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Review Of Old Books Flashcards

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Song Of Fraternization and The Song Of Great Capitulation

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Mother Courage and her Children

Brecht

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Song About The Futility Of Human Endeavor and The Ballad Of Sexual Dependency

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Threepenny Opera

Brecht

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Polly Peachum mobster father tries to have Mac the Knife executed for marrying her

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Threepenny Opera

Brecht

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Death of Elgar Linton

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Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte

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Pishchik pays off his debts when Englishmen find white clay on his estate

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The Cherry Orchard

Chekhov

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Lena (mom) buys a house in Clybourne Park (white) gives rest of money to Walter
Walter (married to Ruth who has a kid named Travis) wants to open a liquor store
Gets scammed by Willy Harris and Bobo

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A Raisin in the Sun

Hansberry

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Beneatha (Bennie) wants to be a doctor

Also rejects George Murdison

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A Raisin in the Sun

Hansberry

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Friendship with Plinio Designori 
Joseph Knecht gains title of Magister Ludi
Father Jacobus
Castalia 
Age of Fuelliton 
Music Master
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Glass Bead Game

Hesse

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Janie Crawford talks to Phoebe
Logan Killicks
Joe Starks (Mayor of Eatonville)
Tea Cake (Vergible Woods)

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

Hurston

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“Little Squirrel” and “twittering Lark”

forges her father’s signature to pay for Italy trip

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Nora Helmer from A Doll’s House

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Dr. Rank has syphilis
Krogstad blackmails Nora Helmer
Walks out on Torvald

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A Doll’s House

Ibsen

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Horstad (editor) and Aslaksen support Dr. Stockmann at first who says the Baths have bacteria
Judge burns his house

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An Enemy of the People

Ibsen

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Harvard Solness falls from a tower and dies before he can build Hilda Wegel the promised kingdom

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The Master Builder

Ibsen

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Wife of George Tessman

Blackmailed by Judge Brack and has a “Beautiful Death)

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Hedda Gabler

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Eilert Lovborg is a drunk who writes a manuscript

It’s burned by Hedda and Mrs. Elvsted tries to reconstruct it

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Hedda Gabbler

Ibsen

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Håkon Werle
Gregers Werle (his son)
Hjalmar and Gina Ekdal
Hedvig shoots herself

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The Wild Duck

Ibsen

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Darl Bundren burns Gillespie’s barn
Brothers-Cash, Jewel and Varduman 
Sister- Dewey Dell who is raped by Skeet MacGowan 
Dad- Anse Mom-Addie (dying) 
Neighbors -Vernon and Cora Tull
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As I Lay Dying

Faulkner

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My mother is a fish

I Made it on a bevel

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As I Lay Dying

Faulkner

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Light in August
A Rose for Emily
Barn Burning
Reivers

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Faulkner

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Begins in a cafe with Jean
Logician tries to explain syllogisms to the Old Man Dogs and cats are the same because they have four legs
Socrates is a cat because he is dead
They are green and have hoarse voices Daisy
Mrs. Boeuf is the first to transform

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Rhinoceros

Ionesco (Romanian)

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Says I Will Not Capitulate
His drinking buddies are Botard and Dudard
He responds that Life Is Dream when accused of daydreaming
He refuses to turn into the title creature even after his love interest Daisy does

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Berenger from Rhinoceros by Ionesco

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Dinner party with the Martins and the Smiths that is interrupted by the Fire Chief
One character calls herself Sherlock Holmes after discovering a couple aren’t married -one child has red eyes and another has white eyes
Dr. Mackenzie-King had his own liver operated on before doing a liver operation
Bobby Watson family

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The Bald Soprano

ionesco

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A Report to an Academy
The Hunter Gracchus
Josephine the Singer

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Kafka

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Henry Higgins makes a bet with Colonel Pickering that he can make Eliza Doolittle act like a duchess
It begins with the notetaker, a possible policeman, taking notes on what people are doing, including people arguing over a cab, in Covent Garden where Eliza sells flowers
She uses New Small Talk like They Done Her In
Her father, Alfred, is described as Britain’s Original Moralist, gives a lecture on morality, and inherits a fortune from Wannafeller and she throws her shoes at him
She marries Freddy Hill after going to a ball held by Nepommuck
They live on Wimpole Street
One character complains Men Men Men
Clara reads social criticism by H.G. Wells

