A locked room, a broken birdcage, a yellow car. Across six complete works, ask who sees the evidence, who gets to interpret it, and what the reader can prove.
Short story · 1892
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
6,147 words · 6 reader pages
One-act play · 1916
Trifles
Susan Glaspell
5,271 words · 5 reader pages
Novella · 1886
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
25,665 words · 25 reader pages
Novella in five staves · 1843
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
28,616 words · 26 reader pages
Science-fiction story in three parts · 1909
The Machine Stops
E. M. Forster
12,260 words · 12 reader pages
Novel in nine chapters · 1925
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
48,467 words · 44 reader pages