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20th Century UK Flashcards

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James Joyce (1882-1941)

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Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1917), Ulysses (1922), Finnegan’s Wake (1939)

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Dubliners (1914)

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James Joyce (1882-1941)

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1917)

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James Joyce (1882-1941)

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Ulysses (1922)

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James Joyce (1882-1941)

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Finnegan’s Wake (1939)

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James Joyce (1882-1941)

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D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

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Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920), Lady Chatterly’s Lover (1928)

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Sons and Lovers (1913)

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D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

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Women in Love (1920)

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D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

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Lady Chatterly’s Lover (1928)

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D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

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Orlando (1923), Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), A Room of One’s Own (1929), The Waves (1931)

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Orlando (1923)

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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), inspired by Vita Sackville-West

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Mrs. Dalloway (1925)

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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

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To the Lighthouse (1927)

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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

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A Room of One’s Own (1929)

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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

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George Orwell (1903-1950)

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Homage to Catalonia (1938, soldiering for Spanish Republicans), Animal Farm (1946), 1984 (1949)

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Animal Farm (1946)

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George Orwell (1903-1950)

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1984 (1949)

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George Orwell (1903-1950)

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Salman Rushdie (1947-)

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Midnight’s Children (1981), The Satanic Verses (1988)

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Midnight’s Children (1981)

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Salman Rushdie (1947-), on the 1947 partition of India

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The Satanic Verses (1988)

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Salman Rushdie (1947-), about the prophet Muhammed

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E. M. Forster (1879-1970)

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A Room With A View (1908), Howard’s End (1910), A Passage to India (1924), Maurice (written 1913-4, published 1971)

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A Room With A View (1908)

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E. M. Forster (1879-1970)

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Howard’s End (1910)

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E. M. Forster (1879-1970)

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A Passage to India (1924)

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E. M. Forster (1879-1970)

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Daphne du Maurier

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Rebecca (1938), “The Birds” (1953, also Roeg adapted “Don’t Look Now”)

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Rebecca (1938)

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Daphne du Maurier

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“The Birds” (1953)

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Daphne du Maurier

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Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

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Brave New World (1931)

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Brave New World (1931)

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Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

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Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979)

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979)

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Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

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William Golding (1911-1993)

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Lord of the Flies (1954)

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Lord of the Flies (1954)

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William Golding (1911-1993)

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Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939)

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The Good Soldier (1915), Parade’s End (1924)

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The Good Soldier (1915)

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Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939)

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Parade’s End (1924)

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Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939)

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Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)

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A Clockwork Orange (1962)

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A Clockwork Orange (1962)

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Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)

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39
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Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957)

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Under the Volcano (1947)

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Under the Volcano (1947)

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Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957)

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T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915), The Waste Land (1922), Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (1939 - inspired CATS)

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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915)

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T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

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The Waste Land (1922)

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T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

44
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White Teeth (2000)

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Zadie Smith (1975-)

45
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Zadie Smith (1975-)

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White Teeth (2000)

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The Wind in the Willows (1908)

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Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)

47
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Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)

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The Wind in the Willows (1908)

48
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The Golden Notebook (1962)

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Doris Lessing (1919-2013)

49
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Doris Lessing (1919-2013)

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The Golden Notebook (1962)

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The Remains of the Day (1989)

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Kazuo Ishiguro (1954-)

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Never Let Me Go (2005)

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Kazuo Ishiguro (1954-)

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Richard Adams (1920-2016)

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Watership Down (1972)

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Watership Down (1972)

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Richard Adams (1920-2016)

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Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)

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Brideshead Revisited (1945)

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Brideshead Revisited (1945)

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Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)

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Graham Greene (1904-1991)

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Brighton Rock (1938), The Power and the Glory (1940), The End of the Affair (1951), The Quiet American (1955)

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Brighton Rock (1938)

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Graham Greene (1904-1991)

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The Power and the Glory (1940)

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Graham Greene (1904-1991)

59
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The End of the Affair (1951)

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Graham Greene (1904-1991)

60
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The Quiet American (1955)

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Graham Greene (1904-1991)

61
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Stella Gibbons (1902-1989)

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Cold Comfort Farm (1932)

62
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Cold Comfort Farm (1932)

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Stella Gibbons (1902-1989)

63
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Jean Rhys (1890-1979)

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Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), prequel to Jane Eyre

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Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)

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Jean Rhys (1890-1979), prequel to Jane Eyre

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T. H. White (1906-1964)

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The Sword In The Stone (1938), The Once and Future King (1958)

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The Sword In The Stone (1938)

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T. H. White (1906-1964)

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The Once and Future King (1958)

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T. H. White (1906-1964)

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A. S. Byatt (1936-2023)

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Possession (1990)

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Possession (1990)

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A. S. Byatt (1936-2023)

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Martin Amis (1949-2023)

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Money (1984), London Fields (1989)

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Money (1984)

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Martin Amis (1949-2023)

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London Fields (1989)

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Martin Amis (1949-2023)

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Kingsley Amis (1922-1995)

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Lucky Jim (1954)

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Lucky Jim (1954)

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Kingsley Amis (1922-1995)

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Agatha Christie (1890-1976)

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Murder on the Orient Express, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Death on the Nile, The Murder at the Vicarage, Partners in Crime, The A.B.C. Murders, And Then There Were None, The Mousetrap

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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1936)

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Agatha Christie (1890-1976)

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And Then There Were None (1939)

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Agatha Christie (1890-1976)

78
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Ken Follett (1949-)

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The Pillars of the Earth (1989)

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The Pillars of the Earth (1989)

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Ken Follett (1949)

80
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Arthur C Clarke (1917-2008)

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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

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Arthur C Clarke (1917-2008)

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Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924)

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Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), The Secret Garden (1911)

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A Little Princess (1905)

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Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924)

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The Secret Garden (1911)

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Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924)

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Dodie Smith (1896-1990)

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I Capture the Castle (1948), 101 Dalmations (1956)

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I Capture the Castle (1948)

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Dodie Smith (1896-1990)

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101 Dalmations (1956)

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Dodie Smith (1896-1990)

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John le Carre (1931-2020)

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The Spy Who Came in From The Cold (1963), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974), Smiley’s People (1979), The Night Manager (1993), The Constant Gardener (2000)

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The Spy Who Came in From The Cold (1963)

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John le Carre (1931-2020)

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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

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poet, Irish, founded the Abbey Theatre, Senator for Irish Free State - “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire,” “There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met”

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poet, Irish, founded the Abbey Theatre, Senator for Irish Free State - “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire,” “There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met”

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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

92
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W. H. Auden (1907-1973)

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“Funeral Blues,” “We must love one another or die,” long relationship with Isherwood, The Rake’s Progress libretto for Stravinsky (1951),

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“Funeral Blues,” “We must love one another or die,” long relationship with Isherwood, The Rake’s Progress libretto for Stravinsky (1951),

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W. H. Auden (1907-1973)

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Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)

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“Do not go gentle into that good night,” “Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.” Welsh

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“Do not go gentle into that good night,” “Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.” Welsh

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Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)

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