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A voyage to Italy becomes a journey of self-discovery and awakening for Lucy Honeychurch in E.M. Forster's A Room with a View. Engaged to fussy, virtuous Cecil, Lucy encounters new possibilities for p ...
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Dorian Gray is the most beautiful young man Lord Henry Wotton has ever seen. What is his secret? Introduced to him through a friend who has just painted Dorian's portrait, Lord Henry finds much to dis ...
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A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!" He could speak a little Spanish, and also a ...
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The Diary of a Superfluous Man
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Tchulkaturin, the unlikely hero of Ivan Turgenev’s 1850 work, The Diary of a Superfluous Man, has just two weeks to live. Facing the prospect of his own mortality, Tchulkaturin decides to take stock ...
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LILY, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet. Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the little pantry behind the office on the ground floor and helped him off with his overcoat t ...
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What price will a young writer pay for the secrets of a legendary poet? Our hero and narrator, who is never named, travels to Venice in search of the closely guarded papers of Jeffrey Aspern. In recen ...
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One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could s ...
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Love, sexuality, and relationships between men and women are the day’s topics of discussion for passengers on a train in Leo Tolstoy’s 1889 novella The Kreutzer Sonata. Little do they know that wi ...
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