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Name 3 books by JF Cooper

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Leatherstocking; Deerslayer; the Last of the Mohicans

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who wrote the invisible man version that criticizes racism (rather than the flagrantly racist HG Wells’s Invisible Man)

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Ellison

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name 3 of tolstoy’s books

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anna karenina; war and peace; the death of ivan ilysch

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who wrote jane eyre

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charlotte bronte

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who wrote wuthering heights

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emily bronte

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who wrote little women

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alcott

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name 3 of toni morrison’s works

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song of solomon; the bluest eye; beloved

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name 3 of jane austen’s books

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emma; pride & prejudice; sense and sensibility

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name 2 of fitzgerald’s lesser-known books

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the beautiful & the damned; this side of paradise

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name 2 of emerson’s works & the KEY WORD you should buzz in when you hear

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nature; self-reliance
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who wrote candide

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voltaire

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name 4 of willa cather’s books

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O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, My Ántonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop

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name 2 of hawthorne’s books

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the scarlet letter; the house of 7 gables

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who wrote ivanhoe

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sir walter scott

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name 2 of tennyson’s works

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charge of the light brigade; lady of shalott

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name 2 of irving’s stories

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rip van winkle; the legend of sleepy hollow

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name this novel describing the conflict between the nihilism of a younger generation and the conservatism of their parents by Ivan Turgenev

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Fathers and sons

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name this 1762 philosophical work arguing legitimate government derives from people’s consent to the titular agreement, written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The Social Contract

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name this novel in which Tomas is married to Tereza, a work by Milan Kundera

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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the love affairs of the emperor’s son are chronicled by Murasaki Shikibu in what book, sometimes considered the world’s first novel

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the tale of genji

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name 2 books by Gogol

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The Overcoat; Dead Souls

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name this author of “The Gift of the Magi”

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O. Henry

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name this founder of the Italian sonnet & his most famous work

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Petrarch & his Canzoniere about Laura

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name the author and the title of the political treatise dedicated to the Medicis

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Machiavelli; The Prince

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who wrote the letter protesting the Dreyfus affair, J’Accuse!

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Zola

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Jack Burden narrates the rise and fall of Willie Stark in what Robert Penn Warren novel

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All the King’s Men

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who wrote Maggie: a Girl of the Streets

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Crane (Stephen)

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name 2 of Hesse’s books

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Steppenwolf, Siddhartha

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name 3 characters in Beloved, and where it’s set

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Sethe; Baby Suggs; Paul Garner; set in Denver

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who wrote The Master and Margarita

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bulgakov

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what 3 things did pushkin write

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Eugene Onegin, Boris Godunov , Mozart and Salieri

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name 3 books by dostoyevsky

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the idiot; crime and punishment; the brothers karamazov

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33
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who wrote dr. zhivago?

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pasternak

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34
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4 books by woolf

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Mrs. Dalloway
A Room of One’s Own
The Waves
To the Lighthouse

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what did machiavelli write

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the prince, for the Medicis

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36
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what did percy shelley write

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Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats

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37
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who wrote ethan frome

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edith wharton

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38
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Name 2 works by homer

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Iliad and the odyssey

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39
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3 works by hemingway

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The old man and the sea; the sun also rises; farewell to arms

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40
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2 works by Faulkner

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The sound and the fury; as I lay dying

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41
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1 work by Thoreau

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Civil disobedience

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42
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3 books by Steinbeck

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Of mice and men; the grapes of wrath; east of Eden

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43
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2 books by vonnegut

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Cats cradle; slaughterhouse 5

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44
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3 works by miller

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Death of a salesman; all my sons; the crucible

45
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4 plays by Tennessee Williams

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A streetcar named desire; the glass menagerie; the rose tattoo; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (the gay one lmao rip)

46
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2 works by hugo

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Les miserables; the hunchback of notre dame

47
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3 books by verne

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Around the world in 80 days; 20,000 leagues under the sea; journey to the center of the earth

48
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3 works by Goethe

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Faust, a play; and 2 novels, the sorrows of young werther and wilhelm meister’s apprenticeship

49
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George Orwell ‘s real name

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Eric Blair

50
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3 works by TS Eliot

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Murder in the cathedral (a play); the love song of j Alfred prufock & the waste land (poems)

51
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Who is the main character in catcher in the rye

