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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Reading List by Thomas C. Foster

English professor Thomas C. Foster, at the stop of his book, includes a recommended "reading list".

  1. Poems of W. H. Auden by W. H. Auden

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    Wystan Hugh Auden[1] (/ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən/;[2] 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973), who published equally W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,[3][4] born in England, later an American citizen, a...

  2. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

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    Waiting for Godot (pronounced /ˈɡɒdoʊ/) is a play past Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, await for someone named Godot. Godot's absence, likewise as numerous other aspects...

  3. Beowulf by Unknown

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    Beowulf is an Erstwhile English heroic epic poem of unknown authorship, dating equally recorded in the Nowell Codex manuscript from betwixt the 8th and the early 11th century, set in Denmark and Sweden. Commo...

  4. Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner

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    Romantic novelist Edith Promise is staying in a hotel on the shores of Lake Geneva, where her friends have brash her to retreat post-obit an unfortunate incident. There she meets other English visit...

  5. Alice'south Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

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    In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story near a petty daughter tumbling downwards a rabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, mayhap thursday...

  6. Through the Looking Drinking glass past Lewis Carroll

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    Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a novel by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Fix some six months later...

  7. The Encarmine Sleeping accommodation And Other Stories by Angela Carter

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    From familiar fairy tales and legends - Cerise Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Animal, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an arresting collection of night, sensual...

  8. Wise Children by Angela Carter

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    Wise Children follows the fortunes of the Chance twins, Dora and Nora, taking in the story of their show business family — the Hazards — over the by century. Built-in illegitimately, spurned by their...

  9. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

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    With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject affair, The Canterbury Tales have get one of the touchstones of medieval literature. Translated here into modern English, these tales of a mo...

  10. Center of Darkness past Joseph Conrad

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    The story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a strange assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-gunkhole captain in Africa. Although Conrad does non specify the name of th...

  11. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

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    Conrad's great novel of guilt and redemption follows the first mate on board the Patna, a raw youth with dreams of heroism who, in an human action of cowardice, abandons his ship. His unbearable guilt and i...

  12. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

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    A Christmas Ballad (originally, A Christmas Ballad in Prose, Existence a Ghost Story of Christmas) is a novella past English author Charles Dickens (vii Feb 1812 – 9 June 1870) about a curmudgeon and h...

  13. Dour House by Charles Dickens

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    Dour House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly instalments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing 1 of ...

  14. Nifty Expectations past Charles Dickens

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    Cracking Expectations is written in the genre of "bildungsroman" or the style of volume that follows the story of a human or adult female in their quest for maturity, unremarkably starting from childhood and catastrophe i...

  15. Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow

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    Ragtime is a 1975 novel past E. L. Doctorow. This work of historical fiction is mostly set in New York City from about 1900 until the United states of america entry into World War I in 1917. A unique accommodation...

  16. The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell

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    A disquisitional and commercial success, the books present four perspectives on a single prepare of events and characters in Alexandria, Egypt, before and during World War II. Equally Durrell explains in his p...

  17. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

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    Dear Medicine is Louise Erdrich'due south first novel, published in 1984. Each chapter is narrated by a dissimilar grapheme. These narratives are very conversational, as if the narrators were telling a st...

  18. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

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    The Sound and the Fury is set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. The novel centers on the Compson family unit, former Southern aristocrats who are struggling to deal with the dissolution of their fa...

  19. As I Lay Dying past William Faulkner

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    The book is told in stream of consciousness writing style past 15 different narrators in 59 chapters. It is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family unit's quest—noble or selfish—to accolade he...

  20. Absalom, Absalom! past William Faulkner

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    Absalom, Absalom! is a Southern Gothic novel by the American writer William Faulkner, first published in 1936. It is a story virtually iii families of the American Due south, taking place before, during,...

  21. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

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    Bridget Jones's Diary is a 1996 novel by Helen Fielding. Written in the form of a personal diary, the novel chronicles a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a thirty-something single working woman l...

  22. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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    The book is narrated in free indirect oral communication post-obit the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with matters of upbringing, marriage, moral rightness and education in her aristocratic socie...

  23. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

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    A foundling of mysterious parentage brought upwardly by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in dearest with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the cute daughter of the neig...

