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Rebecca

Rebecca appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau. According to biblical tradition, Rebecca’s father was Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram, also called Aram-Naharaim. Rebecca’s brother was Laban the Aramean, and she was the granddaughter of Milcah and Nahor, the brother of Abraham. Rebecca and …

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Sister Carrie

Novel by Theodore Dreiser about a young woman who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream

Notes from Underground

Novella written in 1864 by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels.The novella presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator , who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment (pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform Russian: , tr. Prestuplniye i nakazniye, IPA: [prstplenje nkzanje]) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of …

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