“The sea in summer is always the same, but the people who come to see it change.” Chapter 1: Arrival in the Seaside Town The narrator, Maria, returns […]
American literature
Number the Stars
“She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night, threaded with dreams that were vaporous and shifting.” Chapter 1: Why Are You Running? Ten-year-old […]
English literature
London Fields
“Murder considered as one of the fine arts.” London Fields follows the intertwined lives of three central characters in a decaying, pre-millennial London. The narrator, Samson Young, is […]
English literature
The Remains of the Day
“After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?” Prologue: […]