The Seagull
by Anton ChekhovKonstantin Treplev shoots himself and kills title bird after giving the title bird to his ex Nina and she reveals she loves TrigorinIrina Arkadina- Konstantin Treplev's mother, she belittles him after seeing his play-within-a-playSet on Sorin's estate
The Cherry Orchard
by Anton ChekhovLopakhin, a merchant, purchases Madame Lyubov Ranevsky/Ranevskaya's estateEnds with sound of axes chopping down estate, elderly servant Firs(nicknamed "Twenty-Two Calamities") lies down on a sofa locked inside estate, presumably dies, Ranevskaya and Anya return to ParisPeter Trofimov is called the "eternal student"Anya, Ranevskaya's daughter loves TrofimovVarya, Ranevskaya's adopted daughter, loves Lopakhin but he never proposes to herRanevskaya is haunted by the drowning of her son, Grisha, receives telegraphs from sick lover in ParisConstantin Stanislavsky directed it as a tragedy(Chekhov described it as a comedy)
The Three Sisters
by Anton ChekhovOlga, Masha, and Irina give up their dream of returning to Moscow Solony kills Baron Tuzenbach in a duel
Uncle Vanya
by Anton ChekhovTitle character loves Elena, attempts to shoot Professor SerebryakovCharacter named "Waffles"
The Bet
by Anton Chekhovthe Lawyer agree to spend fifteen years in solitary confinement for money
The Gladiators
by Arthur KoestlerAbout the Spartacus Revolt
Darkness at Noon
by Arthur KoestlerNicholas Rubashov is imprisoned in Cell 404, he falsely confesses to attempting to poison Number 1 and is executed during Moscow show trialsNumber 1 implicitly represents StalinTitle refers to event during the crucifixion of Jesus, novel is broken into three sections called "hearings" and final section titled "Grammatical Fiction"Fellow prisoner called Hare-Lip refuses to tell Rubashov his name, is later revealed to be Rubashov's old associate Kieffer, testifies against RubashovRubashov invents a "quadratic alphabet" so that he can communicate with the prisoner across from him in Cell 402 by tapping on the wallGletkin and Ivanov interrogate RubashovLittle Loewy commits suicide after Rubashov forces him to militarily supply a country against whom he led a shipping boycott while working on the Belgian DockyardRubashov reminisces about the affair he had with his secretary ArlovaRubashov betrays a German named Richard after meeting with him near the Pieta at a museumRubashov imagines putting a cigarette out on his hand for 30 seconds
Arrival and Departure
by Arthur KoestlerPeter Slavek refuses to give in to Fascist ideology and travels via parachute to the country of NeutraliaPsychoanalyst Dr. Sonia Bolgar treats Peter's leg
The Thirteenth Tribe
by Arthur KoestlerProposes that Ashkenazi Jews are descended from Khazars
The Ghost in the Machine
by Arthur KoestlerTitled for a term invent by Gilbert Ryle characterizing Cartesian dualismCoined the term "holon" for entities which are simultaneously wholes and parts
The Sleepwalkers
by Arthur Koestlersubtitled History of Man's Changing Vision of the UniverseEarly history of astronomy
Tomorrow's Eve
by Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-AdamPopularized the term "android"Lord Ewald asks Thomas Edison to build him an artificial wife
Doctor Zhivago
by Boris PasternakTitle physician Yuri, set during russian revolutionTitle character's love interest, Lara Antipov, attempts to shoot Victor KomarovskyPasha Antipov- Lara's husband, former army commander, nicknamed "the shooter" or StrelnikovTitle character is kidnapped by cocaine addict Liberius, leader of the "Forest Brotherhood"Misha Gordon intervenes in Amalia Guishar's suicide attemptTitle character whites the poem "Hamlet"
Clock Without Hands
by Carson McCullersAbout J.T. Malone
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
by Carson McCullersMiss Amelia runs title locationMarvin Macy- married to Miss Amelia Evans for 10 days, tries to ruin her life after getting out of jailMarvin steals Amelia's money and is aided by Cousin Lymon Willis, a hunchback taken in by AmeliaStumpy McPherson visits title location
Reflections in a Golden Eye
by Carson McCullersSet on an army baseRepressed homosexual Captain Penderton's wife Leonora carries on an affair with Major Langdon and is secretly lusted after by Private Ellgee Williams
Songs and Sonnets
1633 collection by John Donne"The Flea""A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"
Art, Truth, and Politics
2005 Nobel Lecture of Harold Pinter
Archilochus
7th century BC Greek lyric/iambic poetFragments include, "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."Was mimicked by Horace in Horace's Epodes
The God That Failed
A book written by former communists after WWII about the initial attraction toward, and later disillusionment, with communismIncludes essays by Arthur Koestler and Ignazio Silone
Angry Young Men
A group of male British writers who created visceral plays and fiction at odds with political establishment and a self-satisfied middle classJohn OsborneHarold Pinter
Gonzo Journalism
A style of journalism that is written without claims of objectivity, often including the reporter as part of the story via a first-person narrativeSubset of New Journalism that was pioneered and popularized by Hunter S. Thompson
Crome Yellow
Aldous Huxley's first novelTitle is a houseDenis Stone and Henry Wimbush
The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved
Article/essay by Hunter S. ThompsonWritten for Scanlan's MonthlyFirst person account of covering title Louisville race with illustrator Ralph Steadman, recalls "swilling mint juleps"Narrator claims he is in town to document an impending clash between Black Panthers and white supremacists
Socialist Realism
Artistic style whose goal was to promote socialism by showing Soviet life in a positive lightPioneered by Maxim GorkyMikhail Sholokhov
A Moveable Feast
Autobiography by Ernest Hemingway
Black Boy
Autobiography by Richard Wright
Speak, Memory
Autobiography by Vladimir NabokovCompares writing a novel to a chess problem
1958 Nobel Prize in Literature
Awarded to Boris Pasternak, but he was forced to decline by the USSR
When I Was One-and-Twenty
By A. E. Housman"I am two and twenty, and oh tis true tis true""give crowns and pounds of Guineas""But keep your fancy free"
Terence, This is Stupid Stuff
By A. E. Housman"You eat your victuals fast enough"
A Shropshire Lad
By A. E. HousmanCollection of poems
The Plague
By Albert CamusDoctor Rieux notices rats dying in streets of Oran
The Stranger
By Albert CamusMeursault walks to his mom's funeral, feels nothing"mama died today"Meursault shoots and kills an Arab on the beachSalamano, Meursault's next door neighbor, beats his dog
The Count of Monte Cristo
By Alexandre DumasEdmond Dantes is imprisoned in the Chateau D'ifHe was framed by three men- Villefort, Mundego, DanglarsDantes was about to marry MercedesHe meets a prisoner who tells him of Pharaoh's Lost Gold
The Three Musketeers
By Alexandre DumasTitle characters: Athos, Parthos, AramisJoined by d'Artagnon, who wants to be part of title group- he rides into town on a sickly, yellow horse, and sets up three consecutive duels with Athos, Parthos, and AramisCardinal RichelieuAssassination of Duke of Buckingham
Crossing the Bar
By Alfred Lord Tennyson"I hope to see my pilot face to face"
Charge of the Light Brigade
By Alfred Lord TennysonBattle of Balaclava in Crimean War"Into the valley of death rode the 600"Sequel to this poem written by Rudyard Kipling, in which the soldiers ask the author to write another poem about them
In Memoriam A. H. H.
By Alfred Lord TennysonRequiem for Alfred Henry Hallam"Tis better to have loved and lost then to never have loved at all"
Howl
By Allen GinsbergOpening line: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness"Speaker tells Carl Solomon(who it is dedicated to) "I'm with you in Rockland"Laments the speaker's "starving hysterical naked" friendsRepeated references to idol "Moloch"Sees a figures throw "potato salad at CCNY lecturers on Dadaism."Describes "angelheaded hipsters"Contains a footnote that repeatedly calls out "Holy!"Published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights BookstoreFirst public reading at Six Gallery Reading
Kaddish
By Allen GinsbergTitled for a Jewish prayer for the deadElegy for the author's mother Naomi "Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets and eyes" as the speaker walks "on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village."ends with repetitions of the phrase "lord lord lord" and crows saying "caw caw caw."
Penguin Island
By Anatole FranceSt. Mael baptizes flock of birds in title location
The Immoralist
By Andre GideMichel finds out he is a gay pedophile
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
By Bertolt BrechtGrusha adopts Michael, plans to wrestle with his birth mother over baby in title location
Mother Courage and Her Children
By Bertolt BrechtKatrin, Eilif, and Swiss Cheese are all killedset during 30 years war
Dracula
By Bram StokerAbraham von Helsing- an old vampire hunterLucy Westenra
Fog
By Carl Sandburg"Fog comes on little cat feet"
Les Fleurs du Mal
By Charles BaudelaireTitle translates to The Flowers of EvilForward called "To the reader", calls reader a hypocriteStories: Spleen and Ideal, Parisian Scenes, Wine
David Copperfield
By Charles DickensClara PeggottyEdward MurdstoneAgnes WigfieldEurya Heap
Oliver Twist
By Charles DickensFaginThe Artful DodgerNancyBill SykesMr. Brownlowe
Bleak House
By Charles DickensLegal battle between Jaundice JaundiceEsther Summerson
Great Expectations
By Charles DickensPhillip Pip. ParrippAbel Magwitch- escaped con from Australia becomes Pip's benefactorMs. Haveshin always wears a wedding dress, all the clocks in her house are stopped at the same time, takes in young EstellaPip falls for Estella
A Christmas Carol
By Charles DickensScrooge is visited by 4 ghostsBob Cratchit- has a crippled son named Tiny TimScrooge worked for Mr. Freezy Wig, loved Belle
Hard Times
By Charles DickensThomas GradgrindNicholas Bounderby
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
By Charles Dickensunfinished
Pickwick Papers
By Charles Dickens- his first novelHunting clubMr. Snodgrass
Waiting for Lefty
By Clifford OdetsPlay about striking cab drivers
Waiting for the Barbarians
By Constantine CavafyGreek poem based on J. M. Coetzee Novel
Child of God
By Cormac McCarthyAbout Lester BalladFrog Mountain
Lady Chatterley's Lover
By D. H. LawrenceConstance Reid has an affair with gamekeeper Oliver Mellors
Sons and Lovers
By D. H. LawrenceGertrude Morel romantically pursues her son Paul after her other son dies
The Divine Comedy
By Dante AlighieriInferno- Dante is guided through hell by Virgil, "abandon all hope ye who enter", 9 circles of hell, Devil is encased in ice each of his three mouths hold sinners(Brutus, Cassius, and Judas)Purgatorio- Virgil guides Dante through purgatoryParadiso- Dante is guided by Beatrice
The Maltese Falcon
By Dashiell HammetAbout a bird statueDetective Sam SpadeSet in San Francisco
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
By Dylan Thomas19 lines- villanelle"rage rage against the dying light"
I sing of Olaf, glad and big
By E. E. Cummings"Unless statistics lie""More brave than me, more blonde than you"title character's heart "recoiled at war", is thrown into a "dungeon" by the president"trig westpointer most succinctly bred" has subordinates beat up title characterAbout a conscientious objector
The Enormous Room
By E. E. CummingsAutobiography about his time as an ambulance driver
A Passage to India
By E. M. ForesterAdela Quested accuses Doctor Aziz of raping her in Marabar Caves
A Room with a View
By E. M. ForesterLucy HoneychurchGeorge EmersonCecil VyseCharlotte Bartlett
Howard's End
By E. M. ForesterMargaret Schlegel
Eureka
By Edgar Allan PoeCompares the expansion of the universe to the "throb of Heart Divine"
Cyrano De Bergerac
By Edmond RostandTitle character has large nose, loves RoxanneSoldier Christian is also in love with Roxanne, Christian Dies
A Few Figs From Thistles
By Edna St. Vincent Millay"My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night."Collection of poetry
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
By Edward AlbeeTwo Couples: Nick and Honey(younger couple), George and Martha(older couple)Three Sections: The Exorcism, Walpurgisnacht, andFun and GamesGames from Fun and Games section are "get the guest" and "bringing up baby"
Germinal
By Emile ZolaÉtienne LantierCoal miner strike
The Scarlet Pimpernel
By Emma OrczyHungarian superhero story
All Quiet on the Western Front
By Erich Maria RemarqueWWI trench fightingPaul Baumer is best friends with KatKat dies in Paul's armsHimmelstoss- bully who puts bedwetter in bottom bunk and another bedwetter in top bunchKemmerich's unused boots are passed around Baumer kills Gerald DuvalKantorek- teacher
Hills like White Elephants
By Ernest HemingwayA Couple goes to get an abortion
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
By Ernest HemingwayA man dies of Gangrene
A Farewell to Arms
By Ernest HemingwayFrederic Henry- ambulance driver in WWIHenry falls in love with nurse Catherine Barkley after being introduced by surgeon Rinaldi, desserts to Switzerland at Battle of CaporettoEnding was rewritten 47 timesProtagonist plays billiards with Count Greffi
The Sun Also Rises
By Ernest HemingwayJake Barnes goes to Spain, meets Pedro Romero the BullfighterPedro is beaten up by Robert Cohn, a boxerSet in PamplonaLady Brett Ashley(financé of Mike Campbell) says "we could have had such a damned good time together", Jake responds "yes... isn't it pretty to think so?"Protagonist goes fishing with Bill Gorton in Burguete
For Whom the Bell Tolls
By Ernest HemingwayRobert Jordan tries to blow up a bridge during the Spanish Civil WarPablo (Pilar's husband) steals detonatorsEl Sordo
The Old Man and the Sea
By Ernest HemingwayTitle character named Santiago catches giant Marlin that he cant pull into the boat"Arm wrestling match that lasted all day""dreams of lions on the beach"Santiago is a fan of the Yankees and "The Great Joe Dimaggio"
The Optimist's Daughter
By Eudora WeltyLaurel comes for dying father, Judge McKleva
A Worn Path
By Eudora Weltywoman delivers medicine to her son through the woods
Rhinoceros
By Eugene IonescoCharacters turn into title animalJean Bérenger- recurring character in Ionesco storiesDaisy is last character to transform
The Chairs
By Eugene IonescoOld Man and Old Woman talk with invisible guestsEmpty title object are on stage the entire time
The Bald Soprano
By Eugene Ionescoa dinner with the Smiths and the MartinsSmiths forget they are married to each otherFire chief shows up and tells poor storiesThe Smiths and Martins change places at the end of the play
The Iceman Cometh
By Eugene O'NeillHarry Hope's SaloonEveryone waits for Theodore Hickman to arrive"Pipe Dreams"
Mourning Becomes Electra
By Eugene O'NeillTitle comes from Greek mythology
Long Day's Journey Into Night
By Eugene O'NeillTyrone FamilyDoctor HardyEdmund, the son, has TB, goes to sanatorium at endMary, mother, has a morphine addiction, is sensitive about her rheumatoid hands
In a Station of the Metro
By Ezra Pound"Pedals on a wet black bow"
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
By Ezra Pound"Resuscitate the dead art of poetry"
The Cantos
By Ezra poundCollection of poemsThe Pisan Cantos- written while author was imprisoned in Pisa, Italy
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
By F Scott FitzgeraldTitle character ages backwards
Everything that Rises Must Converge
By Flannery O'ConnorJulian and his racist mother(Mrs. Chestney) take the integrated bus to the YMCA(Local Y)Julian's mother tries to give a penny to African american boy CarverCarver's mother strikes Julian's mother down, both wear a horrendous green hat with purple velvet flapsJulian's mother has a stroke while walking home
Il Canzoniere
By Francesco Petrarchaka Songbook
Wizard of Oz
By Frank L BaumSlippers are SilverAnalogy for bimedalism/gold standard
McTeague
By Frank NorrisDentist kills his wife and runs off with her lottery winnings
The Octopus
By Frank NorrisRailroad magnate builds railroad which spreads 8 ways
Ode to Joy
By Friedrich SchillerWritten to accompany Beethoven's 9th Symphony
Man and Superman
By George Bernard Shaw"Don Juan in Hell" - famous sceneTitle comes from Nietzsche
Pygmalion
By George Bernard ShawBet between professor of phonetics, Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering that professor can transform Eliza Doolittle into a "proper lady""My Fair Lady"- musical based off of itEliza marries Freddy Eynsford HillHenry is referred to as "The Note Taker"Eliza tries to sell flowersBased on ancient Greek story about a sculptor
Arms and the Man
By George Bernard ShawTitle comes from the AeneidRaina falls in love with a soldier
The Mill on the Floss
By George Eliot aka Marry Ann EvansMaggie and Tom Tulliver drown together in the FlossMill is called Dorlcote Mill
Middle March
By George Eliot aka Marry Ann EvansRosamond Vincy married to doctor Tertius LydgateDorthea Brooke- widow of Edward Casaubon, who dies while writing "The Key to All Mythologies", denies her inheritance if she marries Will LadislawDorothea Brooke marries Will Ladislaw at endBanker Nicholas Bulstrode conspires to kill Sir John Raffles
Silas Marner
By George Eliot aka Marry Ann EvansThe Weaver of RaveloeGodfrey Cass- secret wife Molly Farren
1984
By George Orwell(real name Eric Blair)"The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism"- book written by Emmanuel Goldstein(leader of the Brotherhood)Winston Smith has affair with JuliaDoublethink, NewspeakMr. CharringtonWinston tortured in Room 101 in Ministry of LoveGlass coral paper weightBig BrotherOceania, Eastasia, and Eurasia superstatesWinston writes fake story about Comrade Oglivy
Homage to Catalonia
By George Orwell(real name Eric Blair)About author's time in SpainSpanish Civil WarAnti-Stalinism
Animal Farm
By George Orwell(real name Eric Blair)Battle of the CowshedMoses the raven talks of Sugarcandy MountainBoxer- "I will work harder"Napoleon=StalinSnowball=TrotskyBenjamin the donkey can read fluentlyBeasts of England song taught by Old Major
Shooting an Elephant
By George Orwell(real name Eric Blair)Short story/anti-imperialist essay about Orwell's time in IndiaTitle animal goes into a "rut" and kills people
Sacred Emily
By Gertrude Stein"A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose"
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
By Gertrude SteinAlice was her lover
The Decameron
By Giovanni Boccaccio10 Florentine youths flee during black plagueThey hold storytelling competitions, each tells 10 storiesInspiration for the Canterbury TalesGriselda- story about husband who pretends to kill all their children
The Sorrows of Young Werther
By GoetheEpistolary-written as a series of lettersTitle character kills himself, causes a rash of suicides(the "Werther Effect")
The Rat
By Gunter GrassFuture where nuclear bombs have been set off by rodents gnawing on microchips
The Tin Drum
By Gunter Grass(who was in the SS)First work of the Danzig TrilogyOskar Matzerath- dwarf who decided to stop growing and received title object on his 3rd birthdayOskar can shatter glass with voice, is accused of killing Sister DorotheaAlfred Matzerath dies from choking on a Nazi Party Lapel PinJan Bronski steals a necklace for Agnes (Oskar's mother)Roswitha Raguna- lover of Bebra and Oskar is killed getting coffee by a stray shell during Normandy invasionAgnes dies by eating too many fish after seeing eels pulled from dead horse headOskar leads street gang called "the Dusters," has son Kurt with Maria TruczinskiHerbert Truczinski dies while attempting a sexual act with a wooden ship figurehead NiobeOskar plays in jazz band with Klepp and Scholle in the club "The Onion Cellar," becomes tombstone engraver in DusseldorfVittlar turns in protagonistLankes dates Ulla, a model who poses with Oscar for paintingsOskar brings Jesus to life using his drum
Madame Bovary
By Gustave FlaubertEmma Bovary is married to a surgeon named CharlesCharles fails a surgery on Hippolyte(has club foot)Charles goes into depressionEmma has affairs with Rudolf, Rudolf breaks up with her with a basket of apricots
Sentimental Education
By Gustave FlaubertMarie Arnoux has an affair with Fredrick Moreau
Ball of Fat (Boule de Suif)
By Guy de MaupassantCarriage of people trying to escape warProstitute named Rousset
The Necklace
By Guy de MaupassantMatilda borrows title object from Madam Forestier for a ball held by Minister of EducationShe has to work 10 years to pay back MadamFinds out necklace was a fake at the end
The Horla
By Guy de MaupassantVampire from Brazil (aka The Invisible Being)
The Invisible Man
By H. G. WellsGriffin learns how to change his body's "refractive index"
The War of the Worlds
By H. G. WellsMartians called Tripods invade earthOrson Welles did a reading of it on the radio
The Time Machine
By H. G. WellsThe Eloi(beautiful race) and the Morlocks(monster race) conflict
The Island of Dr. Moreau
By H. G. WellsTitle character splices animals
At the Meadows of Madness
By H. P. Lovecraftcreation of CthulhuSet in AntarcticaNecronomicon summons Cthulhu
The Snow Queen
By Hans Christian AndersonDevil as a troll builds mirror which reflects reflects the worst of everything-"beautiful landscape to pot of spinach"Gertha has to save friend KhaiSnow Queen Kidnaps Khai, makes him sit on frozen lake and is forced to spell a word before leavingGertha recites Lord's Prayer to enter castle
The Red Shoes
By Hans Christian AndersonGirl marries into a rich familyShe is cursed and cannot stop dancing when she puts on title article of clothingThe shoes are cut off and she gets wooden feet
The Steadfast Soldier
By Hans Christian AndersonTitle character falls in love with paper ballerinathey are both thrown into a fire and melt down
The Emperor's New Clothes
By Hans Christian Andersontitle character buys clothes but nobody can see them
The Bridge
By Hart CranePoem about the Brooklyn Bridge
Ghosts
By Henrik IbsenMrs. Alving discovers her husband has passed on syphilis to her son Oswald
A Doll's House
By Henrik IbsenNora and Torvald Helmer's marriageNora forgers her father's signature to go to Italy, Krogstad tries to blackmail her with this informationKristine Linde is Krogstad's ex-lover, they reuniteDr. Rank is in love with Nora, has "tuberculosis of the spine"
Hedda Gabler
By Henrik IbsenTitle character is married to George Tesman but has a crush on Eilert Lovborg, George's rivalTitle character accidentally burns Eilert's manuscript he wrote with Thea Elvsted, he kills himself in a brothel with title character's gun after she asks him to "die beautifully" Judge Brack tells title character Lovborg is dead, blackmails her into sleeping with him but she refuses and kills herself
Omoo
By Herman MelvilleSequel to Typee
The Encantadas
By Herman Melville in The Piazza TalesThe Mestizo Hunilla is stranded on the title island, becomes "Chola Widow."Describes Barrington Isle and the giant turtles that inhabit Rock Redondo TowerSeries of ten sketches about the Galapagos Islands
Steppenwolf
By Hermann HesseHarry Haller plans to commit suicide on his 50th birthday, instead learns the foxtrotHarry stabs Hermine in Magic Theater because she slept with Pablo the saxophonist who loves MozartEnters magic theater through door labeled "For madmen only," other signs say "all girls are yours" and "how one kills for love"Mozart appears and mocks Harry by playing Handel over a radioHarry meets Hermine in the Black Eagle Cafe who reminds him of childhood love Rosa KreislerHermine introduces Harry to Maria who he has an affair with and performs a nuptial dance with at the Fancy Dress BallHarry offends a professor by insulting his wife's portrait of GoetheHarry is given a "Treatise on [TITLE]" on the street that describes his mental struggle with his animalistic sideIn a meeting with a chess player, Harry watches a mirror break into miniature versions of himself.
