1984
Leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1984th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 984th year of the 2nd millennium, the 84th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1980s decade.
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At Swim-Two-Birds
1939 novel by Irish writer Brian O’Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O’Brien
Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell
George Orwell’s collected nonfiction, written in the clear-eyed and uncompromising style that earned him a critical following, in 4 volumes: An Age Like This, 1920-1940 My Country Right or Left, 1940-1943 As I Please, 1943-1946 In Front of Your Nose, 1946-1950 One of the most thought-provoking and vivid essayists of the twentieth century, George Orwell …
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Metamorphoses
8 AD Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus
The Things They Carried
Collection of linked short stories by American novelist Tim O’Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War
The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor
Collection of short stories by Flannery O’Connor comprising all the stories in A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Everything That Rises Must Converge plus several previously unavailable stories
The Gnostic Gospels
Collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts discovered near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945.Thirteen leather-bound papyrus codices buried in a sealed jar were found by a local farmer named Muhammed al-Samman