“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: […]
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The War of the Worlds
“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and […]
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The Time Machine
“There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.” Chapter 1: Introduction The novel begins with […]