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1
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Clement C. Moore

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“The Night Before Christmas” poem (1823)

2
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Eugene O’Neill

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The Iceman Cometh play (1946)

3
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everyone is waiting on an important arrival of Theodore “Hickey” Hickman at the hotel/saloon

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The Iceman Cometh play (1946)

4
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Thorton Wilder

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Our Town play (1938)

5
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Romance and marriage of George Gibbs and other average town citizens in Grovers Corners, New Hampshire

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Our Town play (1938)

6
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uses no set or props

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Our Town play (1938)

7
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Henry Wadsworth

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“Paul Revere’s Ride” poem (1860)

8
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James Matthew Barrie

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Peter Pan (1904)

9
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the national poet in Britain. Such names as Geoffrey Chaucer, William Wordsworth, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Composes official poetry for public occasions or the king/queen’s birthday.

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poet laureate

10
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George Bernard Shaw

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Pygmalion play (1912)

11
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based on Greek story of _____ falling in love with the statue of a woman, which then came to life

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Pygmalion play (1912)

12
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Henry Higgins trains Eliza Doolittle to act and speak like a lady

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Pygmalion play (1912)

13
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Ayn Rand

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Fountainhead (1943)

14
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Howard Roark, based on Frank Lloyd Wright

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Fountainhead (1943)

15
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Gary Cooper played Howard Roark in the 1949 film

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Fountainhead (1943)

16
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Genius architect struggles to maintain his integrity (modern architecture) in the face of pressure towards mediocrity (traditional architecture)

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Fountainhead (1943)

17
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Ayn Rand

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Atlas Shrugged (1957)

18
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John Galt

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Atlas Shrugged (1957)

19
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dystopian US where society’s wealthiest citizens refuse high taxes and shut down their industries.

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Atlas Shrugged (1957)

20
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Stephen Crane

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The Red Badge of Courage (1895)

21
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Private Henry Fleming

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The Red Badge of Courage (1895)

22
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a young man whose romantic notions of heroism in combat are shattered when he fights in the Civil War, is brave

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The Red Badge of Courage (1895)

23
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Alex Haley

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Roots (1976)

24
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traces a black American man’s heritage to Africa, where his ancestors had been captured and sold as slaves.

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Roots (1976)

25
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Salman Rushdie

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The Satanic Verses (1988)

26
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caused a huge backlash in Muslim community, including a death sentence from Ayatollah Khomeini for the author

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The Satanic Verses (1988)

27
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controversial book in which 2 Indian actors are transformed into archangel and devil after a plane bombing

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The Satanic Verses (1988)

28
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Sir Walter Scott

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Ivanhoe (1819)

29
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Robin Hood helps King Richard I (dressed as the black knight) rescue this title knight and Rowena

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Ivanhoe (1819)

30
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title character is torn between Rebecca and the Saxon Lady Rowena, marries Rowena

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Ivanhoe (1819)

31
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features Robin Hood and Friar Tuck

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Ivanhoe (1819)

32
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James Thurber

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“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” story (1939)

33
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a husband constantly leads a boring life; imagines himself in extraordinary situations like a heroic pilot during wartime, a world-famous surgeon, and a soldier who can face a firing squad without fear.

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“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” story (1939)

34
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James Hilton

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Lost Horizon (1933)

35
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contains the fictional Tibetan land of eternal youth Shangri-La

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Lost Horizon (1933)

36
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John Steinbeck

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East of Eden (1952)

37
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story of good and evil featuring The Trasks and the Hamiltons

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East of Eden (1952)

38
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Salinas Valley in California

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East of Eden (1952)

39
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After killing Abel, Cain was banished to “Nod” located ____

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East of Eden (1952)

40
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later made into a movie in James Dean’s debut, & directed by Elia Kazan

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East of Eden (1952)

41
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book of children’s poetry by Robert Louis Stevenson

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A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885)

42
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musical based on “The Taming of the Shrew”, title comes from a line in that play

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Kiss Me, Kate play (1949)

43
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Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Tarzan novels (1912-1965)

44
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Mark Twain memoirs where he recounts learning to pilot steamboats

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Life on the Mississippi (1883)

45
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Edward VI was the prince

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The Prince and the Pauper (1881)

46
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rich kid and a poor kid trade places

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The Prince and the Pauper (1881)

47
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William Makepeace Thackeray

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Vanity Fair (1847)

48
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Becky Sharp, an unscrupulous woman, gains wealth and influence by her cleverness

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Vanity Fair (1847)

49
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made into a movie starring Reese Witherspoon

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Vanity Fair (1847)

50
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Kurt Vonnegut

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Cat’s Cradle (1963)

51
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named after a kid’s game, but deals with the end of life on Earth

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Cat’s Cradle (1963)

52
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Alice Walker

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The Color Purple (1982)

53
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Oprah Winfrey made her film debut in a movie based on this novel, also became a Broadway play

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The Color Purple (1982)

54
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T.S. Eliot

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The Waste Land poem (1922)

55
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Edith Wharton

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The Age of Innocence (1920)

56
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In 1870’s New York society, Newland Archer marries May Welland, but falls in love with Ellen Olenska

