Fiction Public
Created by Steven Ray
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
3 stars
Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good …
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The Trial by Franz Kafka, Edibooks, David Wyllie
Byzantine and claustrophobic novel of a man arrested by the secret police and charged with an unspecified crime. Unable to …
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
5 stars
Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times writes: “The poems in Mr. Vuong’s new collection, Night Sky With Exit Wounds…possess …
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The metamorphosis and other stories by Franz Kafka
5 stars
The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of …
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Twenty love poems and a song of despair by Pablo Neruda (Penguin classics)
First published in 1924, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada remains among Pablo Neruda’s most popular work. Daringly …
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Shakespeare's sonnets by William Shakespeare (The Arden Shakespeare)
"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, …
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The Odyssey by Homer
The Odyssey (/ˈɒdəsi/; Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, …
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
3 stars
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the …
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Junky: the definitive text of "junk" by Oliver Harris, William S. Burroughs
A semi-autobiographical account, narrated in a matter-of-fact manner, of the author’s life as a drug addict. The story ranges from …
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And the hippos were boiled in their tanks by William S. Burroughs
"On August 14, 1944, Lucien Carr, a friend of William S. Burroughs from St. Louis, stabbed a man named David …
