“So war es ein Versehen. Küsse, Bisse,Das reimt sich, und wer recht von Herzen liebt,Kann schon das eine für das andre greifen.”— Heinrich von Kleist, Penthesilea Penthesilea by […]
Russian literature
Anna Karenina
“Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.” — Epigraph to Anna Karenina Part 1 The novel opens with the famous line: “All happy families are alike; […]
American literature
A Farewell to Arms
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” Book One The novel opens during World War I, where Frederic Henry, an American ambulance […]