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The novel follows Victor Frankenstein, a Swiss university student who assembles a sentient creature from corpse parts and animates it with electricity. The story is framed by le...

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The modern Wuthering Heights book refers to the enduring novel by Emily Brontë, widely published by Penguin Classics, Oxford World's Classics, and other major houses. Newer cri...

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Ponyboy Curtis does not appear as a character in That Was Now, This Is Then. The novel follows Bryan and Mark, two brothers whose lives diverge after a traumatic event, and Pony...

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Ophelia is a major character in William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet, set in the Danish royal court. She is the daughter of Polonius and the love interest of Prince Hamlet. The...

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Some opening sentences become cultural shorthand for entire novels. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want o...

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Ophelia is a major character in William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet, written around 1600. She is the daughter of Polonius and the love interest of Prince Hamlet. In the play, s...