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B Flashcards

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Title character dies from getting slashed by Laertes’ poisoned blade

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Hamlet

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Calpurnia is the Finch family’s cook

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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Jim Conklin suffers delirium from blood loss

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The red badge of courage

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The climax of the play is when Jim OConnor steps on a toy unicorn

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The glass menagerie

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The title character blinds himself and his wife kills herself

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Oedipus

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Title character is expelled from Baron Thunder Ten Tronckh’s castle after kissing Cunegonde

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Candide

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Main character meets Robert Lebrun at the start of the novel

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The Awakening

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Narrator is repeatedly mistaken for Rinehart

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Invisible Man

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“old age shall this generation waste”

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Ode on a Grecian Urn

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George and Martha are terrible party hosts

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Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf

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Protagonist disapproves of Wickham and Lydia’s marriage

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Pride and prejudice

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Takes its name from a place in Pilgrim’s Progress

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Vanity fair

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The protagonist marries a woman only known as the “third princess”

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The Tale of Genji

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Hrothgar, Wealhtheow, and his warriors spend their time celebrating in Heorot

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Beowulf

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Orgon and his mother have fallen under the influence of the title character, to the chagrin of Orgon’s family

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Tartuffe

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Title character is buried between two linden trees

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The sorrows of young werther

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Nikolay had a son with servant Fenechka, named Mitya

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Fathers and sons

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Title character inherits a fortune and an estate from a dead wealthy uncle

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Eugene Onegin

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Irina finds Konstanin’s play ridiculous and incomprehensible

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The seagull

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20
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Primarily set in Salinas Valley, California

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East of Eden

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The main character meets the Eloi, small, childlike humanoids

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The Time Machine

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22
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Saladin Chamcha is an Indian expatriate who works as a voiceover artist in England

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The satanic verses

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Title character’s father gets drunk after being told he is descended from an ancient Norman family

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Tess of the d’Urbervilles

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Willie Stark’s character is inspired by Huey Long

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All the kings men

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Protagonist is born with an adult’s capacity for thought and perception

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The tin drum

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26
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The main character is a schoolmaster from Connecticut

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The legend of sleepy hollow

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27
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Title character attempts to match Harriet Smith with Mr Elton

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Emma

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28
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Bigger Thomas kills a rat with an iron skillet

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Native son

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29
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Colonel Pyncheon is found dead in his armchair

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The house of the seven gables

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30
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Absalom is sentenced to death for the murder of Arthur Jarvis

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Cry the beloved country

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31
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Big Daddy is dying of cancer

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Cat on a hot tin roof

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32
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“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness”

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Howl

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33
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“The falcon cannot hear the falconer”

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The Second Coming

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34
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“A shape with lion body and the head of a man”

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The second coming

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35
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“In leaves no step had trodden black”

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The road not taken

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36
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“The wedding guest stood still”

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The rime of the ancient mariner

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37
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“I’m with you in Rockland”

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Howl

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38
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“”’tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door”

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The raven

39
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“At length did cross an albatross”

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The rime of the ancient mariner

40
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“Five years have passed”

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Lines written a few miles above tintern abbey

41
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“Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”

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The second coming

42
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“Tell me what thy lordly name is on the night’s Plutonian shore!”

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The raven

43
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“Now is the summer of our discontent”

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Richard III

44
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Willie stark transforms from an idealistic lawyer to a charismatic and powerful governor

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All the kings men

45
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Britobart wins a joust with Guyon

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The faerie queen

46
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Novel opens during a Russian orthodox funeral liturgy

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Doctor Zhivago

47
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Falstaff decides to send Mistress Ford and Mistress Page identical love letters

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The merry wives of windsor

48
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Title character’s brother is married to an opium addict

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Silas Marner

49
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Adela quested and Mrs Moore visit Chandrapore

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A passage to India

50
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The city tax collector invites several Indians to his house

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A passage to India

51
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Title character has a daughter named Verona with socialist leanings

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Babbitt

52
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Title character goes camping in Maine with friend Paul Riesling

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Babbitt

53
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Paul Riesling shoots his wife Zilla

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Babbitt

54
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“What happens to a dream deferred?”

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Harlem

55
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“Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”

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Harlem

56
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“Had we but world enough, and time”

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To his coy mistress

57
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“Till the conversion of the Jews”

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To his coy mistress

58
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“I met a traveler from an antique land”

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Ozymandias

59
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“And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command”

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Ozymandias

60
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Player with railroads and the nation’s freight handler

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Chicago

61
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Wealth Irish immigrant Gerald O’Hara owns a plantation in Georgia

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Gone with the wind

62
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Charles goes to war and dies of measles two months later

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Gone with the wind

63
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Jack burden is the narrator

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All the kings men

64
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Sofia is sentenced to 12 years in prison

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The color purple

65
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In 1866 various ships sight a mysterious sea monster

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Twenty thousand leagues under the seas

66
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The passengers of the Nautilus hunt sea life in the underwater forests of crespo island

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Twenty thousand leagues under the seas

67
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Narrates the events and aftermath of the Kurukshetra war

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Mahābhārata

68
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Fogg and Passpartout rescue Aouda, who was about to undergo sati

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Around the world in eighty days

69
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Phileas Fogg is part of the Reform Club

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Around the world in eighty days

70
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Detective Fix gets Passepartout drunk and drugs him in an opium den

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Around the world in eighty days

71
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A group of Sioux warrior ambush the main characters’ train

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Around the world in eighty days

72
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Protagonist bribes the crew of the Henrietta to mutiny

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Around the world in eighty days

73
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Fogg marries Aouda

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Around the world in eighty days

74
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Aouda’s distant relative lives in Holland

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Around the world in eighty days

75
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Protagonist at first thinks he reached his destination five minutes late

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Around the world in eighty days

76
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Protagonist fires a servant for bringing him water at slightly the wrong temperature

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Around the world in eighty days

77
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Contains consequences of man’s “first disobedience”

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Paradise lost

78
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Odette marries Charles swann

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Remembrance of things past

79
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There are no toothbrushes, mirrors, windows, or torture devices in the room

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No exit

80
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Clarissa hosts a party

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Mrs dalloway

81
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Protagonist takes a potion to appear 30 years younger

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Faust

82
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Protagonist uses caskets of jewels to seduce Gretchen

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Faust

83
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According to Fedallah, the captain will see two hearses before his death

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Moby dick

84
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A messenger informs title character of the death of king polybus of corinth

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Oedipus

85
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Lady Brett Ashley has a relationship with Jake Barnes

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The sun also rises

86
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“Who are these coming to the sacrifice?”

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Ode on a Grecian urn

87
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“Still unravish’d bride of quietness”

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Ode on a Grecian urn

88
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Tom praises a racist book called The Rise of the Colored Empires

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The great gatsby

89
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Soldier Miles Henson protects Edward VI

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The prince and the pauper

90
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Has a dream sequence where the Messenger recants polytheistic scriptures

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The satanic verses

91
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Protagonist’s great aunt Betsey Trotwood arranged to have protagonist educated by Mr Wickfield

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David copper field

92
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At the end the characters play a bingo style game while a writer rips up his manuscripts

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The seagull

93
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Novel describes a song whose melody resembles La Cucaracha

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Animal farm

94
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“We are not now that strength which in old days / moved earth and heaven”

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Ulysses (Tennyson)

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