The Dragonriders of Pern is a series of many loosely connected stories set on the fictional world of Pern. It has elements of fantasy (being set on a world with medieval-level technology, it has all the hallmarks of classic fantasy in terms of the atmosphere and 'feel' of the story - plus, well, ...
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The Agatha Christie play The Mousetrap has not only the longest initial run of any play in history (it's been running continuously for nearly 65 years, mostly in the very same building in London), but also an ending which is traditionally kept secret, the audience asked after every performance no...
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Eugene Onegin is a novel in verse, by the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. The main characters are Eugene Onegin, a young and bored man, and Tatiana, an even younger girl who falls in love with Onegin.
Onegin is said to be in his twenties during the main events of the novel, but I don't ac...
The first lines of Albert Camus' The Stranger go something like this:
Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday
It's told in the present tense, as in, when Meursault is recounting the event it had happened that very same day. This tense continues for the next two paragraphs, emphasis mine:
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