General Literature Flashcards
(115 cards)
1
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Who wrote “Don Quixote”?
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Miguel de Cervantes; 1605,1630
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Who wrote “War and Peace”?
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Leo Tolstoy; 1869
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Who wrote “Ulysses”?
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James Joyce; 1922
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Who wrote “Moby Dick”?
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Herman Melville; 1851
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Who wrote “Emma”?
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Jane Austen; 1816
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Who wrote “Bleak House”?
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Charles Dickens; 1852-1853
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Who wrote “Anna Karenina”?
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Leo Tolstoy; 1877
8
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Who wrote the “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”?
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Mark Twain; 1884
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Who wrote “Great Expectations”?
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Charles Dickens; 1860-1861
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Who wrote “Absalom, Absalom!”?
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William Faulkner; 1936
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Who wrote “The Great Gatsby”?
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F. Scott Fitzgerald; 1925
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Who wrote “To The Lighthouse”?
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Virginia Woolf; 1927
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Who wrote “Crime and Punishment”?
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Feodor Dostoevsky; 1866
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Who wrote “The Sound and the Fury”?
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William Faulkner; 1929
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Who wrote “Vanity Fair”?
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William Makepeace Thackeray; 1847-1848
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Who wrote “Invisible Man”?
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Ralph Ellison; 1952
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Who wrote “Finnegans Wake”?
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James Joyce; 1939
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Who wrote “Gravity’s Rainbow”?
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Thomas Pynchon; 1973
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Who wrote “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”?
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James Joyce; 1916
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Who wrote “Wuthering Heights”?
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Emily Bronte; 1847
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Who wrote “Pride and Prejudice”?
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Jane Austen; 1813
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Who wrote “The Scarlet Letter”?
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Nathaniel Hawthorne; 1850
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Who wrote “Beloved”?
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Toni Morrison; 1987
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Who wrote “Lolita”?
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Vladimir Nabkov; 1955
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Who wrote "Jane Eyre"?
Charlotte Bronte; 1847
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Who wrote "The Red Badge of Courage"?
Stephen Crane; 1897
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Who wrote "The Grapes of Wrath"?
John Steinbeck; 1939
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Who wrote "The Age of Innocence"?
Edith Wharton; 1920
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Who wrote "Herzog"?
Saul Bellow; 1964
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Who wrote "A Farewell to Arms"?
Ernest Hemingway; 1929
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Who wrote "Robinson Crusoe"?
Daniel Defoe; 1719
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Who wrote "Candide"?
Voltaire; 1759
33
Who wrote "Native Son"?
Richard Wright; 1940
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Who wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God"?
Zora Neal Hurston; 1937
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Who wrote "Nineteen Eighty-Four"?
George Orwell; 1949
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Who wrote "The Last of the Mohicans"?
James Fenimore Cooper; 1826
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Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
Harriet Beecher Stowe; 1852
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Who wrote "Les Miserables"?
Victor Hugo; 1862
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Who wrote "On the Road"?
Jack Kerouac; 1957
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Who wrote "Frankenstein"?
Mary Shelley; 1818
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Who wrote "The Catcher in the Rye"?
J.D. Salinger; 1951
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Who wrote "Dracula"?
Bram Stoker; 1897
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Who wrote "The Three Musketeers"?
Alexandre Dumas; 1844
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Who wrote "The Hound of Baskervilles"?
Arthur Conan Doyle; 1902
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Who wrote "Gone with the Wind"?
Margeret Mitchell; 1936
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Who wrote "The Adventures of Augie March"?
Saul Bellow
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Who wrote "All the King's Men"?
Robert Penn Warren
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Who wrote "Animal Farm"?
George Orwell
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Who wrote "Are You There God? It's Me,______"?
Margaret Judy Blume
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Who wrote "Atonement"?
Ian McEwan
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Who wrote "Catch-22"?
Joseph Heller
52
Who wrote "A Clockwork Orange"?
Anthony Burgess
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Who wrote "The Confessions of Nat Turner"?
William Styron
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Who wrote "Go Tell it on the Mountain"?
James Baldwin
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Who wrote "Light in August"?
William Faulkner
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Who wrote "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe"?
C.S. Lewis
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Who wrote "Lord of the Flies"?
William Golding
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Who wrote "The Lord of the Rings"?
