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Professor Bhaer, Pilgrim’s Progress, scarlet fever, piano as a gift, Christmas meal, Pickwick Club

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Little Women

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Humbaba, Temple prostitute Shamhat, Enkidu, Cedar Forest, 300 Wooden Poles to cross river, Plant of immortality at the bottom of the sea

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Epic of Gilgamesh

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Grendel, Longest poem in English history, Wiglaf, The Monsters and the Critics, Sword called Hrunting

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Beowolf

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Tomorrow and Tomorrow, King Duncan, Thomas de Quincy - “Knocking at the Gate”, LC Knights - How many children had Lady Macbeth

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Macbeth

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Debates between Naphta and Settembrini , Hans Castorp, Joachim Ziemssen dies of tubercolosis, Clavdia Chauchat, Hallucination of two witches killing a child

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Magic Mountain

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Lily Bart, Lily dies of chloral, Lawrence Selden, Gus Trennor, burns incriminating letters, Simon Rosdale, Bertha Dorset, Percy Gryce

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House of Mirth

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Prevent children from falling off cliff, Holden Caulfield, Pencey Prep, Mr. Antolini, Sister called Phoebe, “Phony”, Little Shirley Beans Record

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Catcher in the Rye

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“Hath not a jews eyes”, “Quality of mercy”, Wives dress as lawyers and ask for wedding rings, Pound of flesh, Antonio and Shylock, turquoise ring for a monkey, If you prick us, do we not bleed

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Merchant of Venice

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Fortinbras, Laertes and Claudius, To be or not to be Horatio, Alas, poor Yorick!, pours poison down someones ear

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Hamlet

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Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver, Want cheese after being marooned, Hispaniola, Captain Smollett

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Treasure Island

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Queeqeg’s coffin to escape, “Gams”, first mate Starbuck Father Mapple, “from hell’s heart I stab at thee!”, Queeqeg owns black little god called Yojo

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Moby Dick

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Preacher Jim Casy dies, turtle crossing a road, Rose of Sharon breastfeeds dying man, Connie Rivers leaves his wife, Police officer crushes preacher’s skull with pick axe

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Grapes of Wrath

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Husband Roger Chillingworth, Kid with Dimmesdale Hester Prynne, Seen among possessions of Jonathan Pue in “custom house”, “demon offspring”

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Scarlet Letter

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House floating down river with dead man in it, “sick arab” painted blue, Grangerfords and Shepherdsons feud, Fakes death with pig blood , Royal Nonesuch play

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Huckleberry Finn

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Married to Shama, Hanuman House, was born with six fingers, hatred of Tulsi family, Warned to stay away from water, journalist in Port-of-spain

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House for Mr. Biswas

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Four legs good, two legs bad, Song called “beasts of england”, Battle of the Cowshed, Boxer says “I will work harder”, Boxer sent to glue factory, Sugarcandy Mountain where it is Sunday everyday

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Animal Farm

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Goneril / Regan / Cordelia, tried suicide by jumping off cliff, Tom O’ Bedlam, out, vile jelly! while gouging out eyes, “As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.”

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King Lear

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Tom Robinson, Raped Maya Ewell, First Purchase Church, shoots rabid dog named Tim Johnson, servant called Calpurnia, Left hand is crippled, which makes him innocent

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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Walk through fire to prove purity, Hanuman jumped to island with one leap, island of Lanka, 14 year exile, wields heavy bow to win the hand of his wife

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Ramayana

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Pandavas vs. Kauravas, Krishna advises Arjuna, Bhagavad-Gita, Rigged dice game, Attempts to strip clothes but magic spell makes clothes endless, Mistake shiny floor for pond

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Mahabharata

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Sings “Un bel di”, Sharpless / Pinkerton / Kate, Commits seppaku at the end, Star Spangled Banner as motif, “When the robin nests”, Bring spring to USS Abraham Lincoln

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Madam Butterfly

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Sister Grete plays violin, Framed picture of woman in fur, Ends with trolley ride to country side, Dies after father throws apple into his back ,”night of uneasy dreams”

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Metamorphosis

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encounters a lion, a she-wolf, and a leopard, “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here”, People tossed around by strong winds, wings of a dragon, face of an honest man

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Dante’s Inferno

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Comrade Oglivy, “double think”, Ministry of Love tortures protagonist with rats, Mr. Charrington sells coral piece in glass, Emmanuel Goldstein

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1984

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“the jungle is dark, but full of diamonds”, son drops out of school after finding father affair, Plants garden seeds at night, Commits suicide in car accident to get insurance money

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Death of a Salesman

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Owl Eyes, green light at end of dock, “Valley of ashes” yellow car runs over Myrtle, Poster of TJ Eckleburg, Five crates of oranges and lemons delivered weekly

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Great Gatsby

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“always depended on the kindness of strangers”, blue piano, “Varsouviana”, throws radio out window, paper lantern

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Streetcar Named Desire

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Musical - The swindler Harold Hill attempts to con the families of River City, Iowa by starting a boys’ band. While there, he falls in love with the librarian Marian Paroo. The scheme is exposed, but the town forgives him.

