World Literature Classics

What Desires are Politically Important?, (1950) by Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) (5.7 k words).

Why I am not a Christian, (1927) by Bertrand Russell. (6.7 k words).

Demonic Males, (1996) by Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson. (8.7 k words)

Industrial Society and its Future, (1995) by Theodore Kaczynski (b1942) (34.6 k words).

Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions, (1884) by Edwin A Abbott (1838-1926). (34 k words)

Flatland is one of the greatest science fiction, meanwhile also being a social satire. Thru the preposterous world of 2-dimentional creatures and their social history, one become acquainted with dimensions higher than ours.

Time Machine, (1898) by H G Wells. (32.7 k words)

H G Well's Time Machine is also a science fiction classic. Thru the device of time, one learns the author's view of human nature and future of humanity.

A Modest Proposal (1729) by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) (3.4 k words)

A Modest Proposal is deemed the greatest satire. In it, Swift proposes selling babies for food.

Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) (105.9 k words)

Gulliver's Travels is deemed the greatest satire in English literature, period.

Manifesto for the Society for Cutting Up Men (1967) by a insanely militant feminist Valerie Solanas (1940-1988). (11k words) Exceedingly funny yet forward-looking by half a century.

Arabian Nights, (c800-c1500) translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) in ~1885.

The Arabian Nights is a eternal classic. The Arabian Night is significantly sexual in nature, dealing with women, sex slaves with firm breasts, monsters and gods, and Arabian mores. To read the entire work thouroughly is tantamount to years of study of Arabian ethnology.

西遊記 (Journey to the West; Monkey King), by 吴承恩 (Wu2 Cheng2En1), ~1590. (749.5 k chars)

The Monkey King is a eternal classic. The influence of Monkey King in the Asia is tantamount to Greek Mythology in the Europe. This fantastic fable is filled with monsters and gods and oriental thoughts.

The Tragedy Of Titus Andronicus (1594) by William Shakespeare. (21.8 k words)

Titus is Shakespeare's first play. Arguably it is the greatest depiction of human's vengeance and anguish.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), by Lewis Carroll. (26.8 k words)

Fantastics nonsense in a mathematical way.

Little Red Riding Hood (1697), by Charles Perrault. (0.75 k words)

In the Little Red Riding Hood, human sexuality flows thru the tale like engorging flush.

Cupid and Psyche, by Lucius Apuleius, thru Thomas Bulfinch. (3.5 k words)

The Cupid And Psyche is one of the greatest short story on love. It is a chapter of Greek Mythology, a pillar of thought in Western society.

A Mother's Tale by James Agee. (1909-1955). (8.8 k words) A great parable of agnotiscism.

Cindy's Torment, (1990) by Anonymous John (4.7 k words) A very well written sadomasochistic pornography, with a historical significance on internet censorship.

Justine (excerpt), (1791) by Marquis de Sade. Sadism at its birth.

the Adventure of the German Student by Washington Irving (1783-1859) (2 k words)

The Masque of the Red Death (1842) by Edgar Allan Poe (2.4 k words).

The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) by Edgar Allan Poe. (2.1 k words)

Edgar Allan Poe's above two short fictions are typical of his horror genre. I particularly love the imagery and bizarreness in The Masque of the Red Death. The Adventure of the German Student is a master piece by the American writer Washington Irving, best known for his The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Jeeves and the Ph.D A hilarious comedy. Authorship is unclear. It may be a parody of P G Wodehouse (1811-1975)'s work. (3.4 k words)

The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe (5.6 k words).

Politics and the English Language, 1946, by George Orwell. (5.29 k words) This is a very good analysis of English writing. Sharing with mine much of its sentiments.