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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (Twentieth-Century Classics)

Richard Farina

(8 reviews )

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Farina evokes the Sixties as precisely, wittily, and poignantly as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the Jazz Age. The hero, Gnossus Pappadopoulis, weaves his way through the psychedelic landscape, encountering - among other things - mescaline, women, art, gluttony, falsehood, science, prayer, and, occasionally, truth.

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V. (Perennial Classics)

Thomas Pynchon

(59 reviews )

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The wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men--one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose--and "V.," the unknown woman of the title.

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Against the Day

Thomas Pynchon

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The inimitable Thomas Pynchon has done it again. Hailed as “a major work of art” by The Wall Street Journal, his first novel in almost ten years spans the era between the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I and moves among locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all). W...more

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The Crying of Lot 49 (1986)

Thomas Pynchon

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Pnin

Vladimir Nabokov

(38 reviews )

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Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." -- John UpdikePnin is a professor of Russian at an American college who takes the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he cannot master. Pnin is a tireless lover who writes to his treacherous Liza: "A genius needs to keep so much in store, and thus cannot offe...more

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All Editions	Ada or Ardor (Penguin Modern Classics) Vladimir Nabokov (52 reviews )
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A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works (Dover Thrift Editions)

Jonathan Swift

(45 reviews )

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Treasury of five shorter works by the author of Gulliver’s Travels offers ample evidence of the great satirist’s inspired lampoonery. Title piece plus The Battle of the Books, A Meditation upon a Broom-Stick, A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit and The Abolishing of Christianity in England.

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