Famous authors and their works Flashcards
(199 cards)
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Hamlet
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Shakespeare
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The Iliad; The Odyssey
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Homer
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Oedipus the King; Antigone
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Sophocles
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Medea; Cyclops
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Euripides
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Divine Comedy of Dante; Aenid
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Virgil
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Odes; Satires; Ars Poetica
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Horace
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Metamorphoses
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Ovid
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Beowulf
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Unknown author 8th-11th centuries
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Tale of Genji
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Shibiku
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Spiritual Couplets
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Rumi
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The Divine Comedy
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Dante
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The Decameron; On Famous Women
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Boccaccio
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The Canterbury Tales
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Chaucer
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Le Morte D’Arthur
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Malory
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Gargantua and Pantagruel
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Rabelais
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Don Quixote
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Cervantes
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The Faerie Queene
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Spenser
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Dr Faustus; Tamburlaine the Great; The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
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Marlowe
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Volpone; The Alchemist; Bartholomew Fair
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Jonson
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A Valediction, Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed; A Fever; Death Be Not Proud
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Jon Donne
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To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
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Herrick
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Paradise Lost; Areopagitica
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Milton
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To My Dear and Loving Husband, The Burning of Our House
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Bradstreet
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To His Coy Mistress; The Garden; An Horatian Ode
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Marvell
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The World; Peace; Silex Scintillans
Vaughn
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Tartuffe; The Misanthrope; The School for Wives
Moliere
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The Pilgrim's Progress
Bunyan
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Principia Mathematica
Newton
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A Modest Proposal; Gulliver's Travels
Swift
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Pastorals; The Rape of the Lock; Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady; Ode on Solitude
Pope
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Candide; The Age of Louis XIV; Essay on the Customs and the Spirit of the Nations
Voltaire
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Jonathan Edwards
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Poor Richard's Almanack; The Autobiography
Ben Franklin
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The Life of Richard Savage; London; The Vanity of Human Wishes; Irene; The Oxford English Dictionary
Samuel Johnson
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Encyclopedie
Diderot
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Thomas Gray
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Speech to the Virginia Convention
Patrick Henry
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Common Sense; The Age of Reason; The Crisis, No. 1
Thomas Paine
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The Declaration of Indenpendence
Thomas Jefferson
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah _____
Equiano a.k.a Gustavas Vassa
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Poems on Various Subjects: To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth
Phyllis Wheatley
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience; Milton, a poem; The Tyger
William Blake
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A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Lyrical ballads: Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey; I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; Composed Upon Westminster Bridge; The World is Too Much with Us (From 'Songs of Experience')
Wordsworth
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariener; Kubla Khan, Christabel
Coleridge
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Sense and Sensibility; Emma; Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Rip Van Winkle; The Devil and Tom Walker
Washington Irving
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She Walks in Beauty; When We Two Parted; Don Juan
Lord Byron
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Leatherstocking Tales; The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper
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To A Skylark; Ozymandias; Ode to the West Wind; Music; Queen Mab
