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The son of a U.S. senator and the story’s antagonist, Sedgewick is thirteen years old when he enrolls at St. Benedict’s. Although he is well liked by his peers, Sedgewick is a disrespectful troublemaker and dishonest manipulator. He goes on to become the chairman of the highly successful EastAmerica Steel company, and then a U.S. senator.
The Palace Thief. Ethan Canin. Issue 128, Fall 1993. I tell this story not for my own honor, for there is little of that here, and not as a warning, for a man of my calling learns quickly that all warnings are in vain. Nor do I tell it in apology for St. Benedict’s School, for St. Benedict’s School needs no apologies.
Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. The Repetition of History . Canin shows how history repeats itself through not only the structure of “The Palace Thief,” which is that of Mr. Hundert recounting Sedgewick’s history and his own, but also in the similarities of events within that history.
8 de ago. de 2006 · The Palace Thief (5 stars): The best story in the bunch. A young teacher at a prestigious prep school feels some sympathy for a troubled student, which leads to him making some errors in judgement. The story revolves around their teacher-student relationship, as well as their relationship 40 years later.
The Palace Thief consists of four stories, averaging fifty pages in length. The protagonists are, as is customary with Canin, male. They range from middle age to nearly seventy. All share a ...
The Palace Thief. Ethan Canin. Bloomsbury, 1994 - Men - 227 pages. This brilliant new work from the acclaimed author of "Emperor of the Air" presents four novellas--each a stunning fictional portrait--that tell of people trying to understand why their lives have taken such surprising turns. Academy Award winner Kevin Kline stars in the ...
The Palace Thief is the story of a dedicated and inspiring classics professor at an elite prep school where an encounter with a student, the son of a powerful senator, inexorably alters his life. Forty-one years later at a reunion of his students, he is faced with the fear that he may have failed the most important challenge of his life—to have been a great teacher.
