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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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10 Famous Duels

9 Obscure Literary Terms

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Periods of American Literature

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5 Good Books That Inspired Bad Deeds

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10 of the World’s Most Dangerous Fish

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6 Questions About the History of Money and Banking Answered

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Timeline of the Titanic’s Final Hours

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7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

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6 Wars of Independence

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Causes of the Great Depression

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Titanosaurs: 8 of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs

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Born	February 16, 1886 • Plainfield • New Jersey
Died	May 2, 1963 (aged 77) • Connecticut
Awards And Honors	Pulitzer Prize
Subjects Of Study	American literature

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Vernon L. Parrington

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Daniel Hoffman

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Donald Hall

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Elizabeth Hardwick

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Robert Pinsky

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Horace Gregory

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