“The white in the morning glories was like the white in the thousand cranes.” Chapter 1: The Tea Ceremony The novel opens with Kikuji Mitani attending a tea […]
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Charlotte’s Web
“You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.” — Charlotte Chapter 1: Before Breakfast Fern Arable, an eight-year-old girl, stops her father from killing […]
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The Old Man and the Sea
“But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” Chapter 1 Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman, has gone eighty-four days […]
American literature
Invisible Man
“I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am […]
American literature
East of Eden
“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” Part 1: The Hamiltons and the Trasks The novel begins with an introduction to the […]