Featuring a female protagonist who feels liberation at the news of her husband’s death, this classic short story was controversial by standards of the day.
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.
Not published in Chopin’s lifetime, “The Storm” is Kate Chopin’s classic short story about a moment of passionate sex. Today one of her most popular works.
“The Little Match Girl” is a short story by author Hans Christian Andersen. The story, about a dying child’s dreams and hope, was first published in 1845.