  24. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    The novel chronicles an era that Fitzgerald himself dubbed the "Jazz Age". Following the shock and chaos of World War I, American society enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity during the "roar...

  25. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

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    Ford Madox Ford wrote The Expert Soldier, the volume on which his reputation virtually surely rests, in deliberate emulation of the nineteenth-century French novels he so admired. In this way he was able to...

  26. A Room With a View by E. One thousand. Forster

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    British social comedy examines a young heroine'southward struggle against strait-laced Victorian attitudes as she rejects the man her family has encouraged her to marry and chooses, instead, a socially uns...

  27. Howards End past E. M. Forster

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    "Only Connect," Forster's key aphorism, informs this novel virtually an English country house, Howards End, and its influence on the lives of the wealthy and materialistic Wilcoxes; the cultured, ideal...

  28. A Passage to India past E. G. Forster

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    A Passage to India is set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence motion in the 1920s. The story revolves effectually four characters: Dr. Aziz, his British friend Cyril Fi...

  29. The Magus by John Fowles

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    A man trapped in a millionare'south mortiferous game of political and sexual betrayal. Filled with shocks and spooky surprises, "The Magus" is a masterwork of contemporary literature. In it, a young Engli...

  30. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles

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    The novel'southward protagonist is Sarah Woodruff, the title Adult female, also known by the nickname of "Tragedy", and by the unfortunate nickname "The French Lieutenant's Whore". She lives in the coastal town o...

  31. The Poems of Robert Frost by Robert Frost

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    Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – Jan 29, 1963) was an American poet. His piece of work was initially published in England before it was published in America. He is highly regarded for his realistic de...

  32. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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    I of the 20th century'due south enduring works, Ane Hundred Years of Confinement is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning car...

  33. Loving past Henry Light-green

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    Loving tells the story of the servants in Kinalty Castle, an upper-class Irish household during World War II.

  34. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

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    A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn individual centre with his own alone code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat human being name Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, ...

  35. The Mayor of Casterbridge past Thomas Hardy

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    Thomas Hardy'south showtime masterpiece, The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a scene of such heartlessness and cruelty that it still shocks readers today. A poor workman named Michael Henchard, in a fit ...

  36. Tess of the d'Urbervilles past Thomas Hardy

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    Violated past one man, forsaken past another, Tess Durbeyfield is the magnificent and spirited heroine of Thomas Hardy's immortal piece of work. Of all the bang-up English novelists, no 1 writes more than eloquently...

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  37. Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    Twice-Told Tales is a brusque story drove in two volumes past Nathaniel Hawthorne. The first was published in the spring of 1837, and the 2d in 1842.[i] The stories had all been previously pub...

  38. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    Hester Prynne is a beautiful young woman. She is also an outcast. In the eyes of her neighbors she has committed an unforgivable sin. Anybody knows that her little girl, Pearl, is the product ...

  39. The Business firm of the 7 Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston. The novel follows a...

  40. In Our Time past Ernest Hemingway

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    When In Our Time was published in 1925, it was praised by Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of circuitous emot...

  41. Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway

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    Before he gained broad fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his short stories. This collection, The Short Stories, originally published in 1938, is definitiv...

  42. The Lord's day Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

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    The novel explores the lives and values of the and then-called "Lost Generation," chronicling the experiences of Jake Barnes and several acquaintances on their pilgrimage to Pamplona for the annual San F...

  43. A Farewell to Arms past Ernest Hemingway

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    The novel is told through the point of view of Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American serving equally an ambulance driver in the Italian army during World War I.

  44. The Old Human and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

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    The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in linguistic communication of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an sometime Cuban fisherman, downwardly on his luck, and his supreme ordea...

  45. The Iliad past Homer

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    The Iliad is an ballsy poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set in the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of Ilium past a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and e...

  46. The Odyssey by Homer

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    The Odyssey is one of two major aboriginal Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work traditionally ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the m...

  47. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

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    The Turn of the Screw, originally published in 1898, is a gothic ghost story novella written by Henry James. Due to its cryptic content, it became a favourite text of academics who subscribe t...

  48. Daisy Miller by Henry James

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    Daisy Miller is a novella by Henry James that first appeared in Cornhill Magazine in June–July 1878, and in book form the following year. It portrays the courtship of the cute American girl Da...

