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Things you must have read to be my lover
A Listmania! list by Luis Villaca�as De Castro "L. S. Villacanas" (Valencia, Spain)

1. A Season in Hell: The Illuminations (Galaxy Books) by Arthur Rimbaud

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	"As violent as a young man or woman should be, not more, not less"

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2. Billy Budd (English Library) by Herman Melville

The list author says:
	"Any longer work of Melville will do, but these stories are as crazy as hell, specially "Paradise of Bachelors and Tartarus of Maids"!!! Brutal"

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3. On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic. By way of clarification and supplement to my last book Beyond Good and Evil (Oxford World's Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche

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	"The most powerful writer ever, and his most powerful book"

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4. The Interpretation of Dreams (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by Sigmund Freud

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	"Inside this book there is "manifest content" for a million novels... let alone the latent content. One of the great storytellers of all time"

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5. Demian (Peter Owen Modern Classic) by Hermann Hesse

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	"His most stricking book, speacially towards the end. Poetic, well written, and not as predictable as the Steppenwolf (which, still, is also a masterpiece). Ambivalent towards war. I love it"

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6. The Castle (Penguin Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka

The list author says:
	"Marvellous set of charactes... all of them deep and symbollic, impossible but understandable. Kafka knows that intelligence and poetry are the same thing"

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7. Walden: Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift) by Henry David Thoreau

The list author says:
	"I would love to be Thoreau... I would love to have written this book, and live his world. His outlook is global: he is a humanist, and ecologyst, a man, a woman, a tree..."

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8. The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman (Wordsworth Poetry) (Wordsworth Poetry Library) by Walt Whitman

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	"I have a special inclination for the Greates 5 American writers to have existed: Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Hawthorne and Whitman. Song of Myself is unique: linguistically and metaphisically"

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9. Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics) by Joyce James

The list author says:
	"All his major works are a must. But just experience "The Dead", written when Joyce was 25. Only a man with so much feeling and an understanding of it could write his future works"

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10. Collected Short Prose: 1 by Samuel Beckett

The list author says:
	"Specially First Love. The perfect short story: tense, dramatic, comic, intelligent and absurd. Beckett's piece I have most enjoyed"

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11. The Importance of Being Earnest (Penguin Popular Classics) by Oscar Wilde

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	"I read it during a delicious evening... He had nothing to declare but his genius... It is true"

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12. Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes (Penguin Classics) by George Bernard Shaw

The list author says:
	"The first play I read of Bernard Shaw. Sincere and extravagant. The setting of the scene is suberb."

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13. Jude the Obscure (Penguin Popular Classics) by Thomas Hardy

The list author says:
	"It has something in it which makes me think no book has described better the personality of the artist. At the other end of Joyce's description of the artist, but can be ranked with his"

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14. Sons and Lovers (Penguin Modern Classics) by D. H. Lawrence

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	"Of a beauty so delicate it sometimes hurts. You will have to put the book down and think about jealousy, sex and power. So fragile"

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15. Four Quartets (Faber Poetry) by T.S. Eliot

The list author says:
	"This edition is beautiful. I prefer it to the Waste Land, because this is the truest Eliot. The passage of the children in the garden is what he had always desired to write; we fee it. Perfect overall"

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16. Adventures of the Ingenious Alfanhui (Dedalus Europe 2000) by Rafael Sanchez Ferlosio

The list author says:
	"Here all the poetry and sadness and culture of my country (Spain) is packed up. As lyrical as anything I have read."

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17. Pedro P�ramo (Five Star) by Juan Rulfo

The list author says:
	"The real masterpiece. Probably the loveliest fiction book I have ever read. It was the outcome of a terrible and perfect exercise of condensation. Unbelievable"

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18. Lights of Bohemia: Luces de Bohemia (Hispanic Classics) by Ramon Del Valle-Inclan

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	"One of the best theatrical texts ever to be written. Valle Inclan masters prose and dialogue writing."

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19. Poet in New York (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Federico Garcia Lorca

The list author says:
	"One of the masterpieces of Eurpean 20th century poetry. Lorca's best piece of writing: he is impressed by New York, and he condemns and loves passionately."

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20. Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke

The list author says:
	"Unique in its imaginery, rhythm and style. Difficult in the way that perfection requires. It gives the idea of a wholly developed poetic world."

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21. Collins Classics - The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: The Alexander Text by William Shakespeare

The list author says:
	"Take whatever you want. Everything will satisfy you as long as you understand it. The sonnets are overwhelming. "Much Ado About Nothing" is the perfect melodrama"

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22. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Poetry Paperbacks) by Pablo Neruda

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	"Among all his latter poetry, these poems have been imprinted on me: Me gustas cuando callas porque estas como ausente, y estas como distante, mariposa en arrullo... It will make you cry"

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Billy Budd (English Library)

On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic. By way of clarification and supplement to my last book Beyond Good and Evil (Oxford World's Classics)

Demian (Peter Owen Modern Classic)

Collected Short Prose: 1

The Importance of Being Earnest (Penguin Popular Classics)

Jude the Obscure (Penguin Popular Classics)

Sons and Lovers (Penguin Modern Classics)

Poet in New York (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

Duino Elegies

Collins Classics - The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: The Alexander Text

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Poetry Paperbacks)

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