“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” — Albus Dumbledore Chapter 1: […]
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The Silmarillion
“There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and […]
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The Lord of the Rings
“One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.” Book One: The Fellowship of […]
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The Hobbit
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” Chapter 1: An Unexpected Party Bilbo Baggins, a respectable hobbit, is visited by the wizard Gandalf and thirteen […]
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Kidnapped
“There are two things that men should never weary of—goodness and humility.” Chapter 1: I Set Off Upon My Journey to the House of Shaws David Balfour, a […]
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
“I learned to recognize the thorough and primitive duality of man… If each, I told myself, could but be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of […]
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Treasure Island
“Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest— Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!” Part I: The Old Buccaneer The story begins at the Admiral Benbow Inn, run by […]
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Through the Looking-Glass
“The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day.” Chapter 1: Looking-Glass House Alice, sitting in her drawing room, wonders what the world is like on […]
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice. Chapter 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice, a young girl, grows bored sitting by the riverbank when she spots a White Rabbit in a […]
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The Invisible Man
“I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none.” Chapter 1: […]