OtherNovels Flashcards
Jo is the tomboy
Little Women (1868)
Philip Marlowe (Shamus)
The Big Sleep (1939)
Estella
Great Expectations (1861)
“The horror! The horror!”
Heart of Darkness (1899)
Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820)
monster kills Victor’s wife, Victor builds monster’s wife then kills it, chase to the North pole, Victor dies, monster mourns
Frankenstein (1818)
many pilgrims had ailments and were heading to St. Thomas A Becket’s shrine for healing
The Canterbury Tales (around 1387)
Emma enjoys medling and matchmaking, tries to set up Harriet with Mr. Elton, but he proposes to her instead, she finds her someone else
Emma (1815)
came to him after he experienced an opium-influenced dream after reading about Xanadu, a summer palace of Kublai Khan
“Kubla Khan” poem (1816)
later made into a movie starting Burt Lancaster
Elmer Gantry (1927)
Samuel Johnson
Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
She’s described as “handsome, clever, rich”
Emma (1815)
Poet who avoided capital letters (even in his own name)
e.e. cummings
John Dos Passos
U.S.A. trilogy (1930s)
black friend Jim
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
Hawkeye
The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
novella where a governess is in charge of 2 children who are controlled by evil ghosts
The Turn of the Screw (1898)
Laurence Olivier
Wuthering Heights (1847)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1847)
Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
George Babbitt
Babbitt (1922)
mostly autobiographical of Dicken’s own life, his favorite book
David Copperfield (1850)
Ms. Havisham dies when her wedding dress catches on fire
Great Expectations (1861)
Mister Kurtz
Heart of Darkness (1899)
To kill this vampire you must drive a wooden stake through his heart
Dracula (1897)
Thomas Mann
Doctor Faustus novel (1947)
about an Italian ambulance driver Frederic Henry during WW I who escapes to Switzerland to be with his love British nurse Catherine Barkley
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
“The government is best which governs least”
“Civil Disobedience” essay (1849)
John Bartlett originally compiled famous quotes from literature and speeches
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (1855-Present)
Bertha Mason, insane, is locked in the attic, commits suicide and burns down Thornfield Hall
Jane Eyre (1847)
Nancy
Oliver Twist (1837)
Willy Loman
Death of a Salesman (1949)
Elinor Dashwood
Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Charlotte Brunte
Jane Eyre (1847)
Uncas
The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
Samuel Pickwick and the Pickwick Club
The Pickwick Papers (1836)
John Milton
Paradise Lost (1667)
“Getting to Know You” song
“The King and I” play (1951)
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women (1868)
the Shimerdas
My Antonia (1918)
Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt (1922)
Bram Stoker
Dracula (1897)
Charles Dickens’ first novel
The Pickwick Papers (1836)
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)
Gulliver’s Travels (1736)
Chingachgook
The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
Simon Legree
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
Clara Peggotty
David Copperfield (1850)
murder mystery in Monkswell Manor during a snowstorm
The Mousetrap (1952)
Sinclair Lewis
Elmer Gantry (1927)
William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying (1930)
Lucie Manette
A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
Ernest Thayer
“Casey at the Bat” poem (1888)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness (1899)
Ishmael
Moby Dick (1851)
Marmee is the mom
Little Women (1868)
Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim (1900)
Ray Bradbury
Moby Dick (1851)
Little Men, Jo’s Boys
Little Women (1868)
The Wife of Bath’s Tale
The Canterbury Tales (around 1387)
Bill Sikes and his dog Bull’s Eye
Oliver Twist (1837)
Emma Woodhouse
Emma (1815)
Mr. (Edward) Rochester
Jane Eyre (1847)
Holden Caulfield
The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
George Eliot
Silas Marner (1861)
long naritive poem, earliest long work of literature in English
Beowulf (c 700-750)
Henry James
Portrait of a Lady (1881)
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
Death of a Salesman (1949)
Anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet
Beowulf (c 700-750)
Constance marries paralyzed Sir Clifford, has an affair with the gamekeeper Oliver Mellors, gets pregnant, awaits divorce & a new life
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928)
Charles Dickens
David Copperfield (1850)
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe (1719)
P.G. Wodehouse
comic novels about Jeeves (1915-1974)
Captain Ahab pursues a giant white sperm whale
Moby Dick (1851)
encouraged people to break or protest laws and accept penalties (he went to jail for a day) if they disagree with them morally
“Civil Disobedience” essay (1849)
Meg said “it’s so dreadful to be poor” after Jo complains about lack of christmas gifts
Little Women (1868)
Charles Darnay
A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
Emma falls in love with George Knightley
Emma (1815)
Willa Cather
My Antonia (1918)
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels (1736)
