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url 2014-03-05 20:58
12 Books That End Mid-Sentence
The Castle - Ritchie Robertson,Anthea Bell
Dead Souls (Everyman's Library, #280) - Nikolai Gogol,Larissa Volokhonsky,Richard Pevear
The Broom of the System - David Foster Wallace,Duke Riley
A Sentimental Journey (Penguin Classics) - Laurence Sterne
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Shadow Country - Peter Matthiessen
Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
The Long Division - Derek Nikitas
Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
Finnegans Wake - James Joyce

The ending of Kafka's The Castle

 

She held out her trembling hand to K. and had him sit down beside her, she spoke with great difficulty, it was difficult to understand her, but what she said

 

That's just one of twelve books in this Publisher's Weekly blog post about novels that end in the middle of a sentence. The reasons for each abrupt ending are given, but Kafka has the best excuse--he died. 

 

The books are the nine above and these three below:

 

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Source: jaylia3.booklikes.com/post/813712/12-books-that-end-mid-sentence
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url 2014-01-09 00:14
Rothschild Prayerbook expected to sell for as much as $18 million at auction

Rothschild prayerbook - photo by E2v/Wikicommons

 

The Rothschild Prayerbook, which once set a record for the most expensive illuminated manuscript sold at auction, will again be offered for sale by Christie’s. This time the Book of Hours is expected to sell for between $12 million and $18 million later this month.

Source: www.medievalists.net/2014/01/08/rothschild-prayerbook-expected-to-sell-for-as-much-as-18-million-at-auction
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