Japanese literature

The Silent Cry

“We were like two survivors clinging to the wreckage of a sunken ship, each of us silently screaming in the dark.” Chapter 1: Return to the Village The […]

Russian literature

The Master and Margarita

“Who are you, then?”“I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.”— The Master and Margarita Part 1 The novel opens in 1930s […]

American literature

The Outsiders

“Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold.” Chapter 1 Ponyboy Curtis, a 14-year-old Greaser, introduces his life in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where social divisions between the working-class Greasers and the wealthy […]