J! Literature 6/16/23-8/30/23 Flashcards

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Tom Jones author

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Henry Fielding

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Daisy Miller author

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Henry James

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Utopia author

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Thomas More

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Stranger in a Strange Land author

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Heinlein

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Tender is the Night

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Fitzgerald

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The Last Tycoon

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Fitzgerald

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Player Piano author

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Vonnegut

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The Feminine Mystique

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Betty Friedan

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Nobel-winning (1971) Chilean poet

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Pablo Neruda

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Nobel-winning Chilean female poet, pseudonym

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Gabriela Mistral

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first Latin American woman to win Nobel Prize for literature

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Gabriela Mistral

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Glengarry Glen Ross playwright

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Mamet

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Speed-the-Plow playwright

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Mamet

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American Buffalo playwright

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Mamet

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The Name of the Rose author

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Umberto Eco

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Foucault’s Pendulum author

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Umberto Eco

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Erewhon author

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Samuel Butler

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Alice Childress book

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A Hero Ain’t Nothin but a Sandwich

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Naked Lunch author

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William Burroughs

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Light in August author

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Faulkner

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Ah, Wilderness! playwright

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Eugene O’Neill

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America’s queen of suspense

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Mary Higgins Clark

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Madame Bovary author

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Flaubert

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Metamorphoses author

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Ovid

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Art of Love poet
Ovid
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Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym author
Poe
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The Cantos poet
Ezra Pound
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poet friend of TS Eliot
Ezra Pound
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Adventures of Augie March author
Saul Bellow
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Humboldt's Gift author
Saul Bellow
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Neuromancer author
William Gibson
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New York World publisher
Pulitzer
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St Louis Post-Dispatch publisher
Pulitzer
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The French Lieutenant's Woman author
John Fowles
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"The Queen of Crime" two authors
Agatha Christie; PD James
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Adam Dalgliesh character author
PD James
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Children of Men author
PD James
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Show Boat author
Edna Ferber
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CS Forester naval hero character
Horatio Hornblower
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Fred Gipson novel
Old Yeller
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Sex and the Single Girl author
Helen Gurley Brown
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Cosmo editor
Helen Gurley Brown
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie author
Muriel Spark
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God's Little Acre author
Erskine Caldwell
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Tobacco Road author
Erskine Caldwell
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Tom Wolfe book about the Wall Street
Bonfire of the Vanities
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Donna Tartt novel
The Goldfinch
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Executioner's Song author
Norman Mailer
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Unsafe at Any Speed author
Ralph Nader
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Character Claire Randall time traveling in Scotland books
Outlander
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Outlander author
Diana Gabaldon
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Laura Esquivel book
Like Water for Chocolate
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Coming of Age in Samoa author
Margaret Mead
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Life of Pi author
Yann Martel
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Endymion poet
Keats
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Astrophel and Stella sonneteer
Philip Sidney
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Guns of Navarone
Alistair MacLean
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Crichton gorilla thriller
Congo
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The Mosquito Coast author
Paul Theroux
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Charge of the Light Brigade author
Tennyson
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The English Patient author
Michael Ondaatje
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Being There author
Jerzy Kosinski
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The Painted Bird author
Jerzy Kosinski
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Hunt for Red October author
Tom Clancy
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The Vicar of Wakefield author
Oliver Goldsmith
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Walter Mitty author
James Thurber
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Norman Peale book
The Power of Positive Thinking
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency author
Douglas Adams
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Grover's Corners book
Our Town
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Awakenings neurologist
Oliver Sacks
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Chicago poet
Carl Sandburg
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Joy Adamson raised lion Elsa book
Born Free
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Jack Ryan author
Tom Clancy
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Hunt for Red October author
Tom Clancy
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White Noise author
Don DeLillo
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Sweet Bird of Youth playwright
Tennessee Williams
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The Night of the Iguana playwright
Tennessee Williams
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Ivanhoe author
Walter Scott
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Waverly author
Walter Scott
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The Best and the Brightest, Vietnam historian
David Halberstam
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Lady Sings the Blues autobiography author
Billie Holiday
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Johnny Tremain author
Esther Forbes
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the "Lake Poet"
Wordsworth
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Le Mort d'Arthur author
Thomas Malory
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swam the Hellespont
Lord Byron
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The Road author
Cormac McCarthy
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No Country for Old Men author
Cormac McCarthy
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All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy
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Moll Flanders author
Defoe
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first Grisham novel
A Time to Kill
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The Vicar of Wakefield author
Oliver Goldsmith
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Robin Goodfellow alias
Puck
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Alan Paton apartheid novel
Cry the Beloved Country
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The Thorn Birds author
Colleen McCullough
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Lost Horizon author
James Hilton
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Goodbye Mr. Chips author
James Hilton
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Ron Kovic Vietnam war memoir
Born on the 4th of July
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The Cantos poet
Ezra Pound
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fascist imagist poet, mental hospital
Ezra Pound
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All my Sons playwright
Arthur Miller
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Arthur Miller play about bad plane parts killing WWII pilots
All my Sons