Author and Works Flashcards
Works
Sonnets
Shakespeare
Indian Shakespeare
Kalidasa
Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling
Canterbury Tales
Chaucer
The Divine Comedy
Alighieri
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Wolf
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Lord of the Rings
JRR Tolkien
The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint Exupery
The Iliad and the Odyssey
Homer
The Hand of the Enemy
Kerima Tuvera
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexander Dumas
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Caroll
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
Pilgrim’s Progress
John Bunyan
Gitanjali
Rabindranath Tagore
The Tale of Genji
Lady Murasaki Shikibu
The Trial
Franz Kafka
The Hunger Games
Collins
America is in the Heart
Carlos Bulosan
Oh Captain! My Captain!
Walt Whitman
Father of Romantic Poetry
Wordsworth
A rose for Emily
Faulkner
Iambic pentameter and dramatic plays
Shakespeare
Mystical Poetry, Occultism, Irish mythology
Butler Yeats
Nature, Common Language
Wordsworth
Bard of Avon
Shakespeare
Has a pen name O. Henry
William Sydney Porter
Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare
Cabbages and Kings, The Gift of Magi, The Duplicity of Hargraves
O. Henry
As I Lay Dying, A Rose for Emily, Sanctuary, Absalom, Absalom!, The Sound and the Fury
Faulkner
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, Resolution and Independence, My Heart Leaps Up, Ode to Duty
Wordsworth
A Poison Tree, The Tyger, Songs of Innocence and Experience
Blake
The Wild Swans at Coole, The Tower, The Winding Stair, Michael Robartes and the dancer
Butler Yeats
Man and Nature
Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken, The Gift Outright, Nothing Gold Can Stay, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost
Dramatic Monologue
Robert Browning
Psychological Portraiture
Robert Browning
The Ring and the Book, My Last Duchess, The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Robert Browning
Scottish Novelist; Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Adventure Novels: Treasure Island, A Child’s Garden of Verses
Robert Louis Stevenson
American author of books on strategy, power, seduction
Robert Greene
The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War
Robert Greene
Complex language, psychological depth, power, corruption, human character
Robert Browning
Depiction of rural New England, Social and Philosophical Themes
Frost
Post Office, Factotum, Ham on Rye
Charles Bukowski
“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?”
Charles Bukowski
Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass
Charles Ludwidge Dodgson
Charles Ludwidge Dodgson - Pen Name
Lewis Carroll
Plight of the poor, Realistic and detailed portrayals of the 19th Century England
Charles Dickens
Gritty depictions of life in LA, alcoholism, poverty, struggles of the working class
Charles Bukowski
Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
The Alchemist, The Valkyries, Brida
Paulo Coelho
First complete translation of the Bible into English Language
John Wycliffe
Father of Horror Stories
Edgar Allan Poe
The Cask of Amontillado, To Helen, The Raven, Annabel Lee, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe
Persian Mathematician, Rubaiyat
Omar Khayyam
Pen Name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
English dramatist to reveal the full potential of blank verse poetry
Christopher Marlowe
The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus, Tamburlaine The Great
Christopher Marlowe
Russian Writer, War and Peace, Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, Lycidas
John Milton
German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist
Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis, The Trial, The Castle
Franz Kafka
The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun also Rises, A farewell to arms
Ernest Miller Hemingway
French writer, The Necklace, Bel-Ami, Pierre et Jean
Guy de Maupassant
“Awake for morning in the Bowl of the Night”
Rubaiyat: Khayyam
Blend of Fantasy, Good vs. Evil, Bravery and Friendship
J.K. Rowling
Ancient Greek, dactylic hexameter
Homer
Oppressive World, surreal and existential writing
Kafka
Inspirational and allegorical writing, personal legend and destiny
Coelho
Minimalist writing style, iceberg theory
Hemingway