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TitleAuthorGenreLinkPoint ValueQuiz NumberLet America Be America AgainAmerican society and its dreams of social justice.Langston HughesPoem RavenOne bleak December night at midnight, a raven with fiery eyes visits a melancholy scholar, who struggles to understand the meaning of the word his winged visitor repeats and descends by stages into madness.Edgar Allan PoePoem well-known poem about birch trees and the pleasures of climbing them.Robert FrostPoem I Heard the Learn’d AstronomerIn his sun-, moon-, and star-filled bedroom, a young, space-obsessed boy dons a tie in preparation for hearing a "learn'd astronomer" speak at a local museum.Walt WhitmanPoem LeeA dream poem of innocent love between two children with illustrations that set the scene in the 1930s on the Gaspe Peninsula of the artist's native Quebec.Edgar Allan PoePoem Revere’s RidePaul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside that the British were coming.Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPoem Worn PathAn elderly black woman who lives out in the country makes the long and arduous journey into town, as she has done many times in the past.Eudora WeltyShort Story StorytellerA mischievous bachelor beguiles three children with a story about a good girl who comes to a horrible end.SakiShort Story Gift of the MagiA husband and wife sacrifice treasured possessions in order to buy each other Christmas presents.O. HenryShort Story NecklaceAfter devoting their energies and income for ten years to replacing a borrowed diamond necklace that they have lost, a woman and her husband learn the irony of their efforts.Guy de MaupassantShort Story Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras CountyA man who loves to place bets acquires a remarkable frog, which he claims can out jump any other frog in the county.Mark TwainShort Story Secret Life of Walter MittyA henpecked husband copes with the frustrations of his dull life by imagining he is a fearless airplane pilot, a brilliant doctor, and other dashing figures.James ThurberShort Story You, Ma’mA teenager tries to steal the purse of Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones and is rebuked in a surprising fashion.Langston HughesShort Story'am.pdf0.58647The Ones Who Walk Away from OmelasSome inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happiness.Ursula Le GuinShort Story Doll’s HouseIsobel invites all the girls in her class to see her new dollhouse except Lill and Else, the poor daughters of the local washerwoman.Katherine MansfieldShort Story Cask of AmontilladoAfter enduring many injuries of the noble Fortunato, Montresor executes the perfect revenge.Edgar Allan PoeShort Story Tell-Tale HeartThe murder of an old man is revealed by the continuing beating of his heart.Edgar Allan PoeShort Story Masque of the Red Death Prince Prospero and a thousand of his followers shut themselves away in a vast abbey to avoid the dreaded Red Death.Edgar Allan PoeShort Story Black CatPoe's tale provides a ghastly journey through the subconscious of a murderer.Edgar Allan PoeShort Story Pit and PendulumJudged guilty by the Inquisition, a condemned man is slowly tortured.Edgar Allan PoeShort Story Fall of the House of UsherA visitor to a gloomy mansion finds a childhood friend dying under the spell of a family curse.Edgar Allan PoeShort Story the Waters of BabylonAfter the Great Burning when fire fell out of the sky, a young priest explores the forbidden Place of the Gods and discovers what kind of beings lived there before their cities were destroyed.Stephen Vincent BenetShort Story Christmas MemoryThis is a story of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a childlike woman in her sixties, with enormous love and friendship between them.Truman CapoteShort Story LotteryThe people of a village perform their annual lottery, with startling consequences for the “winner” of the drawing.Shirley JacksonShort Story Story Without EndWhile on his way to propose to the girl of his choice, a young man finds himself without an essential piece of clothing at a crucial moment.Mark TwainShort Story Most Dangerous GameOn his way to hunt jaguars in the Brazilian jungle, a professional hunter is marooned on a remote island inhabited by a fellow hunter who pursues unusual game.Richard ConnellShort Story Outcasts of Poker FlatUpon waking from their overnight camp in the mountains, four exiles from Poker Flat and a young couple traveling to the town face a snowstorm with limited provisions.Bret HarteShort Story Garden PartyRelates Katherine Mansfield's classic short story about a garden party which continues uninterrupted by a neighborhood death.Katherine MansfieldShort Story Open BoatAfter a shipwreck, four men struggle to survive in a tiny rowboat on the vast ocean.Stephen CraneShort Story Gold BugThe discovery of a message in code on a shoreline formerly infested with pirates sends William Legrand and his friends on a hunt for buried treasure.Edgar Allan PoeShort Story translation by Richard Emil, concerns that part of the Oedipus story that occurs after Eteocles and Polyneices have killed each other over the succession to the throne of Thebes. Antigone's uncle Kreon succeeds to the throne.SophoclesPlay Glass MenagerieThis play is a tender, despairing portrait of two women, one lost in the past, the other in herself.Tennessee WilliamsPlay Streetcar Named DesireThis Pulitzer Prize-winning play shows a woman's descent into oblivion following her inability to deal with desire and death.Tennessee WilliamsPlay CrucibleThis work dramatizes the events of the seventeenth-century witchcraft trials in Salem and the furor caused by witchcraft accusations.Arthur MillerPlay and JulietThis a tragic play where two star-crossed teenagers take their lives for the name of love.William ShakespearePlay CaesarIn Shakespeare's tale of political conflict and intrigue set in ancient Rome, Brutus and others conspire to assassinate Julius Caesar.William ShakespearePlay ................
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