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A Light Woman
by Robert Browning
Robert Browning's "A Light Woman" is a dramatic monologue about love, friendship, and deceit, told from the perspective of a man who betrays his friend by seducing the woman he loves. The speaker j...
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Thirteen Reasons Why
by Jay Asher
Clay, a high school junior, arrives home after school to find a package addressed to him resting against the front door. He opens it to find a set of seven tapes, each side numbered one to thirteen...
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Runner
by Robert Newton
In the year 1919, teenage Charlie Feehan dreams of a better life than the one his family lives in the Richmond slums of Melbourne. His father recently passed away, forcing Charlie to take on financ...
Poetry Guide
A Light Woman
by Robert Browning
Robert Browning's "A Light Woman" is a dramatic monologue about love, friendship, and deceit, told from the perspective of a man who betrays his friend by seducing the woman he loves. The speaker j...
Lit Guide
Thirteen Reasons Why
by Jay Asher
Clay, a high school junior, arrives home after school to find a package addressed to him resting against the front door. He opens it to find a set of seven tapes, each side numbered one to thirteen...
Lit Guide
Runner
by Robert Newton
In the year 1919, teenage Charlie Feehan dreams of a better life than the one his family lives in the Richmond slums of Melbourne. His father recently passed away, forcing Charlie to take on financ...
Lit Guide
Vertigo
by Amanda Lohrey
Luke and Anna are a married couple living in a city in Australia. Their life isn’t terrible by any means, but both of them have begun to feel a sense of growing emptiness and dissatisfaction with t...
Poetry Guide
A Light Woman
by Robert Browning
Robert Browning's "A Light Woman" is a dramatic monologue about love, friendship, and deceit, told from the perspective of a man who betrays his friend by seducing the woman he loves. The speaker j...
Lit Guide
Thirteen Reasons Why
by Jay Asher
Clay, a high school junior, arrives home after school to find a package addressed to him resting against the front door. He opens it to find a set of seven tapes, each side numbered one to thirteen...
Lit Guide
Runner
by Robert Newton
In the year 1919, teenage Charlie Feehan dreams of a better life than the one his family lives in the Richmond slums of Melbourne. His father recently passed away, forcing Charlie to take on financ...
Lit Guide
Vertigo
by Amanda Lohrey
Luke and Anna are a married couple living in a city in Australia. Their life isn’t terrible by any means, but both of them have begun to feel a sense of growing emptiness and dissatisfaction with t...
Poetry Guide
The Complaints of Poverty (Excerpt)
by Nicholas James
Nicholas James's "The Complaints of Poverty" rails against the terrible circumstances faced by the 18th-century British poor. In this particular excerpt, the poem describes the day-to-day difficult...
Poetry Guide
Catrin
by Gillian Clarke
"Catrin," by the Welsh poet Gillian Clarke, is a poem about the deep bond—and conflict—between a mother and daughter. The poem's speaker, Clarke herself, recalls the day she gave birth to her daugh...
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Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu
Interior Chinatown takes the form of a screenplay to follow the story of Willis Wu, an Asian American actor of Taiwanese descent. He laments the one-dimensional, stereotypical roles he’s stuck play...
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Fiela’s Child
by Dalene Matthee
In 19th-century South Africa, outside the Western Cape town of Knysna, a wood-beam maker named Elias van Rooyen lives in the Forest with his wife, Barta. One foggy day, they lose their child Lukas,...
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The Little Stranger
by Sarah Waters
Dr. Faraday lives in Lidcote, England, where he spends his days tending to patients. One day, he is called out to Hundreds Hall, a once-grand manor home. Faraday went to Hundreds as a child for Emp...
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Amos Fortune, Free Man
by Elizabeth Yates
Amos Fortune, Free Man is the fictionalized story of a real-life African prince who was sold into slavery. In the early spring of 1725, white hunters surround and overwhelm the village of the At-mu...
Poetry Guide
Nine Gold Medals
by David Roth
"Nine Gold Medals," by the American singer-songwriter David Roth, is based on a story about a 1976 race held by the Special Olympics (a sports organization for competitors with intellectual disabil...
Poetry Guide
Women and Roses
by Robert Browning
In Victorian poet Robert Browning's "Women and Roses," a dazzled speaker recounts a strange dream. He sees before him a "red-rose tree"—a bush of red roses—around which all the beautiful women who ...
Poetry Guide
The Idea of Order at Key West
by Wallace Stevens
"The Idea of Order at Key West" is one of modernist poet Wallace Stevens's most celebrated works. Written in 1934 and published in his 1936 collection Ideas of Order, the blank verse poem explores ...
Poetry Guide
Love Among the Ruins
by Robert Browning
In Robert Browning's "Love Among the Ruins," a lover makes his way across a grassy landscape to meet with his beloved in the ruins of an old tower. A majestic ancient city once stood on this very g...
Poetry Guide
Life-Cycle
by Bruce Dawe
Bruce Dawe was a prominent Australian poet and critic who lived from 1930 to 2020. "Life-Cycle" displays his typical mix of humor and philosophizing as it charts the stages in the life of Australia...
Poetry Guide
The Complaints of Poverty (Excerpt)
by Nicholas James
Nicholas James's "The Complaints of Poverty" rails against the terrible circumstances faced by the 18th-century British poor. In this particular excerpt, the poem describes the day-to-day difficult...
