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More Paradise Lost (1 replies)
More Paradise Lost (0 replies)
Don Quixote (2 replies)
Best writers among politicians (0 replies)
Burgess, Tolstoy, Beethoven and the nature of art (0 replies)
Paradise is not Lost (2 replies)
Hello One and All (8 replies)
The Works of the Marquis de Sade (2 replies)
The Great Metaphor Thread (24 replies)
Maggie's World: A Vision of Hell (34 replies)
Psycho Killer, The Russian Edition (204 replies)
Moby! (202 replies)
What’cha Reading? (336 replies)
The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha (100 replies)
What Is Your Favorite Literary Feud?? (2 replies)
Looking for a story (1 replies)
lost story (0 replies)
From The Sports Desk (416 replies)
Alexandre Dumas (père) (0 replies)
Hi! I used to mostly lurk several years ago! (2 replies)
The greatest prose stylists ? Robert Burton, De Quincey,  Chateaubriand ? (0 replies)
The End of the Canon (18 replies)
Great recent Science Fiction (0 replies)
For lovers of old-fashioned science fiction (0 replies)
Old Man and the Sea - What is the point of the christological imagery? (4 replies)
Nature Writing (60 replies)
The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson (45 replies)
What Piece of Literary Criticism Blew You Away??? (6 replies)
What exactly is aestheticism? (2 replies)
The Crossing, by Cormack McCarthy (26 replies)
The New Learning. (5 replies)
The bourgeoisification of Labour isn’t new. It was catalogued in Orwell’s scabrously. (13 replies)
Hemingway. (3 replies)
Writers similar to Cormac McCarthy (3 replies)
Can one ignore an author’s character and what they write? (3 replies)
Breaking News. Shakespeare Dead. (4 replies)
Which pieces of literature do you think a writer can learn something from? (7 replies)
The Iliad, The Odyssey, and 'Origin Texts' (7 replies)
The Audit of The Suicide Club (1 replies)
Update General Literature. (4 replies)
It’s Time for a Mass Poetry Movement! (5 replies)
On Childish Things (2 replies)
Kristin Lavransdatter (4 replies)
How Do You Write? (6 replies)
Artificial Intelligence Will Soon Be Writing Books, and This is a Threat to Writers! (3 replies)
Is literary modernism defined by form exclusively or content as well? (5 replies)
The Hidden Danger in Writing. (4 replies)
Absurdism v Existentialism (2 replies)
A Literary Manifesto!!! (1 replies)
Create a Writers Publishing Collective! (1 replies)
What Does Stephen Dedalus Mean When He Says "Silence, Exile, Cunning" (2 replies)
What Does Stephen Dedalus Mean When He Says "Silence, Exile, Cunning" (0 replies)
Arabian Nights - historical context? (2 replies)
Rights, Duty, and Kipling (5 replies)
Pulp fiction (3 replies)
superstition (3 replies)
How Do You Protect Your Most Valuable Books??? (6 replies)
At one remove from Paul Valéry (0 replies)
Looking for a forum on James T. Farrell. (8 replies)
Art, Philosophy and Propaganda (20 replies)
Politically correct liberals & born-again's in Alaska join forces to ban books (34 replies)
Which is the greatest Great American novel and why? (41 replies)
What is the critical reputation of On the Road today? (1 replies)
What To Read During the Pandemic (24 replies)
Favourites by Period and Category (8 replies)
Henry Hazlitt and Matthew Arnold thought novels were lower than poetry? (4 replies)
What do you plan to read in 2020? (11 replies)
Aeschylus. (0 replies)
Aspects of Homer. (9 replies)
The Literary World Sucks (12 replies)
Harold Bloom - R.I.P. (5 replies)
The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth (4 replies)
Victorian short stories (1 replies)
Darkness at Noon (9 replies)
Westerns (3 replies)
Child Of God, by Cormac McCarthy (28 replies)
Tristram Shandy: Who is Thomas o' Becket in vol. 7? (2 replies)
Jamaica Inn - Was the lawyer-clerk in the bar murdered or released? (0 replies)
Toni Morrison RIP (2 replies)
Why would Joss Merlyn allow Mary Yellan to come and stay at Jamaica Inn? (2 replies)
Rhetoric in literature (1 replies)
"Theology and Geometry" ???? (1 replies)
John Sutherland's puzzles of Victorian literature (11 replies)
The Modern Library 100 -Off The Shelf, Dusted and Done (7 replies)
