❞ رواية The Bridges of Madison County ❝ ⏤ Robert James Waller

هذا القسم يحتوي علي العديد من القصص والروايات باللغة الإنجليزية

(Stories and novels) القصص والروايات
الرواية هي سرد نثري طويل يصف شخصيات خيالية أو واقعية وأحداثاً على شكل قصة متسلسلة، كما أنها أكبر الأجناس القصصية من حيث الحجم وتعدد الشخصيات وتنوع الأحداث، وقد ظهرت في أوروبا بوصفها جنساً أدبياً مؤثراً في القرن الثامن عشر، والرواية حكاية تعتمد السرد بما فيه من وصف وحوار وصراع بين الشخصيات وما ينطوي عليه ذلك من تأزم وجدل وتغذيه الأحداث
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally written in prose form, and which is typically published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the Italian novella for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the Latin novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of novellus, diminutive of novus, meaning "new". Walter Scott made a distinction between the novel, in which (as he saw it) "events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the modern state of society" and the romance, which he defined as "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents". However, many such romances, including the historical romances of Scott, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, are also frequently called novels, and Scott describes romance as a "kindred term". This sort of romance is in turn different from the genre fiction love romance or romance novel
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood.

A dictionary definition is "an invented prose narrative shorter than a novel usually dealing with a few characters and aiming at unity of effect and often concentrating on the creation of mood rather than plot."

The short story is a crafted form in its own right. Short stories make use of plot, resonance, and other dynamic components as in a novel, but typically to a lesser degree. While the short story is largely distinct from the novel or novella (a shorter novel), authors generally draw from a common pool of literary techniques.

The Bridges of Madison County    

There are songs that come free from the
blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand
country roads. This is one of them. In late
afternoon, in the autumn of 1989, I'm at my
desk, looking at a blinking cursor on the
computer screen before me, and the telephone
rings.
On the other end of the wire is a former
Iowan named Michael Johnson. He lives in
Florida now. A friend from Iowa has sent him
one of my books. Michael Johnson has read it;
his sister, Carolyn, has read it; and they have a
story in which they think I might be interested.
He is circumspect, refusing to say anything
about the story, except that he and Carolyn are
willing to travel to Iowa to talk with me about
it.
That they are prepared to make such an
effort intrigues me, in spite of my skepticism
about such offers. So I agree to meet with
them in Des Moines the following week. At a
Holiday Inn near the airport, the introductions
are made, awkwardness gradually declines,
and the two of them sit across from me,
evening coming down outside, light snow
falling.
They extract a promise: If I decide not to
write the story, I must agree never to disclose
what transpired in Madison County, Iowa, in
1965 or other related events that followed over
the next twenty-four years. All right, that's
reasonable. After all, it's their story, not mine.
 

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