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The Masque of the Red Death
Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Masque of the Red Death is a prime example of his Gothic horror fiction. Poe evokes a dark and eerie mood in a story that focuses on images of blood and death, while the personification of the Red Death lends an element of the supernatural. The Masque of the [...]
Continue reading...The Tell-Tale Heart
Friday, August 14, 2009
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe is simultaneously a horror story and psychological thriller told from a first-person perspective. It is admired as an excellent example of how a short story can produce an effect on the reader. Poe believed that all good literature must create a unity of effect on the reader and [...]
Continue reading...The Raven
Thursday, August 13, 2009
When it appeared in 1845, the dark poem of lost love, The Raven, brought Edgar Allen Poe national fame. “With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not – they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, [...]
Continue reading...Animal Farm – Chapter 1
Friday, June 12, 2009
Animal Farm is George Orwell’s satirical allegory of the Russian Revolution, particularly directed against Josef Stalin's policies. Led by the pigs, the animals on Mr. Jones' farm revolt against their human masters. Â
Continue reading...Animal Farm – Chapter 2
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Mr. Jones drinks too much and the pigs learn to read. Really. [display podcast] Â
Continue reading...Animal Farm – Chapter 3
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
The rest of the animals learn reading and writing; the pigs get "pushy" about the produce. [display podcast] Â
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- Animal Farm - Chapter 1
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Chapter 4
- Animal Farm - Chapter 7
- The Raven
- Animal Farm - Chapter 8
- The Tell-Tale Heart
- The Wife - Chapter 1
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Chapter 7
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Chapter 1
- Winesburg, Ohio - Introduction and Chapter 1
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Saturday, August 15, 2009
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