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201 Cards in this Set
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Christopher Newman loves Claire de Bellegarde but opposed by aristocratic family
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The Americans
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The Americans
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Henry James
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former mistress of Jeffrey won't let his poems be published
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The Aspern Papers
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The Awkward Age
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Henry James
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Nanda Brookenham and her mom love Vanderbank
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The Awkward Age
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The Bostonians
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Henry James
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Olive Chancellor, a radical feminist and Basil Ransom, a MS Confederate veteran compete for Verene Tarrant ; Miss Birdseye
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The Bostonians
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Isabel Archer marries Gilbert Osmond in Italy ; Isabel becomes disillusioned but stays to raise Pansy, daughter of Gilbert and Madame Merle
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Portrait of a Lady
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the Wings of the Dove
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James
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Kate Croy loves English journalist Merton Densher but gets him to marry dying friend Milly Theale to inherit their money ; Densher can't accept money so Kate leaves
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The Wings of the Dove
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Lambert Strether sent to Paris by fiancee Mrs. Newson to get her son Chad who loves Madame de Vionnet
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The Ambassadors
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The Ambassadors
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Henry James
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The Golden Bowl
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Henry James
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Prince Amerigo marries Maggie Verver but has an affair with Maggies friend Charlotte Stant
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The Golden Bowl
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The Turn of the Screw
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governess cares for orphans Miles and Flora, who are under ghosts of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel
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Roderick Hudson
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James
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The Princess of Casassima
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James
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The Passionate Pilgrim and Other Stories
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James
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The Spoils of Pynton
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James
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What Maise Knew
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James
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The Art of the Novel
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James
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Daisy Miller
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James
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Frederick Winterbourne regrets rigid adherence to European conventions when TC dies of Roman fever
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James
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THe Europeans
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James
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Felix Young and sister Baroness Munster visit Wentworths in Boston
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James
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Souls of Black Folk
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Du Bois
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THe Quest for the Silver Fleece
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Du Bois
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The Garies and Their Friends
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Frank J. Webb
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History of the United States
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George Bancroft
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The Will to Believe
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William James
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The Principles of Psychology
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william James
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The House of Mirth
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Edith Wharton
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Lily Bart loves Lawrence Seldon but rejects him because he is poor
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The House of Mirth
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THe Age of Innocence
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Wharton
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NY 1870's : Neland Archer marries May Welland but loves her cousin Ellen Olenska
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The Age of Innocence
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Ethan Frome
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Ediwth Wharton
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TC marries hypochondriac Zeena but loves her cousin Mattie ; Ethan and Mattie injured in bobsled suicide attempt ; Zeena becomes devoted nurse
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Ethan Frome
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THe Custom of the Country
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Wharton
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Undine Spragg samples pleasures ;
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The Custom of the Country
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Old New York
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Wharton
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A Lost Lady
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Cather
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Marian Forrester's pioneer husband dies and she becomes a mistress of Ivy Peters ; Niels Herbert adores her
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A Lost Lady
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Death comes for the Archbishop
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Cather
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Jean Latour and Father Joseph Valliant
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Death COmes for the Archbishop
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My Antonia
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Cather
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ANtonia Shimerda works on farms after father's suicide and marries farmer Anton Cuzak ; Jim Burden
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My Antonia
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Alexandra Bergson takes over NE farm when dad dies ; brother Emil killed ; marries Carl Linstrum
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Cather
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Claude Wheeler grows up on Western Farm, goes to college, killed in army in France
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One Of Ours
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Colorodoan Thea Kronborg, daughter of swedish clergyman, goes to Chicago, has affair with Fred Ottenburg and becomes NY soprano
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The Song of the Lark
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Youth and the Bright Medusa
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The Song of the Lark
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Winesburg Ohio
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Anderson
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George Willard
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Winesburg Ohio
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Dark Laughter
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Anderson
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THe Triumph of the Egg
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Sherwood Anderson
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first american to win Nobel Prize
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Lewis
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Carol Kennicott tires of physician husband Will and tries to bring culture to dull Gopher Prarie
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Sinclair Lewsi
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Based on Sauk Centre
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Gopher Prarie
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Dodsworth
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Lewis
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Zenith and Zip City
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Babbit
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Elmer Gantry
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Lewis
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It Can't Happen Here
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Lewis
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Berzelius Windrip sets up fascist dictatorship in US ; Doremus Jessup and Walt Trowbridge in Canada oppose him
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It can't Happen Here
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Lost Generation 1925 France
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The Sun Also Rises
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Jake Barnes narrates
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THe Sun Also Rises
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Lady Brett Ashely is divorcing but plans to marry Michael campbell and has affair with Pedro Romero in Pamplona
