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| x Atlas Shrugged |
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Frank O'Connor | 1957 |
Atlas Shrugged is a novel by Ayn Rand, first published in 1957 in the United States. This was Rand's fourth, longest and last novel, and she considered it her magnum opus in the realm of fiction writing. As indicated by its working title The Strike,...
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Ayn Rand |
| x The Fountainhead |
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Frank O'Connor |
The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Ayn Rand. It was Rand's first major literary success and its royalties and movie rights brought her fame and financial security.
The Fountainhead's protagonist, Howard Roark, is an individualistic young architect...
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Ayn Rand | |
| x The Natural |
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Max Malamud |
The Natural is a 1952 novel about baseball written by Bernard Malamud. The book follows Roy Hobbs, a baseball prodigy whose career is sidetracked when he is shot by a sociopathic serial killer. Most of the story concerns itself with his attempts to...
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Bernard Malamud | |
| x Les Fleurs du mal |
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Théophile Gautier |
Les Fleurs du mal (often translated The Flowers of Evil) is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. First published in 1857, it was important in the symbolist and modernist movements. The subject matter of these poems deals with themes...
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Charles Baudelaire | |
| x Jane Eyre |
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William Makepeace Thackeray | 1847 |
Jane Eyre (pronounced /ˌdʒeɪn ˈɛər/) is a famous and influential novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published in London, England in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. with the title Jane Eyre. An Autobiography under the pen name "Currer Bell"....
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Charlotte Brontë |
| x Inkspell |
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Brendan Fraser | Sep 13, 2005 |
Inkspell (original title: Tintenblut) is a young adult novel by Cornelia Funke. It was named the 2006 Book Sense Book of the Year in the Children's Literature category.
Inkspell is the second novel in Cornelia Funke's Inkworld trilogy. The first...
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Cornelia Funke |
| x The Children |
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Coleman Harwell | 1998 |
The Children is a book by David Halberstam.
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David Halberstam |
| x Naked |
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Lisa Sedaris |
Naked, published in 1997, is a collection of essays by American humorist David Sedaris. The book details Sedaris’ life, from his unusual upbringing in the suburbs of Raleigh, North Carolina, to his booze-and-drug-infested college years, to his...
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David Sedaris | |
| x Barrel Fever |
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Sharon Sedaris |
Barrel Fever and Other Stories is a 1994 collection of short stories and essays by David Sedaris. The book is divided into two sections. The first section consists of short fiction and the second half contains autobiographical essays. The most...
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David Sedaris | |
| x Billy Bathgate | Jason Epstein |
Billy Bathgate is a 1989 novel by author E. L. Doctorow that won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle award for fiction for 1990 and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was the runner up for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize . The story is told in the...
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E. L. Doctorow | ||
| x Pease and Its Discontents | Israel Shahak | 1993 | Edward Said | ||
| x Memoirs: All Rivers Run to the Sea |
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Marion Wiesel | Elie Wiesel | ||
| x The Loved One |
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Nancy Mitford |
The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy (1948) is a short satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh about the funeral business in Los Angeles, the British expatriate community in Hollywood, and the film industry.
In the novel, a young English poet, Dennis...
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Evelyn Waugh | |
| x The Great Gatsby |
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Zelda Fitzgerald |
The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, it is set on Long Island's North Shore and in New York City during the summer of 1922 and is a critique of the American Dream.
The novel...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| x The Fifth Head of Cerberus |
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Damon Knight | 1972 |
The Fifth Head of Cerberus is the title of both a novella and a single-volume collection of three novellas, written by American science fiction and fantasy author Gene Wolfe, both published in 1972.
The title refers to the Cerberus of Greek...
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Gene Wolfe |
| x Madame Bovary |
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Louis Bouilhet |
Madame Bovary is Gustave Flaubert's first published novel and considered his masterpiece. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of...
