CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD
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Tragedy occurs when no one takes responsibilty

NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
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Control the language and you control the possible truths

FRANKENSTEIN

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Creating life without responsibility breeds monsters in every heart

ARTHURIAN ROMANCES
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loyalty is test when desire and dute collide

BRAVE NEW WORLD

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Comfort without meaning sterilises souls and dissolves human dignity

SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT
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True honour admits fear and confesses failure before grace

ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
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Listening to conscience can defy law and redeem friendship

OF MICE AND MEN

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Tender friendship falters as dreams collapse under harsh realities

THE BELL JAR

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Sometimes the greatest pain is psychological numbness

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
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Beauty without conscience corrupts the soul beyond recognition

THE STRANGER

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Absurdity unmasks society and radical honesty invites condemnation

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
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The conscience demands suffering and grace

THE CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS
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Ego dissolves as seekers become the king they seek

STONER

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Quiet persistence dignifies an ordinary life against indifferent systems

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
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Chance masquerades as fate while evil outruns weary wisdom

ROBINSON CRUSOE

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Isolation breeds ingenuity and providence reframes wealth and responsibility

THE AENEID

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Civilisations are built on those who take the most responsibility

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
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Comradeship sustains dignity while machinery grinds youth into silence

JOURNEY TO THE WEST
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Discipline and true friendship tempers abuses of power

BRAVE NEW
WORLD
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Engineered happiness trades freedom for comfort, consumption, and compliance

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
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Protecting innocence reveals loneliness no performance can cure

CONFESSIONS

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Restless hearts find home when pride surrenders to grace

DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?

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Empathy, not circuitry, separates humans from convincing machines

HEART OF DARKNESS
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Civilised veneers crumble as greed devours the human soul

ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN —

Conscience outruns law as friendship steers a moral journey

JANE EYRE

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Integrity and self-respect teach love its rightful terms

THE KITE RUNNER

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Atonement begins when courage finally tells the whole truth

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
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First impressions deceive; humility clears vision for enduring love

PURPLE HIBISCUS

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Finding voice dismantles fear and redefines faith and family

SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
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War’s emptiness is seen in the psychological devastation it leaves behind

THE ILIAD

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Honour and rage shatter lives while glory proves fleeting

THE ROAD

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Love becomes law in a world stripped to ash

THE ODYSSEY

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Cunning and fidelity steer homeward through temptation and wrath

THE HANDMAID’S TALE
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Control of language sustains tyranny as stories reopen possibility

THE GREAT GATSBY

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Desire masquerades as love while wealth corrodes meaning

THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD
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Voice won through love and loss becomes true freedom

THINGS FALL APART

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Tradition and pride fracture when worlds collide and change

WUTHERING HEIGHTS
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Unhealed love becomes a haunting inheritance across generations

A FAREWELL TO ARMS
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Tender love endures war’s futility and the indifferent universe

OLIVER TWIST
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Kindness survives cruelty as innocence exposes social hypocrisy

LORD OF THE FLIES

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When civilisation collapses, innocence surrenders to savagery

THE SOUND AND THE FURY
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Fragmented memories reveal a proud family’s slow collapse

BEOWULF

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Heroic strength wins battles while mortal fate shadows every triumph

BELOVED

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A haunted home tests whether love can outlast inherited terror

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
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Seeing through others’ eyes unmasks prejudice

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
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Ignoring decay breeds dread, honesty offers release

SELECTED STORIES (HENRY LAWSON)
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Hard places demand mateship, yet solitude still shapes character

METAMORPHOSES

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Desire transforms us, humility steadies fate’s unpredictable changes

THE PROPHET
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Love frees, work reveals love, and sorrow deepens joy

DUBLINERS
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Self-awareness begins when everyday paralysis is finally named

THE THINGS THEY CARRIED
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Stories carry grief so survivors can keep living

THE LOTTERY AND OTHER STORIES
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Tradition legitimises evil and strengthens its own power

THE COMPLETE STORIES (KAFKA)
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Bureaucratic absurdity erodes identity unless compassion intervenes

A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND
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Grace often arrives violently when pride refuses change

THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH
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Death clarifies life and shows kindness outweighs status

MASTER AND MAN AND OTHER STORIES
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Self-sacrifice redeems a heart lost to possession and pride

A GENTLE CREATURE AND OTHER STORIES
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Possession disguised as love pushes the meek to self-destruction

WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE

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The misfits and absurd expose bureaucracy, war, and technocracy

THE GARDEN
PARTY

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Delicate epiphanies expose class distance

THE
PEARL

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Greed can grow until it devours family

A DOLL’S HOUSE

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Self-respect demands truth even if marriage shatters

A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
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Conscience needs courage when law is twisted by power

ANTIGONE

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Duty to the dead outranks tyrannical commands of kings

THE CRUCIBLE

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Mass panic turns suspicion into murder unless truth stands

