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260 Cards in this Set
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Tonight We Improvise!
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Pirandello
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Macondo
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100 Years of Solitude
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Matter and Memory
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Bergson
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Creative Evolution
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Bergson
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Time and Free Will
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Bergson
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The First Man
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Camus
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Adapted Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun
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Camus
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Died in a car crash
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Camus
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Caligula
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Camus
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1957
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Camus
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2003
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Coetzee
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The master of Petersburg (Dostoevsky)
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Coetzee
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Life & Times of Michael K
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Coetzee
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Waiting for the Barbarians
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Coetzee
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Dusklands
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Coetzee
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Actual guilty guy in Dreyfus Affair
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Colonel Esterhazy
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Kolya, Lara, Yury Z.
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Doctor Zhivago
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Went to Devil's Island
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Dreyfus
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Contains the novella "The Vietnam Project"
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Dusklands - Coetzee
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Acting diana
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Fo
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Accidental Death of an Anarchist
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Fo
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Trumpets and Trasberries
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Fo
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The Peasants Bible
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Fo
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The Pope and the Witch
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Fo
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The Tale of a Tiger
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Fo
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1997
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Fo
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Pen name of Thibault
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France
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Penguin Island
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France
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The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
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France
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Massenet
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France
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Massenet
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France
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The Crime of Sylvestre
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France
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Master Harold ... and the Boys
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Fugard
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Blood Knot
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Fugard
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Boesman and Lena
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Fugard
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Sizwe Banzi is Dead
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Fugard
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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Garcia-Marquez
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Magical Realism
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Garcia-Marquez
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The Autumn of the Patriarch
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Garcia-Marquez
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No One Writes to the Colonel
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Garcia-Marquez
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One Hundred Years of SOlitude
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Garcia-Marquez
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Leaf Storm
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Garcia-Marquez
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Fermina Daza, Juvenal Urbino, Florentino Ariza
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Garcia-Marquez
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The General in His Labyrinth
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Garcia-Marquez
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A Varial Man with Enormous Wings
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Garcia-Marquez
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
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Garcia-Marquez
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1947
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Gide
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Gide novel of homosexuality
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Gide - If it Die
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If it Die
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Gide
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THe Pastoral Symphony
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Gide
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The Immoralist
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Gide
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Lafcadio's Adventures
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gide
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The Counterfeiters
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Gide
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Straight is the Gate
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Gide
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A Guest of Honor
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Gordimer
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None to Accompany Me
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Gordimer
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July's People
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Gordimer
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A Guest of Honor
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Gordimer
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Burger's Daughter
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Gordimer
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The Conservationist
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Gordimer
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1991
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Gordimer
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The Soft Voice of the Serpent
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Gordimer
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From the Diary of a Snail
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Grass
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Danzig Trilogy
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Grass
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Dog Years
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Grass
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Local Anesthetic
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Grass
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The flounder
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Grass
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1999
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Grass
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The Flood
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Grass
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The Rat
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Grass
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Cat and Mouse
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Grass
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Main character of the Quiet Don
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Gregor Melekhov
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Hunger
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Hamsun
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Children of the Age
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Hamsun
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In the Grip of Life
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Hamsun
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1920
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Hamsun
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Wayfarers
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Hamsun
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Growth of the Soil
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Hamsun
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1927
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Henri bergson
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Siddhartha
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Hesse
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1946
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Hesse
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Demian
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Hesse
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Emil Sinclair & Abraxas
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Hesse - Demian
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Brahmin
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Hesse - Siddhartha
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Harry haller
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Hesse - Steppenwolf
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The Glass-Bead Game
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Hesse
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Magister Ludi
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Hesse
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Associated with eastern mysticism
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Hesse
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Narziss and Goldmund
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Hesse
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Steppenwolf
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Hesse
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Chief character of Massenet
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Jerome Coignard
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Main character of the Glass-Bead Game
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Josef Knecht
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Thousand Cranes
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Kawabata
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House of the Sleeping Beauties
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Kawabata
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The Old Capital
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Kawabata
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1968
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Kawabata
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Snow Country
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Kawabata
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The Greek Passion
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Kazantzakis
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Was supposed to win the 1957 Nobel Prize but died.
