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Martin Amis (1949)

       

The Rachel Papers

 

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Dead Babies

 

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Success

 

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Other People: A Mystery Story

 

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Money: A Suicide Note

 

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Einstein's Monsters

 

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London Fields

 

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Time's Arrow

 

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The Information

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Sir Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995)

       

Lucky Jim

 

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The Green Man

 

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Jake's Thing

 

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The Old Devils

 

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Kate Atkinson (1951)

       

Behind the Scenes at the Museum

 

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Human Croquet

 

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Emotionally Weird

 

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Abandonment

 

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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)

 

Emma

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Sense and Sensibility

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Pride and Prejudice

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Mansfield Park

 

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Persuasion

 

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J.G. Ballard (1930)

 

The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard

 

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Concrete Island

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Crash

 

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Cocaine Nights

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Empire of the Sun

 

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The Drought

 

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Super-Cannes

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Anne Brontë (1820 - 1849)

 

Agnes Grey

 

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Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 1855)

 

Jane Eyre

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Shirley

 

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Villette

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Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848)

 

Wuthering Heights

 

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Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993)

 

A Clockwork Orange

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Fanny Burney (1752 - 1840)

 

Evelina: Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World

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Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

 

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

 

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Don Juan

One Heart

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The Corsair: A Tale

 

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Selected Poetry

 

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Thomas Carlyle 2 (1795 - 1881)

 

The French Revolution (3 volumes)

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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History

 

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The History of Friedrich II of Prussia,
Called Frederic The Great (6 volumes)

 

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Geoffrey Chaucer (1342/43 - 1400)

 

The Canterbury Tales

 

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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1953

 

Memoirs of the Second World War

 

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History of the English-speaking Peoples

 

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)

 

Selected Poetry

 

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Joseph Conrad 3 (1857 - 1924)

 

Nostromo

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Lord Jim

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Heart of Darkness

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The Secret Agent

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Victory: An Island Tale

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Jim Crace (1946)

       

Quarantine

Four Hearts

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Being Dead

 

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The Devil's Larder

 

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Continent

 

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The Signals of Distress

 

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The Gift of Stones

 

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Roald Dahl 4 (1916 - 1990)

 

The Gremlins

 

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Over To You

 

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Sometime Never

 

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Someone Like You

 

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The Honeys

 

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Kiss, Kiss

 

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James and the Giant Peach

 

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

 

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The Magic Finger

 

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Fantastic Mr. Fox

 

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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

 

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The Witches

 

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Switch Bitch

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Danny, The Champion of the World

 

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The Wonderful Story of Henry the Sugar and Six More

 

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My Oncle Oswald

 

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The Twits

 

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George's Marvelous Medicine

 

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Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731)

 

Moll Flanders

 

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Robinson Crusoe

 

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Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)

 

A Tale of Two Cities

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David Copperfield

 

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Oliver Twist

 

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The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewitt

 

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Bleak House

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John Dryden (1631 - 1700)

 

Virgil's Aeneid (trans. by J.D.) {Virgil: Roman, 70 BC - 19 BC}

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Virgil's Georgics (trans. by J.D.)

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Eclogues of Virgil (trans. by J.D.)

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All for Love

 

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Ovid's Metamorphoses (trans. by J.D.) {Ovid: Roman, 43 BC - AD 17}

 

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Plutarch's Lives (trans. by J.D.) {Plutarch: Greek, AD 46 - c. AD 119}

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Plays of John Dryden

 

 

 

 

 

Astraea Redux

 

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Annus Mirabilis

 

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The Hind and the Panther

 

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Eleonora

 

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Lawrence Durrell 5 (1912 - 1990)

 

The Alexandria Quartet (Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea)

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       Justine

 

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       Balthazar

 

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       Mountolive

 

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       Clea

 

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The Black Book

 

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George Eliot Mary Ann (Marian) Evans (1819 - 1880)

 

Silas Marner

 

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Daniel Deronda

 

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Romola

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Adam Bede

 

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Middlemarch

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The Mill on the Floss

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T. S. Eliot 6 (1888 - 1965)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1948

 

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

 

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The Waste Land

 

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The Family Reunion

 

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Murder in the Cathedral

 

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Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)

 

Joseph Andrews

 

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Tom Jones

Four Hearts

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Jonathan Wild

 

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Ford Madox Ford (1873 - 1939)

 

The Shifting of Fire

 

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Romance

 

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The Good Soldier : A Tale of Passion

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Parade's End

 

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The Call: The Tale of Two Passions

 

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Some Do Not

 

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Return to Yesterday

 

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No More Parades

 

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A Man Could Stand Up

 