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Ode to a Grecian Urn; When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be; Ode to a Nightengale; To Autumn; On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
Keats
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
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Nature, Self-Reliance, Brahma, Concord Hymn
Emerson
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The Minister's Black Veil; Dr. Heidegger;s Experiment; The Scarlet Letter; The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Sonnet 43: How do I love thee; Sonnet 14: If thou must love me, let it be for nought; The Cry of the Children; Grief
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls; Paul Revere's Ride; The Cross of Snow; The Song of Hiawatha; Evangeline
Longfellow
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Ulysses; In Memorium A.H.H.; The Charge of the Light Brigade; Idylls of the King; Break, Break Break; The Lady of Shalott
Tennyson
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The Raven; The Pit and the Pendulum; The Tell-Tale Heart; The Fall of the House of Usher; Eldorado; To Helen
Poe
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Uncle Tom's Cabin; Little Foxes (under pen name Chris Crowfield)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Vanity Fair
Thackeray
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My Last Duchess; The Pied Piper of Hamelin; Porphyria's Lover; The Ring and the Book; Men and Women
Robert Browning
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Great Expectations; David Copperfield; Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs
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Jane Eyre; Villette
Charlotte Bronte
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Walden; Civil Disobedience; Resistance to Civil Government
Thoreau
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
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A Narrative of the Life of ______, an American Slave
Frederick Douglass
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The Mill on the Floss; Silas Marner; Middlemarch
George Eliot
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Moby Dick; Billy Budd; Bartleby, the Scrivener
Herman Melville
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Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
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Notes from the Underground; Crime and Punishment; The Idiot
Dostoyevsky
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The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta
John Rollin Ridge
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An Enemy of the People; Hedda Gabler; A Doll's House; Ghosts
Henrik Ibsen
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Silent Noon, Broken Music, Insomnia
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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War and Peace; The Power of Darkness; Anna Karenina; A Confession, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
Tolstoy
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Because I could not stop for Death; I'm Nobody, Who Are You?; A Bird Came Down a Walk; If Those I Loved Were Lost; Heart, We Will Not Forget Him!
Emily Dickinson
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Goblin Market; Remember
Christina Rosetti
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Jabberwocky; The Hunting of the Snark
Lewis Carrol aka Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
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Tom Sawyer; Huck Finn; The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain (Sam Langhorne Clemens)
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The Roundel; A Ballad of Dreamland; A Baby's Death
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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The Man He Killed; The Ruined Maid; The Convergence of the Twain; Drummer Hodge
Thomas Hardy
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The Father; Miss Julie; The Red Room
August Strindberg
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Desiree's Baby; The Story of an Hour; The Storm; The Awakening; A Pair of Silk Stockings
Kate Chopin
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge; The Damned Thing; The Devil's Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce
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The Jewels
Guy de Maupassant
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Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Treasure Island; Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson
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To My Wife-With a Copy of My Poems; Sonnet to Liberty; The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
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Pygmalion; Mrs. Warren's Profession; Candida
George Bernard Shaw
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Heart of Darkness; Lord Him
Joseph Conrad
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Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Wind in the Willows; The Reluctant Dragon
Kenneth Grahame
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To an Athlete Dying Young; Loveliest of Trees; When I was One-and-Twenty
A.E. Housman
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Peter Pan; The Little White Bird
J.M. Barrie
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The Bet; The Steppe; Misery; The Cherry Orchard; Three Sisters
Anton Chekov
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The Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln
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The Age of Innocence; The House of Mirth; Ethan Fromme; The Reckoning
Edith Wharton
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The Jungle Book; Just So Stories; The Man Who Would Be King; Gunga Din
Rudyard Kipling
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Sailing to Byzatium; The Second Coming; The WIld Swans at Coole; The Tower; The Winding Stair
William Butler Yeats
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The Souls of Black Folk; Black Reconstruction in America; The Crisis
W.E.B. Dubois
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On Nonviolent Resistance
Gandhi
