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Hedda Gabler

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Henrik Ibsen

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Blindness

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José Saramago

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The Book of Disquiet

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Richardo Reis

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Os Lusiads/Lusiads

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Luis de Camoes

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Portuguese epic poem about Vasco de Gama

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Os Lusiads

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In this novel, the “dog of tears” follows the doctor’s wife, who is the only person to escape the title disability

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Blindness

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The Cherry Orchard

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Anton Chekhov

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The Three Sisters

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Anton Chekhov

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Tuzenbach

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The Three Sisters

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In this play, the servant Firs is trapped in the title estate

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The Cherry Orchard

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Madame Ranevskaya

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The Cherry Orchard

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Lopakhin

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The Cherry Orchard

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Solyony

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The Three Sisters

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“In the Penal Colony”

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Franz Kafka

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The Red Room

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Johan August Strindberg

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The Road to Damascus

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Johan August Strindberg

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The Father

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Johan August Strindberg

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The Ghost Sonata

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Johan August Strindberg

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Miss Julie

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Johan August Strindberg

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The Little Prince

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Antoine Saint-Exupery

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The protagonist of this novel meets a king, a drunk, and a lamplighter after leaving his home

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The Little Prince

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Faust

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Johann Wolfgang Goethe

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Mephistopheles

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Faust

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Auerbach’s Tavern/Wine Cellar in Leipzig

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Faust

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Milan Kundera

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A character in this novel hates Beethoven but makes use of the Beethoven derived phrase “es muss sein” to describe fate

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Marie-Claude

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

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Heinrich Theodor Böll

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Alois Straubleder (has a ruby ring)

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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

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30
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A nickname used in this play is “Little Cucumber”

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The Cherry Orchard

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31
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Sonnets to Orpheus

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Rainer Marie Rilke

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32
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The Duino Elegies

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Rainer Marie Rilke

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33
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One of his collections was dedicated to Wera Knoop

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Rainer Marie Rilke

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34
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Dance of Death

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Johan August Strindberg

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RUR (Rozems universal robot)

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Karel Čapek

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36
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Waiting for Godot

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Samuel Beckett

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37
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Repeats the phrase “Nothing to be done”

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Waiting for Godot

38
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Pozzo

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Waiting for Godot

39
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The slave Lucky

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Waiting for Godot

40
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In a monologue in this play “Testew and Cunard” are repeatedly mentioned

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Waiting for Godot

41
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“Litanies of Satan”

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Charles Baudelaire

42
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“The Albatross”

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Charles Baudelaire

43
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“Revolt” and “Spleen and Ideal” are sections in this collection

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Les Fleurs du Mal

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“The Lady With the Dog”

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Anton Chekhov

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The Mother, The Father and the Step-Daughter

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Six Characters in Search of an Author

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The play in a play Mixing it Up

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Six Characters in Search of an Author

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Madame Pace

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Six Characters in Search of an Author

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A woman with a pair of scissors dangling from her waist commits a vulgar trick in this play

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Six Characters in Search of an Author

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Dimitri Gurnov

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“The Lady with the Dog”

50
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The wife of Von Dideritz (Anna)

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“The Lady with the Dog” (which is a Pomeranian)

51
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“Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic hierarchies?”

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Duino Elegies

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“Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror”

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Duino Elegies

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This poet wonders if the addressee has “read the poet Gaspara Stamp sufficiently yet?”

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Rainer Maria Rilke

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Decameron

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Dioneo

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The Decameron

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Marquis de Saluzzo

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The Decameron

57
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Fiometta and Filostrato

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The Decameron

58
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

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The main character of this novel watches a Fernandel movie, a fact used against him in court

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The Stranger

60
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Meursault

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The Stranger

61
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Bazarov

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Fathers and Sons

62
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Adso of Melk

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The Name of the Rose

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William of Baskerville

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The Name of the Rose

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The Name of the Rose

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Umberto Eco

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The Prague Cemetery

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Umberto Eco

66
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Foucaults Pendulum

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Umberto Eco

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Captain Simonini

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The Prague Cemetery

68
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Sorrows of Young Werther

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The Count of Monte Cristo

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Alexandre Dumas

70
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Edmond Dantès

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The Count of Monte Cristo

71
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Château d’If

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The Count of Monte Cristo

72
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This novel’s chapter “The Fifth of October”

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The Count of Monte Cristo

73
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In this novel, Héloïse gets addicted to poisoning people to inherit a fortune

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The Count of Monte Cristo

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The Red and the Black

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Julien Sorel

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The Red and the Black

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Madame de Renard

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The Red and the Black

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Abbe Pirard (mentor)

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The Red and the Black

78
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The end of the first volume of this novel references The Vicar of Wakefield

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The Red and the Black

79
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Madame de Fervaques

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The Red and the Black

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Prince Korasoff

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The Red and the Black

81
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Odette’s daughter Gilberte

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In Search of Lost Time/Remembrance of Things Past

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“Swann’s Way”

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In Search of Lost Time

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Doctor Zhivago

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Boris Pasternak

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Eugene Onegin

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Alexander Pushkin

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The Bronze Horseman

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Alexander Pushkin

86
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“The Overcoat”

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Nikolai Gogol

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“St. John’s Eve”

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Nikolai Gogol

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“The Nose”

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Nikolai Gogol

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“Nevsky Prospekt”

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Nikolai Gogol

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Ghosts

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Henrik Ibsen

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Oswald

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