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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. The Republic

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

  6. 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

  7. The Odyssey

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

  8. Leaves of Grass

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

  9. 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

  10. The Odyssey

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

  11. Jane Eyre

    I will never call you aunt again; the very thought of you makes me sick after your cruelty.
    Charlotte Brontë

  12. The Republic

    He rose from his funeral pyre and described a place where tyrants are refused entry—what did he witness that none forget?
    Plato

  13. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

    Plutarch taught me to love heroes—what did that lofty education do to a child raised only in a cottage?
    Mary Shelley

  14. The Odyssey

    You devour his estate and scheme to kill his son—who will stop a house of men who have forgotten justice?
    Homer

  15. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

    A scene so overwhelming it leaves me dizzy—why can I barely recount the catastrophe?
    Mary Shelley