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45 Cards in this Set
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Maculay |
Pleasure for ruins |
Highly romantic |
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Maculay |
The world my Wilderness |
Quotation from THE WASTE LAND |
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Bowen |
The last September |
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West |
The return of the soldier |
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Osborne |
Look back in anger |
1956 rebellion of an insider: JIMMY PORTER (rebel w/o a cause) Revolution watershed in the history of Modern British theatre |
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Agatha Christie |
The mouse trap |
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Rattingan |
French without tears |
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Rattingan |
The Winston boys |
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Rattingan |
The deep blue sea |
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Beckett |
Waiting for Godot |
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Beckett |
Molloy |
Irish author Play in the form of a monologue Stream of consciousness |
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Molloy Malone dies The unnamable |
Beckett's trilogy |
Novels |
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Durell |
The black book |
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Justine Balthazar Mountolive Clea |
Alexandria quartet |
Durell |
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Golding |
Lord of the flies |
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Golding |
The pyramid |
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Golding |
Darkness visible |
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Bunting |
Redimiculum matellarum |
Collection of 13 poems |
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Bunting |
Brigg flatts |
Long poem Re-discovery, rejoicing his own sexual identity |
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Larkin |
Jill |
Intro of a common theme: self-consciousness of a grammar school educated intelligentsia set @OXFORD |
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Betjeman |
Collected poems |
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Betjeman |
Coming home |
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Betjeman |
Old lights for new chancels |
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Steve Smith |
Not waving but drowning |
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Steve Smith |
The frog prince |
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Greer |
The female Eunuch |
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Lessing |
The golden notebook |
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Lessing |
Children of violence |
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Lessing |
The four-gated city |
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Rhys |
Wilde sargasso sea |
Marriage theme as given in JANE EYRE |
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Carter |
Fireworks |
Short stories anthology Many based on the author 's experiences in Japan Radical feminism |
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Carter |
The bloody chamber |
Title inspired by Barbablù Anthology of re-writings of famous fables |
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Carter |
Night at the circus |
@london, st.petersburg, siberia Winged orphan protagonist working in a circus/bordel Interviewed by a journalist |
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Fowles |
The collector |
Post-freudian fantasy A young lonely clerk suffering from impotence kidnaps an art student, Miranda. When she commits suicide, he finds another prey. |
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Burgess |
A clockwork orange |
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Arden |
Live like pigs |
About the Sawneys, a family of nomads and tramps |
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Arden |
Sergeant Musgrave's dance |
About 3 privates of the British Army and their sergeant All of whom are deserters from a foreign imperialist war |
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Wesker |
Chips with everything |
showing class attitude at the time.by examining the life.of a corporal: Pip is a Socialist who prefers to be treated as an ordinary airman and not become an officer |
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Hughes |
The tought fox |
Animal poem in which the fox is a product of the author's imagination |
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Hughes |
Tales from Ovid |
Poetic Anthology re-telling of Ovid's Metamorphosis' short stories |
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McEwan |
Cement garden |
Four orphans attempt to live on their own by hiding their mother's corpse in cement in order to avoid foster care |
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Hughes |
King Log |
Poem |
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McEwan |
The comfort of strangers |
A tourist married couple in Venice encounter another English married couple with a dark past |
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McEwan |
Black dogs |
A novel about the consequences of the fall of the Berlin wall and Comunism. The protagonists travel in France where they meet ex nazis hiding there. |
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Welsh |
Trainspotting |
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