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1810s
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Three sisters and their widowed mother move from their family estate to a cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience both the joys and tribulations of love.
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Sense and Sensibility
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1820s
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After she and her sister are betrayed on the way to meet their father in the Adirondacks, a woman falls in love with one of the men who saved her—a white man who grew up among the Delaware Indians.
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The Last of the Mohicans
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1830s
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Various personal narratives, including marriages, death, and education, interact with the historical goings-on of the time in a fictional English town for which the novel is named.
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Middlemarch
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1840s
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After being wrongfully convicted of treason, a young man escapes prison and, with the aid of treasure left to him by a fellow inmate, takes revenge on the men who set him up.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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1850s
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The estranged son of an noble French family returns to France to save an old friend; there, he is imprisoned for his aristocratic heritage, and must rely on the help of his wife's father, himself a former inmate of the Bastille.
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A Tale of Two Cities
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1860s
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An idealistic former student struggles with guilt and paranoia after murdering an unscrupulous pawnbroker and her sister.
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Crime and Punishment
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1870s
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An orphan, living with his aunt and half-brother, grows up along the Mississippi River.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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1880s
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When a spirited young American woman inherits her late father's fortune, she is invited to England by her wealthy aunt, eventually agreeing to marry the third in a series of suitors, unaware that his proposal is ill-motivated.
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The Portrait of a Lady
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1890s
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An English cottager discovers that he is descended from Norman nobility and presses his daughter to "claim kin" of a rich widow bearing the ancient family's name.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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1900s
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A well-born but recently poor woman struggles to find a wealthy husband in New York high society, ruining her reputation and social standing in the process.
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The House of Mirth
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1910s
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A salesman living with his family wakes up one morning and finds himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect.
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The Metamorphosis
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1920s
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A well-off London woman spends the day preparing for a party she is throwing.
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Mrs Dalloway
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1930s
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The daughter of a plantation owner, hoping one day to win over the man she desires, makes a series of marriages and business decisions before, during, and after the Civil War, including wedding a roguish but wealthy smuggler.
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Gone With the Wind
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1940s
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Not long after his mother's death, a curiously unemotional resident of French Algeria kills an unnamed man in Algiers.
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The Stranger
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1950s
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An aging Cuban fisherman struggles to catch a giant marlin.
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The Old Man and the Sea
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1960s
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After being arrested for killing an old woman, a violent teenager undergoes an experimental process to make him averse to criminal activity.
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A Clockwork Orange
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1970s
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The son of a wealthy Black man in Michigan grows up and gains insight into American racial dynamics as he searches for supposed buried family treasure.
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Song of Solomon
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1980s
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A boy born at 12 am on August 15, 1947, discovers that all children born in India between 12 and 1 am on that date—the day of Indian independence—have special, superhuman powers.
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Midnight's Children
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1990s
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After holding a Dionysian bacchanal in the woods, a closely-knit group of classics students at a New England school decide to kill one of their own.
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The Secret History
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2000s
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An unnamed father travels with his young son, attempting to survive in the aftermath of an extinction event.
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The Road
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2010s
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A biologist joins a group of scientists as they explore a mysterious uncanny zone known only as Area X.
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Annihilation
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2020s
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A man lives alone in the halls of an infinitely large house, slowly putting together his forgotten past and the truth behind his world.
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Piranesi
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