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Description: Works reviewed or mentioned in Angela Carter's Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings.

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The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

83,068 members

1,307 reviews

3.8

3 Members: chrysotheme, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

62,331 members

813 reviews

3.9

3 Members: chrysotheme, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

25,064 members

185 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: chrysotheme, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by George Eliot

20,818 members

369 reviews

4.2

3 Members: chrysotheme, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Satanic Verses

by Salman Rushdie

13,546 members

153 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: chrysotheme, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by William Blake

109 members

4 reviews

3.9

3 Members: chrysotheme, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

50,236 members

783 reviews

4.2

2 Members: chrysotheme, ahef1963

8

Gone with the Wind [1939 film]

by Victor Fleming

1,211 members

9 reviews

4.2

2 Members: chrysotheme, ManWithAnAgenda

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27,511 members

377 reviews

4

2 Members: chrysotheme, ahef1963

10

The Tale of Genji {complete}

by Murasaki Shikibu

6,303 members

66 reviews

3.9

2 Members: chrysotheme, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Fall of the House of Usher [short story]

by Edgar Allan Poe

1,335 members

47 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: chrysotheme, ManWithAnAgenda

12

Oscar and Lucinda

4,503 members

73 reviews

3.8

2 Members: chrysotheme, ahef1963

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by Judith Krantz

885 members

10 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: chrysotheme, ahef1963

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by Judith Krantz

836 members

16 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: chrysotheme, ahef1963

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Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings

by Angela Carter

303 members

4 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: chrysotheme

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by D. H. Lawrence

7,650 members

57 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: chrysotheme

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Empire of the Sun

by J. G. Ballard

4,151 members

80 reviews

4

Member: chrysotheme

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by Bruce Chatwin

3,863 members

66 reviews

3.9

Member: chrysotheme

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Story of the Eye

by Georges Bataille

2,786 members

59 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: chrysotheme

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Innocent Erendira and Other Stories

by Gabriel García Márquez

2,020 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: chrysotheme

21

Hollywood Babylon

by Kenneth Anger

1,656 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: chrysotheme

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The Man Who Loved Children

by Christina Stead

1,594 members

48 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: chrysotheme

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The Book of Sand

by Jorge Luis Borges

1,569 members

28 reviews

4.1

Member: chrysotheme

24

The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History

by Robert Darnton

1,447 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: chrysotheme

25

The Beautiful Room Is Empty

by Edmund White

1,064 members

15 reviews

3.8

Member: chrysotheme

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Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words {Female Edition}

by Milorad Pavić

1,077 members

17 reviews

3.8

Member: chrysotheme

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by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

1,090 members

22 reviews

3.8

Member: chrysotheme

28

The Western Lands

by William S. Burroughs

904 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: chrysotheme

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by Vladimir Nabokov

819 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: chrysotheme

30

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories

772 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: chrysotheme

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Irish Folktales

by Henry Glassie

843 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: chrysotheme

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The Official Preppy Handbook

by Lisa Birnbach

737 members

7 reviews

4

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by Michael Moorcock

675 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: chrysotheme

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The Little Disturbances of Man

576 members

14 reviews

3.8

Member: chrysotheme

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Landscape Painted with Tea

by Milorad Pavić

577 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: chrysotheme

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Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe

by Laurie Lisle

545 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: chrysotheme

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One Hundred Flowers

by Georgia O'Keeffe

571 members

2 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: chrysotheme

38

English Bread and Yeast Cookery

by Elizabeth David

492 members

5 reviews

4.2

Member: chrysotheme

39

French Country Cooking

by Elizabeth David

410 members

6 reviews

4.1

Member: chrysotheme

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A Pictorial History of the American Indian

by Oliver La Farge

406 members

3 reviews

2.8

Member: chrysotheme

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by Iain Sinclair

373 members

4 reviews

3.2

Member: chrysotheme

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A Night at the Movies Or, You Must Remember This

by Robert Coover

334 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: chrysotheme

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Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature

by Jorge Luis Borges

381 members

4 reviews

4.2

Member: chrysotheme

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Honey from a Weed: Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades, and Apulia

by Patience Gray

319 members

5 reviews

4

Member: chrysotheme

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Letty Fox: Her Luck

by Christina Stead

307 members

4 reviews

3.2

Member: chrysotheme

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Louise Brooks: A Biography

282 members

2 reviews

4.2

Member: chrysotheme

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by Christina Stead

279 members

2 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: chrysotheme

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by Inea Bushnaq

299 members

2 reviews

4

Member: chrysotheme

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A Japanese Mirror: Heroes and Villains of Japanese Culture