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The Sun Also Rises
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Includes Greek Bill Gorton and American-Jewish writer
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Robert COhn
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WWI ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry loves Catherine Barkley
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A Farewell to Arms
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main character deserts after Caporetto in Italy and they go to Switzerland where she dies
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A Farewell to Arms
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about Nick Adams
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In Our Time
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Robert Jordan is assigned by Pablo and Pilar to blow up a bridge
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Jordan carries out mission but is left to die ; title from Donne's Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Santiago catches marlin on 85th day but is slowly eaten by sharks on the way home
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The Old Man and the Sea
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The Short Happy LIfe of Francis Macomber
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Hemingway
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Harry goes on african safari to work fat off hismind but gets gangrene ; sees frozen leopard then dies
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
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Hemingway
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To Have and Have Not
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Hemingway
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Harry organ smuggles Chinese and liquor in Key West during Depression and is shot
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To Have and Have Not
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Tender is the Night
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Fitzgerald
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Nicole Warren marries psychiatrist Dick Diver
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Tender is the Nigth
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This Side of Paradise
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Fitzgerald
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Amory Blaine goes to Princeton and joins literary cults ; loves Rosaline Commase but is rejected
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This Side of Paradise
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NE farmer Jabez Stone sells his soul to the devil but is saved by Webster's oratory before demonic jury
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The Devil and Daniel Webster
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Western Star
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Benet
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John Brown's Body
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Benet
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Joad family travels from OK to CA during great Depression to find work picking fruit ; Tom Joad becomes involved in strikes and kills a man ; Rose of Sharon has baby
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Grapes of Wrath
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Travels with Charlie
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Steinbeck
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In Dubious Battle
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Steinbeck
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Communist Mac's friend Jim NOlan murdered ; Doc Burton helps striking CA fruit pickers
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Steinbeck
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Adam Trask and Cathy have two sons ; Call kills Aron by telling him mom is a prostitute
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East of Eden
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Tortilla Flat
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Steinbeck
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carefree Danny meets with simple friends Pablo, Big Joe Portagee
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East of Eden
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CA Indian and wife Juana's baby bitten by scorpion
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The Pearl
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3 Parts of USA Trilogy
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The 42nd parallel, 1919, Big MOney
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consists of "newsreels" "camera eyes" and biographies
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USA Trilogy
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NYC : Jimmy Herf and actress wife Ellen Thatcher divorce ; Bud Korpenning commits suicide ; gambler Joe Harland becomes beggar
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Manhattan Transfer
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Three Soldiers
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Dos Passos
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WWI : Italian Dan Fuselli, Indianan Chrisefield, Musician John Andrews
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Three Soldiers
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Look Homeward Angel
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Wolfe
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describes Eugene Gant in Altamont Catawba ; Eugene attends mother's boarding house, brother dies at St. Louis World's Fair
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Look Homeward Angel
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Of Time and The River
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Wolfe
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Eugen Gant studies drama at Harvard under James Hatcher
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Of Time and the River
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The Web and the Rock
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Wolfe
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George Webber goes to TC and has affair with Mrs. Esther Jack
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The Web and the Rock
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You Can't Go Home Again
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Wolfe
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George Webber returns from Germany and resumes affair with Esther Jack
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You Can't go Home Again
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Soldier's Pay
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Faulkner
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The Reivers
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Faulkner
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Popeye rapes Temple Drake with corn cob and takes her to a Memphis brothel but she protests him and testifies against Lee Goodwin, defended by Horace Benbow
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Sanctuary
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The Sound and the Fury
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Faulkner
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Trilogy by Faulkner
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The Hamlet, THe Town, THe Mansion
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Flem Snopes becomes part of Will Varner's store in Frenchman's Bend and marries daughter Eula - Gavin Stevens loves Eula and her daughter Linda
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Trilogy by Faulkner
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Go Down Moses
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Faulkner
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series of stories about McCaslin family, including Was, The Fire and the Heart, Pantaloon in Black, and the Bear
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Go Down Moses
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Light in August
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Faulkner
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Joe Christmas employed by Joe Brown has affair with Joanna Burden and kills her, christmas is killed by a mob, and Lena Grove comes to Jefferosn looking for her lover
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Light in August
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A Fable
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Faulkner
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Knight's Gambit
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Faulkner
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stories involving Detective Gavin Stevens including Monk
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Knight's Gambit
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Temple Drake marries Gowan Stevens ; Pete blackmails her ; black servant Nancy Manningoe kills her youngest child
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Requiem for a Nun
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Requiem for a Nun
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Faulkner
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Intruder in the Dust
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Faulkner
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Chick Mallison, Aleck Sander, and Miss Eunice Habersham prove innocence of non-service black Lucas Beuchamp
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Intruder int he Dust
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Sartoris
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Faulkner
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The Unvanquished
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Faulkner
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7 stories about Sartoris family during Civil War
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THe Unvanquished
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Those Thirteen (including Rose for Emily)
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Faulkner
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The Enormous Room
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Cummings
