Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on The Invention of the Index
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Book Parts
Discussed“your previous book book Parts which you edited cataloged all the various parts of the book from the dust jackets to the index”
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Orlando
Orlando by Virginia Woolf is a landmark modernist novel about a poet who changes sex across centuries and lives.
Discussed“so Virginia wolf Orlando has an index”
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Pale Fire
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov is a complex postmodern novel structured as a long narrative poem with an extensive, eccentric commentary and index written by a deranged scholar.
Discussed“nabokov's pale fly has an index”
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Pamela
Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson is a pioneering 18th-century epistolary novel that tells the story of a devoted maidservant defending her virtue against her master, who eventually marries her.
Discussed“Samuel richon writes an index for Pamela”
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Clarissa; or, The history of a young lady: comprehending the most important concerns of private life; and particularly shewing the distresses that may attend the misconduct both of parents and children, in relation to marriage ..
Clarissa; or, The history of a young lady by Samuel Richardson is an expansive epistolary novel detailing the tragic story of a virtuous young woman whose attempts to escape forced marriage lead to severe distress and downfall.
Discussed“he writes an index for Isa”
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Sylvie and Bruno
Discussed“LS Carroll has an index for his last novel Sylvan Bruno”
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Emma
Emma by Jane Austen is a classic comedic novel about a wealthy, clever young woman in Regency-era England who fancies herself a matchmaker with disastrous results.
Discussed“I know that I'm going to want to look something up in Jane Austin's Emma or something like that”
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The stuffed owl
The Stuffed Owl is an anthology of deliberately bad, pretentious, or unintentionally hilarious bad verse edited by D.
Recommended“there's a really good one from 19 29 it's it's from a book called The Stuffed owl which is a poetry anthology early 20th century poetry anthology”
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Death on the Nile
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie is a classic detective novel featuring the brilliant Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot solving a murder during a luxury cruise.
Recommended“my one of my favorite books is death on the Nile by Agatha Christie and that was one of the first books that I read cover to cover”
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The Chiffon Trenches
The Chiffon Trenches by André Leon Talley is a candid memoir by the late fashion journalist that chronicles his trailblazing career, high-society relationships, and personal struggles within the elite fashion industry.
Recommended“so I just finished listening to the audio book of Andre Leon Tally's Memoir the chiffon trenches”
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Recitatif
Discussed“I read Tony Morrison's newly published story Rec and it has a really really interesting publishing history”
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