  49. Dubliners by James Joyce

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    Dubliners is a drove of 15 brusque stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The 15 stories were meant to exist a naturalistic delineation of the Irish middle class life in and around Dub...

  50. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

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    A Portrait of the Artist equally a Fellow is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce, first serialized in The Egoist from 1914 to 1915 and published in book form in 1916. Information technology depicts the formativ...

  51. Ulysses by James Joyce

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    Ulysses chronicles the passage of Leopold Flower through Dublin during an ordinary solar day, June 16, 1904. The title parallels and alludes to Odysseus (Latinised into Ulysses), the hero of Homer'southward Odyss...

  52. The Metamorphosis past Franz Kafka

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    The Metamorphosis (German language: Dice Verwandlung) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of curt fiction of the 20th century and is widely st...

  53. The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka past Franz Kafka

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    The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka is a compilation of all Kafka's short stories. With the exception of Kafka'south iii novels (The Trial, The Castle and Amerika), this collection includes all of Ka...

  54. The Trial by Franz Kafka

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    Written in 1914, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is of a sudden and inexplicably arrested and mu...

  55. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

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    Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew upwardly poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads due west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she ...

  56. Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver

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    When six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, her insistence on what she has seen, and her mother's belief in her, lead to a human being's dramatic rescue. Only Turtle'due south momen...

  57. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

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    The Poisonwood Bible (1998) by Barbara Kingsolver is a bestselling novel about a missionary family unit, the Prices, who in 1959 motion from Georgia to the fictional village of Kilanga in the Belgian Cong...

  58. Selected Stories past D. H. Lawrence

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    Because of his frank and honest portrayal of human sexuality in the controversial works for which he is best known, e.g. Lady Chatterley'south Lover and Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence was not widely res...

  59. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence

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    Sons and Lovers is 1 of the landmark novels of the twentieth century. When it appeared in 1913, it was immediately recognized as the first great modern restatement of the oedipal drama, and it is...

  60. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence

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    Possibly no other of the world'south groovy writers lived and wrote with the passionate intensity of D. H. Lawrence. And peradventure no other of his books so explores the mysteries between men and women–both...

  61. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence

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    Lyric and sensual, D.H. Lawrence'southward concluding novel is ane of the major works of fiction of the twentieth century. Filled with scenes of intimate beauty, explores the emotions of a lonely adult female trapped i...

  62. Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory

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    Le Morte d'Arthur (spelled Le Morte Darthur in the first printing and likewise in some modern editions, Middle French for la mort d'Arthur, "the death of Arthur") is Sir Thomas Malory's compilation of ...

  63. Song of Solomon past Toni Morrison

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    Information technology follows the life of Macon "Milkman" Dead Three, an African-American male living in Michigan, from birth to adulthood. The chief theme in the novel is Milkman's quest for identity as a blackness man in ...

  64. The Body of water, The Ocean past Iris Murdoch

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    The Sea, the Bounding main is the 19th novel by Iris Murdoch. It won the Booker Prize in 1978. The Sea, the Body of water is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and managing director as h...

  65. Lolita past Vladimir Nabokov

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    The book is internationally famous for its innovative way and infamous for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, middle aged Humbert Humbert, becomes obsessed and se...

  66. Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien

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    This complex novel is ready during the Vietnam War and is told from the signal of view of the protagonist, Paul Berlin. The story traces the events that ensue after Cacciato, a member of Berlin'southward squa...

  67. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

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    The Things They Carried is a collection of related stories by Tim O'Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers in the Vietnam War, originally published in hardcover by Houghton Mifflin, 1990. Whil...

  68. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

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    The shortest of Pynchon's novels and often considered his most accessible, the book is almost a adult female, Oedipa Maas, peradventure unearthing the centuries-old disharmonize between two mail service distribution compa...

  69. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

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    The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more only Village, is a tragedy past William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Pri...

  70. Julius Caesar past William Shakespeare

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    Based on Plutarch's account of the lives of Brutus, Julius Caesar, and Marker Antony, Julius Caesar was the first of Shakespeare'south Roman history plays. Presented for the outset time in 1599, the play ...

