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Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatises the revenge Prince Hamlet is instructed to exact on his uncle Claudius
What is Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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While this was the title of this author's book people say that this is not so 'common'
What is Common Sense by Thomas Paine
100
Has been recognized as one of the political manuscripts. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and present) and the problems of capitalism and the capitalist mode of production, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms.
What is The Communist Manifesto by Karl MArx
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The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988 and was a finalist for the 1987 National Book Award. It was adapted during 1998 into a movie of the same name starring Oprah Winfrey. A New York Times survey of writers and literary critics ranked it the best work of American fiction from 1981 to 2006
What is Beloved by Toni Morrison
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Describes for women a concept of what men really think about love, relationships, intimacy and commitment.
What is Act Like A Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey
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considered one of the most influential works of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon, in the first part of the book, does not see the world for what it is and prefers to imagine that he is living out a knightly story
What is Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
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The book begins with a short preamble in which Lemuel Gulliver, in the style of books of the time, gives a brief outline of his life and history before his voyages. He enjoys travelling, although it is that love of travel that is his downfall. During his first voyage, Gulliver is washed ashore after a shipwreck and finds himself a prisoner of a race of tiny people, less than 6 inches tall
What is Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Smith
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Features this quote "Call Me Ishmael!"
What is Moby Dick by Herman Melville
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1901 autobiography detailing his personal experiences in working to rise from his position of a slave child during the Civil War to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work in establishing vocational school-most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
What is Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
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The protagonist, Piscine Molitor ″Pi″ Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker
What is Life of Pi by Yann Martel
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was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was Lord, and later assumed the Kingship, of Ireland, and continued the nominal claim by English monarchs to the Kingdom of France
What is King Henry VIII by William Shakespeare
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follows in the tradition of eighteenth-century British deism, and challenges institutionalized religion and the legitimacy of the Bible (the central Christian text). Originally distributed as unbound pamphlets, it was published in three parts in 1794, 1795, and 1807. It was a best-seller in the United States, where it caused a short-lived deistic revival.
What is The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
300
In this story, the consequences of Hester Prynne's adulterous affair with the reverend Arthur Dimmesdale are borne out as she gives birth to their child
What is The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorn
300
is a 1906 novel written by an American journalist and novelist. Wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities.
What is The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
300
follows young characters Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark as they fight through a deadly battle royal.
What is The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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believed to have been written in the year 1603, and based on the short story Un Capitano Moro ("A Moorish Captain") by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565
What is Othello by William Shakespeare
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originally a complete work first printed in 1789. It is a conceptual collection of 19 poems, engraved with artwork.
What is Songs of Innocence by William Blake
400
An anti-slavery novel published in 1852, It had a profound impact on the American landscape and is widely credited with fueling the abolitionist movement, and contributing materially to the the tensions leading up to the American Civil War
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns a young and mysterious millionaire and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan
What is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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traces the deepening relationship between a college graduate, Anastasia Steele, and a young business magnate, Christian Grey. It is notable for its explicitly erotic scenes featuring elements of sexual practices involving bondage/discipline, dominance/submission, and sadism/masochism (BDSM).
What is Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
500
believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that this author wrote alone
What is The Tempest
500
a book in which the author theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society, which he had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality (1754)
What is The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
500
This 2014 Oscar winning film for Best Picture is based upon the true-life story of of this author
What is 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
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set during the Italian campaign of World War I. The book, published in 1929, is a first-person account of American Frederic Henry, serving as a Lieutenant ("Tenente") in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. The title is taken from a poem by 16th-century English dramatist George Peele.
What is Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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proceeded by 'The Girl That Played With Fire' and 'The Girl that kicked the Hornet's Nest'
What is The Girl with the dragon tattoo by Stieg Larson
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