Modernism and Contemporary Examples
- Virginia Woolf — Mrs Dalloway
- James Joyce — Ulysses
- Melvin Burgess — Junk, Doing It
- Alexander Prokhanov — 600 Years after the Battle
- Irvine Welsh — Trainspotting
- Malorie Blackman — Noughts & Crosses
- Derek Walcott — Omeros
- Paulo Coelho — The Witch of Portobello
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn — Cancer Ward, The First Circle The Red Wheel series
- E.M. Forster - A Passage to India
- Tad Williams - The Dragonbone Chair
- Herman Wouk - The Winds of War, War and Remembrance, The Hope, The Glory
- Roberto Bolaño — The Savage Detectives
- Paul Auster — Sunset Park
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