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AW: English books
...my personal highlight of the last years :
F. Scott Fitzgerald : `The Beautiful and Damned`:
"......displays exactly that `touch of disaster´ which was always at the center of Fitzgerald`s work;....and in his portrayal of individual failure, the corrupting power of money and the fleeting nature of beauty, he explores a preoccupying theme: the need for illusion and the tragedy that springs from its inevitable breakdown...."
Also recommendet:
Graham Greene `Brighton Rock`, `The Power And The Glory`
Eugene O' Neill : `Nine Plays`
William Faulkner: `Sanctuary`
Ernest Hemingway: `A Farewell to Arms`
Ambrose Bierce : `The Devils Dictionary`
H. G. Wells : `The Time Machine`
And (not only for western and crime fans) :
Miller/Snell : `Great Gunfighters of the Kansas Cowtowns`, 1867-1886
Robert K. DeArment :`Knights Of The Green Cloth` - the Saga of the Frontier Gamblers
Billy O`Neal : `Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters`
John Kobler : `Capone - His Life and World`
Rich Cohen : `Tough Jews`, the history of organized crime in America
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