Literature

The Seagull

by Anton Chekhov Konstantin Treplev shoots himself and kills title bird after giving the title bird to his ex Nina and she reveals she loves Trigorin Irina Arkadina- Konstantin Treplev's mother, she belittles him after seeing his play-within-a-play Set on Sorin's estate

The Cherry Orchard

by Anton Chekhov Lopakhin, a merchant, purchases Madame Lyubov Ranevsky/Ranevskaya's estate Ends with sound of axes chopping down estate, elderly servant Firs(nicknamed "Twenty-Two Calamities") lies down on a sofa locked inside estate, presumably dies, Ranevskaya and Anya return to Paris Peter Trofimov is called the "eternal student" Anya, Ranevskaya's daughter loves Trofimov Varya, Ranevskaya's adopted daughter, loves Lopakhin but he never proposes to her Ranevskaya is haunted by the drowning of her son, Grisha, receives telegraphs from sick lover in Paris Constantin Stanislavsky directed it as a tragedy(Chekhov described it as a comedy)

The Three Sisters

by Anton Chekhov Olga, Masha, and Irina give up their dream of returning to Moscow Solony kills Baron Tuzenbach in a duel

Uncle Vanya

by Anton Chekhov Title character loves Elena, attempts to shoot Professor Serebryakov Character named "Waffles"

The Bet

by Anton Chekhov the Lawyer agree to spend fifteen years in solitary confinement for money

The Gladiators

by Arthur Koestler About the Spartacus Revolt

Darkness at Noon

by Arthur Koestler Nicholas Rubashov is imprisoned in Cell 404, he falsely confesses to attempting to poison Number 1 and is executed during Moscow show trials Number 1 implicitly represents Stalin Title refers to event during the crucifixion of Jesus, novel is broken into three sections called "hearings" and final section titled "Grammatical Fiction" Fellow prisoner called Hare-Lip refuses to tell Rubashov his name, is later revealed to be Rubashov's old associate Kieffer, testifies against Rubashov Rubashov invents a "quadratic alphabet" so that he can communicate with the prisoner across from him in Cell 402 by tapping on the wall Gletkin and Ivanov interrogate Rubashov Little Loewy commits suicide after Rubashov forces him to militarily supply a country against whom he led a shipping boycott while working on the Belgian Dockyard Rubashov reminisces about the affair he had with his secretary Arlova Rubashov betrays a German named Richard after meeting with him near the Pieta at a museum Rubashov imagines putting a cigarette out on his hand for 30 seconds

Arrival and Departure

by Arthur Koestler Peter Slavek refuses to give in to Fascist ideology and travels via parachute to the country of Neutralia Psychoanalyst Dr. Sonia Bolgar treats Peter's leg

The Thirteenth Tribe

by Arthur Koestler Proposes that Ashkenazi Jews are descended from Khazars

The Ghost in the Machine

by Arthur Koestler Titled for a term invent by Gilbert Ryle characterizing Cartesian dualism Coined the term "holon" for entities which are simultaneously wholes and parts

The Sleepwalkers

by Arthur Koestler subtitled History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe Early history of astronomy

Tomorrow's Eve

by Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Popularized the term "android" Lord Ewald asks Thomas Edison to build him an artificial wife

Doctor Zhivago

by Boris Pasternak Title physician Yuri, set during russian revolution Title character's love interest, Lara Antipov, attempts to shoot Victor Komarovsky Pasha Antipov- Lara's husband, former army commander, nicknamed "the shooter" or Strelnikov Title character is kidnapped by cocaine addict Liberius, leader of the "Forest Brotherhood" Misha Gordon intervenes in Amalia Guishar's suicide attempt Title character whites the poem "Hamlet"

Clock Without Hands

by Carson McCullers About J.T. Malone

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

by Carson McCullers Miss Amelia runs title location Marvin Macy- married to Miss Amelia Evans for 10 days, tries to ruin her life after getting out of jail Marvin steals Amelia's money and is aided by Cousin Lymon Willis, a hunchback taken in by Amelia Stumpy McPherson visits title location

Reflections in a Golden Eye

by Carson McCullers Set on an army base Repressed homosexual Captain Penderton's wife Leonora carries on an affair with Major Langdon and is secretly lusted after by Private Ellgee Williams

Songs and Sonnets

1633 collection by John Donne "The Flea" "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"

Art, Truth, and Politics

2005 Nobel Lecture of Harold Pinter

Archilochus

7th century BC Greek lyric/iambic poet Fragments include, "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." Was mimicked by Horace in Horace's Epodes

The God That Failed

A book written by former communists after WWII about the initial attraction toward, and later disillusionment, with communism Includes essays by Arthur Koestler and Ignazio Silone

Angry Young Men

A group of male British writers who created visceral plays and fiction at odds with political establishment and a self-satisfied middle class John Osborne Harold Pinter

Gonzo Journalism

A style of journalism that is written without claims of objectivity, often including the reporter as part of the story via a first-person narrative Subset of New Journalism that was pioneered and popularized by Hunter S. Thompson

Crome Yellow

Aldous Huxley's first novel Title is a house Denis Stone and Henry Wimbush

The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved

Article/essay by Hunter S. Thompson Written for Scanlan's Monthly First person account of covering title Louisville race with illustrator Ralph Steadman, recalls "swilling mint juleps" Narrator claims he is in town to document an impending clash between Black Panthers and white supremacists

Socialist Realism

Artistic style whose goal was to promote socialism by showing Soviet life in a positive light Pioneered by Maxim Gorky Mikhail Sholokhov

A Moveable Feast

Autobiography by Ernest Hemingway

Black Boy

Autobiography by Richard Wright

Speak, Memory

Autobiography by Vladimir Nabokov Compares writing a novel to a chess problem

1958 Nobel Prize in Literature

Awarded to Boris Pasternak, but he was forced to decline by the USSR

When I Was One-and-Twenty

By A. E. Housman "I am two and twenty, and oh tis true tis true" "give crowns and pounds of Guineas" "But keep your fancy free"

Terence, This is Stupid Stuff

By A. E. Housman "You eat your victuals fast enough"

A Shropshire Lad

By A. E. Housman Collection of poems

The Plague

By Albert Camus Doctor Rieux notices rats dying in streets of Oran

The Stranger

By Albert Camus Meursault walks to his mom's funeral, feels nothing "mama died today" Meursault shoots and kills an Arab on the beach Salamano, Meursault's next door neighbor, beats his dog

The Count of Monte Cristo

By Alexandre Dumas Edmond Dantes is imprisoned in the Chateau D'if He was framed by three men- Villefort, Mundego, Danglars Dantes was about to marry Mercedes He meets a prisoner who tells him of Pharaoh's Lost Gold

The Three Musketeers

By Alexandre Dumas Title characters: Athos, Parthos, Aramis Joined by d'Artagnon, who wants to be part of title group- he rides into town on a sickly, yellow horse, and sets up three consecutive duels with Athos, Parthos, and Aramis Cardinal Richelieu Assassination of Duke of Buckingham

Crossing the Bar

By Alfred Lord Tennyson "I hope to see my pilot face to face"

Charge of the Light Brigade

By Alfred Lord Tennyson Battle of Balaclava in Crimean War "Into the valley of death rode the 600" Sequel to this poem written by Rudyard Kipling, in which the soldiers ask the author to write another poem about them

In Memoriam A. H. H.

By Alfred Lord Tennyson Requiem for Alfred Henry Hallam "Tis better to have loved and lost then to never have loved at all"

Howl

By Allen Ginsberg Opening line: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness" Speaker tells Carl Solomon(who it is dedicated to) "I'm with you in Rockland" Laments the speaker's "starving hysterical naked" friends Repeated references to idol "Moloch" Sees a figures throw "potato salad at CCNY lecturers on Dadaism." Describes "angelheaded hipsters" Contains a footnote that repeatedly calls out "Holy!" Published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Bookstore First public reading at Six Gallery Reading

Kaddish

By Allen Ginsberg Titled for a Jewish prayer for the dead Elegy for the author's mother Naomi "Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets and eyes" as the speaker walks "on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village." ends with repetitions of the phrase "lord lord lord" and crows saying "caw caw caw."

Penguin Island

By Anatole France St. Mael baptizes flock of birds in title location

The Immoralist

By Andre Gide Michel finds out he is a gay pedophile

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

By Bertolt Brecht Grusha adopts Michael, plans to wrestle with his birth mother over baby in title location

Mother Courage and Her Children

By Bertolt Brecht Katrin, Eilif, and Swiss Cheese are all killed set during 30 years war

Dracula

By Bram Stoker Abraham von Helsing- an old vampire hunter Lucy Westenra

Fog

By Carl Sandburg "Fog comes on little cat feet"

Les Fleurs du Mal

By Charles Baudelaire Title translates to The Flowers of Evil Forward called "To the reader", calls reader a hypocrite Stories: Spleen and Ideal, Parisian Scenes, Wine

David Copperfield

By Charles Dickens Clara Peggotty Edward Murdstone Agnes Wigfield Eurya Heap

Oliver Twist

By Charles Dickens Fagin The Artful Dodger Nancy Bill Sykes Mr. Brownlowe

Bleak House

By Charles Dickens Legal battle between Jaundice Jaundice Esther Summerson

Great Expectations

By Charles Dickens Phillip Pip. Parripp Abel Magwitch- escaped con from Australia becomes Pip's benefactor Ms. Haveshin always wears a wedding dress, all the clocks in her house are stopped at the same time, takes in young Estella Pip falls for Estella

A Christmas Carol

By Charles Dickens Scrooge is visited by 4 ghosts Bob Cratchit- has a crippled son named Tiny Tim Scrooge worked for Mr. Freezy Wig, loved Belle

Hard Times

By Charles Dickens Thomas Gradgrind Nicholas Bounderby

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

By Charles Dickens unfinished

Pickwick Papers

By Charles Dickens- his first novel Hunting club Mr. Snodgrass

Waiting for Lefty

By Clifford Odets Play about striking cab drivers

Waiting for the Barbarians

By Constantine Cavafy Greek poem based on J. M. Coetzee Novel

Child of God

By Cormac McCarthy About Lester Ballad Frog Mountain

Lady Chatterley's Lover

By D. H. Lawrence Constance Reid has an affair with gamekeeper Oliver Mellors

Sons and Lovers

By D. H. Lawrence Gertrude Morel romantically pursues her son Paul after her other son dies

The Divine Comedy

By Dante Alighieri Inferno- Dante is guided through hell by Virgil, "abandon all hope ye who enter", 9 circles of hell, Devil is encased in ice each of his three mouths hold sinners(Brutus, Cassius, and Judas) Purgatorio- Virgil guides Dante through purgatory Paradiso- Dante is guided by Beatrice

The Maltese Falcon

By Dashiell Hammet About a bird statue Detective Sam Spade Set in San Francisco

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

By Dylan Thomas 19 lines- villanelle "rage rage against the dying light"

I sing of Olaf, glad and big

By E. E. Cummings "Unless statistics lie" "More brave than me, more blonde than you" title character's heart "recoiled at war", is thrown into a "dungeon" by the president "trig westpointer most succinctly bred" has subordinates beat up title character About a conscientious objector

The Enormous Room

By E. E. Cummings Autobiography about his time as an ambulance driver

A Passage to India

By E. M. Forester Adela Quested accuses Doctor Aziz of raping her in Marabar Caves

A Room with a View

By E. M. Forester Lucy Honeychurch George Emerson Cecil Vyse Charlotte Bartlett

Howard's End

By E. M. Forester Margaret Schlegel

Eureka

By Edgar Allan Poe Compares the expansion of the universe to the "throb of Heart Divine"

Cyrano De Bergerac

By Edmond Rostand Title character has large nose, loves Roxanne Soldier Christian is also in love with Roxanne, Christian Dies

A Few Figs From Thistles

By Edna St. Vincent Millay "My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night." Collection of poetry

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

By Edward Albee Two Couples: Nick and Honey(younger couple), George and Martha(older couple) Three Sections: The Exorcism, Walpurgisnacht, and Fun and Games Games from Fun and Games section are "get the guest" and "bringing up baby"

Germinal

By Emile Zola Étienne Lantier Coal miner strike

The Scarlet Pimpernel

By Emma Orczy Hungarian superhero story

All Quiet on the Western Front

By Erich Maria Remarque WWI trench fighting Paul Baumer is best friends with Kat Kat dies in Paul's arms Himmelstoss- bully who puts bedwetter in bottom bunk and another bedwetter in top bunch Kemmerich's unused boots are passed around Baumer kills Gerald Duval Kantorek- teacher

Hills like White Elephants

By Ernest Hemingway A Couple goes to get an abortion

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

By Ernest Hemingway A man dies of Gangrene

A Farewell to Arms

By Ernest Hemingway Frederic Henry- ambulance driver in WWI Henry falls in love with nurse Catherine Barkley after being introduced by surgeon Rinaldi, desserts to Switzerland at Battle of Caporetto Ending was rewritten 47 times Protagonist plays billiards with Count Greffi

The Sun Also Rises

By Ernest Hemingway Jake Barnes goes to Spain, meets Pedro Romero the Bullfighter Pedro is beaten up by Robert Cohn, a boxer Set in Pamplona Lady Brett Ashley(financé of Mike Campbell) says "we could have had such a damned good time together", Jake responds "yes... isn't it pretty to think so?" Protagonist goes fishing with Bill Gorton in Burguete

For Whom the Bell Tolls

By Ernest Hemingway Robert Jordan tries to blow up a bridge during the Spanish Civil War Pablo (Pilar's husband) steals detonators El Sordo

The Old Man and the Sea

By Ernest Hemingway Title character named Santiago catches giant Marlin that he cant pull into the boat "Arm wrestling match that lasted all day" "dreams of lions on the beach" Santiago is a fan of the Yankees and "The Great Joe Dimaggio"

The Optimist's Daughter

By Eudora Welty Laurel comes for dying father, Judge McKleva

A Worn Path

By Eudora Welty woman delivers medicine to her son through the woods

Rhinoceros

By Eugene Ionesco Characters turn into title animal Jean Bérenger- recurring character in Ionesco stories Daisy is last character to transform

The Chairs

By Eugene Ionesco Old Man and Old Woman talk with invisible guests Empty title object are on stage the entire time

The Bald Soprano

By Eugene Ionesco a dinner with the Smiths and the Martins Smiths forget they are married to each other Fire chief shows up and tells poor stories The Smiths and Martins change places at the end of the play

The Iceman Cometh

By Eugene O'Neill Harry Hope's Saloon Everyone waits for Theodore Hickman to arrive "Pipe Dreams"

Mourning Becomes Electra

By Eugene O'Neill Title comes from Greek mythology

Long Day's Journey Into Night

By Eugene O'Neill Tyrone Family Doctor Hardy Edmund, the son, has TB, goes to sanatorium at end Mary, mother, has a morphine addiction, is sensitive about her rheumatoid hands

In a Station of the Metro

By Ezra Pound "Pedals on a wet black bow"

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

By Ezra Pound "Resuscitate the dead art of poetry"

The Cantos

By Ezra pound Collection of poems The Pisan Cantos- written while author was imprisoned in Pisa, Italy

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

By F Scott Fitzgerald Title character ages backwards

Everything that Rises Must Converge

By Flannery O'Connor Julian and his racist mother(Mrs. Chestney) take the integrated bus to the YMCA(Local Y) Julian's mother tries to give a penny to African american boy Carver Carver's mother strikes Julian's mother down, both wear a horrendous green hat with purple velvet flaps Julian's mother has a stroke while walking home

Il Canzoniere

By Francesco Petrarch aka Songbook

Wizard of Oz

By Frank L Baum Slippers are Silver Analogy for bimedalism/gold standard

McTeague

By Frank Norris Dentist kills his wife and runs off with her lottery winnings

The Octopus

By Frank Norris Railroad magnate builds railroad which spreads 8 ways

Ode to Joy

By Friedrich Schiller Written to accompany Beethoven's 9th Symphony

Man and Superman

By George Bernard Shaw "Don Juan in Hell" - famous scene Title comes from Nietzsche

Pygmalion

By George Bernard Shaw Bet between professor of phonetics, Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering that professor can transform Eliza Doolittle into a "proper lady" "My Fair Lady"- musical based off of it Eliza marries Freddy Eynsford Hill Henry is referred to as "The Note Taker" Eliza tries to sell flowers Based on ancient Greek story about a sculptor

