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'Moby Dick' by Herman Melville is a classic novel that tells the story of Captain Ahab's obsessive quest for revenge against Moby Dick, a giant white whale.
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Historically, UNESCO's Index Translationum listed V.I. Lenin as one of the most translated authors, though Agatha Christie often tops modern lists. Lenin is the answer here.
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'All's Well That Ends Well' is classified as a comedy by Shakespeare, featuring a happy ending, though it is sometimes referred to as a 'problem play' by critics.
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Sir Thomas More wrote 'Utopia' in 1516, a work of fiction and political philosophy describing a fictional island society and its religious, social, and political customs.
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'A Voyage to Lilliput' is the first part of Jonathan Swift's satire 'Gulliver's Travels', where the protagonist meets a race of tiny people called Lilliputians.
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and is famous for his short lyrics, though he also wrote narrative poems. He is a representative Victorian poet.
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Geoffrey Chaucer is known as the Father of English literature and poetry, most famous for writing 'The Canterbury Tales' in Middle English.
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Samuel Johnson published 'A Dictionary of the English Language' in 1755, which is considered one of the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language.
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'War and Peace' is a literary masterpiece by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, mixing fictional narrative with chapters on history and philosophy.
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'King Lear' is a tragedy by William Shakespeare based on the mythological Leir of Britain. It depicts the gradual descent into madness of the title character.