George Steiner - Tolstoy or Dostoevsky
An Essay in Contrast
Faber Paperbacks, 1980
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I vote Dostoevsky.

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Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
Faber Paperbacks, 1974
Cover Artist: Shirley Tucker

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William Golding - The Lord of the Flies
Faber paper covered Editions, 1969
Cover: Photo from the movie

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McCrum, MacNeil and Cran - The Story of English
Third Edition
Faber and Faber / BBC Books
Published 2002
Cover Design: Pentagram
Cover Photo: © The Bruce Coleman Collection

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Lawrence Durrell - The Alexandria Quartet
Faber Paper Covered Editions
Faber and Faber, 1968
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The Alexandria Quartet is a tetralogy of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 1957 and 1960. A critical and commercial success, the books present four perspectives on a single set of events and characters in Alexandria, Egypt, before and during World War II.
As Durrell explains in his preface to Balthazar, the four novels are an exploration of relativity and the notions of continuum and subject–object relation, with modern love as the subject. The Quartet offers the same sequence of events through several points of view, allowing individual perspectives to change over time.
The four novels are:
Justine (1957)
Balthazar (1958)
Mountolive (1958)
Clea (1960)
In a 1959 Paris Review interview, Durrell described the ideas behind the Quartet in terms of a convergence of Eastern and Western metaphysics, based on Einstein's overturning of the old view of the material universe, and Freud's doing the same for the concept of stable personalities, yielding a new concept of reality.
In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Alexandria Quartet #70 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

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