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JakobVirgil  ·  3699 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: List yer favorite "Great Books" Hubski.

The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges

The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz

Droll Stories by Honore de Balzac

Candide by Voltare

FANTASTIC FABLES -Ambrose Bierce

The Parenticide Club -Ambrose Bierce

Crown of Feathers - Isaac Bashevis Singer

Cain - Jose Saramago

Imaginary Magnitude - Stanislaw Lem

Nine Humorous Tales – Anton Chekov

War with the Newts - Karel Čapek

The Anxiety of Influence - Harold Bloom

Theory of the Leisure Class - Thorstien Veblen

The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde





kleinbl00  ·  3699 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Have read none of these. May start.

_refugee_  ·  3698 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Read The Library of Babel by Borges. Just a short story.

kleinbl00  ·  3698 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Funny story. I mixed a short film that was basically an adaptation. Director threw a hissy fit over a suggestion I made, though, so it never came out.

JakobVirgil  ·  3699 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Most are very short and public domain.

user-inactivated  ·  3669 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hey. Thanks for this post; I have it saved and I've been working my way through -- Borges, Chekhov and Wilde to begin. It's very fulfilling.

JakobVirgil  ·  3668 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It is all great sentences except Veblen whose sentences are whoppers.

user-inactivated  ·  3668 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah but I was going to read that anyway to figure him out, so.