The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Ernest Hemingway · Poetry & fiction
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The Sniper
Liam O'Flaherty · Poetry & fiction
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The Ransom of Red Chief
O. Henry · Poetry & fiction
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The Possibility of Evil
Shirley Jackson · Poetry & fiction
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The Overcoat
Nikolai Gogol · Poetry & fiction
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The Garden Party
Katherine Mansfield · Poetry & fiction
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The Chrysanthemums
John Steinbeck · Poetry & fiction
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Cathedral
Raymond Carver · Poetry & fiction
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Girl
Jamaica Kincaid · Poetry & fiction
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A&P
John Updike · Poetry & fiction
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Eveline
James Joyce · Poetry & fiction
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The Destructors
Graham Greene · Poetry & fiction
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Charles
Shirley Jackson · Poetry & fiction
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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
Plot summary and analysis of Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" — the vulture eye, the heartbeat, and the psychology of guilt and madness.
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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
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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
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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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Harrison Bergeron
Kurt Vonnegut · Poetry & fiction
Summary and analysis of Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" — the 2081 dystopia, enforced equality, and what the story argues about freedom.
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