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| − | ''and Sixpence'' – William Somerset Maugham. Based on the life of Gauguin
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| − | ''Ashenden'' – William Somerset Maugham
| + | [[Entertainment/Crime Fiction|Crime Fiction]] |
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| − | ''The Painted Veil'' – William Somerset Maugham
| + | [[Entertainment/Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] |
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| − | ''Rain'' – Somerset Maugham
| + | [[Entertainment/Horror Fiction|Horror Fiction]] |
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| − | '''Guy de Maupassant''' is considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents. Many of the stories are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s
| + | [[Entertainment/Novels - British Isles|Novels - British Isles]] |
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| − | ''The Necklace'', ''Boule de Suif'' – Guy de Maupassant
| + | [[Entertainment/Novels - USA|Novels - USA]] |
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| − | ''Tales of the City'' – series of novels based in San Francisco by '''Armistead Maupin'''
| + | [[Entertainment/Novels - World|Novels - World]] |
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| − | Manderley burns down in ''Rebecca'', by '''Daphne Du Maurier''' (1907 – 1989)
| + | [[Entertainment/Poetry|Poetry]] |
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| − | ''Jamaica Inn'', ''My Cousin Rachel'', ''Frenchman’s Creek'' – Daphne Du Maurier
| + | [[Entertainment/Science Fiction and Fantasy|Science Fiction and Fantasy]] |
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| − | ''Jamaica Inn'' tells the story of 20 year-old Mary Yellan, who was brought up on a farm in Helford but has to go and live with her Aunt Patience after her mother dies. Patience's husband, Joss Merlyn, a great big bully who is almost seven feet tall, is the keeper of Jamaica Inn | + | The 'Novels' pages include novellas and short stories |
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| − | George Du Maurier – grandfather of Daphne Du Maurier
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| − | Svengali – hypnotic main character in '''George Du Maurier'''’s ''Trilby''
| + | [[Entertainment/Plays|Plays]] have been split off from Theatre into a new page |
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| − | ''Ring of Bright Water'' – '''Gavin Maxwell'''
| + | [[Entertainment/Literature - Childrens|Literature - Childrens]] has a Young Adult Fiction section |
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| − | '''Vladimir Mayakovsky''' was a Russian and Soviet poet and playwright, among the foremost representatives of early-20th century Russian Futurism
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| − | '''Val McDermid''' is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of suspense novels starring her most famous creation, Dr. Tony Hill
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| − | Captain Ahab killed Moby Dick, in the book by '''Herman Melville'''
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| − | Ishmael – only survivor in ''Moby Dick''
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| − | ''Moby Dick'' – based on The ''Essex'', which was sunk by a sperm whale
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| − | ''Peaquod'' sailed from Nantucket, in ''Moby Dick''
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| − | Moby Dick was a sperm whale
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| − | ''Billy Budd, Foretopman'' – Herman Melville
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| − | ''Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life'' – first novel by Herman Melville
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| − | ''Modern Love'' – collection of sonnets by '''George Meredith'''
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| − | ''The Lark Ascending'' – poem by George Meredith
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| − | Twilight novels of '''Stephanie Meyer''' – ''Twilight'', ''New Moon'', ''Eclipse'' and ''Breaking Dawn''. Charts a period in the life of Isabella ‘Bella’ Swan, a teenage girl who moves to Forks, Washington, and falls in love with a 104-year-old vampire named Edward Cullen
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| − | ''Fugitive Pieces'' – '''Anne Michaels'''. Second winner of the Orange Prize (1997)
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| − | ''Women Beware Women'', ''A Chaste Maid in Cheapside'' – '''Thomas Middleton'''
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| − | ''The Changeling'' is a Jacobean tragedy written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
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| − | ''Tropic of Cancer'', ''Tropic of Capricorn'' – '''Henry Miller'''
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| − | ''The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy'' – Henry Miller. Consists of ''Sexus'', ''Plexus'', and ''Nexus''
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| − | Tara estate – home of Scarlett O’Hara in ''Gone with the Wind'' by '''Margaret Mitchell'''
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| − | ''Samson Agonistes'' – '''John Milton''' (1608 – 1674)
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| − | “Every cloud has a silver lining” – from John Milton’s ''Comus (A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634)''
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| − | ''Paradise Lost'' – written by Milton in 1667
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| − | “All hell broke loose” – from ''Paradise Lost''. Contains a reference to ‘His dark materials’, which was an inspiration for Philip Pullman
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| − | ''Paradise Lost'' ends with the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden
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| − | ''Paradise Regained'' – John Milton
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| − | ''Lycidas'' – John Milton. Dedicated to the memory of Edward King
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| − | ''Areopagitica'' – treatise condemning censorship, John Milton
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| − | ''On His Blindness'' – sonnet by John Milton. First line – “When I consider how my light is spent”. Last line – “They also serve who only stand and wait”
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| − | ''Cloud Atlas'' – '''David Mitchell'''
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| − | ''The American Way of Death'' – '''Jessica Mitford'''
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| − | ''Love in a Cold Climate'' – '''Nancy Mitford'''
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| − | ''The Pursuit of Love'' – Nancy Mitford
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| − | ''Anne of Green Gables'' – '''Lucy Maud Montgomery'''. Village of Avonlea, on Prince Edward Island. Features Anne Shirley, a young orphan
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| − | ''Anne of Avonlea'' – sequel to ''Anne of Green Gables''
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| − | HMS ''Compass Rose'' – ship in ''The Cruel Sea'', by '''Nicholas Montserrat'''
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| − | Elric of Melnibone is a character created by '''Michael Moorcock''', and the antihero of a series of sword and sorcery stories centering in an alternate Earth
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| − | The Eternal Champion is a fictional creation of the author Michael Moorcock and is a recurrent feature in many of his novels
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| − | '''Alan Moore''' is an English writer most famous for his influential work in comics, including the acclaimed graphic novels ''Watchmen'', ''V for Vendetta'' and ''From Hell''. He has also written a novel, ''Voice of the Fire''
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| − | '''Clement Clarke Moore''' is best known as the credited author of ''A Visit from St. Nicholas'' (more commonly known today as ''Twas the Night before Christmas'')
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| − | ''How to Build a Girl'' – '''Caitlin Moran'''. Columnist at ''The Times''
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| − | ''Utopia'' – '''Thomas More''' (1516). Amorat (capital city), Aneda (river)
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| − | ''The Reluctant Vampire'', ''The Vampire’s Revenge'' – '''Eric Morecambe'''
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| − | ''News from Nowhere'' – '''William Morris'''
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| − | ''The Bluest Eye, Beloved, Song of Solomon'' – '''Toni Morrison'''
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| − | ''Rumpole'' books '''– John Mortimer'''
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| − | ''The Pumpkin Eater'' – '''Penelope Mortimer'''
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| − | ''Labyrinth'', ''Sepulchre, The Winter Ghosts'' – '''Kate Mosse'''
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| − | ''Public Property'' – '''Andrew Motion'''
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| − | ''On the Record'' – Andrew Motion’s poem for Prince William’s 21st birthday
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| − | ''The Pleasure Steamers'' – Andrew Motion
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| − | ''The Land of Green Plums'' – '''Herta Muller'''
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| − | ''A Very British Coup'' is a 1982 novel by British politician '''Chris Mullin'''
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| − | ''Dear Life'', ''Dance of the Happy Shades'' – Alice Munro
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| − | ''The Bell'', ''The Severed Head'', ''Under the Net'' – '''Iris Murdoch'''
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| − | ''The Book and the Brotherhood'' – Iris Murdoch
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| − | ''The Sea, the Sea'' is the 19th novel by Iris Murdoch. It won the Booker Prize in 1978
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| − | Iris Murdoch has been shortlisted for Booker Prize six times
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| − | ''Oxford Book of Humorous Prose'' – '''Frank Muir'''
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| − | ''Norwegian Wood'', ''Kafka on the Shore'', ''1Q84'' – '''Haruki Murakami'''
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| − | ''Hear the Wind Sing'' – first Murakami novel
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| − | ''The Tale of Gengi'' – a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman '''Murasaki Shikibu''' in the early eleventh century. It is sometimes called the world's first novel
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| − | '''Vladimir Nabokov''' (1899 – 1977) wrote his first nine novels were in Russian. He then rose to international prominence as a writer of English prose. ''Lolita'' (1955) is his most famous novel. Died in Montreux, Switzerland
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| − | ''Signs and Symbols'', ''Pale Fire'' – Vladimir Nabokov
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| − | “Light of my life, fire of my loins” – from ''Lolita''. One of the novel's characters, ‘Vivian Darkbloom’, is an anagram of the author's name. Literature professor Humbert Humbert is obsessed with the 12-year-old Dolores Haze
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| − | ''The Original of Laura'' – unfinished novel by Nabokov
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| − | ''A Bend in the River'' – '''VS Naipaul'''. Set in a city that resembled Stanleyville
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| − | ''A House for Mr Biswas'' – VS Naipaul