Arms and the Man

By George Bernard Shaw Title comes from the Aeneid Raina falls in love with a soldier

The Mill on the Floss

By George Eliot aka Marry Ann Evans Maggie and Tom Tulliver drown together in the Floss Mill is called Dorlcote Mill

Middle March

By George Eliot aka Marry Ann Evans Rosamond Vincy married to doctor Tertius Lydgate Dorthea Brooke- widow of Edward Casaubon, who dies while writing "The Key to All Mythologies", denies her inheritance if she marries Will Ladislaw Dorothea Brooke marries Will Ladislaw at end Banker Nicholas Bulstrode conspires to kill Sir John Raffles

Silas Marner

By George Eliot aka Marry Ann Evans The Weaver of Raveloe Godfrey Cass- secret wife Molly Farren

1984

By George Orwell(real name Eric Blair) "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism"- book written by Emmanuel Goldstein(leader of the Brotherhood) Winston Smith has affair with Julia Doublethink, Newspeak Mr. Charrington Winston tortured in Room 101 in Ministry of Love Glass coral paper weight Big Brother Oceania, Eastasia, and Eurasia superstates Winston writes fake story about Comrade Oglivy

Homage to Catalonia

By George Orwell(real name Eric Blair) About author's time in Spain Spanish Civil War Anti-Stalinism

Animal Farm

By George Orwell(real name Eric Blair) Battle of the Cowshed Moses the raven talks of Sugarcandy Mountain Boxer- "I will work harder" Napoleon=Stalin Snowball=Trotsky Benjamin the donkey can read fluently Beasts of England song taught by Old Major

Shooting an Elephant

By George Orwell(real name Eric Blair) Short story/anti-imperialist essay about Orwell's time in India Title animal goes into a "rut" and kills people

Sacred Emily

By Gertrude Stein "A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose"

Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

By Gertrude Stein Alice was her lover

The Decameron

By Giovanni Boccaccio 10 Florentine youths flee during black plague They hold storytelling competitions, each tells 10 stories Inspiration for the Canterbury Tales Griselda- story about husband who pretends to kill all their children

The Sorrows of Young Werther

By Goethe Epistolary-written as a series of letters Title character kills himself, causes a rash of suicides(the "Werther Effect")

The Rat

By Gunter Grass Future where nuclear bombs have been set off by rodents gnawing on microchips

The Tin Drum

By Gunter Grass(who was in the SS) First work of the Danzig Trilogy Oskar Matzerath- dwarf who decided to stop growing and received title object on his 3rd birthday Oskar can shatter glass with voice, is accused of killing Sister Dorothea Alfred Matzerath dies from choking on a Nazi Party Lapel Pin Jan Bronski steals a necklace for Agnes (Oskar's mother) Roswitha Raguna- lover of Bebra and Oskar is killed getting coffee by a stray shell during Normandy invasion Agnes dies by eating too many fish after seeing eels pulled from dead horse head Oskar leads street gang called "the Dusters," has son Kurt with Maria Truczinski Herbert Truczinski dies while attempting a sexual act with a wooden ship figurehead Niobe Oskar plays in jazz band with Klepp and Scholle in the club "The Onion Cellar," becomes tombstone engraver in Dusseldorf Vittlar turns in protagonist Lankes dates Ulla, a model who poses with Oscar for paintings Oskar brings Jesus to life using his drum

Madame Bovary

By Gustave Flaubert Emma Bovary is married to a surgeon named Charles Charles fails a surgery on Hippolyte(has club foot) Charles goes into depression Emma has affairs with Rudolf, Rudolf breaks up with her with a basket of apricots

Sentimental Education

By Gustave Flaubert Marie Arnoux has an affair with Fredrick Moreau

Ball of Fat (Boule de Suif)

By Guy de Maupassant Carriage of people trying to escape war Prostitute named Rousset

The Necklace

By Guy de Maupassant Matilda borrows title object from Madam Forestier for a ball held by Minister of Education She has to work 10 years to pay back Madam Finds out necklace was a fake at the end

The Horla

By Guy de Maupassant Vampire from Brazil (aka The Invisible Being)

The Invisible Man

By H. G. Wells Griffin learns how to change his body's "refractive index"

The War of the Worlds

By H. G. Wells Martians called Tripods invade earth Orson Welles did a reading of it on the radio

The Time Machine

By H. G. Wells The Eloi(beautiful race) and the Morlocks(monster race) conflict

The Island of Dr. Moreau

By H. G. Wells Title character splices animals

At the Meadows of Madness

By H. P. Lovecraft creation of Cthulhu Set in Antarctica Necronomicon summons Cthulhu

The Snow Queen

By Hans Christian Anderson Devil as a troll builds mirror which reflects reflects the worst of everything-"beautiful landscape to pot of spinach" Gertha has to save friend Khai Snow Queen Kidnaps Khai, makes him sit on frozen lake and is forced to spell a word before leaving Gertha recites Lord's Prayer to enter castle

The Red Shoes

By Hans Christian Anderson Girl marries into a rich family She is cursed and cannot stop dancing when she puts on title article of clothing The shoes are cut off and she gets wooden feet

The Steadfast Soldier

By Hans Christian Anderson Title character falls in love with paper ballerina they are both thrown into a fire and melt down

The Emperor's New Clothes

By Hans Christian Anderson title character buys clothes but nobody can see them

The Bridge

By Hart Crane Poem about the Brooklyn Bridge

Ghosts

By Henrik Ibsen Mrs. Alving discovers her husband has passed on syphilis to her son Oswald

A Doll's House

By Henrik Ibsen Nora and Torvald Helmer's marriage Nora forgers her father's signature to go to Italy, Krogstad tries to blackmail her with this information Kristine Linde is Krogstad's ex-lover, they reunite Dr. Rank is in love with Nora, has "tuberculosis of the spine"

Hedda Gabler

By Henrik Ibsen Title character is married to George Tesman but has a crush on Eilert Lovborg, George's rival Title character accidentally burns Eilert's manuscript he wrote with Thea Elvsted, he kills himself in a brothel with title character's gun after she asks him to "die beautifully" Judge Brack tells title character Lovborg is dead, blackmails her into sleeping with him but she refuses and kills herself

Omoo

By Herman Melville Sequel to Typee

The Encantadas

By Herman Melville in The Piazza Tales The Mestizo Hunilla is​ stranded​ on​ the​ title​ island, becomes "Chola Widow." Describes Barrington Isle and the giant turtles that inhabit Rock Redondo Tower Series of ten sketches about the Galapagos Islands

Steppenwolf

By Hermann Hesse Harry Haller plans to commit suicide on his 50th birthday, instead learns the foxtrot Harry stabs Hermine in Magic Theater because she slept with Pablo the saxophonist who loves Mozart Enters magic theater through door labeled "For madmen only," other signs say "all girls are yours" and "how one kills for love" Mozart appears and mocks Harry by playing Handel over a radio Harry meets Hermine in the Black Eagle Cafe who reminds him of childhood love Rosa Kreisler Hermine introduces Harry to Maria who he has an affair with and performs a nuptial dance with at the Fancy Dress Ball Harry offends a professor by insulting his wife's portrait of Goethe Harry is given a "Treatise on [TITLE]" on the street that describes his mental struggle with his animalistic side In a meeting with a chess player, Harry watches a mirror break into miniature versions of himself.

The Human Comedy

By Honore de Balzac Collection of stories about Père Goriot Eugenie Grandet loves cousin Charles, but is forced to marry another man to pay off gambling debts Père Goriot has two daughters- Anastasia and Delphine He has a stroke when he learns that family jewels must be sold Recurring character- Eugene de Rastignac

The Castle of Otranto

By Horace Walpole Manfred: villain Often considered the first Gothic Novel

I, Robot

By Isaac Asimov Three Laws of Robotics: Do not harm humans, cannot through an action allow a human to be harmed, can harm a bad human to save a good human

Call of the Wild

By Jack London Buck- Judge Miller's dog, is stolen and sold to miners to be a sled dog Buck eventually comes into the ownership of John Thorton Thorton is killed by Yeehat Indians Buck joins a pack of wolves

White Fang

By Jack London Half-dog half-wolf is taken in by Gray Beaver Kiche- mother of title character Rescued by Weedon Scott

To Build a Fire

By Jack London Man goes into snow alone in -80 degrees He falls into water and dies of frostbite because he cannot do the title action

Go Tell it on the Mountain

By James Baldwin recalls author's experience in harlem John Grimes experience with abusive step father Gabriel, who is a minister in a Harlem church

Ulysses

By James Joyce A day in the life of Leopold Bloom (June 16, 1904) Leopold uses pseudonym "Henry Flower", fantasizes about Gerty McDowell Molly Bloom has an affair with Blazes Boylan Stephen Daedalus Chapters named after events in The Odyssey Last lines- "yes I said yes I will Yes"

Finnegans Wake

By James Joyce Originally published in sections as "Work in Progress" Invents the word "quark" Humphrey Chimpdon- nickname "Earwicker" (HCE initials)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By James Joyce about Stephen Daedalus's growing up Father Arnall inspires catholic zeal Attends Clongowes school Begins with a stream of consciousness about a lullaby about a "moocow" and a "baby tuckoo"

Being and Nothingness

By Jean-Paul Sartre idea of bad faith, defining yourself through what you do "Just a waiter"

The Pilgrim's Progress

By John Bunyan Allegorical novel, Christian's journey from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City Lord Hate-good order's Faithful's execution in Vanity Fair Mr Worldly Wiseman distracts Christian on the way to the Wicket Gate which stands at the start of the King's Highway Christian battles the demon Apollyon in the Valley of Humiliation Christian and Pliable begin to sink into a swamp called the Slough of Despond due to the weight of the sins on their backs, a character name Help saves Christian Christian travels through The Valley of the Shadow of Death which gets its name from Psalm 23 Christian climbs Hill Difficulty where the House Beautiful lies upon Second part focuses on Christian's wife Christiana Christian and Hopeful get trapped in Doubting Castle which is guarded by a pair of married giants named Despair and Diffidence

The USA Trilogy

By John Dos Passos The 42nd Parallel 1919 The Big Money

Travels with Charley

By John Steinbeck About author's travels with his poodle (title character)

Of Mice and Men

By John Steinbeck George and Lenny "Tend to the rabbits"

Grapes of Wrath

By John Steinbeck Joad Family goes from Oklahoma to California during Dust Bowl Rose of Sheron breast feeds a starving man

East of Eden

By John Steinbeck Retelling the story of Cane & Abel Aron and Caleb try to impress their father, Aron succeeds

The Winter of Our DisContent

By John Steinbeck Title comes from Shakespeare's Richard III

The Circular Ruins

By Jorge Borges A wizard creates a fireproof man by dreaming of him in title location

The Secret Agent

By Joseph Conrad Plan to blow up Greenwich Observatory

Nostromo

By Joseph Conrad Set in silver mining town

Heart of Darkness

By Joseph Conrad Set on Congo River in Africa Charlie Marlowe searches for Kurtz Kurtz dies, last words are "the horror, the horror" Harlequin- assistant to Marlowe "Exterminate all the brutes!" Nellie- name of boat

Lord Jim

By Joseph Conrad Title character abandons the Patna(ship)

From the Earth to the Moon

By Jules Verne Baltimore Gun Club builds giant cannon to shoot people to the moon

Journey to the Center of the Earth

By Jules Verne Otto Lidenbrock Through an Iceland volcano, comes out through an Italian volcano

Around the World in Eighty Days

By Jules Verne Phileas Fogg Passepartout International date line

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

By Jules Verne Pierre Aronnax goes aboard The Nautilus Captain Nemo The Nautilus is mistaken for a narwhal Sunken ship named Abraham Lincoln

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

By Karel Capek Coined the word "Robot" from Czech word for "laborer" Harry Domin's factory makes synthetic robots that gain intelligence and take over the world Helena Glory- representative from the League of Humanity visits factory, ends up marrying Domin Alquist becomes last human alive, maintains robots over take over and attempts to recreate Rossum's formula for making robots Robots Helena and Primus become capable of love, become "new Adam and Eve" The psychologist Dr. Hallemeier tells Helena Glory that title beings are incapable of love The engineers Fabry and Dr. Gall give title creatures souls After being told some flowers are sterile, Helena Glory burns Rossum's formula Two of title characters are named Marius and Sulla because creator thought Sulla was a girl's name and thought they were lovers instead of enemies Robots Damon and Radius lead the revolution Busman is electrocuted by a fence when he gesticulates too much while negotiating a half a billion dollar ransom

A Pair of Silk Stockings

By Kate Chopin A woman gets $15 and decides to buy silk stockings instead of caring for her children

The Awakening

By Kate Chopin Feminist Novel Centers around Edna Pontellier's search for meaning Edna hears Mademoiselle Reisz play music which inspires her Edna has an affair with a gambler At the end, Edna walks into the Gulf of Mexico and drowns herself

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

By Langston Hughes "My soul has grown deep like the rivers" "Bathing in the Euphrates"

The Weary Blues

By Langston Hughes "drowsy syncopated tune"

Theme for English B

By Langston Hughes "go here and write a page tonight"

Anna Karenina

By Leo Tolstoy "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Count Vronsky accidentally breaks his horse Frou-Frou's back during a race Title character is married to Karenin, has an affair with Vronsky, Karenin refuses to divorce on the advice of a French psychic Landau Stiva(aka Stepan) Oblonksy cheats on his wife Dolly, the title character's sister Konstantin Levin becomes engaged to Princess Kitty Scherbatsky Title character has son named Seryozha, commits suicide by jumping under a train at the end

The Children's Hour

By Lillian Hellman Karen Write and Martha Doby- teachers at a school A student accuses them of being lesbians

The Little Foxes

By Lillian Hellman Title from the Song of Solomon Regina Hubert steals from husband Oscar to start a cotton Mill

Six Characters in Search of an Author

By Luigi Pirandello Family interrupts play The Father- attempts to seduce stepdaughter at dress shop where Madame Pace is summoned by hanging up coats and hats, gets rid of his wife by sending sending her off with his ex-secretary, possessed by "Demon of Experiment" The Mother- named Amalia The Stepdaughter- works as a prostitute, tells mother to "Scream as you screamed then," bursts into performance of cabaret number "Prenez garde à Tchou-Tchin-Tchou" The Son The Boy- shoots himself in the head off stage after his sibling drowns The Child- little girl who drowns in a fountain The Director/Manager of The Rules of the Game/Mixing it Up complains they "lost a whole day of rehearsal" Pale blue envelope containing money is laid on a mahogany table Leo Gala is told to "represent the shell of the eggs" after complaining about wearing a chef's hat (in Mixing it Up) Arguing between Stepdaughter Father and Mother in brothel scene prompts Manager to repeatedly ask for the curtain to fall Forms a trilogy of "theater within the theater" with Each in His Own Way and Tonight We Improvise

In Search of Lost Time

By Marcel Proust aka remembrance of things past Narrator- Marcel, falls for Albertine who he suspects is having lesbian affairs Swann's Way-first section Robert de Saint-Loup Narrator involuntarily flashes back to his childhood in Combray after eating a tea-soaked madeleine Other sections- The Guermantes Way, Time Regained

Gone with the Wind

By Margaret Mitchell Scarlett O'Hara owns a plantation named Tara Rett Butler "Where will I go what will I do" - Scarlett "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" - Rett

Empedocles on Etna

By Matthew Arnold Collection of Poems

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

By Maya Angelou Autobiography set in Stamps, Arkansas Refuses to speak after she tells people about Mr. Freeman raping her and mob kills Mr. Freeman

The Misanthrope

By Moliere Al Ceste loves the flirtatious, Celimene Put on trial and into jail for criticizing a poem

The Imaginary Invalid

By Moliere Argan the hypochondriac, wants his daughter, Angelique to marry Thomas Diafoirus

Tartuffe

By Moliere Play Religious hypocrite tries to seduce Orgon's wife, Elmire, Orgon hides under table

The Prince

By Niccolo Machiavelli Rules for a successful ruler "Safer to be feared than loved" "You must be like a lion and a fox" Praises Cesare Borgia

The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel

By Nikos Kazantzakis 33,333 lines

Zorba the Greek

By Nikos Kazantzakis Title character works in a Lignite mine, is tricked into marrying Madame Hortense

The Ransom of Red Chief

By O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) Bill Driscoll and Sam kidnap the kid of a wealthy man They eventually pay the dad $250 to take his kid back

The Four Million

By O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) Collection named for the population of New York City at the time

The Gift of the Magi

By O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) Jim and Della want to give each other something for Christmas Jim has a pocket watch, Della has beautiful hair, would make King Solomon Jealous Store owned by Madame Sofronie- Della cuts off her hair to buy chain for Jim's watch, Jim sells his watch for combs

Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog

By Oliver Goldsmith From The Vicar of Wakefield A dog who bites a well-respected man dies soon after

De Profundis

By Oscar Wilde Letter written in prison to Alfred Douglas

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

By Oscar Wilde Written in prison About the death penalty

The Picture of Dorian Gray

By Oscar Wilde- his only novel Sibyl Vane- actress in production of Romeo and Juliet, calls title character "Prince Charming" Basil Hallward creates title object Protagonist blackmails Alan Campbell into disposing of a body and receives a "little yellow book" which he buys several copies of Lord Henry Wotton corrupts title character Title character never ages- instead, painting of him ages in his place, when painting is destroyed he dies

Sympathy

By Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem "I know why the caged bird sings"

Ode to the West Wind

By Percy Bysshe Shelley "If winter comes, can spring be far behind?"

