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Anonymous Fri Apr 7 10:55:20 2017 No.9349836 [Reply] [Original]

What are some books that can hold its own among the classics, not because of its transcendental value, but solely for the beauty of its prose?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 7 11:31:49 2017 No.9349975 File: 82 KB, 500x386, atumblrlink.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9349836 Anything what Wilde has written.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 7 16:24:30 2017 No.9350833 >>9349836 Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Boswell's Life, Carlyle's French Revolution (perhaps arguable, but the book's so freakishly entertaining!) to name three.

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