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| − | ''Among the Believers'' – travelogue by VS Naipaul
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| − | ''The Unfortunate Traveller'' – '''Thomas Nashe'''
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| − | ''Suite Francaise'' – '''Irene Nemirovsky'''. Two novellas portraying life in France between June 1940 and July 1941, the period during which the Nazis occupied Paris. Nemirovsky died in Auschwitz in 1942
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| − | '''Pablo Neruda''' (1904 – 1973) was the pen name of the Chilean writer and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. Neruda was accomplished in a variety of styles ranging from erotically charged love poems like his collection ''Twenty Poems of Love and a Song of Despair'', surrealist poems, historical epics, and overtly political manifestos
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| − | Harry Hole is the main character in a series of crime novels written by '''Jo Nesbo'''. The series follows Harry Hole, a tough detective who struggles with alcoholism and works on solving crimes on the streets of Oslo
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| − | ''Play up! Play up! And play the game!'' – poem by '''Henry Newbolt'''
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| − | '''PH Newby''' was the first winner of the Booker Prize in 1969, for his novel ''Something to Answer For''
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| − | ''The Lodger'' – '''Charles Nicholl'''. About Shakespeare appearing as a witness in a court of law
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| − | ''Starter for Ten'', ''One Day'' – novels by '''David Nicholls'''
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| − | ''A Day in the Life of Joe Egg'' – '''Peter Nichols'''
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| − | ''The Time Traveler’s Wife'' – '''Audrey Niffenegger'''
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| − | ''Her Fearful Symmetry'' – Audrey Niffenegger
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| − | ''Delta of Venus'', ''Little Birds'' – '''Anias Nin'''
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| − | ''Ringwall'' science fiction novels – '''Larry Niven'''
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| − | ''The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin'', ''The Fall and Rise of Gordon Coppinger'' – '''David Nobbs'''
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| − | ''The Pope’s Rhinoceros'' – novel by '''Lawrence Norfolk'''
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| − | ''The Highwayman'' – '''Alfred Noyes'''
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| − | ''The Country Girls Trilogy'' – '''Edna O’Brien'''
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| − | ''At Swim-Two-Birds, The Third Policeman'' – '''Flann O’Brien'''
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| − | ''Master and Commander'' – based on books by '''Patrick O’Brien'''
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| − | ''My Friend Flicka'' is a 1941 novel by '''Mary O'Hara''', about Ken McLaughlin, the son of a Wyoming rancher, and his horse Flicka
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| − | ''Scott Pilgrim'' is a graphic novel series by '''Bryan Lee O'Malley'''
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| − | ''Netherland'' – '''Joseph O’Neill'''
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| − | ''The Wild Geese'' – '''Mori Ogai'''
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| − | ''The Famished Road'' – '''Ben Okri'''. Won the 1991 Booker Prize
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| − | ''The Scarlet Pimpernel'' – written by '''Baroness Orczy'''
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| − | ''The Scalet Pimpernel, Book 2: Mademoiselle Guillotine''
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| − | ''The Scalet Pimpernel, Book 3: The Kidnapped King''
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| − | ''The Scarlet Pimpernel'' is set in 1792, during the early stages of the French Revolution
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| − | Percy Blakeney was the leader of the league of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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| − | '''George Orwell''' (1903 – 1950) was born in India. He served as a policeman in Burma, and later served in the Home Guard. Wrote ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' on Jura. Died of TB
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| − | ''Keep the Aspidestra Flying'' – George Orwell
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| − | ''Down and Out in Paris and London'' – Orwell’s first book
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| − | ''The Road to Wigan Pier'' – about coal miners
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| − | ''Homage to Catalonia'' – George Orwell. Based on his visit to Spain in 1936 to train anti-fascist troops
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| − | ''Animal Farm'' – George Orwell. Satire on Bolshevik revolution in Russia
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| − | Boxer was the carthorse.Together with the pig Napoleon, Snowball leads the animals' revolt against the human farmer, but is driven away from the farm (a comparison to Trotsky) by his former comrade Napoleon (like Stalin) in the later part of the story
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| − | Frederick owns Pinchfield Farm in ''Animal Farm''. Supposedly based on Hitler
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| − | ‘But already it was impossible to say which was which’ – last line of ''Animal Farm''
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| − | ''Burmese Days'' – novel by George Orwell
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| − | ''Coming Up For Air'' – George Orwell, features insurance salesman George Bowling
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| − | ''The Clergyman’s Daughter'' – George Orwell
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| − | George Orwell wrote about his ‘ideal pub’, ''The Moon under Water'', in the Evening Standard
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| − | ''The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius'' is an essay by George Orwell expressing his opinions on the situation in wartime Britain
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| − | ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' – published in 1949
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| − | ''Last Man in Europe'' – original title of ''Nineteen Eighty-Four''
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| − | '''Ossian''' is the narrator and supposed author of a cycle of poems which the Scottish poet James Macpherson claimed to have translated from ancient sources in the Scots Gaelic '''Wilfred Owen''' was born in Oswestry. Killed in action in France one week before the signing of the armistice in 1918
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| − | ''The Send Off'' – Wilfred Owen
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| − | ''Greater Love'' – Wilfred Owen
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| − | ''Anthem for Doomed Youth'' – Wilfred Owen
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| − | ''Dulce et Decorem Est'' – known as ‘the old lie’. Wilfred Owen
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| − | ''Fight Club'' – '''Chuck Palahniuk'''
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| − | ''Hemingway’s Chair'' – first novel by '''Michael Palin'''
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| − | ''The Museum of Innocence'' – '''Orhan Pamuk'''
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| − | Orhan Pamuk novels include ''The White Castle'', ''The Black Book'', ''The New Life'', ''My Name Is Red'' and ''Snow''
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| − | '''Christopher Paolini''' is the author of the ''Inheritance Cycle'', which consists of the books ''Eragon'', ''Eldest'', ''Brisingr'', and ''Inheritance''. The dragon in ''Eragon'' is called Saphira
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| − | The protagonist of all but two of '''Sara Paretsky'''<nowiki/>'s novels is V.I. Warshawski, a female private investigator
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| − | ''Spencer'' crime novels written by '''Robert Parker'''
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| − | ''Man and Boy'' – '''Tony Parsons'''
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| − | ''Doctor Zhivago'' – '''Boris Pasternak'''. Zhivago's great love is Lara
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| − | ''Along Came a Spider'' – first novel by '''James Patterson'''
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| − | Series featuring Alex Cross, an African-American forensic psychologist – James Patterson
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| − | ''Cry The Beloved Country'' – '''Alan Paton'''. About South Africa
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| − | ''GB84'', ''The Damned Utd'' – novels by '''David Peace'''
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| − | The Red-Riding Quartet by David Peace comprises the novels ''Nineteen Seventy-Four'', ''Nineteen Seventy-Seven'', ''Nineteen Eighty'' and ''Nineteen Eighty-Three''. The books deal with police corruption, and are set against a backdrop of the Yorkshire Ripper murders
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| − | ''Nightmare Abbey'' – novel by '''Thomas Love Peacock'''
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| − | ''Headlong Hall'' – first novel by Thomas Love Peacock
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| − | ''Gormenghast'' – trilogy by '''Mervyn Peake'''. The series consists of three novels, ''Titus Groan'' (1946), ''Gormenghast'' (1950), and ''Titus Alone'' (1959)
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| − | ''The Tenderness of Wolves'' – '''Stef Penney'''
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| − | ''Amelia Peabody'' series is a series of mystery novels written by '''Elizabeth Peters''' featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody Emerson, for whom the series is named
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| − | ''A Morbid Taste for Bones'' – first novel to feature Brother Cadfael, by '''Ellis Peters''' (real name Edith Pargeter). Cadfael is a Benedictine monk at Shrewsbury Abbey
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| − | ''Flambards'' is a novel by '''K. M. Peyton'''. The book and its three sequels are set just before, during, and after World War I. The first three books were made into a television series, ''Flambards'' in 1979, starring Christine McKenna as Christina Parsons
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| − | ''The Final Passage'', ''Crossing the River'' – '''Caryl Phillips''', born in St. Kitts
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| − | ''Songs of the Humpback Whale'' – first novel by '''Jodi Picoult'''
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| − | ''House Rules'' – Jodi Picoult
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| − | ''Vernon God Little, Lights Out in Wonderland'' – '''D.B.C. Pierre'''
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| − | ''The Shell Seekers'', ''September'' – '''Rosamunde Pilcher'''
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| − | ''Trelawny of the Wells'' – '''Arthur Wing Pinero'''. Rose Trelawny is an actress in a theatrical troupe known as the ‘Wells’
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| − | ''Six Characters in Search of an Author'', ''The Late Mattia Pascal'' – '''Pirandello''' (1867–1936)
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| − | ''The Bell Jar, Ariel'' – '''Sylvia Plath'''
