The reading shelf
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A character guide
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
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A character guide
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Constance Garnett
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A character guide
The call of Cthulhu
H. P. Lovecraft
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A character guide
The call of the wild
Jack London
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A character guide
The Canterville Ghost
Oscar Wilde
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A character guide
The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe
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A character guide
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet
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A character guide
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
T. (Tobias) Smollett
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A character guide
The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck
Mary Shelley
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A character guide
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
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