Independence Day
Annual event commemorating the anniversary of a nation’s independence or statehood, usually after ceasing to be a group or part of another nation or state, or more rarely after the end of a military occupation
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A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines’ eighth novel succeeding a decade after A Gathering of Old Men, published in 1993. His fictional work that was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award, is based on the true story of Willie Francis, a young black American man best known for surviving a failed execution by a malfunctioned electrocution in the state of Louisiana, during 1945 and 1947.
Dead Souls
Novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature
The Great Crash, 1929
Book written by John Kenneth Galbraith and published in 1955. It is an economic history of the lead-up to the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The book argues that the 1929 stock market crash was precipitated by rampant speculation in the stock market, that the common denominator of all speculative episodes is the belief of participants that they can become rich without work and that the tendency towards recurrent speculative orgy serves no useful purpose, but rather is deeply damaging to an economy
Lord of the Flies
1954 debut novel by Nobel Prize-winning British author William Golding
Middlesex
Historic county in southeast England
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding
The Name of the Rose
1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco