ELA Praxis 5047 Authors
S.E. Hinton
The Outsiders American writer best known for her young-adult novels set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
The Outsiders, 1967, about a high school with rival games, greasers and socs, who are divided by their socioeconomic status, told by protagonist Ponyboy Curtis American author of young novels in which she began writing in high school
Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage, a young private in the Union army in the civil war, henry flemming, flees from the battle field, 19th century american author, Naturalism, impressionism,
Maya Angelou
African American author and poet. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings",
Frederick Douglass
African American statesman, author, orator Leader of the abolitionist movement The North Star, Self Made Men, Several autobiographies
An American Tragedy - dreiser
Clyde, the protagonist of An American Tragedy, has been convicted of murdering his lover. He's been sentenced to death. His mother tries to get him off of death row, by appealing to churches. But she's not having much luck.
CS Lewis
The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.
Madame Bovary
The best-known novel of Gustave Flaubert. The title character is dissatisfied with her marriage, seeks happiness in adultery, and finally commits suicide.
Jack London
The call of the wild, short adventure novel set in the Yukon Territory canada during the 1890s gold rush, about a dog named Buck. It chronicles his journey from California where he is stolen and is sold as a service dog in Alaska White Fang- 1906, takes place in yukon territory canada during the gold rush and details white fang's journey to domestication 19th century american author and outspoken socialist
A Doll's House (Ibsen)
Torvald Helmer, Nils Krogstad, Christine Lind, Doctor Rank, Nora nora forges her deceased fathers signature to get money for her ill husband without her knowledge. the man she is borrowing money from works for her husband and her husband wants to fire him but then he blackmails her and her husband finds out and shames her. all ends well and her husband is happy again but she now sees him as a coward and leaves him.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)
Vivid autobiography of the escaped slave and renowned abolitionist Frederick Douglass
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein, 1818, story of a young scientist who creates a grotesque creature in a unorthodox science experiment 19th cent English Gothic novelist, who was married to percy bysshe shelley
The House of Mirth
Wharton, Edith -1905, New York socialite Lily Bart. The title is taken from Ecc. 7:4 "...the heart of fools is in the house of mirth." One of E. Wharton's most tragic novels. The heroine is so bound-up in her rigid principles that she refuses to grab hold of the virtual life-rafts thrown to her. She doesn't marry Lawrence Selden because he's not rich enough, she refuses to help Bertha Droset's husband get a divorce, she snubs Mr. Gryce, her Aunt Julia disinherits her because of her (Lily's) gambling debts. She sinks lower and lower, seeking increasingly menial and disreputable work.
Maya Angelou
I Know why the caged bird sings, autobiography of her life that depicts difficulties associated with a mixture of racial and gender discrimination endured by a black southern girl 20-21 Century
Slaughterhouse five
Kurt Vonnegut
Walt whitman
Leaves of Grass 1855 Song of myself 19th cent american poet, part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both in his works
Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass, The three Musketeers, Intolerance, The Mark of Zorro, O Captain! O Captain! American Renaissance/transcendentalism
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women, 19th century North America Writer, women's rights, suffrage, follows the lives of four sisters
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot.
Maggie Tulliver has to choose betweeen her each of her suitors and her duty to her family. Adores brother Tom Tulliver. Mr. Tulliver (victim of character and circumstances), Philip Wakem (Maggie's sensible lover-encourages her to give up her unnatural self-denial)
Stephen Crane
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, The Red Badge of Courage
Robert Frost
March 26, 1874 - January 29, 1963) was an American poet. (The Road Not Taken) (Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening)
the stranger - Albert camus
Meursault, marie, the arabs, Raymond, masson, salamanco --too calm during his mother's death and detached from his emotions in general. is later charged and put in prison
Leslie Marmon Silko, *Ceremony*
Native American lit., witchery and war, white man is the root of all evil.
the lliad and the odessey - Homer
Of the two epics, the Odyssey is the later both in setting and, probably, date of composition. The Iliad tells the story of the Greek struggle to rescue Helen, a Greek queen, from her Trojan captors. The Odyssey takes the fall of the city of Troy as its starting point and crafts a new epic around the struggle of one of those Greek warriors, the hero Odysseus.
