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Answers questions on Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray: the portrait that ages while Dorian does not, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“## THE PREFACE The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim. The critic is he who can translate into another…”
Answers questions on Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the twelve stories from A Scandal in Bohemia onward, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the story.
“…tric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. …”
Answers questions on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: the Bennets, Mr. Darcy and first impressions, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“*In respect of her art generally, Mr. Goldwin Smith has truly observed that “metaphor has been exhausted in depicting the perfection of it, combined with the na…”
Answers questions on Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island: Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver and the treasure map, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“## by Robert Louis Stevenson”
Answers questions on Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: the rabbit hole, the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“## CHAPTER V. Advice from a Caterpillar The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of …”
Answers questions on Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays: First Series, including Self-Reliance, Compensation and Friendship, quoting the 1841 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the essay.
“Literature is a point outside of our hodiernal circle through which a new one may be described. The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may c…”
Answers questions on Arnold Bennett's How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: using the hours outside work to read, think and live fully, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“…lternative to idleness but the study of literature; and they do not happen to have a taste for literature. This is a great mistake. Of course it is impossible, …”
Answers questions on William Strunk's The Elements of Style (1918): rules of usage, principles of composition and words often misused, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the rule.
“In notebooks, in newspapers, in handbooks of literature, summaries of one kind or another may be indispensable, and for children in primary schools it is a usef…”
Answers questions on Rousseau's The Social Contract: the general will, sovereignty and legitimate government, quoting G. D. H. Cole's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.
“#### INTRODUCTION For the study of the great writers and thinkers of the past, historical imagination is the first necessity. Without mentally referring to the …”
Answers questions on Suetonius's Lives of the Twelve Caesars, from Julius Caesar and Augustus to Caligula, Nero and Domitian, quoting Alexander Thomson's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the life.
“…elief to take a view of the progress of literature, which flourished even during those calamities.”