James Boswell
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
dedicated his book to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moby Dick (1851)
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights (1847)
story of a miserly weaver
Silas Marner (1861)
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein (1818)
Sydney Carton
A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
James Baldwin
Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953)
Queequeg
Moby Dick (1851)
Earnshaw house on the moors in Yorkshire
Wuthering Heights (1847)
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
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
about the arrival of Dr. Lydgate to this title town
Middlemarch (1874)
Thomas Hardy
Far From the Madding Crowd (1874)
Dickens was making a statement about conditions in London for the poor
David Copperfield (1850)
Christopher Marlowe
Doctor Faustus play (1592)
Mr. Micawber
David Copperfield (1850)
Fagin
Oliver Twist (1837)
Bill Sikes kills Nancy after helping Oliver, then hangs himself accidentally later
Oliver Twist (1837)
Phillip Pirrip (Pip)
Great Expectations (1861)
Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
poem that celebrates the heroism of a British cavalry brigade (“the 600”) in its doomed assault on much larger forces
The Charge of the Light Brigade poem (1854)
Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
William Faulkner
Light in August (1914)
A third more explicit version was finally published in the U.S. in 1959
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928)
about the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War
The Charge of the Light Brigade poem (1854)
based on poem “Harlem” (or “A Dream Deferred”) by Langston Hughes
A Raisin in the Sun play (1959)
minister & married woman have illegitimate daughter, woman forced to wear letter A
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1847)
King Hrothgar
Beowulf (c 700-750)
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
Uncle Tom
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
Claire Danes played Beth
Little Women (1868)
Natty, a settler, is taught by the Indians and adopts their way of life
The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
Victor ____
Frankenstein (1818)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables (1851)
Written in Middle English
The Canterbury Tales (around 1387)
“There’s not a reason why, Theirs but to do and die.”
The Charge of the Light Brigade poem (1854)
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
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
William Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom (1929)
Armory Blaine, a spoiled Princeton student, is the hero, the novel examines the lives and morality of post-WW I youth
This Side of Paradise (1920)
first volume of 7 for her autobiography by Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
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
The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
Kirsten Dunst played Amy
Little Women (1868)
Angelina Jolie plays Grendel’s mother
Beowulf (c 700-750)
Elinor marries Edward Ferrars, Marianne marries Colonel Brandon
Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Kubla Khan” poem (1816)
vampire from Transylvania (modern day Romania) takes the name of a bloodthirsty nobleman of the Middle Ages
Dracula (1897)
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
a sensitive but rebellious youth runs away from his boarding school, spends weekend in NY, gets even more depressed
The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
Edward Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1789)
Friday, named after the day he was saved from cannibals
Robinson Crusoe (1719)
Amy marries Laurie after Jo rejects him
Little Women (1868)
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
Sister Carrie (1900)
written to “justify the ways of God to men”
Paradise Lost (1667)
Madame Defarge knits in code to condemn the aristocrats
A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
D.H. Lawrence
Women in Love (1920)
Herman Melville
Moby Dick (1851)
Jane finds out her fiancee is already married
Jane Eyre (1847)
Meg is the oldest
Little Women (1868)
Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (1749)
Sense (Elinor) means logical personality, sensibility (Marianne) is ruling by emotions
Sense and Sensibility (1811)
“No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me - now - standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.”
Wuthering Heights (1847)
“water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink”
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” poem (1798)
Little Eva
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales (around 1387)
J.D. Silnger
The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
the Detective (Sergeant Trotter) turns out to be the killer
The Mousetrap (1952)
“It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair”
A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
Washington Irving
Rip Van Winkle (1819)
Pequod
Moby Dick (1851)
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre (1847)
Mr. Bumble
Oliver Twist (1837)
“Please, sir, I want some more.”
