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Monsters and machines

Grendel, the Monkey King, a creature made in a lab, a white whale, a count, a beetle, and a state that watches. What we fear, in eight books.

The works, in reading order

  1. 1. Beowulf Anonymous (Beowulf) · c. 1000
  2. 2. Journey to the West Wu Cheng'en · 1592
  3. 3. Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift · 1726
  4. 4. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley · 1818
  5. 5. Moby-Dick Herman Melville · 1851
  6. 6. Dracula Bram Stoker · 1897
  7. 7. The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka · 1915
  8. 8. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell · 1949

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