“Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.” Book the First: A Mouse Is Born The story begins in the castle of Dor, where a […]
American literature
Holes
“If only, if only,” the woodpecker sighs, “The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies.” While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to […]
American literature
Island of the Blue Dolphins
“I remember the day the Aleut ship came to our island. At first it seemed like a small shell afloat on the sea. Then it grew larger and […]
American literature
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in […]
American literature
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a […]
American literature
Moby-Dick
“Call me Ishmael.” — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick The novel begins with Ishmael, a wandering sailor, seeking adventure and signing onto the whaling ship Pequod in Nantucket. He befriends […]
English literature
The Hobbit
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” Chapter 1: An Unexpected Party Bilbo Baggins, a respectable hobbit, is visited by the wizard Gandalf and thirteen […]
English literature
Through the Looking-Glass
“The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day.” Chapter 1: Looking-Glass House Alice, sitting in her drawing room, wonders what the world is like on […]