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| x Enemy Mine | Enemy Mine |
"Enemy Mine" is a science fiction novella by Barry B. Longyear. It first appeared in the September 1979 issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, later collected by Longyear in Manifest Destiny (1980).
In 1980 it won the Hugo Award for Best...
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| x The Time Machine |
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The Time Machine |
The Time Machine is a novella by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895 and later directly adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly...
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| x The Island of Dr. Moreau |
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The Island of Dr. Moreau |
The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells.
When the novel was written in the late 19th century (1896), European society was absorbed with concerns about degeneration, and Britain's scientific community was...
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| x Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds |
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Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds |
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds is a 1978 concept album by Jeff Wayne and others, retelling the story of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.
The War of the Worlds stars Richard Burton as the narrator-protagonist, Justin...
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| x The First Men in the Moon |
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The First Men in the Moon |
The First Men in the Moon is a 1901 scientific romance novel by the British author H. G. Wells. The novel tells the story of a journey to the moon undertaken by the two protagonists, the impoverished businessman Mr Bedford and the brilliant but...
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| x The Shining |
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The Shining |
The Shining is a 1977 horror novel by American author Stephen King. The title was inspired by the John Lennon song "Instant Karma!", which contained the line "We all shine on…". It was King's third published novel, and first hardback bestseller, and...
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| x Misery |
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Misery |
Misery (1987) is a psychological horror novel by Stephen King. The novel was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1988, and was later made into a Hollywood film and an Off-Broadway play.
Paul Sheldon is the author of a best...
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| x Pet Sematary |
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Pet Sematary |
Pet Sematary is a 1983 horror novel by Stephen King. It was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1984, and was later made into a film.
Louis Creed, a doctor from Chicago, moves to a house near the small town of Ludlow, Maine with...
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| x The Body |
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Stand by Me |
The Body, or Fall from Innocence is a novella by Stephen King, originally published in King's 1982 collection Different Seasons. It was later adapted into the acclaimed film Stand By Me in 1986.
The story takes place during the summer of 1960 in the...
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| x Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption | The Shawshank Redemption |
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (1982) is a novella by Stephen King, originally published in Different Seasons. The novella was adapted for the screen in the film The Shawshank Redemption. In 2009, the story was also adapted for the stage in...
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| x Apt Pupil | Apt Pupil |
Apt Pupil (1982) is a novella by Stephen King, originally published in the 1982 novella collection Different Seasons, subtitled "Summer of Corruption".
Apt Pupil consists of 29 chapters, many of which are headed by a month. Set in a fictional suburb...
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| x Carrie |
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Carrie |
Carrie is American author Stephen King's first published novel, released in 1974. It revolves around the titular character Carrie, a shy high-school girl, who uses her newly discovered telekinetic powers to exact revenge on those who tease her. King...
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| x Mystic River | Mystic River |
Mystic River is a novel by Dennis Lehane that was published in 2001. It won the 2002 Dilys Award and was made into an Academy Award-winning film in 2003.
The book focuses on the stories of three boys who grow up as friends in Boston — Dave Boyle,...
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| x The Taming of the Shrew |
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Atomic Shakespeare |
The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1594.
The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a drunken tinker named Sly is tricked into thinking...
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| Deliver Us from Eva | |||
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| x Richard III |
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Tower of London |
Richard III is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1591, depicting the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of Richard III of England. The play is grouped among the histories in the...
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| x Romeo and Juliet |
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I Capuleti e i Montecchi |
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young "star-cross'd lovers" whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his...
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| x West Side Story |
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West Side Story |
West Side Story is an American musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The musical's plot is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Set in New York in the mid-1950s, the musical...
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| x Othello |
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Omkara |
Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story "Un Capitano Moro" ("A Moorish Captain") by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published...
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| x King Lear |
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Ran |
King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606. It is considered one of his greatest works. The play is based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological pre-Roman Celtic king. It has been...
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| x Macbeth |
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Men of Respect |
The Tragedy of Macbeth, commonly just Macbeth, is a play by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607. The earliest account of a...
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| x Julius Caesar |
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Julius Caesar |
Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It portrays the conspiracy against the Roman dictator of the same name, his assassination and its aftermath. It is one of several Roman plays that he wrote,...
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| x Fever Pitch |
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Fever Pitch |
Fever Pitch (sometimes titled in the United States as Fever Pitch: A Fan's Life) is the title of a 1992 autobiographical book by British author Nick Hornby. The book is the basis for two films of the same name: a British film was released in 1997,...
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| x Kathleen Mavourneen | Kathleen Mavourneen |
"Kathleen Mavourneen" is a song, written in 1837, composed by Frederick Crouch with lyrics by Marion Crawford. It was popular during the American Civil War. "Mavourneen" is a term of endearment derived from the Irish Gaelic mo mhuirnín, meaning "my...
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| x The Mysterious Island |
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Mysterious Island |
The Mysterious Island (French: L'Île mystérieuse) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Jules Férat. The novel is a sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand...
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| x The Europeans |
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The Europeans |
The Europeans: A sketch is a short novel by Henry James, published in 1878. It is essentially a comedy contrasting the behaviour and attitudes of two visitors from Europe with those of their relatives living in the 'new' world of New England. The...
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| x Ramona |
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Ramona |
Ramona, a novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson (1884), is the story of a part-Scottish and part-Native American orphan girl growing up and getting married in Southern California, suffering racial discrimination and hardship. Originally serialized in...
