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White Horse
By Margaret Atwood
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Praise for Moral Disorder ... "Stories like 'The White Horse'...prove Atwood is still a master of the compelling, peculiar portrait of human behavior. (Grade: A-)" ... —Entertainment Weekly ... ...
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The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
By Baroness Emmuska Orczy
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It was not, Heaven help us all! a very uncommon occurrence these days: a woman almost unsexed by misery, starvation, and the abnormal excitement engendered by daily spectacles of revenge and of cruelt ...
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Twice Told Tales
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
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THE GRAY CHAMPION. There was once a time when New England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs than those threatened ones which brought on the Revolution. James II., the bigoted success ...
Nana and Three Short Stories
By Émile Zola
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At nine o'clock in the evening the body of the house at the Theatres des Varietes was still all but empty. A few individuals, it is true, were sitting quietly waiting in the balcony and stalls, but th ...
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Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
By Leo Tolstoy
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“The Kreutzer Sonata,” Leo Tolstoy’s 1889 novella, is at the heart of this collection of work from one of Russia’s literary masters. As the novella opens, love, sexuality, and relationships be ...
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Overclocked
By Cory Doctorow
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6 short stories: "After the Siege", "Anda's Game", "I, Robot", "I, Row-boat", "Printcrime", "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth".
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The Gloria Scott
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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"I have some papers here," said my friend Sherlock Holmes, as we sat one winter's night on either side of the fire, "which I really think, Watson, that it would be worth your while to glance over. Th ...
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Fetching Raymond
By John Grisham
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Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons, Leon and Butch, take a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit the youngest Graney brother, Raymond, who’s been locked away on d ...
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Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)
By William Dean Howell
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The other winter, as I was taking a morning walk down to the East River, I came upon a bit of our motley life, a fact of our piebald civilization, which has perplexed me from time to time, ever since, ...
Just So Stories
By Rudyard Kipling
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up with his tail. round three times on his ...
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Strictly Business
By O. Henry
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I suppose you know all about the stage and stage people. You've been touched with and by actors, and you read the newspaper criticisms and the jokes in the weeklies about the Rialto and the chorus gir ...
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The Pit and the Pendulum
By Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allen Poe’s 1842 Pit and Pendulum is the story of a prisoner trapped in solitary confinement during the Spanish Inquisition. The prisoner’s cell is completely dark and, unable to make sense ...
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The Adventure of the Empty House
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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As Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1903 story The Adventure of the Empty House opens, the year is 1894. A shocking and bizarre murder has taken place, but Sherlock Holmes, the greatest detective in Britian ...
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3 Short Reads by Edgar Allan Poe
By Edgar Allan Poe
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In just 7 installments, you can read three of Edgar Allan Poe's best short works--The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Raven.
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A Moment of Wrong Thinking
By Lawrence Block
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In celebration of acclaimed crime author Lawrence Block's book, A Drop of the Hard Stuff, we're delighted to feature one of his short stories, "A Moment of Wrong Thinking." In this tale a suicide may ...
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The Gift of the Magi
By O. Henry
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Daisy Miller
By Henry James
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At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel. There are, indeed, many hotels, for the entertainment of tourists is the business of the place, which, as many ...
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Three Short Stories
By Gustave Flaubert
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At night, in winter, when the snow-flakes fall slowly from heaven like great white tears, I raise my voice; its resonance thrills the cypress trees and makes them bud anew. I pause an instant in my sw ...
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