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The greatest of the unpublished American literary magazines. Its aim was chiefly “to please, and this through means of versatility, originality, and pungency," three qualities in which Poe shone like a disintegrating bolide on a winter’s night.…

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Raymond Chandler threatened to write this under the pseudonym of Aaron Klopstein, so it is a book both unwritten and fictive. It consists of several essays and two of Shakespeare’s plays written in baby talk, evidently trying to outdo Charles and…

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Brooks, an American actress and international movie star, never achieved the same success in her home country and in her mid-thirties withdrew to a life of alcohol and high-end prostitution. Brooks was bright and well-read, and during this period she…

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Written by Marx at the age of nineteen—along with a good deal of Romantic poetry, in a sort of “intoxicated whimsey”—while studying law at the University of Berlin and running around with all the young Hegelians. It reminds one of Tristram Shandy. It…

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In Plath’s words, this novel was “semi-autobiographical about a wife whose husband turns out to be a deserter and philanderer.” After her death, her mother and her husband, Ted Hughes, traded accusations about its unfinished state and its eventual…

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A book of charming but disconcerting poems about the charming but disconcerting residents of the town that Thomas was to use nine years later as the setting for Under Milk Wood. Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard, always nagging her two dead husbands; Captain…

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Waking inspired from an opium reverie, Coleridge rushed to write down his great poem, but he was of course interrupted by the infamous person from Porlock. Held in conversation for an hour, he found his vision had evaporated. This edition, printed as…

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