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61) A tramp abroad
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Earliest Publication Date
1901
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"A Tramp Abroad" is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe. While the stated goal of the journey is to walk most of the way, the men find themselves using other forms...
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Earliest Publication Date
2002
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Earliest Publication Date
1965
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64) Bleak House
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Earliest Publication Date
1853
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Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed. Bleak House defies a single description. It...
65) Caballo de Troya
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Earliest Publication Date
2000
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Se narran las aventuras de dos militares norteamericanos que realizan varios viajes en el tiempo para presenciar y recoger informaciaon histaorica sobre la vida de Jesaus de Nazareth. Para lograr este objetivo los exploradores (primero saolo uno de ellos y luego ambos) ingresan al grupo maas cercano de Jesaus y se interrelacionan con personajes histaoricos vinculados a su vida.
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Earliest Publication Date
2004
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Earliest Publication Date
1999
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68) Coriolanus
Earliest Publication Date
1987
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The last of Shakespeare's tragedies, in which Coriolanus, a strong and cruel soldier, brings about his own downfall through the flaws in his character.
69) Cymbeline
Earliest Publication Date
1901
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Cymbeline tells the story of a British king, Cymbeline, and his three children, presented as though they are in a fairy tale. The secret marriage of Cymbeline's daughter, Imogen, triggers much of the action, which includes villainous slander, homicidal jealousy, cross-gender disguise, a deathlike trance, and the appearance of Jupiter in a vision. Kidnapped in infancy, Cymbeline's two sons are raised in a Welsh cave. As young men, they rescue a starving...
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Earliest Publication Date
1907
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David Copperfield enjoys an idyllic life with his gentle, widowed mother and his loving nurse, Peggotty. Then tragedy strikes when Mr. Murdstone weds David's mother and drives her to an early grave. Despised by his stepfather, the boy is forced to live in misery and poverty until he runs away to throw himself upon the mercy of his eccentric aunt. Charles Dickens's classic tale of growing up.
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Earliest Publication Date
1927
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In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows--gently, although he must contend with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Out of these events...
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Earliest Publication Date
2000
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1975
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Earliest Publication Date
1996
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1948
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Earliest Publication Date
2005
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78) Hamlet
Earliest Publication Date
1901
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"One of the most frequently read and performed of all stage works, Shakespeare's Hamlet is unsurpassed in its complexity and richness. Now the most extensively annotated version of Hamlet to date makes the play completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century. It has been carefully assembled with students, teachers, and the general reader in mind." "Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers generous help with vocabulary and...
79) Hamlet
Earliest Publication Date
1987
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A dramatization of William Shakespeare's play entitled Hamlet designed especially for education, training and information purposes only.
Earliest Publication Date
2000
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A Danish prince avenges the murder of his father, the king, by killing his uncle Claudius who murdered the king, usurped the throne, and married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. Hamlet, considered the most complex of all Shakespeare's characters, examines the fundamental issues of justice, guilt, and death.
