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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Classic Literature – “The Open Boat” is a short story by American author Stephen Crane. It is based on Crane’s experience of surviving a shipwreck off the coast of Florida.
This classic short story explored the horrors of “downsizing” long before the term became a fashionable catchword for the elimination of jobs and subsequent mass firings of loyal employees who often don’t see it coming.
First published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post. The Black Cat is a study of the psychology of guilt, often paired in analysis with Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”.
A short story, written by O. Henry, about a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money.
