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10 Classic Novels Summed Up in a Single Sentence
10 Classic Novels Summed Up in a Single Sentence
By jake goldman
December 09, 2013

It’s like a Sparknote of a Sparknote of a Sparknote.

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“War and Peace” and I
“War and Peace” and I
By Nelson Peters
July 19, 2013

From the natural gas fields of Northern Alberta to the Argentine Pampas, a writer wrestles with Tolstoy’s masterpiece.

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Big Books and Beauty
Big Books and Beauty
By James Rickman
November 16, 2011

Man, doorstoppers are everywhere right now. Murakami and Stephen King just published novels of about a thousand pages each, and McSweeney’s seems to have launched an imprint called “Rectangulars”; at least, that’s...

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