Reading list

adam louis stephanides · 28 May 1998, 17:02 · from urth-v0012.mbox · original

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From: adam louis stephanides <astephan at students.uiuc.edu>
Subject: (urth) Reading list
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 17:02:50
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On Wed, 27 May 1998 Mark Kelly wrote:

> To those people who suggested "The Magus" by John Fowles, and the =3D
> "Gormenghast" trilogy by Mervyn Peake, I heartily agree. I would also =3D
> add a book called "The Quincunx" by Charles Palliser, which is a novel =
=3D
> with an extremely complex plot set in Dickensian London.

Palliser's subsequent book, entitled "Betrayals" IIRC, is also rather
Wolfeian, in that it consists of a series of seemingly unrelated
narratives,  the connections between which must be deduced by the reader.

--Adam


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