“Ivan Ilyich’s life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.” Chapter 1: The Announcement of Death The novel opens with colleagues of Ivan Ilyich, […]
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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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The Mayor of Casterbridge
“Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.” Chapter 1: The Folly of Youth The novel opens with Michael Henchard, a young hay-trusser, drunkenly […]