Works/Hints (1 - 180)
Invisible Man
Dr. Bledsoe expels the protag from college and gives him false letters of rec
(The) Importance of Being Earnest
Dr. Chasuble courts Miss Prism
(The) Importance of Being Earnest
Dr. Chausble is scheduled to rechristen a main char
(A) Tale of Two Cities
Dr. Manette obsessively makes shoes to relieve his guilt
Candide
Dr. Pangloss parodies Leibniz and metaphysicists
(A) Doll's House
Dr. Rank with TB and syphilis leaves black X's on a card in a mailbox
No Exit
Garcin says "hell is other people"
No Exit
Garcin was a pacifist army deserter in Brazil
(A) Tale of Two Cities
Gaspard killed Marquis of St. Evremonde for running over his child
(A) Tale of Two Cities
Gaspard leaves a note signed "Jacques" after murdering someone
Les Miserables
Gavroche is killed while sent by the Friends of the ABC to collect rifle cartridges
Vanity Fair
George Osborne dies before the Battle of Waterloo
Uncle Tom's Cabin
George Shelby helps Cassy and Emmeline escape
Uncle Tom's Cabin
George teaches a man the difference between g's and q's
(The) Call of the Wild
Hal and Mercedes are criticized for bringing "blankets for a hotel"
David Copperfield
Ham's fiance runs off with James Steerforth who both drown in a storm
Beowulf
JRR Tolkien defended the literary quality of the work
Heart of Darkness
a city reminds protag of "whited sepulchre"
Julius Caesar
a famous speech declares "the evil that men do lives after; the good is oft interred with their bones"
(The) Canterbury Tales
a devil drags a man's body and frying pan to hell
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Rachel Halliday and Quaker Phineas gives chars shelter
(The) Portrait of a Lady
Madame Merle is the illegitimate mother of Pansy
(The) Waste Land
Madame Sosostris warns of drowning to death
(The) Waste Land
Madame Sosostris was "known to be the wisest woman in Europe"
(A) Farewell to Arms
Miss van Campen suspects the protag's jaundice was caused by alcoholism
(The) Color Purple
Mister ___ hides the Nettie's letters to the protag
(The) Scarlet Letter
Mistress Hibbins lives in Governor Bellingham's mansion
Brave New World
Mitsima teaches how to work with clay
(The) Sun Also Rises
Robert Cohn beats up the bullfighter Pedro Romero
(The) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
a dialogues occurs between the "First Voice" and "Second Voice"
Faust
a director, poet, and actor discuss the purpose of the theater
Catch 22
a doctor, sharing a tent with Chief White, is dead when his name is found on McWatt flight register
(The) Tempest
a drowned body incites a song "doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange"
Ivanhoe
a duel is fought to determine if a Jew was a witch
Jane Eyre
Rochester does not marry Blanche Ingram
Jane Eyre
Rochester is secretly married to Bertha Mason who is hidden in the attic
Don Quixote
a duke and duchess play many jokes on the protag like pretending to appoint him Governor of Barataria
Antigone
a dust storm encounters when the protag performs a death ritual
As I Lay Dying
a father is eager to buy a new set of teeth after his wife dies
Uncle Tom's Cabin
a father wishes that his son Harry Harris and himself were never born
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
a "mousy" girl screams "violence, violence!" and constantly drinks brandy
(The) Red Badge of Courage
a "tattered man" witnesses the death of Jim Conklin
(A) Streetcar Named Desire
a blue piano "expresses the spirit of the life which goes on here"
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
a boy accidently kills her mother with a shotgun
Les Miserables
a boy brings his infant brothers to live in a giant plaster elephant
Waiting for Godot
a boy tells the protags that the title char wil "surely arrive tomorrow" and calls a man "Mr. Albert"
Leaves of Grass
a boy watches mockingbirds by the Paumanok
(The) Idiot
a boy with tuberculosis forgets to put the cap on his pistol after reading his suicde note "Essential Statement"
(The) Sun Also Rises
a char claims a love affair between Jefferson Davis and Ulysses S. Grant
Ethan Frome
a char claims her hair ribbon is a "tribute to the unusual"
(The) Glass Menagerie
a char claims to be "tsar of the underworld" and calls another "babbling old witch"
(A) Streetcar Named Desire
a char claims to have given magic by telling lies
Beloved
a char compares his heart to a "rusted tobacco tin"
(The) Waste Land
a char complains "My nerves are bad to-night"
Anna Karenina
a char consults the French clairvoyant Landau
Little Women
a char contracts scarlet fever from the Hummel family baby
Long Day's Journey into Night
a char courts the obese prostitute Fat Violet
(A) Streetcar Named Desire
a char covers a lightbulb with a Chinese lantern so she looks better
Pygmalion
a char cries "ah ah ah ow ow oo"
(A) Streetcar Named Desire
a char danced to the Varsouviana before confronting her husband
Waiting for Godot
a char debates different accounts of the crucifixion and whether Jesus saved a thief at the crucifixion
King Lear
a char declares "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!"
(The) Glass Menagerie
a char declares "I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion"
Antigone
a char declares "a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride"
(The) Three Musketeers
a char delays ships to England to retrieve diamond studs
(The) Cherry Orchard
a char delivers an ode to a 100 year old cupboard
Much Ado About Nothing
a char demands others to "remember that I am an ass"
(The) Canterbury Tales
a char demonstrates how to lecture a husband
East of Eden
a char dies after learning his daughter Una dies
Animal Farm
a char dies after outlining the Seven Commandments
(A) Farewell to Arms
a char dies in Switzerland when the protag flees the Battle of Caporetto
Great Expectations
a char dies in a fire while wearing her wedding dress
Slaughterhouse Five
a char dies of gangrene after wearing wooden clogs
Death in Venice
a char discovers his name is pronounced with a long "u" sound
Cry, the Beloved Country
a char discusses his son with John Harrison
Paradise Lost
a char disguises as a cherub/angel to ask Uriel for directions
Jane Eyre
a char disguises himself as Mother Bunches to tell his future wife's fortune
(The) Merry Wives of Windsor
a char disguises himself as Mr. Brook to find the truth about an affair
Uncle Tom's Cabin
a char distributes locks of her hair as she dies
One Hundred Years of Solitude
a char doesn't realize her lover is two similar looking brothers
Long Day's Journey into Night
a char dreamed to becomes a nun or pianist
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
a char drinks in disgust of his family's "mendacity"
Antigone
a char drives his mother Eurydice to madness
(The) Sound and the Fury
a char drowns himself in the Charles river on June 2, 1910
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
a char eats a telegram that announced a man died while serving to avoid porcupine
(The) Sun Also Rises
a char ends marrying his former fiance Mike Campbell
Death of a Salesman
a char envies his neighbor Bernard for being a successful lawyer
(The) Merchant of Venice
a char exclaims "My daughter!" after Jessica elopes with Lorenzo
(The) Glass Menagerie
a char explains "Nowadays the world is lit by lightning!"
Death of a Salesman
a char fails summer school after walking in on an affair
Sense and Sensability
a char falls in love with John Willoughby but he abandons her so she marries a Colonel instead
Ulysses
a char feeds a suitor seed cake out of her mouth
Othello
a char fights Montano while drunk
Ulysses
a char fights a ghost of his mother with a walking stick but destroys a chandelier
Paradise Lost
a char finds mouth fulls of ashes after biting into fruit
War and Peace
a char forces his son to postpone his wedding for a year
(The) Merchant of Venice
a char forfeits his property and fails to collect a contract without spilling blood
Twelfth Night
a char forges a fake love letter written to M,O,A,I
Beloved
a char gets confused over an image of the protag's mouth in a newspaper
Beloved
a char gets her milk stolen during an attack by the schoolteacher's nephews
(The) Brothers Karamazov
a char gets upset at the quick decay and smell of his mentor's dead body
Heart of Darkness
a char gives a biscuit to a dying man who has white tied around his neck
(The) Grapes of Wrath
a char gives and sells nickel candy for a penny
Waiting for Godot
a char gives another man a turnip after being asked for a carrot
Little Women
a char gives her mother a bottle of cologne for Christmas
(The) Importance of Being Earnest
a char goes "Bunburying" to avoid social obligations
Ethan Frome
a char goes to Bettsbridge to see a new doctor
Pride and Prejudice
a char goes to London instead of Gretna Green before being discovered by her uncle Mr. Gardiner
Decameron
a char goes to the Bridge of Geese and learns to beat his wife for obedience after seeing a herder beat his mule
Waiting for Godot
a char has a dance called "The Net" and a hat that forces him to "think"
(The) Brothers Karamazov
a char has a dog Perezvon who falls ill eating bread with a pin inside
(The) Brothers Karamazov
a char has a vision of the Devil which ruins his testimony during a trial the next day
Lolita
a char has piano lessons with Ms. Emperor twice a week
Jane Eyre
a char has the word "Resurgam" on her tombstone after dying of consumption
Paradise Lost
a char hears a "dismal universal hiss"
Hedda Gabler
a char hopes to have a "triangular relationship" with a married couple
Our Town
a char imagines Shakespeare's plays and the Sentinel newspaper underneath a new bank
One Hundred Years of Solitude
a char in incapacitated after sitting on a hot stove after an invasion by Francis Drake
(The) Glass Menagerie
a char infuriates his mother by not going to work but the movies instead
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
a char injures his ankles by reliving his glory days jumping hurdles
(The) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
a char introduces himself as William Thompson from Ohio visiting his uncle
Anna Karenina
a char invents a new cooperative enterprise system
1984
a char is a member of the Junior Anti Sex League
One Hundred Years of Solitude
a char is associated and followed by yellow butterflies
Wuthering Heights
a char is bitten by the dog Skulker and forced to stay at the title estate
Hedda Gabler
a char is called "one cock in the basket"
Heart of Darkness
a char is called a "papier mache Mephistopheles"
(The) Sound and the Fury
a char is castrated when he attacks a group of girls thinking it was his sister due to the smell
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
a char is compelled to drink until he hears a "click"
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
a char is confronted about his dead friend Skipper and their gay feelings
Pride and Prejudice
a char is constantly mocked for having "fine eyes"
Death of a Salesman
a char is disappointed about his refrigerator compared to his neighbor's General Electric
Sense and Sensability
a char is disinherited for impregnating 15 year old Eliza Williams
Ulysses
a char is distressed by a cryptic postcard reading "U.P.up"
(The) Idiot
a char is enraptured by Holbein's Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb
(The) Thousand and One Nights
a char is enslaved by the Old Man of the Sea
Paradise Lost
a char is fascinated by her own reflection in a pond
Vanity Fair
a char is given a note asking to elope
Little Women
a char is humiliated at the Moffats ball and marries the tutor John Brooke
(The) House of the Seven Gables
a char is hypnotized after Holgrave tells her a story about a relative Alice
Hedda Gabler
a char is insulted for leaving his bonnet (hat) on a chair
Waiting for Godot
a char is kicked in the shin for comforting a crying man
Aeneid
a char is killed for wearing the belt of Pallas
(A) Doll's House
a char is known for dancing the Tarantella
Treasure Island
a char is marooned for 3 years
Middlemarch
a char is mocked for his speech on parliamentary reform
Wuthering Heights
a char is mocked for not knowing how to read his own name and the date 1500
To Kill a Mockingbird
a char is named one-shot when asked to kill a rabid dog
Finnegans Wake
a char is nicknamed Earwicker for trying to catch earwigs with a flowerpot
Death of a Salesman
a char is often accompanied with flute music
(The) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
a char is painted blue and called the "Sick Arab"
Vanity Fair
a char is punished by being made Governor of Coventry Island
(The) Brothers Karamazov
a char is raised by the servants Marfa and Grigory
Beloved
a char is sent to a chain gang in Alfred, Georgia for killing Brandywine, but escapes
(The) Brothers Karamazov
a char is sentenced to 20 years of labor after 3000 rubles are planted on him
Brave New World
a char is strange because alcohol was mixed with his blood surrogate
(The) Taming of the Shrew
a char is tricked into claiming that the sun is the moon
One Hundred Years of Solitude
a char is tricked into thinking she is Queen of Madagascar
Hedda Gabler
a char is writing about a book on "Domestic Industries of Brabant during the Middle Ages"
War and Peace
a char joins the Freemasons after a dueling Dolokhov
Lolita
a char kills a porn director at Duk Duk Ranch
Pygmalion
a char leaves a note wanting tea instead of coffee
(The) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
a char leaves snake skin near another who then gets bitten
Beowulf
a char leaves the lake to get revenge on Heorot
Great Expectations
a char lives in a room filled with stopped clocks and a moldy wedding cake
Hedda Gabler
a char loses a precious object at Mademoiselle Diana's brothel or soiree
Aeneid
a char loses a race after slipping in blood
East of Eden
a char loses his family fortune when delays causes ice in refridgerated trains to melt spoiling vegetables inside which inspires his son to make a fortune selling beans
(The) Grapes of Wrath
a char loses his home to a sadistic bulldozer driver
Mahabharata
a char loses his kingdom after losing a dice game
Ulysses
a char makes cocoa for a guest while giving a catechism of 309 Q/As
Sense and Sensability
a char marries Sophia Grey to keep his wealthy lifestyle
My Antonia
a char marries Tiny Soderball
Jane Eyre
a char meets her employer after his horse slips on ice
(The) Glass Menagerie
a char misses the DAR meeting to check on her daughter at typing school
Wuthering Heights
a char mistakes her bed for the Fairy Cave at Penistone Crags
(The) Importance of Being Earnest
a char mixes up her three-volume novel with a baby
(The) Color Purple
a char moves to Tucson, Arizona to follow the flute player Germaine
(The) Glass Menagerie
a char nicknamed "Shakespeare" works at a shoe warehouse
Gone With the Wind
a char nicknamed Bonnie Blue dies in a horse racing accident
(The) Tempest
a char notes "the great globe itself...shall dissolve" because "we are such stuff/as dreams are made on"
Great Expectations
a char obsessed with "portable property" refers to his father as "The Aged Parent" or "Aged P"
No Exit
a char offers another to "be her glass" after she cannot find her mirror in her purse
On the Road
a char often often stays up talking poetry with Carlo Marx
Brave New World
a char often quotes Shakespeare having been the only thing he's read
Catch 22
a char only sees people in his office when he isn't there
Heart of Darkness
a char passes control of a boat to a "pilgrim"
Vanity Fair
a char performs Clytemnestra at a charade party
Julius Caesar
a char persuades another by stating "The fault, dear Brutus, is in our stars, not ourselves"
Uncle Tom's Cabin
a char picks cakes from Aunt Chloe and rides with a dollar from title char
Death of a Salesman
a char plans to sell sporting equipment in the Florida Idea
Pride and Prejudice
a char plays backgammon with the protag's father instead of reading sermons to girls
Henry V
a char poses as a Welshman named Le Roy
Wuthering Heights
a char prepares to kill a man who he locks out
Julius Caesar
a char presents another with "a kingly crown, which he did thrice refuse"
(The) Importance of Being Earnest
a char pretends to have a fictional invalid friend to avoid social obligations
King Lear
a char pretends to lead Gloucester off a cliff to die
Twelfth Night
a char proclaims "if music be the food of love, play on"
My Last Duchess
a char produced a "spot of joy" on the cheek of the title char
(A) Midsummer Night's Dream
a char produces juice from the love-in-idleness flower
Brave New World
a char pushes a woman's clothes through a ventilator and calls her a "impudent strumpet"
Great Expectations
a char raises her adopted daughter to break men's hearts
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
a char recalls how a drunk spat tobacco juice at Susan McPheeters, the Cotton Carnival Queen
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
a char references a biology professor who is working a genetic modification to create a race that looks like him"
One Hundred Years of Solitude
a char refers a magnet as the 8th world wonder
No Exit
a char refuses to sit on a green sofa because she is wearing pale blue
(The) Stranger
a char refuses to throw away a cigarette when questioned by the police
(The) Brothers Karamazov
a char regains his faith after dreaming about the biblical wedding of Cana
Ulysses
a char relates human history to a hockey goal
Little Women
a char reminisces about a charades game based on Pilgrim's Progress
Ulysses
a char reminisces on Gibraltar
As I Lay Dying
a char repeats "He could do so much for me if he just would"
Absalom, Absalom
a char repeats "I don't hate it. I don't hate it."
Catch 22
a char repeats "I'm cold" before dying under a parachute
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
a char repeats "Nautron respoc lorni virch" every morning
All Quiet on the Western Front
a char repeats "forgive me, comrade" after discovering the wallet of a man he killed revealing that he was a printer
(A) Streetcar Named Desire
a char repeats "poker should not be played in a house with women"
(The) Importance of Being Earnest
a char reveals his identity by an inscription on a cigarette case
(The) Sound and the Fury
a char runs off with a carnival pitchman with a red tie and steals her uncle's money
(The) Tempest
a char says "Hell is empty / And all the devils are here"
(The) Merry Wives of Windsor
a char says "Why, then, the world's mine oyster" after being denied a loan
Animal Farm
a char says ribbons are badges of slavery
Vanity Fair
a char sells overpriced horses for men fleeing Brussels
One Hundred Years of Solitude
a char sends a son floating down a river in a basket
Animal Farm
a char sent to a glue factory after breaking their leg
David Copperfield
a char shelters 2 orphans and a widow in his boathouse
All Quiet on the Western Front
a char shoots his inujured horses out of mercy
(The) Glass Menagerie
a char shouts "Go then! Go to the moon -- you selfish dreamer!"
Julius Caesar
a char shows the audience a tattered cloak, calling one tear "the most unkindest cut of all"
(The) Glass Menagerie
a char skips typing class at Rubicam's Business College to visit penguins at the zoo
Hedda Gabler
a char spends his honeymoon writing a book on the domestic handicrafts of the Brabantians
Lolita
a char stars in Clare Quilty's play The Enchanted Hunters
Uncle Tom's Cabin
a char steals Miss Feeley's ribbon, Miss Eva's necklace and Rosa's earrings
(A) Tale of Two Cities
a char steals and sells corpses' body parts
(The) Crucible
a char struggles to remember the 10 commandments
Waiting for Godot
a char struggles to remove his boot and says "Nothing to be done"
Death of a Salesman
a char talks about an 84 year old man who died on a train wearing green slippers
Death of a Salesman
a char talks about the difference being "liked" but not "well liked"
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
a char tells a joke about two horny elephants
Animal Farm
a char tells stories about "Sugarcandy Mountain"
Ulysses
a char tells the protag that Jesus was a Jew
Don Quixote
a char thinks his brains are melting when curds are put into his helmet
Pygmalion
a char throws her slippers at another
Heart of Darkness
a char throws his shoes and helmsman overboard which upsets a group of starving cannibals
Faust
a char tormented by an evil spirit during church
(A) Tale of Two Cities
a char tosses a coin to a father whose son was killed by carriage
(The) Scarlet Letter
a char tricks Master Brackett claiming to have learned medicine from an Indian
Oliver Twist
a char tries to drown his dog Bull's Eye
Wuthering Heights
a char turns her lover's coffin to face her so their bodies can mingle
(The) Color Purple
a char undergoes ritual scarring out of empathy for his lover Tashi's female circumcision ritual
Treasure Island
a char uses Ben Gunn's cheese obsession to win his loyalty
Odyssey
a char uses herb moly to rescue his companions
War and Peace
a char uses numerology to justify killing the Antichrist
Of Mice and Men
a char visits a black stable buck with a crippled spine named Crooks
(The) Tempest
a char vows to "break my staff" and "drown my book" before dismissing a wedding masque
(The) Grapes of Wrath
a char wants to take a class on fixing radios, but becomes a tractor driver instead
Our Town
a char warns the newly dead not to relive a past memory
(A) Doll's House
a char warns the protag for spending 3 weeks making Christmas ornaments
(The) Glass Menagerie
a char warns to push with a crust of bread instead of his fingers
(The) Glass Menagerie
a char was called "Blue Roses" in high school
Brave New World
a char watches the porn "Three Weeks in a Helicopter" reminding him of Linda and Pope's relationship
Of Mice and Men
a char wears a glove full of Vaseline and suspects his wife of having an affair with Slim
Little Women
a char weeps after selling her chestnut hair for 25 dollars
Twelfth Night
a char who loves cakes and ale asks "there shall be no more cakes and ale?"