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| − | ''The Bell Jar'' was published under the name of Victoria Lucas
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| − | First line of ''The Bell Jar'' “It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York”
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| − | ''The Great Carbuncle'', ''Wuthering Heights'' – Sylvia Plath
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| − | '''Edgar Allen Poe''' (1809 – 1849) was expelled from West Point in 1831 for neglect of duty
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| − | ''The Tell-Tale Heart'' – Edgar Allen Poe
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| − | ''The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death'' – Edgar Allen Poe
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| − | ''The Premature Burial'' – Edgar Allen Poe
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| − | C. Auguste Dupin is a fictional detective created by Edgar Allan Poe. Dupin made his first appearance in Poe's ''The Murders in the Rue Morgue'' (1841), widely considered the first detective fiction story
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| − | ''The Vampyre'' is a short story or novella written in 1819 by '''John William Polidori''' which is a progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction
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| − | ''The Essay on Man'' – poem by '''Alexander Pope''' (1688 – 1744)
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| − | ''An Essay on Criticism'' – Pope
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| − | ''The Rape of the Lock'' is a mock-heroic poem written by Alexander Pope, first published anonymously in Lintot's ''Miscellany'' in 1712 in two cantos
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| − | ''Ramage'' novels – '''Dudley Pope'''
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| − | ''True Grit'' – novel by '''Charles Portis'''
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| − | '''Ezra Pound''' was the driving force behind several Modernist movements, notably Imagism and Vorticism. ''The Cantos'' by Ezra Pound is a long, incomplete poem in 120 sections, each of which is a canto''.'' The section he wrote at the end of World War II has become known as ''The Pisan Cantos''
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| − | ''A Dance to the Music of Time'' is a twelve-volume cycle of novels by '''Anthony Powell''', inspired by the painting of the same name by Nicolas Poussin. One of the longest works of fiction in literature, it was published between 1951 and 1975. The sequence is narrated by Nick Jenkins in the form of his reminiscences
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| − | First novel – ''A Question of Upbringing''
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| − | Twelfth and final novel – ''Hearing Secret Harmonies''
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| − | ''The Fisher King'' – Anthony Powell
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| − | '''Terry Pratchett''' ''Discworld'' novels are set in the city of Ankh-Morpork
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| − | The Discworld itself is described as a large disc resting on the backs of four giant elephants, all supported by the giant turtle Great A'Tuin as it swims its way through space
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| − | ''Making Money'' – Terry Pratchett
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| − | ''The Carpet People'' – first novel
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| − | ''The Colour of Magic'' – first Discworld novel
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| − | Unseen University (UU) is a school of wizardry in Ankh-Morpork
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| − | ''Truckers'', ''Diggers'' and ''Wings'' make up ''The Bromeliad Trilogy'' by Terry Pratchett
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| − | ''Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch'' (1990) is a novel written in collaboration between Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
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| − | ''Manon Lescaut'' – '''Antoine Prevost'''. The story has influenced a number of ballets and operas, such as ''Manon'' (1884) by French composer Jules Massenet and ''Manon Lescaut'' (1893) by Italian composer Giacomo Puccini
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| − | ''The Prestige'' is a 1995 novel by British writer '''Christopher Priest'''
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| − | ''The Good Companions'' – '''JB Priestley''' (1894 – 1984). Focuses on the trials and tribulations of a concert party in England between World War I and World War II
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| − | '''E Annie Proulx'''’s second novel, ''The Shipping News'' (1993), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for fiction in 1994. Her short story ''Brokeback Mountain'' was adapted as a motion picture released in 2005. She won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel, ''Postcards''
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| − | ''Accordion Crimes'' – E Annie Proulx
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| − | ''A la Recherche du Temps Perdu'' (''Remembrance of Things Past'' or ''In Search of Lost Time'') – a semi-autobiographical novel in seven volumes by '''Marcel Proust'''. Title taken from Sonnet 30 by Shakespeare. Volume One is ''Swann’s Way''
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| − | Marcel Proust fought a duel with writer Jean Lorrain in 1897
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| − | '''Malcolm Pryce''' writes in the style of Raymond Chandler, but his novels are set on the rainswept streets of an alternate universe version of Aberystwyth. The hero of the novels is Louie Knight, the best private detective in Aberystwyth
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| − | ''The Ruby in the Smoke'', ''The Shadow in the North'', ''The Tiger in the Well'', ''The Tin Princess'' – '''Philip Pullman''' books featuring Sally Lockhart
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| − | '''Alexander Pushkin''' (1799 – 1837) was killed in a duel with Georges d’Anthes, who was suspected of having an affair with his wife Natalia
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| − | ''Boris Gudonov'', ''The Queen of Spades'', ''The Captain’s Daughter'' – Alexander Pushkin
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| − | ''Eugene Onegin'' – Pushkin, concerns the fortune of two couples (Onegin and Tatyana are one couple) doomed to unhappiness. Modelled on Byron’s poem ''Don Juan''
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| − | ''The Tale of Tsar Saltan'', ''The Bronze Horseman'' – Pushkin
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| − | ''The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of His Son the Renowned and Mighty Bogatyr Prince Gvidon Saltanovich, and of the Beautiful Princess-Swan'' – full title
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| − | ''V.'' (1963), ''The Crying of Lot 49'' (1966), ''Gravity's Rainbow'' (1973), ''Vineland'' (1990), and ''Mason & Dixon'' (1997) – novels by '''Thomas Pynchon'''
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| − | ''Bleeding Edge'' – Thomas Pynchon
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| − | ''Confessions of an English Opium Eater'' – '''Thomas De Quincy'''
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| − | ''The Mysteries of Udolpho'' – gothic novel by '''Ann Radcliffe'''
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| − | ''The Gentle Shepherd'' – '''Allan Ramsay'''
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| − | ''The Fountainhead'' – first successful novel by '''Ayn Rand'''. Howard Roark is an individualistic young architect who chooses to struggle in obscurity rather than compromise his artistic and personal vision
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| − | John Galt is a fictional character who describes Objectivism in Ayn Rand's novel ''Atlas Shrugged''. Although he is absent from much of the text, he is the subject of the novel's often repeated question, ‘Who is John Galt?’, and the quest to discover the answer
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| − | ''The Naming of the Dead'' – '''Ian Rankin'''. Inspector (John) Rebus novel set in the week of the G8 summit in Gleneagles in 2005
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| − | ''Knots and Crosses'' – first Inspector Rebus novel
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| − | Rebus novels are based in Edinburgh. Last book – ''Exit Music''
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| − | ''Where the Red Fern Grows'' – '''Wilson Rawls'''
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| − | Dora Jessie Saint, best known by the pen name '''Miss Read''', was an English novelist. She is best known for two series of novels set in the British countryside – the ''Fairacre'' novels and the ''Thrush Green'' novels
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| − | ''The Cloister and the Hearth'' – '''Charles Reade'''
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| − | ''The Celestine Prophecy'' – '''James Redfield'''
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| − | ''Deja Dead'' is the first novel by '''Kathy Reichs''' starring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan
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| − | ''Ice Station'' – '''Matthew Reilly'''
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| − | ''Inspector Wexford'' books – '''Ruth Rendell'''
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| − | ''From Doon With Death'' – first Wexford novel, 1964
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| − | ''A Judgment in Stone'' – Ruth Rendell
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| − | Barbara Vine – pseudonym of Ruth Rendell
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| − | ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' – '''Erich Remarque'''. Told through the eyes of a German soldier in WWI
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| − | ''Alexander trilogy'' – '''Mary Renault'''<nowiki/>'s trilogy of novels about Alexander the Great (''Fire From Heaven'', ''The Persian Boy'' and ''Funeral Games'')
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| − | ''Wide Sargasso Sea'' – '''Jean Rhys''', prequel to ''Jane Eyre''
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| − | ''Interview with the Vampire'' – '''Anne Rice'''
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| − | ''The Vampire Chronicles'' is a series of novels by Anne Rice that revolves around the fictional character Lestat de Lioncourt, a French nobleman made into a vampire in the 18th century
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| − | '''Samuel Richardson''' (1689 – 1761) was best known for his three epistolary novels: ''Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded'' (1740), ''Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady'' (1748) and ''Sir Charles Grandison'' (1753)
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| − | ''Illuminations'' – '''Arthur''' '''Rimbaud'''
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| − | ''At Risk'' – novel by '''Stella Rimington''' (the first female Director General of MI5)
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| − | ''Scarlett'' – '''Alexandra Ripley'''. Sequel to ''Gone with the Wind''
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| − | ''The Dream Merchants'' – first novel by '''Harold Robbins'''
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| − | ''Mars trilogy'' – '''Kim Stanley Robinson'''. The three novels are ''Red Mars'', ''Green Mars'', and ''Blue Mars''
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| − | ''Home'' – '''Marylynne Robinson'''. Winner of the 2009 Orange Prize
