English literature
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
The Grapes of Wrath
Saint Joan
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
When We Were Orphans
Watership Down
The separation
Never Let Me Go
Midnight's Children
Watt
The seven moons of Maali Almeida
An Artist of the Floating World
American Gods
The Jungle Book
Disgrace
The Second Jungle Book
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Possession
Atonement
Americanah
The old devils
Last orders
The Handmaid's Tale
Human Society in Ethics and Politics
Rosewater
Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)
Othello
The Sign of Four
The Lost World
Tender is the Night
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