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Willa Cather: Paul's Case

It was Paul's afternoon to appear before the faculty of the Pittsburg High School to account for his various misdemeanors.

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Willa Cather: Paul's Case

It was Paul's afternoon to appear before the faculty of the Pittsburg High School to account for his various misdemeanors.

Willa Cather: Paul's Case

It was Paul's afternoon to appear before the faculty of the Pittsburg High School to account for his various misdemeanors.

Guy de Maupassant: The Necklace

She was one of those pretty and charming girls born, as if by an error of fate, into a family of clerks…

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Guy de Maupassant: The Necklace

She was one of those pretty and charming girls born, as if by an error of fate, into a family of clerks…

Guy de Maupassant: The Necklace

She was one of those pretty and charming girls born, as if by an error of fate, into a family of clerks…

THE SIGNAL-MAN by Charles Dickens

“HALLOA! Below there!” When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole…

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THE SIGNAL-MAN by Charles Dickens

“HALLOA! Below there!” When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole…

THE SIGNAL-MAN by Charles Dickens

“HALLOA! Below there!” When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole…

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County By Mark Twain

IN COMPLIANCE WITH the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and…

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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County By Mark Twain

IN COMPLIANCE WITH the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and…

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County By Mark Twain

IN COMPLIANCE WITH the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and…

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Charles Dickens

(1812-1870) British novelist journalist, and social reformer who rose from childhood poverty to become the most celebrated writer of the Victorian era.

Charles Dickens

(1812-1870) British novelist journalist, and social reformer who rose from childhood poverty to become the most celebrated writer of the Victorian era.

Charles Dickens

(1812-1870) British novelist journalist, and social reformer who rose from childhood poverty to become the most celebrated writer of the Victorian era.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

(1804-1864) American novelist and short-story writer born in Salem, MA, whose Puritan ancestors included a judge at the 1692 witch trials - a legacy that deeply shaped his obsession with guilt, sin, and moral hypocrisy.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

(1804-1864) American novelist and short-story writer born in Salem, MA, whose Puritan ancestors included a judge at the 1692 witch trials - a legacy that deeply shaped his obsession with guilt, sin, and moral hypocrisy.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

(1804-1864) American novelist and short-story writer born in Salem, MA, whose Puritan ancestors included a judge at the 1692 witch trials - a legacy that deeply shaped his obsession with guilt, sin, and moral hypocrisy.

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Willa Cather

(1873-1947) American novelist and short-story writer born in Virginia and raised on the Nebraska prairie an experience that shaped her spare, luminous portraits of frontier life and immigrant struggle.

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Willa Cather

(1873-1947) American novelist and short-story writer born in Virginia and raised on the Nebraska prairie an experience that shaped her spare, luminous portraits of frontier life and immigrant struggle.

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Willa Cather

(1873-1947) American novelist and short-story writer born in Virginia and raised on the Nebraska prairie an experience that shaped her spare, luminous portraits of frontier life and immigrant struggle.

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Edith Wharton

(1862-1937) was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (The Age of Innocence) and remains America's sharpest chronicler of the Gilded Age in New York society.

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Edith Wharton

(1862-1937) was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (The Age of Innocence) and remains America's sharpest chronicler of the Gilded Age in New York society.

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Edith Wharton

(1862-1937) was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (The Age of Innocence) and remains America's sharpest chronicler of the Gilded Age in New York society.

Anton Chekhov

(1860-1904) Russian physician, playwright, and short-story master who revolutionalized both forms by replacing melodramatic plots with quiet, everyday moments that reveal the comedy and tragedy of ordinary lives. Wrote over 600 stories and left a body of work that Tolstoy called second only to Shakespeare.

Anton Chekhov

(1860-1904) Russian physician, playwright, and short-story master who revolutionalized both forms by replacing melodramatic plots with quiet, everyday moments that reveal the comedy and tragedy of ordinary lives. Wrote over 600 stories and left a body of work that Tolstoy called second only to Shakespeare.

Anton Chekhov

(1860-1904) Russian physician, playwright, and short-story master who revolutionalized both forms by replacing melodramatic plots with quiet, everyday moments that reveal the comedy and tragedy of ordinary lives. Wrote over 600 stories and left a body of work that Tolstoy called second only to Shakespeare.

Guy de Maupassant

(1850-1893) French master of the short story who, in just over a decade wrote more than 300 stories that laid bare the vanity, cruelty, and hidden desires of bourgeois life. He earned the title "the greatest short-story writer who ever lived"

Guy de Maupassant

(1850-1893) French master of the short story who, in just over a decade wrote more than 300 stories that laid bare the vanity, cruelty, and hidden desires of bourgeois life. He earned the title "the greatest short-story writer who ever lived"

Guy de Maupassant

(1850-1893) French master of the short story who, in just over a decade wrote more than 300 stories that laid bare the vanity, cruelty, and hidden desires of bourgeois life. He earned the title "the greatest short-story writer who ever lived"

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