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The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.
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The Waste Land
A landscape of dry stone, empty bottles, and dead sailors where the rain won't fall and the voices won't stop.
T. S. Eliot · poetry
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The Welsh and Their Literature
George Borrow · poetry
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The White Devil
John Webster · play
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The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc
Joanot -1468 Martorell · novel
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The Winter's Tale
A king suspects his queen of cheating. He gets it spectacularly, disastrously, and aggressively wrong.
William Shakespeare · play
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1
Alexander Pope · poetry
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The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 2 (of 3)
Christopher Marlowe · play
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4
Edgar Allan Poe · collection
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition
Edgar Allan Poe · reference
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The Works of George Meredith: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions
George Meredith · reference
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The Works of Horace
Horace · poetry
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The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 09
John Dryden · poetry
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The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 13
John Dryden · ideas
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The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 14
John Dryden · poetry
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The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 15
John Dryden · poetry
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The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 17
John Dryden · ideas
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The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3
George Gordon Byron Baron Byron · poetry
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The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4
George Gordon Byron Baron Byron · poetry
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The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6
George Gordon Byron Baron Byron · poetry
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The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01
of Samosata Lucian · collection
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The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02
of Samosata Lucian · collection
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The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03
of Samosata Lucian · ideas
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The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 04
of Samosata Lucian · collection
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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 06
Robert Louis Stevenson · collection
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 2
Thomas Sir Browne · collection
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 1 of 9]
William Shakespeare · collection
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 2 of 9]
William Shakespeare · play
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 3 of 9]
William Shakespeare · collection
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 4 of 9]
William Shakespeare · collection
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 5 of 9]
William Shakespeare · play
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9]
William Shakespeare · play
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 7 of 9]
William Shakespeare · collection
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 8 of 9]
William Shakespeare · play
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The World English Bible (WEB): Job
ideas
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The World English Bible (WEB): Obadiah
ideas
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The World English Bible (WEB): Philemon
religious
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The World English Bible (WEB): Proverbs
ideas
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The World English Bible (WEB): Psalms
religious
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The World's Greatest Books — Volume 02 — Fiction
Arthur Mee · collection
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The World's Greatest Books — Volume 03 — Fiction
Arthur Mee · collection
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The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction
Arthur Mee · collection
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The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction
Arthur Mee · collection
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The World's Greatest Books — Volume 20 — Miscellaneous Literature and Index
Arthur Mee · ideas
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The Yale Literary Magazine (Vol. I, No. 2, March 1836)
periodical
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The Yale Literary Magazine (Vol. I, No. 4, June 1836)
periodical
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Theaetetus
A snub-nosed philosopher helps a brilliant student try, and fail, to define knowledge before heading to his own trial.
Plato · dialogue
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Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered into English Prose
Theocritus · poetry
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Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius
Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius · ideas