The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts

Author	Charles Dickens
ISBN	0140439269

Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication, The Mystery of Edwin Drood is edited with an introduction by David Paroissien in Penguin Classics.

Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age,...

Author	David Peace
ISBN	1852427418

It's winter, 1974, Yorkshire, and Ed Dunford's got the job he wanted. Crime correspondent for the Evening Post. He didn't know it was going to be a season in hell. A dead little girl with a swan's wings stitched to her back. A gypsy camp in a ring of fire. Corruption everywhere you look.

In Nineteen...

Author	David Peace
ISBN	1852427442

The bodies, the corpses, the alleys and the wasteland, the dirty men, the broken women.
Wow, this is stunning. Literally. It's like being bludgeoned over the head by a cascade of bloody and relentless grimness. BUT all this violence, this brutality, this hate and corruption, betrayal and greed...

Author	Knut Hamsun
ISBN	0285647598

you would think i would have sopped this thing up with a hunk of bread: doomed lovers, the impossibility of communication, the way we hurt the ones we love? that should have karen's stamp of approval all over it.

but it's like hamsun took a great idea for literary exploration and then constructed...

Author	Anna Kavan
ISBN	0720611237

This collection of stories, mostly interlinked and largely autobiographical, chart the descent of the narrator from the onset of neurosis to final incarceration in a Swiss clinic. The sense of paranoia, of persecution by a foe or force that is never given a name, evokes The Trial by Kafka, a writer with...

Author

Helle Helle

"Mængden af indbo holdes naturligt nede, hendes mor kasserer med hård hånd, det er døde ting. Hun har en remse med alle adresserne, hendes mor holder sig for ørerne, tørklædet falder frem i panden. Det er rødt og blåt og hvidt. Det er fra Sans Souci, det overlever."

"de" er en skildring...

Author	August Strindberg
ISBN	0140443649

Strindberg is one of the writers I'm most interested in, though I do not know if he deserves a spot as one of my favorite authors. He attained a legendary status in some parts, but his reputation also suffers a lot now from his obvious misogyny, his partial belief in alchemy, and general wacko-ness.

This...