Category: Pictures
The American Novel and Its Tradition (1933) by Richard Chase
The American Novel by Chase has a great chapter called “Three Novels of Manners.”
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The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth and Drama (1936) by Lord Raglan
A writer will take just as much pleasure from this book as a historian might.
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Rooftops of Tehran (2009) by Mahbod Seraji
The novel is loosely based on Seraji’s own time spent in Iran.
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Apocalyptic Planet (2012) by Craig Childs & the Never-Ending Doom
From Sonora, Mexico – where at dawn, Devin and Childs surf the sands with childlike eyes and hearts of poets, and Devin recites Charles Bukowski.
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Sweet Tooth (2012) by Ian McEwan
Serena is hired by MI5 and is in charge of signing up a very young and undiscovered author.
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Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov & the Allure of the Innocent
Lolita is one of the most controversial books in the past one hundred years, and yet Nabokov’s novel remains successful despite a grown man repeatedly having sexual intercourse with a teen step-daughter (a topic most writers and readers run from).
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Madame Bovary (1857) by Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert, much to his dismay, is often remembered for his famed novel Madame Bovary and as the father of realism.
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All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy #1, 1992) by Cormac McCarthy
Quite often it is upon the reader to make the emotional connections of what is beneath the surface.
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