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Anna
She passed her paper-knife over the windowpane, then pressed its cold smooth surface against her cheek and almost laughed aloud, suddenly overcome with unreasoning joy. She felt that her nerves were being stretched like strings drawn tighter and tighter round pegs. She felt her eyes opening wider, her fingers and toes nervously moving, and something inside her stopping her breath…

Levin
‘No, you will not escape us and will not be different, but will remain such as you have been: full of doubts; full of dissatisfaction with yourself, and of vain attempts at improvement followed by failures, and continual hopes of the happiness which has escaped you and is impossible for you.’

“If we give money to poor people, they won’t be poor anymore.” is an insane thing to say. Esme Squalor is unhinged.

Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime - 3.5/5 - Spoilers ahead -


Started off funny and intriguing, but I didn’t get the second half. Did Arthur find out from the palm-reader that he would only be happy in marriage if he committed murder?

The Canterville Ghost - 5/5 - Kind of shocked that in just 26 pages it made me laugh and cry.