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War and peace, Anna Karenina
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Leo Tolstoy
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The novel charts the history of the French invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families. Anna Karenina recounts St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina's life story at the backdrop of the late-19th-century feudal Russian society.
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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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Arthur Conan Doyle
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Sherlock Holmes a private detective with a knack for seeing details that many people often miss out. . He shares an apartment on 221B Baker Street with his close friend and companion, Dr. John H. Watson.Most of the short stories are told from his point of view. He is certified medical doctor and joined the British Army as an assistant surgeon after receiving his medical degree. He was wounded in action and discharged with a monthly pension.Inspector G. Lestradeis a common character in a number of Sherlock Holmes books. He is a detective at Scotland Yard. He is viewed as lacking in imagination and frequently consults Holmes about cases he is unable to solve.
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Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Mark Twain
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An 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where the author lived. Tom Sawyer lives with his aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid.
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Coleridge
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This poem relates the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage. The mariner stops a man who is on the way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story. The wedding-guest's reaction turns from bemusement to impatience to fear to fascination as the mariner's story progresses.
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Animal Farm
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George Orwell
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This book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. The author was aa democratic socialist. The Soviet Union, he believed, had become a brutal dictatorship, built upon a cult of personality and enforced by a reign of terror.
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Antony and Cleopatra
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Shakespeare
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The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Sicilian revolt to Cleopatra's suicide during the Final War of the Roman Republic. The main antagonist is Octavius Caesar, one of Antony's fellow triumvirs of the Second Triumvirate and the first emperor of the Roman Empire. The tragedy is mainly set in Rome and Egypt.Many consider this author's Cleopatra as one of the most complex and fully developed female characters in the playwright's body of work.
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Arms and the Man
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G.B.Shaw
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Ahumorous play that shows the futility of war and deals comedically with the hypocrisies of human nature. The play takes place during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War. Its heroine, Raina Petkoff, is a young Bulgarian woman engaged to Sergius Saranoff, one of the heroes of that war, whom she idolizes.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
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Jules Verne
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Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (equal to about £2 million in 2016) set by his friends at the Reform Club
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Baburnama
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Babur
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The sotry of an educated Timurid and his observations and comments in his memoirs reflect an interest in nature, society, politics and economics. His vivid account of events covers not just his life,history and geography of the areas he lived in.
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Ben Hur
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Lewis Wallace
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The story of a fictional hero named Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman who was falsely accused of an attempted assassination and enslaved by the Romans. He becomes a successful charioteer. The story's revenge plot becomes a story of compassion and forgiveness. One of the most influential Christian books of the nineteenth century.
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Canterbury Tales
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Chaucer
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A collection of 24 stories presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from London to Canterbury in order to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return.
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Count of Monte Cristo
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Alexander Dumas
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Edmond Dantès, a handsome, promising young sailor, skillfully docks the three-masted French ship, the Pharaon, in Marseilles after its captain died en route home. As a reward, Dantès is promised a captainship, but before he can claim his new post and be married to his fiancée, Mercédès', a conspiracy of four jealous and unsavory men arrange for him to be seized and secretly imprisoned in solitary confinement in the infamous Chateau d'If, a prison from which no one has ever escaped. The four men responsible are: Fernand Mondego, Danglars, Caderousse, and Villefort. For many years, Dantès barely exists in his tiny, isolated cell; he almost loses his mind and his will to live until one day he hears a fellow prisoner burrowing nearby. He too begins digging, and soon he meets an old Abbé who knows the whereabouts of an immense fortune, one that used to belong to an immensely wealthy Italian family.And when he emerges into society again, he is the very rich and very handsome Count of Monte Cristo. Monte Cristo has two goals — to reward those who were kind to him and his aging father, and to punish those responsible for his imprisonment.
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Crime and Punishment
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Dostoevsky
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This novel focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. Raskolnikov, in attempts to defend his actions, argues that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime, while ridding the world of a vermin. He also commits the murder to test a theory of his that dictates some people are naturally capable of such actions, and even have the right to perform them. Several times throughout the novel, Raskolnikov compares himself with Napoleon Bonaparte and shares his belief that murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose.
