Guess The Author Flashcards

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The Canterbury Tales

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Book by Geoffrey Chaucer a group of pilgrims traveling to Canterbury Cathedral compete in a storytelling contest. This overarching plot, or frame, provides a reason for the pilgrims to tell their stories, which reflect the concerns sparked by the social upheavals of late medieval England.

Answer 2

Play by William Shakespeare

Answer 3

Play by Sophocles Oedipus was told he would kill his father and marry his mother, and Laius, years before the play starts, is told his son would kill him and marry his wife. Laius took steps to prevent the prophecy from coming true, but in doing so created the circumstances that led to the prophecy's fulfillment

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Novel by James Joyce

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Lyman Frank Baum

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Leo Tolstoy

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Emily Brontë a romance novel that depicts the female romantic fantasy of being a woman who is loved by two men Lockwood rents a mannor and asks Nelly Dean to tell him the story of Heathcliff, so she does and he writes it down When Nelly was little,l her dad adopted another son, Heathcliff, and favored him to his own son, Hindley. The children all grew to love him (Nelly, Hindley, Catherine) and he and Catherine grow close. When Hindly is continuously mean to Heathcliff he gets sent away to college. Dad dies, Hindley inherits, Hindley seeks revenge and forces Heathcliff work tirelessly. His relationship with Catherine gets more complicated aften she must get medical attention for 5 weeks due to a dog bite. Hindley's wife dies in birth and he becomes an alcholoic. He becomes more abusive. Catherine wants social advancement so she marries Edgar, even though she loves Heathcliff, and Heathcliff runs away. Healthcliff comes back, seeks revenge. Hindley dies, Heathcliff inherts and marries Isabeela and is abusive. Catherine dies in birth and Isabella runs to London and has Heathcliffś son. Heathcliff DEPRESSED. 13 years later, Nelly is Catherine's daughter's maid. Isabella dies and her son goes to live with his father, Heathcliff, and is treated even more abusivly. More stuff happens but I can't write this rn Use the link https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/wuthering/summary/

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George Eliot a “study of provincial life.” At its center are the beautiful and inquisitive Dorothea Brooke and the ambitious young doctor Tertius Lydgate, who both have to abandon their idealist views when faced with the reality of daily life. Middlemarch is a novel that explores the dynamics of marriage and social class in 19th-century England. A large web of characters, including the main stories of Dorothea Brooke and Dr. Lydgate, intersect with a number of related plotlines. The theme is money and greed Like Pride and Prejudice

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by George and Weedon Grossmith The Diary records the daily events in the lives of a London clerk, Charles Pooter, his wife Carrie, his son William Lupin, and numerous friends and acquaintances over a period of 15 months. Main character: Charles Pooter (a middle-aged and middle-class clerk in the City of London, with ideas above his station.) "Gentle comic relief"

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Charles Dickens Coming-of-age story tells the tale of Pip, an orphan from a poor background who learns a valuable lesson in life after his acquisition of personal wealth proves an unsatisfying experience that changes him for the worse, driving him away from the only people who’ve ever loved him. Along the way he meets the enigmatic Miss Havisham, an old lady jilted at the altar decades ago, who has frozen everything in her house at the moment at which her life was so tragically altered. The image of her wedding cake, still on the table but covered in cobwebs and mould, is one of many enduring and vivid scenes in this brilliant novel, which explores a number of moral themes including what it means to be a gentleman.