Gogol’s Strangest Sentences: The Nose, The Overcoat and Dead Souls
A nose that leaves its owner's face and gets promoted above him. Gogol's most absurd lines, in public-domain translations, with the story or chapter...
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The strangest, funniest and most unsettling sentences in classic books, from Kafka and Gogol to Lewis Carroll, Laurence Sterne and Moby-Dick. Out of context they read like nonsense; in context they are often stranger still. Each collection cites the chapter and explains what the author was doing.
The Strangest Lines in Moby-Dick
A whaling novel that stops for sermons, cetology lectures and a chapter on the whiteness of a whale. The oddest sentences in Moby-Dick, with...
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Kafka’s Most Unsettling Lines, and Where They Come From
The Metamorphosis opens with a man waking up as an insect and treats it as a scheduling problem. Kafka's flattest, strangest sentences, and what...
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Alice in Wonderland’s Oddest Lines, Explained
Carroll's nonsense has rules. The strangest lines in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, the chapter each comes from, and the logic...
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The Strangest Sentences in Classic Literature
Serious novels contain some very strange sentences. A collection of the oddest, from Sterne to Dickens to Melville, with the context that explains, or...
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