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234 Cards in this Set
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The Yearling
(char. Jody and Ma Baxter) (Pulitzer in Fiction 1939) |
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
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Cross Creek
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Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
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Golden Apples
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Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
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The Sojourner
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Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
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Ten Days that Shook the World
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Reed, John
(buried in the Kremlin) |
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Insurgent Mexico
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Reed, John
(buried in the Kremlin) |
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All Quiet on the Western Front
(based on his experiences in WWI) (char. Paul Baumer) |
Remarque, Erich M.
(born in Germany) |
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The Sea of Grass
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Richter, Conrad
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The Awakening Land Trilogy
-The Trees -The Fields -The Town (Pulitzer in Fiction 1951) |
Richter, Conrad
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How the Other Half Lives
(describes the slums of NYC) |
Riis, Jacob
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The Making of an American
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Riis, Jacob
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Little Orphan Annie
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Riley, James Whitcomb
(Hoosier poet) |
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The Raggedy Man
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Riley, James Whitcomb
(Hoosier poet) |
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When the Frost is on the Punkin
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Riley, James Whitcomb
(Hoosier poet) |
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The Swimming Hole
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Riley, James Whitcomb
(Hoosier poet) |
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Scarlett
(sequel to Gone With the Wind) |
Ripley, Alexandra
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Captain Craig
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Robinson, Edwin Arlington
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The Town Down the River
(includes 'Miniver Cheevy') |
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
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The Children of the Night
(includes 'Richard Cory') |
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
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Richard Cory
(he shoots himself in the head) |
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
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Collected Poems
(Pulitzer in Poetry 1922) (1st Pulitzer awarded for Poetry) |
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
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The Man Who Died Twice
(Pulitzer in Poetry 1925) |
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
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Tristram
(Pulitzer in Poetry 1928) |
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
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Lancelot
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Robinson, Edwin Arlington
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Merlin
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Robinson, Edwin Arlington
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Trilogy:
-Giants in the Earth (char. Per Hansa, Benet) -Peder Victorious -Their Father's Good |
Rolvaag, Ole Edvart
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The Boat of Longing
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Robinson, Edwin Arlington
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Goodbye, Columbus
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Roth, Phillip
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Letting Go
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Roth, Phillip
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When She Was Good
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Roth, Phillip
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The Great American Novel
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Roth, Phillip
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Portnoy's Complaint
(char. Alexander, Sophie, Jack, the monkey) |
Roth, Phillip
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Zuckerman Unbound
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Roth, Phillip
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Sabbath's Theater
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Roth, Phillip
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Defender of the Faith
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Roth, Phillip
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The Ghost Writer
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Roth, Phillip
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The Counterlife
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Roth, Phillip
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The Facts
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Roth, Phillip
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Deception
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Roth, Phillip
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Patrimony
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Roth, Phillip
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The Great White Hope
(Pulitzer in Drama 1969) (about boxer Jack Johnson) |
Sackler, Howard
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The Dragons of Eden
(Pulitzer in Nonfiction 1978) |
Sagan, Carl
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Broca's Brain
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Sagan, Carl
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Cosmos
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Sagan, Carl
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Contact
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Sagan, Carl
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The Catcher in the Rye
(char. Holden Caulfield, Phoebe, Sally Hayes, Stradlater, Mr. Antolini) (last line - "Don't ever tell anybody anything, if you do, you start missing everybody." |
Salinger, Jerome David
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Nine Stories
(introduces the Glass family) (Contains "A Perfect Day for Bananafish") |
Salinger, Jerome David
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Frannie and Zooey
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Salinger, Jerome David
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Hapworth 16, 1924
(his last published work) |
Salinger, Jerome David
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Reckless Ecstacy
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Sandburg, Carl
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Chicago Poems
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Sandburg, Carl
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Corn Huskers
(Pulitzer in Poetry 1919) |
Sandburg, Carl
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Smoke and Steel
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Sandburg, Carl
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Slabs of the Sunburnt West
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Sandburg, Carl
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Good Morning America
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Sandburg, Carl
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Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years
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Sandburg, Carl
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Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
(Pulitzer in History 1940) |
Sandburg, Carl
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Rootabaga Stories
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Sandburg, Carl
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Mary Lincoln, Wife and Widow
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Sandburg, Carl
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The People, Yes
