The Human Comedy Summary
William Saroyan

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The Human Comedy Summary

This novel, set in a small American town during World War II, is a coming of age story anchored by the experiences of Homer Macauley, a teenage telegraph messenger who discovers truths about human experience in general and about himself in particular while delivering telegrams, many of which report on the deaths of loved ones. Episodic and poetic, with an emphasis on creating a portrait rather than developing a plot, The...

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William Saroyan Biographies (5)

William Saroyan

407 words, approx. 2 pages

The skill of William Saroyan (1908-1981), American short-story writer, dramatist, and novelist, in evoking mood and atmosphere was noteworthy, and his imaginary world, peopled with common men, was war... Read more

William Saroyan

16,718 words, approx. 56 pages

In the spring of 1939, when the work of William Saroyan first reached the New York stage in the form of a one-act play entitled My Heart's in the Highlands, Sidney B. Whipple of the New York World-Te... Read more

William Saroyan

3,192 words, approx. 11 pages

Growing up in an Armenian immigrant community in the San Joaquin Valley of California with both of his grandmothers storytellers was a propitious circumstance for William Saroyan's career as a writer.... Read more

William Saroyan

4,501 words, approx. 16 pages

William Saroyan 's life, so crucial to an understanding of his controversially autobiographical short fiction, was fraught with instability and change. When Saroyan was three his father, Armenak Saroy... Read more

William Saroyan

13,793 words, approx. 46 pages

Biography EssayGrowing up in an Armenian immigrant community in the San Joaquin Valley of California with both of his grandmothers as storytellers was a propitious circumstance for William Saroyan's c... Read more

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