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 ''The Steppe'', ''Ward No 6'', ''The Lady and the Dog'' – short stories.
-''The Shooting Party'' (1884) – only full-length novel. Tells the story of an estate forester's daughter in a provincial Russian village, who is stabbed to death in the woods during a hunting party.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Plays|Plays]]</blockquote>'''Gabriel Chevallier''' was born in France.
+''The Shooting Party'' (1884) – only full-length novel. Tells the story of an estate forester's daughter in a provincial Russian village, who is stabbed to death in the woods during a hunting party.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Plays|Plays]] / [[Entertainment/Literature - Non-Fiction|Literature - Non-Fiction]]</blockquote>'''Gabriel Chevallier''' was born in France.
 ''Clochemerle'' (1934) – is a satirical novel that concerns a dispute over the construction of public urinals near the church in the village of Clochmerle. Dramatised by the BBC in 1972.
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 '''Arthur Koestler''' was a Jewish author and journalist. He was born in Budapest and moved to Britain during World War II. Koestler and his wife, Cynthia, committed suicide together at their home in London.
-''Darkness at Noon'' – was published in 1940 and is set during Joseph Stalin’s purge trials of the 1930s. The main character Rubashov is an older revolutionary, a member of the old army as he calls himself, who is imprisoned and accused of crimes that he did not commit. Throughout his time in prison Rubashov looks back on his life and what he has done for the party. It is the middle novel of a trilogy together with ''The Gladiators'' (1939) and ''Arrival and Departure'' (1943) about the subversion of popular revolutionary movements.
+''Darkness at Noon'' – was published in 1940 and is set during Joseph Stalin’s purge trials of the 1930s. The main character Rubashov is an older revolutionary, a member of the old army as he calls himself, who is imprisoned and accused of crimes that he did not commit. Throughout his time in prison Rubashov looks back on his life and what he has done for the party. It is the middle novel of a trilogy together with ''The Gladiators'' (1939) and ''Arrival and Departure'' (1943) about the subversion of popular revolutionary movements.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Literature - Non-Fiction|Literature - Non-Fiction]]</blockquote>'''Milan Kundera''' is a Czech writer who went into exile in France in 1975. Prior to the Velvet Revolution of 1989, the communist regime in Czechoslovakia banned his books.
 ''The Unbearable Lightness of Being'' (1984) – is set in Prague in 1968. The novel details the circumstances of life for artists and intellectuals in Czechoslovakia in the wake of the Prague Spring and the subsequent invasion by the USSR. Adapted as a film starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche and Lena Olin in 1988.
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 ''November 1916'' – the sequel to ''August 1914''. The novel picks up on the brink of the Russian Revolution.
-The third and fourth “Nodes” of ''The Red Wheel'', ''March 1917'' and ''April 1917'', chronicle the massive chaos unleashed by the “February revolution” of 1917.
+The third and fourth “Nodes” of ''The Red Wheel'', ''March 1917'' and ''April 1917'', chronicle the massive chaos unleashed by the “February revolution” of 1917.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Literature - Non-Fiction|Literature -  Non-Fiction]]</blockquote>'''August Strindberg''' was a playwright and novelist born in Sweden.
 ''The Red Room'' – was published in 1879. The novel is a satire on life in Stockholm. Arvid Falk leaves the civil service to become a journalist and author but comes up against hypocrisy and political corruption.
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 ''The Death of Ivan Ilych'' (1886) – is a novella that tells the story of a high-court judge in 19th century Russia and his sufferings and death from a terminal illness.
-''Resurrection'' (1899) – last novel. Concerns a nobleman named Dmitri Ivanovich Nekhlyudov, who seeks redemption for a sin committed years earlier. Explores the economic philosophy of Georgism, of which Tolstoy had become an advocate towards the end of his life.
+''Resurrection'' (1899) – last novel. Concerns a nobleman named Dmitri Ivanovich Nekhlyudov, who seeks redemption for a sin committed years earlier. Explores the economic philosophy of Georgism, of which Tolstoy had become an advocate towards the end of his life.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] / [[Entertainment/Literature - Non-Fiction|Literature - Non-Fiction]]</blockquote>'''Ivan Turgenev''' was born in Russia.
