As there is no beast these are some I would recommend.
The Pillars of the Earth<span><span>Memoirs of a </span>Geisha</span><span>I, Claudius</span><span><span>The Book </span>Thief</span><span>Atonement</span><span>The Crucible</span><span><span>One Hundred </span><span>Years of </span>Solitude</span><span><span>A Breath of </span><span>Snow and </span>Ashes<span>
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Published in January 1776 in Philadelphia, nearly 120,000 copies were in circulation by April. Paine's brilliant arguments were straightforward. He argued for two main points: (1) independence from England and (2) the creation of a democratic republic. Paine avoided flowery prose.
<span>captured and burned Washington, D.C.</span>