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A Warning to the Curious
by M. R. James
The small coastal town of Seaburgh is bright and colorful and features a prominent church atop a hill. The writer describes Seaburgh from memory, as he used to frequent the town in childhood. He re...
This Side of Paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Amory Blaine is born to middle-class, Midwestern parents. He spends most of his childhood traveling with his mother, Beatrice Blaine, and developing a taste for luxury. When Amory is 13 years old, ...
Johnny Got His Gun
by Dalton Trumbo
Joe Bonham wakes up to the sound of a phone ringing at the bakery in Los Angeles where he works. He feels like he’s waking up from a hangover. When he goes to answer the phone, he learns that his f...
A Warning to the Curious
by M. R. James
The small coastal town of Seaburgh is bright and colorful and features a prominent church atop a hill. The writer describes Seaburgh from memory, as he used to frequent the town in childhood. He re...
This Side of Paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Amory Blaine is born to middle-class, Midwestern parents. He spends most of his childhood traveling with his mother, Beatrice Blaine, and developing a taste for luxury. When Amory is 13 years old, ...
Johnny Got His Gun
by Dalton Trumbo
Joe Bonham wakes up to the sound of a phone ringing at the bakery in Los Angeles where he works. He feels like he’s waking up from a hangover. When he goes to answer the phone, he learns that his f...
The Train Driver
by Athol Fugard
Simon Hanabe, a Black Xhosa gravedigger, tells the audience about the time a white man came to the graveyard of unmarked graves in search of a dead woman. As the play flashes back to that scene, Ro...
A Warning to the Curious
by M. R. James
The small coastal town of Seaburgh is bright and colorful and features a prominent church atop a hill. The writer describes Seaburgh from memory, as he used to frequent the town in childhood. He re...
This Side of Paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Amory Blaine is born to middle-class, Midwestern parents. He spends most of his childhood traveling with his mother, Beatrice Blaine, and developing a taste for luxury. When Amory is 13 years old, ...
Johnny Got His Gun
by Dalton Trumbo
Joe Bonham wakes up to the sound of a phone ringing at the bakery in Los Angeles where he works. He feels like he’s waking up from a hangover. When he goes to answer the phone, he learns that his f...
The Train Driver
by Athol Fugard
Simon Hanabe, a Black Xhosa gravedigger, tells the audience about the time a white man came to the graveyard of unmarked graves in search of a dead woman. As the play flashes back to that scene, Ro...
The Pigman
by Paul Zindel
The spring of their sophomore year of high school, Lorraine Jensen and John Conlan sign an oath vowing to tell the truth—and only the truth—about their experiences with Mr. Angelo Pignati, “The Pig...
The Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
On the Kansas prairies, a young girl named Dorothy lives on a farm with her Aunt Em, her Uncle Henry, and her little black dog, Toto. While her surroundings are dull and gray, Dorothy still finds j...
The Train Driver
by Athol Fugard
Simon Hanabe, a Black Xhosa gravedigger, tells the audience about the time a white man came to the graveyard of unmarked graves in search of a dead woman. As the play flashes back to that scene, Ro...
The Pigman
by Paul Zindel
The spring of their sophomore year of high school, Lorraine Jensen and John Conlan sign an oath vowing to tell the truth—and only the truth—about their experiences with Mr. Angelo Pignati, “The Pig...
The Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
On the Kansas prairies, a young girl named Dorothy lives on a farm with her Aunt Em, her Uncle Henry, and her little black dog, Toto. While her surroundings are dull and gray, Dorothy still finds j...
How to Become a Writer
by Lorrie Moore
“How to Become a Writer” takes the form of a self-help column, employing the second-person point of view (“you”) as if to instruct the protagonist, Francie, on the steps to take in order to become ...
The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
John Dowell, the narrator, promises to tell the saddest story he knows, which revolves around John, his wife Florence, and their friends Edward and Leonora Ashburnham. Both Florence and Edward have...
Trainspotting
by Irvine Welsh
In Leith (a port neighborhood of Edinburgh, Scotland) in the late 1980s, Rent Boy and Sick Boy begin experiencing heroin withdrawal symptoms. They go to see their dealer, Johnny Swan, a.k.a. “Mothe...
The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers is the story of d’Artagnan, a young man from Gascony who dreams of becoming a musketeer (a soldier who carries a rifle). At the beginning of the novel, he sets off from his hom...
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Evelyn Hugo, a movie star of the 1960s and 1970s, is now 79 years old. As she prepares to sell 12 of her most famous dresses at auction, she reaches out to Vivant, a prominent magazine, to request ...
The Frogs
by Aristophanes
Dionysus and his slave Xanthias head toward the house of Heracles, Dionysus’s half-brother. Xanthias, who is carrying the pair’s luggage, rides on a donkey. The rather “effeminate” Dionysus walks b...
