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Ulysses

One form of the Roman name for Odysseus, a hero in ancient Greek literature

Beyond a Boundary

Memoir on cricket written by the Trinidadian Marxist intellectual C. L. R. James, which he described as “neither cricket reminiscences nor autobiography”. It mixes social commentary, particularly on the place of cricket in the West Indies and England, with commentary on the game, arguing that what happened inside the “Boundary Line” in cricket affected life beyond it, as well as the converse

Cultural Amnesia

English post-punk music group, first active between 1979 and 1983 as participants in the so-called cassette culture of the late 1970s and early 1980s in the UK. During this first period the band released three cassette albums: Video Rideo , The Uncle of the Boot and Sinclair’s Luck on English and German record labels, and contributed to a number of compilation albums

The Phantom Tollbooth

Children’s fantasy adventure novel written by Norton Juster, with illustrations by Jules Feiffer, first published in 1961. The story follows a bored young boy named Milo who unexpectedly receives a magic tollbooth that transports him to the once prosperous, but now troubled, Kingdom of Wisdom

The Aspern Papers

Novella by American writer Henry James, originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1888, with its first book publication later in the same year