Review Of Old Books Flashcards by angela Lin

Song Of Fraternization and The Song Of Great Capitulation

Mother Courage and her Children

Brecht

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Song About The Futility Of Human Endeavor and The Ballad Of Sexual Dependency

Threepenny Opera

Brecht

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Polly Peachum mobster father tries to have Mac the Knife executed for marrying her

Threepenny Opera

Brecht

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Death of Elgar Linton

Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte

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Pishchik pays off his debts when Englishmen find white clay on his estate

The Cherry Orchard

Chekhov

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Lena (mom) buys a house in Clybourne Park (white) gives rest of money to Walter
Walter (married to Ruth who has a kid named Travis) wants to open a liquor store
Gets scammed by Willy Harris and Bobo

A Raisin in the Sun

Hansberry

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Beneatha (Bennie) wants to be a doctor

Also rejects George Murdison

A Raisin in the Sun

Hansberry

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Friendship with Plinio Designori 
Joseph Knecht gains title of Magister Ludi
Father Jacobus
Castalia 
Age of Fuelliton 
Music Master

Glass Bead Game

Hesse

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Janie Crawford talks to Phoebe
Logan Killicks
Joe Starks (Mayor of Eatonville)
Tea Cake (Vergible Woods)

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Hurston

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“Little Squirrel” and “twittering Lark”

forges her father’s signature to pay for Italy trip

Nora Helmer from A Doll’s House

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Dr. Rank has syphilis
Krogstad blackmails Nora Helmer
Walks out on Torvald

A Doll’s House

Ibsen

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Horstad (editor) and Aslaksen support Dr. Stockmann at first who says the Baths have bacteria
Judge burns his house

An Enemy of the People

Ibsen

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Harvard Solness falls from a tower and dies before he can build Hilda Wegel the promised kingdom

The Master Builder

Ibsen

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Wife of George Tessman

Blackmailed by Judge Brack and has a “Beautiful Death)

Hedda Gabler

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Eilert Lovborg is a drunk who writes a manuscript

It’s burned by Hedda and Mrs. Elvsted tries to reconstruct it

Hedda Gabbler

Ibsen

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Håkon Werle
Gregers Werle (his son)
Hjalmar and Gina Ekdal
Hedvig shoots herself

The Wild Duck

Ibsen

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Darl Bundren burns Gillespie’s barn
Brothers-Cash, Jewel and Varduman 
Sister- Dewey Dell who is raped by Skeet MacGowan 
Dad- Anse Mom-Addie (dying) 
Neighbors -Vernon and Cora Tull

As I Lay Dying

Faulkner

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My mother is a fish

I Made it on a bevel

As I Lay Dying

Faulkner

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Light in August
A Rose for Emily
Barn Burning
Reivers

Faulkner

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Begins in a cafe with Jean
Logician tries to explain syllogisms to the Old Man Dogs and cats are the same because they have four legs
Socrates is a cat because he is dead
They are green and have hoarse voices Daisy
Mrs. Boeuf is the first to transform

Rhinoceros

Ionesco (Romanian)

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Says I Will Not Capitulate
His drinking buddies are Botard and Dudard
He responds that Life Is Dream when accused of daydreaming
He refuses to turn into the title creature even after his love interest Daisy does

Berenger from Rhinoceros by Ionesco

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Dinner party with the Martins and the Smiths that is interrupted by the Fire Chief
One character calls herself Sherlock Holmes after discovering a couple aren’t married -one child has red eyes and another has white eyes
Dr. Mackenzie-King had his own liver operated on before doing a liver operation
Bobby Watson family

The Bald Soprano

ionesco

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A Report to an Academy
The Hunter Gracchus
Josephine the Singer

Kafka

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Henry Higgins makes a bet with Colonel Pickering that he can make Eliza Doolittle act like a duchess
It begins with the notetaker, a possible policeman, taking notes on what people are doing, including people arguing over a cab, in Covent Garden where Eliza sells flowers
She uses New Small Talk like They Done Her In
Her father, Alfred, is described as Britain’s Original Moralist, gives a lecture on morality, and inherits a fortune from Wannafeller and she throws her shoes at him
She marries Freddy Hill after going to a ball held by Nepommuck
They live on Wimpole Street
One character complains Men Men Men
Clara reads social criticism by H.G. Wells

