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Summary: This work delineates in graphic detail events leading up to the French invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families.
Characters: Count Pyotr Kirillovich (Pierre) Bezukhov, Prince Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky, Princess Maria Nikolayevna Bolkonskaya, etc. |
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy |
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Summary: Cide Hamete Benengeli tells the story of Alonso Quixano who becomes obsessed with tales of chivalry and embarks upon several quests, notably involving windmills.
Characters: Alonso Quixano, Rocinante (horse), Aldonza Lorenzo (Dulcinea del Toboso), Sancho Panza |
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Don Quixote (de la mancha)
Miguel de Cervantes |
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Summary: This work chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin
Characters: Leopold Bloom, Molly Bloom, Simon Dedalus, Stephen Dedalus, Patrick "Patty" Dignam, Buck Mulligan, Father John Conmee |
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Summary: This work is a passionate philosophical novel that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and reason, set against a modernizing Russia
Characters: Pavel Fyodorovich Smerdyakov, Agrafena Alexandrovna Svetlova, Katerina Ivanovna Verkhovtseva, Father Zosima (the Elder), Ilyusha |
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The Brothers Karamazov
Feodor Dostoevsky |
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Summary: In this work, a crazed captain of the whaling ship Pequod quests for a white whale.
Characters: Ishmael, Captain Ahab, Queequeg |
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Summary: Hans Castorp visits his cousin in a sanatorium in Switzerland shortly before World War I. Castorp refers to his previously life of shipbuilding as "The Flatlands". Castorp stays in the sanatorium for seven years after being diagnosed with TB and eventually joins the army.
Characters: Hans Castorp, James Tienappel, Joachim Ziemssen, Hofrat Behrens, Madame Clavdia Chauchat |
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Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann |
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Summary: The titular protagonist is the son of the emperor, but has not been recognized of royal status because he lacks the backing of the court. This is considered the first novel.
Characters: The Shining Prince, Kiritsubo Lady, Kiritsubo Emperor, Suzaku |
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The Tale of Gengi
Murasaki Shikabu |
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Summary: Because of affairs, the Oblonsky family has been torn apart and the titular character has been sent to mediate. This titular character competes with Kitty for the love of Count Vronsky and commits suicide by throwing herself under a train
Characters: Count Vronsky, Prince Stepen Oblonsky (Stiva), Princess Darya Oblonskaya (Dolly), Princess Ekaterina Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya ("Kitty") |
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Summary: Widow Douglas and Miss Watson attempt to civilize the main character. The titular character runs away to escape his "proper life" and beatings from his drunken father. He meets runaway slave Jim and they travel down the Mississippi River.
Characters: Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, Jim, Pap, duke, dauphin, Judge Thatcher, Tom Sawyer |
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |
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Summary: A young orphan, Pip, is confronted by a convict. He falls in love with Estell at Miss Havasham's house. He leads an undisciplined life in London with Herbert.
Characters: Pip, Estella, Miss Havisham, Abel Magwitch (The convict), Joe Gargery, Jaggers, Herbert Pocket |
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens |
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Summary: This work tells the rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen, told entirely in flashback. He attempts to place himself in the aristocracy of Jefferson, Mississippi. He starts this quest by buying a portion of land from an indian tribe.
Characters: Thomas Sutpen, Charles Bon, Ellen Coldfield Sutland, Wash Jones, Shreve |
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Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner |
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Summary: This work is about the town of Macondo which has been isolated from society for a long time. The Buendia clan dwells in the town.
Characters: José Arcadio Buendía, Úrsula Iguarán, Amaranta, Rebeca |
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien Años de Solitud)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
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Summary: Nick Carraway tells the story of the titular eccentric billionaire. Carraway becomes interested in his titular neighbor and discovers his previously love interest Daisy Buchanan.
Characters: Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan |
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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Summary: The Ramsy family travel to a house on the coast of Hebrides and James Ramsay wants to travel to the titular place. Later in the novel, the Ramsays host a party. This novel is comprised of three sections: The Window, Time Passes, The ______
Characters: Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay, Lily Briscoe, James Ramsay |
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To The Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf |
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Summary: Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov plans and commits the murder of a pawn broker because he is "better" than ordinary people. He attempts to protect his sister from her various suitors while his himself falls in love with a prostitute and confesses to her. He befriends Marmeladov.
Characters: Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, Sofya Semyonovna Marmeladov , Avdotya Romanovna Raskolnikov, Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov, Marmeladov |
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Crime and Punishment
Feodor Dostoevsky |
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Summary: This work is told in four parts from different views non-chronologically. It's about the Compson's family's demise in the reconstructionist era of the South.
