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«Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.
Try to understand each other» ¹

Is a short novel by Jhon Steinbeck published in 1937.

The title refers to a poem by Scottish poet Robert Burns and suggests that the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry: no matter how hard or well we plan for something, our plans can often fail to become reality…or worse, they can end up going terribly wrong.
The original title was «Something That Happened» but Steinbeck changed it after reading Burn’s poem To a Mouse.

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Is a 1884 novel by Mark Twain.

According to Ernest Hemingway, it was the «one book» from which «all modern American literature» came, and contemporary critics and scholars have treated it as one of the great American novels.

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Is a 1964 novel by Hubert Selby Jr.

The novel describes the lower class of the Brooklyn Waterfront in 1950s, which is depicted as a wasteland prowled by gangs, whores and transvestites.

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