Adonais

By Percy Bysshe Shelley Elegy for John Keats

Ozymandias

By Percy Bysshe Shelley Greek name for Ramses II "Look upon my works ye mighty and despair" Written in a contest with Horace Smith

Sabbath's Theater

By Philip Roth about the lecherous puppeteer Mickey

Le Cid

By Pierre Corneille Don Rodrigue- Spanish folk hero who fought the Moors

Gitanjali

By Rabindranath Tagore Introduction written by Yeats aka Song Offerings "Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure."

Duino Elegies

By Rainer Maria Rilke "Who if I cried out, would hear me among the Angelic orders?" Group of poems

Native Son

By Richard Wright Bigger Thomas murders Mary Dalton and Bessie Mears Boris Max- Lawyer Bigger Thomas also kills a rat with a frying pan

My Last Duchess

By Robert Browning Poem narrated by Duke of Ferrara who has wife killed "had a heart that was too soon made glad" Portrait of title character painted by Fra Pandolf Bronze statue of Neptune by Claus of Innsbruck gift of a "nine-hundred-years-old name"

Auld Land Syne

By Robert Burns "Should old acquaintance be forgot"

To a Mouse

By Robert Burns "the best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry"

To a Louse

By Robert Burns Rhymes with other robert burns poem "To a Mouse"

Fire and Ice

By Robert Frost "From what I've tasted of desire"

The Road Not Taken

By Robert Frost "I took the road less traveled by" About author's friend Edward Thomas

Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

By Robert Frost "My little horse must think it queer"

Nothing Gold can Stay

By Robert Frost "Nature's first green is gold" "So Eden sang to grief" In the novel, The Outsiders

The Gift Outright

By Robert Frost "The Land was ours before we were the Land's" Read at JFK's inauguration

Out, Out

By Robert Frost Reference to Macbeth About a kid who cuts his hand on a buzz saw

Birches

By Robert Frost "One could do worse than be a swinger of Birches"

Kidnapped

By Robert Louis Stevenson Alan Breck saves David Balfour Catriona-sequel

Treasure Island

By Robert Louis Stevenson Long John Silver Ben Gunn

The Jungle Book

By Rudyard Kipling Collection of stories Mowgli raised by wolves "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"- mongoose saves a kid from a cobras Nag and Nagaina Messua takes in Mowgli to replace long lost son Nathoo

The Man Who Would Be King

By Rudyard Kipling Dravot and Carnahan try to follow in the footsteps of Alexander the Great

Gunga Din

By Rudyard Kipling man serves water to English soldiers

Molloy

By Samuel Beckett Has a single paragraph spanning 100 pages Part of a trilogy including Malone Dies and The Unnamable Title paralyzed writer pursued by Jaques Moran

Krapp's Last Tape

By Samuel Beckett Man listens to a tape he made 30 years earlier on his 69th birthday

Endgame

By Samuel Beckett Title inspired by chess Nagg and Nell- elderly couple who lost their legs and live in trash cans Hamm and his servant Clov live in a post-apocalyptic world

Waiting for Godot

By Samuel Beckett Vladamir(Didi) and Estragon(Gogo) Pozzo and his slave Lucky Consider hanging themselves from tree Vladamir sings a song about a dog being beaten with a ladle Both acts end with boy claiming title character will "surely arrive tomorrow" Lucky delivers nonsensical monologue after being told to "think"

The Way of All Flesh

By Samuel Butler Ernest Pontifex- son of Theobald

Erewhon: or Over the Range

By Samuel Butler Satire of Utopias Title is an anagram of nowhere Narrator named Higgs

Kubla Khan

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge "in Xanadu did Kubla Khan" "woman wailing for her demon-lover" "Abyssinian Maid" written in an opium dream

Juno and the Paycock

By Sean O'Casey Title character is Juno Boil and her husband is the Paycock(he can't hold a job)

Winesburg, Ohio

By Sherman Anderson Collection of stories George Willard: character The Book of the Grotesque Hands: Wing Biddlebaum is a teacher who people suspect is a gay pedophile Paper Pills: Dr. Reefy The Teacher: teacher falls in love w/ George Willard

Elmer Gantry

By Sincalir Lewis Hypocritical preacher

It Can't Happen Here

By Sinclair Lewis Buzz Windrip defeats FDR and makes America into a totalitarian state

Doddsworth

By Sinclair Lewis Car dealer

Arrowsmith

By Sinclair Lewis Doctor who develops bacterial phage

Babbitt

By Sinclair Lewis Realtor whose wife Myra falls ill Setting: Zenith (in fictional state of Winnemac) Title character has an affair with Tanis Judique and supports the socialist Seneca Doane, ends both of these relationships to join "Good Citizen's League" Encourages his son Ted to become a mechanic, Ted elopes with Eunice Littlefield Paul Riesling is sent to jail for shooting his wife Zilla

Main Street

By Sinclair Lewis setting: Gopher Prairie The Thanatopsis Club chooses to put on "The Girl from Kankakee" instead of "Androcles and the Lion" Carol Kennicott attempts to reform the town, eventually leaves her husband Will and takes their son Hugh to Washington D.C.

A Study in Scarlet

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle First Sherlock Holmes Novel Irene Adler

The Lost World

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Not about Sherlock Holmes

The Final Problem

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle They fall over Reichenbach Falls

The Heart of Midlothian

By Sir Walter Scott Based on Porteus riots in Edinburgh

Ivanhoe

By Sir Walter Scott Rebecca is saved by title character Marries Lady Rowena Father: Cedric the Rotherwood Title character competes in jousting tournament under the name Desdichado Richard the Lionheart is disguised as the Black Knight

Waverly

By Sir Walter Scott series of novels

Prose Edda

By Snorri Sturluson Source for Norse myth Icelandic Author

The Red and the Black

By Stendhal Julien Sorel has an affair with Madame de Rénal Julien tries to shoot Rénal, gets sentenced to death Title colors refer to secular and clerical worlds

The Black Riders

By Stephen Crane Poem

The Blue Hotel

By Stephen Crane The Swede- dies The Easterner The Cowboy

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

By T. S. Eliot "Let us go then, you and I" "Do I dare disturb the universe" "Do I dare to eat a peach" Title character observes a room where "Women come and go, talking of Michelangelo"

The Hollow Men

By T. S. Eliot "This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper"

The Wasteland

By T. S. Eliot Five Parts: The Burial of the Dead, A Game of Chess, The Fire Sermon, Death by Water, and What the Thunder Said "April is the cruelest month" Edited by Ezra Pound "I will show you fear, and a handful of dust" "Shantih, Shantih, Shantih!"

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

By T. S. Eliot Where the musical "Cats" comes from

Sister Carrie

By Theodore Dreiser Caroline Meeber gets the lead in a performance called Under the Gas Light Meeber meets Charles Drouet, marries him

Far from the Madding Crowd

By Thomas Hardy Gabriel Oak Bathsheba Everdene Title comes from a Thomas Gray poem: "Elegy Written in Country Churchyard"

The Return of the Native

By Thomas Hardy Set on Guy Faux Day(November 5) At Egdon Heath

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

By Thomas Hardy Title character kills Alec after she is raped and impregnated(resulting in the baby named "Sorrow") by him Protagonist marries Angel Clare, works as a milkmaid with Retty Priddle and Izz Family horse named "Prince" Arrested and executed at Stonehenge after ensuring safety of her sister, Liza-Lu

Death in Venice

By Thomas Mann Gustav von Aschenbach contracts cholera, becomes obsessed with the smell of disinfectant, dies at the end Tadzio- Polish boy who dies from cholera

The Magic Mountain

By Thomas Mann Hans Castorp visits Joachim Ziemssen at the beginning Set in a Swiss sanatorium Mynheer Peeperkorn wins the love of Clavdia Chauchat over the protagonist

Doctor Faustus

By Thomas Mann Play based on play by Goethe Adrian Leverkuhn- composer who intentionally contracts syphilis to be more creative

The Skin of Our Teeth

By Thornton Wilder Antrobus Family lives through the ice age

Island of the Day Before

By Umberto Eco Roberto della Griva is stranded on an island that is split by the International DateLine

The Jungle

By Upton Sinclair Set in Chicago Responsible for 1906 Pure Food & Drug Act Jurgus Rutkis

The Congo

By Vachel Lindsay about title river "creeping through the black, cutting through the jungle with a golden track." "boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, BOOM." "Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you." "BLOOD" in all caps

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

By Victor Hugo Esmerelda marries pierre Quasimodo dies at end Claude Frollo- judge/church leader Captain Phoebus A goat learns how to spell

Les Miserables

By Victor Hugo Jean Valjean is arrested for stealing a loaf of bread, was prison 24601 he breaks parole, is pursued by Officer Javert Valjean is given silver candle sticks, he starts a glass factory Father Madeleine becomes mayor and adopts Cosette The Thenardiers- family of con artists Second part is set during July Revolution Marius leads a group of students, falls in love with Cosette

Candide

By Voltaire Title character is expelled from the castle of Baron Thunder-Ten-Tronckh, travels with Martin and Cacambo, wants to marry Cunegonde Dr. Pangloss- the tutor, represents Leibniz, contracts syphilis "The best of all worlds" Goes to El Dorado, finds red sheep The old woman, daughter of urban X, ate one of her buttocks Lisbon earthquake

Funeral Blues

By W. H. Auden "Stop all the clocks"

September 1, 1939

By W. H. Auden About the invasion of Poland by Germany

Musee des Beaux Arts

By W. H. Auden To go with the painting, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Bruegel

The Emperor of Ice Cream

By Wallace Stevens "Call the roller of big cigars" "Bring flowers in last month's newspapers"

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

By Wallace Stevens "Only thing moving among 20 snowy mountains"

Drum-Taps

By Walt Whitman Appended to Leaves of Grass Inspired by Civil War "The Wound Dresser" "Beat! Beat! Drums!" "As I lay with My Head in Your Lap, Camerado."

O Captain! My Captain!

By Walt Whitman Describes Abraham Lincoln at the head of a ship "our fearful trip is done" Describes Abraham Lincoln whose "lips are pale and still," "fallen cold and dead" on the deck, "has no pulse nor will", tells him "to rise up and hear the bells" "the ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won." "swaying mass, their eager faces turning" "ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done"

Dulce et Decorum Est

By Wilfred Owen "How sweet and fitting it is to die for your native land" Title comes from Horace Odes

The Moonstone

By Wilkie Collins First detective novel Theft of huge title diamond Solved by Sargent Cuff

The Woman in White

By Wilkie Collins Laura Fairlie resembles Ann Catherick

My Antonia

By Willa Cather Immigrant from Bohemia moves to Blackhawk, Nebraska Is friends with Jim Burden Impregnated and abandoned by Larry Donovan Marries Anton Cuzak

The Red Wheelbarrow

By William Carlos Williams "Gleaming with rain" "So much depends upon the TITLE OBJECT" draws upon doctor's experience as a doctor

This is Just to Say

By William Carlos Williams "I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox" "They were delicious, so sweet, and so cold"

Paterson

By William Carlos Williams Epic Poem about author's home town in New Jersey

Invictus

By William Ernest Henley title means "incomparable" "I am the master of my faith, I am the captain of my soul"

As I Lay Dying

By William Faulkner The Bundren Family Mother Addy Dies- novel centers around moving her coffin to burial place Famous Chapter- "My Mother is a Fish" Cash- oldest son, makes coffin Darl- sets barn on fire

The Sound and the Fury

By William Faulkner The Compson Family Quentin- in love with his sister Caddy, castrates himself on a swinging fence, drowns Benjy- mentally handicapped Caddy- very promiscuous Dilsey- the maid

Absalom, Absalom!

By William Faulkner Title reference to biblical character About racial mixing and incest

Cakes and Ale

By William Somerset Maugham Edward Driffield represents Thomas Hardy Alroy Kear Protagonist William Ashenden Title comes from Twelfth Knight by Shakespeare

The Moon and Sixpence

By William Somerset Maugham Roman a Clef based upon life of Paul Gauguin Charles Strickland leaves his wife and kids to go to Tahiti

Of Human Bondage

By William Somerset Maugham clubfooted Philip Carey

Vanity Fair

By William Thackeray Title comes from Pilgrims Progress setting-Pinkerton Ladies School Becky Sharp, throws dictionary out window of carriage Amelia Sedley George Osborn Called "a novel without a hero"

The Little Prince

By: Antoine de Saint-Exupery Alien asteroid B-612 Crashes into Sahara desert Visits all planets of the solar system Misinterprets a drawing of a snake digesting an elephant for a hat Title character falls in love with a rose from his home planet

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

By: Walt Whitman Speaker leaves after listening to lecture from title character Speaker is confronted with proofs and figures that "were ranged in columns" Narrator prefers to "look'd up in perfect silence at the stars," becomes "tired and sick" of "charts and diagrams" before leaving a lecture into "mystical moist night-air"

John Tenniel

Cartoonist for Punch Magazine who is most famous for illustrating Alice in Wonderland and many of Lewis Carroll's works

Detective Phillip Marlow

Character invented by Raymond Chandler appears in The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens Madam Defarge- woman whose knitting registers those condemned to die by the guillotine Lucie- daughter of Dr. Manette, goes crazy, makes shoes, Miss Pross(kills Defarge) and Jerry Cruncher(Resurrection-Man) rescue her from Defarge Marquis de St. Evremonde- Darnay's uncle, murdered in his sleep with note signed "Jacques" left Sydney Carton is executed in Charles Darnay's place "It is a better thing to do than I have ever done" Title Cities: London and Paris "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" Three sections: Recalled to Life, the Golden Thread and the Track of a Storm

The Piazza Tales

Collection by Herman Melville "Bartleby the Scrivener" "Benito Cereno" "The Lightning-Rod Man" "The Encantadas" "The Bell Tower"

Helen in Egypt

Collection by Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) Sections called "Eidolons" "All Greece hates the still eyes in the white face" "Did her eyes slant in the old way?"

