Extracts from the less famous works of Literature

Extracts from:

• "Letter To A Televangelist", 2010
• "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver, 1998
• "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues" by Tom Robbins, 1976

• "Life, Money & Illusion" by Mike Nickerson, 2006
• "The Selfish Gene" (2nd Edition) by Richard Dawkins, 1989
• "Market Forces" by Richard Morgan, 2004

• "Rich and Poor" by Jacob Wren, 2016

• "The Librarian" by Larry Beinhart, 2004
• "The War Prayer" by Mark Twain, 1923

• "Psychiatric Aspects of Marihuana Intoxication" by Samuel Allentuck, MD and Karl Bowman, MD, 1942
• "Erewhon" by Samuel Butler, 1901
• "A Modest Proposal For Preventing The Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being Aburden to Their Parents or Country, and For Making Them Beneficial to The Public" by Jonathan Swift, 1729
• "Youth is Wasted on the Young", 2003 by Denis Leary

• "It Was a Dark & Stormy Night: The Final Conflict" compiled by Scott Rice, 1992
• "Dark and Stormy Rides Again" compiled by Scott Rice, 1996
• My entries to the 2002 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, Martin Leese
• My entries to the 2003 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, Martin Leese

• "Roderick at Random" by John Sladek, 1983
• "Blast from the Past" by Ben Elton, 1998

• "The Beiderbecke Tapes" by Alan Plater, 1986
• "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" by J. K. Rowling, 2003
• "Dramocles" by Robert Sheckley, 1983
• "Frollicks", a song lyric by Fred Wedlock

• "The Aggressor", a short story by John Sladek, 1961
• "The Book of Heroic Failures" by Stephen Pile, 1979
• "The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures" by Stephen Pile, 2011
• "The Stainless Steel Rat" by Harry Harrison, 1961
• "Slaughter House 5" by Kurt Vonnegut, 1969
• "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" by Bill Bryson, 2006
• "Malone Dies" by Samuel Beckett, 1956
• "The Tin Men" by Michael Frayn, 1965
• "Watching the English" by Kate Fox, 2014

• A letter from a 97 year old
• An anonymous diary entry
• A correspondence with an 18 month old, 1989

• "First They Came ...", a poem by German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller, 1950s
• "Autobiography in Five Short Chapters", a poem by Portia Nelson, 1977
• "This Be The Verse", a poem by Philip Larkin, 1971
• A reversible poem by E.J. Thribb (17½), 1997
• "Happy Talk", a contender for the world's worst poem, by Martin Leese, 2000
• "A Letter Never Sent", a poem by Kitty Lloyd Lawrence, 1995

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