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LESSING: Through the Tunnel
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A-Z SHORT STORIES
Introduction
INDEX: Year Level
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INDEX: Title
Themes
Literary Conventions
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Literary Movements
Writing a Story Review
Persuasive Language Techniques
AESOP
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Ants & the Grasshopper
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
ARCHER: Act Your Age
BALDWIN, James
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Blind Men & Elephant
Prometheus & Pandora's Box
BATES: The Good Corn
BAYNTON, Barbara
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The Chosen Vessel
BIERCE, Ambrose
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Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
~A Son of the Gods
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BRADBURY, Ray
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All Summer in a Day
Golden Kite, Silver Wind
The Pedestrian
There Come Soft Rains
The Veldt
A Sound of Thunder
BROOKS: Home
CATHER: On Gull's Road
CHAPLIN, Sid
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~Audio Archive: Michael Chaplin about his father
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What Katie Did
CHEKHOV, Anton
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The Bet
The Lady with the Dog
~Peasant Wives
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CHOPIN, Kate
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Desiree's Baby
The Story of an Hour
CISNEROS: Eleven
CRANE: Open Boat
DAHL, Roald
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Lamb to the Slaughter
The Landlady
The Wish
de MAUPASSANT: The Necklace
DOYLE, Arthur Conan
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~Selected Sherlock Holmes
~Tales of Terror & Mystery
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Sign of Four
FITZGERALD, Scott
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~Flappers & Philosophers
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~Tales of the Jazz Age
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GAIMAN: Click-clack, Rattlebag
GIBBS: The Test
GILMAN, Charlotte Perkins
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The Yellow Wallpaper
GRIMM: Rapunzel
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel
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~The Minister's Black Veil
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~Young Goodman Brown
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HAWTHORNE: Rhinoceros Beetle
HEKER: The Stolen Party
HEMINGWAY, Ernest
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Hills Like White Elephants
Old Man at the Bridge
HUGHES, Langston
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Thank You Ma'am
One Friday Morning
IRVING: Sleepy Hollow
JACKSON, Shirley
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Charles
Haunting of Hill House
The Lottery
JACOBS: Monkey's Paw
JOYCE, James
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Araby
The Dead
KAFKA: In the Penal Colony
KIPLING, Rudyard
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The Elephant's Child
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
~Just So Stories
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LAWRENCE: The Rocking-horse Winner
LAWSON, Henry
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The Dover's Wife
The Loaded Dog
LESSING: Through the Tunnel
LONDON: To Build a Fire
MANSFIELD, Katherine
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The Doll's House
The Fly
Miss Brill
MARQUEZ, Gabriel
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One of These Days
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
MELVILLE: Bartleby
MOREHEAD: At Seventeen
OATES: Where Going/Been
O'CONNOR, Flannery
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Good Country People
Good Man Hard to Find
O. HENRY
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The Cop and the Anthem
The Gift of the Magi
~"The Four Million" Collection
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A Retrieved Reformation
POE, Edgar Allen
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The Black Cat
The Cask of Amontillado
The Masque of the Red Death
~The Murders in the Rue Morgue
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~The Pit and the Pendulum
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~The Purloined Letter
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The Tell-Tale Heart
~Selected Works of Poe
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~The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
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ROUECHE: Phone Call
SAKI
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The Interlopers
The Open Window
The Storyteller
SALINGER: Bananafish
SNEVE: The Medicine Bag
SOTO, Gary
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Mother & Daughter
Seventh Grade
STOCKTON: Lady, or the Tiger
TWAIN, Mark
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog Calaveros County
~One Million Pound Banknote
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~The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
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VONNEGUT: Harrison Bergeron
WAIN: Manhood
WELLER, Archie
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Stolen Car
Fish and Chips
~WELLS, H. G.: The Star
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~The Magic Shop
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WILDING: The Altar of the Family
WINTON: On her Knees
Tunnel cover Y12
Through the Tunnel
by Doris Lessing
(1955)
A rite of passage at the beach for a young outsider. Lessing's 1962 novel "The Golden Notebook" is considered a leading feminist work. Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007.
Audio: "Through the Tunnel" by Lessing
VIDEOS
Analysis
Related Links
Lessing: Novelist, Essayist
Lessing's Short Stories
Review
Article: The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing's influential feminist novel.
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