Story of loss and heartbreak felt when a young father dies.

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During World War I, an American lieutenant runs away with the woman who nurses him back to health.

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Social awareness, the grotesque, and the need for faith characterize these stories of the contemporary South.

Three generations of Native American women recount their searches for identity and love.

A fantasy in which Alice follows the White Rabbit to a dream world.

The Bundren family takes the ripening corpse of Addie, wife and mother, on a gruesomely comic journey.

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Buck is a loyal pet dog until cruel men make him a pawn in their search for Klondike gold.

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A broad comedy about a WWII bombardier based in Italy and his efforts to avoid bombing missions.

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Reading is a crime and firemen burn books in this futuristic society.

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Semi-autobiographical novel about a 14-year-old black youth's religious conversion.

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Poe is considered the father of detective stories and a master of supernatural tales.

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A black man's search for himself as an individual and as a member of his race and his society.

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A novel depicting the coming of age of Eugene Gant and his passion to experience life.

Written in 1887 about a young man who travels in time to a utopian year 2000, where economic security and a healthy moral environment have reduced crime.

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A young doctor's wife tries to change the ugliness, dullness and ignorance which prevail in Gopher Prairie, Minn.

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A complex novel about a mad sea captain's pursuit of the White Whale.

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Immigrant pioneers strive to adapt to the Nebraska prairies.

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Bigger Thomas, a young man from the Chicago slums, lashes out against a hostile society by committing two murders.

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A novel about a power struggle between the head nurse and one of the male patients in a mental institution.

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Billy Pilgrim, an optometrist from Ilium, New York, shuttles between World War II Dresden and a luxurious zoo on the planet Tralfamadore.

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The lifelong friendship of two women becomes strained when one causes the other's husband to abandon her.

Huck and Jim, a runaway slave, travel down the Mississippi in search of freedom.

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In her 100 years, Miss Jane Pittman experiences it all, from slavery to the civil rights movement.

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The story of a New Orleans woman who abandons her husband and children to search for love and self-understanding.

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A young English woman in British-ruled India accuses an Indian doctor of sexual assault.

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A novel about a young man growing up in Ireland and rebelling against family, country, and religion.

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A young German soldier in World War I experiences pounding shellfire, hunger, sickness, and death.

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Animals turn the tables on their masters.

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Anna forsakes her husband for the dashing Count Vronsky and brief happiness.

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A bitter satire of the future, in which the world is controlled by advances in science and social changes.

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A psychological novel about a poor student who murders an old woman pawnbroker and her sister.

A country Zulu pastor searches for his sick sister in Johannesburg, and discovers that she has become a prostitute and his son a murderer.

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In this novella, an author becomes aware of a darker side of himself when he visits Venice.

An epic novel of Russia before and after the Bolshevik revolution.

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An eccentric old gentleman sets out as a knight "tilting at windmills" to right the wrongs of the world.

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A gothic tale of terror in which Franken-stein creates a monster from corpses.

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The moving story of the rise, fall, and rise again of a humbly-born young orphan.

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Gulliver encounters dwarfs and giants and has other strange adventures when his ship is wrecked in distant lands.

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The novel's narrator journeys into the Congo where he discovers the extent to which greed can corrupt a good man.

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The story of the Trueba family in Chile, from the turn of the century to the violent days of the overthrow of the Salvador Allende government in 1973.

Tale of Ivanhoe, the disinherited knight, Lady Rowena, Richard the Lion-Hearted, and Robin Hood at the time of the Crusades.

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An intelligent and passionate governess falls in love with a strange, moody man tormented by dark secrets.

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An anthology of literary fireworks based on Borges' favorite symbol.

As the youngest of three daughters in a turn-of-the-century Mexican family, Tita may not marry but must remain at home to care for her mother.

English schoolboys marooned on an uninhabited island test the values of civilization when they attempt to set up a society of their own.

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In her extramarital affairs, a bored young wife seeks unsuccessfully to find the emotional experiences she craves.

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A searing account of the Holocaust as experienced by a 15-year-old boy.

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Ivan Denisovich Shukhov endures one more day in a Siberian prison camp and finds joy in survival.

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A technique called magical realism is used in this portrait of seven generations in the lives of the Buendia family.

A woman leaves her family to pursue personal freedom.

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Blanche Dubois' fantasies of refinement and grandeur are brutally destroyed by her brother-in-law.

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The tragedy of a typical American who, at age 63, is faced with what he cannot face: defeat and disillusionment.

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First dramatization of the medieval legend of a man who sold his soul to the devil.

A young prince finally decides to avenge the murder of his father.

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The assassins of Julius Caesar are finally defeated by Marc Antony and the spirit of Caesar.

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A tragedy set in 1912 in the summer home of an isolated, theatrical family.

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A product of the Nazi era, Mother Courage is a feminine "Everyman" in a play on the futility of war.

A modern morality play in which three persons are condemned to hell because of crimes against humanity.

Classical tragedy of Oedipus who unwittingly killed his father, married his mother and brought the plague to Thebes.

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The dead of a New Hamshire village of the early 1900s appreciate life more than the living.

Two lovers fail to overcome the hatred of their families.

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The orchard evokes different meanings for the impoverished aristocrat and the merchant who buys it.

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Comedy exposing quirks and foibles of Victorian society.

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Drama set in 1936 Pittsburgh chronicles black experience in America.

Powerful, symbolic portrayal of the human condition.

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