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Literature in Plain Sight

Your manager sees market research. You see Heathcliff on the moors.

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Select an edition and start "researching market trends"

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Yorkshire Moors Edition

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë (1847)

Think you know toxic relationships? Heathcliff and Catherine invented the template. This 1847 drama hits harder than most modern thrillers.

34 chapters~7 hrs
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The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

West Egg Edition

Think parties, secrets, and a guy who builds a whole empire for a single look across the bay. It is high society drama with a sharp edge.

9 chapters~4 hrs
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A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway (1929)

War Correspondent Dispatch

War, love, tragedy, and prose so clean you could eat off it. Hemingway drew from his real WWI experiences to write the ultimate 'everything falls apart' novel.

41 chapters~8 hrs
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Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy (1877)

St. Petersburg Gazette

High society scandal meets existential crisis. Anna risks everything for passion while Levin just wants to figure out life. Two stories, one masterpiece, infinite drama.

239 chapters~30 hrs
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Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley (1818)

Geneva Chronicle

Forget the green monster from movies—the real Frankenstein story is a tragic tale about a scientist who ghosted his creation. Peak toxic creator behavior.

28 chapters~5 hrs
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Nantucket Whaler

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville · 1851

135 ch~18 hrs

Russian Literary Review

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880

97 ch30+ hrs

Dublin Daily

Ulysses

James Joyce · 1922

18 ch~20 hrs

Escape from Work while Remaining 'Present'

Safe Space

Sometimes you just need to step away. Literature offers a quiet escape—into worlds where your inbox doesn't exist and the only deadline is the next chapter.

Boss Key Mode

Jump scare from your manager? Punch the Escape key. You'll instantly land on the Federal Reserve's latest CPI chart. Nothing to see here.

Bite-sized Chapters

Got 10 minutes between calls? That's a chapter. We track your progress and save your notes, so you can read in stolen moments without losing your place.

A Message from the "Editor"

Hello! Seems you have found my project. I made this neat little site for those of us stuck in the office with little to do but without the option to leave. Maybe you're ahead and waiting on others; maybe the day is just passing by slowly; maybe you're on the clock. It always feels safe to read business news at the desk, but after some time, the ephemera blurs together with little long-term reward. Who is to say that the knowledge and pattern recognition developed from habitual passive news reading outweighs the long-term wisdom that literature instills? This site is a clever way to access literary works of art in the workplace without committing an office faux pas in front of your manager.

Please enjoy your reading. If you have any feedback to improve the experience of the site, kindly share .