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He lived alone on his large estate, was not in the service, and it was said of him that he did nothing at home but pace from one end of the room to the other, whistling, or play chess with his old footman.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo
‘Toby is, if I may so describe it, the heir presumptive to the heir apparent.’
KJ Charles • Death in the Spires: A completely gripping and addictive historical mystery
That’s how myths work. Macduff, and Lady Macbeth.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Her public reputation, like Demeter’s daughter, crawls back up from the underworld.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
I’d thought I had everything in order, but the best-laid plans gang aft agley,
Margaret Atwood • The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale
all connected in this moment of casting the yarrow stalks to select the exact wisdom appropriate in a book begun in the thirtieth century B.C.
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
extemporized.
Robin Hobb • Royal Assassin (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 2)
like to toy with human thought like boys toy with beetles.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Indeed, the pretty face that had once ensnared both Boy and me became pudgy and empty. Leola had joined the great company of the walking wounded in the battle of life.