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Clear Light of Day

Novel published in 1980 by Indian novelist and three-time Booker Prize finalist Anita Desai

The Count of Monte Cristo

Adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas completed in 1844. It is one of the author’s more popular works, along with The Three Musketeers

Ragtime

Musical style that enjoyed its peak popularity between 1895 and 1919. Its cardinal trait is its syncopated or “ragged” rhythm.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Dystopian science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1968. The novel is set in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco, where Earth’s life has been greatly damaged by a nuclear global war, leaving most animal species endangered or extinct