Authors, Poets, Novels (FINAL)

Elie Wiesel

"Night" Romanian-born Jewish-American -writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Prize Winner, and Holocaust survivor. Night - is about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps.

Sonnet 18

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate;" This has a couplet with ABAB CDCE EFEF GG rhyme scheme by William Shakespeare

Sandra Cisneros

(born in America but of Mexican decent) "The House on Mango Street" coming of age novel -insightful social critique and powerful prose style, she has achieved recognition far beyond Chicano and Latino communities

Mildred Taylor

-African American author -known for her works exploring the struggle faced by African-American families in the Deep South "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" In 1977, the book won the Newbery Medal.

Alice Walker 1982

-African American author and poet -self-declared feminist and womanist -"Color Purple" rec'd the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Walter Dean Myers

-African American author of young adult lit -written over fifty books, including novels and nonfiction works -won the Coretta Scott King Award for African American authors five times 'The Glory Field"

Elizabeth George Speare

-American children's author who won many awards for her historical fiction novels, including two Newbery Medals. -one of America's 100 most popular children's authors and much of her work has become mandatory reading in many schools throughout the nation. Indeed, because her books have sold so well she is also cited as one of the Educational Paperback Association's top 100 authors "Witch of Blackbird Pond"

Stephen Crane

-American novelist, short story writer, poet and journalist; Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism. -He is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation. He won international acclaim for his 1895 Civil War novel "The Red Badge of Courage", which he wrote without any battle experience. His first novel was the 1893 Bowery tale "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets", which critics generally consider the first work of American literary Naturalism. His writing is characterized by vivid intensity, distinctive dialects, and irony. Common themes involve fear, spiritual crises and social isolation. Although recognized primarily for The Red Badge of Courage, which has become an American classic, Crane is also known for short stories such as "The Open Boat", "The Blue Hotel", "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky", and The Monster. His writing made a deep impression on 20th century writers, most prominent among them Ernest Hemingway, and is thought to have inspired the Modernists and the Imagists.

Madeline L'Engle

-American writer best known for her young-adult fiction -the Newbery Medal-winning "A Wrinkle in Time" and its sequels: "A Wind in the Door" National Book Award-winning "The Small Rain" "24 Days before Christmas"

Charles Dickens

-English novelist during Victorian era and social critic who is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period and the creator of some of the world's most memorable fictional characters "David Copperfield" "Great Expectations" "A Christmas Carol" "Oliver Twist" "A Tale of Two Cities" and many more!

Geoffrey Chaucer

-Father of English literature -widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages -first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey. "The Canterbury Tales" collection of stories written in Middle English at the end of the 14th century. The tales (mostly written in verse although some are in prose) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return. The Canterbury Tales was his magnum opus. He uses the tales and the descriptions of its characters to paint an ironic and critical portrait of English society at the time, and particularly of the Church. Structurally, the collection resembles The Decameron, which he may have read during his first diplomatic mission to Italy in 1372.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

-Russian writer of novels, short stories and essays -works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russia. -often acknowledged by critics as one of the greatest and most prominent psychologists in world literature "Crime and Punishment"

Kate Chopin

-born Katherine O'Flaherty; American author of short stories and novels. -considered by some to have been a forerunner of feminist authors of the 20th century. "The Awakening" "The Storm"

Sylvia Plath

-wrote "The Bell Jar" -born during the great depression

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1. Lost Generation 2. The Great Gatsby

C.S Lewis

1. The Chronicles of Narnia 2. The Space Trilogy

Fredrick Douglass

1. The Liberator 2. My Bondage and My Freedom

Their Eyes Were Watching God

1937 novel by 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

Emily Dickinson

19th century female poet; major themes: flowers/gardens, the master poems, morbidity, gospel poems, the undiscovered continent; irregular capitalization, use of dashes & enjambment, took liberty with meterwrote "Wild Nights--Wild Nights!;" "I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died," and "Because I Could Not Stop For Death--;"

Christopher Paul Curtis

African American children's author Newberry Medal winner "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" "Bud, Not Buddy" first novel to receive both the Coretta Scott King Award and the Newbery Medal. "Elijah of Buxton" (winner of the Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, and a Newbery Honor) is set in a free Black community in Ontario that was founded in 1849 by runaway slaves.

