The reading shelf
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A character guide
Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
Louisa May Alcott and Frank T. Merrill
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A character guide
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
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A character guide
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
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A character guide
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
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A character guide
Mathilda
Mary Shelley
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A character guide
Micromégas
Voltaire
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A character guide
Middlemarch
George Eliot
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A character guide
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
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A character guide
Mowgli’s Brothers
Rudyard Kipling
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A character guide
Nana
Émile Zola
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