260 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: chrysotheme

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The Fashion System

by Roland Barthes

269 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: chrysotheme

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Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time

by Phyllis Rose

212 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: chrysotheme

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The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

by Charles Perrault

190 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: chrysotheme

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by Hildegard Knef

169 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: chrysotheme

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Doris Day: Her Own Story

by A. E. Hotchner

165 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: chrysotheme

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The Life of Katherine Mansfield

by Antony Alpers

154 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: chrysotheme

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The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style & Mode of Production to 1960

by David Bordwell

149 members

½ 4.6

Member: chrysotheme

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Cotters' England

by Christina Stead

133 members

4 reviews

½ 2.3

Member: chrysotheme

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Past Imperfect: An Autobiography

by Joan Collins

145 members

4

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Being There [1979 film]

181 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: chrysotheme

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The Salzburg Tales

by Christina Stead

133 members

4 reviews

3.8

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I'm Dying Laughing

by Christina Stead

123 members

3

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Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity

by Elizabeth Wilson

116 members

1 review

4.1

Member: chrysotheme

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Passion by Design: The Art and Times of Tamara De Lempicka

by Kizette de Lempicka-Foxhall

127 members

4

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Sophia: Living and Loving: Her Own Story

by A. E. Hotchner

112 members

4.1

Member: chrysotheme

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The Beauties and Furies

by Christina Stead

99 members

2 reviews

3.8

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A Little Tea, a Little Chat

by Christina Stead

94 members

2 reviews

3.1

Member: chrysotheme

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House of All Nations

by Christina Stead

96 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: chrysotheme

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Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words

by Milorad Pavić

86 members

4.2

Member: chrysotheme

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Ah Pook Is Here!

by William S. Burroughs

87 members

1 review

4.1

Member: chrysotheme

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The People with the Dogs

by Christina Stead

76 members

1 review

3.2

Member: chrysotheme

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Treasures of Ancient Nigeria

100 members

5

Member: chrysotheme

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Hollywood anecdotes

by Paul F. Boller

71 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: chrysotheme

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The Blue Angel [1930 film]

by Josef von Sternberg

91 members

5 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: chrysotheme

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Fashion & Fetishism: Corsets, Tight-Lacing and Other Forms of Body-Sculpture

by David Kunzle

61 members

3.8

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Fela: This Bitch of a Life

by Carlos Moore

58 members

½ 4.5

Member: chrysotheme

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The Draughtsman's Contract [1982 film]

by Peter Greenaway

73 members

½ 4.4

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In the Realm of the Senses [1976 film]

by Nagisa Ōshima

68 members

½ 3.5

Member: chrysotheme

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Close-Ups: Intimate Profiles of Movie Stars by Their Co-Stars, Directors, Screenwriters, and Friends

54 members

2

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79

The Official Foodie Handbook

50 members

1 review

3.2

Member: chrysotheme

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Artists of the Tudor Court: The Portrait Miniature Rediscovered, 1520-1620: 9 July-6 November 1983, the Victoria & Albert Museum

59 members

½ 4.5

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81

A Land Apart: A Contemporary South African Reader

by André Brink

55 members

3

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82

The Lords of Akchasaz: Murder in the Ironsmiths Market

by Yaşar Kemal

53 members

1 review

½ 4.4

Member: chrysotheme

83

Art in the Third Reich

by Berthold Hinz

59 members

3.8

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84

Inside Linda Lovelace

by Linda Lovelace

30 members

2

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85

Pandora's Box [1929 film]

by Georg Wilhelm Pabst

83 members

1 review

3.8

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86

Michael Moorcock: death is no obstacle

by Michael Moorcock

45 members

3.9

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The Anthropologists' cookbook

by Jessica Kuper

43 members

Member: chrysotheme

88

A History of Women's Bodies

by Edward Shorter

50 members

½ 3.7

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Colette: Free and Fettered

by Michèle Sarde

42 members

4

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90

Simone de Beauvoir, a life of freedom

by Simone de Beauvoir

35 members

4

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The Arcimboldo Effect

by Pontus Hultén

35 members

½ 4.5

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92

Hill Street Blues: The Complete First Season

by Steven Bochco

40 members

2 reviews

½ 4.7

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93

Mourning Dress: A Costume and Social History

30 members

4

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94

The Girls in the Gang: A Report from New York City

by Anne Campbell

26 members

2

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95

Gwen John: An Interior Life

by Cecily Langdale

22 members

1 review

3

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Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words {Androgynous Edition}

by Milorad Pavić

29 members

½ 4.3

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Self-Starvation: From Individual to Family Therapy in the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa

by Mara Selvini Palazzoli

22 members

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Life On Earth [1979 TV series]

by David Attenborough

23 members

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Where Sixpence Lives

by Norma Kitson

19 members

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Beauty in History: Society, Politics, and Personal Appearance : C. 1500 to the Present

by Arthur Marwick

14 members

4

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