Books like Collected Poems, 1947-1980 (paper)
12 books with a reading profile close to Collected Poems, 1947-1980 (paper) by Allen Ginsberg. Deep and inward-looking; a moderate read.
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Howl and Other Poems
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
Published in 1956, this collection centers on the title poem, a frantic catalog of mid-century American struggle.
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Orlando
Also deep · classic literature, literary
The narrative follows Orlando, a young Elizabethan nobleman who begins as a favorite of the court and lives for over three centuries without aging significantly.
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Woyzeck
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
Franz Woyzeck is a low-ranking soldier stationed in a provincial German town, struggling to provide for his common-law wife, Marie, and their infant son.
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
J.D.
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Also deep · classic literature, literary
The poem recounts a sailor’s harrowing sea voyage that spirals into disaster after he shoots an albatross without provocation.
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Ojos de perro azul
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
This collection of short stories documents the early development of Gabriel García Márquez’s narrative style before his shift into Macondo.
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The Hour of the Star
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
In Rio de Janeiro, a self-absorbed narrator named Rodrigo S.M.
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Clevinger's trial (from 'Catch-22')
Also deep · classic literature, literary
Joseph Heller’s standalone play, Clevinger’s Trial, adapts the eighth chapter of his novel Catch-22 into a rhythmic, one-act script.
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Amerika
by Franz Kafka
Also deep · classic literature, literary
Karl Rossmann is a teenager banished by his parents to America after a scandal with a maid.
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Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
Also deep · classic literature, literary
Henry Miller's first published novel is a loose, first-person account of an American writer living in Paris in the early 1930s with little money and a great appetite for food, sex, talk, and ideas.
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Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
Jean Rhys recontextualizes the silent madwoman from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre by tracing her origins in the Caribbean.
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The Good Soldier
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
John Dowell, a wealthy American, narrates the decade-long history of his friendship with Edward Ashburnham, a British captain, and their respective wives, Florence and Leonora.
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