Hunger Games SeriesThe Hunger Games universe is a dystopia set in Panem, a North American country consisting of the wealthy Capitol and 13 districts in varying states of poverty. Every year, children from the first 12 districts are selected via lottery to participate in a compulsory televised battle royale death match called The Hunger Games. A prequel novel, titled The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, about the early days of the Hunger Games, featuring a young

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no one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp

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The story of Odysseus' perilous journey home after the fall of Troy relates allegorical tales of goddesses and sirens

a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon

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