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Anonymous Wed May 2 20:24:16 2018 No.11091101 [Reply] [Original]

Are there any English novels of literary merit that aren't about; romance, death of a family member, marriage, children, family, social mobility, dystopia or coming of age?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 2 20:25:45 2018 No.11091109 >>11091101 Moby dick Iliad

>>	Anonymous Wed May 2 20:26:17 2018 No.11091112 >>11091101 DOWNTOWN THINGS WILL BE GREAT WHEN YOU'RE DOWNTOWN

>>	Anonymous Wed May 2 20:26:26 2018 No.11091115 >>11091101 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

>>	Anonymous Wed May 2 20:29:48 2018 No.11091122 >>11091109 already read both of these, don't know why you'd mention the iliad >>11091115 already knew this existed when l wanted another english novel as sublime as moby dick

>>	Anonymous Wed May 2 20:36:32 2018 No.11091142 >>11091122 >already knew this existed when l wanted another english novel as sublime as moby dick Then read it.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 2 20:41:26 2018 No.11091161 >>11091112 NO FINER PLACE, FOR SURE DOWNTOWN

>>	Anonymous Wed May 2 20:45:52 2018 No.11091172 File: 43 KB, 415x358, 1477000544435.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11091109 I'm not falling into this bait. Nope, I'm not. Definitely not. Ha! You think you can bait me? Think again! Not even a nibble I give you! Baited? Me? Psh.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 2 20:51:25 2018 No.11091198 >>11091101 The Mayor of Casterbridge is about furmity.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 2 20:54:50 2018 No.11091215 >>11091122 >>11091172 I didn't see the English part forgive me you have Hemingway's works

>>	Anonymous Wed May 2 20:55:32 2018 No.11091218 >>11091101 >merit pure memetry

>>	Anonymous Wed May 2 21:18:46 2018 No.11091316 Any novels of merit about cruising for boi pucci? When will someone write a Boylita?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 3 03:06:32 2018 No.11092518 >>11091316 Death in Venice

>>	Anonymous Thu May 3 08:16:05 2018 No.11093404 >>11092518 I'm going to be on that shit like butter on toast

Anonymous Thu May 3 08:50:20 2018 No.11093518

Here's a few [and what they're mainly about, IMO]:

>The Old Man And The Sea (Hemingway)
[Virtue; Aging]

>Lord Of The Flies (Golding)
[Savagery]

>Pincher Martin (Golding)
[Evil; Solipsism]

>The Spire (Golding)
[Idealism]

>Free Fall (Golding)
[Virtue; Purpose; Freedom]

>The Inheritors (Golding)
[Darwinian Selection]

>Darkness Visible (Golding)
[Good & Evil]

>Brighton Rock (Greene)
[Sin & Damnation]

>Robinson Crusoe (Defoe)
[Self-sufficiency]

>Lord Jim (Conrad)
[Shame; Redemption]

>The Reivers (Faulkner)
[Humorous Scrapes; Scallywags]

>The Remains Of The Day (Ishiguro)
[Wisdom; Regret]

>Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
[Friendship]

>The Maltese Falcon
[Virtue; Duty]

>>	Anonymous Thu May 3 13:52:07 2018 No.11094787 >>11091316 Giovanni's Room

>>	Anonymous Thu May 3 13:57:10 2018 No.11094811 >>11091316 The Complete Idiots Guide to Burning Books

>>	Anonymous Thu May 3 14:00:49 2018 No.11094831 >>11091316 Burroughs has one I think

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