Annotated Texts

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silhouette of a woman wearing an ornate necklace

The Necklace

by Guy de Maupassant

Illustration of bloody hands reaching for the sky in the night

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

illustration of Fortunato standing in motley behind a mostly completed brick wall with a skull superimposed on the wall where his face should be

The Cask of Amontillado

by Edgar Allan Poe

illustration of a human heart lying on black floorboards

The Tell-Tale Heart

by Edgar Allan Poe

illustration of a woman in a dress standing as if she were in shock

The Story of an Hour

by Kate Chopin

illustrated portrait of a black, red-eyed raven

The Raven

by Edgar Allan Poe

illustration of a woman looking at the complex pattern of the yellow wallpaper and seeing the image of another woman within the pattern

The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

illustrated outline of a person's head with a red thumbprint on the forehead with an outline of the devil behind

The Devil and Tom Walker

by Washington Irving

The Striding Place

by Gertrude Atherton

Home

by Anton Chekhov

Friendship

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Old Nurse's Story

by Elizabeth Gaskell

A Declaration of Conscience

by Margaret Chase Smith

The Were-Wolf

by Clemence Housman

Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Afterward

by Edith Wharton

The Mortal Immortal

by Mary Shelley

Civil Rights Act of 1866

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