Today, let’s take a peek at Anton Chekhov and his short story “The Lottery Ticket,” which we’ll use to walk you through every stage of summarization.
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April Showers Bring New Titles: April Content Update
Here in Seattle, we're in the "April showers" part of spring; outside of the occasional sunshine-filled afternoon, it's grey skies and cold mornings for the foreseeable future. But this month has brought more than just endless drizzles—it has also brought new titles and an April Content Update to go along with them. This month, we…
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Earth Day: 5 Titles For Your Inner Conservationist
What will our daughter be able to plant in this paradise of fugitive dust? So asked poet Craig Santos Perez in his 2016 work “understory.” The poem meditates on the afterglow of the Anthropocene, wondering how human interference in the natural world will affect generations to home. Perez’s concern is poignant but not novel. Indeed, his is a worry burrowed deeply…
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Arab American Heritage Month: 5 Authors To Read This April
“The Arab American story is the American story — one of diverse backgrounds and faiths, vibrant tradition, bold innovation, hard work, commitment to community, and stalwart patriotism, all coming together to accomplish something greater than any one of us.” A Proclamation on Arab American Heritage Month, 2023 So wrote President Joe Biden in a 2023 proclamation…
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Spring Forward: March Content Updates
March has come to a close, and spring has sprung. If you're avoiding spring cleaning with spring reading, we've got great news: This month, we shifted gears. Not only did we bring you new summaries, but they've all been adapted for the big screen and can be found on your favorite streaming service! Put your…
Women’s History Month: Celebrating Female Authorship
March has flown by in a hurry, meaning Women's History Month is nearly over. We've spent this month thinking about female authorship: The unique, exultant perspective that emerges when female creativity has an avenue for expression, and the literary inheritance we remain indebted to today. So, if you haven't had time to build a reading…
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“The Homecoming” by Rabindranath Tagore: What’s in a Title?
Titles. They're easy enough to overlook—you see them every time you pick a book up, but as soon as you crack its spine open, it disappears. But as your English teacher has likely explained a hundred times over, titles contain more significance than you might expect. They add nuance, they complicate, and they reveal subtlety.…
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Love (and Literature) is in the Air: February Content Update
This month, we focused on the classics to bring you new and improved content for old favorites. In the process, we rediscovered how much we adore chaotic love triangles, murderous affairs, and complicated relationships. Plus, how better to celebrate the end of February—and all its ooey-gooey romance—than with three classic stories of love gone wrong,…
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