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O'Hara complained during his lifetime that he was grossly underestimated. I actually live not all that far from where he was born. He isn't as well regarded as Hemingway, but Hemingway was very good...

Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad is astoundingly beautiful. You have to take it slowly, reading a bit at a time, but it is worth it! He truly brings the poetry out of the Iliad in a way that...

I highly recommend A Very Short Introduction to Classical Literature from the Oxford series. The study of Classical literature is a sizable undertaking and sifting through the various sub-genres and...

Pretty much everyone that wasn't wealthy in England during this period was likely malnourished and in poor health due to the terrible poverty the era is known for and the monstrous amount of...

Hmm. Madame Bovary and East of Eden come to mind. It could be argued that Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises is about a manipulative woman that destroys men, but just as many people will argue that she...

Musa's translation was the one assigned to me for my Dante class in college. I don't know if it's the most pleasant sounding translation but it does come with helpful (necessary) notes and is clear...

In no particular order-

Night Shift-Stephen King
The Sketchbook-Washington Irving
Twice Told Tales-Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories-M.R. James
Incredible...

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Hello everyone. Somehow, I managed to get all the way through an English Literature degree without being assigned a single Joseph Conrad novel. I've decided to fix this oversight myself by reading a...