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Holden cauffield

52
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3 works by Blake

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The tiger (poem) & The Songs of Innocence and of Experience

53
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2 poems by hughes

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The weary blues; the negro speaks of rivers

54
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2 works by Emerson

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Self-Reliance; Nature

55
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2 works by capote

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s; in cold blood

56
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4 books by kipling

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The white mans burden; gunga din; the man who would be king; the jungle book

57
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Who wrote the Canterbury tales

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Chaucer

58
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Who wrote paradise lost

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Milton

59
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2 books by ayn rand

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Atlas shrugged; the fountainhead

60
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2 of aesops fables

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The boy who cried wolf; the tortoise and the hare

61
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3 books by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Autumn of the Patriarch, and Love in the Time of Cholera

62
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Full name of author who wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Autumn of the Patriarch, and Love in the Time of Cholera

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

63
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who wrote robinson crusoe

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defoe

64
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who wrote Ulysses?

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Joyce

65
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Who wrote Heart of Darkness?

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Conrad

66
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Who wrote Our Town?

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Wilder

67
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What did Huxley write?

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Brave New World

68
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Who wrote Catch-22

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Heller

69
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what did Aristophanes write? x2

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In the Clouds; The Birds

70
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Who wrote The Portuguese Sonnets, & what are the key words to knowing it?

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“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways” poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

71
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Carl Sandburg poems x2

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“The Fog” & “Chicago”

72
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Who wrote “Howl” and had a weird font in his poem?

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Ginsburg

73
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Who wrote Anne of Green Gables??

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Montgomery

74
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What did Camus write x1 & where is he from

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The Stranger; he’s from Algeria

75
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Coleridge poems x 2

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“Kubla Khan” and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

76
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Who wrote what poem that has the lines “a darkling plain where ignorant armies clash by night”

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Arnold; “Dover Beach”

77
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2 works by Sylvia Plath

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“Daddy,” that creepy poem, and “The Bell Jar”

78
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Characters x 3 & author of Beowulf

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Wiglaf, Unferth, & Grendel (killed)
It has no author >:)

79
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who wrote the play Dr. Faustus, which was based on the story of Faust but written in English

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Marlowe

80
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WHO WROTE PAUL REVERE’S RIDE SSFKSJDHFKSJDHFLSKDJLSSDJSFHSKL

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Longfellow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! !!!!!! !!!

81
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2 books by stevenson

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Treasure Island; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

82
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who wrote anne of green gables

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Montgomery

83
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WHO wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

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Jonathan Edwards

84
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2 plays by Moliere

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tartuffe, Imaginary Invalid

85
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books x1 by Sartre

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Nausea

86
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Lord Byron famous works x1

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Don Juan

87
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who was the limerick guy and what was his famous book???

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Lear’s Book of Nonsense

88
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Hardy books x 4

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Far from the Madding Crowd; Tess of the d’Urbervilles; The Return of the Native; Jude the Obscure

89
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2 books by London

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Seawolf; Call of the Wild

90
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what is that quote from Beloved that should clue you that it’s Beloved

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“full of baby’s venom” or whatever it was

91
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characters in fall of the house of usher

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Roderick & Madeline Usher

92
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who wrote the Da Vinci Code??

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Dan Brown

93
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frost obscure poems x1

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Fire & Ice

94
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author of The Good Earth

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Buck

95
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works by Keats x1

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ode to a nightingale

96
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what was Fielding known for doing

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founding the English Novel with Richardson

97
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books x2 by Baudelaire

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Les Fleurs du Mal; The Albatross

98
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Who wrote A Clockwork Orange?

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Burgess

99
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2 books by Dumas

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The Count of Monte Cristo; the 3 Musketeers

100
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2 works by John Updike

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Rabbit, Run and freaking A&P

101
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who wrote the power and the glory

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graham greene

102
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who wrote that crushing poem, “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”

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Dylan Thomas

103
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who created the detective character Philip Marlowe?

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Chandler

104
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What is Rushdie’s famous novel?

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The Satanic Verses

105
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who wrote Leviathan?

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Hobbes

106
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author of The Romancing of the 3 Kingdoms

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14th-century Chinese writer Luo Guanzhong

107
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who is the author with “of” in all his titles?

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Steinbeck

108
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Who wrote Mademoiselle Fifi?

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Maupassant

109
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first sherlock holmes book

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A Study in Scarlet

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