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Das Kapital
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Karl Marx
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A foundational theoretical text in communist philosophy, economics and politics.
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Divine Comedy
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Dante Alighieri
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The poem describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise or Heaven.
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Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde
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Stevenson
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This novel I is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde.
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Don Quixote
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Cervantes
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The story follows the adventures of a gentleman named Mr. Alonso Quixano who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood. Rocinante - Don Quixote’s barn horse. Dapple - Sancho’s donkey. Dapple’s disappearance and reappearance is the subject of much controversy. Cide Hamete Benengeli is the fictional writer of Moorish decent from whose manuscripts Cervantes supposedly translates the novel. Dulcinea del Toboso is the unseen force driving all of Don Quixote’s adventures. Dulcinea, a peasant woman whom Don Quixote envisions as his ladylove, has no knowledge of his chivalric dedication to her. Though constantly mentioned and centrally important to the novel, she never appears as a physical character. The Duke and Duchess - The cruel and haughty contrivers of the adventures that occupy Don Quixote for the majority of the novel’s Second Part.
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Dr.Zhivago
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Boris Pasternak
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The novel is named after its protagonist, Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet, and takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Civil War.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Ernest Hemingway
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It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia. His strong sense of duty clashes with both the unwillingness of the guerrilla leader Pablo to commit to an operation that would endanger himself and his band, and Jordan's own new-found lust for life which arises from his love for María.
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Gathering Storm (The Second World War #1)
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Winston Churchill
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The series is a history of the period from the end of the First World War and earned the author the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953.
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Hamlet
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Shakespeare
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Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatises the revenge Prince Hamlet is called to wreak upon his uncle, Claudius, by the ghost of Hamlet's father, King Hamlet. Claudius had murdered his own brother and seized the throne, also marrying his deceased brother's widow. Hamlet is the author's longest play, and is ranked among the most powerful and influential tragedies in English literature.
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Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Victor Hugo
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The gypsy Esmeralda captures the hearts of many men, including those of Captain Phoebus and Pierre Gringoire, but especially Quasimodo and his guardian Archdeacon Claude Frollo. Frollo is torn between his obsessive lust for Esmeralda and the rules of the Notre Dame Cathedral. He orders Quasimodo to kidnap her, but the hunchback is captured by Phoebus and his guards, who save Esmeralda.The following day, Quasimodo is sentenced to be flogged and turned on the pillory for one hour, followed by another hour's public exposure. He calls for water. Esmeralda, seeing his thirst, approaches the public stocks and offers him a drink of water. It saves him, and she captures his heart.Later, Esmeralda is arrested and charged with the attempted murder of Phoebus, whom Frollo actually attempted to kill in jealousy after seeing him trying to seduce Esmeralda. She is sentenced to death by hanging. As she is being led to the gallows, Quasimodo swings down by the bell rope of Notre Dame and carries her off to the cathedral under the law of sanctuary, temporarily protecting her from arrest.Frollo later informs Gringoire that the Court of Parlement has voted to remove Esmeralda's right to sanctuary so she can no longer seek shelter in the cathedral and will be taken away to be killed. Clopin, the leader of the Gypsies, hears the news from Gringoire and rallies the citizens of Paris to charge the cathedral and rescue Esmeralda.When Quasimodo sees the Gypsies, he assumes they are there to hurt Esmeralda, so he drives them off. Likewise, he thinks the King's men want to rescue her, and tries to help them find her. She is rescued by Frollo and her phony husband Gringoire. But after yet another failed attempt to win her love, Frollo betrays Esmeralda by handing her to the troops and watches while she is being hanged.When Frollo laughs during Esmeralda's hanging, Quasimodo pushes him from the heights of Notre Dame to his death. Quasimodo later goes to Montfaucon, a huge graveyard in Paris where the bodies of the condemned are dumped, where he stays with Esmeralda's dead body and dies of starvation. About eighteen months later, the tomb is opened, and the skeletons are found. As someone tries to separate them, they crumble to dust.