S.E. Hinton (Susan Eloise Hinton)

American author best known for her young adult novel The Outsiders. By the time she was 17 years old, she was a published author. While still in high school in her hometown—Tulsa, Oklahoma—she put in words what she saw and felt growing up and called it The Outsiders, a now classic story of two sets of high school rivals, the Greasers and the Socs (for society kids). Because her hero was a Greaser and outsider, and her tale was one of gritty realism, she launched a revolution in young adult literature.

Louis Sacher

American author of children's books "Sideways Stories From Wayside School" "Holes" 1998 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature[1] and the 1999 Newbery Medal for the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children

Lois Lowry

American author of children's literature explored such complex issues as racism, terminal illness, murder, and the Holocaust among other challenging topics. explored very controversial issues of questioning authority such as in "The Giver Trilogy" "The Giver"winner of the 1994 Newbery Medal "Number the Stars"

Robert Cormier

American author who wrote The Chocolate War (The Chocolate War was challenged in multiple libraries. His books often are concerned with themes such as abuse, mental illness, violence, revenge, betrayal and conspiracy. In most of his novels, the protagonists do not win.) The Chocolate War is a young adult novel. First published in 1974, it was adapted into a film in 1988. Although it received mixed reviews at the time of its publication, some reviewers have argued it is one of the best young adult novels of all time.

J.D. Salinger

American author, (January 1, 1919 - January 27, 2010) "The Catcher in the Rye" (1951) The Catcher in the Rye is a bildungsroman(coming of age book) .

Jack London

American author, journalist, and social activist -pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone "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", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life. He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf

William Armstrong

American children's author and educator 1969 Newbery Medal-winning novel "Sounder". The story of an African-American boy living with his sharecropper family. Although the family's difficulties increase when the father is imprisoned for stealing a ham from work, the boy still hungers for an education. Sounder won the Newbery Award in 1970, and was made into a major motion picture in 1972

Scott O'Dell

American children's author who wrote 26 novels for young people, along with three novels for adults and four nonfiction books called "the foremost American writer of children's historical fiction." Although he is best known for stories set in the past, his books include gothic romances, nonfiction, and stories of contemporary life "Island of Blue Dolphins" 1960 American children's novel about a young girl stranded for years on an island off the California coast, it is based on the true story of Juana Maria, a Nicoleño Indian left alone for 18 years on San Nicolas Island in the 19th century. Island of the Blue Dolphins won the Newbery Medal in 1961. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1964.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the poet movement of the mid-19th century. -champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society -disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States "Self-Reliance"

Helen Keller

American female author, political activist, lecturer; first deaf-blind person to earn B.A. "The Story of My Life" "The Frost King"

Carl Hiaason

American journalist, columnist, and novelist "Hoot" is a 2002 set in Coconut Cove, Florida, where new arrival Roy makes a bad enemy, two oddball friends, and joins an effort to stop construction of a pancake house which would destroy a colony of burrowing owls who live on the site. The book won a Newbery Honor award in 2003.

Avi pen name for Edward Irving Wortis

American male author that wrote "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle" in 1990; historical fiction; takes place during the transatlantic crossing of a ship from England to America in the 19th century. The book chronicles the evolution of the title character as she is pushed outside her naive existence and learns about life aboard a ship. The novel was well received and won several awards, including as a Newbery Honor

Herman Melville

American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. "Moby-Dick"hailed as one of the literary masterpieces of both American and world literature; Dark Romantic "Billy Budd" "Sailor" -first writer to have his works collected and published by the Library of America.

