81 analyses

American literature

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving · 1820

⏱ 13 min read

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The Minister's Black Veil

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1832

⏱ 10 min read

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Young Goodman Brown

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1835

⏱ 9 min read

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Young Goodman Brown

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1835

⏱ 4 min read

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Dr. Heidegger's Experiment

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1837

⏱ 8 min read

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The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe · 1839

⏱ 11 min read

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The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe · 1839

⏱ 4 min read

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The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Edgar Allan Poe · 1841

⏱ 12 min read

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The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe · 1842

⏱ 7 min read

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The Pit and the Pendulum

Edgar Allan Poe · 1842

⏱ 9 min read

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The Birthmark

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1843

⏱ 10 min read

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The Black Cat

Edgar Allan Poe · 1843

⏱ 9 min read

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The Tell-Tale Heart

Edgar Allan Poe · 1843

⏱ 7 min read

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Rappaccini's Daughter

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1844

⏱ 11 min read

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The Cask of Amontillado

Edgar Allan Poe · 1846

⏱ 8 min read

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Hop-Frog

Edgar Allan Poe · 1849

⏱ 8 min read

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Bartleby the Scrivener

Herman Melville · 1853

⏱ 4 min read

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Bartleby, the Scrivener

Herman Melville · 1853

⏱ 13 min read

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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Mark Twain · 1865

⏱ 7 min read

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The Lady, or the Tiger?

Frank Stockton · 1882

⏱ 7 min read

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A White Heron

Sarah Orne Jewett · 1886

⏱ 10 min read

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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Ambrose Bierce · 1890

⏱ 9 min read

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Christmas Every Day

William Howells · 1892

⏱ 3 min read

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The Real Thing

Henry James · 1892

⏱ 4 min read

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The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1892

⏱ 10 min read

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The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1892

⏱ 4 min read

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Desiree's Baby

Kate Chopin · 1893

⏱ 8 min read

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The Story of an Hour

Kate Chopin · 1894

⏱ 8 min read

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The Open Boat

Stephen Crane · 1897

⏱ 12 min read

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The Open Boat

Stephen Crane · 1897

⏱ 5 min read

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The Blue Hotel

Stephen Crane · 1898

⏱ 11 min read

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The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky

Stephen Crane · 1898

⏱ 9 min read

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The Storm

Kate Chopin · 1898

⏱ 3 min read

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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Mark Twain · 1899

⏱ 12 min read

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A Retrieved Reformation

O. Henry · 1903

⏱ 9 min read

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The Cop and the Anthem

O. Henry · 1904

⏱ 8 min read

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Editha

W.D. Howells · 1905

⏱ 10 min read

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Editha

William Howells · 1905

⏱ 3 min read

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Paul's Case

Willa Cather · 1905

⏱ 11 min read

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Paul's Case

Willa Cather · 1905

⏱ 4 min read

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The Gift of the Magi

O. Henry · 1905

⏱ 7 min read

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The Last Leaf

O. Henry · 1907

⏱ 8 min read

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The Ransom of Red Chief

O. Henry · 1907

⏱ 9 min read

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To Build a Fire

Jack London · 1908

⏱ 11 min read

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A Jury of Her Peers

Susan Glaspell · 1917

⏱ 11 min read

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A Jury of Her Peers

Susan Glaspell · 1917

⏱ 5 min read

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The Most Dangerous Game

Richard Connell · 1924

⏱ 11 min read

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A Cat in the Rain

Ernest Hemingway · 1925

⏱ 2 min read

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A Cat in the Rain

Ernest Hemingway · 1925

⏱ 2 min read

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Cat in the Rain

Ernest Hemingway · 1925

⏱ 7 min read

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Soldier's Home

Ernest Hemingway · 1925

⏱ 9 min read

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Soldier's Home

Ernest Hemingway · 1925

⏱ 3 min read

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The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925

⏱ 15 min read

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Sweat

Zora Neale Hurston · 1926

⏱ 9 min read

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The Rich Boy

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1926

⏱ 14 min read

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The Rich Boy

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1926

⏱ 6 min read

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Hills Like White Elephants

Ernest Hemingway · 1927

⏱ 7 min read

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Hills Like White Elephants

Ernest Hemingway · 1927

⏱ 3 min read

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The Killers

Ernest Hemingway · 1927

⏱ 8 min read

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A Rose for Emily

William Faulkner · 1930

⏱ 9 min read

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Babylon Revisited

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1931

⏱ 5 min read

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Spotted Horses

William Faulkner · 1931

⏱ 2 min read

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The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

Ernest Hemingway · 1936

⏱ 3 min read

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

James Thurber · 1939

⏱ 2 min read

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

James Thurber · 1939

⏱ 2 min read

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Why I Live at the P.O.

Eudora Welty · 1941

⏱ 2 min read

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The Catbird Seat

James Thurber · 1942

⏱ 6 min read

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A Good Man Is Hard to Find

Flannery O'Connor · 1953

⏱ 2 min read

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The Country Husband

John Cheever · 1954

⏱ 6 min read

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The River

Flannery O'Connor · 1955

⏱ 2 min read

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Sonny's Blues

James Baldwin · 1957

⏱ 7 min read

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Sonny's Blues

James Baldwin · 1957

⏱ 7 min read

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Revelation

Flannery O'Connor · 1964

⏱ 4 min read

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Shiloh

Bobbie Ann Mason · 1980

⏱ 7 min read

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Hunters in the Snow

Tobias Wolff · 1981

⏱ 3 min read

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Raymond Carver · 1981

⏱ 3 min read

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A & P

John Updike

⏱ 4 min read

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A Clean Well-Lighted Place

Ernest Hemingway

⏱ 3 min read

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An Analysis of Sherwood Anderson 'Hands' Hands by Sherwood Anderson Reviewed

Sherwood Anderson

⏱ 3 min read

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Ann Beattie

Ann Beattie

⏱ 2 min read

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Death of a Traveling Salesman

Eudora Welty

⏱ 2 min read