  71. Macbeth by William Shakespeare

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    The Tragedy of Macbeth, ordinarily just Macbeth, is a play past William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to accept been written sometim...

  72. King Lear past William Shakespeare

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    King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606. It is considered 1 of his greatest works. The play is based on the fable of Leir of U.k., a...

  73. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

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    A Midsummer Night'due south Dream is a one-act written by William Shakespeare between 1590 and 1596. It is 1 of his most played pieces. The events of the play take place in and effectually Athens in ancient Gr...

  74. The Tempest past William Shakespeare

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    The Storm is a play by William Shakespeare, estimated to have been written in 1610–eleven, (although some researchers have argued for an earlier dating). The play'south protagonist is the banished sorcer...

  75. Twelfth Night: Or, What Yous Will by William Shakespeare

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    Twelfth Night; or, What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written effectually 1601–02 every bit a 12th Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas flavour. The play ...

  76. As You Like it by William Shakespeare

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    Every bit You lot Like Information technology is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to accept been written in 1599 or early on 1600 and beginning published in the First Folio, 1623. The play'southward first performance is uncertai...

  77. The Sonnets past William Shakespeare

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    Shakespeare's sonnets, or merely The Sonnets, is a drove of poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as time, love, beauty and mutability. They were proba...

  78. Frankenstein past Mary Shelley

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    At this claiming, Mary Shelley began work on the 'ghost story' that was to evolve into the most celebrated horror novel in literary history. Frankenstein was published the next yr and become the...

  79. Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles

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    Oedipus at Colonus is one of the 3 Theban plays of the Athenian tragedian Sophocles. Information technology was written before long before Sophocles' death in 406 BC and produced past his grandson (besides called Sophocles...

  80. Oedipus the Rex by Sophocles

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    Oedipus the King is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was offset performed c. 429 BC. Information technology was the 2nd of Sophocles's three Theban plays to be produced, but it comes first in the internal chron...

  81. Antigone by Sophocles

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    Antigone is a tragedy by Sophocles written before or in 442 BC. Chronologically, information technology is the third of the three Theban plays but was written beginning.[1] The play expands on the Theban fable that preda...

  82. The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser

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    The Faerie Queene is an incomplete English epic verse form by Edmund Spenser. The outset half was published in 1590, and a 2d installment was published in 1596. The Faerie Queene is notable for its fo...

  83. Dracula by Bram Stoker

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    Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish gaelic writer Bram Stoker, featuring as its master antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literat...

  84. Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas by Dylan Thomas

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    Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – nine Nov 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do non go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall accept no rule", th...

  85. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn past Marking Twain

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    Revered by all of the boondocks's children and dreaded past all of its mothers, Blueberry Finn is indisputably the most highly-seasoned child-hero in American literature. Unlike the tall-tale, idyllic worl...

  86. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler

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    Dinner at the Homesick Eatery is a 1982 novel by Anne Tyler set in Baltimore, Maryland. It is Anne Tyler's ninth novel. In 1983 it was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize,[ane] the National Book Aw...

  87. The Adventitious Tourist by Anne Tyler

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    The Adventitious Tourist is a 1985 novel by Anne Tyler that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Set in Baltimore, Maryland, the plot rev...

  88. The Early Stories by John Updike

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    This thousand collection of 103 stories gathers together almost all the short fiction that Updike published betwixt 1953 and 1975, beginning with "Ace in the Hole" and ending with "Beloved Vocal for a Moo...

  89. Omeros by Derek Walcott

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    A poem in five books, of round narrative design, titled with the Greek proper name for Homer, which simultaneously charts 2 currents of history: the visible history charted in events -- the tribal lo...

  90. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

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    Created from ii short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished "The Prime Minister", the novel's story is of Clarissa's preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess. Wit...

  91. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

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    A landmark novel of high modernism, the text, centering on the Ramsay family unit and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920, skillfully manipulates temporality and psycholog...

  92. Household Tales by Brothers Grimm

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    Children's and Household Tales (High german: Kinder- und Hausmärchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 past Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm. The collection ...

  93. Early Novels and Stories by James Baldwin

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    A collection of stories penned past 1 of the greatest African-American writers of the postwar era includes such works every bit Become Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room, Another Land, and Going to M...