A Friend of Kafka

Collection by Issac Bashevis Singer Named after author of The Metamorphosis

Cosmicomics

Collection by Italo Calvino narrated by Qfwfq who claims to be as old as the universe, succeeded by collection "t zero" Each story begins with a so-called scientific "fact." "The Distance to the Moon" - wife of Captain Vhd Vhd gets stuck on the moon after climbing a ladder to collect milk/cream-cheese like substance, Qfwfq jumps to the moon to save her, Qfwfq's deaf cousin also collects cream substance Kgwgk destroys a sign Qfwfq makes in space "The Aquatic Uncle" "All at One Point" - the Big Bang happens when a woman offers to make noodles for everyone located in the same point Two characters bet over whether Balzac will make Lucien commit suicide

The Burning Plain

Collection by Juan Rulfo "Tell Them Not to Kill Me!" "Because We Are So Poor"

Terrible Sonnets

Collection of six poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins Written while author was a professor at the University College Dublin "Carrion Comfort" "I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day" "No worst, there is none"

The Kalevala

Compiled by Elias Lonnrot National epic of Finland Väinämöinen Louhi drops Sampo in ocean, making the sea salty Untamo Inspired Finlandia by John Sibaleas

Pinter Pause

Concept of Harold Pinter Silence is just as important as what is said actions continue but words stop

Curtal Sonnet

Created by Gerard Manley Hopkins ten and a half line sonnet

Jeeves

Created by P.G. Wodehouse for his comic novels Butler for Bertie Wooster

Sprung Rhythm

Discovered by Gerard Manley Hopkins One stressed syllable, the rest of the line is unstressed

Gordon Lish

Editor for Esquire Magazine who's rewrites of Raymond Carver's works such as the collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love shaped Carver's minimalist style

Miss Jane Marple

Elderly amateur detective created by Agatha Christie

Africa

Epic poem by Francesco Petrarch about Scipio defeating Hannibal

Daguerreotypes

Essay by Isak Dinesen aka Karen Blixen Classifies women as housewives, guardian angels, dancers, or witches

Numero Zero

Final novel of Umberto Eco Mocks Italian media

The Edible Woman

First novel by Margaret Atwood Title character Marian McAlpin bakes a cake in the shape of a woman

Abbey Theatre

Founded in part by William Yeats In Dublin

Horace's Odes

Four books by Horace Source of many phrases "carpe diem" "dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" - gave title to Wilfred Owens poem "Now is the time for drinking"- in poem from first book about Cleopatra Claims to have "made a monument more lasting than bronze" in poem ending the third book One poem advises Licinius to follow the golden mean "the gift of a kid goat" will "stain your ice-cold waters with crimson blood" in a poem about the Bandusian fountain "brave men lived before Agamemnon" Begins with dedication to his patron Maecenas One tells Leuconoe to "strain" her wine

Oulipo

French literary movement including Italo Calvino, George Perec, and Raymond Queneau

Robert Bridges

Gerard Manley Hopkins posthumously achieved fame after this friend of his published an arranged collection of his poems He was poet laureate of England during WWI

R. K. Narayan

Graham Greene helped this author get published

Typee

Herman Melville's first novel Describes life on the island of Nuku Hiva A Peep at Polynesian Life Tommo and Toby, after jumping ship from the Dolly fend off cannibalistic natives Narrator takes canoe rides with exotic woman Fayaway

Thebes

Homes city of Pindar, his house was spared by Alexander the Great when he burned the rest of the city

Newark

Hometown of Philp Roth

Utilitarianism

Idea created by John Stuart Mill Idea of greatest good for greatest number

Group 47

Informal post-World War II German literary association that Gunter Grass was a part of

Peruvian presidential election of 1990

Mario Vargas Llosa was defeated in a runoff by the dark horse candidate Alberto Fujimori Vargas LLosa wrote about it in his memoir A Fish in the Water

Samizdat

Method of self-publication used by authors to get around censorship in the USSR and Soviet Bloc Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Boris Pasternak used this method

Don Quixote (Graham Greene)

Modernization of Cervantes work by Graham Greene Commentary on Catholicism and Communism Title character travels around in a SEAT 600 automobile named Rocinante

Imagism

Movement in early 20th-century English and American poetry that sought clarity of expression through the use of precise images Ezra Pound Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) William Carlos Williams Richard Aldington (briefly married to H.D.) Amy Lowell

Lost in the Stars

Musical by Maxwell Anderson(book and lyrics) and Kurt Weill(music) that is based on Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country

Belle of Amherst

Nickname of Emily Dickinson

Japan, the Beautiful, and Myself

Nobel lecture of Yasuari Kawabata "suicide is not a form of enlightenment"

Nausea

Novel by Jean-Paul Sartre Antoine Roquentin "Swedish Sickness" Antoine meets "the self taught man" who is reading every book in a library in alphabetical order

Petrarchan Sonnet

Octet followed by a sextet

William Tell

Original story by Friedrich Schiller

Phantom of the Opera

Original story by Gaston Leroux

Sponono

Play by Alan Paton and Krishna Shah

The Sunset Limited

Play by Cormac McCarthy Ex-convict Black prevents the professor White from jumping in front of a train

Faust

Play by Goethe Walpurgisnacht celebration Guy makes a deal with the devil, demon Mephistopheles follows him around granting wishes, kills the soldier Valentine and falls for Gretchen Mephistopheles disguises himself as a poodle Goes back in time to meet Helen of Troy

Phaedra

Play by Jean Racine Title character is the wife of Theseus, falls in love with her step son Hippolyte Hippolyte rebuffs title character, who accuses him of rape Theseus has Hippolyte killed

No Exit

Play by Jean-Paul Sartre "hell is other people" Garcin, Estelle, and Inez are trapped in "a Second Empire-style room" in hell Estelle admits she murdered her baby

The Inspector General

Play by Nikolai Gogol Khlestakov fools the Mayor into believing he is title character

The Importance of Being Earnest

Play by Oscar Wilde Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing both say their names are Earnest Jack was abandoned as a baby by Miss Prism(who is loved by Dr. Chasuble) in Victoria Station in a handbag Characters get out of situations by "bunburying"- fictional invalid friend Lady Bracknell becomes mad when cucumber sandwiches are eaten Gwendolen Fairfax Cecily Cardew

Our Town

Play by Thornton Wilder Play set in Grover's Corners Narrated by The Stage Manager Follows Emily Webb and George Gibbs growing up, Emily dies of childbirth in the 3rd Act "Blessed be the Ties that Bind" is sung by chorus Simon Stimson-Organist, commits suicide Emily is asked if she wants to visit any day, chooses her 12th birthday Howie Newsome- the milkman Boyscout dies from a burst appendix

Ulysses

Poem By Alfred Lord Tennyson "Do not strive to seek to find and not to yield"

Chicago

Poem by Carl Sandburg "City of big shoulders" "Hog butcher for the world" "tool maker" "stacker of wheat"

Goblin Market

Poem by Christina Rossetti(part of pre-raphaelite brotherhood) Lizzie and Laura see title creatures on the way to the market "Come buy, come buy"

Annabel Lee

Poem by Edgar Allan Poe, published posthumously "Kingdom by the sea"

Harlem

Poem by Langston Hughes "What happens to a dream deferred, does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"

If

Poem by Rudyard Kipling "You'll be a man my son"

The Darkling Thrush

Poem by Thomas Hardy "fling his soul upon the growing gloom"

The Convergence of the Twain

Poem by Thomas Hardy about the sinking of the Titanic

My Sister, Life

Poetry collection by Boris Pasternak

Leaves of Grass

Poetry collection by Walt Whitman Preface includes the line "The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem." Influenced by Emerson's "The Poet" Revised 1892 "deathbed" edition "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed" "O Captain! My Captain!" "Song of Myself" "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" "A Noiseless Patient Spider" Children of Adam sequence - "I Sing the Body Electric" Sea-Drift section- "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking", "On the Beach At Night Alone" Calamus Poems- depictions of homosexual love "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" "Pioneers! O Pioneers!"

Inscape

Proposed by Gerard Manley Hopkins The unique inner nature of a person or object as shown in a work of art, especially a poem. Contrasts with instress

Alcofribas Nasier

Pseudonym of Francois Rabelais, anagram of his name

Lewis Carroll

Real name: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass Jabberwocky The Walrus and the Carpenter The Hunting of the Snark(By Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum) Was also a Mathematician

David Kepesh

Recurring character in Philip Roth novels Becomes a 155-pound version of the titular body part in The Breast The Professor of Desire

Enderby Quartet

Series of novels by Anthony Burgess Poet turned bartender Francis Xavier Enderby

Dubliners

Series of short stories by James Joyce "The Dead"- last story "Araby" love story set in a marketplace

The Illustrated Man

Series of short stories by Ray Bradbury Several stories depicted on tattooed carnival worker's body "The Veldt" - Peter and Wendy lock their parents George and Lydia inside a virtual reality nursery, where they are devoured by lions.

Blandings Castle

Setting for many of P. G. Wodehouse's stories Where giant pig named "The Empress of Blandings" lives with her owner Lord Emsworth

Titus Andronicus

Shakespeare's first tragedy Title character is a revenge-wracked Roman general Chiron and Demetrius killed and baked into pies, which are then fed to their mother Tamora, Queen of Goths Tamora's lover is Aaron the Moor Chiron and Demetrius rape title character's daughter Lavinia who writes their names with a stick in her mouth At the end, the Goths are driven out of Rome by title character's son Lucius, who sentences Aaron to death

All Summer in a Day

Short story by Ray Bradbury The sun comes out for the first time in seven years Margot gets locked in a closet by her classmates

The Bear

Short story by William Faulkner In collection Go Down, Moses Title character is named Old Ben Ike McCaslin watches Boon Hogganbeck kill title animal with a knife Dog named Lion Half-Chickasaw tracker Sam Fathers suffers a fatal seizure

A Rose for Emily

Short story by William Faulkner Title character murders her lover Homer Barron People find his corpse on the bed next to "a single strand of gray hair"

Dry September

Short story by William Faulkner Unseen lynching of Will Mayes

I Am Prepared to Die

Speech given by Nelson Mandela at Rivonia Trial Nadine Gordimer helped him edit it

Pindaric Ode

Strophe Antistrophe Epode

comedy of menace

Term coined by Irving Wardle for Harold Pinter plays that combines the hilarity of a humorous tone with the disturbance of a menacing tone. It is funny on the surface, but tragic when examined.

Southern Gothic

The stories often focus on grotesque themes. While it may include supernatural elements, it mainly focuses on damaged, even delusional, characters. Flannery O'Connor Carson McCullers

Semiotics

The study of signs extensively studied by Umberto Eco

Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy's last novel Jude Fawley, a stonemason Sue Bridehead Little Father Time

Our Ancestors

Trilogy by Italo Calvino The Cloven Viscount The Baron in the Trees The Nonexistent Knight

Horace's Satires

Two books of poems by Horace, also known as his "Sermones" Often contrasted with Juvenal's Satires (these are more lighthearted and less angry) Includes a version of Aesop's fable about the country mouse and the city mouse Ninth one relates an encounter with a boring poet on the Sacred Way who wishes to be introduced to Maecenas

Beyond Belief, Among the Believer

Two works by V.S. Naipaul Depict his journeys through the Islamic world, examines fundamentalism of Islam

New Journalism

Type of journalism/literary movement developed in 1960s and 70s in which reporters immersed themselves in the stories as they reported and wrote them Tom Wolfe Hunter S. Thompson Norman Mailer

The discovery of Langston Hughes

Vachel Lindsay Boasted about him in a crowded Washington D.C. Restaurant

Maecenas

Wealthy patron of Vergil and Horace Gave Horace his Sabine farm

"Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus?"

What Saul Bellow once asked an interviewer followed by asking who was the "Proust of the Papuans"

Lie Down in Darkness

William Styron's first novel

Leon Edel

Wrote a five-volume biography of Henry James

Latin American Boom

a significant literary time period of flourishing literature, poetry and criticism written in Spanish during the 1960s and 1970s, when writers from this region explored new ideas and came to international renown in a way that had not happened previously.

The Bus Stop

absurdist play by Gao Xingjian Several characters wait at title location for 10 years before realizing it has closed down Silent Man is the only character to leave early Hothead really wants yogurt Glasses raises his watch to reveal its been 10 years

Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie Belgian detective Hercule Poirot uses his "little grey cells" to determine that all 12 subjects participated in murder of Samuel Ratchett Ratchett turns out to actually be fugitive named Cassetti who had kidnapped Daisy Armstrong several years earlier Opens when Poirot meets Monsieur Bouc A scarlet kimono suddenly appears in Poirot's luggage Handkerchief monogrammed with an H actually turns out to be a Cyrillic N

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie Introduced Hercule Poirot

And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie Justice Wargrave and nine murderers are invited to Soldier Island where they are killed off one by one by U.N. Owen

N or M?

by Agatha Christie Married duo Tommy and Tuppence Beresford seek out title German agents

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie Narrated by Dr. James Sheppard who admits he killed title man for the sole purpose of fooling Hercule Poirot

The Secret Adversary

by Agatha Christie Tommy and Tuppence work with British intelligence agent Mr. Carter

Too Late the Phalarope

by Alan Paton Pieter van Vlaanderen- white police officer who violates the Immorality Act of South Africa by sleeping with the black woman Stephanie Opens "Perhaps I could have saved him." Narrated by Pieter's aunt Sophie Pieter collects stamps with hi loyal Jewish friend Matthew Kaplan, known as Kappie, who talks him out of suicide Pieter gives his father Jakob a book about birds for his birthday despite that Jakob never reading anything except the Bible

Tales from a Troubled Land

by Alan Paton Short story collection

Ah, But You Land is Beautiful

by Alan Paton Six sections- including "The Cleft Stick" "The Defiance Campaign" and "Into the Golden Age" Robert Mansfield is forced to move to Australia A Proud White Christian Woman writes of interracial sex in letters to politicians An Indian woman named Prem Bodasingh is arrested for using a whites-only library Told through letters from Gabriel van Onselen to his aunt

Cry, the Beloved Country

by Alan Paton Stephen Kumalo leaves Ndotsheni for Johannesburg to see the trial of his son, is addressed as "umfundisi" Stephen receives letter from fellow priest Theophilus Msimangu saying his sister Gertrude has fallen ill, finds out Gertrude has become a prostitute and sells moonshine John Kumalo (Stephen's brother) was once a carpenter, has become an anti apartheid politician, criticizes inequality of Gold Mines that are advocated for by Ernest Oppenheimer Mrs. Lithebe lodges Stephen and Gertude Opens with description of "A lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills" Johannes Parfuri, Matthew Kumalo (John's son), and Absalom Kumalo (Stephen's son) murder Arthur Jarvis during a break in, only Absalom is convicted and sentenced to death Protagonist fails to find Sibeko's daughter at Barbara Smith's house The lawyer Mr. Carmichael takes Absalom's case pro deo James Jarvis gives milk to village children and helps rebuild Ixopo after reading his son Arthur's "The Truth About Native Crime" and looking into Arthur's admiration for Abraham Lincoln (takes a copy of the Gettysburg adress from Arthur's room after talking with John Harrison) Tomlinson and Dubula organize a bus boycott Napoleon Letsitsi is hired by Jarvis to improve farming of Stephen's village Stephen has money stolen by a man who offers to buy him a bus ticket on his way to Sophiatown where he is escorted by Mr. Mafolo Stephen visits a colony of blind people Stephen consults Father Vincent and invokes God by saying "Tixo, tixo, forsake me not." Absalom marries his pregnant girlfriend while awaiting trial, she returns with Kumalo to Ndotsheni

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley John the Savage, watches the movie, "Three weeks in a Helicopter" Mustapha Mond banishes Helmholtz Watson and Bernard Marx 632 A. F. (After Ford) In the year of our Ford Soma- drug for hypnosis Bokanovsky Process- splits up members of society into alphas, betas, etc.

