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European literature for QB

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Les Misérables   French novel that criticizes how society treats members of lower social classes. It is about a man named Jean Valjean who goes to prison for stealing bread.   Victor Hugo  
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame   Tells the story of the gypsy Esmeralda, condemned as a witch. Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of a cathedral having fallen in love with Esmeralda, tries to save her by hiding her in the cathedral's tower.   Victor Hugo  
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The Count of Monte Cristo   The novel takes readers on a journey as Edmond Dantès escapes from captivity and transforms into the enigmatic namesake count, seeking retribution against those who wronged him.   Alexander Dumas  
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The Three Musketeers   Young D'Artagnan leaves his home in Gascony, France to pursue his goal of becoming one of King Luis XIII's musketeers. Upon his arrival in Paris, D'Artagnan finds himself caught in a web of adventure, love triangles, and political intrigue.   Alexander Dumas  
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Crime and Punishment   Psychological novel exploring the motives and consequences of a young man's decision to commit murder, and his eventual redemption through love and suffering.   Fyodor Dostoevsky  
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The Brothers Karamazov   Novel about the complicated relationships between three brothers and their father, which culminates in a murder trial that questions the existence of God and the nature of morality.   Fyodor Dostoevsky  
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Notes from the Underground   Excerpt from the memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg.   Fyodor Dostoevsky  
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The Idiot   Novel that delves into the complex psyche of a naive and pure-hearted protagonist who struggles to navigate the corrupt and hypocritical society around him. It explores themes of innocence, love, and the destructiveness of human nature.   Fyodor Dostoevsky  
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Madame Bovary   Story of a doctor's wife whose passions and romantic notions drive her to start an affair, accumulate debts, entangle herself in lies and, in the end, commit suicide.   Gustave Flaubert  
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The Gambler   Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general, tries to break through the wall of the established order in Russia, but instead becomes mired in the endless downward spiral of betting and loss.   Fyodor Dostoevsky  
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War and Peace   Chronicles the Napoleonic era within Russia, notably detailing the French invasion of Russia and its aftermath. Highlights the impact of Napoleon on Tsarist society through five interlocking narratives following different Russian aristocratic families.   Leo Tolstoy  
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Anna Karenina   Follows the story of the title character as she falls in love with Count Vronsky and cheats on her husband.   Leo Tolstoy  
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The Kreutzer Sonata   Follows the protagonist, Pozdnychev, a middle-aged Russian nobleman, as he recounts the history of his relationship with his late wife and the events that led him to murder her in a fit of jealous rage.   Leo Tolstoy  
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich   Tells the story of a man's journey towards death and the realization of the emptiness of a life lived purely for personal gain.   Leo Tolstoy  
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Resurrection   Tells the story of Nekhlyudov, a Russian nobleman who visits a former lover in a Siberian prison. Finding the prison and its methods senseless and barbaric, he comes to realize that social order is underwritten by unimaginable horror and oppression.   Leo Tolstoy  
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Sevastopol Sketches*   Collection of three works of historical fiction in which the author draws upon his real life experiences during the Siege of Sevastopol.   Leo Tolstoy  
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Sorrows of Young Werther   A young man finds himself caught in a love triangle. Because he listens to his emotions over his more reasonable, common-sense side, his inability to let go of the woman that he loves leads him to suicide.   Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  
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Don Quixote   A man with questionable sanity goes on a series of quests to become a knight, accompanied by his 'squire', Sancho.   Miguel Cervantes  
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The Overcoat     Nikolai Gogol  
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The Nose     Nikolai Gogol  
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Dead Souls     Nikolai Gogol  
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Viy*     Nikolai Gogol  
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Nevsky Prospekt*     Nikolai Gogol  
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Diary of a Madman     Nikolai Gogol  
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Doctor Zhivago     Boris Pasternak  
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The Necklace     Guy de Maupassant  
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Bel Ami     Guy de Maupassant  
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Boule de Suif     Guy de Maupassant  
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Blindness     José Saramago  
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Seeing     José Saramago  
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The Gospel According to Jesus Christ     José Saramago  
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The Stone Raft     José Saramago  
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The Metamorphosis     Franz Kafka  
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The Trial     Franz Kafka  
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being   sex in a bowler cap lmao   Milan Kundera  
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Death in Venice     Thomas Mann  
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Magic Mountain     Thomas Mann  
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Doctor Faustus     Thomas Mann  
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Siddharta     Hermann Hesse  
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Steppenwolf     Hermann Hesse  
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Demian     Hermann Hesse  
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The Glass Bead Game     Hermann Hesse  
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Fathers and Sons     Ivan Turgenev  
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A Sportsman's Sketches     Ivan Turgenev  
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A Hero of Our Time     Mikhail Lermontov  
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Zorba the Greek (Grek Zorba)     Nikos Kazantzakis  
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The Last Temptation of Christ     Nikos Kazantzakis  
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War With the Newts     Karel Čapek  
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The Joke     Milan Kundera  
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The Good Soldier Svejk*     Jaroslav Hašek  
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Gargantua and Pantagruel     François Rabelais  
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In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past     Marcel Proust  
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A Void*     Georges Perec  
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler     Italo Calvino  
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Invisible Cities     Italo Calvino  
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L'Jaccuse     Emile Zola  
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La Bête Humaine*     Emile Zola  
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The Tin Drum     Günter Grass  
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The Red Room     August Strindberg  
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All Quiet on the Western Front     Erich Maria Remarque  
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The Lusiads*     Luís de Camões  
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Mario and the Magician*     Thomas Mann  
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The Name of the Rose     Umberto Eco  
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Foucult's Pendulum     Umberto Eco  
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Ur-Facism     Umberto Eco  
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The Museum of Innocence     Orhan Pamuk  
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My Name is Red     Orhan Pamuk  
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Snow     Orhan Pamuk  
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Lolita     Vladimir Nabokov  
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Pale Fire     Vladimir Nabokov  
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Ulysses     James Joyce  
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Dubliners     James Joyce  
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The Dead     James Joyce  
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Finnegans Wake     James Joyce  
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man     James Joyce  
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Araby     James Joyce  
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The Red and the Black     Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)  
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The Charterhouse of Parma     Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)  
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The Counterfeiters     André Gide  
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The Immoralist*     André Gide  
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Heart of Darkness     Joseph Conrad  
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Lord Jim     Joseph Conrad  
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Nostromo     Joseph Conrad  
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The Secret Agent*     Joseph Conrad  
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