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  • Jesse Francis McComas (June 9, 1911 – April 19, 1978) was an American science fiction editor. McComas wrote several stories on his own in the 1950s using...
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  • "A Lost Opportunity" is an 1889 fable by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. The story was included in The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories publication of...
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    The Fall (French: La Chute) is a philosophical novel by Albert Camus. First published in 1956, it is his last complete work of fiction. Set in Amsterdam...
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  • 1 is the first feature film of Hungarian director/production designer Pater Sparrow. It was inspired by One Human Minute by Polish science fiction writer...
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  • The Dog Beneath the Skin, or Where is Francis? A Play in Three Acts, by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, was the first Auden-Isherwood collaboration...
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  • Dies the Fire is a 2004 alternate history and post-apocalyptic novel written by S. M. Stirling. It is the first installment of the Emberverse series and...
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  • Take a Girl Like You is a comic novel by Kingsley Amis. The narrative follows the progress of twenty-year-old Jenny Bunn, who has moved from her family...
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    The Dance of Death is a one-act play in verse and prose by W. H. Auden, published in 1933. The Dance of Death is a satiric musical extravaganza that portrays...
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  • Cacau (trans. Cocoa) is Brazilian Social Realism novel written by Jorge Amado. It was written by Jorge Amado in 1933 and was his second novel, forming...
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  • Ellen Ruppel Shell (born 1952) is a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, and professor of science journalism. Shell was born in Auburn, New York, United...
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  • Richard Montanari (born December 6, 1952) is an American crime writer who debuted with his novel Deviant Way, published by Simon & Schuster, in 1995. It...
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  • Monkey Bridge, published in 1997, is the debut novel of Vietnamese American attorney and writer Lan Cao, a professor of international law at Chapman University...
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    The Wickiana is recognized as one of the most significant collections of news reports and documents pertaining to current events dating from the 16th century...
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