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Music Man

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musical about roommates during the AIDS pandemic

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Rent

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musical - Nathan Detroit runs an underground craps game but needs a location. To make enough money to use the Biltmore garage for his game, he bets the notorious gambler Sky Masterson that Sky can’t convince a girl of Nathan’s choice to go to Havana with him for dinner

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Guys and Dolls

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Musical - Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show comes to town, and performer Frank Butler challenges anyone to a shooting contest. Annie Oakley wins the contest and joins the show. She and Frank fall in love, but Frank quits out of jealousy that Annie is a better shooter than he is.

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Annie Get Your Gun

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Musical - Frederic, having turned 21, is released from his apprenticeship to the title pirates. Reaching shore for the first time, Frederic falls in love with Mabel, the daughter of Major-General Stanley. Frederic realizes that he was apprenticed until his twenty-first birthday, and, having been born on February 29, he must return to his apprenticeship. Mabel vows to wait for him. The Major-General and the police pursue the pirates, who surrender. The pirates are forgiven, and Mabel and Frederic reunite.

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Pirates of Penzance

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Musical - Aboard the title ship, Josephine promises her father, the captain, that she will marry Sir Joseph Porter, but Josephine secretly loves the common sailor Ralph Rackstraw, and the two plan to elope. A peddler named Buttercup reveals that she accidentally switched the captain and Ralph at birth: Ralph is of noble birth and should be captain, while the captain is nothing more than a common sailor. Ralph, now captain, marries Josephine, and the former captain marries Buttercup.

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HMS Pinafore

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Musical - Anna Leonowens, a British schoolteacher, travels to Siam (now Thailand) to teach English to the King’s many children and wives. Anna’s western ways, the looming threat of British rule, and romance between Lun Tha and the concubine Tuptim all weigh heavily on the traditional, chauvinistic King. As the King dies, Anna kneels at his side, and the prince abolishes the practice of kowtowing.

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The King and I

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Musical - During the Pacific Theater of World War II, Nellie Forbush, a U.S. Navy nurse, has fallen in love with Émile, a French plantation owner. Émile helps Lieutenant Cable carry out an espionage mission against the Japanese. The mission is successful, and Émile and Nellie reunite.

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South Pacific

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Sethe drowns daughter as a baby to prevent her from becoming a slave, scar shaped liked a chokecherry tree, ends with protagonist “Me? Me?”, book is dedicated to “sixty million and more”

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Beloved

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Pilate has no navel, keeps bag of bones in ceiling, hit squad called Seven Days, friend named Guitar, sucked fingers of ether-covered corpse

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Song of Solomon

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Sybil Vane calls protagonist “prince charming”, Basil Hallward painted titular object, protagonist stabs object at the end of the novel, Sybil drinks acid to commit suicide after protagonist breaks up with her

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Picture of Dorian Gray

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Charles Marlow’s quest to find Mr. Kurtz in the Congo, last words “the horror, the horror”, “exterminate the brutes”. boat named Nellie, Chinua Achebe calls this novel “bloody racist”

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Heart of Darkness

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play-within-this-play called Soliman and Perseda, Don Andrea forms the chorus of this play, accompanied by the spirit of Revenge. Hieronimo goes insane and takes revenge on everyone. All major male characters are dead by the end of this novel by Thomas Kyd

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Spanish Tragedy

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quotes from Carole King’s “I Feel the Earth Move.” Its three major sections are called “Train,” “Trial,”
and “Field/Spaceship;” those sections are broken up by its so-called “knee plays.”

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Einstein on the Beach

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Pecola Breedlove, raped by father, marigold seeds symbolize the premature death of a child, main character idolizes Shirley Temple

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The Bluest Eye

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Abraham Lincoln supposedly called the author of this novel “the little lady who started this great war.” protagonist is flogged to death, Simon Legree, “A tale of Life among the Lowly”.

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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character masquerades as a bear, daughters Alice and Cora are abducted by Magua, Fort William Henry, Uncas dies on a cliff, man known as”Le Renard Subtil”

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Last of the Mohicans

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life of Thomas Sutpen, set in a cold Harvard bedroom, Henry murders Charles Bon to prevent him from marrying Judith, “Why do you hate the South?” which prompts thenarrator to think, “I don’t hate it! I don’t hate it!”

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Absalom, Absalom!

