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1) Pnin
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Presents the 1957 novel in which a Russian-born professor struggles to cope with American idioms and idiosyncrasies at a university in upstate New York.
2) Pale fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
"An ingeniously constructed parody of detective fiction and learned commentary, 'Pale Fire' offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures, at the center of which is a 999-line poem written by the literary genius John Shade just before his death. Surrounding the poem is a foreword and commentary by the demented scholar Charles Kinbote, who interweaves adoring literary analysis with the fantastical tale of an assassin from the land of Zembla in pursuit...
6) Frost: poems
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
From one of the most brilliant and widely read of all American poets, a generous selection of lyrics, dramatic monologues, and narrative poems--all of them steeped in the wayward and isolated beauty of Frost's native New England. Includes his classics "Mending Wall", "Birches", and "The Road Not Taken", as well as poems less famous but equally great.
7) Dispatches
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 318
Language
English
Description
Written on the front lines in Vietnam, "Dispatches" became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977. Herr's unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time.
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