Gasparyan G. (ed.). Reading for Discussion (Short Stories for Advanced Learners of English)

Yerevan: V. Brusov State Linguistic University, Lingua Publishers, 2007. — 208 p.Any work of literature should be entertaining to read. What gives a piece of literature permanent value is its ability not only to entertain but also to say something that makes us pause―perhaps it makes us wonder about our own lives, our society, etc. Studying a work of literature should not detract you from enjoying the work but should further your understanding and thus enhance that enjoyment. To understand any work takes more than one reading. You only make an acquaintance with a work during a first reading, but hopefully the work grabs your interest and makes you want to read on. A second reading allows you to look at a work in a new way, simply because you already know the outcome, and you are now able to see the author's craft in moulding the work to its conclusion.First Confession by Frank O’Connor
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