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Novels
-George Orwell - Keep the aspidistra flying (Anyone who fancies themself as an poet, writer or artist should read this. It says everything about the western ideal of the 'artist'. Also, very readable.
-Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead revisted (Catholic reactionary tosh, but remarkably witty and occassionaly profound)
-Solzhenitzyn - Cancer ward (the greatest novel ever writen, in any language)
Poets
-Alexander Pushkin
-Sylvia Plath
-John Donne
Non-fiction
-George Orwell - Collected essays
-Encyclopedia of art and artists (published by a company callled Phaidon, I believe)
-Oxford library of words and phrases volume I: Quotations
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A stitch in time is worth two in the bush.
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