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blindfolded black youths donning boxing gloves and pummeling each other in a “battle royal.” expelled by Dr. Bledsoe. character nicknamed “Brother Tarp”, character impregnates both wife and daughter, Ras the Destroyer, works for Liberty Paints

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Invisible Man

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serial number “00000.” Tyrone Slothrop’s sexual encounters correlate to V-2 rocket strikes, mystery that follows the Poisson distribution, begins with the sentence “A screaming comes across the sky,”

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Gravity’s Rainbow

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collects Native American scalps with the Glanton Gang, , a seven-foot-tall, hairless pedophile called Judge Holden, dances with naked strippers after killing protagonist, “whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.” A man who wears a necklace made of human ears, “war is God.”

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Blood Meridian

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sent into seven year exile, kills himself when he comes back and finds Christianity has been introduced to Umuofia, kills his adopted son, defeats Amalinze the Cat in a wrestling match, beats his wife, violating the Week of Peace

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Things Fall Apart

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character gets tossed up and down in a blanket, a priest and barber burns library of chivalry books, Sancho and Lady Dulcinea, main character lost to the Knight of the White Moon

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Don Quixote

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founds a “City of mirrors”, black bandage around hand as symbol of virginity, family ties character to a chestnut tree, Meme’s boyfriend is shot in the spine and Meme stops speaking, crafts wooden goldfish, government covers up a massacre of banana workers

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100 Years of Solitude

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As title character dies in bed, his wife and daughter wait for him to reveal the location of his will while priest tries to give him unction, main character falls in love with Regina, accidentally kills his uncle, but deliberately kills wife’s brother to inherit fortune, friend of mulatto Lunero, “We crossed the river on horseback.”

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Death of Artemio Cruz

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Pollo falls into the Seine and travels through the ages, witnessing the rise and fall of civilizations. Much of this novel is set around the construction of El Escorial by El Senor, written by Carlos Fuentes

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Terra Nostra

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“All human wisdom is summed up by wait and hope”, main character has pseudonyms Lord Wilmore / Abbe Busoni / Sinbad the Sailor, main character arranges for a character to be kidnapped during the Roman Carnival, “Madam, I never eat muscatel grapes.”

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The Count of Monte Cristo

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shoots bullet through silver coin flipped in the air, “Indiana General”, shot in the back because he torched documents from the King of Spain, love triangle between schoolteacher Harriet Winslow, General Tomas Arroyo, and title character, about Ambrose Bierce’s disappearance during the Mexican Revolution

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The Old Gringo

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a wealthy woman’s (Constance) husband is paralyzed after sustaining injuries in World War I, prompting her to carry out an affair with the gamekeeper Oliver Mellors, the novel’s title character. subject to several obscenity trials

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Lady Chatterly’s Lover

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the protagonist (Edward Prendick) meets the servant M’ling and after being left here, ends up staying with a man named Montgomery.

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Island of Dr. Moreau

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talks about his life on asteroid B-612 with an aviator who crashes in the Sahara, drawing of an elephant that was swallowed by a boa constrictor. heats his breakfast over two active volcanoes, “loveliest and saddest landscape in the world”

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Little Prince

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shoots Lensky in a duel and is loved by Tatiana, admits that he seeks only entertainment and turns down a love letter in a passage sometimes called his “sermon.” rebuffs Tatiana and dances with Olga

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Eugene Onegin

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beast in this novel is actually a dead parachutist, The conch is used to call votes, Ralph and Jack struggle for power on a deserted island, Piggy, “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in”, Castle Rock

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Lord of the Flies

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Barabas getting revenge, “I count religion but a childish toy.” “but that was in another country; and besides, the wench is dead,” wants revenge after his wealth is taken to pay for an invasion by the Turks, falls into his own boiling cauldron

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Jew of Malta

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After attempting to duel all of its members in succession, d’Artagnan joins this novel’s title group, A former convict in this novel has a fleur-de-lis branded on her left shoulder, The handmaid of the Queen of France, Constance, is killed by Milady de Winter near the end of this novel.

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Three Musketeers

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the protagonist is lobotomized and smothered to death, organizes fishing trip with prostitutes, Billy Bibbit slits his throat after sleeping with Candy, Harding boasts about his wife’s large breasts

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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a “shiny man” gave him the power to perform the “Binding Song” that joins two people, the “People Finder”, he will only find salvation through”the blood of the Lamb”, leading him to slice his chest with a knife and cover his face in blood

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Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

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reworking of his earlier work “Battle of Angels”, a drifter named Val begins an affair with Lady, the middle-aged owner of a dry goods store, the main character is ultimately killed by a mob, leaving only his snakeskin jacket behind.

