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  1. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

    A single threat hangs over him: on his wedding night a dæmon promised to destroy him—will that night end him or free him?
    Mary Shelley

  2. Treasure Island

    Tomorrow I start for Bristol—he counts weeks and riches as if a grand voyage were already won, while danger waits uninvited.
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  3. Pride and Prejudice

    I decided within a month that you were the last man I'd ever marry—what made me so certain so soon?
    Jane Austen

  4. The Republic

    He insists all pleasures are the same—if pleasure is flattened, what part of the soul refuses to be seen?
    Plato

  5. Pride and Prejudice

    What are men to rocks and mountains?—could travel really revive us from disappointment?
    Jane Austen

  6. Treasure Island

    A clacking cry for pieces of eight grinds on like a tiny mill—who keeps shouting and why won't it stop?
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  7. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    A coffin life-buoy shoots up from a wheeling black bubble and carries him for a day—how does a man drift between death and rescue?
    Herman Melville

  8. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    I demand to know if I'll sleep beside a madman—what is this harpooneer the landlord fears and yet insists I share a bed with?
    Herman Melville

  9. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    A lantern, a butcher's cleaver, and a moonlit garden thirty feet below—would you jump?
    Arthur Conan Doyle

  10. Pride and Prejudice

    She couldn't think of anything else: had Bingley really loved Jane, or had others decided for him?
    Jane Austen

  11. The Picture of Dorian Gray

    The picture may hide sin, he realises, but it cannot hide age—the canvas will show hollow cheeks and crow's feet.
    Oscar Wilde

  12. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    A gold ounce on the table for the white-headed whale with three holes—what would you risk for that single prize?
    Herman Melville

  13. Pride and Prejudice

    By your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country—I am convinced.
    Jane Austen

  14. The Republic

    Make your guardians propertyless and save the state—or let them own land and watch guardians become tyrants: which will you risk?
    Plato

  15. The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Opal sky, silver roofs, a single violet ribbon of smoke—what secret could fit into a doorway so quiet?
    Oscar Wilde