Two Hundred Years Together

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Criticized for anti-antisemitism, claims Russian pogroms arose spontaneously

The Red Wheel

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Cycle of four novels (called "Knots") August 1914- first knot, follows Colonel Vorotyntsev

The Gulag Archipelago

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Depicts the USSR penal system, was banned in USSR Based on 227 testimonies A child's corpse is removed so that a coffin may be searched Recounts the Kengir Uprising

Matryona's Home

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Ilya's greed for timber/lumber results in the death of title relative

Cancer Ward

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Oleg Kostoglotov is treated in title Kazakhstan location Oleg meets government informer Pavel Rusanov, romances radiotherapist Vera Gangart and nurse Zoya Dyomka has his leg amputated against the advice of Asya Oleg visits Tashkent zoo after his release

The Love-Girl and the Innocent

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Play in which Lyuba sleeps with a doctor, Mereshchun, against the will of Nemov

Prussian Nights

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Poem about his experiences marching with the Red Army

In The First Circle

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Title based on Dante's Inferno Mathematician Gleb Nerzhin turns down a position as a cryptographer Begins with Volodin calling a US embassy under a NKVD wire tap Communist Lev Rubin befriends Nerzhin Sologdin trades his research for his freedom

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Title character is a zek in a gulag as part of Gang 104 under foreman Tyurin, is often called by his surname Shukhov Alyosha/Alyoshka the Baptist- friend of title character Kilgas- Latvian joker who works with title character at Power Station Title character waits in line for Caesar/Tsezar Markovich who receives packages of food Fetyukov and Gopchik work alongside the protagonist laying bricks Title character sews bread into his mattress, owns an aluminum spoon with the engraving "Ust-Izhma, 1944" Published by Russian literary magazine Novy Mir Pair of Estonians do everything together Title character overhears a conversation about "Old Man Whiskers" as he buys some tobacco

Ruslan and Ludmilla

by Alexander Pushkin Adapted into an opera by Mikhail Glinka Title knight's quest to rescue his new bride from the evil wizard Chernomor Farlaf stabs title hero, who is later resurected by the magician Finn Title knight acquires a sword from a giant talking head

Peter the Great's Negro

by Alexander Pushkin Based on author's great-grandfather Abram Gannibal

Boris Godunov

by Alexander Pushkin Became basis for a Mussorgsky opera Title tzar's death leads to Time of Troubles Title character is father of Feodor, plans to kill Dmitri The monk Grigory Otrepev opposes title character

The Bronze Horseman

by Alexander Pushkin Eugene/Yevgeny goes mad after witnessing his love Parasha die when the Neva river floods Yevgeny curses title Etienne Falconet statue of Peter the Great which comes to life and chases him around St. Petersburg and kills him Yevgeny survives flood by sitting on two marble lions that overlook title sculpture

The Golden Cockerel

by Alexander Pushkin Fairy tale about magic bird that was adapted into an opera by Rimsky-Korsakov

Poltava

by Alexander Pushkin Poem about title battle in Great Northern War The Cossack Ivan Mazeppa elopes with Maria, the daughter of the chieftain Kochubey before losing battle against Peter the Great

The Captain's Daughter

by Alexander Pushkin Romanticized view of Pugachev's Rebellion Pyotr Grinyov gives his hareskin jacket to Pugachev in a snowstorm

Little Tragedies

by Alexander Pushkin Series of 4 plays The Stone Guest- about statue that killed Don Juan Mozart and Salieri- based on myth that Mozart died after drinking champagne poisoned by a rival composer A Feast in the Time of Plague The Covetous Knight - moneylender Solomon advises Albert to poison his father

Queen of Spades

by Alexander Pushkin The German Hermann goes insane and commits suicide after drawing title card instead of an ace in a game of faro against Chekalinsky Three secret winning cards of the Count of St. Germain Hermann attempts to seduce Lizavetya in order to get close to and learn gambling secrets from the Countess Hermann imagines a corpse winking at him, accidentally scares the Countess to death with an unloaded pistol Hermann repeats "three, seven, ace" in an asylum Adapted into a Tchaikovsky opera

The Belkin Tales

by Alexander Pushkin Title character is told five short stories "The Blizzard" - Vladimir gets lost in a snow storm on the way to his secret wedding with Marya Gavrilovna "The Shot" - Silvio enters a duel, shoots a painting

Eugene Onegin

by Alexander Pushkin Verse Novel-sonnets alternating masculine and feminine rhymes (Onegin Stanzas aka Pushkin Sonnet), style was adopted by Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate Title superfluous man kills his friend Vladimir Lensky in a duel after title character dances with Olga Larina at Tatyana's name day celebration Zaretsky- title character's second Guillot- Lensky's second Title character is compared to Lord Byron's Childe Harold, inherits his uncle's country mansion Title character originally rebuffs Olga's sister Tatyana but eventually fall for her and is rejected Tatyana explores title character's library, reads notes written in margins of Don Juan, dreams about being chased by a bear Title character's "sermon" in response to Tatyana's love letter in which he discusses how he would get bored in marriage Nabokov criticized Walter Arndt's translation of this work before creating his own (published with the essay "Notes on Prosody") that was criticized by Edmund Wilson, leading to a falling out between Nabokov and Wilson

Sunflower Sutra

by Allen Ginsberg "How many flies buzzed round you innocent of your grime?" Repeats the word "locomotive" eleven times. "When did you look at your skin and decide you were an impotent dirty old locomotive?" "You never were no locomotive" Inspired after hallucinatory vision while reading the works of William Blake

Wichita Vortex Sutra

by Allen Ginsberg "I am an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas."

America

by Allen Ginsberg "I've given you all and now I'm nothing" "Go frick yourself with your atom bomb"(but he doesn't say frick 😳)

A Supermarket in California

by Allen Ginsberg Asks Garcia Lorca what he is doing down by the watermelons Notices Walt Whitman "eying the grocery boys" and calls him a "childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats." Whitman asks : "Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?" Asks Walt Whitman, "Which way does your beard point tonight?"

Plutonian Ode

by Allen Ginsberg Inspired Phillip Glass's sixth symphony Denounced atom bombs

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess About Alex DeLarge(Your humble narrator.") and his gang of Droogs(Pete,Dim, and George), visit the Korova Milk Bar Nadsat- slang combination of Russian and English Ludovico technique used on Alex to condition him against ultraviolence, forced to watch violent "special films" while listening to classical music, also prevents him from listening to Beethoven("Ludwig Van"), he is overseen by P.R. Deltoid Title comes from F. Alexander's manuscript Jumps out window after hearing music by Otto Skadelig Dr. Brodsky

Nothing Like the Sun

by Anthony Burgess Fictional biography of Shakespeare's love life Titled for four-word phrase taken from Sonnet 130, "my mistress's eyes are..." Shakespeare contracts syphilis from The Dark Lady

The Long Day Wanes

by Anthony Burgess First novel in Malay Trilogy Multiracial schoolteacher Victor Crabbe, fictionalizes Britain's withdrawal from Southeast Asia

Earthly Powers

by Anthony Burgess Intertwined lives of the clergyman Carlo Campanati and the homosexual novelist Kenneth Toomey Kenneth receives a message from the archbishop on his 81st birthday Kenneth said to be based on William Somerset Maugham

The Lady with the Little Dog

by Anton Chekhov Aka "The Lady with the Lapdog" Dmitri Gurov encounters his lover Anna Sergeyevna and her "white Pomeranian" in Yalta Inspired by author's time in Yalta

Ward No. 6

by Anton Chekhov Dr. Ragin is institutionalized in the mental facility where he works, dies of a stroke

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers The deaf-mute John Singer kills himself when he learns that his friend Spiros Antonapoulos died in insane asylum Mick Kelly and Jake Blount befriend Singer at a cafe run by Biff Brannon Bubber accidentally shoots Baby Wilson Portia- maid married to Highboy, daughter of the black doctor Benedict Copeland Mick Kelley- Bubber's tomboy sister, has sex with jewish boy Harry Minowitz, is deeply moved by hearing Eroica Symphony on the radio, makes a violin out of a broken ukulele Dr. Copeland gives Christmas Speech about Marx, also has sons named Hamilton and Karl Marx Willie- Dr. Copeland's son who has his feet amputated after attempting to escape from prison and being put in cold room Jake Blount- socialist carnival worker, fights with Dr. Copeland

The Member of the Wedding

by Carson McCullers Title character is twelve-year-old tomboy Frankie Addams who wants to join her brother Jarvis on his honeymoon to Alaska Janice Evans- Jarvis's wife Opens with Frankie playing cards with her cousin John Henry Berenice Brown- black cook that looks after Frankie Frankie wants to take on the identity "F. Jasmine" in Alaska A drunk soldier tries to seduce Frankie after buying her a drink in the Blue Moon Cafe

A Man of the People

by Chinua Achebe Chief Nanga is deposed by his former student, Odili

An Image of Africa

by Chinua Achebe Essay calling Heart of Darkness and Joseph Conrad, "bloody racist"

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe Protagonist- Okonkwo, an inhabitant of the Igbo village of Umuofia, gains fame by defeating Amalinze the Cat in a wrestling match Unoka- Okonkwo's father, did nothing but play flute, Okonkwo is ashamed of him Ikemefuna- boy looked after by Okonkwo, given as repayment from the Mbaino village, Okonkwo later kills him in a ritual ordered by village oracle Ezeudu- elder, during his funeral, Okonkwo's gun explodes, killing Ezeudu's son and Okonkwo is forced to live in exile for 7 years Okonkwo beats his wife during Week of Peace Upon Okonkwo's return, Christianity has taken over village Enoch kills sacred python and takes off mask of village elder during a ritual, villagers riot and burn down Mr. Smith's church, white govt imprisons Okonkwo and village leaders Okonkwo tries to start revolution, beheads a messenger, and hangs himself to avoid being tried in colonial court Nwoye- Okonkwo's son, converts to christianity and changes name to Isaac Ezinma- Okonkwo's favorite daughter Obierika- Okonkwo's friend

No Longer at Ease

by Chinua Achebe Sequel to Things Fall Apart Obi Okonkwo- descendent of Okonkwo, educated in Britain, joins civil service, is convicted of taking bribes Obi wants to marry Clara Okeke Title comes from "Journey of the Magi" by T S Eliot

Civil Peace

by Chinua Achebe Short story Johnathan sells bikes, is robbed

Anthills of the Savannah

by Chinua Achebe The dictator Sam rules Kangan, orders the execution of reporter Idem Osodi Narrated by Chris Oriko

Arrow of God

by Chinua Achebe The priest Ezeulu clashes with T. K. Winterbottom

Leaving a Doll's House

by Claire Bloom Depicting marriage between her and Philip Roth

Brooklyn

by Colm Tóibín Eilis Lacey emigrates from Ireland to New York City

The Master

by Colm Tóibín Fictionalized version of Henry James which depicts his struggles with his craft and sexuality Depicts incident where James was booed at a showing of his play Guy Domville

The Border Trilogy

by Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses The Crossing Cities of the Plain

All the Pretty Horses

by Cormac McCarthy First novel in Border Trilogy John Grady travels around Texas trying to find horse thief Jimmy Blevins's missing horse and Colt pistol Lacey Rawlins- John Grady Cole's friend John Grady begins an affair with Alejandra before Jimmy Blevins is hanged

Suttree

by Cormac McCarthy Set in Knoxville Title character(Cornelius Suttree) is introduced as living on a houseboat, while making a living by fishing for catfish. Gene Harrogate- friend of title character, narrowly recovers from typhoid fever, given a lift by a friendly hitchhiker at end, jailed for having sex with watermelons

Blood Meridian

by Cormac McCarthy The Kid collects Native American scalps with the Glanton Gang and the huge hairless albino Judge Holden Ex-priest Tobin David Brown, a man who wears a necklace of human ears the Judge says, "whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent." and "war is god" The protagonist joins a rogue army led by Captain White after burning down a hotel with earless man named Louis Toadvine

No Country for Old Men

by Cormac McCarthy Title from the Yeats poem "Sailing to Byzantium" Coin-flipping hitman Anton Chigurh chases Llewellyn Moss, who takes a suitcase of money he found at the scene of a shootout between drug dealers Sheriff Ed Bell chases Chigurh Carla Jean is killed by Anton Chigurh

The Road

by Cormac McCarthy Unnamed father and his son try to reach sea after an unspecified disaster Carry a pistol with two bullets Father says they are one of the "good guys" after stumbling upon a basement full of bodies eaten by cannibals Repeatedly remind themselves that they are "carrying the fire"

Dictation

by Cynthia Ozick Imagines a lesbian affair between the secretaries of Joseph Conrad and Henry James

The Shawl

by Cynthia Ozick Set in a concentration camp Ends with Rosa sucking the baby Magda's saliva off of the title garment after Magda is thrown against an electric fence

The Puttermesser Papers

by Cynthia Ozick Title character creates a female golem that becomes mayor of NYC

Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress

by Daniel Defoe Anonymously published final novel of the author Title character prostitutes herself all over the world Has a maid named Amy Settles down with a Dutch Merchant

Conjugal Lewdness

by Daniel Defoe Compares contraception to infanticide

The True Born Englishman

by Daniel Defoe In defense of William III or William of Orange

The Shortest Way with Dissenters

by Daniel Defoe Satirical pamphlet from point of view of Church of England official, asking for complete suppression of Non-Conformists 1703 publication caused the author to be imprisoned in Newgate Prison for seditious libel

A Journal of the Plague Year

by Daniel Defoe Title "great" disaster of 1665 Narrated by H.F. Many believed was non-fiction

Memoirs of a Cavalier

by Daniel Defoe Title Englishman serves under Gustavus Adolphus

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

by Daniel Defoe Title character is born in Newgate Prison, her mother escapes hanging by "pleading the belly" Becomes a thief in London, marries her half brother and many others Returns to England with her "Lancashire husband" at the age of 69 Moves to Virginia, marries the criminal Jemmy and meets Humphrey, her sun she had with her half brother

Captain Singelton

by Daniel Defoe Title character is raised by gypsies and becomes a pirate in the Arabian Sea Quaker doctor William Walters

Robinson Cruseo

by Daniel Defoe Title character most likely based on Alexander Selkirk Lands on "Island of Despair", sees a single footprint in the sand, rescues cannibal whom he converts to Christianity and names Friday(originally worshiped the god Benamuckee) Keeps track of dates by marking wooden cross Enslaved by Turkish pirates at Sallee, escapes with a Moor named Xury and Ismael to Brazil where he comes to own a plantation Is left ashore in China after his shipmates and nephew are annoyed by his preaching following a massacre Skins a lion with Xury Fights off wolves while crossing the Pyrenees Poll- parrot he teaches to say his name

Sea Grapes

by Derek Walcott "The classics can console. But not enough." "The ancient war between obsession and responsibility will never finish" "That sail which leans on light tired of islands" "great hexameters come to the conclusions of exhausted surf." "the adulterer hearing Nausicaa's name in every gull's outcry."

The Mongoose

by Derek Walcott About author's disdain for V.S. Naipaul "I must avoid infection/Or else I'll be as dead as Naipaul's fiction."

Tiepolo's Hound

by Derek Walcott Book-length poem that uses 26 of Walcott's own paintings as illustrations Draws parallels between himself and Camille Pissarro

Ruins of a Great House

by Derek Walcott Compares England to a rotting mansion "a smell of dead limes quickens in the nose / The leprosy of empire" "Stones only, the disjecta membra" remain of title structure "Farewell, green fields, farewell, ye happy groves" Narrator asserts men like "Hawkins, Walter Raleigh, Drake" are "ancestral murderers and poets" who perpetrate "ulcerous crime"

Omeros

by Derek Walcott Epic-length poem inspired by the Iliad, set on st. Lucia Fishermen Achille and Hector battle for the affections of Plunkett's maid Helen, Hector is mourned by both Helen and Achille after he dies by crashing his van nicknamed "the Comet" Achille sails to Africa on a boat with the misspelled words "In God we Troust" painted on it Ma Kilman heals the wound on the leg of the fisherman Philoctete Exiled Englishman Major Plunkett works as a pig farmer with his wife Maud The blind man Seven Seas represents Homer, frequents Ma Kilman's No Pain Cafe Opens with fisherman showing tourists how trees are felled to make canoes Afolabe (Achille's father) is renamed because of his bravery at the Battle of the Saints, teaches Achille about his African roots

Dream on Monkey Mountain

by Derek Walcott Felix Hobain, who takes on the alias Makak, works as a charcoal burner in the title place Makak has a vision of a white goddess causing him to drunkenly attack a cafe Coffin maker Basil hovers over Makak during his trial, figure from voodoo Makak is tried by Corporal Lestrade alongside Tigre and Souris, Makak reluctantly beheads the white goddess before gaining his freedom alongside Tigre and Souris Makak joins Moustique on a journey to Africa from title location

A Far Cry From Africa

by Derek Walcott Opening line: "a wind is ruffling the tawny pelt" Ending line: "How can I turn away from [title place] and live?" "How can I face such slaughter and be cool?" "The gorilla wrestles with the superman," speaker claims he is "poisoned with the blood" "brutish necessity wipes its hands/Upon the napkin of a dirty cause" "statistics justify and scholars seize the salients of colonial policy" Imagines a worm crying "Waste no compassion on these separate dead!" Speaker wonders how he could chooses between title location and "the English tongue I love." "the violence of beast on beast is read as natural law" "upright man seeks his divinity by inflicting pain." "Where shall I turn, divided to the vein?"

