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  1. 1.
    How German Is It?
    by Walter Abish

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    Things Fall Apart: A Novel
    by Chinua Achebe

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    Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Aesop

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    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee

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    Lucky Jim
    by Kingsley Amis

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    Money: A suicide note
    by Martin Amis

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    Winesburg, Ohio (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Sherwood Anderson

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    The Handmaid's Tale (Everyman's Library)
    by Margaret Atwood

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    The Confessions of Saint Augustine
    by St. Augustine of Hippo

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    Emma (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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    Pride And Prejudice
    by Jane Austen

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    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin

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    Le Pere Goriot
    by Honore De Balzac

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    Nightwood
    by Djuna Barnes

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    The Sot-Weed Factor (The Anchor Literary Library)
    by John Barth

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    Beckett Trilogy 'Molloy', 'Malone Dies', 'the Unnamable
    by Samuel Beckett

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    Murphy
    by Samuel Beckett

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    Zulieka Dobson (Green Integer)
    by Max Beerbohm

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    Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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    Herzog (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  21. 23.
    Adventures of Augie March, The (50th Anniv. Edition)
    by Saul Bellow

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    The Old Wives' Tale (Penguin Classics)
    by Arnold Bennett

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    The Decameron (Penguin Classics)
    by Giovanni Boccaccio

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    The Death of the Heart
    by Elizabeth Bowen

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    The Sheltering Sky (P.S.)
    by Paul Bowles

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    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

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    Wuthering Heights (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

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    The Pilgrim's Progress (Oxford World's Classics)
    by John Bunyan

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    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

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    The Way of All Flesh
    by Samuel Butler

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    Possession : A Romance (Modern Library)
    by A.S. Byatt

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  32. 34.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    by James Mallahan Cain

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    Tobacco Road
    by Erskine Caldwell

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    The Plague
    by Albert Camus

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    In Cold Blood (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Truman Capote

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    Alice in Wonderland (Norton Critical Edition Ser.)
    by Lewis Carroll

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    DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP
    by Willa Cather

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    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather

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    Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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    Don Quixote (P.S.)
    by Miguel de Cervantes

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    The Big Sleep (Penguin Fiction)
    by Raymond Chandler

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    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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  45. 48.
    Seven Short Novels
    by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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    Stories of Anton Chekhov
    by Anton Chekhov

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    The Man Who Was Thursday
    by G. K. Chesterton

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    The Awakening (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Kate Chopin

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    The Moonstone (Modern Library Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

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    The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

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    The Way of the World
    by William Congreve

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    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph, Conrad

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    Lord Jim
    by Joseph Conrad

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    Nostromo
    by Joseph Conrad

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    The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

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    The Deerslayer
    by James Fenimore Cooper

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    The Public Burning
    by Robert Coover

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    The Red Badge of Courage
    by Stephan Crane

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    The Divine Comedy
    by Dante Alighieri

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    Moll Flanders (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

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    Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

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    The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Philip K. Dick

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    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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    Bleak House (Modern Library Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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    David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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    Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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    Hard Times, Third Edition (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Charles Dickens

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    Deliverance
    by James Dickey

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    Play It As It Lays: A Novel
    by Joan Didion

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    Ragtime: A Novel
    by E.L. Doctorow

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    The Ginger Man
    by J. P. Donleavy

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    Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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    The Idiot
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  75. 82.
    Life & Times of Frederick Douglas (Classics Library)
    by Frederick Douglass

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    Dreiser American Tragedy (Library of America)
    by Theodore Dreiser

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    The Alexandria Quartet
    by Lawrence Durrell

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    Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot

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    Silas Marner (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot

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    American Psycho
    by Bret Easton Ellis

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    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison

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    Studs Lonigan (Penguin Classics)
    by James T. Farrell

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  84. 91.
    Absalom, Absalom!: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

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  85. 92.
    As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

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  86. 93.
    Light in August: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

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    The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

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    Tender is the Night
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Classics)
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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    Parade's End
    by Ford Madox Ford

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  92. 101.
    A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
    by E.M. Forster

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    A Room With a View
    by E. M. Forster

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    The Magus
    by John Fowles

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    The Corrections
    by Jonathan Franzen

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  97. 107.
    The Recognitions (Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by William Gaddis

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  98. 108.
    Omensetter's Luck (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by William H. Gass

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  99. 109.
    The Thief's Journal
    by Jean Genet

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    Neuromancer
    by William Gibson

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    The Immoralist (Penguin Classics)
    by Andre Gide

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  102. 112.
    Faust: A Tragedy (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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    The Sorrows of Young Werther (Modern Library Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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  104. 114.
    Dead Souls
    by Nikolai Gogol

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    Diary of a Madman and Other Stories (Thrift Edition)
    by Nikolai Gogol

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    The Tin Drum
    by Gunter Grass

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    Lanark (Canongate Classics)
    by Alasdair Gray

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    The Heart of the Matter
    by Graham Greene

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    Jude the Obscure
    by Thomas, Hardy

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    The Mayor of Casterbridge (Modern Library Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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    The Scarlet Letter (Enriched Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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  115. 129.
    A Farewell to Arms (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

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    Siddharta
    by Hermann Hesse

