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Ruth Hall A Domestic Tale of the Present TIme

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Buddenbrooks — Thomas Mann

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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

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The House of the Dead

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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Girl with a Pearl Earring — Tracy Chevalier

Girl with a Pearl Earring

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Big Sur (Penguin Ink) — Jack Kerouac

Big Sur (Penguin Ink)

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Agnes Grey — Anne Brontë

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Go Tell it on the Mountain — James Baldwin

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Inseparable A Never-before-published Novel — Simone de Beauvoir

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Sir Dominick Ferrand — Henry James

Sir Dominick Ferrand

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The History of Mr. Polly — H. G. Wells

The History of Mr. Polly

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Oroonoko — Aphra Behn

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Inseparable A Novel — Simone de Beauvoir

Inseparable A Novel

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W Or The Memory of Childhood — Georges Perec

W Or The Memory of Childhood

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Helena — Evelyn Waugh

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The Way of All Flesh — Samuel Butler

The Way of All Flesh

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The Day of the Locust — Nathanael West

The Day of the Locust

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Lark Rise to Candleford A Trilogy — Flora Thompson

Lark Rise to Candleford A Trilogy

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If Roughing It by Mark Twain is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Biographical, Classics, Literary and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Virginia Woolf, Jack Kerouac, Fanny Fern, Thomas Mann, and others.

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