Authors From Titles 1 Flashcards

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Oedipus Rex (c.430 BC)

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Sophocles

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The Decameron (1348-53)

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Giovanni Boccaccio

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3
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The Fairie Queene (1589-96)

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Edmund Spenser

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4
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The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678; 84)

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John Bunyan

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5
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The Rape of the Lock (1714)

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Alexander Pope

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6
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Tom Jones (1749)

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Henry Fielding

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7
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1797)

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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8
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Faust (Part I - 1808; Part II - 1831)

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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9
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Frankenstein (1818)

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Mary Shelley

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10
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Ode on a Grecian Urn (1819)

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John Keats

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Leatherstocking Tales (1823-41) [The Pioneers, Last of the Mohicans, Prairie, Pathfinder, Deerslayer]

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James Fenimore Cooper

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12
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The Pickwick Papers (1836-37)

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Charles Dickens

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13
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)

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Edgar Allan Poe

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14
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The Three Musketeers (1844)

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Alexandre Dumas

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15
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Jane Eyre (1847)

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Charlotte Brontë

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16
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Wuthering Heights (1847)

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Emily Brontë

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17
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Vanity Fair (1848)

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William Makepeace Thackeray

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Madame Bovary (1857)

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Gustave Flaubert

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Fathers and Sons (1862)

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Ivan Turgenev

20
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Les Misérables (1862)

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Victor Hugo

21
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1867)

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Mark Twain

22
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Middlemarch (1872)

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George Eliot

23
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The Return of the Native (1878)

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Thomas Hardy

24
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The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

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Oscar Wilde

25
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Death in Venice (1911)

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Thomas Mann

26
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1911)

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T.S. Eliot

27
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Remembrance of Things Past (1913-27) [7 vols: Swann’s Way, Within a Budding Grove, Guermantes Way, Cities of the Plain, The Captive, The Sweet Cheat Gone, Time Regained]

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Marcel Proust

28
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Main Street (1920)

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Sinclair Lewis

29
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An American Tragedy (1925)

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Theodore Dreiser

30
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As I Lay Dying (1930)

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William Faulkner

31
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Brave New World (1932)

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Aldous Huxley

32
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All the King’s Men (1946)

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Robert Penn Warren

33
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Death of a Salesman (1949)

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Arthur Miller

34
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The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

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Ernest Hemingway

35
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Waiting For Godot (1952)

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Samuel Beckett

36
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Lolita (1955)

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Vladimir Nabokov

37
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Long Day’s Journey Into Night (pub. 1956)

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Eugene O’Neill

38
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Things Fall Apart (1958)

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Chinua Achebe

39
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Catch-22 (1961)

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Joseph Heller

40
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)

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Gabriel García Márquez