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Name 3 books by JF Cooper

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Leatherstocking; Deerslayer; the Last of the Mohicans

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who wrote the invisible man version that criticizes racism (rather than the flagrantly racist HG Wells’s Invisible Man)

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Ellison

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name 3 of tolstoy’s books

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anna karenina; war and peace; the death of ivan ilysch

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who wrote jane eyre

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charlotte bronte

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who wrote wuthering heights

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emily bronte

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who wrote little women

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alcott

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name 3 of toni morrison’s works

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song of solomon; the bluest eye; beloved

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name 3 of jane austen’s books

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emma; pride & prejudice; sense and sensibility

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name 2 of fitzgerald’s lesser-known books

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the beautiful & the damned; this side of paradise

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name 2 of emerson’s works & the KEY WORD you should buzz in when you hear

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nature; self-reliance
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who wrote candide

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voltaire

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name 4 of willa cather’s books

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O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, My Ántonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop

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name 2 of hawthorne’s books

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the scarlet letter; the house of 7 gables

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who wrote ivanhoe

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sir walter scott

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name 2 of tennyson’s works

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charge of the light brigade; lady of shalott

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name 2 of irving’s stories

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rip van winkle; the legend of sleepy hollow

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name this novel describing the conflict between the nihilism of a younger generation and the conservatism of their parents by Ivan Turgenev

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Fathers and sons

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name this 1762 philosophical work arguing legitimate government derives from people’s consent to the titular agreement, written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The Social Contract

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name this novel in which Tomas is married to Tereza, a work by Milan Kundera

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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the love affairs of the emperor’s son are chronicled by Murasaki Shikibu in what book, sometimes considered the world’s first novel

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the tale of genji

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name 2 books by Gogol

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The Overcoat; Dead Souls

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name this author of “The Gift of the Magi”

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O. Henry

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name this founder of the Italian sonnet & his most famous work

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Petrarch & his Canzoniere about Laura

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name the author and the title of the political treatise dedicated to the Medicis

