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The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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John T. Unger came from a family that had been well known in Hades--a small town on the Mississippi River--for several generations. John's father had held the amateur golf championship through many a ...
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The Jelly-Bean
By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Jim Powell was a Jelly-bean. Much as I desire to make him an appealing character, I feel that it would be unscrupulous to deceive you on that point. He was a bred-in-the-bone, dyed-in-the-wool, ninety ...
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Ivan the Fool
By Leo Tolstoy
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IVAN THE FOOL. In a certain kingdom there lived a rich peasant, who had three sons--Simeon (a soldier), Tarras-Briukhan (fat man), and Ivan (a fool)--and one daughter, Milania, born dumb. Simeon went ...
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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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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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