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Elizabeth Costello: A New Novel  by the South African writer  J. M. Coetzee, winner of two  Booker Prizes and the 2003  Nobel Prize for Literature   Gao Xingjian's The Other Shore Yes!  jhumpa lahiri is back Spiritual Life: Buddha Speaks Asian Literature reading list Zen Poetry Ancient World speaks the Vedas Japan ArchivesChina Archives

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Playwriting tips for beginners: with help from Chekhov
The Golden Ass: a novel from the ancient world

Great Books from all 50 US States survey: Alabama to Wyoming
My TOP 10 books: Lifetime Reading:  survey results
Movie Channel: My Top 10 Movies of a Lifetime
Screenwriter's Introduction: Film Books
Malayalam Literature Pages: Kerala Journal
Aneesh Patel's Hypertext Mahabharata mainpage
Literatures of Asia:Online course
Booklists: Autobiographies from around the World
India Archive, excerpts of Upanishads and other classics
British Literature Articles and resources
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Classics of Literature and Ideas: Excerpts and pre-readings

From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die...
In his sonnet sequence Shakespere offers us 154 secrets of love and death...
More resources on sonnets

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