Poetry Guide
Catrin
by Gillian Clarke
"Catrin," by the Welsh poet Gillian Clarke, is a poem about the deep bond—and conflict—between a mother and daughter. The poem's speaker, Clarke herself, recalls the day she gave birth to her daugh...
Lit Guide
Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu
Interior Chinatown takes the form of a screenplay to follow the story of Willis Wu, an Asian American actor of Taiwanese descent. He laments the one-dimensional, stereotypical roles he’s stuck play...
Lit Guide
Fiela’s Child
by Dalene Matthee
In 19th-century South Africa, outside the Western Cape town of Knysna, a wood-beam maker named Elias van Rooyen lives in the Forest with his wife, Barta. One foggy day, they lose their child Lukas,...
Lit Guide
The Little Stranger
by Sarah Waters
Dr. Faraday lives in Lidcote, England, where he spends his days tending to patients. One day, he is called out to Hundreds Hall, a once-grand manor home. Faraday went to Hundreds as a child for Emp...
Lit Guide
Amos Fortune, Free Man
by Elizabeth Yates
Amos Fortune, Free Man is the fictionalized story of a real-life African prince who was sold into slavery. In the early spring of 1725, white hunters surround and overwhelm the village of the At-mu...
Poetry Guide
Nine Gold Medals
by David Roth
"Nine Gold Medals," by the American singer-songwriter David Roth, is based on a story about a 1976 race held by the Special Olympics (a sports organization for competitors with intellectual disabil...
Poetry Guide
Women and Roses
by Robert Browning
In Victorian poet Robert Browning's "Women and Roses," a dazzled speaker recounts a strange dream. He sees before him a "red-rose tree"—a bush of red roses—around which all the beautiful women who ...
Poetry Guide
The Idea of Order at Key West
by Wallace Stevens
"The Idea of Order at Key West" is one of modernist poet Wallace Stevens's most celebrated works. Written in 1934 and published in his 1936 collection Ideas of Order, the blank verse poem explores ...
Poetry Guide
Love Among the Ruins
by Robert Browning
In Robert Browning's "Love Among the Ruins," a lover makes his way across a grassy landscape to meet with his beloved in the ruins of an old tower. A majestic ancient city once stood on this very g...
Poetry Guide
Life-Cycle
by Bruce Dawe
Bruce Dawe was a prominent Australian poet and critic who lived from 1930 to 2020. "Life-Cycle" displays his typical mix of humor and philosophizing as it charts the stages in the life of Australia...
Lit Guide
Vertigo
by Amanda Lohrey
Luke and Anna are a married couple living in a city in Australia. Their life isn’t terrible by any means, but both of them have begun to feel a sense of growing emptiness and dissatisfaction with t...
Poetry Guide
The Complaints of Poverty (Excerpt)
by Nicholas James
Nicholas James's "The Complaints of Poverty" rails against the terrible circumstances faced by the 18th-century British poor. In this particular excerpt, the poem describes the day-to-day difficult...
Poetry Guide
Catrin
by Gillian Clarke
"Catrin," by the Welsh poet Gillian Clarke, is a poem about the deep bond—and conflict—between a mother and daughter. The poem's speaker, Clarke herself, recalls the day she gave birth to her daugh...
Lit Guide
Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu
Interior Chinatown takes the form of a screenplay to follow the story of Willis Wu, an Asian American actor of Taiwanese descent. He laments the one-dimensional, stereotypical roles he’s stuck play...
Lit Guide
Fiela’s Child
by Dalene Matthee
In 19th-century South Africa, outside the Western Cape town of Knysna, a wood-beam maker named Elias van Rooyen lives in the Forest with his wife, Barta. One foggy day, they lose their child Lukas,...
Lit Guide
The Little Stranger
by Sarah Waters
Dr. Faraday lives in Lidcote, England, where he spends his days tending to patients. One day, he is called out to Hundreds Hall, a once-grand manor home. Faraday went to Hundreds as a child for Emp...
Lit Guide
Amos Fortune, Free Man
by Elizabeth Yates
Amos Fortune, Free Man is the fictionalized story of a real-life African prince who was sold into slavery. In the early spring of 1725, white hunters surround and overwhelm the village of the At-mu...
Poetry Guide
Nine Gold Medals
by David Roth
"Nine Gold Medals," by the American singer-songwriter David Roth, is based on a story about a 1976 race held by the Special Olympics (a sports organization for competitors with intellectual disabil...
Poetry Guide
Women and Roses
by Robert Browning
In Victorian poet Robert Browning's "Women and Roses," a dazzled speaker recounts a strange dream. He sees before him a "red-rose tree"—a bush of red roses—around which all the beautiful women who ...
Poetry Guide
The Idea of Order at Key West
by Wallace Stevens
"The Idea of Order at Key West" is one of modernist poet Wallace Stevens's most celebrated works. Written in 1934 and published in his 1936 collection Ideas of Order, the blank verse poem explores ...
Poetry Guide
Love Among the Ruins
by Robert Browning
In Robert Browning's "Love Among the Ruins," a lover makes his way across a grassy landscape to meet with his beloved in the ruins of an old tower. A majestic ancient city once stood on this very g...
Poetry Guide
Life-Cycle
by Bruce Dawe
Bruce Dawe was a prominent Australian poet and critic who lived from 1930 to 2020. "Life-Cycle" displays his typical mix of humor and philosophizing as it charts the stages in the life of Australia...
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