The Human Comedy
By Honore de BalzacCollection of stories about Père GoriotEugenie Grandet loves cousin Charles, but is forced to marry another man to pay off gambling debtsPère Goriot has two daughters- Anastasia and DelphineHe has a stroke when he learns that family jewels must be soldRecurring character- Eugene de Rastignac
The Castle of Otranto
By Horace WalpoleManfred: villainOften considered the first Gothic Novel
I, Robot
By Isaac AsimovThree Laws of Robotics: Do not harm humans, cannot through an action allow a human to be harmed, can harm a bad human to save a good human
Call of the Wild
By Jack LondonBuck- Judge Miller's dog, is stolen and sold to miners to be a sled dogBuck eventually comes into the ownership of John ThortonThorton is killed by Yeehat IndiansBuck joins a pack of wolves
White Fang
By Jack LondonHalf-dog half-wolf is taken in by Gray BeaverKiche- mother of title characterRescued by Weedon Scott
To Build a Fire
By Jack LondonMan goes into snow alone in -80 degreesHe falls into water and dies of frostbite because he cannot do the title action
Go Tell it on the Mountain
By James Baldwinrecalls author's experience in harlemJohn Grimes experience with abusive step father Gabriel, who is a minister in a Harlem church
Ulysses
By James JoyceA day in the life of Leopold Bloom (June 16, 1904)Leopold uses pseudonym "Henry Flower", fantasizes about Gerty McDowellMolly Bloom has an affair with Blazes BoylanStephen DaedalusChapters named after events in The OdysseyLast lines- "yes I said yes I will Yes"
Finnegans Wake
By James JoyceOriginally published in sections as "Work in Progress"Invents the word "quark"Humphrey Chimpdon- nickname "Earwicker" (HCE initials)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
By James Joyceabout Stephen Daedalus's growing upFather Arnall inspires catholic zealAttends Clongowes schoolBegins with a stream of consciousness about a lullaby about a "moocow" and a "baby tuckoo"
Being and Nothingness
By Jean-Paul Sartreidea of bad faith, defining yourself through what you do"Just a waiter"
The Pilgrim's Progress
By John BunyanAllegorical novel, Christian's journey from the City of Destruction to the Celestial CityLord Hate-good order's Faithful's execution in Vanity FairMr Worldly Wiseman distracts Christian on the way to the Wicket Gate which stands at the start of the King's HighwayChristian battles the demon Apollyon in the Valley of HumiliationChristian and Pliable begin to sink into a swamp called the Slough of Despond due to the weight of the sins on their backs, a character name Help saves ChristianChristian travels through The Valley of the Shadow of Death which gets its name from Psalm 23Christian climbs Hill Difficulty where the House Beautiful lies uponSecond part focuses on Christian's wife ChristianaChristian and Hopeful get trapped in Doubting Castle which is guarded by a pair of married giants named Despair and Diffidence
The USA Trilogy
By John Dos PassosThe 42nd Parallel1919The Big Money
Travels with Charley
By John SteinbeckAbout author's travels with his poodle (title character)
Of Mice and Men
By John SteinbeckGeorge and Lenny"Tend to the rabbits"
Grapes of Wrath
By John SteinbeckJoad Family goes from Oklahoma to California during Dust BowlRose of Sheron breast feeds a starving man
East of Eden
By John SteinbeckRetelling the story of Cane & AbelAron and Caleb try to impress their father, Aron succeeds
The Winter of Our DisContent
By John SteinbeckTitle comes from Shakespeare's Richard III
The Circular Ruins
By Jorge BorgesA wizard creates a fireproof man by dreaming of him in title location
The Secret Agent
By Joseph ConradPlan to blow up Greenwich Observatory
Nostromo
By Joseph ConradSet in silver mining town
Heart of Darkness
By Joseph ConradSet on Congo River in AfricaCharlie Marlowe searches for KurtzKurtz dies, last words are "the horror, the horror"Harlequin- assistant to Marlowe"Exterminate all the brutes!"Nellie- name of boat
Lord Jim
By Joseph ConradTitle character abandons the Patna(ship)
From the Earth to the Moon
By Jules VerneBaltimore Gun Club builds giant cannon to shoot people to the moon
Journey to the Center of the Earth
By Jules VerneOtto LidenbrockThrough an Iceland volcano, comes out through an Italian volcano
Around the World in Eighty Days
By Jules VernePhileas FoggPassepartoutInternational date line
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
By Jules VernePierre Aronnax goes aboard The NautilusCaptain NemoThe Nautilus is mistaken for a narwhal Sunken ship named Abraham Lincoln
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
By Karel CapekCoined the word "Robot" from Czech word for "laborer"Harry Domin's factory makes synthetic robots that gain intelligence and take over the world Helena Glory- representative from the League of Humanity visits factory, ends up marrying DominAlquist becomes last human alive, maintains robots over take over and attempts to recreate Rossum's formula for making robotsRobots Helena and Primus become capable of love, become "new Adam and Eve"The psychologist Dr. Hallemeier tells Helena Glory that title beings are incapable of loveThe engineers Fabry and Dr. Gall give title creatures soulsAfter being told some flowers are sterile, Helena Glory burns Rossum's formulaTwo of title characters are named Marius and Sulla because creator thought Sulla was a girl's name and thought they were lovers instead of enemiesRobots Damon and Radius lead the revolutionBusman is electrocuted by a fence when he gesticulates too much while negotiating a half a billion dollar ransom
A Pair of Silk Stockings
By Kate ChopinA woman gets $15 and decides to buy silk stockings instead of caring for her children
The Awakening
By Kate ChopinFeminist NovelCenters around Edna Pontellier's search for meaningEdna hears Mademoiselle Reisz play music which inspires herEdna has an affair with a gamblerAt the end, Edna walks into the Gulf of Mexico and drowns herself
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
By Langston Hughes"My soul has grown deep like the rivers""Bathing in the Euphrates"
The Weary Blues
By Langston Hughes"drowsy syncopated tune"
Theme for English B
By Langston Hughes"go here and write a page tonight"
Anna Karenina
By Leo Tolstoy"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."Count Vronsky accidentally breaks his horse Frou-Frou's back during a raceTitle character is married to Karenin, has an affair with Vronsky, Karenin refuses to divorce on the advice of a French psychic LandauStiva(aka Stepan) Oblonksy cheats on his wife Dolly, the title character's sisterKonstantin Levin becomes engaged to Princess Kitty ScherbatskyTitle character has son named Seryozha, commits suicide by jumping under a train at the end
The Children's Hour
By Lillian HellmanKaren Write and Martha Doby- teachers at a schoolA student accuses them of being lesbians
The Little Foxes
By Lillian HellmanTitle from the Song of SolomonRegina Hubert steals from husband Oscar to start a cotton Mill
Six Characters in Search of an Author
By Luigi PirandelloFamily interrupts playThe Father- attempts to seduce stepdaughter at dress shop where Madame Pace is summoned by hanging up coats and hats, gets rid of his wife by sending sending her off with his ex-secretary, possessed by "Demon of Experiment"The Mother- named AmaliaThe Stepdaughter- works as a prostitute, tells mother to "Scream as you screamed then," bursts into performance of cabaret number "Prenez garde à Tchou-Tchin-Tchou"The SonThe Boy- shoots himself in the head off stage after his sibling drownsThe Child- little girl who drowns in a fountainThe Director/Manager of The Rules of the Game/Mixing it Up complains they "lost a whole day of rehearsal"Pale blue envelope containing money is laid on a mahogany tableLeo Gala is told to "represent the shell of the eggs" after complaining about wearing a chef's hat (in Mixing it Up)Arguing between Stepdaughter Father and Mother in brothel scene prompts Manager to repeatedly ask for the curtain to fallForms a trilogy of "theater within the theater" with Each in His Own Way and Tonight We Improvise
In Search of Lost Time
By Marcel Proustaka remembrance of things pastNarrator- Marcel, falls for Albertine who he suspects is having lesbian affairsSwann's Way-first sectionRobert de Saint-Loup Narrator involuntarily flashes back to his childhood in Combray after eating a tea-soaked madeleineOther sections- The Guermantes Way, Time Regained
Gone with the Wind
By Margaret MitchellScarlett O'Hara owns a plantation named TaraRett Butler"Where will I go what will I do" - Scarlett"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" - Rett
Empedocles on Etna
By Matthew ArnoldCollection of Poems
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
By Maya AngelouAutobiography set in Stamps, ArkansasRefuses to speak after she tells people about Mr. Freeman raping her and mob kills Mr. Freeman
The Misanthrope
By MoliereAl Ceste loves the flirtatious, CelimenePut on trial and into jail for criticizing a poem
The Imaginary Invalid
By MoliereArgan the hypochondriac, wants his daughter, Angelique to marry Thomas Diafoirus
Tartuffe
By MolierePlayReligious hypocrite tries to seduce Orgon's wife, Elmire, Orgon hides under table
The Prince
By Niccolo MachiavelliRules for a successful ruler"Safer to be feared than loved""You must be like a lion and a fox"Praises Cesare Borgia
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel
By Nikos Kazantzakis33,333 lines
Zorba the Greek
By Nikos KazantzakisTitle character works in a Lignite mine, is tricked into marrying Madame Hortense
The Ransom of Red Chief
By O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)Bill Driscoll and Sam kidnap the kid of a wealthy manThey eventually pay the dad $250 to take his kid back
The Four Million
By O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)Collection named for the population of New York City at the time
The Gift of the Magi
By O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)Jim and Della want to give each other something for ChristmasJim has a pocket watch, Della has beautiful hair, would make King Solomon JealousStore owned by Madame Sofronie- Della cuts off her hair to buy chain for Jim's watch, Jim sells his watch for combs
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
By Oliver GoldsmithFrom The Vicar of WakefieldA dog who bites a well-respected man dies soon after
De Profundis
By Oscar WildeLetter written in prison to Alfred Douglas
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
By Oscar WildeWritten in prisonAbout the death penalty
The Picture of Dorian Gray
By Oscar Wilde- his only novelSibyl Vane- actress in production of Romeo and Juliet, calls title character "Prince Charming"Basil Hallward creates title objectProtagonist blackmails Alan Campbell into disposing of a body and receives a "little yellow book" which he buys several copies ofLord Henry Wotton corrupts title characterTitle character never ages- instead, painting of him ages in his place, when painting is destroyed he dies
Sympathy
By Paul Laurence DunbarPoem"I know why the caged bird sings"
Ode to the West Wind
By Percy Bysshe Shelley"If winter comes, can spring be far behind?"
Adonais
By Percy Bysshe ShelleyElegy for John Keats
Ozymandias
By Percy Bysshe ShelleyGreek name for Ramses II"Look upon my works ye mighty and despair"Written in a contest with Horace Smith
Sabbath's Theater
By Philip Rothabout the lecherous puppeteer Mickey
Le Cid
By Pierre CorneilleDon Rodrigue- Spanish folk hero who fought the Moors
Gitanjali
By Rabindranath TagoreIntroduction written by Yeatsaka Song Offerings"Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure."
Duino Elegies
By Rainer Maria Rilke"Who if I cried out, would hear me among the Angelic orders?"Group of poems
Native Son
By Richard WrightBigger Thomas murders Mary Dalton and Bessie MearsBoris Max- LawyerBigger Thomas also kills a rat with a frying pan
My Last Duchess
By Robert BrowningPoem narrated by Duke of Ferrara who has wife killed"had a heart that was too soon made glad"Portrait of title character painted by Fra PandolfBronze statue of Neptune by Claus of Innsbruckgift of a "nine-hundred-years-old name"
Auld Land Syne
By Robert Burns"Should old acquaintance be forgot"
To a Mouse
By Robert Burns"the best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry"
To a Louse
By Robert BurnsRhymes with other robert burns poem "To a Mouse"
Fire and Ice
By Robert Frost"From what I've tasted of desire"
The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost"I took the road less traveled by"About author's friend Edward Thomas
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
By Robert Frost"My little horse must think it queer"
Nothing Gold can Stay
By Robert Frost"Nature's first green is gold""So Eden sang to grief"In the novel, The Outsiders
The Gift Outright
By Robert Frost"The Land was ours before we were the Land's"Read at JFK's inauguration
Out, Out
By Robert FrostReference to MacbethAbout a kid who cuts his hand on a buzz saw
Birches
By Robert Frost "One could do worse than be a swinger of Birches"
Kidnapped
By Robert Louis StevensonAlan Breck saves David Balfour Catriona-sequel
Treasure Island
By Robert Louis StevensonLong John SilverBen Gunn
The Jungle Book
By Rudyard KiplingCollection of storiesMowgli raised by wolves"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"- mongoose saves a kid from a cobras Nag and NagainaMessua takes in Mowgli to replace long lost son Nathoo
The Man Who Would Be King
By Rudyard KiplingDravot and Carnahan try to follow in the footsteps of Alexander the Great
Gunga Din
By Rudyard Kiplingman serves water to English soldiers
Molloy
By Samuel BeckettHas a single paragraph spanning 100 pagesPart of a trilogy including Malone Dies and The UnnamableTitle paralyzed writer pursued by Jaques Moran
Krapp's Last Tape
By Samuel BeckettMan listens to a tape he made 30 years earlier on his 69th birthday
Endgame
By Samuel BeckettTitle inspired by chessNagg and Nell- elderly couple who lost their legs and live in trash cansHamm and his servant Clov live in a post-apocalyptic world
Waiting for Godot
By Samuel BeckettVladamir(Didi) and Estragon(Gogo)Pozzo and his slave LuckyConsider hanging themselves from treeVladamir sings a song about a dog being beaten with a ladleBoth acts end with boy claiming title character will "surely arrive tomorrow"Lucky delivers nonsensical monologue after being told to "think"
The Way of All Flesh
By Samuel ButlerErnest Pontifex- son of Theobald
Erewhon: or Over the Range
By Samuel ButlerSatire of UtopiasTitle is an anagram of nowhereNarrator named Higgs
Kubla Khan
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge"in Xanadu did Kubla Khan""woman wailing for her demon-lover""Abyssinian Maid"written in an opium dream
Juno and the Paycock
By Sean O'CaseyTitle character is Juno Boil and her husband is the Paycock(he can't hold a job)
Winesburg, Ohio
By Sherman AndersonCollection of storiesGeorge Willard: characterThe Book of the GrotesqueHands: Wing Biddlebaum is a teacher who people suspect is a gay pedophilePaper Pills: Dr. ReefyThe Teacher: teacher falls in love w/ George Willard
Elmer Gantry
By Sincalir LewisHypocritical preacher
It Can't Happen Here
By Sinclair LewisBuzz Windrip defeats FDR and makes America into a totalitarian state
Doddsworth
By Sinclair LewisCar dealer
Arrowsmith
By Sinclair LewisDoctor who develops bacterial phage
Babbitt
By Sinclair LewisRealtor whose wife Myra falls illSetting: Zenith (in fictional state of Winnemac)Title character has an affair with Tanis Judique and supports the socialist Seneca Doane, ends both of these relationships to join "Good Citizen's League"Encourages his son Ted to become a mechanic, Ted elopes with Eunice LittlefieldPaul Riesling is sent to jail for shooting his wife Zilla
Main Street
By Sinclair Lewissetting: Gopher PrairieThe Thanatopsis Club chooses to put on "The Girl from Kankakee" instead of "Androcles and the Lion"Carol Kennicott attempts to reform the town, eventually leaves her husband Will and takes their son Hugh to Washington D.C.
A Study in Scarlet
By Sir Arthur Conan DoyleFirst Sherlock Holmes NovelIrene Adler
The Lost World
By Sir Arthur Conan DoyleNot about Sherlock Holmes
The Final Problem
By Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThey fall over Reichenbach Falls
The Heart of Midlothian
By Sir Walter ScottBased on Porteus riots in Edinburgh
Ivanhoe
By Sir Walter ScottRebecca is saved by title characterMarries Lady RowenaFather: Cedric the RotherwoodTitle character competes in jousting tournament under the name DesdichadoRichard the Lionheart is disguised as the Black Knight
Waverly
By Sir Walter Scottseries of novels
Prose Edda
By Snorri SturlusonSource for Norse mythIcelandic Author
The Red and the Black
By StendhalJulien Sorel has an affair with Madame de RénalJulien tries to shoot Rénal, gets sentenced to deathTitle colors refer to secular and clerical worlds
The Black Riders
By Stephen CranePoem
The Blue Hotel
By Stephen CraneThe Swede- diesThe EasternerThe Cowboy
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
By T. S. Eliot"Let us go then, you and I""Do I dare disturb the universe""Do I dare to eat a peach"Title character observes a room where "Women come and go, talking of Michelangelo"
The Hollow Men
By T. S. Eliot"This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper"
The Wasteland
By T. S. EliotFive Parts: The Burial of the Dead, A Game of Chess, The Fire Sermon, Death by Water, and What the Thunder Said"April is the cruelest month"Edited by Ezra Pound"I will show you fear, and a handful of dust""Shantih, Shantih, Shantih!"
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
By T. S. EliotWhere the musical "Cats" comes from
Sister Carrie
By Theodore DreiserCaroline Meeber gets the lead in a performance called Under the Gas LightMeeber meets Charles Drouet, marries him
Far from the Madding Crowd
By Thomas HardyGabriel OakBathsheba EverdeneTitle comes from a Thomas Gray poem: "Elegy Written in Country Churchyard"
The Return of the Native
By Thomas HardySet on Guy Faux Day(November 5)At Egdon Heath
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
By Thomas HardyTitle character kills Alec after she is raped and impregnated(resulting in the baby named "Sorrow") by himProtagonist marries Angel Clare, works as a milkmaid with Retty Priddle and IzzFamily horse named "Prince"Arrested and executed at Stonehenge after ensuring safety of her sister, Liza-Lu
Death in Venice
By Thomas MannGustav von Aschenbach contracts cholera, becomes obsessed with the smell of disinfectant, dies at the endTadzio- Polish boy who dies from cholera
The Magic Mountain
By Thomas MannHans Castorp visits Joachim Ziemssen at the beginningSet in a Swiss sanatoriumMynheer Peeperkorn wins the love of Clavdia Chauchat over the protagonist
Doctor Faustus
By Thomas MannPlay based on play by GoetheAdrian Leverkuhn- composer who intentionally contracts syphilis to be more creative
The Skin of Our Teeth
By Thornton WilderAntrobus Family lives through the ice age
Island of the Day Before
By Umberto EcoRoberto della Griva is stranded on an island that is split by the International DateLine
The Jungle
By Upton SinclairSet in ChicagoResponsible for 1906 Pure Food & Drug ActJurgus Rutkis
The Congo
By Vachel Lindsayabout title river"creeping through the black, cutting through the jungle with a golden track.""boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, BOOM.""Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you.""BLOOD" in all caps
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
By Victor HugoEsmerelda marries pierreQuasimodo dies at endClaude Frollo- judge/church leaderCaptain PhoebusA goat learns how to spell
Les Miserables
By Victor HugoJean Valjean is arrested for stealing a loaf of bread, was prison 24601 he breaks parole, is pursued by Officer JavertValjean is given silver candle sticks, he starts a glass factoryFather Madeleine becomes mayor and adopts CosetteThe Thenardiers- family of con artistsSecond part is set during July RevolutionMarius leads a group of students, falls in love with Cosette
Candide
By VoltaireTitle character is expelled from the castle of Baron Thunder-Ten-Tronckh, travels with Martin and Cacambo, wants to marry Cunegonde Dr. Pangloss- the tutor, represents Leibniz, contracts syphilis"The best of all worlds"Goes to El Dorado, finds red sheepThe old woman, daughter of urban X, ate one of her buttocksLisbon earthquake
Funeral Blues
By W. H. Auden"Stop all the clocks"
September 1, 1939
By W. H. AudenAbout the invasion of Poland by Germany
Musee des Beaux Arts
By W. H. AudenTo go with the painting, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Bruegel
The Emperor of Ice Cream
By Wallace Stevens"Call the roller of big cigars""Bring flowers in last month's newspapers"
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
By Wallace Stevens"Only thing moving among 20 snowy mountains"
Drum-Taps
By Walt WhitmanAppended to Leaves of GrassInspired by Civil War"The Wound Dresser""Beat! Beat! Drums!""As I lay with My Head in Your Lap, Camerado."
O Captain! My Captain!
By Walt WhitmanDescribes Abraham Lincoln at the head of a ship"our fearful trip is done"Describes Abraham Lincoln whose "lips are pale and still," "fallen cold and dead" on the deck, "has no pulse nor will", tells him "to rise up and hear the bells""the ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won.""swaying mass, their eager faces turning""ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done"
Dulce et Decorum Est
By Wilfred Owen"How sweet and fitting it is to die for your native land"Title comes from Horace Odes
The Moonstone
By Wilkie CollinsFirst detective novelTheft of huge title diamondSolved by Sargent Cuff
The Woman in White
By Wilkie CollinsLaura Fairlie resembles Ann Catherick
My Antonia
By Willa CatherImmigrant from Bohemia moves to Blackhawk, NebraskaIs friends with Jim BurdenImpregnated and abandoned by Larry DonovanMarries Anton Cuzak
The Red Wheelbarrow
By William Carlos Williams"Gleaming with rain""So much depends upon the TITLE OBJECT"draws upon doctor's experience as a doctor
This is Just to Say
By William Carlos Williams"I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox""They were delicious, so sweet, and so cold"
Paterson
By William Carlos WilliamsEpic Poem about author's home town in New Jersey
Invictus
By William Ernest Henleytitle means "incomparable""I am the master of my faith, I am the captain of my soul"
As I Lay Dying
By William FaulknerThe Bundren FamilyMother Addy Dies- novel centers around moving her coffin to burial placeFamous Chapter- "My Mother is a Fish"Cash- oldest son, makes coffinDarl- sets barn on fire
The Sound and the Fury
By William FaulknerThe Compson FamilyQuentin- in love with his sister Caddy, castrates himself on a swinging fence, drownsBenjy- mentally handicappedCaddy- very promiscuousDilsey- the maid
Absalom, Absalom!
By William FaulknerTitle reference to biblical characterAbout racial mixing and incest
Cakes and Ale
By William Somerset MaughamEdward Driffield represents Thomas HardyAlroy Kear Protagonist William AshendenTitle comes from Twelfth Knight by Shakespeare
The Moon and Sixpence
By William Somerset MaughamRoman a Clef based upon life of Paul GauguinCharles Strickland leaves his wife and kids to go to Tahiti
Of Human Bondage
By William Somerset Maughamclubfooted Philip Carey
Vanity Fair
By William ThackerayTitle comes from Pilgrims Progresssetting-Pinkerton Ladies SchoolBecky Sharp, throws dictionary out window of carriageAmelia SedleyGeorge OsbornCalled "a novel without a hero"
The Little Prince
By: Antoine de Saint-ExuperyAlien asteroid B-612Crashes into Sahara desertVisits all planets of the solar systemMisinterprets a drawing of a snake digesting an elephant for a hatTitle character falls in love with a rose from his home planet
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
By: Walt WhitmanSpeaker leaves after listening to lecture from title characterSpeaker is confronted with proofs and figures that "were ranged in columns"Narrator prefers to "look'd up in perfect silence at the stars," becomes "tired and sick" of "charts and diagrams" before leaving a lecture into "mystical moist night-air"
John Tenniel
Cartoonist for Punch Magazine who is most famous for illustrating Alice in Wonderland and many of Lewis Carroll's works
Detective Phillip Marlow
Character invented by Raymond Chandlerappears in The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles DickensMadam Defarge- woman whose knitting registers those condemned to die by the guillotineLucie- daughter of Dr. Manette, goes crazy, makes shoes, Miss Pross(kills Defarge) and Jerry Cruncher(Resurrection-Man) rescue her from DefargeMarquis de St. Evremonde- Darnay's uncle, murdered in his sleep with note signed "Jacques" left Sydney Carton is executed in Charles Darnay's place"It is a better thing to do than I have ever done"Title Cities: London and Paris"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"Three sections: Recalled to Life, the Golden Thread and the Track of a Storm
The Piazza Tales
Collection by Herman Melville"Bartleby the Scrivener""Benito Cereno""The Lightning-Rod Man""The Encantadas""The Bell Tower"
Helen in Egypt
Collection by Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)Sections called "Eidolons""All Greece hates the still eyes in the white face""Did her eyes slant in the old way?"
A Friend of Kafka
Collection by Issac Bashevis SingerNamed after author of The Metamorphosis
Cosmicomics
Collection by Italo Calvinonarrated by Qfwfq who claims to be as old as the universe, succeeded by collection "t zero"Each story begins with a so-called scientific "fact.""The Distance to the Moon" - wife of Captain Vhd Vhd gets stuck on the moon after climbing a ladder to collect milk/cream-cheese like substance, Qfwfq jumps to the moon to save her, Qfwfq's deaf cousin also collects cream substanceKgwgk destroys a sign Qfwfq makes in space"The Aquatic Uncle""All at One Point" - the Big Bang happens when a woman offers to make noodles for everyone located in the same pointTwo characters bet over whether Balzac will make Lucien commit suicide
The Burning Plain
Collection by Juan Rulfo"Tell Them Not to Kill Me!""Because We Are So Poor"
Terrible Sonnets
Collection of six poems by Gerard Manley HopkinsWritten while author was a professor at the University College Dublin"Carrion Comfort""I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day""No worst, there is none"
The Kalevala
Compiled by Elias LonnrotNational epic of FinlandVäinämöinenLouhi drops Sampo in ocean, making the sea saltyUntamoInspired Finlandia by John Sibaleas
Pinter Pause
Concept of Harold PinterSilence is just as important as what is saidactions continue but words stop
Curtal Sonnet
Created by Gerard Manley Hopkinsten and a half line sonnet
Jeeves
Created by P.G. Wodehouse for his comic novelsButler for Bertie Wooster
Sprung Rhythm
Discovered by Gerard Manley HopkinsOne stressed syllable, the rest of the line is unstressed
Gordon Lish
Editor for Esquire Magazine who's rewrites of Raymond Carver's works such as the collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love shaped Carver's minimalist style
Miss Jane Marple
Elderly amateur detective created by Agatha Christie
Africa
Epic poem by Francesco Petrarchabout Scipio defeating Hannibal
Daguerreotypes
Essay by Isak Dinesen aka Karen BlixenClassifies women as housewives, guardian angels, dancers, or witches
Numero Zero
Final novel of Umberto EcoMocks Italian media
The Edible Woman
First novel by Margaret AtwoodTitle character Marian McAlpin bakes a cake in the shape of a woman
Abbey Theatre
Founded in part by William YeatsIn Dublin
Horace's Odes
Four books by HoraceSource of many phrases "carpe diem""dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" - gave title to Wilfred Owens poem"Now is the time for drinking"- in poem from first book about CleopatraClaims to have "made a monument more lasting than bronze" in poem ending the third bookOne poem advises Licinius to follow the golden mean"the gift of a kid goat" will "stain your ice-cold waters with crimson blood" in a poem about the Bandusian fountain"brave men lived before Agamemnon"Begins with dedication to his patron MaecenasOne tells Leuconoe to "strain" her wine
Oulipo
French literary movement including Italo Calvino, George Perec, and Raymond Queneau
Robert Bridges
Gerard Manley Hopkins posthumously achieved fame after this friend of his published an arranged collection of his poemsHe was poet laureate of England during WWI
R. K. Narayan
Graham Greene helped this author get published
Typee
Herman Melville's first novelDescribes life on the island of Nuku HivaA Peep at Polynesian LifeTommo and Toby, after jumping ship from the Dolly fend off cannibalistic nativesNarrator takes canoe rides with exotic woman Fayaway
Thebes
Homes city of Pindar, his house was spared by Alexander the Great when he burned the rest of the city
Newark
Hometown of Philp Roth
Utilitarianism
Idea created by John Stuart MillIdea of greatest good for greatest number
Group 47
Informal post-World War II German literary association that Gunter Grass was a part of
Peruvian presidential election of 1990
Mario Vargas Llosa was defeated in a runoff by the dark horse candidate Alberto FujimoriVargas LLosa wrote about it in his memoir A Fish in the Water
Samizdat
Method of self-publication used by authors to get around censorship in the USSR and Soviet BlocAleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Boris Pasternak used this method
Don Quixote (Graham Greene)
Modernization of Cervantes work by Graham GreeneCommentary on Catholicism and CommunismTitle character travels around in a SEAT 600 automobile named Rocinante
Imagism
Movement in early 20th-century English and American poetry that sought clarity of expression through the use of precise imagesEzra PoundHilda Doolittle (H.D.)William Carlos WilliamsRichard Aldington (briefly married to H.D.)Amy Lowell
Lost in the Stars
Musical by Maxwell Anderson(book and lyrics) and Kurt Weill(music) that is based on Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country
Belle of Amherst
Nickname of Emily Dickinson
Japan, the Beautiful, and Myself
Nobel lecture of Yasuari Kawabata"suicide is not a form of enlightenment"
Nausea
Novel by Jean-Paul SartreAntoine Roquentin"Swedish Sickness"Antoine meets "the self taught man" who is reading every book in a library in alphabetical order
Petrarchan Sonnet
Octet followed by a sextet
William Tell
Original story by Friedrich Schiller
Phantom of the Opera
Original story by Gaston Leroux
Sponono
Play by Alan Paton and Krishna Shah
The Sunset Limited
Play by Cormac McCarthyEx-convict Black prevents the professor White from jumping in front of a train
Faust
Play by GoetheWalpurgisnacht celebrationGuy makes a deal with the devil, demon Mephistopheles follows him around granting wishes, kills the soldier Valentine and falls for GretchenMephistopheles disguises himself as a poodleGoes back in time to meet Helen of Troy
Phaedra
Play by Jean RacineTitle character is the wife of Theseus, falls in love with her step son HippolyteHippolyte rebuffs title character, who accuses him of rapeTheseus has Hippolyte killed
No Exit
Play by Jean-Paul Sartre"hell is other people"Garcin, Estelle, and Inez are trapped in "a Second Empire-style room" in hellEstelle admits she murdered her baby
The Inspector General
Play by Nikolai GogolKhlestakov fools the Mayor into believing he is title character
The Importance of Being Earnest
Play by Oscar WildeAlgernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing both say their names are EarnestJack was abandoned as a baby by Miss Prism(who is loved by Dr. Chasuble) in Victoria Station in a handbagCharacters get out of situations by "bunburying"- fictional invalid friendLady Bracknell becomes mad when cucumber sandwiches are eatenGwendolen FairfaxCecily Cardew
Our Town
Play by Thornton WilderPlay set in Grover's CornersNarrated by The Stage ManagerFollows Emily Webb and George Gibbs growing up, Emily dies of childbirth in the 3rd Act"Blessed be the Ties that Bind" is sung by chorusSimon Stimson-Organist, commits suicideEmily is asked if she wants to visit any day, chooses her 12th birthdayHowie Newsome- the milkmanBoyscout dies from a burst appendix
Ulysses
Poem By Alfred Lord Tennyson"Do not strive to seek to find and not to yield"
Chicago
Poem by Carl Sandburg"City of big shoulders""Hog butcher for the world""tool maker""stacker of wheat"
Goblin Market
Poem by Christina Rossetti(part of pre-raphaelite brotherhood)Lizzie and Laura see title creatures on the way to the market"Come buy, come buy"
Annabel Lee
Poem by Edgar Allan Poe, published posthumously"Kingdom by the sea"
Harlem
Poem by Langston Hughes"What happens to a dream deferred, does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"
If
Poem by Rudyard Kipling"You'll be a man my son"
The Darkling Thrush
Poem by Thomas Hardy "fling his soul upon the growing gloom"
The Convergence of the Twain
Poem by Thomas Hardy about the sinking of the Titanic
My Sister, Life
Poetry collection by Boris Pasternak
Leaves of Grass
Poetry collection by Walt WhitmanPreface includes the line "The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem."Influenced by Emerson's "The Poet"Revised 1892 "deathbed" edition"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed" "O Captain! My Captain!" "Song of Myself""When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer""A Noiseless Patient Spider"Children of Adam sequence - "I Sing the Body Electric"Sea-Drift section- "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking", "On the Beach At Night Alone"Calamus Poems- depictions of homosexual love"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry""Pioneers! O Pioneers!"
