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1929The Maltese FalconExplains the endingCompare with the filmDetective fiction / Crime novelDashiell Hammett / Based on The Maltese FalconRecap: Useful recapGreed / Betrayal1927Oil!Explains the endingCompare with the filmPolitical novel / Social novelUpton Sinclair / United StatesRecap: Useful recapCapital / Family1926The Sun Also RisesExplains the endingModernist novel / Literary fictionErnest Hemingway / United StatesRecap: Useful recapLost Generation / Desire1925The Great GatsbyExplains the endingCompare with the filmNovel / TragedyF. Scott Fitzgerald / United StatesRecap: Fast recapDesire / Class1925The Painted VeilExplains the endingCompare with the filmLiterary fiction / Psychological novelW. Somerset Maugham / United KingdomRecap: Useful recapBetrayal / Responsibility1925The TrialExplains the endingAbsurdist fiction / Legal fictionFranz Kafka / GermanyRecap: Useful recapGuilt / Bureaucracy1922In a GroveExplains the endingCompare with the filmShort story / MysteryRyunosuke Akutagawa / JapanRecap: Useful recapTruth / Memory1922Seven Pillars of WisdomExplains the endingCompare with the filmMemoir / War literatureT. E. Lawrence / United KingdomRecap: Useful recapWar / Identity1922SiddharthaExplains the endingPhilosophical novel / Spiritual fictionHermann Hesse / GermanyRecap: Fast recapSpiritual search / Desire
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