Locus Solus is a 1914 French novel by Raymond Roussel. John Ashbery summarizes Locus Solus thus in his introduction to Michel Foucault’s Death and the ...
Continue Reading → English writer, philosopher and pioneering advocate of women’s rights, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution and ...
Continue Reading →Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief ...
Continue Reading →On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United ...
Continue Reading →The Trial (original German title: Der Process) is a novel written by Franz Kafka between 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously in 1925. ...
Continue Reading →The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka’s best-known works, ...
Continue Reading →Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist ...
Continue Reading →Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-soldier and scientist, ...
Continue Reading →Referring to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, H. L. Mencken noted that his discovery of this classic American novel was “the most stupendous event ...
Continue Reading →Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William ...
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