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NovelContinental
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880
Three brothers, one murdered father, and the question of whether anything is permitted.
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NovelContinental
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866
A student commits a murder to prove a theory, then has to live inside it.
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NovelAmerican
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850
A letter of shame becomes the only honest thing in the town.
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NovelPost-war
East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 1952
Two families, one valley, and the oldest story retold as a choice.
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Short storyGothic
The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe · 1843
A murderer explains, calmly, why he is not mad.
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Short storyGothic
The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe · 1846
A man takes his enemy down to the cellar to taste a wine that does not exist.
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Short storyGothic
The Black Cat
Edgar Allan Poe · 1843
A man who loves animals becomes the thing he most fears.
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