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Moll Flanders Defoe, Daniel
Some time around the beginning of the eighteenth century, story-telling changed. It didn’t happen all at once – these things rarely do – but steadily and irrevocably narrative poems and ...
Cross Channel Barnes, Julian
Like many readers, I first discovered Julian Barnes through his inspired third book, Flaubert's Parrot , but have found it hard not to feel that his more recent novels have failed to live up to ...
Jáchymov Haslinger, Josef
"Jáchymov" is a triangular story. The angles – in a well constructed network of tensions kept up to the very last page of the book – are formed by Bohumil Modrý, Blanka Modra and ...
We Are At War Garfield, Simon
This collection of diary entries were all submitted to the Mass Observation archive in the UK. I had never heard of the MO until I picked up this book. I suppose it was a sort of Big Brother of ...
Jürg Jenatsch Meyer, Conrad Ferdinand
Jürg Jenatsch (1596-1639) is a historical figure. He was a reformed pastor who became a freedom fighter in the battle for independence in the Grisons (Graubünden) during the Thirty Years’ War. ...
Familie Salzmann Hackl, Erich
While literature often claims to show how the family history of an individual inevitably determines his fate, Erich Hackl keeps to real events, which are tragic enough and which he supplements ...
Alias Grace Atwood, Margaret
Alias Grace is based on the true story of the murders of a gentleman and his housekeeper in 1843 by two of their servants, James McDermott and Grace Marks. The case caused a public sensation at ...
Documentary Fiction
Documentation of literary Documentary Fiction
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