BB Lit up to 1900 2 Flashcards
Jules Verne
A Voyage to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days 1828-1905
Count Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace and Anna Karenina 1828-1910
Emily Dickinson
American poet 1830-86
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women and Little Men 1832-88
Lewis Carroll
(Charles Dodgson) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass 1832-98
Horatio Alger
American writer 1832-99
Mark Twain
(Samuel L Clemens) The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Count, Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, and Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court 1835-1910
Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge and Tess of the D’ubervilles 1840-1928
Henry James
Daisy Miller, The Portrait of a Lady, and The Turn of the Screw 1843-1916
Bram Stoker
Dracula 1847-1912
Emma Lazarus
The New Colossus 1849-87
Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1850-94
Jose Marti
Cuban poet 1853-95
Oscar Wilde
Irish The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest 1854-1900
L. Frank Baum
Wizard of Oz 1856-1919
Joseph Conard
Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness 1857-1924
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles 1859-1930
O. Henry
(William Sydney Porter) The Gift of the Magi 1862-1910
Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence 1862-1937
Rudyard Kipling
Gunga Din, The Jungle Book, Captains Courageous, and Kim 1865-1936
William Butler Yeats
Irish Second Coming and Sailing to Byzantium 1865-1939
Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage 1871-1900
Gertrude Stein
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (coined the Lost Generation) 1874-1946
Robert L. Frost
Mending Wall, the Death of the Hired Man, The Road Not Taken, and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (JFK inauguration poem) 1874-1963
Jack London
The Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf, and White Fang 1876-1916
Willa S. Cather
My Antonia and Death Comes for the Archbishop 1876-1947
Hermann Hesse
German Siddhartha and Steppenwolf 1877-1962
Carl Sandburg
Abraham Lincoln writes about Chicago 1878-1967
Upton Sinclair
The Jungle 1878-1968
Wallace Stevens
Emperor of Ice-Cream 1879-1955
James Joyce
Irish Dubliners, Ulysses, and a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1882-1941
Franz Kafka
Austrian Metamorphosis 1883-1924
William Carlos Williams
Red Wheel Barrow and This is Just to Say(Plum poem) 1883-1963
Sinclair Lewis
Main Street 1885-1951
T.S. Elliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Wasteland, The Hollow Men, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats 1888-1965
Boris L. Pasternak
Doctor Zhivago 1890-1960
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, and Silmarillron 1892-1973
Pearl S. Buck
The Good Earth 1892-1973
e e cummings
In Just Spring (no capitalizations) 1894-1962
Aldous L. Huxley
Brave New World 1894-1963
F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, and The LastTycoon196-1940
Wiliam Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Barn Burning 1897-1962
Thornton N. Wilder
The Bridge of San Luis Rey 1897-1975
C. S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters and Narnia Chronicles 1898-1963
Erich Maria Remarque
German All Quiet on the Western Front 1898-1970
Ernest M. Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea 1899-1961