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Machiavelli; The Prince

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who wrote the letter protesting the Dreyfus affair, J'Accuse!
Zola
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Jack Burden narrates the rise and fall of Willie Stark in what Robert Penn Warren novel
All the King's Men
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who wrote Maggie: a Girl of the Streets
Crane (Stephen)
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name 2 of Hesse's books
Steppenwolf, Siddhartha
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name 3 characters in Beloved, and where it's set
Sethe; Baby Suggs; Paul Garner; set in Denver
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who wrote The Master and Margarita
bulgakov
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what 3 things did pushkin write
Eugene Onegin, Boris Godunov , Mozart and Salieri
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name 3 books by dostoyevsky
the idiot; crime and punishment; the brothers karamazov
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who wrote dr. zhivago?
pasternak
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4 books by woolf
Mrs. Dalloway A Room of One's Own The Waves To the Lighthouse
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what did machiavelli write
the prince, for the Medicis
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what did percy shelley write
Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
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who wrote ethan frome
edith wharton
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Name 2 works by homer
Iliad and the odyssey
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3 works by hemingway
The old man and the sea; the sun also rises; farewell to arms
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2 works by Faulkner
The sound and the fury; as I lay dying
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1 work by Thoreau
Civil disobedience
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3 books by Steinbeck
Of mice and men; the grapes of wrath; east of Eden
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2 books by vonnegut
Cats cradle; slaughterhouse 5
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3 works by miller
Death of a salesman; all my sons; the crucible
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4 plays by Tennessee Williams
A streetcar named desire; the glass menagerie; the rose tattoo; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (the gay one lmao rip)
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2 works by hugo
Les miserables; the hunchback of notre dame
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3 books by verne
Around the world in 80 days; 20,000 leagues under the sea; journey to the center of the earth
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3 works by Goethe
Faust, a play; and 2 novels, the sorrows of young werther and wilhelm meister’s apprenticeship
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George Orwell ‘s real name
Eric Blair
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3 works by TS Eliot
Murder in the cathedral (a play); the love song of j Alfred prufock & the waste land (poems)
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Who is the main character in catcher in the rye
Holden cauffield
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3 works by Blake
The tiger (poem) & The Songs of Innocence and of Experience
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2 poems by hughes
The weary blues; the negro speaks of rivers
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2 works by Emerson
Self-Reliance; Nature
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2 works by capote
Breakfast at Tiffany’s; in cold blood
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4 books by kipling
The white mans burden; gunga din; the man who would be king; the jungle book
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Who wrote the Canterbury tales
Chaucer
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Who wrote paradise lost
Milton
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2 books by ayn rand
Atlas shrugged; the fountainhead
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2 of aesops fables
The boy who cried wolf; the tortoise and the hare
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3 books by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Autumn of the Patriarch, and Love in the Time of Cholera
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Full name of author who wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Autumn of the Patriarch, and Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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who wrote robinson crusoe
defoe
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who wrote Ulysses?
Joyce
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Who wrote Heart of Darkness?
Conrad
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Who wrote Our Town?
Wilder
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What did Huxley write?
Brave New World
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Who wrote Catch-22
Heller
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what did Aristophanes write? x2
In the Clouds; The Birds
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Who wrote The Portuguese Sonnets, & what are the key words to knowing it?
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways" poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Carl Sandburg poems x2
"The Fog" & "Chicago"
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Who wrote "Howl" and had a weird font in his poem?
Ginsburg
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Who wrote Anne of Green Gables??
Montgomery
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What did Camus write x1 & where is he from
The Stranger; he's from Algeria
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Coleridge poems x 2
"Kubla Khan" and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
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Who wrote what poem that has the lines "a darkling plain where ignorant armies clash by night"
Arnold; "Dover Beach"
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2 works by Sylvia Plath
"Daddy," that creepy poem, and "The Bell Jar"
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Characters x 3 & author of Beowulf
Wiglaf, Unferth, & Grendel (killed) It has no author >:)
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who wrote the play Dr. Faustus, which was based on the story of Faust but written in English
Marlowe
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WHO WROTE PAUL REVERE'S RIDE SSFKSJDHFKSJDHFLSKDJLSSDJSFHSKL
Longfellow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! !!!!!! !!!
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2 books by stevenson
Treasure Island; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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who wrote anne of green gables
Montgomery
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WHO wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Jonathan Edwards
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2 plays by Moliere
tartuffe, Imaginary Invalid
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books x1 by Sartre
Nausea
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Lord Byron famous works x1
Don Juan
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who was the limerick guy and what was his famous book???
Lear's Book of Nonsense
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Hardy books x 4
Far from the Madding Crowd; Tess of the d'Urbervilles; The Return of the Native; Jude the Obscure
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2 books by London
Seawolf; Call of the Wild
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what is that quote from Beloved that should clue you that it's Beloved
"full of baby's venom" or whatever it was
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characters in fall of the house of usher
Roderick & Madeline Usher
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who wrote the Da Vinci Code??
Dan Brown
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frost obscure poems x1
Fire & Ice
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author of The Good Earth
Buck
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works by Keats x1
ode to a nightingale
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what was Fielding known for doing
founding the English Novel with Richardson
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books x2 by Baudelaire
Les Fleurs du Mal; The Albatross
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Who wrote A Clockwork Orange?
Burgess
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2 books by Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo; the 3 Musketeers
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2 works by John Updike
Rabbit, Run and freaking A&P
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who wrote the power and the glory
graham greene
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who wrote that crushing poem, "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night"
Dylan Thomas
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who created the detective character Philip Marlowe?
Chandler
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What is Rushdie's famous novel?
The Satanic Verses
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who wrote Leviathan?
Hobbes
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author of The Romancing of the 3 Kingdoms
14th-century Chinese writer Luo Guanzhong
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who is the author with "of" in all his titles?
Steinbeck
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Who wrote Mademoiselle Fifi?
Maupassant
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first sherlock holmes book
A Study in Scarlet

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