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Gustave Flaubert | |
| x The Flounder | Helene Knoff | 1977 | Günter Grass | ||
| x Bridget Jones's Diary |
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Nellie Fielding |
Bridget Jones's Diary is a 1996 novel by Helen Fielding. Written in the form of a personal diary, the novel chronicles a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a thirty-something single working woman living in London. She writes (often humorously) about...
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Helen Fielding | |
| x Diplomacy |
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United States Foreign Service |
Diplomacy is a 1994 book written by former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. It is a sweep of the history of international relations and the art of diplomacy, largely concentrating on the 20th century and the Western...
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Henry Kissinger | |
| x Moby-Dick: or, The Whale |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1851 |
Moby-Dick is a classic novel published in 1851 by American author Herman Melville. Originally misunderstood by contemporary audiences and critics, Moby-Dick is now often referred to as "The Great American Novel" and is considered one of the...
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Herman Melville |
| x Pierre: or, The Ambiguities | Mount Greylock |
Pierre: or, The Ambiguities is a novel written by Herman Melville, and published in 1852 by Harper & Brothers. It is the only novel by Melville that takes place on land in the United States.
The publication of Pierre was a critical and financial...
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Herman Melville | ||
| x Depths of Glory | Jean Stone | Irving Stone | |||
| x The Family Moskat | Israel Joshua Singer |
The Family Moskat (pol. Rodzina Muszkatów) - is a novel written by Isaac Bashevis Singer. It was Singer's first book published in English.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer | ||
| x The Brothers Ashkenazi | Yasha Singer |
The Brothers Ashkenazi (1937) is a novel by Israel Joshua Singer. Written in Yiddish, it was first translated into English by Maurice Samuel in 1936. In 1980 a new translation was published by the author's son, Joseph Singer.
The novel takes place...
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Israel Joshua Singer | ||
| x The Catcher in the Rye |
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Miriam Salinger | 1951 |
The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger. Originally published for adults, the novel has become a common part of high school and college curricula throughout the English-speaking world; it has also been translated into almost all of...
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J. D. Salinger |
| x King James Version of the Bible |
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James I of England |
The Authorized King James Version is an English translation of the Christian Bible begun in 1604 and completed in 1611 by the Church of England. Printed by the King's Printer, Robert Barker, the first edition included schedules unique to the Church...
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James I of England | |
| x Chocolat |
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Marie André Sorin | 1999 |
Chocolat is a 1999 novel by Joanne Harris. It tells the story of Vianne Rocher, a young mother, who arrives at a fictional insular French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes with her six-year-old daughter, Anouk. Vianne opens La Céleste Praline, a...
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Joanne Harris |
| x The Fourth Hand |
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Richard N. Gladstein |
The Fourth Hand is a 2001 novel written by the American novelist John Irving.
A television correspondent named Patrick Wallingford loses one of his hands while filming near a lion's den at a circus in India. Captured on film and viewed by millions,...
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John Irving | |
| Lasse Hallström | |||||
| x A Son of the Circus |
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Salman Rushdie | 1995 |
A Son of the Circus is a novel by John Irving written and/or published in 1994.
Though the setting is Mumbai (Bombay) India and though the book describes the "Blue Nile" circus in details the novel has many other story lines, of which the most...
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John Irving |
| x Mathias Sandorf |
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Alexandre Dumas | 1885 |
First serialized in Le Temps in 1885, Mathias Sandorf is Jules Verne's epic Mediterranean adventure. It employs many of the devices that had served well in his earlier novels: islands, cryptograms, surprise revelations of identity, technically...
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Jules Verne |
| x Slaughterhouse-Five |
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Mary O'Hare | 1969 |
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death (1969) is an anti-war science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut about World War II experiences and journeys through time of a soldier called Billy Pilgrim.
Chaplain's Assistant...