Inscape
Proposed by Gerard Manley HopkinsThe unique inner nature of a person or object as shown in a work of art, especially a poem.Contrasts with instress
Alcofribas Nasier
Pseudonym of Francois Rabelais, anagram of his name
Lewis Carroll
Real name: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Alice's Adventures in WonderlandThrough the Looking GlassJabberwockyThe Walrus and the CarpenterThe Hunting of the Snark(By Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum)Was also a Mathematician
David Kepesh
Recurring character in Philip Roth novelsBecomes a 155-pound version of the titular body part in The BreastThe Professor of Desire
Enderby Quartet
Series of novels by Anthony BurgessPoet turned bartender Francis Xavier Enderby
Dubliners
Series of short stories by James Joyce"The Dead"- last story"Araby" love story set in a marketplace
The Illustrated Man
Series of short stories by Ray BradburySeveral stories depicted on tattooed carnival worker's body"The Veldt" - Peter and Wendy lock their parents George and Lydia inside a virtual reality nursery, where they are devoured by lions.
Blandings Castle
Setting for many of P. G. Wodehouse's storiesWhere giant pig named "The Empress of Blandings" lives with her owner Lord Emsworth
Titus Andronicus
Shakespeare's first tragedyTitle character is a revenge-wracked Roman generalChiron and Demetrius killed and baked into pies, which are then fed to their mother Tamora, Queen of GothsTamora's lover is Aaron the MoorChiron and Demetrius rape title character's daughter Lavinia who writes their names with a stick in her mouthAt the end, the Goths are driven out of Rome by title character's son Lucius, who sentences Aaron to death
All Summer in a Day
Short story by Ray BradburyThe sun comes out for the first time in seven years Margot gets locked in a closet by her classmates
The Bear
Short story by William FaulknerIn collection Go Down, MosesTitle character is named Old BenIke McCaslin watches Boon Hogganbeck kill title animal with a knifeDog named LionHalf-Chickasaw tracker Sam Fathers suffers a fatal seizure
A Rose for Emily
Short story by William FaulknerTitle character murders her lover Homer BarronPeople find his corpse on the bed next to "a single strand of gray hair"
Dry September
Short story by William FaulknerUnseen lynching of Will Mayes
I Am Prepared to Die
Speech given by Nelson Mandela at Rivonia TrialNadine Gordimer helped him edit it
Pindaric Ode
StropheAntistropheEpode
comedy of menace
Term coined by Irving Wardle for Harold Pinter plays that combines the hilarity of a humorous tone with the disturbance of a menacing tone. It is funny on the surface, but tragic when examined.
Southern Gothic
The stories often focus on grotesque themes. While it may include supernatural elements, it mainly focuses on damaged, even delusional, characters.Flannery O'ConnorCarson McCullers
Semiotics
The study of signsextensively studied by Umberto Eco
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy's last novelJude Fawley, a stonemasonSue BrideheadLittle Father Time
Our Ancestors
Trilogy by Italo CalvinoThe Cloven ViscountThe Baron in the TreesThe Nonexistent Knight
Horace's Satires
Two books of poems by Horace, also known as his "Sermones"Often contrasted with Juvenal's Satires (these are more lighthearted and less angry)Includes a version of Aesop's fable about the country mouse and the city mouseNinth one relates an encounter with a boring poet on the Sacred Way who wishes to be introduced to Maecenas
Beyond Belief, Among the Believer
Two works by V.S. NaipaulDepict his journeys through the Islamic world, examines fundamentalism of Islam
New Journalism
Type of journalism/literary movement developed in 1960s and 70s in which reporters immersed themselves in the stories as they reported and wrote themTom WolfeHunter S. ThompsonNorman Mailer
The discovery of Langston Hughes
Vachel LindsayBoasted about him in a crowded Washington D.C. Restaurant
Maecenas
Wealthy patron of Vergil and HoraceGave Horace his Sabine farm
"Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus?"
What Saul Bellow once asked an interviewer followed by asking who was the "Proust of the Papuans"
Lie Down in Darkness
William Styron's first novel
Leon Edel
Wrote a five-volume biography of Henry James
Latin American Boom
a significant literary time period of flourishing literature, poetry and criticism written in Spanish during the 1960s and 1970s, when writers from this region explored new ideas and came to international renown in a way that had not happened previously.
The Bus Stop
absurdist play by Gao XingjianSeveral characters wait at title location for 10 years before realizing it has closed downSilent Man is the only character to leave earlyHothead really wants yogurtGlasses raises his watch to reveal its been 10 years
Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha ChristieBelgian detective Hercule Poirot uses his "little grey cells" to determine that all 12 subjects participated in murder of Samuel RatchettRatchett turns out to actually be fugitive named Cassetti who had kidnapped Daisy Armstrong several years earlierOpens when Poirot meets Monsieur BoucA scarlet kimono suddenly appears in Poirot's luggageHandkerchief monogrammed with an H actually turns out to be a Cyrillic N
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
by Agatha ChristieIntroduced Hercule Poirot
And Then There Were None
by Agatha ChristieJustice Wargrave and nine murderers are invited to Soldier Island where they are killed off one by one by U.N. Owen
N or M?
by Agatha ChristieMarried duo Tommy and Tuppence Beresford seek out title German agents
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
by Agatha ChristieNarrated by Dr. James Sheppard who admits he killed title man for the sole purpose of fooling Hercule Poirot
The Secret Adversary
by Agatha ChristieTommy and Tuppence work with British intelligence agent Mr. Carter
Too Late the Phalarope
by Alan PatonPieter van Vlaanderen- white police officer who violates the Immorality Act of South Africa by sleeping with the black woman StephanieOpens "Perhaps I could have saved him."Narrated by Pieter's aunt SophiePieter collects stamps with hi loyal Jewish friend Matthew Kaplan, known as Kappie, who talks him out of suicidePieter gives his father Jakob a book about birds for his birthday despite that Jakob never reading anything except the Bible
Tales from a Troubled Land
by Alan PatonShort story collection
Ah, But You Land is Beautiful
by Alan PatonSix sections- including "The Cleft Stick" "The Defiance Campaign" and "Into the Golden Age"Robert Mansfield is forced to move to AustraliaA Proud White Christian Woman writes of interracial sex in letters to politiciansAn Indian woman named Prem Bodasingh is arrested for using a whites-only libraryTold through letters from Gabriel van Onselen to his aunt
Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan PatonStephen Kumalo leaves Ndotsheni for Johannesburg to see the trial of his son, is addressed as "umfundisi"Stephen receives letter from fellow priest Theophilus Msimangu saying his sister Gertrude has fallen ill, finds out Gertrude has become a prostitute and sells moonshineJohn Kumalo (Stephen's brother) was once a carpenter, has become an anti apartheid politician, criticizes inequality of Gold Mines that are advocated for by Ernest OppenheimerMrs. Lithebe lodges Stephen and GertudeOpens with description of "A lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills"Johannes Parfuri, Matthew Kumalo (John's son), and Absalom Kumalo (Stephen's son) murder Arthur Jarvis during a break in, only Absalom is convicted and sentenced to deathProtagonist fails to find Sibeko's daughter at Barbara Smith's houseThe lawyer Mr. Carmichael takes Absalom's case pro deoJames Jarvis gives milk to village children and helps rebuild Ixopo after reading his son Arthur's "The Truth About Native Crime" and looking into Arthur's admiration for Abraham Lincoln (takes a copy of the Gettysburg adress from Arthur's room after talking with John Harrison)Tomlinson and Dubula organize a bus boycottNapoleon Letsitsi is hired by Jarvis to improve farming of Stephen's villageStephen has money stolen by a man who offers to buy him a bus ticket on his way to Sophiatown where he is escorted by Mr. MafoloStephen visits a colony of blind peopleStephen consults Father Vincent and invokes God by saying "Tixo, tixo, forsake me not."Absalom marries his pregnant girlfriend while awaiting trial, she returns with Kumalo to Ndotsheni
Brave New World
by Aldous HuxleyJohn the Savage, watches the movie, "Three weeks in a Helicopter"Mustapha Mond banishes Helmholtz Watson and Bernard Marx632 A. F. (After Ford)In the year of our FordSoma- drug for hypnosisBokanovsky Process- splits up members of society into alphas, betas, etc.
Two Hundred Years Together
by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynCriticized for anti-antisemitism, claims Russian pogroms arose spontaneously
The Red Wheel
by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynCycle of four novels (called "Knots")August 1914- first knot, follows Colonel Vorotyntsev
The Gulag Archipelago
by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynDepicts the USSR penal system, was banned in USSRBased on 227 testimoniesA child's corpse is removed so that a coffin may be searchedRecounts the Kengir Uprising
Matryona's Home
by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynIlya's greed for timber/lumber results in the death of title relative
Cancer Ward
by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynOleg Kostoglotov is treated in title Kazakhstan locationOleg meets government informer Pavel Rusanov, romances radiotherapist Vera Gangart and nurse ZoyaDyomka has his leg amputated against the advice of AsyaOleg visits Tashkent zoo after his release
The Love-Girl and the Innocent
by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynPlay in which Lyuba sleeps with a doctor, Mereshchun, against the will of Nemov
Prussian Nights
by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynPoem about his experiences marching with the Red Army
In The First Circle
by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTitle based on Dante's InfernoMathematician Gleb Nerzhin turns down a position as a cryptographerBegins with Volodin calling a US embassy under a NKVD wire tapCommunist Lev Rubin befriends NerzhinSologdin trades his research for his freedom
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTitle character is a zek in a gulag as part of Gang 104 under foreman Tyurin, is often called by his surname ShukhovAlyosha/Alyoshka the Baptist- friend of title characterKilgas- Latvian joker who works with title character at Power StationTitle character waits in line for Caesar/Tsezar Markovich who receives packages of foodFetyukov and Gopchik work alongside the protagonist laying bricksTitle character sews bread into his mattress, owns an aluminum spoon with the engraving "Ust-Izhma, 1944"Published by Russian literary magazine Novy MirPair of Estonians do everything togetherTitle character overhears a conversation about "Old Man Whiskers" as he buys some tobacco
Ruslan and Ludmilla
by Alexander PushkinAdapted into an opera by Mikhail GlinkaTitle knight's quest to rescue his new bride from the evil wizard ChernomorFarlaf stabs title hero, who is later resurected by the magician FinnTitle knight acquires a sword from a giant talking head
Peter the Great's Negro
by Alexander PushkinBased on author's great-grandfather Abram Gannibal
Boris Godunov
by Alexander PushkinBecame basis for a Mussorgsky operaTitle tzar's death leads to Time of TroublesTitle character is father of Feodor, plans to kill DmitriThe monk Grigory Otrepev opposes title character
The Bronze Horseman
by Alexander PushkinEugene/Yevgeny goes mad after witnessing his love Parasha die when the Neva river floodsYevgeny curses title Etienne Falconet statue of Peter the Great which comes to life and chases him around St. Petersburg and kills himYevgeny survives flood by sitting on two marble lions that overlook title sculpture
The Golden Cockerel
by Alexander PushkinFairy tale about magic bird that was adapted into an opera by Rimsky-Korsakov
Poltava
by Alexander PushkinPoem about title battle in Great Northern WarThe Cossack Ivan Mazeppa elopes with Maria, the daughter of the chieftain Kochubey before losing battle against Peter the Great
The Captain's Daughter
by Alexander PushkinRomanticized view of Pugachev's RebellionPyotr Grinyov gives his hareskin jacket to Pugachev in a snowstorm
Little Tragedies
by Alexander PushkinSeries of 4 playsThe Stone Guest- about statue that killed Don JuanMozart and Salieri- based on myth that Mozart died after drinking champagne poisoned by a rival composerA Feast in the Time of PlagueThe Covetous Knight - moneylender Solomon advises Albert to poison his father
Queen of Spades
by Alexander PushkinThe German Hermann goes insane and commits suicide after drawing title card instead of an ace in a game of faro against ChekalinskyThree secret winning cards of the Count of St. GermainHermann attempts to seduce Lizavetya in order to get close to and learn gambling secrets from the CountessHermann imagines a corpse winking at him, accidentally scares the Countess to death with an unloaded pistolHermann repeats "three, seven, ace" in an asylumAdapted into a Tchaikovsky opera
The Belkin Tales
by Alexander PushkinTitle character is told five short stories"The Blizzard" - Vladimir gets lost in a snow storm on the way to his secret wedding with Marya Gavrilovna"The Shot" - Silvio enters a duel, shoots a painting
Eugene Onegin
by Alexander PushkinVerse Novel-sonnets alternating masculine and feminine rhymes (Onegin Stanzas aka Pushkin Sonnet), style was adopted by Vikram Seth's The Golden GateTitle superfluous man kills his friend Vladimir Lensky in a duel after title character dances with Olga Larina at Tatyana's name day celebrationZaretsky- title character's secondGuillot- Lensky's secondTitle character is compared to Lord Byron's Childe Harold, inherits his uncle's country mansionTitle character originally rebuffs Olga's sister Tatyana but eventually fall for her and is rejectedTatyana explores title character's library, reads notes written in margins of Don Juan, dreams about being chased by a bearTitle character's "sermon" in response to Tatyana's love letter in which he discusses how he would get bored in marriageNabokov criticized Walter Arndt's translation of this work before creating his own (published with the essay "Notes on Prosody") that was criticized by Edmund Wilson, leading to a falling out between Nabokov and Wilson
Sunflower Sutra
by Allen Ginsberg"How many flies buzzed round you innocent of your grime?"Repeats the word "locomotive" eleven times."When did you look at your skin and decide you were an impotent dirty old locomotive?""You never were no locomotive"Inspired after hallucinatory vision while reading the works of William Blake
Wichita Vortex Sutra
by Allen Ginsberg"I am an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas."
America
by Allen Ginsberg"I've given you all and now I'm nothing""Go frick yourself with your atom bomb"(but he doesn't say frick 😳)
A Supermarket in California
by Allen GinsbergAsks Garcia Lorca what he is doing down by the watermelonsNotices Walt Whitman "eying the grocery boys" and calls him a "childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats."Whitman asks : "Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?"Asks Walt Whitman, "Which way does your beard point tonight?"
Plutonian Ode
by Allen GinsbergInspired Phillip Glass's sixth symphonyDenounced atom bombs
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony BurgessAbout Alex DeLarge(Your humble narrator.") and his gang of Droogs(Pete,Dim, and George), visit the Korova Milk BarNadsat- slang combination of Russian and EnglishLudovico technique used on Alex to condition him against ultraviolence, forced to watch violent "special films" while listening to classical music, also prevents him from listening to Beethoven("Ludwig Van"), he is overseen by P.R. DeltoidTitle comes from F. Alexander's manuscriptJumps out window after hearing music by Otto SkadeligDr. Brodsky
Nothing Like the Sun
by Anthony BurgessFictional biography of Shakespeare's love life Titled for four-word phrase taken from Sonnet 130, "my mistress's eyes are..."Shakespeare contracts syphilis from The Dark Lady
The Long Day Wanes
by Anthony BurgessFirst novel in Malay TrilogyMultiracial schoolteacher Victor Crabbe, fictionalizes Britain's withdrawal from Southeast Asia
Earthly Powers
by Anthony BurgessIntertwined lives of the clergyman Carlo Campanati and the homosexual novelist Kenneth ToomeyKenneth receives a message from the archbishop on his 81st birthday Kenneth said to be based on William Somerset Maugham
The Lady with the Little Dog
by Anton ChekhovAka "The Lady with the Lapdog" Dmitri Gurov encounters his lover Anna Sergeyevna and her "white Pomeranian" in YaltaInspired by author's time in Yalta
Ward No. 6
by Anton ChekhovDr. Ragin is institutionalized in the mental facility where he works, dies of a stroke
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullersThe deaf-mute John Singer kills himself when he learns that his friend Spiros Antonapoulos died in insane asylumMick Kelly and Jake Blount befriend Singer at a cafe run by Biff BrannonBubber accidentally shoots Baby WilsonPortia- maid married to Highboy, daughter of the black doctor Benedict CopelandMick Kelley- Bubber's tomboy sister, has sex with jewish boy Harry Minowitz, is deeply moved by hearing Eroica Symphony on the radio, makes a violin out of a broken ukuleleDr. Copeland gives Christmas Speech about Marx, also has sons named Hamilton and Karl MarxWillie- Dr. Copeland's son who has his feet amputated after attempting to escape from prison and being put in cold roomJake Blount- socialist carnival worker, fights with Dr. Copeland
The Member of the Wedding
by Carson McCullersTitle character is twelve-year-old tomboy Frankie Addams who wants to join her brother Jarvis on his honeymoon to AlaskaJanice Evans- Jarvis's wifeOpens with Frankie playing cards with her cousin John HenryBerenice Brown- black cook that looks after FrankieFrankie wants to take on the identity "F. Jasmine" in AlaskaA drunk soldier tries to seduce Frankie after buying her a drink in the Blue Moon Cafe
A Man of the People
by Chinua AchebeChief Nanga is deposed by his former student, Odili
An Image of Africa
by Chinua AchebeEssay calling Heart of Darkness and Joseph Conrad, "bloody racist"
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua AchebeProtagonist- Okonkwo, an inhabitant of the Igbo village of Umuofia, gains fame by defeating Amalinze the Cat in a wrestling matchUnoka- Okonkwo's father, did nothing but play flute, Okonkwo is ashamed of himIkemefuna- boy looked after by Okonkwo, given as repayment from the Mbaino village, Okonkwo later kills him in a ritual ordered by village oracleEzeudu- elder, during his funeral, Okonkwo's gun explodes, killing Ezeudu's son and Okonkwo is forced to live in exile for 7 yearsOkonkwo beats his wife during Week of PeaceUpon Okonkwo's return, Christianity has taken over villageEnoch kills sacred python and takes off mask of village elder during a ritual, villagers riot and burn down Mr. Smith's church, white govt imprisons Okonkwo and village leadersOkonkwo tries to start revolution, beheads a messenger, and hangs himself to avoid being tried in colonial courtNwoye- Okonkwo's son, converts to christianity and changes name to IsaacEzinma- Okonkwo's favorite daughterObierika- Okonkwo's friend
No Longer at Ease
by Chinua AchebeSequel to Things Fall ApartObi Okonkwo- descendent of Okonkwo, educated in Britain, joins civil service, is convicted of taking bribesObi wants to marry Clara OkekeTitle comes from "Journey of the Magi" by T S Eliot
Civil Peace
by Chinua AchebeShort storyJohnathan sells bikes, is robbed
Anthills of the Savannah
by Chinua AchebeThe dictator Sam rules Kangan, orders the execution of reporter Idem OsodiNarrated by Chris Oriko
Arrow of God
by Chinua AchebeThe priest Ezeulu clashes with T. K. Winterbottom
Leaving a Doll's House
by Claire BloomDepicting marriage between her and Philip Roth
Brooklyn
by Colm TóibínEilis Lacey emigrates from Ireland to New York City
The Master
by Colm TóibínFictionalized version of Henry James which depicts his struggles with his craft and sexualityDepicts incident where James was booed at a showing of his play Guy Domville
The Border Trilogy
by Cormac McCarthyAll the Pretty HorsesThe CrossingCities of the Plain
All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthyFirst novel in Border TrilogyJohn Grady travels around Texas trying to find horse thief Jimmy Blevins's missing horse and Colt pistolLacey Rawlins- John Grady Cole's friendJohn Grady begins an affair with Alejandra before Jimmy Blevins is hanged
Suttree
by Cormac McCarthySet in KnoxvilleTitle character(Cornelius Suttree) is introduced as living on a houseboat, while making a living by fishing for catfish.Gene Harrogate- friend of title character, narrowly recovers from typhoid fever, given a lift by a friendly hitchhiker at end, jailed for having sex with watermelons
Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthyThe Kid collects Native American scalps with the Glanton Gang and the huge hairless albino Judge HoldenEx-priest TobinDavid Brown, a man who wears a necklace of human earsthe Judge says, "whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent." and "war is god"The protagonist joins a rogue army led by Captain White after burning down a hotel with earless man named Louis Toadvine
No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthyTitle from the Yeats poem "Sailing to Byzantium"Coin-flipping hitman Anton Chigurh chases Llewellyn Moss, who takes a suitcase of money he found at the scene of a shootout between drug dealersSheriff Ed Bell chases ChigurhCarla Jean is killed by Anton Chigurh
The Road
by Cormac McCarthyUnnamed father and his son try to reach sea after an unspecified disasterCarry a pistol with two bulletsFather says they are one of the "good guys" after stumbling upon a basement full of bodies eaten by cannibalsRepeatedly remind themselves that they are "carrying the fire"
Dictation
by Cynthia OzickImagines a lesbian affair between the secretaries of Joseph Conrad and Henry James
The Shawl
by Cynthia OzickSet in a concentration campEnds with Rosa sucking the baby Magda's saliva off of the title garment after Magda is thrown against an electric fence
The Puttermesser Papers
by Cynthia OzickTitle character creates a female golem that becomes mayor of NYC
Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress
by Daniel DefoeAnonymously published final novel of the authorTitle character prostitutes herself all over the worldHas a maid named AmySettles down with a Dutch Merchant
Conjugal Lewdness
by Daniel DefoeCompares contraception to infanticide
The True Born Englishman
by Daniel DefoeIn defense of William III or William of Orange
The Shortest Way with Dissenters
by Daniel DefoeSatirical pamphlet from point of view of Church of England official, asking for complete suppression of Non-Conformists1703 publication caused the author to be imprisoned in Newgate Prison for seditious libel
A Journal of the Plague Year
by Daniel DefoeTitle "great" disaster of 1665Narrated by H.F.Many believed was non-fiction
Memoirs of a Cavalier
by Daniel DefoeTitle Englishman serves under Gustavus Adolphus
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
by Daniel DefoeTitle character is born in Newgate Prison, her mother escapes hanging by "pleading the belly"Becomes a thief in London, marries her half brother and many othersReturns to England with her "Lancashire husband" at the age of 69Moves to Virginia, marries the criminal Jemmy and meets Humphrey, her sun she had with her half brother
Captain Singelton
by Daniel DefoeTitle character is raised by gypsies and becomes a pirate in the Arabian SeaQuaker doctor William Walters
Robinson Cruseo
by Daniel DefoeTitle character most likely based on Alexander SelkirkLands on "Island of Despair", sees a single footprint in the sand, rescues cannibal whom he converts to Christianity and names Friday(originally worshiped the god Benamuckee)Keeps track of dates by marking wooden crossEnslaved by Turkish pirates at Sallee, escapes with a Moor named Xury and Ismael to Brazil where he comes to own a plantationIs left ashore in China after his shipmates and nephew are annoyed by his preaching following a massacreSkins a lion with XuryFights off wolves while crossing the PyreneesPoll- parrot he teaches to say his name
Sea Grapes
by Derek Walcott"The classics can console. But not enough.""The ancient war between obsession and responsibility will never finish""That sail which leans on light tired of islands""great hexameters come to the conclusions of exhausted surf.""the adulterer hearing Nausicaa's name in every gull's outcry."
The Mongoose
by Derek WalcottAbout author's disdain for V.S. Naipaul"I must avoid infection/Or else I'll be as dead as Naipaul's fiction."
Tiepolo's Hound
by Derek WalcottBook-length poem that uses 26 of Walcott's own paintings as illustrationsDraws parallels between himself and Camille Pissarro
Ruins of a Great House
by Derek WalcottCompares England to a rotting mansion"a smell of dead limes quickens in the nose / The leprosy of empire""Stones only, the disjecta membra" remain of title structure"Farewell, green fields, farewell, ye happy groves"Narrator asserts men like "Hawkins, Walter Raleigh, Drake" are "ancestral murderers and poets" who perpetrate "ulcerous crime"
Omeros
by Derek WalcottEpic-length poem inspired by the Iliad, set on st. LuciaFishermen Achille and Hector battle for the affections of Plunkett's maid Helen, Hector is mourned by both Helen and Achille after he dies by crashing his van nicknamed "the Comet"Achille sails to Africa on a boat with the misspelled words "In God we Troust" painted on itMa Kilman heals the wound on the leg of the fisherman PhilocteteExiled Englishman Major Plunkett works as a pig farmer with his wife MaudThe blind man Seven Seas represents Homer, frequents Ma Kilman's No Pain CafeOpens with fisherman showing tourists how trees are felled to make canoesAfolabe (Achille's father) is renamed because of his bravery at the Battle of the Saints, teaches Achille about his African roots
Dream on Monkey Mountain
by Derek WalcottFelix Hobain, who takes on the alias Makak, works as a charcoal burner in the title placeMakak has a vision of a white goddess causing him to drunkenly attack a cafeCoffin maker Basil hovers over Makak during his trial, figure from voodooMakak is tried by Corporal Lestrade alongside Tigre and Souris, Makak reluctantly beheads the white goddess before gaining his freedom alongside Tigre and SourisMakak joins Moustique on a journey to Africa from title location
A Far Cry From Africa
by Derek WalcottOpening line: "a wind is ruffling the tawny pelt"Ending line: "How can I turn away from [title place] and live?""How can I face such slaughter and be cool?""The gorilla wrestles with the superman," speaker claims he is "poisoned with the blood""brutish necessity wipes its hands/Upon the napkin of a dirty cause""statistics justify and scholars seize the salients of colonial policy"Imagines a worm crying "Waste no compassion on these separate dead!"Speaker wonders how he could chooses between title location and "the English tongue I love.""the violence of beast on beast is read as natural law""upright man seeks his divinity by inflicting pain.""Where shall I turn, divided to the vein?"