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Orpheus Descending

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That protagonist is captured by a giant from the trickery of Duessa, who represents the Catholic Church. title character Gloriana, who represents Queen Elizabeth I, appears in this epic poem. “Roses are red, violets are blue” first appeared in this poem. the female knight Britomart, the Redcrosse Knight

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The Faerie Queene

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Pierre Bezukhov plans to kill Napoleon, After a duel, a character in this work joins the Freemasons, Natasha Rostova marries Pierre Bezukhov, has philosophical conversatios with peasant named Platon while being captured

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War and Peace

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Larry kills himself when he finds his father Joe was responsible for the deaths of many pilots, ends with the patriarch of the central family shooting himself offstage after Anne reads her former lover’s suicide note, asks her neighbor for the horoscope of her son on the day of his disappearance

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All My Sons

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This character moves to Italy after giving birth to a daughter by Count Vronsky, kills herself by jumping in front of a train, clairvoyant tells character not to file for divorce, “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Madame Stahl fakes an illness to avoid showing short legs

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Anna Karenina

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This novel’s protagonist eats a crown of roses in a cult ritual to the goddess Isis that returns him to human form, only surviving novel of the Roman Empire, contains the earliest known depiction of the Cupid and Psyche story. Robert Graves made a 1950 translation of this text.

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The Golden Ass

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1936 short story who is accidentally shot by his wife, Margot, during a safari in Africa. title character shows his cowardice by fleeing from a lion, but suddenly gains courage while facing down a buffalo.

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The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

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short story collection including “The Adulterous Woman” and “The Growing Stone,” written by Albert Camus, a story in which an engineer named d’Arrast goes to a town in Brazil whose inhabitants celebrate the miracle of a “growing stone.” schoolteacher receives threatening message on blackboard in “the Guest”

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Exile and the Kingdom

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Billy Pilgrim becomes “unstuck in time”, this novel include a bird singing “poo-tee-weet” and the statement “so it goes.” kidnapped and placed in a zoo on the alien planet Tralfamadore, firebombing of Dresden

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Slaughterhouse Five

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Yossarian’s attempts to avoid dying in World War II, Milo Minderbinder and Major Major Major appear in this novel in which Colonel Cathcart’s squadron flies more and more missions, buy eggs for 7 cents and sells them for 5, A dying character in this novel is covered with a parachute and comforted with the words “there, there”. , AN IBM machine with humor

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Catch-22

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In this novel, Joe physically abuses his mute adopted son Simon Gillayley, who is taken in by Kerewin Holmes. Another character’s anger over the death of the pedophile Binny Daniels leads him to smash the protagonist’s guitar and break the window of every shop in town. House known as the “Tower”, the protagonist finds a sandal with a hole pierced through its sole that belongs to a mysteriously mute boy

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The Bone People

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name this short story in which Laura Sheridan prepares for a celebration, a girl named Jose tests a piano by playing the song “This Life Is Weary.” woman asks her brother Laurie, “Isn’t life…?” Laura’s planning of the title festivity is interrupted by her neighbor’s death. This story’s protagonist sobs “Forgive my hat” after seeing a man whose “sleeping face” seems to say “This is just as it should be. I am content.”

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The Garden Party

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a slightly older Stephen Dedalus crosses paths with Leopold Bloom in what novel. The title character of this novel masturbates to Gerty MacDowell on the beach in the section “Nausicaa.” Buck Mulligan defends a rude remark about his friend’s dead mother in this novel’s first episode, “Telemachus.” ends with the words “yes I said yes I will yes.” contains a set of 309 questions and answers in the style of a catechism

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Ulysses

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name this play about the life of George Gibbs and Emily Webb, written by Thornton Wilder. A woman in this play asks if “any human beings ever realize life while they live it” after reliving her 12th birthday, Stage Manager tells the audience about the people of Grover’s Corners.

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Our Town

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In this novel, Edward Casaubon leaves a will stipulating that Will Ladislaw cannot marry Dorothea Brooke, name this George Eliot novel about Dorothea Brooke set in the title town, subtitled “A Study in Provincial Life.”

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Middlemarch: A Study in Provincial Life

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Miss Lavish publishes a book that includes a scene with a romanticized version of the female protagonist’s kiss with a man in a field of violets in this novel, George Emerson, marries Lucy Honeychurch in this novel, The protagonist of this novel gets lost near the Santa Croce church while travelling with Eleanor Lavish.

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A Room With A View

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In this novel, Joshua Chalfen joins a radical animal rights group called Fate, and Millat joins a Muslim fundamentalist organization called KEVIN. ends with the escape of the biologist Marcus Chalfen’s genetically-modified FutureMouse. opens with attempted suicide of Archibald Jones by gassing himself in the car

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White Teeth

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novel about Humbert Humbert’s pedophilic obsession with the title “nymphet,” The playwright of The Hunted Enchanters, Clare Quilty, kidnaps the title character, Charlotte (title character’s mother) is killed by a car.

