Literature In English Flashcards
This “Lonesome Dove” author dedicated his novel “The Desert Rose” “to Lesley, for the use of her goat”
Larry McMurty
Her novels The Paris Apartment (2022) and The Guest List (2020) are New York Times best sellers.
Lucy Foley
A 20th century Nigerian writer whose works include “Things Fall Apart” (1958) and “Arrow of God” (1964)
Chinua Achebe
his novels focus on the clash between traditional, African values and culture, and the encroachment of colonialism and westernization
In 1965, this Indianapolis-born novelist published “God Bless you, Mr. Rosewater”
Vonnegut
This 20th century American writer and critic was posthumously awarded a 1958 Pulitzer Prize for “A Death in the Family”, his only novel
James Agee (AYjee)
He was best known for his classic “Let us now Praise Famous Men”, with photos by Walker Evans, an account of sharecroppers in Alabama during the 1930s. 
A 19th century American author known for his many books in which poor boys become rich through their earnest attitudes and hard work
Horatio Alger Junior
A true story of spectacular worldly success achieved by someone who started near the bottom is often called a “Horatio Alger story ”
“LOVE” IS WITHIN THE TITLES OF 3 OF HIS MOST FAMOUS BOOKS; A FOURTH, “THE RAINBOW”, CALLS LOVE “THE FLOWER OF LIFE”
D. H. Lawrence
A 20th century British author. Two of his best regarded works are Sons and Lovers and Women in Love Lawrence is known for his frank treatment of sex and for the racial ideas on society and the family that he voiced in his books
His novel Lady Chatterly’s Lover was banned of obscene in both Britain and the United States. In the United States, the band was appealed to the Supreme Court, which it overruled. 
All the world’s a stage is the beginning of a speech in this play
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
The monologue is also called “The Seven Ages of Man” because it treats that many periods in a man’s life: his years as an infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, judge, foolish old man, and finally “second childishness and near oblivion”
Most of the action of the play takes place in the forest of Arden, to which several members of the Duke’s Court have been banished 
This writer read her poem “On the Pulse of the Morning” at Bill Clinton’s 1993 inaugural ceremony 
Maya Angelou
She was a 20th century African-American writer, whose best known work is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings an autobiographical account of growing up as a black girl in the rural south 
In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar who says the speech that begins “friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears”?
Mark Antony
The speak addresses the crowd at Caesar’s funeral, in it he repeats several times the words “Brutus is an honorable man“. The speech is Anthony’s funeral oration over Caesar, who Brutus has helped killed. “Brutus is an honorable man” is ironic, as Antony is attempting to portray Brutus as ungrateful and treacherous. He succeeded in turning the Roman people against Brutus and the other assassins 
This Welsh poets’s “Fern Hill” says, “Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs… and happy as the grass was green”
Dylan Thomas
Category: American Plays
THIS DRAMA IS SET AT A SUMMER HOME IN AUGUST 1912; ACT 1 TAKES PLACE AT 8:30 A.M.; ACT 4 IS 15 1/2 HOURS LATER, AT MIDNIGHT
Long Day’s Journey into Night
By. Eugene O’Neill
Long Day’s Journey into Night is a play in four acts written by American playwright Eugene O’Neill in 1939–1941 and first published posthumously in 1956.
The youngest of Alcott’s March sisters
Amy
Meg, the oldest, beautiful and rather vain, but sweet; Jo the main focus of the books, a spirited tomboy; Beth, a sickly, gentle musician who dies in the first novel; and Amy, pampered and artistic 
A friend of Shakespeare, this “Song: to Celia“ poet and playwright was buried standing up in Westminster Abbey 
Ben Jonson
The biography “Two Lives”, about Gertrude Stein and this partner investigates how they survived Nazi Europe
Alice B. Tolkas
She wrote “The Hunger Games” and also co-wrote the screenplay for the movie based on it
Suzanne Collins
He wrote “A Confederacy of Dunces”
John Kennedy Toole
Irishman Yeats wrote a poem entitled this holiday “1916”
Easter
It commemorates the martyrs of the Easter Rising, an insurrection against the British government in Ireland in 1916, which resulted in the execution of several Irish nationalists whom Yeats knew personally.
In a classic of American fiction, these 2 boys get a $6,000 reward each after finding money that Injun Joe hid in a cave
Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer
20th century, British-American writer and critic whose works include collections “The Double Man“ and “The Dyer’s Hand“. He is best known for his poetry, which was influenced by his experiences in the Spanish Civil War and Christianity
W.H. Auden
Born: February 21, 1907, York, United Kingdom
The Spanish Civil War was fought in the late 1930s in Spain. 