Jean Craighead George

American writer who authored over one hundred books for young adults -including the Newbery Medal-winning "Julie of the Wolves", the Newbery Honor book "My Side of the Mountain" and its sequel, "On the Far Side of the Mountain" -Common themes in her works are the environment and the natural world.

Gary Paulson

American writer who writes many young adult coming of age stories about the wilderness. He is the author of more than 200 books, 200 magazine articles many short stories, and several plays, all primarily for young adults and teens. "Hatchet" is a 1987 three-time Newbery Honor-winning wilderness survival novel.

Walt Whitman

Celebrated America "Leaves of Grass"

Christopher Marlowe

English dramatist, poet and translator "Doctor Faustus" play based on the Faust story, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge.

Richard Adams

English novelist "Watership Down" heroic fantasy novel, Set in south-central England, the story features a small group of rabbits. Although they live in their natural environment, they are anthropomorphised, possessing their own culture, language (Lapine), proverbs, poetry, and mythology. Evoking epic themes, the novel is the Aeneid of the rabbits as they escape the destruction of their warren and seek a place to establish a new home, encountering perils and temptations along the way. It won the annual Carnegie Medal, annual Guardian Prize, and other book awards. It has been adapted as a 1978 animated film that is now a classic and as a 1999 to 2001 television series.

Emily Bronte

English novelist and poet "Wuthering Heights" solitary novel, a classic of English literature; the only published novel by this author. The narrative centres on the all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimately doomed love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and the people around them. Charlotte Bronte (wrote Jane Eyre) is this author's sister.

John Keats

English poet in Romantic movement during early 19th century. He wrote: "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer. Written in October 1816, this is the first entirely successful (surviving) poem he wrote. John Middleton Murry called it "one of the finest sonnets in the English language," One of the most anthologised English lyric poems, "To Autumn" has been regarded by critics as one of the most perfect short poems in the English language.

J. R. R. Tolkein

English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor "Hobbit" classic high fantasy works (being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald Tribune for best juvenile fiction. "The Lord of the Rings" (The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel) "The Silmarillion"

Toni Morrison

Female African-American writer "Beloved" "The Bluest Eye" "Song of Soloman" -won Pulitzer Prize in 1988 -received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Zora Neale Hurston

Female African-American writer in the wrote 20th century. "Their Eyes Were Watching God" (themes - the illusion of power, non-necessity of relationships, folkloric quality of religion). -Her work is folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance

Maya Angelou

Female Africica-American. She is a celebrated poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" she transforms from a victim of racism with an inferiority complex into a self-possessed, dignified young woman capable of responding to prejudice. The author uses her autobiography to explore subjects such as identity, rape, racism, and literacy.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawling 1938 MODERN

Female American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings "The Yearling"

Ester Forbes

Female American novelist, historian and children's writer who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Newbery Medal for writing "Johnny Tremain"

Zora Hurston

Harlem Renaissance "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Individualism 1. "Nature" (Transcendilism)

C.S. Lewis

Ireland novelist, poet "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" a fantasy novel for children Published in 1950, it is the original book of The Chronicles of Narnia and is the best known book of the series Time magazine included the novel in its "All-TIME 100 Novels" (best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005).(It has also been published in 47 foreign languages.)

British Romantics

John Keats, Lord Byron, Bysshee Shelley

Robert Frost

Known for realistic depictions of rural life 1. "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" 2. "The Road Not Taken"

Edith Wharton

Pulitzer Prize-winning American author "Ethan Frome" struggles to make a living as a farmer near the bleak Massachusetts town of Starkfield, while his dour wife Zeena whines and complains about her imaginary ailments. Ethan is deformed, hopeless, and poorer than ever, and Mattie is now the helpless invalid. Caring for them both—presiding over their wrecked lives—is Zeena.

Transcendetalism

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau

Mary Shelley

Romantic British novelist short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer -"Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus" (1818)

Leo Tolstoy

Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays "Anna Karenina" "War and Peace" published in 1869; epic in scale; one of the most important works of world literature. It is considered his finest literary achievement, along with his other major prose work Anna Karenina (1873-1877).

