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Lydia Davis
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[2010], c2009
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Davis has been called "an American virtuoso of the short story form" ("Salon"). Now, for the first time, Davis's short stories are collected in one volume, from the groundbreaking "Break It Down "(1986) to the 2007 National Book Award nominee, "Varieties of Disturbance."
3) Swann's way
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The first volume of Proust's seven-part novel In Search of Lost Time, also known as Remembrance of Things Past, Swann's Way is the auspicious beginning of Proust's most prominent work. A mature, unnamed man recalls the details of his commonplace, idyllic existence as a sensitive and intuitive boy in Combray. For a time, the story is narrated through his younger mind in beautiful, almost dream-like prose. In a subsequent section of the volume, the...
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