These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice… and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.
~ Gilbert Highet
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice… and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.
| Name | Author |
|---|---|
| The Stranger | Albert Camus |
| Middlemarch | George Eliot |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde |
| The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| Emma | Jane Austen |
| Mansfield Park | Jane Austen |
| Persuasion | Jane Austen |
| Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen |
| A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| The Overcoat | Nikolai Gogol |
| The Queen of Spades | Alexander Pushkin |
| Figuring | Maria Papova |