J.R.R. Tolkien
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Who wrote "Midnight's Children"?
Salman Rushdie
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Who wrote "Native Son"?
Richard Wright
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Who wrote "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"?
Ken Kesey
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Who wrote "A Passage to India"?
E.M. Forster
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Who wrote "The Prime of Miss Brodie"?
Muriel Spark
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Who wrote "Rabbit, Run"?
John Updike
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Who wrote "Slaughterhouse-Five"?
Kurt Vonnegut
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Who wrote "The Sound and the Fury"?
William Faulkner
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Who wrote "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold"?
John le Carre
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Who wrote "The Sun Also Rises"?
Ernest Hemingway
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Who wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
Harper Lee
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Who wrote "Of Plymouth Plantation"?
William Bradford; First account of American History
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Who wrote "Crisis Papers"?
Thomas Paine; Begins with the lines, "These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink form the service of their country; but he that stands is now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." 1776-1783
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Who wrote "Notes on Virginia"?
Thomas Jefferson, 1785
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Who wrote "Two Years Before the Mast"?
Richard Henry Dana, 1840
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Who wrote "Walden"?
Henry David Thoreau, 1854
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Who wrote "Life on the Mississippi"?
Mark Twain, 1883
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Who wrote "Personal Memoirs"?
Ulysses S. Grant, 1885
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Who wrote "Hamlet"?
William Shakespeare; 1601
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Who wrote "The Tempest"?
William Shakespeare; 1611
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Who wrote "Macbeth"?
William Shakespeare; 1606
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Who wrote "Iliad"?
Homer; 8th Century BC
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Who wrote "Paradise Lost"?
John Milton; 1667
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Who wrote "Faust"?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; 1667
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Who wrote "King Lear"?
William Shakespeare; 1605
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Who wrote "The Merchant of Venice"?
William Shakespeare; 1596
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Who wrote "A Midsummer Night's Dream"?
William Shakespeare; 1595
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Who wrote "Romeo and Juliet"?
William Shakespeare; 1594
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Who wrote "As You Like It"?
William Shakespeare; 1599
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Who wrote "Oedipus Tyrannus"?
Sophocles; 430 BC
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Who wrote "The Divine Comedy"?
Dante Alighieri; 1314
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Who wrote "The Canterbury Tales"?
Geoffrey Chaucer; 1387
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Who wrote "Othello"?
William Shakespeare; 1622
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Who wrote "Little Women"?
Louisa May Alcott; 1868
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Who wrote "Billy Budd: Foretopman"?
Herman Melville; 1891
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Who wrote "Julius Caesar"?
William Shakespeare; 1599
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Who wrote "Our Town"?
Thornton (Niven) Wilder; 1938
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Who wrote "Aeneid"?
Virgil; 19 BC
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Who wrote "A Streetcar Named Desire"?
(Thomas Lanier) "Tennessee" Williams; 1947
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Who wrote "A Tale of Two Cities"?
Charles (John Huffam) Dickens; 1859
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Who wrote "Odyssey"?
Homer; 8th Century BC
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Who wrote "Chicago"?
Carl (August) Sandburg; 1916
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Who wrote "Heart of Darkness"?
Joseph Conrad; 1902
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Who wrote "The Call of the Wild"?
Jack London; 1903
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Who wrote "Much Ado About Nothing"?
William Shakespeare; 1598
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Who wrote "For Whom the Bell Tolls"?
Ernest (Miller) Hemingway; 1940
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Who wrote "The Waste Land"?
Thomas Stern Eliot; 1922
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Who wrote "Pilgrim's Progress"?
John Bunyan; 1678
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Who wrote "Pygmalion"?
George Bernard Shaw; 1912
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Who wrote "Twelfth Night"?
William Shakespeare; 1623
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Who wrote "The Jungle"?
Upton (Bealle) Sinclair; 1906
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Who wrote "Long Day's Journey Into Night"?
Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill; 1956
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Who wrote "A Doll's House"?
Henrik (Johan) Ibsen; 1879
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Who wrote "The Taming of The Shrew"?
William Shakespeare; 1593
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Who wrote "Brave New World"?
Aldous (Leonard) Huxley; 1932
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Who wrote "Things Fall Apart"?
(Albert) Chinua(lumogu) Achebe; 1958
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Who wrote "Oliver Twist"?
Charles Dickens; 1838
