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Jo is the tomboy

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Little Women (1868)

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Philip Marlowe (Shamus)

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The Big Sleep (1939)

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Estella

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Great Expectations (1861)

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“The horror! The horror!”

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Heart of Darkness (1899)

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Washington Irving

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820)

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monster kills Victor’s wife, Victor builds monster’s wife then kills it, chase to the North pole, Victor dies, monster mourns

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Frankenstein (1818)

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many pilgrims had ailments and were heading to St. Thomas A Becket’s shrine for healing

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The Canterbury Tales (around 1387)

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Emma enjoys medling and matchmaking, tries to set up Harriet with Mr. Elton, but he proposes to her instead, she finds her someone else

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Emma (1815)

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came to him after he experienced an opium-influenced dream after reading about Xanadu, a summer palace of Kublai Khan

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“Kubla Khan” poem (1816)

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later made into a movie starting Burt Lancaster

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Elmer Gantry (1927)

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Samuel Johnson

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Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

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She’s described as “handsome, clever, rich”

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Emma (1815)

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Poet who avoided capital letters (even in his own name)

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e.e. cummings

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John Dos Passos

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U.S.A. trilogy (1930s)

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black friend Jim

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)

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Mark Twain

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)

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Hawkeye

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The Last of the Mohicans (1826)

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novella where a governess is in charge of 2 children who are controlled by evil ghosts

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The Turn of the Screw (1898)

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Laurence Olivier

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Wuthering Heights (1847)

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Sonnets from the Portuguese (1847)

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Ernest Hemingway

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The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

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Ernest Hemingway

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The Sun Also Rises (1926)

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George Babbitt

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Babbitt (1922)

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mostly autobiographical of Dicken’s own life, his favorite book

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David Copperfield (1850)

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Ms. Havisham dies when her wedding dress catches on fire

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Great Expectations (1861)

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Mister Kurtz

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Heart of Darkness (1899)

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To kill this vampire you must drive a wooden stake through his heart

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Dracula (1897)

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Thomas Mann

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Doctor Faustus novel (1947)

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about an Italian ambulance driver Frederic Henry during WW I who escapes to Switzerland to be with his love British nurse Catherine Barkley

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A Farewell to Arms (1929)

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“The government is best which governs least”

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“Civil Disobedience” essay (1849)

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John Bartlett originally compiled famous quotes from literature and speeches

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Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (1855-Present)

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Bertha Mason, insane, is locked in the attic, commits suicide and burns down Thornfield Hall

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Jane Eyre (1847)

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Nancy

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Oliver Twist (1837)

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Willy Loman

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Death of a Salesman (1949)

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Elinor Dashwood

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Sense and Sensibility (1811)

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20
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Charlotte Brunte

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Jane Eyre (1847)

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Uncas

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The Last of the Mohicans (1826)

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21
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Samuel Pickwick and the Pickwick Club

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The Pickwick Papers (1836)

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21
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John Milton

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Paradise Lost (1667)

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“Getting to Know You” song

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“The King and I” play (1951)

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Louisa May Alcott

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Little Women (1868)

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25
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the Shimerdas

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My Antonia (1918)

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26
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Sinclair Lewis

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Babbitt (1922)

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27
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Bram Stoker

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Dracula (1897)

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28
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Charles Dickens’ first novel

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The Pickwick Papers (1836)

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28
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Lilliput (where people are 6 inches tall), Brobdingnag (where people are 70 feet tall), and Houyhnhnms (where horses are intelligent beings, and humans called Yahoos are mute brutes of labor)

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Gulliver’s Travels (1736)

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29
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Chingachgook

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The Last of the Mohicans (1826)

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29
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Simon Legree

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

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30
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Clara Peggotty

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David Copperfield (1850)

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murder mystery in Monkswell Manor during a snowstorm

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The Mousetrap (1952)

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Sinclair Lewis

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Elmer Gantry (1927)

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31
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William Faulkner

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As I Lay Dying (1930)

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32
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Lucie Manette

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A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

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33
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Ernest Thayer

