Literature

Literary novels.

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Less Than Zero

Bret Easton Ellis
Contemporary American Literature

Looking at this book as being about a generation as whole is not really the way to get a complete picture of it nor of the statement it makes.

The Setting Sun

Osamu Dazai
Post-War Japanese Literature

The Setting Sun presents a Japan that has lost its sense of identity as its population tries to pick up the pieces after the end of the second world war. It is a setting that has the sense of being in flux, but not in a positive way.

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens
Victorian Era UK Literature

The story is one that has been told so many times, but it’s one that has long withstood the test of time. In fact, it’s hard to believe that A Christmas Carol is nearly 200 years old.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain
19th Century American Literature

They are clothbound and beautiful with the perfect size of margins and type. Both books nestle into a sturdy slipcase with gold type and a full colour illustration of Sawyer tricking one of his peers into doing his chore for him, painted by Norman Rockwell.

The Middle Parts of Fortune

Frederic Manning
Interwar UK Literature

The Middle Parts of Fortune was published anonymously in 1929, only to be censored and re-issued as Her Privates We in 1930. I’m always on the lookout for good fiction around WWI, so I was excited to find this book on one of our trips to a small used bookstore for my birthday a few months ago.

Crows: An Old Rhyme

Contemporary American Literature

When I think about the reader I am now and what influences guided me to become so interested in literature, I inevitably remember this book. It was one of the books I carefully preserved when I grew up. It still sits on my bedside table as an adult.

The Open Door and Other Stories of the Seen and Unseen

Margaret Oliphant
19th Century UK Horror Literature

It’s surprising that her name seems mostly lost to time — like the grand majority female writers of the Victorian era. What makes it more of a tragedy in Oliphant’s case is that her work is quite good — even better than a lot of writers whose names I’ve seen on the more mainstream ghost story anthologies.