OtherNovels2 Flashcards
(114 cards)
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Clement C. Moore
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“The Night Before Christmas” poem (1823)
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Eugene O’Neill
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The Iceman Cometh play (1946)
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everyone is waiting on an important arrival of Theodore “Hickey” Hickman at the hotel/saloon
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The Iceman Cometh play (1946)
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Thorton Wilder
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Our Town play (1938)
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Romance and marriage of George Gibbs and other average town citizens in Grovers Corners, New Hampshire
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Our Town play (1938)
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uses no set or props
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Our Town play (1938)
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Henry Wadsworth
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“Paul Revere’s Ride” poem (1860)
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James Matthew Barrie
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Peter Pan (1904)
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the national poet in Britain. Such names as Geoffrey Chaucer, William Wordsworth, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Composes official poetry for public occasions or the king/queen’s birthday.
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poet laureate
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George Bernard Shaw
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Pygmalion play (1912)
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based on Greek story of _____ falling in love with the statue of a woman, which then came to life
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Pygmalion play (1912)
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Henry Higgins trains Eliza Doolittle to act and speak like a lady
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Pygmalion play (1912)
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Ayn Rand
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Fountainhead (1943)
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Howard Roark, based on Frank Lloyd Wright
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Fountainhead (1943)
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Gary Cooper played Howard Roark in the 1949 film
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Fountainhead (1943)
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Genius architect struggles to maintain his integrity (modern architecture) in the face of pressure towards mediocrity (traditional architecture)
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Fountainhead (1943)
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Ayn Rand
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Atlas Shrugged (1957)
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John Galt
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Atlas Shrugged (1957)
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dystopian US where society’s wealthiest citizens refuse high taxes and shut down their industries.
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Atlas Shrugged (1957)
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Stephen Crane
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The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
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Private Henry Fleming
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The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
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a young man whose romantic notions of heroism in combat are shattered when he fights in the Civil War, is brave
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The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
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Alex Haley
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Roots (1976)
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traces a black American man’s heritage to Africa, where his ancestors had been captured and sold as slaves.
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Roots (1976)
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Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses (1988)
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caused a huge backlash in Muslim community, including a death sentence from Ayatollah Khomeini for the author
The Satanic Verses (1988)
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controversial book in which 2 Indian actors are transformed into archangel and devil after a plane bombing
The Satanic Verses (1988)
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Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe (1819)
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Robin Hood helps King Richard I (dressed as the black knight) rescue this title knight and Rowena
Ivanhoe (1819)
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title character is torn between Rebecca and the Saxon Lady Rowena, marries Rowena
Ivanhoe (1819)
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features Robin Hood and Friar Tuck
Ivanhoe (1819)
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James Thurber
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" story (1939)
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a husband constantly leads a boring life; imagines himself in extraordinary situations like a heroic pilot during wartime, a world-famous surgeon, and a soldier who can face a firing squad without fear.
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" story (1939)
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James Hilton
Lost Horizon (1933)
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contains the fictional Tibetan land of eternal youth Shangri-La
Lost Horizon (1933)
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John Steinbeck
East of Eden (1952)
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story of good and evil featuring The Trasks and the Hamiltons
East of Eden (1952)
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Salinas Valley in California
East of Eden (1952)
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After killing Abel, Cain was banished to "Nod" located ____
East of Eden (1952)
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later made into a movie in James Dean's debut, & directed by Elia Kazan
East of Eden (1952)
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book of children's poetry by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
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musical based on "The Taming of the Shrew", title comes from a line in that play
Kiss Me, Kate play (1949)
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan novels (1912-1965)
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Mark Twain memoirs where he recounts learning to pilot steamboats
Life on the Mississippi (1883)
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Edward VI was the prince
The Prince and the Pauper (1881)
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rich kid and a poor kid trade places
The Prince and the Pauper (1881)
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair (1847)
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Becky Sharp, an unscrupulous woman, gains wealth and influence by her cleverness
Vanity Fair (1847)
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made into a movie starring Reese Witherspoon
Vanity Fair (1847)
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Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle (1963)
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named after a kid's game, but deals with the end of life on Earth
Cat's Cradle (1963)
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Alice Walker
The Color Purple (1982)
