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American Literature

Literature

BooksAuthorsCharacters
“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
 



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