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220 Cards in this Set
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The Adventures of Augie March
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Saul Bellow
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Chicago 1930's : TC refuses settled life ; brother Simon March marries rich
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The adventures of augie march
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Herzog
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Bellow
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prof TC at MA summer home writes letters about ex-wife Madeleine
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Herzog
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Humboldt's Gift
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Bellow
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Charles Citrine falls under spell of TC and RInaldo Cantabile
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Humboldt's GIft
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The Assistant
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Malamud
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Idiots First
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Malamud
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The Fixer
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Malamud
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The Natural
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Malamud
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The Magician of Lublin
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Goodbye Columbus
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Roth
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Portony's COmplaint
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Roth
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Zuckerman Bound
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Roth
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American Pastoral
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Roth
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Home to Harlem
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Claude McKay
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Banjo
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McKay
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Color
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Cullen
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The Ballad of the Brown Girl
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Cullen
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Jesse B Simple
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The Weary Blues
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Cane
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Jean Toomer
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Native SOn
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Wright
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Bigger Thomas
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Native Son
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Black Boy
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Wright
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Go Tell it on the Mountain
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Baldwin
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NObody knows my name
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Baldwin
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Another Country
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Baldwin
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Invisible Man
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Ellison
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The Member of the WEdding
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McCullers
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Frankie Addams wants to accompany her brother on his honeymoon ; cousin John Henry gets sick ; Berenice Sadie Brown
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The Member of the WEdding
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Mick Kelly, Biff Brannon, drunken Jake Blount, and Dr. Benedict Copeland admire deaf mute Singer, who commits suicide
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The HEart is a Lonely Hunter
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Ballad of the Sad Cafe
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McCullers
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Amelia Evans rejects husband Marvin Macy and turns store into cafe when her cousin Lymon comes and loves Marvin
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THe Ballad of the Sad Cafe
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Other Voices Other Rooms
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Capote
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Joel Knox meets Randolph, Jesus Fever at Skully's Landing and achieves awareness at Cloud Hotel
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Capote
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Breakfast at TIffany's
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Capote
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In Cold Blood
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Capote
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The Ponder Heart
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Welty
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THe Optimist's Daugther
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Welty
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The Wide Net
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Welty
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The Violent Bear it Away
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O'Connor
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deceased people from the titular location narrate biographies from cemetery
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Spoon River Anthology
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Chicago Poems
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Sandburg
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Abraham Lincoln
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Sandburg
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The People Yes
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Sandburg
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The Rootabaga Stories
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Sandburg
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The Congo
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Lindsay
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The Santa Fe Trail: A Humoresque
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Lindsay
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Pictures from the World Gone Wild
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Ferlingheti
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The Naked Lunch
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Burroughs
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Seascape
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Albee
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Tiny Alice
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Albee
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Three Tall Women
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Albee
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The Zoo Story
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Albee
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Winterset
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Maxwell Anderson
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based on Saccho and Vanzetti ; Mio, whose Italian father is executed for murder he didn't commit - loves miriamne
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Winterset
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Gods of the LIghtning
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Maxwell Anderson
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Night over Taos
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Maxwell Anderson
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What Price Glory
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Maxwell Anderson
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Of thee I Sing
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Kaufman
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written with Hart - happy but bizarre NY Vanderhof family
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You Can't Take it With you
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Death of a Salesman
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Miller
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Wily Loman considers himself a failure, includes Linda, Biff, and Happy
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Death of a Salesman
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Ah Wilderness
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O'Neill
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July 4, 1906 : adolescent Tommy Miller in adult world
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Eugene O'Neill
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All God's Chillun Got Wings
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O"Neill
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Ella Downey marries Jim Harries
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All God's Chillun Got Wings
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Anna Christie
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O'Neill
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Christopher Christopherson, a Swedish-American barge captain, sends TC to St. Paul where she becomes a prostitute ; loves Mat Burke
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Anna Christie
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Beyond the HOrizon
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O'Neill
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Ephraim Cabot marries Abbie, who seduces son Eban
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Desire Under the Elms
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TC, a former Pullman porter sets himself up as a West Indian island dictator but is killed in revolt
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Emperor Jones
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The Great God Brown
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O'Neill