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| − | ''Gallows View'' is the first novel by Canadian detective fiction writer '''Peter Robinson''' in the Inspector Banks series of novels
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| − | ''Landscape with Dead Dons'' – detective novel by '''Robert Robinson'''
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| − | ''Fu Manchu'' featured in a series of novels by English author '''Sax Rohmer''' during the first half of the 20th century
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| − | '''Christina Rossetti''' is best known for her long poem ''Goblin Market'', her love poem ''Remember'', and for the words of the Christmas carol ''In the Bleak Midwinter''
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| − | ''Portnoy’s Complaint'', ''Everyman'' – '''Philip Roth'''
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| − | ''The Plot Against America'' – Philip Roth. Lindbergh defeats Roosevelt to become president in 1940
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| − | ''American Pastoral'', ''The Human Stain'', ''Nemesis'' – Philip Roth
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| − | ''Divergent'', ''Insurgent'', ''Allegiant'' – ''Divergent'' trilogy by '''Veronica Roth'''
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| − | ''The Casual Vacancy'' – '''JK Rowling''' (born 1965). The novel is set in a West Country town called Pagford and begins with the death of Parish Councillor Barry Fairbrother
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| − | Crime fiction novels ''The Cuckoo's Calling'' and ''The Silkworm'' – JK Rowling, under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith
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| − | ''Grimus'' – debut novel by '''Salman Rushdie''' (born 1947)
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| − | ''Shalimar the Clown'', ''The Moor’s Last Sigh'' – Salman Rushdie
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| − | ''The Enchantress of Florence'' – Salman Rushdie
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| − | Geordie Sharp is a fictional character featured in a series of military novels written by '''Chris Ryan'''. He is a Sergeant in the Special Air Service (SAS)
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| − | ''Scaramouche'' – a historical novel by '''Rafael Sabati''', originally published in 1921 and subsequently adapted into a play by Barbara Field and into feature films in 1923 starring Ramon Novarro and in a 1952 remake with Stewart Granger. It is a romantic adventure and tells the story of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution
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| − | ''Bonjour Tristesse'' – '''Francoise Sagan'''. Means ‘Hello Sadness’
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| − | '''George Sand''' was the pseudonym of the French novelist and feminist Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant (1804–1876)
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| − | ''The Devils Pool'', ''Little Fadette'' – George Sand
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| − | ''Franny and Zooey'' – '''JD Salinger''' (1919 – 2010)
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| − | Glass family featured in a number of JD Salinger’s short stories
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| − | Holden Caulfield – main character in ''The'' ''Catcher in the Rye''. 16 years old, runs away to New York. Holden Caulfield has ideas of becoming a ‘catcher in the rye,’ a heroic figure who symbolically saves children from ‘falling off a crazy cliff’ and being exposed to the evils of adulthood. Title taken from a poem by Robert Burns
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| − | ''The Catcher in the Rye'' has never been made into a film
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| − | ''Dissolution'' – '''CJ Sansom'''. Set in the 16th Century during the dissolution of the monasteries, it follows hunchbacked lawyer Shardlake's attempts to solve the murder of one of Thomas Cromwell's commissioners
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| − | ''Nausea'' – novel by '''Jean Paul Sartre'''
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| − | ''Attack'', ''Everyone Sang'' – '''Siegfried Sassoon'''
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| − | ''Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man'', ''Memoirs of an Infantry Officer'', ''Sherston's Progress'' – Siegfried Sassoon's semi-autobiographical trilogy (''Sherston Trilogy'')
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| − | Siegfried Sassoon won military cross in World War I
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| − | '''Dorothy L. Sayers''' is best known for her mysteries set between World War I and World War II that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey
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| − | Lord Peter Wimsey lived at 110A Piccadilly. Bunter – Peter Wimsey’s manservant
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| − | ''Whose Body?'' – first Lord Peter Wimsey book
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| − | Dorothy L Sayers translated Dante’s ''Divine Comedy''
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| − | ''Ode to Joy'', ''The Robbers'', ''Don Carlos'', ''The Wallenstein Trilogy'', ''Mary Stuart'', ''William Tell'' – '''Friedrich Schiller'''
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| − | ''The Reader'' – '''Bernhard Schlink'''
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| − | ''The Raj Quartet'' is a four-volume novel sequence, written by '''Paul Scott''', about the concluding years of the British Raj in India. The four volumes are: ''The Jewel in the Crown'' (1966), ''The Day of the Scorpion'' (1968), ''The Towers of Silence'' (1971), ''A Division of the Spoils'' (1975). Some of the characters are carried through to a further novel called ''Staying On'' (1977)
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| − | ''The Fair Maid of Perth'' – '''Walter Scott''' (1771 – 1832). The maid was Katherine Glover
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| − | ''Heart of Midlothian'' – Walter Scott. Account of the Porteous riots in Edinburgh in 1736, features the Deans family
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| − | ''Kenilworth'', ''Rob Roy'', ''Red Gauntlet'' – Walter Scott
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| − | ''Ivanhoe'' is the story of one of the remaining Saxon noble families at a time when the English nobility was overwhelmingly Norman. It follows the Saxon protagonist, Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who is out of favour with his father owing to his courting the Lady Rowena and for his allegiance to the Norman king Richard I of England. The story is set in 1194, after the end of the Third Crusade
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| − | ''The Lady of the Lake'' is a narrative poem by Walter Scott,. Set in the Trossachs region of Scotland, it is composed of six cantos, each of which concerns the action of a single day. The poem has three main plots: the contest among three men, Roderick Dhu, James Fitz-James, and Malcolm Graeme, to win the love of Ellen Douglas; the feud and reconciliation of King James V of Scotland and James Douglas; and a war between the lowland Scots (led by James V) and the highland clans
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| − | ''Waverley'', ''Guy Mannering'', ''The Bride of Lammermoor'' – Walter Scott
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| − | ''Marmion'' is an epic poem by Walter Scott about the Battle of Flodden Field
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| − | ''The Lovely Bones'' – '''Alice Sebold'''
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| − | ''Love Story'' – '''Erich Segal'''
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| − | ''Oliver’s Story'' – sequel to ''Love Story'' by Eric Segal
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| − | ''The Book of Dave'' by '''Will Self''' tells the story of an angry and mentally-ill London taxi driver named Dave Rudman
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| − | ''Cock and Bull'' – first novel by Will Self
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| − | ''Great Apes'' – Will Self
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| − | ''Umbrella'' – Will Self
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| − | ''The Golden Gate'' – '''Vikram Seth'''’s first novel
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| − | ''A Suitable Boy'' – Vikram Seth
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| − | ''Black Beauty'' – '''Anna Sewell'''. Merrylegs – pony in ''Black Beauty''
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| − | ''Sleuth'' – '''Anthony Shaffer'''
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| − | ''Grantchester Grind'' – follow-up to ''Porterhouse Blue'' by '''Tom Sharpe'''. About Cambridge University
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| − | ''TekWar'' is a series of science fiction novels created by '''William Shatner''' and ghost-written by science-fiction author Ron Goulart
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| − | ''The Young Lions'', ''Rich Man Poor Man'' – '''Irwin Shaw'''
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| − | '''Percy Bysshe''' '''Shelley''' (1792 – 1822) was expelled from Oxford University in 1811 for producing a pamphlet called ''The Necessity of Atheism''. Shelley married Harriet Westbrook, who committed suicide. His second wife was Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin. Less than a month before his 30th birthday, Shelley drowned in a sudden storm while sailing back from Livorno to Lerici in his schooner, ''Don Juan''. Shelley claimed to have met his Doppelganger, foreboding his own death
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| − | ''To a Skylark'', ''Ode to the West Wind'' – Percy Bysshe Shelley
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| − | ''Ozymandius, The Revolt of Islam'' – Shelley
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| − | ''Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats'' – Shelley
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| − | ''The Masque of Anarchy'' – Shelley’s response to the Peterloo Massacre
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| − | ''Autumn: A Dirge'' – Shelley
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| − | '''Mary Shelley''', née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel ''Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft
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| − | ''The Last Man'' is an apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826
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| − | ''Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' is a novel written by Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein
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| − | ''Journey’s End'' – '''RC Sherriff'''
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| − | ''The Stone Diaries'' – '''Carol Shields'''
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| − | ''The Triumph of Beauty'' – poem by '''James Shirley'''
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| − | ''We Need To Talk About Kevin'', ''So Much For That'' – '''Lionel Shriver'''
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| − | ''The New Republic'' – Lionel Shriver
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| − | ''Big Brother'' – Lionel Shriver
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| − | ''On the Beach'' – '''Neville Shute'''
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| − | Neville Shute founded the aircraft construction company Airspeed Ltd in 1931
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| − | ''Astrophel and Stella'', ''The Defence of Poesy'', ''The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia –'' '''Philip Sidney''', who was killed at the Battle of Zutphen in 1586. Son-in-law of Francis Walsingham