The Schooner Flight
by Derek WalcottOpening poem of Star-Apple Kingdom"either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation"narrated by the sailor Shabine
Pantomime
by Derek WalcottWhite Harry Trewe plays Friday and black Jackson Phillip plays Robinson Crusoe when acting out Robinson Crusoe
The Swamp
by Derek Walcottgives title to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood
The Capeman
by Derek Walcott and Paul SimonPlay based on the murderer Salvador Agron
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
by Dylan Thomasparody of Joyce work
Buffalo Bill's
by E. E. Cummings"how do you like your blue eyed boy Mr. Death""watersmooth-silver stallion""break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat"
maggie and milly and molly and may
by E. E. Cummings"it's always ourselves we find in the sea""chased by a horrible thing which raced sideways while blowing bubbles"Title characters find a starfish, a shell, a "horrible thing" and a "smooth round stone"
i carry your heart with me
by E. E. Cummings"the deepest secret nobody knows"
the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
by E. E. Cummings"unbeautiful and have comfortable minds""believe in Christ and Longfellow, both dead""moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy"
anyone lived in a pretty how town
by E. E. Cummings"with up so floating many bells down""only the snow can begin to explainhow children are apt to forget to remember"Cycles through words "sun moon stars rain""noone stopped to kiss his face""he sang his didn't he danced his did."
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r
by E. E. CummingsMeant to look like a grasshopper taking flight
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by E. E. Cummingsl(a le af fa ll s) l inessThe work loneliness interrupted by "A leaf falls"
The Conqueror Worm
by Edgar Allan Poe"the play is the tragedy, 'Man.'"Appears in Ligeia
Sonnet - To Science
by Edgar Allan Poe"true daughter of old time."describes the title concept as a "vulture, whose wings are dull realities"
The Cask of Amontillado
by Edgar Allan PoeAfter crying "For the love of God, Montresor!" Fortunato is buried alive in Montresor's labyrinthine family cryptNarrator takes a trowel out to demonstrate he is a mason"Nemo me impune lacessit" - family motto
The Purloined Letter
by Edgar Allan PoeC. Auguste Dupin recovers a stolen incriminating document (it was hidden in plain sight)Title object is taken by Minister DMonsieur G- a policeman who offers 50,000 francs to recover title object
The Black Cat
by Edgar Allan PoeNarrator accidentally buries title animal Pluto alive
The Tell Tale Heart
by Edgar Allan PoeNarrator smothers his landlord after being unsettled by the man's "vulture eye", is driven mad by beating of title object and confesses to policeSound compared to a "watch...enveloped in cotton"Hides the body under the floorboards
The Gold-Bug
by Edgar Allan PoePopularized cryptograms in literatureWilliam Legrand is bitten by title creature
The Masque of the Red Death
by Edgar Allan PoePrince Prospero and guests at a colorful seven-room ball die from title plague
Ligeia
by Edgar Allan PoeShort StoryLady Rowena Trevanion becomes the title character
The Raven
by Edgar Allan PoeTitle bird repeats the word "Nevermore", perches upon a "pallid bust of Pallas"Set "once upon a midnight dreary" where narrator "pondered weak and weary"Narrator laments the death of Lenore, commands title figure to "get thee back into the tempest and night's Plutonian shore!", calls title figure a "prophet" and "thing of evil""rapping" at his "chamber door""is there balm in Gilead?""The Philosophy of Composition"- essay written by author about this poem
The Fall of the House of Usher
by Edgar Allan PoeTitle estate sinks into the groundNarrator reads The Mad Trist, in which the knight Ethelred kills a dragon, to his friend Roderick"The Haunted Palace" - poem inside this short storyRoderick buries his sister Madeline alive prompting the narrator to flee
The Bells
by Edgar Allan PoeTitle objects "Keeping time, time, time" with "tintinnabulation that so musically wells," "iron", "silver", and "wedding" varieties
A Descent into Maelstrom
by Edgar Allan PoeTour guide describes a rainbowcites Archimedes
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
by Edgar Allan Poean orangutan commits title crimesCamille L'Espanaye was discovered in a chimney
Spoon River Anthology
by Edgar Lee MastersPoetry collection narrated by the deadFinal section-Beelzebub meets with Loki and Yogarindra, follows a mock epic by Jonathan Swift Somers"The Hill"- poem which introduces work, "of what Abe Lincoln said one time at Springfield.", asks "Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom, and Charley", responds "All, all are sleeping on the hill."Poem about Lucinda Matlock, "Degenerate sons and daughters,/ Life is too strong for you-/ It takes life to love life."Abraham Lincoln's rumored boyhood love, Ann RutledgeFiddler Blind Jack spends his afterlife listening to Homer recount the fall of TroyVillage poetess Minerva Jones wants her works publishedBenjamin Pantier's wife drives him out to live with his dogThomas Rhodes owns the bank of the title locationThe Village Atheist says "Immortality is not a gift"
Patriotic Gore
by Edmund WilsonLiterary criticism of Civil War literatureTitle comes from James Ryder Randal's "Maryland, My Maryland."Discusses Mary Chesnut's diary
Axel's Castle
by Edmund WilsonOverview of literature from the Symbolist movement that takes its title from a work by Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
Memory of Fire Trilogy
by Eduardo GaleanoGenesisFaces and MasksCentury of the Wind
The Open Veins of Latin America
by Eduardo Galeanofamously gifted to Barack Obama by Hugo Chavezpolemical history of Latin America
J'accuse!
by Emile ZolaDreyfus Affair- jewish author framed for leaking secrets
I heard a Fly buzz - when I died
by Emily Dickinson"Blue - uncertain - stumbling Buzz -""could not see to see"Title creature comes "between the light and me""The Stillness in the Room / Was like the Stillness in the Air -"
Success is counted sweetest
by Emily Dickinson"By those who ne'er succeed"
I taste a liquor never brewed
by Emily Dickinson"Debauchee of Dew"Author calls herself "inebriate of air""tankards scooped in pearl"
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers
by Emily Dickinson"Diadems drop and Doges surrender"
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
by Emily Dickinson"How public like a frog-to tell one's name to an admiring Bog!""Don't tell! / They'd banish us, you know"
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
by Emily Dickinson"then a Plank in Reason, broke.""a Service, like a Drum"
Letters to "Master"
by Emily DickinsonMy life had stood-a loaded gun: "but the power to kill without the power to die"series of letters to unknown man
Because I could not stop for Death
by Emily DickinsonTitle gentleman passes by stages of human life and the "setting sun"Title entity "kindly stopped for me"Carriage that "held but just ourselves/and Immortality.""The Dews drew quivering and chill""surmised the Horses' Heads / Were toward Eternity""a house that seemed / a swelling of the ground."
"Hope" is the thing with feathers
by Emily Dickinsontitle entity "that perches in the soul".describes title feeling as "little bird / that kept so many warm"
The Beautiful and Damned
by F Scott FitzgeraldAbout relationship between Gloria and Anthony Patch, Anthony is disinherited for his drunken parties
Flappers and Philosophers
by F Scott FitzgeraldCollection of short storiesBernice Bobs Her HairThe Ice PalaceThe Cut-Glass BowlThe Offshore PirateHead and Shoulders
The Crack-Up
by F Scott FitzgeraldEssay published in Esquire about author's mental breakdown at age 39Opens with line: "of course all life is a process of breaking down"Part of a 3 part series, followed by "Pasting it Together"
Absolution
by F Scott FitzgeraldFather Schwartz collapses after hearing confession from Rudolph Miller
The Last Tycoon
by F Scott FitzgeraldFinal, unfinished novelSet in LA, about Hollywood film producer Monroe Stahr
May Day
by F Scott FitzgeraldGordon Sterrett prepares for the Gamma Psi dance
Winter Dreams
by F Scott FitzgeraldIn collection All the Sad Young MenDexter Green works as a golf caddy as a teenager, falls in love with Judy JonesDexter's father owns the second best grocery shop in Black Bear LakeLud Simms marries Judy Jones
The Offshore Pirate
by F Scott FitzgeraldIn collection Flappers and PhilosophersArdita Farnam is captured by the swashbuckling Curtis Carlyle while vacationing with her uncle in Florida
The Cut-Glass Bowl
by F Scott FitzgeraldIn collection Flappers and PhilosophersEvylyn and Harold Piper receive title piece of kitchenware as a wedding gift
The Ice Palace
by F Scott FitzgeraldIn collection Flappers and PhilosophersSally Carrol Harper leaves the south and her fiance Harry Bellamy
Head and Shoulders
by F Scott FitzgeraldIn collection Flappers and PhilosophersSymbolizes athletic and intellectual qualities of Marcia Meadow and Horace Tarbox as the title body parts
Babylon Revisited
by F Scott FitzgeraldProtagonist Charlie Wales travels to Paris to pick up his daughter HonoriaLincoln and Marion Peters deem Charlie an unfit father after Dunstan Schaeffer and Lorraine Quarrles drunkenly barge into a house and refuse to give him custodyCharlie locked his wife Helen (Marion's sister) out of the house during a snowstorm causing her to freeze to death
The Pat Hobby Stories
by F Scott FitzgeraldSeries of short stories about a hack screenwriter
This Side of Paradise
by F. Scott FitzgeraldAbout Princeton student Amory Blaine and his many romantic entaglementsAmory becomes an alcoholic after being dumped by Rosalind Connage for a wealthy manEleanor Savage ends her relationship with Amory after almost attempting suicide by riding a horse off a cliffAmory's first kiss is with Isabelle BorgeEnds with Amory line: "I know myself, but that is all--"Amory befriends Monsignor Darcy and the poet Thomas Parke D'Invilliers at PrincetonAmory sees a hallucination of his friend Dick Humbird who died in a car crash
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
by F. Scott FitzgeraldIn collection Flappers and PhilosophersMarjorie tricks her cousin, the title character, into getting title provocative haircut at the Sevier Hotel after title character draws the attention of Warren McIntyreTitle character retaliates by cutting off Marjorie's braids in her sleep and putting them on Warren's front porch before leaving for her home in Eau Claire, WisconsinTitle character greets people by saying "Hello, shell shock!", is told she has an "awfully kissable mouth"
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
by F. Scott FitzgeraldJohn T. Unger leaves his home of Hades, Mississippi and visits Percy Washington's massive estate in Montana whose wealth is based on title objectPercy Washington is descended from George Washington, his family convinces their slaves that the South won the Civil War to keep them in servitude, they shoot down airplanes and imprison pilots that get too close and see title objectThe Washingtons blow up title object at the end, Unger escapes explosion with Kismine who suffers from lettuce poisoningUnger declares "Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness"
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott FitzgeraldNarrated by Nick Carraway who lives on West Egg next to title character Jay GatsbyGatsby loves Nick's cousin Daisy who is married to Tom BuchananTom has an affair with Mrytle who lives in the Valley of Ashes with her husband George Wilson who runs a garage/gas stationTitle character calls people "old sport," owns yellow Rolls Royce, which Daisy is driving when they run over Mrytle causing George to shoot title character in his poolBillboard for optometrist T. J. Eckleburg watches over Valley of AshesMeyer Wolfsheim- gangster who fixed the 1919 World Series, wears cufflinks made of human molars, Nick visits him at Swastika Holding Company, Wolfsheim refuses to go to title character's funeralOwl Eyes marvels at title character's library full of uncut books during a party, calls title character a "regular Belasco," is one of three who attend title character's funeralEwing Klipspringer lives in title character's house, plays "The Love Nest" on piano, phones Nick after title character's death to task for his tennis-shoes backTitle character fixates on a green light on Daisy Buchanan's dockNick dates a cheating golf player Jordan Baker who is "incurably dishonest"Daisy cries over a pile of colorful shirts that the title character shows herTitle character asks orchestra to play Tostoff's Jazz History of the WorldDan Cody mentors title character, whose real name is James Gatz and who drops out of St. Olaf's College and is called an "Oxford man" despite only having attended for five monthsNick realizes it is his 30th birthday following a fight between title character and TomThe Greek Michaelis - George's neighbor, tells Nick about events surrounding title character's murderTitle character shows Nick his war medal from Montenegro, five crates of oranges and lemons arrive at his house every Friday in preparation for his partiesThomas Parke D'Invilliers- a character from Fitzgerald's first novel This Side of Paradise, is cited as the author of the poem in this novel's epigraphClosing line- "boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past"Francis Cugat designed most popular coverTitle character's father shows Nick a title character's schedule in a copy of Hopalong Cassidy before title character's funeral
Tender is the Night
by F. Scott FitzgeraldRepresents marriage between Fitzgerald and ZeldaFollows decaying marriage of psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his former patient, the schizophrenic Nicole WarrenNicole and Dick meet in Dr. Franz Gregorovius's clinic in Zurich where Nicole is attempting to deal with psychological effects of her incestuous relationship with her father, they entertain many American expatriates on the French RivieraDick has an affair with the star of the film Daddy's Girl, Rosemary HoytAlbert McKiscko challenges Tommy Barban to a duelA black man named Jules Peterson is found dead in Rosemary Hoyt's hotel bed shortly after arguing with Abe North, Dick helps smuggle the body outMaria Wallis shoots an Englishman on a trainMary- wife of Abe North, weds the Conte di Minghetti after Abe is beaten to death in a speakeasyProtagonist thinks his eye has been gouged out after fighting a member of the Carabinieri
Parker's Back
by Flannery O'ConnorContained in collection named after Everything that Rises Must Converge which also contains RevelationTitled for one part of protagonist's skin that does not have a tattoo on it
Revelation
by Flannery O'ConnorEpiphany experienced by Mrs. TurpinWellesley student Mary Grace throws textbook "Human Development" at Ruby Turpin in doctor's office waiting roomMary tells Turpin to "Go back to hell where you came from, you old wart hog."
Good Country People
by Flannery O'ConnorHulga/Joy Hopewell(has philosophy Phd) has her wooden artificial leg stolen by fake bible salesman Manley PointerClimax occurs in barn loft, Manley takes condoms, cards, and whiskey out of hollow bible
The Displaced Person
by Flannery O'ConnorPolish refugee settles on a farm
A Late Encounter with the Enemy
by Flannery O'ConnorSally Poker hopes to see her grandfather attend her college graduation
The Violent Bear it Away
by Flannery O'ConnorTeenage preacher from Powderhead, Francis Marion TarwaterFrancis tries to avoid his uncle Rayber's command to baptize his nephew Bishop who is mentally handicapped
The Life You Save Might be Your Own
by Flannery O'ConnorTom Shiftlet drives off after abandoning his mute wife at a bar, sees title phrase following "Drive Carefully" on a billboardOne-armed Tom Shiftlet devises scheme to fix up and steal car from Mrs. Lucynell CraterLucynell Crater wants her mute daughter(with same name as her mother) to marry Tom Tom teaches Lucynell to say "bird"
A Good Man is Hard to Find
by Flannery O'Connorthe Grandmother's family is killed by escaped criminal, The Misfit while on road trip to FloridaCat Pitty Sing causes a crash by jumping out of a picnic basket onto Bailey's neckGrandmother "might have been a good woman if there had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life"Hiram and Bobby Lee kill John Wesley and June StarTitle comes from conversation with Red Sammy at The TowerGrandmother can't remember if house with secret panel is in Tennessee or Georgia
Wise Blood
by Flannery O'Connor- her first novelHazel Motes founds The Church Without Christ after meeting fake blind preacher Asa Hawks(tries to blind himself with lye)Zookeeper Enoch Emery steals mummy to become "new Jesus", kills a man in a Gonga the Gorilla suit and steals the suitSabbath Lily- nymphomaniac daughter of Asa Hawks who Enoch tries to seduceEnoch sleeps with prostitute Leora Watts
Gargantua and Pantagruel
by Francois Rabelais/ Alcofribas NasierG is father of PG drowns paris by urinating on it, is taught by tutor PonocratesAbbey of Theleme- built by G for Friar John of the Funnels, motto is "Do What Thou Wilt"P and Panurge go in serach of Oracle of the Holy BottlePicrochole wages war with King Grandgousier(father of G)
Dune
by Frank HerbertScience fiction novel about Spice/Melange produced by giant sandworms on the planet Arrakis
The Idiot
by Fyodor DostoyevskyRogozhin murders Nastassya FilipnovaThe epileptic Prince Myshkin Aglaya- lover of Myshkin
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor DostoyevskySet in St. Petersburg Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov uses an axe to kill Alyona Ivanovna and her sister Lizaveta after Lizaveta walks in on the murderDunya- Raskolnikov's sister, is first engaged to Luzhin, marries Razumikhin Svidrigailov- Dunya's former employer, shoots himself after saying he is "going to America"Rodion confesses to prostitute Sonya, eventually falls in love with her, she convinces him to confess to Porfiry Petrovich who was investigating himRaskolnikov wears a cypress cross and kisses the ground before confessing, is sentenced to eight years of hard labor in SiberiaProtagonist writes an article about "great/extraordinary men" (aka übermensch) such as Napoleon that he is like, dreams about peasants beating a mare to deathMarmeladov- drunken man who is run over by a carriage, Sonya's father
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoyevskythe underground man encounters the prostitute Liza in a section entitled "Apropos of the Wet Snow."
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Dmitri, Ivan, and AlyoshaDmitri is put on trial for murder of his father at the end(actually done by Smerdyakov)The parable of the "Grand Inquisitor" is told by Ivan to Alyosha- Alyosha kisses Ivan on the lips imitating a kiss from Christ/Jesus in the story
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia MarquezAbout the relationship between Florentino Ariza and Fermina DazaBegins with the suicide of the photographer Jeremiah de Saint-Amour and smell of bitter almondsDr. Juvenal Urbino- Fermina's first husband, dies after falling off a ladder to chase after his pet parrot, Fermina discovers his affair with Barbara Lynch by smelling his clothesEnds with Florentino and Fermina consummating relationship on a riverboat with yellow flag, signifying it is infected with choleraHildebranda and Thugut help the main characters exchange telegrams
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
by Gabriel Garcia MarquezAccount of the murder of Santiago Nasar by brothers Pablo and Pedro VicarioAngela- sister of Vicario brothers, her husband, Bayardo San Roman, discovers she is not a virgin, she says Nasar took her virginityLoudly proclaim in public they will kill him at Clotilde Armenta's milk shop, nobody tells SantiagoBishop arrives on steamboat but doesn't come ashoreColonel Lazaro Aponte does not prevent death
The General in his Labyrinth
by Gabriel Garcia MarquezCenters around later life of Simon Bolivar
Leaf Storm
by Gabriel Garcia MarquezFirst appearance of MacondoAbout The Father's attempts to bury The DoctorSeveral short stories in collection
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia MarquezSeven generations of the Buenida family in Macondo started with Jose Arcadio Buenida and Ursula IguaranColonel Aureliano Buenida- makes golden fishes, has 17 illegitimate children of the same name who have ash Wednesday crosses on their foreheadsPietro Crespi- Italian pianola instructor who commits suicide after failing to marry both Rebeca and AmarantaRebeca carries around bones of her parentsRemedios the Beauty, refuses to wear clothes, ascends to heaven while washing sheetsAureliano born from incestuous relationship, has a pig tail and is devoured by antsCatalonian booksellerMauricio Babilonia constantly pursued by yellow butterflies, is mistaken for chicken thief and shot and paralyzed Melquiades wrote a Sanskrit manuscript of Macondo's past and future
The Autumn of the Patriarch
by Gabriel Garcia MarquezSix-part stream of consciousness novel that revolves around the death of an unnamed Caribbean dictator who is between 107 and 232 years oldLove affair with Manuela Saenz
Innocent Erendira
by Gabriel Garcia Marquezexpands a subplot of One Hundred Years of Solitude where title character has to prostitute herself every night to pay back her grandmother after accidentally burning down house
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
by Gabriel Garcia Marquezin Leaf StormChildren find a corpse on the beach, which is taken back to town for a funeralWomen decide his name must have been Esteban, make clothes for himGive him a sea burial but decide not to weigh body down so it might someday return to them
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
by Gabriel Garcia Marquezin Leaf StormSubtitled "A Tale for Children"Couple Pelayo and Elisenda discover title person in backyard after a three day storm passesThey keep the man, who most believe to be an angel, in chicken coop, charge 10 cents for people to come see himPriest doesn't believe title man is an angel because he does not understand LatinPeople lose interest because of a girl who has been transformed into a tarantula who eats meatballsTitle entities grow back and title man flies off
Soul Mountain
by Gao XingjianAutobiographical- inspired by author's travels along the Yangtze following a false lung cancer diagnosisUnnamed protagonist searches for Lingshan (title location)Narrators called "I," "you," "she," and "he"Narrator meets a peasant who chopped off his arm after a poisonous snake bite, tells a story about a man who watches a nun wash her own entrails
One Man's Bible
by Gao XingjianJuxtaposes sexual encounters with scenes from the Cultural RevolutionNarrator travels with the French woman Sylvie after being abandoned by Margarethe
The Accident
by Gao XingjianShort story in collection Buying a Fishing Rod for My GrandfatherCyclist gets hit by a bus
The Temple
by Gao XingjianShort story in collection Buying a Fishing Rod for My GrandfatherHoneymooning couple stops in a rural village
Cramp
by Gao XingjianShort story in collection Buying a Fishing Rod for My GrandfatherNarrator almost drowns and returns to find out nobody knew he was missing
Adam Bede
by George EliotTitle virtuous carpenter loves Hetty Sorrel Arthur Donnithorne leaves Hayslope for militia duties, Hetty Sorrel abandons her illegitimate child with him and is hung for infanticideTitle character marries Methodist preacher Dinah MorrisTitle character works with Johnathan Burge and lives on the Poyser's dairy farm, argues with Bartle Massey over price of a frame sold to Miss LydiaChapter titled "In Which the Story Pauses a Little"Shoemaker Joshua Rann
Pied Beauty
by Gerard Manley Hopkins"Glory be to God for dappled things""All things counter, original, spare, strange""skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow"Ends by saying "praise him"Example of a curtal sonnet created by Hopkins
The Caged Skylark
by Gerard Manley Hopkins"Man's mounting spirit in his bone-house".
Spring and Fall
by Gerard Manley Hopkins"Margaret, are you grieving / Over Goldengrove unleaving?""worlds of wanwood leafmeal"
The Wreck of the Deutschland
by Gerard Manley HopkinsDepicts death of five Franciscan nuns at title event"the Happy Memory of five Franciscan Nuns exiled by the Falk Laws""on Saturday sailed from Bremen, American-outward-bound.""O Christ, Christ, come quickly""Hope had grown grey hairs"
Carrion Comfort
by Gerard Manley HopkinsIn the collection, Terrible Sonnets"I...lay wrestling with (my God!) my God"Speaker will not "Despair, not feast on" the title entity"lay a lionlimb against me?"
No Worst, There is None
by Gerard Manley HopkinsIn the collection, Terrible Sonnets"creep, wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind"
God's Granduer
by Gerard Manley HopkinsProclaims title entity will "flame out, like shining from shook foil" and "gather to a greatness, like the ooze of oil.""Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; / And all is seared with trade."
Felix Randal
by Gerard Manley HopkinsReaction to the death from tuberculosis of Hopkins' blacksmith/farrier friend"some fatal four disorders""O he is dead then?"
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
by Gerard Manley HopkinsTITLE PHRASE is followed by ", dragonflies draw flame.""each mortal thing does one thing and the same"
The Windhover
by Gerard Manley Hopkinsdedicated "To Christ our Lord"About a "kingdom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon.""I caught this morning morning's minion.""blue-bleak embers... Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.""the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!""O, my chevalier!"
The Confidential Agent
by Graham Greene"D" is an expert on The Song of Roland
Brighton Rock
by Graham GreeneCafe owner Ida Arnold pursues the gang leader Pinkie Brown, who murders the journalist Fred Hale who wrote an article that put Pinkie in jail for racketeering Titled after a type of hard candyPinkie marries the waitress Rose, leaves her a recording that says "god dam you you little b*tch"Fred goes by the name "Kolley Kibber" in a newspaper contestPrewitt- Pinkie's lawyerPinkie attacks Dallow, a member of his gang
The Human Factor
by Graham GreeneCommunist Carson helps the wife of MI6 agent Maurice Castle escape to South Africa
Stamboul Train
by Graham GreeneDr. Czinner travels aboard the Orient ExpressJohn Priestly felt he had been defamed in the form of the character of Quin Savory, sued Greene
The End of the Party
by Graham GreeneFrancis Morton dies from shock when his twin brother Peter grasps his hand during a game of hide and seek in the dark
Our Man in Havana
by Graham GreeneJames Wormold fakes his way through a job as a MI6 spy in order to supplement his income as a vacuum cleaner salesman (submits sketches of insides of vacuums saying they are blueprints for secret weapon)Drawings of Atomic Pile lead to mission for Wormold and his partner Beatrice Severn that leads to them being fired by boss HawthorneWormold kills Carter with Captain Segura's gun to avenge the death of Dr. Hasselbeck (who decoded messages using Lamb's Tales From ShakespeareCarter tries to poison Wormold's whiskey but a dog drinks it and dies instead at a dinner of the European Trader's AssociationSegura is defeated by Wormold in a game of checkers with whiskey bottle pieces, carries a cigarette case made of human skinMilly- James Wromold's daughter who convinces him to buy her a horse
The Heart of the Matter
by Graham GreeneMajor Henry Scobie- honest chief of police in a British West African district, purposely overdoses on evipan to avoid deciding between his wife Louise and Helen Rolt.Scobie's love letter to Rolt is intercepted and used as blackmail by Syrian named YusefScobie searches ships such as the Portuguese Esperança for smuggled diamonds, discusses his affair with a Catholic priestScobie's servant Ali is killed by "wharf rats"
The Destructors
by Graham GreeneMr. Thomas (who is called Old Misery) is locked in an outhouse while the "Wormsley Common Gang" senselessly destroys his stately home
The End of the Affair
by Graham GreeneSarah Miles breaks off her liaison with neighbor Maurice Bendrix after a V-1 rocket destroys her London flat and she finds religionAn ugly strawberry mark miraculously disappears from the face of Richard SmytheBendrix hires Alfred Parkis to recover Sarah's diarySarah is married to the impotent English statesman Henry
The Third Man
by Graham GreeneScreenplayFilm noir starring Orson Welles as the title character, Harry LimeHolly Martins tries to track down Harry Lime
The Power and the Glory
by Graham GreeneSet in Tabasco, Mexico"Whiskey priest"- protagonist Catholic priest lured into a trap when asked to hear a dying confessions of the Gringo and is executed by the Lieutenant after being betrayed by the yellow-toothed mestizoCoral Fellows houses the whiskey priest in her barn and teaches him Morse CodeBrigida- illegitimate daughter of the whiskey priest and MariaThe dentist Mr. Tench meets the whiskey priest at the wharfThe whiskey priest also stays with Mr. Lehr, fights a crippled dog over scraps of meat on a bone, eats a lump of sugar placed by the mouth of a dead Indian boy in a cemeteryInterspersed stories about JuanWhiskey priest agrees to help wounded American outlaw named James CalverPadre Jose refuses to hear protagonist's final confession
The Quiet American
by Graham GreeneTitle character is the intellectual Alden Pyle, CIA agent who works to bring about the "Third Force" described in the work of York HardingNarrator- Journalist Thomas Fowler covers the French war in Vietnam, spends night in a watch tower with title characterPyle steals the girl Phuong away from Fowler who helps assassinate Pyle at endVigot investigates title character's deathAlden Pyle uses bicycle pumps filled with explosives to conduct acts of terrorism on Vietminh, visits the brothel House of Five Hundred Girls
Local Anaesthetic
by Gunter GrassAbout a dentist
The Call of the Toad
by Gunter GrassAlexander Reschke and Alexandra Piatkowska establish the Polish-German-Lithuanian Cemetery Association.
