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Waiting for Godot
Samuel Becket |
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| "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a fortune, must be in want of a good wife." |
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen |
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| "It was a cold day in April, and the clocks were thirteen." |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell/Eric Blair |
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| "Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show." |
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David Copperfield
Charles Dickens- autobiography |
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| "It was Wang Lung's marriage day." |
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The Good Earth
Pearl Buck (Nobel Prize winner) |
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| "It was love at first sight." |
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| "To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did no cut the scarred earth." |
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck |
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| "She was one of those pretty, charming ladies, born, as if though an error of destiny, into a family of clerks." |
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The Necklace- short story
Guy de Maupassant |
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| "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." |
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A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens |
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| "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uncanny dreams, he found himself transformed into a giant insect." |
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The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka |
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| "Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tidewater dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego. " |
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Call of the Wild
Jack London |
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| "The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon." |
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| "A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeatin gover and over: 'Allez-vouz en! Allez-vouz en!"' |
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| "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow." |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee |
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| "A squat gray building of only thirty-four stories" |
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley |
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| "It was a dark and story night..." |
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Paul Clifford
Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey |
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| "'Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,' grumbled Jo, lying on the rug." |
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Little Women
Louis May Alcott |
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| "What can you say about a twenty-five year old girl who has died?" |
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| "He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish." |
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The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway |
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| "A throng of bearded men, in sad colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak and studded with iron spikes." |
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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| "in my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since." |
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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| "One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-it was the black kitten's fault entirely." |
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Through the Looking Glass
Lewis Carroll |
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| "Once upon a Time and a Very Good Time It Was There Was a Moocow Coming down along the Road and This Moocow That Was Coming down along the Road Met a Nicens Little Boy Named Baby Tuckoo." |
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce |
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