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Match the title to its author.

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Brighton Rock
1938
Middlesex
2002
A Perfect Day for Bananafish
1948
A House for Mr. Biswas
1961
Dubliners
1914
The Myth of Sisyphus
1942 (Le mythe de Sisyphe)
Disgrace
1999
Rameau's Nephew, or the Second Satire
Probably written between 1761 and 1774; first published in German translation in 1805 (Le Neveu de Rameau ou La Satire seconde)
Good-Bye to All That
1929
The City in History
1961
Man's Search for Meaning
1946
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
1883-1885 (in four volumes, published serially) (Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen)
Steppenwolf
1927 (Der Steppenwolf)
The Waning of the Middle Ages
1919 (Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen)
Poetics
c. 335 BCE (Περὶ ποιητικῆς)
Gravity's Rainbow
1973
Fear and Trembling
1843 (Frygt og Bæven)
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
1871
The Feminine Mystique
1963
Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology
1943 (L'Être et le néant : Essai d'ontologie phénoménologique)
Albert Camus
Aristotle
Betty Friedan
Denis Diderot
Friedrich Nietzsche
Graham Greene
Herman Hesse
J. D. Salinger
J. M. Coetzee
James Joyce
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jeffrey Eugenides
Johan Huizinga
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Mumford
Robert Graves
Søren Kierkegaard
Thomas Pynchon
V. S. Naipaul
Victor E. Frankl
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