Dog Years
by Gunter GrassFollows Cat and Mouse in Danzig TrilogyParodies concepts of HeideggerEduard Amsel narrates first section collects various S.A. uniforms to dress his scarecrows inHarry Liebenau narrates second section which features Tully Pokriefke, mother of Paul in Grass's CrabwalkEx-Nazi Walter Matern is friends with Amsel, breeds animals
Cat and Mouse
by Gunter GrassFollows The Tin Drum and precedes Dog Years in Danzig TrilogyJoachim "The Great" Mahlke disappears after Pilenz encourages him to dive into a shipwreck (half-sunken Polish minesweeper)Mahlke has a huge Adam's apple that is scratched by a cat, gets expelled after stealing Iron Cross of a U-Boat captain
Peeling the Onion
by Gunter GrassMemoir that was criticized for obscuring author's time in the Waffen SS
The Flounder
by Gunter GrassNameless narrator is married to Ilsebill Title fish is put on trial before Women's Revolutionary TribunalLoosely based on Grimm fairy tale The Fisherman and His Wife.Tells the stories of nine cooks whom the narrator met throughout history
The Meeting at Telgte
by Gunter GrassSimon Dach leads a 1647 convention of intellectuals into the title town at the end of the 30 Years' War
Danzig Trilogy
by Gunter GrassThe Tin DrumCat and MouseDog Years
Crabwalk
by Gunter GrassTitle describes the way the protagonist Paul Pokriefke moves through timePaul Pokriefke is born on life boat of the sinking cruise ship Wilhelm GustloffDavid Frankfurter assassinates Wilhelm Gustloff in Davos, namesake of the cruise shipWolfgang Stremplin is shot by Paul PokriefkePaul's mother Tully also appears in Dog Years
Old Times
by Harold PinterAnna admits to borrowing Kate's underwear and letting Deeley look up her skirt
The Caretaker
by Harold PinterAston takes in the homeless Mac Davies, offers him the title jobCharacteristic Pinter Pauses in dialogueMick smashes a statue of the Buddha while arguing with DaviesBernard Jenkins(actually Davies) says he will go down to Sidcup to pick up his papersAston reveals he was admitted into a mental hospital at age 16 and given electroshock therapy
The Room
by Harold PinterBert beats a blind man named Riley when he finds him with his wife, Rose Hudd who also goes blind.
A Slight Ache
by Harold PinterOriginally written as a radio dramaFlora seduces a seller of matches
The Homecoming
by Harold PinterPhilosophy professor Teddy and Ruth visit Teddy's family in London after having lived in AmericaRuth goes upstairs with Teddy's brother Joey for two-hour encounter without going "whole hog"Lenny and Joey convince Ruth to leave Teddy to become a prostituteSam reveals that Max(retired butcher, father of Teddy)'s late wife Jessie cheated on him with Macgregor in his taxi before collapsing of a heart attackTeddy eats Lenny's specially made cheese-roll
Ashes to Ashes
by Harold PinterRebecca describes her dreams to her therapist-like lover Devlin, tells him to put his hands around her throat
Betrayal
by Harold PinterScenes are mostly in reverse chronological orderDepicts seven-year affair between Emma and Jerry, Jerry confesses love for Emma in final scene at a partyCharacters bash the popular writing of Roger Casey, whose work is published by Robert(Emma's husband)Emma modeled after Joan Bakewell, who Pinter had an affair withRobert and Jerry discuss how they never play squash anymoreRobert talks about reading Yeats after taking the speedboat to Torcello
The Birthday Party
by Harold PinterTitle event is planned by Meg Bole at her husband Petey's boarding house for pianist Stanley Webber, she gives him a toy drumStanley breaks his drum and glasses and tries to rape LuLu during game of Blind Man's Bluff Stanley is taken by Goldberg and McCann to "Monty" for "special treatment", they scream rhetorical questions at him like "Why did the chicken cross the road?" and "Is the number 846 possible or necessary?"Petey skips title event to play chess, tells Stanley, "Don't let them tell you what to do!"Ends with Meg proclaiming "I was the belle of the ball"Begins with Meg bringing cornflakes and fried bread to PeteySeveral characters in this play whistle The Mountains of Morne and worry about the appearance of a large vehicle containing a wheelbarrowGoldberg is also called Simey, Nat, and Benny
The Dumb Waiter
by Harold PinterTitle machine brings food to the assassins/hitmen Ben and Gus in a basementThey discuss unseen character Wilson, why the toilet takes so long to flush, argue over semantics of the phrases "light the kettle" and "put on the kettle"Ben claims to be able to make "Ormitha Macarounda"Argument over Birmingham-Tottenham soccer gameEnds with whistle from a speaking tube and Ben receives orders to shoot GusBegins with newspaper stories about an eight-year-old girl killing a cat and an old man hit by a carriage
A Kind of Alaska
by Harold PinterTitle state is a metaphor for suspended animation Deborah was held in(30 year coma) before Hornby(her brother in law) awakens her
An Enemy of the People
by Henrik IbsenDr. Stockman discovers the tannery is leaking off harmful materials and therefore the bathhouses cannot be built because of thisHe is ostracized for speaking out
The Altar of the Dead
by Henry JamesA man dies before he can add a candle to an altar for the despised Acton Hague
The Tragic Muse
by Henry JamesAbout Nick Dormer and Miriam Rooth
The Spoils of Poynton
by Henry JamesAdela Gareth takes furniture from the title estate
Washington Square
by Henry JamesCatherine Sloper's meddling father Dr. Austin Sloper prevents her from marrying Morris TownsendNamed after its setting- an elite neighborhood in New YorkCatherine's aunt Lavinia Penniman dispenses unwanted matrimonial advice to TownsendLavinia introduces Catherine to Morris at Catherine's cousin Marian Almond's engagement party
The American
by Henry JamesChristopher Newman tries to marry Claire de Cintre in Paris
Guy Domville
by Henry JamesDisastrous play, was booed
The Jolly Corner
by Henry JamesGhost story involving Spencer Brydon
New York Edition
by Henry JamesHeavily-edited 24 volume collection of his workDid not include Washington Square and The Europeans
The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry JamesIsabel Archer inherits a fortune from her uncle Ralph Touchett, is courted by Lord Warburton and Caspar GoodwoodMadame Merle manipulates Isabel into marrying Gilbert Osmond (an American expatriate living in Florence, Italy) and moving to EuropeHenrietta Stackpole- journalist friend of IsabelCountess Gemini gossips constantly, reveals that Pansy is the illegitimate daughter of Merle and Osmond
The Beast in the Jungle
by Henry JamesJohn Marcher likens his sense of foreboding to the lurking title creatureMarcher realizes he has wasted his life waiting, flings himself on his wife May Bertram's graveOpens with Marcher staying at Weatherend
The Ambassadors
by Henry JamesLambert Strether is sent to Paris to find Chad NewsomeStrether meets Madame de Vionnet at Notre Dame Cathedral, declines Maria Gostrey's proposal of marriageAn artist goes by the name Little Bilham because he is shortStrether gives a climactic speech in the garden of a sculptor named Gloriani, includes the line "Live all you can"Sarah and Mamie Pocock go to EuropeThe lawyer Mr. Waymarsh travels with StretherStrether takes a train ride to see country landscape that reminds him of a Lambinet painting
The Golden Bowl
by Henry JamesMaggie Verver discovers affair between Charlotte Stant and Prince Amerigo (maggie's husband) after purchasing title objectFanny Assingham introduces Maggie to Amerigo, destroys title objectShopkeeper who is fluent in Italian recognizes photograph of Amerigo and Charlotte
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry JamesNarrated by the Governess who believes she is being haunted by ghosts of Miss Jessel and Peter QuintThe governess succeeds Miss Jessel in her position at BlyThe children Flora and Miles are visited by ghostsMiles is expelled from school, exclaims "Peter Quint—you devil!" (devil could refer to Quint or the governess) before dying in governess's arms at the endThe governess sees an apparition of a man in a tower and later in a dining room windowThe servant Luke is blamed for never delivering a letter but it turns out Miles stole it and burned itEdmund Wilson argued that the ghosts were imagined by protagonist in his essay "Ambiguity in Henry James"Miles claims to have put out a candle that interrupts the writing of a letterFrame story of this novel is a manuscript by the governess being read at a party by DouglasHousekeeper Mrs. Grose takes Flora to her uncle
The Figure in the Carpet
by Henry JamesNarrator writes a review of Hugh Vereker's most recent novel and tries to become close with Gwendolen
The Bostonians
by Henry JamesPopularized the term "Boston marriage" which refers to a lesbian couple cohabiting for a long timeVerena Tarrant is groomed by Olive Chancellor to be a spokesperson for the feminist movement, runs away with lawyer Basil Ransom instead of giving speech at Music HallOpens with mesmerist quack Selah and the pioneering Dr. Prance attend the party hosted by Miss BirdseyeTarrant turns down proposal from Matthias Pardon
Paste
by Henry JamesReverse of the plot of "The Necklace" by MaupassantA string of pearls is eventual found to be genuineMrs. Guy buys pearls after Charlotte Prime's cousin Arthur sells it
Roderick Hudson
by Henry JamesRowland Mallet meets title sculptor who loves Christina Light
The Wings of the Dove
by Henry JamesSet in VeniceMerton Densher attempts to woo the terminally ill Milly Theale though he loves Kate CroyKate Croy wants to escape being financially dependent on her aunt Maud LowderLast line: "We shall never be again as we were!"
The Aspern Papers
by Henry JamesSet in Venice Juliana Bordereau calls the narrator a "publishing scoundrel" after she catches him sneaking into her room to steal title objects from her deskMiss Tita- Juliana's niece, burns title objects
The Princess Casamassima
by Henry JamesTitle character earlier appeared in James's book Roderick HudsonHyacinth Robinson gets involved with revolutionary politics and the title royal figure named Christina LightHyacinth inherits money from Miss Pynsent and works with revolutionary Paul Muniment
Daisy Miller
by Henry JamesTitle character is an American woman in Europe, is ostracized for her relationship with Mr. GiovanelliNarrator Frederick Winterbourne loves title character, recites lines from Byron's Manfred after seeing her with Giovanelli at the Colosseum at night where she contracts and later dies from Roman fever (malaria) Title character is uninvited from Mrs. Walker's parties after she walks alone with Italian men and offends guests such as Mr. CostelloWinterbourne accompanies title character to Chillon Castle(Chateau de Chillon) in Vevey, SwitzerlandThe courier Eugenio disaproves of title character's plan to go boating on a lake with WinterbourneRandolph- title character's younger brother, prefers Schenectady to Europe, complains about being unable to get "American candy"Winterbourne's aunt asks him to bring a copy of Cherbuliez's Paule Méré
What Maisie Knew
by Henry JamesTitle child character deals with the divorce of her parents Beale and Ida Farange
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville"Call me Ishmael"Pequod, owned by Captains Bildad and Peleg, is destroyed by a giant white whaleCaptain Ahab- lighting bolt shaped scar, nails a gold doubloon to mast Queequeg- tattoo'd cannibal from Rokovoko, worships the idol Yojo, stays with Ishmael in Spouter-InnStarbuck- first mate, he and Flask are in command of Daggoo and Tashtego Father Maple delivers a sermon on story of JonahThe Rachel saves Ishmael while he floats on Queequeg's coffinPip- black cabin boy, goes crazy after Stubb leaves him at seaZoroastrian/Parsee Fedallah predicts Ahab will die only if he sees two hearses on the ocean and that he can be killed only by hemp, has a white turban
Pierre, or the Ambiguities
by Herman MelvilleAfter having a vision of the giant Enceladus, the titular character eventually kills Glen Stanley and commits suicide using his sister Isabel's poison
The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids
by Herman MelvilleDescribes being taken to a club of lawyers in London where time was measured by "a wine chronometer"
The Confidence-Man
by Herman MelvilleFinal novelAllegory in which the title figure interacts with passengers on the steamboat Fidele on the MississippiSet on April Fools' Day
Battle-Pieces
by Herman MelvilleNovel containing author's civil war poetry
White-Jacket
by Herman MelvilleSailor aboard the Neversink, stitches the title garment from scraps of rags
Billy Budd, Sailor
by Herman MelvilleTitle stuttering sailor is executed for punching and killing Master-at-Arms of the HMS Bellipotent, John ClaggartTitle character says "God bless Captain Vere!" before being hangedOld man Dansker warns title character that Jimmy Legs dislikes himEnds with a ballad about title character "in the Darbies"Title "Handsome Sailor" hits Red Whiskers, is harassed by Squeak
The Bell-Tower
by Herman Melville in The Piazza TalesBannadonna's pursuit of perfection leads to his death when he tries to fix a device located at the top of the title structure.
Bartelby the Scrivener
by Herman Melville in The Piazza TalesNarrator employs Ginger Nut(brings cakes to title character), Turkey, Nippers, and title character at law officeTitle character responds "I would prefer not to" to every requestProtagonist used to work at a Dead Letter office, starves to death in The Tombs as he "would prefer not to" eatEnds with narrator exclaiming "Ah, humanity!"One character has indigestion in mornings while other is intoxicated in the afternoons
Benito Cereno
by Herman Melville in the Piazza TalesAmasa Delano(captain of the Bachelor's Delight) discovers that Babo led a slave-rebellion against the title captain of the San DominickA servant accidentally draws blood while shaving the nervous, shaking captainFigurehead inscribed with "follow your leader" revealed to display the skeleton of Alexandro Aranda
The Lightning-Rod Man
by Herman Melville in the Piazza TalesCharacter who considers it dangerous to sit near a fireplace in a thunderstorm is given the joking nickname "Jupiter Tonans"Title character claims to be able to control the weather with a long, copper object
Narcissus and Goldmund
by Hermann HesseFirst title character teaches second title character in a monastery called MariabronnSecond title character leaves monastery to become an artist/sculptor after having sex with a gypsy while first title character remains and eventually becomes head abbotSecond title character is forced to stab his traveling companion Viktor after Viktor attacks himSecond title character apprentices under woodcarver Master Niklaus
Beneath the Wheel
by Hermann HesseHans Giebenrath is crushed by German education system, is expelled from Maulbronn seminary, and is shortly found drowned in a river thereafterHans Giebenrath befriends Hermann Heilner, becomes a blacksmith's apprentice
The Glass Bead Game
by Hermann HesseJoseph Knecht achieves the title of Magister Ludi in the fictional province of Castalia after becoming master of title gameKnecht retires his title and quits title game to become Tito's tutor before drowning in a lake while teaching himThomas van der Trave - is succeeded by Knecht as Magister LudiKnecht studies at Waldzell with Plinio Designori, the father TitoKnecht travels to Mariafels, a monestary in Castalia where he befriends Father Jacobus and studies the I Ching with Elder Brother in the Bamboo GroveFritz Tegularius- based on Nietzsche, studies at WaldzellThe Music Master tests KnechtKnecht writes stories including one titled "Three Lives"in which a self-sacrificing rainmaker, a hermit, and an Indian Prince named Dasa represent reincarnations of its protagonistModern era is described as the "Age of Feuilleton" by a historian named Plinius Ziegenhalss
Journey to the East
by Hermann HesseProtagonist joins "The League" and goes on a quest to find the "ultimate truth"The League fails shortly after Leo abandons them at the gorge Morbio InferioreVarious of Hesse's other characters appear in this novel including Vasudeva and Goldmund
Siddhartha
by Hermann HesseTitle Brahmin searches for meaningTitle character first defies his father by standing outside his window all night, leaves with his friend Govinda to become an ascetic Samana in the forestTitle character leaves Govinda who joins the Buddha(called Gotama) Title character learns business from Kamaswami and becomes rich in order to gain affections of the courtesan Kamala, gambles with dice in order to renounce his wealthKamala and title character become lovers, he leaves her after dreaming of the death of her songbird in a cage, realizes her child is his after she dies from a snake biteTitle character reaches enlightenment with the ferryman Vasudeva who teaches him to listen to the riverTitle character contemplates suicide while hanging onto a coconut tree above the riverEnds with Govinda kissing title character's forehead
Demian
by Hermann HesseTitle character Max prods narrator Emil Sinclair(pseudonym used by Hesse to publish this work) to spiritual realizationThe organist Pistorius becomes Sinclair's mentor, introduces him to the god Abraxas who appears in Sinclair's dream as a sparrow hawk hatching from an eggTitle character telepathically stops Franz Kromer from bullying SinclairSinclair becomes infatuated with title character's mother Frau EvaSeveral characters bear the Mark of Cain, title character explains an alternate interpretation of the story of Cain and Able to SinclairAlfons Beck introduces Sinclair to alcoholEarly in this novel, Sinclair is scolded by his father for muddy shoes after he steals a sack of apples, leading to him being blackmailed by Kromer
Gertrud
by Hermann HesseTitle character marries Heinrich Muoth instead of the composer Kuhn
Klingsor's Last Summer
by Hermann HesseTu Fu attempts to help his friend, the title painter
Trilogy
by Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)"These Walls Do Not Fall" "Tribute to the Angels""The Flowering of the Rod"
Oread
by Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)Tells the sea to "Whirl up...hurl your green over us, cover us with your pools of fir."
Ars Poetica
by Horace"in medias res" - (good plots begin in the middle of the action)Warns against use of "deus ex machina"Written as an epistle to Lucius Calpurnius Piso and his sons (the Pisones)"ut pictura poesis" - ("as in painting, so in poetry")"even good Homer nods"Asserts that plays should have five actsOpens by describing the absurdity of a painter attaching a human head to a horse's neck
Carmen Saeculare
by HoraceChoir of 27 boys and 27 girlsTo be sung at Secular Games celebrating end of the century
Horace's Epodes
by HoraceDraws heavily on the iambic poetry of Archilochus
Hell's Angels
by Hunter S. Thompson"Strange and Terrible Saga" about title motorcycle gang lead by Sonny Barger that Thompson infiltrated, launched his career
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. ThompsonAdapted from a piece in the Rolling StonesAbout drug-laced adventures of Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo who are sent to title city to cover the Mint 400 motorcycle raceMan asks the narrator to throw a toaster into his bathtub when the song "White Rabbit" playsOpens with Samuel Johnson's quote "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man"
Fatelessness
by Imre KertészFirst part of trilogy that also includes Fiasco and Kaddish for an Unborn ChildSemi-autobiographical story about György "Gyuri" Köves, a 14 year old boy from Budapest who bounces around concentration campsGyorgy stops in Auschwitz and Buchenwald before ending up in Zeitz where he meets Bandi CitromGyorgy is repeatedly ostracized for not being a "real Jew"
Kaddish For An Unborn Child
by Imre KertészFollows Fiasco and Fatelessness in a trilogyHolocaust survivor B. repeatedly says "no" to his wife's requests to start a family, explains to Dr. Oblath why he does not want children
Liquidation
by Imre KertészKingbitter discovers a play written by B.
Shosha
by Isaac Bashevis SingerA character nicknamed Tsutsik refuses to leave Poland because of his love for the title character
The Magician of Lublin
by Isaac Bashevis SingerAbout title womanizing stage performer Yasha MazurYasha cheats on his barren Jewish wife Esther with his acrobat assistant Magda who commits suicide and with the Catholic Emilia
The Family Moskat
by Isaac Bashevis SingerAsa Heshel interacts with title family
Enemies, A Love Story
by Isaac Bashevis SingerHerman Broder, a Holocaust survivor accidentally commits bigamy and discovers his first wife Tamara survived
Satan in Goray
by Isaac Bashevis SingerMessianic cult of Sabbatai Zevi sweeps through title town
The Spinoza of Market Street
by Isaac Bashevis SingerThe intellectual Nahum Fischelson marries the old maid Black Dobbe
Gimpel the Fool
by Isaac Bashevis SingerTitle baker is married to the verbally abusive Elka, refuses to believe her adultery until she reveals the six children she had without him on her deathbedSpirit of Evil convinces title character to urinate in loaves of bread that he later buries, tells title character there is no God only a "thick mire"Set in Frampol whose other residents frequently take advantage of title character, title character leaves Frampol to become a wandering storytellerRietze the Candle-dipper makes fun of title characterSaul Bellow translated this work into English
Seven Gothic Tales
by Isak Dinesen aka Karen Blixen"The Deluge at Norderney""The Old Chevalier""The Monkey""The Roads Round Pisa""The Supper at Elsinore""The Dreamers""The Poet"
Sorrow-Acre
by Isak Dinesen aka Karen BlixenAnne-Marie Kiil dies after mowing an entire field of rye in one day to free her son
Out of Africa
by Isak Dinesen aka Karen BlixenDescribes her experience owning a coffee plantation in Ngong Hills of Kenya with her husband.Narrator falls in love with Denys Finch Hatton who dies in a plane crashTwo lions gather at grave of Finch HattonOne section describes dances called "ngomas"Narrator sends Kamante to hospital after failing to heal his sore legs, he converts to Christianity
The Monkey
by Isak Dinesen aka Karen BlixenIn Seven Gothic TalesA Prioress, possessed by the title animal, tries to get Boris to rape Athena Hopballehus
The Old Chevalier
by Isak Dinesen aka Karen BlixenIn Seven Gothic TalesAbout a baron's affair with the young Nathalie
The Deluge at Norderney
by Isak Dinesen aka Karen BlixenIn Seven Gothic TalesCalypso marries Jonathan Maersk in a hayloft, where they are trapped while waiting out a flood along with Cardinal Hamilcar and Malin Nat-og-DagThe Cardinal reveals he is actually Kasparson, tells the story "The Wine of the Tetrarch" - about a man named Barabbas
The Dreamers
by Isak Dinesen aka Karen BlixenIn Seven Gothic TalesOpera singer Pellegrina Leoni losers her voice in a fire
The Roads Round Pisa
by Isak Dinesen aka Karen BlixenIn Seven Gothic TalesPrince Potenziani asks Count Nino toimpregnate his wife
The Supper at Elsinore
by Isak Dinesen aka Karen BlixenIn Seven Gothic TalesSet in town named for castle Hamlet lived inFanny and Eliza De Coninck are visited by the ghost of their brother Morten
Babette's Feast
by Isak Dinesen aka Karen BlixenLorens Löwenhielm and Achille Papin pursue the pious sisters Martine and Philippa forty-nine years before the title Parisian chef uses 10,000 francs of lottery winnings to throw them an elaborate dinnerThe sisters are named after Martin Luther and Philipp MelanchthonIn collection Anecdotes of Destiny
Why Read the Classics?
by Italo Calvino14 definitions of title booksDiscusses Candide and BorgesIncludes the essay "The World is an Artichoke"
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
by Italo CalvinoGroup of travelers become mute in a forest and tell stories using tarot cards
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
by Italo CalvinoIllustrates "lightness" and compares The Unbearable Lightness of Being to "Ovid's fragile Medusa" in first memoAnother discusses "multiplicity" with a quote from a Carlo Emilio Gadda novel
Invisible Cities
by Italo CalvinoMarco Polo describes 55 title entities to Kublai Khan while playing chess in imperial magnolia garden"Thin," "Trading," "Continuous", and "Hidden" varietiesOne title location, Despina, looks like a camel to those approaching by ship and like a ship to those approaching by camelAll are thinly veiled versions of Venice and are named after women such as Theodora, Octavia, Diomira, and BereniceErsilia contains no people but merely strings charting the former inhabitants' relationships"It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear"One is a massive spider-web over an abyss
The Nonexistent Knight
by Italo CalvinoPart of Our Ancestors trilogy alongside The Cloven Viscount and The Baron in the TreesAgilulf- knight under Charlemagne whose body is a suit of armorGurduloo- Agilulf's squireTorrismund is sought by Agilulf
The Baron in the Trees
by Italo CalvinoPart of Our Ancestors trilogy alongside The Cloven Viscount and The Nonexistent KnightCosimo Piovasco becomes title character after renouncing his parent's estate, refuses to eat his sister Battista's snail soup at the startEnds with Cosimo grabbing onto a hot air balloonNarrated by Cosimo's brother BiagioCosimo works with the beekeeper Carrega to set up an irrigation system, wars with "fruit theives", has an affair with ViolaProtagonist trades books with the brigand Gian dei Brughi, owns a dog named Ottimo Massimo
The Cloven Viscount
by Italo CalvinoPart of Our Ancestors trilogy with The Nonexistent Knight and The Baron in the TreesA cannonball splits Medardo, the title nobleman from Terralba, into two halves- "The Good 'Un" and "The Bad 'Un."Dr. Trelawney stitches title character together so that he can marry Pamela and regain his positionDr. Trelawney walks around graveyards searching for will-o-the-wisps, believes chickens tied to a terrace railing represent diarrheaColony of lepers lives in Pratofungo
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo CalvinoProtagonist is "you", the Reader who is depicted in odd chapters while even chapters are the first chapters of different books that together create a long sentenceYou meet Ludmilla(love interest) after you both return Tazio Bazakbal's Outside the Town of Malbork due to printing errorYou and Ludmilla seek out Professor Uzzi-Tuzzi, a researcher of Dead Languages who explains conflict between Cimmeria and CimbriaLudmilla's sister Lotaria wants to create a machine that condenses literature into a series of numbers.Antagonist- shadowy fake translator Ermes Marana who lives in AtaguitaniaIncludes the diary of Silas Flannery- author of "In a network of lines that enlace" who meets a UFO cult, tries to plagiarize Crime and PunishmentA professor hears various telephones ringing in different houses while jogging before picking one up to find out a stranger has kidnapped his crush/student Marjorie StubbsOutside the town of Malbork- Mr. Kauderer fights Ponko over a picture of Zwida Policeman uses the password "Zeno of Elia" at a train station to tell another man to hang on to his suitcaseUkko Ahti- Cimmerian author who wrote Leaning from the Steep SlopeOne section- Narrator has sex with Madame Miyagi while her daughter Makiko watches
The Path to the Nest Spiders
by Italo CalvinoSet during WWIIPin steals a Nazi's gun and later shares title hiding place to the Communist Red WolfPin's sister is a prostitute nicknamed "the Dark Girl of Long Alley"
Mr. Palomar
by Italo CalvinoTitle man spies on a cheese shop
A Sportsman's Sketches
by Ivan Turgenev"Hamlet of the Shchigrovsky District"- compares an indecisive nobleman to Hamlet"Khor and Kalinych"- dialogue between the two title peasants
Fathers and Sons
by Ivan TurgenevArkady Kirsanov is friends with Evgeny Bazarov, they advocate for "nihilism"Arkady's father Nikolai struggles to understand his sonBazarov dissects frogs, contracts typhus while performing an autopsy and dies, calls Anna Odintsova to his deathbedNikolai's brother Pavel marries Princess RPavel duels Bazarov over FenichkaArkady marries Katya"A passable chemist is twenty times as useful as any poet"
Diary of a Superfluous Man
by Ivan TurgenevTchulkaturin recounts his childhoodTitle man archetype- Russian Literary figure that is born with goodwill, wealth, power, and status but is unable to accomplish anything
Giovanni's Room
by James BaldwinDavid's fiancé Hella discovers his homosexualityGuillaume is murdered
The Fire Next Time
by James BaldwinExamines his experiences with The Nation of IslamEssays: "My Dungeon Shook" and "Down on the Cross."
