A Study Guide for Langston Hughes 's "Thank You Ma'am" (Short Stories for Students)
By: Gale Cengage Learning
3.30
Format: 23 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
By: Ingri d'Aulaire , Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
4.42
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Here are the gods, goddesses, and legendary figures of ancient Greece--mighty Zeus, with his fistfu… read more
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2. The Pedestrian: A Fantasy in One Act
By: Ray Bradbury
3.77
Format: 22 pages, Paperback
A short story by Ray Bradbury, the prequel to "Fahrenheit 451". First published in The Reporter, Au… read more
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- short stories
"Business or profession?' 'I guess you'd call me a writer.' No profession,' said the police car, as if talking to itself. The light held him fixed, like a museum specimen, needle thrust through chest."-Ray Bradbury, The Pedestrian: A Fantasy in One Act
3. The Crossover
By: Kwame Alexander
4.24
Format: 245 pages, ebook
"With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all t… read more
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"Basketball Rule #5 When you stop playing your game you've already lost."-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover
"He's no longer listening to music, but his tears are loud enough to dance to."-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover
"Basketball Rule #4 If you miss enough of life's free throws you will pay in the end."-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover
"Silence doesn’t mean we have run out of things to say, only that we are trying not to say them."-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover
4. The Lady or the Tiger? And, the Discourager of Hesitancy
By: Frank R. Stockton
3.94
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Story summary: In ancient times, a king devised a system of justice where guilt or innocence was de… read more
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- short stories
5. Anya's Ghost
By: Vera Brosgol
3.91
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Anya could really use a friend. But her new BFF isn't kidding about the "Forever" part. Of all t… read more
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"Impressing a bunch of snooty teenagers is a pretty lame life goal to have."-Vera Brosgol, Anya's Ghost
"You may look normal like everyone else, but you're not. Not on the inside."-Vera Brosgol, Anya's Ghost
"I could lose myself forever in that dark hair and those sweet love handles."-Vera Brosgol, Anya's Ghost
"Oh, Anya! Let's have an intense spiritual relationship for no believable reason!"-Vera Brosgol, Anya's Ghost
6. Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more
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"a raven's heart within a dove."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"I pity you That's a degree to love"-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
7. The Importance of Being Earnest
By: Oscar Wilde
2.50
Format: None pages,
Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements … read more
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8. The Story of an Hour
By: Kate Chopin
4.07
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of … read more
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"Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be…"-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
"there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- so…"-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
9. The Open Window
By: Saki
3.51
Format: 178 pages,
Framton Nuttel, a nervous man, has come to stay in the country for his health. His sister, who thin… read more
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11. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
4.11
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more
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"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
12. The Lottery
By: Shirley Jackson
4.05
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more
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"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
13. Harrison Bergeron
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
3.93
Format: None pages, ebook
It is the year 2081. Because of Amendments 211, 212, and 213 to the Constitution, every American is… read more
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14. The Tell-Tale Heart
By: Edgar Allan Poe , Byron Glaser , None
4.24
Format: 31 pages, Library Binding
A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man. In this cl… read more
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"would a madman have been so wise as this?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"Basta ya de fingir, malvados! -aullé-. ¡Confieso que lo maté! ¡Levanten esos tablones! ¡Ahí… ahí! ¡Donde está latiendo su horrible corazón!"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
15. Everyday Use
By: Alice Walker , Barbara T. Christian
3.74
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Alice Walker's early story, "Everyday Use," has remained a cornerstone of her work. Her use of quil… read more
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16. I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World
By: Malala Yousafzai , Patricia McCormick
4.25
Format: 151 pages, Hardcover
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai … read more
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17. A Raisin in the Sun
By: Lorraine Hansberry
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black peo… read more
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18. Out from Boneville (Bone, #1)
By: Jeff Smith , Steve Hamaker
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
After being run out of Boneville, the three Bone cousins, Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone, … read more
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19. Romeo and Juliet
By: William Shakespeare , None
3.74
Format: 281 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. I… read more
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"thus with a kiss I die"-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
"Oh, I am fortune's fool!"-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
