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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
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Restart
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Animal Farm
by George Orwell
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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
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by William Shakespeare
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by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
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Wonder
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Footnote to Youth
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The Necklace
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1984
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Born a Crime
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Tradition and the Individual Talent
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
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The Devil's Arithmetic
by Jane Yolen
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The Merchant of Venice
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Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles
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by Edgar Allan Poe
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by Arthur Miller
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Circe
by Madeline Miller
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by Mary Shelley
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Internment
by Samira Ahmed
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William Shakespeare
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The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
by William Saroyan
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by Ursula K. Le Guin
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by Anonymous, Unknown
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by William Shakespeare
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by Kate Chopin
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by William Shakespeare
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by Lois Lowry
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by Wole Soyinka
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by R. K. Narayan
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To Build a Fire
by Jack London
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by Homer
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Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare
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Look Back in Anger
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To Sir, with Love
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The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
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My Last Duchess
by Robert Browning
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by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
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The Storyteller
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by Michelle Zauner
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Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
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Horse
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by John Boyne
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Thank You, M'am
by Langston Hughes
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No Longer Human
by Osamu Dazai
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A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
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Black Woman
by Léopold Senghor
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Chains
by Laurie Halse Anderson
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by Jonathan Swift
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Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
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by Christopher Marlowe
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by Samuel Richardson
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by Lorraine Hansberry
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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Harvest of Empire
by Juan González
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Paradise Lost
by John Milton
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by William Shakespeare
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"I Have a Dream" Speech
by Martin Luther King Jr.
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
by Thomas Gray
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The Rising of the Moon
by Isabella Augusta Persse
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Crossing the Bar
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
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Every Day
by David Levithan
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
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The Underdogs
by Mariano Azuela
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by Victor Hugo
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Gone with the Wind
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Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
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The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
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Paradise
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As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X, Alex Haley
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by E. M. Forster
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by William Faulkner
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Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
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Moll Flanders
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Moby-Dick
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by Ilyon Woo
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by Margaret Atwood
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Song of Solomon
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by Henry James
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by Margaret Atwood
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by James Joyce
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Sula
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by John Steinbeck
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The Piece of String
by Guy de Maupassant
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Dubliners
by James Joyce
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Mules and Men
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Iliad
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The Tables Turned
by William Wordsworth
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Wartime Lies
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Midair
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Martha Quest
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Thus Spake Zarathustra
by Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Truly Disadvantaged
by William Julius Wilson
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by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
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Naming and Necessity
by Saul Kripke
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In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
by William Butler Yeats
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
by Eudora Welty
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The Universe in a Nutshell
by Stephen Hawking
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The Man Who Loved Children
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Unless
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The Ship of Death
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Short Eyes
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The Great Wall of China
by Franz Kafka
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Cryptonomicon
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The Palace of the White Skunks
by Reinaldo Arenas
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The Longest Memory
by Fred D’Aguiar
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The Pacific War
by Saburo Ienaga
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Son of a Smaller Hero
by Mordecai Richler
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Yermolai and the Miller's Wife
by Ivan Turgenev
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Meeting at Night
by Robert Browning
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The Good-Morrow
by John Donne
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The Soldier
by Rupert Brooke
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Hand to Mouth
by Paul Auster
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Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
by Siegfried Sassoon
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Two Poems on the Passing of an Empire
by Derek Walcott
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Home Before Morning
by Christopher Morgan, Lynda Van Devanter
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The World as Will and Idea
by Arthur Schopenhauer
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Tree at My Window
by Robert Frost
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This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona
by Sherman Alexie
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The Lion and the Jewel
by Wole Soyinka
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Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffman
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Stephen Toulmin
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Leandro Fernández de Moratín
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My God and I
by Lewis B. Smedes
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Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars
by Robert V. Remini
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The Silence of the Llano
by Rudolfo Anaya
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The Path Between the Seas
by David McCullough
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Orfeo
by Angelo Ambrogini
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Reckless
by Craig Lucas
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The Iron Lady
by Hugo Young
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power
by Daniel Yergin
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Lions, Harts, Leaping Does
by J. F. Powers
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Serious Money
by Caryl Churchill
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Sapphira and the Slave Girl
by Willa Cather
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Seeing Voices
by Oliver Sacks
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The Lost Weekend
by Charles Jackson
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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
by Winston Churchill
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Shikasta
by Doris Lessing
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The Struggle for Black Equality 1954–1980
by Harvard Sitkoff
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The Moon and the Bonfires
by Cesare Pavese
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Outlines of Pyrrhonism
by Sextus Empiricus
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Set in Darkness
by Ian Rankin
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Rock Springs
by Richard Ford
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The Robe
by Lloyd C. Douglas
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The Mixquiahuala Letters
by Ana Castillo
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Liber Amoris
by William Hazlitt
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The Trials of Phillis Wheatley
by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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Traveling Mercies
by Anne Lamott
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The Midwich Cuckoos
by John Wyndham
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The Rector of Justin
by Louis Auchincloss
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The Power of Babel
by John McWhorter
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!Click Song
by John A. Williams
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"A Dialogue of Self and Soul"
by William Butler Yeats
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"A Problem from Hell"
by Samantha Power
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"A Word made Flesh is seldom"
by Emily Dickinson
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"All Governments Lie!"