Pygmalion

Shaw

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Mildred shreds Philip Carey’s sheets despite his help Marries Sally Athnely, Thorpe’s sister Is clubfooted Causes Fanny to ice herself Becomes a doctor after Uncle William dies Invests in the Boer War

Of Human Bondage | Maugham

The Razor’s Edge- Larry Darrel The Moon and Sixpence- Charles Strickland goes from Paris to Tahiti Cakes and Ale- William Asheden-Harry Ashenden- hairless Mexican and Colonel R

Maugham

Blind Assasin- Alex Thomas has affair with Iris Chase Oyrx and Crake- BlyssPluss, Waston-Crick Institute Cat's Eye- Elaine Risley The Robber Bride- deceased classmate Zenia who stole boyfriends

Atwood- Canadian

Zoo Story-Jerry impaled by Peter's knife from a tickle fight in Central Park The Sandbox- Young man performs calisthenics Seascape- Nancy and Charlie see lizards Leslie and Sarah- startled by planes The American Dream A Delicate Balance-Edna, Harry, Tobias

Albee

``` Mademoiselle Fifi Piece of String-Maitre The Horla- invisible Brazilian vampire Madame Teller’s Establishment Bel Ami ```

Maupassant

Elisabeth Rousset is forced to sleep with Prussian officer but is shunned later Travel from Rouen to Le Havre Cornudet whistles La Marseillaise

Ball of Fat | Maupassant

Mathilde borrows it from Mdm. Forestier Loses it and takes a decade to pay it off Necklace was a fake and only worth 500 francs Husband, Monsieur Loisel, buys her a dress for the Minister of Education's ball for 400 francs instead of hunting guns “One of those pretty and charming girls, born by a blunder of destiny in a family of employees” “Beef stew” “Fine dinners, of shining silverware”

Necklace | Maupassant

Berlioz in MASSOLIT is decapitated by a streetcar Variety Theater Margarita uses magical cream- turns into a witch, flies, neighbor into a pig Woland says Manuscripts Don’t Burn Yeshua Ha-Notsri and Pontius Pilate book Woland holds a walpurgisnacht dance at Apartment No. 50 Woland, the devil in disguise, wants to be called Hegemon, has headaches and has a retinue Behemoth is giant black walkin’ talkin’ flyin’ cat in the retinue Mark the Rat Killer, the spy Afranius, Hella the vampire

Master and Margarita | Bulgakov

``` Wild Ass's Skin- Raphael de Valentin- thing shrinks Pere Geriot Lost Illusions Cousin Bette Sarrasine ```

Balzac- french

Molloy-detective Jaques Moron persues title character Malone Dies The Unnamable Whoroscope

Beckett- Irish

Billards at Half Past Nine

Boll

The Caucasian Chalk Circle- Azduk recuses Grand Duke, Michael belongs to Grusha The Good Person of Setzuan

Brecht- German

Sharik (dog) becomes a human Polygraph Polygraphovich after he receives human testes and pituitary glands from an operation by Dr. Preobrezhansky and then kills cats and sexually assaults people

Heart of a Dog | Bulgakov

The World at Large White Disease The Makropulos Affair

Capek- Czech

Begins -bilingual parrot "Go Away Go Away" in french Edna Pontellier has affairs with Alcee Arobin and Robert LeBrun before walking into the ocean and drowning New Orleans Married to Leonce and has a son named Raoul Lebrun moves to Mexico and Edna gets triggered when Victor sings She listens to Mademoiselle Reisz play a Chopin song on piano Doctor Mandelet tries to help her She moves into the Pigeon House She is contrasted with the loyal Adele Ratignolle

The Awakening | Chopin

Desiree's Baby- Armond- biracial baby stuff A Pair of Silk Stockings- Mrs. Sommers, $15, cable car The Storm- Bobino and Bibi buy a can of shrimp Story of an Hour