The Schooner Flight

by Derek Walcott Opening poem of Star-Apple Kingdom "either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation" narrated by the sailor Shabine

Pantomime

by Derek Walcott White Harry Trewe plays Friday and black Jackson Phillip plays Robinson Crusoe when acting out Robinson Crusoe

The Swamp

by Derek Walcott gives title to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood

The Capeman

by Derek Walcott and Paul Simon Play based on the murderer Salvador Agron

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog

by Dylan Thomas parody of Joyce work

Buffalo Bill's

by E. E. Cummings "how do you like your blue eyed boy Mr. Death" "watersmooth-silver stallion" "break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat"

maggie and milly and molly and may

by E. E. Cummings "it's always ourselves we find in the sea" "chased by a horrible thing which raced sideways while blowing bubbles" Title characters find a starfish, a shell, a "horrible thing" and a "smooth round stone"

i carry your heart with me

by E. E. Cummings "the deepest secret nobody knows"

the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls

by E. E. Cummings "unbeautiful and have comfortable minds" "believe in Christ and Longfellow, both dead" "moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy"

anyone lived in a pretty how town

by E. E. Cummings "with up so floating many bells down" "only the snow can begin to explain how children are apt to forget to remember" Cycles through words "sun moon stars rain" "noone stopped to kiss his face" "he sang his didn't he danced his did."

r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r

by E. E. Cummings Meant to look like a grasshopper taking flight

l(a

by E. E. Cummings l(a le af fa ll s) l iness The work loneliness interrupted by "A leaf falls"

The Conqueror Worm

by Edgar Allan Poe "the play is the tragedy, 'Man.'" Appears in Ligeia

Sonnet - To Science

by Edgar Allan Poe "true daughter of old time." describes the title concept as a "vulture, whose wings are dull realities"

The Cask of Amontillado

by Edgar Allan Poe After crying "For the love of God, Montresor!" Fortunato is buried alive in Montresor's labyrinthine family crypt Narrator takes a trowel out to demonstrate he is a mason "Nemo me impune lacessit" - family motto

The Purloined Letter

by Edgar Allan Poe C. Auguste Dupin recovers a stolen incriminating document (it was hidden in plain sight) Title object is taken by Minister D Monsieur G- a policeman who offers 50,000 francs to recover title object

The Black Cat

by Edgar Allan Poe Narrator accidentally buries title animal Pluto alive

The Tell Tale Heart

by Edgar Allan Poe Narrator smothers his landlord after being unsettled by the man's "vulture eye", is driven mad by beating of title object and confesses to police Sound compared to a "watch...enveloped in cotton" Hides the body under the floorboards

The Gold-Bug

by Edgar Allan Poe Popularized cryptograms in literature William Legrand is bitten by title creature

The Masque of the Red Death

by Edgar Allan Poe Prince Prospero and guests at a colorful seven-room ball die from title plague

Ligeia

by Edgar Allan Poe Short Story Lady Rowena Trevanion becomes the title character

The Raven

by Edgar Allan Poe Title bird repeats the word "Nevermore", perches upon a "pallid bust of Pallas" Set "once upon a midnight dreary" where narrator "pondered weak and weary" Narrator laments the death of Lenore, commands title figure to "get thee back into the tempest and night's Plutonian shore!", calls title figure a "prophet" and "thing of evil" "rapping" at his "chamber door" "is there balm in Gilead?" "The Philosophy of Composition"- essay written by author about this poem

The Fall of the House of Usher

by Edgar Allan Poe Title estate sinks into the ground Narrator reads The Mad Trist, in which the knight Ethelred kills a dragon, to his friend Roderick "The Haunted Palace" - poem inside this short story Roderick buries his sister Madeline alive prompting the narrator to flee

The Bells

by Edgar Allan Poe Title objects "Keeping time, time, time" with "tintinnabulation that so musically wells," "iron", "silver", and "wedding" varieties

A Descent into Maelstrom

by Edgar Allan Poe Tour guide describes a rainbow cites Archimedes

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

by Edgar Allan Poe an orangutan commits title crimes Camille L'Espanaye was discovered in a chimney

Spoon River Anthology

by Edgar Lee Masters Poetry collection narrated by the dead Final section-Beelzebub meets with Loki and Yogarindra, follows a mock epic by Jonathan Swift Somers "The Hill"- poem which introduces work, "of what Abe Lincoln said one time at Springfield.", asks "Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom, and Charley", responds "All, all are sleeping on the hill." Poem about Lucinda Matlock, "Degenerate sons and daughters,/ Life is too strong for you-/ It takes life to love life." Abraham Lincoln's rumored boyhood love, Ann Rutledge Fiddler Blind Jack spends his afterlife listening to Homer recount the fall of Troy Village poetess Minerva Jones wants her works published Benjamin Pantier's wife drives him out to live with his dog Thomas Rhodes owns the bank of the title location The Village Atheist says "Immortality is not a gift"

Patriotic Gore

by Edmund Wilson Literary criticism of Civil War literature Title comes from James Ryder Randal's "Maryland, My Maryland." Discusses Mary Chesnut's diary

Axel's Castle

by Edmund Wilson Overview of literature from the Symbolist movement that takes its title from a work by Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

Memory of Fire Trilogy

by Eduardo Galeano Genesis Faces and Masks Century of the Wind

The Open Veins of Latin America

by Eduardo Galeano famously gifted to Barack Obama by Hugo Chavez polemical history of Latin America

J'accuse!

by Emile Zola Dreyfus Affair- jewish author framed for leaking secrets

I heard a Fly buzz - when I died

by Emily Dickinson "Blue - uncertain - stumbling Buzz -" "could not see to see" Title creature comes "between the light and me" "The Stillness in the Room / Was like the Stillness in the Air -"

Success is counted sweetest

by Emily Dickinson "By those who ne'er succeed"

I taste a liquor never brewed

by Emily Dickinson "Debauchee of Dew" Author calls herself "inebriate of air" "tankards scooped in pearl"

Safe in their Alabaster Chambers

by Emily Dickinson "Diadems drop and Doges surrender"

I'm Nobody! Who are you?

by Emily Dickinson "How public like a frog-to tell one's name to an admiring Bog!" "Don't tell! / They'd banish us, you know"

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

by Emily Dickinson "then a Plank in Reason, broke." "a Service, like a Drum"

Letters to "Master"

by Emily Dickinson My life had stood-a loaded gun: "but the power to kill without the power to die" series of letters to unknown man

Because I could not stop for Death

by Emily Dickinson Title gentleman passes by stages of human life and the "setting sun" Title entity "kindly stopped for me" Carriage that "held but just ourselves/and Immortality." "The Dews drew quivering and chill" "surmised the Horses' Heads / Were toward Eternity" "a house that seemed / a swelling of the ground."

"Hope" is the thing with feathers

by Emily Dickinson title entity "that perches in the soul". describes title feeling as "little bird / that kept so many warm"

The Beautiful and Damned

by F Scott Fitzgerald About relationship between Gloria and Anthony Patch, Anthony is disinherited for his drunken parties

Flappers and Philosophers

by F Scott Fitzgerald Collection of short stories Bernice Bobs Her Hair The Ice Palace The Cut-Glass Bowl The Offshore Pirate Head and Shoulders

The Crack-Up

by F Scott Fitzgerald Essay published in Esquire about author's mental breakdown at age 39 Opens with line: "of course all life is a process of breaking down" Part of a 3 part series, followed by "Pasting it Together"

Absolution

by F Scott Fitzgerald Father Schwartz collapses after hearing confession from Rudolph Miller

The Last Tycoon

by F Scott Fitzgerald Final, unfinished novel Set in LA, about Hollywood film producer Monroe Stahr

May Day

by F Scott Fitzgerald Gordon Sterrett prepares for the Gamma Psi dance

Winter Dreams

by F Scott Fitzgerald In collection All the Sad Young Men Dexter Green works as a golf caddy as a teenager, falls in love with Judy Jones Dexter's father owns the second best grocery shop in Black Bear Lake Lud Simms marries Judy Jones

The Offshore Pirate

by F Scott Fitzgerald In collection Flappers and Philosophers Ardita Farnam is captured by the swashbuckling Curtis Carlyle while vacationing with her uncle in Florida

The Cut-Glass Bowl

by F Scott Fitzgerald In collection Flappers and Philosophers Evylyn and Harold Piper receive title piece of kitchenware as a wedding gift

The Ice Palace

by F Scott Fitzgerald In collection Flappers and Philosophers Sally Carrol Harper leaves the south and her fiance Harry Bellamy

Head and Shoulders

by F Scott Fitzgerald In collection Flappers and Philosophers Symbolizes athletic and intellectual qualities of Marcia Meadow and Horace Tarbox as the title body parts

Babylon Revisited

by F Scott Fitzgerald Protagonist Charlie Wales travels to Paris to pick up his daughter Honoria Lincoln and Marion Peters deem Charlie an unfit father after Dunstan Schaeffer and Lorraine Quarrles drunkenly barge into a house and refuse to give him custody Charlie locked his wife Helen (Marion's sister) out of the house during a snowstorm causing her to freeze to death

The Pat Hobby Stories

by F Scott Fitzgerald Series of short stories about a hack screenwriter

This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald About Princeton student Amory Blaine and his many romantic entaglements Amory becomes an alcoholic after being dumped by Rosalind Connage for a wealthy man Eleanor Savage ends her relationship with Amory after almost attempting suicide by riding a horse off a cliff Amory's first kiss is with Isabelle Borge Ends with Amory line: "I know myself, but that is all--" Amory befriends Monsignor Darcy and the poet Thomas Parke D'Invilliers at Princeton Amory sees a hallucination of his friend Dick Humbird who died in a car crash

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

by F. Scott Fitzgerald In collection Flappers and Philosophers Marjorie tricks her cousin, the title character, into getting title provocative haircut at the Sevier Hotel after title character draws the attention of Warren McIntyre Title character retaliates by cutting off Marjorie's braids in her sleep and putting them on Warren's front porch before leaving for her home in Eau Claire, Wisconsin Title character greets people by saying "Hello, shell shock!", is told she has an "awfully kissable mouth"

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

by F. Scott Fitzgerald John T. Unger leaves his home of Hades, Mississippi and visits Percy Washington's massive estate in Montana whose wealth is based on title object Percy Washington is descended from George Washington, his family convinces their slaves that the South won the Civil War to keep them in servitude, they shoot down airplanes and imprison pilots that get too close and see title object The Washingtons blow up title object at the end, Unger escapes explosion with Kismine who suffers from lettuce poisoning Unger declares "Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness"

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald Narrated by Nick Carraway who lives on West Egg next to title character Jay Gatsby Gatsby loves Nick's cousin Daisy who is married to Tom Buchanan Tom has an affair with Mrytle who lives in the Valley of Ashes with her husband George Wilson who runs a garage/gas station Title character calls people "old sport," owns yellow Rolls Royce, which Daisy is driving when they run over Mrytle causing George to shoot title character in his pool Billboard for optometrist T. J. Eckleburg watches over Valley of Ashes Meyer Wolfsheim- gangster who fixed the 1919 World Series, wears cufflinks made of human molars, Nick visits him at Swastika Holding Company, Wolfsheim refuses to go to title character's funeral Owl Eyes marvels at title character's library full of uncut books during a party, calls title character a "regular Belasco," is one of three who attend title character's funeral Ewing Klipspringer lives in title character's house, plays "The Love Nest" on piano, phones Nick after title character's death to task for his tennis-shoes back Title character fixates on a green light on Daisy Buchanan's dock Nick dates a cheating golf player Jordan Baker who is "incurably dishonest" Daisy cries over a pile of colorful shirts that the title character shows her Title character asks orchestra to play Tostoff's Jazz History of the World Dan Cody mentors title character, whose real name is James Gatz and who drops out of St. Olaf's College and is called an "Oxford man" despite only having attended for five months Nick realizes it is his 30th birthday following a fight between title character and Tom The Greek Michaelis - George's neighbor, tells Nick about events surrounding title character's murder Title character shows Nick his war medal from Montenegro, five crates of oranges and lemons arrive at his house every Friday in preparation for his parties Thomas Parke D'Invilliers- a character from Fitzgerald's first novel This Side of Paradise, is cited as the author of the poem in this novel's epigraph Closing line- "boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past" Francis Cugat designed most popular cover Title character's father shows Nick a title character's schedule in a copy of Hopalong Cassidy before title character's funeral

Tender is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald Represents marriage between Fitzgerald and Zelda Follows decaying marriage of psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his former patient, the schizophrenic Nicole Warren Nicole and Dick meet in Dr. Franz Gregorovius's clinic in Zurich where Nicole is attempting to deal with psychological effects of her incestuous relationship with her father, they entertain many American expatriates on the French Riviera Dick has an affair with the star of the film Daddy's Girl, Rosemary Hoyt Albert McKiscko challenges Tommy Barban to a duel A black man named Jules Peterson is found dead in Rosemary Hoyt's hotel bed shortly after arguing with Abe North, Dick helps smuggle the body out Maria Wallis shoots an Englishman on a train Mary- wife of Abe North, weds the Conte di Minghetti after Abe is beaten to death in a speakeasy Protagonist thinks his eye has been gouged out after fighting a member of the Carabinieri

Parker's Back

by Flannery O'Connor Contained in collection named after Everything that Rises Must Converge which also contains Revelation Titled for one part of protagonist's skin that does not have a tattoo on it

Revelation

by Flannery O'Connor Epiphany experienced by Mrs. Turpin Wellesley student Mary Grace throws textbook "Human Development" at Ruby Turpin in doctor's office waiting room Mary tells Turpin to "Go back to hell where you came from, you old wart hog."

Good Country People

by Flannery O'Connor Hulga/Joy Hopewell(has philosophy Phd) has her wooden artificial leg stolen by fake bible salesman Manley Pointer Climax occurs in barn loft, Manley takes condoms, cards, and whiskey out of hollow bible

The Displaced Person

by Flannery O'Connor Polish refugee settles on a farm

A Late Encounter with the Enemy

by Flannery O'Connor Sally Poker hopes to see her grandfather attend her college graduation

The Violent Bear it Away

by Flannery O'Connor Teenage preacher from Powderhead, Francis Marion Tarwater Francis tries to avoid his uncle Rayber's command to baptize his nephew Bishop who is mentally handicapped

The Life You Save Might be Your Own

by Flannery O'Connor Tom Shiftlet drives off after abandoning his mute wife at a bar, sees title phrase following "Drive Carefully" on a billboard One-armed Tom Shiftlet devises scheme to fix up and steal car from Mrs. Lucynell Crater Lucynell Crater wants her mute daughter(with same name as her mother) to marry Tom Tom teaches Lucynell to say "bird"

A Good Man is Hard to Find

by Flannery O'Connor the Grandmother's family is killed by escaped criminal, The Misfit while on road trip to Florida Cat Pitty Sing causes a crash by jumping out of a picnic basket onto Bailey's neck Grandmother "might have been a good woman if there had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life" Hiram and Bobby Lee kill John Wesley and June Star Title comes from conversation with Red Sammy at The Tower Grandmother can't remember if house with secret panel is in Tennessee or Georgia

Wise Blood

by Flannery O'Connor- her first novel Hazel Motes founds The Church Without Christ after meeting fake blind preacher Asa Hawks(tries to blind himself with lye) Zookeeper Enoch Emery steals mummy to become "new Jesus", kills a man in a Gonga the Gorilla suit and steals the suit Sabbath Lily- nymphomaniac daughter of Asa Hawks who Enoch tries to seduce Enoch sleeps with prostitute Leora Watts

Gargantua and Pantagruel

by Francois Rabelais/ Alcofribas Nasier G is father of P G drowns paris by urinating on it, is taught by tutor Ponocrates Abbey of Theleme- built by G for Friar John of the Funnels, motto is "Do What Thou Wilt" P and Panurge go in serach of Oracle of the Holy Bottle Picrochole wages war with King Grandgousier(father of G)

Dune

by Frank Herbert Science fiction novel about Spice/Melange produced by giant sandworms on the planet Arrakis

The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Rogozhin murders Nastassya Filipnova The epileptic Prince Myshkin Aglaya- lover of Myshkin

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Set in St. Petersburg Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov uses an axe to kill Alyona Ivanovna and her sister Lizaveta after Lizaveta walks in on the murder Dunya- Raskolnikov's sister, is first engaged to Luzhin, marries Razumikhin Svidrigailov- Dunya's former employer, shoots himself after saying he is "going to America" Rodion confesses to prostitute Sonya, eventually falls in love with her, she convinces him to confess to Porfiry Petrovich who was investigating him Raskolnikov wears a cypress cross and kisses the ground before confessing, is sentenced to eight years of hard labor in Siberia Protagonist writes an article about "great/extraordinary men" (aka übermensch) such as Napoleon that he is like, dreams about peasants beating a mare to death Marmeladov- drunken man who is run over by a carriage, Sonya's father

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky the underground man encounters the prostitute Liza in a section entitled "Apropos of the Wet Snow."

