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2. Book of Judith - Wikipedia

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   The name Judith ( Hebrew: יְהוּדִית, Modern: Yəhūdīt, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏīṯ ), meaning "praised" or "Jewess", [1] is the feminine form of Judah . The surviving manuscripts of Greek translations appear to contain several historical anachronisms, which is why some Protestant scholars now consider the book non-historical.

3. Samson - Wikipedia

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   Samson ( / ˈsæmsən /; Hebrew: שִׁמְשׁוֹן Šīmšōn "man of the sun") [1] [a] was the last of the judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Book of Judges (chapters 13 to 16) and one of the last leaders who "judged" Israel before the institution of the monarchy. He is sometimes considered as an Israelite version of the ...

4. The Metamorphosis - Wikipedia

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   The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella by Franz Kafka published in 1915.One of Kafka's best-known works, Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (German: ungeheueres Ungeziefer, lit. "monstrous vermin") and struggles to adjust to this condition.

5. Shōgun (novel) - Wikipedia

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   Shōgun (1975) is James Clavell’s historical novel fictionalizing key events and figures of 1600 Japan as the Azuchi–Momoyama period headed towards its end to usher in the Edo period. The third book published, and the first chronologically placed, in Clavell's six-volume Asian Saga, by 1980 had sold six million copies worldwide.

6. The Guest Book - Wikipedia

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   The Guest Book is an American anthology comedy television series created by Greg Garcia. Season one starred Charlie Robinson, Carly Jibson, Lou Wilson, and Kellie Martin, while season two starred Jibson, Eddie Steeples, Kimiko Glenn, Jimmy Tatro, and Dan Beirne. The series centers on the lives of the employees of, and visitors to, vacation ...

7. London Fields (novel) - Wikipedia

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   London Fields is a blackly comic murder mystery novel by the British writer Martin Amis, published in 1989.The tone gradually shifts from high comedy, interspersed with deep personal introspections, to a dark sense of foreboding and eventually panic at the approach of the deadline, or "horror day", the climactic scene alluded to on the very first page.

8. The Thanksgiving Visitor - Wikipedia

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   The Thanksgiving Visitor is a short story by Truman Capote originally published in the November 1967 issue of McCall's magazine, and later published as a book by Random House, Inc. in 1968. [1] The story takes the form of a childhood tale about a boy and his bully problem. The story has a strong moral lesson related to revenge.

9. The Unexpected Guest (novel) - Wikipedia

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   ISBN. 0-00-232690-6. OCLC. 59407082. The Unexpected Guest is a novelization by Charles Osborne of the 1958 play of the same name by crime fiction writer Agatha Christie and was first published in the UK by HarperCollins on 6 September 1999, and on 1 October 1999 in the US by St. Martin's Press . The book was written following the successful ...