B Flashcards
Title character dies from getting slashed by Laertes’ poisoned blade
Hamlet
Calpurnia is the Finch family’s cook
To Kill a Mockingbird
Jim Conklin suffers delirium from blood loss
The red badge of courage
The climax of the play is when Jim OConnor steps on a toy unicorn
The glass menagerie
The title character blinds himself and his wife kills herself
Oedipus
Title character is expelled from Baron Thunder Ten Tronckh’s castle after kissing Cunegonde
Candide
Main character meets Robert Lebrun at the start of the novel
The Awakening
Narrator is repeatedly mistaken for Rinehart
Invisible Man
“old age shall this generation waste”
Ode on a Grecian Urn
George and Martha are terrible party hosts
Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf
Protagonist disapproves of Wickham and Lydia’s marriage
Pride and prejudice
Takes its name from a place in Pilgrim’s Progress
Vanity fair
The protagonist marries a woman only known as the “third princess”
The Tale of Genji
Hrothgar, Wealhtheow, and his warriors spend their time celebrating in Heorot
Beowulf
Orgon and his mother have fallen under the influence of the title character, to the chagrin of Orgon’s family
Tartuffe
Title character is buried between two linden trees
The sorrows of young werther
Nikolay had a son with servant Fenechka, named Mitya
Fathers and sons
Title character inherits a fortune and an estate from a dead wealthy uncle
Eugene Onegin
Irina finds Konstanin’s play ridiculous and incomprehensible
The seagull
Primarily set in Salinas Valley, California
East of Eden
The main character meets the Eloi, small, childlike humanoids
The Time Machine
Saladin Chamcha is an Indian expatriate who works as a voiceover artist in England
The satanic verses
Title character’s father gets drunk after being told he is descended from an ancient Norman family
Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Willie Stark’s character is inspired by Huey Long
All the kings men
Protagonist is born with an adult’s capacity for thought and perception
The tin drum
The main character is a schoolmaster from Connecticut
The legend of sleepy hollow
Title character attempts to match Harriet Smith with Mr Elton
Emma
Bigger Thomas kills a rat with an iron skillet
Native son
Colonel Pyncheon is found dead in his armchair
The house of the seven gables
Absalom is sentenced to death for the murder of Arthur Jarvis
Cry the beloved country
Big Daddy is dying of cancer
Cat on a hot tin roof
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness”
Howl
“The falcon cannot hear the falconer”
The Second Coming
“A shape with lion body and the head of a man”
The second coming
“In leaves no step had trodden black”
The road not taken
“The wedding guest stood still”
The rime of the ancient mariner
“I’m with you in Rockland”
Howl
“”’tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door”
The raven
“At length did cross an albatross”
The rime of the ancient mariner
“Five years have passed”
Lines written a few miles above tintern abbey
“Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
The second coming
“Tell me what thy lordly name is on the night’s Plutonian shore!”
The raven
“Now is the summer of our discontent”
Richard III
Willie stark transforms from an idealistic lawyer to a charismatic and powerful governor
All the kings men
Britobart wins a joust with Guyon
The faerie queen
Novel opens during a Russian orthodox funeral liturgy
Doctor Zhivago
Falstaff decides to send Mistress Ford and Mistress Page identical love letters
The merry wives of windsor
Title character’s brother is married to an opium addict
Silas Marner
Adela quested and Mrs Moore visit Chandrapore
A passage to India
The city tax collector invites several Indians to his house
A passage to India
Title character has a daughter named Verona with socialist leanings
Babbitt
Title character goes camping in Maine with friend Paul Riesling
Babbitt
Paul Riesling shoots his wife Zilla
Babbitt
“What happens to a dream deferred?”
Harlem
“Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”
Harlem
“Had we but world enough, and time”
To his coy mistress
“Till the conversion of the Jews”
To his coy mistress
“I met a traveler from an antique land”
Ozymandias
“And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command”
Ozymandias
Player with railroads and the nation’s freight handler
Chicago
Wealth Irish immigrant Gerald O’Hara owns a plantation in Georgia
Gone with the wind
Charles goes to war and dies of measles two months later
Gone with the wind
Jack burden is the narrator
All the kings men
Sofia is sentenced to 12 years in prison
The color purple
In 1866 various ships sight a mysterious sea monster
Twenty thousand leagues under the seas
The passengers of the Nautilus hunt sea life in the underwater forests of crespo island
Twenty thousand leagues under the seas
Narrates the events and aftermath of the Kurukshetra war
Mahābhārata
Fogg and Passpartout rescue Aouda, who was about to undergo sati
Around the world in eighty days
Phileas Fogg is part of the Reform Club
Around the world in eighty days
Detective Fix gets Passepartout drunk and drugs him in an opium den
Around the world in eighty days
A group of Sioux warrior ambush the main characters’ train
Around the world in eighty days
Protagonist bribes the crew of the Henrietta to mutiny
Around the world in eighty days
Fogg marries Aouda
Around the world in eighty days
Aouda’s distant relative lives in Holland
Around the world in eighty days
Protagonist at first thinks he reached his destination five minutes late
Around the world in eighty days
Protagonist fires a servant for bringing him water at slightly the wrong temperature
Around the world in eighty days
Contains consequences of man’s “first disobedience”
Paradise lost
Odette marries Charles swann
Remembrance of things past
There are no toothbrushes, mirrors, windows, or torture devices in the room
No exit
Clarissa hosts a party
Mrs dalloway
Protagonist takes a potion to appear 30 years younger
Faust
Protagonist uses caskets of jewels to seduce Gretchen
Faust
According to Fedallah, the captain will see two hearses before his death
Moby dick
A messenger informs title character of the death of king polybus of corinth
Oedipus
Lady Brett Ashley has a relationship with Jake Barnes
The sun also rises
“Who are these coming to the sacrifice?”
Ode on a Grecian urn
“Still unravish’d bride of quietness”
Ode on a Grecian urn
Tom praises a racist book called The Rise of the Colored Empires
The great gatsby
Soldier Miles Henson protects Edward VI
The prince and the pauper
Has a dream sequence where the Messenger recants polytheistic scriptures
The satanic verses
Protagonist’s great aunt Betsey Trotwood arranged to have protagonist educated by Mr Wickfield
David copper field
At the end the characters play a bingo style game while a writer rips up his manuscripts
The seagull
Novel describes a song whose melody resembles La Cucaracha
Animal farm
“We are not now that strength which in old days / moved earth and heaven”
Ulysses (Tennyson)
