Forgotten lines, newly illuminated.
Fragments of classic literature, drawn from the public domain one at a time, each with a commentary, a microstory, and threads to the books and authors around it.
As I spoke, a dark gloom spread over my listener’s countenance. At first I perceived that he tried to suppress his emotion; he placed his hands before his eyes, and my voice quivered and failed me as I beheld tears trickle fast from between his fingers; a groan burst from his heaving breast.
Frankenstein · Mary Shelley
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- A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
- Around the World in Eighty Days
- Dracula
- Frankenstein
- Gulliver's Travels
- Moby-Dick
- Pride and Prejudice
- Tess of the d’Urbervilles
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- The Time Machine
- The War of the Worlds
- Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
- Wuthering Heights
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