85 analyses

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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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The Nose

Nikolai Gogol · 1836

⏱ 10 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 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 Overcoat

Nikolai Gogol · 1842

⏱ 11 min read

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The Pit and the Pendulum

Edgar Allan Poe · 1842

⏱ 9 min read

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A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens · 1843

⏱ 13 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

⏱ 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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The Piece of String

Guy de Maupassant · 1883

⏱ 9 min read

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The Necklace

Guy de Maupassant · 1884

⏱ 9 min read

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A White Heron

Sarah Orne Jewett · 1886

⏱ 10 min read

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How Much Land Does a Man Need?

Leo Tolstoy · 1886

⏱ 9 min read

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Misery

Anton Chekhov · 1886

⏱ 8 min read

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The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Leo Tolstoy · 1886

⏱ 13 min read

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The Bet

Anton Chekhov · 1889

⏱ 10 min read

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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Ambrose Bierce · 1890

⏱ 9 min read

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The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1892

⏱ 10 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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Gooseberries

Anton Chekhov · 1898

⏱ 9 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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Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad · 1899

⏱ 14 min read

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The Darling

Anton Chekhov · 1899

⏱ 9 min read

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The Lady with the Dog

Anton Chekhov · 1899

⏱ 11 min read

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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Mark Twain · 1899

⏱ 12 min read

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The Monkey's Paw

W.W. Jacobs · 1902

⏱ 9 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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Paul's Case

Willa Cather · 1905

⏱ 11 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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Odour of Chrysanthemums

D.H. Lawrence · 1911

⏱ 12 min read

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The Open Window

Saki · 1911

⏱ 7 min read

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Araby

James Joyce · 1914

⏱ 9 min read

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Eveline

James Joyce · 1914

⏱ 8 min read

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The Dead

James Joyce · 1914

⏱ 14 min read

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The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka · 1915

⏱ 14 min read

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A Jury of Her Peers

Susan Glaspell · 1917

⏱ 11 min read

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A Country Doctor

Franz Kafka · 1919

⏱ 7 min read

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The Interlopers

Saki · 1919

⏱ 7 min read

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Miss Brill

Katherine Mansfield · 1920

⏱ 7 min read

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The Doll's House

Katherine Mansfield · 1922

⏱ 8 min read

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The Garden Party

Katherine Mansfield · 1922

⏱ 11 min read

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The Most Dangerous Game

Richard Connell · 1924

⏱ 11 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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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 Rocking-Horse Winner

D.H. Lawrence · 1926

⏱ 11 min read

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Hills Like White Elephants

Ernest Hemingway · 1927

⏱ 7 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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Barn Burning

William Faulkner · 1939

⏱ 12 min read

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

James Thurber · 1939

⏱ 8 min read

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The Lottery

Shirley Jackson · 1948

⏱ 10 min read

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The Veldt

Ray Bradbury · 1950

⏱ 9 min read

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A Good Man Is Hard to Find

Flannery O'Connor · 1953

⏱ 11 min read

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Sonny's Blues

James Baldwin · 1957

⏱ 12 min read

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The Scarlet Ibis

James Hurst · 1960

⏱ 10 min read

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A&P

John Updike · 1961

⏱ 9 min read

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Harrison Bergeron

Kurt Vonnegut · 1961

⏱ 8 min read

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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

Joyce Carol Oates · 1966

⏱ 11 min read

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Everyday Use

Alice Walker · 1973

⏱ 9 min read

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Hunters in the Snow

Tobias Wolff · 1981

⏱ 3 min read

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Cathedral

Raymond Carver · 1983

⏱ 11 min read

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Happy Endings

Margaret Atwood · 1983

⏱ 3 min read