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha Dmitri is put on trial for murder of his father at the end(actually done by Smerdyakov) The parable of the "Grand Inquisitor" is told by Ivan to Alyosha- Alyosha kisses Ivan on the lips imitating a kiss from Christ/Jesus in the story

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez About the relationship between Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza Begins with the suicide of the photographer Jeremiah de Saint-Amour and smell of bitter almonds Dr. Juvenal Urbino- Fermina's first husband, dies after falling off a ladder to chase after his pet parrot, Fermina discovers his affair with Barbara Lynch by smelling his clothes Ends with Florentino and Fermina consummating relationship on a riverboat with yellow flag, signifying it is infected with cholera Hildebranda and Thugut help the main characters exchange telegrams

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Account of the murder of Santiago Nasar by brothers Pablo and Pedro Vicario Angela- sister of Vicario brothers, her husband, Bayardo San Roman, discovers she is not a virgin, she says Nasar took her virginity Loudly proclaim in public they will kill him at Clotilde Armenta's milk shop, nobody tells Santiago Bishop arrives on steamboat but doesn't come ashore Colonel Lazaro Aponte does not prevent death

The General in his Labyrinth

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Centers around later life of Simon Bolivar

Leaf Storm

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez First appearance of Macondo About The Father's attempts to bury The Doctor Several short stories in collection

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Seven generations of the Buenida family in Macondo started with Jose Arcadio Buenida and Ursula Iguaran Colonel Aureliano Buenida- makes golden fishes, has 17 illegitimate children of the same name who have ash Wednesday crosses on their foreheads Pietro Crespi- Italian pianola instructor who commits suicide after failing to marry both Rebeca and Amaranta Rebeca carries around bones of her parents Remedios the Beauty, refuses to wear clothes, ascends to heaven while washing sheets Aureliano born from incestuous relationship, has a pig tail and is devoured by ants Catalonian bookseller Mauricio Babilonia constantly pursued by yellow butterflies, is mistaken for chicken thief and shot and paralyzed Melquiades wrote a Sanskrit manuscript of Macondo's past and future

The Autumn of the Patriarch

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Six-part stream of consciousness novel that revolves around the death of an unnamed Caribbean dictator who is between 107 and 232 years old Love affair with Manuela Saenz

Innocent Erendira

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez expands a subplot of One Hundred Years of Solitude where title character has to prostitute herself every night to pay back her grandmother after accidentally burning down house

The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Leaf Storm Children find a corpse on the beach, which is taken back to town for a funeral Women decide his name must have been Esteban, make clothes for him Give him a sea burial but decide not to weigh body down so it might someday return to them

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Leaf Storm Subtitled "A Tale for Children" Couple Pelayo and Elisenda discover title person in backyard after a three day storm passes They keep the man, who most believe to be an angel, in chicken coop, charge 10 cents for people to come see him Priest doesn't believe title man is an angel because he does not understand Latin People lose interest because of a girl who has been transformed into a tarantula who eats meatballs Title entities grow back and title man flies off

Soul Mountain

by Gao Xingjian Autobiographical- inspired by author's travels along the Yangtze following a false lung cancer diagnosis Unnamed protagonist searches for Lingshan (title location) Narrators called "I," "you," "she," and "he" Narrator meets a peasant who chopped off his arm after a poisonous snake bite, tells a story about a man who watches a nun wash her own entrails

One Man's Bible

by Gao Xingjian Juxtaposes sexual encounters with scenes from the Cultural Revolution Narrator travels with the French woman Sylvie after being abandoned by Margarethe

The Accident

by Gao Xingjian Short story in collection Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather Cyclist gets hit by a bus

The Temple

by Gao Xingjian Short story in collection Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather Honeymooning couple stops in a rural village

Cramp

by Gao Xingjian Short story in collection Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather Narrator almost drowns and returns to find out nobody knew he was missing

Adam Bede

by George Eliot Title virtuous carpenter loves Hetty Sorrel Arthur Donnithorne leaves Hayslope for militia duties, Hetty Sorrel abandons her illegitimate child with him and is hung for infanticide Title character marries Methodist preacher Dinah Morris Title character works with Johnathan Burge and lives on the Poyser's dairy farm, argues with Bartle Massey over price of a frame sold to Miss Lydia Chapter titled "In Which the Story Pauses a Little" Shoemaker Joshua Rann

Pied Beauty

by Gerard Manley Hopkins "Glory be to God for dappled things" "All things counter, original, spare, strange" "skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow" Ends by saying "praise him" Example of a curtal sonnet created by Hopkins

The Caged Skylark

by Gerard Manley Hopkins "Man's mounting spirit in his bone-house".

Spring and Fall

by Gerard Manley Hopkins "Margaret, are you grieving / Over Goldengrove unleaving?" "worlds of wanwood leafmeal"

The Wreck of the Deutschland

by Gerard Manley Hopkins Depicts death of five Franciscan nuns at title event "the Happy Memory of five Franciscan Nuns exiled by the Falk Laws" "on Saturday sailed from Bremen, American-outward-bound." "O Christ, Christ, come quickly" "Hope had grown grey hairs"

Carrion Comfort

by Gerard Manley Hopkins In the collection, Terrible Sonnets "I...lay wrestling with (my God!) my God" Speaker will not "Despair, not feast on" the title entity "lay a lionlimb against me?"

No Worst, There is None

by Gerard Manley Hopkins In the collection, Terrible Sonnets "creep, wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind"

God's Granduer

by Gerard Manley Hopkins Proclaims title entity will "flame out, like shining from shook foil" and "gather to a greatness, like the ooze of oil." "Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; / And all is seared with trade."

Felix Randal

by Gerard Manley Hopkins Reaction to the death from tuberculosis of Hopkins' blacksmith/farrier friend "some fatal four disorders" "O he is dead then?"

As Kingfishers Catch Fire

by Gerard Manley Hopkins TITLE PHRASE is followed by ", dragonflies draw flame." "each mortal thing does one thing and the same"

The Windhover

by Gerard Manley Hopkins dedicated "To Christ our Lord" About a "kingdom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon." "I caught this morning morning's minion." "blue-bleak embers... Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion." "the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!" "O, my chevalier!"

The Confidential Agent

by Graham Greene "D" is an expert on The Song of Roland

Brighton Rock

by Graham Greene Cafe owner Ida Arnold pursues the gang leader Pinkie Brown, who murders the journalist Fred Hale who wrote an article that put Pinkie in jail for racketeering Titled after a type of hard candy Pinkie marries the waitress Rose, leaves her a recording that says "god dam you you little b*tch" Fred goes by the name "Kolley Kibber" in a newspaper contest Prewitt- Pinkie's lawyer Pinkie attacks Dallow, a member of his gang

The Human Factor

by Graham Greene Communist Carson helps the wife of MI6 agent Maurice Castle escape to South Africa

Stamboul Train

by Graham Greene Dr. Czinner travels aboard the Orient Express John Priestly felt he had been defamed in the form of the character of Quin Savory, sued Greene

The End of the Party

by Graham Greene Francis Morton dies from shock when his twin brother Peter grasps his hand during a game of hide and seek in the dark

Our Man in Havana

by Graham Greene James Wormold fakes his way through a job as a MI6 spy in order to supplement his income as a vacuum cleaner salesman (submits sketches of insides of vacuums saying they are blueprints for secret weapon) Drawings of Atomic Pile lead to mission for Wormold and his partner Beatrice Severn that leads to them being fired by boss Hawthorne Wormold kills Carter with Captain Segura's gun to avenge the death of Dr. Hasselbeck (who decoded messages using Lamb's Tales From Shakespeare Carter tries to poison Wormold's whiskey but a dog drinks it and dies instead at a dinner of the European Trader's Association Segura is defeated by Wormold in a game of checkers with whiskey bottle pieces, carries a cigarette case made of human skin Milly- James Wromold's daughter who convinces him to buy her a horse

The Heart of the Matter

by Graham Greene Major Henry Scobie- honest chief of police in a British West African district, purposely overdoses on evipan to avoid deciding between his wife Louise and Helen Rolt. Scobie's love letter to Rolt is intercepted and used as blackmail by Syrian named Yusef Scobie searches ships such as the Portuguese Esperança for smuggled diamonds, discusses his affair with a Catholic priest Scobie's servant Ali is killed by "wharf rats"

The Destructors

by Graham Greene Mr. Thomas (who is called Old Misery) is locked in an outhouse while the "Wormsley Common Gang" senselessly destroys his stately home

The End of the Affair

by Graham Greene Sarah Miles breaks off her liaison with neighbor Maurice Bendrix after a V-1 rocket destroys her London flat and she finds religion An ugly strawberry mark miraculously disappears from the face of Richard Smythe Bendrix hires Alfred Parkis to recover Sarah's diary Sarah is married to the impotent English statesman Henry

The Third Man

by Graham Greene Screenplay Film noir starring Orson Welles as the title character, Harry Lime Holly Martins tries to track down Harry Lime

The Power and the Glory

by Graham Greene Set in Tabasco, Mexico "Whiskey priest"- protagonist Catholic priest lured into a trap when asked to hear a dying confessions of the Gringo and is executed by the Lieutenant after being betrayed by the yellow-toothed mestizo Coral Fellows houses the whiskey priest in her barn and teaches him Morse Code Brigida- illegitimate daughter of the whiskey priest and Maria The dentist Mr. Tench meets the whiskey priest at the wharf The whiskey priest also stays with Mr. Lehr, fights a crippled dog over scraps of meat on a bone, eats a lump of sugar placed by the mouth of a dead Indian boy in a cemetery Interspersed stories about Juan Whiskey priest agrees to help wounded American outlaw named James Calver Padre Jose refuses to hear protagonist's final confession

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene Title character is the intellectual Alden Pyle, CIA agent who works to bring about the "Third Force" described in the work of York Harding Narrator- Journalist Thomas Fowler covers the French war in Vietnam, spends night in a watch tower with title character Pyle steals the girl Phuong away from Fowler who helps assassinate Pyle at end Vigot investigates title character's death Alden Pyle uses bicycle pumps filled with explosives to conduct acts of terrorism on Vietminh, visits the brothel House of Five Hundred Girls

Local Anaesthetic

by Gunter Grass About a dentist

The Call of the Toad

by Gunter Grass Alexander Reschke and Alexandra Piatkowska establish the Polish-German-Lithuanian Cemetery Association.

Dog Years

by Gunter Grass Follows Cat and Mouse in Danzig Trilogy Parodies concepts of Heidegger Eduard Amsel narrates first section collects various S.A. uniforms to dress his scarecrows in Harry Liebenau narrates second section which features Tully Pokriefke, mother of Paul in Grass's Crabwalk Ex-Nazi Walter Matern is friends with Amsel, breeds animals

Cat and Mouse

by Gunter Grass Follows The Tin Drum and precedes Dog Years in Danzig Trilogy Joachim "The Great" Mahlke disappears after Pilenz encourages him to dive into a shipwreck (half-sunken Polish minesweeper) Mahlke has a huge Adam's apple that is scratched by a cat, gets expelled after stealing Iron Cross of a U-Boat captain

Peeling the Onion

by Gunter Grass Memoir that was criticized for obscuring author's time in the Waffen SS

The Flounder

by Gunter Grass Nameless narrator is married to Ilsebill Title fish is put on trial before Women's Revolutionary Tribunal Loosely based on Grimm fairy tale The Fisherman and His Wife. Tells the stories of nine cooks whom the narrator met throughout history

The Meeting at Telgte

by Gunter Grass Simon Dach leads a 1647 convention of intellectuals into the title town at the end of the 30 Years' War

Danzig Trilogy

by Gunter Grass The Tin Drum Cat and Mouse Dog Years

Crabwalk

by Gunter Grass Title describes the way the protagonist Paul Pokriefke moves through time Paul Pokriefke is born on life boat of the sinking cruise ship Wilhelm Gustloff David Frankfurter assassinates Wilhelm Gustloff in Davos, namesake of the cruise ship Wolfgang Stremplin is shot by Paul Pokriefke Paul's mother Tully also appears in Dog Years

Old Times

by Harold Pinter Anna admits to borrowing Kate's underwear and letting Deeley look up her skirt

The Caretaker

by Harold Pinter Aston takes in the homeless Mac Davies, offers him the title job Characteristic Pinter Pauses in dialogue Mick smashes a statue of the Buddha while arguing with Davies Bernard Jenkins(actually Davies) says he will go down to Sidcup to pick up his papers Aston reveals he was admitted into a mental hospital at age 16 and given electroshock therapy

The Room

by Harold Pinter Bert beats a blind man named Riley when he finds him with his wife, Rose Hudd who also goes blind.

A Slight Ache

by Harold Pinter Originally written as a radio drama Flora seduces a seller of matches

The Homecoming

by Harold Pinter Philosophy professor Teddy and Ruth visit Teddy's family in London after having lived in America Ruth goes upstairs with Teddy's brother Joey for two-hour encounter without going "whole hog" Lenny and Joey convince Ruth to leave Teddy to become a prostitute Sam reveals that Max(retired butcher, father of Teddy)'s late wife Jessie cheated on him with Macgregor in his taxi before collapsing of a heart attack Teddy eats Lenny's specially made cheese-roll

Ashes to Ashes

by Harold Pinter Rebecca describes her dreams to her therapist-like lover Devlin, tells him to put his hands around her throat

Betrayal

by Harold Pinter Scenes are mostly in reverse chronological order Depicts seven-year affair between Emma and Jerry, Jerry confesses love for Emma in final scene at a party Characters bash the popular writing of Roger Casey, whose work is published by Robert(Emma's husband) Emma modeled after Joan Bakewell, who Pinter had an affair with Robert and Jerry discuss how they never play squash anymore Robert talks about reading Yeats after taking the speedboat to Torcello

The Birthday Party

by Harold Pinter Title event is planned by Meg Bole at her husband Petey's boarding house for pianist Stanley Webber, she gives him a toy drum Stanley breaks his drum and glasses and tries to rape LuLu during game of Blind Man's Bluff Stanley is taken by Goldberg and McCann to "Monty" for "special treatment", they scream rhetorical questions at him like "Why did the chicken cross the road?" and "Is the number 846 possible or necessary?" Petey skips title event to play chess, tells Stanley, "Don't let them tell you what to do!" Ends with Meg proclaiming "I was the belle of the ball" Begins with Meg bringing cornflakes and fried bread to Petey Several characters in this play whistle The Mountains of Morne and worry about the appearance of a large vehicle containing a wheelbarrow Goldberg is also called Simey, Nat, and Benny

The Dumb Waiter

by Harold Pinter Title machine brings food to the assassins/hitmen Ben and Gus in a basement They discuss unseen character Wilson, why the toilet takes so long to flush, argue over semantics of the phrases "light the kettle" and "put on the kettle" Ben claims to be able to make "Ormitha Macarounda" Argument over Birmingham-Tottenham soccer game Ends with whistle from a speaking tube and Ben receives orders to shoot Gus Begins with newspaper stories about an eight-year-old girl killing a cat and an old man hit by a carriage

A Kind of Alaska

by Harold Pinter Title state is a metaphor for suspended animation Deborah was held in(30 year coma) before Hornby(her brother in law) awakens her

An Enemy of the People

by Henrik Ibsen Dr. Stockman discovers the tannery is leaking off harmful materials and therefore the bathhouses cannot be built because of this He is ostracized for speaking out

The Altar of the Dead

by Henry James A man dies before he can add a candle to an altar for the despised Acton Hague

The Tragic Muse

by Henry James About Nick Dormer and Miriam Rooth

The Spoils of Poynton

by Henry James Adela Gareth takes furniture from the title estate

Washington Square

by Henry James Catherine Sloper's meddling father Dr. Austin Sloper prevents her from marrying Morris Townsend Named after its setting- an elite neighborhood in New York Catherine's aunt Lavinia Penniman dispenses unwanted matrimonial advice to Townsend Lavinia introduces Catherine to Morris at Catherine's cousin Marian Almond's engagement party

The American

by Henry James Christopher Newman tries to marry Claire de Cintre in Paris

Guy Domville

by Henry James Disastrous play, was booed

The Jolly Corner

by Henry James Ghost story involving Spencer Brydon

New York Edition

by Henry James Heavily-edited 24 volume collection of his work Did not include Washington Square and The Europeans

The Portrait of a Lady

by Henry James Isabel Archer inherits a fortune from her uncle Ralph Touchett, is courted by Lord Warburton and Caspar Goodwood Madame Merle manipulates Isabel into marrying Gilbert Osmond (an American expatriate living in Florence, Italy) and moving to Europe Henrietta Stackpole- journalist friend of Isabel Countess Gemini gossips constantly, reveals that Pansy is the illegitimate daughter of Merle and Osmond

