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ABC of Reading – Ezra Pound
Ezra pound's cryptic, and often arrogant pamphlet about the principles of successful poetry is an interesting insight into the quality of the artist as a learned reader of classical poetry in the lyric form.
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Personae: The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound
A definitive collection where Pound presents himself in a variety of characters or "masks," was called Personae. A piece of work that would best show the concentration of force, the economy of means, and the habit of analysis t...
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Best Known Works of Poe – Edgar Allan Poe
In Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems, Poe invites us to indulge in all of his most imaginative short-stories, including The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in Rue Morgue, The Tell-Tale Heart, Ligeia and Ms. In a...
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Dead Brides (Vampire Tales) – Edgar Allan Poe
Dead Brides contains the vampire cycle of live stories, written between 1835 and 1842, which in many ways forms the nucleaus of Poe's prose work. n these classic tales, Poe investigates the vampiric nature of human relationship...
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The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
This half of the book is largely focused on the experience of being an educated woman coming-of-age in the ’50s. Relaying Esther's descent into madness, Plath's novel shows the struggles of the protagonist on how to decide betw...
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King, Queen, Knave – Vladimir Nabokov
Comic, sensual and cerebral, King, Queen and Knave dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespect...
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Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov's masterpiece, Lolita is the story of middle-aged Humbert Humbert and his tragic love affair with his 12-year-old stepdaughter Dolores "Lolita" Haze. A post-war novel, the journey of a European man and an Ameri...
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Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
Nabokov's Professor Pnin is a comic character who is employed at an American college in the 1950's. The protagonist struggles to maintain his dignity throughout the narrative when surrounded by academic conspiracies that threat...
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Beloved – Toni Morrison
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's...
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Moby Dick – Herman Melville
The novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville is an epic tale of the voyage of the whaling ship the Pequod and its captain, Ahab, who relentlessly pursues the great Sperm Whale or the Moby Dick, during a journey around the world.
