/lit/ - Literature

>>11044798
Watership Down when Hazel has succeeded in finding a safe home for his group of rabbits, has grown old watching over them and the black rabbit of Inle comes to visit him, taking him away as his body sleeps

Don Quixote when Sancho says to the dying Don Quixote that when he gets better they should become shepherds and have more adventures, singing songs, growing old but of course they can't

Les Miserables when Marius learns how much of a hero Jean Valjean is, when Jean Valjean meets the young Cosette and offers her an expensive doll and tells her to go play which she doesn't understand after years of abuse, when Eponine dies on the barrier giving Marius her letter, every time Jean Valjean debates within himself as to whether he should turn himself in or not and then he inevitably does, etc

Anything by Arthur Miller always leaves a pit in my stomach.

Of Mice and Men is an obvious one but fucking that hits me every time even if I see it coming a mile away, but Lenny and George's struggle to achieve their dream fucking breaks me.

Stoner. Everything in Stoner.

I don't usually cry while reading but these books have gotten me to the closest and they fucking sat with me for days and days after finishing them that I just couldn't stop thinking about them.

>>10984105
> owning Epic of Gilgamesh
> it's not the Penguin classic edition

>shitpost on /lit/
>someone asks me to expand on my idea

So why don't books have sexually explicit scenes unless they are those shit "romance"novels, or 50 shades of memes.

I have my own idea for an original fiction but I want to have a pair of siblings that are strong, well known warriors/mercenaries but are in a incestuous relationship. Because that's hot as Fuck. But how do I put porn in my book without making it some shit meme book or having it labeled the same as a terrible romance novel?

>all dem feet

>>5512642
>you will never go hunting with him
It truly is, anon.

>>5043731
>He thought the latter possibility would degenerate mankind generally into scientists, workers and brutes;[43] living under the last mantle of one of three ideologies, Americanism, Marxism or Nazism

>>4907799