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French literature
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“She had no illusions. She knew that she was nothing but a killer.” Chapter 1: The Arrival Aimée Joubert, a cold and calculating professional killer, arrives in the […]
American literature
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“It was Leslie who had taken him from the cow pasture into Terabithia and turned him into a king.” Chapter 1: Jesse Oliver Aarons, Jr. Jesse Aarons, an […]
American literature
Song of Solomon
“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” — Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon Chapter 1 The novel opens in 1931 with […]
English literature
The Silmarillion
“There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and […]