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The Epic of Gilgamesh

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LEQI-UNNINNI, Scribe (700 BCE)

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Illiad Odyssey

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Homer (800 BCE)

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The Analets

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Confucius (551-479 BCE)

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The Oresteia, Agamemnon

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Aeschylus (525-456 BCE)

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The ban Plays:
Oedipus Rex
Oedipus at Colonus
Antigone

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Sophocles (496-406 BCE)

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Alcestis
Medea
Hippolytus
The Trojan Women
Electra

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Euripides (484-406 BCE)

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The histories

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Herodotus (484-425 BCE)

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The history of the Peloponnesian War

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Thucydides (470-400 BCE)

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The Art of War

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Sun-Tzu (450-380 BCE)

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Lysistrata
The clouds
The Birds

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Aristophanes (448-388 BCE)

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The Republic

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Plato (428-348 BCE)

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Ethics
Politics
Poetics

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Aristotle (384-322 BCE)

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The book of Mencius

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Mencius (400-320 BCE)

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The Ramayana

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Valmiki (300 BCE)

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The Mahabharata

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Vyasa (200 BCE)

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The Bhagavad Gita

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Anonymous (200 BCE)

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Records of Grand Historian

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Ssu-Ma CH’IEN (145-86 BCE)

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Of the Nature of Things

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Lucretius 1(00-50BCE)

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The Aeneid

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Virgil (70-19 BCE)

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Meditations

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Aurelius, Marcus (121-180)

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The confessions

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Saint Augustine (354-430)

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The Cloud Messenger
Sakuntala/ Shakuntala

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Kalidasa (400

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The Koran

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Muhammad (650)

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The platform sultra of the Sixth Patriarch

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Hui-Neng (638-713)

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Shah Nameh

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FIRDAUSI (940-1020)

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The Pillow Book

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SEI SHONAGON (965-1035)

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The Tale of Genji (First Novel in the World)

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MURASAKI, LADY SHIKIBU (976-1015)

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The Rubaiyat

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KHAYYAM, Omar (1048-?)

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The Divine Comedy

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Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

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The Romance of the Three Kingdoms

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KUAN-CHUNG, LUO (1330-1400)

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The Canterbury Tales

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CHAUCER, GEOFFREY (1342-1400)

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1001 Nights/ Arabian Nights

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Anonymous (1500)

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The Prince

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Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527)

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Gargantua and Pantagruel

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Rabelias, Francois (1483-1553)

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The Journey to the West

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WU CH’ENG-EN (1500-1582)

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Essays—Apology for Raymond Sebond

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Montaigne, Michael (1533-1592)

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Don Quixote

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SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE CERVANTES (1547-1616)

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Romeo and Juliet
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Knight
Hamlet
Merchant of Venice

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Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

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Devotions
Sermons
First and Second Anniversaries

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Donne, John (1573-1631)

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Dialogue Concerning the two Chief World Systems

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Galilee, Galileo (1574-1642)

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Leviathan

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Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)

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Discourse on Method

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Descartes, Rene

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Paradise Lost
Lycidas
Areopagitica

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Milton, John (1608-1674)

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The School gor Wives
Tartuffe
The Would-be Gentlemen

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Moliere (1622-1673)

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Thiughts

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Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)

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Pilgrim’s Progress

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Bunyan, John (1628-1688)

47
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Second Treatise of Government

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Locke, John (1632-1704)

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The Narrow Road to the Deep North

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Basho, Matsuo (1644-1694)

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Robinson Crusoe

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Defoe, Daniel (1660-1731)

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Guilliver’s Travel

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Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

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Candide

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Voltaire (1694-1778)

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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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Hume, David (1711-1776)

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Tom Jones

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Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

54
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Confessions
The Social Contract

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Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778)

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Tristram Shandy

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Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)

56
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The life of Samuel Johnson

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Boswell, James (1740-1795)

57
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Basic Documents in American History

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Thomas Jefferson

58
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Faust

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Wolfgang Von Goethe, Johann

59
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A Poison Tree

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William Blake (1757-1827)

60
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The Prelude

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Wordsworth, William

61
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The Ancient Mariner
Christabel
Kublai Khan

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)

62
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Pride and Prejudice
Emma

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Austen, Jane (1775-1817)

63
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The Red and The Black

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Stendhal (1783-1842)

64
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Pere Goriot
Eugenie
Cousin Bette

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De Balzac, Honore

65
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Self Reliance

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803- 1882)

66
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The scarlet letter

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel

67
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Democracy in America

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De Tocqueville, Alexis

68
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On Liberty
The Subjection of Women

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Mill, John Stuart

69
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The Voyage of the Beagle
The Origin of Species

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Darwin, Charles

70
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Dead Souls

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Gogol, Nikolai

71
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The Cask of Amontillado
Annabel Lee

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Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)

72
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Vanity Fair

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Thackeray, William Makepeace

73
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Pickwick Papers
The Tale of Two Cities
A Christmas Carol
David Copperfield
Great Expectations

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Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)

74
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The Warden

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Trollope, Anthony (1815-1882)

75
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Jane Eyre

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Bronte, Charlotte

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Wuthering Heights

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Bronte, Emily

77
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Walden
Civil Disobedience

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Thoreau, Henry David

78
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Father’s and Sons

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Turgenev, Ivan

79
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The Communist Manifesto

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Marx, Karl

80
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Moby Dick

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Melville, Herman

81
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The Mill on the Floss
Middle March
Silas Marner

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Eliot, George

82
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Leaves of Grass

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Withman, Walt

83
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Madame Bovary

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Flaubert, Gustave

84
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Crime and Punishment
Brothers Karamazov

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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

85
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War and Peace
Annakarenina

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Tolstoy, Leo

86
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The Soul Selects Her Society
A Dimple in the Tomb

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Dickenson, Emily

87
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Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer

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Twain, Mark

88
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The Mayor of Casterbridge

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Hardy, Thomas

89
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The Interpretation of Dreams

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Freud, Sigmund

90
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Uncle Vanya
Three Sisters
The Cherry Orchard

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Chekov, Anton

91
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The Age of Innocence
The House of Mirth

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Wharton, Edith

92
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The Road Not Taken
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening

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Frost, Robert

93
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A Passage to India

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Foster, E.M.

94
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Ulysses

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Joyce, James (1882-1941)

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Mrs. Dalloway
To the lighthouse
Orlando

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Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941)

96
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Sons and lovers
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
The Fox

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Lawrence, David Herbert

97
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A Long Day’ Journey into the Night
Mourning Becomes Electra

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O’Neil, Eugene (1888-1953)

98
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Waste Land

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Eliot, T.S

99
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Brave New World

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Huxley, Aldous

100
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The Sound and the Fury
A Rose for Emily

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Faulkner, William

101
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Old Man and the Sea

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Hemingway, Ernest

102
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1984
Animal

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Orwell, George

103
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The English Teacher

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Narayan, R.K

104
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Waiting for Godot

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Beckett, Samuel

105
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Love in the time of Cholera

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Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

106
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Love in the time of Cholera

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Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

107
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Things Fall Apart
No Longer At Ease

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Achebe, Chinua

108
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Sila
The Beloved
Jazz
Song of Solomon

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Morrison (1931-present)

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