A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens
On the surface it's about the French Revolution; it is really a warning to nineteenth century Britain that the same thing will happen there if they don't take care of the poor.
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), American Modernism period. [1] better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885),[2] the latter often called "the Great American Novel."
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
Sci-fi, horror, Gothic novel written during the Romantic Movement ( second half of 18th century) and Industrial Revolution (late 18th, early 19th century); published in 1818 by British novelist ( 1797-1851); characters include Victor, the monster, Robert Walton, Elizabeth Lavenza
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self Reliance, 1847, 19th century transcendentalist poet, philosopher, essayist, featured excerpts from his personal journals of self discovery
C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles of narnia, 1949, the lion the witch and the wardrobe, prince caspian:return to Narnia, The voyage of the dawn treader, the silver Chair, the horse and his boy, the magicians nephew, the Last Battle 20th century British novelist
John Keats
Song, Ode to a Grecian Urn, Bright Star, 19th century English Romantic poet
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath- was an American poet, novelist and short story writer who wrote this novel. It is about a young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Lord of the Flies
Symbolizes the power of evil and the evilness in the boys (and in humanity). The head is called "Lord of the Flies" which is a translation of the word Beelzebub (name of the devil in the Bible). The Lord of the Flies is connected with the symbol of the pig (or rather, the head of a pig). It is a symbolic dramatization of human evil.
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1876 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1885 often criticized for satire on entrenched attitudes, racism 19th century american writer and humorist
The Grapes of Wrath (1939) - John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck about the horrors of the Great Depression; Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industry changes and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work. Due to their nearly hopeless situation, and in part because they were trapped in the Dust Bowl, the Joads set out for California. Along with thousands of other "Okies", they sought jobs, land, dignity, and a future.
The Magic Mountain
Written by Thomas Mann 1924. Competing views on politics and culture. Before the war, Mann was ultra-conservative. He became more moderate after the war. His books were burned by Nazi soldiers. This is important because we see in writing how political views changed after the war
Beloved - Toni Morrison
postmodern, contemporary historical fiction published in 1987 by African American author (1931-); characters include Sethe, Denver, Beloved; set in 1873 in Cincinnati, Ohio; includes ghosts and flashbacks
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
..., A novel tells the story of an orphan who travels all over England to win the hand of his lady.
All Quiet on the Western Front
(1929) a novel written by Erich Maria Remarque illustrating the horrors of World War I and the experiences of veterans and soldiers. It was extremely popular, but also caused a lot of political controversy when it was first published, and was banned in Germany in the 1930's.
Candide, Voltaire
- Novella that satirizes blind optimism; ridicules religion, theologians, governments, armies, philosophies, and philosophers. - Imitated by many later authors.
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathon Swift
- Satire on human nature that follows Lemuel Gulliver to many mystical lands; watches Gulliver transition from an optimist into a misanthrope; has three themes: satirizing European government and religious differences, man's corruption, and the "ancients vs. moderns" controversy. - Influenced some Enlightenment philosophers.
William Shakespeare
17th cent English poet, playwright, and actor widely regarded as the greatest writer in the english language
The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
1915 portrays pre-WWI society's shifting morals and loss of steadfast social rules. It is narrated, unreliably, by John Dowell in a form that prefigures stream of consciousness, following Dowell's recollections of his and his wife's relationship with Edward and Leonora Ashburnham in non-chronological order. Dowell's narration mainly explores the discovery of the numerous affairs of his wife Florence and Edward, who end up having an affair with each other. These intrigues lead to Florence's suicide, Leonora's moral torture of Edward and his suicide, and the madness of the Ashburnham's young ward Nancy, whom Dowell eventually takes care of.
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
1930 novel that is much more sparse and clear than many of his works. It is composed of 59 segments narrated by 15 different characters and follows the Bundren family over a series of days as they travel from their home to the town of Jefferson to bury the family's matriarch, Addie, whose body they carry with them.
go tell it on the mountain - james bawldwin
1930s, racism and religion. shows both sides of Christian people, good and bad.
