“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Chapter 1: The Family Gathering The novel opens with the arrival of Medea’s relatives at her home in Crimea […]
French literature
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“Madame Rosa was the only person who ever loved me for nothing.” The novel is narrated by Momo, a young Arab boy living in the Belleville neighborhood of […]
American literature
O Pioneers!
“The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.” Part 1: The Wild Land The novel opens in the harsh prairie of […]
American literature
My Ántonia
“Optima dies… prima fugit.” (The best days… are the first to flee.) — Virgil Introduction My Ántonia follows Jim Burden, a nostalgic narrator, as he recounts his childhood […]
English literature
Brick Lane
“The world was full of doors, and all of them led to the same place.” Part One: Arrival in London Nazneen, a young Bangladeshi woman, arrives in London […]