Non-Fiction
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Beckett, Samuel
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Waiting for Godot |
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Cutting edge play in which nothing happens more than once-like listening to people at a bus stop all afternoon. Goodbye, plot. |
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Candide
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| Author: |
Voltaire |
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A man living a terrible life remains utterly optimistic that there's something good in store for the world. |
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Death of a Salesman
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| Author: |
Miller, Arthur |
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Why is an education so important to your future? Let Willy Loman show you as you watch him die. |
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Hiroshima
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| Author: |
Hersey, John |
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How we won the war, and should we feel good about it?. A journalist's detailed accounts, gathered from witnesses, of the bombing of Hiroshima and its horrific effects. |
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More, Thomas
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Utopia |
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One man's plan for a perfect society in the new world. Better than the Unabomber's manifesto. |
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Night
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| Author: |
Wiesel, Elie |
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Autobiographical novel by a survivor of several Nazi death camps. Warning: very graphic descriptions, horrifying content. |
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On Liberty
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| Author: |
Mill, John Stuart |
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Essay on individual freedom and its place in the context of social justice. Thick with information and philosophy. |
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Our Town
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| Author: |
Wilder, Thornton |
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This play set in Grover's Corner, NH, in the early 1900s, follows Emily throughout her small town life. |
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
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| Author: |
Stoppard, Tom |
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Read what two minor characters in Shakespeare's Hamlet went through offstage. Utterly hilarious, and there's a movie version to clarify what's happening. |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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(lots of different editors, one is J. R. R. Tolkien) |
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Gawain, a knight of Arthurian fame, confronts temptation and the Green Knight. |
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The Book of Job
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| Summary: |
A Long Time Ago
God to Satan: Hey, watch this! Satan to God: Unbelievable. Human suffering from boils to plague, drought to fire--the original no good, very bad day. |
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
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Half-god Gilgamesh and his wild friend Enkidu run around ancient Uruk kicking butt, seeking fame and immortality. |
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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| Author: |
Irving, Washington |
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Ichabod Crane, the original geeky schoolmaster, wants to marry the beautiful Katrina, but Brom Bones wants her, too. And there's some guy running around with a pumpkin for a head. |
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The Prince
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| Author: |
Machiavelli, Niccolo |
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How to be a psychotic megalomaniac without really trying. Cynical manual for world dominance-and how to justify your bad behavior. |
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The Prophet
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| Author: |
Gibran, Kahlil |
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Poetry. A prophet offers wisdom on basic topics-it's a lot like an advice column without the bad writing. |
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The Waste Land
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| Author: |
Eliot, T. S. |
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Long poem in a variety of languages. Put on your black beret, find a short bit you understand, and write about it. You will be certified a genius. |
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Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog
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| Author: |
Jerome, Jerome K. |
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Fictional travelogue. Three guys go up the Thames to Oxford, encountering irritation and catastrophe. Has anyone ever really named a dog Montmorency? |
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