Oedipa Maas and a secret postal system; Pynchon in 150 pages.
A 999-line poem and the mad commentary of the man who stole it; Nabokov's puzzle novel.
A professor of Hitler studies, an airborne toxic event and the fear of death; DeLillo's comedy.
Becky Sharp climbs through Regency society without a heart; a novel without a hero.
Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds, until it is not; cultivate your garden.
Chichikov tours provincial Russia buying dead serfs on paper; Gogol's comic epic.
Lilliput, Brobdingnag and the horses who are wiser than men; Swift's satire dressed as travel.
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