Author and Works Flashcards

Works

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Sonnets

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Shakespeare

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Indian Shakespeare

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Kalidasa

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Harry Potter

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J.K. Rowling

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Canterbury Tales

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Chaucer

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The Divine Comedy

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Alighieri

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Mrs. Dalloway

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Virginia Wolf

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Animal Farm

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George Orwell

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Tale of Two Cities

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Charles Dickens

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Lord of the Rings

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JRR Tolkien

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The Great Gatsby

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Fitzgerald

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The Little Prince

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Antoine de Saint Exupery

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12
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The Iliad and the Odyssey

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Homer

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13
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The Hand of the Enemy

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Kerima Tuvera

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Pride and Prejudice

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Jane Austen

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The Count of Monte Cristo

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Alexander Dumas

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16
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The Joy Luck Club

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Amy Tan

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17
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Alice in Wonderland

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Lewis Caroll

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18
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Les Misérables

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Victor Hugo

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War and Peace

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Leo Tolstoy

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20
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Pilgrim’s Progress

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John Bunyan

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21
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Gitanjali

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Rabindranath Tagore

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22
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The Tale of Genji

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Lady Murasaki Shikibu

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23
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The Trial

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Franz Kafka

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24
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The Hunger Games

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Collins

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25
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America is in the Heart

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Carlos Bulosan

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26
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Oh Captain! My Captain!

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Walt Whitman

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27
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Father of Romantic Poetry

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Wordsworth

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28
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A rose for Emily

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Faulkner

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29
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Iambic pentameter and dramatic plays

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Shakespeare

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30
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Mystical Poetry, Occultism, Irish mythology

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Butler Yeats

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31
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Nature, Common Language

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Wordsworth

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32
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Bard of Avon

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Shakespeare

33
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Has a pen name O. Henry

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William Sydney Porter

34
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Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Shakespeare

35
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Cabbages and Kings, The Gift of Magi, The Duplicity of Hargraves

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O. Henry

36
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As I Lay Dying, A Rose for Emily, Sanctuary, Absalom, Absalom!, The Sound and the Fury

A

Faulkner

37
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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, Resolution and Independence, My Heart Leaps Up, Ode to Duty

A

Wordsworth

38
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A Poison Tree, The Tyger, Songs of Innocence and Experience

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Blake

39
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The Wild Swans at Coole, The Tower, The Winding Stair, Michael Robartes and the dancer

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Butler Yeats

40
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Man and Nature

A

Robert Frost

41
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The Road Not Taken, The Gift Outright, Nothing Gold Can Stay, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

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Robert Frost

42
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Dramatic Monologue

A

Robert Browning

43
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Psychological Portraiture

A

Robert Browning

44
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The Ring and the Book, My Last Duchess, The Pied Piper of Hamelin

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Robert Browning

45
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Scottish Novelist; Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Robert Louis Stevenson

46
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Adventure Novels: Treasure Island, A Child’s Garden of Verses

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Robert Louis Stevenson

47
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American author of books on strategy, power, seduction

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Robert Greene

48
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The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War

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Robert Greene

49
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Complex language, psychological depth, power, corruption, human character

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Robert Browning

50
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Depiction of rural New England, Social and Philosophical Themes

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Frost

51
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Post Office, Factotum, Ham on Rye

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Charles Bukowski

52
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“And when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. What do you call it, Freedom or loneliness?”

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Charles Bukowski

53
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Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol

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Charles Dickens

54
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass

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Charles Ludwidge Dodgson

55
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Charles Ludwidge Dodgson - Pen Name

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Lewis Carroll

56
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Plight of the poor, Realistic and detailed portrayals of the 19th Century England

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Charles Dickens

57
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Gritty depictions of life in LA, alcoholism, poverty, struggles of the working class

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Charles Bukowski

58
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Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park

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Jane Austen

59
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The Alchemist, The Valkyries, Brida

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Paulo Coelho

60
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First complete translation of the Bible into English Language

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John Wycliffe

61
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Father of Horror Stories

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Edgar Allan Poe

62
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The Cask of Amontillado, To Helen, The Raven, Annabel Lee, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher

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Edgar Allan Poe

63
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Persian Mathematician, Rubaiyat

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Omar Khayyam

64
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Pen Name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens

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Mark Twain

65
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Mark Twain

66
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English dramatist to reveal the full potential of blank verse poetry

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Christopher Marlowe

67
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The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus, Tamburlaine The Great

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Christopher Marlowe

68
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Russian Writer, War and Peace, Anna Karenina

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Leo Tolstoy

69
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Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, Lycidas

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John Milton

70
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German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist

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Franz Kafka

71
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The Metamorphosis, The Trial, The Castle

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Franz Kafka

72
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The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun also Rises, A farewell to arms

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Ernest Miller Hemingway

73
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French writer, The Necklace, Bel-Ami, Pierre et Jean

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Guy de Maupassant

74
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“Awake for morning in the Bowl of the Night”

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Rubaiyat: Khayyam

75
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Blend of Fantasy, Good vs. Evil, Bravery and Friendship

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J.K. Rowling

76
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Ancient Greek, dactylic hexameter

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Homer

77
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Oppressive World, surreal and existential writing

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Kafka

78
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Inspirational and allegorical writing, personal legend and destiny

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Coelho

79
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Minimalist writing style, iceberg theory

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Hemingway