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Pygmalion

Shaw

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Mildred shreds Philip Carey’s sheets despite his help
Marries Sally Athnely, Thorpe’s sister
Is clubfooted
Causes Fanny to ice herself
Becomes a doctor after Uncle William dies
Invests in the Boer War

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Of Human Bondage

Maugham

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The Razor’s Edge- Larry Darrel
The Moon and Sixpence- Charles Strickland goes from Paris to Tahiti
Cakes and Ale- William Asheden-Harry
Ashenden- hairless Mexican and Colonel R

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Maugham

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Blind Assasin- Alex Thomas has affair with Iris Chase
Oyrx and Crake- BlyssPluss, Waston-Crick Institute
Cat’s Eye- Elaine Risley
The Robber Bride- deceased classmate Zenia who stole boyfriends

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Atwood- Canadian

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Zoo Story-Jerry impaled by Peter’s knife from a tickle fight in Central Park
The Sandbox- Young man performs calisthenics
Seascape- Nancy and Charlie see lizards Leslie and Sarah- startled by planes
The American Dream
A Delicate Balance-Edna, Harry, Tobias

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Albee

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Mademoiselle Fifi
Piece of String-Maitre 
The Horla- invisible Brazilian vampire 
Madame Teller’s Establishment 
Bel Ami
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Maupassant

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Elisabeth Rousset is forced to sleep with Prussian officer but is shunned later
Travel from Rouen to Le Havre
Cornudet whistles La Marseillaise

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Ball of Fat

Maupassant

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Mathilde borrows it from Mdm. Forestier
Loses it and takes a decade to pay it off
Necklace was a fake and only worth 500 francs
Husband, Monsieur Loisel, buys her a dress for the Minister of Education’s ball for 400 francs instead of hunting guns
“One of those pretty and charming girls, born by a blunder of destiny in a family of employees”
“Beef stew”
“Fine dinners, of shining silverware”

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Necklace

Maupassant

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Berlioz in MASSOLIT is decapitated by a streetcar
Variety Theater
Margarita uses magical cream- turns into a witch, flies, neighbor into a pig
Woland says Manuscripts Don’t Burn
Yeshua Ha-Notsri and Pontius Pilate book
Woland holds a walpurgisnacht dance at Apartment No. 50
Woland, the devil in disguise, wants to be called Hegemon, has headaches and has a retinue
Behemoth is giant black walkin’ talkin’ flyin’ cat in the retinue
Mark the Rat Killer, the spy Afranius, Hella the vampire

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Master and Margarita

Bulgakov

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Wild Ass's Skin- Raphael de Valentin- thing shrinks
Pere Geriot 
Lost Illusions
Cousin Bette
Sarrasine
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Balzac- french

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Molloy-detective Jaques Moron persues title character
Malone Dies
The Unnamable
Whoroscope

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Beckett- Irish

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Billards at Half Past Nine

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Boll

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The Caucasian Chalk Circle- Azduk recuses Grand Duke, Michael belongs to Grusha
The Good Person of Setzuan

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Brecht- German

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Sharik (dog) becomes a human
Polygraph Polygraphovich after he receives human testes and pituitary glands from an operation by Dr. Preobrezhansky and then kills cats and sexually assaults people

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Heart of a Dog

Bulgakov

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The World at Large
White Disease
The Makropulos Affair

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Capek- Czech

39
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Begins -bilingual parrot “Go Away Go Away” in french
Edna Pontellier has affairs with Alcee Arobin and
Robert LeBrun before walking into the ocean and drowning
New Orleans
Married to Leonce and has a son named Raoul
Lebrun moves to Mexico and Edna gets triggered when Victor sings
She listens to Mademoiselle Reisz play a Chopin song on piano
Doctor Mandelet tries to help her
She moves into the Pigeon House
She is contrasted with the loyal Adele Ratignolle

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The Awakening

Chopin

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Desiree’s Baby- Armond- biracial baby stuff
A Pair of Silk Stockings- Mrs. Sommers, $15, cable car
The Storm- Bobino and Bibi buy a can of shrimp
Story of an Hour