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Illiad/Odyssey
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Homer
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Odysseus, Menelaus, Poseidon
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The Invisible Man
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H.G.Wells
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(There is another novel of the same title by Ralph Ellison) Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light and thus becomes invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse it. Meanwhile, a mysterious burglary occurs in the village. Griffin has run out of money and is trying to find a way to pay for his board and lodging. When his landlady demands that he pay his bill and quit the premises, he reveals part of his invisibility to her in a fit of pique. An attempt to apprehend the stranger is frustrated when he undresses to take advantage of his invisibility, fights off his would-be captors, and flees to the downs.There Griffin coerces a tramp, Thomas Marvel, into becoming his assistant. HE end us finding his colleague Dr. Kemp. Now he imagines that he can make Kemp his secret confederate, describing his plan to begin a "Reign of Terror" by using his invisibility to terrorise the nation.Kemp has already denounced Griffin to the local authorities and is waiting for help to arrive as he listens to this wild proposal. When the authorities arrive at Kemp's house, Griffin fights his way out and the next day leaves a note announcing that Kemp himself will be the first man to be killed in the "Reign of Terror". Kemp, a cool-headed character, tries to organise a plan to use himself as bait to trap the Invisible Man, but a note that he sends is stolen from his servant by Griffin. |
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Ivanhoe
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Sir Walter Scott
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Set in 12th century England and credited for increasing interest in romance and medievalism. Protagonist Wilfred of Ivanhoe is disinherited by his father Cedric of Rotherwood for supporting the Norman King Richard and for falling in love with the Lady Rowena, Cedric's ward and a descendant of the Saxon Kings of England, after Cedric planned to marry her to the powerful Lord Aethelstane, a pretender to the Crown of England through his descent from the last Saxon King, Harold Godwinson. Ivanhoe accompanies King Richard on the Crusades, where he is said to have played a notable role in the Siege of Acre; and tends to Louis of Thuringia, who suffers from malaria
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Jungle Book
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Rudyard Kipling
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A series of short stories about Mowgli,Baloo,Bagheera,Shere Khan,Kaa,Akela,Raksha,Tabaqui,Colonel Hathi, Father and WolfIkki
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Kidnapped
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R.L.Stevenson
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David Balfour, a seventeen yar old orphan, seeks fortune and comes across the surprise that his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour, is rich. He seeks Ebenezer and gets a job on a boat.
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King Lear
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Shakespeare
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It depicts the gradual descent into madness of the title character, after he disposes of his kingdom giving bequests to two of his three daughters based on their flattery of him, bringing tragic consequences for all.
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Last Days of Pompeii
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Bulwar Lytton
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The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian painter Karl Briullov, which Bulwer-Lytton had seen in Milan. It culminates in the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Glaucus, The protagonist, a handsome Athenian nobleman and Ione's betrothed.Ione, A beautiful and intelligent high-born Greek set to marry Glaucus. Orphaned in childhood, she was Arbaces' ward and becomes the target of his evil attempts at seduction.Arbaces, The antagonist, a scheming Egyptian sorcerer and a high priest of Isis, and the former guardian of Ione and Apaecides. Murders Apaecides and frames Glaucus for the crime. Repeatedly attempts to seduce Ione.Nydia, A young slave stolen from high-born parents by kidnappers in Thessaly. She weaves and sells garlands of flowers to earn coins for her tyrannical owners. Nydia pines for Glaucus and eventually commits suicide rather than suffer unrequited love.Sallust, A good-hearted epicurian and friend of Glaucus.Calenthus, A greedy priest of the cult of Isis who witnesses Arbaces murder Apaecides. First blackmails Arbaces, then tells the truth when Arbaces turns on him.Olinthus, A Christian who converts Apaecides to Christianity. Sentenced to death for his religion.Diomed, A rich, dyspeptic merchant known in Pompeii for his lavish banquets. Julia's father.Julia, The handsome but spoiled daughter of Diomed. Has eyes for Glaucus and obtains a potion that will make him love her; instead receives a potion that will make him insane.Clodius, A spendthrift noble with a gambling problem. Becomes Julia's suitor after she loses interest in Glaucus.
