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What would you do if one day all technology began to fail you? If slowly but surely, cell phones ceased to make calls, airplanes refused to lift off the ground and the Internet was no more? Imagine yourself in this scenario and you’ve transported to the reality of Jonathan Lethem’s latest novel, The Arrest.

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Jonathan Lethem

What would you do if one day all technology began to fail you? If slowly but surely, cell phones ceased to make calls, airplanes refused to lift off the ground and the Internet was no more? Imagine yourself in this scenario and you’ve transported to the reality of Jonathan Lethem’s latest novel, The Arrest.

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Margaret Drabble

1. Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (1606)
2. Emma by Jane Austen (1816)
3. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1857)
4. The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov (1901)
5. The Aeneid by Virgil (19 b.c.e.)
6. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1321)
7. Germinal by Émile Zola (1884)
8. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1962)
9. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1927)
10. The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett (1908)

 

 

 

 

 

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Bret Easton Ellis

 

1. Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man by Gustave Flaubert (1869).

2. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877). 

3. Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871–72). 

4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955). 

5. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925). 

6. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1857). 

7. Ulysses by James Joyce (1922). 

8. Rabbit Angstrom— Rabbit, Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit Is Rich (1981),Rabbit at Rest (1990)— by John Updike. 

9. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (1847–48). 

10. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851).