A Horseman Riding By (14 replies)
Minimalist Fiction (0 replies)
Films Adaptation of Literary Works. (8 replies)
Characters that Celebrate being Different (5 replies)
Recommendations Based on Examples (1 replies)
Pessimistic Narrators (6 replies)
Your favorite writer from each continent (1 replies)
Collaborative Writing (7 replies)
Joyce vs. Proust (2 replies)
Books set in the Middle East / Books about Expats (6 replies)
John Williams and the American canon (1 replies)
Most influential books in your life (16 replies)
Books About Being a Loser (44 replies)
A Question from "The End" by Samuel Beckett (4 replies)
Help towards researching Hamlet’s adaptation to Hindi film (0 replies)
Some good graveyard scenes? (5 replies)
What do you think about (3 replies)
Alexandar Pope on Christianity (0 replies)
Need some help for a sentence translation (5 replies)
Meaning of "kiss" in 1910 (3 replies)
Need some truly amazing recommendations (12 replies)
How did Harold Bloom rise to such a level of eminence? (89 replies)
jd-salingers-unseen-writings-to-be-published-family-confirms (3 replies)
Latin quotes in books (4 replies)
The Turn of The Screw: Why Film Never Does it Justice? (6 replies)
Russell Baker (0 replies)
literary Feast 2019 Reading Challenge (9 replies)
On the Road and other Beat Generation thoughts (2 replies)
Macaulay's biography of Jane Austen (2 replies)
Looking for title and author (0 replies)
Daemon Voices (7 replies)
Saint-Just the Immortal (0 replies)
Carlyle’s four thousand people cross London bridge every day, mostly fools” Source? (0 replies)
The lost generation (0 replies)
Help understanding when to use semi colon or colon (1 replies)
Literature in Ayurveda (1 replies)
Shakespeare's Cultural Influence (3 replies)
Using trademarks in writing (0 replies)
Writers that don't trust language (1 replies)
What do you plan to read next year? (10 replies)
That type (3 replies)
A streetcar named Desire Tennesse Williams (4 replies)
How do define a book like Bryce Courtney's 'The Power of One'? (1 replies)
Advice on reading effectively (8 replies)
Why did modernism/avant-gardism fail to endure outside the academy? (1 replies)
Suggestions based on my favourites, please. (1 replies)
Raymond Carver anyone? (3 replies)
Is any opera story literature-worthy? (8 replies)
Andre Marty in Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls (2 replies)
Literary pub crawl (10 replies)
Did Rumi murder Shams? (6 replies)
Lament of the Rohirrim (6 replies)
decomposition authors (1 replies)
Improve ebooks - fiction and non-fiction (5 replies)
Stories From A Sound Mind; Although, They May Not Convince You (0 replies)
Hi (2 replies)
favourite latin quote (11 replies)
The Wayfarer -- Published over 80 years ago (3 replies)
What is the ideal length of an erotica piece? (5 replies)
Looking for this short story/novella: Shaving down a pearl? (2 replies)
Italian novella with Arab influence (0 replies)
[Title] English Drama (cir. C 17th) with a Female Chivalrous Robber as Protagonist. (0 replies)
An Example of Funny Writing? (7 replies)
literature psychological impact on the human mind (3 replies)
how much swear words, if at all, can a book be allowed? (8 replies)
India's Gracious Gift to Mankind. by Crystaqueous. (0 replies)
the worst feeling a book may evoke (5 replies)
Infantile literature (9 replies)
Books to sharpen close reading skills (3 replies)
Books for success (0 replies)
Books about people improving (4 replies)
A Tale of Two Cities: Darnay's relationships with Stryver and Carton (1 replies)
Creating a character tree..... The Age of Innocence (0 replies)
Why You Should Read Tmoas Ligotti (0 replies)
A Poem By Percy Shelley Is Read Aloud By Jeremy Crobyn (0 replies)
Why You Should Read Ramsey Campbell (0 replies)
New post (0 replies)
10 best nonfiction books (1 replies)
Thus Spake Zarathusta!!!!!!!!!! (2 replies)
Forgotten English. (21 replies)
Cite a play (in theatre) (1 replies)
Ever Read Bruno Schulz? (4 replies)
Novels with greatest literary architecture? (9 replies)
Style characteristics - help (0 replies)
Celebrating Black-American Literature (58 replies)
R.I.P. Ursula Le Guin (4 replies)
