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  • cover for The Cask of Amontillado

    The Cask of Amontillado

    By Edgar Allan Poe

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    In this 1846 story by Edgar Allen Poe, we travel back in time to an Italian city in the eighteenth century. Fortunato and Montresor have had a long friendship, but as Poe’s tale begins, Fortunato ha ...

    Rating: 4.32

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    The Purloined Letter

    By Edgar Allan Poe

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    Nil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio. Seneca. At Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18-, I was enjoying the twofold luxury of meditation and ...

    Rating: 3.38

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    The Minister's Black Veil

    By Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    THE MINISTER'S BLACK VEIL. A PARABLE.[1] The sexton stood in the porch of Milford meeting-house pulling lustily at the bell-rope. The old people of the village came stooping along the street. Childre ...

    Rating: 4.60

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    Dr. Heidegger's Experiment

    By Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    DR. HEIDEGGER'S EXPERIMENT. That very singular man old Dr. Heidegger once invited four venerable friends to meet him in his study. There were three white-bearded gentlemen--Mr. Medbourne, Colonel Kil ...

    Rating: 4.00

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    The Artist of the Beautiful

    By Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    In The Artist of the Beautiful, an 1844 tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a shy and lonely artist becomes obsessed with bringing beauty to life. Owen Warland is a slight and delicate man, sensitive and cre ...

    Rating: 4.67

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    Young Goodman Brown

    By Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    Rating: 3.67

  • cover for Rappaccini's Daughter

    Rappaccini's Daughter

    By Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER [From the Writings of Aubepine.] We do not remember to have seen any translated specimens of the productions of M. de l'Aubepine--a fact the less to be wondered at, as his very n ...

    Rating: 4.00

  • cover for Roger Malvin's Burial

    Roger Malvin's Burial

    By Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    One of the few incidents of Indian warfare naturally susceptible of the moonlight of romance was that expedition undertaken for the defence of the frontiers in the year 1725, which resulted in the wel ...

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    The Birth-Mark

    By Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    Rating: 5.00

  • cover for Egotism

    Egotism

    By Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    [From the Unpublished "Allegories of the Heart."] [1] The physical fact, to which it is here attempted to give a moral signification, has been known to occur in more than one instance. "Here he comes ...

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    The Red Shoes

    By Hans Christian Andersen

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    There was once a little girl who was very pretty and delicate, but in summer she was forced to run about with bare feet, she was so poor, and in winter wear very large wooden shoes, which made her lit ...

    Rating: 4.33

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    The Snow Queen

    By Hans Christian Andersen

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    FIRST STORY. Now then, let us begin. When we are at the end of the story, we shall know more than we know now: but to begin. Once upon a time there was a wicked sprite, indeed he was the most mischie ...

    Rating: 3.00

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    The Emperor's New Clothes

    By Hans Christian Andersen

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    Many years ago, there was an Emperor, who was so excessively fond of new clothes, that he spent all his money in dress. He did not trouble himself in the least about his soldiers; nor did he care to g ...

    Rating: 4.12

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    The Little Match Girl

    By Hans Christian Andersen

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    This touching fairy tale comes from one of the most beloved children's writers of all time, Hans Christian Andersen. On a freezing New Year's Eve a little girl has been sent out to sell matches on the ...

    Rating: 4.75

  • cover for Snow-White and Rose-Red

    Snow-White and Rose-Red

    By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm

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    There was once a poor widow who lived in a lonely cottage. In front of the cottage was a garden wherein stood two rose-trees, one of which bore white and the other red roses. She had two children who ...

    Rating: 3.43

  • cover for Rumpelstiltskin

    Rumpelstiltskin

    By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm

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    Rating: 4.30

  • cover for The Golden Goose

    The Golden Goose

    By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm

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    There was a man who had three sons, the youngest of whom was called Dummling,[+] and was despised, mocked, and sneered at on every occasion. It happened that the eldest wanted to go into the forest to ...

    Rating: 4.00

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    King Grisly-Beard

    By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm

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    A great king of a land far away in the East had a daughter who was very beautiful, but so proud, and haughty, and conceited, that none of the princes who came to ask her in marriage was good enough fo ...

    Rating: 2.50

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