Reading path
The Green Light
Some men do not want a life. They want one shining thing on the far shore, and they will invent themselves entirely to reach it. These are the books of the dream chased past the point of sense: the borrowed name, the fortune built for a single impossible reunion, the woman who is always about to arrive and never does. Glamour here is a mask, and behind it is longing. They reach. They almost touch it. The green light goes on burning across the water, exactly as far away as it always was.
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.
The first button needs the app on this device; the second gets it there.
The route
- 1. The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
- 2. Le Grand MeaulnesHenri Alain-Fournier, 1913
- 3. La Belle Dame sans MerciJohn Keats, 1819
- 4. Lord JimJoseph Conrad, 1900
- 5. The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde, 1890
- 6. Tender Is the NightF. Scott Fitzgerald, 1934
- 7. The Good SoldierFord Madox Ford, 1915
- 8. Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert, 1857
- 9. Death in VeniceThomas Mann, 1912
- 10. The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway, 1926
- 11. The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockT.S. Eliot, 1915
- 12. Death of a SalesmanArthur Miller, 1949
- 13. The Remains of the DayKazuo Ishiguro, 1989
- 14. OzymandiasPercy Bysshe Shelley, 1818
- 15. The Red and the BlackStendhal, 1830
- 16. AlastorPercy Bysshe Shelley, 1816