Creative literature writing - book tips? (2 replies)
Antromorphic animals - only fables (question) (3 replies)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Help (3 replies)
Unreliable narrator - third-person? (6 replies)
Books like The Kreutzer Sonata by Tolstoy (2 replies)
Literature with old fashioned morals/values (10 replies)
Ending of "Mystery of Edwin Drood" - concensus (1 replies)
Why is the word "in" capitalized in A Study In Scarlet? (0 replies)
Has anyone read DFW's "All That"? (1 replies)
Human condition (2 replies)
Existentliasm literature - help (10 replies)
Play - first-person? HELP (1 replies)
"Do-it-yourself"-book (1 replies)
Narratives on Power Politics (22 replies)
Which one should I read? (1 replies)
can you name please post feminist but not chick lit literture? (4 replies)
Novels of strait sexually broken men ? (5 replies)
Classical studies on Greek tragedy (1 replies)
The best book on Crump, whoops sorry, Trump (1 replies)
From the Earth to the Moon (4 replies)
List of most expensive books? (0 replies)
John O'Hara - still a respected author or now passe? (2 replies)
I Couldn't Stand Blood Meridiain (12 replies)
Can someone explain to me the plot of Satantango on a surface level? (0 replies)
Which Artistic Medium is Best To Understand The World Better?? (7 replies)
What are you reading for Victober? (19 replies)
What Are Some of the Interesting Literature Courses You Took In College??? (8 replies)
Is the classics modern? (1 replies)
Help needed finding title of short story (3 replies)
Catch 22 Chapter 2 (1 replies)
Titus Groan and Gormenghast (2 replies)
Raymond Carver Among ATGs (1 replies)
Looking for Sci Fi title about the ultimate virtual reality (0 replies)
Names of Narrative Techniques (9 replies)
Post The Great Writers Who've Graced The Cover of Time Magazine (4 replies)
Nobel Prize 2017 (8 replies)
What is your favorite literary piece? (14 replies)
Dracula, Frankenstein or Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde???? (9 replies)
Hi Please Help (1 replies)
The Beat Generation: The killing of David Kammerer and Lucien Carr (0 replies)
Loss (1 replies)
Is Fan Fiction The Least Respected Literary Genre? (12 replies)
Critics in the vein of Sontag, Barthes, Benjamin, Steiner etc. (4 replies)
Shakespeare, Folio vs Quarto (3 replies)
Homer vs Shakespeare (27 replies)
Can't remember the name of this Bukowski story (3 replies)
America (4 replies)
Books with similar plot as movie All About Eve (0 replies)
A favorite book, poem, TV or movie character. (11 replies)
Does Ayn Rand piss you off? (25 replies)
Novels with backrounds illustrations and character portraits - question (7 replies)
Books written by 2 or more authors (2 replies)
Dorothy Parker, Perleman, Benchley etc. - audiobooks available? (2 replies)
Esoteric writings (11 replies)
Francis Bacon's Essays (3 replies)
What are some of the defining conventions of utopian literature as a genre? (2 replies)
All the books - why would you try write another? (12 replies)
what is the term for a work that makes the reader part of the narrative (2 replies)
What is a gentleman-usher in The Country Wife? (1 replies)
Dystopia and America (2 replies)
Imagery for smell (question) (1 replies)
George MacDonald - will you help me please? (5 replies)
Pushkin and Tolstoy (2 replies)
Reification (fallacy) - false grammatically. (1 replies)
Unreliable Narrators & Modern & Post Modern Fiction (0 replies)
Orient and Orientate (1 replies)
Has anyone read Alan Moore's new novel Jerusalem? (0 replies)
Is literary talent inborn or can it be learnt? (6 replies)
Choice (2 replies)
how well integrated are children in literature? (2 replies)
Kafkaesque (6 replies)
Non-human elements - examples (2 replies)
Political apathy in literature (0 replies)
Trickster sin Children's Lit. (0 replies)
Literary Works Treating Free Love or Dealing with Open Relationships (2 replies)
English Literature History (2 replies)
Did you ever change your mind about a classic literary work in verse or prose? (17 replies)
What are the Funniest Classic Works of Literature You Have Read? (38 replies)
A Days Wait, Ernest Hemingway Question (0 replies)
Margarine! (1 replies)