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J! Literature Flashcards

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The Compleat Angler

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Izaak Walton

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Czech playwright and president

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Vaclav Havel

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Hollywood Wives author

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Jackie Collins

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Wicked

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Gregory Maguire

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Main character of The Mysterious Affair at Styles

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Poirot’s debut

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Winesburg Ohio

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Sherwood Anderson

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Oil!

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Upton Sinclair

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Arrowsmith

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Sinclair Lewis

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Main Street

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Sinclair Lewis

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Elmer Gantry

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Sinclair Lewis

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It Can’t Happen Here

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Sinclair Lewis

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Author from Sauk Centre Minnesota

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Sinclair Lewis

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Babbitt

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Sinclair Lewis

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Dodsworth

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Sinclair Lewis

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William Sydney Porter’s pen name

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O. Henry

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John Brown’s Body (1928 poem)

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Stephen Vincent Benet

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Idylls of the King (about Camelot)

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Tennyson

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Charge of the Light Brigade

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Tennyson

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Crossing the Bar

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Tennyson

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Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

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Lord Byron

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She Walks in Beauty

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Lord Byron

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Lord Byron’s daughter

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Ada Lovelace

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Don Juan

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Lord Byron

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Poet fought for Greek independence

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Lord Byron

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Lord, poet laureate

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Lord Tennyson

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The Devil and Daniel Webster

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Stephen Vincent Benet

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Wessex novelist

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Thomas Hardy

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French father of science fiction

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Jules Verne

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Old Ironsides poem

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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dog Buck in 1890s Canada gold rush

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Call of the Wild

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The Blind Side

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Michael Lewis

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Airport

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Arthur Hailey

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Detective

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Arthur Hailey

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Hotel

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Arthur Hailey

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Wheels

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Arthur Hailey

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Thumbelina

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Hans Christian Andersen

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Prayer for Owen Meany

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John Irving

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Ben-Hur

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Lew Wallace

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The Children’s Hour

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Lillian Hellman

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The Little Foxes

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Lillian Hellman

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Pentimento

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Lillian Hellman

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Watch on the Rhine

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Lillian Hellman

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Toys in the Attic

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Lillian Hellman

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The Third Man

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Graham Greene

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Our Man in Havana

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Graham Greene

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The End of the Affair

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Graham Greene

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The Quiet American

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Graham Greene

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My Antonia

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Willa Cather

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O Pioneers

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Willa Cather

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Death Comes for the Archbishop

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Willa Cather

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Author from Red Cloud Nebraska

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Willa Cather

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Wide Sargasso Sea

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Jean Rhys

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four horsemen of the apocalypse

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pestilence, war, famine, death

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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is about what event

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9/11

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The Corrections

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Jonathan Franzen

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A Million Little Pieces

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James Frey

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Franny and Zooey

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Salinger

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Nine Stories

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Salinger

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Sidney Lanier poet state

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Georgia

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Sidney Lanier poet war

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Civil War

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Doctor Faustus

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Thomas Mann

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Buddenbrooke

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Thomas Mann

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Death in Venice

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Thomas Mann

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Siddhartha

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Hermann Hesse

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Steppenwolf

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Hermann Hesse

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The Glass Bead Game

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Hermann Hesse

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Demian

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Hermann Hesse

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Rabindranath Tagore language

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If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?

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Erma Bombeck

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family/housewife humor columnist

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Erma Bombeck

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Ben-Hur

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Lew Wallace

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1676 Virginia rebellion (against Indians)

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Bacon’s Rebellion

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1787 Massachusetts rebellion (against taxes, showed gov weakness)

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Shays Rebellion

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1794 Pennsylvania rebellion (against taxes)

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Whiskey Rebellion

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The Lovely Bones

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Alice Sebold

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Memoirs of a Geisha

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Arthur Golden

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George Smiley character author

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John le Carre

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The Spy who Came in from the Cold

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John Le Carre

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David John Moore Cornell pen name

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John Le Carre

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

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John Le Carre

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The Night Manager

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John Le Carre

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6th century southern Swede, e.g. Beowulf

