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1848 publication written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

1949 dystopian social science fiction novel by George Orwell

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1945 novella by George Orwell

autobiographical manifesto by the National Socialist leader Adolf Hitler

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature from different body parts in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18 and staying in Bath, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821.

2003 novel by Dan Brown

1922 novel by James Joyce

1951 novel by J. D. Salinger

famous diary of a 13-year old Dutch Jewish girl hiding from the Nazis to escape the Holocaust

novel by Mikhail Bulgakov

14th-century collection of stories by Giovanni Boccaccio

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian and American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The protagonist and narrator is a French literature professor who moves to New England and writes under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert. He details his obsession with and victimization of a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, whom he describes as a "nymphet". Humbert kidnaps and sexually abuses Dolores after becoming her stepfather. Privately, he calls her "Lolita", the Spanish diminutive for Dolores. The novel was written in English, but fear of censorship in the U.S. (where Nabokov lived) and Britain led to it being

novel by Gustave Flaubert (1857)

1884 novel by Mark Twain

1932 novel by Aldous Huxley

1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe

collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer

antisemitic hoax text

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children's fantasy novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. It is the first novel in the Oz series of books. A Kansas farm girl named Dorothy ends up in the magical Land of Oz after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their home by a cyclone. Upon her arrival in the magical world of Oz, she learns she cannot return home until she has destroyed the Wicked Witch of the West.

1929 novel by Erich Maria Remarque

1940 novel by Ernest Hemingway

The , better known as the Encyclopédie (), was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements, revised editions, an index, and translations. It had many contributors, known among contemporaries as the Encyclopédistes. It was edited by Denis Diderot and, until 1759, co-edited by Jean le Rond d'Alembert.

' ( , ) is a French satire written by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment, first published in 1759. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: or, The Optimist (1762); and Candide: Optimism''''' (1947). A young man, Candide, lives a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise, being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. This lifestyle is abruptly ended, followed by Candide's slow and painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire

1939 novel by John Steinbeck

1988 novel by Salman Rushdie

1929 novel by Ernest Hemingway

1973 essay by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

essay by Simone de Beauvoir

1957 historical novel by Boris Pasternak

1991 novel by Jostein Gaarder

Catch-22 is a satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller. It was his debut novel. He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961. Often cited as one of the most significant novels of the 20th century, it uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from the points of view of different characters. The separate storylines are out of sequence so the timeline develops along with the plot.

1962 novel by Anthony Burgess

novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

book by Richard Dawkins

2011 erotic romance novel by E.L. James

'''''Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death''''' is a 1969 semi-autobiographic science fiction–infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut. It follows the life experiences of Billy Pilgrim, from his early years, to his time as an American soldier and chaplain's assistant during World War II, to the post-war years. Throughout the novel, Billy frequently travels back and forth through time. The protagonist deals with a temporal crisis as a result of his post-war psychological trauma. The text centers on Billy's capture by the German Army and his survival of the Alli

Lysistrata ( or ; Attic Greek: , Lysistrátē, ) is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, first staged in early 411 BCE at Lenaea festival in classical Athens. The play is a comic account of a woman's – Lysistrata's – mission to end the Peloponnesian War between Greek city states by denying sex from all the men of warring parties and occupying the Acropolis of Athens. Lysistrata persuades the women of the warring cities to engage in a sex strike as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace – a strategy that inflames the battle between the sexes.

religious text of Satanism

philosophical treatise written by Benedictus de Spinoza

1762 essay by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1924 novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin

1907 novel by Maxim Gorky

short story by Daniel Keyes, later expanded into a novel

1974 novel by Stephen King

1748 treatise on political theory first published anonymously by Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu

1962 novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

2000–2003 French-language graphic novel series by Marjane Satrapi

1891 novel by Thomas Hardy

1934 novel by Henry Miller

1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis

1785 novel by Marquis de Sade

1748 novel by John Cleland

novella by Leo Tolstoy

1993 novel by Lois Lowry

right|thumb|Des Wilson in 1987 as president of the Liberal Party, holding as symbol of his office a copy of Areopagitica '''''Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England''' is a 1644 prose polemic by the English poet, scholar, and polemical author John Milton opposing licensing. Areopagitica'' is among history's most influential and impassioned philosophical defences of the principle of a right to freedom of speech and expression. Many of its expressed principles have formed the basis for modern justifications of that right.

novel by Milan Kundera

1999 coming-of-age epistolary novel

thumb|Second edition of Blaise Pascal's , 1670 The '''' (Thoughts'') is a collection of fragments written by the French 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the was in many ways his life's work. It represented Pascal's defense of the Christian religion, and the concept of "Pascal's wager" stems from a portion of this work.

novel by Daniel Defoe