10 Great Works of Literature Written in Prison

1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
2. The Travels of Marco Polo by Rustichello da Pisa
3. Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
4. Letters from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.
5. Short Stories by O. Henry
6. De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
7. Conversations with Myself by Nelson Mandela
8. Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
9. The Enormous Room by e.e cummings
10. In the Belly of the Beast by Jack Abbott

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