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NAME in Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
NEW in Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
HUMANITY in Animal Farm by George Orwell
LIFE in Anna Karenina 3 by Leo Tolstoy
TIME in My Antonia by Willa Cather
CONQUER in Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
BAD in The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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EDUCATION in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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GIVE in Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare
SILENCE in Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
MUCH in The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
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SIR in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
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