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The Bluffer's Guide to Literature - Michael Kerrigan - Page 4

The "Bluffer's Guide" is a series of short, sarcastically witty guidebooks that enable a Bluffer to give the impression that they are an expert in something highly valued.... like, say, literature.
Michael Kerrigan wrote this one. It's a bit of an idiosyncratic list of books: a lot of prose, a lot of poetry, a smattering of plays, and some diehard books on literary theory right at the end, so you look really clever. Where just an author's name was mentioned, I chose a representative book.
The topics are: Britain, the United States, Post-War, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Rest of the World, a diversity section (1980s-level), and Critical Theory.
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A Pair of Silk Stockings and Other Stories (Kate Chopin)
A Pair of Silk Stockings and Other Stories
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Kate Chopin
The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton)
The House of Mirth
122
Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
The Age of Innocence
123
Edith Wharton
Collected Poems by Robert Frost
Collected Poems by Robert Frost
124
Selected Poems of Ezra Pound (Ezra Pound)
Selected Poems of Ezra Pound
125
Ezra Pound
Cantos (Ezra Pound)
Cantos
126
Ezra Pound
The Collected Poems of Hilda Doolittle (Hilda Doolittle)
The Collected Poems of Hilda Doolittle
127
Hilda Doolittle
The Poems of Marianne Moore (Marianne Moore)
The Poems of Marianne Moore
128
Marianne Moore
Selected Poems of William Carlos Williams (William Carlos Williams)
Selected Poems of William Carlos Williams
129
William Carlos Williams
The Making of Americans (Gertrude Stein)
The Making of Americans
130
Gertrude Stein
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
131
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises
132
Ernest Hemingway
White Buildings (Hart Crane)
White Buildings
133
Hart Crane
The Bridge (Hart Crane)
The Bridge
134
Hart Crane
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (Wallace Stevens)
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
135
Wallace Stevens
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
136
William Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
137
William Faulkner
Go Down, Moses (William Faulkner)
Go Down, Moses
138
William Faulkner
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
139
Carson McCullers
A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Flannery O'Connor)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
140
Flannery O'Connor
The Great Tradition (F. R. Leavis)
The Great Tradition
141
F. R. Leavis
Lucky Jim (Kingsley Amis)
Lucky Jim
142
Kingsley Amis
Changing Places (David Lodge)
Changing Places
143
David Lodge
The History Man (Malcolm Bradbury)
The History Man
144
Malcolm Bradbury
Pastors and Masters (Ivy Compton-Burnett)
Pastors and Masters
145
Ivy Compton-Burnett
A Glass of Blessings (Barbara Pym)
A Glass of Blessings
146
Barbara Pym
The Garrick Year (Margaret Drabble)
The Garrick Year
147
Margaret Drabble
The Virgin in the Garden (A. S. Byatt)
The Virgin in the Garden
148
A. S. Byatt
Under the Net (Iris Murdoch)
Under the Net
149
Iris Murdoch
Scandal (A. N. Wilson)
Scandal
150
A. N. Wilson
A Start in Life (Anita Brookner)
A Start in Life
151
Anita Brookner
Herzog (Saul Bellow)
Herzog
152
Saul Bellow
The Natural (Bernard Malamud)
The Natural
153
Bernard Malamud
Portnoy's Complaint (Philip Roth)
Portnoy's Complaint
154
Philip Roth
Rabbit Angstrom Series (John Updike)
Rabbit Angstrom Series
155
John Updike
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow
156
Thomas Pynchon
Giles Goat Boy (John Barth)
Giles Goat Boy
157
John Barth
Billy Bathgate (E. L. Doctorow)
Billy Bathgate
158
E. L. Doctorow
The World According to Garp (John Irving)
The World According to Garp
159
John Irving
The Complete Works of John Cheever
The Complete Works of John Cheever
160
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