 ''A Sportsman's Sketches'' (1852) – is a collection of short stories, based on his observations of peasant life and nature.
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 ''Around the World in Eighty Days'' – was published in 1872. Phileas Fogg and his valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager of £20,000 set by his friends at the Reform Club in London.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Science Fiction and Fantasy|Science Fiction and Fantasy]]</blockquote>'''Voltaire''' was the pen name of Francois-Marie Arouet, born in Paris in 1694. He was a philosopher famous for his criticism of the Roman Catholic Church, as well as his advocacy of freedom of speech.
-''Candide'' – was published in 1759. Full title ''Candide: or, The Optimist''. The novel begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (“All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds”) by his mentor, Pangloss. Candide and his lover Cunegonde travel around the world. Voltaire suggests that humankind should occupy themselves in daily activities rather than ruminate on such things that man cannot truly understand; hence the ending sentence, "We must cultivate our garden".<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Poetry|Poetry]]</blockquote>'''Patrick White''' was an Australian writer who was born in London. Awarded the 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature.
+''Candide'' – was published in 1759. Full title ''Candide: or, The Optimist''. The novel begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (“All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds”) by his mentor, Pangloss. Candide and his lover Cunegonde travel around the world. Voltaire suggests that humankind should occupy themselves in daily activities rather than ruminate on such things that man cannot truly understand; hence the ending sentence, "We must cultivate our garden".<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Poetry|Poetry]] / [[Entertainment/Literature - Non-Fiction|Literature - Non-Fiction]]</blockquote>'''Patrick White''' was an Australian writer who was born in London. Awarded the 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature.
 ''The Tree of Man'' (1955) – chronicles the lives of the Parker family and their struggles to survive in the Australian wilderness.

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 ''Around the World in Eighty Days'' – was published in 1872. Phileas Fogg and his valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager of £20,000 set by his friends at the Reform Club in London.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Science Fiction and Fantasy|Science Fiction and Fantasy]]</blockquote>'''Voltaire''' was the pen name of Francois-Marie Arouet, born in Paris in 1694. He was a philosopher famous for his criticism of the Roman Catholic Church, as well as his advocacy of freedom of speech.
-''Candide'' – was published in 1759. Full title ''Candide: or, The Optimist''. The novel begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (“All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds”) by his mentor, Pangloss. Candide and his lover Cunegonde travel around the world. Voltaire suggests that humankind should occupy themselves in daily activities rather than ruminate on such things that man cannot truly understand; hence the ending sentence, "We must cultivate our garden".
+''Candide'' – was published in 1759. Full title ''Candide: or, The Optimist''. The novel begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (“All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds”) by his mentor, Pangloss. Candide and his lover Cunegonde travel around the world. Voltaire suggests that humankind should occupy themselves in daily activities rather than ruminate on such things that man cannot truly understand; hence the ending sentence, "We must cultivate our garden".<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Poetry|Poetry]]</blockquote>'''Patrick White''' was an Australian writer who was born in London. Awarded the 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature.
 ''The Tree of Man'' (1955) – chronicles the lives of the Parker family and their struggles to survive in the Australian wilderness.

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 ''The Master and Margarita'' (1967) – begins with Satan visiting Moscow in the 1930s, joining a conversation between a critic and a poet debating the most effective method of denying the existence of Jesus Christ. It develops into an all-embracing indictment of the corruption of communism and Soviet Russia.
 '''Italo Calvino''' was an Italian writer born in Cuba.
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 ''Don Quixote'' – was originally published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615.it is often labeled as the first modern novel. Full title is ''The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha''. Don Quixote is a knight-errant who rides a horse called Rocinante and has a lady love named Dulcinea. Sancho Panza is his squire, and rides a donkey called Dapple. The phrase “tilting at windmills” to describe an act of attacking imaginary enemies derives from a scene in the book where Don Quixote rides with his lance at full tilt upon a row of windmills, which he mistakes for evil giants.
 '''Anton Chekhov''' was a playwright and short-story writer born in Russia. He wrote over 500 short stories.