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“Casey at the Bat” poem (1888)

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34
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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

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35
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Joseph Conrad

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Heart of Darkness (1899)

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Ishmael

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Moby Dick (1851)

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36
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Marmee is the mom

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Little Women (1868)

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37
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Joseph Conrad

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Lord Jim (1900)

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38
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Ray Bradbury

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Moby Dick (1851)

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Little Men, Jo’s Boys

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Little Women (1868)

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39
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The Wife of Bath’s Tale

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The Canterbury Tales (around 1387)

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39
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Bill Sikes and his dog Bull’s Eye

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Oliver Twist (1837)

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40
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Emma Woodhouse

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Emma (1815)

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Mr. (Edward) Rochester

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Jane Eyre (1847)

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Holden Caulfield

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The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

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George Eliot

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Silas Marner (1861)

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long naritive poem, earliest long work of literature in English

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Beowulf (c 700-750)

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Henry James

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Portrait of a Lady (1881)

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a salesman find himself regarded as useless in his occupation because of his age, gets fired, kills himself for the insurance money so his son Biff can start a business

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Death of a Salesman (1949)

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Anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet

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Beowulf (c 700-750)

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47
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Constance marries paralyzed Sir Clifford, has an affair with the gamekeeper Oliver Mellors, gets pregnant, awaits divorce & a new life

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Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928)

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Charles Dickens

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David Copperfield (1850)

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48
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Daniel Defoe

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Robinson Crusoe (1719)

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P.G. Wodehouse

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comic novels about Jeeves (1915-1974)

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Captain Ahab pursues a giant white sperm whale

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Moby Dick (1851)

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encouraged people to break or protest laws and accept penalties (he went to jail for a day) if they disagree with them morally

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“Civil Disobedience” essay (1849)

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Meg said “it’s so dreadful to be poor” after Jo complains about lack of christmas gifts

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Little Women (1868)

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Charles Darnay

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A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

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Emma falls in love with George Knightley

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Emma (1815)

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Willa Cather

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My Antonia (1918)

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Jonathan Swift

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Gulliver’s Travels (1736)

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James Boswell

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Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)

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dedicated his book to Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Moby Dick (1851)

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59
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Emily Bronte

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Wuthering Heights (1847)

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59
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story of a miserly weaver

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Silas Marner (1861)

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Mary Shelley

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Frankenstein (1818)

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Sydney Carton

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A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

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James Baldwin

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Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953)

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Queequeg

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Moby Dick (1851)

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65
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Earnshaw house on the moors in Yorkshire

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Wuthering Heights (1847)

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66
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Eliza crosses the frozen Ohio River to escape, Tom saves Little Eva from drowning, Eva gives away her hair and dies, Simon Legree beats Tom to death

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

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67
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about the arrival of Dr. Lydgate to this title town

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Middlemarch (1874)

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Thomas Hardy

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Far From the Madding Crowd (1874)

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Dickens was making a statement about conditions in London for the poor

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David Copperfield (1850)

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Christopher Marlowe

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Doctor Faustus play (1592)

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Mr. Micawber

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David Copperfield (1850)

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Fagin

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Oliver Twist (1837)

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Bill Sikes kills Nancy after helping Oliver, then hangs himself accidentally later

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Oliver Twist (1837)

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Phillip Pirrip (Pip)

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Great Expectations (1861)

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Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale

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The Scarlet Letter (1850)

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73
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poem that celebrates the heroism of a British cavalry brigade (“the 600”) in its doomed assault on much larger forces

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The Charge of the Light Brigade poem (1854)

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Ernest Hemingway

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A Farewell to Arms (1929)

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William Faulkner

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Light in August (1914)

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A third more explicit version was finally published in the U.S. in 1959

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Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928)

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about the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War

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The Charge of the Light Brigade poem (1854)

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based on poem “Harlem” (or “A Dream Deferred”) by Langston Hughes

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A Raisin in the Sun play (1959)

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minister & married woman have illegitimate daughter, woman forced to wear letter A

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The Scarlet Letter (1850)

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“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

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Sonnets from the Portuguese (1847)

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King Hrothgar

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Beowulf (c 700-750)

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)

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Uncle Tom

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

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Claire Danes played Beth

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Little Women (1868)

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Natty, a settler, is taught by the Indians and adopts their way of life

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The Last of the Mohicans (1826)

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Victor ____

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Frankenstein (1818)

85
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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The House of the Seven Gables (1851)

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Written in Middle English

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The Canterbury Tales (around 1387)

88
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“There’s not a reason why, Theirs but to do and die.”