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successful businessman takes the mask of Dion Anthony
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The Great God Brown
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The Iceman Cometh
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O"neill
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Theodore HIckman in the Line Cafe bar tells about killing his wife
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Iceman Cometh
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Lazarus Laughed
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O'Neill
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TC preaches new religion of laughter after being raised by Jesus ; Caligula stabs TC
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Lazarus Laughed
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servant Cathlen
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Long Day's Journey into Night
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Marco Millions
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O'Neill
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Kublai Khan's daughter loves Marco POlo but only wants money
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Marco Millions
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A Moon for the Misbegotten
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O'Neill
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Mourning Becomes Electra
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O'Neill
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based on Oresteia by Aeschylus
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Mourning becomes Electra
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set in post Civil War NE ; General Ezra Mannon's wife Chrstine has affair with Adam Brant and daughter Lavinia persuades brother Orin to shoot him
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Mourning Becomes Electra
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Strange Interlude
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O'neill
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Nina Leeds' finacee dies in WWI ; she marries Sam Evans but aborts their child but has baby from affair with Dr. Darrell
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Strange INterlude
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The Hariy Ape
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O'Neill
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ship stoker Yank rejected by IWW and crushed by thing at zoo
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The Hairy Ape
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lovable eccentrics and Detective Blick of the Vice Squad meet in waterfront saloon
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The Time of Your Life
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Idiot's Delight
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Sherwood
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Road to Rome
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Sherwood
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
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Sherwood
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The Petrified Forest
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Sherwood
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ALan Squier, hitchhiking NE author, gets gangster to kill him so his insurance money save lunchroom owner's daughter
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The Petrified Forset
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There Shall Be No NIght
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The Petrified Forest
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Biloxi Blues
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Simon
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Odd Couple
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Simon
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The Sunshine Boys
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Simon
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Broadway Bound
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Simon
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Brighton Beach Memoirs
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Simon
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Lost in Yonkers
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Simon
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Grove's Corners, NH : Stage Manager talks to audience ; professor Willard and editor WEbb commend on daily life
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Our Town
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The Skin of OUr Teeth
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Wilder
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George Antrobus, his family and temptress maid Sabina survive world upheavals
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The Skin of Our Teeth
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The Matchmaker
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Wilder
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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Wilder
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1714 Peru : Brother Juniper and 5 travelers
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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Theophilus North
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Wilder
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Big Daddy Pollitt is dying of cancer on MS Delta ; son Gooper wants inheritance ; other son Brick accuses his wife Maggie of causing his friend's death
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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The Rose Tattoo
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Williams
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dressmaker Serafina Delle Rose's truckdriver husband is killed ; 3 years later she marries truckdriver
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The Rose Tattoo
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Lonesome Dove
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McMurtry
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Studs Lonigan
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Farrell
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Tarzan of the Apes
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
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The Lottery
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Shirley Jackson
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Lolita
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Nabokov
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title from Kipling's Gentlemen Rankers
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From Here to Eternity
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Charles Kinbote who imagines himself the king of Zembla
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Pale Fire
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Edits murdered John Shade's poem ; 999 lines
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Pale Fire
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The Wonderful WIzard of Oz
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Baum
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Slaves from Gambia including kunta kinte
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Roots
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Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Little + Haley
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The House of Earth Trilogy
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Buck
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Wang Lung & O-Lan
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The Good Earth
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Jeeter Lester
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Tobacco Road
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wife Ada has 3 kids ; widowed preacher sister Bessie Rice gets son Dude to marry her by buying him a car
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Tobacco Road
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Pearl gets married to Lov Bensey who then lives with Ellie May
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Tobacco Road
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God's Little Acre
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Caldwell
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The Man Without a Country
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hale
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The Thin Man
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Hammett
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The Ox-Bow Inclident
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Clark
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3 cattle rustlers are lynched when they are innocent
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The Ox-Bow Incident
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Porgy
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DuBose Heyward
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Kesey
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Randle Patrick McMurphy stages warfare against Miss Ratched
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Gone with the Wind
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Mitchell
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Scarlett O'Hara of Tara plantation loves Ashley Wilkes but marries Melanie Hamilton ; then marries Rhett Butler
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Gone with the Wind
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Mutiny on the Bounty
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Nordoff + Hall
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Rogery Byam narrates the mutiny of Fletcher Christian against Capt. Bligh in 1789
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Mutiny on the Bounty
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Ship of Fools
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Katherine Anne Porter
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German ship sails from Veracruz to Bremerhaven 1931
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Ship of Fools
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Pale Horse Pale Rider
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Katherine Anne Porter
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Noon Wine
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Katherine Anne Porter