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Sandburg, Carl
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Complete Poems
(Pulitzer in Poetry 1951) |
Sandburg, Carl
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Fog
("The fog creeps in on little cat feet") |
Sandburg, Carl
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Harvest Poems
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Sandburg, Carl
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Honey and Salt
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Sandburg, Carl
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The Life of Reason
("Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it") |
Santayana, George
(professor at Harvard) |
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The Last Puritan
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Santayana, George
(professor at Harvard) |
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The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
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Saroyan, William
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My Name is Aram
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Saroyan, William
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My Heart's in the Highlands
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Saroyan, William
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The Time of Your Life
(Pulitzer in Drama 1940) (char. Detective Blick, Nick, Joe, Tom, Kitty, Duval, Kit, Dudley, Elsie, Willie, & Harry) |
Saroyan, William
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The Human Comedy
(Katey Macauley, Homer, Ulysses, & Marcus Macauley) |
Saroyan, William
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The Age of Jackson
(Pulitzer in History 1946) |
Schlesinger, Jr., Arthur
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A Thousand Days
(Pulitzer in Biography 1966) (about the Kennedy White House) |
Schlesinger, Jr., Arthur
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The Imperial Presidency
(about Nixon administration) |
Schlesinger, Jr., Arthur
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Love Story
(Jenny Cavillieri, Oliver Barrett IV, "Love means never having to say you're sorry") |
Segal, Erich
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Oliver's Story
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Segal, Erich
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Where the Wild Things Are
(1964 Caldecott Medal) |
Sendak, Maurice
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Outside Over There
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Sendak, Maurice
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Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse
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Sewell, Anna
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Live or Die
(Pulitzer in Poetry 1967) |
Sexton, Anne
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The Death Notebooks
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Sexton, Anne
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Love Poems
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Sexton, Anne
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One Day in the Afternoon of the World
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Saroyan, William
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Bury the Dead
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Shaw, Irwin
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Rich Man, Poor Man
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Shaw, Irwin
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The Young Lions
(char. Diest, Michael Whitmore, Noah Ackerman) |
Shaw, Irwin
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The Road to Rome
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Sherwood, Robert E.
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Idiot's Delight
(Pulitzer in Drama 1936) |
Sherwood, Robert E.
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Reunion in Vienna
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Sherwood, Robert E.
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Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History
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Sherwood, Robert E.
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
(Pulitzer in Drama 1939) (about the life of Lincoln up to the presidency) |
Sherwood, Robert E.
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The Petrified Forest
(set in Arizona) |
Sherwood, Robert E.
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
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Shirer, William L.
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Betlin Diary
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Shirer, William L.
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The Sinking of the Bismark
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Shirer, William L.
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Come Blow Your Horn
(written with brother Danny) |
Simon, Neil "Doc"
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Barefoot in the Park
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Simon, Neil "Doc"
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The Odd Couple
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Simon, Neil "Doc"
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Chapter Two
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Simon, Neil "Doc"
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I Ought to Be in Pictures
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Simon, Neil "Doc"
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Plaza Suite
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Simon, Neil "Doc"
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Sweet Charity
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Simon, Neil "Doc"
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The Sunshine Boys
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Simon, Neil "Doc"
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Last of the Red Hot Lovers
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Simon, Neil "Doc"
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Murder By Death
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Simon, Neil "Doc"
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Lost in Yonkers
(Pulitzer in Drama 1991) |
Simon, Neil "Doc"
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Autobiographical trilogy:
(Eugene Jerome represents Simon) -Brighton Beach Memoirs -Biloxi Blues -Broadway Bound |
Simon, Neil "Doc"
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Gimpel the Fool
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Singer, Isaac Bashevis
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The Spinoza of Market Street
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Singer, Isaac Bashevis
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Passions
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Singer, Isaac Bashevis
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Satan in Goray
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Singer, Isaac Bashevis
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The Family Moskat
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Singer, Isaac Bashevis
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A Crown of Feathers
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Singer, Isaac Bashevis
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The Jungle
(char. Jurgis Rudkus, Ona) (set in "Packingtown"/stockyards) (lead to FDA meat inspection) |
Sinclair, Upton
(ran for CA governor) |
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King Coal
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Sinclair, Upton
(ran for CA governor) |
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Saved By the Enemy
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Sinclair, Upton
(ran for CA governor) |
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Boston
(based on the Sacco-Vanzetti case) |
Sinclair, Upton
(ran for CA governor) |
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Oil
(based on Teapot Dome Scandal) |
Sinclair, Upton
(ran for CA governor) |
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Lanny Budd trilogy:
-World's End -Between Two Worlds -Dragon's Teeth (Pulitzer in Fiction 1943) |
Sinclair, Upton
(ran for CA governor) |
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Walden Two
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Skinner, B.F.
(behaviorist psychologist, invented operant conditioning) |
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Beyond Freedom and Dignity
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Skinner, B.F.
