Literature Flashcards
(125 cards)
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William Shakespeare
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Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Othello – England
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Homer
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The Iliad, The Odyssey – Greece
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Charles Dickens
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A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist – England
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Mark Twain
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – United States
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George Orwell
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1984, Animal Farm – India (British India)
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Sophocles
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Oedipus Rex, Antigone – Greece
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables – United States
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Jane Austen
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Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma – England
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John Steinbeck
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Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden – United States
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night – United States
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Harper Lee
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To Kill a Mockingbird – United States
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Arthur Miller
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The Crucible, Death of a Salesman – United States
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Tennessee Williams
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A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – United States
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov – Russia
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Leo Tolstoy
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War and Peace, Anna Karenina – Russia
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Leo Tolstoy
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Resurrection – Russia
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Emily Brontë
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Wuthering Heights – England
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Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre – England
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Herman Melville
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Moby-Dick, Bartleby, the Scrivener – United States
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Mary Shelley
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Frankenstein – England
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Ozymandias, Prometheus Unbound – England
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Canterbury Tales – England
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Virgil
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The Aeneid – Italy (Roman Empire)
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Dante Alighieri
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The Divine Comedy – Italy
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Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass – United States
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Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls – United States
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Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher – United States
28
Beowulf Poet
Beowulf – Unknown (Anglo-Saxon)
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet, Duino Elegies – Austria
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Pablo Neruda
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair – Chile
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Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis, The Trial – Czech Republic (formerly Austria-Hungary)
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Haruki Murakami
Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore – Japan
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Toni Morrison
Beloved, Song of Solomon – United States
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Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye, Sula – United States
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Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – United States
36
Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse – England
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Albert Camus
The Stranger, The Plague – Algeria (French Algeria)
38
Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart – Nigeria
39
T.S. Eliot
The Waste Land, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock – United States
40
George Eliot
Middlemarch, Silas Marner – England
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Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening – United States
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William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying – United States
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Anton Chekhov
The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull – Russia
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Langston Hughes
The Weary Blues, Montage of a Dream Deferred – United States
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Henrik Ibsen
A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler – Norway
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Euripides
Medea, The Bacchae – Greece
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Aeschylus
Prometheus Bound, Agamemnon – Greece
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Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar, Ariel – United States
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Emily Dickinson
Because I Could Not Stop for Death, I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died – United States
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Louisa May Alcott
Little Women, Jo's Boys – United States
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William Golding
Lord of the Flies – England
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J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye – United States
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Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera – Colombia
54
George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion, Saint Joan – Ireland
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John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn – England
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William Wordsworth
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud – England
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan – England
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Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man – United States
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Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God – United States
60
James Joyce
Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – Ireland
61
Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote – Spain
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Molière
Tartuffe, The Misanthrope – France
63
Voltaire
Candide – France
64
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Confessions, Emile, or On Education – Switzerland
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther – Germany
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Marcel Proust
In Search of Lost Time – France
67
Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits, Eva Luna – Chile
68
R.K. Narayan
Malgudi Days, The Guide – India
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Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses – India
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Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest – Ireland
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Victor Hugo
Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame – France
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Alice Walker
The Color Purple – United States
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Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go, The Remains of the Day – Japan
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Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake – Canada
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Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome – United States
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H.G. Wells
The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine – England
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Aldous Huxley
Brave New World – England
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Jules Verne
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days – France
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Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd – England
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Henry James
The Turn of the Screw, The Portrait of a Lady – United States
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E.M. Forster
A Passage to India, Howards End – England
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Jack London
The Call of the Wild, White Fang – United States
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Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles – United States
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Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle – United States
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Richard Wright
Native Son, Black Boy – United States
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Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim – Poland (then part of Russian Empire)
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Italo Calvino
Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler – Italy
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Umberto Eco
The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum – Italy
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah – Nigeria
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Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake – United States
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Zadie Smith
White Teeth, On Beauty – England
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Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage – United States
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Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns – Afghanistan
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Nikolai Gogol
The Overcoat, Dead Souls – Russia
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Alexander Pushkin
Eugene Onegin, The Bronze Horseman – Russia
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Lorraine Hansberry
A Raisin in the Sun – United States
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese – England
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Robert Browning
My Last Duchess, Porphyria's Lover – England
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John Milton
Paradise Lost – England
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Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot – Ireland
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Carson McCullers
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – United States
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Flannery O'Connor
A Good Man is Hard to Find, Wise Blood – United States
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Jean-Paul Sartre
No Exit, Nausea – France
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Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex – France
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E.L. Doctorow
Ragtime – United States
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James Baldwin
Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room – United States
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Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene – England
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Thomas Paine
Common Sense, The American Crisis – England/United States
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Stephen King
The Shining, It – United States
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Octavia Butler
Kindred, Parable of the Sower – United States
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Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea – Dominica
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Willa Cather
My Ántonia, O Pioneers! – United States
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Tayeb Salih
Season of Migration to the North – Sudan
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Naguib Mahfouz
The Cairo Trilogy, Children of the Alley – Egypt
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Yasunari Kawabata
Snow Country, Thousand Cranes – Japan
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Kenzaburō Ōe
A Personal Matter – Japan
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Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things – India
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V.S. Naipaul
A House for Mr Biswas – Trinidad and Tobago
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Amiri Baraka
Dutchman – United States
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Tahar Ben Jelloun
The Sand Child – Morocco
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Mo Yan
Red Sorghum – China
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Anita Desai
Clear Light of Day – India
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Carlos Fuentes
The Death of Artemio Cruz – Mexico
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Gabriela Mistral
Desolation, Sonnets of Death – Chile
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Seamus Heaney
Beowulf (translation), Death of a Naturalist – Ireland
