| (Ford Madox Ford)
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| This is the third novel in the tetralogy "Parade's End" by Ford Madox Ford, published between 1924 and 1928. "Parade's End" is set mainly in England and on the Western Front in World War I, where Ford served as an officer in the Welch Regiment, a life vividly depicted in the novels. "Parade's End" has been ranked as one of the one hundred best English-language works of the 20th century. [Wikipedia]
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| (James Joyce)
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| This semi-autobiographical novel describes the formative years of the life of Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce. The surname is an allusion to the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology, Daedalus.
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| (George Orwell)
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| This modern classic is an allegory on social revolution. When the animals take over the farm it soon transpires that, while all animals are created equal, some are more equal than others.
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| (Sinclair Lewis)
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| This novel won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize, though Lewis refused to accept it. It tells the story of the bright, scientifically-minded, Martin Arrowsmith as he makes his way from a small town in Midwest USA to the upper echelons of the scientific community.
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| (Willa Cather)
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| This novel concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in New Mexico Territory. It was included on the "Time" magazine's 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005 and the "Modern Library" list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
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| (Eugene O'Neill)
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| This classic American play features three sons. Their father has left their farm to find a wife. Eben, the youngest, maintains that the farm is his birthright. He buys out his half-brothers' shares with money stolen from his father. The other sons, Peter and Simeon, head off to California to seek their fortune. Later, the father returns with a new wife and things become complicated.
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| (James Joyce)
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| "Dubliners" is a collection of 15 short stories depicting Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.
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| (D H Lawrence)
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| The first edition of this novel was published in Italy. It could not be published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960. The novel concerns the affair between a a working-class man and an aristocratic woman. Its descriptions of sex, including the use of "four letter words," ensured that it was controversial.
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| (Thomas Wolfe)
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| In this, his first novel, Wolfe covers the life of Eugene Gant to the age of 19. The setting is the fictional town of Altamont, Catawba, which is considered to be a thinly veiled depiction of Wolfe's home town, Asheville, North Carolina.
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| (Nathanael West)
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| In this black comedy set in New York in the Great Depression. A male newspaper columnist writes an advice column which is seen by the newspaper staff as a joke. As "Miss Lonelyhearts" reads letters from desperate New Yorkers, he feels burdened and falls into a cycle of deep depression, accompanied by heavy drinking and occasional bar fights. He is also the victim of the pranks and cynical advice of his feature editor at the newspaper. His attempts to escape from the mental anguish brought on by the letters leads to a unexpected climax. [Wikipedia]
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| (Virginia Woolf)
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| This novel details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. "Mrs Dalloway" is one of Woolf's best-known novels.
Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished "The Prime Minister", the novel's story is of Clarissa's preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess. With the interior perspective of the novel, the story travels forwards and back in time and in and out of the characters' minds to construct an image of Clarissa's life and of the inter-war social structure.
In 2005 the novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to present. [Wikipedia]
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| (George Orwell)
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| This classic novel about a totalitarian regime describes a society where government surveillance, public mind control, and the denial of rights are the norm. Big Brother is always watching.
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| (Ford Madox Ford)
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| This is the second novel in the tetralogy "Parade's End" by Ford Madox Ford, published between 1924 and 1928. "Parade's End" is set mainly in England and on the Western Front in World War I, where Ford served as an officer in the Welch Regiment, a life vividly depicted in the novels. "Parade's End" has been ranked as one of the one hundred best English-language works of the 20th century. [Wikipedia]
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| (Virginia Woolf)
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| This is a semi-biographical novel based in part on the life of Woolf's intimate friend Vita Sackville-West. It is generally considered one of Woolf's most accessible novels. The novel has been influential stylistically, and is considered important in literature generally, and particularly in the history of women's writing and gender studies.
The story concerns a young man, Orlando, born in England during the reign of Elizabeth I, who decides not to grow old. He is briefly a lover to the decrepit queen, but after her death has a brief, intense love affair with Sasha, a princess in the entourage of the Russian embassy. This episode, of love and excitement against the background of the Great Frost, is one of the best known, and is said to represent Vita Sackville-West's affair with Violet Trefusis. [Wikipedia]
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| (George Bernard Shaw)
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| Saint Joan is generally considered to be one of Shaw's better works. He had long considered writing about Joan of Arc, and her canonization in 1920 supplied a strong incentive. The play was an international success, and is believed to have led to his Nobel Prize in Literature. The play is based on the life and trial of Joan of Arc.
