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People And Their Works Flashcards

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Aeschylus

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Oresteia, Agamemnon, Chophori, Eumenides

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Aristophanes

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Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Birds

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Aristotle

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The Poetics

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Euripides

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The Trojan Women, Helen, The Bacchae

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Homer

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Odyssey, Iliad

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Ovid

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Metamorphosis, Loves Remedy

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Plato

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Republic, Apology, Symposium

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Sappho

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Early Greek poetry

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Sophocles

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Oedipus Tyrannus, Antigone, Electra

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Virgil

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The Aeneid

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Dante Alighieri 1265-1321

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Divine comedy, The Inferno, Purgatorio, Paridiso

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Francis Bacon 1561-1626

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Essays, The New Atlantis

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Giovanni Boccaccio 1313-1375

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The Decameron

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Geoffrey Chaucer 1340-1400

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The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavrdra 1547-1616

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Don Quixote

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Ben Johnson 1573-1637

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Every Man in His Humor

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Nicolo Machiavelli 1469-1527

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The Prince, La Madrigola

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Christopher Marlowe 1564-1593

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The Tragedy of Dr. Faustus, Edward the Second

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John Milton 1608 -1674

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Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained

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Francesco Petriarch 1304-1374

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The Canzoniere

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François Rabelais 1494-1553

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Gargantua, Pantagruel

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William Shakespeare 1564-1616

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Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, 12 night, Richard III, Julius Caesar, much ado about nothing, sonnets

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Edmund Spencer 1552-1599

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The Faerie Queen, Amoretti

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John Dryden 1631-1700

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Alexander’s Feast, Heroic Stanzas

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Moliere(Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) 1622-1673

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Don Juan, Tartuffe, The Misanthrope

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Jean Racine 1639-1699

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Andromaque, Bernice and Phaedre

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Joseph Addison 1672-1719

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The Tattler, The Spectator, Cato

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William Blake 1757-1827

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Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience

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Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790

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Poor Richard’s Almanac, Observations on the Increase of Mankind

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Alexander Pope 1688-1744

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The Dunciad, the Rape of the Lock

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778

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Social Contract, the New Heloise

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Jonathan Swift 1667-1745

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Gulliver’s Travels, Tale of a Tub

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Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet) 1694-1778

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Candide, Zadig

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Jane Austen 1775-1817 principally known for novels of manners and middle-class English society

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Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice

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Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867 French symbolist poet

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Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal)

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Charlotte Brontë 1816-1855 Victorian novelist, sister to Emily Brontë

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Jane Eyre

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Emily Brontë 1816-1848 Victorian novelist

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Wuthering Heights

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861 English poet, married to Robert Browning

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Sonnets from the Portuguese, Aurora Leigh

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Robert Browning 1812-1889 English poet, married to Elizabeth Browning

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Bells and Pomegranates

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George Gordon Byron better known as Lord Byron 1788-1824 major figure in romantic movement, and inspiration for the Byronic hero

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Don Juan, classic poetry

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834 foremost literary critic of the romantic period

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Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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Joseph Conrad 1857-1924 Ukrainian born of Polish parents, major English post-colonist novelist

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Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim

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Charles Dickens 1812-1870 English novelist

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Great Expectations, Oliver Twist

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Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 American poet

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Because I could not stop for death

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821-1881 Russian novelist

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Crime and Punishment, Notes from the Underground

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George Eliot 1819 1880 English author

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Mill on the Floss

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Gustave Flaubert 1821 1880 French novelist

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Madame Bovary

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Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864 American transcendentalist

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The Scarlet Letter, House of the Seven Gables

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Henrik Ibsen 1828-1906 Norwegian playwright and forerunner of the Expressionist movement

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A Doll’s House

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Franz Kafka 1883- 1924 major existentialist novelists

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The Metamorphosis, The Castle

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John Keats 1795-1821 most versatile of the Romantics

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Hyperion, On a Grecian Urn

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D. H. Lawrence 1885-1930 English novelist

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Lady Chatterley’s Lover, the Rainbow

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Herman Melville 1819-1891 American transcendentalist

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Moby Dick, Billy Budd

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Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849 American transcendentalist who dealt with macabre issues of insanity and horror

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Fall of the House of Usher, the Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven

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Christina Rossetti 1830-1894 English poet

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Goblin Market

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Mary Shelley 1797-1851 romantic novelist whose liberal social and political views underscore her work, sister of Percy Shelley

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Frankenstein, The Last Man

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Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822 romantic poet who mastered metaphor and metrical form, brother to Mary Shelley