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The Naked and the Dead
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Mailer
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Lt. Robert Hearn's infantry platoon invade Japanese island in Pacific in WWII
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The Naked and the Dead
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The Executioner's Song
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Cummings
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An American Dream
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Mailer
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Armies of the Night
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Mailer
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from Dover Beach ; "History as a Novel, the Novel as History"
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Mailer
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Tales of the South Pacific
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Michener
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A Bell for Adano
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Hersey
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Hiroshima
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Hersey
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Franny and Zooey
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Salinger
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Pianosa Island during WWII
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Catch-22
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Yossarian can only stop bombin missions if insane but wanting to stop is sane
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Catch-22
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Something Happened
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Heller
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Good as Gold
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Heller
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Subtitled A Duty-Dance with Death
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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Billy pilgrim survives Dresden firebombing and returns to Ilium NY and is kidnapped by Trafalmadorians
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Slaughter-House Five
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Cat's Cradle
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Vonnegut
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The Player Piano
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Vonnegut
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Stranger in a STrangle Land
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Heinlen
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Giles Goat-Boy
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Barth
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The Sot-Weed Factor
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John Barth
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All the King's Men
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Warren
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Willie Stark = Huey Long ; narrated by Jack Burden
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All the King's Men
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The Four Million
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O Henry
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includes An Unfinished Story and The Gift of the Magi
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The Four Million
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The Last Leaf
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O Henry
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ill girl decides to die when last of five leaves outside her window falls but one hangs
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THe Last Leaf
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A Retrieved Restoration
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O Henry
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Jimmy Valentine tries to reform but foiled when he opens a safe during an emergency
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Retrieved Restoration
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The Wapshot Chronicle
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Cheever
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Falconer
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Cheever
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Rabbit stuff
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Updike
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leaves alcoholic wife Janice
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Harry Angstrom
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Pipostes
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Pound
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Cantos
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Pound
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Personae
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Pound
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The Town Down the River
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Robinson
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Miniver Cheevy
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Robinson
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Richard Cory
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Robinson
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The Man Against the Sky
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Robinson
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North of Boston
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Frost
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Stopping by Woods on Snowy Evening
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Frost
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The Road NOt Taken
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Frost
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The Gift Outright
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Frost
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Fire and Ice
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Frost
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Mending Wall
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Frost
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A Boy's Will
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Frost
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The Death of the Hired man
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Frost
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A Further Range (includes Ten Mills and Build Soil)
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Frost
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Ballad of the Harp Weaver
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Millay
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A Few Figs from Thistles
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Millay
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Paterson
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Williams
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NJ pediatrician
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Williams
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Passaic River, NJ : mythical TC wanders about his environs and reflects on history of the locale and contemporary scene
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Paterson
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IN the American Grain
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Williams
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study of Columbus, Cortez, De Soto, Raleigh, Franklin, and others
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Williams
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Something Wicked this way comes
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Bradbury
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Death in the Family
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Agee
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Let us Now Praise Famous Men
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Agee
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Riders of the Purple Sage
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Grey
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The Last of the Plainsmen
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Grey
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THe House Made of Dawn
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Momaday
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The Fountainhead
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Rand
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Atlas Shrugged
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Rand
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Howard Roark, (based on Wright) turns down commissinos rather than sacrifice integrity
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The Fountainhead
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railroad worker Dagny Taggart finds government-free utopia at Gat's Gulch, CO
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Atlas Shrugged
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Miss Lonelyhearts
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West
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Hollywood painter Tod loves starlet paints ; paints "The Burning of Los Angeles
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The Day of the Locust
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THe Day of the Locust
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West
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lesbian teachers
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The Children's Hour
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The Little Foxes
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Hellman
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Hubbard Family
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The Little Foxes
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Watch on the Rhine
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Hellman
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THe Late George Apley
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Marquand
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