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Reading Library
Classic texts for close reading practice.
fiction
Opening: A Universal Truth
Jane Austen
~140 words
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fiction
Opening: The Best and Worst of Times
Charles Dickens
~119 words
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fiction
Opening: The Sharpened Senses
Edgar Allan Poe
~137 words
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fiction
Opening: You Don’t Know About Me
Mark Twain
~130 words
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fiction
Opening: Buck in the Southland
Jack London
~135 words
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fiction
Opening: One Dollar and Eighty-Seven Cents
O. Henry
~142 words
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fiction
Opening: The Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
~150 words
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fiction
Opening: The Prison Door
Nathaniel Hawthorne
~140 words
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fiction
Opening: Call Me Ishmael
Herman Melville
~145 words
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nonfiction
On Simplicity
Henry David Thoreau
~130 words
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