Characters: Jason Compson III, Caroline Compson, Miss Quentin |
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The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner |
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Summary: In this work, the narrator does not literally have the titular condition but feels as if he does because of the way society views them. The narrator must endure a "battle royale" and eventually does go to college.
Characters: Brother Jack, Todd Clifton, The Exhorter |
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison |
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Summary: This work has two central stories. In the first, the protagonist is conceived, born, christened, and accidentally circumsized. The second plot line discusses the fortunes of the protagonist's uncle, Toby. Throughout the nine volumes, the protagonist endures many catastrophes.
Characters: Walter, Elizabeth, Captain Toby, Corporal Trim |
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Tristam Shandy
Laurence Sterne |
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Summary: The protagonist learns that even though her family are poor farm people, they are the descendants of the rich. The protagonist goes to live in a mansion with a family of the same name as her famous lineage. Alec takes advantage of the protagonist who spends much time doing different jobs until she kills Alec.
Characters: Angel Clare, Alec, Mr. John Durbeyfield, Mrs. Joan Durbeyfield |
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy |
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Summary: Stephen Dedalus casts away all aspects of his life so he can pursue a
life of writing.
Characters: Stephen Dedalus, Simon Dedalus, Mr. John Casey |
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce |
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Summary: This work is about the love between Heathcliff and Cathy Earnshaw and their ties with a manor. Most of this story is told in flashback to a man who recently purchased Thrushcross Grange.
Characters: Heathcliff, Catherine Earnshaw, Nelly Dean |
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte |
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Summary: The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England.
Characters: Elizabeth Bennett, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Jane Bennet |
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen |
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Summary: Hester Prynne is forced to wear a red "A" on her clothing to show that she is an adulterer.
Characters: Hester Prynne, Pearl, Roger Chillingworth, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale |
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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Summary: The story is about an Italian sailor, who was enthralled with a life filled with careless adventures and the quest for glory. It takes place in silver mining town Sulaco
Characters: Señor Gould, Giovanni Battista Fidanza, Montero |
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Summary: This work is based upon the life of slave Sethe and begins with the line "Sixty million and more" referring to the number of slaves that died in the slave trade.
Characters: Sethe, Denver, Paul D |
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Summary: Clyde Griffiths if the protagonist of this work. Clyde kills Roberta as to prevent her from ruining his chances with Sondra. Clyde dies on the electric chair.
Characters: Clyde Griffiths, Hortense Briggs, Sondra Finchley, Roberta Alden |
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An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser |
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Summary: Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed with a twelve year old girl. The narrator is unreliable.
Characters: Humbert Humbert, Dolores Haze, Annabel Leigh |
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Summary: In this work, the protagonist is forced to live with her aunt. She eventually saves Mr. Rochester and marries him.
Characters: Mr. Rochester, St. John Rivers, Mrs. Reed |
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte |
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Summary: Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of sharecroppers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in financial and agricultural industries. Due to their nearly hopeless situation, and in part because they were trapped in the Dust Bowl, the Joads set out for California. Along with thousands of other "Okies", they sought jobs, land, dignity and a future.
Characters: Tom Joad, Ma Joad, Pa Joad, Jim Casy |
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck |
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Summary: In this work, Newland Archer has just married May Welland, but when Countess Ellen Olenska comes and wears racy clothing, trouble stirs.
Characters: Newland Archer, Countess Ellen Olenska, May Welland, Mrs. Manson Mingott |
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The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton |
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Summary: In this work, Dr. Aziz attempts to be friends with an English woman. Cyril Fielding would like the Indians to be more civilized in this work. Ms. Adela Quested and Mrs. Moore travel to this titular place.
Characters: Dr. Aziz, Cyril Fielding, Ms. Adela Quested, Mrs. Moore |
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A Passage to India
E.M.Foster |
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Summary: The story concerns a small-time criminal, Franz Biberkopf, fresh from prison, who is drawn into the underworld. When his criminal mentor murders the prostitute whom Biberkopf has been relying on as an anchor, he realizes that he will be unable to extricate himself from the underworld into which he has sunk.
Characters: Franz Biberkopf |
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Berlin Alexanderplatz
Alfred Doblin |
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Summary: This work is semi-autobiographical and takes place during the Italian campaigns of World War I.
Characters: Frederic Henry, Catherine Barkley, Rinaldi |
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A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway |
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Summary: The protagonist spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Native Americans, captives and mutineers before being rescued.
Characters: Friday, The Portuguese captain, The Spaniard |
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Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe |
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Summary: In this work, the protagonist travels around the world and experiences many hardships. It is told in a sarcastic tone. The story starts in Westphalia Germany where the protagonist is taught by an optimist philosopher.
Characters: The Old Woman, Miss Cunegonde, Pangloss |
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Summary: Janie Crawford tells her story in three parts according to her three different husbands.
