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/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=12941 Shields, Carol Ann. Small Ceremonies. 1976.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=30424 Richards, David Adams. Small Heroics. 1972.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=30434 Richards, David Adams. Small Gifts. 1994.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=2616 Gray, Alasdair. Poor Things. 1992.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6087 Bierce, Ambrose. Can Such Things Be?. 1893.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7532 Stoppard, Tom. The Real Thing. 1982.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8279 Wilbur, Richard. Things of This World. 1956.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8284 Creeley, Robert. Thirty Things. 1974.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8434 Nabokov, Vladimir. Transparent Things. 1972.

Transparent Things was published in 1972, two years before Nabokov’s last novel, Look at the Harlequins! . Following on from the exotic epic Ada (1969), Transparent Things seems at first to be obtusely slight and inconsequential, its twenty-six chapters comprising, in the American Vintage edition, just over 100 pages. The novel’s hero, Hugh Person, pales in the shadow cast by Ada ’s decadent and extravagant protagonists. Unlike the sophisticated and manipulative Van Veen, he is a “sentimental simpleton”, a misfit, a man persistently out of his depth, afflicted by irrational fears and compromised at every turn. Set alternately in New York and Witt, a small ski resort in the Swiss Alps, the novel is centred around four trips Hugh makes to Switzerland over the course of eighteen years. The first is with his father when Hugh is only twenty-two years old, a tourist holiday made shortly after the death of his mother, in which Per

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=9251 Kureishi, Maki. The Far Thing. 1995.