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The Iceberg

Around 1910 the short story went quiet. The plots fell away, the endings stopped explaining themselves, and everything important sank below the waterline: Hemingway claimed the dignity of an iceberg comes from only one-eighth of it showing. These are the stories that taught the form to withhold, from a Dublin party where the snow begins to a library in Buenos Aires containing every possible book. Read slowly. Most of it is under the surface.

In the app a path keeps your place, marks what you have read, and hands you the next work when you are ready for it.

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The route

  • 1. The DeadJames Joyce, 1914
  • 2. ArabyJames Joyce, 1914
  • 3. RashomonRyūnosuke Akutagawa, 1915
  • 4. A Madman's DiaryLu Xun, 1918
  • 5. In the Penal ColonyFranz Kafka, 1919
  • 6. Winesburg, OhioSherwood Anderson, 1919
  • 7. The Garden PartyKatherine Mansfield, 1922
  • 8. Miss BrillKatherine Mansfield, 1922
  • 9. A Hunger ArtistFranz Kafka, 1922
  • 10. Big Two-Hearted RiverErnest Hemingway, 1925
  • 11. My First GooseIsaac Babel, 1926
  • 12. The Dancing Girl of IzuYasunari Kawabata, 1926
  • 13. Hills Like White ElephantsErnest Hemingway, 1927
  • 14. The Street of CrocodilesBruno Schulz, 1934
  • 15. The Library of BabelJorge Luis Borges, 1941