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Authors & Books
Some Common Authors and books
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| The Handmaid's Tale (dystopian) | Atwood |
| Metamorphesis (insect) | Kafka |
| Candide (adventure) | Voltaire |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables | Hugo |
| The Three Musketeers (fighting windmills), The Count of Monte Christo (prison break) | Dumas |
| Around the World in 80 Days, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea (captain Nemo and Nautilus), Journey to the Center of the Earth | Verne |
| All Quiet on the Western Front (WW1 Trenches) | Remarque |
| The Divine Comedy (Purgatory to Paradise) | Dante |
| The Prince | Machiavelli |
| War and Peace (Napoleon invades Russia), Anna Karenina | Tolstoy |
| Crime and Punishment (murder mystery), Brothers Karamazov (murder mystery) | Dostoyevsky |
| The Cherry Orchard (houses built on orchard) | Checkov |
| Don Quixote | de Cervantes |
| Canterbury Tales (Tabard Inn, St. Thomas a Becket) | Chaucer |
| Le Morte d'Arthur | Mallory |
| Utopia | Thomas More |
| Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained | Milton |
| Pilgrims Progress | Bunyan |
| A Modest Proposal, Gullivers Travels (lilliputians) - Irish | Swift |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| The Tiger | Blake |
| Rime of the Ancient Mariner (albatross) | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley |
| Ode on a Grecian Urn | Keats |
| Charge of the Light Brigade (Crimean war battle) | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| Sonnets from the Portuguese | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| Pride and Prejudice (Mrs. Bennett, Mr. Darcy), Emma, Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen |
| Oliver Twist (orphans), David Copperfield, Great Expectations (Miss Havisham), Christmas Carol, Tale of Two Cities, The Pickwick Papers, Nicholas Nickelby | Dickens |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte |
| Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass | Carroll |
| Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped | Stevenson |
| The Jungle Book, Kim (British/Indian author) | Kipling |
| Heart of Darkness (Marlowe searches Congo/jungle for trader) | Conrad |
| War of the Worlds, THE Invisible Man | H.G. Wells |
| Pygmalion (Later became My Fair Lady - Henry Higgins, Eliza Dolittle) | Shaw |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker |
| The Importance of Being Earnest, Picture of Dorian Gray | Wilde |
| Brave New World | Huxley |
| Sherlock Holmes, Hound of the Baskervilles | Doyle |
| 1984, Animal Farm | Orwell |
| Ulysses (Irish) | James Joyce |
| Lord of the Flies | Golding |
| The Wasteland | TS Eliot |
| Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit | Tolkien |
| Waiting for Godot | Beckett |
| Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God | Edwards |
| Federalist Papers | John Jay, James Madison, Hamilton |
| Common Sense | Paine |
| Thanatopsis | Bryant |
| The Leatherstocking Tales (Pioneers, Last of the Mohicans, Prairie, Pathfinder, The Deerslayer - Natty Bumppo, native tribes in New York) | Cooper |
| The Scarlet Letter (Adultery, Prynne, Dimmsdale, Chillingsworth), Twice Told Tales | Hawthorne |
| Moby Dick (white Whale, captain Ahab, Pequod, Ishmael), Billy Budd, Foretopman | Melville |
| Murders in the Rue Morgue (Auguste Dupin, orangutang commits murders), Pit and Pendulum (Spanish inquisition), The Raven (Nevermore), Tell Tale Heart (beating heart under floor), Masque of the Red Death (ball during the plague) | Poe |
| Leaves of Grass, O Captain (Abraham Lincoln), Song of Myself | Whitman |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Stowe |
| Outcast of Poker Flat | Bret Harte |
| Belle of Amherst | Dickinson |
| Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Prince and the Pauper | Mark Twain (Clemens) |
| Little Women (Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy) | Alcott |
| The Red Badge of Courage (US Civil War) | Stephen Crane |
| Call of the Wild, White Fang, To Build a Fire (Alaskan wilderness author) | London |
| The Jungle (meat packing industry) | Sinclair |
| My Antonia, O Pioneers (Nebraska pioneering/farming) | Willa Cather |
| Arrowsmith, Main Street | Lewis |
| The Sun Also Rises, Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Old Man and the Sea | Hemingway |
| Great Gatsby (Jazz age, Daisy Buchanan, Nick Carraway) | Fitzgerald |
| Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, The Pearl | Steinbeck |
| The Sound and the Fury | Faulkner |
| Catcher in the Rye (Holden Caulfield) | Salinger |
| Catch-22 | Heller |
| Slaughterhouse 5 (Billy Pilgrim), Cats Cradle | Vonnegut Jr |
| Gift of the Magi | O Henry |
| Fahrenheit 451, Martian Chronicles | Bradbury |
| The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged | Rand |
| Harlem Renaissance | Langston Hughes |
| Color Purple | Alice Walker |
| Song of Solomon, Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Tar Baby | Morrison |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, On the Pulse of Morning, Clinton Inaguration | Angelou |
| In Cold Blood (Hugoton murders), Breakfast at Tiffany's | Capote |
| Spoon River Anthology | Masters |
| The Lottery | Shirley Jackson |
| Roots | Haley |
| The Good Earth | Buck |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Kesey |
| Gone with The Wind | Mitchell |
| To Kill a Mockingbird (Boo Radley, Finch family), Go Set a Watchman | Harper Lee |
| Joy Luck Club | Tan |
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