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The Great Fire
by Shirley Hazzard
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Crime and Punishment (91 Edition)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Waste Land and Other Poems (98 Edition)
by T.s. Eliot
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Many things happen in "The Waste Land"; a woman tends her hair — it may well be her last mystery — so that it does (like grass left unmolested, perhaps) sing; chess is played in the closest of circumstances... wait, does any of that make sense?... (read more)

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by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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One of the great classics of world literature, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment is the story of Raskolnikov, a young man who — unable to complete his studies — commits what he calls "justifiable murder." What ensues is as demanding and illuminating... (read more)

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The Savage Detectives: A Novel
by Roberto Bolano
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