Emma
by Jane AustenTitle character WoodhouseTitle character sets up best friend, Harriet Smith with Robert Martin before confessing love for George KnightlyFrank Churchill is revealed to have been secretly engaged to Jane Fairfax(niece of the chatty Miss Bates)Title character rejects Mr. EltonPiano is anonymously given to Jane
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
by John BunyanAutobiography written in Bedford Gaol
The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
by John Bunyandialogue between Mr. Wiseman and Mr. Attentive
The Flea
by John Donne"sucked me first, and now sucks thee""you and I and this our marriage bed""hast thou since / Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence?"
Death be not Proud
by John DonneIn author's Holy Sonnets"Batter my heart, three-person'd God."
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
by Jonathan Edwards"let everyone that is out of Christ now awake"Nothing but the "mere pleasure of God" keeps "wicked men" out of hell"over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider""Their foot shall slide in due time."
Everything is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran FoerAbout author's family's experience with the Holocaust, fictional version of Foer travels to Ukraine
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran FoerOskar Schell's father dies in 9/11, he attempts to contact everyone with the surname "Black" as he searches for a lock that matches a key he finds
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
by Jorge BorgesAbout a French writer who has rewritten a Cervantes work word for word
The Garden of Forking Paths
by Jorge BorgesDoctor Yu Tsun is a Professor of English & spy for Germany in WWIYu Tsun is pursued by Irish MI5 agent Richard Madden, murders Sinologist Stephen Albert to send message to superiors about location of an artillery park in AlbertTitle refers to novel written by protagonist's ancestor, Ts'ui Pen that considers every outcome of every action to create an infinite labyrinth- "I leave the several futures (not to all) my garden of forking paths"
Death and the Compass
by Jorge BorgesRed Scharlach murders the detective Erik Lonnrot at Triste-le-Roi
Ficciones
by Jorge BorgesThe Library of BabelThe Garden of Forking PathsTlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
The Library of Babel
by Jorge BorgesTitle building has infinite hexagonal rooms & contains all possible books- books contain all possible arrangements of 22 letters, spaces, commas, and periods in 410 pagesFaction of workers in title structure called "Purifiers" seek out Crimson Hexagon at the center, another faction seeks out "Man of the Book" who is said to have read index of the libraryOne book is full of gibberish except phrase "Oh time, thy pyramids" on second to last pageOther Books: The Combed Thunderclap and The Plaster Cramp
Funes, the Memorious
by Jorge BorgesTitle character can remember everything after falling off a horse
The Aleph
by Jorge BorgesTitle location is a point in space where one can see every point in the universe from every angle, is located in a Carlos Daneri's cellar and he tries to use it to write a poem
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbus Tertius
by Jorge BorgesTlön is a fictional country in an encyclopedia which eventually becomes the real world Borges's friend Adolfo Bioy Casares maintains the fictional worldLanguage contains no nounsHronir begin appearing in the real world
Pedro Paramo
by Juan RulfoJuan Preciado travels to town of ghosts Comala to meet his fatherTitle narrator is stabbed to death by his illegitimate son Abundio MartinezInitial narrator is sent to home of Dona EduvigesAfter death of Susana San Juan, title character "crosses his arms" and lets whole village starve to deathGabriel Garcia Marquez claimed he was only able to finish writing One Hundred Years of Solitude after reading this novelFather Renteria is bribed into absolving a killer and rapistBartolome lowers his daughter into a mine shaft to look for gold coins, she sees a skeleton
Tell Them Not to Kill Me!
by Juan Rulfo in the collection The Burning PlainCharacter makes title plea to his son Justino after arrival of the firing squad
Because We Are So Poor
by Juan Rulfo in the collection The Burning PlainSibling of Tacha describes losing the cow named La Serpentina in a flood
The Insect Play
by Karel Capek"Butterflies" section
War with the Newts
by Karel CapekCaptain van Toch discovers a group of intelligent lizards on an island near Sumatra that take over and destroy Earth's landmass to make more coastlineCaptain van Toch enslaves title creatures for pearl farming and industrialist Gussie H. Bondy harnesses them for hydroengineering projectsIncludes Mr. Povondra's newspaper clippingsOne of the title creatures kept in the London Zoo named Andrew Scheuchzer learns English by reading newspapersIncludes mock-academic account of the "Sex Lives" of the titular creatures
The Makropulos Affair
by Karel CapekOpera singer Emilia Marty procures a formula that allows her to live for 300 yearsInspired an opera of the same name by Leos JanacekInspired an essay of the same name by Bernard Williams subtitled "Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality"
Hordubal
by Karel CapekPeasant returns home from working in American coal mines
The White Disease
by Karel CapekPlay satirizing Nazi Germany in which Dr. Galen cures a disease that only affects people over the age of 45
The Absolute at Large
by Karel CapekRudolph Marek invents the Karburator, a machine which uses the title residue-less energy
Sometimes a Great Notion
by Ken KeseyHenry Stamper- woodcutter whose motto is "Never give an inch!"Title comes from line from the song "Goodnight Irene"Set in Wakonda, OregonHenry's half brother Lee elopes with Viv
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken KeseyMental institution in Oregon run by Nurse Ratched, residents are divided into "acutes" and "chronics" Randall McMurphy attempts to rebel, is lobotomized, and smothered by narrator Chief BromdenBilly Bibbit- stutters, has sex with prostitute named Candy Starr, commits suicide sparking attack on RatchedNarrator refers to forces of authority as "the Combine" which he believes can control fogCharacters go on a fishing trip and watch the world seriesBromden reveals he is not a deaf-mute after being offered Juicy Fruit, throws a control panel through a window in order to escape
Colonel Sun
by Kingsley AmisFirst non-Fleming James Bond novel published under pseudonym "Robert Markham"Title Chinese agent sends two servants to kidnap a man at his estate called Quarterdeck
The Green Man
by Kingsley AmisGhost of Dr. Underhill haunts the inn owned by Maurice Allington
Lucky Jim
by Kingsley AmisTitle character is Professor Jim Dixon, gives a drunken lecture on "Merrie England" resulting in him being fired by Professor Ned WelchHis rival Bertrand gives him a black eye after Jim sleeps with Bertrand's girlfriend Christine CallaghanAfter boyfriend Catchpole dumps her, Margaret Peel pretends to attempt suicide.Julius Gore-Urquhart gives protagonist a jobProtagonist's paper on shipbuilding techniques is plagiarized in an Italian translation by Dr. Caton
The Old Devils
by Kingsley Amis, won the Booker prizeAlun Weaver and his wife Rhiannon drink themselves into a stupor after returning home to WalesRelives past with Charlie Norris
Slaughterhouse Five
by Kurt VonnegutBilly Pilgrim, an optometrist, becomes "unstuck in time" during WWII, survives bombing of DresdenProtagonist is forced to mate with Montana Wildhack in a public zoo on Tralfamadore for aliens shaped like toilet plungers.Ends with a bird saying "Poo-tee-weet"Every time someone dies the phrase "So it goes" is recitedEliot Rosewater introduces protagonist to the books of Kilgore Trout Paul Lazzaro commits murder to avenge the death of Roland WearyEdgar Derby is executed for stealing a teapot
All the King's Horses
by Kurt VonnegutCaptured army pilot forced for participate in human game of chess
The Sirens of Titan
by Kurt VonnegutMalachi Constant visits Saturn
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
by Kurt VonnegutNorman Mushari attempts to have title character declared insane to steal his fortune
Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt VonnegutPontiac salesman, Dwayne Hoover goes on a rampage after reading a Kilgore Trout novel, becomes obsessed with Trout
Bluebeard
by Kurt VonnegutRabo Karabekian paints a potato barn
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt VonnegutSet mostly on Caribbean Island of San LorenzoIce-Nine is invented by Felix Hoenikker which can freeze an entire worldBokononism- manufactured religion, practitioners put their bare feet together in a ritual, have a fake language where "karass" is a group of cosmically linked people, "granfalloon" is a false karassHoosiers are a granfalloon
Player Piano
by Kurt Vonnegut, his first novelPaul Proteus is set up as leader of Ghost Shirt Society
The Kreutzer Sonata
by Leo TolstoyBased on a work by BeethovenPozdnyshev kills his wife after he finds her having an affair with a violinist
Resurrection
by Leo TolstoyDmitri Nekhludoff falls in love with Maslova
War and Peace
by Leo TolstoySet during Napoleon's invasion of RussiaPierre Bezhukov initially marries Helene Kuragin, she has an affair with Nikolay Rostov who almost dies in a subsequent duel with PierreAnatole- brother of Helene, son of Vassily Natasha Rostov is initially married to Prince Andrei Bolkonsky who dies at Battle of BorodinoPierre Bezhukov joins the Freemasons and marries Natasha Rostov
How Much Land Does a Man Need
by Leo TolstoyThe devil challenges Pahom to collect as much property as possibleHe collapses while running and dies
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
by Leo TolstoyTitle action occurs when title character falls while hanging curtainsTitle character is a judge served by Gerasim
The Walrus and the Carpenter
by Lewis CarrollIn Through the Looking GlassTwo travelers eat a group of sentient oysters and "talk of many things"They discuss "cabbages and kings."
The Old and the Young
by Luigi PirandelloFlaminio tries to starve Sicilian workers by shutting down a mine
Tonight We Improvise
by Luigi PirandelloForms a trilogy of "theater within the theater" with Six Characters in Search of an Author and Each in His Own WayA group of actors directed by Doctor Hinkfuss attempt to put on a production of Pirandello's Leonora, Addio!
Each in His Own Way
by Luigi PirandelloForms a trilogy of "theater within the theater" with Six Characters in Search of an Author and Tonight We ImprovisePlay-within-a-play in which Delia Morello plays an unfaithful fiancéeFrancesco Savio and Doro Palegari duel over affections of Delia
One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand
by Luigi PirandelloGenge goes mad after his wife comments that his nose tilts to the right
Right You Are (If You Think You Are)
by Luigi PirandelloLamberto Laudisi attempts to dissuade a group of townspeople from determining whether Signora Frola's daughter Lena is dead or actually Ponza's wifeLaudisi discuses insanity with a mirrorCounselor Agazzi also attempts to find out Signora Ponza's identityPoliceman Centuri announces "there is news"
The Man With the Flower in His Mouth
by Luigi PirandelloOne-act dialogue in which a man who has missed his train converses on a terrace with a man dying of facial epithelioma (title cancerous growth new his mustache)Produced on BBC as a TV experiment
Playful Evil
by Luigi PirandelloPoetry collection
The Late Mattia Pascal
by Luigi PirandelloTitle character wins a small fortune in Monte Carlo, finds out a corpse has been mistaken for him and he has been declared deadTitle character assumes the name Adriano Meis to start a new lifeTitle character abandons his wife Romilda Pescatore
Enrico IV
by Luigi Pirandelloor Henry IVMan hits himself on the head after falling off of a horse during a pageant and believes himself to be the title Holy Roman Emperor.Title character stabs Tito Belcredi who stole his beloved Donna Matilda Spina during pageantCount de Nolli- nephew of title character, funds actors to play roles in "court" of title character for 20 years Frida- Matilda's daughter who dresses as Matilda in attempt to "cure" title characterTitle character gets angry when he thinks a character disguised as a monk is Peter DamianDr. Dionysius Genoni helps cure title character
Bound to Violence
by Malian writer Yambo OuologuemSued by Graham Greene for plagiarism
Eternal Curse on the Reader of these Pages
by Manuel PuigDialogue between wheelchair-bound union organizer Mr. Ramirez and his part-time assistant Larry
Heartbreak Tango
by Manuel PuigNene Fernandez sends letters to Leonor about tubercular Juan Carlos Etchepare"Big Fanny" kills the police officer Francisco
The Kiss of the Spider Woman
by Manuel PuigNovel which Puig also adapted into a playHomosexual Molina relates the plots of movies to his cellmate ValentinFilms include one about woman who turns into a cat person, one about a zombie infested island, and a fictional Nazi propaganda filmEnds with Valentin being tortured, morphine-induced dream where he lands on a tropical island and meets his lover MartaFootnotes explaining psychoanalytic ideas about homosexuality
Betrayed by Rita Hayworth
by Manuel Puig, his first novelCenters on Jose Casals, aka Toto's obsession with filmsIncludes Toto's school essay about The Great Waltz called "The Movie I Liked Best"
Alias Grace
by Margaret AtwoodFramed as a dialogue between the title character and Dr. Simon JordanTitle character is institutionalized for murders of Nancy Montgomery and Thomas Kinnear, hopes to be proven hysteric
Oryx and Crake
by Margaret AtwoodJimmy/Snowman is last man on earth, former salesman for genetically engineered products like the BlyssPluss pillJimmy plays with Glenn(who he calls Crake) in Extinctathon trivia game, discover the other title character on the child porn site HottTottsCrake attends Watson-Crick Institute, is hired by RejoovenEsense, creates the bubble dome of Paradice, develops perfect race (his namesake "Children")Sequels-The Year of the Flood and MaddAddamPet rakunk named Killer
Cat's Eye
by Margaret AtwoodPainter, Elaine Risley reflects on one of her works, keeps title marble in red purse
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret AtwoodProtagonist Offred, described as "two-legged womb", sleeps with the chauffeur Nick, a member of the Mayday resistanceSet in the Republic of GileadOffred works for Serena Joy- who is married to the CommanderOffred plays Scrabble with the Commander, steals butter(hides it in her shoes) to use as lotionLatin phrase is translated to "Don't let the bastards grind you down"Transcribed from cassette tapes discovered by Professor PieixotoJudd came up with the Particicution(aka "salvaging" where title characters beat to death someone at the signal of a whistle) in its epilogueOffred trains at the Red Center with Aunt Lydia, is friends with a lesbian named Moira who becomes a prostitute at Jezebel'sLuke- husband of Offred"The Wall"- where bodies are often hungSecret police - the Eyes of God, Ofglen commits suicide before she can be arrested
Hag-Seed
by Margaret AtwoodRetells The Tempest from point of view of Felix, a theater director
The Year of the Flood
by Margaret AtwoodSequel to Oryx and Crake, its sequel is MaddAddamRen- prostitute, former God's GardenerToby- God's Gardener, goes into hiding at AnooYoo spa
The Penelopiad
by Margaret AtwoodThe Odyssey from a female perspectivePoems from the perspective of twelve hanged maids lead by Melthano
The Robber Bride
by Margaret AtwoodTony, Charis, and Roz each encounter their long dead classmate Zenia
The Blind Assasssin
by Margaret Atwoodsisters Iris and Laura Chase- daughters of a button factory owner in Port TiconderogaContains novel within a novel written by Laura but published by Iris to expose how Robert Griffin raped LauraOpens with suicide of Laura when she drives a car over a bridgeTitle refers to a novel within a novel within a novel inspired by Laura's affair with Alex Thomas- man falls in love with a girl from Zycron in the city of Sakiel-Norn
The War of the End of the World
by Mario Vargas LLosaAbout War of Canudos uprising in Brazil state BahiaInspired by Rebellion in the Backlands(or Os Sertoes) by Euclides da Cunha, Cunha is represented as the Nearsighted Journalist in this workAntonio Conselhiero, known as "The Counselor." leads the CanudosRedheaded Scottish phrenologist named Galileo Gall joins the Canudos and smuggles guns after being tricked by Epaminondas GoncalvesJurema, wife of Rufino, is raped by Galileo Gall
The Dream of the Celt
by Mario Vargas LlosaAbout Roger Casement and the Easter Revolution
The Temptation of the Impossible
by Mario Vargas LlosaAnalysis of Les Miserables
The Way to Paradise
by Mario Vargas LlosaFollows the lives of Paul Gauguin and his feminist grandmother Flora Tristan as they meet in Tahiti
A Fish in the Water
by Mario Vargas LlosaMemoir discussing his 1990 loss to Alberto Fujimori in the Peruvian presidential election
The Time of the Hero
by Mario Vargas LlosaOriginal title translated to The City and the DogsSet in Leoncio Prado Military AcademyEvents are told by Lieutenant Gamboa to Alberto "The Poet"Jaguar- leader of "The Circle" murders Ricardo Arana, a boy nicknamed "the Slave" and was raised by his Aunt AdelinaPorfirio Cava breaks a window to steal a chemistry testCircle member Boa molests children, chickens, and his own dog SkimpyMany students lose their virginity to the prostitute Golden Toes
The Bad Girl
by Mario Vargas LlosaRetelling of Madame BovaryTitle character goes by the names Lily and Arlette, is admired by Ricardo
Conversation in the Cathedral
by Mario Vargas LlosaSantiago Zavala- protagonist who meets his chauffer Ambrosio at a dog pound where a dachshund is beaten to death and they continue their conversation at title barDepicts life in Peru under dictator Manuel OdriaDon Fermin- lover of AmbrosioSantiago asks "At what precise moment had Peru f'ed itself up?"Cayo Bermúdez- military dictator who inspires Ambrosio to murder HortensiaSuperbrain- nickname of Santiago
The Storyteller
by Mario Vargas LlosaSaul Zuratas integrates himself into the Machiguenga tribe
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
by Mario Vargas LlosaSemi-autobiographical about Mario's affair with first title characterRadio Panamericana, lead by the Genaros hires Pedro Camacho to write soap operas, goes insane and mixes up and kills characters in big fire at a monastery during an earthquake.First title character and Mario travel with Javier and Pascual from town to town to try and get a mayor to marry themJehovah's Witness Gumercindo Tello threatens to castrate himself to prove himself innocent of rapeEpigraph is from The Graphographer and contains the quote "I write. I write that I am writing."Pedro Camacho's wife is an Argentinian prostitute, fueling his irrational hatred for the countryJoaquin Hinostroza Bellmont- famous soccer refereeFederico Tellez Unzategui becomes obsessed with killing rats after they eat his baby sisterDonald Duck comic-reading policeman Jaime ConchaOne character learns to hate children after accidentally running one over with the help of a psychiatrist
Captain Pantoja and the Special Service
by Mario Vargas LlosaTitle straitlaced Peruvian army officer is tasked in creating a prostitution service for a group of demoralized army troops in the Amazon.
The Green House
by Mario Vargas LlosaTitle structure is a brothel built by the harp player Don Anselmo in the jungleAnselmo abducts Antonia to be his wife, her eyes and tongue are eaten out by vultures, she dies giving birth to ChungaChunga rebuilds title structureBonifacia becomes a prostitute named "Wildflower" in title locationSargent Lituma, husband of Bonifacia, plays Russian Roulette
The Feast of the Goat
by Mario Vargas LlosaUrania Cabral returns to the Dominican Republic after her rape by dictator Rafael TrujilloAgustin- aka "Egghead", paralyzed father of Urania who works for TrujilloStudies the rule of Rafael Trujillo and his assassination, which took place in a car
The Perpetual Orgy
by Mario Vargas Llosastudy of Madame BovaryHighlights extended metaphor comparing Emma's memory of Léon to a campfireCalls Flaubert the "first modern novelist"Subtitled "Flaubert and Madame Bovary"
Time's Arrow
by Martin AmisFollows the life of a doctor at Auschwitz in reverse chronologyNarrator assumes the alias Tod Friendly to conceal his true identity, Odilo Unverdorben
Money
by Martin AmisJohn Self goes to New York to work on dissatrous movie that turns out to be fake, is stalked by Frank the Phone, realizes his father is actually Fat Vince
London Fields
by Martin AmisSamson Young narrates the story of Nicola Six's murder that hasn't happened yet.
Mother
by Maxim GorkyPelagea Nilovna supports her revolutionary son Pavel who is arrested while carrying a banner at a May Day celebrationPelagea makes copies of her Pavel's speech and distributes them as pamphlets
Children of the Sun
by Maxim GorkyProtasov is a chemist during a cholera outbreak
Twenty-six Men and a Girl
by Maxim GorkySoldier successfully seduces Tanya after a challenge from a baker, leading to the collective heartbreak of a group of pretzel-makers who loved her
The Artamanov Business
by Maxim GorkyThe hunchbacked Nikita gives up on being a monk
The Lower Depths
by Maxim GorkyThe vagrant Luka visits title boarding house, briefly bringing hope to residents insideKostilyoff- runs title location, is killed by Vaska PepelNatasha- Kostilyoff's sister, plans to run off with Vaska before Vassilisa (Kostilyoff's wife) pours boiling water on her feet, leading the a brawl where Vaska kills KostilyoffThe Actor sustains himself with a belief in a "land of righteousness," hangs himself after abandoning hope of going to a sanatorium to cure his alcoholismOne character spends all day fitting old keys and locks while sitting on a bench in the basement of title location while his wife Anna dies of tuberculosisSatine argues with Luka, cheats at cards causing devout Muslim, Hassan the Tartar, to eruptBubnoff and Zoba sing while playing cardsThe Baron hits a woman over the head with a copy of romance novel Fatal Love
Summerfolk
by Maxim GorkyVlass goes to work with Dvoetochie to found new schoolsEnds after Ryumin's failed suicide
Rabelais and His World
by Mikhail BakhtinAsserts title author employed trope of the "grotesque body" to critique the wars of his timeconnects the carnivalesque with the "grotesque realism"
Death of the Poet
by Mikhail LermontovPoem about the death of Alexander Pushkin
Get a Life
by Nadine GordimerAbout ecologist Paul Bannerman's struggle with thyroid cancerHe becomes radioactive
Burger's Daughter
by Nadine GordimerAbout the title character Rosa's involvement in the anti-apartheid movementRosa has to come to terms with Lionel's membership in SACP (communist party), was raised alongside a black boy called "Baasie" by her mother CathyThe professor Bernard Chabalier has an affair with the protagonist while she is visiting Lionel's first wife Katya Bagnelli in FranceMarisa Kgosana and protagonist are arrested following Soweto riots at the endRosa has an affair with ConradTitle family loosely based on Bram Fischer's whose quotes are included in this workWhat Happened to it, or How South African Censorship Works- essay by Gordimer discussing banning and un-banning of this workBrand Vermeulen helps title character get a passport
Occasion for Loving
by Nadine GordimerAnn Davis's affair with the painter Gideon Shibalo is sheltered by Jessie Stillwell
A Soldier's Embrace
by Nadine GordimerCollection of short stories "Oral History" - village of Dilolo is burned after its chief reveals that it is harboring guerrillas during the Rhodesian Bush War
The Soft Voice of the Serpent
by Nadine GordimerCollection of short stories "The Talisman""The Umbilical Chord"
What Happened to Burger's Daughter or How South African Censorship Works
by Nadine GordimerDiscusses banning and subsequent un-banning of Burger's daughter
None to Accompany Me
by Nadine GordimerDisintegrating marriage of Vera Stark, who takes a government position and forces her husband Bennet to join a luggage company
July's People
by Nadine GordimerHistorical fiction depicting reality where apartheid has been overthrown in a violent revolt by black population.White couple Bamford and Maureen Smales take refuge with title character, their former servant, in tribal villageGina, Victor, Royce- Smales childrenEnds with Maureen running towards a helicopter whose inhabitants are unknown.July drives the Smales' yellow "bakkie" truckBam shoots two warthogs with shotgun, Daniel steals shotgun to go fight with black rebelsMaureen feels guilty for photograph of her servant Lydia carrying Maureen's books as a kid that appeared in Life magazineMaureen drowns two kittens after Gina and Nyiko play with them, refuses to finish reading a copy of Manzoni's The BetrothedTitle character accidentally kills a chicken that still has eggs within it
A Sport of Nature
by Nadine GordimerKim Capran decides to rename herself "Hillela" before becoming first lady of South Africa
The Late Bourgeois World
by Nadine GordimerMax commits suicide by driving his car into the ocean
The Pickup
by Nadine GordimerMechanic named Abdu, an illegal Arab immigrant, meets a wealthy white woman named Julie whose car breaks down in the street
The Conservationist
by Nadine GordimerSet on four hundred acre farm of white businessman Mehring, bought it as a tax write off and a place to take his girlfriend, Antonia Mancebo.Terry - gay son of Mehring (discovered when Mehring finds the erotic handbook Eros Himself in Terry's backpack) who ran away to New YorkThe foreman Jacobus finds the buried body of a black man on the farm that is washed up by a rainstorm and given a more proper burial afterwardsOpens with children playing with eleven freckled guinea fowl eggs against orders of MehringInterspersed quotes from the Reverend Henry Callaway between chapters
The Day the Leader was Killed
by Naguib MahfouzAbout assassination of President Anwar Sadat Randa has to marry her boss, whom her ex-boyfriend Elwan kills at the same time as title murder
The Children of Gebelawi
by Naguib MahfouzControversial allegorical history of the Abrahamic religions set in Cairo- lead to Mahfouz being stabbed in neck by extremists in 1994Five sectionsFirst four: Adham, Gabal, Rifa'a, and Qasim--represent Adam, Moses, Jesus, and MohammedFinal section: Arafa represents science and progress, his attempts to discover secrets of title character leads to title character's deathChief Strongman- controls alley, each character tries to overcome himSatanic Idris tries to tempt title characters
Sugar Street
by Naguib MahfouzFinal novel in Cairo trilogyTyphoid epidemic kills all of Aisha's family except her and on daughter causing her to go madYasin's son Ridwan becomes a gay politicianAhmad- Khadija's son who becomes Marxist journalist and marries a co-workerKamal becomes a teacher, carries Al-Sayyid Ahmad to an air raid shelter
Palace Walk
by Naguib MahfouzFirst novel in Cairo trilogyAl-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad- patriarch, hypocritically returns home drunk and has many affairs with women he meets at his grocery store despite demanding extreme piety from his familyAmina- Al-Sayyid Ahmad's wife, fractures her collar bone after feinting from heat and being hit by a car while heading to the al-Hussein mosqueFahmy- Eldest son of Amina, law student who is killed in peaceful demonstration, loves MaryamYasin- Eldest son of Al-Sayyid Ahmad from his first marriage, realizes his father's hedonism after seeing him play the tambourine, tells Fahmy after Jalila confronts their father at Aisha's wedding, marries ZanubaKamal- youngest son, based on MahfouzAisha- prettiest daughter marries Khalil ShawkatKhadija- eldest daughter, marries other Shawkat brother
The Thief and the Dogs
by Naguib MahfouzRecently freed Said Mahran plans to get revenge on those who put him in jail, takes shelter with cafe-owner Tarzan and prostitute NurSaid targets ex-wife Nabawiyya, her husband Ilish, and the rich journalist/Said's mentor Rauf Ilwan using title animalsSaid accidentally kills two innocent people instead
Palace of Desire
by Naguib MahfouzSecond novel in Cairo TrilogyYasin marries and divorces MaryamKamal writes a magazine article about Darwin, enraging Al-Sayyid AhmadKamal falls for Aida and studies philosophy
Arabian Nights and Days
by Naguib MahfouzSequel to 1001 Nightsincluding such stories as "The Invisibility Cap."