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Kazantzakis
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Born in Crete ; law degree in Athens
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Kazantzakis
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Zorba the Greek
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Kazantzakis
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The Last Temptation of Christ
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Kazantzakis
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The Oddysey: A Modern Sequel (Odysseus dies at South Pole)
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Kazantzakis
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Studied under Bergson ; Loved Nietzche
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Kazantzakis
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The Dwarf
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Lagerkvist
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Barabbas
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Lagerkvist
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Anguish
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Lagerkvist
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1951
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Lagerkvist
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Guest of Reality
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Lagerkvist
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The Sibyl
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Lagerkvist
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The Pilgrim at Sea
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Lagerkvist
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First female to win
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Lagerlof
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1909
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Lagerlof
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The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
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Lagerlof
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Jerusalem
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Lagerlof
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Gosta Berlings Saga
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Lagerlof
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Became Count of Belgium in 1932
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Maeterlinck
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Blue Bird
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Maeterlinck
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1911
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Maeterlinck
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Life of the Bee
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Maeterlinck
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Arkel's gradson Golaud loves Melisande who loves Pelleas ; Golaud kills Peleas
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Maeterlinck
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Peleas et Melisandre
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Maeterlinck
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Belgian dude
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Maeterlinck
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1988
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Mahfouz
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Stabbed in 1994 by fundamentalist Islam as a result of a fatwa.
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Mahfouz
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Cairo Trilogy
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Mahfouz
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Autumn Quail
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Mahfouz
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The Children of Gebewali
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Mahfouz
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Miramar
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Mahfouz
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Brother Hitler
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Mann
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Tonio Kroger
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Mann
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Mario and the Magician
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Mann
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Doktor Faustus
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Mann
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Joseph and His Brothers
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Mann
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Confessions of Felix Krull
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Mann
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Confidence Man
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Mann
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IN 1933 he was forced out of Germany by Hitler
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Mann
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Died in Switzerland
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Mann
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In 1939 came to the US ande in 1944 became a citizen
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Mann
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Tenderness
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Mistral
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Tala
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Mistral
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Pen name of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga
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Mistral
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Despair
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Mistral
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First Latin American to win and first female poet
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Mistral
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Romische Geschite
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Mommsen
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Extravagaria
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Neruda
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Referred to in the House of the Spirits
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Neruda
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Canto General
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Neruda
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Residence on Earth
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Neruda
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The Captain's Verses
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Neruda
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Song of Despair
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Neruda
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
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Neruda
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Pen name of Ricardo Neftali Reyes
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Neruda
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The Silent Cry
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Oe
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Father of a brain damaged child
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Oe
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Teach Us To Outgrow Our Madness
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Oe
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A Personal Matter
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Oe
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The Catch
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Oe
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1994
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Oe
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Three books of the Cairo Trilogy
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Palace Walk, Sugarhouse, Palace of Desire
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1958
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Pasternak
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USSR forced him to decline the prize
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Pasternak
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Lt. Schmidt
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Pasternak
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My Sister, Life
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Pasternak
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Dr. Zhivago
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Pasternak
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Too Late the Phalarope
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Paton
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Tales from a Troubled Land
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Paton
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Ah but Your Land is Beautiful
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Paton
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Labyrinth of Solitude
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Paz
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Sun Stone
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Paz
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Luna Silvestre
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Paz
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The Bow and the Lyre
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Paz
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The Bow and the Lyre
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Paz
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Eagle or Sun?
