All Novels

Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.

Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer

How does one describe Artemis Fowl? (Prologue)Ho Chi Minh City in the summer.

Les Vrilles de La Vigne

Colette

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

It was 7 minutes after midnight.

Zuleika Dobson

Max Beerbohm

That old bell, presage of a train, had just sounded through Oxford station; and the undergraduates who were waiting there, gay figures in tweed or flannel, moved to the margin of the platform and gazed idly up the line.

Testament of Youth

Vera Brittain

When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exasperating kind to my personal plans.

Capital of Pain

Paul Eluard

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Betty Smith

Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York.

Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Master was a little crazy; he had spent too many years reading books overseas, talked to himself in his office, did not always return greetings, and had too much hair.

A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories

Flannery O'Connor

The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida.