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| HEART OF DARKNESS | WORM OUROBOROS | RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER AND OTHER POEMS | MOON AND SIXPENCE |
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Conrad's version of "Apocalypse Now" |
Child of earth, dost think we are here in dreamland? |
I looked to heaven, and tried to pray |
He had made a world and saw that it was good |
| Titles | Authors | Notes |
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Allan Quatermain |
H. Rider Haggard | Out of Africa there always comes some new thing |
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Ambassadors |
Henry James | You can take the boy out of the country, but . . . |
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An Outcast of the Islands |
Joseph Conrad | Even a big tree may be killed by a small axe |
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Beach of Falesa |
Robert Louis Stevenson | They say it scares a man to be alone |
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Ben-Hur |
Lew Wallace | A Tale of the Christ |
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Billy Budd |
Herman Melville | Children among their other sports will play a funeral with hearse and mourners. |
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Bleak House |
Charles Dickens | This scarecrow of a suit -- no man alive knows what it means |
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Book of Wonder |
Lord Dunsany | The Gibbelins eat, as is well known, nothing less good than man |
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Candide |
Voltaire | A gardener in the best of all possible worlds |
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Canterbury Tales |
Geoffrey Chaucer | A lot better than you remember from high school -- really! |
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Chance |
Joseph Conrad | It is a mighty force, that of mere chance |
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Child of Storm |
H. Rider Haggard | Allan Quatermain meets a wicked princess |
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Christmas Carol |
Charles Dickens | Humbug, I tell you! Humbug! |
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Count of Monte Cristo |
Alexandre Dumas | He had passed beyond the bounds of vengeance |
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Crime and Punishment |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky | At first there seemed nothing but stains on the boots |
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Crock of Gold |
James Stephens | A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume |
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Crome Yellow |
Aldous Huxley | Sing Holiday! Sing Holiday! |
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Descent Into The Maelstrom |
Edgar Allan Poe | Around and down -- and back again |
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Domnei |
James Branch Cabell | A Comedy of Woman-Worship |
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Dreamer's Tales |
Lord Dunsany | A song from the King of Over-the-Hills to the Queen of Far-Away |
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Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon |
Jules Verne | A few minutes more were all the doomed man had to live! |
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End of the Tether |
Joseph Conrad | These good times won't last for ever. |
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Europeans |
Henry James | Europe seems much larger than America |
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Explorer |
W. Somerset Maugham | If death were dreadful, it was more tolerable than dishonour |
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds |
Charles Mackay | The definitive catalog of human folly |
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Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
Vicente Blasco Ibañez | It is always expedient to destroy the enemy of tomorrow |
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Gentleman from San Francisco |
Ivan Bunin | Neither at Naples nor on Capri could any one recall his name |
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Gift of the Magi |
O. Henry | It's the thought that counts |
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Good Soldier |
Ford Madox Ford | Are we meant to act on impulse alone? |
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Great Expectations |
Charles Dickens | That small bundle of shivers, beginning to cry, was Pip |
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Gulliver's Travels |
Jonathan Swift | I have now done with all visionary schemes for ever |
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Hard Times |
Charles Dickens | Girl number twenty unable to define a horse! |
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Heart of Darkness |
Joseph Conrad | Conrad's version of "Apocalypse Now" |
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Hill of Dreams |
Arthur Machen | Ring within ring the awful temple closed around him |
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Howards End |
E.M. Forster | As civilization moves forward, the shoe is bound to pinch in places |
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Jurgen |
James Branch Cabell | Now Jurgen held his lance erect . . . |
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Kim |
Rudyard Kipling | A life wild as that of the Arabian Nights |
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King--of the Khyber Rifles |
Talbot Mundy | The Raj is saved by a case of boils |
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Kiss |
Anton Chekhov | The water was running, he knew not where or why |
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Les Miserables |
Victor Hugo | A man steals a loaf of bread and never hears the end of it |
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Light That Failed |
