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These stories invite you into worlds where the familiar breaks apart, offering moments of profound discovery and strange adventure. You might find yourself following a young wizard through magical halls or discovering a quiet life suddenly thrown into a grand quest. "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" and "The Hobbit" offer such journeys into the unexpected.

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Two men meet between the armies, and one answers a question with leaves.

«Τὴν γενεάν μου τί ἐρωτᾶς, ἀτρόμητε Τυδείδη;Καὶ τῶν θνητῶν ἡ γενεὰ τῶν φύλλων ὁμοιάζει·τῶν φύλλων ἄλλα ὁ ἄνεμος χαμαὶ σκορπᾶ καὶ ἄλλαφυτρώνουν, ὡς ἡ ἄνοιξη τὰ δένδρ’ ἀναχλωραίνει·καὶ τῶν θνητῶν μιὰ γενεὰ φυτρώνει καὶ ἄλλη παύει.
— Ιλιάδα, Όμηρος (-750)

  15. The Tempest

    William Shakespeare, 1611

    An exiled duke with a library of magic, a daughter who has met almost no one, and an island's furious native wait for a shipwreck to bring his enemies ashore.

  16. Beach Read

    Emily Henry, 2020

    A romance novelist who has stopped believing in love inherits a lakeside cottage, a literary rival next door, and one summer to write a book she doesn't want to.

  19. Angela's Ashes

    Frank McCourt, 1996

    A boy grows up poor in Limerick with an often-absent father and a mother who keeps the family alive, told with comic timing that makes squalor bearable.

  21. Peter Pan

    J. M. Barrie, 1911

    A boy who refuses to grow up flies three children to an island of pirates, fairies and mermaids—and shows how much childhood costs.

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  1. The moment a magic lesson becomes a contest of who says it right.

    ‘And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?’ ‘Throw it away and punch him on the nose,’ Ron suggested. Wingardium Leviosa!’ he shouted, waving his long arms like a windmill. ‘You’re saying it wrong,’ Harry heard Hermione snap. ‘It’s Wing-gar-dium Levi-o-sa, make the “gar” nice and long.’ ‘You do it, then, if you’re so clever’ Ron snarled. Hermione rolled up the sleeves of her gown, flicked her wand and said, Wingardium Leviosa!’ Their feather rose off the desk and hovered about four feet above their heads.

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone · J. K. Rowling

  2. She scolds herself so well it brings her to tears.

    “Come, there’s no use in crying like that!” said Alice to herself, rather sharply; “I advise you to leave off this minute!” She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people. “But it’s no use now,” thought poor Alice, “to pretend to be two people! Why, there’s hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!”

    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · Lewis Carroll

  3. A creature speaks in magnificent, terrible grandeur, asserting a dominion that defies all reason.

    “The King under the Mountain is dead, and where are his kin that dare seek revenge? Girion Lord of Dale is dead, and I have eaten his people like a wolf among sheep, and where are his sons’ sons that dare approach me? I kill where I wish, and none dare resist. I laid low the warriors of old and their like is not in the world today. Then I was but young and tender. Now I am old and strong, strong, strong, Thief in the Shadows!” he gloated. “My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!”

    The Hobbit · J.R.R. Tolkien

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