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The Machine Stops - EM Forster (1909) Summary

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189. The Machine Stops - EM Forster (1909) Summary - 4.07 ⭐️: bsky.app/profile/cels...

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189: The Machine Stops - EM Forster (1909) Summary (7 min)

Book at a glance: It is a dystopian tale where humanity lives underground, dependent on a machine that ultimately begins to fail.

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A Room with a View - EM Forster (1908) Summary

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188. A Room with a View - EM Forster (1908) Summary - 3.90 ⭐️: bsky.app/profile/cels...

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188: A Room with a View - EM Forster (1908) Summary (6 min)

Book at a glance: It follows Lucy Honeychurch as she navigates love and self-discovery against the backdrop of Edwardian social conventions.

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The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (1908) Summary

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187. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (1908) Summary - 4.02 ⭐️: bsky.app/profile/cels...

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187: The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (1908) Summary (6 min)

Book at a glance: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame is a whimsical tale following Mole, Rat, Toad, and Badger in their countryside adventures.

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The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux (1910) Summary

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186. The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux (1910) Summary - 3.96 ⭐️: bsky.app/profile/cels...

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186: The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux (1910) Summary (7 min)

Book at a glance: The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux follows a masked figure haunting the Paris Opera House, entangling a young singer in a tragic romance.

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Ticket No. 9672 - Jules Verne (1885) Summary

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185. Ticket No. 9672 - Jules Verne (1885) Summary - 3.56 ⭐️: bsky.app/profile/cels...

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185: Ticket No. 9672 - Jules Verne (1885) Summary (7 min)

Book at a glance: Ticket No. 9672 by Jules Verne follows Hulda Hansen as she awaits her betrothed’s return from sea, only to be caught in a suspenseful mystery.

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Off on a Comet - Jules Verne (1877) Summary

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184. Off on a Comet - Jules Verne (1877) Summary - 3.64 ⭐️: bsky.app/profile/cels...

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184: Off on a Comet - Jules Verne (1877) Summary (7 min)

Book at a glance: It follows a group of people swept off Earth onto a passing comet, challenging them to survive in an alien environment.

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Godfrey Morgan - Jules Verne (1882) Summary

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183. Godfrey Morgan - Jules Verne (1882) Summary - 3.54 ⭐️: bsky.app/profile/cels...

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183: Godfrey Morgan - Jules Verne (1882) Summary (8 min)

Book at a glance: It is a tale of survival and self-discovery as a young man is stranded on a remote island, testing his resilience.

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An Antarctic Mystery - Jules Verne (1897) Summary

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182. An Antarctic Mystery - Jules Verne (1897) Summary - 3.61 ⭐️: bsky.app/profile/cels...

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182: An Antarctic Mystery - Jules Verne (1897) Summary (6 min)

Book at a glance: An Antarctic Mystery by Jules Verne follows Jeorling on a perilous expedition to uncover the fate of a vanished Antarctic ship.

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The Underground City - Jules Verne (1877) Summary

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181. The Underground City - Jules Verne (1877) Summary - 3.56 ⭐️: bsky.app/profile/cels...

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181: The Underground City - Jules Verne (1877) Summary (6 min)

Book at a glance: The Underground City by Jules Verne is a thrilling adventure set in the abandoned coal mines of Scotland, exploring survival and industrial decline.

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190: The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (1920) Intro
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Genre: American, Classics, Fiction, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literature, New York, Romance

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Quote 10:
“Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.”

- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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Quote 9:
“Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.”

- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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Quote 8:
“But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.”

- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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Quote 7:
“And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.”

- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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Quote 6:
“His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.”

- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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Quote 5:
“I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.”

- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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Quote 4:
“In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.”

- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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Quote 3:
“We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?”

- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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Quote 2:
“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”

- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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Quote 1:
“Each time you happen to me all over again.”

- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (1920) Summary

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190: The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (1920) Quotes
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190: The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (1920) Summary (6 min)

Book at a glance: It explores love and societal constraints in 19th-century New York, following Newland Archer’s dilemma between passion and duty.

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