The Masque of the Red Death, by Edgar Allan Poe
> The "Red Death" had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and »
Angels in America, by Tony Kushner
> Prior: I still want...my blessing. Even sick. I want to be alive. > Angel: You only think you do. Life is a habit with »
The Gulag Archipelago, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
> And why is it that for nearly two hundred years the Security forces have hung onto the color of the heavens? That was what they »
The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene
> "You're a man of education," the lieutenant said. He lay across the entrance of the hut with his head on his »
Some Trees, by John Ashbery
> These are amazing: each Joining a neighbor, as though speech Were a still performance. Arranging by chance > To meet as far this morning From »