Having spent most of the first 40 years of her life in China, this author was the first American woman to win both a Pulitzer Prize and a Nobel Prize
Pearl S. Buck
Winston Groom’s novel about a not so smart guy became this Oscar winning 1994 film
Forrest Gump
Who wrote the 1922 novel Babbitt?
Sinclair Lewis
The title character, an American real estate agent in a small city, is portrayed as a crass, loud, over optimistic boor who only thinks about money and speaks in cliché such as “you’ve gotta have pep, by golly!“
By extension a “Babbit” is a narrow minded, materialistic businessman 
A twentieth-century African American author. His writings, mostly about the black experience in the United States, include NOVELS, such as Go Tell It on the Mountain, and ESSAYS, such as “The Fire Next Time.”
James Baldwin
Go Tell It on the Mountain is a 1953 semi-autobiographical novel by James Baldwin. It tells the story of John Grimes, an intelligent teenager in 1930s Harlem, and his relationship with his family and his church.
On holiday in Jamaica, this Terry McMillan title heroine goes gaga over a much younger man
Stella
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Published 1996. Movie in 1998.
Category: B F Q
A standard American reference work for quotations from literature and speech
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
Originally published in 1855 by John Bartlett 
An English author and artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. An early leader of romanticism, he is best known for his collections of poems. “Songs of Innocence” and “Songs of Experience”.
William Blake
Blake illustrated printed and distributed all of his books himself 
The first stanza of the poem “The Tiger,“ from Songs of Experience , by William Blake reads:
Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright
In the forest of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry
An eighteenth century Scottish author, best known for his “Life of Samuel Johnson”
James Boswell
Boswell became a general term for a biographer: “James Joyce found his Boswell in Richard Ellmann”
19th century English poet, best known for Sonnets from the Portuguese. The most famous of these sonnets begins “how do I love thee? Let me count the ways”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Wife of Robert Browning 
Robert Brownings many poems include “the Pied Piper of Hamelin“ and “My Last Duchess“
The central character in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Leatherstocking Tales , such as “The Last of the Mohicans”, where he is called Hawkeye.
Natty Bumppo
Natty, a settler, is taught by the native Americans and adopts their way of life 
“The Last of the Mohicans” (1826)- the leading character is Uncas, a noble native American, who helps a British family of settlers during the French and Indian war 
Which 18th century poet recorded the words to “Auld Lang Syne” (the words had been passed down orally)
Robert Burns
Auld Lang Syne is a traditional Scottish song, customarily sung on New Year’s Eve; the title means “Long Time Past.” The song begins:
Should auld (old) acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to min’?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and auld lang syne?
American writer of “hard-boiled” crime drama and political activist best known for The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man and Red Harvest.
Dashiell Hammett
New York Times bestselling author of thrillers including The Good Girl, The Other Mrs., Local Woman Missing and Just the Nicest Couple
Mary Kubica
19th century English poet who was a leader of romanticism and whose best known work is Don Juan, a long poem of satire
Lord George Gordon Byron
A Byronic hero is a kind of hero found in several of the works of Lord Byron. Like Byron, a Byronic hero is a melancholy and rebellious young man, distressed by a terrible wrong he committed in the past
Joseph Conrad: “Lord _____”
Jim
Pen name of Charles Ludwig Dawson,
Lewis Carroll
a 19th century, writer, scholar, and photographer best known for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Through the Looking Glass (1872) is the sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In it, Alice passes through a mirror over a fireplace and finds herself once more in an enchanted land, where she meets Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the White Knight, Humpty Dumpty and other amazing creatures.
20th century American writer known for his hard-boiled mysteries featuring private detective Philip Marlowe, whose adventures chronicle the seamy underside of Southern California
Raymond Chandler
Many of his works, including The Big Sleep and Farewell, My lovely have been adapted into films
Who wrote the 1797 evocative poem “Kubla Khan” about an exotic emperor
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It begins with “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan/ A stately pleasure-dome decree…”
Coleridge was a leader of Romanticism. He also wrote the poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
“Come live with me and be my love” is the opening line of “The Passionate Shepard to His Love” by this English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era
Christopher Marlowe
Shakespeare:
The youngest of King Lear’s three daughters
Cordelia
King Lear at first thinks her ungrateful to him because she refuses to flatter him as her sisters do; he soon finds out that she is the only one of the three who genuinely cares for him
King Lear is a tragedy about an old king who unwisely hands his kingdom over to two of his daughters. The daughters, who had flattered him while he was in power, turn on him; their actions reduce him to poverty and eventually to madness. Cordelia remains faithful to him 
Who wrote the poem, “There is no Frigate like a Book”
Emily Dickinson
She was a nineteenth century poet know. For short evocative poems. Some of her other best known poems begin “Because I could not stop for Death/ He kindly stopped me” and “I’m nobody! Who are you?”
