Guess the Book from the Plot

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Farmyard creatures overthrow their old masters, only to discover that the new ones are just as bad.

A man travels along the Congo with a trading company and becomes increasingly intrigued by stories of a man acting as a demigod over the African natives.

The Devil comes to Moscow with his minions and causes trouble; a young woman makes a deal with him to save her lover, who has written a novel set in biblical times.

The protagonist attempts to rebel but eventually comes to love the dystopian regime in charge of every aspect of their lives- even their thoughts.

English scholar pursues a sexual relationship with his 12 year old stepdaughter.

A gentleman sets out to restore chivalry to the world, along with his simple farmer sidekick.

A former student murders a pawnbroker and her half-sister in an attempt to resolve his financial troubles, then attempts to cover up the act.

A lawyer's children watch as he attempts to defend an innocent black man in the deep South.

A family caught in the Dust Bowl in the Great Depression set out to start a new life in California.

A cathedral bell-ringer attempts to save a beautiful gypsy woman from his obsessive adoptive father.

The story of several generations of a family in a small town in South America filled with incest, isolation and the ghosts of the past.

A man's three estranged legitimate sons come together after financial troubles and then become potential suspects in their father's murder.

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Follows the family of a child born at midnight on the day India's independence was declared.

Set between London and Paris in the time of the French Revolution, a cynical lawyer finds redemption by saving the husband of the woman he loves.

A French sailor spends years in prison plotting revenge on the men who framed him for a crime he did not commit.

Epic set ten years after the Trojan war, with a soldier's family awaiting his return while he battles mythological creatures and gods to return home.

A story told non-chronologically, with a World War II fighter pilot attempting to find a way out of a war riddled with paradoxes and deaths.

The lives and philosophies of a Czech surgeon, his wife, his lover, a Swiss professor and a dog in 1960s/1970s Europe.

A Danish prince contemplates murdering the uncle who killed his father and married his mother.

A man accused of an unknown crime fights to appeal for his freedom against a bureaucratic system.

A soldier in World War II witnesses the fire-bombing of Dresden and in later life is visited by aliens.

Books are outlawed in future America and book burning is commonplace; the protagonist joins a group of exiled book-lovers hoping to rebuild society.

A Moorish general marries an upper-class Venetian woman and is consumed by jealousy at the provocation of his cunning ensign.

A woman finds true love in her third marriage, only for her to have to kill him in self-defence after he is bitten by a rabid dog.