BELOVED

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Toni Morrison (February 18, 1931) is an American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye...

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THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll , was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are...

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THE RAPE OF THE LOCK

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an 17th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the second-most...

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THE ROVER

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Aphra Behn (14 December 1640? – 16 April 1689) was a British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural...

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PARADISE LOST

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political...

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FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was an English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected...

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LYSISTRATA

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Aristophanes (c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaeum, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his thirty plays survive virtually complete. These, together with fragments of some of...

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