War and Peace
a char wins 43,000 rubles playing faro
(A) Tale of Two Cities
a char wishes to be "Resurrection-Man"
Death of a Salesman
a char with a UVA logo on his shoes can barely graduate with the help of Bernard
Pygmalion
a char worries a man is a police officer and takes a taki
Middlemarch
a char writes "The Key to all Mythologies"
Little Women
a char writes a play called "The Witch's Curse"
Ulysses
a char writes a poem on Deasy's letter about cattle (foot and mouth) disease
(The) Importance of Being Earnest
a char writes abouts a man and pretends to break off a relationship in her diary
War and Peace
a char's brother dies of overdose on abortion medication
(The) Sound and the Fury
a char's castration involves an unlocked gate
(The) Glass Menagerie
a char's high school crush Jim accidentally breaks a glass unicorn
Little Women
a char's love is revealed when a stolen glove is discovered
Vanity Fair
a char's name is crossed out from the family bible after marrying behind his father's back
Pride and Prejudice
a character at Pemberley describes a young lady as "tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me"
Pride and Prejudice
a character is helped seduced by her governess Mrs. Young, until she confesses to her brother
Song of Myself
a child asks "What is the grass"
One Hundred Years of Solitude
a child of incest has a pig's tail and is eaten by ants
Native Son
ends with the protag's lawyer Boris Max giving a speech defending him and criticizing racism
(The) Cherry Orchard
ends with the servant Firs locked in the house ready to die
(The) Cherry Orchard
ends with the sound of axes cutting down the title estate
(The) Trial
features a parable where a man who waits outside a door to gain entrance to the law and constantly hears "not just yet"
Ode on a Grecian Urn
"All breathing human passion far above"
(The) Charge of the Light Brigade
"All the world wondered" as "Cossack and Russian / Reeled from the saber stroke"
Ode on a Grecian Urn
"Cold Pastoral" illustrates a paradox of events being stoic and passionate
Crime and Punishment
"Gunpowder" shouts at the protag to stop shouting
(The) Waste Land
"HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME"
Beowulf
"Lay of the Last Survivor" is the fourth funeral
Dover Beach
"Sophocles long ago" heard "the eternal note of sadness" on the Aegean sea
Ivanhoe
"The Black Sluggard" is accompanied by Ulrica
Ulysses
"The Citizen" throws a biscuit tray at the protag
Brave New World
"a gramme in time saves nine"
Kubla Khan
"ancestral voices prophesying war!"
Ode on a Grecian Urn
"beauty is truth, and truth beauty"
Brave New World
"civilization is sterilization"
Kubla Khan
"deep romantic chasm"
Ode on a Grecian Urn
"heifer lowing at the skies" led by a "mysterious priest"
Ulysses
"history is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake"
(A) Tale of Two Cities
"it is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done" is said before a guillotine
To Kill a Mockingbird
"no code" matter a poor woman "before she broke it"
(The) Raven
"suddenly the air grew denser"
(The) Raven
"the air perfumed from an unseen censer"
Leaves of Grass
"the ship has weathered every rack"
(The) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
"water, water, everywhere / not any drop to drink"
Ode on a Grecian Urn
"what leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape"
Ode on a Grecian Urn
"what mad pursuit? what sturggle to escape"
(The) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
2 family rivals hold rifles between their knees in church
Our Town
3 baseball players mock a char for being kicked off the stage
(The) Canterbury Tales
3 men drink poisoned wine to try to kill Death
(The) Canterbury Tales
3 men kills each other for gold coins at the bottom of an oak tree
To Kill a Mockingbird
Calpurnia looks after the narr and her brother
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Captain Nemo gives gold to the poor in India and saved a wounded pearl hunter
Treasure Island
Captain Smollet is disposed over a mutiny on the Hispaniola
(The) Three Musketeers
Cardinal Richelieu plans a blackmail plot
On the Road
Carlo Marx represents Allen Ginsberg
Of Mice and Men
Carlson finds his Luger missing after suggesting it to kill Candy's old dog
As I Lay Dying
Cash gives 13 reasons for why he made a coffin "on the bevel"
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Cassy reunites with her daughter in Canada
East of Eden
Cathy poisons madame Faye and takes over a brothel
To Kill a Mockingbird
Cecil Jacobs scares the protag in a ham costume
(The) Importance of Being Earnest
Cecily Cardew and Gwendolyn Fairfax both get engaged to the same nonexistent man
Decameron
Cepparello pretends to be a virgin while confessing to a friar and becomes a saint after death
Uncle Tom's Cabin
500000 British woman signed the Stafford House address to the novel's author
Song of Myself
52 stanza poem from Leaves of Grass that begins "I celebrate myself, and sing myself"
Romeo and Juliet
Abraham and Balthazar immediately draw swords on Benvolio
Romeo and Juliet
Abram gets into a fight with Sampson and Gregory
(The) Canterbury Tales
Absalom pokes Nicholas's buttocks with a hot coulter
Paradise Lost
Belial and Mammon debate the "Great Flood" in Pandaemonium
(The) Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Ben Rogers is convinced that painting a fence is better than swimming and gives an apple for it
Great Expectations
Bentley Drummle becomes betrothed to the protag's childhood love
Native Son
Baldwin claimed that the protag was Uncle Tom's descendant
Romeo and Juliet
Balthasar gives Romeo false information, leading him to buy poison
(The) Merchant of Venice
Bassanio is the protag homosexual lover
East of Eden
Caleb's father rejects his gift of a knife in favor of his brother's stray puppy
(The) Charge of the Light Brigade
opens with "Half a league, half a league"
(The) Second Coming
opens with a "falcon that cannot hear the falconer"
Henry V
opens with a chorus talking about "a Muse of fire"
Cry, the Beloved Country
opens with a description of a "lovely road" to Ixopo
Oedipus Rex
opens with a priest giving a speech about the plague
(The) Trial
opens with an arrest in Frau Grubach's boarding house
(The) Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
opens with an invitation to make a visit "when the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table"
Mahabharata
opens with the birth of Bhishma
O Pioneers!
opens with the protag's young brother crying because his cat is stuck atop a telegraph pole
(A) Farewell to Arms
opera singer Ralph Simmons gives the protag an ill fitting suit
Finnegans Wake
originally published in section as Work in Progress
Mahabharata
outlines 3 paths (wisdom, action, and devotion) to transcend the 3 gunas
(The) Sorrows of Young Werther
protag writes to Albert asking for two pistols as he is "going on an adventure", but uses it to commit suicide, an action imitated by many young German readers
Death in Venice
protag wrote Intellect and Art which is compared to Schiller's Simple and Sentimental Poetry
Death in Venice
protag's admiree loses a wrestling match against Jasiu
(The) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
protag's affection for Mary Jane leads him to hide a sack of gold in a coffin
1984
praise of a imaginary war hero named Comrade Ogilvy
Jane Eyre
protag's best friend Helen Burns died of typhus at Lowood School
Death of a Salesman
protag's boss turns on a tape of his child reciting state capitals
Cry, the Beloved Country
protag's brother John was once a carpenter, but now a well known and outspoken politician
Oliver Twist
protag's brother is Edward Leeford known by "Monks"
Madame Bovary
protag's corpse vomits a blood liquid during her funeral
Faust
protag celebrates the anniversary of Oberon and Titania
(The) Jungle Book
protag chases off the tiger Shere Khan
Ethan Frome
protag cheats on his wife Zeena with her cousin
(The) Stranger
protag claims he committed a crime "because of the sun"
Cry, the Beloved Country
protag climbs a mountain to watch the sunrise
Death of a Salesman
protag commits suicide in a car crash to give his family insurance money
Lolita
protag compares great thunderstorms to a Aztec red convertible driver named detective Trapp
Crime and Punishment
protag compares himself to Napoleon
Macbeth
protag compares life to a "poor player that struts and frets his hour upon a stage"
On the Road
protag constantly eats apple pie, ice cream, and cough drops
(The) Three Musketeers
protag continuously chases a man from Meung
Native Son
protag covers up a murder by beheading the woman and shoving her into a furnace
Odyssey
protag cries after a blind singer tells a tale
Fathers and Sons
protag cuts himself during an autopsy and contracts typhus which kills him
(The) Stranger
protag cuts out ads for Kruschen Salts
Eugene Onegin
protag dances with Lensky's fiance Olga at a ball
Middlemarch
protag decides to marry Will Ladislaw after the death of Causabon
Henry V
protag declares "once more unto the breach, dear friends"
Aeneid
protag defeats Turner in a battle against the Latins
Macbeth
protag describes life as "but a walking shadow"
Heart of Darkness
protag desperately waits a month for a supply of rivets
All the King's Men
protag devises the "Great Twitch Theory" where people aren't responsible for their actions
Death in Venice
protag dies after eating overripe strawberries
Jude the Obscure
protag dies in Christminster after Sue Bridehead leaves him
Madame Bovary
protag dies when a blind beggar's song ends
All the King's Men
protag discovers a bribe between Judge Irwin and Governor Stanton
(The) Magic Mountain
protag's cousin Joachim Ziemsen dies of tuberculosis
Don Quixote
protag's exploits are based on a manuscript by the fictional Cide Hamete Benengeli
O Pioneers!
protag's family owns a plot of land known as "The Divide"
(The) Tin Drum
protag's father dies after swallowing his Nazi party pin
(The) Stranger
protag's father vomitted repeatedly watching an execution
Les Miserables
protag disguises as Monsieur Madeleine after stealing silver from Bishop Myriel
(A) Farewell to Arms
protag dives into the river to escape the "battle police"
King Lear
protag divides his assets between his daughters Regan and Goneril, leaving out Cordelia
(The) Stranger
protag doesn't cry at his mother's funeral but smokes and drinks coffee instead
Crime and Punishment
protag dreams a peasant Mikolka whipping a mare to death
Crime and Punishment
protag dreams being read the biblical story of Lazarus
Billy Budd
protag's final words before being hung are "God bless Captain Vere!"
To Kill a Mockingbird
protag's friend Dill is based on Truman Capote
(The) Red Badge of Courage
protag's friend, Tom Wilson, is "the loud soldier"
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
protag's friends Retty, Izz, and Marian are all in love with her husband
Their Eyes Were Watching God
protag's grandmother forces the protag to marry Logan Killicks
Catch 22
protag's high body temperature allows him to get out of the job
David Copperfield
protag's housekeeper (Peggotty) and mother are both named Clara
Middlemarch
protag's husband Causabon changes his will to prevent her from marrying his cousin Will Ladislaw by taking away her inheritance
Madame Bovary
protag's husband attempts to cure Hippolyte's clubfoot but gives him gangrene instead
Their Eyes Were Watching God
protag's husband beats her for miscutting a piece of tobacco
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
protag's husband leaves Wessex to start farming in Brazil
(The) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
protag's journey with a slave Jim along the Mississippi River
Don Quixote
protag's library is burned down the priest Pedro Perez and Nicholas Barber
Ethan Frome
protag's lover ends up paralyzed after a sledding accident
(A) Farewell to Arms
protag's lover fears rain while the beginning states "rain brings cholera"
Middlemarch
protag's meets his husband in Rome where he has heart attack on their honeymoon
(The) Good Earth
protag's mentally disabled daughter is nicknamed the "poor fool"
(The) Age of Innocence
protag's mother begs the Van der Luydens to invite a char to a party on Duke of St. Austrey's behalf
(The) Tin Drum
protag's mother dies after seeing eels being pulled off the head of a dead horse
(The) Song of Hiawatha
protag's mother is Wenonah who was seduced by the dangerous "West-Wind"
All the King's Men
protag's mother is married to Theodore Murrel, but she had an affair with Judge Irwin, his real father
(The) Red Badge of Courage
protag's mother milks a cow and knits 8 pairs of socks for him
(A) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
protag dreams of finding his Mercedes after reading The Count of Monte Cristo
Slaughterhouse Five
protag dreams of lions after seeing a production of Cinderella from which he gets silver painted boots
Of Mice and Men
protag dreams of owning a rabbit farm
(The) Magic Mountain
protag dreams of two witches slaughtering a child in the snow
Death in Venice
protag drinks a glass of pomegranate juice and soda water while watching musicians
Ivanhoe
protag duels his rival Brian de Bois-Guilbert while disguised as the "Disinherited Knight"
Ivanhoe
protag duels his rival before the Templars
Inferno
protag encounters and cannot escape a lion, leopard, and she-wolf
Inferno
protag encounters fortune tellers and soothsayers that walk with their head backwards
Inferno
protag encounters the murdered lovers Paolo and Francesca
(The) Portrait of a Lady
protag ends up in a stifling marriage with Gilbert Osmond
(The) Age of Innocence
protag ends up marrying May Welland despite his love for a Polish countress
Oedipus Rex
protag enters a grove, that he will die in, sacred to the Furies
(A) Streetcar Named Desire
protag entertains strangers at the Tarantula Arms
Rip Van Winkle
protag escapes the Catskills with his dog Wolf
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
protag escapes the Maelstrom
(The) Count of Monte Cristo
protag eventually falls in love with and sails off in the sunset with Haydee, Ali Pacha's daughter
Fathers and Sons
protag eventually marries his love's sister Katya
(A) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
protag exiles himself from Ireland at the end
(The) Adventures of Tom Sawyer
protag exonerates Muff Potter for not killing Dr. Robinson
Their Eyes Were Watching God
protag experiences a moment of ecstasy under a pear tree which leads her to decide to find a "bee for her bloom"
All the King's Men
protag fails to complete his thesis on Cass Mastern due to his lack of focus and "Great Sleep"
Cry, the Beloved Country
protag fails to find Sibeko's daughter at Barbara Smith's house
(The) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
protag fakes his death by killing and dragging a pig to escape his father, Pap
Pygmalion
protag falls for Freddy Eynsford Hill
(The) Magic Mountain
protag falls in love with Clavdia Chauchat
Faust
protag falls in love with Gretchen
(A) Streetcar Named Desire
protag falls in love with Mitch
(An) American Tragedy
protag falls in love with Sondra Finchley which causes him to kill his girlfriend
Catch 22
protag falls in love with a hospital chaplain while suffering from liver jaundice
(The) Metamorphosis
protag falls in love with a hunchbacked girl of locksmiths in a Murakami story "Samsa in love"
Invisible Man
protag falls into a altered sense of time while listening to Louis Armstrong
Heart of Darkness
protag fantasizes about "blank spaces" on a map as a child
Faust
protag fathers a child named Euphorion with Helen of Troy
(The) Old Man and the Sea
protag fears the "Indians of Cleveland"
(The) Pilgrim's Progress
protag fights Apollyon in the Valley of Humiliation
Don Quixote
protag fights a man with shiny armor nicknamed the Knight of the Mirrors
Don Quixote
protag fights some Yanguesans after their horses have sex
Fathers and Sons
protag finally kisses his love Madame Odintsova on his deathbed
Madame Bovary
protag find a velvet lined cigar case after a party
Heart of Darkness
protag finds a painting of a blindfolded woman holding a torch
(The) Count of Monte Cristo
protag finishes off Danglars' fortune by having him kipnapped by Italian bandits led by Luigi Vampa during the Roman Carnival
Don Quixote
protag flees to the mountains after freeing a group of galley slaves
Death in Venice
protag follows the beautiful Polish boy Tadzio
(The) Stranger
protag fondles his girlfriend's, Marie Cardona, breasts while they watch a movie
(The) Trial
protag fools around with Leni, a web fingered servant of a lawyer
(A) Doll's House
protag forged her father's signature to borrow money for Italy
Don Quixote
protag frees Gines de Pasamonte, a puppeteer whose ape can tell people's fortunes
Don Quixote
protag gains his companion after promising him an island governorship
(The) Adventures of Tom Sawyer
protag gets 1000 tickets to win a new Bible
Cry, the Beloved Country
protag gets a letter from the priest Theophilus Msimangu about his sister Gertrude's illness
War and Peace
protag gets arrested for saving an Armenian girl from a burning house
Gulliver's Travels
protag gets involved in a war fought over how an egg should be cracked
Ethan Frome
protag gets jealous of Denis Eady who eventually gets rejected by the protag's lover
Absalom, Absalom
protag gets killed for having an affair with 15 year old Milly
(The) Adventures of Tom Sawyer
protag gets lost at McDougal's cave with Becky Thatcher
Don Juan
protag gets sent to England by Catherine Great
Don Juan
protag gets the Greek pirate princess Haidee pregnant and abandons her
(The) Count of Monte Cristo
protag gives Valentine Villefort a pill to appear dead allowing Maximilian Morrel to understand his love
Great Expectations
protag gives an escaped convict pork pie and brandy
Death of a Salesman
protag gives his sons a punching bag signed by Gene Tunney
Crime and Punishment
protag gives money to Marmeladov's family who was killed by a carriage
Henry V
protag gives the Saint Crispin's day speech calling his men a "band of brothers"
(The) Old Man and the Sea
protag goes 84 days before catching a marlin, but when he catches it, it gets eaten by a shark
(The) Sun Also Rises
protag goes an a 5 day fishing trip with Bill Gorton and meet Harris
Inferno
protag goes through 9 rings of the title mountain
Invisible Man
protag goes to Sybil for information, but she wants him to rape her
Picture of Dorian Gray
protag goes to an opium den after leaving Lady Narborough's party
Henry V
protag goes to battle at Shrewsbury against Hotspur and saves his father's life
(The) Good Earth
protag goes to the House of Hwang to buy land and a wife O-lan
Vanity Fair
protag graduates from Miss Pinkerton's Academy with Amelia Sedley
Antigone
protag hangs herself after being sealed in a cave
Henry V
protag hangs out at the Boar's Head Tavern with John Falstaff, who later dies
(A) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
protag hangs out with Davin, Lynch, and Cranly at University College
(The) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
protag has a "long grey beard and glittering eye"
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
protag has a little brother Abraham who eavesdrops on their parents
Anna Karenina
protag has a nightmare of an old peasant rummaging through a sack
Madame Bovary
protag has affairs with Rodolphe Boulanger and Leon Dupuis
(A) Streetcar Named Desire
protag has affections for the fictional Shep Huntleigh
Death of a Salesman
protag has an affair with "The Woman in Boston"
Vanity Fair
protag has an affair with Marquis of Steyne
(The) Tin Drum
protag has an affair with Roswitha Raguna and Maria Trucinzki
(The) Idiot
protag has an epileptic fit after breaking an expensive vase at a party
(A) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
protag has an epiphany when he makes eye contact with a girl wading in the sea
Crime and Punishment
protag has tea with a detective at the Crystal Palace
Gulliver's Travels
protag hates a race of save humans called Yahoos
Oedipus Rex
protag hears 3 peals of thunder signalling his death
(The) Tin Drum
protag helps Jan Bronski steal a necklace for Agnes
(The) Stranger
protag helps his friend Raymond Sintes seduce and spit into his girlfriend's face
(The) Merry Wives of Windsor
protag hides in a basket of dirty laundry and is thrown into the river
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
protag hopes that her lover will marry her sister Liza-Lu
Heart of Darkness
protag imagine a Roman soldier at "the very end of the world" looking at the Thames River
Death in Venice
protag imagines an ugly Socrates lecturing Phaedrus
Eugene Onegin
protag inherits his uncle's countryside mansion and bathes in a nearby icy river
Billy Budd
protag initially sails on the Rights-Of-Man, but gets impressed onto the HMS Bellipotent
Eugene Onegin
protag insults Zaretsky for choosing his Guillot as his second
Don Quixote
protag intervenes in a battle battle between sheep and giants
(The) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
protag is "as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean"
(The) Red Badge of Courage
protag is "still a man" because he made mistakes in the dark
(The) Old Man and the Sea
protag is a fan of "the great DiMaggio"
Fathers and Sons
protag is a frog-dissecting doctor
Main Street
protag is a part of the drama group Thanatopsis club
Don Quixote
protag is a peasant from La Mancha
Their Eyes Were Watching God
protag is abandoned by her mother Leafy
(The) Pilgrim's Progress
protag is accompanied by Hopeful at the Interpreter's House
(The) Call of the Wild
protag is accompanied by Ysabel and Toots at Judge Miller's Santa Clara home
(The) Faerie Queene
protag is aided by Faith, Hope, Charity
Ethan Frome
protag is an engineer who ends up where he is due to a carpenter's strike
(The) Trial
protag is arrested by Franz and Willem, whom the protag sees later get whipped and flogged
(The) Stranger
protag is asked "Do you really live with the thought that when you, you die, and nothing remains?"
