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Jules Verne

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A Voyage to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days 1828-1905

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Count Leo Tolstoy

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War and Peace and Anna Karenina 1828-1910

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Emily Dickinson

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American poet 1830-86

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Louisa May Alcott

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Little Women and Little Men 1832-88

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Lewis Carroll

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(Charles Dodgson) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass 1832-98

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Horatio Alger

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American writer 1832-99

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Mark Twain

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(Samuel L Clemens) The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Count, Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, and Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court 1835-1910

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Thomas Hardy

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The Mayor of Casterbridge and Tess of the D’ubervilles 1840-1928

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Henry James

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Daisy Miller, The Portrait of a Lady, and The Turn of the Screw 1843-1916

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Bram Stoker

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Dracula 1847-1912

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Emma Lazarus

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The New Colossus 1849-87

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1850-94

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Jose Marti

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Cuban poet 1853-95

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Oscar Wilde

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Irish The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest 1854-1900

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L. Frank Baum

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Wizard of Oz 1856-1919

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Joseph Conard

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Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness 1857-1924

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles 1859-1930

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O. Henry

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(William Sydney Porter) The Gift of the Magi 1862-1910

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Edith Wharton

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The Age of Innocence 1862-1937

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Rudyard Kipling

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Gunga Din, The Jungle Book, Captains Courageous, and Kim 1865-1936

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William Butler Yeats

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Irish Second Coming and Sailing to Byzantium 1865-1939

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Stephen Crane

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The Red Badge of Courage 1871-1900

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Gertrude Stein

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Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (coined the Lost Generation) 1874-1946

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Robert L. Frost

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Mending Wall, the Death of the Hired Man, The Road Not Taken, and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (JFK inauguration poem) 1874-1963

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Jack London

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The Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf, and White Fang 1876-1916

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Willa S. Cather

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My Antonia and Death Comes for the Archbishop 1876-1947

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Hermann Hesse

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German Siddhartha and Steppenwolf 1877-1962

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Carl Sandburg

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Abraham Lincoln writes about Chicago 1878-1967

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Upton Sinclair

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The Jungle 1878-1968

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Wallace Stevens

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Emperor of Ice-Cream 1879-1955

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James Joyce

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Irish Dubliners, Ulysses, and a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1882-1941

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Franz Kafka

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Austrian Metamorphosis 1883-1924

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William Carlos Williams

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Red Wheel Barrow and This is Just to Say(Plum poem) 1883-1963

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Sinclair Lewis

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Main Street 1885-1951

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T.S. Elliot

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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Wasteland, The Hollow Men, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats 1888-1965

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Boris L. Pasternak

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Doctor Zhivago 1890-1960

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J.R.R. Tolkien

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The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, and Silmarillron 1892-1973

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Pearl S. Buck

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The Good Earth 1892-1973

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e e cummings

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In Just Spring (no capitalizations) 1894-1962

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Aldous L. Huxley

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Brave New World 1894-1963

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, and The LastTycoon196-1940

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Wiliam Faulkner

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The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Barn Burning 1897-1962

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Thornton N. Wilder

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey 1897-1975

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C. S. Lewis

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The Screwtape Letters and Narnia Chronicles 1898-1963

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Erich Maria Remarque

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German All Quiet on the Western Front 1898-1970

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Ernest M. Hemingway

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The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea 1899-1961