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    Agamemnon
    by Aeschylus

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    The Choephori
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    Eumenides
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    La Divina commedia
    by Dante Alighieri

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    The Thousand and One Nights (complete collection)
    by Anonymous

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    Orlando Furioso
    by Ludovico Ariosto

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    An Other Land
    by James Baldwin

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    Le Cousin Pons
    by honore balzac

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    Nightwood
    by Djuna Barnes

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    Hersenschimmen
    by J Bernlef

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    Gaspard De La Nuit
    by Aloysius Bertrand

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    The Holy Bible
    by Various Authors

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    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov

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    Il Decamerone.
    by Giovanni Boccaccio

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    Ansichten eines Clowns.
    by Heinrich Böll

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    Gruppenbild Mit Dame
    by Heinrich Boll

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    Het geuzenboek (Grote ABC)
    by Louis Paul Boon

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    Rood Paleis
    by F. Bordewijk

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    La\Planete des Singes
    by Pierre Boulle

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    Die Dreigroschenoper.
    by Bertolt Brecht

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    Der Gute Mensch Von Sezuan
    by Bertolt Brecht

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    Mutter Courage Und Ihre Kinder
    by Bertolt Brecht

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    Wuthering Heights (Courage Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

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    post office: A Novel
    by Charles Bukowski

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    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

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    Obsession
    by A.S. Byatt

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    Breakfast at Tiffany's
    by Truman Capote

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    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote

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    Other Voices, Other Rooms
    by Truman Capote

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    Don Quijote de la Mancha
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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    Papillon (P.S.)
    by Henri Charriere

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    The Canterbury Tales (Oxford Illustrated Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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    The Seagull
    by Anton Chekov

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    Uncle Vanya
    by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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    De geruchten: Roman
    by Hugo Claus

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    Het verdriet van België : roman
    by Hugo Claus

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    Vrijdag
    by Hugo Claus

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    De Berg van Licht
    by Louis Couperus

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    Eline Vere
    by Louis Couperus

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    Majesteit
    by Louis Couperus

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    De Stille Kracht
    by Louis Couperus

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    House of Leaves
    by Mark Z. Danielewski

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    Crime and Punishment
    by F.M. Dostoevsky

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    The Dream Of A Ridiculous Man
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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    The Idiot (Modern Library Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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    White Nights
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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    Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot

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    Kaas
    by Willem Elsschot

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    Lijmen/Het Been
    by Willem Elsschot

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    Het Tankschip
    by Willem Elsschot

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    The Scandal
    by Shusaku Endo

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    Silence
    by Shusaku Endo

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    Wonderful Fool
    by Shusaku Endo

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    Medea
    by Euripides

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    Orestes
    by Euripides

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    The Trojan Women
    by Euripides

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    The Cement Garden
    by Ian McEwan

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    Comfort of Strangers
    by Ian McEwan

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    L'Education sentimentale, texte intégral
    by Gustave Flaubert

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    Madame Bovary
    by Gustave Flaubert

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    Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
    by Jostein Gaarder

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    The Shoemaker's Wonderful Wife
    by Federico Garcia Lorca

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    Dead Souls
    by Gogol N

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    The Nose
    by Nikolai Gogol

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    The Overcoat [EasyRead Comfort Edition]
    by Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol

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    May We Borrow Your Husband?
    by Graham Greene

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    Our Man in Havana
    by Graham Greene

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    In Search of a Character: Two African Journals
    by Graham Greene

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    Geachte Muizenpoot en Achttien Andere Gedichten
    by Fritzi ten Harmsen van der Beek

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    Gewone Piet en Andere Piet
    by Fritzi ten Harmsen van der Beek

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    Neerbraak
    by Fritzi ten Harmsen van der Beek

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    Advocaat Van De Hanen
    by A. F. Th. Van Der Heijden

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    De Donkere Kamer Van Damokles
    by Willem Frederik Hermans

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    Ik Heb Altijd Gelijk
    by Willem Frederik Hermans

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    The Illiad
    by Homer

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    The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer

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    Les Chaisses
    by Eugène Ionesco

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    L'Homme aux Valises
    by Eugène Ionesco

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    La Leçon
    by Eugène Ionesco

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    Rhinoceros
    by Eugène Ionesco

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    le roi se meurt
    by Eugene Ionesco

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    Victimes du devoir
    by Eugène Ionesco

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    Finnegans Wake
    by James Joyce

