Authors Flashcards
(25 cards)
Toni Morrison
Beloved-after civil war-inspired by afrrican american slave
H.G. Wells
The Time Machine-inspired science fiction
Edith Wharton
Age of Innocence-NYC uppder class couples impending marriage
Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass-book of poetry
Tennessee Williams
A streetcar named desire-teacher fired for affair
Saul bellows
Adventures of Auge March
Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 fireman burn houses where books are
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre
Willa Cather
My Antonia last of the prairie sequel takes place on plains of Nebraska
Thomas hardy
Tess of Duberville-story of the pure woman
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Scarlett Letter
George Orwell
1984 dystopian novel
Sylvia Plath
The bell jar-semi autobiography. Plath committed suicide
J.D. Salinger
Catcher and the Rye
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
Raymond Chandler
Farewell My Lady-mystery novel
Joseph Courad
Heart of Darkness-narrative
T.S. Elliot
The Wasteland- most important poem of its time
Ralph Ellison
The Invisible man
Harper Lee
To Kill A Mockingbird
Sinclair Lewis
Babbit-satire of middle class america
Jack London
Call of the Wild
Norman Mailer
The Naked and the Dead- world war 2
Herman Melville
Moby Dick