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Casanova's Chinese Restaurant is a novel by Anthony Powell. It forms the fifth volume of the twelve-volume sequence A Dance to the Music of Time, and was originally published in 1960. 

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Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe was an American abolitionist and author.

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Circumvent means escape, elude, evade, outwit. 

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Maya is a hypersensitive young urban wife. She is the protagonist of the novel. 

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Valdes and Cornelius Two German scholars who are versed in the practice of magic and who teach Faustus.

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The Queen's Rival has a wispy plot drawn from Persian legend, told in the narrative vein of the folk-ballad.

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John Donne was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a Catholic family, a remnant of the Catholic Revival, who reluctantly became a cleric in the Church of England.

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Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

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The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser. Books I–III were first published in 1590, then republished in 1596 together with books IV–VI.