Books like Jabberwocky
12 books with a reading profile close to Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll. Open-ended; a moderate read.
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Catch-22. A Dramatization
Also open-ended · classic literature, literary
In this 1971 dramatic adaptation, Joseph Heller reconfigures his World War II novel into a stage play centered on Captain Yossarian and his desperate attempts to be grounded from combat duty.
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Heart of a Dog
classic literature, literary
In 1920s Moscow, the surgeon Professor Preobrazhensky performs a radical medical experiment by transplanting a human pituitary gland and testicles into a stray dog named Sharik.
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Clevinger's trial (from 'Catch-22')
Also open-ended · 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 open-ended · 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
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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Ojos de perro azul
Also open-ended · 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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Orlando
Also open-ended · 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 open-ended · 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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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Also open-ended · 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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Howl and Other Poems
Also open-ended · 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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Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs, William Burroughs
Also open-ended · classic literature, literary
William Lee, a drug addict and fugitive, flees a narcotics investigation in the United States to seek refuge in the Interzone, a hallucinatory territory located in North Africa.
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat
Also open-ended · classic literature, literary
Set in ancient Athens and an adjacent enchanted forest, this comedy follows four young lovers—Hermia, Lysander, Helena, and Demetrius—whose romantic entanglements spiral into chaos due to the interference of the fairy k…
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