“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we […]
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Frankenstein
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” Letters 1–4: The Arctic Expedition Captain Robert Walton writes letters to his sister, Margaret, […]
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Emma
“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.” Volume 1 […]
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David Copperfield
“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.” — […]
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A Tale of Two Cities
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” Book One: Recalled to Life The novel opens in 1775, contrasting the turmoil in England and […]
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Great Expectations
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” Part 1: Pip’s Childhood Young Pip, an orphan raised […]
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Wuthering Heights
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Wuthering Heights Volume 1 Chapters 1–3: The novel begins with Mr. Lockwood, a new tenant […]
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Jane Eyre
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” — Jane Eyre Early Life at Gateshead (Chapters 1-4) […]
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1984
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” Part One Winston Smith, a frail 39-year-old man, lives in Airstrip One (formerly Britain), a province of the totalitarian […]
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Pride and Prejudice
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Chapters 1–12: The Bennet Family […]