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No time to explain, I need a work of English literature that deals with depression/alienation/suicide that was written before 1950

Help?

>> No.7002216

The Anatomy of Melancholy

>> No.7002221

metamorphoses

>> No.7002277

>>7002216

Sounds good enough, what genre/form is it?

>> No.7002388

Notes from Underground by Dostoyevsky, it's relatively short.

>> No.7002399

>>7002388
>english literature

>> No.7002522

my diary tbh

>> No.7003297

>>7002213
Hamlet

>> No.7003325

>>7002399
>not reading the translation

>> No.7004365

Some of Sylvia Plath's work was written before the 50s, but not much. She's all about angst though. I mean, Lady Lazarus was great and dealt with this all, but was written in 62.

>> No.7004393

The Quentin chapter of the Sound and the Fury
Shakespeare is an easy answer too

>> No.7004426

>>7002213
Why does it have to be written before 1950?
Is this homework? Fuck off.

>> No.7004463

>>7002213
Bartleby the Scrivener