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Fifth Queen

 

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Last Post

 

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E.M. Forster (1879 - 1970)

 

A Passage to India

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A Room with a View

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John Galsworthy (1867 - 1933)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1932

 

The Forsyte Saga

 

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      The Man of Property

 

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      Indian Summer of a Forsyte

 

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      In Chancery

 

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      Awakening

 

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      To Let

 

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A Modern Comedy

 

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      The White Monkey

 

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      The Silver Spoon

 

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      Swan Song

 

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Castles in Spain

 

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Flowering Wilderness

 

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The Country House

 

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The Patrician

 

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The Freelands

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Sir William Golding (1911 - 1993)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1983

 

Lord of the Flies

Five Hearts

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Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774)

 

Vicar of Wakefield

 

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Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)

 

I, Claudius

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Graham Greene (1904 - 1991)

 

Brighton Rock

 

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The Power and the Glory

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The Heart of the Matter

 

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A Burnt-out Case

Four Hearts

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The Quiet American

 

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Our Man in Havana

 

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The Comedians

 

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Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)

 

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Five Hearts

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Jude the Obscure

Four Hearts

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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)

 

Poems and Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Ted Hughes (1930 - 1998)

 

Crow

 

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Tales from Ovid

 

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Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)

 

Point Counter Point

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Brave New World

 

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Eyeless in Gaza

 

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The Devils of Loudun

 

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The Doors of Perception

 

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James I, King of England from 1603 to 1625 (1566 - 1625)

 

The King James Bible

Five Hearts

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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

 

The Lives of the Poets

 

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The Vanity of Human Wishes

 

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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

 

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Selected Poetry and Prose

 

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John Keats (1795 - 1821)

 

Endymion

 

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Sleep and Poetry

 

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The Complete Poems

 

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Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1907

 

Just So Stories

One Heart

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The Jungle Book

 

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Philip Larkin (1922 - 1985)

 

The Whitsun Weddings

 

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High Windows

 

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D.H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)

 

Lady Chatterley's Lover

 

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John Le Carre (1931)

 

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

 

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Five Hearts

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The Little Drummer Girl

 

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Doris Lessing (1919)

 

The Golden Notebook

 

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To Room Nineteen

 

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In Pursuit of the English

 

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Richard Llewellyn 7 (1906 - 1983)

 

How Green Was My Valley

 

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Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593)

 

Doctor Faustus

 

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William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)

 

The Moon and Sixpence

 

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Of Human Bondage

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The Narrow Corner

 

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Cakes and Ale

 

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Short Stories

 

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Ashenden

 

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Far Eastern Tales

 

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South Sea Tales

 

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For Services Rendered

 

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The Razor's Edge

Three and a half

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The Merry-Go-Round

 

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Don Fernando

 

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On a Chinese Screen

 

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The Painted Veil

 

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Catalina

 

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Up at the Villa

 

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Mrs Craddock

 

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The Casuarina Tree

 

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Christmas Holiday

 

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Liza of Lambeth

 

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The Magician

 

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Selected Plays

 

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Ian McEwan (1948)

 

Black Dogs

Four

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The Comfort of Strangers

 

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The Child in Time

 

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Enduring Love

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Amsterdam

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The Innocent

 

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The Cement Garden

 

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Atonement

 

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John Milton (1608 - 1674)

 

Paradise Lost

 

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David Mitchell (1969)

       

Ghostwritten

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Number9Dream

 

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Dame Iris Murdoch 8 (1919)

 

The Bell

 

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A Severed Head

 

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The Red and the Green

 

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The Nice and the Good

 

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The Black Prince

 

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Henry and Cato

 

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The Sea, the Sea

 

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The Philosopher's Pupil

 

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The Good Apprentice

 

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The Book and The Brotherhood

 

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The Message to the Planet

 

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Sir V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad) Naipaul 9 (1932)   Nobel Prize in Literature, 2001

 

The Mystic Masseur

 

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The Suffrage of Elvira

 

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Miguel Street

 

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A House for Mr. Biswas

Five

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In a Free State

 

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Guerrillas

 

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A Bend in the River

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The Mimic Men

 

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The Enigma of Arrival

 

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Beyond Belief

 

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Among the Believers

 

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Geoff Nicholson (1953)

       

Street Sleeper

 

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A Knot Garden

 

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What We Did On Our Holidays

 

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Hunters and Gatherers

 

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The Food Chain

 

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Still Life with Volkswagens

 

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The Errol Flynn Novel

 

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Everything and More

 

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Footsucker

 

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Bleeding London

 

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Flesh Guitar

 

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Female Ruins

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