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September 04, 2019
"The Ice Palace" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Ice Palace is the story of a southern belle that believes she wants to live in the North because things are livelier there....
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August 26, 2019
Cock A Doodle Do by Herman Melville
This week we bring you “Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Or, The Crowing of the Noble Cock Beneventano” by Herman MelvilleHerman Melville belongs to the group of artists...
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August 19, 2019
“The Ransom of Red Chief” and “The Marquis and Miss Sally” by O. Henry
Henry worked a number of different jobs, from pharmacy to drafting, journalism, and banking. Banking, in particular, was not to be O. Henry's calling;...
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July 24, 2019
Feathertop by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hawthorne was a Transcendentalists believing in the "inherent goodness of both people and nature." You could think of him as a hippie of the...
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July 15, 2019
"The Big Trip Up Yonder" and "2 B R 0 2 B" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr
" The Big Trip Up Yonder" and "2 B R 0 2 B". Michael Crichton, writing in The New Republic, said "he writes about...
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July 02, 2019
'God Sees The Truth, But Waits' and 'Diary of a Lunatic' by Leo Tolstoy
(Tid bit: "God Sees The Truth, But Waits" is the story that inspired Stephen King to write Shawshank Redemption!) Tolstoy was a Russian writer...
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