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  • The Magic Mountain Summary

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    The story starts at the beginning of the XX century, in the last peaceful years before the beginning of the First World War. The action takes place in the peaceful corner of Switzerland, near Davos, in the fancy tuberculous sanatorium of Berggof. The main hero of the story, a young man from Germany named Hans…

  • Lord of the Flies Summary

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    Plot Overview In one of the countries, there was a nuclear explosion. A group of teenagers who were taken to evacuation was on a desert island. Ralph and the boy, nicknamed Piggy, find a large shell. They call all the guys. The boys are from three to fourteen years old. They choose a “leader.” Ralph…

  • Charles Dickens Quotes – Page 47 | Just Great DataBase

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    Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever Book the First—Recalled Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 1 Companion Picture XII. The Fellow of Delicacy XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 1 some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being…

  • Quotes – Page 366 | Just Great DataBase

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    It is not every one,” said Elinor, “who has your passion for dead leaves. Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 2 GONZALO: I’ the commonwealth I would by contrariesExecute all things; for no kind of trafficWould I admit; no name of magistrate;Letters should not be known; riches, poverty,And use of service, none; contract, succession,Bourn, bound of…

  • The Handmaid’s Tale Quotes – Page 15 | Just Great DataBase

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    I need to remember what they look like. I try to hold them still behind my eyes, their faces, like pictures in an album. But they won’t stay still for me, they move, there’s a smile and it’s gone, their features curl and bend as if the paper’s burning, blackness eats them. A glimpse, a…

  • The Return of the Native Summary

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    The main character of the novel is the attractive and daydreaming Eustacia Vye who is nineteen years old at the beginning of the plot. She is known as the “Queen of the Night” and her wish is to find a man who will fall madly in love with her and fulfill her quench of wanderlust.…

  • Quotes – Page 39 | Just Great DataBase

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    I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.. John Green Looking for Alaska 289 Normally seven minutes of another person’s company was enough to give her a headache so she set things up to live as a recluse. She was perfectly content as long as people left her…

  • Adele Varens

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    Adèle is Jane’s pupil at Thornfield, a little French girl just under ten years old, the daughter of Céline Varens who is an opera dancer who was Rochester’s love sometime ago. When Jane first meets her, Adèle’s only been in England for a few months, and she’s never really been asked to study or apply…

  • Roderick Usher

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    Roderick is portrayed as a man who suffers from constant fear. This feeling triggers his internal troubles and worries. He is afraid that one day this fear will kill him. Indeed, it is what happened to him at the very end of the story. His supernatural connection with sister Madeline is not ordinary. He cannot…

  • Mr. Gabriel John Utterson

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    Mr. Utterson is a notary, whose stern face is never covered with a smile. He was a self-contained man, taciturn and awkward in society, lean, dusty, boring, and very likable as well. In the circle of friends, and especially when he liked the wine, a spark of soft humanity began to glow in his eyes, which didn’t…