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Dream of the Red Chamber (aka The Story of the Stone)

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Dream of the Red Chamber (aka The Story of the Stone)

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Written during the Qing Dynasty, this book is about a sentient Stone who was abandoned by a goddess. This stone wants to see the world and is given a chance to learn from the human existence. One of China's Four Great Classical Novels, this book has a study solely dedicated to studying. Redology studies this book by Cao Xueqin.

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Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

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- written in seven days - Janie tells Phoeby about her three marriages - Tea Cake gets bitten by a rabid dog while protecting Janie - Janie kills Tea Cake when he goes mad and attacks her - a group of white women protect her from Tea Cake's black friends - the all white jury sets her free

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A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen)

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In this work, the protagonist has to work to keep a secret from her husband. The play opens on Christmas Eve and the whole play is set in the living room of the Helmers' house. It is later revealed that in this play that Nora forged her father's signature in order to take a trip to Italy so Torvald could recover from an illness. Nora leaves Torvald in what Henrik Ibsen play?

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Zora Neale Hurston

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Who wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God?

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

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This book was about the family who founded a fictional town that represents Columbia by a Colombian author. Translated from Spanish to English by World War II cryptologist Gregory Rabassa. The book addresses how history repeats itself in this town and describes the town as it looses some of it's innocence after Americans come with plantations and the like. What book, published in 1976, was written by Gabriel García Márquez?

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