WORLD LITERATURE, AUTHORS AND RANDOM QUESTIONS Flashcards
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THE ANALECTS
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CONFUCIUS
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ILIAD AND ODYSSEY
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HOMER
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THE METAMORPHOSES
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OVID
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ROMEO AND JULIET
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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OEDIPUS REX
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SOPHOCLES
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CANTERBURY TALES
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GEOFFREY CHAUCER
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GITANJALI
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RABINDRANATH TAGORE
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RUBAIYAT
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OMAR KHAYYAM
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MAHABHARATA
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VED VYASA OR VYASA
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GILGAMESH
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Sîn-lēqi-unninni
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MERCHANT OF VENICE
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND
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LEWIS CAROLL
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ANNABEL LEE
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EDGAR ALLAN POE
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FALL INTO THE HOUSE OF USHER
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EDGAR ALLAN POE
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THE RAVEN
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EDGAR ALLAN POE
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THE HOBBIT
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J. R. R. TOLKIEN
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LORD OF THE RINGS
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J. R. R. TOLKIEN
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HARRY POTTER
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J.K ROWLING
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THE NOTEBOOK
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NICHOLAS SPARKS
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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
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JANE AUSTEN
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THE METAMORPHOSIS
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FRANZ KAFKA
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DOLL’S HOUSE
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HENRIK IBSEN
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THE SONG OF ICE AND FIRE
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
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THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
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ROBERT FROST
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
HARPER LEE
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CHRONICLES OF NARNIA
C.S LEWIS
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CAT IN THE HAT
DR. SEUSS
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HUNGER GAMES
SUZZANE COLLINS
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CHARLOTTE'S WEB
E.B WHITE
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PERCY JACKSON
RICK RIORDAN
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MAZE RUNNER
JAMES DASHNER
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THE DIVINE COMEDY
DANTE ALIGHIERI
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MRS. DALLOWAY
VIRGINIA WOOLF
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ANIMAL FARM
GEORGE ORWELL
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TALE OF TWO CITIES
CHARLES DICKENS
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THE GREAT GATSBY
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
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THE LITTLE PRINCE
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY
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THE HAND OF THE ENEMY
KERIMA TUVERA
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THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
ALEXANDER DUMAS
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THE JOY LUCK CLUB
AMY TAN
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PILGRIM’S PROGRESS
JOHN BUNYAN
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LE MISERABLES
VICTOR HUGO
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WAR AND PEACE
LEO TOLSTOY
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THE TALE OF GENJI
LADY MURASAKI SHIKIBU
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THE TRIAL
FRANZ KAFKA
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OH CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN
WALT WHITMAN
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HAMLET
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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ROMEO AND JULIET
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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OTHELLO
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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MACBETH
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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THE GIFT OF THE MAGI
O. HENRY
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THE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF
O. HENRY
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THE DUPLICITY OF HARGRAVES
O. HENRY
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WILLIAM FAULKNER
THE SOUND AND THE FURY
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CABBAGES AND KINGS
O. HENRY
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AS I LAY DYING
WILLIAM FAULKNER
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ABSALOM, ABSALOM
WILLIAM FAULKNER
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RESOLUTION AND INDEPENDENCE
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
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SANCTUARY
WILLIAM FAULKNER
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RESOLUTION AND INDEPENDENCE
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
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I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD” ALSO KNOWN AS “DAFFODILS”
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
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SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE
WILLIAM BLAKE
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A POISON TREE
WILLIAM BLAKE
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THE TYGER
WILLIAM BLAKE
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THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
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THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
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MICHAEL ROBARTES AND THE DANCER
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
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THE TOWER
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
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THE WINDING STAIR
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
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BIRCHES
ROBERT FROST
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STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING
ROBERT FROST
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NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY
ROBERT FROST
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THE RING AND THE BOOK
ROBERT BROWNING
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THE LAST DUCHESS
ROBERT BROWNING
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HAMELIN OF PIED PIPER
ROBERT BROWNING
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A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
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TREASURE ISLAND
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
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STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
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KIDNAPPED
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
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THE ART OF SEDUCTION
ROBERT GREENE
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THE 48 LAWS OF POWER
ROBERT GREENE
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FACTOTUM
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
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POST OFFICE
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
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HAM ON RYE
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL
CHARLES DICKENS
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A TALE OF TWO CITIES
CHARLES DICKENS
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HARD TIMES
CHARLES DICKENS
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THE ALCHEMIST
PAULO COELHO
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THE VALKYRIES
PAULO COELHO
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BRIDA
PAULO COELHO
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TO HELEN
EDGAR ALLAN POE
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THE RAVEN
EDGAR ALLAN POE
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THE TELL-TALE HEART
EDGAR ALLAN POE
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THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
EDGAR ALLAN POE
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MARK TWAIN
THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
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MARK TWAIN
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
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LEO TOLSTOY
WAR AND PEACE
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ANNA KARENINA
LEO TOLSTOY
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PARADISE LOST
JOHN MILTON
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SAMSON AGONISTES
JOHN MILTON
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LYCIANS
JOHN MILTON
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THE CASTLE
FRANZ KAFKA
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THE SUN ALSO RISES
ERNEST HEMMINGWAY
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A FAREWELL TO ARMS
ERNEST HEMMINGWAY
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THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
ERNEST HEMMINGWAY
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GUY DE MAUPASSANT
THE NECKLACE
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MATSUO BASHO
THE OLD POND
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THE KITCHEN GOD'S WIFE
AMY TAN
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THE HUNDRED SECRET SENSES
AMY TAN
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THE BONESETTER'S DAUGHTER
AMY TAN
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ARLENE J. CHAI
THE LAST TIME I SAW MY MOTHER
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EATING FIRE AND DRINKING WATER
ARLENE J. CHAI
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THE REMAINS OF THE DAY
KAZUO ISHIGURI
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ANGELS & DEMONS
DAN BROWN
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THE VINCI CODE
DAN BROWN
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THE LOST SYMBOL
DAN BROWN
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HIS WORKS INCLUDE PLAYS, POETRY, LITERATURE, AND AESTHETIC CRITICISM AS WELL AS TREATISES ON BOTANY, ANATOMY AND COLOR.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
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AN AMERICAN WRITER KNOWN FOR HER NOVELS OF LIFE
E.G. ONE OF OURS, A LOST LADY, THE PROFESSOR’S HOUSE
WILLA CARTHER
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AN AMERICAN AUTHOR, TELEVISION WRITER, AND TELEVISION PRODUCER
E.G. A SONG OF FIRE AND ICE
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
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AN ANGLO-IRISH AUTHOR WHO IS REGARDED AS ONE OF THE FOREMOST PROSE SATIRISTS IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
E.G. A TALE OF A TUB, AN ARGUMENT AGAINST ABOLISHING CHRISTIANITY, GULLIVER’S TRAVELS, A MODEST PROPOSAL.
