Joseph Conrad 1985
- What it is
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A story hidden inside another · it tells it with no filter
- Genre
- Classics Literary
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It stirs you up inside · a place nobody can leave
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It gets under your skin · pitch-black comedy
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It ties your stomach in a knot · you'll keep turning it over for days
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No clean hands here · pitch-black comedy
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It tells it with no filter · it leaves you shaken
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It ties your stomach in a knot · pitch-black comedy
Defending Jacob
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It ties your stomach in a knot · it leaves you shaken
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Only story within a story
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Like yours: story within a story · sad, and in no hurry
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In common with yours: story within a story · you'll keep turning it over for days
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In common with yours: story within a story · melancholic and unhurried
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