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NovelPost-war
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell · 1949
A state that does not just punish dissent but edits the language you dissent in.
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NovelPost-war
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1955
The most beautiful prose in the room, doing the ugliest possible work.
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NovelContemporary
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie · 1981
A boy born at the exact hour of independence, wired to the country's fate.
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Short storyGothic
The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe · 1843
A murderer explains, calmly, why he is not mad.
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