Rudyard Kipling | God is just and terrible, with a strong sense of humour |
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Longest Journey |
E.M. Forster | The bully and his victim never quite forget |
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Lord Jim |
Joseph Conrad | Ability in the abstract is no asset |
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Man Who Laughs |
Victor Hugo | It is very fortunate that kings can not err |
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Man Who Would Be King |
Rudyard Kipling | The Son of Man goes forth to war, a golden crown to gain |
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Maria Chapdelaine |
Louis Hemon | Country folk do not die for love |
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Metamorphosis |
Franz Kafka | He found himself transformed into a giant insect. |
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Moon and Sixpence |
W. Somerset Maugham | He had made a world and saw that it was good |
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Moth |
Helen Flint | Who killed Peroon? Was it sex? Or the CIA? |
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Night and Day |
Virginia Woolf | From the heart of his darkness he spoke his thanksgiving |
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Oliver Twist |
Charles Dickens | Fine fellows, who never peached upon old Fagin! |
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Open Boat |
Stephen Crane | Maybe they think we're out here for sport! |
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Open Boat |
Stephen Crane | Maybe they think we're out here for sport! |
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Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc |
Mark Twain | Live forever, Maid of Orleans, live forever! |
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Phantastes |
George Macdonald | I was dead, and right content. |
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Phantom of the Opera |
Gaston Leroux | Literature's legendary stalker |
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Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man |
James Joyce | Silence, exile, and cunning |
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Prester John |
John Buchan | The Snake returns to the house of its birth! |
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Rainbow |
D.H. Lawrence | Love--what does it mean--what does it amount to? |
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Revolt of the Angels |
Anatole France | "A comic and cruel misadventure befel the ancient Iahveh." |
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner and other poems |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | I looked to heaven, and tried to pray |
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Scarlet Pimpernel |
Baroness Orczy | Is he in Heaven, or is he in Hell? |
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Sea-Hawk |
Rafael Sabatini | Swashing buckles on the swells of the Spanish Main |
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Secret Agent |
Joseph Conrad | Unsuspected and deadly, like a pest in the street |
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Secret Sharer |
Joseph Conrad | It's what's inside that counts |
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Silas Marner |
George Eliot | A life of natural dignity |
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Sinking of the Titanic |
Logan Marshall | Agony that cannot be remembered |
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Smoke |
Ivan Turgenev | All seemed as smoke to him, everything. |
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Sons And Lovers |
D. H. Lawrence | The novelist as a young man |
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South Wind |
Norman Douglas | The next best thing to leading others astray is to be led astray oneself |
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Tale Of Two Cities |
Charles Dickens | Spring of hope, winter of despair |
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Tales of Three Hemispheres |
Lord Dunsany | the door which one enters on the way to the Land of Dream. |
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Talisman |
Sir Walter Scott | His sabre left its sheath as lightning leaves the cloud |
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Taras Bulba |
Nikolai Gogol | Is anything in the world that a Cossack fears? |
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Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar |
Edgar Rice Burroughs | Love and loyalty and friendship. What are gold and jewels to these? |
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Tarzan of the Apes |
Edgar Rice Burroughs | He raised his voice in the awesome victory cry |
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Three Men in a Boat |
Jerome K. Jerome | Men behaving badly, with style |
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Tom Jones |
Henry Fielding | "Atrocious wickedness!" |
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Typhoon |
Joseph Conrad | Every ship MacWhirr commanded was the floating abode of harmony and peace |
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Vanished Arcadia |
R. B. Cunninghame Graham | The basis for De Niro's movie The Mission |
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Victory |
Joseph Conrad | Let Heaven look after what has been purified |
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Ward No. 6 |
Anton Chekhov | Let us see what is going on inside |
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Worm Ouroboros |
E. R. Eddison | Child of earth, dost think we are here in dreamland? |
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Yellow God |
H. Rider Haggard | If wishes could kill him he would not live long |
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Youth |
Joseph Conrad | A flick of sunshine upon a strange shore |