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Adonais

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Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811- 1896 American novelist, wrote the most important novel of the abolitionist movement

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Henry David Thoreau 1818-1848 American transcendentalist and social theorist

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Walden

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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1828-1910 major Russian novelist

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War and Peace, Anna Karenina

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Mark Twain better known as Samuel Clemmens 1835-1910 American novelist, essayist, and satirist

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Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer

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Walt Whitman 1819 1892 American poet

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Leaves of Grass

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Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 English novelist, deamatist, and social critic

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The Importance of Being Earnest, Picture of Dorian Gray

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William Wordsworth 1770-1850 Romantic poet who broke with neoclassical poetry in much of this nature poetry

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The Prelude, Lyrical Ballads

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James Baldwin 1924-1987 American poet and novelist

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The Fire Next Time

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Samuel Beckett 1906-1989 Irish born French playwright and novelist; themes include existentialism and absurdity

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Waiting for Godot, Happy Days

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Elizabeth Bishop 1911-1979 American poet

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Collected Works

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E.E. Cummings 1894-1962 known for nontraditional forms of poetry

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Tulips and Chimneys

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T.S. Eliot 1888-1965 Christian poet and theorist

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The Waste Land

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William Faulkner 1897-1962 major author of the American South

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The Sound and the Fury, Absalom! Absalom!

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Robert Frost 1874-1963 major American poet

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Birches, the Road Not Taken

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Allen Ginsberg 1926-1997 American beat poet

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Howl

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Nadine Godimer 1923-South African novelist

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A Sport of Nature

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Ernest Hemingway 1899-1961 known for lean prose and ardently masculine themes and characters

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The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms

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Langston Hughes 1902-1967 Harlem Renaissance poet

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Collected Works

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Zora Neale Hurston 1901-1960 American novelist and folklorist

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Their Eyes Were Watching God, Tell my Horse

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James Joyce 1882-1941 premier modernist novelist of Ireland, pioneered stream of conscious and nonlinear narratives

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Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses

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Jack Kerouac 1922- 1969 American beat poet and novelist

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On the Road, Dharma Bums

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Harper Lee 1926-American writer

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To Kill a Mockingbird. His only novel

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Sinclair Lewis 1885-1951 American novelists and social critic

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Babbitt, Elmer Gantry

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Arthur Miller 1915-2005 American playwright

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Death of the Salesman, the Crucible

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Henry Miller 1891-1980 controversial American novelist

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The Tropic of Cancer, The Tropic of Capricorn

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Tony Morrison 1931-American novelist

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The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved

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Vladimir Nabokov 1899-1977 Russian novelist

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Lolita, Invitation to a Beheading

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V.S. Naipaul 1932-post colonialist novelist, born in Trinidad of Indian parents, raised in England

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Enigma of Arrival, House for Mr. Biswas

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Eugene O’Neill 1888-1953 major American dramatist

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Anna Christie, the Hairy Ape

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Sylvia Plath 1932-1963 American poet and novelist

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Ariel, The Bell Jar

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Ezra Pound 1885-1972 American Poet

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The Cantos

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Thomas Pynchon 1937-reclusive American novelist

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Vineland, Gravity’s Rainbow, The Crying of Lot 49

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Adrienne Rich 1929-American poet

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Aunt Jennifers Tigers

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Salman Rushdie 1947-known for death sentence placed upon hum by Ayatollah Khomeni because Khomeini believe Rushdie’s subject matter to be blasphemous

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The Satanic Verses, Shame

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JD Salinger 1919-2010 reclusive American writer

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Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey

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George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950 Irish born British author and playwright

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Arms and the Man, Saint Joan

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Upton Sinclair 1878-1968 American novelist and social critic, characterized as a muckraker

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The Jungle

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Aleksander Isayevitch Solzhenitsyn 1918-2008 major Russian novelist and social critic

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The Gulag Archipelago

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Gertrude Stein 1874-1946 American modernist author

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3 Lives

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John Steinbeck 1902-1968 American novelist whose major theme was the life of the American worker

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Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row

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Alice Walker 1944-American novelist

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The Color Purple, Possessing the Secrets of Joy

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Tennessee Williams 1911-1983 American playwright

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A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie

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Virginia Woolf 1882-1941 Modernist novelist and early feminist

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A Room of One’s Own, To the Lighthouse

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William Butler Yates 1865-1939 Irish poet and dramatist

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The Wind Among the Reeds, The Winding Stair

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