  94. Water Music past T. C. Boyle

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    Set in 1795, "Water Music" is the rambunctious account of 2 men'south wild adventures through the gutters of London and the Scottish Highlands to their unlikely meeting in darkest Africa.

  95. Stories past T. C. Boyle

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    T. C. Boyle is one of the most inventive and wickedly funny short story writers at work today. Over the course of twenty-5 years, Boyle has built up a body of brusk fiction that is remarkable in...

  96. Nights At The Circus past Angela Carter

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    Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe'south capitals, part swan...or all simulated? Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted past Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearn...

  97. The Stories of Raymond Carver by Raymond Carver

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    Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August two, 1988) was an American curt story writer and poet. Carver was a notable writer of the late 20th century and a contributor to the revitalization ...

  98. Pricksongs and Descants by Robert Coover

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    A groundbreaking drove of short fictions including "The Babysitter," one of the most anthologized stories of all time. Coover's stories are told well and told in many different styles.

  99. The Bridge by Hart Crane

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    "Hart Crane's long verse form The Bridge has steadily grown in stature since it was published in 1930. This book is a guide to the poem. Information technology's detailed and far-reaching annotations make [the poem] fully a...

  100. The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter

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    For a yr, the murder of Mrs. Yvonne Harrison at her home in Oxfordshire had baffled the Thames Valley CID. The manner of her death--her naked handcuffed body left lying in bed--matched her reputa...

  101. The Former Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

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    Originally published in Dickens' weekly serial Primary Humphrey's Clock, his heartrending tale of the virtuous orphan Little Nell captivated readers on both sides of the Atlantic. Nell lives with he...

  102. Incomprehension past Henry Greenish

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    "Blindness is a major novel . . . Every character and every scene is shot through with significance after significance." The Times [London]

  103. Living by Henry Light-green

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    LIVING, as an early novel, marks the beginning of Henry Greenish'due south career equally a writer who fabricated his name by exploring class distinctions through the medium of love. Set up in an iron foundry in Birmingham...

  104. Political party Going by Henry Green

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    A group of rich, spoiled and idle young people heading off on a winter holiday are stranded at a railway station when their train is delayed by thick, enclosing fog. Party GOING describes their fou...

  105. The Short Stories Of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy

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    This is the extended annotated edition including a rare biographical essay on the life and works of the writer. This compilation of Thomas Hardy's short stories is one of the most complete on the b...

  106. A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch

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    A novel almost the frightfulness and ruthlessness of existence in love Martin Lynch-Gibson believes he can possess both a beautiful married woman and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leav...

  107. The Unicorn past Iris Murdoch

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    A brilliant mythical drama about well-meaning people trapped in a state of war of spiritual forces Marian Taylor, who has come up as a "companion" to a lovely adult female in a remote castle, becomes aware that her due east...

  108. The Green Knight by Iris Murdoch

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    Total of suspense, humor, and symbolism, this magnificently crafted and magical novel replays biblical and medieval themes in gimmicky London. An effort past the sharp, feral, and uncommonly inte...

  109. Much Ado near Nothing past William Shakespeare

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    Shakespeare'due south comedy play "Much Ado Almost Zippo" pivots around the impediments to dear for young matrimonial Hero and Claudio when Hero is falsely accused of infidelity and the "lover's trap" fix f...

  110. Henry 5 by William Shakespeare

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    The administrative edition of Henry V from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, is now available as an eBook. Features inc...

  111. The Wintertime's Tale past William Shakespeare

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    The Winter's Tale is a play past William Shakespeare, originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, some modern editors take relabelled the play as ane ...

  112. The Hearts and Lives of Men: A Novel past Fay Weldon

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    It's 1960s London, and the sexual revolution is in full swing in Fay Weldon's enduring story of animalism, spousal relationship, family, fine art, avarice, appetite, betrayal, and truthful honey Clifford Wexford and Helen La...

  113. The Waste Land by T. Southward. Eliot

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    "For many successive generations now, 'The Waste Country,' 'The Beloved Vocal of J. Alfred Prufrock,' and 'Four Quartets' accept continued to excited readers and to inspire young poets. Teenagers nevertheless disc...

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