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The Charge of the Light Brigade poem (1854)

88
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young Maya goes from a 3 year old with an inferiority complex into a 17 year old mother who is self-possessed, dignified, and can respond to prejudice

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)

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William Faulkner

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Absalom, Absalom (1929)

89
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Armory Blaine, a spoiled Princeton student, is the hero, the novel examines the lives and morality of post-WW I youth

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This Side of Paradise (1920)

90
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first volume of 7 for her autobiography by Maya Angelou

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)

91
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Santiago, an old fisherman catches a giant marlin out in the Gulf Stream, sharks eat the marlin on the way back to shore leaving only its skeleton

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The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

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Kirsten Dunst played Amy

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Little Women (1868)

94
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Angelina Jolie plays Grendel’s mother

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Beowulf (c 700-750)

96
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Elinor marries Edward Ferrars, Marianne marries Colonel Brandon

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Sense and Sensibility (1811)

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“Kubla Khan” poem (1816)

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vampire from Transylvania (modern day Romania) takes the name of a bloodthirsty nobleman of the Middle Ages

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Dracula (1897)

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Charles Dickens

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A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

100
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a sensitive but rebellious youth runs away from his boarding school, spends weekend in NY, gets even more depressed

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The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

101
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Edward Gibbon

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1789)

102
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Friday, named after the day he was saved from cannibals

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Robinson Crusoe (1719)

103
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Amy marries Laurie after Jo rejects him

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Little Women (1868)

104
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young country girl who moves to Chicago where she starts realizing her own American Dream, first as a mistress to men that she perceives as superior, and later becoming a famous actress, still doesn’t find happiness though

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Sister Carrie (1900)

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written to “justify the ways of God to men”

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Paradise Lost (1667)

105
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Madame Defarge knits in code to condemn the aristocrats

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A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

106
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D.H. Lawrence

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Women in Love (1920)

108
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Herman Melville

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Moby Dick (1851)

110
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Jane finds out her fiancee is already married

A

Jane Eyre (1847)

111
Q

Meg is the oldest

A

Little Women (1868)

112
Q

Henry Fielding

A

The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (1749)

114
Q

Sense (Elinor) means logical personality, sensibility (Marianne) is ruling by emotions

A

Sense and Sensibility (1811)

116
Q

“No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me - now - standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.”

A

Wuthering Heights (1847)

118
Q

“water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink”

A

“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” poem (1798)

119
Q

Little Eva

A

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

120
Q

James Fenimore Cooper

A

The Last of the Mohicans (1826)

122
Q

Geoffrey Chaucer

A

The Canterbury Tales (around 1387)

123
Q

J.D. Silnger

A

The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

124
Q

the Detective (Sergeant Trotter) turns out to be the killer

A

The Mousetrap (1952)

125
Q

“It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair”

A

A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

125
Q

Washington Irving

A

Rip Van Winkle (1819)

127
Q

Pequod

A

Moby Dick (1851)

128
Q

Jane Eyre

A

Jane Eyre (1847)

128
Q

Mr. Bumble

A

Oliver Twist (1837)

129
Q

“Please, sir, I want some more.”