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| − | ''Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'', ''The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner'' – '''Alan Sillitoe'''
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| − | '''Georges Simenon''' wrote 75 novels and 28 short stories featuring Commissaire Maigret. The first novel in the series, ''Pietr-le-Letton'', appeared in 1931; the last one, ''Maigret et M. Charles'', was published in 1972
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| − | ''The Jungle'' – '''Upton Sinclair'''. Dealt with conditions in the US meat packing industry
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| − | ''Oil!'' – Upton Sinclair. Basis of the film ''There Will be Blood''
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| − | Between 1940 and 1953, Upton Sinclair wrote the ''World's End'' series of 11 novels about Lanny Budd, the son of an American arms manufacturer
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| − | ''Facade'' – Dame '''Edith Sitwell'''
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| − | Martin Beck is a fictional Swedish police detective who is the main character in a series of ten novels by '''Sjowall and Wahloo''', collectively titled ''The Story of a Crime''
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| − | '''John Skelton''' – 16th century poet, born in Norfolk
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| − | ''By Grand Central Station'' – poem by '''Elizabeth Smart'''
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| − | ''A Thousand Acres'' is a novel by American author '''Jane Smiley'''. It won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was adapted to a 1997 film of the same name. The novel is a contemporary deconstruction of Shakespeare's ''King Lear''
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| − | ''The Accidental'' – '''Ali Smith'''
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| − | ''I Capture the Castle'' – '''Dodie Smith'''
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| − | ''101 Dalmatians'' – Dodie Smith. Set in London
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| − | Lensman series is a serial science fiction space opera by '''Edward Elmer ‘Doc’ Smith'''
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| − | ''Gorky Park'' is a 1981 crime novel written by '''Martin Cruz Smith''' set in the Soviet Union. It follows Arkady Renko, a chief investigator for the Militsiya, who is assigned to a case involving three corpses dug up in Gorky Park, an amusement park in Moscow
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| − | ''The Devil’s Tune'' – thriller by '''Iain Duncan Smith'''
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| − | ''The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency'' – books by '''Alexander McCall Smith'''
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| − | No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency – started by Precious Ramotswe in Botswana
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| − | ''Tears of the Giraffe'' – Alexander McCall Smith
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| − | ''In the Company of Cheerful Ladies'' – Alexander McCall Smith
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| − | ''Blue Shoes and Happiness'' – Alexander McCall Smith
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| − | ''Not Waving but Drowning'' – poem by '''Stevie Smith'''
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| − | '''Wilbur Smith''' – born in Rhodesia, wrote two series of novels about the Courtney and Ballantyne families
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| − | ''When the Lions Feed'' – Wilbur Smith
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| − | ''White Teeth'', ''The Autograph Man'', ''NW'' – '''Zadie Smith'''
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| − | ''On Beauty'' – Zadie Smith. Winner of the Orange Prize for fiction in 2006. The book is loosely based on ''Howards End'' by E. M. Forster
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| − | ''The Expedition of Humphry Clinker'' was the last of the picaresque novels of '''Tobias Smollett'''
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| − | ''The Adventures of Roderick Random'' (1748), ''The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle'' (1751) – Tobias Smollett
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| − | ''Homecomings'', ''The Corridors of Power'' – '''C.P. Snow'''
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| − | ''Strangers and Brothers'' is a series of novels by C. P. Snow
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| − | ''August 1914'' is a novel by '''Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn''' (1918 – 2008) about Imperial Russia’s defeat in 1914's Battle of Tannenberg
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| − | ''November 1916'' is a novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the sequel to ''August 1914''. The novel picks up on the brink of the Russian Revolution
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| − | ''One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'', ''The Cancer Ward'', ''The Gulag Archipelago'', ''The First Circle'' – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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| − | ''The Battle of Blenheim'' – '''Robert Southey'''
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| − | ''The Story of the Three Bears'' – Robert Southey
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| − | ''Memento Mori'' – '''Muriel Spark'''
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| − | ''The Fairie Queen'' – '''Edmund Spenser''', was unfinished
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| − | ''The Decline of the West'' – '''Oswald Spengler'''
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| − | ''Maus'' – '''Art Spiegelman'''. Graphic novel which tells the story of a Holocaust survivor, with the Jews depicted as mice and the Germans as cats
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| − | ''Fame is the Spur'' – '''Howard Spring'''
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| − | ''Heidi'' – '''Johanna Spyri'''
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| − | ''Last and First Men'', ''Starmaker'' – '''Olaf Stapleton'''
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| − | ''Going Home'' – first novel by '''Danielle Steel''' (Danielle Fernande Dominique Schuelein-Steel), published in 1973
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| − | ''Fernhurst'', ''Three Lives'', ''The Making of Americans'', ''Tender Buttons'' – '''Gertrude Stein'''. Her life partner was Alice B. Tolkas. Stein and her brother Leo owned a large collection of modern art
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| − | “A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose” – Gertrude Stein quotation
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| − | ''Tortilla Flat'' – novel by '''John Steinbeck''' (1902 – 1968)
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| − | ''Cup of Gold'' – first novel by John Steinbeck
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| − | ''Of Mice and Men'', ''Cannery Row'', ''East of Eden'' – John Steinbeck
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| − | ''Of Mice and Men'' – the title is taken from Robert Burns' poem ''To a Mouse''
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| − | ''The Grapes of Wrath'' – John Steinbeck. The Joad family abandon the Oklahoma dustbowl and head for California. Title comes from ''Battle Hymn of the Republic''
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| − | ''East of Eden'' brings to life the intricate details of two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, and their interwoven stories
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| − | ''The Winter of Our Discontent'', ''The Wayward Bus'', ''In Dubious Battles'', ''Travels With Charley'' – John Steinbeck
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| − | Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his penname '''Stendhal''' (1783 – 1842), was a French writer. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels ''The Red and the Black'' (1830) and ''The Charterhouse of Parma'' (1839). Stendahl was part of Napoleon’s army in the 1812 invasion of Russia
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| − | ''The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'' – 1759 novel by '''Laurence Sterne'''
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| − | Apart from Tristram as narrator, the most familiar and important characters in the book are his father Walter, his mother, his Uncle Toby, and Toby's servant Trim
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| − | ''A Sentimental Journey Theough France and Italy'' – Laurence Sterne
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| − | ''The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses'' – '''Robert Louis Stevenson''' (1850 – 1894)
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| − | ''Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour'' – RL Stevenson
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| − | ''Catriona'' by Robert Louis Stevenson is a sequel to ''Kidnapped''. It tells the further story of the central character David Balfour
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| − | ''Weir of Hermiston'' – unfinished romance by RL Stevenson
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| − | ''The Master of Ballantrae'', ''Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' – RL Stevenson
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| − | Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde. Set in Edinburgh
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| − | ''Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes'' – RL Stevenson
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| − | ''The Body Snatcher'' – RL Stevenson. The story is based on characters in the employ of Robert Knox, around the time of the Burke and Hare murders
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| − | ''Treasure Island'' – narrated by Jim Hawkins
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| − | Ben Gunn – pirate in ''Treasure Island'', longed to eat toasted cheese
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| − | Long John Silver – one legged cook aboard the ''Hispaniola''. Owns the Spyglass Inn
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| − | Long John Silver is also known by the nicknames ‘Barbecue’ and ‘the Sea-Cook’
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| − | Parrot is Captain Flint (buried the treasure)
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| − | Robert Louis Stevenson is buried on Samoa
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| − | ''The Help'' is a 2009 novel by American author '''Kathryn Stockett'''. The story is about African-American maids working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi, during the early 1960s
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| − | '''Bram Stoker''' was better known as personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned
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| − | Renfield and Mina Murray – characters in ''Dracula'', by Bram Stoker. Published in 1897
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| − | Jonathan Harker is one of the main protagonists in ''Dracula''. His journey to Transylvania and encounter with Count Dracula and the Brides of Dracula at Castle Dracula constitutes the dramatic opening scenes in the novel
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| − | ''The Jewel of the Seven Stars'' – Bram Stoker
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| − | ''The Primrose Path'' – first novel by Bram Stoker