Chopin

Professor David Lurie loses his job teaching at Cape Technical University after affair with the student Melanie Isaacs. Solves The Problem Of Sex by seeing the prostitute Soraya every Thursday Affair with Bev Shaw at the animal shelter he works at after he’s fired Smashes the limbs of euthanized dogs to fit them in the incinerator Fiight at a party hosted by Petrus Opera about Byron

Disgrace | Coetzee

Marlow meets a russian guy dressed as a harlequin Waits for a shipment of rivets to repair his steamboat Sees two women knitting black wool The Nellie ship in the mouth of the Thames Painting of a blindfolded woman with a torch Marlow reads Exterminate All The Brutes Kurtz’s last words are The Horror, The Horror Marlow calls a city a Whited Sepulchre

Heart of Darkness | Conrad

Alyosha, is religious and gets upset when the corpse of his mentor, Father Zossima, starts to decompose but regains his faith after a dream about the Wedding at Cana Dmitri breaks off his engagement to Katrina to woo Grushenka and gets put on trial for murdering his father, Fyodor Fyodor was actually iced by his illegitimate son, Smerdyakov Another brother, Ivan, tells the Parable of the Grand Inquisitor to Alyosha About Jesus coming back and kissing the title figure who sentences him to burn in Seville

Brothers Karamozov | Doestoevsky

Meme is surrounded by a swarm of yellow butterflies Remedios the Beauty ascends to Heaven while sewing It is about seven generations of the Buendia family Jose Arcadio Buendia uses an alchemy lab to make golden fish Rebeca eats dirt and plaster from the walls Rebeca carries a bag of her parents’ bones that makes a clanking noise 17 children named Aureliano are marked with permanent Ash Wednesday crosses Takes place in the town of Macondo Aureliano is born with a pig's tail because he is a child of incest and he is eventually eaten by ants There is a banana plantation massacre

One Hundred Years of Solitude | Marquez

Dr. Urbino dies falling from a tree while trying to catch a parrot Florentino Ariza eats flowers to ingest scent of Fermina Daza Florentino has an affair with Barbara Lynch and Rosalba The book opens with the investigation of the suicide of a chess player who killed himself with cyanide which smells of bitter almonds The German Lotario Thugut and Hildebranda help the central characters Fermina refuses to eat eggplant

Love in the Time of Chlorea | Marquez

The Vicario brothers murder Santiago Nasar after they discover Angela is not a virgin One character is the widower Xius 17 years of daily love letters are returned unopened The visiting bishop never leaves his boat

Chronicle of a Deathh Fortold

Ashoke Ganguli reads it before a train crash in The Namesake About the copyist Akaky Akakievich who buys the title garment for 80 rubles He stops drinking tea and using candles to save money He dies of fever and his ghost hangs out near Kanklankin Bridge The overcoat is stolen by a Person of Consequence or Very Important Person or similar (translations vary)

The Overcoat | Gogol

``` Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini's Daugther The Minister's Black Veil The Birthmark Dr. Heidegger's Experiment The Marble Faun Blythedale Romance ```

Hawthorne

Bloody photographs Freddy suggests a tennis game Cecil Vyse reads Joseph Emery Prank (Elenor Lavish) Pensione Bertolini- can’t see river Arno Windy corner George Emerson thinks Lucy Honeychurch is beautiful in field of violets Charlotte Bartlett

Room with a View | Forester

Marabar caves “Esmiss Esmoor” is said during trial and someone takes off shoes Cyril Fielding married Ronny Heaslop, son of Mrs. Morris Dr Aziz is accused of rapist Adela Questad Major Callender

Passage to India | Forester

Cucumber sandwiches Jack Worthing and Algernon Moneriecff merry Cecily Cardew and Gwendolyn Fairfax Jack was lost as baby in Victoria Station by Miss Prism Algernon sees cigarette case “Bunburying” Dr. Chasuable

Importance of Being Earnest | Wilde

Do any human beings ever realize life as they live it | Blessed be the tie that binds

Our Town | Wilder

