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'A Farewell to Arms' is a novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World War I, reflecting his own experiences.
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George Bernard Shaw is considered the greatest modern English dramatist, known for his plays addressing social issues with wit and satire.
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'Animal Farm' is an allegorical novella by George Orwell that satirizes the events of the Russian Revolution and the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union.
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'The God of Small Things' is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy, winning the Booker Prize in 1997 for its story about fraternal twins.
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'The Jungle Book' is a collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling, featuring the boy Mowgli and various animal characters in the Indian jungle.
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'Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations' is a major study of economic development in South and Southeast Asia by Gunnar Myrdal.
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'Roots: The Saga of an American Family' is a novel by Alex Haley, depicting the history of an African-American family from slavery to freedom.
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'The Old Man and the Sea' is a novella by Ernest Hemingway about an aging fisherman's struggle with a giant marlin, winning the Pulitzer Prize.
Q9. 'Elegy' is--
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An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead, expressing grief or sorrow, such as Thomas Gray's famous elegy.
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A sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, traditionally associated with love and Shakespeare or Petrarch.