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Top 500 Greatest Books Flashcards

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In Search Of Lost Time

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Marcel Proust

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Don Quixote

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Miguel de Cervantes

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Ulysses

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James Joyce

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The Great Gatsby

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F. Scott Fitzgerld

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Moby Dick

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Herman Melville

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Hamlet

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William Shakespeare

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War And Peace

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Leo Tolstoy

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The Odyssey

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Homer

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One Hundred Years Of Solitude

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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The Divine Comedy

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Dante Alighieri

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The Brothers Karamazov

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Madame Bovary

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Gustave Flaubert

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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

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Mark Twain

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Lolita

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Vladiimir Nabokov

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The Iliad

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Homer

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Crime And Punishment

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland

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Lewis Carroll

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Wuthering Heights

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Emily Bronte

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Pride And Prejudice

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Jane Austen

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The Catcher In The Rye

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J. D. Salinger

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The Sound And The Fury

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William Faulkner

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To The Lighthouse

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Virginia Woolf

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Heart Of Darkness

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Joseph Conrad

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Anna Karenina

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Leo Tolstoy

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1984

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George Orwell

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Great Expectations

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Charles Dickens

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Middlemarch

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George Eliot

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Gulliver’s Travels

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Jonathan Swift

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Catch 22

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Joseph Heller

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1,001 Nights

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Arabian

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The Grapes Of Wrath

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John Steinbeck

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Absalom, Absalom!

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Wiliam Faulkner

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Jane Eyre

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Charlotte Bronte

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The Trial

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Franz Kafka

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Invisible Man

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Ralph Ellison

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Mrs. Dalloway

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Virginia Woolf

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The Red And The Black

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Stendhal

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The Aeneid

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Virgil

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David Copperfield

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Charles Dickens

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Beloved

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Toni Morrison

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The Stranger

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Albert Camus

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Leaves Of Grass

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Walt Whitman

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To Kill A Mockingbird

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Harper Lee

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A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man

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James Joyce

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The Sun Also Rises

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Ernest Hemingway

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Collected Fiction

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Jorge Luis Borges

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Oedipus The King

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Sophocles

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Candide

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Voltaire

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The Canterbury Tales

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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As I Lay Dying

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William Faulkner

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Tristram Shandy

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Laurence Sterne

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Midnight’s Children

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Salman Rushdie

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Les Miserables

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Victor Huge

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A Passage To India

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E. M. Forster

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Paradise Lost

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John Milton

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Antigone

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Sophocles

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The Portrait Of A Lady

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Henry James

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The Magic Mountain

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Thomas Mann

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Emma

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Jane Austen

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Animal Farm

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George Orwell

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The Old Man And The Sea

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Ernest Hemingway

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Faust

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The Idiot

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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The Lord Of The Rings

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J.R.R. Tolkien

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The Metamorphisis

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Franz Kafka

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Vanity Fair

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Wiliam Thackeray

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Things Fall Apart

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Chinua Achebe

68
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The Good Soldier

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Ford Madox Ford

69
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A Farewell To Arms

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Ernest Hemingway

70
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Pale Fire

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Vladimir Nabokov

71
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Lord Of The Flies

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William Golding

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Dead Souls

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Nikolai Gogol

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Oresteia

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Aschylus

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For Whom The Bell Tolls

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Ernest Hemingway

75
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Frankenstein

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Mary Shelley

76
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Gargantua And Pantagruel

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Francois Rabelais

77
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Under The Volcano

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Malcolm Lowry

78
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The Castle

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Franz Kafka

79
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The Flowers Of Evil

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Charles Baudelaire

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Brave New world

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Aldous Huxley

81
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Journey To the End Of The Night

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Louis Ferdinand Celine

82
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Tom Jones

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Henry Fielding

83
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The Scarlet Letter

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

84
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Fairy Tales And Stories

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Hans Christian Anderson

85
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Robinson Crusoe

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Daniel Defoe

86
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Cousin Bette

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Honor de Balzac

87
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A Sentimental Education

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Gustave Flaubert

88
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Gone With The Wind

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Margaret Mitchell

89
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Metamorphoses

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Ovid

90
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Oedipus At Colonus

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Sophocles

91
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Tess Of The D’Urbervilles

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Thomas Hardy

92
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Charlotte’s Web

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E.B. White

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The Possessed

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

94
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Decameron

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Giovanni Boccoccaio

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Waiting For Godot

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Samuel Beckett

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Fathers And Sons

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Ivan Turgenev

97
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Slaughterhouse Five

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Kurt Vonnegut

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Sons and Lovers

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D. H. Lawrence

99
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On The Road

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Jack Kerouac

100
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The Color Purple

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Alice Walker

101
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The Tin Drum

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Gunter Grass

102
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The Age Of Innocence

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Edith Wharton

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Father Goriot

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Honore de Balzac

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The Waste Land

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T. S. Eliot

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The Bleak House

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Charles Dickens

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The Little Prince

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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The Tale of Genji

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Muraski Shikibu

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Howards End

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E. M. Forster

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All The King’s Men

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Robert Penn Warren

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A Doll’s House

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Henrik Ibsen

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The Master And Margarita

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Mikhail Bulgakov

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A Clockwork Orange

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Anthony Burgess

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Native Son

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Richard Wright

114
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Lord Jim

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Joseph Conrad

115
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The Charterhouse Of Parma

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Stendhal

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The Wind In The Willows

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Kenneth Grahame

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King Lear

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William Shakespeare

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My Antonia

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Willa Cather

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A Season In Hill

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Arthur Rimbaud

120
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The Moviegoer

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Walker Percy

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Nostromo

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Joseph Conrad

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Treasure Island

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Robert Louis Steenson

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Doctor Faustus

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Thomas Mann

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Rebecca

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Daphne du Maurier

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Rabbit, Run

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John Updike

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Electra

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Sophocles

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The Golden Notebook

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Doris Lessing

128
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Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Zora Neale Hurston

129
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Orlando: A Biography

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Virginia Woolf

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Buddenbrooks

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Thomas Mann

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The Handmaid’s Tale

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Margaret Atwood

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The Count Of Monte Cristo

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Alexandre Dumas

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Medea

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Euripedes

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Blood Meridian

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Cormac McCarthy

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Dangerous Liaison

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea

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Jules Verne

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Little Women

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Louisa May Alcott

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The Tempest

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Wiliam Shakespeare

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Prometheus Bound

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Aeschylus

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Atonement

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Ian McEwan

141
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The Call Of The Wild

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Jack London

142
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The Waves

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Virginia Woolf

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A Confederacy Of Dunces

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John Kennedy Toole

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American Pastoral

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Philip Roth

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Women In Love

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D. H. Lawrence

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White Teeth

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Zadie Smith

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Phedre

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Jean Racine

148
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Lost Illusions

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Honore de Balzac

149
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes

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Arthur Conan Doyle

150
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The Suppliants

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Aeschylus

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Seven Against Thebes

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Aeschylus

152
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The Persians

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Aeschylus

153
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An American Tragedy

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Theodore Dreiser

154
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A Room With A View

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E. M. Forster

155
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Tartuffe

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Moliere

156
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The Ambassadors

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Henry James

157
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Doctor Zhivago

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Boris Pasternak

158
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Confessions Of Zeno

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Italo Svevo

159
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Jude The Obscure

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Thomas Hardy

160
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Henderson The Rain King

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Saul Bellow

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The Stand

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Stephen King

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A Tale Of Two Cities

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Charles Dickens

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