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
1961--The novel generated a great deal of controversy upon its initial publication. Catch-22 has become one of the defining novels of the twentieth century. It presents an utterly unsentimental vision of war. Catch-22 is often thought of as a signature novel of the 1960s and 1970s; it was during those decades that American youth truly began to question authority. Catch-22 can be found in the novel not only where it is explicitly defined but also throughout the characters' stories.
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
1976 memoir known for its blending of voices and styles and for taking autobiography into the postmodern literary age. Kingston blends autobiography with ancient Chinese folk tales as she tells the stories of a long-dead aunt, "No-Name Woman"; a mythical female warrior, Fa Mu Lan; Kingston's mother, Brave Orchid; Kingston's aunt, Moon Orchid; and herself. These stories integrate her own experiences with "talk-stories" - blends of Chinese history, myths and beliefs - that her mother tells her.
George Orwell
1984 - a dystopian novel set in airstrip one, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation dictated by a political system called English Socialism Animal Farm - allegorical and dystopian novella about the events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 20th cent. English writer, work is maked by his lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, and opposition of totalitarianism, support of democratic socialism
Edgar Allan Poe
19th cent american writer and poet known for his tales of mystery and the macabre
Ray Bradbury
20-21 Century - fantasy, science fiction writer Fahrenheit 451 - about a future American society where books are outlawed and "fireman" burn any that are found
Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time, 1963, science fantasy story that revolves around a young girl whose father a government specialist has gone missing after working on a mysterious project called the tesseract. 20th century american writer best known for her young-adult fiction about modern science
Don Quixote miguel de cervantes
A comedic book written by Miguel de Cervantes during the Renaissance. The title character is now used to refer to idealists that champion hopeless or fanciful causes.
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
A disturbing New England masterpiece about adultery and guilt in the old Puritan era
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
A poet, swordsman, scientist, playwright, musician, and member of the Cadets of Gascoyne, a company of guards from Southern France. For all his prodigious talents, he is unattractive, cursed with a ridiculously long nose that makes him insecure and keeps him from revealing his love for his cousin Roxane.
Babbitt
A self-satisfied person concerned chiefly with business and middle-class ideals like material success; a member of the American working class whose unthinking attachment to its business and social ideals is such to make him a model of narrow-mindedness and self-satisfaction by Sinclair Lewis
Fathers And Sons by Ivan Turgenev
A timeless depiction of generational conflict during social upheaval, it vividly portrays the clash between the older Russian aristocracy and the youthful radicalism that foreshadowed the revolution to come—and offers modern-day readers much to reflect upon as they look around at their own tumultuous, changing world.
Jack London
American Author The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire"
Alice Walker
American Contemporary author and activist. She wrote the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple
Sandra Cisneros
American author (The House on Mango Street, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories) work deals with the formation of Chicana identity, exploring the challenges of being caught between Mexican and Anglo-American cultures
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American author during the Jazz Age The Great Gatsby Tender is the Night The Beautiful and Damned Tender is the Night
Edgar Allan Poe
American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, (The Raven, Annabelle Lee, The Tale-tell Heart)
Helen Keller
American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree (The Frost King, The Story of My Life, The World I Live In)
H.G. Wells
American author. British Victorian period. The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The Island of Doctor Moreau.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century Essays include Nature, and Self Reliance
Zora Neale Hurston
American folklorist, anthropologist, and author. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Herman Melville
American novelist, writer of short stories, and poet from the American Renaissance period. The bulk of his writings was published between 1846 and 1857. Best known for his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851)
Emily Dickinson
American poet
Ray Bradbury
American science fiction/fantasy author Farenheit 451, It Came From Outer Space, Dandelion Wine
Lois Lowry
American writer credited with more than thirty children's books and an autobiography. She has won two Newbery Medals, for Number the Stars in 1990 and The Giver in 1994.
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer known especially for his macabre poems, such as "The Raven" (1845), and short stories, including "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839).
The Sound and Fury by William Faulkner
At a basic level, the novel is about the three Compson brothers' obsessions with the their sister Caddy, but this brief synopsis represents merely the surface of what the novel contains. A story told in four chapters, by four different voices, and out of chronological order, The Sound and the Fury requires intense concentration and patience to interpret and understand.
