holding it upside down and covering its head with a cover. Thus, the cat narrates how humans differ from animals in terms of moral values. Cat’s First impression of a human face: “The f...