Frederick Douglass

Self-educated slave who wrote a book named after himself...Narrative of the Life of________, editor of 'The North Star,' abolitionist. Without his approval, this man became the first African American nominated for Vice President of the United States

The Bell Jar POST MODERN

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

Madeleine L'Engle

Time Quartet/Quintet series 1. A Wrinkle in Time 2. A Wind

The Outsiders

Written by SE Hinton this novel is about a group of poor kids (greasers) hold their own against a group of rich kids (socials aka socs), losing two of their own in the process; protagonist: This story is a bildungsroman novel (bildungsroman means - coming-of-age story is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age), and in which character change is thus extremely important.

Harlem Renaissance

Zora Hurston, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen

Harper Lee POST MODERN 1960

a female American author -"To Kill a Mockingbird"

epic poem

a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds

Animal Farm

a novel written about a group of animals who 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

David Copperfield

after surviving a poverty-stricken childhood, the death of his mother, a cruel stepfather, and an unfortunate first marriage, this young man finds success as a writer; themes: plight of the weak, importance of equality in marriage, dangers of wealth and class

Virgil

ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. A number of minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, are sometimes attributed to him. This poet is traditionally ranked as one of Rome's greatest poets. His Aeneid has been considered the national epic of ancient Rome from the time of its composition to the present day.

Katherine Patterson

best known for children's novels four different books published 1975 to 1980 won two Newbery Medals and two National Book Awards one of three people to win the two major international awards: for "lasting contribution to children's literature" she won the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award wrote "A Bridge to Terabithia"

Patricia Maclachlan

bestselling female U.S. children's author 1986 Newbery Medal for her book "Sarah, Plain and Tall"

Little Women

by American Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888). This story is about four March sisters (Amy, Jo, Beth, Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty, juggle their duties, and their desire to find love

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky -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.

1984

by George Orwell (pen name for Eric Arthur Blair), announced an insane world of dehumanization through terror in which the individual was systematically obliterated by an all-power elite; key phrases: Big Brother, doublethink, Newspeak, the Ministry of Peace...Truth...Love

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee is a Southern gothic novel; published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice. The plot and characters are loosely based on the Harper Lee's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old. The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality.

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville published in 1851 -considered to be one of the Great American Novels and a treasure of world literature. The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab has one purpose on this voyage: to seek out a ferocious, enigmatic white sperm whale. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg, which now drives Ahab to take revenge. In this novel Melville employs stylized language, symbolism, and the metaphor to explore numerous complex themes.

The Catcher in the Rye

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. 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

The Call of the Wild

by Jack London -about 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

The Giver

by Lois Lowry -is a dystopian children's novel; follows a boy named Jonas through the twelfth year of his life. -set in a future society which is at first presented as a utopian society and gradually appears more and more dystopian; therefore, it could be considered anti-utopian; book allegedly glorified Communism

The Pigman

by Paul Zindel, first published in 1968 -most frequently banned books in America in the 1990s, because of what some deem offensive language The novel begins with Lorraine's delinquent friend named John. signed by John Conlan and Lorraine Jensen, two high school sophomores, which pledge that they will report only the facts about their experiences with the principal

Johann David Wyss

chaplain in the Swiss army and served in Italy "The Swiss Family Robinson" one of the most popular books of all time.

Alice In Wonderland 1865

children's novel; fantasy The story is about a girl who falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures.

lyrical poem

expresses a speakers personal thoughts and feelings. usually are short and have a musical quality about them

Mildred Taylor

female African American author known for her works exploring the struggle faced by African-American families in the Deep South "Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry" Awarded the Newbery Medal

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

female American author best known for her children and young adult fiction books "Shiloh" (a 1992 Newbery Medal winner), "Shiloh Season" and "Saving Shiloh" all made into movies "Alice" "The Grand Escape" "The Galloping Goat and Other Stories" "The Witch Saga" "The Boys Start the War" about boys and girls pulling pranks on each other.

