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Japanese literature
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“Time waits for no one… but what if you could make it wait?” Chapter 1: The Strange Discovery Kazuko Yoshiyama, a high school student, stumbles upon a peculiar […]
American literature
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“All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.” Chapter 1 The novel opens with the author’s meta-commentary, explaining his struggle to write […]
English literature
The Time Machine
“There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.” Chapter 1: Introduction The novel begins with […]