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NovelVictorian
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy · 1891
A country girl destroyed by other people's definitions of purity.
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PlayRenaissance
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
William Shakespeare · 1608
A prince loses everything at sea and spends a lifetime getting it back.
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EpicClassical
The Odyssey
Homer · c. 700 BC
A ten-year journey home, told mostly in flashback by a man who is very good at lying.
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NovelPost-war
Dune
Frank Herbert · 1965
A desert planet, a spice, and a prophecy engineered by people who profit from it.
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NovelContemporary
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · 1967
A family repeats its names, its mistakes and its wars for a century.
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NovellaHorror
The Shadow over Innsmouth
H. P. Lovecraft · 1936
A traveller reaches a decaying town with a church that is not a church.
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