A

Oliver Twist (1837)

130
Q

Raymond Chandler

A

The Big Sleep (1939)

131
Q

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A

This Side of Paradise (1920)

132
Q

Sidney Poitier starred in the film version of this play about a black Chicago family

A

A Raisin in the Sun play (1959)

134
Q

Heathcliff

A

Wuthering Heights (1847)

135
Q

Ahab harpoons the whale, but he gets wrapped up in the line and taken under sea to die

A

Moby Dick (1851)

136
Q

Joe Christmas, who doesn’t know if he’s black or white, deals with his demons in Mississippi

A

Light in August (1914)

137
Q

Henry Fielding

A

The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews (1742)

139
Q

Starbuck

A

Moby Dick (1851)

140
Q

Wiglaf

A

Beowulf (c 700-750)

141
Q

making a statement about child labor, and children as street criminals

A

Oliver Twist (1837)

142
Q

also the “play within a play” during Hamlet that he uses to catch Claudius

A

The Mousetrap (1952)

142
Q

subtitled “The Parish Boy’s Progress”

A

Oliver Twist (1837)

143
Q

Colin Firth

A

Pride and Prejudice (1813)

144
Q

slang term for death

A

The Big Sleep (1939)

146
Q

Dora & Agnes

A

David Copperfield (1850)

147
Q

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, then I have ever done…”

A

A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

148
Q

The Knight’s Tale

A

The Canterbury Tales (around 1387)

149
Q

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A

The Scarlet Letter (1850)

150
Q

dream sequence in the minds of the Earwicker family, hard to comprehend

A

Finnegans Wake (1939)

151
Q

Zora Neale Hurston

A

Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

153
Q

____ slays monster Grendel and Grendel’s mother in Denmark

A

Beowulf (c 700-750)

154
Q

named after King David’s son who dies

A

Absalom, Absalom (1929)

155
Q

During French Revolution: shows brutal treatment of aristocrats by revolutionaries, death carts, parallels with life in London, storming of the Bastille

A

A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

156
Q

5 Bennet sisters

A

Pride and Prejudice (1813)

157
Q

Caroline Meeber

A

Sister Carrie (1900)

158
Q

Beth March dies of Scarlett Fever

A

Little Women (1868)

159
Q

a castaway spends 28 years on a remote island near Trinidad encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued

A

Robinson Crusoe (1719)

161
Q

Mr. Darcy has too much pride, and Elizabeth has too much prejudice

A

Pride and Prejudice (1813)

162
Q

Mr. Brownlow

A

Oliver Twist (1837)

163
Q

an ivory transporter travels down the Congo River in search of ivory trader Mr. Kurtz

A

Heart of Darkness (1899)

165
Q

Heathcliff (Cathy’s adopted brother) is raised in the Earnshaw home, falls for Cathy; love thwarted; both die

A

Wuthering Heights (1847)

166
Q

John Grimes is a black Harlem youth who has a tough time with his black identity

A

Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953)

168
Q

Elizabeth Bennet grows up in a society where social class is important, marries Mr. Darcy (rich man) after some back and forth

A

Pride and Prejudice (1813)

170
Q

Amy is the youngest

A

Little Women (1868)

172
Q

Gwyneth Paltrow

A

Emma (1815)

172
Q

George Eliot

A

Middlemarch (1874)

174
Q

Natty Bumppo

A

The Last of the Mohicans (1826)

175
Q

an American girl Isabel Archer heads to Europe for more culture and becomes to the victim of scheming by two American expatriates

A

Portrait of a Lady (1881)

176
Q

Memoirs of a Danish woman running an African coffee plantation in the 1920s, it failed and she came back to Denmark

A

Out of Africa (1937)

177
Q

Professor Bhaer

A

Little Women (1868)

179
Q

ratnapper through song then kidnapper after town refused to pay him all the money

A

The Pied Pier of Hamelin

180
Q

“There is no joy in Mudville - might Casey has struck out”

A

“Casey at the Bat” poem (1888)

182
Q

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A

“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” poem (1798)

183
Q

the Rachel

A

Moby Dick (1851)

184
Q

tells the story of Dr Faustus in the rise of Nazism

A

Doctor Faustus novel (1947)

186
Q

Isak Dinesen (pen name for Baroness Karen Blixen)

A

Out of Africa (1937)

187
Q

arrogant baseball player refuses to swing at the first two pitches, and misses the third for a strikeout

A

“Casey at the Bat” poem (1888)

