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Russian literature
Doctor Zhivago
“Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.” Part One: The Early Years The novel opens with the funeral of Yuri Zhivago’s mother, leaving the young […]
French literature
The Baron in the Trees
“On the fifteenth of June, 1767, Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, my brother, sat among us for the last time.” Chapter 1: The Rebellion The novel opens with twelve-year-old […]
American literature
On the Road
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the […]
English literature
The Comforters
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” — John Milton (Epigraph referenced in The Comforters) Chapter […]