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The Making of Americans

The Making of Americans

Gertrude Stein

2.0 (3)

Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard.

#211
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Crash

Crash

J. G. Ballard

3.0 (4)

Vaughan died yesterday in his last car-crash.

#212
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The Glass Bead Game

The Glass Bead Game

Hermann Hesse

4.0 (3)

It is our intention to preserve in these pages what scant biographical material we have been able to collect concerning Joseph Knecht, or Ludi Magister Josephus III, as he is called in the Archives of the Glass Bead Game.

#213
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Darkness at Noon

Darkness at Noon

Arthur Koestler

4.33 (3)

The cell door slammed behind Rubashov.

#214
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The Plague

The Plague

Albert Camus

3.57 (7)

The unusual events described in this chronicle occurred in 194- at Oran.Les curieux événements qui font le sujet de cette chronique se sont produits en 194., à Oran.Le matin du 16 avril, le docteur Bernard Rieux sortit de son cabinet et buta sur un rat mort, au milieu du palier.

#215
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The Soft Machine

The Soft Machine

William S. Burroughs

2.0 (3)

I was working the hole with the Sailor and we did not bad fifteen cents on average night boosting the afternoons and short timing the dawn we made out from the land of the free but I was running out of veins . . .

#216
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

3.2 (5)

Well, Sophie dear, as you see, I'm keeping my word and not spending all my time on bonnets and bows, I'll always have some to spare for you!

#217
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The Wanderer

The Wanderer

Alain-Fournier

5.0 (3)

He appeared at our house on a Sunday in November 189... (Davison translation)

#218
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92
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Winesburg, Ohio

Winesburg, Ohio

Sherwood Anderson

3.67 (3)

The writer, an old man with a white mustache, had some difficulty in getting into bed. The windows of the house in which he lived were high and he wanted to look at the trees when he awoke in the morning. A carpenter came to fix the bed so that it would be on a level with the window.

#219
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Froth on the Daydream

Froth on the Daydream

Boris Vian

4.5 (2)

Dans la vie, l'essentiel est de porter sur tout des jugements a priori.Colin finished dressing.

#220
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