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Lolita

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novel about Stephen Dedalus’s intellectual development, novel opens with a stream of consciousness rendition of a children’s story about baby tuckoo and a moocow. Father Arnall delivers a sermon on hell that inspires the protagonist of this novel to pursue a life of Christ until he sees a beautiful woman on the seashore.

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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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The blind librarian Jorge of Burgos uses a poisoned second section of Aristotle’s Poetics to kill monks in this novel, Some monastery murders are investigated by William of Baskerville, several characters are found with blackened fingers after touching a poisonous book by Aristotle.

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Name of the Rose

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The Moon speaks in this play in which three woodcutters describe the hunt for Leonardo Felix, who runs off into the forest to elope with an engaged woman. first play in the “Rural Trilogy”, Leonardo is caught eloping with the woman he loves, and the two main characters are generically named the Bride and the Groom.

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Blood Wedding

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his play ends with its protagonist yelling “I have killed my son!” after strangling to death her husband Juan, near the site of a fertility shrine, second installment in the “Rural Trilogy”

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Yerma

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novel is largely told by letters written by Robert Walton, tells the story of a family who is banished when one of their members helps a Turkish merchant escape from prison. Felix accidentally teaches a character French while reading Ruins of Empires to Safie. chases creation to the Arctic

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Frankenstein

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This collection contains “The Albatross” and is divided into such sections as “Wine,” “Revolt,” and “Spleen and Ideal.” For 10 points, name this collection of poems by Charles Baudelaire. the foreword to this collection complains about a state of ennui and addresses the “reader” as a hypocrite

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Flowers of Evil

89
Q

This novel opens in a museum, where Causabon watches members of the Tres society hang Belbo from the title object. use a manuscript by Colonel Ardenti and a computer nicknamed Abulafia to develop “The Plan”, the narrator of this novel recalls his encounters with the supposedly immortal Count Aglee in Brazil.

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Foucault’s Pendulum

90
Q

This book ends with the image of snow falling on the grave of Michael Furey as Gabriel Conroy looks out a window. what book by James Joyce contains a story called “The Dead”, “An Encounter”, “Araby” (tries to buy gift for friend’s sister), “Two Gallants” (Corley cons a woman out of a gold coin), “Eveline” (the title girl refuses to move to Buenos Aires with Frank) “Ivy Day in the Committee Room” (about politicians)

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Dubliners

91
Q

In this novel, Mustapha Mond helps run a society where people undergo Bokanovsky’s Process and take the drug soma. the word “Ford” is used in place of the word “Lord” in many of the same contexts, character named John the Savage, “civilization is sterilization.”

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Brave New World

92
Q

She hurts her ankle while attempting to escape from the oversight of Mrs. Jewkes, and, despite being kissed, fondled, and having her dress torn by Mr. B, she is able to become his wife by not sleeping with him, in an example of “virtue rewarded.”

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Pamela, or, Virtue Rewarded

93
Q

This character bribes Dorcas as part of a plot to escape a brothel owned by Mrs. Sinclair where she is raped by Robert Lovelace.

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Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady

94
Q

This novel’s narrator claims that he convinced his friend to write a work in four cantos that recounts the escape of a king nicknamed “The Beloved”, A self-styled exiled royal from the land of Zembla named Charles Kinbote narrates this 999 line poem by John Shade, “I was the shadow of the waxwing slain”

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Pale Fire

95
Q

The scientist Felix Bokonon creates a deadly substance called Ice-9, Papa Monzano gives presidency to narrator, the religion of Bokononism has teams called “karass” and a feet-touching ritual, punishable by impaling on hook,

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Cat’s Cradle

96
Q

This character decides to “buy the flowers herself” at the beginning of a novel in which the shell-shocked Septimus Smith commits suicide by jumping out of a window. remembers sharing a kiss with Sally Seton in her childhood. reflects on her decision to marry the politician Richard instead of Peter Walsh, stream-of-consciousness novel

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Mrs. Dalloway

97
Q

Quentin thinks about convincing his father that he committed incest with his sister, Quentin drowns himself in a river at the end of the second section, A girl in this novel accidentally exposes the “muddy bottom of her drawers”, name this novel about the declining Compson family

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The Sound and the Fury

98
Q

Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Bennet family, Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, Wickham, Mr. Bingley, “a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”

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Pride and Prejudice

99
Q

The last section of this work is titled “Grammatical Fiction”, while the first three are named for hearings. He uses the quadratic alphabet to tap messages to his neighbor, a man known only as 402. It begins with the arrest and imprisonment of Communist party member Nicholas Rubashov

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Darkness at Noon

100
Q

In this novel, the affections of the protagonist’s mother shift after his brother dies and he falls ill with pneumonia. A character in this novel returns to his house in Nottinghamshire after his relationship with Clara Dawes, only for his mother to die shortly after.