Mortal Engines
by Philip Reeve
In a futuristic steampunk world, humanity has rebuilt technology from scratch following a cataclysmic event called the Sixty Minute War. Cities like London have giant tracks that let them move at s...
How It Happened
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Though “How It Happened” is narrated in the first person by an unnamed male character, readers are told at the beginning that the tale itself has actually been set down by a writing medium. This cr...
Hoot
by Carl Hiaasen
Roy only notices the strange, barefoot running boy because the school bully, Dana Matherson, chooses to squeeze Roy’s head, which forces Roy to look out the window instead of at his comic book. Roy...
The Pigman
by Paul Zindel
The spring of their sophomore year of high school, Lorraine Jensen and John Conlan sign an oath vowing to tell the truth—and only the truth—about their experiences with Mr. Angelo Pignati, “The Pig...
The Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
On the Kansas prairies, a young girl named Dorothy lives on a farm with her Aunt Em, her Uncle Henry, and her little black dog, Toto. While her surroundings are dull and gray, Dorothy still finds j...
How to Become a Writer
by Lorrie Moore
“How to Become a Writer” takes the form of a self-help column, employing the second-person point of view (“you”) as if to instruct the protagonist, Francie, on the steps to take in order to become ...
The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
John Dowell, the narrator, promises to tell the saddest story he knows, which revolves around John, his wife Florence, and their friends Edward and Leonora Ashburnham. Both Florence and Edward have...
Trainspotting
by Irvine Welsh
In Leith (a port neighborhood of Edinburgh, Scotland) in the late 1980s, Rent Boy and Sick Boy begin experiencing heroin withdrawal symptoms. They go to see their dealer, Johnny Swan, a.k.a. “Mothe...
The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers is the story of d’Artagnan, a young man from Gascony who dreams of becoming a musketeer (a soldier who carries a rifle). At the beginning of the novel, he sets off from his hom...
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Evelyn Hugo, a movie star of the 1960s and 1970s, is now 79 years old. As she prepares to sell 12 of her most famous dresses at auction, she reaches out to Vivant, a prominent magazine, to request ...
The Frogs
by Aristophanes
Dionysus and his slave Xanthias head toward the house of Heracles, Dionysus’s half-brother. Xanthias, who is carrying the pair’s luggage, rides on a donkey. The rather “effeminate” Dionysus walks b...
Mortal Engines
by Philip Reeve
In a futuristic steampunk world, humanity has rebuilt technology from scratch following a cataclysmic event called the Sixty Minute War. Cities like London have giant tracks that let them move at s...
How It Happened
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Though “How It Happened” is narrated in the first person by an unnamed male character, readers are told at the beginning that the tale itself has actually been set down by a writing medium. This cr...
Hoot
by Carl Hiaasen
Roy only notices the strange, barefoot running boy because the school bully, Dana Matherson, chooses to squeeze Roy’s head, which forces Roy to look out the window instead of at his comic book. Roy...
How to Become a Writer
by Lorrie Moore
“How to Become a Writer” takes the form of a self-help column, employing the second-person point of view (“you”) as if to instruct the protagonist, Francie, on the steps to take in order to become ...
The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
John Dowell, the narrator, promises to tell the saddest story he knows, which revolves around John, his wife Florence, and their friends Edward and Leonora Ashburnham. Both Florence and Edward have...
Trainspotting
by Irvine Welsh
In Leith (a port neighborhood of Edinburgh, Scotland) in the late 1980s, Rent Boy and Sick Boy begin experiencing heroin withdrawal symptoms. They go to see their dealer, Johnny Swan, a.k.a. “Mothe...
The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers is the story of d’Artagnan, a young man from Gascony who dreams of becoming a musketeer (a soldier who carries a rifle). At the beginning of the novel, he sets off from his hom...
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Evelyn Hugo, a movie star of the 1960s and 1970s, is now 79 years old. As she prepares to sell 12 of her most famous dresses at auction, she reaches out to Vivant, a prominent magazine, to request ...
The Frogs
by Aristophanes
Dionysus and his slave Xanthias head toward the house of Heracles, Dionysus’s half-brother. Xanthias, who is carrying the pair’s luggage, rides on a donkey. The rather “effeminate” Dionysus walks b...
Mortal Engines
by Philip Reeve
In a futuristic steampunk world, humanity has rebuilt technology from scratch following a cataclysmic event called the Sixty Minute War. Cities like London have giant tracks that let them move at s...
How It Happened
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Though “How It Happened” is narrated in the first person by an unnamed male character, readers are told at the beginning that the tale itself has actually been set down by a writing medium. This cr...
Hoot
by Carl Hiaasen
Roy only notices the strange, barefoot running boy because the school bully, Dana Matherson, chooses to squeeze Roy’s head, which forces Roy to look out the window instead of at his comic book. Roy...
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