"Ay me! sad hours seem long."-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
"Educated men are so impressive!"-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
20. The Crucible
By: Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby
3.60
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most… read more
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21. The Most Dangerous Game
By: Richard Connell
3.94
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The Most Dangerous Game features a big-game hunter from New York who becomes shipwrecked on an isol… read more
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"But you can’t mean—"-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
"The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees."-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
"Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have."-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
22. The Veldt
By: Ray Bradbury , Gary Kelley
5.00
Format: 32 pages,
The advanced technology of a house first pleases then increasingly terrifies its occupants. read more
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23. The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times
By: Guy de Maupassant , Sandra Smith
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A Parisian civil servant turned protégé of Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant is considered not only one o… read more
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"How strange life is, how fickle! How little is needed for one to be ruined or saved!"-Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times
"I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing more."-Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times
"She stayed there, in her ball dress, without strength to go to bed, overwhelmed, on a chair, without a fire, without a thought."-Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times
"What do you want?" he then asked her. And with clenched teeth, and trembling with anger, she replied: "I want--I want you to marry me, as you promised." But he only laughed and replied: "Oh! if a man…"-Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times
24. The Gift of the Magi
By: O. Henry , Lisbeth Zwerger
4.11
Format: 26 pages, Hardcover
O. Henry's classic tale of the wisest gifts of Christmas is itself a gift to share and treasure. … read more
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"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating."-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl."-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with snif…"-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
"Единственное, что тут можно было сделать, это хлопнуться на старенькую кушетку и зареветь. Именно так Делла и поступила. Откуда напрашивается философский вывод, что жизнь состоит из слез, вздохов и у…"-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
25. The Cask of Amontillado
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.08
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque ..") is a short story written by Edgar All… read more
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"For the love of God, Montresor!"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
"He did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
26. The Odyssey
By: Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox , E.V. Rieu , None
3.53
Format: 349 pages, Paperback
Literature's grandest evocation of life's journey, at once an ageless human story and an individual… read more
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27. The Scarlet Ibis
By: Philippe Dumas , James Hurst
3.84
Format: 36 pages, Library Binding
Our narrator, a grown man, tells us about his memories of Doodle, his younger brother. We jump into… read more
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"Brother, Brother, don't leave me! Don't leave me!"-Philippe Dumas, The Scarlet Ibis
"All of us must have something or someone to be proud of."-Philippe Dumas, The Scarlet Ibis
"Oh yes you can, Doodle,' I said. 'All you got to do is try."-Philippe Dumas, The Scarlet Ibis
"There is within me a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction ..."-Philippe Dumas, The Scarlet Ibis
28. The Necklace
By: Guy de Maupassant , Gary Kelley
3.35
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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29. Stellarlune (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #9)
By: Shannon Messenger
4.45
Format: 800 pages, Kindle Edition
In this stunning ninth book in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Citi… read more
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"Won't you need my help with the cache?' Fitz asked her. It felt very good to tell him, 'I don't see why.' Ro snickered."-Shannon Messenger, Stellarlune (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #9)
"I'll still check the house when I get home and let you know if I see your boy. If he's there, I'll hide him in my room and feed him some Rice Krispies or something."-Shannon Messenger, Stellarlune (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #9)
"Keefe closed the distance between them. And then... everything was new. The soft press of his lips against hers. The way their breath seemed to fall perfectly into sync as her heart and brain screame…"-Shannon Messenger, Stellarlune (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #9)
"Keefe?' Amy repeated, her lips curling into a grin. 'He's the supercute blonde guy you picked up cookies for, right? The one who keeps staring at you all intense when I met him, like you were the onl…"-Shannon Messenger, Stellarlune (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #9)
30. Hills Like White Elephants
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.85
Format: 6 pages, Kindle Edition
A conversation in a Spanish cafe between a man and a woman that is not as simple as it seems. Hi… read more
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31. A Study Guide for Langston Hughes 's "Thank You Ma'am" (Short Stories for Students)
By: Gale Cengage Learning
3.30
Format: 23 pages, Kindle Edition
A Study Guide for Langston Hughes 's "Thank You Ma'am," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stori… read more
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