Characters: Janie Crawford, Tea Cake, Jody Starks, Logan Killicks |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston |
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Summary: In this work, Big Brother is watching you...and Winston Smith. Newspeak prevents people from speaking poorly about the government.
Characters: Winston Smith, Julia, O’Brien, Big Brother |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell |
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Summary: This work is about the Northern Native Americans that were utilized by the French in the French and Indian war.
Characters: Magua, Chingachgook, Uncas |
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The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper |
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Summary: This anti-slavery novel focuses on a man who's farm is failing and a slave.
Characters: Aunt Chloe, Arthur Shelby, George Harris, Miss Ophelia |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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Summary: It follows the lives and interactions of several French characters over a seventeen-year period in the early nineteenth century, starting in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion.
Characters: Jean Valjean, Cosette, Javert, Fantine |
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Les Miserables
Victor Hugo |
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Summary: This work is about Dean Moriarty's escapades throughout America.
Characters: Dean Moriarty, Sal Paradise, Carlo Marx, Marylou |
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Summary: The doctor creates a monster out of many different parts of people and the townsfolk attack it
Characters: The Monster, Robert Walton |
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Summary: In this work, Holden Caulfield wonders around New York and complains about the "phonies"
Characters: Holden Caulfield, Ackley, Stradlater |
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The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger |
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Summary: This work recounts the quest of D'Artagnan to become a specific type of guard.
Characters: Athos, Porthos, Aramis, D'Artagnon |
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The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas |
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Summary: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate an animal that leads people to almost commit murder.
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Mortimer |
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The Hound of Baskervilles
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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Summary: Scarlett O'Hara who lives on a plantation becomes obsessed Rhett Butler and the land. The end of this novel is the civil war.
Characters: Scarlet O'Hara, Rhett Butler, Ashley Wilkes |
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Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell |
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Summary: Napoleon the pig helps run an attempt at a utopia for certain creatures after an uprising against Mr. Jones.
Characters: Napoleon, Snowball, Mr. Jones, Boxer, Squealer, Old Major |
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Summary: These stories are told by several pilgrims going to church.
Characters: The Wife of Bath, The Knight, The Pardoner, The Miller |
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The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer |
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Summary: Atticus Finch defends a black man in Maycomb. Jem and Scout are fascinated with Boo Radley who doesn't come out until the end.
Characters: Atticus Finch, Jean Louis (Scout) Finch, Jem Finch, Mr. Ewell, Tom, Boo Radley |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee |
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Summary: This epic work follows the protagonist trying to make his way home after the Trojan War
Characters: Telemachus, Penelope, Athena, Poseidon |
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Summary: This novel focuses on the dispute between King Agamemnon and the Warrior Achilles and takes place during the Trojan War.
Characters: Achilles, Agamemnon, Patroclus |
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Summary: This work is about a group of fighter pilots in World War II.
Characters: Yossarian, Milo Minderbinder, Doc Daneeka, Major Major Major Major, Lieutenant Scheisskopf |
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Summary: This work is about two ranch workers trying to survive in the Great Depression. Lenny is mentally disabled and George must care for him.
Characters: George Milton, Lennie Small, Candy, Curley |
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Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck |
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Summary: This work is about several young boys who become stranded on an island and they attempt to govern themselves. Eventually, the deus ex machina comes in the form of a helicopter that saves them
Characters: Ralph, Jack, Simon, Piggy |
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Lord of the Flies
William Golding |
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Summary: Several children stumble upon a magical kingdom in a piece of furniture
Characters: Peter, Lucy, Edmund, Susan, Aslan, The White Witch |
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The Chronicles of Narnia
C.S. Lewis |
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Summary: In this work, Frodo Baggins goes on a quest to destroy a magic ring that turns it's wearer invisible. This story takes place in Middle Earth.
Characters: Frodo Baggins, Aragorn, Gandalph, Legolas |
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The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkein |
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Summary: The titular protagonist goes to Hogwarts to learn the art of wizardry and must defeat the evil Voldemort.
Characters: Harry Potter, Voldemort, Dumbledore, Ron Weasley, Hermoine Granger |
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Summary: This book is about the competition between Edward, a vampire, and Jacob, a werewolf, for the love of Bella
Characters: Bella, Edward, Jacob |
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Summary: In this work, Chief Bromden narrates the events occurring in a sanitarium after the arrival of Randle McMurphy who wishes to change the patients lives to be more involved.
Characters: Chief Bromden, Randle McMurphy, Nurse Ratched |
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey |
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Summary: The protagonist of this novel travels through time differently than normal people and the fire bombings of Dresden occur
Characters: Billy Pilgrim, Kurt Vonnegut, Bernhard V. O’Hare |
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. |
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