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Russian literature
Mitya’s Love
“Love is a mystery. Everything in it is a mystery: how it arises, how it develops, how it disappears.” Chapter 1: Mitya’s Infatuation The story begins with Mitya, […]
Russian literature
The Fatal Eggs
“The consequences of human folly are often more dangerous than any scientific experiment.” Chapter 1: The Brilliant Scientist Professor Vladimir Persikov, a renowned zoologist in Soviet Moscow, makes […]
Russian literature
The White Guard
“And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.” — Revelation 20:12 (Epigraph to The White Guard) Chapter […]
French literature
The Counterfeiters
“The true counterfeiters are those who pass off their own lies as truths.” Part One The novel opens with Bernard Profitendieu, a young man who discovers he is […]
American literature
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 […]
English literature
Mrs Dalloway
“Fear no more the heat o’ the sun, Nor the furious winter’s rages.” — William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (epigraph in Mrs Dalloway) Morning in Westminster Clarissa Dalloway, a high-society […]