Ivanhoe
protag is banished by his father Cedric for joining the crusades
(A) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
protag is beaten with a cabbage stump for preferring Byron over Tennyson
Henry V
protag is betrayed by the Earl of Cambridge, Lord Scroop, and Sir Thomas Grey
(The) Sorrows of Young Werther
protag is buried under a lime tree after his suicide
Picture of Dorian Gray
protag is called "Prince Charming" by his lover
(A) Doll's House
protag is called a "twittering lark" and "squirrel"
Don Juan
protag is captured and sold in a slave market in Constantinople
Their Eyes Were Watching God
protag is caught kissing Johnny Walker under a flowering pear tree
Lord Jim
protag is condemned for abandoning Muslim passengers on the sinking Patna as an officer
Faust
protag is contrasted with his assistant Wagner
(The) Tin Drum
protag is convicted of murdering the nurse Sister Dorothea after finding a bloody ring finger
Don Quixote
protag is defeated by Samson Carrasco disguised under a pseudonym
Don Quixote
protag is defeated by the Knight of White Moon
Les Miserables
protag is denied because of his yellow passport
On the Road
protag is deserted in Mexico City by Dean Moriarty and catches dysentery
Lolita
protag is devastated when his childhood love Annabel Leigh dies of typhus
Great Expectations
protag is disciplined by Joe Gargery with "The Tickler"
Death in Venice
protag is disgusted by an old man pretending to be young wearing makeup and a wig
All Quiet on the Western Front
protag is distraught over killing Gerard Duval
(The) Hunchback of Notre Dame
protag is elected Pope of Fools during the Festival of the Fools
Invisible Man
protag is expelled for introducing another char to Jim Trueblood who impregnated his wife and daughter
Death in Venice
protag is ferried by an unlicensed boatman who quickly leaves without collecting money in fear of getting caught
Gulliver's Travels
protag is first a surgeon, then a ship captain
Lolita
protag is first seduced at the Enchanted Hunters hotel
Their Eyes Were Watching God
protag is forbidden from attending the funeral of Matt Bonner's yellow mule that her husband bought
Antigone
protag is forbidden from sprinkling dirt on her dead brother
Frankenstein
protag's mother, Caroline Beaufort, dies of scarlet fever contracted by his adopted sister Elizabeth Lavenza
Odyssey
protag's nurse Eurycleia recognizes his scar when washing his feet
Lolita
protag's pursuit dies in childbirth after marrying Dick Schiller
Lolita
protag's pursuit is actually named Dolores Haze
Pygmalion
protag's ring is hurled into a fireplace
Their Eyes Were Watching God
protag's second husband buys 200 acres and opens a store and post office, eventually becoming mayor of the town
Candide
protag's servant and lover is Cacambo along with Martin
Cry, the Beloved Country
protag's sister Gertrude becomes a prostitute
(The) Color Purple
protag's sister lived in Africa with the missionaries Samuel and Corinne
Crime and Punishment
protag's sister's fiance tries to frame her by slipping a banknote in her pocket
Antigone
protag's sisters include Eteocles and Ismene
(The) Good Earth
protag's sons include Nung Wen and Nung En who plan on selling his land
Candide
protag's tutor encourages him to live in the "best of all possible worlds"
Ulysses
protag's wife Molly has an affair with Blazes Boylan
Lolita
protag's wife Valeria has an affair with the taxi driver Maximovich
Jude the Obscure
protag's wife blames him for their failed relationship and remarries Phillotson
Rip Van Winkle
protag's wife dies when she "broke a blood vessel in a fit of passion"
(The) Good Earth
protag's wife discovers a pair of pearls that the protag gives away to his servant
(The) Good Earth
protag's wife is mistreated by the slave Cuckoo
David Copperfield
protag's wife is pursued by Uriah Heep
Macbeth
protag's wife tries to wash out a "damned spot"
Macbeth
protag's wife urges "spirits that tend to mortal thoughts to unsex me here"
Death of a Salesman
protag's wife wants him to consider Howard Wagner, a non traveling job
O Pioneers!
protag's younger brother Emil is killed by the drunk Frank Shabata while he embraces his wife Marie
All Quiet on the Western Front
protag, Leer, and Kropp swim naked across a canal to meet 3 French women
Hamlet
protagonist asks "what's hecuba to him, or he to hecuba"
Hamlet
protagonist attends school at Wittenberg
Hamlet
protagonist calls himself "a king of infinite space"
Hamlet
protagonist commands "now pile your dust upon the quick and dead"
Of Mice and Men
protags are forced to leave Weed because one of them assaulted a woman in a red dress
Waiting for Godot
protags have nicknames "Gogo" and "Didi"
Waiting for Godot
protags wait for a man who never appears
To His Coy Mistress
speaker says "A hundred years should go to praise" with "two hundred to adore each breast"
Howl
speaker sees his friend "walk dripping from a sea-journey on the highway across America"
To His Coy Mistress
speaker sits by the Humber river while the subject finds' rubies by the Ganges River
Song of Myself
speaker sounds his "barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world"
(The) Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
speaker states "I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be"
(The) Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
speaker states "I should have been a pair of ragged claws"
Howl
speaker states "you bang on the catatonic piano the soul is innocent and immortal"
(The) Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
speaker states there is "time yet for a hundred indecisions / And for a hundred vision and revisions"
(The) Raven
speaker tells the subject to return to "the Night's Plutonian shore"
To His Coy Mistress
speaker wants to "tear our pleasures with rough strife through the iron gates of life"
(The) Road Not Taken
speaker was "sorry he could not travel both" of the "two roads"
(The) Road Not Taken
speaker will be "telling this with a sigh"
Howl
speaker's friends release an "eli eli lamma lamma sabacthani saxophone cry"
(The) Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
speakers describes himself as "Politic, cautious, and meticulous"
Howl
speakers praises "the groaning saxophone" and "the vast lamb of the middle class"
To His Coy Mistress
speakers suggests that they should be "like amorous birds of prey"
Howl
speakers watches figures who "throw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of time"
Invisible Man
protag is forced into a "Battle Royal" with other blindfolded blacks to pick up coins and fight on a electrified mat for a college scholarship
(The) Three Musketeers
protag is forced to accept a promotion from Cardinal Richelieu
(A) Farewell to Arms
protag is forced to shoot an engineer who refuses to free his vehicle
Their Eyes Were Watching God
protag is forced to shoot her rabid husband when he tries to kill her
Pride and Prejudice
protag is forced twice to dance with clergyman
Odyssey
protag is found by Nausicaa after spending 7 years with the nymph Calypso
Great Expectations
protag is given money by the lawyer Mr. Jaggers
Beloved
protag is haunted by the ghost of her daughter
(The) Red Badge of Courage
protag is hit on the head with a rifle leading others to believe he was shot
(An) American Tragedy
protag is in a stolen car driven by Willard Sparser
Fathers and Sons
protag is in love with Anna (Madame) Odintsova
Great Expectations
protag is in love with Miss Havisham's ward Estella who is a convict's daughter
Slaughterhouse Five
protag is kept with Montana Wildhack in a Tralfamadorian zoo
Candide
protag is kicked from Westphalia for his fling with the baron's daughter
(A) Streetcar Named Desire
protag is kicked out of the Flamingo Hotel for immoral behavior
Slaughterhouse Five
protag is kidnapped with Roland Weary by the Germans and placed in a zoo on the planet Tralfamadore
Slaughterhouse Five
protag is killed by Paul Lazzaro after giving a speech in Chicago
Beowulf
protag is killed by a dragon
David Copperfield
protag is known as "Trot"
Beloved
protag is led across the Ohio River by Stamp Paid
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
protag is married on Richard Crick's farm
Great Expectations
protag is nicknamed Handel from being a blacksmith
1984
protag is obsessed with a paperweight with coral embedded in glass
Invisible Man
protag is often mistaken for a man named "Rinehart" after listening to Homer Barbee
(The) Rape of the Lock
protag is protected by sylphs like Ariel and Umbriel
(The) Pilgrim's Progress
protag is pulled by Help and led to the Wicket Gate
Native Son
protag is questioned by the prosecutor Buckley
(The) Color Purple
protag is raped by her stepfather and married off to the abusive Albert
Rip Van Winkle
protag is recognized by Peter Vanderdonk
Inferno
protag is rescued by Virgil as he takes the protag along his journey
Ivanhoe
protag is rescued from Torquilstone castle by Robert Locksley
(The) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
protag is saved by a Hermit, a Pilot, and the Pilot's boy
David Copperfield
protag is sent to Salem House for biting his stepfather's (Edward Murdstone) hand
David Copperfield
protag is sent to a boarding school in Canterbury after running away from his wine-bottling job
(The) Tin Drum
protag is sent to jail based on vittlar's testimony
Native Son
protag is sentenced to electrocution for accidently suffocating Mary Dalton with a pillow
(The) Color Purple
protag is sentenced to work for a mayor for 12 years after initially refusing by yelling "Hell No!"
Oliver Twist
protag is shot while accidently robbing his aunt's house
Gulliver's Travels
protag is sold to the queen of Brobdingnag
My Antonia
protag is suggested by Lena Lingard to visit the title char
Rip Van Winkle
protag is surprised to see a picture of George Washington instead of George III
Faust
protag is taken to Auerbach's Cellar and a Walpurgisnacht celebration
(A) Streetcar Named Desire
protag is taken to an insane asylum after swearing to "the kindness of strangers"
Crime and Punishment
protag is taken to prison and learn to pray in Siberia
David Copperfield
protag is targeted by Mr. Creakle and his one legged assistant Tungay
Invisible Man
protag is taught rhetoric by Brother Hambro
(The) Song of Hiawatha
protag is the grandson of Nokomis
Anna Karenina
protag is the mother of Seryozha and moves Italy after birthing a daughter
1984
protag is tortured by the Minister of Love or MiniLuv
(A) Christmas Carol
protag is visited by the three spirits of Christmas
Death in Venice
protag is worried about a disinfectant smell in the air, but people say it is only sirocco and not a cholera outbreak
(The) Jungle
protag joins Mike Scully's gang after his son Antanas dies
Oliver Twist
protag joins gang of child pickpockets who all work for Fagin
Billy Budd
protag kills John Claggart for mutiny which leads Captain Vere to setence him to hanging
Aeneid
protag kills Mezentius in a battle against the Rutulians after his greatest warrior is lured by a phantom sent by the queen of the Gods
Faust
protag kills Valentine and causes his lover to poison her mother
(The) Three Musketeers
protag kills a man and has sex with his lover
(The) Grapes of Wrath
protag kills a man with an axe
Odyssey
protag kills all suitors of his wife
Eugene Onegin
protag kills his friend Lensky in a duel
(An) American Tragedy
protag knocks out Roberta Alden with a camera on a canoe ride causing her to drown
Cry, the Beloved Country
protag laughs when village children are given free milk from a farmer
Crime and Punishment
protag leads Porfiry Petrovich to investigate two painters instead
(The) Tin Drum
protag leads a gang called "The Dusters"
(The) Trial
protag learns Italian verbs to give a tour of a cathedral
Candide
protag leaves El Dorado with 100 red sheep and jewels
(The) Call of the Wild
protag leaves civilization after the murder of John Thornton
(The) Magic Mountain
protag listens to debates over medieval philosophy between Naphta and Settembrini
(The) Adventures of Tom Sawyer
protag lives as a pirate with Joe Harper and goes to his own funeral
Invisible Man
protag lives in a underground room with 1,369 light bulbs using stolen electricity from the Monopolated Light and Power Company
(A) Streetcar Named Desire
protag loses her family's ancestral home Belle Reve due to "epic fornications"
Their Eyes Were Watching God
protag loses her husband Vergible "Tea Cake" Woods when he is bitten by a rabid dog during a flood after a hurricane in the Everglades
(The) Idiot
protag loves Aglaya Yepanchin, but she ends up getting abandoned by a Polish count
Gulliver's Travels
protag loves a race of intelligent horses
Gone With the Wind
protag manages the Tara plantation
David Copperfield
protag marries Agnes Wickfield after first wife dies of miscarriage
Beloved
protag marries Baby Suggs' son Halle
Gone With the Wind
protag marries Charles Hamilton and Frank Kennedy, all members of the KKK
Absalom, Absalom
protag marries Ellen Coldfield after stopping a slave rebellion in Haiti
Ivanhoe
protag marries Lady Rowena with the permission of her father Cedric of Rotherwood
(The) Good Earth
protag marries a slave of the Hwang family
O Pioneers!
protag marries her childhood love Carl Linstrum
Ulysses
protag masterbates while Gerty MacDowell lift her skirt during a fireworks show
Cry, the Beloved Country
protag meets Father Vincent at Mrs. Lithe's house and asks him to help hire a lawyer
(The) Trial
protag meets Huld and falls in love with his nurse
(The) Jungle
protag meets Jack Duane in jail
Frankenstein
protag meets Robert Walton in the North Pole
Invisible Man
protag meets Tod Clifton in the Brotherhood, but Tod quits and begins selling Sambo-Dolls instead
East of Eden
the Chinese servant Lee declares that the most important word is "timshel" which means "thou mayest"
(The) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
the Duke and Dauphin perform the Royal Nonesuch
(The) Tempest
the Duke of Milan resigns at the end
(The) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
the Shepherdsons and Grangerfords are rivals
Beowulf
the Swedes kill a char for sheltering refugees
Les Miserables
the Thenardiers get free labor from a girl sent by her mother Fantine
(The) Sorrows of Young Werther
protag meets a crazy man Heinrich who searches for wildflowers to make a nosegay for his lover
(A) Christmas Carol
protag meets a guide who keeps Ignorance and Want under his cloak
Ulysses
protag meets a young author Stephen
For Whom the Bell Tolls
protag meets another group led by El Sordo
Paradiso
protag meets great saints including Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure, Saint Peter, and St. John
Fathers and Sons
protag meets his love at Madame Kukshina's house
(The) Sorrows of Young Werther
protag meets his love at a ball in Walheim
Rip Van Winkle
protag meets some Dutch settlers playing ninepins
Don Juan
protag meets the Muslim girl Leila in Saint Petersburg
(The) Good Earth
protag meets the concubine Lotus Blossum at a tea shop he frequents
Don Quixote
protag mistakes a barber's washbasin for the golden Helmet of Mambrino, an object from Orlando Furioso
Faust
protag mistakes lemurs for workers from his land reclamation project
Lord Jim
protag moves to Patusan and falls in love with Jewel
Madame Bovary
protag moves to Yonville
Their Eyes Were Watching God
protag narrates her life story to Phoebe Watson
Gulliver's Travels
protag observes a conflict between the Big and Little-Endians
Death of a Salesman
protag often gets stockings as gifts which he gives to his wife
Cry, the Beloved Country
protag often uses the word "Tixo" as exclamation
Henry V
protag orders the execution of Bardolph and Nym and duels Michael Williams
(The) Color Purple
protag overcomes her situation with the help of her husband's lover Shug Avery
Invisible Man
protag parties at the Chthonian apartment building
Native Son
protag plans with others to rob Blum's Delicatessen
(A) Farewell to Arms
protag plays billiards with Count Greffi
(The) Tin Drum
protag plays jazz at "The Onion Cellar" with Klepp and Scholle
(The) Tin Drum
protag plays jazz in Bebra's troupe made up of dwarves
1984
protag predicts the downfall of Syme by his absence in chess club
Odyssey
protag pretends his name is "Nobody" to escape the cyclops Polyphemus
(The) Cherry Orchard
the governess Charlotta performs card tricks and ventriloquism at a party
(The) Raven
the narr "wheeled a cushioned seat" and "sat engaged in guessing"
Heart of Darkness
the narr describes a child as "the snake had charmed me"
Heart of Darkness
the narr finds 2 women knitting black yarn
(The) Thousand and One Nights
the narr is aided by her sister Dunyazad
Heart of Darkness
the narr is led by a Russian man dressed as a harlequin
(The) Stranger
the narr wishes for a large crowd to greet him with cries of hate at his execution
King Lear
the noble Caius disguises himself as the Earl of Kent
On the Road
the novel's manuscript was written on a giant scroll
(The) Crucible
the slave Tituba is accused of helping others talk to the devil
(The) Glass Menagerie
the son decides to join the Merchant Marine
Hedda Gabler
protag pretends to want to live a villa to make small talk with her husband who actually buys one with Aunt Juliana's help
Billy Budd
protag punches Red Whiskers which leads him to love the protag instead of hate him
Oliver Twist
protag punished for asking for more bread
Native Son
protag rapes and kills his girlfriend Bessie Mears with a brick
Inferno
protag reads the inscription "Abandon hope all ye who enter here" in Limbo
Inferno
protag reads the inscription "Abandon hope all ye who enter here" in Limbo (first circle)
(The) Sorrows of Young Werther
protag reads the poetry of Ossian to his love Charlotte, Albert's wife
Madame Bovary
protag realizes her husband is dull after attending a ball by Marquis d'Andervilliers
Much Ado About Nothing
protag rebukes the adage that "the savage bull doth bear the yoke"
(The) Count of Monte Cristo
protag receives Cardinal Caesar Spada's lost fortune with Abbe Faria's help after escaping prison
All Quiet on the Western Front
protag receives Kemmerich's unused boots
Crime and Punishment
protag receives his mom's letter that his sister is engaged with Luzhin
For Whom the Bell Tolls
protag receives orders from General Golz
1984
protag receives the book "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism"
Pride and Prejudice
protag refuses Lady Catherine de Bourgh to not get engaged with the estate owner
Jane Eyre
protag refuses to marry and go to Africa with her cousin St. John (Sinjin) Rivers
(The) Portrait of a Lady
protag rejects marriage proprosals from Lord Warburton and Gilbert Osmond
(A) Christmas Carol
protag remembers his ex-fiance Belle and sister Fan
Don Quixote
protag renames his horse Rocinandte
(The) Sun Also Rises
protag replies "Yes... Isn't it pretty to think so"
Les Miserables
protag rescues Marius while escaping through the sewers
(The) Sorrows of Young Werther
protag resigns a position assisting an ambassador that Wilhelm acquires for him
(A) Christmas Carol
protag revisits memories in Fezziwig's warehosue
Heart of Darkness
protag rides the ship Nellie
Beowulf
protag rips a foe's arm and kills their mother with the sword Hrunting
Les Miserables
protag robs a boy Petit Gervais
Don Quixote
protag rolls up his friend in a blanket after refusing to pay his bill at an inn
Beowulf
protag rules for 50 years before a man steals a golden cup
Their Eyes Were Watching God
protag runs away to Eatonville with Jody Starks who marries her and becomes mayor of Eatonville
Candide
protag sails across Atlantic to South America to find his lover and valet
Jane Eyre
protag saves Edward Rochester from a fire blamed on Grace Poole
Les Miserables
protag saves sailor who is rigging a ship
(The) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
protag says "alright then, I'll go to hell" while impersonating and visiting the Phelps farm
Main Street
protag scandalizes her husband Will by redecorating his Victorian House
1984
protag screams "Do it to Julia"
(The) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
protag sees "Four times fifty living men ... dropped down one by one"
Ethan Frome
protag sees Ruth Varnum and Ned Hale kissing
Ethan Frome
protag sees his love through the window as a dancing girl with a red scarf
Don Juan
protag sees the ghosts of the Black Friar while staying with Lady Adeline
Catch 22
protag sees the psychiatrist Sanderson after sexually assaulting Nurse Duckett
(The) Adventures of Tom Sawyer
protag sews his collar with black thread instead of white thread
(The) Stranger
protag shoots an Arab five times after being threatened with a knife
Hedda Gabler
protag shoots herself with her father's pistols to avoid being blackmailed by Judge Brack
Lolita
protag shoots the playwright of The Enchanted Hunters
Native Son
protag signs a fake ransom note as "Red"
(The) Pilgrim's Progress
protag sinks into the Slough of Despond after leaving the City of Destruction
Lolita
protag slaps a char for lying about getting soda with a friend with a red convertible
(The) Song of Hiawatha
protag slays 12 serpents that guard the evil magician Pearl-Feather
Lolita
protag sleeps with the prostitute Monique
Oedipus Rex
protag solves the Sphinx riddle
(The) Adventures of Tom Sawyer
protag states the first two disciples were David and Goliath
Death in Venice
protag stays at the Hotel des Bains after his luggage is sent to Como
Catch 22
protag stop wearing his uniform in protest for a man whose internal organs spilled out
(The) Tin Drum
protag stops growing at the age of 3
Faust
protag struggles to translate the word Logos
Frankenstein
protag studies at the University of Ingolstadt, reading works of Agrippa, Paracelsus, and Albertus Magnus
(The) Good Earth
protag supports his family by pulling a rickshaw in the city
Slaughterhouse Five
protag survives the fire-bombing of Dresden
Invisible Man
protag takes Mr. Norton to the Golden Day Saloon which leads him to be expelled
Middlemarch
protag takes an emerald ring and bracelet from her dead mother's jewelry collection and gives her sister Celia the rest
Madame Bovary
protag takes arsenic to kill herself
Madame Bovary
protag takes piano lessons with Mademoiselle Lempereur to have an affair with Leon
Odyssey
protag talks about meeting the king of the winds
(The) Three Musketeers
protag teaches his servant Grimaud to ignore and hang his wife
King Lear
protag tells his Fool to "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!"