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The Age of Innocence (1920)

57
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later made into a movie starring Daniel Day Lewis, Winona Ryder, and Michelle Pheifer, directed by Margin Scorsese

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The Age of Innocence (1920)

58
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Oscar Wilde

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The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)

59
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Oscar Wilde

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“The Importance of Being Earnest” play (1895)

60
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comedy about their use of this fake first name

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“The Importance of Being Earnest” play (1895)

61
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later made into a movie starring Reese Witherspoon, Judi Dench, and Colin Firth

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“The Importance of Being Earnest” play (1895)

62
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Tennessee Williams

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The Glass Menagerie play (1944)

63
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refers to Laura Wingfield’s collection of animal figurines, the “Gentlemen Caller” Jim accidentally breaks the horn off her prized unicorn while dancing with her

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The Glass Menagerie play (1944)

64
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made into a movie starring Katharine Hepburn

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The Glass Menagerie play (1944)

65
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Amanda, Tom, & the fragile Laura Wingfield

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The Glass Menagerie play (1944)

66
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Tennessee Williams

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A Streetcar Named Desire play (1947)

67
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Tennessee Williams

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof play (1955)

68
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Big Daddy Pollitt, a wealthy cotton tycoon and Brick his son, and Maggie the “Cat”, Brick’s wife, family members fight for Big Daddy’s money

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof play (1955)

69
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later made into a movie starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof play (1955)

70
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means to be extremely nervous or agitated

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof play (1955)

71
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Kenneth Grahame

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The Wind in the Willows (1908)

72
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Mr. Toad, Mole, Rat, and their friend Badger

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The Wind in the Willows (1908)

73
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Alexandre Dumas

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The Count of Monte Cristo (1844)

74
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Edmond Dantes

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The Count of Monte Cristo (1844)

75
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a man is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes from jail, acquires a fortune, and gets revenge on those who wronged him (but things go badly for the innocent as well as the guilty)

A

The Count of Monte Cristo (1844)

76
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man is imprisoned in Chateau ‘If for carrying letters from Elba to Paris for Napoleon

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The Count of Monte Cristo (1844)

77
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Alexandre Dumas

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The Three Musketeers (1844)

78
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Athos, Porthos, and Aramis (and then d’Artagnan)

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The Three Musketeers (1844)

79
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

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Communist Manifesto (1848)

80
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Crime and Punishment (1866)

81
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Raskolnikov

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Crime and Punishment (1866)

82
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impoverished ex-student formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker (and her sister) with an axe for her cash, justifies it by using cash for good and to prove that people are capable of murder, tortures him but he eventually confesses

A

Crime and Punishment (1866)

83
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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The Idiot (1868)

84
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innocent and naive Prince Myshkin suffers from epilepsy, loves two women, disaster happens, goes back to the sanatorium

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The Idiot (1868)

85
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky, died shortly after

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The Brothers Karamazov (1880)

86
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unhappy sons with distant father, one of them kills him

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The Brothers Karamazov (1880)

87
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Alyosha, Ivan (the good one), Dmitri (falsely accused) & Smerdyakov (killed him)

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The Brothers Karamazov (1880)

88
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John Kennedy Toole, received a posthumous Pullitzer after committing suicide

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A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)

89
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Ignatius J. Reilly is an educated but slothful 30 year old man who lives with his mother in New Orleans

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A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)

90
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Elie Wiesel

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Night (1955)

91
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part of trilogy of Holocaust memoirs from a concentration camp survivor

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Night (1955)

92
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William Golding

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Lord of the Flies (1954)

93
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Frances Hodgson Burnett

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The Secret Garden (1911)

94
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Marry Lennox finds a key that opens the Secret Garden

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The Secret Garden (1911)

95
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E.B. White

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Charlotte’s Web (1952)

96
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pig becomes friends with a spider, spider saves pig, spider dies

A

Charlotte’s Web (1952)

97
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E.B. White

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Stuart Little (1945)

98
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Gason Leroux

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Phantom of the Opera novel (1910)

99
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Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Phantom of the Opera play (1986)

100
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Christine

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Phantom of the Opera play (1986)

101
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The Opera Ghost loves Christine, lurks in a lake underneath the Paris Opera House

A

Phantom of the Opera play (1986)

102
Q

longest running show in Broadway history

A

Phantom of the Opera play (1986)

103
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Andrew Lloyd Webber

A

Cats play (1981)

104
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Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Jesus Christ Superstar play (1971)

105
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Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Evita play (1976)

106
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Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1973)

107
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Victor Hugo

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831)

108
Q

Quasimodo love Esmeralda, she loves a soldier, she is executed, he dies of starvation next to her corpse

A

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831)

109
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Jane Austen

A

Mansfield Park (1814)

110
Q

Jane Austen

A

Northanger Abbey (1817)

111
Q

Jane Austen

A

Persuasion (1818)

112
Q

Ray Bradbury

A

Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

113
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Guy Montag is a fireman whose job is to burn books

A

Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

114
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“It was a pleasure to burn”

A

Fahrenheit 451 (1953)