- Question of
“It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
- Christopher Isherwood, ‘Mr. Norris Changes Trains’
- George Orwell, ‘1984’
- Question of
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”
- Gabriel García Márquez, ‘100 Years of Solitude’
- Jorge Luis Borges, ‘The Dead Man’
- Question of
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
- Jane Austen, ‘Pride and Prejudice’
- Charlotte Brontë, ‘Jane Eyre’
- Question of
“Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing.”
- François Rabelais, ‘Gargantua and Pantagruel’
- Miguel de Cervantes, ‘Don Quixote’
- Question of
“It was a pleasure to burn.”
- H.G. Wells, ‘The Invisible Man’
- Ray Bradbury, ‘Fahrenheit 451’
- Question of
“Call me Ishmael. Some years ago ‒never mind how long precisely‒ having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.”
- Charles Dickens, ‘Great Expectations’
- Herman Melville, ‘Moby Dick’
- Question of
“One day, I was already old, in the entrance of a public place a man came up to me.”
- Marguerite Duras, ‘The Lover’
- Colette, ‘Gigi’
- Question of
“We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a “new fellow,” not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk. Those who had been asleep woke up, and every one rose as if just surprised at his work.”
- Émile Zola, ‘Nana’
- Gustave Flaubert, ‘Madame Bovary’
- Question of
“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous insect.”
- Franz Kafka, ‘The Metamorphosis’
- Robert Musil, ‘The Man Without Qualities’
- Question of
“An unassuming young man was travelling, in midsummer, from his native city of Hamburg to Davos-Platz in the Canton of the Grisons, on a three weeks’ visit.”
- Thomas Mann, ‘The Magic Mountain’
- Ernst Jünger, ‘The Adventurous Heart’
- Question of
“The little town of Verrieres can pass for one of the prettiest in Franche-Comte. Its white houses with their pointed red-tiled roofs stretch along the slope of a hill, whose slightest undulations are marked by groups of vigorous chestnuts.”
- Honoré de Balzac, ‘Lost Illusions’
- Stendhal, ‘The Red and the Black’
- Question of
“I have just returned from a visit to my landlord ‒the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist’s heaven: and Mr Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us.”
- Emily Brontë, ‘Wuthering Heights’
- Jane Austen, ‘Sense and Sensibility’
- Question of
“On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.”
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, ‘Crime and Punishment’
- Henry James, ‘The American’
- Question of
“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.”
- Sebastian Junger, ‘The Perfect Storm’
- Ernest Hemingway, ‘The Old Man and the Sea’
- Question of
“For a long time I would go to bed early. Sometimes, the candle barely out, my eyes closed so quickly that I did not have time to tell myself: “I’m falling asleep.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson, ‘Catriona’
- Marcel Proust, ‘In Search of Lost Time’
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