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  1. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    All visible things are pasteboard masks—Ahab dares you to reach truth only by thrusting through the wall.
    Herman Melville

  2. Essays — First Series

    You can live all history in your own person—will you be the court that judges it or its passive spectator?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  3. Leaves of Grass

    Thanks in old age—for sun, war, strangers, and those we've never met; why does gratitude include battle?
    Walt Whitman

  4. The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Life had made his choice: eternal youth and passion, while the portrait carried his shame.
    Oscar Wilde

  5. The Count of Monte Cristo

    He said he had sold himself to become Providence's instrument—what price did he pay to punish and reward as he wished?
    Alexandre Dumas (père); Auguste Maquet

  6. The Count of Monte Cristo

    They dug up the earth and found the skeleton of a newborn inside an iron box—what secret buried that child here?
    Alexandre Dumas (père); Auguste Maquet

  7. The Count of Monte Cristo

    A letter signed 'Sinbad the Sailor' makes Monte Cristo read with a child's delight—what secret in Julie's name could do that?
    Alexandre Dumas (père); Auguste Maquet

  8. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    He enters with a candle and a ghastly New Zealand head—then turns his face, and every uneasy guess collapses.
    Herman Melville

  9. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

    On the morning of departure I turned to Sandy and said we were betrayed—and I knew it.
    John Chua

  10. The Republic

    Cities will not know peace until philosophers rule—are we ready to call that seemingly extravagant demand necessary?
    Plato

  11. The Count of Monte Cristo

    Four thousand piastres by six, or by seven the Count Albert will be dead—pay or watch a life end.
    Alexandre Dumas (père); Auguste Maquet

  12. The Odyssey

    He notched the arrow, aimed, and pierced every axe-hole—what challenge did that single shot announce to the room?
    Homer

  13. Leaves of Grass

    Come up from the fields, father—here's a letter from our Pete; what will this summons change?
    Walt Whitman

  14. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    Holmes scorned soft emotion—yet one woman eclipsed all others; what about Irene Adler unsettled the perfect reasoning machine?
    Arthur Conan Doyle

  15. The Odyssey

    She wove by day and unpicked by torchlight for years—what finally forced her to complete the loom's deceit?
    Homer