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Which of the following books across this facade of evenly-spaced, 9-foot-wide mylar bookends is actually the longest published work?

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At 481,103 words, the lengthy Tolkien epic is also, along with the Dickens’ tale to its immediate right, one of the best-selling novels of all-time.

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Which of the following authors, whose work is represented here, was neither born in nor died in the state of Missouri?

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Cather was born in Virginia in 1873, grew up in Red Cloud, Nebraska and died in New York City in 1947.

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Approximately how many years separate the initial publication date of the oldest volume from the newest depicted on this block-length mural?

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Both Plato’s Republic and Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching date to around the 4th Century BC while the Virgil Thompson reader was published in 2002.

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Of all the titles given tribute in this trompe-l’œil of twenty-two towering tomes, which was the only one awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?

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In addition, David McCullough’s work Truman on Missouri’s native son was awarded the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.

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