``` Milkman Howie Newsome Joe Crowell wins MIT scholarship but dies in WW1 Simon Stimson hangs himself in attic Emily Webb dies in childbirth George Gibbs ```

Our Town | Wilder

Ben Gunn loves cheese A ripped page from Bible makes a Black Spot Blind pew Dr. Libesey warns Billy Bones to stop drinking Abraham Gray kills Job Anderson Jim Hawkins flights Israel Hands

Treasure Island | Stevenson

Protagonist, Harry Haller, plans suicide on his 50th birthday He spends much time at the Magic Theater which is For Madmen Only, and the price of admission is Your Mind He dances with Maria at a masked ball and sleeps with her The Saxophonist Pablo turns out to be Mozart Harry meets Hermine at the Black Eagle tavern and she reminds him of his childhood friend, Herman Harry gets a Treatise on himself which is found by his landlady He stabs Hermine when he finds her with Pablo

Steppenwolf

Title character holds on to a coconut tree while deciding whether to commit suicide by jumping off He has dreams where he breastfeed from his former best friend and about a dead songbird he throws away He tells his friend Govinda to kiss his forehead at the end He marries Kamala but she ties of a snakebite right after she has a son He has a business apprenticeship with Kamaswami but gets a gambling addiction

Siddhartha

It is about an unnamed Whiskey Priest in Mexico that is hunted by the unnamed Lieutenant He is captured after he is betrayed and lured into a trap by the Mestizo who says a wounded American named James Calver needs help He stays at the home of the widower Mr. Lehr He fights a crippled dog over a bone he finds in a house and wins He meets Coral Fellows

Power and the glory

About James Wormold who is a vacuum salesman recruited by the British Secret Service while trying to support his daughter, Milly He has a cigarette case made of human skin He thinks catholics are a Torturable Class He plays a game of checkers where the pieces are replaced with tiny scotch bottles Dr. Hasselbacher is shot for decoding secret messages using Lamb’s Shakespeare

Our man in Havana

The title character loves Angel Clare who moves to Brazil She falls asleep at the reins and the family horse, Prince, is impaled on the mailman's cart She is taken to a grove by Alec where she is seduced in her sleep (raped) and later gives birth to the child, Sorrow, who dies She works at Talbothays Dairy with the milkmaids Izz, Retty, and Marion She stabs Alec and is arrested at Stonehenge Her execution is implied by a black flag seen by her sister Liza-Lu

Tess of the U’bervilles

The title stonemason’s wife leaves him after becoming religious so he goes back to his first wife, Arabella Don He lives in Christminster, Wessex Sue buys a love potion from Doctor Vilbert Little Father Time hangs himself and his half-siblings and leaves a note reading Done Because We Are Too Menny

Jude the Obscure

Some peasants hold a Skimmity Ride that kills Lucetta Templeman The title character gets drunk and sells his wife, Susan, and daughter to the sailer Richard Newson Jopp reads the love letters of the title character in an inn which leads to a parade with effigies of him and his mistress

Mayor of Castorbridge

It begins and ends on Guy Fawkes Day Clym Yeobright marries Eustacia Vye Clym works as a diamond merchant but goes blind Diggory Venn drives around in a van

Return of the native

Bathsheba Everdene ends up marrying Gabriel Oak She sends Bolwood a valentine that says Marry Me Sergeant Troy had impregnated the servant Fanny Robin but she died and he impresses Bathsheba with his swordsmanship

Far from the madding crowd

Its frame story is a manuscript possessed by Douglas and written by the unnamed Governess at the Bly House The governess watches Flora and Miles and is instructed never to contact the employer, Mrs. Grose Miles is mysteriously expelled from school The narrator sees the ghosts of the former governess Mrs. Jezel and her lover, Peter Quint Someone says Peter Quint You Devil and Miles dies

Turn of the screw

The title figure gets roman fever at the Coliseum and dies She was visiting it with Giovanelli, the rival of Winterbourne She is from Schenectady, New York She travels from Vevey, Switzerland to Chateau de Chillon The courier Eugenio tries to keep her from going on the trip

Daisy Miller

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