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Some minds think themselves out of their own lives. Hamlet weighs the dagger and sets it down, Prufrock climbs the stair and turns back, a bright young doctor lets the years thicken around him until nothing is left but money and habit. These are the books about the gap between the wish and the deed, where consciousness itself becomes the thing that paralyses. They ask a quiet, frightening question: what if the life you keep meaning to begin is the one already slipping past?

In the app a path keeps your place, marks what you have read, and hands you the next work when you are ready for it.

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The route

  • 1. HamletWilliam Shakespeare, 1601
  • 2. Eugene OneginAlexander Pushkin, 1833
  • 3. Bartleby the ScrivenerHerman Melville, 1853
  • 4. OblomovIvan Goncharov, 1859
  • 5. Notes From the UndergroundFyodor Dostoevsky, 1864
  • 6. The Death of Ivan IlyichLeo Tolstoy, 1886
  • 7. IonitchAnton Chekhov, 1898
  • 8. The Cherry OrchardAnton Chekhov, 1904
  • 9. The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockT.S. Eliot, 1915
  • 10. The Tartar SteppeDino Buzzati, 1940
  • 11. Waiting for GodotSamuel Beckett, 1953
  • 12. StonerJohn Edward Williams, 1965
  • 13. The Remains of the DayKazuo Ishiguro, 1989
  • 14. Confessions of ZenoItalo Svevo, 1923
  • 15. A Sentimental EducationGustave Flaubert, 1869
  • 16. Bartleby the ScrivenerHerman Melville, 1853
  • 17. The Age of InnocenceEdith Wharton, 1920