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Key Literary Elements
• Setting
• Characters
• Themes
• Background Information - Biography
• Literary/Historical Information

Story Summaries with Notes
• Story 1 - The Book of the Grotesque
• Story 2 - Hands
• Story 3 - Paper Pills
• Story 4 - Mother
• Story 5 - The Philosopher
• Story 6 - Nobody Knows
• Story 7 - Godliness-A Tale in Four Parts
• Story 8 - A Man of Ideas
• Story 9 - Adventure
• Story 10 - Respectability
• Story 11 - The Thinker
• Story 12 - Tandy
• Story 13 - The Strength of God
• Story 14 - The Teacher
• Story 15 - Loneliness
• Story 16 - An Awakening
• Story 17 - Queer
• Story 18 - The Untold Lie
• Story 19 - Drink
• Story 20 - Death
• Story 21 - Sophistication
• Story 22 - Departure

Overall Analyses
• Character Analysis
• Author's Style

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