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The Red Badge of Courage; Maggie: A Girl of the Streets; The Open Boat; The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky; A Mystery of Heroism; War Is Kind
Stephen Crane
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Sister Carrie: An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
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My Antonia: One of Ours; O Pioneers!; A Wagner Matinee
Willa Cather
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening; The Road Not Taken; Nothing Gold Can Stay; The Death of a Hired Man
Robert Frost
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Blood Sweat and Tears; The Second World War: A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
Winston Churchill
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Petals; A Fairy Tale; Sea Shell
Amy Lowell
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To Build a Fire; The Call of the Wild; White Fang; The Iron Heel
Jack London
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Siddhartha; Steppenwolf; The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse
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The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
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The Snowman; Valley Candle; Anecdote of the Jar; The Idea of Order at Key West; Sunday Morning
Wallace Stevens
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Spiritual Sonnets; Stones and Sky; Poetry in Prose and Verse; Voices of My Song
Juan Ramon Jimenez
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Ulysses; Araby; Eveline; A Portrait of a Young Artist as a Young Man; Finnegan's Wake
James Joyce
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A Room of One's Own; Mrs. Dalloway; To The Lighthouse; Orlando
Virginia Woolf
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The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
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This is Just to Say; The Red Wheelbarrow; The Great Figure; Spring and All
William Carlos Williams
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Sons and Lovers; Lady Chatterley's Lover; Odour of Chrysanthemums; The Rocking-Horse Winner
D.H. Lawrence
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Ripostes; Hugh Selwyn Mauberley; The Cantos; A Girl; The River Merchant's Wife; The Garden
Ezra Pound
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The Wasteland; The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; Four Quartets
T.S. Eliot
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Long Day's Journey Into the Night; The Iceman Cometh; Ah, Wilderness; Anna Christie
Eugene O'Neill
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Lot's Wife; All the unburied ones
Anna Gorenko (Anna Akhmatova)
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Their Eyes Were Watching God; Mule Bone; A Comedy of a Negro Life; Dust Tracks on a Road; Sweat
Zora Neale Hurston
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The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck
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Renascence; The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver; First Fig; I Being Born a Woman and Distressed; Love is not all
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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The Hobbit; Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
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I carry your heart with me; somewhere i have never traveled, somewhere beyond; anyone lived in a pretty how town; what if a much of a which of a wind
E.E. Cummings
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My Life and Hard Times; The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
James Thurber
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The Great Gatsby; This Side of Paradise; Tender is the Night; Bernice Bobs Her Hair; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Winter Dreams; A Letter to His Daughter
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Sound and the Fury; As I Lay Dying; Light in August; The Bear; A Rose for Emily; Barn Burning
William Faulkner
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Our Town; The Bridge of San Luis Rey; The Skin of Our Teeth; The Eighth Day
Thornton Wilder
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The Sun Also Rises; For Whom the Bell Tolls; The Old Man and the Sea; A Moveable Feast; Indian Camp; The Snows of Kiliminjaro; Soldier's Home; Speech, 1954
Ernest Hemingway
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The Silver Fifty-Sen Pieces
Yasunari Kawabata
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The Negro Speaks of Rivers; The Dream Keeper; Mother to Son; Dream Deferred; The Weary Blues; Let America Be America Again; I, Too, Sing America; My People; Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life
Langston Hughes
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What I Know About Life; Carnival of Animals
Ogden Nash
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The Grapes of Wrath; Of Mice and Men; The Red Pony; East of Eden; Travels with Charley: In Search of America; Tortilla Flat; Cannery Row; The Leader of the People
John Steinbeck
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Tableau; Incident
Countee Cullen
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1984; Animal Farm; Shooting an Elephant
George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
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Plenos poderes; Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair; Sonnet 79
Pablo Neruda
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No Exit; Nausea; The Roads to Reason trilogy; The Age of Reason; The Reprieve; Troubled Sleep
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Waiting for Godot; Endgame
Samuel Beckett
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In Memory of W.B. Yeats; The Unknown Citizen; Funeral Blues; Sept 1, 1939; Musee des Beaux Arts
W.H. Auden
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In a Dark Time; NIght Journey; The Waking; Words for the Wind; The Far Field
Theodore Roethke
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Native Son; Uncle Tom's Children; Black Boy; The Outsider
Richard Wright
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The Optimist's Daughter; A Worn Path
Eudora Welty
