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Academic Team: Books/Authors Flashcards

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Key Terms: A la recherche de temps perdu

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In Search of lost of Time by Marcel Proust

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Key Terms: the hero of Homer’s Odyss/ Leopold Bloom

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Ulysses by James Joyce

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Key Terms: La Mancha/Alonso Quixano/country gentleman in his fifties

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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

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Key Terms: Nobel Prize–winning/the elitism of the Buendía family

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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Key Terms: Jazz Age/chaos of World War I, American society enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Key Terms: The saga of Captain Ahab/whale

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Moby Dick by Herman Melville

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Key Terms: Napoleon’s invasion of Russia/Napoleonic era on Tsarist society

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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

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Key Terms: Prince of Denmark/

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Hamlet by William Shakespeare

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Key Terms: ancient Greek epic poems/Homer/sequel to the Iliad

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The Odyssey by Homer

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Key Terms: offenses against morality and religion/profound dispassion

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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

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Key Terms: moving human drama/unforgettable visionary journey

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The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

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Key Terms: (famous for its subject) the protagonist and unreliable becomes obsessed and sexually involved with a twelve-year-old girl.

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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

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Key Terms: last and greatest novel/crime story and a passionate philosophical debate

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The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Key Terms: Murder story/murderer’s point of veiw/

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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Key Terms: non-linear/several flashbacks/Thrushcross Grange/Mr. Lockwood

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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

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Key Terms: Elizabeth Bennet/moral rightness/geneder roles

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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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Key Terms: high school and college curricula/the loss of innocence

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The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

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Key Terms: Huckleberry Finn is indisputably the most appealing child-hero in American literature

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

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Key Terms: doomed love affair/rejects her passionless marriage

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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

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Key Terms: little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole/crazy world/Mad Hatter/Chesier cat/Red queen

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

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Key Terms: dactylic hexameters/Trojan War

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The Iliad by Homer

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Key Terms: Ramsay family/Scotland between 1910 and 1920

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To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

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Key Terms: historical novel/later stages of World War II

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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

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Key Terms: Belgian trading company/ferry-boat captain in Africa

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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

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Key Terms: set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County/Compson family/Southern aristocrats

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The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

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Key Terms: Winston Smith/regime’s propaganda

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Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell

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Key Terms: bildungsroman/the style of book that follows the story of a man or woman in their quest for maturity

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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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Key Terms: Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales/Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age

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One Thousand and One Nights by India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt

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Key Terms: Set during the Great Depression/driven from their home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in the agriculture industry

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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

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Key Terms: a Southern Gothic novel/It is a story about three families of the American South

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Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

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Key Terms: social and intellectual issues facing African-Americans/early twentieth century/black nationalism

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Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

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Key Terms: As a Southern Gothic novel/Bildungsroman/racial injustice/destruction of innocence

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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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Key Terms: one of the most important novels of the twentieth century/the terrifying tale of Josef K.

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The Trial by Franz Kafka

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Key Terms: Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black)/Chronicle of the 19th century/an historical psychological novel in two volumes

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The Red and the Black by Stendhal

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Key Terms: A Study of Provincial Life/It is her seventh novel/begun in 1869

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Middlemarch by George Eliot

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Key Terms: a great classic recounting the four remarkable journeys of ship’s surgeon Lemuel Gulliver/From the preeminent prose satirist in the English language/remains an enchanting fantasy

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Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

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Key Terms: Pulitzer Prize-winning novel/ her fifth novel/loosely based on the life and legal case of the slave Margaret Garner

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Beloved by Toni Morrison

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Key Terms: Created from two short stories/Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street and The Prime Minister

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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

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Key Terms: Russian short-story writer, playwright, and physician/one of the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature

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The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov

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Key Terms: first published in English/extraordinary first novel/has had a profound impact on millions of American readers

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The Stranger by Albert Camus

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Key Terms: narrative of the title character, a small, plain-faced, intelligent and honest English orphan/The novel goes through five distinct stages

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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

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Key Terms: Latin epic poem/writien in the late 1st century BC (29–19 BC)/tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy

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The Aeneid by Virgil

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Key Terms: From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity/his immensely influential collections

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Collected Fiction by Jorge Luis Borges

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Key Terms: The novel explores the lives and values of the so-called Lost Generation/Pamplona

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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

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Key Terms: story of the abandoned waif who learns to survive through challenging encounters with distress and misfortune

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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

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Key Terms: Tristram’s narration of his life story/one of the central jokes of the novel that he cannot explain anything simply

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Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

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Key Terms: is a poetry collection by the American poet/

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Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

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Key Terms: widely considered to be one of the most influential works of 20th century German literature

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The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

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Key Terms: semi-autobiographical novel/serialized in The Egoist from 1914 to 1915 and published in book form in 1916

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

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Key Terms: loose allegory for events in India both before and, primarily, after the independence and partition of India/which took place at midnight on 15 August 1947

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Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

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Key Terms: the hardships of Liesel Meminger along with her story living in Nazi, Germany

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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

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Key Terms: documents the traumas and gradual triumph of Celie, an African American teenager raised in rural isolation in Georgia/esist the paralyzing self-concept forced on her by others/Celie narrates her life through painfully honest letters to God

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The Color Purple by Alice Walker

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Key Terms: that the Merovingian kings of France were descended from the bloodline of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene

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The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

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Key Terms: the relationship between Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson

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The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

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Key Terms: Brian Robeson must find a way to survive alone in the woods after his plane crashes, to come to terms with his parents’ divorce, and to affirm his manhood

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Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

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