Louisa May Alcott
Author of Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys,
William Thackeray
Author of Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero, one of the major works of the literature of Realism.
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Bernard Marx lives in a dystopian society where everyone is divided into different classes. They all take a drug called soma to enhance their lives and forget about daily pain. He brings a savage (those not in their society) into his world and a philosophical battle between science and emotion, individual freedom and social stability, and materialism and spiritualism spurs. John the Savage kills himself in the end.
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
Bildungsroman, modernistic novel published in 1899 by American author (1850-1904); characters include Edna Pontellier, Mademoiselle Reisz, Adèle Ratignolle, Robert Lebrun, Léonce Pontellier; set in 1899, at a time when the Industrial Revolution and the feminist movement were beginning to emerge yet were still overshadowed by the prevailing attitudes of the nineteenth century in New Orleans; deals with selfishness, feminist issues, the pursuit of happiness, and suicide
A Farewell to Arms
E. Hemingway. A love story which draws heavily on the author's experiences as a young soldier in Italy. Lieutenant Frederic Henry, a young American ambulance driver during WWI. Falls in love with nurse Catherine Barkley. The Battle of Caporetto. In Switzerland, their child is born dead, and Catherine dies due to hemorrhages.
Mary Shelley
English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Shakespeare
English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist
JRR Tolkien
English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.
A Midsummer Night's Dream William shakespeare
Fantasy romantic comedy about the adventures of 4 Athenian lovers written 1594-1596 and published 1600 by English poet and playwright (1564-1616); characters include Puck, Oberon, Titania, Helena, Hermia, Hippolyta; set in Athens and the forest outside its walls, Combines elements of Ancient Greece with elements of Renaissance England; deals with love's difficulty, magic, and dreams
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez--- One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, chronicles the rise and fall of the Buendia family in the fabled town of Macondo. Over the span of a century, Macondo and the Buendias, faced many triumphs and tragedies that lead to their downfall. The patriarch, Jose Arcadio Buendia, founded the town of Macondo while escaping a violent past. However, unknowingly, he brought his anguish, violence and personal despair to the town.
wuthering heights - Emily bronte
Gothic novel published in 1847 by English novelist and poet (1818-1848); characters include Heathcliff, Catherine Earnshaw, Hindley, Nelly Dean; set 1770s-1802 at Thrushcross Grange; deals with love
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hardy, Thomas - , Author Thomas Hardy Year 1891 Characters Tess Durbeyfeild, Angel Clare, Alec d'Uberville Summary Tess is a country girl who lives in a English village, who gets sent to "claim kin" from a wealthy branch of the d'Ubervilles. Other Books Jude the Obscure, Far from the Madding Croud, and The Return of the Native.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Here was this [black person] which I had as good as helped to run away, coming right out flat-footed and saying he would steal his children -- children that belonged to a man I didn't even know; a man that hadn't ever done me no harm.
Bartleby the Scrivener
Herman Melville, 1853
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo
Emily Dickinson
I'm nobody, who are you? Because I could not stop, 19th century american poet, known for poems with short lines, lack of titles, use of slant rhyme, no capitalization and punctuation, transcendentalist, heavily influenced by Metaphysical poets of 17th century england
The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore cooper
James Fenimore Cooper - 1826 Main character- Natty Bumppo -nickname: Hawkeye - brave and resourceful woodsman armed with unerringly long rifle. Setting: 1757, Upstate NY, Seven Yrs. War. Romantic Allegory- symbolizes Native American removal from the land. Heightened formal rhetoric
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Jim Hawkins (narrator), a young boy who goes on a journey to discover pirate treasure. Long John Silver, former pirate, goes to take back treasure; shifting loyalties. Dr. Livesey, steady, practical leader of the expedition.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce, James - , Joyce, 1916. Features Stephen Dedalus, starts in babyspeak and ends with pages from Dedalus' journal. "The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails." , Written by James Joyce; a novel about a young man growing up in Ireland and rebelling against family, country, and religion
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Kaleidoscopic novel written that forcefully accentuated the problem of alienation by using a black narrator who is struggling to find and liberate himself in the midst of an oppressive white society.