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Sons and Lovers

101
Q

name this essay which claims that, to write fiction, a women needs money and the title object which was written by Virginia Woolf. predicts the suicide of the fictitious Judith Shakespeare. identifies herself as “Mary Beton, Mary Seton, Mary Carmichael.” discusses the novelty of the sentence “Chloe liked Olivia”

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A Room of One’s Own

102
Q

only Cam, James, Lily Briscoe, and Mr. Ramsay end up reaching the title location. Parentheticals note that Prue died in childbirth and Andrew was killed at war in its middle section, “Time Passes.” Minta Doyle cries after the tide comes in before they are able to find her grandmother’s brooch

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To the Lighthouse

103
Q

the pawnbroker Alyona is murdered by Raskolnikov, Luzhin seeks to marry Dunya, Luzhin frames Sonya for the theft of a hundred rubles, before going to the police the protagonist kisses the earth, A man in this novel claims he is “going to America” before shooting himself in front of a policeman.

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Crime and Punishment

104
Q

A woman is blackmailed by Krogstad after she forges her father’s signature on a loan in this play, which ends with its title character slamming the door on her husband Torvald. At the end, a character asks “the most wonderful thing of all—?” , is told to await a letter marked with a black cross

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A Doll’s House

105
Q

After Robert Lebrun leaves her, the protagonist (Edna Pontellier) drowns herself in the Gulf of Mexico, Mademoiselle Reisz, Alcée Arobin, parrot shouting “Allez-vous en”.

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The Awakening

106
Q

“Purifiers” destroy meaningless works in a structure named for this place, which is believed to include a prized “Crimson” location among its many hexagonal rooms containing every possible 410-page book. Name this Jorge Luis Borges short story.

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Library of Babel

107
Q

Russian boat called the Demeter, A Bowie knife and a Kukri are used in this novel’s climactic fight, Quincy Morris and Jonathan Harker are characters in this novel, Lucy Westerna gets turned into a vampire, Van Helsing,

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Dracula

108
Q

It ends with a sentence fragment that loops back around to its opening, “riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s…” focuses on characters whose initials are HCE, Izzy, Shem the Penman, and Shaun the Post are the sons of the protagonist

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Finnegan’s Wake

109
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name this story in which the grandmother is shot by the Misfit, the cat Pitty Sing causes Bailey to swerve into a ditch, family killed by fugitives Hiram and Bobby Lee, written by Flannery O’Connor

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A Good Man Is Hard To Find

110
Q

Its protagonist, who is given $50 for visits to the powder room and $100 for sharing “weather reports” with Sally Tomato, changes her name to Lulamae, escapes to Brazil to avoid indictment

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s

111
Q

This play ends with the line “Ah, then let’s continue…” This play is set in a Second Empire-style room with a non-functioning bell that is tended to by a valet lacking eyelids. Includes famous quote “Hell is other people”

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No Exit

112
Q

title character breaks a blood oath and saves Muff Potter from being framed by Injun Joe, gets stuck in McDougal’s Cave, convinces his friends to paint a fence white, attends his own funeral

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Tom Sawyer

113
Q

Its preface mentions a mysterious “dried and frozen carcass of a leopard.” protagonist blames his wife Helen for holding him back in fulfilling his career as a writer. That man dreams of escaping on a rescue plane after developing gangrene from a mistreated thorn wound.

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The Snows of Kilimanjaro

114
Q

In this play, the Clybourne Park Improvement Association attempts to prevent the Younger family from moving into their neighborhood. Karl Lindner tries to buy its protagonist out of his liquor store after he gets an insurance check and tries to moves to Chicago’s Clybourne Park. when one character straightens her hair, another character believes that she is “mutilating” it.

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Raisin in the Sun

115
Q

An orphanage in this play is left uninsured because insurance would indicate that its owners didn’t believe in divine protection. Engstrand is believed to be the father of Regina until she is revealed to be the half-sister of this play’s protagonist. After two lovers in this drama learn they are half-siblings, one of them begs the other to kill him by morphine overdose.

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Ghosts

116
Q

the thirteen-year-old Ugwu works as a houseboy for the math professor Odenigbo before he is conscripted as a child soldier. Ugwu, Odenigbo, and Olanna survive the Biafran War, Olanna cheats on Odenigbo with Kainene’s English lover, Richard, during the Biafran War.

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Half of a Yellow Sun

117
Q

A character in this novel bellows “Hell no” when a mayor asks her to be his maid, prompting the mayor to slap her and her to knock him out in return, earning her a twelve year sentence as his maid anyway. In this novel, the son of a missionary scars his face in solidarity with his African wife Tashi’s female circumcision. Cecile’s father Alphonse sexually assaults her, “Mister” hides letters from Nettie

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The Color Purple

118
Q

a small child is locked in a factory and eaten by rats. novel about the horrors of the Chicago meatpacking industry, This novel’s author claimed that “I aimed for the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach”. Phil Connor’s rape of Ona and Antanas drowning in a mud puddle. ends with all-caps declaration “CHICAGO WILL BE OURS!”

