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15 discoveries later

Which one keeps calling?

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  1. Jane Eyre

    Is it better to be a delirious mistress in Marseilles or a free, honest schoolmistress in England's hills?
    Charlotte Brontë
  2. Pride and Prejudice

    Marrying your nephew won't change my sphere—whose rank actually shifts when two families join by marriage?
    Jane Austen
  3. Leaves of Grass

    Lilacs in the dooryard and a falling star—how does spring keep re-opening the same grief?
    Walt Whitman
  4. Pride and Prejudice

    They are destined for each other—so your 'upstart pretensions' are intolerable, she insists, defending family rank.
    Jane Austen
  5. The Count of Monte Cristo

    Wait and hope—two words presented as the whole of human wisdom.
    Alexandre Dumas (père); Auguste Maquet
  6. The Count of Monte Cristo

    A child with a small bottle of drug: three drops, and those who displease him are finished.
    Alexandre Dumas (père); Auguste Maquet
  7. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

    At one a.m., by a half‑extinguished light and pattering rain, a dull yellow eye opened—what had he created?
    Mary Shelley
  8. Leaves of Grass

    You are here—that fact alone demands a verse; what will you contribute to the powerful play?
    Walt Whitman
  9. Crime and Punishment

    You came alone to spare him—so where was the only man who could have kept you safe?
    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
  10. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    An earthen urn leans close and breathes a single command—drink now, for you will not return.
    Omar Khayyam (Ghiyāth al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī)
  11. Crime and Punishment

    A copper‑red moon pours into the flat; a hidden figure, a laugh that won't stop, and panic takes him.
    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
  12. Jane Eyre

    He admits a prior marriage and points to a watched woman upstairs—what secret waits at the house above?
    Charlotte Brontë
  13. The Count of Monte Cristo

    She throws back her veil and speaks the name he never forgot—Mercédès.
    Alexandre Dumas (père); Auguste Maquet
  14. Crime and Punishment

    A hundred-rouble note is gone—and every eye turns to you: confess, or face 'very serious measures.'
    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
  15. Crime and Punishment

    You’ve destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing—why do you still live in the filth you loathe?
    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor