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    Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut tells the story of Howard W. Campbell Jr., an American playwright who becomes a Nazi propagandist during World War II, only to later claim he was working as a spy for the Allies. Narrated from his prison cell in 1961, Campbell reflects on his role in the war, grappling with his identity and the blurred lines between truth and deception. Vonnegut’s darkly comic, thought-provoking novel explores themes of morality, guilt, and the complexity of human choices, all while questioning the nature of good and evil in a world torn apart by conflict.

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    1. Chapter 1: Tiglath-Pileser the Third …
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    2. Chapter 2: Special Detail …
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    3. Chapter 3: Briquets …
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    4. Chapter 4: Leather Straps …
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    5. Chapter 5: “Last Full Measure …”
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    6. Chapter 6: Purgatory …
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    7. Chapter 7: Autobiography …
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    8. Chapter 8: Auf Wiedersehen …
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    9. Chapter 9: Enter My Blue Fairy Godmother …
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    10. Chapter 10: Romance …
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    11. Chapter 11: War Surplus …
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    12. Chapter 12: Strange Things in My Mailbox …
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    13. Chapter 13: The Reverend Doctor Lionel Jason David Jones, D.D.S., D.D. …
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    14. Chapter 14: View Down a Stairwell …
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    15. Chapter 15_The Time Machine …
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    16. Chapter 16: A Well-Preserved Woman …
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    17. Chapter 17: August Krapptauer Goes To Valhalla …
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    18. Chapter 18: Werner Noth’s Beautiful Blue Vase …
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    19. Chapter 19: Little Resi Noth …
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    20. Chapter 20: “Hang Women for the Hangman of Berlin …”
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    21. Chapter 21: My Best Friend …
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    22. Chapter 22: The Contents of an Old Trunk …
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    23. Chapter 23: Chapter Six Hundred And Forty-Three …
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    24. Chapter 24: A Polygamous Casanova …
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    25. Chapter 25: The Answer to Communism …
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    26. Chapter 26: In Which Private Irving Buchanon and Some Others are Memorialized …
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    27. Chapter 27: Finders Keepers …
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    28. Chapter 28: Target …
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    29. Chapter 29: Adolf Eichmann and me …
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    30. Chapter 30: Don Quixote …
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    31. Chapter 31: “His Truth Goes Marching On …”
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    32. Chapter 32: Rosenfeld …
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    33. Chapter 33: Communism Rears Its Head …
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    34. Chapter 34: Alles Kaput …
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    35. Chapter 35: Forty Rubles Extra …
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    36. Chapter 36: Everything But the Squeals …
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    37. Chapter 37: Dat Old Golden Rule …
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    38. Chapter 38: Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life …
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    39. Chapter 39: Resi Moth Bows Out …
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    40. Chapter 40: Freedom Again…
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    41. Chapter 41: Chemicals …
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    42. Chapter 42: No Dove, No Covenant …
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    43. Chapter 43: St. George and the Dragon …
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    44. Chapter 44: “Kahm-Boo …”
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    45. Chapter 45
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