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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1605
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Don Quixot
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1605
GenevaBookClub: Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray—he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants—Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together, and together they have haunted readers' imaginations for nearly four hundred years. With its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote has been generally recognized as the first modern novel. The book has been enormously influential on a host of writers, from Fielding and Sterne to Flaubert, Dickens, Melville, and Faulkner, who reread it once a year, "just as some people read the Bible.
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William Shakespeare, 1597
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Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare, 1597
GenevaBookClub: Romeo and Juliet, which ranks among Shakespeare's most popular and well-known plays, is considered by some critics to be the first and greatest example of romantic tragedy written during the Renaissance. The play centres on two youths from feuding families who, upon falling in love, attempt to defy social custom, patriarchal power, and destiny. Their efforts meet with disastrous results, including the deaths of Tybalt and Mercutio, as well as the tragic demise of Romeo and Juliet.
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John Steinbeck, 1937
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Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck, 1937
GenevaBookClub: Of Mice and Men is the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, that move from place to place in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in California. It is a frequently banned book, risky, controversial, and modern. It asks, and pretty much answers, all the big questions. Does prejudice suck? Yes; Are we all prejudiced? Yes. ; Are we each responsible for the welfare of other people? Yes.; Is killing someone ever OK? Yes. ; Is euthanasia preferable to a living Hell? Yes.; Are men and women different? Yes, and then again, no. ; Is sex scary? It can be. Even when it costs $2.50. Especially when it costs $2.50. ; Is having a dream a bad idea? Maybe yes, if you’re within certain groups of our society.; Is this the opposite of the American Dream? Well, now that you mention it.
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Thomas Hardy, 1891
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy, 1891
GenevaBookClub: Poor farmer Durbeyfield has been told by the village parson that he has noble relatives: the D'Urbervilles. His wife decides to send their daughter Tess to them in order to make a claim on their family's ancestral home in Wessex. Alec D'Urberville, the son of the squire, rapes Tess and she is pregnant - and becomes a “ruined” woman. Banned because is challenged sexual double standards of the time. Considered Thomas Hardy’s greatest novel.
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