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The Bluffer's Guide to Literature - Michael Kerrigan

The "Bluffer's Guide" is a series of short, sarcastically witty guidebooks that enable a Bluffer to give the impression that they are an expert in something highly valued.... like, say, literature.
Michael Kerrigan wrote this one. It's a bit of an idiosyncratic list of books: a lot of prose, a lot of poetry, a smattering of plays, and some diehard books on literary theory right at the end, so you look really clever. Where just an author's name was mentioned, I chose a representative book.
The topics are: Britain, the United States, Post-War, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Rest of the World, a diversity section (1980s-level), and Critical Theory.
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Bluff Your Way in Literature (Michael Kerrigan)
Bluff Your Way in Literature (Michael Kerrigan)
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Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
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Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (Samuel Richardson)
Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (Samuel Richardson)
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Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen (Dale Spender)
Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen (Dale Spender)
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Oroonoko (Aphra Behn)
Oroonoko (Aphra Behn)
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The Adventures of Rivella (Delariviere Manley)
The Adventures of Rivella (Delariviere Manley)
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Clarissa (Samuel Richardson)
Clarissa (Samuel Richardson)
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Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
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Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne)
Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne)
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The Castle of Otranto (Horace Walpole)
The Castle of Otranto (Horace Walpole)
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The Mysteries of Udolpho (Ann Radcliffe)
The Mysteries of Udolpho (Ann Radcliffe)
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Mary: A Fiction (Mary Wollstonecraft)
Mary: A Fiction (Mary Wollstonecraft)
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Evelina (Frances Burney)
Evelina (Frances Burney)
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Castle Rackrent (Maria Edgeworth)
Castle Rackrent (Maria Edgeworth)
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Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
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The Bride of Lammermoor (Sir Walter Scott)
The Bride of Lammermoor (Sir Walter Scott)
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The Pickwick Papers (Charles Dickens)
The Pickwick Papers (Charles Dickens)
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Charles Dickens)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Charles Dickens)
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Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
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Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
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Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Bronte)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Bronte)
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Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
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Tess of the D'urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Tess of the D'urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
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Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
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Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
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A Room With a View (E. M. Forster)
A Room With a View (E. M. Forster)
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Lady Chatterley's Lover (D.H. Lawrence)
Lady Chatterley's Lover (D.H. Lawrence)
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Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
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Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
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Finnegans Wake (James Joyce)
Finnegans Wake (James Joyce)
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Troilus and Criseyde (Geoffrey Chaucer)
Troilus and Criseyde (Geoffrey Chaucer)
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The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
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Piers Plowman (William Langland)
Piers Plowman (William Langland)
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (The Gawain Poet; Trans. Burton Raffel)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (The Gawain Poet; Trans. Burton Raffel)
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The Poems of Robert Henryson (Robert Henryson)
The Poems of Robert Henryson (Robert Henryson)
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Eneados (Gavin Douglas)
Eneados (Gavin Douglas)
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Ane Dance in the Quenis Chalmer (William Dunbar)
Ane Dance in the Quenis Chalmer (William Dunbar)
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Thomas Wyatt the Complete Poems (Thomas Wyatt)
Thomas Wyatt the Complete Poems (Thomas Wyatt)
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The Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (Henry Howard)
The Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (Henry Howard)
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