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The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories is the first collection of 26 short stories by William Saroyan published in 1934 (Random House). The author was recognized as a "the most widely discussed discovery of 1934" and the book became an immediate bestseller. [1]
"The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" by William Saroyan tells the story of a twenty-two-year-old writer living in San Francisco. It focuses on the struggle of an artist in a world that...
He'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease, That daring young man on the flying trapeze. The song was first published in 1867, with words written by the British lyricist and singer George Leybourne, music by Gaston Lyle, and arrangement by Alfred Lee.
One of the first American writers to describe the immigrant experience in the U.S., Saroyan created characters who were Armenians, Jews, Chinese, Poles, Africans, and the Irish. The title story touchingly portrays the thoughts of a very young writer, dying of starvation.
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Saroyan published "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" in 1934, in the depths of the Great Depression. The plight of the protagonist, an unnamed man, symbolizes the despair that many...
Published and set in 1934, William Saroyan 's story about the Great Depression dramatizes the plight of a sensitive young man who starves to death because he cannot find work.
The refrain states: He'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease, That daring young man on the flying trapeze. The song was first published in 1867, with words written by the British lyricist and singer George Leybourne, music by Gaston Lyle, and arrangement by Alfred Lee.
