“He was driven by a desire to travel, but not just any travel—he sought something foreign and distant, a place where the extraordinary would shake him from the […]
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The Line of Beauty
“It was a summer of strangers, a summer of departures.” Chapter 1: 1983 The novel opens in the summer of 1983, introducing Nick Guest, a young gay man […]
English literature
The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim.” — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Chapter 1–3: […]