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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...
“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;...
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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"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...
'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...
The Rondoli Sisters by Guy de Maupassant
Maupassant was a 19th century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form. He was a representative of the Naturalist school,...