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Stories, Authors and
Excerpts on this site
Andy Adams, Bad medicine
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Marjorie Daw
WH Auden
An Apology for Crudity by Sherwood Anderson
Except from Winesburg, Ohio,Sherwood Anderson
What the Bell Saw and Said by Louisa May Alcott
Rex Ellingwood Beach, With Interest to Date
Ambrose Bierce, A Baby Tramp
Paul Bowles, In the Red Room
Charles Bukowski, Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip
Henry Charles Bukowski
Letter to a Young Writer by Richard Bausch
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Tarzan the Magnificent,Edgar Rice Burroughs
And the Rigour of the Game by Robert Barr
Honoré de Balzac
William Cullen Bryant, Thanatopsis
James M. Barrie, The Courting of T'Nowhead's Bell
Willa Cather, Paul's Case
Charles W. Chesnutt, A Matter of Principle
Kate Chopin, A Pair of Silk Stockings
John Cheever, The Swimmer
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan and other works
Stuart Cloete, The Soldier's Peaches
Stephen Crane, Four Men in a Cave
Countee Cullen
Gregory Corso
Harold Hart Crane
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
The Eclipse by James Fenimore Cooper
Anton Chekhov, A Bad Business
Chinua (Achebe), An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness'
James Fenimore Cooper, Excerpt from The Last of the Mohicans
Richard Harding Davis, A Charmed Life
Charles Dickens, A Visit to Newgate
Excerpt from Rostands play Cyrano de Bergerac
Her Freedom by Ethel M. Dell
Grazia Deledda, Except from While the East Wind Blows
Self-Reliance by Emerson
TS Eliot, Little Gidding
William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
Edna Ferber, A Bush League Hero
F. Scott Fitzgerald,The Ice Palace and other stories
William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily"
Ambrose Flack, The Strangers That Came to Town
Mary Hallock Foote, A Cloud on the Mountain
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, A New England Nun
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Robert Frost
Everything Is Illuminated, Safran Foer
Excerpt from Thais by Anatole France
Susan Glaspell, One of Those Impossible Americans
Zane Grey, Breaking into Fast Company
Excerpt from Mother by Maxim Gorky
Nikolai Gogol, St. John's Eve
George Gissing, A Capitalist
Allen Ginsberg
Dulce Domum by Kenneth Grahame
Bret Harte, Tennessee's Partner
Ernest Hemingway, The Killers
O. Henry, Girl and other stories
Langston Hughes, Thank You, M'am
Young Goodman Brown and other stories by Nathanial Hawthorne
Excerpt from Little Speck In Garnered Fruit, O. Henry
Excerpt from Irvings story Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
Henry James, Julia Bride
Sarah Orne Jewett, A Native of Winby
The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs
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Jack Kerouac
The Essentials of Spontaneous Prose by Jack Kerouac
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
Jack London, A Curious Fragment
Why the Novel Matters by DH Lawrence
A Case for the Oracle by Henry Lawson
H.P. Lovecraft, Beyond the Wall of Sleep
To Kill a Mockingbird excerpt, Harper Lee
Song of First Desire by Federico Garcia Lorca
The World According to H. L. Mencken
La Tierra by Gabriela Mistral
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
An Ideal Family by Katherine Mansfield
Bartleby the Scrivener , A Story of Wall-street. By Herman Melville
Nine Daies Morrice, William Kemp
José Martí Excerpt from Martis poem Versos Sencillos
Mateo Falcone by Prosper Merimee
Frank Norris, A Bargain with Peg-Leg
Kathleen Norris, S is for Shiftless Susanna
Harold Norse
Excerpt from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Dan O'Brien, Crossing Spider Creek
Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find
Michael Oppenheimer, The Paring Knife
Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
Why I write by George Orwell
James O'Keefe, Death makes a comeback
Dorothy Parker, A Telephone Call
Elia W. Peattie, A Child of the Rain
Melville Davisson Post, American Horses
Francine Prose, Pumpkins
The Tailor of Gloucester By Beatrix Potter
Dan Fitzgerald Explains by Andrew Barton Paterson
Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe The Raven and other works
Slyvia Plath
Laura E. Richards, Blue Egyptians
A Brave Little Quakeress by Edward Payson Roe
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Corey
Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
Cannery Row excerpt, John Steinbeck
Leiningen Versus the Ants by Carl Stephenson
Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson
Ozymandias by Percy Shelley
George Saunders, The Falls
Irwin Shaw, The Girls in Their Summer Dresses
Frank Stockton, The Magic Egg
Jesse Stuart, Split Cherry Tree
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, Excerpt, The Laughing Policeman
JRR Tolkien, Goblin Feet
Rabindranath Tagore
Excerpted from The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson.
On Walden Pond: Where I Lived, and What I Lived For By Thoreau
Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott
Henry Van Dyke, Wood-Magic
Edith Wharton by Souls Belated
E.B. White, The Door
Stewart Edward White by Billy's Tenderfoot
William Carlos Williams, The Use of Force
Tobias Wolff, Hunters in the Snow
Ann Waldman
Walt Whitman, O Captain! My Captain! and other works
HG Wells, Excerpt from The Time Machine
Virginia Woolf Excerpt from Three Guineas
Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg by P.G. Wodehouse
Kew Gardens a Short Story by Virginia Woolf
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