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Great Literature #59

Match the author to the title of one of his or her works.

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Charles Webb
1963
Kālidāsa
4th–5th century CE (अभिज्ञानशाकुन्तलम्)
Barbara Ehrenreich
2001
Hendrik Conscience
1838 (De Leeuw van Vlaenderen, of de Slag der Gulden Sporen
Marguerite Yourcenar
1968 (L'Œuvre au noir)
Hanya Yanagihara
2015
Ross Macdonald
1962
Felix Timmermans
1916
Vercors (Jean Bruller)
1942 (Le Silence de la mer)
Richard Powers
2018
Sybille Bedford
1956
Antal Szerb
1937 (Utas és holdvilág)
Dorothy L. Sayers
1930
Eugenio Montale
1958 (“Su una lettera non scrittura”)
Larry Niven
1970
Jin Yong
2017. This is the first of four volumes that comprise an English translation of The Legend of the Condor Heroes (射鵰英雄傳), originally published in 1957, which in turn is the first part of The Condor Trilogy (射鵰三部曲)
Ernst Jünger
1920 (In Stahlgewittern)
Mahatma Gandhi
1928 (દક્ષિણ આફ્રિકામાં સત્યાગ્રહ)
Jens Peter Jacobson
1880
anonymous
betw. 1140 and 1207 (El Cantar de mio Cid)
A Hero Born
A Legacy
A Little Life
About an Unwritten Letter
Journey by Moonlight
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Niels Lyhne
Pallieter
Ringworld
Śakuntalā
Satyagraha in South Africa
Silence of the Sea (also: Put Out the Light)
Storm of Steel (also: In Storms of Steel)
Strong Poison
The Abyss (also: Zeno of Bruges)
The Graduate
The Lion of Flanders
The Overstory
The Poem of the Cid
The Zebra-Striped Hearse
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