Odyssey
protag tells stories about eating Helios' cattle
Of Mice and Men
protag thinks about "living on the fatta the lan"
Les Miserables
protag throws a coin into the fireplace
Vanity Fair
protag throws a dictionary out a carriage yelling
Wuthering Heights
protag throws hot applesauce in his childhood bully's face
Don Quixote
protag throws rocks to end an inaccurate puppet show by Master Pedro who has a monkey on his shoulder
Crime and Punishment
protag ties wood and iron to woman, as a "silver cigarette case"
Don Quixote
protag tilts at windmills
Don Quixote
protag tries to attack some giants that turn out to be windmills
Great Expectations
protag tries to avoid Arthur Compeyson, who stood up his spinster guardian's wedding
Don Quixote
protag tries to fight the "enchanted Moor", a mule driver with a tame lion
Don Quixote
protag tries to find his love Dulcinea of Toboso (aka Aldonza Lorenzo)
Main Street
protag tries to get a group to perform Androcles and the Lion, but they choose The Girl from Kankekee instead because they consider Shaw too "highbrow"
Odyssey
protag tries to return home to Ithaca and his wife Penelope
Candide
protag tries to track down Lady Cunegonde
Eugene Onegin
protag turns down a love letter in a passage known as his "sermon"
Sense and Sensability
protag twists her ankle while running down a hill at Barton Park
(The) Sorrows of Young Werther
protag unsuccessfully exonerates a peasant accused of murder
(The) Color Purple
protag uses a man's old yellow dress to make the "Sister's Choice" pattern for her quilt
(The) Count of Monte Cristo
protag uses false names like Abbe Busoni, the Envoy, Lord Wilmore, Sinbad the Sailor, and Count of Monte Cristo
(The) Count of Monte Cristo
protag uses the Mondego's betrayal of Ali Pacha and his family during the Greek Revolution to ruin him into suicide
(The) Stranger
protag visits Masson's beach house where he is bothered by the sun
Cry, the Beloved Country
protag visits a colony of blind people
Gulliver's Travels
protag visits an island inhabited by people 6 inches tall
(The) Pilgrim's Progress
protag visits the Valley of Conceit
Gulliver's Travels
protag visits the floating island of Laputa
King Lear
protag wanders naked into a storm with a Fool
Death in Venice
protag wants to travel after seeing a red-haired man staring at him
(A) Streetcar Named Desire
protag was a former English teacher fired because of an affair with a 17 year old student
(A) Streetcar Named Desire
protag was married to Allen Grey who committed suicide after he was revealed to be gay
(The) Adventures of Tom Sawyer
protag wins a Bible at Sunday school
Beowulf
protag wins a swimming race against Breca
(An) American Tragedy
protag withholds money from his pregnant sister Esta to buy Hortense Briggs a jacket
Purgatorio
protag witnesses a mosque with 24 elders and a griffin after meeting Matilda
Henry V
protag woos Katherine with a mixture of English and French after defeating a man who sends him a gift of tennis balls
Invisible Man
protag worked at Liberty Paints before a boiler exploded and injured him during a fight with Lucius Brockway
(An) American Tragedy
protag works as a bellhop in Kansas City, but flees to Lycurgus, NY after riding in a stolen car that kills a girl
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
protag works with Retty, Izz, and Marian at Talbothay's Dairy Farm
(The) Last of the Mohicans
protag works with Uncas and Chingachook
Heart of Darkness
protag worries about warm blood in his shoes while in a fog
Death in Venice
protag writes an epic on Frederick the Great
Eugene Onegin
protag writes bitter notes in the margin of his copy of Don Juan
(The) Tin Drum
protag writes his memoirs in an asylum after being convicted of murder
(The) Grapes of Wrath
the Wilsons lend their tent to make death more comfortable
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Colonel Aureliano Buendia crafts gold fishes to pass time
Catch 22
Colonel Cathcart continuously raises missions
Pygmalion
Colonel Pickering bets against Higgins' to pass a girl for duchess
(The) House of the Seven Gables
Colonel Pyncheon and his family are cursed by a farmer
Pride and Prejudice
Colonel's MIller's regiment relocation leads to a trip to Brighton
King Lear
Edmund schemes to take his older brother Edgar's rightful inheritance from their father, Gloucester
King Lear
Edmund tricks his father into believing Edgar is planning to kill him
(The) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Jim is freed when Miss Polly dies
(The) Grapes of Wrath
Joad family's journey to California during Dust Bowl
(The) Crucible
Mary Warren gives a poppet with a needle in it
(The) Seagull
Masha consults Dr. Yevgeny Dorn about her love for the protag
(The) Seagull
Masha wears black all the time and eventually gives up on the protag pursuing a schoolteacher instead
(The) House of the Seven Gables
Matthew Maule cursed the family patriarch and the rest of his family
(The) Three Musketeers
Milady de Winter, a char's servant, is foiled by the title chars
Inferno
Minos wraps his tail around himself as punishment in the second Circle
(The) Tempest
Miranda, Ariel, and Prospero cause a shipwreck by summoning a storm
(The) Importance of Being Earnest
Miss Prism reveals she accidently left a baby in a handbag at Victoria Station
Animal Farm
Snowball is driven out by Napoleon at the Battle of Cowshed
Dover Beach
Sophocles heard the "turbid ebb and flow of human misery"
(A) Midsummer Night's Dream
A play within this play is described as "tedious, brief, merry, and tragic"
Beowulf
Aeschere is abducted in sleep and decapitated
Ivanhoe
Aethelstane gets out of his coffin during a funeral
(The) Count of Monte Cristo
Albert de Morcerf, the son of his former lover Mercedes, challenges him to a duel
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Alex rapes the protag which bears a child named Sorrow
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Alice Walker wrote an essay about "looking" for this book's author at her grave
(The) Last of the Mohicans
Alice and Cora, Colonel Munro's children, are abducted by Magua
(The) Glass Menagerie
Amanda boasts of Sunday in Blue Mountain when she had 17 suitors
War and Peace
Andrei Bolkonsky's engagement is broken after an injury during the Battle of Austerlitz
Twelfth Night
Andrew Aguecheek, Sir Toby Belch, and Feste attempt to humiliate Malvolio
Ethan Frome
Andrew Hale refuses to loan the protag 50 dollars
Finnegans Wake
Anna Livia dictates a letter to her son Shem and gives a delivery to Shaun
(A) Doll's House
Anne-Marie helps raise the kids in a house where macaroons have been banned
To His Coy Mistress
Annie Finch wrote a response to this poem where the speaker claims not to be a "bird of prey"
Dover Beach
Anthony Hecht wrote a mocking response to this poem about "that bitter allusion to the sea"
(The) Hunchback of Notre Dame
Archdeacon Claude Frollo kills a gypsy dancer when she spurns his love
Mahabharata
Arjuna employs Krishna as his charioteer
Cry, the Beloved Country
Arthur Jarvis is an ardent admirer of Abraham Lincoln with a bookshelf dedicated to him
Cry, the Beloved Country
Arthur Jarvis is murdered by a gang that includes Matthew and Johannes Pafuri
Jane Eyre
Aunt Reed sends the protag to the red room
Hedda Gabler
Aunt Rina dies near after her nephew shows up
To Kill a Mockingbird
Atticus makes his son read to the morphine addict Mrs. Dubose
As You Like It
Audrey and the clown Touchstone get married
To Kill a Mockingbird
Aunt Alexandra stays at the protag's house for a while
(The) Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Aunt Polly forces the protag to paint her fence
Jane Eyre
Bertha Mason burns down Thornfield Hall
Jane Eyre
Bertha Mason inspired the book "The Madwoman in the Attic"
Mahabharata
Bhima slays Duryodhana in the final conflict
Absalom, Absalom
Biblically titled novel about Thomas Sutpen
East of Eden
Biblically titled novel about the Hamilton and Trask families
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Big Daddy's family fails to tell him about his colon cancer
Oliver Twist
Bill Sikes murders the prostitute Nancy
Treasure Island
Billy Bones hides in the Admiral Benbow Inn
Iliad
Book 2 describes a feud between Briseis and Chryseis
Much Ado About Nothing
Borachio and the maid Margaret are seen having sex in a window
Ivanhoe
Brian de Bois-Guilbert dies of a seizure while dueling the protag
(The) Faerie Queene
Britomart represents chastity and seeks to marry Sir Artegall
(A) Raisin in the Sun
Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park is a sequel to this play
(The) Idiot
Burdovsky claims to be the son of the protag's benefactor Pavlishchev and demands his inheritance
Oliver Twist
Charley Bates and Jack Dawkins steal Mr. Brownlow's handkerchief, but the protag is blamed
Pride and Prejudice
Charlotte Lucas marries Mr. Collins
David Copperfield
Clara Peggotty sails to Australia to begin a new life
Pygmalion
Clara and Freddy are impressed by a girl's "new small talk"
(The) Hunchback of Notre Dame
Claude Frollo is thrown off the title building during Esmerelda's execution
(The) Hunchback of Notre Dame
Claude Frollo stabs Captain Phoebus to death, but blames it on Esmerelda
(The) Hunchback of Notre Dame
Clopin Trouillefou, King of Truands, interrupts a play by begging for money and later tries to hang the playwright
Absalom, Absalom
Clytie sets a fire to the protag's Hundred plantation whose only survivor is Jim Bond
(The) Three Musketeers
Comte de Rochefort insults the protag's horse
Lord Jim
Cornelius betrays the protag leading him getting shot
All Quiet on the Western Front
Corporal Himmelstoss abuses the abuses the protag and other soldiers
Les Miserables
Cosette falls in love and marries Marius
Les Miserables
Cosette is raised by Father Madeleine who is actually Jean Valjean
(The) Sun Also Rises
Count Mippipopolous talks about getting your money's worth and knowing what you have
Anna Karenina
Countess Ivanova tells the protag's son she is dead
Antigone
Creon refuses to let Polyneices be buried
Of Mice and Men
Curley summons a mob to come for the protags
Main Street
Cy Bogart earns respect after he beats up a German farmer's son during wartime
Frankenstein
De Lacey is exiled after helping a Turkish man escape prison
As I Lay Dying
Darl is sent to an insane asylum for burning down Gillepsie's barn
(The) Last of the Mohicans
David Gamut tries to teach beavers to sing psalms
On the Road
Dean Moriarty represents the author's friend Neal Cassady
(The) Gift of the Magi
Della sells her hair at Madame Sofronie's shop on Christmas Eve
(A) Midsummer Night's Dream
Demetrius falls in love with Helena
As I Lay Dying
Dewey Dell tries to get an abortion, but gets seduced and raped by the pharmacist Skeet Macgowan
Decameron
Dioneo tells the last story of a man testing his wife Griselda
(The) Brothers Karamazov
Dmitri is accused of murdering his father Fyodor who was actually murdered by the epileptic Smerdyakov
Much Ado About Nothing
Dogberry exposes Don John's scheme to accuse another of infidelity
Great Expectations
Dolge uses a leg iron to assault the protag's sister
To Kill a Mockingbird
Dolphus Raymond pretends to be drunk to explain his black mistress
Lord Jim
Doraminas shoots the protag in retribution for the death of his son
(The) Canterbury Tales
Dorigen promises to sleep with a clerk if he can clear a coast of rocks
Cry, the Beloved Country
Dubula organizes a bus boycott that delays the protag
Twelfth Night
Duke of Orsino marries Viola
(The) Last of the Mohicans
Duncan Heyward leads children to Fort William Henry
Slaughterhouse Five
Edgar Derby is executed for stealing a teacup
(The) Count of Monte Cristo
Edmond Dantes' takes revenge on people who imprisoned him in the Chateau d'lf
Sense and Sensability
Elinor marries Edward Ferrars
Slaughterhouse Five
Eliot Rosewater introduces the protag to the works of Kilgore Trout
1984
Emmanuel Goldstein describes how the Middle overthrew the High with the Low
Aeneid
Entellus defeats Dares in a boxing match during funeral games
No Exit
Estelle attempts to stab Inez with a paper knife
No Exit
Estelle drowned her baby after having an affair with Roger
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Eva's father Augustine St. Clair promises to free the title char
(The) Waste Land
Evelyn Waugh names a novel titled after the line "I will show you fear in a handful of dust"
(The) Crucible
Ezekiel Cheever tells the tale of a voodoo doll
Sense and Sensability
Fanny convinces to her husband John to give the main family nothing whom he planned to give 3000 pounds
Sense and Sensability
Fanny forces the main family to move from Norland Park to Barton Park
(A) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Father Arnall's sermon inspires the protag to pursue a life of Christ until he sees a beautiful woman on the beach
(The) Brothers Karamazov
Father Zossima mentors Alyosha
Moby Dick
Fedallah's turban is made from his own beard
(The) Tempest
Ferdinand and his wife discover a "brave new world / that has such people in it!"
Beowulf
Finn and his sons is part of the "four funerals"
To Kill a Mockingbird
First Purchase church was the first thing bought by freed slaves
Middlemarch
Fred Vincy tries to sell a horse to settle a debt
Middlemarch
Fred courts and marries Mary Garth
Remembrance of Things Past
Gilberte marries the closet homosexual Robert de Saint Loup, a Guermantes
(The) Crucible
Giles Corey dies crying "more weight!"