(behaviorist psychologist, invented operant conditioning) |
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A Thousand Acres
(Pulitzer in Fiction 1992) |
Smiley, Jane
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
(char. Francie Nolan) |
Smith, Betty
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I, the Jury
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Spillane, Frank "Mickey"
(created detective Mike Hammer) |
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Kiss Me, Deadly
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Spillane, Frank "Mickey"
(created detective Mike Hammer) |
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The Shame of the Cities
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Steffens, Lincoln
(one of 1st muckrakers) |
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Three Lives
(contains "The Good Anna", "Melanctha" & "The Gentle Lena") |
Stein, Gertrude
(coined the term "Lost Generation") |
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Yes is for a Very Young Ma
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Stein, Gertrude
(coined the term "Lost Generation") |
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The Making of Americans
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Stein, Gertrude
(coined the term "Lost Generation") |
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Sacred Emily
("A rose is a rose is a rose.") |
Stein, Gertrude
(coined the term "Lost Generation") |
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
(told from her secretary's point of view) |
Stein, Gertrude
(coined the term "Lost Generation") |
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Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan
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Steinbeck, John
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The Pastures of Heaven
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Steinbeck, John
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To a God Unknown
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Steinbeck, John
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The Wayward Bus
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Steinbeck, John
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Tortilla Flat
(char. Danny, Palon, Big Joe Portagee, Jesus Maria Corcoran) |
Steinbeck, John
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In Dubious Battle
(Mac, Jim Nolan, & Doc Burton) |
Steinbeck, John
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The Long Valley
(contains "The Red Pony") |
Steinbeck, John
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The Grapes of Wrath
(Pulitzer in Fiction) (char. Tom Joad & Rose of Sharon) |
Steinbeck, John
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Cannery Row
(char. Doc) |
Steinbeck, John
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Sweet Thursday
(sequel to Cannery Row) |
Steinbeck, John
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The Pearl
(char. Kino, Juana) |
Steinbeck, John
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East of Eden
(char. Adam, Cathy, Cal, Aron Trask) |
Steinbeck, John
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The Short Reign of Pippin IV
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Steinbeck, John
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The Winter of Our Discontent
(title from Richard III) |
Steinbeck, John
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Travels with Charley
(about a trip across America with his poodle) |
Steinbeck, John
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Of Mice and Men
(char. Lennie Small -retarded-, George Milton, Curly) |
Steinbeck, John
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The Leader of the People
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Steinbeck, John
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Collected Poems
(Pulitzer in Poetry 1955) |
Stevens, Wallace
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The Emperor of Ice Cream
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Stevens, Wallace
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
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Stevens, Wallace
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Harmonium
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Stevens, Wallace
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Peter Quince at the Clavier
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Stevens, Wallace
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The Lady or the Tiger?
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Stockton, Frank
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Rudder Grange
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Stockton, Frank
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Lust for Life
(about Vincent Van Gogh) |
Stone, Irving
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Sailor on Horseback
(about Jack London) |
Stone, Irving
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Adversary in the House
(about Eugene B. Debs) |
Stone, Irving
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Clarence Darrow for the Defense
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Stone, Irving
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Love is Eternal
(about Mary Todd Lincoln) |
Stone, Irving
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
(about Michelangelo) |
Stone, Irving
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The Origin
(about Charles Darwin) |
Stone, Irving
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Depths of Glory
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Stone, Irving
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The Passions of the Mind
(about Sigmund Freud) |
Stone, Irving
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Those Who Love
(about Abigail Adams) |
Stone, Irving
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The President's Lady
(about Rachel Jackson) |
Stone, Irving
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The Passionate Journey
(about Alfred Nobel) |
Stone, Irving
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Immortal Wife
(abbout Jesse B. Fremont) |
Stone, Irving
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Fer-de-Lance
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Stout, Rex
(created detective Nero Wolfe, known for collecting orchids) |
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A Family Affair
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Stone, Irving
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Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly
(char. Uncle Tom, Simon Legree, Little Eva, Augustine St. Clare, Eliza) (written in 1852) |
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
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The Minister's Wooing
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher
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famous for the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series
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Stratemeyer, Edward
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Lie Down in Darkness
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Styron, William
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The Long March
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Styron, William
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
(Pulitzer in Fiction 1968) |
Styron, William
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Sophie's Choice
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Styron, William
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The Valley of the Dolls
(best selling novel of all time) |
Susann, Jaqueline
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The Joy Luck Club
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Tan, Amy
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The Kitchen God's Wife
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Tan, Amy
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Napoleon
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Tarbell, Ida
(was a muckraker) |
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Lincoln
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Tarbell, Ida
(was a muckraker) |
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History of the Standard Oil Company
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Tarbell, Ida
(was a muckraker) |
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The Gentleman from Indiana
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Tarkington, Booth
(served in IN House of Reps, founded Triangle Club) |
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In the Arena
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Tarkington, Booth
(served in IN House of Reps, founded Triangle Club) |
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Penrod