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| − | ''The Agony and the Ecstasy'' – '''Irving Stone'''. Biographical novel of Michelangelo
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| − | ''Lust for Life'' – Irving Stone. Biographical novel of Vincent van Gogh
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| − | ''The Origin'' – Irving Stone. Biographical novel of Charles Darwin
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| − | ''This Sporting Life'' – '''David Storey'''. Tells the story of rugby league player, Frank Machin
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| − | ''In Celebration'' – David Storey
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| − | Detective Nero Wolfe was created by crime writer '''Rex Stout'''
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| − | ''Uncle Tom’s Cabin'' – '''Harriet Beecher Stowe'''. Anti-slavery novel published in 1852. Tom is sold to the evil Simon Legree after the death of Mr St Clare. Topsy is a slave girl
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| − | ''The Red Room'', ''The Son of a Servant'' (autobiographical novel) – '''August Strindberg''', born in Stockholm
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| − | ''The Defence of a Fool'', ''Inferno'', ''Mademoiselle Julie'', ''Dances of Death'' – Strindberg
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| − | ''Sophie’s Choice'' – '''William Styron'''
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| − | ''Valley of the Dolls'' – '''Jacqueline Susann'''
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| − | ''Perfume'' – '''Patrick Suskind'''
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| − | ''A Tale of a Tub'', ''The Battle of the Books'' – '''Jonathan Swift''' (1667 – 1745)
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| − | ''Gulliver’s Travels'' – Jonathan Swift. One of the conflicts in the book is between Lilliputians who preferred cracking open their soft-boiled eggs from the little end, and Blefuscans who preferred the big end
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| − | Gulliver’s first name was Lemuel
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| − | Gulliver was shipwrecked on The ''Antelope'' in 1699
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| − | Houyhnhnms are a race of intelligent horses described in the last part of ''Gulliver's Travels''
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| − | Yahoos – creatures in ''Gulliver’s Travels''
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| − | ''A Modest Proposal'' is a satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies
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| − | Jonathan Swift was Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin
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| − | ''Anita and Me'', ''Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee'' – '''Meera Syal'''
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| − | '''Taliesin''' was a 6th century Welsh poet whose work has possibly survived in a Middle Welsh manuscript, the ''Book of Taliesin''
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| − | ''The Joy Luck Club'', ''Saving Fish from Drowning'' – '''Amy Tan'''
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| − | ''The Magnificent Ambersons'', ''Alice Adams'' – '''Booth Tarkington'''
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| − | ''The Secret History'', ''The Little Friend'' – '''Donna Tartt'''
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| − | ''The Goldfinch'' – 2013 novel by Donna Tartt
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| − | ''Shadowmancer'' – a fantasy novel by '''Graham Taylor'''. Like CS Lewis's ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' it is a Christian allegory in the form of a fantasy adventure
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| − | ''Charge of the Light Brigade'', ''Charge of the Heavy Brigade'' – '''Alfred, Lord Tennyson''' (1809 – 1892)
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| − | ''The Lady of Shallot'' – unrequited love for Lancelot. Poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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| − | ‘On either side the river lie’ – first line of ''The Lady of Shallot''
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| − | ‘In spring, a young man’s fancy likely turns to thoughts of love’ – ''Locksley Hall'', by Tennyson
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| − | ''Idylls of the King'', published between 1856 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson which retells the legend of King Arthur, his knights, his love for Guinevere and her tragic betrayal of him. Dedicated to Prince Albert
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| − | ''Come into the Garden, Maud'' – Tennyson
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| − | In 1833, Alfred Lord Tennyson's closest friend died. He was Arthur Hallam, fiance to
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| − | Tennyson's sister. ''In Memoriam'' (1850) is an elegy written in honor of Hallam. It is made up of 133 poems, all written over a 17-year period
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| − | ''Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington'' – Tennyson
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| − | ''The Eagle'' – Tennyson
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| − | ''Ulysses'' – poem by Tennyson
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| − | Tennyson was the first to be raised to a British peerage for his writing
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| − | ''The Book of Snobs'' – '''William Makepeace Thackeray''' (1811 – 1863)
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| − | ''Vanity Fair'' is subtitled ''A Novel Without a Hero''. Features Becky Sharp
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| − | ''Vanity Fair'' – title comes from ''The Pilgrim’s Progress''
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| − | ''Vanity Fair'' features Miss Pinkerton’s Academy for Young Ladies
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| − | ''History of Pendennis'' – WM Thackeray
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| − | ''The Newcomes'' – Thackeray
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| − | ''The History of Henry Esmond'' – Thackeray
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| − | ''The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century'' is a historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray which forms a sequel to his ''Henry Esmond'' and is also loosely linked to ''Pendennis''
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| − | WM Thackeray was born in Calcutta
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| − | ''The Mosquito Coast'' – '''Paul Theroux'''
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| − | ''The White Hotel'' – '''DM Thomas'''
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| − | ''Land of my Fathers'' – written by '''Dylan Thomas''' (1914 – 1953)
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| − | “Do not gentle into that good night. Rage, rage, against the dying of the light” – Dylan Thomas
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| − | “The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet” – '''Edward Thomas''', an Anglo-Welsh World War 1 war poet who knew Robert Frost. He enlisted in the army in 1915, and was killed in action during the Battle of Arras in 1917
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| − | ''Adlestrop'' – poem by Edward Thomas
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| − | ''Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy'': ''Lark Rise'', ''Over to Candleford'', ''Candleford Green'' – '''Flora Thompson'''
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| − | ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'' – '''Hunter S Thompson'''
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| − | ''Behind the Candelabra: My Life With Liberace'' (1988) is an autobiographical novel by Liberace's live-in lover of five years, '''Scott Thorson'''
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| − | ''The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'' is a short story by '''James Thurber'''. The most famous of Thurber's stories, it first appeared in ''The New Yorker'' in 1939
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| − | ''Mr MacGregor'' – novel by '''Alan Titchmarsh'''
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| − | ''The Master'', '''Colm Toibin''', is about Henry James
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| − | ''Brooklyn'' – Colm Toibin
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| − | ''The Empty Family'' – Colm Toibin
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| − | Elvish languages – invented by '''JRR Tolkein''' (1892 – 1973)
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| − | Hobbits – Brandybuck, Frodo Baggins, Gamgee, Meriadoc (Merry), Perigrin (Pippin) Took, Samwise (Sam). Dwarf – Gimli
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| − | Bilbo Baggins is 111 at the start of ''Lord of the Rings''
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| − | Smaug – dragon that guards the treasure in ''The Hobbit''
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| − | ''The Hobbit'' was first published in 1937. Subtitle – ‘there and back again’
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| − | ''The Silmarillion'' comprises five parts
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| − | John Ronald Reuel Tolkien served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford from 1945 to 1959. Born in South Africa
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| − | ''War and Peace'' – '''Leo Tolstoy''' (1828 – 1910). Follows the lives of the Bolkonsky and Rostov families as Napoleon’s armies sweep across Europe. Published in 1869
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| − | Battle of Austerlitz is mentioned in ''War and Peace''
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| − | “Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” is the opening line of ''Anna Karenina''. Published in 1877
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| − | Count Vronsky – officer in ''Anna Karenina''
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| − | Anna Karenina commits suicide by throwing herself in the path of a train
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| − | ''The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories'' – Tolstoy
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| − | ''Resurrection'' – Tolstoy
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| − | ''Salmon Fishing in the Yemen'' – '''Paul Torday'''
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| − | ''The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year'' – '''Sue Townsend'''
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| − | ''Mary Poppins'' – '''PL Travers'''. Published in 1934
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| − | Mary Poppins will stay “until the wind changes”
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| − | ''The Road Home'' – '''Rose Tremain'''. Winner of the 2008 Orange Prize
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| − | ''Restoration'' – Rose Tremain
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| − | ''The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist'' '''– Robert Trestle'''
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| − | ''The Chronicles of Barsetshire'' is a series of six novels by '''Anthony Trollope''' (1815 – 1882), set in the fictitious English county of Barsetshire and its cathedral town of Barchester
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| − | ''The Warden'' – Anthony Trollope. Title character is Septimus Harding. First novel in ''The Chronicles of Barsetshire''
