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1984
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Author: George Orwell
Summary: Winston Smith, citizen of Oceania, rebels against ruling Party and is tortured and brainwashed. Themes: Danger of totalitarianism, manipulation, propaganda Major Characters: Winston Smith, Big Brother, O'Brien, Mr. Charrington, Emmanuel Goldstein, Julia, Parsons, Syme |
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The Aeneid
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Author: Virgil
Summary: Major Characters: Too many - mortals, gods, goddesses, characters from Homer's Iliad. |
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Agamemnon
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Author: Aeschylus
Summary: Major Characters: Aegisthus, Agamemnon, Cassandra, Chorus, Clytemnestra, The Herald, The Watchman |
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Alice in Wonderland
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Author: Lewis Caroll
Summary: Alice falls asleep, dreams of adventures in Wonderland. Themes: Satire of children's lit, growing up, sound vs. sense. Major Characters: Alice, White Rabbit, King & Queen of Hearts, Caterpillar, Cheshire Cat, Hatter. |
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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Animal Farm
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Summary:Group of animals rebel against the farmer who rules them, but not all is equal when one pig seizes power. Themes: Class struggle, satire of Russian Revolution, danger of naivety. Major Characters: Napoleon, Snowball, Squealer, Mr. Jones, Boxer, Benjamin. |
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Anna Karenina
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As I Lay Dying
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The Awakening
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The Bell Jar
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Beloved
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Beowulf
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Billy Budd, Sailor
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Black Boy
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Brave New World
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The Brothers Karamazov
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The Call of the Wild
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Candide
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The Canterbury Tales
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Catch-22
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The Catcher in the Rye
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The Chosen
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A Christmas Carol
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A Clockwork Orange
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The Color Purple
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Crime and Punishment
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The Crucible
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Cry, The Beloved Country
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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Cyrano De Bergerac
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Death of a Salesman
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David Copperfield
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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Doctor Faustus
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A Doll's House
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Don Quixote
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Dracula
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Dubliners
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Emma
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Ethan Frome
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Far From the Madding Crowd
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Farenheit 451
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A Farewell to Arms
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The Fountainhead
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Frankenstein
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
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The Glass Menagerie
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The Good Earth
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Great Expectations
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The Great Gatsby
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Grendel
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Gulliver's Travels
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Hamlet
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The Handmaid's Tale
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Hard Times
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Heart of Darkness
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Hedda Gabler
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The Hobbit
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The House of the Seven Gables
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The House on Mango Street
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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The Illiad
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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Inferno
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Invisible Man
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Jane Eyre
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The Joy Luck Club
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Julius Caesar
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The Jungle
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King Lear
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The Last of the Mohicans
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Les Miserables
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Light in August
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Little Women
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Lolita
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Lord of the Flies
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Macbeth
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Madame Bovary
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A Man for All Seasons
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The Mayor of Casterbirdge
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Medea
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The Merchant of Venice
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The Metamorphosis
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Moby-Dick
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Mrs. Dalloway
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Much Ado About Nothing
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My Antonia
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Native Son
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Night
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The Odyssey
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The Oedipus Plays
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Of Mice and Men
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The Old Man and the Sea
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Oliver Twist
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On the Road
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Othello
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Our Town
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The Outsiders
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Paradise Lost
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A Passage to India
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The Pearl
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The Plague
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Pride and Prejudice
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The Prince
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Pygmalion
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A Raisin in the Sun
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The Red Badge of Courage
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The Republic
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Robinson Crusoe
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Romeo and Juliet
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A Room of One's Own
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The Scarlet Letter
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Sense and Sensibility
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A Separate Peace
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Siddhartha
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Silas Marner
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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Song of Solomon
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The Sound and the Fury
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The Strange
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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The Sun Also Rises
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A Tale of Two Cities
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The Tempest
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Things Fall Apart
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The Things They Carried
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To Kill A Mockingbird
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To the Lighthouse
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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The Turn of the Screw
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Ulysses
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Waiting for Godot
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Walden
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War and Peace
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The Woman Warrior
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Wuthering Heights
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