Odyssey
Given its complex female characters, some authors believe it was written by a Sicilian woman
1984
Goldstein leads the Brotherhood, a rival of the main political group
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Gooper and Mae scheme to acquire Big Daddy's inheritance, but are thwarted when Maggie pretends to be pregnant
(The) Taming of the Shrew
Gremio and Tranio have a bidding war in Padua to marry Bianca
(The) Hunchback of Notre Dame
Gringoire puts on a play in the Palace of Justice
(A) Farewell to Arms
Helen Ferguson says a char has no shame
Odyssey
Helen gives a character a potion for good dreams
War and Peace
Helene's husband challenges the her seducer in a duel
Native Son
Henry Dalton often donates ping pong tables to the South Side Boys Club
(The) Red Badge of Courage
Henry Fleming wants to redeem himself
Absalom, Absalom
Henry kills his half brother after learning about his black ancestry
Great Expectations
Herbert Pocket teaches the protag to be a gentleman
(The) Tin Drum
Herbert falls in love with a figurehead of a ship at a Museum
Iliad
Homer epic about the Trojan war
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Honey gets so drunk she vomits and sleeps on the bathroom floor
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Honey's hysterical pregnancy supposedly caused Nick to marry her
Decameron
Isabella buries her lover's, Lorenzo, head in a pot of basil after her 3 brothers kill him
No Exit
Inez was a former lesbian postal clerk killed by Florence turning on the gas at night
Ivanhoe
Isaac of York gives the protag money to defend his daughter Rebecca
Treasure Island
Israel Hands kills O'Brien and injures the protag
(The) Grapes of Wrath
Ivy and Sairy Wilson offer their tent to the protag's Grandfather
Hamlet
J. Alfred Prufrock claims he is "not... nor meant to be" the protagonist
Oliver Twist
Jack Dawkins is known as The Artful Dodger
As You Like It
Jacque declares "All the word's a stage, and all the men and women merely players"
Pride and Prejudice
Jane marries Charles Bingley, owner of Netherfield
(The) Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Jake Dunlap steals some diamonds and blames Uncle Silas for it
Cry, the Beloved Country
James Jarvis helps restore Ixopo after his son is accidently killed
Cry, the Beloved Country
James Jarvis obtains a copy of the Gettysburg Address due to his son's fascination with Lincoln
Cry, the Beloved Country
James Jarvis vows to rebuild a new church
(The) Merchant of Venice
Jewish moneylender Shylock sues Antonio for a pound of his flesh
Native Son
Jan Erlone's girlfriend is killed by a black man
(The) Sound and the Fury
Jason scolds Luster for driving left of a Confederate monument
(A) Tale of Two Cities
Jerry Cruncher works at Tellson's Bank
(The) Merchant of Venice
Jessica tells Lancelot that she is ashamed to be her father's daughter
As I Lay Dying
Jewel is the illegitmate son of Reverend Whitfield
As I Lay Dying
Jewel works for Lon Quick to buy a horse
Beowulf
John Gardner wrote a sequel "Grendel"
Middlemarch
John Raffles blackmails his former partner Nicholas Bulstrode about his past who ends up killing him
Sense and Sensability
John is the owner of Norland Park
Brave New World
John the savage participates in Indian religious rituals
(The) Scarlet Letter
Jonathan Pue's manuscript is held together with faded red tape
Finnegans Wake
Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson wrote a skeleton's key to this work
Ethan Frome
Jotham Powell is hired to drive a char to Shadd's Falls
(The) Pilgrim's Progress
Judge Hate-Good orders the execution of Faithful
Aeneid
Juno destroys the protag's fleet
Frankenstein
Justine Moritz is framed for the murder of the protag's brother
All Quiet on the Western Front
Kat is killed by shrapnel while being carried to safety
Catch 22
Kid Sampson is killed by a propeller from a low flying plane
Ivanhoe
King Richard the Lion-Hearted aids the protag
(The) Charge of the Light Brigade
Kipling published a sequel to this poem asking the title group to write another poem
(A) Doll's House
Krogstad blackmails the protag
(The) Importance of Being Earnest
Lady Bracknell reveals that Jack is a Moncrieff and can marry Gwendolen Fairfax
(The) Sun Also Rises
Lady Brett Ashley constantly eludes Jake Barnes
Decameron
Lessing's Nathan the Wise is based on this work's "Ring Parable"
(The) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Life-in-Death is described as having "skin as white as leprosy"
Jude the Obscure
Little Father Time hangs himself and his half siblings with a note that reads "Done because we are too menny"
Crime and Punishment
Lizaveta, Alyona's sister, is killed after Alyona
(The) Cherry Orchard
Lopakhin buys Madame Renevskaya's estate at an auction
(The) Raven
Lowell said that the author and subject was "3/5th genius and 2/5th sheer fudge"
(The) Taming of the Shrew
Lucentio and Hortensio dress up as a latin and music teacher to woo Bianca, Baptista Minola's younger daughter
Sense and Sensability
Lucy Steele abandons her fiance Edward to marry his brother Robert
Pride and Prejudice
Lydia runs from Longbourn with militia officer George Wickham
(A) Midsummer Night's Dream
Lysander falls in love with Hermia
Catch 22
M&M enterprises buys the world's supply of Egyptian cotton
Brave New World
Malthusian drills, Podsnap's Technique and the Bokanovsky's Process are used
Twelfth Night
Malvolio is locked in a dark cellar
(A) Tale of Two Cities
Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher help Lucy escape being killed by Madame Defarge
Sense and Sensability
Marianne marries Colonel Brandon
(The) Stranger
Marie testifies watching a movie with the protag
Julius Caesar
Mark Antony's gives a funeral oration opening with "friends, Roman countrymen, lend me your ears"
Heart of Darkness
Marlowe searches for Kurtz along the Congo river
Crime and Punishment
Marmeladov's daughter Sonya prostitute to support the family
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Martha replies "I am!" to the title question
(The) Color Purple
Mary Agnes or Squeak is raped by a prison warden
Long Day's Journey into Night
Mary Tyrone is addicted to morphine
Romeo and Juliet
Mercutio says "you shall find me a grave man" as he dies
(The) Crucible
Mercy Lewis steals a man's life savings
(The) Jungle Book
Messua mistakes the protag as her son Nathoo
(The) Portrait of a Lady
Mr. Bantling is an escort for the journalist Henrietta Stackpole
Jane Eyre
Mr. Brocklehurst orders the protag to stand on a stool
Oliver Twist
Mr. Bumble and Leeford throw away a locket and ring belonging to the protag
Cry, the Beloved Country
Mr. Carmichael takes a robbery case pro deo and help get Johannes Parfuri and Matthew acquitted
(A) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Mr. Casey and Dante Riordan argue over the death of Charles Parnell
1984
Mr. Charrington owns a bookstore above the protag's house
David Copperfield
Mr. Creakle forces the protag to wear a sign "Be careful of him, he bites"
Little Women
Mr. Laurence gives a char a piano
(The) Charge of the Light Brigade
Mr. Ramsey repeats a line from this poem in To the Lighthouse
Oliver Twist
Mr. Sowerberry and Noah Claypole fight the protag
Brave New World
Mustapha Mond often banishes chars to other islands
King Lear
Nahum Tate's version of this play adds the servant Arante and a happy ending
War and Peace
Natasha Rostova marries the protag
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Ned Land and Pierre Arronax travel aboard the Abraham Lincoln
1984
Neo-Bolshevism and Death Worship are compared to Ingsoc
(The) Merchant of Venice
Nerissa and Gratiano fall in love at Belmont
Rip Van Winkle
Nicholas Vedder shows favor or disfavor depending on how he smokes his pipe
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Nick and Honey visit the a bickering couple
Fathers and Sons
Nikolai has an affair with his maid Fenitchka
1984
O'Brien tortures the narr with rats in Room 101
On the Road
Old Bull Lee has sporadic relationships with Camille, Marylou, and Inez
On the Road
Old Bull Lee is known as the "Holy goof"
On the Road
Old Bull Lee represents the author's friend William S. Burroughs
Animal Farm
Old Major teaches the song "Beasts of England"
Candide
Old woman claims to be Princess of Palestrina and daughter of Pope Urban X
East of Eden
Oliver practices marriage under a willow tree with Caleb's brother Abra Bacon
Twelfth Night
Olivia falls in love with a woman crossdressed as Cesario
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Ophelia educates Topsy who thinks she just grew instead of being made by anyone
Great Expectations
Orlick attacks a char with a hammer
Catch 22
Orr suggests to the protag that he escape to Sweden
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Pablo, Pilar's husband, steals the detonators used to blow the bridge
Decameron
Pampinea is the leader of the group known as the Brigata
(The) Canterbury Tales
Pluto restores the sight of a blind man
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Parson Tringham tells the protag's father of his prestigious lineage
Beloved
Paul D. becomes the protag's lover and helps her come to terms with her child's death
Slaughterhouse Five
Paul Lazarro avenges the death of Roland Weary
Fathers and Sons
Pavel challenges the protag to a duel for kissing his brother's mistress Fenitchka
Fathers and Sons
Pavel is shot in the thigh during a duel
(A) Midsummer Night's Dream
Peter Quince and his "mechanicals" put on a "tedious brief' play of Pyramus and Thisbe
(The) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Peter Wilks has funeral after having his savings stolen in the Royal Nonesuch
(The) Jungle
Phil Connor rapes his wife Ona
(The) Waste Land
Phlebas the Phoenician drowns
(The) Hunchback of Notre Dame
Phoebus, Captain of the King's Archers, and the heroine fall in love
(The) Hunchback of Notre Dame
Pierre Gringoire puts on a unsuccesful mystery play The Good Judgement of Madame the Virgin Mary
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Pietro Crespi commits suicide after failing to marry twice
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Pietro Crespi is an Italian dance teacher who commits suicide after rejection by one of his students
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Pilar encourages the protag to start a relationship with Maria
(The) Cherry Orchard
Pishchik pays off his debt when Englishmen find white clay on his estate
Crime and Punishment
Porfiry Petrovich investigates Raskolnikov's murder of a pawnbroker
Waiting for Godot
Pozzo drives his slave Lucky by a leash and wants to sell him at the fair
Waiting for Godot
Pozzo goes blind and must be pulled by Lucky with a rope
Romeo and Juliet
Prince Escalus's relative Count Paris wants to marry Juliet
(The) Thousand and One Nights
Prince Qamar uses magical keys to fly "The Ebony Horse"
(A) Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck declares "Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
(A) Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck messes around with the feelings of four lovers
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Quimbo and Sambo beat the title char to death
Leaves of Grass
Ralph Vaughan Williams set music to "Passage to India" and "On the Beach at Night" in this collection
On the Road
Ricky tells the protag the meaning of tomorrow
Invisible Man
Ras the Exhorter opposes the Brotherhood
(The) Faerie Queene
Redcrosse Knight looks to be united with Una though he is deceived by the witch Duessa
King Lear
Regan and her husband Cornwall yell "Out, vile jelly" while plucking out Gloucester's eyes because he tries to help the protag
On the Road
Remi Boncoeur invites the protag to SF and gives him a job as a night watchman
(The) Sound and the Fury
Reverend Shegog delivers a powerful Easter sermon
(The) Idiot
Rogozhin murders Nastasya Filippovna hours before she can marry the protag
(The) Idiot
Rogozhin offers Nastasya 100,000 rubles but she throws it in a fireplace and he stabs her
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo describes Queen Mab on the way to a party
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo initially loves Rosaline
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo says "that which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet"
As You Like It
Rosalind crossdresses as the boy "Ganymede"
Middlemarch
Rosamond Vincy ruins her doctor husband Tertius Lydgate by spending too much
(The) Grapes of Wrath
Rose of Sharon breastfeeds a sick man at the end
(The) Grapes of Wrath
Rose of Sharon gives birth to a stillborn child in a flooded boxcar
(The) Grapes of Wrath
Rose of Sharon is abandoned by her husband Connie Rivers
(The) Grapes of Wrath
Rose of Sharon requests that a service station attendant bury a dog
Decameron
Roussillon cooks the heart of his daughter's lover Cabestanh and feeds it to her
Mahabharata
Sanskrit epic that contains the Bhagavad Gita
(The) Brothers Karamazov
Satan tells Jesus that humans should never have been given free will, so Jesus kisses him
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Senator Bird criticizes his wife for her voting behavior
(The) Thousand and One Nights
Sinbad the sailor has "seven voyages"
As You Like It
Sir Rowland de Boys has sons who defeats Charles in wrestling
(The) Seagull
Stanislavsky's first success came from putting on this play at the Moscow Art Theater
(A) Streetcar Named Desire
Stanley Kowarski rapes the protag
(A) Streetcar Named Desire
Stanley, an avid bowler, buys Blanche a one way bus ticket to Laurel
(The) Tempest
Stephano and Trinculo give alcohol and get an island native drunk
(The) Tempest
Stephano and Trinculo help Caliban assassinate Ferdinand and Miranda
Anna Karenina
Stephen (Stiva) Oblonsky cheats on his wife Dolly
Cry, the Beloved Country
Stephen Kumalo travels from Ndotsheni to Johannesburg to see his son's trial
(A) Tale of Two Cities
Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay look alike
1984
Syme writes and revises dictionaries
(The) Sound and the Fury
T.P. and Luster become guardians for a char
Moby Dick
The Parsee servant, Fedallah, has 3 predictions come true
(A) Midsummer Night's Dream
The troup "The Mechanicals" are called "rude mechanicals" by a char
Hedda Gabler
Thea Elvsted tries to reconstruct an important document
(The) Canterbury Tales
Theseus imprisons Palamon and Arcite as they fight over Emily
Faust
a black poodle follows the protag home
Vanity Fair
William Dobbin is love with a woman whose husband was killed at Waterloo
Dover Beach
Yeat's "The 19th Century and After" was a response to this poem
(The) Seagull
Trigorin pursueus the actress Arkadina whose son later kills himself
(The) Stranger
Thomas Perez, an elderly of The Home for aged Persons, has a heat stroke at a funeral
(The) Crucible
Thomas Putnam argues over money and land deeds
(The) Waste Land
Thunder says "Datta, Dayadhvam, Damyata"
All the King's Men
Tiny Duffey reveals an affair between Anne Stanton and Willie Stark which leads Adam Stanton to shoot Willie
(A) Midsummer Night's Dream
Titania falls in love with Nick Bottom with a donkey's head
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tom Loker tracks Eliza across a frozen river
(The) Glass Menagerie
Tom asks his sister to blow out the candles at the end
(The) Idiot
Totsky promises Ganya 75,000 rubles if he marries a woman he hates
(The) Taming of the Shrew
Tranio convinces a woman she is rich and pursues her daughter
Romeo and Juliet
Tybalt is called "the prince of cats"
Death of a Salesman
Uncle Ben talks about how he "walked into the jungle" and came out rich
(The) American
Valentine dies of wounds in a duel with Noemie Nioche
Les Miserables
Valjean is pursued by Javert
As I Lay Dying
Vardaman accidently drills 2 holes in a char's face while drilling into her coffin
Main Street
Vida Sherwin marries Raymond Wutherspoon
Middlemarch
Walter Tyke is chosen over Camden Farebrother to be hospital chaplain
Absalom, Absalom
Wash Jones kills the protag with a scythe on his child's birthday
(The) Canterbury Tales
Wife of Bath talks about what women desire
(A) Streetcar Named Desire
a blind Mexican flower vendor stumbles in one scene
(The) Raven
a "bust of Pallas" is set on a "midnight dreary"
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
a black flag signals the protag's execution
Ode to Joy
a Father dedicates a kiss to "the entire world"
Catch 22
a Henry Fonda look alike jumps out the window to avoid other officers
Brave New World
a New Mexico woman is relocated by Lenina Crowne and Bernard Marx
Lolita
a Packard motor car hits Charlotte after she reads the protag's diary
Little Women
a Pickwick book club is inspired by The Pickwick Papers
(The) Rape of the Lock
a bag of "sighs, sobs, and passions" are found in the Cave of Spleen
Odyssey
a beggar challenges the protagonist to a boxing match
Oliver Twist
a burglary investigation discovered the protag's painting is his mother, Agnes Fleming
Catch 22
a businessman disguises his company by adding an ampersand to the name
Ethan Frome
a cat breaks the protag's wife favorite pickle dish
(The) Merchant of Venice
a chair claims "the quality of mercy... droppeth like a gentle rain from heaven"
Moby Dick
a chapel contains plaques honoring maritime deaths
(The) Canterbury Tales
a char "wend" to a person "when that they were sick"
Remembrance of Things Past
a char Bergotte dies staring at Vermeer's View of Delft and was inspired by Anatole France
Oliver Twist
a char accidentally hangs himself when he thinks he sees his girlfriend's eyes
Of Mice and Men
a char accidently breaks Curley's wife's neck which kills her after she allows him to stroke her hair
Animal Farm
a char advocates for a windmill but is chased by dogs ordered by his opponent
Animal Farm
a char always replies "I will work harder"
Catch 22
a char appears in a tree during a funeral
(The) Merchant of Venice
a char asks "if you prick us, do we not bleed?"
Much Ado About Nothing
a char asks Sexton make a note that Conrad has made him look like an ass
(The) Stranger
a char asks if it's legal to call a man a pimp
Lolita
a char attends the Beardsley School for Girls where she stars in her first play
(A) Streetcar Named Desire
a char avoids another by screaming "Fire!"
Anna Karenina
a char becomes disillusioned after discovering Madame Stahl's illness is fake
Catch 22
a char becomes the vice shah of Oran and caliph of Baghdad
Lolita
a char begins a death sentence parodying Eliot's "Ash Wednesday" beginning "Because you took advantage of a sinner"
King Lear
a char begs to be led off a cliff after crying "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods / They kill us for their sport"
Anna Karenina
a char breaks his horse Frou-Frou in a race
(A) Streetcar Named Desire
a char buys paper lanterns and takes baths to calm her nerves
(The) Red Badge of Courage
a char calls a group of men "mule drivers" and "mud diggers"
(The) Glass Menagerie
a char calls himself "the opposite of a stage magician"
Othello
a char calls jealousy "the green-ey'd monster"
Othello
a char calls reputation "an idle and most false imposition"
Death of a Salesman
a char cannot get a loan at Frank's Chop House
Catch 22
a char cannot stop flying missions due to the title paradox
All Quiet on the Western Front
a char carries Haie Westhus to safety after he is wounded
One Hundred Years of Solitude
a char carries a bag with her parent's bones
Pride and Prejudice
a char catches a cold traveling to Netherfield Park in the rain
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
a char causes people at a bar to laugh by ordering "bergin and water"
Candide
a char chooses to get beaten 72000 times instead of 12 bullets in his skull
(The) Sun Also Rises
a char claims "Lincoln freed the slaves on a bet"
Great Expectations
a convict uses the alias Provis when visiting the protagonist
Native Son
a couple eats fried chicken at Charlie's Kitchen Shack to experience black life
Sense and Sensability
a couple meet when a man carries inside a women who slips and falls in the rain
Leaves of Grass
a creature "launch'd forth, filament, filament, filament out of itself"
(The) Second Coming
a creature "with lion body and the head of a man" is seen
(The) Second Coming
a creature has a "gaze black and pitiless as the sun"
(The) Second Coming
a creature with "its slow thighs" is circled by the shadows of "indignant desert birds"
(The) Canterbury Tales
a crow who betrayed an adultress had its feathers turned black
Brave New World
a crowd chants "We want the whip" after man self flagellates in an air lighthouse
(The) Canterbury Tales
a dead child punished for a grain under his tongue sings until his tongue is removed
(The) Hunchback of Notre Dame
a deaf judge orders a deaf man to be pilloried for witchcraft
Tintern Abbey
a few lines were written "a few miles above" the title structure
Beloved
a former schoolteacher worked as a slave at Sweet Home Plantation
(The) Thousand and One Nights
a giant bird named Roc has a mother who destroys ships
Inferno
a giant shouts "Raphel mai ameche zabi almi" from a well
Inferno
a giant with 3 faces is trapped in the frozen Lake Cocytus
Little Women
a girl becomes a governess for the King family (Mrs. Kieke)
(The) Crucible
a girl pretends to be scared of a yellow bird in court
(The) Three Musketeers
a group declares "All for one, one for all"
(The) Last of the Mohicans
a group hides in a cavern behind a waterfall
For Whom the Bell Tolls
a group of men plot to blow up a bridge during the Spanish Civil War
One Hundred Years of Solitude
a group of people with amnesia put up sign reading "God Exists"
One Hundred Years of Solitude
a gunshot kills a tattooed man and causes a stream of blood across the town
(The) Grapes of Wrath
a jahova woman wants to create a prayer circle around a dying woman in a tent
Twelfth Night
a jester disguises himself as Sir Topas to mock a servant
Waiting for Godot
a joke about a drunk Englishman in a brothel is interrupted
Oedipus Rex
a king places wool wrapped olive branches on an altar to lift a plague
Aeneid
a king throws his daughter tied to a spear
Native Son
a lawyer gives the protag a wooden cross necklace that he throws away when he sees the KKK
(The) Merchant of Venice
a lead casket reveals a portrait of Portia which allows Bassanio to marry her
Madame Bovary
a letter with fake tears is given in a basket of apricots
Main Street
a librarian urges people to read and preserve books at the Jolly Seventeen club
(A) Midsummer Night's Dream
a lullaby goes "weaving spiders, come not here" and "thorny hedgehogs, be not seen"
(The) Stranger
a magistrate and prosecutor attack the protag for emotional indifference
Madame Bovary
a man and woman have sex in carriage after an opera
Death of a Salesman
a man asks the waiter Stanley about seeds stores in the area
(The) Stranger
a man becomes miserable after beating his dog Salamano who runs away
(The) Crucible
a man claims he cannot sign his name because he already gave up his soul
Cry, the Beloved Country
a man is killed before he can finish his "The Truth About Native Crime"
Moby Dick
a man is saved by clinging to a coffin built for him
Madame Bovary
a man moves with Heloise Dubuc to Tostes
Decameron
a man on opium enters a woman's room by hiding in a chest
King Lear
a man pretending to be Tom O'Bedlam was robbed of his birthright
King Lear
a man pretends to be the beggar Tom O'Bedlam after killing Oswald
One Hundred Years of Solitude
a man shot is mistaken for a chicken thief
(The) Stranger
a man shows the protag a silver crucifix and calls him the Antichrist
Robinson Crusoe
a man stranded on an island for 26 years
Pygmalion
a man tours England giving lectures on morality for the Wannafeller Moral Reform World League
(The) Cherry Orchard
a man turns down a bank job to play billiards and eat sweets
Brave New World
chars play Riemann Surface Tennis and Obstacle Golf
(The) Last of the Mohicans
a massacre occurs when a man hits a baby at Fort William Henry
(The) Waste Land
a merchant invites the narr to have lunch at the Cannon Street Hotel
Pygmalion
a millionaire gives his fortune to "the most original moralist of England"
(The) Importance of Being Earnest
a minister refutes Anabaptists in four unpublished sermons
(The) Jungle Book
a mongoose kills the cobras Nag and Nagaina
Decameron
a monk Friar Alberto pretends to be the angel Gabriel into having sex with a woman
(A) Midsummer Night's Dream
a monologue begins "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet"
As You Like It
a monologue tells of the "seven ages of man"
Pygmalion
a mother shouts "Men! Men! Men!"
