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John Milton is the most celebrated English epic poet, best known for 'Paradise Lost', which tells the biblical story of the Fall of Man.
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Charles Dickens was the quintessential Victorian novelist, known for works like 'Great Expectations', 'Oliver Twist', and 'A Tale of Two Cities'.
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'Arms and the Man' is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw that satirizes romantic ideas about war and love.
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'Othello' is a tragedy by Shakespeare where the protagonist, Othello, is a Moorish general in the Venetian army.
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'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' is a twelve-line poem by W.B. Yeats expressing a desire for peace and a solitary life in nature.
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'Riders to the Sea' is a one-act tragedy by Irish playwright J.M. Synge, set in the Aran Islands, depicting the struggle of a woman against the sea.
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Christopher Marlowe was a foremost dramatist of the Elizabethan era, known for 'Doctor Faustus'. The others are from later periods.
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This famous soliloquy is from William Shakespeare's play 'Hamlet', where Prince Hamlet contemplates the nature of life, death, and suicide.
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George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, a female novelist. Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, and James Joyce were all male authors.
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'As I Lay Dying' is a novel by William Faulkner. The other three options (The Bluest Eye, Sula, A Mercy) are novels by Toni Morrison.