Historic Names Flashcards
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| “The Deerslayer” was the last written, but first chronologically, of his “Leatherstocking Tales”
James Fenimore Cooper
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In this J.D. Salinger novel, the main character asks a cab driver where the Central Park ducks go in the winter
The Catcher in the Rye
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In this Hemingway story, a fisherman named Santiago was once an arm wrestler known as “El Campeon”
The Old Man and the Sea
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| His 1988 book “A Different Kind of Christmas” was based on a story outline for the TV film “Roots: The Gift”
Alex Haley
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| The manuscript for “Billy Budd” was found among his papers & published in 1924, 33 years after his death
Herman Melville
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| A contemporary review of this 1851 novel said, “Who would have looked for… poetry in blubber?”
Moby-Dick
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This 1961 Joseph Heller novel was set on the island of Pianosa during WWII
Catch-22
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Old Stony Phiz in “The Great Stone Face” by this author of “Twice-Told Tales” is said to be based on Daniel Webster
Hawthorne
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| A 1936 operetta, “The Headless Horseman”, was based on this 1820 short story
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In a 1947 novelette by John Steinbeck, a diver named Kino finds the valuable title object to pay his child’s doctor bill
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This 1929 Thomas Wolfe novel is subtitled “A Story of the Buried Life”
Look Homeward Angel
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| His 1841-42 South Pacific voyage aboard the whaler Acushnet provided the basis for his most famous novel
(Herman) Melville
$2500 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| C. Auguste Dupin is the hero of Edgar Allan Poe’s first detective story, “The Murders” here
in the Rue Morgue
$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Shortly after “The House of the Seven Gables”, he wrote a book of classical myths, “A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys”
Hawthorne
$1600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” is set in the early 20th century in this typical American town located in New Hampshire
Grover’s Corners
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| A hard journey through Mississippi with a smelly corpse is the subject of his “As I Lay Dying”
Faulkner
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Chapter 14 of this classic American novel is entitled “Hester and the Physician”
The Scarlet Letter
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In this novel by Alice Walker, Celie moves to Memphis, where she designs & sells unisex pants
The Color Purple
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Henry Fleming, the hero of “The Red Badge of Courage”, reappeared in his short story “Lynx-Hunting”
Stephen Crane
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This William Faulkner novel opens with a tale told by Benjy, an idiot
The Sound and the Fury
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| <a>This</a> poet published her novel “The Bell Jar” using the pseudonym Victoria Lucas
(Sylvia) Plath
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Subtitles of books in this 19th century series include “A Tale”, “The Inland Sea” & “The First War-Path”
Leatherstocking Tales
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| An epigraph he used on one story says, “our hearts though stout and brave, still, like muffled drums are beating”
Edgar Allan Poe
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This 1906 novel says, “Now & then a visitor wept, to be sure; but this slaughtering machine ran on, visitors or no…”
The Jungle