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| x William Shakespeare |
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Tower of London |
William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the ...
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| Romeo Must Die | |||
| Tromeo & Juliet | |||
| Romie-0 and Julie-8 | |||
| West Side Story | |||
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| x Mahasweta Devi |
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Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa |
Mahasweta Devi (Bengali: মহাশ্বেতা দেবী Môhashsheta Debi) (born 1926 in Dhaka in what is now Bangladesh) is an Indian social activist and writer. Her only son Nabarun Bhattacharya is also a renowned author in his own right.
Mahasweta Devi was born...
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| x David Franzoni |
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Gladiator |
David Harold Franzoni (born March 4, 1947) is an American screenwriter. His most well known movie scripts include: King Arthur, Gladiator, Amistad, and Jumpin' Jack Flash.
Franzoni has close connections with both DreamWorks Pictures and Steven...
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| x James Norman Hall |
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Mutiny on the Bounty |
James Norman Hall (April 22, 1887 – July 5, 1951) was an American author best known for the novel Mutiny on the Bounty.
He was born in Colfax, Iowa, where he attended the local school. Hall graduated from Grinnell College in 1910 and became a social...
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| x Charles Nordhoff | Mutiny on the Bounty |
Charles Bernard Nordhoff (February 1, 1887 - April 10, 1947) was an English-born American novelist and traveler.
Charles Nordhoff was born in London, England, to American parents. His father was Walter Nordhoff, a wealthy businessman and author of...
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| x Thomas Harris |
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The Silence of the Lambs |
Thomas Harris (born April 11, 1940) is an American author and screenwriter, best known for a series of suspense novels about his most famous character, Hannibal Lecter. All of his works have been made into films, the most notable being the multi...
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| x Maurine Dallas Watkins | Chicago |
Maurine Dallas Watkins (July 27, 1896 - August 10, 1969) was an American journalist and playwright.
She was born in Louisville, Kentucky and attended Crawfordsville High School, followed by five colleges (including Hamilton College, Transylvania...
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| x Charles Dickens |
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A Tale of Two Cities |
Charles John Huffam Dickens, FRSA (pronounced /ˈtʃɑrlz ˈdɪkɪnz/; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz", was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era. He was a vigorous social campaigner, both in his own personal endeavours as...
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| A Tale of Two Cities | |||
| A Tale of Two Cities | |||
| Little Dorrit | |||
| Oliver & Company | |||
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| x Clive Cussler | Raise the Titanic |
Clive Eric Cussler (born July 15, 1931 in Aurora, Illinois) is an American adventure novelist and marine archaeologist.
Clive Cussler was born in Aurora, Illinois, and grew up in Alhambra, California. He was awarded the rank of Eagle Scout when he...
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| x George MacDonald |
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The Princess and the Goblin |
George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister.
Though no longer well known, his works (particularly his fairy tales and fantasy novels) have inspired admiration in such notables as W. H....
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| x Jules Verne |
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Mysterious Island |
Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905) was a French author who helped pioneer the science-fiction genre. He is best known for his novels A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand...
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| Le Voyage dans la Lune | |||
| In Search of the Castaways | |||
| x Henry James |
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Daisy Miller |
Henry James, O.M. (April 15, 1843(1843-04-15) – February 28, 1916) was a U.S.-born British author. James is one of the key figures of 19th century literary realism. The son of theologian Henry James, Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist...
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| x Ellen Wood |
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East Lynne |
Ellen Wood (née Price) (January 17, 1814 – February 10, 1887), was an English novelist, better known as "Mrs. Henry Wood".
Ellen Price was born in Worcester. In 1836 she married Henry Wood who worked in the banking and shipping trade in Dauphiné in...
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| x Edward E. Rose | The Prisoner of Zenda | ||
| x Frank Norris |
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Greed |
Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. (March 5, 1870 – October 25, 1902) was an American novelist, during the Progressive Era, writing predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague (1899), The Octopus: A California Story (1901),...
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| x Stefan Wul | Fantastic Planet |
Stefan Wul was the nom de plume of French science fiction writer Pierre Pairault (27 March 1922–26 November 2003). He was a dental surgeon, but science fiction was his real passion. Most of his books reflect that, showing a deep knowledge of...
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| x Gordy Hoffman | Love Liza |
Gordy Hoffman (born 1965) is a US writer and director.
Gordy is the older brother of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, and the son of Marilyn O'Connor, a judge in Rochester, New York. He wrote the film Love Liza, in which his brother starred.
Gordy...
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| x Don Roos | Love Field |
Donald Paul Roos (April 14, 1955— ) is a screenwriter and film director.
Roos was born in New York, USA. He attended the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. After graduating, Roos moved to Los Angeles, where he pursued a career writing for...
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| x Jan Sardi | Love's Brother | ||
| x Adrian Fulle | Love 101 |
Adrian Fulle is an American filmmaker best known for the comedy Love 101. He was born April 25, 1972 in Des Plaines, Illinois and graduated with honors from Columbia College in Chicago in 1995 with a BA in Film & Television. After college Adrian...
