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The Dance of Death
By Gustave Flaubert
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A Simple Soul
By Gustave Flaubert
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For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Evêque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Félicité. For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed th ...
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The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller
By Gustave Flaubert
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Julian's father and mother dwelt in a castle built on the slope of a hill, in the heart of the woods. The towers at its four corners had pointed roofs covered with leaden tiles, and the foundation res ...
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The Lady with the Dog
By Anton Chekhov
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Banker and bourgeois family man Dmitriy Gurov has a roving eye and is always on the lookout for his next conquest in Anton Chekhov’s 1899 story The Lady with the Dog. On holiday one year, he meets a ...
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The Black Monk
By Anton Chekhov
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A Doctor's Visit
By Anton Chekhov
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THE Professor received a telegram from the Lyalikovs' factory; he was asked to come as quickly as possible. The daughter of some Madame Lyalikov, apparently the owner of the factory, was ill, and that ...
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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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Hell-Heaven
By Jhumpa Lahiri
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"Hell-Heaven" appears in beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth. The acclaimed collection explores the secrets at the heart of family life. It enters the worlds of sisters a ...
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Highway 152 by Sam Shepard
By Sam Shepard
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"Highway 152" story comes from Days out of Days, the newest from Sam Shepard, one of our most admired writers. It's a collection of stories set mainly in the fertile imaginative landscape of the Ameri ...
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Robin Hood: How Robin Hood Became an Outlaw
By J. Walker Mcspadden
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Everyone knows the story of Robin Hood—the archer who robs the rich and gives to the poor, who roams the land his band of outlaws like Little John, who's in love with Maid Marian. But how well d ...
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The Life and Death of Seals
By Urban Waite
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“The Life and Death of Seals” is a story about a family in turmoil, dealing with the ups and downs of love. Two brothers are forced to deal with the complicated relationship between their parents, ...
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