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A series of 85 articles or essays advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution.
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A book arguing for popular democracy. In 1991 his ideas were considered treasonable.
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An oratorio written between 1796 and 1798. The oratorio depicts and celebrates the creation of the world as described in the biblical Book of Genesis and in Paradise Lost.
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The first truly American dictionary.
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It was Austen's first published novel, which she wrote under the pseudonym "A Lady".
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A play by the Greek poet Aeschylus, concerned with the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
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An oil painting on canvas, Its dimensions are 392 x 496 cm or 12′ 1" x 16′ 3". It currently hangs in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.
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Charles Dickens' second novel. It is about a boy named Oliver Twist, who escapes from a workhouse and meets a gang of pickpockets in London. ...
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Set in the 17th century, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a guard of the musketeers.
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a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, considered to be his "magnum opus", or most famous work
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By Henry David Thoreau is an American classic. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, and manual for self reliance.
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is a large oil on canvas painting
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a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky that was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments in 1866. ...
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Was a 19th-century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence in the 1870s and 1880s. \
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refers to the Victorian era partnership of librettist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900). The two men collaborated on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado are among the best known.
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n 1894 American, short, black-and-white, silent documentary film shot by William K.L. Dickson and starring Fred Ott. It was the first motion picture to be copyrighted in the United States.
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Is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov.
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Is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1905.
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Personae is the sixth collaborative live album by bassist Jonas Hellborg and guitarist Shawn Lane, released in 2002 on Bardo Records.
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A 1915 silent film directed by D. W. Griffith. Set during and after the American Civil War, the film was based on Thomas Dixon's The Clansman, a novel and play.
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A novel by the Irish author James Joyce, first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, in Paris.
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Modernist poem by T. S. Eliot published in 1922. It has been called "one of the most important poems of the 20th century. ...
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Novel by the American author William Faulkner.
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A Russian officer and politician who was a favorite of Catherine II and in 1762 helped her to seize power; when she visited the Crimea in 1787 he gave the order for sham villages to be built.
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A novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to a communist guerilla unit during the Spanish Civil War.