188
Q

____ battles the dragon and dies

A

Beowulf (c 700-750)

189
Q

Theodore Dreiser

A

Sister Carrie (1900)

191
Q

Marianne Dashwood

A

Sense and Sensibility (1811)

192
Q

Sisters Elinor and Marianne move to a new home, experience love and heartbreak

A

Sense and Sensibility (1811)

194
Q

critique of Middle Class America, an American real estate agent thinks only about money and speaks in cliches

A

Babbitt (1922)

196
Q

“Call me Ishmael”

A

Moby Dick (1851)

197
Q

Roger Chillingworth

A

The Scarlet Letter (1850)

199
Q

Agatha Christie

A

The Mousetrap (1952)

200
Q

Mr. March is an army chaplain off at the Civil War

A

Little Women (1868)

201
Q

O. Henry

A

The Gift of the Magi (1906)

202
Q

James Joyce

A

Finnegans Wake (1939)

204
Q

Henry David Thoreau

A

“Civil Disobedience” essay (1849)

205
Q

David is sent away to work at a very young age and grows to manhood

A

David Copperfield (1850)

206
Q

A poor young couple is determined to give Christmas presents to each other. He sells his watch to buy combs for her hair, she cuts off her hair to buy him a watch fob (chain part of a pocket watch)

A

The Gift of the Magi (1906)

207
Q

Ernest Hemingway

A

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

209
Q

Hugh Grant

A

Sense and Sensibility (1811)

210
Q

made into a movie starring Humphrey Bogart and written by William Faulkner

A

The Big Sleep (1939)

212
Q

Mr. Murdstone

A

David Copperfield (1850)

214
Q

made into a movie starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford

A

Out of Africa (1937)

215
Q

William Blake

A

Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience

217
Q

Jo marries Professor Bhaer (much older)

A

Little Women (1868)

217
Q

Charles Marlow

A

Heart of Darkness (1899)

218
Q

Edgar Linton

A

Wuthering Heights (1847)

219
Q

a man must do penance for killing an albatross by wearing it around his neck

A

“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” poem (1798)

220
Q

Anna, a British schoolteacher is hired as part of the King of Siam’s drive to modernize his country, has subtle relationship with the King

A

“The King and I” play (1951)

221
Q

longest running show in London’s West End

A

The Mousetrap (1952)

222
Q

a narrow-minded materialistic businessman

A

Babbitt (1922)

223
Q

“Bridget Jones Diary” is based on this book

A

Pride and Prejudice (1813)

224
Q

later became a musical Oliver!

A

Oliver Twist (1837)

226
Q

A complex and technically innovative portrait of the US in which the country itself acts as a protagonist

A

U.S.A. trilogy (1930s)

227
Q

deals with the death and burial of Addie Bundren, family goes through hard journey through Mississippi to get her to the graveyard

A

As I Lay Dying (1930)

228
Q

Healthcliff returns wealthy and buys _____

A

Wuthering Heights (1847)

229
Q

Rodgers and Hammerstein

A

“The King and I” play (1951)

230
Q

George Eliot

A

The Mill on the Floss (1860)

231
Q

Hester Prynne

A

The Scarlet Letter (1850)

232
Q

D.H. Lawrence

A

Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928)

233
Q

C.S. Lewis

A

The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-1956)

234
Q

collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce

A

Dubliners (1914)

236
Q

Pip meets an escaped convict Magwich who threatens to eat him, falls in love with Estella (who is encouraged by Ms. Havisham to hate men), Ms. Havisham’s wedding dress catches fire and she dies, and 11 years later Pip gets with Estella (probably)

A

Great Expectations (1861)

237
Q

Isabella Linton

A

Wuthering Heights (1847)

238
Q

Thomas Sutpen goes south to seek his destiny

A

Absalom, Absalom (1929)

239
Q

Walt Whitman

A

“Leaves of Grass” collection of poems (1855)

241
Q

orphan endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker, escapes to London and gets with Artful Dodger a leader of pickpockets

A

Oliver Twist (1837)