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| − | ''Barchester Towers'' – second novel in ''The Chronicles of Barsetshire''
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| − | ''The Way we Live Now'' – Anthony Trollope
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| − | Palliser novels are six novels, also known as the ‘Parliamentary Novels’, by Anthony Trollope. The common thread is the wealthy aristocrat and politician Plantagenet Palliser and (in all but the last book) his wife Lady Glencora
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| − | ''Can You Forgive Her?'' – Anthony Trollope. First of the Palliser novels
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| − | ''The Choir'' – first novel by '''Joanna Trollope'''
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| − | ''A Village Affair'' – Joanna Trollope
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| − | ''A Month in the Country'', ''Fathers and Sons'', ''First Love'', ''Fortune’s Fool'' – '''Ivan Turgenev'''
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| − | '''Mark Twain''' (1835 – 1910) was born in Missouri. He may have been the first author to use a typewriter
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| − | ''The Prince and the Pauper'' – Mark Twain
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| − | ''A Tramp Abroad'' – Mark Twain
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| − | ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' (1876) – Mark Twain. Tom is brought up by his Aunt Polly. Huck is his friend
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| − | ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' (1884) – Mark Twain. Huck is kidnapped by his father, fakes his own death, and runs away with a slave called Jim
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| − | ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court'' – Mark Twain. The novel tells the tale of Hank Morgan, a 19th century citizen of Hartford, Connecticut who awakens to find himself inexplicably transported back in time to early medieval England at the time of the legendary King Arthur in AD 528
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| − | ''Life on the Mississippi'' – Mark Twain
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| − | ''Breathing Lessons'', ''The Accidental Tourist'' – '''Anne Tyler'''
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| − | ''Sacred Hunger'', ''Morality Play'' – '''Barry Unsworth'''
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| − | '''John Updike'''<nowiki/>'s most famous work is his "Rabbit" series (the novels ''Rabbit, Run''; ''Rabbit Redux''; ''Rabbit Is Rich''; ''Rabbit At Rest''; and the novella ''Rabbit Remembered''), which chronicles the life of the middle-class everyman Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom over the course of several decades
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| − | ''The Widows of Eastwick'' – sequel to ''The Witches of Eastwick'', by John Updike
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| − | ''The Poorhouse Fair'', ''Bech'' books, ''Couples'', ''Terrorist'', ''The Coup'', ''Gertrude and Claudius'', ''Couples'', ''Villages'' – John Updike
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| − | ''My Father’s Tears and Other Stories'' – last work by John Updike
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| − | ''Exodus'' by American novelist '''Leon Uris''' is about the founding of the State of Israel. Published in 1958, it is based on the name of the 1947 immigration ship ''Exodus''
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| − | ''Trinity'', ''Mila 18'', ''Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin'' – Leon Uris
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| − | ''The Provoked Husband'', ''The Provoked Wife'' – '''John Vanbrugh'''
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| − | ''The Relapse'' – John Vanbrugh, written in the Bastille
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| − | ''The Three Evangelists'' series, ''Commissaire Adamsberg'' series – crime fiction books by '''Fred Vargas''', the pseudonym of Frederique Audoin-Rouzeau
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| − | '''Paul Verlaine''' was a French Symbolist poet
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| − | ''Chanson d’Automne'' – Paul Verlaine
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| − | ''The Mysterious Island'' – sequel to ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'', by '''Jules Verne'''
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| − | Captain Nemo is captain of the ''Nautilus'' submarine in ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea''. Also known as Prince Dakkar
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| − | ''From the Earth to the Moon'' – Jules Verne
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| − | '''Gore Vidal''' wrote ''The City and the Pillar'' in 1948, which created controversy as the first major American novel to feature unambiguous homosexuality
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| − | ''Myra Breckinridge'' – Gore Vidal
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| − | '''Francois Villon''' is best known for his ''Testaments'' and his ''Ballade des Pendus'', written while in prison
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| − | ‘All is for the best in this best of all possible worlds’ – Dr. Pangloss, in ''Candide'' by '''Voltaire''' (1694 – 1778) was born Francois-Marie Arouet
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| − | ''Candide'' begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism by his mentor, Pangloss. Candide and his lover Cunegonde travel around the world
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| − | Full title – ''Candide, ou l'Optimisme''
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| − | ''Slaughterhouse Five'' – '''Kurt Vonnegut'''. Recounts the adventures of Billy Pilgrim, who sees Dresden destroyed before returning to America
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| − | ''Player Piano'' – Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel
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| − | ''Breakfast of Champions'' – Kurt Vonnegut
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| − | Kilgore Trout appears in several of Vonnegut’s books
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| − | Bokononism is a fictional religion invented by Kurt Vonnegut and practiced by many of the characters in his novel ''Cat's Cradle''. Many of the sacred texts of Bokononism were written in the form of calypsos
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| − | '''Derek Walcott''' was born in Castries, St. Lucia. His work is intensely related to the symbolism of myth and its relationship to culture. He is best known for his epic poem ''Omeros'', a reworking of Homeric story and tradition into a journey around the Caribbean and beyond to the American West and London. Walcott founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop in 1959
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| − | ''Omeros'' – epic poem by Derek Walcott
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| − | ''The Colour Purple'' – '''Alice Walker'''
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| − | ''Join Me'', ''Yes Man'' – '''Danny Wallace'''
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| − | ''Infinite Jest'' – '''David Foster Wallace'''
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| − | ''The Four Just Men'' – first crime novel by '''Edgar Wallace'''
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| − | ''Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ'' is a novel by '''Lew Wallace'''
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| − | ''The Bridges of Madison County'' – '''Robert Waller'''
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| − | ''Castle of Otranto'' – first Gothic novel. Written by '''Horace Walpole''', the son of the first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole
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| − | ''The Ice House'' – crime fiction writer '''Minette Walters'''
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| − | ''The Choirboys'' – '''Joseph Wambaugh'''
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| − | ''All the King’s Men'' – '''Robert Penn Warren'''. Inspired the title of ''All the President’s Men''
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| − | ''Billy Liar'' – '''Keith Waterhouse''', 1959
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| − | Billy Liar imagines himself as ruler of Ambrosia
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| − | ''Tipping the Velvet'', ''Affinity'', ''Fingersmith'' – '''Sarah Waters'''
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| − | ''The Night Watch'' – Sarah Waters. Set in blitz-ravaged London in the 1940s
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| − | ''The Little Stranger'' – Sarah Waters
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| − | ''Decline and Fall'' – first novel by '''Evelyn Waugh''' (1903 – 1966)
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| − | ''Decline and Fall'' tells the story of Paul Pennyfeather, student at Scone College, Oxford
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| − | ''Brideshead Revisited'', ''Scoop'', ''A Handful of Dust'', ''Vile Bodies'' – Evelyn Waugh
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| − | ''A Handful of Dust'' – the title is an allusion to lines in T. S. Eliot's 1922 poem ''The Waste Land''
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| − | Brideshead – home of Marchmain family in Waugh’s book
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| − | In ''Scoop'', William Boot is contributor of nature notes to Lord Copper's ''Beast'', a national newspaper. He is dragooned into becoming a foreign correspondent when the editors of the aptly named ''Daily Beast'' mistake him for a novelist who shares his surname. The novel is partly based on Waugh's own experience working for the ''Daily Mail'', when he was sent to cover Benito Mussolini's expected invasion of Abyssinia
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| − | ''Men at Arms'', ''Unconditional Surrender'' and ''Officers and Gentlemen'' – Evelyn Waugh ''Sword of Honour'' trilogy about World War II
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| − | The protagonist of the ''Sword of Honour'' trilogy is Guy Crouchback, heir of a declining aristocratic English Roman Catholic family
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| − | ''Black Mischief'' – Evelyn Waugh. Inspired by the coronation of Haile Selassie. It is set on the fictional African island of Azania
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| − | ''The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold'' – Evelyn Waugh
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| − | ''The White Devil'' – '''John Webster'''
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| − | ''Life and Loves of a She Devil'' – '''Fay Weldon'''
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| − | ''The Invisible Man'' of the title of the book by '''HG Wells''' (1866 – 1946) is Griffin
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| − | ''Island of Doctor Moreau'' – HG Wells
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| − | ''The Time Machine'' – HG Wells first novel (1895)
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| − | ''The World Set Free'' – HG Wells. The book is considered to foretell nuclear weapons
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| − | ''The Wheels of Chance'' – HG Wells
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| − | ''The War of the Worlds'' (1898) – HG Wells. Set in Horsell Common, near Woking. Among the most famous adaptations is the 1938 radio broadcast that was narrated and directed by Orson Welles. The first two-thirds of the 60-minute broadcast were presented as a news bulletin and led to outrage and panic by some listeners who had believed the events described in the program were real
