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American Literature
Literature
| Books | Authors | Characters |
|---|---|---|
| “Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup;” “The River Merchant’s Wife” | Li Po | |
| Crime and Punishment (A); The Brothers Karamazov (B); Notes from the Underground; The Idiot-(A): Raskolnikov, Alyona Ivanovna (a pawnbroker), Lizaveta Ivanovna (her sister), Sonya Marmeladov (B): Fyodor Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky | |
| The Cherry Orchard (A); The Sea Gull; Uncle Vanya -(Drama) (A): Lyuba Ranevsky, Lopakhin | Anton Chekhov | |
| Anna Karenina (A); War and Peace (B); The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Anna, Count Vronsky, Levin, Kitty, Dolly, Stiva Napoleon, Pierre Bezuhov, Natasha Rostov, Bolkonski | Leo Tolstoy | - |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude (A); Love in a Time of Cholera -(Colombian) (A): The Buendia family, Macondo (town) | Gabriel Garcia- Marquez | - |
| The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon (A); Tales of the Alhambra-(Short stories) (A) includes “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” “Rip Van Winkle” | Washington Irving *Diedrich Knickerbocker *Geoffrey Crayon | |
| “The Cask of Amontillado;” “The TellTale Heart;” “The Fall of the House of Usher;” “The Pit and the Pendulum;” “Murders in the Rue Morgue;” *”The Raven;” *”Annabel Lee” | Edgar Allan Poe “ | |
| TwiceTold Tales (A); The Scarlet Letter (B); The House of the Seven Gables; “Young Goodman Brown”-A) includes “Dr. Heidegger‘s Experiment,” “The Minister’s Black Veil” (B): Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, Pearl | Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| MobyDick (A); Billy Budd; “Bartleby the Scrivener” -(A): Captain Ahab, Ishmael, Queequeg, Starbuck, the Pequod (ship) | Herman Melville | |
| Leaves of Grass (collection); includes “Song of Myself;” “When Lilacs Last -Poetry) His only collection, frequently republishined in the Dooryard Bloom’d;” “O Captain! My Captain!” “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer;” “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” | Walt Whitman | |
| “Because I could not stop for death;” “I heard a fly buzz when I died” -Poetry) Reclusive; nicknamed “The Belle of Amherst” | Emily Dickinson | |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (A); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (B); “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County;” A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court -A): Tom, Huck Finn, Aunt Polly, Becky Thatcher, Judge | Samuel Clemens *Mark Twain | |
| The Red Badge of Courage (A); Maggie, a Girl of the Streets (B); “The Open Boat”- A): Henry Fleming, Jim Conklin (B): Maggie, Jimmie, Pete, the Bowery | Stephen Crane | |
| Call of the Wild; White Fang; The Sea Wolf, Upton Sinclair the Jungle- Buck | Jack London | |
| The Old Man and the Sea (A); A Farewell to Arms (B); The Sun Also Rises (C); For Whom the Bell Tolls - Nick Adams | Ernest Hemingway | |
| The Great Gatsby (A); The Beautiful and the Damned; “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz;” “Bernice Bobs Her Hair”-A): Jay Gatsby (James Gatz), Nick Carraway, Daisy and Tom Buchanan | F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald | |
| The Sound and the Fury (A); As I Lay Dying (B); Absalom, Absalom!; “A -(Short stories) (A): Jim and Della Young Rose for Emily” | William Faulkner | |
| “The Gift of the Magi” (A); “The Ransom of Red Chief”-(Short stories) (A): Jim and Della Young | William Sydney Porter *O. Henry | |
| “The Road Not Taken;” “Mending Wall;” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening;” “The Death of the Hired Man;” “Fire and Ice” | Robert Frost | |
| A Streetcar Named Desire (A); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (B); Night of the Iguana -Drama) (A): Blanche DuBois, Stella and Stanley Kowalski | Tennessee Williams | |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | |
| Death of a Salesman (A); The Crucible (B) -A): Willy Loman, Biff and Happy (B): John Proctor, | Arthur Miller | |