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A Confederacy of Dunces

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John Kennedy Toole

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Heidi Chronicles

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Wendy Wasserstein

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Fear of Flying

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Erica Jong

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Doonesbury

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Garry Trudeau

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1300s Italian poet laureate, wrote sonnets, loved Laura

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A Woman of No Importance

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Oscar Wilde

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The Devil’s Dictionary

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Ambrose Bierce

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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

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Ambrose Bierce

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HH Munro pen name

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Susie Salmon is the murdered child narrator in what book

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Lovely Bones

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Animorphs

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KA Applegate

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Every Man in His Humour

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Ben Jonson

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Volpone

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Ben Jonson

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Hindu Sanskrit epics (2)

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Ramayana and Mahabharata

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Apology of the Augsburg Confession religion

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Lutheranism

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James Joyce June 16

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Red Wheelbarrow

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William Carlos Williams

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The Tin Drum

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Gunter Grass

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Tales of ____

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ETA Hoffmann

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The Devil’s Elixir

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ETA Hoffmann

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sailor in Scheherazade stories

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The Razor’s Edge

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Somerset Maugham

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Of Human Bondage

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Somerset Maugham

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A Handful of Dust

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Evelyn Waugh

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Brideshead Revisited

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Evelyn Waugh

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The Loved One

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Evelyn Waugh

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Decline and Fall

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Evelyn Waugh

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Bridge of San Luis Rey

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Thornton Wilder

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Bridge of San Luis Rey country

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From the Earth to the Moon

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Jules Verne

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Five Weeks in a Balloon

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Jules Verne

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The Seven Storey Mountain [Trappist]

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Thomas Merton

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affair with Henry Miller

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Tropic of Cancer author

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Henry Miller

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Savoy Theater built for them

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Gilbert and Sullivan

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Gounod play based on Goethe

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Dreiser novel where small town girl becomes a Broadway star

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Sister Carrie

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An American Tragedy

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Theodore Dreiser

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The House of Mirth author

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Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton novel with the Archers

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Age of Innocence

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Porgy author

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Riders of the Purple Sage author

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author who was a dentist before writing Westerns

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female editor of Vanity Fair, then New Yorker

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Tina Brown

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Shakespeare library in Washington DC

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Folger Library

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Margaret Edson play about professor with cancer

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The Last Picture Show

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Larry McMurtry

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Lonesome Dove

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Larry McMurtry

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Bridget Jones’ Diary

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Helen Fielding

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The Guns of Navarone

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Alistair MacLean

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John Millington Synge play caused riots in Dublin

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Playboy of the Western World

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Primary Colors anonymous author and Newsweek columnist

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Jason Bourne author

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Robert Ludlum

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Gargantua’s son

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Pantagruel

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Gargantua and Pantagruel author

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The Imaginary Invalid

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Lorna Doone

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RD Blackmore

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The Virginian

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Owen Wister

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Summa Theologica

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Tevye the Dairyman

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Sholem Aleichem

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Interpreter of Maladies

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Jhumpa Lahiri

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author in the gulag after criticizing Stalin, deported

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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The Gulag Archipelago

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Solzhenitsyn

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Candide

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The Social Contract

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The Andromeda Strain

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Congo author

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The Pelican Brief

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A Time to Kill

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Deep Thoughts humorist

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Jack Handey

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King Arthur’s father

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Uther Pendragon

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island in Arthurian legend

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Edward Gibbon

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author went to Canada 1890s for Klondike gold rush

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Jack London

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Rape of the Lock poet

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Alexander Pope

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An Essay on Man author

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Alexander Pope

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The Yearling author

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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Seven Habits of ____

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Highly Effective People

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Seven Habits of ____

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Highly Effective People

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Fear and Trembling philosopher

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Kierkegaard

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The Red and the Black

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I, Claudius

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Robert Graves

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Philip Marlowe character creator

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Raymond Chandler

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Philip Marlowe character creator

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Raymond Chandler

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