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Humpty Dumpty, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, by Lewis Carroll
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It could just be me...
...but most of these so far are boring. Too much emphasis on the writer's biography and not so much on the states. But I did get an idea for a creative piece I'll do myself, so not a loss. Also I'm not going to DNF this, but it's not exactly riveting.
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"All the World's a Grave", or Shakespeare Revisited
John Reed has taken lines from various Shakespeare plays and created an entirely new tragedy. He sums it up better than I ever could:
Hamlet goes to war for Juliet, the daughter of King Lear. Having captured his bride - by unnecessary bloodshed - Prince Hamlet returns home to find that his mother has murdered his father and married Macbeth. Hamlet, wounded and reeling, is sought out by the ghost of his murdered father, and commanded to seek revenge. Iago, opportunistic, further inflames the enraged prince, persuading him that Juliet is having an affair with Romeo; the prince goes mad with jealousy.
Need I say more? All I can add is that I highly recommend this to any fan of Shakespeare.
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Joyce Carol Oates, The Female of the Species
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Gustave Flaubert, Memoirs of a Madman
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