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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Aren't midsummer night dreams the worst? You wake up all sweaty and gross, and for a minute there, you can't even remember where you are. And also,...

A Rose for Emily
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What? She gets a rose and we don’t? Who is this Emily person anyway? What’s she done to deserve such a delightful, aromatic gift?

As I Lay Dying
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A family goes on a quest to bury their family member. Yeah, sounds simple...except it never is. ‘Cause mom’s dead, and people have issues which...

Crime and Punishment
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Crime and Punishment is all about a boy killing for money, literally, and then spending the rest of the book trying to hide it. Although the book c...

Kubla Khan
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" is like one long drug trip. Don't try this at home.

Macbeth
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This video summarizes the Shakespearean play Macbeth. Two major forces are at play in the story: witches’ prophecies and Macbeth’s demanding wi...

Mending Wall
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Why not just buy a new wall? We're sure Mr. Frost would be okay with it.

The Telltale Heart
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"The Telltale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe is the epitome of creepy. (We know we could say that about all of EAP's stories, but it's especially true f...

Cathedral (Raymond Carver)
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Can you imagine what it would be like to be without the gift of sight? In "Cathedral," the narrator helps a blind man envision a cathedral by guidi...

Macbeth Summary
89861 Views

Prepare for total tragedy.

Percy Jackson Lightning Thief
15697 Views

This ain't your run-of-the-mill summer camp.

The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World (Marquez)
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A dead man floats to shore. Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke or a horror movie, but wait: it gets weirder. He's super tall, super good-looki...

The Hunger Games
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We get it: Jennifer Lawrence is awesome. We think so, too. That being said, we wouldn't actually want to see her killing other kids in a bloodthirs...

The Masque of the Red Death
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We know we say this for all of his stories, but here's Edgar Allan Poe at his creepiest. Well, if you don’t include that time you went into the b...

The Importance of Being Earnest
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Oscar Wilde was a beast when it came to wordplay. Oh, maybe that's why Shmoop loves him so much—we're pretty wilde, too.

The Importance of Being Earnest Summary
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They say that honesty is the best policy, but Jack lies about his identity and still gets the girl. Does that mean we should all lie to get what we...

A Midsummer Night's Dream Summary
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Love potions are tricky business (not that we've ever tried using one, of course). They can make you fall in love with the wrong person…or, in th...

The Hunger Games Summary
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It's not your everyday teenager that volunteers to enter a fight to the death, but then again not every teenager has a cool name like "Katniss Ever...

Monster
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Monster isn't about the kind of monsters that hide under your bed. These ones are way worse.