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The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu Mathilda by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky by Fyodor Dostoevsky Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Paradise Lost by John Milton Ariel Poems by Syvia Plath by Sylvia Plath The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
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