Herman Melville
Moby Dick 1851 novel of Romanticism and American Renaissance. Ishmael details the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge of Moby Dick, a white whale 19th century american novelist, short story, and poet of the am. Renaissance period
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Modernist novel during the Jazz Age published in 1925 by American author (1896-1940), considered to be part of the "Lost Generation"; characters include Nick Carraway, Joy Gatsby, Jordan Baker; set in summer of 1922 in Long Island and NY City
Frederick Douglass
Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, an american slave, 1845, 19th century african american author who escaped slavery and became an abolitionist leader
Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill
O'Neill wrote it fifteen years earlier and presented the manuscript to his third wife with instructions that it not be produced until 25 years after his death. Actually produced three years after he died, it centers on Edmund and the rest of the Tyrone family but is really an autobiographical account of the dysfunction of O'Neill's own family, set on one day in August 1912. The father is a miserly actor, while the mother is a morphine addict, and the brother is a drunk; they argue and cut each other down throughout the play.
Native Son (1940)
Novel written by Richard Wright about urban ghettos during The Great Depression.
Henry Wadsworth
Poet. Paul Revere's Ride
Swann's Way
Proust, Marcel -1922 french modernist, A Volume of À La Recherche du Temps du Perdu. The first few lines focuses on Swann's restlessness, the context of his dreams, and it makes clear that he is mentally ill. Discusses social class, Swann is seen as high class, but he knows how to interact with all classes. Swann is also seen as selfish --> picks women as to who works best for his own interests. Self interest seen again when Odette cheats on Swann. Memory also a big theme serves as learning/orienting tools. Identity and memory are fluid. The environment shapes us.
The Crying of Lot 49
Pynchon, Thomas -1966 , Thomas Pynchon, possibly unearthing the centuries-old conflict between two mail distribution companies, Thurn und Taxis and the Trystero (or Tristero). The former actually existed, and was the first firm to distribute postal mail; the latter is Pynchon's invention. The novel is often classified as a notable example of postmodern fiction.
The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
Realism psychological war novel published in 1895 by American novelist (1871-1900); characters include Henry Fleming, Jim Conklin, Wilson; set during the Civil War in 1863 presumably during the Battle of Chancellorsville; deals with courage, manhood, and self-preservation
Walden (Henry David Thoreau, 1854)
Reflects upon living simple in natural surroundings
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe, presented as an autobiography of the title character, a castaway who spend 30 years on a remote island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives and mutineers before being rescued,1719, 18th century novelist
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe. Moll Flanders (author)
Call It Sleep
Roth, Henry - , 1934 novel by Henry Roth that tells the story of a young boy growing up in the Jewish immigrant ghetto of NY's Lower East Side in the early 20th-century. The boy, David Schearl, is caught between the violence of his father, Albert, and the degradation of life in the streets of NY tenement slums.
War and Peace=Leo Tolstoy
Set in Russia
A Good Man is Hard to Find
Short story by Flannery O'Connor that epitomizes the genre of Southern Gothic. The story follows a family on vacation who get lost and whose car flips before they are found by the Misfit, an escaped convict.
Lois Lowry
The giver Number the stars, 1990, historical fiction about 10 year old annemarie who lives in Copenhagen during WWII. Annemarie risks to help her friend Ellen Rosen. American writer credited with more than 30 children books, known for writing about complex issues such as racism, murder, terminal illness
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The great Gatsby, follows a cast of characters in the fictional town of west egg on Long Island, 1922, themes of decadence, idealism, and social upheaval of the american dream 20th century novelist during the jazz age, regarded as the greatest american writer
JRR Tolkien
The hobbit, 1937 follows the quest of home loving hobbit Bilbo Baggins to win a share of the treasure guarded by the dragon, Smaug The lord of the rings 1949, sequel to the hobbit, centers around the alternative universe of elves, hobbits, trolls, and destruction of the ring English writer and poet known for high fantasy works
Sandra Cisneros
The house on Mango street - young latina coming of age,Esperanza, growing up in Chicago, quest for a better life
Amy Tran
The joy luck club 1989, focuses on four chinese american immigrant families in San Francisco who start a club. follows three mothers and four daughters, american author whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the chinese american experience
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
The king initially rejects the claim that he is the killer, but begins to have doubts after talking with his wife Jocasta, who was once married to Laius. Jocasta recalls a prophecy that Laius would be killed by his own son, but she claims that this prophecy did not come true, because Laius was murdered by highwaymen.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women. As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramsays face, alone and simultaneously, the greatest of human challenges and its greatest triumph--the human capacity for change.
