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The Guardian: Top 10 Literary Works About Ancestors

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Jerusalem (Jez Butterworth)
Jerusalem
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Jez Butterworth
This Be the Verse (Philip Larkin)
This Be the Verse
2
Philip Larkin
The Rainbow (D.H. Lawrence)
The Rainbow
3
D.H. Lawrence
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
4
Charles Dickens
On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
On the Origin of Species
5
Charles Darwin
The Eternity of Nature (John Clare)
The Eternity of Nature
6
John Clare
Brief Lives
Brief Lives
7
Henry IV, Part I (William Shakespeare)
Henry IV, Part I
8
William Shakespeare
Chronicles (Holinshed)
Chronicles
9
Holinshed
The Bible (Anonymous)
The Bible
10
Anonymous
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