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Book Cover for: Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley
Joyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol Oates

all credit, entire credit, 100% credit to Mary Shelley, 18 years old when she began "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus." most impressive fiction debut, ever. https://t.co/veZS8mueWE

Paperback, 1994

$6.00$3.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson
Joyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol Oates

plus Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents"--oddly not mentioned in this argument. https://t.co/F4zZaKmlWD

Paperback, 2023

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Book Cover for: The Lottery, Shirley Jackson

The Lottery

Shirley Jackson
Joyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol Oates

what dates Shirley Jackson's classic nightmare "The Lottery" is that just one citizen in the village is killed a year. in contemporary US, many times the population of the village would be slaughtered in a few weeks' time with no "sacred" ritual needed. https://t.co/AgMYqTIlu1

Hardcover, 2008

$34.25$17.13 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Democracy, Henry Adams

Democracy

Henry Adams
Joyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol Oates

Henry Adams grimly foresaw the ruination/rot of democracy by wealth: one billionaire can purchase countless votes & "push state to the far right" out of some whim of pseudo-conviction such as women's bodies must be controlled by men, or there are some lives "unworthy of life"... https://t.co/pBMZUMHidA

Paperback, 2023

$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney

Beautiful World, Where Are You

Sally Rooney
Joyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol Oates

Sally Rooney and Love in the Time of General Systems Collapse https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/books/review-sally-rooney-beautiful-world-where-are-you.html?smid=tw-share

Paperback, 2022

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Obit, Victoria Chang

Obit

Victoria Chang
Joyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol Oates

(what a wonderful book this is!--poetry, prose-poetry, visionary language, heartbreak crystalized into images of surpassing beauty & mystery: Victoria Chang's "Obit.") https://t.co/CqaE4hQx86

Paperback, 2020

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner, Toni Morrison

Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner

Toni Morrison
Joyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol Oates

people who are publicly & noisily "triggered" by a literary novel ("Beloved") are just boasting that they can read, which we doubt. probably, this person skimmed the text looking to be shocked by a random word or two & had no idea what Toni Morrison had written. https://t.co/0tYFp2sBYf

Paperback, 2004

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Book Cover for: Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad
Joyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol Oates

RT @LiteraryVienna: „It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.“ Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness https://t.co/ujdt6z…

Paperback, 1990

$5.00$2.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Straight Line Crazy, David Hare

Straight Line Crazy

David Hare
Joyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol Oates

Exciting to be at David Hare’s new play “Straight Line Crazy” at The Shed at Hudson Yards https://t.co/HZZHy1hsLF

Paperback, 2022

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie

And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie
Joyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol Oates

Is the 1945 film "And Then There Were None" a faithful remake of the Agatha Christie novel? the film is very well executed & makes of the preposterous plot a brisk comedy of the absurd in which individuals die but their corpses don't decompose or cause much discomfort.

Paperback, Mass Market, 2011

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