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An epic poem that is one of the most important works of Old English literature. It tells the story of the hero, who battles the monster Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and a dragon.

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Beowulf

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A collection of 24 stories written in Middle English. The tales are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims traveling

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The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer

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An epic poem that describes the author’s journey through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Heaven (Paradiso). It is considered one of the greatest works of world literature.

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The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri

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collection of 100 stories told by young people fleeing the Black Death.

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The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

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considered one of the oldest surviving major works of French literature and is based on the Battle of Roncevaux Pass

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The Song of Roland

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novel by “Miguel de Cervantes” satirizes the concept of chivalry through the adventures of a man who believes he is a knight

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Don Quixote

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epic poem follows the journey of a Trojan hero to Italy and is considered the story of the founding of Rome

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The Aeneid by Virgil

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In which novel does Fyodor Dostoevsky explore deep philosophical questions through the story of a troubled family

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The Brothers Karamazov

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work by Leo Tolstoy explores Russian society during the Napoleonic Wars

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War and Peace

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Gothic novel by Bram Stoker features the legendary vampire Count Dracula and his attempt to move to England

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Dracula

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novel by Herman Melville tells the story of Captain Ahab’s obsessive quest to hunt down a giant white whale

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Moby-Dick

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dystopian novel by George Orwell portrays a totalitarian regime that uses surveillance, propaganda, and fear to control its citizens

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1984

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ancient Greek epic poem details the events of the Trojan War, particularly the conflict between Achilles and Hector

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The Iliad by Homer

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novel by Victor Hugo follows the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean in post-revolutionary France

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Les Misérables

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novel by Jane Austen critiques the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century

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Pride and Prejudice

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novel by Mark Twain follows the adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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novel by Charles Dickens does an orphan named Pip experience personal growth and development

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Great Expectations

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What is the title of the epic poem by John Milton that explores the Fall of Man and themes of free will, sin, and redemption?

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Paradise Lost

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epic poem by Homer follows the journey of Odysseus as he returns home after the Trojan War

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Odyssey

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novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald critiques the American Dream and the disillusionment of the Jazz Age

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The Great Gatsby

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novel by Charlotte Brontë tells the story of a governess who overcomes hardship and falls in love with her employer, Mr. Rochester

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Jane Eyre

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ancient Mesopotamian poem that is one of the earliest works of literature, detailing the adventures of King Gilgamesh

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The Epic of Gilgamesh

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novel by Emily Brontë is the intense and destructive love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw

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Wuthering Heights

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ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles tells the story of a man who unwittingly kills his father and marries his mother

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Oedipus Rex

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novel by Victor Hugo tells the story of the deformed bell-ringer Quasimodo and his love for the gypsy Esmeralda

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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about the romance between two Italian youths from feuding families.

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Romeo and Juliet

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The Gothic horror novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It explores the duality of human nature through the story of a man who transforms into a monstrous alter ego.

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“Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.”

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In Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales,” what is the purpose of the pilgrimage to Canterbury

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a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury, Kent.

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In William Shakespeare’s play “Macbeth,” what leads Macbeth to become king?

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upon hearing the three witches’ prophecy that he would become King of Scotland, he becomes tyrannical.

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What is the main theme of Miguel de Cervantes’ “Don Quixote”?

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chivalry, romance, and sanity

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In Goethe’s “Faust,” what does Faust trade for knowledge and pleasure?

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His soul

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Which novel by Victor Hugo focuses on the struggles of the deformed bell-ringer Quasimodo

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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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the story of a German necromancer or astrologer who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power.

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Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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In “Beowulf,” what does Beowulf use to defeat the monster Grendel?

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His bare hands

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“To be, or not to be: that is the question.”

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Hamlet

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“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”

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As You Like It

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reflects Faust’s ultimate dissatisfaction with his life

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“Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast.”

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Author best known for The Catcher in the Rye, which explores themes of teenage rebellion and alienation.

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J.D. Salinger

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“Father of English Literature.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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His “Decameron” is a landmark in Italian literature, known for its storytelling style and its critique of medieval society.

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Giovanni Boccaccio

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He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon”.

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William Shakespeare

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The Father of American Literature

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Mark Twain

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Master of the Macabre

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Mother of Science Fiction

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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The Prince of Wits

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Miguel de Cervantes

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Father of Modern Fantasy

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J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

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