It gave me a savage joy to know, or at least to hope, that the Empire would receive a blow as swift and fatal as that of the madman's knife in Geneva which struck through the equally mad Empress Elisabeth's gown and whalebone fourteen ...
Hunters in the Snow: A Musical Play
These are the stories she remembers him telling her, and others too âe" about medieval miracles and EU agricultural subsidies; old people and fallen kings; homemade fireworks and invented dogs; Arctic ice cores, sunk ships, drowning horses ...
Hunters in the Snow is a classic short story by Tobias Wolff centered around the suburbs of Spokane and featured in In the Garden of the North American Martyrs. The...
Hunters in the Snow: A Collection of Short Stories
In such places the nightmare moments of modern history are conceived. This novel is a fictionalised account of those who were to change the very collective psyche of mankind.
The story ends with them driving in a direction that is opposite to the one of the hospital. This story is believed to be based upon the painting Hunters in the Snow by Pieter Bruegel, a painter involved in the realism movement.