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| x Jules Chancel | The Love Parade | ||
| x Leon Xanrof |
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The Love Parade |
Leon Xanrof (1867-1953) was a French playwright and songwriter, noted for writing the play The Prince Consort, which was used to create the 1929 film Parade d'amour (The Love Parade).
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| x Bruce Feirstein | Tomorrow Never Dies |
Bruce Feirstein (born 1956) is an American screenwriter and humorist, best known for his contributions to the James Bond series and his best-selling humor books, including Real Men Don't Eat Quiche and Nice Guys Sleep Alone. Real Men Don't Eat...
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| x Yash Chopra |
Yash Raj Chopra (Hindi: यश चोपड़ा, born 27 September 1932) is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, and the most successful producer of Bollywood date in India. Waqt, Deewar, Lamhe, Darr, Dil To Pagal Hai, and Veer-Zaara are some of the highly...
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| x Frank Wead |
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Test Pilot |
Frank Wilber "Spig" Wead (born October 24, 1895, in Peoria, Illinois – died November 15, 1947, in Santa Monica, California) was a U.S. Navy aviator turned screenwriter who helped promote United States Naval aviation from its inception through World...
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| x Ben Garant |
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Robert Ben Garant (born 14 September 1970), alternately billed as Ben Garant, is an American actor, comedian, producer, director, and writer.
Garant was born in Cookeville, Tennessee, and grew up in Farragut, Tennessee. Ben exhibited his Smurf...
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| x Thomas Lennon |
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Thomas Lennon (born August 9, 1970) is an American actor, comedian, writer and director. He is best known for his role of Lieutenant Jim Dangle on the Comedy Central series Reno 911!.
He is a native of Oak Park, Illinois, U.S., and a 1988 graduate...
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| x James Bradley |
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Flags of Our Fathers |
James Bradley FRS (March 1693 – 13 July 1762) was an English astronomer the Astronomer Royal from 1742. Bradley is best known for two fundamental discoveries in astronomy, the aberration of light (1725-28), and the nutation of the Earth's axis (1728...
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| x Paul Haggis |
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Paul Edward Haggis (born March 10, 1953) is a Canadian-American screenwriter, producer and film director who spent his early career producing and directing various American and Canadian television network series.
Haggis was born in London, Ontario,...
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| x Ron Powers | Flags of Our Fathers | ||
| x Hunter S. Thompson |
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, most famous for his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting where reporters...
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| x Jule Gilfillan | Restless | ||
| x Lowell Ganz |
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Parenthood |
Lowell Ganz (born August 31, 1948) is an American screenwriter, television writer, and television producer. He is the long-time writing partner of Babaloo Mandel.
Ganz was born in New York City, New York, the son of Jean (née Farber) and Irving Ganz...
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| x Babaloo Mandel |
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Parenthood |
Marc "Babaloo" Mandel (born: October 13, 1949 in New York City) is an American writer. His writing credits include the television series Happy Days and the movie Night Shift. He is the long-time writing partner of Lowell Ganz. He has six children,...
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| x Ron Howard |
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Parenthood |
Ronald William "Ron" Howard (born March 1, 1954) is an Academy Award-winning American film director and producer as well as an actor. Howard came to prominence in the 1960s while playing Andy Griffith's TV son, Opie Taylor, on The Andy Griffith Show...
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| x William Gibson |
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Johnny Mnemonic |
William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" and later...
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| x David S. Ward |
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The Sting |
David Stephen Ward (born 25 October 1945) is an American film director and award winning screen writer.
Ward has degrees from Pomona College (BA), as well as both USC and the UCLA Film School (MFA). He was employed at an educational film production...
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| x Demetri Martin |
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Bandslam |
Demetri Martin (born May 25, 1973 in New York City, New York) is an Emmy Award–nominated and Perrier comedy award–winning American comedian, actor, artist, musician, writer, and humorist. Martin is best known for his work as a standup and prop...
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| x J. R. R. Tolkien |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers |
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (pronounced /ˈtɒlkiːn/) (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the...
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| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | |||
| The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | |||
| The Lord of the Rings | |||
| The Hobbit | |||
| x Arthur C. Clarke |
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2001: A Space Odyssey |
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was a British science-fiction author and inventor, most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name. Clarke is the last surviving member of...
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| 2010: The Year We Make Contact | |||
| x Elizabeth von Arnim | Enchanted April |
Elizabeth von Arnim (31 August 1866 – 9 February 1941), born Mary Annette Beauchamp, was an Australian born British novelist. By marriage she became Gräfin (Countess) von Arnim-Schlagenthin, and by a second marriage, Countess Russell. Although known...