(char. Penrod Schofield) |
Tarkington, Booth
(served in IN House of Reps, founded Triangle Club) |
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The Growth Trilogy
-The Turmoil -The Magnificent Ambersons (Pulitzer in Fiction 1919) -The Midlander |
Tarkington, Booth
(served in IN House of Reps, founded Triangle Club) |
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Alice Adams
(Pulitzer in Fiction 1922) |
Tarkington, Booth
(served in IN House of Reps, founded Triangle Club) |
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Monsieur Beaucaire
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Tarkington, Booth
(served in IN House of Reps, founded Triangle Club) |
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The Man from Home
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Tarkington, Booth
(served in IN House of Reps, founded Triangle Club) |
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Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sund in the Year 1888
("There is no joy in Mudville for mighty Casey has struck out") |
Thayer, Ernest
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Walden, or Life in the Woods
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Thoreau, Henry David
(Transcendentalist, studied at Harvard, editor of The Dial) |
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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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Thoreau, Henry David
(Transcendentalist, studied at Harvard, editor of The Dial) |
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Civil Disobedience
("that government is best which governs least") |
Thoreau, Henry David
(Transcendentalist, studied at Harvard, editor of The Dial) |
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A Yankee in Canada
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Thoreau, Henry David
(Transcendentalist, studied at Harvard, editor of The Dial) |
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The Maine Woods
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Thoreau, Henry David
(Transcendentalist, studied at Harvard, editor of The Dial) |
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Cape Cod
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Thoreau, Henry David
(Transcendentalist, studied at Harvard, editor of The Dial) |
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
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Thurber, James
(member of the Algonquin Round Table, went blind) |
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Is Sex Necessary?
(written with E.B. White) |
Thurber, James
(member of the Algonquin Round Table, went blind) |
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The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze
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Thurber, James
(member of the Algonquin Round Table, went blind) |
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The Years with Ross
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Thurber, James
(member of the Algonquin Round Table, went blind) |
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Lanterns and Lances
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Thurber, James
(member of the Algonquin Round Table, went blind) |
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The Thirteen Clocks
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Thurber, James
(member of the Algonquin Round Table, went blind) |
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Future Shock
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Toffler, Alvin
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The Third Wave
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Toffler, Alvin
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A Confederacy of Dunces
(Pulitzer in Fiction 1981) |
Toole, John Kennedy
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The Neon Bible
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Toole, John Kennedy
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The Guns of August
(Pulitzer in Non-Fiction 1963) (about WWI; also published as August 1914) |
Tuchman, Barbara
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945
(Pulitzer in Non-Fiction 1972) |
Tuchman, Barbara
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A Distant Mirror
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Tuchman, Barbara
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Life on the Mississippi
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Twain, Mark
(aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens) |
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calevaras County
(char. Jim Smiley and the frog Daniel Webster) |
Twain, Mark
(aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens) |
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Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress
(char. Simon Wheeler) (about Wheeler's trip to Europe) |
Twain, Mark
(aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens) |
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Roughing It
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Twain, Mark
(aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens) |
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
(char. Tom, Aunt Polly, Huck Finn, Muff Potter, Injun Joe, & Becky Thatcher) |
Twain, Mark
(aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens) |
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The Gilded Age
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Twain, Mark
(aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens) |
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A Tramp Abroad
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Twain, Mark
(aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens) |
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The Prince and the Pauper
(Edward VI and Tom Canty switch places) |
Twain, Mark
(aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens) |
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(char. Huck & Jim -runaway slave) (one scene contains a feud between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons) |
Twain, Mark
(aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens) |
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
(char. Hank Morgan) |
Twain, Mark
(aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens) |
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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
(char. David Wilson, Roxy, Luigi) |
Twain, Mark
(aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens) |
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The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
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Twain, Mark
(aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens) |
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The Mysterious Stranger
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Twain, Mark
(aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens) |
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Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
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Twain, Mark
(aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens) |
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said "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated"
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Twain, Mark
(aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens) |
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said "Quitting smoking is easy. I've done it hundreds of times"
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Twain, Mark
(aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens) |
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said "First get your facts, then you can distort them at your leisure."
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Twain, Mark
(aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens) |
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Breathing Lessons
(Pulitzer in Fiction 1989) |
Tyler, Anne
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The Accidental Tourist
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Tyler, Anne
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Ladder of Years
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Tyler, Anne
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Saint Maybe
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Tyler, Anne
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A Slipping-Down Life
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Tyler, Anne
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Searching for Caleb
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Tyler, Anne
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
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Tyler, Anne
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