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George Bernard Shaw wrote 'Man and Superman', a play that incorporates his philosophical ideas about the Life Force and evolution.
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The idiom 'out of place' means inappropriate or unsuitable for the situation. 'Out of sorts' means unwell or irritable, which doesn't fit the sentence structure as well.
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'Gulliver's Travels' is a classic satire by Jonathan Swift, published in 1726.
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'The Book of Job' is a book in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament); its authorship is unknown and traditional, not attributed to English authors.
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Philip Larkin was a leading figure of 'The Movement', a group of English poets in the 1950s who rejected modernism and romanticism.
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Hamlet is the Prince of Denmark in Shakespeare's tragedy.
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Pip is the main character in Charles Dickens's 'Great Expectations'.
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'Animal Farm' is a beast fable and satire by George Orwell.
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'The Waste Land' is a landmark modernist poem by T.S. Eliot, published in 1922.
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William Blake was a Romantic poet and painter, not a novelist like Dickens, Bronte, or Hardy.