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| (Ford Madox Ford)
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| This is the first novel in the tetralogy "Parade's End" by Ford Madox Ford, published between 1924 and 1928. "Parade's End" is set mainly in England and on the Western Front in World War I, where Ford served as an officer in the Welch Regiment, a life vividly depicted in the novels. "Parade's End" has been ranked as one of the one hundred best English-language works of the 20th century. [Wikipedia]
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| (F Scott Fitzgerald)
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| Dick and Nicole Diver, a rich couple, take a villa in the South of France. Dick, a psychoanalyst, had treated Nicole for a breakdown, after which they married. Nicole is an heiress and her sister thinks Dick is marrying her for her money. Nicole becomes stronger while Dick's life goes down-hill.
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| (Katherine Mansfield)
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| Katherine Mansfield is widely considered one of the best short story writers of her period. A number of her works, including "Miss Brill", "Prelude", "The Garden Party", "The Doll's House", and later works such as "The Fly", are frequently collected in short story anthologies. Mansfield also proved ahead of her time in her adoration of Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov, and incorporated some of his themes and techniques into her writing. [Wikipedia]
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| (F Scott Fitzgerald)
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| Jay Gatsby is a young millionaire, originally from North Dakota. he has shady business connections and an obsessive love for Daisy Fay Buchanan, whom he had met when he was a young officer in World War I. The narrator, Nick Carraway, records Gatsby's story with its backdrop of corruption, selfishness and violence.
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| (Frederic Manning)
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| This classic novel was considered by Ernest Hemingway and many other authors and critics to be the finest novel of World War I. The book is about the way men behave when they go into action. The Hero, Bourne, is a highly educated man and one who is able to relate to all types of men.
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| (Willa Cather)
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| When Professor Godfrey St. Peter and wife move to a new house, he becomes uncomfortable with the route his life is taking. He keeps on his dusty study in the old house in an attempt to hang on to his old life. Also the marriages of his two daughters have removed them from the home and added two new sons-in-law, precipitating a mid-life crisis that leaves the Professor feeling as though he has lost the will to live because he has nothing to look forward to.
The novel's central section turns to Tom Outland, a friend of the professor and the fiancé of his elder daughter. It recounts in first-person the story of Outland's exploration of an ancient cliff city in New Mexico. The section is a retrospective narrative remembered by the professor. [Wikipedia]
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| (John Buchan)
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| In May 1914, Europe was close to war and spies were everywhere. Richard Hannay is called on for help when a German plot is discovered, to murder the Greek Premier and steal British plans for the outbreak of war.
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| (Radclyffe Hall)
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| This novel follows the life of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman from an upper-class family whose lesbianism is apparent from an early age. She finds love with Mary Llewellyn, whom she meets while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, but their happiness together is marred by social isolation and rejection, which Hall depicts as having a debilitating effect on inverts. The novel portrays lesbianism as a natural, God-given state and makes an explicit plea: "Give us also the right to our existence". [Wikipedia]
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| (Virginia Woolf)
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| This novel traces the history of the genteel Pargiter family from the 1880s to themid-1930s. It focuses on the small private details of the characters' lives. Except for the first, each section takes place on a single day of its titular year, and each year is defined by a particular moment in the cycle of seasons. At the beginning of each section, and sometimes as a transition within sections, Woolf describes the changing weather all over Britain, taking in both London and countryside as if in a bird's-eye-view before focusing in on her characters. Although these descriptions move across the whole of England in a paragraph, Woolf only rarely and briefly broadens her view to the world outside Britain. [Wikipedia]
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| (Virginia Woolf)
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| This landmark novel, named one of the hundred best English-language novels of the 20th Century, is centred on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland. The plot is secondary to philosophical introspection and there is little dialogue and little action. Rather, it is concerned with thoughts and observations, the power of childhood emotions and the impermanence of adult relationships.
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