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The work presents a great writer suffering writer's block who visits Venice and is liberated uplifted, and then increasingly obsessed, by the sight of a stunningly beautiful youth. Venice, and finally, the writer himself, succumb to a cholera plague.

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

It is a play by written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. It dramatizes the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Tréplev.

The Seagull by Anton Chekhov

published in 1939. It is an expression of the dreaming collective psyche as it relives the major conflicts of myth and history. This psyche is divided into the two sexual principles, the major representations of which are Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker (HCE) and Anna Livia Plurabelle (ALP).

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

A play that debuted on Broadway in 1959. It portrays a few weeks in the life of the Youngers, an African-American family living on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s. When the play opens, the Youngers are about to receive an insurance check for $10,000. This money comes from the deceased Mr. Younger's life insurance policy.

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Published in 1929. The record of several schoolmates who represent a generation destroyed by the dehumanization of World War I's trench warfare, it tells of their enlistment in the army at the urging of their teacher, Kantorek, whose wisdom they trusted. Who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front?

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria

Addie Bundren, the wife of Anse Bundren and the matriarch of a poor southern family, is very ill, and is expected to die soon. Her oldest son, Cash, puts all of his carpentry skills into preparing her coffin, which he builds right in front of Addie's bedroom window.

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

It is a 1987 novel set after the American Civil War (1861-65), it is inspired by African American slave, Margaret Garner, who escaped slavery in Kentucky late January 1856 by fleeing to Ohio, a free state.

Beloved by Toni Morrison.

Written by and published in 1815. Youthful Emma Woodhouse, whose long-time governess and friend Miss Taylor has just married Mr. Weston, takes some solace in being left alone with her aging father by claiming that she made the match herself.

Emma by Jane Austen

It is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman published in 1726. It is an adventure story involving several voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon, who, because of a series of mishaps en route to recognized ports, ends up, instead, on several unknown islands living with people and animals of unusual sizes, behaviors, and philosophies, but who, after each adventure, is somehow able to return to his home in England where he recovers from these unusual experiences and then sets out again on a new voyage.

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

First published complete in July 1890. In his London studio, artist Basil Hallward puts the finishing touches on his latest portrait, that of a young man. Although Lord Henry, who is visiting with Basil, asks about the young man's identity, Basil declines to answer, noting his preference for secrecy. Basil never intends to exhibit the painting, because if he did, it would bare the deepest feelings in his soul.

Picture of Dorain Gray by Oscar Wilde

First performed in 1664, is one of the most famous theatrical comedies by Molière. attempts to seduce Orgon's wife, Elmire. Elmire shuts him down, then makes a deal with him: if he'll convince Orgon to let Mariane marry Valère, she won't tell Orgon about the incident. When Damis decides to tell Orgon what's happened, Orgon refuses to believe him - and disinherits him instead.

Tartuffe

It is a 1982 epistolary novel. Celie, the protagonist and narrator of novel is a poor, uneducated, fourteen-year-old black girl living in rural Georgia. Celie starts writing letters to God because her father, Alphonso, beats and rapes her. Alphonso has already impregnated Celie once.

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

It is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London. John Worthing, a carefree young gentleman, is the inventor of a fictitious brother, ___whose wicked ways afford John an excuse to leave his country home from time to time and journey to London, where he stays with his close friend and confidant, Algernon Moncrieff.

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. His primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its working conditions was to advance socialism in the United States.

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

It is an adventure novel published in 1883. Jim Hawkins is a young boy who lives at his parents' inn, the Admiral Benbow, near Bristol, England, an old sea captain named Billy Bones dies in the inn after being presented with a black spot, or official pirate verdict of guilt or judgment.

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

It is a play staged in 1962. It examines the complexities of the marriage of a middle-aged couple, Martha and George. University and meet Nick and Honey, as guests, and draw them into their bitter and frustrated relationship.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee