The Triumph Of The Egg
''The Triumph of the Egg'' (full title: ''The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life in Tales and Poems'') is a 1921 short story collection by the American author Sherwood Anderson. It was Anderson's third book to be published by B.W. Huebsch and his second collection after the successful short story cycle ''Winesburg, Ohio''. The book contains 15 stories preceded by photographs of seven clay sculptures by Anderson's wife at the time, sculptor Tennessee Mitchell, that were inspired by characters in the book. The book was the source of inspiration for a sculpture under the same name in the Smithsonian Museum. Contents The volume includes the following stories: * "The Dumb Man" * "I Want to Know Why" * "Seeds" * "The Other Woman" * "The Egg" * "Unlighted Lamps" * "Senility" * "The Man in the Brown Coat" * "Brothers" * "The Door of the Trap" * "The New Englander" * "War" * "Motherhood" * "Out of Nowhere Into Nothing" * "The Man with the Trumpet" References E ...
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''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pron ...
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