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All 162 sentences Sentle has published, newest first, each with a note on the grammar that holds it together. The sentences are drawn from public-domain books at Project Gutenberg. These pages give the answers away — if you would rather solve them, start with today’s.

2026

No. 162Honoré de Balzac · Father Goriot
No. 161Daniel Defoe · Robinson Crusoe
No. 160Sinclair Lewis · Main Street
No. 159Rudyard Kipling · Kim
No. 158Frances Hodgson Burnett · The Secret Garden
No. 157William Shakespeare · The Tempest
No. 156George Meredith · The Egoist
No. 155Anne Brontë · Agnes Grey
No. 154D.H. Lawrence · Sons and Lovers
No. 153Jonathan Swift · Gulliver's Travels
No. 152Willa Cather · My Ántonia
No. 151Gustave Flaubert · Madame Bovary
No. 150Nathaniel Hawthorne · The Scarlet Letter
No. 149Samuel Butler · The Way of All Flesh
No. 148Kenneth Grahame · The Wind in the Willows
No. 147Ford Madox Ford · The Good Soldier
No. 146Louisa May Alcott · Little Women
No. 145Leo Tolstoy · Anna Karenina
No. 144Emily Brontë · Wuthering Heights
No. 143Katherine Mansfield · The Garden Party and Other Stories
No. 142Sarah Orne Jewett · The Country of the Pointed Firs
No. 141Knut Hamsun · Hunger
No. 140Miguel de Cervantes · Don Quixote
No. 139E.M. Forster · A Room with a View
No. 138Olive Schreiner · The Story of an African Farm
No. 137Oscar Wilde · The Importance of Being Earnest
No. 136Emily Brontë · Wuthering Heights
No. 135William Shakespeare · Much Ado About Nothing
No. 134Katherine Mansfield · The Garden Party and Other Stories
No. 133Knut Hamsun · Hunger
No. 132Mark Twain · The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
No. 131Jane Austen · Pride and Prejudice
No. 130Bram Stoker · Dracula
No. 129Anton Chekhov · The Duel
No. 128Joseph Conrad · Heart of Darkness
No. 127Oscar Wilde · The Picture of Dorian Gray
No. 126Henry James · Daisy Miller
No. 125L. Frank Baum · The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
No. 124Mary Shelley · Frankenstein
No. 123Nathaniel Hawthorne · The Scarlet Letter
No. 122William Shakespeare · Othello
No. 121Edith Wharton · The Age of Innocence
No. 120Anthony Trollope · Barchester Towers
No. 119Lewis Carroll · Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
No. 118Elizabeth von Arnim · The Enchanted April
No. 117Arthur Conan Doyle · The Hound of the Baskervilles
No. 116Charlotte Perkins Gilman · The Yellow Wallpaper
No. 115L. M. Montgomery · Anne of Green Gables
No. 114F. Scott Fitzgerald · The Great Gatsby
No. 113George Eliot · Middlemarch
No. 112H.G. Wells · The Time Machine
No. 111Anton Chekhov · The Duel
No. 110Henry James · The Portrait of a Lady
No. 109Thomas Hardy · Far from the Madding Crowd
No. 108William Shakespeare · King Lear
No. 107Charles Dickens · A Tale of Two Cities
No. 106Jules Verne · Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
No. 105Victor Hugo · Les Misérables
No. 104Ivan Turgenev · Fathers and Sons
No. 103Charles Dickens · Bleak House
No. 102Robert Louis Stevenson · The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
No. 101Henry James · Daisy Miller
No. 100George Eliot · The Mill on the Floss
No. 99Fyodor Dostoevsky · Crime and Punishment
No. 98Henry Fielding · Tom Jones
No. 97L. M. Montgomery · The Blue Castle
No. 96L. Frank Baum · The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
No. 95Edith Wharton · The Age of Innocence
No. 94Jane Austen · Pride and Prejudice
No. 93Joseph Conrad · Heart of Darkness
No. 92Charles Dickens · A Christmas Carol
No. 91H.G. Wells · The War of the Worlds
