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Authors Flashcards

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Nash

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Golly How Truth will Out
Humor
Misspelling and making up words

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Plato

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Allegory of the Cave
The Republic
Philosophy
Allegories

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Arnold

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Dover Beach

Loneliness and alienation

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Cervantes

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Don Quixote
Served in war
kidnapped and a slave

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Cortazar

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Night Face Up
Surrealism
Hopscotch

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Crane

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Wayfarer
War correspondent
Red Badge of Courage

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Graves

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The Persian Version

I, Claudius

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Hopkins

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Thou art indeed just lord
sprung rhythm
priest
The Wreck of the Deutschland

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Housman

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Isle of Portland

fell in love with roommate

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Lardner

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Haircut
sports columnist
Vernacular

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Pirandello

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The Jar
Mental wife
fascist and pals with Mussolini
5 Characters in Search of an Author

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Shapiro

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Auto Wreck
Jewish
Served in WWII

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Brooks

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The Preacher Ruminates behind the sermon
We Real cool, Bronzeville, Annie Allen
Poet Laureate of Illinois

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Carlyle

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On Heroes and Hero Worship
Cranky b/c of sickliness
Had work about war burned

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Flaubert

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A simple Heart
Epileptic with Syphilis
Madame Bovary

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Hughes

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Frederick Douglass
Harlem renaissance
works resemble blues and jazz music

17
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Shelley

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Ozymandias
wife wrote Frankenstein
romanticist
atheist
drowned
18
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Thurber

A

The greatest man in the world
The secret life of Walter Mitty
New Yorker Columnist
Blind

19
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Updike

A

The angels

Rabbit Run series

20
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Yevtushenko

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Conversations with American Author
Babi Yar
Soviet during the Thaw

21
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George Orwell

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Animal Farm
British
1984 and Down and out in Paris and London
socialist
hated propaganda
22
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Frost

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Road not Taken
Snowy woods, Fire and Ice, Mending Wall
New England country side
JFK inauguration 
Many deaths in family
23
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Robinson

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Mr Flood's Party
was unnamed for a period
wrote about Tilbury Town
Brother stole his girl
Richard Cory and Miniver Cheevy
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Sophocles

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Oedipus the King
Over 120 pieces only 7 survive
Actor, poet, producer, author
Antigone

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