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Kurt Vonnegut |
| Gerhard Müller | |||||
| x Timequake |
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Seymour Lawrence | 1997 |
Timequake is a semi-autobiographical work by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. published in 1997. Vonnegut described the novel as a "stew", in which he alternates between summarizing a novel he had been struggling with for a number of years, and waxing nostalgic...
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Kurt Vonnegut |
| x Slapstick |
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Stan Laurel | 1976 |
Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! is a science fiction novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut. Written in 1976, it depicts Vonnegut's views of loneliness, both on an individual and social scale.
The book was adapted into the 1982 film Slapstick of...
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Kurt Vonnegut |
| Oliver Hardy | |||||
| x The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
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Maud Gage | 1900 |
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow. It was originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900, and has since been reprinted countless times, most often...
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L. Frank Baum |
| x The Last Don |
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Domenick Cleri | 1996 |
The Last Don is a novel by Mario Puzo, best known as the author of The Godfather.
The story alternates between the movie industry and the Las Vegas casinos, showing how the Mafia is linked to them both.
The last plan of Don Domenico Clericuzio, an...
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Mario Puzo |
| x The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
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Olivia Langdon Clemens |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in the antebellum South, in the town of "St Petersburg", inspired by the town of Hannibal, Missouri, on the Mississippi River, where Mark Twain grew up...
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Mark Twain | |
| x The Prince and the Pauper |
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Susy Clemens |
The Prince and the Pauper is an English-language novel by American author Mark Twain. It was first published in 1881 in Canada before its 1882 publication in the United States. The book represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. Set in...
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Mark Twain | |
| Clara Clemens | |||||
| x Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc |
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Olivia Langdon Clemens |
Mark Twain's work on Joan of Arc is titled in full Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte who is identified further as Joan's page and secretary. The work is fictionally presented as a translation from the manuscript by...
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Mark Twain | |
| x Frankenstein |
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William Godwin | 1818 |
Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known simply as Frankenstein, is a novel written by Mary Shelley. Shelley started writing when she was 18 and the novel was published when she was 21. The first edition was published anonymously in...
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Mary Shelley |
| x World War Z |
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Henry Michael Brooks | Sep 12, 2006 |
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (abbreviated WWZ) is a 2006 post-apocalyptic horror novel by Max Brooks. It is a follow-up to his 2003 book The Zombie Survival Guide. Rather than a grand overview or single narrative, World War Z is a...
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Max Brooks |
| x Congo |
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Bob Gottlieb | 1980 |
Congo is a 1980 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton. The novel centers on an expedition searching for diamonds and inspecting the mysterious deaths of the previous expedition in the dense rain forest of Congo.
The novel starts with an abrupt...
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Michael Crichton |
| x Rising Sun |
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Zula Miller Crichton |
Rising Sun is a 1992 internationally best-selling novel by Michael Crichton about a murder in the Los Angeles headquarters of Nakamoto, a fictional Japanese corporation. The book was published by Alfred A. Knopf.
Although a detective/murder mystery...
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Michael Crichton | |
| x Invisible Man |
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Ida Millsap |
Invisible Man is a novel written by Ralph Ellison, and the only one that he published during his lifetime. It won him the National Book Award in 1953. The novel addresses many of the social and intellectual issues facing African-Americans in the...
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Ralph Ellison | |
| x The God Delusion |
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Douglas Adams | 2006 |
The God Delusion is a 2006 bestselling non-fiction book by British biologist Richard Dawkins, professorial fellow of New College, Oxford, and inaugural holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of...
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Richard Dawkins |
| x Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me | Mimi Fariña |
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me is a novel by Richard Fariña. First published in the United States in 1966 the novel, based largely on Fariña's college experiences and travels, is a comic picaresque story of Gnossos Pappadopoulis that takes...
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Richard Fariña | ||
| x The Power Broker |
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Janet G. Travell |
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York is a Pulitzer Prize-winning 1974 biography of Robert Moses, "New York City's Master Builder", by Robert Caro. In the years since its publication, and especially since Moses's death in 1981, it...
