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100 Best Novels « Modern Library. ULYSSES by James Joyce Written as an homage to Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, Ulysses follows its hero, Leopold Bloom, through the streets of Dublin.

100 Best Novels « Modern Library

Overflowing with puns, references to classical literature, and stream-of-consciousness writing, this is a complex, multilayered novel about one day in the life of an ordinary man. Initially banned in the United States but overturned by a legal challenge by Random House’s Bennett Cerf, Ulysses was called “a memorable catastrophe” (Virginia Woolf), “a book to which we are all indebted” (T. The Best English-Language Fiction of the Twentieth Century - By Rank. Lists of Great Book Recommendations from Flashlight Worthy.

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Reviewing SF & YA since 2008. McSweeney’s: Quarterly & Books. TIMOTHY McSWEENEY’SQUARTERLY CONCERN McSweeney’s began in 1998 as a literary journal that published only works rejected by other magazines.

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That rule was soon abandoned, and since then McSweeney’s has attracted work from some of the finest writers in the country, including Denis Johnson, Jonathan Franzen, William T. Vollmann, Rick Moody, Joyce Carol Oates, Heidi Julavits, Jonathan Lethem, Michael Chabon, Ben Marcus, Susan Straight, Roddy Doyle, T.C. Boyle, Steven Millhauser, Gabe Hudson, Robert Coover, Ann Beattie, and many others. Literature Archives. Paulo Coelho's Blog — paulo coelho writer official blog.