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The story of a protagonist who is repeatedly raped by a man she thinks is her father. A missionary family in Africa adopts the resulting children. The protagonist's sister, Nettie, works for the missionary family, and the novel takes the form of a series of letters between the sisters. Name this Pulitzer Prize winning novel featuring Celie.
Helen Keller
The story of my life (1903) American author, political activist, lecturer, deaf and blind, earned a bachelor of arts degree
HG Wells
The war of the worlds 1898, science fiction novel of one of the earliest stories that depicts a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race english writer in many genres, history, politics, social commentary, best known for science fiction novels and is called the father of science fiction
Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes were watching god, 1937, narrates Janie Crawford's life from a teenager to a woman, 20th century african american writer associated with the harlem renaissance
The portrait of a lady by Henry James
This novel is considered a masterpiece. The text depicts the life of Isabel Archer who moves from the States to England to live with her aunt after the death of her father. There she meets her cousin Ralph, her uncle Mr. Touchett, and the wealthy Lord Warburton, who proposes to her shortly after her arrival. She rejects him in favour because she fears to lose her freedom if she enters a marriage. She learns that her former suitor Caspar Goodwood has followed her. She encounters him in London. He proposes to her and she rejects him, but promises to mull the proposal over in the next two years. When her uncle grows sick and dies he leaves Isabel a seizable fortune. While she is staying at her uncle's home she befriends Mrs. Touchett's friend Madame Merle. Later Isabel, Mrs. Touchett, and Madame Merle travel to the Touchett's house in Florence where Isabel meets Gilbert Osmond through introduction by Madame Merle. She marries Osmond despite the urging of her friends that he will not make a good husband for her. She ignores the advice and learns that he is a controlling tyrant who has raised his daughter Pansy to obey his every wish. When news arrive that Ralph is dying Osmond refuses to let her visit her cousin in England. When Isabel learns that Pansy is the child of Osmond and Merle and that she has been tricked into marriage by the latter, she leaves regardless of her husbands advice. She decides to return to him, however, because she believes in the principles of marriage and because she does not want to abandon Pansy with her cruel father.
Harper Lee
To kill a mockingbird, set in maycomb, al, atticus finch a white lawyer defends a black man, who is accused of raping a poor white girl, american novelist known for writing about racial attitudes in the South
the Canterbury tales - Geoffrey chaucer
Told by Geoffrey Chaucer; a pilgrimage to St. Thomas a Becket shrine in Canterbury; pilgrims tell tales to pass the time
The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee williams
Tom Wingfield financially supports his mother Amanda and his crippled sister Laura (who takes refuge from reality in her glass animals). At Amanda's insistence, Tom brings his friend Jim O'Connor to the house as a gentleman caller for Laura. While O'Connor is there, the horn on Laura's glass unicorn breaks, bringing her into reality, until O'Connor tells the family that he is already engaged. Laura returns to her fantasy world, while Tom abandons the family after fighting with Amanda.
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
things fall apart - china achebe
a boy's father showed favoritism to his "adoptive son" and his half sister rather than him. People wanted to kill the "adoptive son" so his father killed him instead. he accidentally killed another village boy and was excited seven years. when he came back the white men had come in and converted the villages to christianity. he retaliated and burned down the church and put in prison. the others didn't back him up and he killed himself.
