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Article: A.S. in Wonderland: A.S. Byatt's favorite books take possession of heart, mind, and memory. (That Made a Difference).(narrative; recommended books)
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- O, The Oprah Magazine
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- March 1, 2002
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WHEN I WAS A CHILD -- IN WARTIME, PRE-television--books were my life. I had very bad asthma and often spent two weeks in bed reading. I didn't like books about real children; I liked books about other worlds, full of forests and strange creatures. My childhood reading made me want to write, and so for this piece I've picked two books I discovered at that time--Alice in Wonderland, full of mystery and common sense, and (cheating slightly) a series of illustrated books of 19th-century poems my mother gave me. They were wonderful stories in singing verse: Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott and Morte d'Arthur, Browning's The Pied Piper of Hamelin, and Coleridge's The Rime of the ...
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Article: Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment: ...
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...Dostoyevsky, Fydor Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Crime and Punishment: Part Two Chapter One Theme And Characterization. Raskolnikov's actions immediately after the murder are an enactment of certain ideas expressed in his article "On Crime." There he wrote that the perpetration of a crime is always
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