The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Ursula K. Le Guin · Poetry & fiction
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The Most Dangerous Game
Richard Connell · Poetry & fiction
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The Story of an Hour
Kate Chopin · Poetry & fiction
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Bartleby, the Scrivener
Herman Melville · Poetry & fiction
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The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka · Poetry & fiction
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To Build a Fire
Jack London · Poetry & fiction
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Hills Like White Elephants
Ernest Hemingway · Poetry & fiction
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Young Goodman Brown
Nathaniel Hawthorne · Poetry & fiction
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The Monkey's Paw
W.W. Jacobs · Poetry & fiction
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The Gift of the Magi
O. Henry · Poetry & fiction
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Sonny's Blues
James Baldwin · Poetry & fiction
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Araby
James Joyce · Poetry & fiction
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The Scarlet Ibis
James Hurst · Poetry & fiction
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The Meaning of Art
Rabindranath Tagore · Essays & speeches
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Body Ritual among the Nacirema
Horace Miner · Journal articles
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Coming of Age in Samoa
Margaret Mead · Books & reports
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Najib Mahfuz's Midaq Alley: A Socio-Cultural Analysis
Marius Deeb · Dissertations
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The Economy of the Feminine in Emilia Pardo Bazán's "Las medias rojas
Bonnie L. Gasior · Journal articles
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On Flags and Fraternities: Lessons on Cultural Memory and Historical Amnesia in Charles Chesnutt's "Po' Sandy
Margaret D. Bauer · Journal articles
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Materializing a Cyborg's Manifesto
Jackie Orr · Journal articles
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Decoration and Decorum, Adolf Loos's Critique of Kitsch
Miriam Gusevich · Journal articles
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Rioting with Stravinsky: A Particular Analysis of the "Rite of Spring
Daniel K. L. Chua · Journal articles
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The Function of Stephen's Speech (Acts 7,2-53)
John J. Kilgallen · Dissertations
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An Analysis of Seneca's Thyestes
Joe Park Poe · Dissertations
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Theme, Plot, and Technique in the "Heracles" of Euripides
D. J. Conacher · Journal articles
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The Argument of Hesiod's Works and Days
Frederick J. Teggart · Journal articles
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Longinus and the Subject of the Sublime
Suzanne Guerlac · Journal articles
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Gorgias' Encomium to Helen and the Defense of Rhetoric
John Poulakos · Essays & speeches
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The Influence of Machado de Assis on John Barth's "The Floating Opera
Earl E. Fitz · Journal articles
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Japanese perceptions of "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Pauline Kent · Journal articles
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