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Answers questions on Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis: Gregor Samsa's transformation and how his family responds, quoting David Wyllie's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the part.
“## by Franz Kafka”
Answers questions on Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra: the overman, eternal recurrence and the will to power, quoting Thomas Common's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain).
“Zarathustra, however, became absorbed in dark recollections, for it seemed to him as if he had once before stood in this valley. And much heaviness settled on h…”
Answers questions on Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment: Raskolnikov, the murder, Sonia, Porfiry and guilt, quoting Constance Garnett's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the part.
““Bah, Zametov! The police office! And why am I sent for to the police office? Where’s the notice? Bah! I am mixing it up; that was then. I looked at my sock the…”
Answers questions on Charles Dickens's Great Expectations: Pip, the convict Magwitch, Miss Havisham and Estella, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“# Great Expectations”
Answers questions on Goethe's Theory of Colours: physiological colours, coloured shadows and the effects of colour on the mind, quoting Charles Eastlake's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the paragraph.
“## GOETHE'S”
Answers questions on The Art of Public Speaking by Esenwein and Carnegie: confidence, voice, gesture, preparation and holding an audience, quoting the 1915 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain).
“Balzac was one of the first among the greatest, one of the highest among the best. This is not the place to tell all that constituted this splendid and sovereig…”
Answers questions on Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil: the prejudices of philosophers, master and slave morality and the free spirit, quoting Helen Zimmern's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“246. What a torture are books written in German to a reader who has a THIRD ear! How indignantly he stands beside the slowly turning swamp of sounds without tun…”
Answers questions on Bram Stoker's Dracula: Jonathan Harker in Transylvania, Lucy, Van Helsing and the hunt for the Count, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“I thought and thought what should be my next move, but my brain seemed on fire, and I waited with a despairing feeling growing over me. As I waited I heard in t…”
Answers questions on Lucretius's On the Nature of Things: atoms and void, the soul, why not to fear death and the origins of the world, quoting William Ellery Leonard's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.
“### A Metrical Translation”
