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15 discoveries later

Which one keeps calling?

Choose a stream to follow and continue in Read, or shuffle the shelves for another flight.
  1. Jane Eyre

    A pilgrim arrives like a disguised deity and transforms a charnel-house heart into a shrine—what encounter could do that?
    Charlotte Brontë
  2. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    Under a lonely, shadowed hour the boys dig by candlelight; each strike sparks hope and then only reveals another stone—how long can belief last?
    Mark Twain
  3. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    Saints and sages who argued for two worlds end up silenced and stifled by dust—whose words can we trust then?
    Omar Khayyam (Ghiyāth al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī)
  4. The Republic

    Let youth revere corrupt gods, and shame and self‑control will vanish.
    Plato
  5. Pride and Prejudice

    I could have prevented this—I am tormented by what I failed to tell my family.
    Jane Austen
  6. Leaves of Grass

    Broadway's drums, trumpets, and a tide of new faces—what hunger does that relentless crowd sate?
    Walt Whitman
  7. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

    He embraced his wife as if asleep—then felt the cold of death and saw the murderer’s mark on her neck.
    Mary Shelley
  8. Jane Eyre

    You imagine life as a quiet current—he warns a craggy pass will break it into whirl and tumult; what will awaken in Jane when it comes?
    Charlotte Brontë
  9. Jane Eyre

    'Hide her, bury her identity,' they advise—shelter the madwoman and forget her; what price does secrecy demand of the living?
    Charlotte Brontë
  10. Jane Eyre

    He calls her his equal—and asks her to be his bride; will Jane accept a union that could remake her whole life?
    Charlotte Brontë
  11. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    Life flies; promises of hell or paradise blur—only the flower's brief bloom is certain.
    Omar Khayyam (Ghiyāth al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī)
  12. Jane Eyre

    Religion swept in and made the impossible feel inevitable—what must I surrender?
    Charlotte Brontë
  13. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    Five dried orange pips fell onto his plate—and he cried out three letters that made his past return; what terror did those seeds signal?
    Arthur Conan Doyle
  14. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

    Knowledge clung like lichen to my mind; the nearer I came to others, the more painfully I knew I was excluded.
    Mary Shelley
  15. Jane Eyre

    His coldness feels like a slow, inward killing—how do you survive a love that can extinguish you without a bruise?
    Charlotte Brontë