First Words
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Book
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In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful...
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The Qur'an
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These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr Bucket. Their names are Grandpa Joe and Grandma Josephine...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost...
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The Divine Comedy
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin...
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The Metamorphosis
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I was born in 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my Father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull...
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Robinson Crusoe
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All children, except one, grow up...
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Peter Pan
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When on board H.M.S. 'Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America...
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On the Origin of Species
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There was no possibility of taking a walk that day...
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Jane Eyre
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Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene...
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Romeo and Juliet
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It was a pleasure to burn...
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Fahrenheit 451
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Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he sacked the famous town of Troy...
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The Odyssey
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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun...
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit...
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The Hobbit
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Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes...
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Animal Farm
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In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing...
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Don Quixote
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