The Quiet American
1955 · 180 pages
Greene put a British correspondent and an idealistic young American in Saigon, fighting over the same woman and over a theory. He saw the American war in Vietnam a decade before it started.
★ 6.7
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
1774 · 118 pages
Werther writes to a friend about Lotte, who is engaged to a decent man, and about feelings he cannot govern. Young men across Europe dressed like him and read themselves into his condition.
★ 7.3