FENCES

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Bitterness builds fences that love must learn to cross

THE WINTER’S TALE

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Jealousy wrecks lives as grace and time resurrect love

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
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Illusion comforts briefly, desire and brutality expose unbearable truth

TWELVE ANGRY MEN
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Justice begins with listening and looking past prejudices

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
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Wit unmasks hypocrisy and class folly

MEDEA

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Betrayal turns love into vengeance with unthinkable costs

HAMLET

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Thought without action poisons grief, truth, and destiny

MACBETH

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Unchecked ambition invites prophecy’s trap and self-made doom

A RAISIN IN THE SUN

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Dreams demand dignity and home becomes the measure of hope

OTHELLO

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Trust warped by jealousy destroys love, honour, and self

THE THREE THEBAN PLAYS
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Pride defies prophecy, yet duty to gods outlasts kings

WAITING FOR GODOT

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Kindness during uncertainty gives meaning to endless waiting

DEATH OF A SALESMAN

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Chasing illusions damages families while truth invites reconciliation

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
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Question the script or drift helplessly through chance

AN INSPECTOR CALLS

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Denying shared responsibility multiplies harm

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

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Unchecked desire destroys trust and fractures fragile identities

SHAKESPEARE’S THE SONNETS
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Love seeks immortality as time erodes beauty

A HUMAN PATTERN OF JUDITH WRIGHT:
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Landscapes shape conscience as love binds people to country

NEW SELECTED POEMS OF SEAMUS HEANEY

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Memory turns spade and pen into tools for healing

SELECTED POEMS OF WILFRED OWEN
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Pity names the truth of war’s mangled youth

THE WORLD’S WIFE OF CAROL ANN DUFFY

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Female voices retell myths, correcting power with wit

THE WASTE LAND
T. S. ELIOT 

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Modern spiritual drought and dislocation

THE COMPLETE POETRY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
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Beauty touches death and sings in haunting precision

THE SELECTED POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON
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“The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind”

HOWL, KADDISH AND OTHER POEMS BY ALLEN GINSBERG

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Prophetic rage seeks freedom through candour, compassion, and rhythm

THE COMPLETE POEMS OF WILLIAM BLAKE
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Innocence and experience collide revealing visionary moral perception

THE BEST POEMS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

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A chorus of centuries shows language shaping human truth

JOHN MILTON: SELECTED POEMS
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Majestic music weds liberty, faith, and fierce moral vision

SYLVIA PLATH: COLLECTED POEMS
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Brilliant intensity turns pain into crystalline, unsettling clarity

THE ODES OF PINDAR
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Praise becomes philosophy, excellence requires discipline, honour, divine favour

THE COMPLETE POEMS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
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Imagination baptises nature, faith and doubt sing together

AQUINAS: SELECTED WRITINGS
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Reason and revelation harmonise, ordering love toward ultimate good

NIETZSCHE: BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL
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Question inherited morals and forge values through fearless self-examination

BOETHIUS: THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY
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Fortune turns, wisdom teaches freedom from external change

RENE DESCARTES: MEDITATIONS AND OTHER METAPHYSICAL WRITINGS

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Methodic doubt clears illusions, discovering the thinking self’s certainty

ARISTOTLE: THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS
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Virtue forms through habit, aiming at flourishing, the measured mean

THE ABOLITION OF MAN
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Education without objective values reduces humans to conditioned subjects

PASCAL: PENSÉES

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Distraction masks our misery and only God satisfies

THE PRINCE

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Ruling demands effectiveness over virtue 

MEDITATIONS

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Rationality and daily discipline free the troubled mind

THE REPUBLIC

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Justice orders the soul and city through philosophical rule

HOW TO READ LITERATURE LIKE A PROFESSOR
THOMAS C. FOSTER

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Patterns and archetypes reveal hidden meanings beneath familiar plots

HOW TO READ POETRY LIKE A PROFESSOR
THOMAS C. FOSTER

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Sound, form, and image work together to unlock sense

BEGINNING THEORY
PETER BARRY

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Critical lenses reshape texts and expose culture’s unspoken power

LITERARY THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION
TERRY EAGLETON
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Ideas about literature matter because they change how we read

C. S. LEWIS: ESSAY COLLECTION

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Clear reason defends imagination and faith against fashionable emptiness

THE ESSAYS: A SELECTION
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

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Curiosity about oneself illuminates humanity with sceptical generosity

HOW TO READ A BOOK
MORTIMER J. ADLER & CHARLES VAN DOREN

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Active questions turn reading into dialogue with demanding minds

THE ART OF POETRY
SHIRA WOLOSKY

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Close attention to craft reveals emotion charged with thought

HOW TO READ LITERATURE
TERRY EAGLETON
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Enjoyment and critique coexist when reading is historically attentive

HOW TO READ AND WHY:
HAROLD BLOOM
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Interpretation nourishes life because stories teach attentive freedom