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We've all taken a dislike to someone for no real reason. But few of us nurture this hatred like the narrator of "Moon-Face".
The target of his irrational malice is a man named John Claverhouse. With cold precision, the narrator sets to planning the man's downfall. Why he has this urge, he can't explain. But he knows he'll feel immense satisfaction when John Claverhouse is made to suffer.
In this macabre little tale, Jack London pinpoints a very common...
2) Alice Adams
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A socially aspiring small-town girl is hindered by her father's lack of money and position, but finds herself in love with a socially prominent young man.
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In the title story of "Walk Between the Raindrops," a woman sits down next to a man at a bar and claims she has ESP. In "Thirteen Days," passengers on a cruise line are quarantined, to horrifying and hilarious effect. And "Hyena" begins simply: "That was the day the hyena came for him, and never mind that there were no hyenas in the South of France, and especially not in Pont-Saint-Esprit--it was there and it came for him.
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Rashin is an Iranian immigrant girl living in New York, excited by her first trip to Coney Island, and fascinated by the differences in the beach customs between her native Iran and her new home--but she misses the saffron flavored ice cream that she usedto eat.
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A collection of stories, several on group behavior. The story, Low Men in Yellow Coats, deals with the way group behavior can affect people for the worse, the title story is on a college woman who saves a fellow student from such behavior, while in Blind Willie a man atones for group behavior in the Vietnam War.
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