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28 Cards in this Set
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Daniel Defoe
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Robinson Crusoe, which is considered the first English novel.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Scarlet Letter,The House of the Seven Gables, which deals with Puritanism.
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James Fenimore Cooper
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Last of the Mohicans,The Leatherstocking Tales, which begins with The Deerslayer
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Edgar Allen Poe
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The Raven and The Fall of the House of Usher,The Masque of the Red Death and the poems The City in the Sea and Annabel Lee
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Charles Dickens
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Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby,A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations(Pip), David Copperfield, and A Christmas Carol.
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Joseph Conrad
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The Nigger of Narcissus, The Secret Agent, and Heart of Darkness.,novella Youth and the novels Nostromo and Under Western Eyes.
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Jack London.
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Call of the Wild
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William Faulkner
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The Sound and the Fury, and As I Lay Dying,The 1949 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature
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Jane Austen
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Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Emma.
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Virginia Woolf
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The Waves,(A fan of stream of consciousness),The Common Reader and The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
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John Bunyon
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Pilgrim’s Progress, allegory.
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allegory
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a figurative mode of representation conveying meaning other than the literal
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Stephen Crane
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The Red Badge of Courage, The Monster and Other Stories.
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George Sand
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Amandine Dupin, her given name, The Haunted Pool and The Master Bell-Ringers, Rose et Blance, published in 1831, and other notable works include Indiana, Consuelo, and Francis the Waif.
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Alexandre Dumas
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The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo
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Victor Hugo
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables
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Mary Shelley
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Mary Shelley
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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The Prince
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Aldous Huxley
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Brave New World, test tube babies
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George Orwell
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1984, Big Brother , Orwell’s real name was Eric Blair
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Toni Morrison
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Song of Solomon, Beloved, Sula, Tar Baby, and Jazz , racial tensions in the South and the quest to understand family heritage
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J.D. Salinger
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The Catcher in the Rye, (Picaresque),Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters.short stories involve the Glass family
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Ernest Gaines
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A Lesson Before Dying, young black man sentenced to death by electrocution for a crime he did not commit—-and how his lawyer helps him to come to grips with taking his final breath.
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Anthony Burgess
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Clockwork Orange
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Jack Kerouac’s
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On The Road, loosely autobiographical, follows Sal Paradise on a cross-country journey, exploring the basics and intricacies of life itself.
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Upton Sinclair’s
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The Jungle, immigrant Jurgis through meat-packing, living on the streets, and then an eventual rise to management.
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Harper Lee
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To Kill A Mockingbird
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