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The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it... Read more about On the Road
I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up. I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won’t bother to talk about, except that it had something to do with the miserably weary split-up...
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See 842 Book Recommendations like On the RoadWhen Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse the following day, little does she know that this trip will only be completed ten years later by her husband, and that a gu... Read more about To the Lighthouse
To her son these words conveyed an extraordinary joy, as if it were settled the expedition were bound to take place, and the wonder to which he had looked forward, for years and years it seemed, was, ...
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See 436 Book Recommendations like To the LighthouseSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time... Read more about As I Lay Dying
Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file. Although I am fifteen feet ahead of him, anyone watching us from the cottonhouse can see Jewel's frayed and broken straw hat a fu...
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See 816 Book Recommendations like As I Lay DyingAs Mrs Dalloway works on the preparations for a dinner party, her thoughts throughout the day wander from memories of the past to interrogations about the present and lead her to assess the choices she has made in life and love. Her monologue interwe... Read more about Mrs. Dalloway
For Lucy had her work cut out for her. The doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumpelmayer’s men were coming. And then, thought Clarissa Dalloway, what a morning — fresh as if issued to children on...
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See 472 Book Recommendations like Mrs. DallowayA complex, intense American novel of family from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
With an introduction by Richard Hughes
Ever since the first furore was created on its publication in 1929, The Sound and the Fury has been considered one of... Read more about The Sound and the Fury
Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting. They were coming toward where the flag was and I went along the fence. Luster was hunting in the grass by the flower tre...
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See 821 Book Recommendations like The Sound and the FuryWINNER OF THE 2019 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 ... Read more about Ducks, Newburyport
For her, movement was all. She could see, taste, smell it. She reacted faster than she could hear. A mountain lion needs to know how every flower behaves, so as not to mistake it for a glint of bare r...
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See 114 Book Recommendations like Ducks, NewburyportThe "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature-and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books.
"If you really want to he... Read more about The Catcher in the Rye
IF YOU REALLY WANT TO HEAR about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me...
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See 3048 Book Recommendations like The Catcher in the RyeThrough a series of connected monologues, The Waves tells the story of six very different friends - Bernard, Louis, Neville, Jinny, Susan and Rhoda - as they progress from childhood to middle age. Interspersed with evocative descriptions of the seasi... Read more about The Waves
The sun had not yet risen. The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it. Gradually as the sky whitened a dark line lay on the h...
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See 214 Book Recommendations like The WavesA Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing is an unforgettable novel from a major new literary talent.Eimear McBride's award-winning debut novel tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumo... Read more about A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
For you. You’ll soon. You’ll give her name. In thestitches of her skin she’ll wear your say. Mammy me? Yes you.Bounce the bed, I’d say. I’d say that’s what you did. Then lay youdown. They cut you roun...
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See 17 Book Recommendations like A Girl Is a Half-formed ThingJames Joyce's coming-of-age story, a tour de force of style and technique
The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce's novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dublin upbringing of Stephen Dedalus, from his youthful... Read more about A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Dante had two brushes in her press. The brush with the maroon velvet back was for Michael Davitt and the brush with the green velvet back was for Parnell. Dante gave him a cachou every time he brought...
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