Leaves of Grass (1855)
a collection of poems written by Whitman; highly romantic, emotional, and unconventional; handled sex with frankness; was banned in Boston; was a financial failure at first and had only three reviews secretly by Whitman himself; later revived and honored in America and Europe
Animal Farm by George Orwell
a group of animals mount a successful rebellion against the farmer who rules them, but their dreams of equality for all are ruined when one pig seizes power; novella, dystopian animal fable..ALLEGORY AND FABLE
a death in the family - James Agee
a man has a wreck and dies, he is not a christian. the priest of the funeral doesn't want to do the whole service because he wasn't baptized. This has heavy religious factors and the differences between religious people and un-relgious people.
Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
a man turns into an insect and lives in his family's home
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
a pampered dog (Buck) and how he adjusts to the harsh realities of life in the North as he struggles with his recovered wild instincts and finds a master (John Thorton) who treats him right; novel, adventure story, setting late 1890s
Jane eyre - Charlotte bronte
a young woman becomes the house teacher for a girl and meets Rochester. she doesn't know it but he has a crazy wife in the attic. she finds out at their wedding and leaves then returns after the wife proceeds to burn the house and blind/mame Rochester. she marries him finally.
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
adventure, frame tale published in 1719 by English writer (1659-1731); characters include Crusoe, "Friday", The Portuguese captain, Xury; set 1659-1694 at many different locations including the island
Gary Soto
american author who represents the Mexican American culture, Collection of young adult childrens books
Amy Tan
an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships. Her best-known work is The Joy Luck Club, which has been translated into 35 languages. In 1993, the book was adapted into a commercially successful film
Madeleine L'Engle
as an American writer best known for young-adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, National Book Award-winning[2][a] A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time. Her works reflect both her Christian faith and her strong interest in modern science.
the adventures of auggie march - Saul bellow
auggie works in multiple odd jobs, the occasional criminal activity and has several flings with women. follows Sophie to Mexico, they later marry.
Harlem Renaissance
cultural movement that spanned the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement" Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God)
death comes for the archbishop - Willa Cather
deals with the killing and moving of native Americans
Faust (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
faust is a servant of God's, the devil says he believes he can tempt him on earth. Faust goes through his time making terrible mistakes.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
follows widower and father Atticus Finch, a small-town southern lawyer, and his daughter Scout as they navigate racially-charged events in a small southern town.
pride and predjudice - Jane Austin
four sister are unmarried and need to be married to save their estate.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
he is in a prison and this is life as he is getting by. the whole plot takes place in one day.
J.D. Salinger
his novel The Catcher in the Rye was an immediate popular success. His depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfield was influential, especially among adolescent readers.[2] The novel remains widely read and controversial
Antigone (Sophocles)
in Thebes Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta Antigone's brothers: Etocles, Polynices (took opposite side in war) Etocles and Polynices killed each other in battle Antigone's uncle, Creon, became king of Thebes
Their Eyes Were Watching God
is a 1937 novel and the best-known work by African American writer Zora Neale Hurston. The novel narrates main character Janie Crawford's "ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny." Set in central and southern Florida in the early 20th century, the novel was initially poorly received for its rejection of racial uplift literary prescriptions. Today, it has come to be regarded as a seminal work in both African American literature and women's literature
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It Is a novel about an attempt to prove a theory. A student (Raskolnikov) murders two women, after which he suffers greatly from guilt and worry; psychological drama, setting in the 1860s.
Harper Lee
is an American novelist known for her 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which deals with the issues of racism
The Picture of Dorian Gray
is an English Gothic novel written by Oscar Wilde, about the portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful
The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov
madam ranevskaya, anya, leonid, yermolai ---russian free market economy
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
marlow, jurtz, congo river -- goes to collect ivory oversees and everything is ran shady-- Western European expansion
George Orwell
n English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and commitment to democratic socialism (1984) (Animal Farm)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
poems such as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a skylark major English Romantic poet regarded as the finest lyric as well as epic writer in the English language
Doctor Zhivago
novel by Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957 in Italy. The novel is named after its protagonist, a physician and poet, and takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Civil War.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
one of the major English Romantic poets and is regarded by critics as amongst the finest lyric poets in the English language. A radical in his poetry as well as his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition for his poetry grew steadily following lassic poems as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, Music, When Soft Voices Die, The Cloud and The Masque of Anarchy. His other major works include long, visionary poems such as Queen Mab (later reworked as The Daemon of the World), Alastor, The Revolt of Islam, Adonaïs, the unfinished work The Triumph of Life; and the visionary verse dramas The Cenci (1819) and Prometheus Unbound (1820).
