Books to sharpen close reading skills

[flyingicarus]

Hello,

Pretty often when I end reading a literary short story such as D. H. Lawrence's "Rocking-Horse Winner" or Bernard Malamud's "The Silver Crown", I wonder what happened. Ever felt like that? I am lost and the short stories often look like puzzles to me. I have many questions but often find no answers. Can you help me by introducing some great books on close reading skills of short stories?

Thanks in advance.
Farshad

[Red Terror]

Hello,

Pretty often when I end reading a literary short story such as D. H. Lawrence's "Rocking-Horse Winner" or Bernard Malamud's "The Silver Crown", I wonder what happened. Ever felt like that? I am lost and the short stories often look like puzzles to me. I have many questions but often find no answers. Can you help me by introducing some great books on close reading skills of short stories?

Thanks in advance.
Farshad

Read A Clockwork Orange. It will sharpen your reading skills.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadsat

https://soomka.com/nadsat.html

[ajvenigalla]

Check out Moby-Dick, Paradise Lost, The Scarlet Letter, James Joyce’s Dubliners

[desiresjab]

I would read tests for that.