| Fahrenheit 451; The Martian | Ray Bradbury | |
| The Canterbury Tales A; The Parliament of Flowes-The Wife of Bath, The Knight, The Nun | Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| Hamlet; Romeo and Juliet; Macbeth; Merchant of Venice; Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare | |
| Gulliver's travels, A modest proposal, A Tale of a Tub-Lemeul Gulliver, Lilliput and Blefescu, Brobdingnag; | Jonathan Swift | |
| Pride and Prejudice, Emma; Northanger Abbey; Sense and Sensibility-Elizabeth Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy , Jane Bennet, Chalres Bingley | Jane Austen | |
| Jane Eyre-Jane Eyre; Edward Rochestor , Bertha Mason | Chalrote Bronte | |
| Weathuring Heigts-HneathCliff, , Hareton Earnshaw, Ellen Dea | Emily Bronte | |
| Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Great -Oliver, Fagin, Nancy, Bill Stikes, arful Dodger, Uriah Heep , Sydney Carton, Pip, Miss Havisham Expectation. | Charles Dickens | |
| The Importance of Being Earnest, The Lady Windermere's fan , The picture of -Dorian Grey-Jack Worthing, Algernon Moncrief, Gwendolen | Oscar Wilde | |
| Animal Farm, Shooting an Elephant, Down and Outi in Paris and london-Snowball, Napoleon, Old Major, Boxer, Winston Smith, Julia, Big Brother | George Orwell | |
| Little Women- Jo March, Beth March Amy March | Alcott | |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings- Momma, Bailey Johnson Jr. Maya Johnson | Angelou | |
| The Adventures of Augie March,An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge,Humboldt's - Gift,HerzogHenderson the Rain King-Moses Herzogm Augie March, Charlie Citrine | Bellow - | |
| In Cold Blood- Perry Smith, Dick Hickock, Herbert CLutter | Capote | |
| My Antonia- Jim Burden, Mr Shimerda, Antonia Shimerda | Cather | |
| Desiree's Baby, The Awakening- Edna Pontellier,Louise Mallard, Desiree | Kate Chopin | |
| The Last of the Mohicans - Hawkeye, Uncas, Cora Munro | Cooper | |
| Narattive of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, an American Slave, What to slave in the Fourth of July- Fredrick Douglas, Edward Corey, The American Audience | Fredrick Douglass | |
| Invisible Man- Brother jack, Tod Clifton, The Invisible Man | Ellison | |
| Self-Reliance- The Nonconformist, The intuitive Genius, The Misunderstood Visionary | Emerson | |
| The Yellow Paper- The narrator, John , Jennie(sister) | Gilman | |
| Catch-22- Captain John Yossarian, Doc Daneeka, Milo Minder binder | Heller | |
| A Hazard of New Fortunes, The Rise of Silas hamplas- Silas Lapham, Basil March, Mr. Fulkerson, Berthold Lindau | Howels | |
| Daisy Miller- Daisy Miller, Winterbourne. Mr. Giovanelli. | James | |
| The Lottery- Tessie Hutchinson, Mr. Summers, Old Man Warrior | Jackson | |
| Elmer Gantry, Babbit, Main Street- Sharon Falconer, Frank Shallard, George F. Babbit,Myra Babbut, Paul Riesling. | Lewis Sinclair | |
| Beloved, Song of Solomon , Sula | Morrison | |
| The crying lot of 49 | Pynchon | |
| Grapes of Wrath, of Mice and Men | Steinbeck | |
| uncle toms cabin | Stowe | |
| The joy luck club | Tan | |
| Cat's Cradle | Vonnegut | |
| The Color Purple | Walker | |
| Slaughterhouse Five | Vonnegut | |
| Ethan Frome, The Age of Innocence | Wharton | |
| Muse des Beaux Arts, September 1, 1939 | Auden | |
| We Real Cool | Brooks | |
| To a Waterfowl | Bryant | |
| Everyone Lived in a Pretty How Town, | Cummings | |
| A Fly Buzzed Before I Died, Hope is a Thing with Feathers | Dickinson | |
| The Hollow Men | T.S Eliot | |
| Fire and Ice, Nothing Gold Can't Stay, The Gift Outright, The Mending Wall | Frost | |
| Howl | Ginsberg | |
| I, Too Theme for English B | Langston Hughes | |
| Song of Hiwatha | Long Fellow | |
| Daddy | Plath | |
| Chicago | Sandburg | |
| Robinson | Richard Cory | |
| Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird | Stevens | |
| The Red Wheelbarrow | Williams, William Carlos | |
| A Raisin the Sun | Hansberry | |
| Long Day's Journey Into Night | O'Neill | |
| Our Town | Wilder | |
| Fences | Wilson | |
| The Glass Menagerie | Williams, Tennessee | |