Authors A–Z — Chapter 1, Page 1

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Authors, A–Z

A

Louisa May Alcott

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Little Women“Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents.”

A

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Pride and Prejudice“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession…”

B

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The Crow Road“It was the day my grandmother exploded.”

B

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Peter Pan“All children, except one, grow up.”

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Fahrenheit 451“It was a pleasure to burn.”

B

Charlotte Brontë

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Jane Eyre“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.”

B

Charles Bukowski

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Post Office“It began as a mistake.”

C

Arthur C. Clarke

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2001: A Space Odyssey“The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the t…”

D

Charles Dickens

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A Tale of Two Cities (abridged)“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

A Tale of Two Cities“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of w…”

A Christmas Carol“Marley was dead, to begin with.”

David Copperfield“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that…”

D

Daphne du Maurier

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Rebecca“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”

F

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Great Gatsby“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice th…”

G

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Neuromancer“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead chan…”

G

Kenneth Grahame

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The Wind in the Willows“The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his…”

G

Seth Grahame-Smith

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of br…”

H

Ernest Hemingway

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The Old Man and the Sea“He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he…”

J

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Ulysses“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of…”

K

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The Trial“Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having do…”

The Metamorphosis“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself tr…”

K

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The Gunslinger“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”

L

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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved i…”

M

Herman Melville

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Moby-Dick“Call me Ishmael.”

M

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Beloved“124 was spiteful.”

O

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1984“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen…”

Nineteen Eighty-Four“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen…”

P

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The Bell Jar“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenber…”

R

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The Satanic Verses“To be born again, first you have to die.”

T

J. R. R. Tolkien

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The Hobbit“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”

The Lord of the Rings“When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be cel…”

T

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Anna Karenina“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own…”

W

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Charlotte's Web“Where's Papa going with that axe?”

W

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Mrs Dalloway“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.”