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Chopin

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Professor David Lurie loses his job teaching at Cape Technical University after affair with the student Melanie Isaacs.
Solves The Problem Of Sex by seeing the prostitute Soraya every Thursday
Affair with Bev Shaw at the animal shelter he works at after he’s fired
Smashes the limbs of euthanized dogs to fit them in the incinerator
Fiight at a party hosted by Petrus
Opera about Byron

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Disgrace

Coetzee

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Marlow meets a russian guy dressed as a harlequin
Waits for a shipment of rivets to repair his steamboat
Sees two women knitting black wool
The Nellie ship in the mouth of the Thames
Painting of a blindfolded woman with a torch
Marlow reads Exterminate All The Brutes
Kurtz’s last words are The Horror, The Horror
Marlow calls a city a Whited Sepulchre

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Heart of Darkness

Conrad

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Alyosha, is religious and gets upset when the corpse of his mentor, Father Zossima, starts to decompose but regains his faith after a dream about the Wedding at Cana
Dmitri breaks off his engagement to Katrina to woo Grushenka and gets put on trial for murdering his father, Fyodor
Fyodor was actually iced by his illegitimate son, Smerdyakov
Another brother, Ivan, tells the Parable of the Grand Inquisitor to Alyosha
About Jesus coming back and kissing the title figure who sentences him to burn in Seville

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Brothers Karamozov

Doestoevsky

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Meme is surrounded by a swarm of yellow butterflies
Remedios the Beauty ascends to Heaven while sewing
It is about seven generations of the Buendia family
Jose Arcadio Buendia uses an alchemy lab to make golden fish
Rebeca eats dirt and plaster from the walls
Rebeca carries a bag of her parents’ bones that makes a clanking noise
17 children named Aureliano are marked with permanent Ash Wednesday crosses
Takes place in the town of Macondo
Aureliano is born with a pig’s tail because he is a child of incest and he is eventually eaten by ants
There is a banana plantation massacre

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

Marquez

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Dr. Urbino dies falling from a tree while trying to catch a parrot
Florentino Ariza eats flowers to ingest scent of Fermina Daza
Florentino has an affair with Barbara Lynch and Rosalba
The book opens with the investigation of the suicide of a chess player who killed himself with cyanide which smells of bitter almonds
The German Lotario Thugut and Hildebranda help the central characters
Fermina refuses to eat eggplant

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Love in the Time of Chlorea

Marquez

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The Vicario brothers murder Santiago Nasar after they discover Angela is not a virgin
One character is the widower Xius
17 years of daily love letters are returned unopened
The visiting bishop never leaves his boat

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Chronicle of a Deathh Fortold

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Ashoke Ganguli reads it before a train crash in The Namesake
About the copyist Akaky Akakievich who buys the title garment for 80 rubles
He stops drinking tea and using candles to save money
He dies of fever and his ghost hangs out near Kanklankin Bridge
The overcoat is stolen by a Person of Consequence or Very Important Person or similar (translations vary)

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The Overcoat

Gogol

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Young Goodman Brown
Rappaccini's Daugther
The Minister's Black Veil
The Birthmark
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
The Marble Faun
Blythedale Romance
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Hawthorne

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Bloody photographs
Freddy suggests a tennis game
Cecil Vyse reads Joseph Emery Prank (Elenor Lavish)
Pensione Bertolini- can’t see river Arno
Windy corner
George Emerson thinks Lucy Honeychurch is beautiful in field of violets
Charlotte Bartlett

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Room with a View

Forester

50
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Marabar caves
“Esmiss Esmoor” is said during trial and someone takes off shoes
Cyril Fielding married Ronny Heaslop, son of Mrs. Morris
Dr Aziz is accused of rapist Adela Questad
Major Callender

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Passage to India

Forester

51
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Cucumber sandwiches
Jack Worthing and Algernon Moneriecff merry Cecily Cardew and Gwendolyn Fairfax
Jack was lost as baby in Victoria Station by Miss Prism
Algernon sees cigarette case
“Bunburying”
Dr. Chasuable

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Importance of Being Earnest

Wilde

52
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Do any human beings ever realize life as they live it

Blessed be the tie that binds

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Our Town

Wilder

53
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Milkman Howie Newsome
Joe Crowell wins MIT scholarship but dies in WW1
Simon Stimson hangs himself in attic 
Emily Webb dies in childbirth
George Gibbs
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Our Town

