Ion
Plato · Poetry & fiction
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Francis Bacon's Essay of Beauty
A. Philip McMahon · Journal articles
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Montaigne and the Cannibals: Toward a Redefinition of Exoticism
Roger Celestin · Journal articles
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The Underlying Structure of the Divinity School Address
Carol Johnston · Journal articles
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault · Books & reports
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The Power of Television Images: The First Kennedy-Nixon Debate Revisited
James N. Druckman · Journal articles
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The US National Intelligence Council's "Global Trends" 2040
National Intelligence Council · Books & reports
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Asch Conformity Studies: Conformity to the Experimenter and/or to the Group?
Gary I. Schulman · Journal articles
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Doing Gender
Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman · Journal articles
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Talented Tenth
W.E.B. Du Bois · Essays & speeches
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander · Books & reports
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Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight
Clifford Geertz · Essays & speeches
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The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought
Patricia Hill Collins · Essays & speeches
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The Weight of Glory
C. S. Lewis · Essays & speeches
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The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe · Poetry & fiction
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The Black Cat
Edgar Allan Poe · Poetry & fiction
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The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe · Poetry & fiction
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The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe · Poetry & fiction
Complete summary and analysis of Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" — Montresor's revenge, Gothic irony, themes, and what the story means.
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The Masque of the Red Death
Edgar Allan Poe · Poetry & fiction
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The Veldt
Ray Bradbury · Poetry & fiction
Summary and analysis of Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt" — the Happylife Home, the nursery, themes of technology and parental neglect explained.
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There Will Come Soft Rains
Ray Bradbury · Poetry & fiction
Summary and analysis of Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" — the automated house, nuclear war, and what the story means.
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All Summer in a Day
Ray Bradbury · Poetry & fiction
Full summary and analysis of Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day" — Margot, Venus, the sun, and the story's themes of cruelty and memory.
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A Sound of Thunder
Ray Bradbury · Poetry & fiction
Summary and analysis of Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" — the butterfly effect, time travel, and how one small action changes history.
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Rip Van Winkle
Washington Irving · Poetry & fiction
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The Devil and Tom Walker
Washington Irving · Poetry & fiction
Summary and analysis of Washington Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker" — the Faustian bargain, themes of greed and hypocrisy, explained.
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving · Poetry & fiction
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Lamb to the Slaughter
Roald Dahl · Poetry & fiction
Full summary and analysis of Roald Dahl's "Lamb to the Slaughter" — the twist ending, Mary Maloney's alibi, and themes of domestic irony.
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The Landlady
Roald Dahl · Poetry & fiction
Summary and analysis of Roald Dahl's "The Landlady" — Billy Weaver, the guest book, the taxidermy, and what the story's ending means.
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A Rose for Emily
William Faulkner · Poetry & fiction
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Flannery O'Connor · Poetry & fiction
Summary and analysis of O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" — the grandmother, The Misfit, and the theology of violent grace.
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