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The Fish; One Art
Elizabeth Bishop
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The Lord of the Flies; Rites of Passage
William Golding
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The Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire; The Rose Tattoo; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; The Field of Blue Children
Tennessee WIlliams
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The Stranger; The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
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El-Hajj Malik El_Shabazz (Malcom X); Frederick Douglass; Those Winter Sundays; The Whipping
Robert Hayden
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The Dream Songs
John Berryman
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Invisible Man; Shadow and Act; Going to the Territory
Ralph Ellison
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The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner; The Woman at the Washington Zoo; The Lost World
Randall Jarrell
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Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night; Under Milk Wood; In my Craft or Sullen Art; Fern Hill; And Death Shall Have No Dominion
Dylan Thomas
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Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A View From The Bridge
Arthur Miller
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For The Union Dead; The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket; Lord Weary's Castle
Robert Lowell
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No Witchcraft for Sale; The Grass is SInging
Doris Lessing
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The Catcher in the Rye; A Perfect Day for Bananafish; Franny and Zooey
J.D. Salinger
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Fahrenheit 451; The Martian Chronicles; The Illustrated Man
Ray Bradbury
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On the Road; Big Star; Mexico City Blues
Jack Kerouac
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Catch-22; Something Happened
Joseph Heller
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Discovery; The End and the Beginning
Wislawa Szymborska
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The Chocolate War; I Am the Cheese; After the First Death
Robert Cormier
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A Separate Peace
John Knowles
164
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
165
Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolfo Anaya
166
One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera; Autumn of the Patriarch; The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
167
Still I Rise; Phenomenal Woman; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
168
All My Pretty Ones; Crossing the Atlantic; The Moss of His Skin; The Bells; Young
Anne Sexton
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Night; Never Shall I Forget
Elie Wiesel
170
____ _____: The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
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Letter from Birmingham Jail; I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Dreamwood; A Change of World; Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existance
Adrienne Rich
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Things Fall Apart; No Longer at Ease; Arrow of God; A Man of the People; Marriage is a Private Affair
Chinua Achebe
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A Raisin in the Sun; The Drinking Gourd
Lorraine Hansberry
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The Giving Tree; Falling Up; A Light in the Attic; Messy Room; Whatif; Bear in There; Boa Constrictor
Shel Silverstein
176
Beloved; The Bluest Eye; Song of Solomon; Sula
Toni Morrison
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Daddy; Ariel; Metaphors; Lady Lazarus
Sylvia Plath
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Rabbit Angstrom novels; Witches of Eastwick
John Updike
179
Somebody Blew Up America; Tales of the Out and Gone
Amiri Baraka
180
House Made of Dawn; The Way to Rainy Mountain
N. Scott Momaday
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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds; My Darling; My Hamburger; The Pigman
Paul Zindel
182
The Giver; Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
183
Digging; Opened Ground
Seamus Heaney
184
The Woman Warrior; Tripmaster Monkey; China Men
Maxine Hong Kingston
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A Classic Moment; Catatonic
Robert Pinksy
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The New Kid on the Block; A Pizza the Size of the Sun; Be Glad Your Nose Is on Your Face; As Soon as Fred Gets Out of Bed; Bleezer's Ice Cream
Jack Prelutsky
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Man Listening to Disc; The Names; Poetry 180: Turning Back to Poetry
Billy Collins
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The Circuit; Stories of the Life of a Migrant Child
Francisco Jimenez
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Roll of Thunder; Hear My Cry
Mildred D. Taylor
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The Color Purple; You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down; Stories; In Search of Our Mother's Gardens
Alice Walker
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The Things They Carried; Speaking of Courage
Tim O'Brien
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The Outsiders; That Was Then, This Is Now; Rumble Fish; Tex
S.E. Hinton
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Trying to Name What Doesn't Change; Alaska; Burning the Old Year; Jerusalem
Naomi Shihab Nye
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The Joy Luck Club; The Bonesetter's Daughter
Amy Tan
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My Alexandria; Firebird; Coastal
Mark Doty
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The House on Mango Street; Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories; Straw Into Gold
Sandra Cisneros
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The Famished Road; Starbrook; In the Shadow of War
Ben Okri
198
Harry Potter series
JK Rowling
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When Mr. Prizada Came to Dine; Mrs. Sen's; The Namesake; Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri
