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By 1987, David Bowie was at a creative, critical, and commercial low.

In an industry where nothing is real and no one actually wins or loses.

Legend. Bum. Genius. Con Man. Devoted husband and father. Myth. Storyteller.

Nirvanas Kurt Cobain could not have envisioned what his death would mean to Generation X.

What went wrong with WCW?In 1997, World Championship Wrestling was on top.

Bizarre sexual parables, hilarious science fiction, fables, text-tangles, dirty stories.

Elima?imaginary Elima. It is one of the Neighbor Islands.

At the height of the Cold War a Russian girl plots to steal the mummified body of Lenin.

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Trilby (1894) is a gothic horror novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin de siècle period after Bram Stoker's Dracula.

One of Henry James' greatest novels, The Ambassadors is a dark comedy from 1903.

Pierre and Jean is a short realist novel by Guy de Maupassant.

The Secret Sharer contains many of Conrad's favorite motifs.

My Antonia, first published 1918, is one of Willa Cather's greatest works.

Agnes Grey is the daughter of a minister who faces financial ruin.

Lady Audley's Secret was one of the first and most successful sensation novels of the late 19th century. A young gentleman of leisure, Robert Audley, is spurred into action when his friend Geroge Talboys goes missing from Audley Court.

In Jack London's 1910 story Before Adam a young boy dreams that he is living the life of an early hominid, giving human evolution an early and entertaining portrayal.

Death consists in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing.

First published in 1886, The Bostonians is one of James' wittiest social satires.