Microcosm Macrocosm
Explore the best books on microcosm and macrocosm, from Byatt's *The Children's Book* to Ishiguro's *Never Let Me Go* and Borges' *Dreamtigers*—a curated reading list on worlds within worlds.
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Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remains of the Day comes “a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist—a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic. One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special—and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together.
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The Children's Book
by Antonia Susan Byatt
A tale spanning the end of the Victorian era through World War I finds famous children's book author Olive Wellwood taking in a runaway and exposing the boy to dark truths about her family's summer bacchanals at their rambling country house.
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Dreamtigers
by Jorge Luis Borges
Poems, stories, and personal reflections reveal the interwoven existence of imagination and reality in the mind of the South American writer