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farmer Mr. Thompson (Porter)
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Noon Wine
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Old Mortality
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Porter
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The Yearling
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Rawlings
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northern Florida boy Jody loves a fawn but must shoot it once it eats corn
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The Yearling
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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Toole
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THe Joy Luck Club
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Tan
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The Feminine Mystique
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Frieden
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In This Our Life
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Ellen Glasgow
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Barren Ground
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Ellen Glasgow
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Vein of Iron
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Ellen Glasgow
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The Painted Bird (story of Polish boy in WWII)
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Kosinski
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Peyton Place
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Metalious
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Green Mansions
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William Henry Hudson
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Mr. Abel tells of his affair with bird girl Rima, killed by savages in S. America
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Green Mansions (Hudson)
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Three Lives
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Stein
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The Good Anna, Melanctha, The Gentle Lena
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Three Lives (stein)
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Autobiography of her secretary (Alice Toklas)
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Stein
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The Making of Americans (Martha Hersland)
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Gertrude Stein
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Appointment in Samarra
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O'Hara
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Hurston
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God Sends Sundays
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Bontempts
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Black Thunder
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Bontempts
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The Young Lions
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Irwin Shaw
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Tropic of Cancer
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Miller
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Show Boat
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Edna Ferber
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MS boat owner Andy Hawks marries Parthy Ann ; daughter Magnolia marries Gaylord Ravenal
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Show Boat
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Mr. Roberts
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Thomas Heggen
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A Garden of earthly Delights
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Oates
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Bellefleur
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Oates
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Mysteries of Winterthurn
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Oates
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Dinner at the HOmesick Restaurant
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Anne Tyler
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The Woman of Brewster Place
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Gloria Naylor
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Men, Women, and Ghosts
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Amy Lowell
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Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
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Amy Lowell
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Peter Quince at the Clavier
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Wallace Stevens
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Sunday Morning
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Stevens
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Notes Towards a Supreme Fiction
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Stevens
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A Garden of earthly Delights
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Oates
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Bellefleur
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Oates
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Mysteries of Winterthurn
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Oates
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Dinner at the HOmesick Restaurant
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Anne Tyler
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The Woman of Brewster Place
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Gloria Naylor
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Men, Women, and Ghosts
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Amy Lowell
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Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
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Amy Lowell
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Peter Quince at the Clavier
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Wallace Stevens
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Sunday Morning
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Stevens
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Notes Towards a Supreme Fiction
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Stevens
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The Necessary Angel
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Stevens
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Farewell my Lovely
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Chandler
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Philip Marlowe searches for missing woman and serves as bodyguard for man looking for necklace
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Farewell my Lovely
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Main Travelled Roads
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Garland
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Iowa and Dakota farmers, includes Under the Lion's paw
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Main-Travelled Roads
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A Son of the Middle Border
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Garland
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Roan Stallion
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Robinson Jeffers
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Tamar
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Robinson Jeffers
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The Tower Beyond Tragedy
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Jefferson
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Ariel
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Plath
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The Bell Jar
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Plath
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Esther Greenwood has mental break downs
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The Bell Jar
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Live or Die
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Sexton
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To Bedlam and Part Way Back
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Sexton
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The Death Notebooks
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Sexton
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Self-Portrait in a Convex mirror
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Ashbery
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Gravity's Rainbow
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Pynchon
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The Crying of Lot 49
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Pynchon
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The Age of Jackson, The Age of Roosevelt
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Schleinger
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Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
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Wolfe
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Seventeen
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Tarkington
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William Baxter [silly billy] loves Lola Pratt who talks to dog Flopit
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Tarkington
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Alice Adams
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Tarkington
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Penrod
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Tarkington
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The Magnificent Ambersons
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Tarkington
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The Caine Mutiny
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Wouk
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mutiny against Captain Queeg
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The Caine Mutiny
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War and Remembrances
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Wouk
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The Winds of War
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Wouk
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