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Literature - Books & Titles Flashcards

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Charles Dickens wrote it after a trip to America in just a few weeks

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A Christmas Carol (1843)

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Charles Dickens semi-autobiographical novel

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David Copperfield (1850)

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William Makepeace Thackeray’s most famous novel

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Vanity Fair

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Charlotte Brontë’s novel

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Jane Eyre (1847)

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Emily Brontë’s novel

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Wuthering Heights

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Anne Brontë’s novel

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Agnes Grey

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George Eliot’s novel “the vile outpourings of a lewd woman’s mind”

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Adam Bede

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Anne Bronë’s “utterly unfit to be put into the hands of girls”

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel about the realities of industrialization

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Mary Barton

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Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel about fallen women

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Ruth

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George Eliot’s most famous novel

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Middlemarch (1871-72)

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George Meredith’s later works which marked a shift towards exploring modern social issues, character psychology and novel form

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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859)

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George Meredith’s novels which gave him fame

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The Egoist, Diana of the Crossways

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George Meredith’s novel influenced by his personal experiences

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Evan Harrington (1861)

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Thomas Hardy’s novels in the county of Wessex

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Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) and the Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)

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Thomas Hardy’s novels with outcast characters who challenge societal norms

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Tess of D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure

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Thomas Hardy’s poems

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Wessex Poems (1898)

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Henry James works

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The American (1876), The Europeans (1878) and The Portrait of a Lady (1881)

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Lewis Carroll’s novels

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871)

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Oscar Wilde’s first theatre hit

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Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892)

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Oscar Wilde’s final work

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

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Oscar Wildes tales published in 1888

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The Happy Prince and Other Tales and The Canterville Ghost

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Oscar Wilde’s plays in 1895

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An Ideal Husband, and the Importance of Being Earnest

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Oscar Wilde’s only novel

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The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)

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Oscar Wilde’s tales of 1891

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Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories, and A House of Pomegranates

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G.B. Shaw’s last full-length play

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Buoyant Billions (1849)

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G.B. Shaw’s most well-known work

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Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898)

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Plays within Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898)

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Widowers’ Houses and Mrs. Warren’s Profession

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G.B. Shaw’s play with the concept of “life force”

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Man and Superman

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G.B. Shaw’s witty study of class distinction

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Pygmalion (1912-1913)

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G.B. Shaw’s play set during the war about the disillusionment of the upper-classes in the pre-war years

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Heartbreak House (1913-1921)

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G.B. Shaw’s plays about religion

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Back to Methuselah (1921) and St. Joan

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Herman Melville’s novel about sailors

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Moby Dick (1851)

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Herman Melville’s second novel

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Pierre (1852)

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Herman Melville’s early novel

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Typee (1843)

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Herman Melville’s novels about his disillusionment with human hypocrisy

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The Confidence-Man (1857)

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Herman Melville’s novels about the war

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Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866)

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Edgar Allan Poe’s collection of grotesque style

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Tales of the Arabesque and the Grotesque (1840)

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Popular story within Tales of the Arabesque and the Grotesque (1840)

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The Fall of the House of Usher

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Edgar Allan Poe’s works after his wife suffered tuberculosis

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The Masque of the Red Death (1842) and the Raven (1845)

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Edgar Allan Poe’s major works

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The Premature Burial, Ligeia, The Cask of Amontadillo and the Fall of the House of Usher

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Edgar Allan Poe’s detective story

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The Murders in the Rue Morgue

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Walt Whitman’s most famous collection of poems

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Leaves of Grass (1855)

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Leaves of Grass’ 1st section

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Inscriptions

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Leaves of Grass’ 2nd section

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Children of Adam

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Leaves of Grass’ 3rd section

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Calamus

47
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Walt Whitman’s autobiography

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Specimen Days and Collect

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Walt Whitman’s last work

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Good-Bye, My Fancy (1891)

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Mark Twain’s novel after a pleasure trip to Europe

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The Innocents Abroad (1869)

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Mark Twain’s most famous works

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)

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Mark Twain’s book about his childhood

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Life On The Mississippi (1883)

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Mark Twain’s essays and romances (non-personal expierences)

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The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Joan of Arc

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Henry James’ first short story

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A Tragedy of Errors

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Henry James’ first novel (serial)

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Watch and Ward (1871)

55
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Henry James’ first novel

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Roderick Hudson (1875)

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Henry James’ novel about a young American woman who becomes a victim of provincialism during her travels in Europe

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The Portrait of a Lady (1881)

History & Literature Block - Dates (4 decks)

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