242
Q

Keira Knightley

A

Pride and Prejudice (1813)

243
Q

Robert Browning

A

The Pied Pier of Hamelin

244
Q

Henry James

A

The Turn of the Screw (1898)

245
Q

The Youngers get a $10,000 insurance check & leave their apartment to buy a new house in the all-white Clybourne Park neighborhood

A

A Raisin in the Sun play (1959)

246
Q

John Huston

A

Moby Dick (1851)

247
Q

___ and Sea Monsters

A

Sense and Sensibility (1811)

248
Q

Part of “The Leatherstocking Tales”

A

The Last of the Mohicans (1826)

249
Q

About the Fall of Man: creation of Adam and Eve, their temptation from Satan (and his punishment), and their explusion from the Garden of Eden

A

Paradise Lost (1667)

251
Q

A group of American and British expatriates travel from Paris to Pamplona, Spain to watch the running of the bulls and bullfights

A

The Sun Also Rises (1926)

252
Q

“Apocalypse Now” based on this novel

A

Heart of Darkness (1899)

253
Q

James Joyce’s last novel

A

Finnegans Wake (1939)

254
Q

or, The Modern Prometheus

A

Frankenstein (1818)

255
Q

Kate Winslet

A

Sense and Sensibility (1811)

256
Q

Mr. Darcy

A

Pride and Prejudice (1813)

258
Q

group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury meet at an inn near London and compete in a storytelling contest, most stories rhyme

A

The Canterbury Tales (around 1387)

259
Q

The Miller’s Tale (one of the naughtiest)

A

The Canterbury Tales (around 1387)

260
Q

British seaman Jim abandons a ship in distress, is publicly censured, attempts to come to term with his past

A

Lord Jim (1900)

261
Q

man convinced by Mephistopheles to sell his soul to the devil

A

Doctor Faustus play (1592)

263
Q

Catherine (Cathy) Earnshaw Linton

A

Wuthering Heights (1847)

264
Q

Eliza

A

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

266
Q

Richard Wright’s autobiographical novel

A

Black Boy (1945)

267
Q

_____ & Zombies

A

Pride and Prejudice (1813)

268
Q

Daniel Day Lewis

A

The Last of the Mohicans (1826)

269
Q

Oprah made this book into a TV movie in 2005

A

Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

270
Q

Lorraine Hansberry

A

A Raisin in the Sun play (1959)

271
Q

a satire, Lemuel Gulliver travels to exotic lands, gets tied down by tiny Lilliputians

A

Gulliver’s Travels (1736)

272
Q

Jim’s parents die so he travls to Nebraska to live with his grandparents, falls in love with Antonia, but doesn’t get with her and she starts a family

A

My Antonia (1918)

273
Q

Emma Thompson

A

Sense and Sensibility (1811)

274
Q

“Clueless” is based on this book

A

Emma (1815)

275
Q

semi-autobiographical about 4 March sisters from childhood to womanhood

A

Little Women (1868)

276
Q

Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March

A

Little Women (1868)

277
Q

Aslan the lion

A

The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-1956)

278
Q

Winona Ryder played Jo

A

Little Women (1868)

279
Q

satire of religious fundamentalism, Gantry is a preacher in the Midwest who rises to importance on insincerity and clever publicity

A

Elmer Gantry (1927)

280
Q

The Pyncheon Family have a rough time in their New England home (creepy old mansion)

A

The House of the Seven Gables (1851)

281
Q

Artful Dodger

A

Oliver Twist (1837)

282
Q

Lord Alfred Tennyson

A

The Charge of the Light Brigade poem (1854)

283
Q

Jane is hired as a governess at Thornfield Hall

A

Jane Eyre (1847)

284
Q

an American dynamiter Robert Jordan is responsible for blowing up a bridge during the Spanish Civil War

A

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

285
Q

Arthur Miller

A

Death of a Salesman (1949)

286
Q

Dorlcote Mill is powered by the River Floss

A

The Mill on the Floss (1860)

287
Q

Jo is the writer

A

Little Women (1868)

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