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The Jungle

119
Q

The protagonist of this novel watches a squirrel run away after he throws a pine cone at it, leading him to conclude that his decision to retreat in battle was the right one. a “tattered” man witnesses the death of Jim Conklin. One character in this novel hears his companions called “mule drivers” and “mud diggers.”

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The Red Badge of Courage

120
Q

a woman converses with an American man at a train station in Madrid, The pair indirectly discuss an “operation” that the man wants the girl to have, which is implied to be an abortion. short story by Hemmingway

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Hills Like White Elephants

121
Q

Ifemelu begins a blog called “Raceteenth” about what it means to be African in America, Ifemulu and Obinze travel to the US and London, respectively, before returning to their African homeland.

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Americanah

122
Q

The title character of this novel overcomes his stutter to bellow his final words, “God bless Captain Vere!” seconds before being hanged for killing his master-at-arms Claggart. This novel ends with the line “I am sleepy, and the oozy weeds about me twist” as part of a ballad about the title character “in the Darbies”, “Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!”

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Billy Budd

123
Q

Jaques discusses the seven ages of man in a monologue that begins “all the world’s a stage.” comedy that culminates with the marriage of Orlando and Rosalind, The most famous speech in this play describes a “second childishness and mere oblivion, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.” mainly set at the Forest of Arden

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As You Like It

124
Q

Its main female character dies in Switzerland after its protagonist flees the Battle of Caporetto. the nurse Catherine Barkley and ambulance driver Frederic Henry, The billiards-playing Count Greffi and the surgeon Rinaldi also appear in this novel. engages in the game of “priest-baiting”

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Farewell to Arms

125
Q

begins “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”, ends with the thought “it is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done.” crowds of people gathering around puddles of spilt wine to drink off the street. The banker Mr. Lorry writes a note reading, “Recalled to Life,” Another character in this novel gives a couple a gold coin after his carriage runs over their son. leaves a note signed “Jacques”

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A Tale of Two Cities

126
Q

The sled dog Buck later kills several Yeehat Indians when he sees that his master, Thornton, is dead. The protagonist of this work costs a man named Matthewson a thousand dollars in a bet when he is able to move a load consisting of a thousand pounds of flour. the main character is told to jump off of a cliff, but is stopped.

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Call of the Wild

127
Q

Near the beginning of this work, Mr. Lockwood has a nightmare in which he sees the ghost of Catherine trying to enter the house, and the next day learns the history of that house from Nelly Dean. This novel’s narrators are Mr. Lockwood, who rents a room at Thrushcross Grange, and the maid Nelly Dean. Isabella Linton marries Heathcliff, who loves Catherine Earnshaw.

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Wuthering Heights

128
Q

HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME, ends with the Sanskrit words “Shantih shantih shantih”, The line “April is the cruellest month” begins this poem, last section of this poem, “What the Thunder Said.”

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The Waste Land

129
Q

the protagonist sinks in the mire under his doubts and sins until he is pulled up by the character Help and led to the Wicket Gate. The hero of this book is threatened with Mount Sinai falling on his head and is advised to abandon Mr. Worldly Wiseman before passing through the Wicket-Gate. protagonist is asked “Whence came you, and whither are you bound?” by Apollyon in the Valley of Humiliation

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Pilgrim’s Progress

130
Q

A dustman in this play repeatedly bemoans “middle-class morality” to a man who as a “silly joke” calls him England’s “most original moralist.”, protagonist shouts “Not bloody likely!” Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering reform a flower girl’s (Eliza Doolittle) speech A chimney-sweep named Alfred in this play agrees to sell his daughter for 50 pounds, prompting a Sanskrit scholar to inquire, “Have you no morals, man?”

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Pygmalion

131
Q

This play concludes with a monologue delivered by a character holding her wedding dress as her Shakespearean actor husband and two sons look on. Edmund reveals that he has tuberculosis to attempt to snap Mary out of her morphine fog. A character in this play wanted to be either a nun or a concert pianist, though she bemoans her arthritic hands. Near the end of this play, three male characters unconsciously raise their glasses at the same time, startled by a foghorn

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Long Day’s Journey into Night

132
Q

After hitting her cousin John, this character is sent to the “red room.” Towards the end of the novel this character narrates, she finds Thornfield Hall burned down and her former fiancé Edward Rochester blind. The first sentence of this novel’s last chapter states “Reader, I married him,”

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Jane Eyre

133
Q

the trial of the Jew Pyrot which parodied the Dreyfus Affair. A saint in this novel crosses the Ocean of Ice in a stone sailboat to meet creatures that he causes to transform into humans. The greatest leader of that country is Draco the Great

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Penguin Island

134
Q

Donald and Elizabeth, who forget that they are married but remember their child with one white and one red eye, the Fire Chief mentions that the title character “always wears her hair in the same style.” The beginning stage directions state that this play is set during an English evening, in an English interior with anEnglish fireplace near an English armchair.