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| x Hedda Gabler |
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Hedda |
Hedda Gabler is a play first published in 1890 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The play premiered in 1891 in Germany to negative reviews, but has subsequently gained recognition as a classic of realism, nineteenth century theatre, and world...
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| x McTeague |
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Greed |
McTeague is an 1899 novel by Frank Norris. The book describes the life of a turn-of-the-century dentist in San Francisco, named McTeague. The narrator never reveals McTeague's first name; he is referred to only as "Mac" by the other characters in...
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| x Hamlet |
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Hamlet |
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who...
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| x The Prince Consort | The Love Parade | ||
| x Taxi |
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Taxi |
Taxi is a 1998 French film starring Samy Naceri, written by Luc Besson, and directed by Gérard Pirès. The film takes place in Marseille, France, and involves an aspiring racecar driver named Daniel (Naceri), who initially works as a pizza delivery...
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| x So Big! | So Big! |
Awarded 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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| x Show Boat | Show Boat | ||
| x The Feast of the Goat |
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The Feast of the Goat |
The Feast of the Goat (Spanish: La fiesta del chivo, 2000) is a novel by the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. The book is set in the Dominican Republic and portrays the assassination of Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, and its...
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| x The Last King of Scotland |
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The Last King of Scotland |
The Last King of Scotland is an award-winning 1998 novel by journalist Giles Foden. Focusing on the rise of Ugandan President Idi Amin and his reign as dictator from 1971 to 1979, the novel is a fictional memoir of a fictional Scottish doctor in...
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| x La Jetée |
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Twelve Monkeys |
La jetée (English: The Jetty or The Pier) (1962) is a 28-minute black and white science fiction film by Chris Marker. Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel. The film won the...
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| x Iphigeneia at Aulis |
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Iphigenia |
Iphigenia in Aulis (Greek: Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Αὐλίδι Iphigeneia en Aulidi; variously translated, including the Latin Iphigenia in Aulide) is the last extant work of the playwright Euripides. Written between 408, after the Orestes, and 406 BC, the date of...
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| x Capote | Capote | ||
| x Robinson Crusoe |
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Robinson Crusoé |
Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe. It was first published in 1719, and is sometimes considered to be the first novel in English. The book, although based on the true story of a Scotsman, Alexander Selkirk, is a fictional autobiography of...
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| Daniel Dafoe's Robinson Crusoe | |||
| x Wojeck | Quincy, M.E. |
Wojeck was a Canadian dramatic television series, which aired on the CBC from 1966 to 1968. It was the first successful drama series on English Canadian television.
The series starred John Vernon as Steve Wojeck, a crusading big city coroner who...
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| x The Million Pound Bank Note | The Million Pound Note | ||
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| x The Namesake |
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The Namesake |
The Namesake (2003) is the second book by author Jhumpa Lahiri. It was originally a novella published in The New Yorker and was later expanded to a full length novel. It explores many of the same emotional and cultural themes as her Pulitzer Prize...
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| x Infernal Affairs |
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The Departed |
Infernal Affairs is a 2002 Hong Kong crime-thriller film directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. It tells the story of a police officer who infiltrates the Triads, and a police officer secretly working for the same gang. The Chinese title means "the...
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| x Animal Farm |
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Animal Farm |
Animal Farm is a dystopian novella by George Orwell. Published in England on 17 August 1945, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World War II. Orwell, a democratic socialist and a member of the Independent Labour...
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| x The Last Legion | The Last Legion | ||
| x Kramer vs. Kramer |
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Akele Hum Akele Tum |
Kramer vs. Kramer is a 1979 film adapted by Robert Benton from the novel by Avery Corman, and directed by Benton. The film tells the story of a married couple's divorce and its impact on everyone involved, including the couple's young son. It...
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| x Jeffrey | Jeffrey | ||
| x Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats |
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Cats |
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats is a collection of whimsical poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber. Its contents are widely known as the basis for the record-setting musical Cats.
The poems...
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| x Zodiac |
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Zodiac |
Zodiac is a non-fiction book written by Robert Graysmith about the unsolved serial murders committed by the "Zodiac Killer" in San Francisco in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Since its initial release in 1986, Zodiac has sold 4 million copies...
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| x The Hoax | The Hoax | ||
| x Paradise Lost |
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Paradise Lost |
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books. A second edition followed in 1674, redivided into twelve books (in the manner of the division of Virgil's...
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| x Aeneid |
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| x Brutus of Alba, or The Enchanted Lovers | Dido and Aeneas | ||
| x Roadside Picnic |
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Stalker |
Roadside Picnic (Russian: Пикник на обочине, Piknik na obochine, IPA: [pʲikˈnʲik na ɐˈbotɕɪnʲe]) is a science fiction short novel written in 1971 by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, published in 1972. It went on to win several awards. The film Stalker...
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| x Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore |
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Alice |
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a 1974 American drama film directed by Martin Scorsese. The screenplay by Robert Getchell focuses on the adventures of a thirtysomething widow and her pre-teen son as they journey across the American Southwest to...
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| x The Big Bounce |
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The Big Bounce |
The Big Bounce is a crime novel written by Elmore Leonard, who started offering the story to publishers and film producers in the fall of 1966. However, no one would take it. It went unpublished until 1969, when it was adapted into a film version in...
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| x Heart of Darkness |
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Heart of Darkness |
Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon....
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| x The Secret Agent |
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Sabotage |
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad published in 1907. The story is set in London in 1886 and deals largely with the life of Mr. Verloc and his job as a spy. The Secret Agent is also notable as it is one of Conrad's later...
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