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Title: Black Like Me
Author: John Howard Griffin
The book is set in the late 1950's in the southern most part of the United States--Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Author, John Howard Griffin, set out to answer the question is America actually involved in the practice of racism against Black Americans. Most whites of the time wholly denied any taint of racism. Black men said the only way a white man could hope to understand anything about this reality was to wake up one morning in black skin.

Title: Jane Eyre
Author: Charlotte Bronte
The narrator and main character, ten-year-old Jane Eyre, is a poor orphan being raised in the home of her wealthy aunt, the widowed Mrs. Reed. Although bound by a deathbed promise to her husband to raise his orphaned niece, Mrs. Reed dislikes Jane. Mrs. Reed's children, Jane's cousins, sensing their mother's feelings, treat Jane maliciously and take advantage of her inferior social status. Jane's plainness, her perceptive and passionate nature, and her occasional visions, or vivid dreams, do not help to secure her relatives' affections.

Title: Julius Caesar
Author: William Shakespeare
Marcus Brutus is Caesar's close friend. Brutus allows himself to be cajoled into joining a group of conspiring senators because of a growing suspicion—implanted by Caius Cassius—that Caesar intends to turn republican Rome into a monarchy under his own rule. Traditional readings of the play maintain that Cassius and the other conspirators are motivated largely by envy and ambition, whereas Brutus is motivated by the demands of honour and patriotism; other commentators, such as Isaac Asimov, suggest that the text shows Brutus is no less moved by envy and flattery. One of the central strengths of the play is that it resists categorising its characters as either simple heroes or villains.

Title: Lord of the Flies
Author: William Golding
World nuclear war forces a group of boys to be relocated to an undisclosed location, but en route their plane crashes on an uninhabited island. Ralph and Piggy meet in a forest on the island after the plane crash. The plane crash created a large scar though the island's forest: a symbol of man's destruction.

Title: Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen
Mrs Bennet is greatly excited by news of the arrival of a single man of considerable fortune in the neighbourhood. Mr Bingley has leased the Netherfield estate where he plans to temporarily settle with his two sisters, Miss Bingley and Mrs Hurst, and his sister's husband, Mr. Hurst.

Title: The Crossing
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Like its predecessor, All the Pretty Horses, it is a coming-of-age novel set on the lands bordering the southern United States and Mexico. The plot takes place before and during the Second World War, and focuses on the life of Billy Parham, the protagonist, a teenage cowboy, his family and his younger brother Boyd. The story tells of three journeys taken from New Mexico to Mexico. It is noted for being a more melancholic novel than the first of the trilogy, without returning to the hellish bleakness of McCarthy's early novels.

Title: The Merchant of Venice
Author: William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice is one of William Shakespeare's best-known plays he has ever written, written sometime between 1596 and 1598. Although it is sometimes classified as a comedy and shares certain aspects with the other romantic comedies, it is perhaps more remembered for its dramatic scenes (particularly the trial scene) and is best known for its portrayal of the Jew Shylock, which has raised questions of anti-semitism.

Title: To Kill a Mockingbird
Author: Harper Lee
Jean Louise Finch (Scout) lives with her brother, Jeremy (Jem), and their widowed father, Atticus, on the main residential street in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. A successful lawyer and a widower, Atticus raises Jem and Scout with the help of their black cook, Calpurnia.

Title: Wuthering Heights
Author: Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights is the tale of Heathcliff, a brooding, troubled orphan, and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw. His desire for her leads him to madness, however, when Catherine is made to marry a wealthy lord, sending Heathcliff on a life-long quest to avenge himself upon those who stole his only love and his life.
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