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Nineteen Eighty-Four
1949 dystopian social science fiction novel by George Orwell
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Animal Farm
1945 novella by George Orwell
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Gulliver's Travels
1726 novel by Jonathan Swift
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Brave New World
1932 novel by Aldous Huxley
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David Copperfield
1849–1850 novel by Charles Dickens
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Vanity Fair
1848 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Discworld
Discworld is a collection of fantasy comedy novels, graphic novels, short stories, and associated works conceived and primarily written by the English author Terry Pratchett. They are united by their being set on the Discworld, a flat planet balanced on the backs of four elephants which in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle. The novel series consists of forty-one books, the first being The Colour of Magic, published in 1983, and the last ''The Shepherd's Crown'', published posthumously in 2015. Pratchett also wrote eleven short stories related to the Discworld. The novels often satirise
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Northanger Abbey
1817 novel by Jane Austen
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Flatland
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English theologian, Anglican priest and schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Written pseudonymously by "A Square", the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to satirise the class and gender hierarchies of Victorian society, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
novel by Laurence Sterne
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
1969 novel by John Fowles
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The Vicar of Wakefield
novel by Oliver Goldsmith
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The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
children's novel by Charles Kingsley
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Erewhon
thumb|right|400px|Map of part of New Zealand to illustrate Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited Erewhon: or, Over the Range () is a utopian novel by English writer Samuel Butler, first published in 1872, set in a fictional country discovered and explored by the protagonist. The book is a satire on Victorian society.
Joseph Andrews
novel by Henry Fielding
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Vernon God Little
2003 novel by DBC Pierre
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The Luck of Barry Lyndon
book by William Makepeace Thackeray
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1985
1978 novel by Anthony Burgess
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The Wonderful Visit
1895 novel by H. G. Wells
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A Tale of a Tub
satire by Jonathan Swift
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
novel by James Hogg
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Ape and Essence
novel by Aldous Huxley
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Decline and Fall
1928 novel by Evelyn Waugh
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Crome Yellow
novel by Aldous Huxley
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An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews
novel by Henry Fielding
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The Sea Lady
novel by H. G. Wells
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Vile Bodies
1930 novel by Evelyn Waugh
England, England
1998 novel by Julian Barnes
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Zuleika Dobson
1911 novel by Max Beerbohm
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The Flying Inn
novel by G. K. Chesterton
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Those Barren Leaves
1925 novel by Aldous Huxley
The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great
1743 satiric novel by Henry Fielding
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After Many a Summer
novel by Aldous Huxley
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Scoop
1938 novel by Evelyn Waugh
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
1771 novel by Tobias Smollett
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Cold Comfort Farm
1932 novel by Stella Gibbons