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Originally Posted by BendtheBar
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
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Good call.
Just finished Nathaniel Hawthorne's
Tanglewood Tales (1853). It's the Greek Myths rewritten for children - with all the violence, rape, bloodshed and so on taken out. I'm not big on children's books, but this was so beautifully illustrated I had to get it. The writing is wonderful, as might be expected. Interesting too, to see the vocabulary and sentence construction nineteenth century kids could cope with.
Next: Sir Walter Scott's
Rob Roy.