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Paz
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1934
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Pirandello
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Right You Are If you Think So
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Pirandello
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Enrico IV / Henry IV
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Pirandello
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Financially backed by Mussolini's government
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Pirandello
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Six Characters in Search of an Author
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Pirandello
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1901
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Prudhomme
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Stanzas and Poems
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Prudhomme
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Parnassian - stressed impersonality and objectivity
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Prudhomme
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1959
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Quasimodo
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Life is Not a Dream
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Quasimodo
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Debit and Credit
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Quasimodo
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To Give and to Have
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Quasimodo
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The Soul Enchanted
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Rolland
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1915
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Rolland
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Participated in Dreyfus case
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Rolland
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Jean Christphe
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Rolland
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Unfinished history of Rome
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Romische Geschichte
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Temple Drake
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Sanctuary - Requiem for a Nun
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1998
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Saramago
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Baltasar and Bamunda
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Saramago
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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
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Saramago
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The Stone Raft
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Saramago
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The History of the Siege of Lisbon
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Saramago
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Blindness
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Saramago
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The Respectful Prostitute
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Sartre
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Being and Nothingness
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Sartre
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Nausea
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Sartre
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Studied under philosophers Husserl and Heidegger
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Sartre
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1964
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Sartre
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Declined the Prize
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Sartre
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Saint Genet
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Sartre
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The Roads to Freedom
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Sartre
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No Exit
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Sartre
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The Flies
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Sartre
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Dirty Hands
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Sartre
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The Quiet Don
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Sholokhov
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Virgin Soil Upturned
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Sholokhov
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1965
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Sholokov
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Quo Vadis
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Sienkiewicz
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The Teutonic Knights
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Sienkiewicz
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With Fire and Sword
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Sienkiewicz
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1905
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Sienkiewicz
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Historical novel about the first Christians in Nero's Rome (Petronius, Lygia, Vinicius)
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Sienkiewicz - Quo Vadis
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The Red Wheel
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Solzhenitsyn
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Lived in Cavendish, Vermont for 20 Years
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Solzhenitsyn
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1970
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Solzhenitsyn
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One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
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Solzhenitsyn
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First Japanese to Win
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Kawabata
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Cancer Ward
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Solzhenitsyn
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The First Circle
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Solzhenitsyn
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August 1914
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Solzhenitsyn
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The oak and the Calf
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Solzhenitsyn
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The Gulag Archipelago
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Solzhenitsyn
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Season in Anomy
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Soyinka
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The Interpreters
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Soyinka
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Death and the King's Horseman
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Soyinka
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The Lion and the Jewel
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Soyinka
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The Swamp Dwellers
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Soyinka
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Poems from Prison
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Soyinka
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Idanre and other poems
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Soyinka
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1986
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Soyinka
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A Dance of the Forests
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Soyinka
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1913
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Tagore
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The Crescent Moon
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Tagore
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red Oleanders
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Tagore
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Fireflies
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Tagore
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Gitanjali
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Tagore
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First non-European to win
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Tagore
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Parts of the Kristin Lavransdatter
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The Bridal Wreath, The Mistress of Husaby, The Cross
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Adaptation of the Odyssey
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The Flies
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Pope placed it on the Index, and the Orthodox Church sought to prosecute for sacrilege and refused to let his body lie in state at his death.
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The Last Temptation of Christ
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Dr. Rieux / Oran
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The Plague
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1902
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Theodor Mommsen
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Lived in a restored house built in 1000 and wore the gown of a Norse matron of the Middle Ages
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undset
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Saga of Saints
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Undset
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The Burning Bush
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Undset
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Kristin Lavransdatter
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Undset
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Norweigian women
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Undset
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1992
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Walcot
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Sea Grapes
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Walcott
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The Arkansas Testament
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Walcott
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Known in St. Lucia
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Walcott
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Omeros
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Walcott
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Another Life
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Walcott
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Henri Christophe
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Walcott
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The Star-Apple Kingdom
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Walcott
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