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Stories and Poetry: The Imaginative Word.
A Listmania! list by Richard S. Warner "Saraswati-Son" (Toronto, Canada)

1. Childhood's End (Sf Masterworks)

The list author says:
	"So far-reaching in it's scope, covering thousands of years of humanity's future as overseen by an inscrutable alien power. That no one has ever made a movie of this is beyond me."

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2. Lord Of The Flies by William Golding

The list author says:
	"The harrowing truth of what would happen to civilization should the usual boundaries dissolve. Told through the story of stranded, "proper" English school boys who become utterly savage"

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3. Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake

The list author says:
	"Part 1 of the trilogy. In an unimaginably large castle, a bizzare and nightmarishly eccentric people live out their lives in eternally prescribed rituals. Until now..."

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4. GORMENGHAST by Mervyn Peake

The list author says:
	"Part 2. The psychopathic Steerpike, former kitchen 'rat', endowed with ruthless ambition, cuts a terrorist's path through Gormenghast on his way to the destruction of the Groan dynasty."

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5. In The Eyes Of Mr Fury by Philip Ridley

The list author says:
	"A novel so well written it's language is virtually symphonic and blurs the border to poetry. A life-altering story of Love, both angelic and demonic like nothing else at all."

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6. Demian by Hermann Hesse

The list author says:
	"One of Hesse's greatest works. Once again relays the struggle to balance the need for enlightenment and reconcile it with our animal natures. Beautiful story."

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7. Burning Houses ~ Ppr Flamingo ed by Andrew Harvey

The list author says:
	"Character-rich story of an outrageously flamboyant, but Buddhistically wise old man who brings a dour young writer out of his enormous self-pity. Brilliantly funny and very deep indeed."

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8. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

The list author says:
	"One of the greatest novels in the entire English language. Still, John Irving's most beloved work. A secular meditation on pre-destination"

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9. JITTERBUG PERFUME by Tom Robbins

The list author says:
	"My favourite of all Robbins' unbelievably researched, eccentric, mind-expanding novels. A writer like NO other. A Zen Master of humour."

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10. Animal Farm by George Orwell

The list author says:
	"Orwell's ever-increasingly relevant allegory that's a stern indictment of revolutions and all who would seek to rule."

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11. Dune by Frank Herbert

The list author says:
	"A monumentally conceived and opiatedly detailed desert world is the location for an intergalactic struggle of titanic political and ecological proportions. One of the greats."

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12. The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders by Robertson Davies

The list author says:
	"A Trilogy of novels initiated by the throwing of a snowball propels the reader into times, places, and psychological spaces vast and varied, yet masterfully orchestrated. An immense achievement."

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13. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

The list author says:
	"Carroll plays with English like an expressionist painter, using reality as a springboard to fashion something beautifully constructed and unlimited in imagination. Strange, and wonderful."

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14. The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text by Franz Kafka

The list author says:
	"Kafka defined paranoia. A man is arrested and put on trial for crimes he knows nothing about, and in the end is sentenced to death. "The Door of the Law" should be required reading. It says it all."

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15. Mountains and Rivers Without End: Poem by Gary Snyder

The list author says:
	"Snyder is, in my mind, the loftiest of the Beats. His poetry is as rarified as the air an eagle flies in. Unparalleled imagery and a Zen-like crafting of the mind."

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16. A Sound Of Thunder And Other Stories by Ray Bradbury

The list author says:
	"Bradbury's stories are unlike anyone else's. They were really his greatest work."

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17. My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk

The list author says:
	"With an entirely unique approach to narrative, skill with language beyond thousands of writers, past and current, Pamuk is Turkey's National Treasure."

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18. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

The list author says:
	"A sweeping epic born of the horrors of WW I and the need for there to be a truly British myth. Tolkien created one of the most widely loved and translated stories of all time."

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19. Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

The list author says:
	"We live our lives in the unspeakable vastness of eternity, sheltered by a false sky of daylit reason in order to save ourselves from the mind-crushing vastness of Reality."

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20. The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth by Kenneth Rexroth

The list author says:
	"Like Gary Snyder, Rexroth is a poet of skills so unimaginably refined it boggles the mind that a human being actually reached a lofty state like this."

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21. The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition 2008) by Cormac McCarthy

The list author says:
	"A simple and gruelling story line, but no one has ever written anything like this unbearably realistic and fearless look at the stuggle of people facing ultimate darknesses, and finding light."

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22. The Dharma Bums: 50th Anniversary Edition by Jack Kerouac

The list author says:
	"Kerouac's influential novel that thinly veils his autobiography. From a time when America was still young, mostly unspoiled, as yet untraumatized by JFK's assasination, Viet Nam, 911 and cell phones."

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23. Selected Poems Of Wang Wei by Wang Wei

The list author says:
	"Nothing stills the mind and awakens it to such intense focus so well as Classical Chinese poetry. Wang Wei's is especially beautiful."

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24. The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

The list author says:
	"Wyndham's best. Between the constant fear of genetic mutation and the bloodcrazed brutality of religious intolerance a group of young people who are "different" seek to find safety and a new way."

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25. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller

The list author says:
	"Awe-inspiring and vastly scaled. Claustrophobically shackled by the tiny, limited minds that often tell us how we should think, humanity tragically fails to extricate itself from ignorance. Stunning."