by Myra MacPherson
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"Amazing Peace"
by Maya Angelou
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"An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician"
by Robert Browning
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"Arsenal of Democracy"
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"Art"
by Yasmina Reza
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"Atlanta Compromise" Speech
by Booker T. Washington
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"Beyond Reasonable Doubt" and "Probable Cause"
by Barbara J. Shapiro
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"C"
by Anthony Cave Brown
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"Comics" vs. "Graphic Novels"
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"Coming Out" as a Literay Theme
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"Confession" and "The New Birth"
by Menno Simons
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"Cross of Gold" Speech
by William Jennings Bryan
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"Daddy's Gone to War"
by William M. Tuttle Jr.
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"Death Fugue"
by Paul Antschel
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"Feet of Jesus"
by Langston Hughes
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"Fools Say"
by Nathalie Sarraute
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"For the Union Dead"
by Robert Lowell
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"Fourteen Points" Speech
by Woodrow Wilson
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"Franklin D. Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Speech"
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"G" Is for Gumshoe
by Sue Grafton
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"H" Is for Homicide
by Sue Grafton
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"Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666"
by Anne Dudley
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"I Am Who I Am"
by Kathlyn Gay
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"I Don't Have to Show You No Stinking Badges!"
by Luis Valdez
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"I Have a Dream" Speech
by Martin Luther King Jr.
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"I" Is for Innocent
by Sue Grafton
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"I've Been to the Mountaintop" Speech
by Martin Luther King Jr.
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"If Time Is Money, No Wonder I'm Not Rich"
by Mary L. Sprouse
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"In the Holy Nativity of Our Lord God"
by Richard Crashaw
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"It's a Sure Thing"
by Robert Metz, George Stasen
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"J" Is for Judgment
by Sue Grafton
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"Le Cid" and "The Liar"
by Pierre Corneille
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"MASTER HAROLD" . . . and the Boys
by Athol Fugard
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"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
by Annette Gordon-Reed, Peter S. Onuf
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"Negro President"
by Garry Wills
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"Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad"
by M. R. James
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"Ordinary Love" and "Good Will"
by Jane Smiley
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"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
by Harlan Ellison
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"Shattered Nerves"
by Janet Oppenheim
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"Station Island"
by Seamus Heaney
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
by Ralph Leighton
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"The Dream of the Rood"
by Unknown
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"The Fall"
by Joseph Bottum
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"The Four Freedoms"
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"The Return of Eva Perón" with "The Killings in Trinidad"
by V. S. Naipaul
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"The Target Is Destroyed"
by Seymour M. Hersh
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"The Water Engine" and "Mr. Happiness"
by David Mamet
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"Three Versions of Judas"
by Jorge Luis Borges
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"Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art" by Scott McCloud
by Scott McCloud
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"We Are Lincoln Men"
by David Herbert Donald
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"What Do You Care What Other People Think?"
by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton
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"Who Is a Jew?"
by Meryl Hyman
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"Yes" and "No"
by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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"‘All You Zombies—'"
by Robert A. Heinlein
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$2.00 a Day
by Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer
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& Sons
by David Gilbert
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'night, Mother
by Marsha Norman
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'Salem's Lot
by Stephen King
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'Tis
by Frank McCourt
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore
by John Ford
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(Ado)ration
by Diane Glancy
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(David) Sam(uel) Peckinpah
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(Edward Montague) Compton Mackenzie
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(Edward) Rod(man) Serling
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(Everett) LeRoi Jones
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(John) Rayner Heppenstall
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(Maureen) Mollie Hunter (McIlwraith)
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(Patricia) Ann Jellicoe
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(Robert) Brian Clark
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(Sir) Alfred Hitchcock
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(Sir) Charles (Spencer) Chaplin
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(Sir) Noël (Pierce) Coward
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(Thomas) Anthony Kerrigan
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(Waldomiro Freitas) Autran Dourado
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(William) Daryl Hine
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10 January 1934
by Osip Mandelstam
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100 Bullets
by Brian Azzarello
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100 Details from Pictures in the National Gallery
by Kenneth Clark
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100 Sideways Miles
by Andrew Smith
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100% (graphic novel)
by Paul Pope
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1185 Park Avenue
by Anne Roiphe
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13 Little Blue Envelopes
by Maureen Johnson
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13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
by Mona Awad
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by Charles C. Mann
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1776
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1777
by John S. Pancake
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18 West 11th Street
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1848
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1876
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1887
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1914
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1916
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