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A darkly funny coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer. After a childhood moving from one academic outpost to another with her father (a man prone to aphorisms and meteoric affairs), Blue is clever, deadpan, and possesse...
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Table of Contents:
- Othello / William Shakespeare
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / James Joyce
- Withering Heights / Emily Brontë
- The House of the Seven Gables / Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Woman in White / Wilkie Collins
- Brave New World / Aldous Huxley
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses / Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
- Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert
- Pygmalion / George Bernard Shaw
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles / Agatha Christie
- Moby Dick / Herman Melville
- A Moveable Feast / Ernest Hemingway
- Women in Love / D.H. Lawrence
- "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill" / John Cheever
- Sweet Bird of Youth / Tennessee Williams
- Laughter in the Dark / Vladimir Nabokov
- The Sleeping Beauty and of fairy tales / Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
- A Room with a View / E.M. Forster
- Howl and other poems / Allen Ginsberg
- The Taming of the Shrew / William Shakespeare
- Deliverance / James Dickey
- Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conrad
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / Ken Kesey
- One Hundred Years of solitude / Gabriel García Márquez
- Bleak House / Charles Dickens
- The Big Sheep / Raymond Chandler
- Justine / Marquis de Sade
- Quer Pasticciaccio Brutto de via Merulana / Carlo Emilio Gadda
- Things Fall Apart / Chinua Achebe
- The Nocturnal Conspiracy / Smoke Wyannoch Harvey
- Che Guevara Talks to Young People / Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
- "Good Country People" / Flannery O'Connor
- The Trial / Franz Kafka
- Paradise Lost / John Milton
- The Secret Garden / Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Metamorphoses / Ovid.