Louisa May Alcott

female American novelist "Little Women" and its sequels "Little Men" and "Jo's Boyswrote Little Women"

The Aeneid

is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. *A Trojan destined to found Rome, undergoes many trials on land and sea during his journey to Italy, finally defeating the Latin Turnus and avenging the murder of Pallas

Anna Karenina VICTORIAN

is a realistic fiction - novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger -commonly thought to explore the themes of hypocrisy, jealousy, faith, fidelity, family, marriage, society, progress, carnal desire and passion, and the agrarian connection to land in contrast to the lifestyles of the city -After having an affair with a handsome military man, a woman kills herself; russion, 1970s, psychological novel

Caroline Cooney

is an American author of suspense, romance, horror, and mystery books for young adults "The Voice on the Radio"

Beowulf

is the conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literaturea. great warrior, goes to Denmark on a successful mission to kill Grendel; he returns home to Geatland, where he becomes king and slays a dragon before dying; poem; alliterative verse, elegy, small scale heroic epic; author unknown; setting around 500 AD

Daniel Defoe

known as the father of the English novel "Robinson Crusoe"

John Keats

known for 1."series of odes" (6 short stories) 2. "Autumn"

Beloved

novel by Toni Morrison, published in 1987 -about an African-American slave, Margaret Garner, who temporarily escaped slavery. -killed her two-year-old daughter rather than allow her to be recaptured. -Margaret is visited by the spirit of her deceased daughter.

Frankenstein

or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by Mary Shelley about a creature produced by an unorthodox scientific experiment. This is a Gothic novel.

prose

ordinary writing as distinguished from verse

George Orwell

pen name for Eric Arthur Blair who was an English novelist and journalist. His work is marked by clarity, intelligence and wit, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and belief in democratic socialism "1984" "Animal Farm" the first British animated feature released worldwide. Despite the title and Disney-esque animal animation, it is in fact a no-holds-barred adaptation. The book is about 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

Protagonist

the main character of a story

Lewis Carroll

the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an English author "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and sequel "Through the Looking-Glass" -poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky" ("Jabberwocky" is a nonsense verse poem written in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found) -all examples of the genre of literary nonsense.

Ray Bradbury

was an American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction writer. -dystopian novel "Fahrenheit 451" (1953) -and for the science fiction and horror stories gathered together as "The Martian, Chronicles" (1950) -"The Illustrated Man" (1951). He was one of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers. Many of his works have been adapted into television shows or films.

Paul Zindel

was an American playwright, author, and educator. He wrote The Pigman. The Pigman is a young adult novel first published in 1968

Charlotte Bronte

was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood, whose novels are English literature standards. She wrote Jane Eyre under the pen name Currer Bell.

William Shakespeare

was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". He was the greatest playwright who ever lived, prolific poet. His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays,154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. His work includes: Sonnet 18- Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Hamlet-follows the young prince Hamlet home to Denmark to attend his father's funeral. Hamlet is shocked to find his mother already remarried to his Uncle Claudius, the dead king's brother. And Hamlet is even more surprised when his father's ghost appears and declares that he was murdered. Exact dates are unknown, but scholars agree that Shakespeare published Hamlet between 1601 and 1603. Many believe that Hamlet is the best of Shakespeare's work, and the perfect play. Macbeth- the Three Witches foretell Macbeth's rise to King of Scotland but also prophesy that future kings will descend from Banquo, a fellow army captain. Prodded by his ambitious wife, Lady Macbeth, he murders King Duncan, becomes king, and sends mercenaries to kill Banquo and his sons. His attempts to defy the prophesy fail, however; Macduff kills Macbeth, and Duncan's son Malcolm becomes king. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime. The first recorded works of Shakespeare are Richard III and the three parts of Henry VI, written in the early 1590s during a vogue for historical drama.

Mark Twain

wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Anne Frank

wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952, chronicles her life in Nazi Germany