Simple literature examples?

1. "The cat sat on the mat." - Unknown

2. "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." - Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

3. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

4. "To be, or not to be: that is the question." - William Shakespeare, Hamlet

5. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." - The Bible, Genesis 1:1

6. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

7. "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

8. "Call me Ishmael." - Herman Melville, Moby Dick

9. "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." - George Orwell, 1984

10. "I think, therefore I am." - René Descartes

Novels:

- "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
- "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
- "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
- "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

Short Stories:

- "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
- "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
- "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
- "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant
- "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber

Plays:

- "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare
- "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare
- "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams
- "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller
- "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett

Poetry:

- "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
- "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats
- "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost
- "Sonnet 18" by William Shakespeare
- "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be" by John Keats