Oliver Twist (1837)
Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep (1939)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise (1920)
Sidney Poitier starred in the film version of this play about a black Chicago family
A Raisin in the Sun play (1959)
Heathcliff
Wuthering Heights (1847)
Ahab harpoons the whale, but he gets wrapped up in the line and taken under sea to die
Moby Dick (1851)
Joe Christmas, who doesn’t know if he’s black or white, deals with his demons in Mississippi
Light in August (1914)
Henry Fielding
The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews (1742)
Starbuck
Moby Dick (1851)
Wiglaf
Beowulf (c 700-750)
making a statement about child labor, and children as street criminals
Oliver Twist (1837)
also the “play within a play” during Hamlet that he uses to catch Claudius
The Mousetrap (1952)
subtitled “The Parish Boy’s Progress”
Oliver Twist (1837)
Colin Firth
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
slang term for death
The Big Sleep (1939)
Dora & Agnes
David Copperfield (1850)
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, then I have ever done…”
A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
The Knight’s Tale
The Canterbury Tales (around 1387)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
dream sequence in the minds of the Earwicker family, hard to comprehend
Finnegans Wake (1939)
Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
____ slays monster Grendel and Grendel’s mother in Denmark
Beowulf (c 700-750)
named after King David’s son who dies
Absalom, Absalom (1929)
During French Revolution: shows brutal treatment of aristocrats by revolutionaries, death carts, parallels with life in London, storming of the Bastille
A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
5 Bennet sisters
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Caroline Meeber
Sister Carrie (1900)
Beth March dies of Scarlett Fever
Little Women (1868)
a castaway spends 28 years on a remote island near Trinidad encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued
Robinson Crusoe (1719)
Mr. Darcy has too much pride, and Elizabeth has too much prejudice
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Mr. Brownlow
Oliver Twist (1837)
an ivory transporter travels down the Congo River in search of ivory trader Mr. Kurtz
Heart of Darkness (1899)
Heathcliff (Cathy’s adopted brother) is raised in the Earnshaw home, falls for Cathy; love thwarted; both die
Wuthering Heights (1847)
John Grimes is a black Harlem youth who has a tough time with his black identity
Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953)
Elizabeth Bennet grows up in a society where social class is important, marries Mr. Darcy (rich man) after some back and forth
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Amy is the youngest
Little Women (1868)
Gwyneth Paltrow
Emma (1815)
George Eliot
Middlemarch (1874)
Natty Bumppo
The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
an American girl Isabel Archer heads to Europe for more culture and becomes to the victim of scheming by two American expatriates
Portrait of a Lady (1881)
Memoirs of a Danish woman running an African coffee plantation in the 1920s, it failed and she came back to Denmark
Out of Africa (1937)
Professor Bhaer
Little Women (1868)
ratnapper through song then kidnapper after town refused to pay him all the money
The Pied Pier of Hamelin
“There is no joy in Mudville - might Casey has struck out”
“Casey at the Bat” poem (1888)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” poem (1798)
the Rachel
Moby Dick (1851)
tells the story of Dr Faustus in the rise of Nazism
Doctor Faustus novel (1947)
Isak Dinesen (pen name for Baroness Karen Blixen)
Out of Africa (1937)
arrogant baseball player refuses to swing at the first two pitches, and misses the third for a strikeout
“Casey at the Bat” poem (1888)
____ battles the dragon and dies
Beowulf (c 700-750)
Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie (1900)
Marianne Dashwood
Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Sisters Elinor and Marianne move to a new home, experience love and heartbreak
Sense and Sensibility (1811)
critique of Middle Class America, an American real estate agent thinks only about money and speaks in cliches
Babbitt (1922)
“Call me Ishmael”
Moby Dick (1851)
Roger Chillingworth
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
Agatha Christie
The Mousetrap (1952)
Mr. March is an army chaplain off at the Civil War
Little Women (1868)
O. Henry
The Gift of the Magi (1906)
James Joyce
Finnegans Wake (1939)
Henry David Thoreau
“Civil Disobedience” essay (1849)
David is sent away to work at a very young age and grows to manhood
David Copperfield (1850)
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)
The Gift of the Magi (1906)
Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
Hugh Grant
Sense and Sensibility (1811)
made into a movie starring Humphrey Bogart and written by William Faulkner
The Big Sleep (1939)
Mr. Murdstone
David Copperfield (1850)
made into a movie starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford
Out of Africa (1937)
William Blake
Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience
Jo marries Professor Bhaer (much older)
Little Women (1868)
Charles Marlow
Heart of Darkness (1899)
Edgar Linton
Wuthering Heights (1847)
a man must do penance for killing an albatross by wearing it around his neck
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” poem (1798)
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
“The King and I” play (1951)
longest running show in London’s West End
The Mousetrap (1952)
a narrow-minded materialistic businessman
Babbitt (1922)
“Bridget Jones Diary” is based on this book
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
later became a musical Oliver!
