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  1. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    Freedom, plain and raw: Huck sleeps where he likes, swims when he pleases, and answers to no one.
    Mark Twain

  2. Jane Eyre

    You are no ruin but a green, vigorous tree—others will grow around your roots because your strength gives them shelter. Will you accept it?
    Charlotte Brontë

  3. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    My eyes look into the very eye that even now beholds him—can the sun tell where the whale hides?
    Herman Melville

  4. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    He forgot his troubles in two minutes after learning a bird‑like warble—can a tiny new skill erase a grown‑up grief?
    Mark Twain

  5. Pride and Prejudice

    A mis-sent letter arrives; its later lines, dated a day later, are written in agitation and carry urgent intelligence.
    Jane Austen

  6. Jane Eyre

    She finds strangers at a threshold are actually kin—her loneliness explodes into a sudden mine of affectionate wealth.
    Charlotte Brontë

  7. The Divine Comedy

    O human creatures, born to soar aloft—why do you fall so easily before a little wind?
    Dante Alighieri

  8. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    A dying man's single word—'rat'—is it delirium or the clue that will expose a murderer?
    Arthur Conan Doyle

  9. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    Queequeg eats at the head of the table with his harpoon beside him—so cool it reads as genteel.
    Herman Melville

  10. Treasure Island

    Three years without seeing a Christian—Ben Gunn's hoarse, awkward voice makes you ask how a man could live so long alone.
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  11. The Republic

    They will add sofas, perfumes, courtesans and gold—so when does a 'healthy' city tip into luxury?
    Plato

  12. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    You think your son risked everything to hide three gems? Holmes calls that theory impossible—where is the fatal flaw?
    Arthur Conan Doyle

  13. The Divine Comedy

    Living sparks rise from the river and sink into flowers like rubies set in gold—what metamorphosis of light is this?
    Dante Alighieri

  14. The Divine Comedy

    Accursed mayst thou be, thou old she-wolf, hungrier than all the other beasts—what insatiable void does Dante damn?
    Dante Alighieri

  15. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    A newspaper headline chilled me to the heart—what news could turn quiet waiting into sudden dread?
    Arthur Conan Doyle