... of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas and The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, the protagonists take journeys through time and show how life can change for the better or the worst. In The Count of Monte Cristo Edmond Dantes begins as a well-off sailor of the Pharaon. His well-being simply couldn't be better. He has a fair amount of money, a beautiful fiancée, and a caring, loving father awaiting him at ... , which is an extraordinary and interesting form of punishment when you see it for the first time, and even for the second time.- (p.192) He tells of his fascination for this type of executi...

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... is written in stone. While others see it as totally up for grabs. G. M. Trevelyan said that "the poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking ... is a personal subject. What's historical to me, could be little more than a rock pile in the way of a four-lane highway to another person. My family's history would probably soon bore a good percentage of the people in this room were I to go into it in detail, but I'm deeply interested in it and ... like a Super, Me...

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