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Robert Caro | |
| Ina Caro | |||||
| x Treasure Island |
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S. L. O. | 1881 |
Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold". First published as a book in 1883, it was originally serialised in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881-82 under the title...
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 1969 | |||||
| x Kidnapped |
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Charles Baxter |
Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. Written as a "boys' novel" and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886, the novel has attracted the praise and admiration of...
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Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| x Midnight's Children |
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Zafar Rushdie | 1980 |
Midnight's Children is an epic book of magical realism, a poioumenon about India's transition from British colonialism to independence. It was written by Salman Rushdie in 1981 and is considered an example of postcolonial literature. The story is...
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Salman Rushdie |
| x Herzog |
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Pat Covici |
Herzog is a 1964 novel by Saul Bellow. In a nod to the epistolary novels of early British literature, letters from the protagonist constitute much of the text.
Herzog won the 1965 National Book Award for Fiction. Time Magazine included the novel in...
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Saul Bellow | |
| x All Men are Mortal | Jean-Paul Sartre | 1946 |
All Men are Mortal (French: Tous les hommes sont mortels) is a 1946 novel by Simone de Beauvoir. It tells the story of Raimon Fosca, a man cursed to live forever. The first American edition of this work was published by The World Publishing Company....
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Simone de Beauvoir | |
| x She Came to Stay | Olga Kosakiewicz |
She Came to Stay (French, L'Invitée) is a novel written by French author Simone de Beauvoir first published in 1943. The novel is a fictional account of her and Jean-Paul Sartre's relationship with Olga Kosakiewicz and Wanda Kosakiewicz.
Set in...
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Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| x Leviathan |
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Francis Godolphin | 1996 |
Leviathan, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan, is a book written by Thomas Hobbes which was published in 1651. It is titled after the biblical Leviathan. The book concerns the...
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Thomas Hobbes |
| x The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization |
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Ann Friedman |
The Lexus and the Olive Tree is a 1999 book by Thomas L. Friedman that posits that the world is currently undergoing two struggles: the drive for prosperity and development, symbolized by the Lexus, and the desire to retain identity and traditions,...
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Thomas L. Friedman | |
| x Even Cowgirls Get the Blues |
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Fleetwood Star Robbins | 1976 |
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is a 1976 novel by Tom Robbins.
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues tells the story of Sissy Hankshaw, a woman born with a mutation (though she would not call it a defect nor a mutation; she would call it a gift) giving her...
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Tom Robbins |
| x Music for Chameleons |
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Tennessee Williams |
Music for Chameleons (1980) is an anthology by the American author Truman Capote, which includes both fiction and non-fiction. Capote's first offering of new material in 14 years, Music for Chameleons spent an unheard of (for a collection of short...
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Truman Capote | |
| x Ivanhoe |
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Dryasdust | 1819 |
Ivanhoe is a novel by Sir Walter Scott. It was written in 1819 and set in 12th century England, an example of historical fiction. Ivanhoe is sometimes given credit for helping to popular interest in the Middle Ages in 19th century Europe and America...
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Walter Scott |
| x My Ántonia |
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Carrie Miner |
My Ántonia (first published 1918) is considered one of the greatest novels by American writer Willa Cather. My Ántonia — pronounced with the accent on the first syllable of "Ántonia" — is the final book of the "prairie trilogy" of novels by Cather,...
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Willa Cather | |
| Irene Miner | |||||
| x On Beauty |
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Nick Laird |
On Beauty is a 2005 novel by British author Zadie Smith. It takes its title from an essay by Elaine Scarry (On Beauty and Being Just). The story follows the lives of a mixed-race British/American family living in the United States. On Beauty...
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Zadie Smith | |
| x GoldenEye |
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Derek Meddings |
GoldenEye (1995) is the seventeenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was directed by Martin Campbell and unlike previous Bond films, is unrelated to the works of...
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