Oliver Twist (1837)
A complex and technically innovative portrait of the US in which the country itself acts as a protagonist
U.S.A. trilogy (1930s)
deals with the death and burial of Addie Bundren, family goes through hard journey through Mississippi to get her to the graveyard
As I Lay Dying (1930)
Healthcliff returns wealthy and buys _____
Wuthering Heights (1847)
Rodgers and Hammerstein
“The King and I” play (1951)
George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
Hester Prynne
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
D.H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928)
C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-1956)
collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce
Dubliners (1914)
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)
Great Expectations (1861)
Isabella Linton
Wuthering Heights (1847)
Thomas Sutpen goes south to seek his destiny
Absalom, Absalom (1929)
Walt Whitman
“Leaves of Grass” collection of poems (1855)
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
Oliver Twist (1837)
Keira Knightley
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Robert Browning
The Pied Pier of Hamelin
Henry James
The Turn of the Screw (1898)
The Youngers get a $10,000 insurance check & leave their apartment to buy a new house in the all-white Clybourne Park neighborhood
A Raisin in the Sun play (1959)
John Huston
Moby Dick (1851)
___ and Sea Monsters
Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Part of “The Leatherstocking Tales”
The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
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
Paradise Lost (1667)
A group of American and British expatriates travel from Paris to Pamplona, Spain to watch the running of the bulls and bullfights
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
“Apocalypse Now” based on this novel
Heart of Darkness (1899)
James Joyce’s last novel
Finnegans Wake (1939)
or, The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein (1818)
Kate Winslet
Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Mr. Darcy
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury meet at an inn near London and compete in a storytelling contest, most stories rhyme
The Canterbury Tales (around 1387)
The Miller’s Tale (one of the naughtiest)
The Canterbury Tales (around 1387)
British seaman Jim abandons a ship in distress, is publicly censured, attempts to come to term with his past
Lord Jim (1900)
man convinced by Mephistopheles to sell his soul to the devil
Doctor Faustus play (1592)
Catherine (Cathy) Earnshaw Linton
Wuthering Heights (1847)
Eliza
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
Richard Wright’s autobiographical novel
Black Boy (1945)
_____ & Zombies
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Daniel Day Lewis
The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
Oprah made this book into a TV movie in 2005
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Lorraine Hansberry
A Raisin in the Sun play (1959)
a satire, Lemuel Gulliver travels to exotic lands, gets tied down by tiny Lilliputians
Gulliver’s Travels (1736)
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
My Antonia (1918)
Emma Thompson
Sense and Sensibility (1811)
“Clueless” is based on this book
Emma (1815)
semi-autobiographical about 4 March sisters from childhood to womanhood
Little Women (1868)
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March
Little Women (1868)
Aslan the lion
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-1956)
Winona Ryder played Jo
Little Women (1868)
satire of religious fundamentalism, Gantry is a preacher in the Midwest who rises to importance on insincerity and clever publicity
Elmer Gantry (1927)
The Pyncheon Family have a rough time in their New England home (creepy old mansion)
The House of the Seven Gables (1851)
Artful Dodger
Oliver Twist (1837)
Lord Alfred Tennyson
The Charge of the Light Brigade poem (1854)
Jane is hired as a governess at Thornfield Hall
Jane Eyre (1847)
an American dynamiter Robert Jordan is responsible for blowing up a bridge during the Spanish Civil War
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman (1949)
Dorlcote Mill is powered by the River Floss
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
Jo is the writer
Little Women (1868)