Leaves of Grass
a narr who "look'd up in perfect silence at the stars"
Pride and Prejudice
a new tenant at Netherfield Park leads to "it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"
Anna Karenina
a noblemen accepts a woman's rejection by working in the fields
Middlemarch
a painter uses a char to model as Thomas Aquinas so he can draw the protag
(The) Taming of the Shrew
a pedant pretends to be Vincentio to confirm a dowry
Sense and Sensability
a rejection letter for a women contains her hair
Crime and Punishment
a soldier "Achilles" declares he is going to America before shooting himself
(The) Charge of the Light Brigade
a phrase parallels Psalm 23
(The) Glass Menagerie
a picture of a man in a "doughboy's World War I cap" hangs on the wall
(The) Pilgrim's Progress
a pillar of salt that used to be Lot's wife is in the Valley of Ease
(The) Merry Wives of Windsor
a plan to embarass Falstaff has him dress as Herne the Hunter
(The) Grapes of Wrath
a police officer kills a char by crushing his skull with a pick-handle
(The) Grapes of Wrath
a policeman shoots off a woman's knuckles trying to shoot Floyd Knowles
(The) Trial
a priest tells the protag the parable "Before the Law"
Mahabharata
a princess is won by shooting an arrow into the eye of a rotating mechanical fish
Of Mice and Men
a protag killed a mouse and puppy because he squeezed them too tight
War and Peace
a purple dog barks at a birch tree after a shot kills Platon
Long Day's Journey into Night
a quack Doc Hardy treats the main family
(A) Streetcar Named Desire
a radio is thrown out the window for rumba music
Of Mice and Men
a recurring speech goes "Guys like us are the loneliest guys in the world"
Dover Beach
a reply to this poem ends with the speaker giving the titular lady "a bottle of Nuit d'Amour"
(The) Waste Land
a rooster crows "co co rico co co rico"
(The) Grapes of Wrath
a section describes a turtle flipped over while crossing a road
(The) Grapes of Wrath
a section on selling jalopies
Moby Dick
a sermon is given by Father Mapple
Long Day's Journey into Night
a servant Cathleen is sent to the drugstore for a char's arthritic hands
Oedipus Rex
a shepherd leaves the protag to die on Mt. Cithaeron
(The) Thousand and One Nights
a slave girl Morgiana kills a man disguised as an important guest
Animal Farm
a song is a combination of La Cucaracha and Oh My Darling, Clementine
Waiting for Godot
a song is sung about a dog beaten to death with a ladle
(The) Tempest
a speech "all things in common nature should produce" was taken from a Montaigne essay "Of Cannibals"
Paradise Lost
a stalemate is broken after the discovery of gunpowder
(The) Canterbury Tales
a story has a fox and rooster Chanticleer
(The) Brothers Karamazov
a story is told about a guardian angel trying to pull a sinner out of lake of fire with an onion
Les Miserables
a street gang is named Patron Minette
(The) Three Musketeers
a tattoo of a fleur de lis reveals that a char was an ex-felon
Madame Bovary
a tax collector makes napkin rings as a hobby
Catch 22
a thief steals a bedsheet for dates
Beowulf
a thief steals a gem-encrusted goblet
Invisible Man
a woman with an American flag tattoo on her stomach dances for a group of boys
No Exit
a valet without eyelids can be summoned by a bell with faulty wiring
Decameron
a woman's lover is hidden in a barrel that's sold by her husband
(The) Cherry Orchard
a women flees and is still haunted by Paris as the city she drowned her son Grisha in
(The) Merry Wives of Windsor
a women loves Fenton, but is forced to be with Dr. Caius (Slender)
Iliad
a wolf skin wearing spy is decapitated
Ulysses
a woman accepts a marriage proposal saying "yes I said yes I will Yes"
Decameron
a woman asks a nobleman for his falcon to cure her sick son, but he ends up cooking it for her
Of Mice and Men
a woman discusses her ambitions to be an actress behind sounds of horseshoes
(The) Sun Also Rises
a woman divorces a man whose revolver she had to unload every night
Crime and Punishment
a woman encourages the protag to kiss the earth in town square
(The) Waste Land
a woman fiddles whisper music on her long black hair
Brave New World
a woman is impregnated by the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning
Song of Myself
a woman joins "28 young men" bathing by the shore as the "twenty-ninth bather"
(The) Cherry Orchard
a woman often receives telegrams from her lover in Paris
As You Like It
a woman pretending to be Ganymede convinces Phoebe to marry the shepherd Silvius
Our Town
a woman revisits her twelfth birthday
(The) Glass Menagerie
a woman sells subscriptions to The Companion over the phone
(The) Sun Also Rises
a writer moves to Paris with the social climber Frances Clyne
(The) Magic Mountain
about Hans Castorp's 7 year stay at a Swiss sanatorium
Ulysses
about Leopold Bloom wandering through Dublin
Faust
about a scholar who is dissatisfied with the knowledge gained from his studies
(The) Charge of the Light Brigade
about the ill fated ride of 600 soldiers in the Crimean War
(The) Stranger
about the indifferent French Algerian Meursault
(A) Farewell to Arms
about the nurse Catherine Barkley and ambulance driver Frederic Henry
Lolita
about the nymph obsessed Humbert Humbert
Our Town
act 2 centers on George Gibbs and Emily Webb's marriage
Our Town
acts include "daily life", "love and marriage", and "death and eternity"
Pygmalion
adapted into the play "My Fair Lady"
Tintern Abbey
addressed to the poet's "dear, dear Sister" Dorothy
Howl
addresses a friend stuck in the "total animal soup of time"
Treasure Island
chars try to escape the antagonist's Black Spot
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
chars use air guns to hunt sharks
Our Town
chars use ladders to represent talking from the second story
Slaughterhouse Five
after a man is shot, a bird says "Poo-tee-weet"
Death of a Salesman
after the protag fails an interview, Biff steals a fountain pen
Paradise Lost
aims to justify the ways of God to man
Waiting for Godot
all the chars wear bowler hats
(The) Pilgrim's Progress
allegorical novel about Christian's journey to the Celestial City from the City of Destruction
Catch 22
an Anabaptist is interrogated for signing "Washington Irving" on documents
Catch 22
an IBM machine constantly promotes Major
Candide
an Italian laments his lack of testicles, unable to rape the pope's daughter
Candide
an Old Woman, daughter of Pope Urban X, eats one of her buttocks during a siege
Our Town
an actor plays the "belligerent man" and asks questions in the audience
Madame Bovary
an agricultural fair awards Catherine for 54 years of farm service
Iliad
an attacking lion is used in similes multiple times
(The) Metamorphosis
ends with the family taking a trolley ride into the country
(The) Gift of the Magi
ends with the narr explaining the origin of the Christmas present
Waiting for Godot
an incoherent monologue begins with the dicussion of the "public works of Puncher and Wattmann"
(The) Old Man and the Sea
ends with the protag dreams of lions on a beach
Inferno
ends with the protag meeting Lucifer at the bottom
Oedipus Rex
an old slave is brought to testify against murder
One Hundred Years of Solitude
an orphan causes a spell of insomnia
Anna Karenina
an unsuccessful author Sergei joins the pan-Slav movement
Robinson Crusoe
believes footprints in the sand to belong to the devil
Paradiso
ends with the protag seeing the Triune God at the Empyrean
(The) Three Musketeers
antag convinces John Felton to murder the Duke of Buckingham
Frankenstein
antag tries to befriend the cottagers Monsieur de Lacey and his children Agatha and Felix
(The) Three Musketeers
antag's maid Kitty falls in love with the protag
Robinson Crusoe
appears in a novel about Susan Barton in a work by Coetzee
(The) Faerie Queene
chars like the Redcrosse Knight and Britomart represent Christian ideals
(The) Count of Monte Cristo
as "abbe busoni" he gives a diamond to Caderousse for giving him information
(The) Count of Monte Cristo
as "sinbad the sailor" he gives a diamond to Monsier Morrel the son of his former boss
No Exit
at the end, Garcin says "Well, let's get on with it"
Cry, the Beloved Country
at the end, Napoleon Leitsiti teaches the villagers new farming techniques
Fathers and Sons
at the end, Pavel goes to Dresden
(A) Midsummer Night's Dream
at the end, a char tells the audience to think they "have but slumbered here if we shadows have offended"
(The) Sun Also Rises
at the end, a woman laments "we could have had such a damned good time together"
Faust
at the end, angels suddenly drop burning rose petals
Vanity Fair
at the end, protag kills Jos for life insurance money
Little Women
at the end, protag starts an experimental boys' school with Professor Fritz Bhaer
(The) Gift of the Magi
author claims the prized possessions would make the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon envious
On the Road
author wrote a follow up called The Dharma Bums
Robinson Crusoe
awoken by a parrot calling his name
Robinson Crusoe
based off of Alexander Selkirk
(The) Song of Hiawatha
based on the research of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
(A) Tale of Two Cities
chars named One, Two, Three
(A) Tale of Two Cities
begins "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
Inferno
begins "halfway along our life's path"
Anna Karenina
begins "happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"
(The) Rape of the Lock
begins "what dire offence from am'rous causes springs"
(The) Rape of the Lock
begins "what might contests rise from trivial things"
Twelfth Night
begins after a shipwreck off the Illyrian coast
(The) Sound and the Fury
begins outside a golf course which used to be a plantation
Inferno
begins the night before Good Friday in 1300
(The) Scarlet Letter
begins when Jonathan Pue's manuscript is found by a Custom House worker
(The) Second Coming
begins with "Turning and turning in the widening gyre"
(The) Gift of the Magi
begins with Della counting out one dollar and eighty-seven cents
(A) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
begins with a children's story about a moocow and baby tuckoo
(The) Red Badge of Courage
begins with a rumor that the group is moving tomorrow
Mahabharata
begins with a warrior who must fight his relatives
(The) Canterbury Tales
begins with the "drought of March" followed by the "sweet showers" of April
Don Juan
begins with the dedication "Bob Southey! You're a poet, Poet-laureate"
(The) Crucible
begins with the illnesses of Ruth and Betty
(The) Idiot
begins with the protag returning on a train from a Swiss Sanatorium
Iliad
begins with the word "rage"
(The) Seagull
chars often quote Hamlet like an actress who recites Gertrude's part
(The) Canterbury Tales
carpenter John sleeps in a tub while his wife Alison has an affair with NIcholas
To Kill a Mockingbird
carved soap, old coins, and a pocket watch are found in a tree hole
Mahabharata
centers on the Kurukshetra War fought between rivals Kauravas and Pandavas
(The) Sound and the Fury
centers on the beloved Caddy, Harvard student Quentin, and mentally disabled Benji
(A) Tale of Two Cities
char has a shadow named "The Vengeance"
(A) Tale of Two Cities
char uses knitting to plot deaths of a family
Great Expectations
char was raised in Satis House which has maintained his poor state
Hamlet
character mourns how his mother "followed my poor father's body like Niobe"
Hamlet
character remarks "frailty, thy name is woman"
(The) Canterbury Tales
characters meet at the Tabard Inn
Brave New World
chars are shown The Imitation of Christ and other pornagraphic books
(The) Sun Also Rises
chars go to Pamplona to see bulls running
Paradise Lost
chars include Chaos, Night, Sin, and Death
(The) Second Coming
claims "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold"
Aeneid
cloanthus wins a boat race
1984
cognitive dissonance is known as doublethink
(The) Jungle Book
collection of stories about man-cub Mowgli
Decameron
collection of stories told by 7 female and 3 male Florentines feeling the plague
(The) Thousand and One Nights
collection of stories told by Scheherazade that features stories about Sinbad and Ali Baba
(The) Merry Wives of Windsor
comedy where the title chars Mistress Ford and Mistress Page trick Falstaff to having affairs with them
Catch 22
compares flying a B-25 to "a cantilevered goldfish bowl"
(The) Divine Comedy
comprised of Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
Remembrance of Things Past
comprised of the sections Swann's Way, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, The Guermantes Way, Sodom and Gomorrah, The Prisoner, The Fugitive, and Time Regained
Our Town
concludes with a monologue about the "stars doing their old old crisscross journeys across the sky"
Finnegans Wake
consists of 17 chapters and took the author 17 years to complete
Leatherstocking Tales
consists of The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, The Prairie
Invisible Man
contains a black nationalist group called the Brotherhood led by Brother Jack
Mahabharata
contains a dialogue between Arjuna and his charioteer Krishna
Finnegans Wake
contains many names and places with the initials "HCE"
(The) Jungle Book
contains the story about the title mongoose Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Robinson Crusoe
converts a cannibal to Christianity
(The) Three Musketeers
d'Artagnan joins the title group after dueling them all
Howl
dedicated to the author's friend Carl Solomon
Moby Dick
dedicates a chapter to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hamlet
deemed an artistic failure by its protagonist's emotions in a TS Eliot essay
(The) Trial
ends with the protag stabbed to death by two men describing it as "Like a dog!"
(The) Age of Innocence
ends with the protag visiting Europe with his son Dallas
Beowulf
defends Heorot from Grendel
Kubla Khan
describes "gardens bright with sinuous rills"
(The) Road Not Taken
describes "leaves no step had trodden black"
(The) Raven
describes "silken, sad, uncertain rustling" of purple curtains
Iliad
describes a city at war in nine parts on a shield
Howl
describes a figure "whose love is endless oil and stone" and "whose named is the Mind!"
Howl
describes a place "where the faculties of the skull no longer admit the worms of the senses"
Kubla Khan
describes a site where "Alph, the sacred river ran, through caverns measureless to man"
Kubla Khan
describes an Abyssinian maid singing of Mount Abora
Mahabharata
describes light, fire, and darkness as the three forces of nature
Howl
describes people surrounded by "orange crates of theology"
(The) Second Coming
describes the "ceremony of innocence" by the "blood-dimmed tide"
Dover Beach
describes the "grating roar of pebbles"
(The) Sound and the Fury
different sections are narrated by various family members
Aeneid
discusses how Daedalus failed twice to create a golden sculpture of Icarus
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
divided into sections "Fun and Games", "Walpurgisnacht", "The Exorcism"
(The) House of the Seven Gables
ends with the discovery of a secret Indian deed to land in Maine behind a portrait
Our Town
drunk organist Simon Stimson commits suicide
Ulysses
each chapter is associated with a symbol, color, and time of day
Inferno
each sin punishment is a contrapasso (poetic justice)
Ode to Joy
encourages "millions" to "be in embraced in brotherhood"
Song of Myself
ends by telling its subject "I stop somewhere waiting for you"
(The) Second Coming
ends describing a "rough beast that slouches towards Bethlehem to be born"
(The) Sorrows of Young Werther
ends saying that Charlotte may die of a broken heart
As You Like It
ends with 4 marriages presided by Hymen
Invisible Man
ends with Ras the Exhorter (Destroyer) sparking a race riot in Harlem
One Hundred Years of Solitude
ends with a broken house and dying deformed child of incest consumed by ants
Purgatorio
ends with protag crowned by the Garden of Eden at the summit
(The) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
ends with protag saying "he prayeth best, who lovest best"
(A) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
ends with protag wanting to forge the "uncreated conscience of his race"
Ethan Frome
ends with the Zeena after to take care of the protag and his lover
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
ends with the bitter reply "Wouldn't it be funny if that was true?"