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The Bald Soprano

135
Q

ends with two characters throwing confetti and streamers while shouting “Long live the Emperor” before jumping out of the windows, after which the Orator fails to relay their message to the audience. That play ends with “empty chairs on an empty stage.” Orator, who turns out to be a deaf-mute.

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The Chairs

136
Q

After a lovers’ quarrel in this play, a character says “in just a few minutes we have gone through twenty-five years of married life!” protagonist of this play yells “I’m not capitulating!” after his girlfriend Daisy abandons him to join the title characters. The Logician offers a bad example of a syllogism to The Old Gentleman leading him to tell the latter his dog is a cat.

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Rhinoceros

137
Q

name this novella in which Pozdnyshev tells a train passenger of how he stabbed his wife for possibly having an affair with a violinist, by Leo Tolstoy

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Kreutzer Sonata

138
Q

The narrator of this story tells her husband “I’ve got out at last” after freeing what she believes to be a “creeping” woman behind the title object. A pattern described as a “debased Romanesque” appears on the title object of this story.

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Yellow Wallpaper

139
Q

About hitmen Ben and Gus, arguing about the semantics of the sentence “Light the kettle” in this work, The appearance of a series of notes bearing orders for food precedes the implied revelation that one character’s task will be to kill the other. Wilson is an unseen presence in this play.

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The Dumb Waiter

140
Q

set during the Reign of Terror, the painter Evariste Gamelin cannot stop executing people, including his friend Maurice Brotteaux.

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The Gods Are Athirst

141
Q

utopian story about a society inhabited entirely by women, where children are born parthenogenetically to eugenically-selected mothers, written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Herland

142
Q

a saloon closes when the barkeeper learns that Scratchy Wilson is drunk and “has turned loose with both hands.” Sheriff Jack Potter and his wife return to the title Texan town, Scratchy Wilson chooses not to engage in a gun battle with the sheriff Jack Potter after seeing Potter’s newlywed.

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The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky

143
Q

Name this memoir, in which the author constantly asks the question, “Where is God now?” The protagonist of this novella is mentored in Kabbalah by Moshe the Beadle before he is sent to Auschwitz. a child struggling for over half an hour with the gallows noose that kills him after a power station blows up, After being beaten in a warehouse, the protagonist of this novel is comforted by a French girl who pretends not to speak German.

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Night

144
Q

This novel’s protagonist is reminded of his childhood in Combray by the taste of a tea-soaked madeleine, Albertine has lesbian affairs and also expresses disdain for the aristocratic Guermantes family in this novel, The Vinteuil Sonata serves as a love theme between that character and Odette de Crecy. opens with “For a long time, I went to bed early”

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In Search of Lost Time

145
Q

Residents of this town including Dr. Reefy and Adolph Myers tell their stories to a newspaper reporter of this town named George Willard, The sight of a naked woman praying prompts a reverend to punch through a window with “the strength of God” in this town, Adolph Myers flees Pennsylvania after his students accuse him of molesting them with his overactive hands, Jesse Bentley was struck with a rock by his grandson David during a botched goat sacrifice

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Winesburg, Ohio

146
Q

name this T.S. Eliot poem about his conversion to Anglicanism, “Because I do not hope to turn again.” fifth section repeatedly speaks of a “veiled sister” to pray for “those who walk in darkness.” imagines “three leopards” who “sat under a juniper-tree.”

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Ash Wednesday

147
Q

A group of “rude mechanicals” in this play are assigned roles such as a wall and moonlight when performing Pyramus and Thisbe, A queen in this play becomes infatuated with a donkey-headed character, double wedding of Lysander and Hermia and Helena and Demetrius, procures a juice from the love-in-idleness flower

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Midsummer’s Night Dream

148
Q

subject of a namesake “explication” by Jean-Paul Sartre, the protagonist testifies that a man was justified in beating his girlfriend, and the fatal shooting of an Arab causes the main character to be executed. main character is Meursault, the protagonist doesn’t cry at his mother’s funeral, preferring to drink coffee and smoke instead.

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The Stranger

149
Q

Near the beginning of this novel, characters like the journalist Raymond Rambert and the smuggler Cottard are surrounded by dead rats in Oran. An asthma patient in this novel despises clocks so much that he keeps time by shelling beans (keeps time by transferring peas between two jars constantly) . Father Paneloux delivers several sermons to the citizens of Oran in this novel, which is narrated by Dr. Bernard Rieux. An actor dies on stage while performing Orpheus and Eurydice in this novel

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The Plague

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