Free SummarizerThe Garden-Party
Katherine Mansfield · short story, 1922
A wealthy family throws a garden party on the same day a working man dies just down the hill from their house, and only one daughter thinks that should change anything.
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A pawnbroker gets paid four pounds a week for eight weeks to copy an encyclopedia by hand, for reasons that turn out to have nothing to do with him.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Ambrose Bierce · short story, 1890
A Confederate sympathizer is about to be hanged from a railroad bridge, and the rope breaks. What happens next isn't what it seems.
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