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“Ah, the inner eye blinks, and the spirit trembles, at the dangerous cost of seeing one's self as one is.”
― Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
― Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
“O craving heart, for the lost flowers/ And sunshine of my summer hours!/ The undying voice of that dead time,/ With its interminable chime,/ Rings in the spirit of a spell, / Upon thy emptiness--a knell. / I have not always been as now:”
― The Complete Poetry
― The Complete Poetry
“Many a gentleman lives well upon a soft head, who would find a heart of the same quality a very great drawback.”
― Barnaby Rudge
― Barnaby Rudge
“Curiosity is, and has been from the creation of the world, a master passion. To awaken it, to gratify it by slight degrees, and yet leave something always in suspense, is to establish the surest hold that can be had, in wrong, on the unthinking portion of mankind.”
― Barnaby Rudge, Vol. 2
― Barnaby Rudge, Vol. 2
The Agatha Christie Reading Group
— 447 members
— last activity Dec 19, 2023 05:12AM
Want an opportunity to use your "little gray cells"? Join us for monthly group reads and discussions! Feel free to talk. Anytime. About Christie. Yo ...more
The Pickwick Club
— 381 members
— last activity Apr 04, 2020 10:42AM
Welcome to the Pickwick Club! This group is dedicated to reading, discussing, critiquing, and devouring the works of Charles Dickens.
The Immortal Poets Society
— 130 members
— last activity May 12, 2024 04:14AM
We read and discuss poetry from Homer to Frost. We are mostly interested in English and American poetry from Shakespeare to T.S. Eliot and Robert Fros ...more
Victorians!
— 3798 members
— last activity 9 hours, 18 min ago
Some of the best books in the world were written and published in Great Britain between 1837 and 1901. What's not to love? Dickens, the Brontes, Co ...more
Jane Austen July 2025
— 1555 members
— last activity Aug 11, 2025 11:13AM
Jane Austen July is a month-long readathon, all about reading Jane Austen and related works. ---The Challenges--- 1. Read one of Jane Austen’s six ...more
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