Top 100 Literary Classics Flashcards

Quickly and efficiently learn the titles of the world's greatest works of literature and their authors. (97 cards)

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Who wrote:

Things Fall Apart

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Chinua Achebe

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Who wrote:

Pride and Prejudice

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Jane Austen

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Who wrote:

Old Father Goriot

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Honoré de Balzac

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Who wrote:

Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

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Samuel Beckett

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Who wrote:

Decameron

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Giovanni Boccaccio

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Who wrote:

Labyrinths

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Jorge Luis Borges

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Who wrote:

Wuthering Heights

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Emily Brontë

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Who wrote:

The Stranger

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Albert Camus

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Who wrote:

Journey to the End of the Night

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Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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Who wrote:

Don Quixote

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Miguel de Cervantes

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Who wrote:

Canterbury Tales

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Who wrote:

The Cherry Orchard

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Anton Chekhov

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Who wrote:

Nostromo

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Joseph Conrad

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Who wrote:

The Divine Comedy

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Dante Alighieri

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Who wrote:

Great Expectations

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Charles Dickens

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Who wrote:

Jacques the Fatalist and His Master

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Denis Diderot

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Who wrote:

Berlin Alexanderplatz

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Alfred Doblin

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Who wrote:

Crime and Punishment

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Who wrote:

The Idiot

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Who wrote:

The Possessed

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Who wrote:

The Brothers Karamazov

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Who wrote:

Middlemarch

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George Eliot

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Who wrote:

Invisible Man

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Ralph Ellison

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Who wrote:

Medea

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Euripides

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# Who wrote: Absalom, Absalom
William Faulkner
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# Who wrote: The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
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# Who wrote: Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
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# Who wrote: A Sentimental Education
Gustave Flaubert
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# Who wrote: Gypsy Ballads
Federico Garcia Lorca
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# Who wrote: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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# Who wrote: Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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# Who wrote: Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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# Who wrote: Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol
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# Who wrote: The Tin Drum
Gunter Grass
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# Who wrote: The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
Joao Guimaraes Rosa
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# Who wrote: Hunger
Knut Hamsun
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# Who wrote: The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
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# Who wrote: The Iliad
Homer
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# Who wrote: The Odyssey
Homer
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# Who wrote: A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen
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# Who wrote: Ulysses
James Joyce
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# Who wrote: The Trial
Franz Kafka
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# Who wrote: Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
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# Who wrote: The Recognition of Sakuntala
Kalidasa
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# Who wrote: The Sound of the Mountain
Yasunari Kawabata
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# Who wrote: Zorba the Greek
Nikos Kazantzakis
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# Who wrote: Sons and Lovers
D. H. Lawrence
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# Who wrote: Independent People
Halldor K. Laxness
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# Who wrote: The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing
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# Who wrote: Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren
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# Who wrote: Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
Lu Xun
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# Who wrote: Children of Gebelawi
Naguib Mahfouz
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# Who wrote: Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann
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# Who wrote: The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann
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# Who wrote: Moby Dick
Herman Melville
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# Who wrote: Essais
Michel de Montaigne
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# Who wrote: La Storia (History)
Elsa Morante
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# Who wrote: Beloved
Toni Morrison
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# Who wrote: The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu
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# Who wrote: The Man Without Qualities
Robert Musil
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# Who wrote: Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
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# Who wrote: Njal's Saga
Unknown
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# Who wrote: 1984
George Orwell
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# Who wrote: Metamorphoses
Ovid
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# Who wrote: The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa
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# Who wrote: The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe
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# Who wrote: Remembrance of Things Past
Marcel Proust
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# Who wrote: Gargantua and Pantagruel
Francois Rabelais
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# Who wrote: Pedro Paramo
Juan Rulfo
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# Who wrote: The Mathnawi
Jalal ad-din Rumi
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# Who wrote: Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
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# Who wrote: The Bostan of Saadi (The Orchard)
Sheikh Saadi of Shiraz
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# Who wrote: A Season of Migration to the North
Tayeb Salih
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# Who wrote: Blindness
Jose Saramago
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# Who wrote: Hamlet
William Shakespeare
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# Who wrote: King Lear
William Shakespeare
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# Who wrote: Othello
William Shakespeare
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# Who wrote: Oedipus the King
Sophocles
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# Who wrote: The Red and the Black
Stendhal
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# Who wrote: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Laurence Sterne
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# Who wrote: Confessions of Zeno
Italo Svevo
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# Who wrote: Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
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# Who wrote: War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
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# Who wrote: Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
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# Who wrote: The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Leo Tolstoy
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# Who wrote: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
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# Who wrote: Ramayana
Valmiki
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# Who wrote: The Aeneid
Virgil
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# Who wrote: Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
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# Who wrote: Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
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# Who wrote: To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
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# Who wrote: Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar
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# Who wrote: The Castle Bohemia
Franz Kafka
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# Who wrote: Catch-22
Joseph Heller
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# Who wrote: Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
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# Who wrote: The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
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# Who wrote: Les Misérables
Victor Hugo