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    Leviathan
    by Thomas Hobbes

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  119. 133.
    The Iliad of Homer (Phoenix Books)
    by Homer

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    The Odyssey of Homer (Perennial Classics)
    by Richmond Lattimore

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  121. 135.
    A High Wind in Jamaica (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Richard Hughes

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  122. 136.
    Les Miserables
    by Victor Hugo

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    The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
    by Victor Hugo

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  124. 138.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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  125. 139.
    Brave New World (P.S.)
    by Aldous Huxley

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    A Doll's House
    by Henrik, Ibsen

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    Peer Gynt
    by Henrik Ibsen

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    The Complete Tales of Washington Irving
    by Washington Irving

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    The World According to Garp (Modern Library)
    by John Irving

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    The Portrait of a Lady
    by Henry James

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  131. 146.
    The Ambassadors
    by Henry James

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    The Wings of the Dove (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry James

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  133. 148.
    From Here to Eternity
    by James Jones

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    Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce

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    Finnegans Wake (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
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    Ulysses
    by James Joyce

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    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

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    Ironweed
    by William J. Kennedy

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    On the Road (Penguin Classics)
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    Kim
    by Rudyard Kipling

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  142. 157.
    Darkness at Noon: A Novel
    by Arthur Koestler

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    Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
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    Women in Love (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by D. H. Lawrence

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  145. 160.
    The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

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    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

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    The Periodic Table
    by Primo Levi

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    Lewis: Main Street and Babbitt (Library of America)
    by Sinclair Lewis

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    The Call of the Wild
    by Jack London

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    Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Malcolm Lowry

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  152. 167.
    The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

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    Fountain and Tomb: Hakayat Haretna (Three Continents Press)
    by Naguib Mahfouz

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    The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Norman Mailer

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    The Magic Mountain
    by Thomas Mann

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    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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    Of Human Bondage
    by W. Somerset Maugham

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    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers

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    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
    by Herman Melville

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  162. 177.
    Death of a Salesman (Viking Critical Library)
    by Arthur Miller

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  163. 178.
    Tropic of Cancer, Cover Illustration By Richard Merkin
    by Henry Miller

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    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton

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    Utopia (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas More

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    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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    Under the Net
    by Iris Murdoch

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    The Man Without Qualities
    by Robert Musil

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    Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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    Pale Fire (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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    A Bend in the River (Vintage International)
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    The English Teacher
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    At Swim-Two-Birds (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series)
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    Wise Blood: A Novel
    by Flannery O'Connor

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    Appointment in Samarra: A Novel
    by John O'Hara

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    Long Day's Journey into Night, Second edition
    by Eugene O'Neill

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    The Iceman Cometh
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    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

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    Nineteen Eighty-four
    by George Orwell

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    Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics)
    by Ovid

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    Doctor Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak

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    Nightmare Abbey (Dodo Press)
    by Thomas Love Peacock

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    The Moviegoer
    by Walker Percy

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    The Bell Jar : A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Sylvia Plath

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    A Dance to the Music of Time (series)
    by Anthony Powell

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    Rememberance of Things Past
    by Marcel Proust

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    Eugene Onegin (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexander Pushkin

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    Gravity's Rainbow
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    The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
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    The Fountainhead (Centennial Edition Hardcover)
    by Ayn Rand

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    All Quiet on the Western Front: The Illustrated Edition
    by Erich Maria Remarque

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    Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Student Editions)
    by Jean Rhys

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    Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Samuel Richardson

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    American Pastoral
    by Philip Roth

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    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth

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    Midnight's Children: A Novel
    by Salman Rushdie

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    The Catcher in the Rye
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    No Exit and Three Other Plays
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

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    Ivanhoe: A Romance
    by Walter, Sir Scott

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    The Complete Works of Shakespeare
    by David Bevington

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    Heartbreak House
    by Bernard Shaw

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    Pygmalion (Enriched Classics)
    by George Bernard Shaw

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    Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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    The Jungle (Enriched Classics)
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    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel
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    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Perennial Classics)
    by Muriel Spark

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    Three Lives (Introduction by Carl Van Vechten)
    by Gertrude Stein

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    The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics)
    by John Steinbeck

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    Dracula (Enriched Classics)
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    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
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    Sophie's Choice (Modern Critical Interpretations Series)
    by William Styron

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    Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

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    The Magnificent Ambersons (Dodo Press)
    by Booth Tarkington

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    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
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    The Lord of the Rings
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    Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
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    War and Peace
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    A Confederacy of Dunces
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    Cane
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    Way We Live Now (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
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    Fathers and Sons
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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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    The Aeneid: Virgil
    by Virgil

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    Candide (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Voltaire

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    Cat's Cradle
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    Slaughterhouse-Five
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    Omeros
    by Derek Walcott

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    All the King's Men
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    A Handful of Dust
    by Evelyn Waugh

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    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh

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    Five Great Science Fiction Novels (Thrift Edition)
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    Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locust
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    The Age of Innocence (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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    The Importance of Being Earnest
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  235. 261.
    Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel
    by Thornton Wilder

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    A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Tennessee Williams

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    Look Homeward, Angel
    by Thomas Wolfe

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