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You will spend 70 days in a row with this man, and you will be charmed and offended and amazed and sometimes bored, but you will be lucky.
By Jane Smiley
August 28, 2005
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Flaubert's dark tale of adultery feels like it was written in another age -- yet its vision of moral hypocrisy is startlingly contemporary.
By David L. Ulin
August 21, 2005
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Almost 20 years ago, I wrote a paper on William Golding's survival tale -- without reading the book. This summer, I thought I'd see if it was truly as dreadful as I imagined.
By Rebecca Traister
August 15, 2005
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As an aspiring writer, I was always too scared to read Balzac's cautionary tale of a young poet in 1820s Paris. With my first novel coming out, I was finally ready to take it on.
By Benjamin Kunkel
August 8, 2005
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Henry James reminded me, once again, that suffering can bring great rewards.
By Elizabeth Gaffney
August 1, 2005
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When I moved in with my boyfriend, Dickens' wonderful epic got lost in the shuffle. Luckily, I stumbled upon Stevenson's famous tale of a kindly doctor and his evil twin.
By Ann Patchett
July 25, 2005
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Would Martha Stewart, Bernie Ebbers, Nixon and Trotsky have stayed on top if they'd listened to Machiavelli?
By David Bezmozgis
July 18, 2005
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I put off Tolstoy's novel for years, but I finally had to find out: Is it truly one of the greatest books ever written?
By James Hynes
July 11, 2005
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The biggest nerd in high school -- who's now a reputable Chinese scholar -- used to tote around the ancient bible of military strategy. Could Sun Tzu make me successful, too?
By Matt Steinglass
July 4, 2005
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John Cheever's first novel may seem like a family saga set in a fishing village -- but it's really all about male hysteria and rage.
By Adrienne Miller
June 27, 2005
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Forget the two-fisted Faulkner and Hardy. Tackling Charlotte Bronte's courageously romantic novel made me a better man.
By Stephen Amidon
June 19, 2005
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Do you really want to spend your summer with Boris and Natasha?
By Laura Miller
June 12, 2005
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In a new weekly series, Salon takes on the classics you always meant to read -- but never did.
June 12, 2005
Reading "In Search of Lost Time"
Reading "Madame Bovary"
Reading "Lord of the Flies"
Reading "Lost Illusions"
Reading "The Wings of the Dove"
Reading "Little Dorrit" (and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde")
Reading "The Prince"
Reading "Anna Karenina"
Reading "The Art of War"
Reading "The Wapshot Chronicle"
Reading "Jane Eyre"
Reading "War and Peace"
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