The War of the Worlds - Chapter 13

How I Fell In With the Curate: Escaping downriver in a boat with no oars.

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Siddhartha - Chapter 3

The two ascetics find Gotama and Govinda leaves his friend. Play Siddhartha - Chapter 3 Download Siddhartha - Chapter 3         Art: wall painting in a Laotian temple, depicting the Bodhisattva Gautama (Buddha-to-be) undertaking extreme ascetic practices before his enlightenment. A god is overseeing his striving, and providing some spiritual protection. The five monks in the [...]

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The Tell-Tale Heart

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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