Books and Authors #2 Flashcards
Emma
Jane Austen
The English Patient
Michael Anadajie
The novel won the 1992 Booker Prize
The book was adapted into a 1996 film starring Ralph Fiennes. The film received nine Academy Awards—including Best Picture and Director—Anthony Minghella- at the 69th Academy Awards
Entertaining
Martha Stewart
Equus
Peter Schaefer
1975 Tony Award Best Play
2009 Revival with Daniel Radcliff
Erewhon
Samuel Butler (1872)
Satire of Victorian era
Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930
Eugene Onegin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian Lit Classic
Almost the entire work is made up of 389 stanzas of iambic tetrameter with the unusual rhyme scheme “AbAbCCddEffEgg”
Also is an opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Even Cowgirls get the Blues
Tom Robbins
made into a movie in 1993 by Gus Van Sant and stars Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, and Keanu Reeves
All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Robert Fulghum
a book of short essays first published in 1988.
The Executioners Song
Norman Mailer (1979)
depicts the events surrounding the execution of Gary Gilmore by the state of Utah for murder. It was also a finalist for the 1980 National Book Award
The book was turned into a television film starring Tommy Lee Jones, (a role for which he won an Emmy Award
Gilmore was the first person in the United States executed since the re-instatement of the death penalty in 1976
Executive Orders
Tom Clancy
The Exile
Pearl Buck
Exedus
Leon Uris
The exorcist
William Blatty
Eye of the Needle
Ken Follett
A Fable
William Faulkner
The Faerie Queen
Edmund SPenser
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe
The Fallen Man
Tony Hillerman
Familiar Quotations
James Bartlett
Fanshawe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Far From the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy