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“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a classic work of feminist literature by Gilman, a social reformer, essayist, fiction writer, and poet. The story is partly autobiographical, dramatizing the “rest cure” that Gilman unde...
Othello
First performed in 1604, Othello is the tragic tale of a war hero roused to a jealous rage by rumors of his wife's infidelity. At the play's opening, the "Moorish" (North African) general Othello has just eloped ...
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs published the autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in 1861. The personal account detailed her life in the first half of the nineteenth century as an enslaved person in Edenton, North...
Interpreter of Maladies
“Interpreter of Maladies” is a short story by Jhumpa Lahiri, an American writer of Indian descent. It was first published in 1998 in Agni Review and then reprinted in 1999 as the title story in the author’s first...
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