Anne Frank
one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her wartime diary The Diary of a Young Girl has been the basis for several plays and film
beowulf - anonymous
slayed Grendle, gredels mom tried to fight back, he killed her too then was made king. Later a dragon burned down some cities and beowulf killed him then he died as well.
Pygmalion
someone (usually a male) who tries to fashion someone into the person he desires; from a myth adapted into a play by George Bernard Shaw; a woman-hating sculptor who makes a female figure of ivory who Aphrodite brings to life for him.
Gary Soto
soto's poetry focuses on daily experiences,[1] often reflecting on his life as a Chicano. Soto writes novels, plays and memoirs, and has edited several literary anthologies. His story "The No-Guitar Blues" was made into a film,[2] and he produced another film based on his book "The Pool Party."[6] He is a prolific writer of children's books.[1] Baseball in April (1990) A Fire in My Hands (1991) Taking Sides (1991) Pacific Crossing (1992), sequel to Taking Sides added by DaeQuan Jones Too Many Tamales (1992) The Skirt (1992) The Pool Party (1993) Local News (1993) Jesse (1994) 7th grade (1994) Crazy Weekend (1994) Boys at Work (1995) Summer On Wheels (1995) Canto Familiar (1995) Buried Onions (1997) The Cat's Meow (1997) Fearless Fernie (2002) If the Shoe Fits (2002) Marisol (2005) When Dad Came Back (2011), ebook Chato
Anne Frank
teen writer who went into hiding during the holocaust and journaled her experiences Diary of Anne Frank, 1947, published after her death in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
J.D. Salinger
the catcher in the rye, a depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfield, a 20th cent american writer
Alice Walker
the color purple 1982, rural georgia, focuses on the life of african american woman in the south in the 1930s. addresses numerous issues through their exceedingly low position in the american social culture american author and civil rights activist
waiting for gadot - Samuel beckett
these men wait for Godot, a magical entity, that never shows.
Macbeth, William Shakespeare
tragic play published in 1623 by English poet and playwright (1564-1616) of the Elizabethan Era (1558-1603); characters include 3 witches, Duncan, Macbeth, Banquo; set during The Middle Ages, specifically the eleventh century in various locations in Scotland; also England, briefly
Hamlet, William Shakespeare
tragic revenge play published in 1603 by English playwright (1564-1616); characters include Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude, Polonius, Horatio, The Ghost, Ophelia; set the late medieval period in Denmark, deals with the impossibility of certainty, the complexity of action, the mystery of death
The Crucible, Arthur Miller
tragic, allegorical, dramatic play published in 1953 by American playwright (1915-2005); characters include Abigail Williams, John Proctor, Rev John Hale, Elizabeth Proctor, Rev Parris, Giles Corey; set in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692; based on actual events before Salem Witch Trials in 1692; deals with intolerance, hysteria, reputation
Henry James the American
travels to paris to find love. falls in love only to be told that he can't marry her because of his social standings. her family killed their father in order to gain more riches and eventually gives up and goes back to America.
inferno - dante
trip through hell and back
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre dumas
try to find the queens earrings
John Keats
was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work having been in publication for only four years before his death.[1] (Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode on a Nightingale)
The Catcher in the Rye
written by JD Salinger After being expelled from a prep school, a 16-year-old boy (Holden Caulfield) goes to NYC, where he reflects on the phoniness of adults and heads towards a nervous breakdown. Originally published for adults, it has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage confusion, angst, alienation, and rebellion. It has been translated into almost all of the world's major languages. Around 250,000 copies are sold each year, with total sales of more than 65 million books. The novel's protagonist and antihero, Holden Caulfield, has become an icon for teenage rebellion. it was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the United States and other countries for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality. It also deals with complex issues of identity, belonging, connection, and alienation
Uncle Tom's Cabin
written by harriet beecher stowe in 1853 that highly influenced england's view on the American Deep South and slavery. a novel promoting abolition. intensified sectional conflict.