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r/literature

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Welcome to /r/literature, a community for deeper discussions of plays, poetry, short stories, and novels. Discussions of literary criticism, literary history, literary theory, and critical theory are also welcome.

We are not /r/books: please do not use this sub to seek book recommendations or homework help.

Notice: This subreddit is not actively monitored, so the posts here are only a small subset of what exists on reddit.

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to r/literature by Elio555
2 months ago
Henry Henry by Allen Bratten
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to r/literature by sushisushisushi
1 month ago
What are you reading?
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to r/literature by blacktreerising
3 months ago
Characters you relate to for negative qualities
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to r/literature by JimmyShannon
5 months ago
Our Man In Havana by Graham Greene (1958)
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to r/literature by Chrissisol
3 months ago
Kerouac
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to r/literature by peachesandviolets1
8 months ago
Ecology & Form
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to r/literature by leonidganzha
6 months ago
Is Shakespeare actually easily intelligible for modern readers?
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to r/literature by Apart_Traffic4588
8 months ago
Middlemarch as a sad novel? I say no!
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to r/literature by rubyrillo
2 months ago
A canon for queer teens
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to r/literature by Any-Sugar-9681
1 year ago
What do you think of Brideshead Revisited?
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to r/literature by bngoc3r0
1 month ago
Fans of American Realism?
Literary History
to r/literature by Ottomoose
11 months ago
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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to r/literature by FirmAd8811
2 months ago
Your reading list for 2023. Please share.
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to r/literature by fixtheblue
7 months ago
r/bookclub are reading Gai-Jin starting Dec 1. Come join us
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to r/literature by Talvasha
7 months ago
I've been in a book club for the last year called Bookers
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to r/literature by Flyaway_5
5 months ago
Question about The Crucible
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to r/literature by Ottomoose
11 months ago
The postman always rings twice- James M. Cain
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to r/literature by Ottomoose
11 months ago
Marquis de Sade anyone?
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in Delaware
to r/literature by Ottomoose
11 months ago
Les Miserables
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to r/literature by JimmyShannon
1 year ago
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (1971)
Book Review
to r/literature by JimmyShannon
1 year ago
Desperate Characters by Paula Fox (1970)
Book Review
to r/literature by Old_McGee
4 months ago
How can I understand literature better?
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to r/literature by fixtheblue
7 months ago
r/bookclub is reading Shōgun and would like to open the invite to join us to everyone at r/literature
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to r/literature by another_secret_prof
1 year ago
Works which use the arrangement of words on the page as a literary device?
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to r/literature by sushisushisushi
11 months ago
What are you reading?
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