 ''The Shooting Party'' (1884) – only full-length novel. Tells the story of an estate forester's daughter in a provincial Russian village, who is stabbed to death in the woods during a hunting party.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Plays|Plays]]</blockquote>'''Gabriel Chevallier''' was born in France.
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 ''Fugitive Pieces'' – is divided into two sections. The first is a memoir, in which the narrator, Jakob Beer, tells the story of his upbringing and the loss of his family in the Holocaust. The second concerns Canadian professor Ben, whose parents survived the Holocaust and moved to Toronto. Second winner of the Orange Prize, in 1997.
 '''Herta Muller''' is a German novelist born in Romania. Many of her works are told from the viewpoint of the German minority in Romania under the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009.

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 '''Alexander Pushkin''' was born in Moscow. Exiled by Alexander I who considered his poems to be scandalous. He was killed at the age of 37 in a duel with Georges d’Anthes, who was suspected of having an affair with Pushkin’s wife Natalia.
-''The Queen of Spades'' (1834) – is a short story about avarice. The story centres on an elderly countess who is a skilled gambler. Adapted into an 1890 opera by Tchaikovsky.
+''The Queen of Spades'' (1834) – is a short story about avarice. The story centres on an elderly countess who is a skilled gambler. Adapted into an 1890 opera by Tchaikovsky.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] / [[Entertainment/Plays|Plays]] / [[Entertainment/Poetry|Poetry]]</blockquote>'''Matthew Reilly''' was born in Australia.
 ''Ice Station'' (1998) – Lieutenant Shane Schofield, call sign 'Scarecrow', and his crew of the U.S. Marines answer a distress call from an academic observatory, the Wilkes Ice Station on the Antarctic Ice Shelf. The first in a series of novels featuring Schofield.
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 ''The Red Room'' – was published in 1879. The novel is a satire on life in Stockholm. Arvid Falk leaves the civil service to become a journalist and author but comes up against hypocrisy and political corruption.
-''Inferno'' (1912) – is an autobiographical novel concerned with Strindberg’s life in Paris.
+''Inferno'' (1912) – is an autobiographical novel concerned with Strindberg’s life in Paris.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Plays|Plays]]</blockquote>'''Patrick Suskind''' was born in Germany.
 ''Perfume: The Story of a Murderer'' (1985) – opening in 1738, orphan Jean-Baptiste Grenouille has a remarkable sense of smell which leads him to become both a murderer and a perfumier. The action moves from Paris to Grasse, a centre of the perfume industry.
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 '''Olga Tokarczuk''' was born in Poland. Won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature.
-''Flights'' – is split into 116 vignettes, all narrated by the same female traveller. Won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize.
+''Flights'' – is split into 116 vignettes, all narrated by the same female traveller. Won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]</blockquote>'''Leo Tolstoy''' was born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828. He served as a young artillery officer during the Crimean War. In his later life he became a pacifist. He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 but never won.
 ''Anna Karenina'' – was published in 1878. The story centres on an extramarital affair between Anna and cavalry officer Count Vronsky that scandalizes the social circles of St. Petersburg. Anna commits suicide by throwing herself in the path of a train. Opening line: “Happy families are all alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”.
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 ''Voyages Extraordinaires'' is a collection of 54 novels. The first novel in the series is ''Five Weeks in a Balloon'' (1863).
-''Around the World in Eighty Days'' – was published in 1872. Phileas Fogg and his valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager of £20,000 set by his friends at the Reform Club in London.
+''Around the World in Eighty Days'' – was published in 1872. Phileas Fogg and his valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager of £20,000 set by his friends at the Reform Club in London.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Science Fiction and Fantasy|Science Fiction and Fantasy]]</blockquote>'''Voltaire''' was the pen name of Francois-Marie Arouet, born in Paris in 1694. He was a philosopher famous for his criticism of the Roman Catholic Church, as well as his advocacy of freedom of speech.
 ''Candide'' – was published in 1759. Full title ''Candide: or, The Optimist''. The novel begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (“All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds”) by his mentor, Pangloss. Candide and his lover Cunegonde travel around the world. Voltaire suggests that humankind should occupy themselves in daily activities rather than ruminate on such things that man cannot truly understand; hence the ending sentence, "We must cultivate our garden".