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1) Three lives
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The stories of three young ordinary working class women are portrayed. In these stories, Gertrude Stein put into practice certain theories about prose composition that paralleled the ideas expressed in the art of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters. The three stories are independent of each other, but all are set in Bridgepoint, a fictional town based on Baltimore.
The good Anna, the first of Gertrude Stein's Three Lives, is a novella set...
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Aphra Behn was one of the first professional English female writers and Oroonoko was one of her earliest works. It is the love story between Oroonoko, the grandson of an African king, and the daughter of that king's general. The king takes the girl into his harem, and when she plans to escape with his grandson, sells her as a slave. When Oroonoko tries to follow her he is caught by an English slave trader and taken to the same West Indian
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