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Oprah Winfrey made her film debut in a movie based on this novel, also became a Broadway play
The Color Purple (1982)
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T.S. Eliot
The Waste Land poem (1922)
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Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence (1920)
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In 1870's New York society, Newland Archer marries May Welland, but falls in love with Ellen Olenska
The Age of Innocence (1920)
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later made into a movie starring Daniel Day Lewis, Winona Ryder, and Michelle Pheifer, directed by Margin Scorsese
The Age of Innocence (1920)
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Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
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Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest" play (1895)
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comedy about their use of this fake first name
"The Importance of Being Earnest" play (1895)
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later made into a movie starring Reese Witherspoon, Judi Dench, and Colin Firth
"The Importance of Being Earnest" play (1895)
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Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie play (1944)
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refers to Laura Wingfield's collection of animal figurines, the "Gentlemen Caller" Jim accidentally breaks the horn off her prized unicorn while dancing with her
The Glass Menagerie play (1944)
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made into a movie starring Katharine Hepburn
The Glass Menagerie play (1944)
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Amanda, Tom, & the fragile Laura Wingfield
The Glass Menagerie play (1944)
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Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire play (1947)
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Tennessee Williams
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof play (1955)
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Big Daddy Pollitt, a wealthy cotton tycoon and Brick his son, and Maggie the "Cat", Brick's wife, family members fight for Big Daddy's money
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof play (1955)
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later made into a movie starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof play (1955)
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means to be extremely nervous or agitated
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof play (1955)
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Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows (1908)
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Mr. Toad, Mole, Rat, and their friend Badger
The Wind in the Willows (1908)
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Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo (1844)
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Edmond Dantes
The Count of Monte Cristo (1844)
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a man is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes from jail, acquires a fortune, and gets revenge on those who wronged him (but things go badly for the innocent as well as the guilty)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1844)
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man is imprisoned in Chateau 'If for carrying letters from Elba to Paris for Napoleon
The Count of Monte Cristo (1844)
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Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers (1844)
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Athos, Porthos, and Aramis (and then d'Artagnan)
The Three Musketeers (1844)
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Communist Manifesto (1848)
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment (1866)
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Raskolnikov
Crime and Punishment (1866)
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impoverished ex-student formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker (and her sister) with an axe for her cash, justifies it by using cash for good and to prove that people are capable of murder, tortures him but he eventually confesses
Crime and Punishment (1866)
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Idiot (1868)
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innocent and naive Prince Myshkin suffers from epilepsy, loves two women, disaster happens, goes back to the sanatorium
The Idiot (1868)
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky, died shortly after
The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
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unhappy sons with distant father, one of them kills him
The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
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Alyosha, Ivan (the good one), Dmitri (falsely accused) & Smerdyakov (killed him)
The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
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John Kennedy Toole, received a posthumous Pullitzer after committing suicide
A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
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Ignatius J. Reilly is an educated but slothful 30 year old man who lives with his mother in New Orleans
A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
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Elie Wiesel
Night (1955)
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part of trilogy of Holocaust memoirs from a concentration camp survivor
Night (1955)
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William Golding
Lord of the Flies (1954)
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden (1911)
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Marry Lennox finds a key that opens the Secret Garden
The Secret Garden (1911)
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E.B. White
Charlotte's Web (1952)
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pig becomes friends with a spider, spider saves pig, spider dies
Charlotte's Web (1952)
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E.B. White
Stuart Little (1945)
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Gason Leroux
Phantom of the Opera novel (1910)
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
Phantom of the Opera play (1986)
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Christine
Phantom of the Opera play (1986)
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The Opera Ghost loves Christine, lurks in a lake underneath the Paris Opera House
Phantom of the Opera play (1986)
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longest running show in Broadway history
Phantom of the Opera play (1986)
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
Cats play (1981)
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
Jesus Christ Superstar play (1971)
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
Evita play (1976)
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1973)
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Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831)
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Quasimodo love Esmeralda, she loves a soldier, she is executed, he dies of starvation next to her corpse
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831)
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Jane Austen
Mansfield Park (1814)
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Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey (1817)
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Jane Austen
Persuasion (1818)
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Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
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Guy Montag is a fireman whose job is to burn books
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
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"It was a pleasure to burn"
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