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    Ulysses
    by James Joyce

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    The Koran (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

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    Amerika
    by Franz Kafka

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    Der Process: Roman
    by Franz Kafka

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    Das Schloss
    by Franz Kafka

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    The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
    by Yasunari Kawabata

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    Snow Country
    by Yasunari Kawabata

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    Zorba the Greek (Faber Fiction Classics)
    by Nikos Kazantzakis

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    The Subterraneans (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Jack Kerouac

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    Melodien
    by Helmut Krausser

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    Verweerskrif
    by Antjie Krog

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    Shikasta.
    by Doris Lessing

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  96. 99.
    Tirant Lo Blanc Tales Of The White Knight
    by Joanot Martorell

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    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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    Bel-Ami
    by Guy de Maupassant

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    Paradise Lost
    by John Milton

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    Confessions of a Mask
    by Yukio Mishima

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    Madame De Sade
    by Yukio Mishima

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    The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
    by Yukio Mishima

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    Oidipous Oidipous
    by Harry Mulisch

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    De ontdekking van de hemel: Roman (BBLiterair)
    by Harry Mulisch

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    Kafka on the Shore
    by Haruki Murakami

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    Norwegian Wood
    by Haruki Murakami

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    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
    by Haruki Murakami

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    Lolita (Everyman's Library Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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    Lavish are the Dead
    by Kenzaburo Oe

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    A Personal Matter (Oe, Kenzaburo)
    by Kenzaburo Oë

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    Nineteen Eighty Four
    by George Orwell

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    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

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    Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Harvest Book)
    by George Orwell

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    De Bende van de Stronk
    by Paul van Ostaijen

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    Het Bordeel van Ika Loch
    by Paul van Ostaijen

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    Het Sienjaal
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    Metamorphosen
    by Ovid

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    Accatone
    by Pier Paolo Pasolini

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    Teorema
    by Pier Paolo Pasolini

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    Ariel
    by Sylvia Plath

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    Bell Jar (P.S.)
    by Sylvia Plath

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    Narrow Rooms
    by James Purdy

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    Boris Godunov
    by Alexander Pushkin

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    De avonden
    by G.K. van het Reve

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    Nader Tot U
    by Gerard Reve

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    Op Weg Naar het Einde
    by Gerard Reve

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    Publieke werken
    by Thomas Rosenboom

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    Juliette
    by Marquise de Sade

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    Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom and Other Writings
    by Marquis De Sade

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    Les 120 Journees De Sodome Par Marquis De Sade
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    Le Petit Prince
    by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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    Huis Clos
    by Jean-Paul; Hardre, Jacques (editor); Daniel, George B. (editor) Satre

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    Le Mur
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

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    La Chambre
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

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    Erostrate
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

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    L'Enfance d'un Chef
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    Les Mouches
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    La Putain Respecteuse
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    Les Mains Sales (Collection Folio)
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

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    The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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    The Merchant of Venice (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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    The Taming of the Shrew (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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    The Winter's Tale (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

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    Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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    Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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    Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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    King Lear (New Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

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    Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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    Genji Monogatari
    by Murasaki Shikibu

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    Sophocles Oidipous Tyrannos (Text and Commentary)
    by Jeffrey Rusten

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    Gulliver's Travels (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Jonathan Swift

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    In Praise of Shadows
    by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

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    Gerusalemme Liberate
    by Torquato Tasso

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    Under Milk Wood
    by Dylan Thomas

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    Fathers and Sons
    by Ivan Turgenev

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    Anna Karenina (Signet Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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    The Death of Ivan Ilych
    by Leo Tolstoy

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    Ressurection
    by Leo Tolstoj

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    War & Peace (Konemann Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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    Alaska
    by Peter Verhelst

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    Tongkat: Een verhalenbordeel
    by Peter Verhelst

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    Het spierenalfabet
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    Lucifer

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    The Importance of Being Earnest
    by Oscar Wilde

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    The Skin of Our Teeth: A Play (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder

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    The Glass Menagerie
    by Tennessee Williams

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    The Rose Tattoo.
    by Tennessee Williams

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    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
    by Tennessee Williams

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    The Night of the Iguana
    by Tennessee Williams

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    A Streetcar Named Desire.
    by Tennessee Williams

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    Jacob's Room (Norton Critical Edition)
    by Virginia Woolf

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    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

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    To the Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf

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    A Room of One's Own
    by Virginia Woolf

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    Nana
    by Emile Zola

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