(A) Farewell to Arms
engages in "priest-baiting" with Lieutenant Rinaldi
(The) Song of Hiawatha
epic poem about the lover of Minnehaha
Don Juan
epic poem about the title easily seduced Spanish libertine
Aeneid
epic poem by Virgil
(The) Faerie Queene
epic poem that serves as an allegory to celebrate Elizabeth I
War and Peace
epilogue describes the "sea of European history" after "seven years had passed"
(The) Sorrows of Young Werther
epistolary novel about the title melancholy young artist who kills himself over unrequited love
Robinson Crusoe
escapes captivity in Africa to be rescued by a Portuguese captain
No Exit
existentialist play about Inez, Garcia, and Estelle in hell
Middlemarch
features Camden Farebrother who believes to be a poor clergyman
(The) Thousand and One Nights
features a cave with 40 thieves
(The) Brothers Karamazov
features the parable of "The Grand Inquisitor" where Jesus returns and gets arrested in Seville
(The) Hunchback of Notre Dame
female protag marries the poet Pierre Gringoire at the Court of Miracles to prevent his execution
Robinson Crusoe
fights off wolves and escapes using money from Brazilian plantation
Paradiso
first 7 sphers based on the planets, Sun, and moon with the last two being the stars and the Primum Mobile that contains angels and creatures never poisoned by original sin
(The) Thousand and One Nights
first English translation was by Richard Burton
(The) Thousand and One Nights
first French translation was by Antoine Galland
(The) Waste Land
first line "April is the cruelest month"
Aeneid
first line begins "I sign of arms and the man"
Howl
first line to the footnote repeats the word "Holy!" 15 times
(The) Good Earth
first part of a trilogy that contains Sons and A House Divided
(The) Tin Drum
first part of the author's Danzig Trilogy which is followed by Cat and Mouse and Dog Years
(The) Road Not Taken
first poem in the collection Mountain Interval
(The) Canterbury Tales
first story is told by the Knight and Miller
Beowulf
first work in the Nowell Codex
(The) Jungle
follows Jurgis Rudkus moving from Lithuania to Packingtown
(The) Taming of the Shrew
frame story is a drunk Christopher Sly tricked into thinking he is noble
Robinson Crusoe
frequently reads "three very good Bibles"
Robinson Crusoe
gives a lecture after a massacre
Native Son
has 3 sections: Fear, Flight, Fate
Robinson Crusoe
has a dream where a man descends in a "great black cloud"
(The) Divine Comedy
has common numerical 9 + 1 pattern in every stage
Robinson Crusoe
he sells Xury to a ship captain
(The) Taming of the Shrew
heroine is the eldest daughter of Baptista Minola
(The) Hunchback of Notre Dame
heroine's goat is named Djali
Beowulf
his father died of grief after his son died in a hunting accident
Beowulf
his foe is a descendant of Cain
Robinson Crusoe
his nephew moores him in China
(The) Sun Also Rises
hotel owner Montoya provides support for those who show "the real thing"
Mending Wall
hunters would "have the rabbit out of hiding, to please the yelping dogs"
(The) Portrait of a Lady
in Florence, Countess Gemini enjoys gossiping about married women's affairs
(The) Pilgrim's Progress
in a dream, the protag is asked "Whence came you, and whither are you bound"
Invisible Man
in a dream, the protag receives a briefcase with a note from his grandfather
(The) Pilgrim's Progress
in the second part, protag is assisted by Great-Heart
Leaves of Grass
includes "O Captain! My Captain!", "Song of Myself", "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer", "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed" "A Noiseless Patient Spider", "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking", Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
(The) Thousand and One Nights
includes "The Three Apples" and "The Hunchback's Tale" and "Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp"
(The) Waste Land
includes Tiresias and the clairvoyant Madame Sosostris
(The) Three Musketeers
includes the servants Bazin and Planchet
Uncle Tom's Cabin
inspired by Stephen Foster's "My Old Kentucky Home"
Brave New World
inspired by Yevgeny Zamyatin's "We"
Tintern Abbey
inspired by a trip to Southern England with William Culvert along the river Wye
(An) American Tragedy
inspired by the execution of Chester E. Gillette for murdering Grace Brown
Kubla Khan
it advises readers to "Beware! Beware!" the speaker's "flashing eyes" and "floating hair"
(The) Charge of the Light Brigade
it answers the question "Was there a man dismayed?"
One Hundred Years of Solitude
it chronicles the War of the Thousand Days
Paradise Lost
it declares itself an "adventurous Song, with no middle flight intends to soar"
(The) Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
it describes "a yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes"
Don Juan
it mocks Keats' premature death as he was "kill'd off by one critique"
Macbeth
its "Porter scene" is the subject of a Thomas De Quincey essay
Frankenstein
its antag is known as "the Modern Promotheus"
Paradise Lost
its author was inspired by a "Heavenly Muse" that "dove-like sat'st brooding"
(The) Tyger
its counterpart is "The Lamb" which states "God...gave thee such a tender voice"
(The) Raven
its creation was recounted in "The Philosophy of Composition"
(A) Farewell to Arms
its ending where the protag walks back to the hotel in the rain was rewritten 47 times
(The) Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
its epigraph is from Dante's Inferno
(The) Sun Also Rises
its epigraph quotes Gertrude Stein's declaration that "you are all a lost generation"
(The) Thousand and One Nights
its frame story reveals that the narr tells these stories to delay her execution by her husband, King Shahryar
To His Coy Mistress
its opening line titles a Robert Penn Warren novel about Beaumont's obsession with Colonel Fort
Paradise Lost
its preface "The Verse" attacks jingling sounds to justify its lack of rhyme
Picture of Dorian Gray
its preface compares the dislike of realism to Caliban's rage upon seeing his face
Paradise Lost
its protags take "their solitary way" hand in hand with wandering steps and slow
Catch 22
its sequel is Closing Time featuring Sammy Singer
Kubla Khan
its setting is a "savage place" haunted by a "woman wailing for her demon-lover"
Kubla Khan
its title was inspired by a passage from Purchas' Pilgrimmage
(A) Christmas Carol
many scenes are set in the Cratchit family home
Robinson Crusoe
lands on the "Island of Despair"
(The) Waste Land
last line "Shantih, Shantih, Shantih" is taken from the Upanishads
Hamlet
last line "the rest is silence"
Tintern Abbey
last poem in Lyrical Ballads
(The) Waste Land
last section "What the Thunder Said"
To His Coy Mistress
last stanza describes the "willing soul" that "transpires at every pore with instant fires"
As You Like It
life with end in "mere oblivion / sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything"
Jane Eyre
lightning splits a chestnut tree in half where the protag receives a proposal
(The) Waste Land
like Les Fleurs Du Mal, it addresses the reader as a hypocrite
Ode on a Grecian Urn
love "leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd, / A burning forehead, and a parching tongue"
(The) House of the Seven Gables
many chars die in a oak chair beneath a portrait of an ancestor
On the Road
many of the chars are based on the author's friends
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
many plates and utensils are inscribed by "Mobilis in Mobile N"
Moby Dick
main char offers a gold doubloon for first to find title character
My Antonia
main chars grow up in Black Hawk, Nebraska
On the Road
main chars listen to a concert by the blind pianist George Shearing
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
main chars play "Bringing Up Baby", "Get the Guests", "Hump the Hostess"
(The) Gift of the Magi
main chars want to change the name of a letterbox from "Dillingham" to "D"
Remembrance of Things Past
massive seven volume novel by Marcel Proust
Oedipus Rex
messenger from Corinth reveals the protagonist's death
Our Town
milkman Howie Newsome dies
(The) Rape of the Lock
mock-epic poem about a stolen strand of Belinda's hair
Beowulf
mocked by Unferth for losing to Breca in a contest
Little Women
money is raised to visit the family patriarch, a Civil War chaplain
Sense and Sensability
most of the novel takes place at a cottage in Barton Park owned by John Middleton
(The) Jungle
muckracking novel exposing Chicago's meatpacking industry
Twelfth Night
named because it was performed at the end of Christmas festivals
(The) Tyger
narr asks "did he who made the lamb make thee"
(The) Tyger
narr asks "what the hammer? what the chain?"
(The) Waste Land
narr asks about a corpse planted in your garden after seeing the "unreal city" of London
(The) Tyger
narr asks if God smiled "when the stars threw down their spears / and water'd heaven with their tears"
Remembrance of Things Past
narr associates a char with the deprivation of his mother's goodnight kiss
Lolita
narr considers drowning his wife while swimming at Hourglass Lake
Mending Wall
narr describing bricking needing to use a "spell to make them balance"
Wuthering Heights
narr dreams that a ghost's hand reaches into his room and breaks the window
Remembrance of Things Past
narr falls in love with Albertine known as "The Fugitive"
Remembrance of Things Past
narr gets intrigued by the homosexual Baron de Charlus
(The) Second Coming
narr is troubled by the "vast image out of Spiritus Mundi"
Remembrance of Things Past
narr marries Odette de Crecy and Vinteuil's Sonata serves as their love theme
Moby Dick
narr observes a man shave with a harpoon
Mending Wall
narr owns an "apple orchard" whose "apple tres will never get across" to eat pine cones
Mending Wall
narr questions the necessity of the title object as "here there are no cows"
Remembrance of Things Past
narr recalls his time in Combray, involuntarily dipping a madeleine in tea
Mending Wall
narr states "spring is the mischief in me"
Heart of Darkness
narr submits the report "Suppression of Savage Customs"
(The) Stranger
narr takes the bus from Algiers to Marengo
Heart of Darkness
narr tears off a postscript reading "exterminate all the brutes!"
(The) Waste Land
narr tells the "Gentile" or "Jew" to remember the handsome man that was you
Mending Wall
narr tells the bricks "Stay where you are until our backs are turned"
Heart of Darkness
narr tries to conceal Kurtz's last words "the horror! The horror!" from his wife
Moby Dick
narr's roommate has a strange, 24 hour Ramadan with a black idol named Yojo
My Last Duchess
narrated by the Duke of Ferrera about his dead wife
Our Town
narrated by the Stage Manager
Moby Dick
narrator compares an imperfect tax system to the unfinished cathedral of cologne
Decameron
narrs gather at the basilica of Santa Maria
Decameron
narrs include Dionio, Panfilo, Filistrato, and Pampinea
Purgatorio
noted for demonstrating medieval knowledge of a spherical Earth
(The) Second Coming
notes "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity"
(The) Sound and the Fury
novel about the decline of the Compson family
(The) Call of the Wild
novel about the dog Buck
(The) Idiot
novel about the foolish Prince Myshkin
Their Eyes Were Watching God
novel about the life of Janie Crawford
Slaughterhouse Five
novel about the optometrist Billy Pilgrim being "unstuck in time"
Treasure Island
novel about the pirate Long John Silver narrated by Jim Hawkins
(The) Old Man and the Sea
novella about Santiago the fisherman
Gulliver's Travels
novel about the title char visiting countries like Blefuscu and Lilliput
Ethan Frome
novel about the title char's affair with Mattie Silver
(A) Christmas Carol
novella about the miserable Ebeneezer Scrooge
(The) Hunchback of Notre Dame
novel about the title deformed and ugly Parisian bell-ringer Quasimodo
Ivanhoe
novel about the title medieval Saxon knight
(The) Brothers Karamazov
novel about the title three siblings including Dimitri, Ivan, Alyosha
Gone With the Wind
novel concludes "After all, tomorrow is another day"
Lolita
novel is framed as "Confession of a White Widowed Male" edited by psychologist John Ray
Vanity Fair
novel is framed as a puppet show "Before the Curtain"
All the King's Men
novel narrated by Jack Burden chronicling the rise of the southern politician Willie Stark
My Antonia
novel narrated by Jim Burden and his friendship with the title Bohemian woman
Lord Jim
novel narrated by Marlow about a disgraced sailor
Ethan Frome
novel takes place in Starkfield, Massachusetts
Finnegans Wake
novel that opens midsentence with the line "riverrun, past Eve and Adam's"
Death in Venice
novel where Gustav von Aschenbach dies in the titular Italian city
All Quiet on the Western Front
novel about Paul Baumer set during WWI
On the Road
novel about Sal Paradise's travels across America
Don Quixote
novel about a Spanish knight with his squire Sancho Panza
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
novel about a girl who fell down a rabbithole
Jude the Obscure
novel about a stonemason and his relationships with Arabella and Sue Bridehead
Invisible Man
novel about a unnamed black man who believes he cannot be seen due to his race
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
novel about a woman who marries Angel Clare
(An) American Tragedy
novel about life and execution of Clyde Griffiths
Native Son
novel about life of the African American Bigger Thomas
As I Lay Dying
novel about the Bundren family journey to Jefferson to bury Addie's coffin
(The) Good Earth
novel about the Chinese farmer Wang Lung and his ambitious acquisition of land
(The) House of the Seven Gables
novel about the Pyncheon family in the titular home
Gone With the Wind
novel about the Southern belle Scarlet O'Hara during the Civil War
Beloved
novel about the baby that Sethe murdered to save from slavery
(A) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
novel about the childhood and intellectual development of Stephen Dedalus
Cry, the Beloved Country
novel about Absalom Kumalo's killing of Arthur Jarvis
O Pioneers!
novel about Alexandra Bergson and other immigrant families in rural Nebraska
Fathers and Sons
novel about Arkady Kirsanov and his nihilist friend Bazarov
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
novel about Captain Nemo and the submarine Nautilus
Main Street
novel about Carol Kennicott's attempts to bring culture to Gopher Prairie, named for a small road
(The) Color Purple
novel about Celie's life in Southern Georgia and letters addressed to God
Middlemarch
novel about Dorothea Brooke in a small English town
Sense and Sensability
novel about Elinor and Marianne Dashwood
Of Mice and Men
novel about George and his autistic friend Lenny
(The) Portrait of a Lady
novel about Isabel Archer who is manipulated by Madame Merle after inheriting a fortune from Mr. Touchett
(The) Trial
novel about Josef K arrested for an unknown crime in a absurd justice system
(The) American
novel about Marquis de Bellegard interfering with Christopher Newman's efforts to marry Claire de Cintre
(The) Last of the Mohicans
novel about Natty Bumpo or Hawkeye who is friends with Chingachgook
(The) Age of Innocence
novel about Newland Archer and his lifelong love for Ellen Olenska
(The) Tin Drum
novel about Oskar Matzerath who plays with the title instrument
Cry, the Beloved Country
on his journey, the protag stays at Mrs. Lithebe's house
Cry, the Beloved Country
one chap contrasts Beresford's appeal to tradition with Sir Earnest Oppenheimer's call for a mining camp
As I Lay Dying
one chapter only contains the line "My mother is a fish"
Little Women
one char loves pickled limes and burns other's notebooks
Hedda Gabler
one char often has "vine-leaves in his hair"
(The) Tempest
one char saves a keg of alcohol from a shipwreck and gets extremely drunk
Othello
one char says he will "die upon a kiss"
Macbeth
one char stabbed after calling his assassin an egg
(The) Portrait of a Lady
one setting is the English country manor Gardencourt
(The) Canterbury Tales
one story borrows Ovid and tells the reader to read Ovid
Beowulf
only Wiglaf doesn't desert the protag in a battle
Odyssey
only the protag's dog Argos recognizes him as a beggar
Tintern Abbey
opens "Five years have past; five summers, with the length of five long winters"
(The) Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
opens "Let us go then, you and I"
Dover Beach
opens "the sea is calm tonight"
(The) Road Not Taken
opens "two roads diverged in a yellow wood"
Remembrance of Things Past
opens stating "for a long time, I went to bed early" describing the narr's difficulty in falling asleep
Crime and Punishment
pedophile Svidrigailov commits suicide when Tonya rejects him
Brave New World
people are ranked from Alpha to Epsilon
Brave New World
people get high on soma
Bhagavad Gita
philosophical subsection of the Mahabharata
All Quiet on the Western Front
protag carries Katczinsky (Kat) who dies of a splinter wound in his arms
Lolita
picnic lightning kills the protag's "very photogenic mother"
Julius Caesar
play about Cassius and Brutus' plot to assassinate Caesar
(The) Cherry Orchard
play about Madame Ranevsky losing the title estate
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
play about Maggie and the Pollitt family
As You Like It
play about Orlando and Rosalind's escape from the forest of Arden
(The) Taming of the Shrew
play about Petruchio subduing Katherina
Waiting for Godot
play about Vladmir and Estragon
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
play about a terrible party hosted by George and Martha
(A) Raisin in the Sun
play about the Younger family and their dream of owning a house
King Lear
play about the title monarch who divides his kingdom with his 3 daughters
Hedda Gabler
play about the titular unhappy and manipulative wife of George Tesman
Twelfth Night
play about the twins Viola and Sebastian following a shipwreck
Henry V
play about titular British king's success at the battle of Agincourt
(The) Seagull
play in which Treplev shoots the title bird as gift for Nina
Much Ado About Nothing
play is set in Messina
(The) Seagull
play mainly takes place at Sorin's, Arkadina's brother, estate
(The) Importance of Being Earnest
play where Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing pretend to have the same name
Much Ado About Nothing
play where Claudio is tricked into rejecting Hero and Beatrice marries Benedick
Uncle Tom's Cabin
plot is based on the Arthur Shelby's debt
To His Coy Mistress
poem about a man convincing his lover to sleep with him and begins "had we but world enough, and time"
Tintern Abbey
poem about a ruined monastery on the banks of the river Wye
(The) Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
poem about a speaker who observes a room where "the women come and go talking of Michelangelo"
My Last Duchess
poem about the portrait of nobleman's dead wife
(The) Tyger
poem about the title animal "burning bright, in the forests of the night"
Tintern Abbey
poem is addressed to "my dearest, / my dear, dear Friend"
Dover Beach
poem set on the cliffs of England on "a darkling plain where ignorant armies clash at night"
Howl
poem that opens "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked"
Mending Wall
poem that repeats the line "Good fences make good neighbors"
(The) Second Coming
poem titled after Christ's return to Earth
Ode to Joy
poem used in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
(The) Road Not Taken
poem where the narrator takes the path "less traveled by"
Kubla Khan
poem where the title Mongol ruler decrees a "stately pleasure dome" at Xanadu
My Last Duchess
portrait of the title char was painted by Fra Pandolf
Anna Karenina
princess Kitty Scherbatsky marries Konstantin Levin
Robinson Crusoe
procures pistols, powder horns, and swords
Invisible Man
protag accidently empties a spittoon on a preacher who believes gave him false letters of rec
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
protag accidently kills the family horse Prince
Don Quixote
protag admires and is inspired by Amadis of Gaul
Lord Jim
protag allows Cornelius and the pirate Gentleman Brown to kill Dain Waris
All Quiet on the Western Front
protag and Kat plot to steal a goose
Purgatorio
protag and Virgil ascent to the title Mountain on the far side of the world
(The) Adventures of Tom Sawyer
protag and friend witness a murder by Injun Joe
Paradiso
protag and his lover Beatrice ascend through 9 concentric celestial spheres of Heaven
Ethan Frome
protag and his lover try to commit suicide by sledding into a elm tree
Candide
protag and tutor experience an earthquake in Lisbon
Ulysses
protag argues with the shape shifter Buck Mulligan
(The) Old Man and the Sea
protag arm-wrestled for a day with a "negro from Cienfuegos"
Oedipus Rex
protag asks his daughter to take him outside to die on holy ground
Death of a Salesman
protag asks his wife why she bought American cheese instead of his favorite Swiss
Fathers and Sons
protag asserts that "a good chemist is twenty times as useful as any poet"
Beloved
protag attacks Mr. Bodwin with an ice pick after mistaking him for a former slave owner
Don Quixote
protag attends the funeral of Girostomo, where Marcela gives a speech
(The) Grapes of Wrath
protag becomes a fugitive after witnessing the death of preacher Jim Casey
(A) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
protag becomes a hero for enduring unfair punishment by Father Dolan
Don Quixote
protag becomes a knight after reading too many books about chivalry
(The) Call of the Wild
protag becomes a legend among Yeehats
(A) Christmas Carol
protag becomes a patron to the crippled Tiny Tim
War and Peace
protag becomes a peasant and friends Platon
Slaughterhouse Five
protag becomes president of the Lions Club
(The) Count of Monte Cristo
protag befriends Abbe Faria in jail
On the Road
protag befriends Carlo Marx in Denver
(The) Sorrows of Young Werther
protag befriends Fraulein von B after leaving Wahlheim for Weimar
Great Expectations
protag befriends Herbert Pocket who marries Clara Barley
On the Road
protag befriends Old Bull Lee in New Orleans
David Copperfield
protag befriends Tommy Traddles and James Steerforth at boarding school
(The) Sorrows of Young Werther
protag begins crying after a woman yells "Klopstock!"
