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Title character dies from getting slashed by Laertes’ poisoned blade

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Hamlet

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Calpurnia is the Finch family’s cook

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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Jim Conklin suffers delirium from blood loss

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The red badge of courage

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The climax of the play is when Jim OConnor steps on a toy unicorn

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The glass menagerie

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The title character blinds himself and his wife kills herself

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Oedipus

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Title character is expelled from Baron Thunder Ten Tronckh’s castle after kissing Cunegonde

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Candide

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Main character meets Robert Lebrun at the start of the novel

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The Awakening

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Narrator is repeatedly mistaken for Rinehart

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Invisible Man

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“old age shall this generation waste”

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Ode on a Grecian Urn

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George and Martha are terrible party hosts

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Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf

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Protagonist disapproves of Wickham and Lydia’s marriage

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Pride and prejudice

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Takes its name from a place in Pilgrim’s Progress

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Vanity fair

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The protagonist marries a woman only known as the “third princess”

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The Tale of Genji

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Hrothgar, Wealhtheow, and his warriors spend their time celebrating in Heorot

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Beowulf

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Orgon and his mother have fallen under the influence of the title character, to the chagrin of Orgon’s family

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Tartuffe

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Title character is buried between two linden trees

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The sorrows of young werther

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Nikolay had a son with servant Fenechka, named Mitya

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Fathers and sons

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Title character inherits a fortune and an estate from a dead wealthy uncle

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Eugene Onegin

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Irina finds Konstanin’s play ridiculous and incomprehensible

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The seagull

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Primarily set in Salinas Valley, California

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East of Eden

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The main character meets the Eloi, small, childlike humanoids

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The Time Machine

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Saladin Chamcha is an Indian expatriate who works as a voiceover artist in England

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The satanic verses

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Title character’s father gets drunk after being told he is descended from an ancient Norman family

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Tess of the d’Urbervilles

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Willie Stark’s character is inspired by Huey Long

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All the kings men

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Protagonist is born with an adult’s capacity for thought and perception
The tin drum
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The main character is a schoolmaster from Connecticut
The legend of sleepy hollow
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Title character attempts to match Harriet Smith with Mr Elton
Emma
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Bigger Thomas kills a rat with an iron skillet
Native son
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Colonel Pyncheon is found dead in his armchair
The house of the seven gables
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Absalom is sentenced to death for the murder of Arthur Jarvis
Cry the beloved country
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Big Daddy is dying of cancer
Cat on a hot tin roof
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“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness”
Howl
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“The falcon cannot hear the falconer”
The Second Coming
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“A shape with lion body and the head of a man”
The second coming
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“In leaves no step had trodden black”
The road not taken
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“The wedding guest stood still”
The rime of the ancient mariner
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“I’m with you in Rockland”
Howl
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“”’tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door”
The raven
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“At length did cross an albatross”
The rime of the ancient mariner
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“Five years have passed”
Lines written a few miles above tintern abbey
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“Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
The second coming
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“Tell me what thy lordly name is on the night’s Plutonian shore!”
The raven
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“Now is the summer of our discontent”
Richard III
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Willie stark transforms from an idealistic lawyer to a charismatic and powerful governor
All the kings men
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Britobart wins a joust with Guyon
The faerie queen
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Novel opens during a Russian orthodox funeral liturgy
Doctor Zhivago
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Falstaff decides to send Mistress Ford and Mistress Page identical love letters
The merry wives of windsor
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Title character’s brother is married to an opium addict
Silas Marner
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Adela quested and Mrs Moore visit Chandrapore
A passage to India
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The city tax collector invites several Indians to his house
A passage to India
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Title character has a daughter named Verona with socialist leanings
Babbitt
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Title character goes camping in Maine with friend Paul Riesling
Babbitt
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Paul Riesling shoots his wife Zilla
Babbitt
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“What happens to a dream deferred?”
Harlem
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“Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”
Harlem
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“Had we but world enough, and time”
To his coy mistress
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“Till the conversion of the Jews”
To his coy mistress
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“I met a traveler from an antique land”
Ozymandias
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“And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command”
Ozymandias
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Player with railroads and the nation’s freight handler
Chicago
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Wealth Irish immigrant Gerald O’Hara owns a plantation in Georgia
Gone with the wind
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Charles goes to war and dies of measles two months later
Gone with the wind
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Jack burden is the narrator
All the kings men
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Sofia is sentenced to 12 years in prison
The color purple
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In 1866 various ships sight a mysterious sea monster
Twenty thousand leagues under the seas
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The passengers of the Nautilus hunt sea life in the underwater forests of crespo island
Twenty thousand leagues under the seas
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Narrates the events and aftermath of the Kurukshetra war
Mahābhārata
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Fogg and Passpartout rescue Aouda, who was about to undergo sati
Around the world in eighty days
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Phileas Fogg is part of the Reform Club
Around the world in eighty days
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Detective Fix gets Passepartout drunk and drugs him in an opium den
Around the world in eighty days
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A group of Sioux warrior ambush the main characters’ train
Around the world in eighty days
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Protagonist bribes the crew of the Henrietta to mutiny
Around the world in eighty days
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Fogg marries Aouda
Around the world in eighty days
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Aouda’s distant relative lives in Holland
Around the world in eighty days
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Protagonist at first thinks he reached his destination five minutes late
Around the world in eighty days
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Protagonist fires a servant for bringing him water at slightly the wrong temperature
Around the world in eighty days
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Contains consequences of man’s “first disobedience”
Paradise lost
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Odette marries Charles swann
Remembrance of things past
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There are no toothbrushes, mirrors, windows, or torture devices in the room
No exit
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Clarissa hosts a party
Mrs dalloway
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Protagonist takes a potion to appear 30 years younger
Faust
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Protagonist uses caskets of jewels to seduce Gretchen
Faust
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According to Fedallah, the captain will see two hearses before his death
Moby dick
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A messenger informs title character of the death of king polybus of corinth
Oedipus
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Lady Brett Ashley has a relationship with Jake Barnes
The sun also rises
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“Who are these coming to the sacrifice?”
Ode on a Grecian urn
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“Still unravish’d bride of quietness”
Ode on a Grecian urn
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Tom praises a racist book called The Rise of the Colored Empires
The great gatsby
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Soldier Miles Henson protects Edward VI
The prince and the pauper
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Has a dream sequence where the Messenger recants polytheistic scriptures
The satanic verses
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Protagonist’s great aunt Betsey Trotwood arranged to have protagonist educated by Mr Wickfield
David copper field
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At the end the characters play a bingo style game while a writer rips up his manuscripts
The seagull
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Novel describes a song whose melody resembles La Cucaracha
Animal farm
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“We are not now that strength which in old days / moved earth and heaven”
Ulysses (Tennyson)

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