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Les Miserable
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Victor Hugo
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A French historical novel examining the nature of law and grace, the novel elaborates upon the history of France, the architecture and urban design of Paris, politics, moral philosophy, antimonarchism, justice, religion, and the types and nature of romantic and familial love.
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Man and Superman
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G.B.Shaw
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A play where Mr. Whitefield has recently died, and his will indicates that his daughter Ann should be left in the care of two men, Roebuck Ramsden and Jack Tanner. Ramsden, a venerable old man, distrusts John Tanner, an eloquent youth with revolutionary ideas. In spite of what Ramsden says, Ann accepts Tanner as her guardian, though Tanner doesn't want the position at all. She ultimately persuades him to marry her.
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Mother
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Maxim Gorky
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The life of a woman who works in a Russian factory doing hard manual labour and combating poverty and hunger, among other hardships. Pelageya Nilovna Vlasova is the real protagonist; her husband, a heavy drunkard, physically assaults her and leaves all the responsibility for raising their son, Pavel Vlasov, to her, but unexpectedly dies. Pavel suddenly becomes involved in revolutionary activities.
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Oliver Twist
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Charles Dickens
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The second novel by the author; a story about the orphan Oliver Twist, who starts his life in a workhouse and is then sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. He escapes from there and travels to London, where he meets the Artful Dodger, a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin.
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Othello
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Shakespeare
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Panchatantra
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Vishnu Sharma
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Paradise lost
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John Milton
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Pickwick Papers
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Charles Dickens
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Plague
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Albert Camus
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The Post Office
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R.N.Tagore
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Principia
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Issac Newton
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Ramayana
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Valmiki
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Robinson Crusoe
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Daniel Defoe
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Shape of Things to Come
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H.G.Wells
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Three Musketeers
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Alexander Dumas
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The Tempest
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Shakespeare
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Tom Sawyer
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Mark Twain
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Treasure Island
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R.L.Stevenson
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Ulysses
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James Joyce
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Harriet Stowe
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Waste Land
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T.S.Eliot
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Nineteen Eighty-four
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George Orwell
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Sunny Days
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Sunil Gavaskar
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Faust
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Goethe
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Arabian Nights
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Sir Richard Burton
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The City of Joy
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Dominique Lapierre
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The One Day Wonders
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Sunil Gavaskar
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Silas Marner
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George Eliot
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Bachelor of Arts
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R.K.Narayan
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China Passage
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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A Suitable Boy
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Vikram Seth
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A Voice For Freedom
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Nayantara Saigal
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A Week with Gandhi
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Louis Fisher
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A Woman's Life
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Guy de Maupassaut
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Age of Reason
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Jean Paul Sartre
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Asian Drama
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Gunnar Myrdal
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The Bubble
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Mulk Raj Anand
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Ben Hur
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Lewis Wallace
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The Castle
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Franz Kalka
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The Class
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Erich Byron
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The Clown
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Heinrich Boll
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Comedy of Errors
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William Shakespeare
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Communist Manifesto
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Karl Marx
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Confessions
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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The Court Dancer
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Rabindra Nath Tagore
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Death of a City
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Amrita Pritam
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Decline and Fall of the Roman
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Edward Gibbon
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Essays of Gita
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Sir Aurobindo Ghosh
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French Revolution
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Thomas Carlyle
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Ganadevata
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Tara Shankar Bandopadhyaya
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Glimpses of World History
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Jawaharlal Nehru
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The Godfather
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Mario Puzo
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Grammar of Politics
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Harold T.Laski
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Guide
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R.K.Narayan
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Hungry Stones
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Rabindra Nath Tagore
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Jurassic Park
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Michael Crichton
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Leaders
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Richard Nixon
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Romain Rolland
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The Masters
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C.P.Shaw
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My Truth
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Indira Gandhi
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Old Man and the Sea
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Earnest Hemingway
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The Other Side of Midnight
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Sidney Sheldon
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Sons and Lovers
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D.H.Lawrence
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Valley of Dolls
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Jacqueline Susann
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Wealth of Nations
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Adam Smith
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Alice in Wonderland
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Lewis Carroll
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