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Toni Morrison

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Beloved-after civil war-inspired by afrrican american slave

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H.G. Wells

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The Time Machine-inspired science fiction

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Edith Wharton

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Age of Innocence-NYC uppder class couples impending marriage

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Walt Whitman

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Leaves of Grass-book of poetry

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Tennessee Williams

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A streetcar named desire-teacher fired for affair

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Saul bellows

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Adventures of Auge March

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Ray Bradbury

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Fahrenheit 451 fireman burn houses where books are

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Charlotte Bronte

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Jane Eyre

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Willa Cather

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My Antonia last of the prairie sequel takes place on plains of Nebraska

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Thomas hardy

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Tess of Duberville-story of the pure woman

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Scarlett Letter

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George Orwell

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1984 dystopian novel

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Sylvia Plath

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The bell jar-semi autobiography. Plath committed suicide

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J.D. Salinger

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Catcher and the Rye

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John Steinbeck

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The Grapes of Wrath

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Raymond Chandler

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Farewell My Lady-mystery novel

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Joseph Courad

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Heart of Darkness-narrative

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T.S. Elliot

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The Wasteland- most important poem of its time

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Ralph Ellison

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The Invisible man

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Harper Lee

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To Kill A Mockingbird

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Sinclair Lewis

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Babbit-satire of middle class america

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Jack London

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Call of the Wild

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Norman Mailer

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The Naked and the Dead- world war 2

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Herman Melville

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Moby Dick

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Arthur Miller

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Death of a salesman- life of a businessman