Books Before Twenty Page 2
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| Crane, Stephen |
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RED BADGE OF COURAGE
(Brilliant classic of the Civil War) |
| Defoe, Daniel |
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ROBINSON CRUSOE (Shipwrecked
mariner who lived alone 28 years) |
| Dickens, Charles |
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DAVID COPPERFIELD (Semi-autobiographical,
Dickens' best work) |
| Dickens, Charles |
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A TALE OF TWO CITIES
(Bloody turmoil of Revolutionary France) |
| Dostoevsky, Fyodor |
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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
(Study of the workings of conscience) |
| Douglas, Lloyd. |
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THE ROBE (The influence
of Christ's robe) |
| Dumas, Alexandre |
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THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
(Adventure & romance in the 18th century) |
| Hardy, Thomas |
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THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE
(Influence of nature on human character) |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES
(Consequences of past mistakes) |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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THE SCARLET LETTER (Puritan
soul undergoes remorse and expiation) |
| Homer |
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THE ILIAD (Great epic
of the siege of Troy) 863 H75p |
| Homer |
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THE ODYSSEY (Odysseus'
adventures) 883 H76L |
| Hugo, Victor |
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HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
(Strange tale of medieval life) |
| Hugo, Victor |
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LES MISERABLES (Panorama
of 19th century French life) |
| James, Henry |
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THE TURN OF THE SCREW
(A startling pseudo-ghost story) |
| Maugham, W. Somerset
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OF HUMAN BONDAGE (A
story of a frustrated career) |
| Melville, Herman |
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MOBY DICK (Pursuit of
a great white whale) |
| Rolvaag, Ole |
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GIANTS IN THE EARTH
(Norwegian Immigrants in Dakota) |
| Scott, Sir Walter |
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IVANHOE (England at
the time of Richard the Lionhearted) |
| Sienkievicz, Henry |
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QUO VADIS (Early Christian
martyrs) |
| Swift, Jonathan |
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GULLIVER'S TRAVELS (Satires
of man's irrational inhumanity) |
| Thackeray, William |
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VANITY FAIR (London
society in the 19thcentury) |
| Thoreau, Henry |
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WALDEN (Life in the
woods and thoughts thereon) 818 T48wa |
| Tolstoy, Leo |
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WAR AND PEACE (The epic
of Napoleon's invasion of Russia) |
| Twain, Mark |
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THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY
FINN (Boy's epic of the Mississippi) |
| Twain, Mark |
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A CONNECTICUT YANKEE
IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT 817 T97c |
| Twain, Mark |
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THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER
(Historical novel, Henry VIII's England) |
| Wallace, Lew |
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BEN HUR (Adventures
of the Jewish hero who vas converted) |
| Wharton, Edith |
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ETHAN FROME (A small
classic tragedy) |
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