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| Mr. Skeffington | |||
| x Jhumpa Lahiri |
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The Namesake |
Jhumpa Lahiri (Bengali: ঝুম্পা লাহিড়ী; born on July 11, 1967) is an American author. Lahiri's debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies (1999), won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her first novel, The Namesake (2003), was...
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| x Charles Eames |
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Powers of Ten |
Charles Eames (June 17, 1907 ￢ﾀﾓ August 21, 1978) (pronounced ) was an American design, architect and film who, together with his wife Ray, is responsible for many classic, iconic designs of the 20th century.
Charles Ormond Eames, Jr was born in...
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| x Ray Eames | Powers of Ten |
Ray-Bernice Alexandra Kaiser Eames (December 15, 1912 - August 21, 1988) (pronounced ) was an American artist, design, architect and film who, together with her husband Charles, is responsible for many classic, iconic designs of the 20th century....
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| x Kurt Vonnegut |
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Slaughterhouse-Five |
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007; pronounced /ˈvɒnɨɡət/) was an American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of...
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| Displaced Person | |||
| Happy Birthday, Wanda June | |||
| Slapstick of Another Kind | |||
| Between Time and Timbuktu | |||
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| x Valerio Massimo Manfredi | The Last Legion |
Valerio Massimo Manfredi (born 1943) is an Italian historian, writer, archaeologist and journalist. He was born in Piumazzo di Castelfranco Emilia, province of Modena and is married to Christine Fedderson Manfredi, who translates his published works...
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| x Stanley Kubrick |
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2001: A Space Odyssey |
Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an influential American and British filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and photographer, who lived in England during most of the last 40 years of his career. Kubrick was noted for the scrupulous...
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| x Arthur Laurents |
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Home of the Brave |
Arthur Laurents (born July 14, 1918) is an award-winning American playwright, librettist, stage director, and screenwriter. His credits include the stage musicals West Side Story and Gypsy and the film The Way We Were.
Laurents, the son of a lawyer...
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| x Yasutaka Tsutsui | Paprika |
Yasutaka Tsutsui (筒井 康隆 Tsutsui Yasutaka, September 24, 1934 - ) is a Japanese novelist, science fiction author, and actor born in Osaka. Along with Shinichi Hoshi and Sakyo Komatsu, he is one of the most famous science fiction writers in Japan. His...
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| The Girl Who Leapt Through Time | |||
| x Elmore Leonard |
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The Big Bounce |
Elmore John Leonard, Jr. (born October 11, 1925) is a American novelist and screenwriter.
His earliest published novels in the 1950s were westerns, and Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, several of which have been...
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| Get Shorty | |||
| x Busy Philipps |
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Blades of Glory |
Elizabeth Jean "Busy" Philipps (born June 25, 1979) is a American film actress, perhaps best known for her supporting roles on the TV series Freaks and Geeks and Dawson's Creek.
Philipps worked the toy-fair circuit as a real-life Barbie before...
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| x James Ellroy |
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The Black Dahlia |
James Ellroy (born Lee Earle Ellroy March 4, 1948) is an American crime writer and essayist.
Ellroy has become a pioneer of the so-called 'telegraphic' prose style, whereby he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences...
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| L.A. Confidential | |||
| Brown's Requiem | |||
| x Jack Finney | The Invasion |
Jack Finney (October 2, 1911 – November 14, 1995) was an American author. His best-known works are science fiction and thrillers, including The Body Snatchers and Time and Again. The former was the basis for the 1956 movie Invasion of the Body...
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| x Tom Perrotta |
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Little Children |
Thomas R. Perrotta (born August 13, 1961) is an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his novels Election (1998) and Little Children (2004), both of which were made into critically acclaimed, Golden Globe-nominated films. Perrotta co...
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| x F.X. Toole | Million Dollar Baby |
F.X. Toole is the pen name of boxing trainer Jerry Boyd (1930 — September 2, 2002). Toole is most noted for writing the collection of short stories Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner, which were adapted into the movie Million Dollar Baby in 2004....
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| x Stephen Hunter |
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The Shooter |
For the American basketball player, see Steven Hunter.
Stephen Hunter (born March 25, 1946) is an American novelist, essayist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic. He currently resides in Columbia, Maryland.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Hunter...
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| x Lorenzo Da Ponte |
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Don Giovanni |
Lorenzo Da Ponte (born Emanuele Conegliano 10 March 1749 in Ceneda, Republic of Venice (now Vittorio Veneto, Italy) – 17 August 1838 in Manhattan, New York) was an Venetian librettist and poet.
Emanuele Conegliano, a Venetian Jew by birth, was born...
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| x Jane Austen |
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Emma |
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose realism, biting social commentary and masterful use of free indirect speech, burlesque, and irony have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved...
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| Pride & Prejudice | |||
| Persuasion | |||
| Mansfield Park | |||
| Northanger Abbey | |||
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| x Malin Lind Lagerlöf | Vägen ut | ||
| x Anup Kurian | Manasarovar | ||