Wilder

54
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Ben Gunn loves cheese
A ripped page from Bible makes a Black Spot
Blind pew
Dr. Libesey warns Billy Bones to stop drinking
Abraham Gray kills Job Anderson
Jim Hawkins flights Israel Hands

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Treasure Island

Stevenson

55
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Protagonist, Harry Haller, plans suicide on his 50th birthday
He spends much time at the Magic Theater which is For Madmen Only, and the price of admission is Your Mind
He dances with Maria at a masked ball and sleeps with her
The Saxophonist Pablo turns out to be Mozart
Harry meets Hermine at the Black Eagle tavern and she reminds him of his childhood friend, Herman
Harry gets a Treatise on himself which is found by his landlady
He stabs Hermine when he finds her with Pablo

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Steppenwolf

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Title character holds on to a coconut tree while deciding whether to commit suicide by jumping off
He has dreams where he breastfeed from his former best friend and about a dead songbird he throws away
He tells his friend Govinda to kiss his forehead at the end
He marries Kamala but she ties of a snakebite right after she has a son
He has a business apprenticeship with Kamaswami but gets a gambling addiction

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Siddhartha

57
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It is about an unnamed Whiskey Priest in Mexico that is hunted by the unnamed Lieutenant
He is captured after he is betrayed and lured into a trap by the Mestizo who says a wounded American named James Calver needs help
He stays at the home of the widower Mr. Lehr
He fights a crippled dog over a bone he finds in a house and wins
He meets Coral Fellows

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Power and the glory

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About James Wormold who is a vacuum salesman recruited by the British Secret Service while trying to support his daughter, Milly
He has a cigarette case made of human skin
He thinks catholics are a Torturable Class
He plays a game of checkers where the pieces are replaced with tiny scotch bottles
Dr. Hasselbacher is shot for decoding secret messages using Lamb’s Shakespeare

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Our man in Havana

59
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The title character loves Angel Clare who moves to Brazil
She falls asleep at the reins and the family horse, Prince, is impaled on the mailman’s cart
She is taken to a grove by Alec where she is seduced in her sleep (raped) and later gives birth to the child, Sorrow, who dies
She works at Talbothays Dairy with the milkmaids Izz, Retty, and Marion
She stabs Alec and is arrested at Stonehenge
Her execution is implied by a black flag seen by her sister Liza-Lu

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Tess of the U’bervilles

60
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The title stonemason’s wife leaves him after becoming religious so he goes back to his first wife, Arabella Don
He lives in Christminster, Wessex
Sue buys a love potion from Doctor Vilbert
Little Father Time hangs himself and his half-siblings and leaves a note reading Done Because We Are Too Menny

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Jude the Obscure

61
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Some peasants hold a Skimmity Ride that kills Lucetta Templeman
The title character gets drunk and sells his wife, Susan, and daughter to the sailer Richard Newson
Jopp reads the love letters of the title character in an inn which leads to a parade with effigies of him and his mistress

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Mayor of Castorbridge

62
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It begins and ends on Guy Fawkes Day
Clym Yeobright marries Eustacia Vye
Clym works as a diamond merchant but goes blind
Diggory Venn drives around in a van

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Return of the native

63
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Bathsheba Everdene ends up marrying Gabriel Oak
She sends Bolwood a valentine that says Marry Me
Sergeant Troy had impregnated the servant Fanny Robin but she died and he impresses Bathsheba with his swordsmanship

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Far from the madding crowd

64
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Its frame story is a manuscript possessed by Douglas and written by the unnamed Governess at the Bly House
The governess watches Flora and Miles and is instructed never to contact the employer, Mrs. Grose
Miles is mysteriously expelled from school
The narrator sees the ghosts of the former governess Mrs. Jezel and her lover, Peter Quint
Someone says Peter Quint You Devil and Miles dies

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Turn of the screw

65
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The title figure gets roman fever at the Coliseum and dies
She was visiting it with Giovanelli, the rival of Winterbourne
She is from Schenectady, New York
She travels from Vevey, Switzerland to Chateau de Chillon
The courier Eugenio tries to keep her from going on the trip

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