Great 20th-century literature

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The Essential Akutagawa: Rashomon, Hell Screen, Cogwheels, a Fool's Life and Other Short Fiction
1.  The Essential Akutagawa: Rashomon, Hell Screen, Cogwheels, a Fool's Life and Other Short Fiction by Jorge Luis Borges
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  "Classic stories including "Rashomon" and "In a Grove" by the Japanese Kafka"
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Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf (Vintage classics)
2.  Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf (Vintage classics) by Edward Albee
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  "Also see the film with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor"
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Malloy / Malone Dies / the Unnamable (Everyman library)
3.  Malloy / Malone Dies / the Unnamable (Everyman library) by Samuel Beckett
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Zuleika Dobson (Modern Library)
4.  Zuleika Dobson (Modern Library) by Max Beerbohm
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  "Satirical novel of Oxford.  Also see the OUP  illustrated edition."
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The Loser (Vintage International)
5.  The Loser (Vintage International) by Mark M. Anderson
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  "Bitter observations on Glenn Gould and classical piano"
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Old Masters: A Comedy (Phoenix Fiction)
6.  Old Masters: A Comedy (Phoenix Fiction) by Bernhard
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  "Bitter observations on art and classical music"
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Cutting Timber: An Irritation
7.  Cutting Timber: An Irritation by Thomas Bernhard
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  "Bitter observations on Viennese society"
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Fictions
8.  Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
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  "short fiction collected in various volumes.  Ficciones is the best introductory volume; Collected Fictions the most complete edition"
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This Craft of Verse (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
9.  This Craft of Verse (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Jorges Luis Borges
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  "The rediscovered Charles Eliot Norton lectures delivered at Harvard in 1967-68.  The most wonderful meditations on poetry imaginable."
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The Sheltering Sky (Penguin Modern Classics)
10.  The Sheltering Sky (Penguin Modern Classics) by Paul Bowles
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  "Existential novel set in north Africa"
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The Master and Margarita (Penguin Modern Classics)
11.  The Master and Margarita (Penguin Modern Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov
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  "Zany but satisfying."
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