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Back to SearchBEYOND THE BAYOU by KATE CHOPIN
Kate Chopin wrote about life on the Louisiana Bayou after the Civil War, and she portrays the life of blacks on the plantation with tenderness and un…
1 year, 8 months ago
THE VILLAGE SINGER by MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
A great creative piece about an aging lead singer who is shown the door by her church members but decices she isn't ready for retirement. With her ho…
1 year, 8 months ago
THE PLAY HOUSE by ALICE BROWN
New England author Alice Brown highlights a moment in life around the turn of the centuty with this npoignant short story.
1 year, 8 months ago
A NEW ENGLAND NUN by MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
In this powerful piece of early feminist literature a woman waits 14 years for the man she loves to return from the mines where he has gone to make t…
1 year, 8 months ago
THE QUICKSAND by EDITH WHARTON
A wealthy woman reaches out to help her grown son and his girlfriend after her son asks her to intervene on his behalf, having been turned down with …
1 year, 9 months ago
THE GIRL AND THE PHOTOGRAPH by LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
A young man proposes by mail to a young girl whose picture has been given to him by his close friend- only to find out upon meeting her that she is n…
1 year, 9 months ago
PAUL'S CASE by WILLA CATHER
A high school boy who the teachers can't seem to reach finally runs away from his drab home in Pittsburgh and heads for New York City, taking money f…
1 year, 9 months ago
THE GOSSIP OF VALLEY VIEW by LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
A single man living in a small town is the subject of a wild gossip campaign that has him marrying a woman down the road that he hardly knows. Despit…
1 year, 9 months ago
HOW THE WIDOW WON THE DEACON by WILLIAM JAMES LAMPTON
The deacon had but one goal in life and that was to beat the squire in a carriage race. He had lost to the squire in matters of love and so far in ho…
1 year, 10 months ago
AMY FOSTER (PT 2) by JOSEPH CONRAD
Have you ever felt unwanted or unaccepted in a given situation? Have you ever befriended someone whom others have avoided due to their strangeness? I…
1 year, 10 months ago