The Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
> When my mother's sister Morgause was married to King Lot of Orkney, I knew only that I had my first grown-up gown, and »
Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence
> 'I have been thinking, Gerald,' she said, with an insulting nonchalance, `that I shall not go back to England.' > 'Oh, »
The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
> It is my belief, however, that, had I attempted a different order of composition, my faculties would not have been found so pointless and inefficacious. »
The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro
> They retraced their steps along the path they had beaten earlier through the ferns and nettles. The storm had made the ground underneath treacherous, so »
Middlemarch, by George Eliot
> Lydgate's hair never became white. He died when he was only fifty, leaving his wife and children provided for by a heavy insurance »