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Plot
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Answer
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Play
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Romance blossoms between two Italian youths from feuding families
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
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Novel
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A fireman becomes disillusioned with his role of censoring literature and destroying knowledge, eventually quitting his job and committing himself to the preservation of literary and cultural writings
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Fahrenheit 451
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Novel
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A group of prepubescent British boys are stranded on an uninhabited island and they disastrously attempt to govern themselves, eventually descending into savagery
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Lord of the Flies
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Novella
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A young Californian woman begins to embrace a conspiracy theory as she possibly unearths a centuries-old feud between two mail distribution companies
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The Crying of Lot 49
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Novel
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A young Southern girl's father, who is a lawyer, represents a Black man accused of rape due to his race in court during the Great Depression
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Novel
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An unnamed protagonist in Surrey and his younger brother escape to Tillingham in Essex as London and Southern England are invaded by extraterrestrials
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The War of the Worlds
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Novel
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A Native American teenager who lives on the Spokane Indian Reservation decides to go to a nearly all-white public high school away from the reservation
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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Novella
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Two displaced migrant ranch workers move from place to place in California while searching for jobs during the Great Depression
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Of Mice and Men
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Novella
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A group of anthropomorphic animals rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy
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Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
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Play
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A dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1692 to 1693
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The Crucible
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Novel
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A woman is forcibly assigned to produce children for the ruling class in a patriarchal, totalitarian theonomic state in New England
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The Handmaid's Tale
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Novel
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A Black woman "[ripens] from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny"
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Novella
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A Victorian scientist travels to the year 802,701
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The Time Machine
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Novella
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A parable about man’s purpose as well as greed, the defiance of societal norms, and evil through the perspective of a Mexican pearl diver
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The Pearl
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Novel
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A collection of discourses by a religious profit on a wide variety of subjects, most of which end with a refrain that mirrors the title
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
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Play
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A brave Scottish general receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland; consumed by ambition and spurred to violence by his wife, he then murders the king and takes the Scottish throne for himself
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
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Narrative poem
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A hero of the Geats comes to the aid of the king of the Danes, whose mead hall has been under attack by a monster for twelve years
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Beowulf
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Novel
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A wealthy, narcissistic, and vain Manhattan investment banker lives a double life as a serial killer
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American Psycho
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Novel
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A diligent mid-level worker, who secretly hates the ruling party and dreams of rebellion, begins an illegal relationship with a female colleague and they learn about a shadowy resistance group
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Play
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A Black family in south Chicago attempts to improve their financial circumstances with an insurance payout following the death of their father and faces housing discrimination, racism, and cultural assimilation
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A Raisin in the Sun
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Novella
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A salesman wakes to find himself inexplicably transformed into a "monstrous vermin" and struggles to adjust to this condition, as does his family
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The Metamorphosis
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Play
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A story set in 1940s Brooklyn that is told through a montage of memories, dreams, and arguments of a travelling salesman who is despondent with his life and appears to be slipping into senility
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Death of a Salesman
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Play
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A married woman in 1870s Norway lacks reasonable opportunities for self-fulfillment in a male-dominated world
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A Doll's House
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Play
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After a new Theban ruler orders the public honoring of one of his nephews and the public shaming of another, their sister defies her uncle's rule and buries the body of the "traitor"
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Antigone
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Novel
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A series of vignettes tell the story of a 12-year-old Chicana girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago over the span of one year in her life, as she enters adolescence and begins to face the realities of life as a young woman in a poor and patriarchal community
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The House on Mango Street
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Novella
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A sailor tells his listeners the story of his assignment as steamer captain for a Belgian company in the African interior
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Heart of Darkness
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Novel
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A Yale University alumnus and World War I veteran recounts his interactions with a mysterious millionaire who has an obsession to reunite with his former lover during the Jazz Age on Long Island
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The Great Gatsby
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Play
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An orphan girl escapes her abusive orphanage and wins the heart of a billionaire during the Great Depression
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Annie
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