The collected works of Sholem Aleichem. Kazantzakis' The Last Temptation of Christ. Hoffmann's Kreisleriana and—complete with Volume III—Lebensansichten des Kater Murr. (Although I never asked what your Death would listen to, I would not be surprised to learn that mine even possesses a recording of Peter Pears in Les Contes d'Hoffmann.) Most novels of Nabokov, probably in both English and Russian; but Wilde's Salomé distinctly in French, with the Beardsley illustrations. Machado de Assis' Dom Casmurro. I have suspicions that my Death has read the Italian translation of Moonwise just for weirdness' sake, and is fluent in Czech. And has a thing for classical Greek romances: pirates, lovers, recognition scenes, and all.
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