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The American Revolution was a political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America.
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an illustrated collection of poems by William Blake. It appeared in two phases. A few first copies were printed and illuminated by William Blake himself in 1789; five years later he bound these poems with a set of new poems in a volume titled Songs of Innocence and of Experience Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul.
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Wollstonecraft argues that true freedom necessitates equality of the sexes; claims that intellect, or reason, is superior to emotion, or passion; seeks to persuade women to acquire strength of mind and body
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The book reduced the archaic English and complicated storyline of Shakespeare to a simple level that children could read and comprehend.
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Luddites were 19th-century English textile artisans who violently protested against the machinery introduced during the Industrial Revolution that made it possible to replace them with less skilled, low wage labourers, leaving them without work.
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The first volume had 86 stories and the second had 70
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Pride and Prejudice has consistently been Jane Austen's most popular novel. It portrays life in the genteel rural society of the day.
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Frankenstein is a novel written by Mary Shelley about a creature produced by an unorthodox scientific experiment.
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the Father of American Christian education, wrote the first American dictionary and established a system of rules to govern spelling, grammar, and reading.
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Victor Hugo began writing The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1829.
