“Sixty Million and more.” — Toni Morrison, Beloved Part One Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman, lives with her daughter Denver in a haunted house at 124 Bluestone Road […]
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East of Eden
“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” Part 1: The Hamiltons and the Trasks The novel begins with an introduction to the […]
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Of Mice and Men
“Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place.” Chapter 1 George Milton and […]
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The Grapes of Wrath
“And in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the […]
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The Catcher in the Rye
“I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.” — Holden Caulfield Chapters 1–4: Holden’s Expulsion and Departure Holden Caulfield, a disaffected 16-year-old, narrates from a mental facility. He […]
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Moby-Dick
“Call me Ishmael.” — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick The novel begins with Ishmael, a wandering sailor, seeking adventure and signing onto the whaling ship Pequod in Nantucket. He befriends […]
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The Great Gatsby
“Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,Till she cry ‘Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,I must have you!’”—THOMAS PARKE […]
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To Kill a Mockingbird
“The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way […]