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  1. Franz Kafka _ The Metamorphosis

    As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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  2. Rick Riordan _ The Lightning Thief

    Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.
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  3. H.G. Wells _ The War of the Worlds

    No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
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  4. George Orwell _ 1984

    It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
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