No. 90Jane Austen · Pride and Prejudice
No. 89George Eliot · Silas Marner
No. 88James Joyce · Dubliners
No. 87Charlotte Brontë · Jane Eyre
No. 86Charles Dickens · Great Expectations
No. 85Anthony Trollope · Barchester Towers
No. 84William Shakespeare · Hamlet
No. 83Elizabeth Gaskell · North and South
No. 82Jane Austen · Emma
No. 81Charles Dickens · Great Expectations
No. 80Elizabeth Gaskell · North and South
No. 79Fyodor Dostoevsky · The Brothers Karamazov
No. 78Edith Wharton · The House of Mirth
No. 77Anthony Trollope · Barchester Towers
No. 76William Shakespeare · Hamlet
No. 75Jane Austen · Emma
No. 74George Eliot · Middlemarch
No. 73Charlotte Brontë · Jane Eyre
No. 72James Joyce · Dubliners
No. 71Virginia Woolf · Mrs Dalloway
No. 70Joseph Conrad · Heart of Darkness
No. 69Edith Wharton · The Age of Innocence
No. 68Fyodor Dostoevsky · The Brothers Karamazov
No. 67Oscar Wilde · The Picture of Dorian Gray
No. 66Jane Austen · Emma
No. 65F. Scott Fitzgerald · The Great Gatsby
No. 64Charles Dickens · Bleak House
No. 63Thomas Hardy · Far from the Madding Crowd
No. 62Leo Tolstoy · Anna Karenina
No. 61Charles Dickens · A Tale of Two Cities
No. 60Anthony Trollope · Barchester Towers
No. 59Jane Austen · Pride and Prejudice
No. 58Marcel Proust · Swann's Way
No. 57Herman Melville · Moby-Dick
No. 56Jane Austen · Pride and Prejudice
No. 55Charles Dickens · Bleak House
No. 54Mark Twain · The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
No. 53William Shakespeare · Macbeth
No. 52Thomas Carlyle · Sartor Resartus
No. 51George Meredith · The Egoist
No. 50Stendhal · The Red and the Black
No. 49Charles Dickens · A Tale of Two Cities
No. 48Ivan Turgenev · Fathers and Sons
No. 47Jane Austen · Persuasion
No. 46Nathaniel Hawthorne · The Scarlet Letter
No. 45Charles Dickens · David Copperfield
No. 44Robert Louis Stevenson · Treasure Island
No. 43H.G. Wells · The War of the Worlds
No. 42Anthony Trollope · Barchester Towers
No. 41Jane Austen · Emma
No. 40Joseph Conrad · Heart of Darkness
No. 39Wilkie Collins · The Woman in White
No. 38Elizabeth Gaskell · North and South
No. 37Fyodor Dostoevsky · The Brothers Karamazov
No. 36Mark Twain · Huckleberry Finn
No. 35Mary Wollstonecraft · A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
No. 34F. Scott Fitzgerald · The Great Gatsby
No. 33Mark Twain · Life on the Mississippi
No. 32Henrik Ibsen · A Doll's House
No. 31Leo Tolstoy · War and Peace
No. 30Kate Chopin · The Awakening
No. 29H.G. Wells · The Time Machine
No. 28Emile Zola · Germinal
No. 27Virginia Woolf · To the Lighthouse
No. 26Thomas Hardy · Tess of the d'Urbervilles
No. 25George Eliot · The Mill on the Floss
No. 24William Shakespeare · Sonnet 18
No. 23James Joyce · Dubliners
No. 22Anton Chekhov · The Lady with the Dog
No. 21Gustave Flaubert · Madame Bovary
No. 20Rudyard Kipling · Kim
No. 19Edith Wharton · The House of Mirth
No. 18Joseph Conrad · Lord Jim
No. 17Charles Dickens · Great Expectations
No. 16Henry James · The Portrait of a Lady
No. 15Thomas Hardy · Far from the Madding Crowd
No. 14F. Scott Fitzgerald · The Great Gatsby
No. 13Mark Twain · Huckleberry Finn
No. 12Jane Austen · Emma
No. 11Edith Wharton · The Age of Innocence
No. 10George Eliot · Middlemarch
No. 9Mary Shelley · Frankenstein
No. 8Emily Bronte · Wuthering Heights
No. 7Joseph Conrad · Heart of Darkness
No. 6Virginia Woolf · Mrs Dalloway
No. 5Leo Tolstoy · Anna Karenina
No. 4Charlotte Bronte · Jane Eyre
No. 3Oscar Wilde · The Picture of Dorian Gray
No. 2Jane Austen · Pride and Prejudice
No. 1Charles Dickens · Great Expectations