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12/04
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The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation (Paperback) by Hayden White bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Signs Taken For Wonders: On the Sociology of Literary Forms (Radical Thinkers) (Radical Thinkers) by Franco Moretti bookshelves: currently-reading |
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12/04
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The Honourable Schoolboy (Paperback) by John le Carré bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Have Mercy on Us All: A Novel (Chief Inspector Adamsberg Mysteries (Paperback)) by Fred Vargas bookshelves: mysteryshelf |
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recommended for: mystery lovers of all sorts
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"not everybody likes fred vargas. but i think she's wonderful! she reminds me in some ways of those scandinavian police procedural writers, most notably henning mankell. but, then, she's totally different too. her books seem to me to have a kind of fo...more
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Pierre, or the Ambiguities (Hardcover) by Herman Melville bookshelves: booksiworkwith, mybasicbookshelf |
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recommended for: people who love language, people who like it when novels self-implode
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"there's no getting around it, melville's mastery of language is up there with shakespeare, faulkner, and woolf. it's the kind of language that draws so much attention to itself that, at times, you stop reading for the plot and start reading for the t...more
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The Historian (Paperback) by Elizabeth Kostova bookshelves: mysteryshelf |
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recommended for: people who love libraries, history, and vampires
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"this is a good book. it's not a great book, but it's very good. it's a well-crafted dive into several layers of historical imagination. at each stage the reader is navigated through dense historical investigations, including some delicious research i...more
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (Norton Critical Editions)
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The Bondwoman's Narrative (Paperback) by Hannah Crafts, Henry Louis Gates Jr. bookshelves: to-read |
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Signs Taken For Wonders: On the Sociology of Literary Forms (Radical Thinkers) (Radical Thinkers) by Franco Moretti bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, In A Two-Story White House, North. Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There (Paperback) by Harriet E. Wilson, Jr. Henry Louis Gates |
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