Beneath the Shelter
by Naguib MahfouzSet in a bus stop
Midaq Alley
by Naguib MahfouzSet on title street in CairoHashish-smoking cafe owner Kirsha and the sexually insatiable Salim AlwanMr. Booshy- dentist who makes a living by stealing from corpsesHamida tries to escape the titular location through marriage and prostitutionThe barber Abbas is beaten to death by British soldiers at the end after smashing beer glass on former-lover Hamida
Miramar
by Naguib MahfouzTitle boarding house is run by Mariana. Various characters represent Egyptian political philosophies and most are entranced with the servant girl Zohra
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
by Nathan EnglanderTitle inspired by Raymond Carver collectionShort story collection originally published in the New Yorker about title author
Nevsky Prospect
by Nikolai GogolLieutenant Pirogov and Piskaryov travel along the title street
Dead Souls
by Nikolai GogolPavel Chichikov buys dead serfs in order to use as collateral in a loanSobakevitch and Maniloff sell him the title entitiesProtagonist accused of being Napoleon or Captain Kopeikin in disguise
Diary of a Madman
by Nikolai GogolPoprishchin believes he is heir to the Spanish throne
The Overcoat
by Nikolai GogolTitle article of clothing is stolen from Akaky Akakievitch, he dies and his ghost haunts st. petersburgGhost assaults the "person of consequence", steals title object from "very important person"Title object made by Petrovich
The Nose
by Nikolai GogolYakovlevich finds title object in his loaf of breadTitle object briefly becomes a State CouncillorTitle object returns to face of Platon Kovalyov at the end
Fearful Symmetry
by Northrop FryeCritical study of The Tyger by William Blake
Anatomy of Criticism
by Northrop FryeHistorical approach to the modes of literature Composed of four essaysLast essay classifies genresContrasts "high" and "low" forms of mimesis
The Vicar of Wakefield
by Oliver GoldsmithAbout the tribulations of the Primrose familyGeorge Primrose marries Arabella WilmotTitle character is Dr. Charles PrimroseSophia marries Mr. Burchell who saves her from drowning and turns out to be uncle of Squire William ThornhillEphraim Jenkinson swindles Moses out of a horse for a gross of green spectaclesOlivia Primrose fakes her death and obtains her marriage license to Squire Thornhill
The Deserted Village
by Oliver GoldsmithDescribes going to Auburn, where "wealth accumulates and men decay"Inspired George Crabbe's poem "The Village""where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain"
The Citizen of the World
by Oliver GoldsmithLetters attributed to Chinese traveler Lien Chi
She Stoops to Conquer
by Oliver GoldsmithTitled for Kate Hardcastle's strategy to marry Charles MarlowAt the Three Pigeons alehouse, Tony Lumpkin tricks two travelers into thinking Hardcastle Manor is an inn, allowing the Kate to pose as a barmaidConstance Neville steals jewels to elope with George Hastings at the endPrologue written by David Garrick begins with actor Mr. Woodward lamenting that the "Comic Muse, long sick, is now a-dying"Mr. Hardcastle tells story of Duke of MarlboroughOpens with complaining about boring houseguests Mr. Cripplegate and Mrs. Oddfish
The New Life
by Orhan PamukDr. Fine who leads a conspiracy to assassinate readers of the title book
The Museum of Innocence
by Orhan PamukKemal falls in love with shopgirl Füsun, collects every day objects that remind him of her eventually filling a museum with themPamuk created a real life version of title location in IstanbulObjects in the museum include 4,213 cigarette butts, china dogs, Jenny Colon handbagKemal buys a counterfeit handbag for his fiance Sibel from FüsunFusun's earring becomes first object in the museum after she dies in a car crashKemal fails to launch Lemon Films
The White Castle
by Orhan PamukNarrator is a traveling Italian scholar kidnapped and becomes the slave of the Ottoman scholar Hoja, is forced to help build giant weapon to take title location
My Name is Red
by Orhan PamukSet in 16th century Istanbul under the reign of Ottoman Sultan Murad IIIOpens with Elegant Effendi's recently murdered body being thrown in a wellVarious narrators include a gold coin, Satan, the dead Elegant Effendi, title color, a horse, and a treeProtagonist named Black arrives in Istanbul at the request of his uncle Enishte Effendi, who is later murderedBlack loves his cousin Shekure (Enishte's daughter) whose husband is missing and has children Orhan and ShevketJewish clothier Esther delivers messages between Black and ShekureEnishte is commissioned by the Sultan to make a book in secret, in the style of the Venetian masters, he employs miniaturists Olive(Murderer of Elegant and Enishte), Elegant, Stork, and ButterflyMaster Osman, who taught the miniaturists, helps Black find killer by examining imperfections in the nostrils of a drawing of a horse (fake contest having miniaturists draw horses for comparison)Osman blinds himself with plume needle in the Sultan's treasuryMany stories about style, signature, and blindness in the lives of master miniaturists
The Black Book
by Orhan PamukThe lawyer Galip searches for his wife Ruya and her brother, the columnist CelalGalip tries to live the life of Celal to find them, discovers them both shot dead outside Aladdin's shop
Snow
by Orhan PamukThe poet Ka returns to Turkey from exile in Germany, prompted by reports of women committing suicide after being forced to remove their headscarvesSet in city of KarsKadife- leader of the "headscarf girls," loves character named Blue, shoots actor Sunay Zaim after removing her headscarf during an adaptation of Thomas Kyd's The Spanish TragedyKa reunites with his childhood love Ipek, older sister of Kadife who once had an affair with BlueDiscussion about headscarves in New Life Pastry Shop leads to shooting of director of the Institute of EducationHigh school student and aspiring science-fiction writer Necip competes with Ka for love of Ipek and is killed during performance of My Fatherland or My Head Scarf in the National Theater when soldiers march onstage and fire into crowdNarrator is fictionalized version of Orhan Pamuk who loses his green notebook containing poetry and searches for it in an apartment in Frankfurt
The Red-Haired Woman
by Orhan PamukWell-digging apprentice obsessed with both Oedipus Rex and Rostam and Sohrab becomes entranced by the title actress.
Sir Vidia's Shadow
by Paul TherouxAccount of terse friendship between Theroux and V.S. Naipaul
The Great Railway Bazaar
by Paul TherouxDescribes traveling from London to Tokyo on Trans-Siberian railroad
The Mosquito Coast
by Paul TherouxTitled for region on eastern coast of Nicaragua and part of Honduras
American Pastoral
by Philip RothAbout Seymour "The Swede" Levov's supposedly idyllic life, his daughter Merry converts to Jainism and bombs a postal office in protest of the Vietnam WarNathan Zuckerman- NarratorSeymour inherits his father's glove factory, moves to Old Rimrock with wife, former Miss New Jersey Dawn DwyerDawn has affair with Bill Orcutt who stabs Swede in face with fork at the endRita Cohen helps Seymour find his daughter
The Human Stain
by Philip RothAbout professor Coleman Silk who is secretly black, calls two black students "spooks"Narrated by Nathan Zuckerman, set in Athena CollegeJanitor Faunia Farley has affair with Silk after his wife diesDelphine Roux- assistant professor
I Married a Communist
by Philip RothAnti-semetic Eve Frame reveals socialist past of her husband, radio host "iron rinn"Based on Philip Roth's ex-wife Claire Bloom
The Plot Against America
by Philip RothCharles Lindbergh, assisted by Rabbi Bengelsdorf, defeats FDR in 1940 election, turns America into a fascist stateA radio broadcast of world series is interrupted to announce death of Presidential candidate Walter WinchellSet during WWII
Exit Ghost
by Philip RothE. I. LonoffGeorge Plimpton publishes the writing of Nathan Zuckerman
Goodbye, Columbus
by Philip RothIncludes short story "Defender of the Faith"Neil Klugman woos Brenda Patimkin, who runs into trouble when her mother discovers her diaphragm"The Conversion of the Jews" - Ozzie Freedman is slapped by Rabbi Binder for asking about the possibility of Mary's virgin birth.Takes title from record Ron owns commemorating his graduation ceremony at Ohio State
Operation Shylock
by Philip RothPhilip Roth visits John Demjanjuk's trial in Israel
Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip RothTitle character Alexander describes his adolescent obsession with masturbation(with a piece of liver) and his Oedipal love for his mother Sophie to his psychiatrist, Dr. SpielvogelGirlfriends nicknamed "The Pilgrim", "The Pumpkin", and (Mary Jane Reed) "The Monkey""Now vee may perhaps to begin. Yes?"- only line of dialogue from Spielvogel
Epinikia of Pindar
by Pindar, aka his "victory odes"Commemorates athletic achievements at the Olympic Games
Red Oleanders
by Rabindranath TagoreNandini leads revolution against king of Yakshapuri who forces citizens to mine gold
Jana Gana Mana
by Rabindranath TagoreNational anthem of IndiaOriginally in Bengali
The Home and the World
by Rabindranath Tagorelove triangle between Nikhil, Sandip, and Bimala
Something Wicked This Way Comes
by Ray Bradbury13-year-old best friends Jim Nightshade and William Halloway encounter the evil being Mr. Dark who terrorizes Green Town, Illinois with his sinister carnivalCooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow ShowCharles Halloway (William's dad) shoots the Dust Witch with a wax bulletMr. ElectricoA lightning rod salesman named Tom Fury tells Jim his house will be hit by lightning in the next storm
A Sound of Thunder
by Ray BradburyEckels accidentally steps on a butterfly and changes the future when he goes back in time to shoot a T-rexLeads to the fascist Deutscher defeating Keith in an electionTitle phenomenon is heard before Travis shoots Eckels
Usher II
by Ray BradburyIn collection The Martian ChroniclesWilliam Stendahl rebuilds the mansion from Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" and takes revenge on the people of mars
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray BradburyMechanical Hound pursues the fireman(salamander insignia) Guy Montag who burns booksClarisse McClellan- Guy Montag's neighbor, 17yo girl who is killed by a speeding carProfessor Faber- helps Montag escape the Hound and embrace books, gives him a "green bullet" that is a two way radio for communicationMontag kills his boss Captain Beatty with a flamethrower and meets Granger after the city burns downMontag's wife Mildred watches four TV walls in parlor, is addicted to sleeping pills.Montag reads "Dover Beach" for Mildred, Mrs. Phelps, and Mrs. Bowles which horrifies Mildred and makes Mrs. Phelps cryMontag memorizes parts of Ecclesiastes after his copy of the Bible was burned, is almost run over by a group of teenagers in a "beetle car"Stoneman and Black- Montag's coworkers
The Third Expedition
by Ray BradburyOriginally titled "Mars is Heaven!"Explorers find an idyllic small town populated by their families, only to be murdered in their sleep
Dandelion Wine
by Ray BradburySequel is Farewell SummerDouglas Spaulding nearly dies after learning of his own mortality, spends his summers in Green Town, IllinoisLeo Auffman creates a Happiness Machine that only makes his family sad12yo Doug Spaulding runs errands for Mr. Sanderson in exchange for new shoes
There Will Come Soft Rains
by Ray Bradburyin collection The Martian ChroniclesBreakdown of an automated house that continues to function long after its inhabitants are killed in a nuclear explosionTitled after a Sara Teasdale poem of the same name, the house continues to read title poem out loud to no oneA dog dies in living room as stove makes breakfast
A Small, Good Thing
by Raymond CarverExtended version of Carver's earlier story "The Bath"After Howard and Ann Weiss get home from the hospital, a baker insistently calls them to ask them to pick up a cake for their son Scotty who died in a car crash on his birthday
Where I'm Calling From
by Raymond CarverFrank Martin's "drying-out facility"Narrator J.P. describes his alcoholism by comparing himself to the protagonist of "To Build a Fire."Roxy offers a good luck kiss to J.P. when she comes to sweep his chimneyTiny has seizures
Gazebo
by Raymond CarverIn collection What We Talk About When We Talk About LoveHotel managers Holly and Duane
Cathedral (collection)
by Raymond CarverTitle short story"Where I'm Calling From""A Small, Good Thing"
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (collection)
by Raymond CarverTitle story"Gazebo""So Much Water So Close to Home""The Bath""The Third Thing That Killed My Father Off"Edited by Gordon Lish of Esquire Magazine
Cathedral (story)
by Raymond CarverTitles collection it is inNarrator watches TV film about the Middle Age and smokes marijuana with his wife's blind friend Robert, the two share a spiritual experience while drawing the title buildingNarrator's wife Beulah dies of cancer, narrator comments that her name is "a name for a colored woman."Beulah writes a poem about having her face touched by Robert, corresponds with him using audio tapes
So Much Water So Close to Home
by Raymond Carverin collection What We Talk About When We Talk About LoveNarrator Claire is perturbed that her husband Stuart may have committed murder
The Bath
by Raymond Carverin collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Lovepredecessor of "A Small, Good Thing"Scotty is walking to school when he is hit by a car and knocked unconscious
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (story)
by Raymond Carverin namesake collectionCardiologist Mel McGinnis talks about an elderly couple that was injured in a car accidentMel and Terri debate whether her abusive ex-husband Ed had really loved herNick and Laura- other couple that listen, the two couples discuss title conceptEd fails to kill himself by drinking rat poisonMel discusses wanting to use bees to kill his ex-wife MarjorieManuscript version is called "Beginners"
Will You Please Be Quiet Please?
by Raymond Carvershort story collection"Neighbors""Signals""Fat""Are You a Doctor"
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis StevensonScientist creates a potion which turns him into a monstrous alter-ego.Mr. Enfield discusses incident in which Mr. H tramples a little girl, goes on walks with the lawyer Gabriel UttersonUtterson investigates murder of Sir Danvers CarewDr. Lanyon dies of shock after seeing Dr. J transform into Mr. H
At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers
by Salman RushdieAbout author's beloved childhood film The Wizard of Oz which inspired his writing career
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
by Salman RushdieAlternative history of rock and rollRock musician Ormus Cana and the half-Indian singer Vina Apsara become 20th-century analogues of Orpheus and Eurydice
Shalimar the Clown
by Salman RushdieAmerican diplomat Max Ophuls is killedTitle character walks the tightrope
Grimus
by Salman RushdieFlapping Eagle drinks a magic immortality potion, searches for his sister for 777 years, goes to Calf Island
The Enchantress of Florence
by Salman RushdieJuxtaposes Machiavelli's childhood and friendship with Amerigo Vespucci's with the court of Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great where a blonde traveler saves himself from Akbar's elephant by claiming descent from Lady Black Eyes
Joseph Anton: a Memoir
by Salman RushdieMemoir about the time he spent in hiding following the fatwaTitled after the pseudonym/fake identity he took in hiding, comes from the first names of Conrad and Chekhov Describes Rushdie's marriages to Padma Lakshmi and Marianne Wiggins
The Moor's Last Sigh
by Salman RushdieNarrated by Moraes Zogoiby, title refers to where last Muslim ruler of Spain, Boabdil surrendered Granada
The Jaguar Smile
by Salman RushdieNonfiction, about author's travels to Nicaragua, documents the rise of the Sandinistas
The Satanic Verses
by Salman RushdieResulted in Ayatollah Khomeini placing a fatwa on author for violating anti-blasphemy lawsOpens with a hijacked plane explosion over the English Chanel involving survivors Bollywood actor Gibreel Farishta and voice over actor Saladin ChamchaGibreel Farishta takes the role of the archangel Gabriel, shoots his producer Whisky Sisodia Farishta kills himself after throwing his mountaineer girlfriend Alleluia "Allie" Cone off of Everest Apartments where she livesAllie once summited EverestSaladin Chamcha takes the role of Satan/the Devil, begins transforming into a goatEven chapters depict Farishta's dreams which follow the butterfly-eating prophet Ayesha and her followers' pilgrimage, they walk into the Arabian Sea and all drownIn Farishta's dream sequences, Mahound or "the Messenger" (represents Mohammad) conquers JahiliaThe priestess Hind and the poet Baal appear in Farishta's dreamsMishal's breast cancer inspires Ayesha's pilgrimage Rekha Merchant- Farishta's former lover, haunts himA disgraced poet hides in a brothel where he "marries" twelve prostitutesRiots break out when the black activist Uhuru Simba dies after being wrongly imprisoned for the"Granny Ripper Murders."Pamela Lovelace- Saladin Chamcha's wife who has an affair with Jumpy Joshi after she believes him deadChamcha gets fired from the show "The Aliens"
Shame
by Salman RushdieSet in the fictional town "Q" which represents PakistanDescribes relationship between Sufiya Zenobia Hyder and Dr. Omar Khayyam ShakilFictionalizes Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as Iskander HarappaSufiya beheads 218 turkeys, transforms into a white panther before beheading husband Omar and exploding into a fireballGeneral Raza Hyder deposes Iskander HarappaThe three sisters Chunni, Munnee, and Bunny- mothers of Omar Khayyam, never reveal which is his real mother
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
by Salman RushdieTitle character and his father Rashid Khalifa travel with the water genie Iff to the moon KahaniRashid works for corrupt politician Snooty ButtooTitle character meets Butt the Hoopoe and helps defeat Khattam-Shud
Luka and the Fire of Life
by Salman RushdieTitle character is the brother of Haroun Khalifa from Haroun and the Sea of StoriesTitle character seeks title substance which is gaurded by the AalimPrometheus throws a phantom named "Nobodaddy" into space
Midnight's Children
by Salman RushdieTitle characters are born on August 15, 1947, at the exact moment of the partition of IndiaProtagonist Saleem Sinai has a gigantic, always dripping nose that gives him telepathic abilities, loses powers after sinus surgerySaleem marries Paravati the Witch"the Widow" - represents Indira Gandhi, sterilizes title charactersSaleem's grandfather, the doctor Aadam Aziz slowly falls in love with Naseem(who refers to things as "whatsitsname") while viewing her through hole in a perforated bedsheetSaleem's sister Jamila Singer aka "Brass Monkey" becomes a singer in PakistanMary Pereira runs a pickle factory, switches Saleem with Shiva "of the Knees" at birth on the Methwold estate, Saleem later becomes manager of the pickle factoryWilliam Methwold sells cheap villas, seduces the wife of accordionist Wee Willie Winkie Methwold is Saleem's biological father, Winkie is Shiva'sJoseph D'Costa betrays Pereira leading to her swapping Saleem and ShivaA silver spittoon falls on Saleem's head causing him to lose his memoryAmina- Saleem's mother, daughter of Aadam AzizAwarded the first "Booker of Bookers"Saleem's son Aadam's first word is "abracadabra"
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
by Salman RushdieTitle is equal to 1001 nights
The Adventures of Augie March
by Saul BellowOpening sentence: "I am an American, Chicago born"Title character has brothers Simon and the mentally-disabled Georgie, their landlord Grandma Lausch helps raise themTitle character goes to Mexico with Thea Fenchel to catch lizards with a trained eagle named Caligula during which time he falls off the horse Bizcocho and fractures his skullTitle character ends up marrying Stella, enlists in the merchant marines during WWII and is stranded on a lifeboat with the insane/homicidal man BateshawTitle character works for the crippled business man EinhornTitle character helps his friend Mimi Villars get an abortion, leading to his breakup with Lucy MagnusTitle character is briefly adopted by the Coblin family including character named Five PropertiesOpening paragraph paraphrases Heraclitus's thought that "a man's character is his fate."
Henderson the Rain King
by Saul BellowTitle American millionaire pigfarmer Eugene travels to Africa to satisfy his inner voice that repeats "I want" over and overTitle character meets Romilayu in Arnewi who guides him to a Wariri village where he carries and whips a gigantic statue of Mummah earning title epithet and becoming a spiritual leader of the tribeTitle character builds a bomb to kill the frogs in a cistern in the village Arnewi that ends up destroying the entire cisternKing Dahfu dies on a quest to hunt the lion he believes is the reincarnation of his dead father, after which title character returns to AmericaDahfu's wife teaches title character about grun-to-molani
The Dean's December
by Saul BellowTitle character Albert Corde travels with his wife Minna to his mother's deathbed in RomaniaAlbert writes politically charged articles for Harper's
Herzog
by Saul BellowTitle character Moses writes many letters to many living and dead people including Nietzsche and Eisenhower but never sends themTitle character's wife Madeleine leaves him for his friend Valentine Gersbach, title character plans to shoot them both and struggles to win custody of his daughter JunieTitle character has an affair with Ramona, is arrested after a car accident when police find his dead father's revolver in the carLucas Asphalter is mentioned in a newspaper article after he attempts to revive his tuberculosis-infected monkey Rocco with mouth to mouth Title character condemns "potato love," uses lawyers Simkin and Sandor Himmelstein
Humboldt's Gift
by Saul BellowTitle character Von Humboldt Fleisher is based on writer Delmore ShwartzCharlie Citrine- Poet based on Bellow, is mentored by title character The gangster Roland Cantabile takes a baseball bat to Citrine's Mercedes Benz for unpaid poker debts
Mr. Sammler's Planet
by Saul BellowTitle character is a one-eyed Polish holocaust survivor
Seize the Day
by Saul BellowTitled for an expression coined by HoraceFailed actor Tommy Wilhelm is given the title advice by the sinister psychologist Dr. TamkinTommy loses seven hundred dollars investing in lard stocksMaruice Venice - talent agent that recruits Tommy WilhelmEnds with Tommy crying at the funeral of a stranger after his father Dr. Adler refuses to help him financially
Ravelstein
by Saul Bellow, his final novelTitle character Abe is based on Bellow's friend Allan BloomNarrator is "Chick" the alter ego of Bellow writes memoir about title philosophy professor who dies of AIDSTitle character has male lover Nikki
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
by Stephen CraneTitle woman becomes a prostitute after her lover, the bartender Pete, leaves her for NellieMary(mother) and Jimmie Johnson(her brother) throw her outOpens on street fight between residents of Devil's Row and Rum AlleyHer mother screams "I'll fergive her!" at the end
The Open Boat
by Stephen Crane, based on his experience after the sinking of the CommodoreBillie the oiler diedThe cook, the correspondent, and the captain surviveOpening line: "None of them knew the color of the sky.""Funny they don't see us!"
American Names
by Stephen Vincent BenetFinal line: "Bury my heart at Wounded Knee"Says he has "fallen in love" with title things
The Devil and Daniel Webster
by Stephen Vincent BenetNew Hampshire farmer Jabez Stone's soul is saved by the lawyering of an American senatorJudge Hathorne rules in favor of Jabez Stone against Mr. ScratchReferences John Greenleaf Whittier's "Ichabod."
By the Waters of Babylon
by Stephen Vincent BenetPost-apocalyptic story where "The Great Burning" left old houses as "dead places"title from Psalm 137The priest John travels to the Place of the Gods
The Mountain Whippoorwill
by Stephen Vincent BenetTells the story of how a country bumpkin wins a violin contest at a county fair
Western Star
by Stephen Vincent BenetUnfinishedAbout American frontier
John Brown's Body
by Stephen Vincent Benet, epic poemNarrated by Connecticut soldier Jack EllyatDescribes the raid on Harper's FerryTitle object "lies a-mouldering in the grave" while "His soul's marching on."
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
by Tadeusz BorowskiShort story collection inspired by author's time in Auschwitz
The Four Prentices of London
by Thomas HeywoodElizabethan play about the sons of the Earl of Boulogne
A Woman Killed with Kindness
by Thomas HeywoodWendoll seduces Master Frankford's wife Anne, leading Frankford to exile her to a country houseAnne dies of a broken heart
The Real Thing
by Tom StoppardAbout playwright Henry who writes the play The House of Cards to be performed by his wife Charlotte and Max in the first actHenry has an affair with the actress Annie, who tries to free the Scottish soldier Brodie from prisonAnnie convinces Henry to ghostwrite a play for BrodieEnds with the protagonist listening to "I'm a Believer" by the Monkees
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
by Tom StoppardAndre Previn wrote the music for it
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
by Tom StoppardBased on two minor characters from Hamlet, they are sent on a ship with a swapped out letter from Hamlet that demands their executionBegins with title characters betting on whether a birth year doubled is an odd number after first title character wins a game flipping a coin 92 times by calling heads every time, leading second titular character to wonder whether the world operates within "un-, sub- or supernatural forces"Title characters meet the Player, who leads a troupe of actors called the TragediansThe Tragedians put on a performance of "The Rape of the Sabine Women" in which Alfred is forced to wear a skirtTitle characters "impossibly" hide in barrels after being ambushed by pirates following a Tragedian performance of The Murder of Gonzago that angers ClaudiusMusic emanates from barrels the Tragedians are hiding inTennis scoring is used in a "game of questions" which Hamlet wins over title characters 27 to 3Second titular character believes he has killed the Player with a retractable knife only for the Player to stand up moments laterTitle characters often end the Lord's Prayer "give us this day our daily-" with words like "week" "mask" "cue" and "music".One character muses that a certain event "must be indicative of something, besides the redistribution of wealth."
