Dear subscriber
Welcome to the Osmotic Bookshop. Buried in the ground near
here are the top ten books as chosen by 125 of the world’s leading
authors. With their pages unturned and
hermetically sealed in plastic they offer a permanent source of the world’s
greatest literary achievements for you to absorb by osmosis.
Rest here awhile. Lie amongst the grasses and trees and gain
the benefit of your proximity to this great literary resource. Lay your head near or on the grass for the
maximum effect. Headphones may improve the osmotic experience: simply plug your headphones directly into the earth.
Amongst the books you can experience are:
Anna Karenina by
Leo Tolstoy. A masterwork of tragic love. Follow Anna’s life from the erotic heights
of adulterous sin to exile and a fearful end.
Follow too the virtuous life Levin and his commitment to simple values.
Madame Bovary by
Gustav Flaubert. A meticulous portrait of extramarital romance in the French
provinces. The novel is a testament to how yearning for a higher life both
elevates and destroys us.
War and Peace by
Leo Tolstoy. Everything is included in this epic novel which describes the
intimate feelings of hundreds of characters. Follow Prince Andrey, Natasha and
Pierre as they struggle to find the right way to live.
Lolita by Vladimir
Nabokov. An infamous novel about Humbert Humbert a man obsessed by a nymphet
Dolores Haze in a mockery of the American road novel. Here you find love, power and obsession.
The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. An adventure story in which two comrades of
convenience escape the law and the conventions of society and strike out for
something new.
Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
A melancholic prince tries to avenge his father while grappling with the deep
and profound problems of existence.
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald. A searching fable of the American Dream in which Jay
Gatsby searches for lost love in a time of lost innocence.
In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust. Asking searching questions about time and memory we follow
dozens of characters and their affairs, lives and betrayals during the belle époque of French society.
The Stories of Anton
Checkov by Anton Checkov. Haunting, baffling and inspiring stories that
reflect the earnest urgency of ordinary lives in crisis.
Middlemarch by
George Eliot. A chronicle of the English town of Middlemarch this is also the
story of the idealist Dorothea Brooke whose mistaken marriage takes her down a
long and winding path in search of happiness.
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