Candide
protag believes "we must cultivate our garden"
(The) Sorrows of Young Werther
protag believes that one member of the love triangle must die, so he chooses himself
Don Quixote
protag believes the Balsam of Fierabras has healing powers
Aeneid
protag breaks Dido's heart leading her to commit suicide
(The) Adventures of Tom Sawyer
protag breaks a relationship with Amy Lawrence
(A) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
protag breaks his glasses at Clongowes school
Hedda Gabler
protag burns Eilert Lovborg's manuscript
(The) Trial
protag buys a pair of identical landscapes from the painter Titorelli
Picture of Dorian Gray
protag calls Mr. Hubbard because he is afraid his servant Victor will look at the title object
Ulysses
protag calls himself Henry Flower to talk with Martha
(The) Tin Drum
protag can shatter glass with his voice
Howl
published by City Lights Bookstore which prompted the store for an obscenity trial
Ozymandias
published under the pen name Glirastes in Leigh Hunt's The Examiner
(The) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
readers "attempting to find a plot in it will be shot"
Picture of Dorian Gray
references JK Huysmans' "Against Nature" saying that the protag "poisoned him"
My Last Duchess
references a statue of Neptune taming a sea-horse by Clauss of Innsbruck
Howl
references a vision of "mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated"
Robinson Crusoe
saved Friday from a pack of cannibals
(The) Charge of the Light Brigade
repeats the phrases "All the world wondered" and "Volley'd and thunder'd"
Inferno
representing the Christian encountering a physical manifestation of sin with the three beasts representing self-indulgence, violence, and maliciousness
Inferno
rings 1-5 are outside the city of Dis while rings 6-9 are inside the city of Dis
Aeneid
roots and vines bleed representing the slain Polydorus
Death of a Salesman
rubber pipe is found attached to the water heater
Dover Beach
sea is "like the folds of a bright girdle furled" with a "long, withdrawing roar"
(The) Last of the Mohicans
second book of the Leatherstocking Tales
David Copperfield
semi-autobiographical novel of Charles Dickens
Long Day's Journey into Night
semiautobiographical play about the Tyrone family
(The) Road Not Taken
speaker notes that he'll be telling his story "somewhere ages and ages hence"
Ode on a Grecian Urn
speaker praises a "happy melodist" to keep "soft pipes, play on" because "heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter"
Leatherstocking Tales
series of 5 novels about Natty Bumppo with books named after his nicknames
Death of a Salesman
set directions say that chars may phase through walls of its setting
(A) Farewell to Arms
set during the Italian Campaign in WW1
Our Town
set in Grover's Corners
No Exit
set in a Second Empire-style room
No Exit
set in a room with a bronze ornament on the mantelpiece
Catch 22
set on the island of Pianosa
Kubla Khan
setting has "many an incense-bearing tree"
Ozymandias
shares its title with a poem written by Horace Smith in a competition with the author
Robinson Crusoe
ship captured by Turkish pirates
(The) Gift of the Magi
short story about Jim and Della who sell their watch and hair to buy each other a watch chain and tortoise shell comb
Rip Van Winkle
short story about a man who falls asleep for 20 years in the Catskill Mountains
(The) Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
speaker recalls having "measured out my life in coffee-spoons"
(The) Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
speaker references Marvell in wishing "to have squeezed the universe into a ball"
Howl
speaker repeats the word "moloch"
One Hundred Years of Solitude
some chars are identified by Ash Wednesday crosses on their forehead
(The) Raven
speaker mourns the death of Lenore
Tintern Abbey
speaker notes that "The picture of the mind revives again"
To His Coy Mistress
speaker notes that "yonder all before us lie deserts of vast eternity"
(The) Second Coming
source for the title of Achebe's Things Fall Apart
(The) Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
speaker "shall wear the bottom of my trousers rolled"
(The) Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
speaker asks "Do I dare / disturb the universe?"
(The) Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
speaker asks "Do I dare to eat a peach?"
(The) Raven
speaker asks "is there balm in Gilead?"
Ode on a Grecian Urn
speaker asks what "little town by river or sea-shore" is "emptied of its folk this pious morn"
My Last Duchess
speaker chooses never to stoop
(The) Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
speaker claims "I am Lazarus, come from the dead, back to tell you all"
Song of Myself
speaker claims "I loafe and invite my soul"
Song of Myself
speaker claims "every atom belonging to me as good as belongs to you"
(The) Road Not Taken
speaker claims how his decision "has made all the difference"
To His Coy Mistress
speaker claims that "worms shall try / that long preserved virginity"
Song of Myself
speaker compares grass to "the beautiful uncut hair of graves"
Tintern Abbey
speaker compares his childhood adventrues to a "man flying from something that he dreads"
Song of Myself
speaker declares "I am large, I contain multitudes"
To His Coy Mistress
speaker declares "Let us roll all of our strength and all our sweetness up into one ball"
Song of Myself
speaker declares "What I assume you shall assume"
Howl
speaker describes "angelheaded hipsters" who "threw potato salad at CCNY lecturers on Dadaism"
Howl
speaker describes people "dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix"
Tintern Abbey
speaker describes the "steep woods and lofty cliffs, and this green pastoral landscape"
Kubla Khan
speaker encounters a "damsel with a dulcimer" who turns out to be an Abyssinian maid
(The) Raven
speaker explains a sound as "some visitor... only this and nothing more"
(The) Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
speaker has "seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker"
(The) Raven
speaker hears "Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floors"
To His Coy Mistress
speaker hears "Time's winged chariot hurrying near"
(The) Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
speaker hears "mermaids singing, each to each"
Howl
speaker inquires about a "sphinx of cement and aluminum"
Song of Myself
speaker is "now thirty-seven years old in perfect health"
(The) Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
speaker is satisfied with being a deferential "attendant lord"
(The) Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
speaker is self-conscious about his bald spot
Ivanhoe
squire Gurth and jester Wamba escape into the forest
1984
state media claims an increase in chocolate ration
Little Women
story about Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March
My Last Duchess
strangers often have questions about the "depth and passion" of an "earnest glance" of the title char
Ode on a Grecian Urn
subject is "Attic shape"
Ode on a Grecian Urn
subject is "thou still unravish'd bride of quietness"
Ode on a Grecian Urn
subject is a "Sylvan historian"
Ode on a Grecian Urn
subject is a "foster child of silence and slow Time"
Ode to Joy
subject is referred to as "daughter of Elysium"
Ode to Joy
subject is referred to as "the spark of the gods"
Middlemarch
subtitled "A Study in Provincial Life"
Slaughterhouse Five
subtitled The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death
(The) Song of Hiawatha
takes place by "the shores of Gitchee Gumee"
(The) Charge of the Light Brigade
takes place during the Battle of Balaclava
One Hundred Years of Solitude
takes place in Macondo
Kubla Khan
takes place in an area of "twenty five miles of fertile ground" enclosed by "walls and towers"
Robinson Crusoe
tames a parrot and discovers a penguin colony
Inferno
tears of some characters freeze before leaving their eye
(The) Waste Land
tells of Cumaean Sibyl's wish for death
(The) Tempest
the Act 4 masque is often left out
(The) Rape of the Lock
the Baron plays a game of ombre
(The) Rape of the Lock
the Baron snips off some of Belinda's hair
Les Miserables
the Bishop of Digne lives in a hospital instead of the palace he is entitled to
(The) House of the Seven Gables
the Judge dies in a chair where his ancestor died 30 years ago, prompting Clifford and Hepzibah to flee the title structure
Decameron
the Marquis of Saluzzo tests the patience of his wife Griselda by ordering the death of their children and taking a new bridge
(The) Canterbury Tales
the Nun's Priest and Knight go on a pilgrimage to Becket's shrine
Moby Dick
the Pequod crew includes Starbuck and canibal Queequeg
Frankenstein
the antag murders Henry Clerval and his wife Elizabeth, on her wedding night
Frankenstein
the antag's favorite works are Paradise Lost, Plutarch's live,s and Sorrows of Young Werther
(A) Doll's House
the author created an alternate German ending called a "barbaric outrage"
Leaves of Grass
the author describes a "flood tide below me"
(The) Trial
the author fictionalized his fiance as the typist Fraulein Burstner
Pygmalion
the author rejected an alternate ending by Herbert Tree
(The) Road Not Taken
the author's friend Edward Thomas said the poem's intent was simply to mock indecisiveness
Waiting for Godot
the bare set only has one prominant tree and the protags consider hanging themselves on it with a belt
Moby Dick
the black boy Pip goes insane
Heart of Darkness
the central action is delayed by a lazy brickmaker
(The) Sound and the Fury
the central family is served by the caretaker Luster and maid Dilsey
Our Town
the choir sings "Blessed Be The Ties That Bind"
All Quiet on the Western Front
the chronic bed wetter and locksmith Tjaden features in the sequel The Road Back
Moby Dick
the cook Fleece gives a speech in the beginning
(The) House of the Seven Gables
the daguerreotypist Holgrave falls in love with Phoebe
(The) Rape of the Lock
the gnome Umbriel goes to the Cave of Spleen to get a bag of sighs and vial of tears
Middlemarch
the dying Peter Featherstone tries to alter his will, but Mary Garth refuses to help
Brave New World
the efficiency of Henry Foster's crematorium is discussed
Lord Jim
the entomologist Mr. Stein gives the protag his old job back
(The) Three Musketeers
the epilogue reveals the result of the siege of La Rochelle
(The) Age of Innocence
the failure of Julius Beaufort's bank causes Mrs. Manson Mingott to have a stroke
(A) Midsummer Night's Dream
the fairies include Oberon, Titania, and Puck
Beloved
the family lives at 124 Bluestone Road
Absalom, Absalom
the frame story has Rosa Coldfield narrate the story to Shreve, Quentin Compson's Harvard classmate
To Kill a Mockingbird
the garbage collector Zeebo is the only one who can read at the First Purchase Church
(The) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
the ghost of a baby floating in a "bar'l" haunts a raft of drunken soldiers
To His Coy Mistress
the grave is a "fine and private place"
(The) Hunchback of Notre Dame
the heroine turns out to be the long lost daughter of Sister Gudule
(The) Canterbury Tales
the host Harry Bailey offers a free meal to the best story teller
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
the house in the play was previously owned by Jack Straw and Peter Ochello
(The) Magic Mountain
the humanist Settembrini and authoritarian Naphta have a duel but Settembrini refuses to shoot a Jesuit so Naphta calls him a coward and ends up shooting himself
Antigone
the king's son Haemon tries to stab the king but ends up stabbing himself
Vanity Fair
the ladies court George Osborne and Rawdon Crawley
Purgatorio
the last 2 terraces below the previous 7 is the Ante-Purgatory which contains the Excommunicated and Late repentant
To Kill a Mockingbird
the main family is attacked from a Halloween pageant by Bob Ewell
Beloved
the main house was previously inhabited by Baby Suggs
(The) Cherry Orchard
the main mother gives a homeless a valuable gold coin
Julius Caesar
the main speech laments "O judgement! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason"
Madame Bovary
the merchant L'heureux drives the protag into debt
Madame Bovary
the pharmacist Monsieur Homais drives a man out of business
East of Eden
the pimp Mr. Edwards abuses Cathy Ames which leads her to shoot her husband in the shoulder
(The) Charge of the Light Brigade
the poem asks "When can their glory fade"
Eugene Onegin
the poem's author names a type of alternating masculine and feminine rhyme used
Kubla Khan
the poem's composition was interrupted by a "Person from Porlock"
Hamlet
the protagonist meets a captain leading an invasion against Poland
Kubla Khan
the setting has "caves of ice" and "the river Alph"
(The) Raven
the setting has "each separate dying ember wrought its ghost"
(The) Sun Also Rises
the prostitute Georgette Leblanc tries to hide her rotting teeth known as her "sickness"
Othello
the protag calls his wife "the beast with two backs"
(The) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
the protag despairs "a thousand thousand slimy things with legs did crawl"
Aeneid
the protag flees home carrying his father Anchises and son Ascanius to Carthage
(The) Stranger
the protag frequently eats at Celeste's restaurant
Othello
the protag gets furious when his wife loses a strawberry patterned handkerchief
Brave New World
the protag hangs himself after his mother dies due to mass production and consumerism
(The) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
the protag is "a sadder and wiser man"
Crime and Punishment
the protag is given a cyprus copper cross
(The) Sun Also Rises
the protag is impotent from an injury in WWI
Frankenstein
the protag is mentioned in letters to Margaret Saville by her brother which sets the frame story of the novel
(The) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
the protag is won by "The Nightmare Life-in-Death" in a dice game against Death
For Whom the Bell Tolls
the protag kills Anselmo after the operation
For Whom the Bell Tolls
the protag reflects on his meeting with the Russian journalist Karkov and his abstract philosophy
Heart of Darkness
the protag sees a "flabby, pretending, weak-eyed devil" while watching a chain gang
(The) Tempest
the protag speaks to the audience in an epilogue "Let your indulgence set me free"
Death of a Salesman
the protag struggles to plant in his garden lamenting "I don't have a thing in the ground"
Fathers and Sons
the protag's friend Sitnokov introduces the protag to some friends
1984
the protag's lover attacks the screen in the daily "Two Minutes Hate"
O Pioneers!
the religious old man Crazy Ivar is a loyal servant to the protag
Catch 22
the scheme "Everybody has a share" buys eggs in Malta and resells it for lower prices
All Quiet on the Western Front
the schoolteacher Kantorek encourages chars to enlist in the army
Beloved
the schoolteacher burns Sixo alive
Dover Beach
the sea has receded to the "naked shingles of the world"
(The) Thousand and One Nights
the secret word to the thieves' cave is "open sesame"
(The) Cherry Orchard
the servant Firs is nicknamed Twenty-Two Calamities
Wuthering Heights
the servants Joseph and Zilla work at the title estate
My Last Duchess
the speaker "gave commands" which stopped "all smiles" of the title char
Kubla Khan
the speaker eats honey-dew and drinks "the milk of Paradise"
Julius Caesar
the speaker of a famous claims he has "neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood"
To His Coy Mistress
the speaker's "vegetable love" would "grow vaster than Empires, and more slow"
(A) Tale of Two Cities
the spies John Barsad and Roger Cly try to frame a man in cell 105
To His Coy Mistress
the subject might reject the speaker "till the conversion of the Jews"
(The) Charge of the Light Brigade
the subjects "knew someone had blundered"
(The) Charge of the Light Brigade
the subjects went "into the jaws of Death / Into the mouth of Hell"
(The) Magic Mountain
the suicidal planter Mynheer with malaria gets with Clavdia Chauchat, the protag's love interest
(A) Farewell to Arms
the surgeon Rinaldi introduces the protag's lover
Candide
the syphilis ridden Paquette engages in "experimental physics"
Howl
the third part has the speaker repeatedly tell Carl Solomon, "I'm with you in Rockland"
Purgatorio
the title Mountain has 7 terraces from the seven deadly sins
Julius Caesar
the title char is targeted by his enemy Lucan Pharsalia with a "lean and hungry look"
Julius Caesar
the title char is warned and stabbed on the Ides of March (March 15)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
the title char saves Eva St. Clare from drowning
My Last Duchess
the title figure had a "heart too soon made glad"
(The) Charge of the Light Brigade
the title group didn't care because "Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die"
Tintern Abbey
the title location has grown "more dear" to the speaker
(The) Rape of the Lock
the title object becomes a constellation
(A) Streetcar Named Desire
the title vehicle takes Eunice and Stella to Elysian Fields
(The) Cherry Orchard
the tutor Trofimov is nicknamed the "eternal student" for his university studies
Othello
the villain gets in a drunken brawl with Cassio
Othello
the villain plants a handkerchief to prove infidelity
Othello
the villain tells the audience "I am not what I am"
As You Like It
the villian Oliver tries to kill his brother in a wrestling match
(The) Tempest
the witch Sycorax left promising to break his staff and drown his books, leaving behind Caliban and Ariel
Brave New World
the word "Lord" is often replaced with "Ford"
Dover Beach
the world "seems / to lie before us like a land of dreams" but really has "neither love, nor light"
Uncle Tom's Cabin
this work was spurred by the Bloodhound Law
(The) Waste Land
three lines only use the word "da" and then use datta, dayadhvam, damyata
Purgatorio
title Mountain was created from the displacement of rock from Satan's fall into Hell
My Last Duchess
title char "liked whate'er she looked on, and her looks went everywhere"
My Last Duchess
title char "rode with, round the terrace" on a white mule
(The) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
title char accidently shoots an albatross with a crossbow and wear it on his neck as punishment
My Last Duchess
title char didn't appreciate the speaker's gift of a "nine-hundred-years old name"
My Last Duchess
title char didn't appreciate the speaker's gifts any more than "the drooping of the daylight in the West"
Julius Caesar
title char is described as "was ambitious" and his rival is mocked three as being "an honorable man"
My Antonia
title char is happily married to Anton Cuzak
My Antonia
title char is impregnated and abandoned by Larry Donovan
Uncle Tom's Cabin
title char is sold to Simon Legree and whipped to death
My Antonia
title char is the only Shimerda family member to know English
(The) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
title char tells his story to the Wedding Guest
My Last Duchess
title char was "looking as if she were alive"
My Antonia
title char works for the Harling family
My Antonia
title char's father plays the violin and commits suicide
(The) Three Musketeers
title chars are Athos, Porthos, and Aramis
Little Women
title chars give the Hummels Christmas breakfast
Little Women
title chars make Christmas presents for each other
Death in Venice
title event occurs while the protag sits in a chair and watches Tadzio on the beach
(The) Raven
title fig repeats the word "Nevermore"
(The) Raven
title fig was inspired by Grip from Dicken's Barnaby Rudge
My Last Duchess
title figure rode a "white mule" that gave her the same smile as if "some officious fool" gave her a "bough of cherries"
Purgatorio
title location represents Christian life with the protag and Virgil arriving on Easter Sunday
Ode on a Grecian Urn
title object is "foster-child of silence and slow time"
Paradiso
title structure is based on the 4 cardinal virtues and 3 theological virtues
Vanity Fair
titled for a location in Pilgrim's Progress
My Last Duchess
titles an Atwood short story about a couple who break up over the poem's meaning
(The) Song of Hiawatha
told in trochaic tetrameter inspired by the Kalevala
Madame Bovary
town chemist receives the title "Legion of Honour"
My Antonia
two Russians throw a newlywed couple off their sled to divert a pack of wolves
(A) Tale of Two Cities
two chars are the "man of delicacy" and "man of no delicacy"
One Hundred Years of Solitude
two chars believe that a train station massacre of plantation workers was a cover up
(The) Importance of Being Earnest
two chars devour cucumber sandwiches before Aunt Augusta's arrival
O Pioneers!
two chars embracing under a white mulberry tree are shot by a jealous husband
(The) Importance of Being Earnest
two chars fight over muffins
Uncle Tom's Cabin
two chars hide in an attic and pretend to be ghosts
(The) Merry Wives of Windsor
two chars insultingly call a man "Mephistophilus" and "a Banbury cheese"
Much Ado About Nothing
two chars opposed to marriage are tricked into falling in love by eavesdropping
Moby Dick
two consecutive chapters titled "Knights and Squires"
(The) Canterbury Tales
two imprisoned men fall in love with a woman picking flowers
Cry, the Beloved Country
two politicians Tomlinson and Dubula envy the protag's younger brother's speechmaking
Ode to Joy
urges the reader to "close the holy circle tighter" and "swear by this golden wine"
Eugene Onegin
verse novel about a Russian nobleman who gets rejected by Tatyana
Les Miserables
villain is bribed to move with his daughter Azelma to America to be a slave trader
Aeneid
war breaks out after the protag's son kills a deer
King Lear
when Cordelia dies she tells her father that she loves him like a daughter should
Animal Farm
work takes place between Pinchfield and Foxwood
