Laurence Minot

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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5 Art Restorations Gone Wrong

9 Obscure Literary Terms

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Periods of American Literature

The Catcher in the Rye By J.D. Salinger. Hardcover Book first sold: July 16, 1951. Current cover design dated 1991? Previous solid maroon book cover with gold font designed by J.D. Salinger in response to racey pulp paper back book cover. bad books

5 Good Books That Inspired Bad Deeds

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From Sport to Spectacle: The History of the Super Bowl

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Vietnam War Timeline

9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

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10 Best Hockey Players of All Time

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6 Important Mughal Emperors

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Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture

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The 10 Greatest Basketball Players of All Time

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Flourished	1333 - 1352
Notable Works	“Poems on Interesting Events in the Reign of King Edward III”

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Juliana Ewing

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William Shakespeare

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John Milton

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Winston Churchill

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Samuel Johnson

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Charles Dickens

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William Blake

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Virginia Woolf

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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D.H. Lawrence

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John Bunyan

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George Meredith

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Edmund Spenser

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John Donne

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Alexander Pope

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Lord Byron

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