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 poet surprise 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
