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European literature for QB

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show 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.   show
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show 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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show 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   show 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.   show
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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.   show
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The Idiot   show Fyodor Dostoevsky  
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Madame Bovary   show 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.   show
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War and Peace   show 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.   show
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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.   show
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show 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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show 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*   show 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.   show
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show 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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show   Nikolai Gogol  
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The Nose   show Nikolai Gogol  
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Dead Souls   show Nikolai Gogol  
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Viy*     show
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Nevsky Prospekt*     show
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show   Nikolai Gogol  
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show   Boris Pasternak  
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show   Guy de Maupassant  
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show   Guy de Maupassant  
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Boule de Suif   show Guy de Maupassant  
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Blindness   show José Saramago  
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show   José Saramago  
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The Gospel According to Jesus Christ   show José Saramago  
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The Stone Raft   show José Saramago  
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show   Franz Kafka  
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show   Franz Kafka  
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being   sex in a bowler cap lmao   show
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show   Thomas Mann  
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show   Thomas Mann  
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show   Thomas Mann  
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show   Hermann Hesse  
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show   Hermann Hesse  
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Demian   show Hermann Hesse  
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show   Hermann Hesse  
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Fathers and Sons   show Ivan Turgenev  
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A Sportsman's Sketches   show Ivan Turgenev  
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A Hero of Our Time   show Mikhail Lermontov  
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show   Nikos Kazantzakis  
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show   Nikos Kazantzakis  
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War With the Newts     show
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The Joke     show
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The Good Soldier Svejk*     show
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show   François Rabelais  
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In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past     show
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A Void*   show Georges Perec  
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler   show Italo Calvino  
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show   Italo Calvino  
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L'Jaccuse     show
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show   Emile Zola  
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The Tin Drum   show Günter Grass  
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The Red Room     show
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All Quiet on the Western Front     show
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The Lusiads*   show Luís de Camões  
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Mario and the Magician*   show Thomas Mann  
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The Name of the Rose   show Umberto Eco  
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Foucult's Pendulum   show Umberto Eco  
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show   Umberto Eco  
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show   Orhan Pamuk  
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show   Orhan Pamuk  
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show   Orhan Pamuk  
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show   Vladimir Nabokov  
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show   Vladimir Nabokov  
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Ulysses   show James Joyce  
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Dubliners     show
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show   James Joyce  
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Finnegans Wake   show James Joyce  
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man   show James Joyce  
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show   James Joyce  
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The Red and the Black     show
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The Charterhouse of Parma     show
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show   André Gide  
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show   André Gide  
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Heart of Darkness     show
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Lord Jim     show
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Nostromo   show Joseph Conrad  
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The Secret Agent*   show Joseph Conrad  
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