The Coast of Utopia
by Tom StoppardCycle of three plays: Voyage, Shipwreck, and SalvageReal life Russian thinkers Alexander Herzen, Mikhail Bakunin, and Ivan Turgenev engage in a lot of philosophical discussion
Indian Ink
by Tom StoppardEldon Pike investigates Flora Crewe's death
Arcadia
by Tom StoppardSet at Sidley Park, where in 1809, Septimus Hodge (a friend of Lord Byron) tutors to the precocious mathematical prodigy Thomasina CoverlyIn second plot set centuries later, Bernard Nightingale and Hannah Jarvis study the life of Lord ByronIn opening scene, Thomasina asks Septimus "What is carnal embrace?", Septimus replies "the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef"Septimus asks Thomasina to prove Fermat's last theorem in hopes of getting enough time to finish reading "The Couch of Eros"Hannah disproves Bernard's theory that Lord Byron killed Ezra Chater in a duelLightning and Plautus are tortoises which are featured in every sceneValentine does research about grouse population, helps Hannah research the "hermit of Sidley Park" (Septimus)Thomasina begs Septimus to teach her how to waltz, he finally agrees at end of playSeptimus burns a letter by Lord Byron in front of Lady Croom, another letter from Lord Byron to Septimus discusses how you can stir jam into rice pudding but never unstir it
Rock 'n' Roll
by Tom StoppardSet in Cambridge and PragueJan studies under Max Morrow at Cambridge
Travesties
by Tom StoppardSet in World War I ZurichHenry Carr reminisces about being in a production of The Importance of Being EarnestPortrays a fictional meeting between Tristan Tzara, Vladimir Lenin, and James JoyceTristan Tzara creates a poem by pulling words from Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 out of a hat
Jumpers
by Tom StoppardSir Archie uses the "more gymnastic members" of philosophy professors for title acrobat troupe
Hapgood
by Tom StoppardTitle spymaster must figure out if Ridley is a traitor
The Real Inspector Hound
by Tom StoppardTwo critics named Birdboot and Moon watch a murder mystery set at Muldoon Manor before becoming involved in said mysteryMuldoon Manor is served by the maid Mrs. Drudge
Sula
by Toni Morrison aka Chloe Ardelia WoffordAbout friendship between title character and Nel WrightTitle character accidentally drowns Chicken Little, learns that Albert Jacks was the real name of her lover, AjaxSet in "The Bottom"
The Origin of Others
by Toni Morrison aka Chloe Ardelia WoffordAuthor's most recent and final novel, came out in September, 2017
Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison aka Chloe Ardelia WoffordMembers of the Dead family are named by placing a pin randomly in the bibleProtagonist Milkman Dead, who got his name because he breastfed at a late age, travels to the south to find his ancestral homeMilkman's siblings are First Corinthians, Magdalene, and Pilate(who is "navel less")Guitar Bains- Milkman's childhood best friend
A Mercy
by Toni Morrison aka Chloe Ardelia WoffordSet in 17th century AmericaFlorens and Lina are slaves on Jacob Vaark's plantation
Beloved
by Toni Morrison aka Chloe Ardelia WoffordSethe kills her baby (title character) to save it from slavery, escapes with her daughter Denver from plantation Sweet Home to Cincinnati where they live at 124 Bluestone Road which was once occupied by Baby SuggsTitle character returns as a ghost to haunt SetheProtagonist believes Paul D's heart is like a "tobacco tin" with the lid sealed shutThe protagonist mistakes Mr. Bodwin for Schoolteacher and attacks him with an ice pickProtagonist is guided across the Ohio River by Stamp PaidProtagonist's sons Howard and Buglar flee 124 Bluestone Road as they think it is hauntedPaul D refuses to believe that a person in a newspaper picture is Sethe and says "that ain't her mouth"
The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison aka Chloe Ardelia WoffordThe chapter titles come from a Dick and Jane bookPecola Breedlove seeks title body part, is raped by her father Cholly, eventually goes insane and believes she has title featureNarrated mostly by Claudia MacTeer Pecola idolizes Shirley TempleThe half-Chinese pedophile Soaphead Church tricks protagonist into giving his landlady's dog poisoned meat in exchange for "granting her wish"Protagonist's mother, Polly, stepped on a nail as a child, leading to a deformed foot and a limp
Foucault's Pendulum
by Umberto Eco"The Plan"- Three publishers, Belbo, Diotallevi, and Casaubon, use Colonel Ardenti's book about the Knights Templar(secret society) to construct a conspiracyPlan to use the title device to search for "telluric currents."They work for Garamond Publishing, use the computer AbulafiaNarrator Casaubon follows his girlfriend Amparo to Brazil where she was taken after being kidnapped by Aglie, who claims to be the Count of St. Germain
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto EcoApprentice Adso of Melk and monk William of Baskerville solve murders in a 14th-century monasteryBlind librarian Jorge of Burgos eats poisoned pages of Aristotle's Second Book of Poetics and burns down the aedificiumInquisitor Bernard Gui burns Remigo, the hunchback Salvatore, and a village girlVenantius is found dead in a vat of pig's bloodAdelmo is persuaded by Berengar to have sex with him, and commits suicideHerbalist Severinus diesOne character deduces whereabouts of lost horse, BrunellusFinds hidden room finis Africae
The Prague Cemetery
by Umberto EcoFramed as diaries of Simone Simonini, who forges the note that sets off Dreyfus affair and writes The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.Destroys Ippolito Nievo's shipSimonini is revealed to be Abbé Dalla Piccola
Baudolino
by Umberto EcoTitle character recounts searching for Prester John's kingdom to Niketas Choniates during fourth crusade siege of ConstantinopleTitle character is adopted son of Frederick Barbarossa, loves Hypatia, a satyr, is friends with the monopod Gavagai
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
by Umberto EcoYambo has a stroke and can only remember books he has read until he discovers copy of First Folio, returns to Solara
How to Travel with a Salmon
by Umberto Ecocomputer glitch at a hotel causes a delay in him putting a fish he bought in Stockholm in a minibar fridge
Travels in Hyperreality
by Umberto Ecoessay which compares LBJ's presidential library to the Fortress of Solitude to explain the phenomenon of copies being more "real" than their originalsOriginally titled "Faith in Fakes"Also discusses Disneyland
The Enigma of Arrival
by V.S. NaipaulAutobiographical novel that gets its title and cover from a painting by Giorgio de Chirico
Miguel Street
by V.S. NaipaulCollection of stories set on title roadBogart- arrested for bigamyMr. Popo- carpenter who tires to make "the thing without a name"B. Wordsworth- wrote first line of the greatest poem ever writtenHat- gamblerMan-man- declares himself a prophet after his dog dies, stages his own crucifixion and stoningElias- becomes a cart-driver after failing examsNarrator passes exams and leaves title locale
The Mystic Masseur
by V.S. NaipaulGanesh Ramsumair can cure illness with his hands, becomes a successful politician under the name G. Ramsay Muir
A Bend in the River
by V.S. NaipaulIndian muslim Salim sets up a store on title location in an African country lead by the dictator "Big Man" (based on Mobuto Sese Seko's Congo)The magician Zabeth patronizes Salim's shop, Salim helps Zabeth's son Ferdinand get an education from Belgian priest Father Huismans (collects African masks and is murdered)Salim builds a Madonna cult in honor of his mother(a former hotel maid), has an affair with Yvette(wife of Raymond, a scholar who works for Big Man)The Domain/New Domain created by Big ManMetty- Salim's servant/assistant, betrays Salim by framing him for selling ivorySalim marries Nazruddin's daughterBig Burger franchise is opened across from Salim's shopFerdinand declares "We're all going to hell"Patrick French's biography of Naipaul takes its title from the opening line of this novel: "The world is what it is..."
A House for Mr. Biswas
by V.S. NaipaulTitle character Mohun Biswas, marries Shama of the Tulsi family while working as a sign painter, sends her note that says "I love you and I want to talk to you", he spends the rest of his life trying to escape themTulsi's live in Hanuman House, Owad (the "young god") leaves and studies in England, a man nicknamed W C Tuttle clashes w BiswasMohun reports for the Sentinel in Port-of-Spain, finds "Deserving Destitutes", writes a series of "Escape" stories, reads Marcus Aurelius and EpictetusMohun is born with six fingers and told to avoid water, his father drowns trying to save a calf Mohun lost while being distracted by seeing a river for the first timeMohun moves between the Chase, Green Vale, and Hanuman House while trying to acquire title object, has lifelong stomach problems after eating seven bananasMohun's son Anand becomes terrified after his dog is killed during labor dispute
In a Free State
by V.S. Naipaul, won the Booker prize for itConsists of three storiesThird story is gives novel its title: Bobby and Linda take a long drive through an African country going through a revolution between the King and the President, Bobby is beaten at an army checkpointOther stories are "One Out of Many" and "Tell Me Who to Kill"Santosh works for Priya, who sets up a marriage for Santosh to gain American citizenshipDayo's brother moves to London
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
by Vachel Lindsay"thinks of men and kings"Title figure figure paces in Springfield, Illinois, "cannot sleep upon his hillside""bronzed, lank man""high top-hat"
The Eagle That is Forgotten
by Vachel LindsayElegy for John Peter Altgeld
General William Booth Enters Into Heaven
by Vachel Lindsayprocession following leader of the Salvation Army into paradise"Are you washed in the blood of the lamb?""led boldly with the big bass drum"
The Waves
by Virginia WoolfConsists entirely of soliloquies spoken by six different characters, who describe their collective hero Percival
A Room of One's Own
by Virginia WoolfEssay about Shakespeare's sister JudithStates women writers need title space
The Death of a Moth
by Virginia WoolfEssay comparing struggles of title creature to daily lives of humans
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia WoolfOne day in the life of title house wife Clarissa Septimus Smith throws himself out of a windowTitle character is married to politician Richard but reminisces about kissing Sally Seton and her time with Peter WalshBegins with title character buying flowers for a party she is hosting
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia WoolfPainter Lily Briscoe lives with Ramsay family and they travel to title location
Orlando
by Virginia WoolfProtagonist and many characters are gender shiftingInspired by author's friend/lover Vita Sackville-West
Lolita
by Vladimir NabokovAbout Humbert Humbert's love for the "nymphet" Dolores HazeHumbert shoots his rival Claire Quilty, playwright of "The Enchanted Hunters" at Beardsley School, Quilty kidnaps title character at one pointCharlotte dies in car accident after reading Humbert's diary about title character(her daughter)Detective Gustave TrappHumbert is jailed for shooting QuiltyTitle character attends Camp QAnnabel Leigh dies of Typhus
Pale Fire
by Vladimir NabokovConsists of John Shade's title 999-line poem and Charles Kinbote's editorial comments on that poemKinbote believes he is the exiled king of ZemblaOpening line: "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain"
The Defense
by Vladimir NabokovLuzhin plays chess against Turati
Pnin
by Vladimir Nabokovabout a professor at Waindell College
Beat! Beat! Drums!
by Walt Whitman"through the windows" and "through doors."
Song of Myself
by Walt Whitman52 sections"(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"Opening line: "I celebrate myself, and sing myself"Ends "I stop somewhere, waiting for you""Do I contradict myself?," admits "Very well then I contradict myself,"A woman joins some young men "by the shore" as the "the twenty-ninth bather"Narrator sounds his "barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."speaker answers "the beautiful uncut hair of graves" to a child's question of "What is grass?""every atom belonging to me as good as belongs to you""I loaf and invite my soul""a uniform hieroglyphic""I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul"
Song of the Broad-Axe
by Walt WhitmanAddressed to a "weapon, shapely, naked, wan"
A Noiseless Patient Spider
by Walt WhitmanCompares his soul to title creature that "launches forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself"Surrounded by "oceans of space"
I Hear America Singing
by Walt WhitmanDescribes the carpenter "as he measures his plank of beam""what belongs to him or her and to none else."
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
by Walt WhitmanElegy for Abraham Lincoln, he is compared to a "western orb sailing the heaven""great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night"solitary thrush that "sings by himself a song.""Come lovely and soothing death, undulate round the world""Song of the bleeding throat"Shifts into italics to demarcate a "carol of death" sung by a hermit thrush/"gray-brown" bird in a swamp"what shall I hang on the chamber walls?""the fragrant pines and the cedars dark and dim"Narrator gives a sprig of the title flower to a "coffin that passes through lanes and streets."Final section begins "Passing the visions, passing the night"
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
by Walt WhitmanFirst poem in Sea Drift section of Leaves of GrassOriginally titled "A Word Out of the Sea" Set on Paumanok's shoreBegins with a mockingbird crying out, describes a boy awakening as a poetNarrator says "the sea whisper'd to me," "the low and delicious word death""the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle.""solitary guest from Alabama""A thousand warbling echoes have started to life within me, / Never to die"
I Sing the Body Electric
by Walt WhitmanFrom "Children of Adam" sequence of Leaves of GrassCelebration of the human form, includes catalog of anatomical parts"the armies of those I love engirth me""I say now these are the soul""If the body were not the Soul, what is the Soul?"describes the female body as "the bath of birth"Speaker assumes the role of a "sloven" auctioneer examining people on auction at a "slave-mart" to praise the male and female versions of the title objectDescription of an 80-year-old farmer who is "the father of five sons""Swim with the swimmers, wrestle with wrestlers, march in line with the firemen."
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
by Walt WhitmanFrom the Calamus poems in Leaves of GrassWas first titled "Sun-Down Poem"A person travels over the East River"Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!""you furnish your parts toward the soul.""What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us?""the similitudes of the past and those of the future""Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes""Whatever it is, it avails not- distance avails not, and place avails not"Speaker claims "the dark threw patches down upon me" before comparing himself to "the wolf, the snake, the hog""I am he who knew what it was to be evil."
Pioneers! O Pioneers!
by Walt WhitmanProvided title of Willa Cather novelPraises westward expansion, ends every line with title phrase"Come my tan-faced children"
On the Beach at Night Alone
by Walt WhitmanSet to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams along with "A Passage to India"(Gave title to E M Forester book)Details a "vast similitude" that interlocks "all lives and deaths, all of the past, present, future"
Go Down, Moses
by William Faulknerset of seven interrelated stories "Delta Autumn""The Bear"
The Confessions of Nat Turner
by William StyronAbout Virginia slave revoltLawyer Thomas Gray listens to the title characterJudge Jeremiah Cobb sentences title character and his friend Hark to deathTitle character is goaded into killing Margaret Whitehead by the crazed, axe-wielding WillWill murders Joseph TravisControversial novel as title character is depicted as a sexual deviant
Sophie's Choice
by William StyronTitle character(last name Zawistowska) has to decide which one of her children will survive the HolocaustSophie has affair with novelist Stingo before committing suicide with schizophrenic lover Nathan Landau.Set in Auschwitz
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
by William Yeats"I will arise and go now"builds a cabin made of "clay and wattles"
The Second Coming
by William Yeats"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold""what rough beast . . . Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?""The falcon cannot hear the falconer"
Sailing to Byzantium
by William Yeats"This is no country for old men""an aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick."
The Wild Swans at Coole
by William Yeats"scatter wheeling in great broken rings."
Easter 1916
by William Yeatsabout uprising in Ireland"a terrible beauty is born""polite meaningless words"
Snow Country
by Yasunari KawabataAbout doomed affair between Tokyo dilettante Shimamura and geisha KomakoShimamura is a self-appointed Western Ballet expert despite never having seen oneShimamura also fantasizes about Yoko, a girl he sees on a train on the way to hot spring town where Komako livesKomako lives in paralyzed music teacher's old homeYoko nurses Yukio(music teacher's son), who has tuberculosis and may have once been engaged to KomakoEnds with Yoko dying in a silkworm cocoon warehouse fire as Shimamura feels the "Milky Way flow inside him."Opens with Shimamura enraptured with the reflection of a woman caring for a sick man in a frosted train window (Yoko and Yukio)Opening line: "The train came out of the long tunnel"Story of a farmer who started a restaurant named after his mistress only for his wife to run it after his mistress ran awayKomako sings the song "Dark Hair" while accompanying herself with a samisenShimamura visits weavers of Chijimi
The Grasshopper and the Bell-Cricket
by Yasunari KawabataArray of different-colored lanterns around a playground attract a creature that a schoolboy offers to his classmate
The Master of Go
by Yasunari KawabataBased on real match reported on by Kawabata Journalist Uragami chronicles the retirement match of title character Honinbo ShusaiOtake- young player based on Minoru Kitani, beats Shusai after a 237-move, 5-month long match Match is sealed by Move 121, game is visualized with images of board interspersed Uragami takes pictures at Shusai's funeral, is pleased that Shusai's one long eyebrow signifies good luck
The House of the Sleeping Beauties
by Yasunari KawabataEguchi visits title location where men sleep with drugged young virgins
Thousand Cranes
by Yasunari KawabataKikuji Mitani begins an affair with the much older Mrs. Ota after meeting her at a tea ceremonyTitle comes from pattern on handkerchief of Yukiko Inamura, the suggested proper bride for KikujiKikuji also has an affair with Mrs. Ota's daughter FumikoFumiko smashes a cylindrical white tea bowl stained with a trace of her mother's lipstick after Mrs. Ota overdoses on sleeping pillsChikako has a huge black birthmark on her chest and tries to interfere with Kikuji marrying Yukiko
The Dancing Girl of Izu
by Yasunari KawabataNarrator is a college student who becomes infatuated with drum-wielding title character only to discover she is actually a child
Beauty and Sadness
by Yasunari KawabataOki Toshio impregnates fifteen year old Otoko Ueno then abandons herOtoko Ueno begins lesbian relationship with her maid Keiko SakamiOki writes book "A Girl of Sixteen" about his relationship with Otoko, prompting Keiko to drown Oki's son out of revenge
The Sound of the Mountain
by Yasunari KawabataOnly elderly businessman Shingo Ogata can hear title noiseShingo is married to Yasuko, has children Shuichi and Fusako who both experience failing marriagesShuichi cheats on his wife Kikuko with a war widow, Kinuko, Kikuko has an abortionShingo lusts after his secretary Eiko and after Kikuko, suggests a family trip to see maple trees
The Old Capital
by Yasunari KawabataProtagonist- foundling Chieko Sada, whose family runs a kimono business.Chieko finds out her parents abandoned her when she discovers her twin sister Naeko, confusing Hideo
Diary of My Sixteenth Year
by Yasunari KawabataRelates having to help his grandfather urinate
One Arm
by Yasunari KawabataYoung girl gives one of her arms to protagonist who decides to replace it for one of his own
Their Eyes were Watching God
by Zora Neale HurstonCrawford has to shoot husband after he is bitten by a rapid dogEatonville, Florida floods from a hurricane
Lyrical Ballads
by william wordsworth and samuel taylor coleridgeTintern AbbeyThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather
collection by Gao Xingjiantitle story- narrator's fond memories are triggered by seeing title fiberglass object in store window"The Accident""Cramp""The Temple""In the Park"
East, West
collection by Salman Rushdie"Chekhov and Zulu" - title characters give themselves names from Star Trek, story is book-ended by assassinations of Indira and Rajiv Ghandi"Yorick" - about the childhood of Hamlet
Ariel
essay by José Rodó"to reform oneself is to live"
Democratic Vistas
essay by Walt Whitmanwritten in response to Thomas Carlyle's "Shooting Niagara"
Chekhov's Gun
if you are going to put something in a story, it needs to be used later"If a gun is placed on stage in Act I, it must go off by the end"
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
name given by Yasunari Kawabata to his works of fiction and short storiesPublished as a collection of short stories later in his career
HERmione
novel by Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)Autobiographical, about her relationship with Francis Gregg
Santa Claus: A Morality
play be E. E. Cummings
The Mousetrap
play by Agatha ChristieFrequently uses the music for "Three Blind Mice" which it is loosely based onMurder investigator Sergeant Trotter skis to Monkswell Manor, it turns out he is the perpetratorMonkswell- guesthouse owned by Mollie RalstonMaureen Lyon is murderedChristopher Wren is first guest to arrive at Monkswell
Axel
play by Auguste Villiers de I'Isle-AdamThe protagonist and Sara kill themselves as the sun rises, since they believe that their love is too beautiful for the worldEdmond Wilson overview of Symbolist literature titled after protagonist's "Castle"
Ti-Jean and His Brothers
play by Derek WalcottA frog sneezes and exclaims, "Aeschylus me!" at the beginningDevil is accompanied by aborted fetus Bolom
The Other Shore
play by Gao XingjianGroup of actors play a game with ropes before crossing river to reach title location
A Month in the Country
play by Ivan Turgenev
The Theater of the Absurd
plays stressed the illogical, irrational aspects of lifeEugene IonescoLuigi PirandelloSamuel Beckett
Star-Apple Kingdom
poetry collection by Derek WalcottTitle poem: "let me in...I am the revolution." , "voice had the gutturals of machine guns / across khaki deserts""The Schooner Flight"
The Martian Chronicles
series of short stories by Ray Bradbury"There Will Come Soft Rains""Usher II""Ylla""The Third Expedition"
Life on the Mississippi
Autobiography of Mark Twain about his life on a river boat
Moxon's Master
By Ambrose BierceAbout a chess playing "robot" (called automatons)Automaton ends up killing its creator
Chickamanga
By Ambrose BierceDeaf boy stumbles upon a battlefieldHe runs home only to find that his house has been burned and his parents have been killed
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
By Ambrose BiercePeyton Farquhar is given a tip that the Union will travel a certain way, he tries to blow up bridge but gets caughtFarquhar escapes being hungTicking noise of his pocketwatchTurns out it was all a dream, Farquhar was actually hung, dream ends when the ticking stops
Agnes Grey
By Ann Bronte, aka Action Bell
The Mysteries of Udolpho
By Ann RadcliffeOne of the first Gothic Novels
The Luck of Roaring Camp
By Bret HarteCherokee SalMining campKentuck dies to save Cherokee Sal when the camp floods
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
By Bret HarteUncle Billy steals horsesJohn Oakhurst commits suicide
Jane Eyre
By Charlotte Bronte, aka Currer BellGoverness at Thornfield hall owned by Mr. RochesterBertha Mason married to Rochester, is kept in attic, burns down Thornfield Hall(Grace Poole is blamed)Saint John- cousin of title character, proposes to herLowood- girl's school run by Mr. Brocklehurst, title character meets Helen BurnsTitle character is confined to "Red Room" where her uncle John Reed diedTitle Character marries Mr. Rochester at the endWide Sargasso Sea- prequel written by Jean Rhys
The Yellow Wallpaper
By Charlotte Perkins GilmanHusband thinks wife is crazy after childbirth, locks her in a room with yellow wallpaperShe hallucinates the wallpaper is moving and tears in down
Casey at the Bat
By Earnest ThayerReally good baseball player strikes outSet in a town called Mudville
The House of Mirth
By Edith WhartonLily Bart is socially ostracizedBook gets its title from The Book of Ecclesiastes
Age of Innocence
By Edith WhartonNewland Archer loves Ellen Olenska but ends up marrying May WellandArcher visits Europe with his son Dallas
Ethan Frome
By Edith WhartonTitle character has an affair with Mattie SilverThey attempt to commit suicide at the end by running a sled into a treeSetting: StarkfieldTitle character's wife Zeena is sick and he must care for herRed pickle dish is shattered by a cat
Paul Clifford
By Edward Bulwer-Lytton"It was a dark and stormy night"
Miniver Cheevy
By Edwin Arlington RobinsonPoem about a "child of scorn" who "eyed a khaki suit with loathing""Loved a Medici""Born too late"
Richard Cory
By Edwin Arlington RobinsonPoem about a "gentleman from sole to crown" who was "richer than a king"He went home one night and "put a bullet in his head"
Sonnets from the Portugese
By Elizabeth Barret BrowningCollection of poemsSonnet #43- "how do I love thee, let me count the ways"
Wuthering Heights
By Emily Bronte, aka Ellis Bellabout Heathcliff's(an orphan from Liverpool) romance with Catherine Earnshaw, he is forced to marry Isabella Linton insteadFramed as narrative told by Nelly Dean to Mr. LockwoodSet at Thrushcross GrangeProtagonist sees ghost hand of Catherine break the glass window and reach into the room
The New Colossus
By Emma LazarusPoem on the Statue of Liberty
The Little Mermaid
By Hans Christian AndersonWhen walking, it feels like she is walking on knivesdoesn't get prince to fall in love, turns into seafoam
Pride and Prejudice
By Jane Austen"it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a bachelor..."Follows the Bennet familyElizabeth Bennet falls in love with Mr. Darcy who owns Pemberley EstateJane Bennet Falls in love with Charles BingleyLydia Bennet marries a militia officer George WickhamNetherfield Ball sceneClergyman Mr. Collins proposes to Elizabeth Bennet but is rejected and ends up marrying Charlotte Lucas
Sense and Sensibility
By Jane AustenThe Dashwood FamilyEdward FerrarsMr. Willoughby
Mansfield Park
By Jane Austen Fanny Price
Northanger Abbey
By Jane Austen- her only gothic novel, published after her deathCatherine MorlandThe Tilneys
The Good Soldier Svejk
By Jaroslav HasekDog thief in WWI
Ode on a Grecian Urn
By John Keats"Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all""Thou still unravished bride of quietness""Sylvan Historian"A man looks at the art on the title object"Heard melodies are sweet/but those unheard are sweeter""foster child of silence and slow time"
Ode to a Nightingale
By John Keats"do I wake or sleep""was it a vision or a waking dream?""thou wast not born for death immortal Bird"Ruth "stood in tears amid the alien corn"
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
By John KeatsFrench for the young woman without mercy"O what can ail thee, knight at arms"
Trees
By Joyce KilmerPoem"I think I'll never see a poem as pretty as a tree"
Story of an Hour
By Kate ChopinShort story about a wife who thinks her husband is deadWife is happy about her husbands deathHusband turns out to be alive and the wife dies of a heart attack
Desiree's Baby
By Kate ChopinTwo white people have a black babyHusband is outraged and throws out his wife and babyHe eventually finds out he is the descendent of an escaped slave
The Storm
By Kate ChopinWoman has an affair while her husband is out caught in a storm
Don Juan
By Lord ByronParody of Don Juan story (Huron)
Little Women
By Louisa May AlcottMarch Sisters: Amy Meg Beth JoMarmee- momBoy's school at PlumfieldSequels: Little Men, Jo's Boys
The Prince and the Pauper
By Mark TwainAbout two guys who randomly meet and decide to switch places
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
By Mark TwainBecky ThatcherEngine Joe: Native AmericanWhite washing scene: title character tricks kids into helping him wash a fence
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveris County
By Mark TwainFrog named Daniel WebsterStones are stuffed down the frog's throat so it cannot jump
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
By Mark TwainHank Morgen is sent back in time He is saved from hanging because he knew a solar eclipse was coming
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
By Mark TwainJim the slave runs away from DouglassJim meets The Duke and The Dauphin(the king)- con artists
The Man that Corrupted Hadlyburg
By Mark TwainMan who died leaves his fortune to someone who knows his last words, the town becomes hostile and nasty fighting over the fortune
Pudd'nhead Wilson
By Mark TwainSouthern aristocrat baby and a slave baby are switched at birth
A Vindication of the Rights of Women
By Marry Wollstonecraft, mother of Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
By Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyIn the book the monster is yellowRobert Walton sails around arctic sea, finds title doctor running from his monsterMonster kills Henry ClervillAs monster runs comes across bag of books, reads Paradise Lost, Plutarch's Lives, and Sorrows of Young Werther(by Goethe)
Dover Beach
By Matthew Arnold"Seas of faith ebbing away""Where ignorant armies clash by night"
Thyrsis
By Matthew ArnoldElegy for Arthur Hugh Clough
The Scholar-Gypsy
By Matthew ArnoldOxford student joins a band of gypsies
The Joke
By Milan Kundera"Long live Trotsky"
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
By Milan KunderaThomas, surgeon, loses his job because writes letter comparing the government to Oedipus story, married to Tereza(photographer of Prague Spring)Sabina, Thomas's mistress, painter, moves to American has sex while wearing a bowler hat, hates "kitsch"Franz, lover of Sabina, professor, dies in Bangkok while being muggedKerenin, Thomas and Tereza's dog, reference to Tolstoy, dies of cancer
Sonnets to Orpheas
By Rainer Maria RilkePoems over ancient greek hero
The Ring and the Book
By Robert Browning21,000 lines; each a dramatic monologue(style of writing where stories are from one character's perspective)12 books
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
By Samuel Taylor ColeridgeRecited by "the wedding guest"Famous line: "water water everywhere nor any drop to drink"Ship is destroyed after a man shoots an Albatross
A White Heron
By Sarah Orne JewettHunter goes to Maine, asks girl to show him where the white heron livesMetaphor for young women coming of age, white heron represents virginity
The Red Badge of Courage
By Stephen CraneHenry Fleming joins the Union army in the Civil WarRed badge=wound he gets in battleFlemming's group called "mule drivers" or "mud diggers"Protagonist meets a "tattered soldier"Jim Conklin dies
An American Tragedy
By Theodore DreiserClyde Griffiths kills his girlfriend Roberta Alden at Big Moose Lake after he falls for Sondra Finchley
On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth
By Thomas DeQuinceyAct II Scene 1 from Macbeth
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
By Thomas DeQuinceyBased on real life of authorDivided into "pleasures" and "pains" of title substance
The Garden Party
By Vaclav HavelHugo Pludek becomes head of the Central Inauguration and Liquidation PartyHe is very good with answering with the "right answer"Criticism of communism
O Pioneers!
By Willa CatherSwedish Immigrant named Alexandra BergsonShe gets married after her younger brother Emil is killed
The Song of the Lark
By Willa CatherThea Kronberg becomes an opera singer and eventually dies at the end
A Poison Tree
By William BlakeGuy gives his enemy a poisoned apple
The Tyger
By William BlakeIn collection called Songs of ExperienceTitle animal "burning bright/in the forests of the night""What immortal hand or eye/could frame thy fearful symmetry?"
The Lamb
By William BlakeIn collection called Songs of Innocence
Endymion
by John Keats"a thing of beauty is a joy forever"Greek shepherd's love for Cynthia
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
by John Keats"stout Cortez" standing "upon a peak in Darian" looking out over the pacific oceanAbout reading a translation of the odyssey
The Eve of St. Agnes
by John KeatsAngela allows Porphyro to visit Madeline on the title night
To Autumn
ode by John Keats"season of mists and mellow fruitfulness."