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One hundred years of solitude The dream of the red chamber Crime and punishment García Márquez, Gabriel Cao, Xueqin. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor The story narrates the development and Written in the mid18th century Raskolnikov, an impoverished and decadence of the small town of during the Qing Dynasty, this brilliant student struggles with his Macondo, where a group of exiled story vividly portrays the social conscience, after he commits murder families settle down. The author was life of the era and it’s believed and theft to prove his theory. Many awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in to be the author’s memory of great writers have been strongly Literature. Also available in other his own family, relatives and influenced by Dostoyevsky's works, languages. servants who served the including Franz Kafka, Alexander emperors. Available in other Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Albert Pedro Páramo languages. Camus, Orhan Pamuk and Sigmund Rulfo, Juan. Freud. Also available in other languages. After the death of his mother, Juan The water margin Preciado, travels to her hometown, Shi, Nai'an Anna Karenina Comala, in search of his father, only to Also known as Outlaws of the Tolstoy, Leo find a ghost town. This legendary author marsh, this story set during the Anna, an attractive married woman falls is known to have influenced the work of Song dynasty in the 13thcentury, in love with an officer, Count Vronsky, important Latin American writers such chronicles the trials and and rebels against the hypocrisies of as Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas tribulations of a group of men society. Tolstoy's literature is known to Llosa and Gabriel García Márquez. Also who become outlaw when they have influenced prominent figures, such available in other languages. rebel against a tyrannical and as Mahatma Gandi, Martin Luther King unjust government. Available in Jr., Ernest Hemingway, and possibly his Don Quixote other languages. old time rival Fyodor Dostoyevsky.. Also Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. available in other languages. One of the funniest and most tragic Journey to the west books ever written chronicles the Wu, Cheng'en The Master and Margarita adventures of the noble knight-errant Written during the Ming Bulgakov, Mikhail Don Quixote of La Mancha and his Dynasty, this mythological novel A satirical plot is unraveled in faithful squire, Sancho Panza, and their narrates the adventures of contemporary Moscow, and ancient picaresque travels. This work has had a priest Sanzang and his three Jerusalem, when the devil decides to pay strong influence on various writers disciples, as they travel west a visit to their citizens and give them a around the world, to mention a and confront supernatural lesson. Bulgakov's works have been an few, Henry Fielding, Sterne, creatures in search of Buddhist inspiration to other authors and Laurence, Flaubert, Gustave, Dickens, Sutra in the Thunder Monastery musicians, including Salman Rushdie, Charles, Melville, in the Western Heaven. Also and the Rolling Stones. Also available in Herman, and Faulkner, William. Also available in other languages. other languages. available in other languages.