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aeschylus

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Greek dramatist and author of Prometheus Bound

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aesop

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Greek author of fables (stories with a moral)

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louisa may allcot

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American author of Little Women

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horatio alger

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american novelist

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dante alighieri

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Italian author of The Divine Comedy

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hans christian andersen

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Danish author of fairytales

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maya angelou

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Black American writer who wrote about growing up in the South

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aristophanes

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Greek playwright and author of The Clouds

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jane austen

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British author of Pride and Prejudice

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honoré de balzac

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French writer and author of La Comédie Humaine

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charles baudelaire

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French poet and author of Les Fleurs du Mal

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samuel beckett

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Irish existentialist and author of Waiting for Godot

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saul bellow

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American novelist and author of Herzog

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william blake

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British poet and author of Songs of Innocence

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ray bradbury

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American science fiction writer and author of The Martian Chronicles

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charlotte bronte

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British author of Jane Eyre

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emily bronte

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British author of Wuthering Heights

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lord george byron

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Romantic poet and author of Don Juan

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albert camus

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Existentialist French writer and author of The Stranger

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lewis caroll

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British author of Alice in Wonderland

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willa cather

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American author of Death Comes for the Archbishop

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miguel de cervantes

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Spanish author of Don Quixote

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geoffrey chaucer

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English poet and author of The Canterbury Tales

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anton pavlovich chekov

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Russian playwright and author of The Cherry Orchard

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samuel taylor coleridge

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British romantic poet and author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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joseph conrad

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British writer and author of Heart of Darkness

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e.e. cummings

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american poet

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daniel defoe

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American author of Robinson Crusoe

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charles dickens

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British author of David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, and A Tale of Two Cities

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emily dickinson

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american poet

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john donne

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English poet and author of “Death Be Not Proud”

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fyodor dostoevsky

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Russian novelist and author of Crime and Punishment

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john dryden

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English poet and author of Alexander’s Feast

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george eliot

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English novelist and author of Middlemarch

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t.s. eliot

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British poet and author of “The Waste Land”

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ralph ellison

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American author of The Invisible Man

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ralph waldo emerson

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American philosopher and writer, and author of “Concord Hymn”

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euripedes

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Greek dramatist known for his tragedies

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william faulkner

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American author of The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Light in August

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scott f fitzgerald

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American novelist and author of The Great Gatsby

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gustave flaubert

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French writer and author of Madame Bovary

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robert frost

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American poet and author of “The Road Not Taken”

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allen ginsberg

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American poet and author of beat poetry, including Howl

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johann wolfgang von goethe

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German writer and author of Faust

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william golding

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English author of The Lord of the Flies

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grimm brothers

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German authors of fairytales

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thomas hardy

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English writer and author of Tess of the D’Urbervilles

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nathaniel hawthorne

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American author of The Scarlet Letter

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ernest hemmingway

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American author of For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea

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hernest hesse

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German writer and author of Siddhartha

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homer

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Greek poet and author of The Iliad and The Odyssey

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langston hughes

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Black American poet who was part of the Harlem Renaissance

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victor hugo

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French writer and author of Les Misérables

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zora neale hurston

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Black American author of Their Eyes Were Watching God who was part of the Harlem Renaissance

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aldous huxley

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British author of Brave New World

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henrick, ibsen

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Norwegian playwright and author of A Doll’s House

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henry james

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American writer and author of The Turn of the Screw

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james joyce

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Irish author of Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

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franz kafka

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German author of The Metamorphosis

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john keats

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English poet and author of “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

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jack kerouac

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American poet and author of On the Road

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rudyard kipling

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British author of The Jungle Book

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d.h. lawrence

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British author of Lady Chatterley’s Lover

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sinclair lewis

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American satirist and author of Main Street

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jack london

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American author of The Call of the Wild

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henry wadsworth longfellow

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American poet and author of Paul Revere’s Ride

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thomas mann

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German author of The Magic Mountain

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christopher marlowe

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English playwright and author of Dr. Faustus

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herman melville

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American author of Moby Dick

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arthur miller

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American playwright and author of The Crucible

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john milton

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British author of Paradise Lost

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toni morrison

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Black American author of Beloved

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vladimir nabokov

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Russian writer and author of Lolita

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eugene o’neil

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American playwright and author of A Long Day’s Journey into Night

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george orwell

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English author of 1984 and Animal Farm

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ovid

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Roman poet and author of Metamorphoses

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thomas paine

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American writer and author of Common Sense

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petrarch

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Italian Renaissance poet

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sylvia plath

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American poet and author of The Bell Jar

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plutarch

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Greek writer and author of The Parallel Lives

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edgar allen poe

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American author of “The Raven”

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ezra pound

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american poet

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marcel proust

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French novelist and author of Remembrance of Things Past

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salman rushdie

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British novelist and author of The Satanic Verses

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sir walter scott

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Scottish novelist and author of Ivanhoe

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dr suess

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American author of children’s books, including The Cat in the Hat and The Lorax

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william shakespeare

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British dramatist and author of MacBeth and The Tempest

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george bernard shaw

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Irish playwright and author of Pygmalion

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Mary Shelly

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English novelist and author of Frankenstein

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percy bysshe shelley

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English poet and author of Prometheus Unbound

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shel silverstein

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American author of children’s poems, including Where the Sidewalk Ends

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upton sinclair

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American writer and author of The Jungle

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aleksander solzhenitsyn

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Russian writer and author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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sophocles

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Greek playwright and author of Oedipus Rex

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edmund spencer

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English poet and author of The Faerie Queen

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robert lewis stevenson

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Scottish author of Treasure Island

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harriet beecher stowe

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American author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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jonathan swift

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English author of Gulliver’s Travels

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henry david thoreau

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American author of Walden

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j.r.r tolkien

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British author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

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leo tolstoy

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Russian author of Anna Karenina

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mark twain

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American author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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john updike

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American author of Rabbit, Run

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virgil

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Roman poet and author of The Aeineid

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kurt vonnegut

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American novelist and author of Slaughterhouse-Five

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edith wharton

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British author of Ethan Frome

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walt whitman

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American poet and author of Leaves of Grass

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oscar wilde

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Irish author of The Picture of Dorian Gray

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laura ingalls wilder

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American author of Little House on the Prairie

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thornton wilder

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American playwright and author of Our Town

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tennessee williams

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American playwright and author of A Streetcar Named Desire

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virgina woolf

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British novelist and author of Mrs. Dalloway

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willam woodsworth

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British poet

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