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| − | ''The Devil Wears Prada'' – '''Lauren Weisberger'''
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| − | ''Swiss Family Robinson'' – '''Johan Weiss'''
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| − | ''Skagboys'' – '''Irvine Welsh'''
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| − | ''Filth'', ''Glue'', ''Porno'' – Irvine Welsh
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| − | ''The Camomile Lawn'' is a novel by '''Mary Wesley''' about wartime London and Cornwall as seen through the eyes of five cousins
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| − | ''The Day of the Locust'' is a 1939 novel by American author '''Nathanael West''', set in Hollywood during the Great Depression, depicting the alienation and desperation of a disparate group of individuals whose dreams of success have effectively failed
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| − | ''The Age of Innocence'' – '''Edith Wharton'''. First female winner of Pulitzer Prize for literature (1921)
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| − | ''Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth –'' Edith Wharton
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| − | ''Roger Brook'' novels – '''Dennis Wheatley'''
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| − | Dennis Wheatley wrote 12 historical novels set in Napoleonic period
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| − | Described as the ‘Jane Austen of the 20th Century’ by J. B. Priestley, the work of ''Poems On Various Subjects, Religious and Moral'' – '''Phyllis Wheatley''', the first African-American poet and first African-American woman to publish a book (1773)
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| − | '''Dorothy Whipple''' enjoyed a period of great popularity between the wars, two of her novels being made into feature films, ''They Were Sisters'' and ''They Knew Mr Knight''
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| − | ''Frost in May'' – '''Antonia White'''
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| − | ''The Once and Future King'' – '''TH White''', chronicles the raising and education of King Arthur
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| − | ''The Living and the Dead'', ''Voss'' – '''Patrick White'''
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| − | ''The Tree of Man'' – Patrick White
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| − | '''Walt Whitman''' (1819 – 1892) is viewed as the first urban poet. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and Realism, incorporating both views in his works. Works include ''Song of Myself'' and ''Drum-Taps''
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| − | Walt Whitman was often called “the father of free verse”. His work was controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection ''Leaves of Grass'' (1855), which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality
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| − | ''O Captain! My Captain!'' – Walt Whitman
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| − | ''I Sing the Body Electric'' – Walt Whitman
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| − | Walt Whitman was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War
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| − | ''The Clematis Tree'', ''An Act of Treachery'' – '''Anne Widdecombe'''
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| − | ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' – '''Oscar Wilde''' (1854 – 1900). Dorian Gray is the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward
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| − | ‘He did not wear the scarlet coat for blood and wine are red’ – opening line of ''Ballad of Reading Gaol'' by Oscar Wilde
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| − | ''Little House on the Prairie'' – '''Laura Ingles Wilder'''
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| − | ''Little House on the Prairie'' is set in Walnut Grove
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| − | ''The Bridge of San Luis Rey'' (1927), by '''Thornton Wilder''' (1897 – 1975), tells the story of several unrelated people who happen to be on a bridge in Peru when it collapses, killing them
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| − | ''Stoner'', ''Augustus'' – '''John Williams'''
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| − | '''Nigel Williams''' – novels set in Wimbledon. Best known is ''The Wimbledon Poisoner''
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| − | ''Tarka the Otter: His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers'' is a novel by '''Henry Williamson'''
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| − | ''Forever Amber'' – '''Kathleen Windsor'''
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| − | '''RD Wingfield''' created Detective Inspector Jack Frost, set in Denton
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| − | ''Oranges are not the Only Fruit'' – '''Jeanette Winterson'''. It is a bildungsroman about a lesbian girl who grows up in an English Pentecostal community
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| − | ''Why be Happy When you could be Normal?'' – Jeanette Winterson
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| − | ''Sexing the Cherry'' – Jeanette Winterson
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| − | '''PG Wodehouse''' (1881 – 1975) was taken prisoner by the Germans at his home in Le Touquet in 1940. PG Wodehouse wartime broadcasts from Europe led to many accusations of collaborationism with the Germans and even treason
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| − | Blandings Castle is a fictional location in the short stories and novels of PG Wodehouse. It is the seat of Lord Emsworth, home to many of his family, and setting for numerous tales and adventures, written between 1915 and 1975. Blandings Castle is in Shropshire. Empress of Blandings is a Berkshire sow
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| − | Oswald Mosley is parodied as Sir Roderick Spode, who is leader of The Black Shorts, in PG Wodehouse ''Jeeves'' novels
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| − | Bertie Wooster visited The Drones club
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| − | Gussie Fink-Nottle is a newt fancier in the ''Jeeves'' novels
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| − | Reginald Jeeves was named after a Warwickshire cricketer
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| − | ''The Bonfire of the Vanities'' – '''Tom Wolfe'''
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| − | ''Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers'' – Tom Wolfe
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| − | ''A Man in Full'' – Tom Wolfe
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| − | ''East Lynne'' – '''Ellen Wood''', known as Mrs Henry Wood
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| − | '''Virginia Woolf''' (1882 – 1941) drowned herself in the River Ouse
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| − | Virginia Woolf’s works include the novels ''Mrs Dalloway'' (1925), ''To the Lighthouse'' (1927), ''Orlando: A Biography'' (1928)
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| − | ''Flush: A Biography'' – Virginia Woolf. Flush is a dog
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| − | ''Orlando'' is a semi-biographical novel based in part on the life of Woolf's intimate friend Vita Sackville-West
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| − | ''Mrs Dalloway'' details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post-World War I England
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| − | ''The Vovage Out'' – first novel by Virginia Woolf
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| − | '''William Wordsworth''' (1770 – 1850) visited Revolutionary France in 1791 and became enthralled with the Republican movement. He fell in love with a French woman, Annette Vallon, who in 1792 gave birth to their child, Caroline. He later married Mary Hutchinson. Lived at Dove Cottage with his sister Dorothy
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| − | ''The Prelude'' – autobiographical poem by William Wordsworth
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| − | ''Lucy poems'' – Wordsworth
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| − | ''Ode to Duty'' – Wordsworth
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| − | ''Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood'' – Wordsworth
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| − | ''Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey'' – Wordsworth
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| − | “Earth hath not anything to show more fair” – from ''Composed'' ''Upon Westminster Bridge'', sonnet written in 1802
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| − | “I wandered lonely as a cloud” – inspired by Ullswater. First line of ''Daffodils''
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| − | ''On the extinction of the Venetian Republic'' – sonnet by Wordsworth
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| − | ''Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems'' is a collection of poems by Wordsworth and Coleridge
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| − | ''The Caine Mutiny''. ''The Winds of War'', ''War and Remembrance'' – '''Herman Wouk'''
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| − | Captain Queeg – character in ''The Caine Mutiny''
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| − | ''Beau Geste'' – '''PC Wren'''
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| − | ''Uncle Tom’s Children, Native Son, Black Boy, The Outsider'' – '''Richard Wright'''
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| − | ''The Berry Books'', ''The Chandos Books'' – groups of novels by '''Dornford Yates'''
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| − | ''Revolutionary Road'' – '''Richard Yates'''
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| − | ''The Lake Isle of Innisfree'', ''Easter 1916'' – '''W.B. Yeats''' (1865 – 1939)
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| − | “No country for old men” – line in ''Sailing to Byzantium'' by WB Yeats
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| − | ''When you are old'' – poem by WB Yeats
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| − | ''The Song of Wandering Aengus'' – WB Yeats
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| − | ''The Tripods'' is a series of novels written by '''Samuel Youd''' (under the pseudonym John Christopher) beginning in the late 1960s. The first two were the basis of a science fiction TV series shown on the BBC
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| − | ''Refugee Boy'' – '''Benjamin Zephaniah'''
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| − | ''Les Rougon-Macquart'' is the collective title given to the greatest literary achievement of French novelist '''Emile Zola''' (1840 – 1902), a monumental twenty-novel cycle about the exploits of various members of an extended family during the French Second Empire. Includes ''La Ventre de Paris'', ''Nana'' (a prostitute), ''Germinale'' (a realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s), ''The Debacle'' (set against the background of the series of political and military events that ended the reign of Napoleon III and the Second Empire in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870), ''Money''
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| − | ''Therese Raquin'' – Emile Zola
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| − | ''The Masterpiece'' (''L'œuvre'') – by Emile Zola is a fictional account of Zola's friendship with Paul Cezanne
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