JONATHAN SWIFT
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ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PLAYWRIGHTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
E.G. THE THREEPENNY OPERA, THE GOOD PERSON OF SZECHWAN, THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI
BERTOLT BREECHT
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AN ENGLISH POET OF THE VICTORIAN ERA
E.G. AURORA LEIGH, THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN, CASA GUIDI WINDOWS
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
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AN 18TH CENTURY BRITISH SCHOLAR WHO MADE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FIELD OF LITERATURE AND WRITING
SAMUEL JOHNSON
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Virgil
Aeneid
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Shah Nameh
Ferdowsi
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Giovanni Boccaccio
Decameron
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Jane Austen
Emma
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Persuasion
Jane Austen
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Hans Christian Andersen
The little match girl
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Nostromo
Joseph Condrad
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The three musketeers
Alexander Dumas
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Arachne
Olivia Coolidge
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The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli
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The republic
Plato
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The romance of three kingdoms
Luo Guanzhong (Luo Kuan-Chung)
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The Confession
Saint Augustine
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The Ramayana
Valmiki
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The book of Mencius
Mencius
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He wrote the Clouds, Lysistra, The Birds, the wasp, the frogs
Aristophanes
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He is the father of Comedy?
Aristophanes
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He is the father of tragedy?
Aeschylus
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Of the nature of things
Lucretius
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The cloud messenger
Kalidasa
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Oldest existing epic in history of Mankind
Epic of Gilgamesh
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One of the greatest epics of Rome by Virgil
Aeneid
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It means the song of the Gods. It is the conclusion of Mahabharata
Bhagavad Gita
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He is the Indian Shakespeare. He is the greatest Indian writer of all time. He wrote Shakuntala
Kalidasa
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Indian longest epic attributed to Vyasa
Mahabharata
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Indian collection of sacred hymns. It is the oldest Sanskrit literature.
Rig Veda
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A drama of Japanese bourgeoisie
Kabuki
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He gouges his own eyes after his mother's death.
Oedipus
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He wrote The social contract and Return of Nature.
He is the forerunner of romanticism and naturalism.
Jean Jacques Rosseau
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The hunchback of Notre Dame
Victor Hugo
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He wrote Kubla khan and the Rime of ancient mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Lord of the flies
William Golding
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He is considered to be the most famous author of Fables
Aesop
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HE IS THE GREATEST GREEK PHILOSOPHER
PLATO
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IT IS CALLED THE ORIGIN OF gods in mythology?
Theogony
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It is the battle among the gods of supremacy between good and evil in mythologies
Theomanchy
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It is the war between the Titans and the Olympian gods.
Titanomanchy
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It is the visible appearancr of a god to a man
Theophany
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HE was William Shakespeare's senior by two months. One of the most striking figures of the English Renaissance and the true founder of the popular English drama, hence the father of English tragedy.
He wrote four great tragedies and became a forerunner of Shakespeare.
Christopher Marlowe
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His real name is William Sydney Porter
O. HENRY
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It is the collection of Indian fables originally written in Sanskrit
Panchatantra
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This poem commemorates the life of a public leader, Abraham Lincoln
Oh Captain! My Captain!
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These poems are often erotic and espouse
E.G. CARPE DIEM (SIEZE THE DAY)
CAVALIER POEMS
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IT IS REGARDED AS THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOK IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH CIVILIZATION
THE KING JAMES BIBLE
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THIS CAME FROM F. BACON'S ESSAY WHICH THE LINE TAKEN "SOME BOOKS ARE TO BE TASTED, OTHERS ARE TO BE SWALLOWED, AND SOME FEW TO BE CHEWED AND DIGESTED."
OF STUDIES
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HE IS THE CATILINA FATHER OF REALISM AND THE FATHER OF MODERN DRAMA
HENRIK IBSEN
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HIS PLAYS ARE ABOUT ISOLATION AND DESPAIR.
HE WROTE THE PLAYS: SEAGULL, UNCLE VANYA, THREE SISTERS AND CHERRY ORCHARD.
HE ALSO WROTE STORIES SUCH AS: THE CHAMELEON, VANKA 1886, KASHTANKA, GOOSEBERRIES, THE DARLING, A DAY IN THE COUNTRY.
HE COINED THE TERM "BREVITY IS THE SISTER OF TALENT"
ANTON CHEKHOV
