J! Literature Flashcards
(166 cards)
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The Compleat Angler
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Izaak Walton
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Czech playwright and president
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Vaclav Havel
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Hollywood Wives author
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Jackie Collins
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Wicked
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Gregory Maguire
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Main character of The Mysterious Affair at Styles
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Poirot’s debut
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Winesburg Ohio
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Sherwood Anderson
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Oil!
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Upton Sinclair
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Arrowsmith
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Sinclair Lewis
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Main Street
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Sinclair Lewis
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Elmer Gantry
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Sinclair Lewis
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It Can’t Happen Here
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Sinclair Lewis
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Author from Sauk Centre Minnesota
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Sinclair Lewis
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Babbitt
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Sinclair Lewis
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Dodsworth
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Sinclair Lewis
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William Sydney Porter’s pen name
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O. Henry
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John Brown’s Body (1928 poem)
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Stephen Vincent Benet
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Idylls of the King (about Camelot)
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Tennyson
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Charge of the Light Brigade
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Tennyson
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Crossing the Bar
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Tennyson
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Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
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Lord Byron
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She Walks in Beauty
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Lord Byron
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Lord Byron’s daughter
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Ada Lovelace
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Don Juan
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Lord Byron
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Poet fought for Greek independence
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Lord Byron
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Lord, poet laureate
Lord Tennyson
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The Devil and Daniel Webster
Stephen Vincent Benet
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Wessex novelist
Thomas Hardy
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French father of science fiction
Jules Verne
29
Old Ironsides poem
Oliver Wendell Holmes
30
dog Buck in 1890s Canada gold rush
Call of the Wild
31
The Blind Side
Michael Lewis
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Airport
Arthur Hailey
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Detective
Arthur Hailey
34
Hotel
Arthur Hailey
35
Wheels
Arthur Hailey
36
Thumbelina
Hans Christian Andersen
37
Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving
38
Ben-Hur
Lew Wallace
39
The Children’s Hour
Lillian Hellman
40
The Little Foxes
Lillian Hellman
41
Pentimento
Lillian Hellman
42
Watch on the Rhine
Lillian Hellman
43
Toys in the Attic
Lillian Hellman
44
The Third Man
Graham Greene
45
Our Man in Havana
Graham Greene
46
The End of the Affair
Graham Greene
47
The Quiet American
Graham Greene
48
My Antonia
Willa Cather
49
O Pioneers
Willa Cather
50
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather
51
Author from Red Cloud Nebraska
Willa Cather
52
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys
53
four horsemen of the apocalypse
pestilence, war, famine, death
54
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is about what event
9/11
55
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
56
A Million Little Pieces
James Frey
57
Franny and Zooey
Salinger
58
Nine Stories
Salinger
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Sidney Lanier poet state
Georgia
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Sidney Lanier poet war
Civil War
61
Doctor Faustus
Thomas Mann
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Buddenbrooke
Thomas Mann
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Death in Venice
Thomas Mann
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Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
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Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse
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The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse
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Demian
Hermann Hesse
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Rabindranath Tagore language
Bengali
69
If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?
Erma Bombeck
70
family/housewife humor columnist
Erma Bombeck
71
Ben-Hur
Lew Wallace
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1676 Virginia rebellion (against Indians)
Bacon's Rebellion
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1787 Massachusetts rebellion (against taxes, showed gov weakness)
Shays Rebellion
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1794 Pennsylvania rebellion (against taxes)
Whiskey Rebellion
75
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold
76
Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden
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George Smiley character author
John le Carre
78
The Spy who Came in from the Cold
John Le Carre
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David John Moore Cornell pen name
John Le Carre
80
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John Le Carre
81
The Night Manager
John Le Carre
82
6th century southern Swede, e.g. Beowulf
Geat
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A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
84
Heidi Chronicles
Wendy Wasserstein
85
Fear of Flying
Erica Jong
86
Doonesbury
Garry Trudeau
87
1300s Italian poet laureate, wrote sonnets, loved Laura
Petrarch
88
A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde
89
The Devil's Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce
90
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Ambrose Bierce
91
HH Munro pen name
Saki
92
Susie Salmon is the murdered child narrator in what book
Lovely Bones
93
Animorphs
KA Applegate
94
Every Man in His Humour
Ben Jonson
95
Volpone
Ben Jonson
96
Hindu Sanskrit epics (2)
Ramayana and Mahabharata
97
Apology of the Augsburg Confession religion
Lutheranism
98
James Joyce June 16
Bloomsday
99
Red Wheelbarrow
William Carlos Williams
100
The Tin Drum
Gunter Grass
101
Tales of ____
ETA Hoffmann
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The Devil's Elixir
ETA Hoffmann
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sailor in Scheherazade stories
Sinbad
104
The Razor's Edge
Somerset Maugham
105
Of Human Bondage
Somerset Maugham
106
A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh
107
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
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The Loved One
Evelyn Waugh
109
Decline and Fall
Evelyn Waugh
110
Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
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Bridge of San Luis Rey country
Peru
112
From the Earth to the Moon
Jules Verne
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Five Weeks in a Balloon
Jules Verne
114
The Seven Storey Mountain [Trappist]
Thomas Merton
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affair with Henry Miller
Anais Nin
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Tropic of Cancer author
Henry Miller
117
Savoy Theater built for them
Gilbert and Sullivan
118
Gounod play based on Goethe
Faust
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Dreiser novel where small town girl becomes a Broadway star
Sister Carrie
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An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
121
The House of Mirth author
Edith Wharton
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Edith Wharton novel with the Archers
Age of Innocence
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Porgy author
Heyward
124
Riders of the Purple Sage author
Zane Grey
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author who was a dentist before writing Westerns
Zane Grey
126
female editor of Vanity Fair, then New Yorker
Tina Brown
127
Shakespeare library in Washington DC
Folger Library
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Margaret Edson play about professor with cancer
Wit
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The Last Picture Show
Larry McMurtry
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Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
131
Bridget Jones' Diary
Helen Fielding
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The Guns of Navarone
Alistair MacLean
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John Millington Synge play caused riots in Dublin
Playboy of the Western World
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Primary Colors anonymous author and Newsweek columnist
Joe Klein
135
Jason Bourne author
Robert Ludlum
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Gargantua's son
Pantagruel
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Gargantua and Pantagruel author
Rabelais
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The Imaginary Invalid
Moliere
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Lorna Doone
RD Blackmore
140
The Virginian
Owen Wister
141
Summa Theologica
Aquinas
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Tevye the Dairyman
Sholem Aleichem
143
Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri
144
author in the gulag after criticizing Stalin, deported
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
145
The Gulag Archipelago
Solzhenitsyn
146
Candide
Voltaire
147
The Social Contract
Rousseau
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The Andromeda Strain
Crichton
149
Congo author
Crichton
150
The Pelican Brief
Grisham
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A Time to Kill
Grisham
152
Deep Thoughts humorist
Jack Handey
153
King Arthur's father
Uther Pendragon
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island in Arthurian legend
Avalon
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
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author went to Canada 1890s for Klondike gold rush
Jack London
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Rape of the Lock poet
Alexander Pope
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An Essay on Man author
Alexander Pope
159
The Yearling author
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
160
Seven Habits of ____
Highly Effective People
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Seven Habits of ____
Highly Effective People
162
Fear and Trembling philosopher
Kierkegaard
163
The Red and the Black
Stendahl
164
I, Claudius
Robert Graves
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Philip Marlowe character creator
Raymond Chandler
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Philip Marlowe character creator
Raymond Chandler