The Beast in the Jungle

by Henry James John Marcher likens his sense of foreboding to the lurking title creature Marcher realizes he has wasted his life waiting, flings himself on his wife May Bertram's grave Opens with Marcher staying at Weatherend

The Ambassadors

by Henry James Lambert Strether is sent to Paris to find Chad Newsome Strether meets Madame de Vionnet at Notre Dame Cathedral, declines Maria Gostrey's proposal of marriage An artist goes by the name Little Bilham because he is short Strether gives a climactic speech in the garden of a sculptor named Gloriani, includes the line "Live all you can" Sarah and Mamie Pocock go to Europe The lawyer Mr. Waymarsh travels with Strether Strether takes a train ride to see country landscape that reminds him of a Lambinet painting

The Golden Bowl

by Henry James Maggie Verver discovers affair between Charlotte Stant and Prince Amerigo (maggie's husband) after purchasing title object Fanny Assingham introduces Maggie to Amerigo, destroys title object Shopkeeper who is fluent in Italian recognizes photograph of Amerigo and Charlotte

The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James Narrated by the Governess who believes she is being haunted by ghosts of Miss Jessel and Peter Quint The governess succeeds Miss Jessel in her position at Bly The children Flora and Miles are visited by ghosts Miles is expelled from school, exclaims "Peter Quint—you devil!" (devil could refer to Quint or the governess) before dying in governess's arms at the end The governess sees an apparition of a man in a tower and later in a dining room window The servant Luke is blamed for never delivering a letter but it turns out Miles stole it and burned it Edmund Wilson argued that the ghosts were imagined by protagonist in his essay "Ambiguity in Henry James" Miles claims to have put out a candle that interrupts the writing of a letter Frame story of this novel is a manuscript by the governess being read at a party by Douglas Housekeeper Mrs. Grose takes Flora to her uncle

The Figure in the Carpet

by Henry James Narrator writes a review of Hugh Vereker's most recent novel and tries to become close with Gwendolen

The Bostonians

by Henry James Popularized the term "Boston marriage" which refers to a lesbian couple cohabiting for a long time Verena Tarrant is groomed by Olive Chancellor to be a spokesperson for the feminist movement, runs away with lawyer Basil Ransom instead of giving speech at Music Hall Opens with mesmerist quack Selah and the pioneering Dr. Prance attend the party hosted by Miss Birdseye Tarrant turns down proposal from Matthias Pardon

Paste

by Henry James Reverse of the plot of "The Necklace" by Maupassant A string of pearls is eventual found to be genuine Mrs. Guy buys pearls after Charlotte Prime's cousin Arthur sells it

Roderick Hudson

by Henry James Rowland Mallet meets title sculptor who loves Christina Light

The Wings of the Dove

by Henry James Set in Venice Merton Densher attempts to woo the terminally ill Milly Theale though he loves Kate Croy Kate Croy wants to escape being financially dependent on her aunt Maud Lowder Last line: "We shall never be again as we were!"

The Aspern Papers

by Henry James Set in Venice Juliana Bordereau calls the narrator a "publishing scoundrel" after she catches him sneaking into her room to steal title objects from her desk Miss Tita- Juliana's niece, burns title objects

The Princess Casamassima

by Henry James Title character earlier appeared in James's book Roderick Hudson Hyacinth Robinson gets involved with revolutionary politics and the title royal figure named Christina Light Hyacinth inherits money from Miss Pynsent and works with revolutionary Paul Muniment

Daisy Miller

by Henry James Title character is an American woman in Europe, is ostracized for her relationship with Mr. Giovanelli Narrator Frederick Winterbourne loves title character, recites lines from Byron's Manfred after seeing her with Giovanelli at the Colosseum at night where she contracts and later dies from Roman fever (malaria) Title character is uninvited from Mrs. Walker's parties after she walks alone with Italian men and offends guests such as Mr. Costello Winterbourne accompanies title character to Chillon Castle(Chateau de Chillon) in Vevey, Switzerland The courier Eugenio disaproves of title character's plan to go boating on a lake with Winterbourne Randolph- title character's younger brother, prefers Schenectady to Europe, complains about being unable to get "American candy" Winterbourne's aunt asks him to bring a copy of Cherbuliez's Paule Méré

What Maisie Knew

by Henry James Title child character deals with the divorce of her parents Beale and Ida Farange

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville "Call me Ishmael" Pequod, owned by Captains Bildad and Peleg, is destroyed by a giant white whale Captain Ahab- lighting bolt shaped scar, nails a gold doubloon to mast Queequeg- tattoo'd cannibal from Rokovoko, worships the idol Yojo, stays with Ishmael in Spouter-Inn Starbuck- first mate, he and Flask are in command of Daggoo and Tashtego Father Maple delivers a sermon on story of Jonah The Rachel saves Ishmael while he floats on Queequeg's coffin Pip- black cabin boy, goes crazy after Stubb leaves him at sea Zoroastrian/Parsee Fedallah predicts Ahab will die only if he sees two hearses on the ocean and that he can be killed only by hemp, has a white turban

Pierre, or the Ambiguities

by Herman Melville After having a vision of the giant Enceladus, the titular character eventually kills Glen Stanley and commits suicide using his sister Isabel's poison

The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids

by Herman Melville Describes being taken to a club of lawyers in London where time was measured by "a wine chronometer"

The Confidence-Man

by Herman Melville Final novel Allegory in which the title figure interacts with passengers on the steamboat Fidele on the Mississippi Set on April Fools' Day

Battle-Pieces

by Herman Melville Novel containing author's civil war poetry

White-Jacket

by Herman Melville Sailor aboard the Neversink, stitches the title garment from scraps of rags

Billy Budd, Sailor

by Herman Melville Title stuttering sailor is executed for punching and killing Master-at-Arms of the HMS Bellipotent, John Claggart Title character says "God bless Captain Vere!" before being hanged Old man Dansker warns title character that Jimmy Legs dislikes him Ends with a ballad about title character "in the Darbies" Title "Handsome Sailor" hits Red Whiskers, is harassed by Squeak

The Bell-Tower

by Herman Melville in The Piazza Tales Bannadonna's pursuit of perfection leads to his death when he tries to fix a device located at the top of the title structure.

Bartelby the Scrivener

by Herman Melville in The Piazza Tales Narrator employs Ginger Nut(brings cakes to title character), Turkey, Nippers, and title character at law office Title character responds "I would prefer not to" to every request Protagonist used to work at a Dead Letter office, starves to death in The Tombs as he "would prefer not to" eat Ends with narrator exclaiming "Ah, humanity!" One character has indigestion in mornings while other is intoxicated in the afternoons

Benito Cereno

by Herman Melville in the Piazza Tales Amasa Delano(captain of the Bachelor's Delight) discovers that Babo led a slave-rebellion against the title captain of the San Dominick A servant accidentally draws blood while shaving the nervous, shaking captain Figurehead inscribed with "follow your leader" revealed to display the skeleton of Alexandro Aranda

The Lightning-Rod Man

by Herman Melville in the Piazza Tales Character who considers it dangerous to sit near a fireplace in a thunderstorm is given the joking nickname "Jupiter Tonans" Title character claims to be able to control the weather with a long, copper object

Narcissus and Goldmund

by Hermann Hesse First title character teaches second title character in a monastery called Mariabronn Second title character leaves monastery to become an artist/sculptor after having sex with a gypsy while first title character remains and eventually becomes head abbot Second title character is forced to stab his traveling companion Viktor after Viktor attacks him Second title character apprentices under woodcarver Master Niklaus

Beneath the Wheel

by Hermann Hesse Hans Giebenrath is crushed by German education system, is expelled from Maulbronn seminary, and is shortly found drowned in a river thereafter Hans Giebenrath befriends Hermann Heilner, becomes a blacksmith's apprentice

The Glass Bead Game

by Hermann Hesse Joseph Knecht achieves the title of Magister Ludi in the fictional province of Castalia after becoming master of title game Knecht retires his title and quits title game to become Tito's tutor before drowning in a lake while teaching him Thomas van der Trave - is succeeded by Knecht as Magister Ludi Knecht studies at Waldzell with Plinio Designori, the father Tito Knecht travels to Mariafels, a monestary in Castalia where he befriends Father Jacobus and studies the I Ching with Elder Brother in the Bamboo Grove Fritz Tegularius- based on Nietzsche, studies at Waldzell The Music Master tests Knecht Knecht writes stories including one titled "Three Lives"in which a self-sacrificing rainmaker, a hermit, and an Indian Prince named Dasa represent reincarnations of its protagonist Modern era is described as the "Age of Feuilleton" by a historian named Plinius Ziegenhalss

Journey to the East

by Hermann Hesse Protagonist joins "The League" and goes on a quest to find the "ultimate truth" The League fails shortly after Leo abandons them at the gorge Morbio Inferiore Various of Hesse's other characters appear in this novel including Vasudeva and Goldmund

Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse Title Brahmin searches for meaning Title character first defies his father by standing outside his window all night, leaves with his friend Govinda to become an ascetic Samana in the forest Title character leaves Govinda who joins the Buddha(called Gotama) Title character learns business from Kamaswami and becomes rich in order to gain affections of the courtesan Kamala, gambles with dice in order to renounce his wealth Kamala and title character become lovers, he leaves her after dreaming of the death of her songbird in a cage, realizes her child is his after she dies from a snake bite Title character reaches enlightenment with the ferryman Vasudeva who teaches him to listen to the river Title character contemplates suicide while hanging onto a coconut tree above the river Ends with Govinda kissing title character's forehead

Demian

by Hermann Hesse Title character Max prods narrator Emil Sinclair(pseudonym used by Hesse to publish this work) to spiritual realization The organist Pistorius becomes Sinclair's mentor, introduces him to the god Abraxas who appears in Sinclair's dream as a sparrow hawk hatching from an egg Title character telepathically stops Franz Kromer from bullying Sinclair Sinclair becomes infatuated with title character's mother Frau Eva Several characters bear the Mark of Cain, title character explains an alternate interpretation of the story of Cain and Able to Sinclair Alfons Beck introduces Sinclair to alcohol Early in this novel, Sinclair is scolded by his father for muddy shoes after he steals a sack of apples, leading to him being blackmailed by Kromer

Gertrud

by Hermann Hesse Title character marries Heinrich Muoth instead of the composer Kuhn

Klingsor's Last Summer

by Hermann Hesse Tu Fu attempts to help his friend, the title painter

Trilogy

by Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) "These Walls Do Not Fall" "Tribute to the Angels" "The Flowering of the Rod"

Oread

by Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) Tells the sea to "Whirl up...hurl your green over us, cover us with your pools of fir."

Ars Poetica

by Horace "in medias res" - (good plots begin in the middle of the action) Warns against use of "deus ex machina" Written as an epistle to Lucius Calpurnius Piso and his sons (the Pisones) "ut pictura poesis" - ("as in painting, so in poetry") "even good Homer nods" Asserts that plays should have five acts Opens by describing the absurdity of a painter attaching a human head to a horse's neck

Carmen Saeculare

by Horace Choir of 27 boys and 27 girls To be sung at Secular Games celebrating end of the century

Horace's Epodes

by Horace Draws heavily on the iambic poetry of Archilochus

Hell's Angels

by Hunter S. Thompson "Strange and Terrible Saga" about title motorcycle gang lead by Sonny Barger that Thompson infiltrated, launched his career

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

by Hunter S. Thompson Adapted from a piece in the Rolling Stones About drug-laced adventures of Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo who are sent to title city to cover the Mint 400 motorcycle race Man asks the narrator to throw a toaster into his bathtub when the song "White Rabbit" plays Opens with Samuel Johnson's quote "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man"

Fatelessness

by Imre Kertész First part of trilogy that also includes Fiasco and Kaddish for an Unborn Child Semi-autobiographical story about György "Gyuri" Köves, a 14 year old boy from Budapest who bounces around concentration camps Gyorgy stops in Auschwitz and Buchenwald before ending up in Zeitz where he meets Bandi Citrom Gyorgy is repeatedly ostracized for not being a "real Jew"

Kaddish For An Unborn Child

by Imre Kertész Follows Fiasco and Fatelessness in a trilogy Holocaust survivor B. repeatedly says "no" to his wife's requests to start a family, explains to Dr. Oblath why he does not want children

Liquidation

by Imre Kertész Kingbitter discovers a play written by B.

Shosha

by Isaac Bashevis Singer A character nicknamed Tsutsik refuses to leave Poland because of his love for the title character

The Magician of Lublin

by Isaac Bashevis Singer About title womanizing stage performer Yasha Mazur Yasha cheats on his barren Jewish wife Esther with his acrobat assistant Magda who commits suicide and with the Catholic Emilia

The Family Moskat

by Isaac Bashevis Singer Asa Heshel interacts with title family

Enemies, A Love Story

by Isaac Bashevis Singer Herman Broder, a Holocaust survivor accidentally commits bigamy and discovers his first wife Tamara survived

Satan in Goray

by Isaac Bashevis Singer Messianic cult of Sabbatai Zevi sweeps through title town

The Spinoza of Market Street

by Isaac Bashevis Singer The intellectual Nahum Fischelson marries the old maid Black Dobbe

Gimpel the Fool

by Isaac Bashevis Singer Title baker is married to the verbally abusive Elka, refuses to believe her adultery until she reveals the six children she had without him on her deathbed Spirit of Evil convinces title character to urinate in loaves of bread that he later buries, tells title character there is no God only a "thick mire" Set in Frampol whose other residents frequently take advantage of title character, title character leaves Frampol to become a wandering storyteller Rietze the Candle-dipper makes fun of title character Saul Bellow translated this work into English

Seven Gothic Tales

by Isak Dinesen aka Karen Blixen "The Deluge at Norderney" "The Old Chevalier" "The Monkey" "The Roads Round Pisa" "The Supper at Elsinore" "The Dreamers" "The Poet"

Sorrow-Acre

by Isak Dinesen aka Karen Blixen Anne-Marie Kiil dies after mowing an entire field of rye in one day to free her son

Out of Africa

by Isak Dinesen aka Karen Blixen Describes her experience owning a coffee plantation in Ngong Hills of Kenya with her husband. Narrator falls in love with Denys Finch Hatton who dies in a plane crash Two lions gather at grave of Finch Hatton One section describes dances called "ngomas" Narrator sends Kamante to hospital after failing to heal his sore legs, he converts to Christianity

The Monkey

by Isak Dinesen aka Karen Blixen In Seven Gothic Tales A Prioress, possessed by the title animal, tries to get Boris to rape Athena Hopballehus

The Old Chevalier

by Isak Dinesen aka Karen Blixen In Seven Gothic Tales About a baron's affair with the young Nathalie

The Deluge at Norderney

by Isak Dinesen aka Karen Blixen In Seven Gothic Tales Calypso marries Jonathan Maersk in a hayloft, where they are trapped while waiting out a flood along with Cardinal Hamilcar and Malin Nat-og-Dag The Cardinal reveals he is actually Kasparson, tells the story "The Wine of the Tetrarch" - about a man named Barabbas

The Dreamers

by Isak Dinesen aka Karen Blixen In Seven Gothic Tales Opera singer Pellegrina Leoni losers her voice in a fire

The Roads Round Pisa

by Isak Dinesen aka Karen Blixen In Seven Gothic Tales Prince Potenziani asks Count Nino toimpregnate his wife

The Supper at Elsinore

by Isak Dinesen aka Karen Blixen In Seven Gothic Tales Set in town named for castle Hamlet lived in Fanny and Eliza De Coninck are visited by the ghost of their brother Morten

Babette's Feast

by Isak Dinesen aka Karen Blixen Lorens Löwenhielm and Achille Papin pursue the pious sisters Martine and Philippa forty-nine years before the title Parisian chef uses 10,000 francs of lottery winnings to throw them an elaborate dinner The sisters are named after Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon In collection Anecdotes of Destiny

Why Read the Classics?

by Italo Calvino 14 definitions of title books Discusses Candide and Borges Includes the essay "The World is an Artichoke"

The Castle of Crossed Destinies

by Italo Calvino Group of travelers become mute in a forest and tell stories using tarot cards

Six Memos for the Next Millennium

by Italo Calvino Illustrates "lightness" and compares The Unbearable Lightness of Being to "Ovid's fragile Medusa" in first memo Another discusses "multiplicity" with a quote from a Carlo Emilio Gadda novel

Invisible Cities

by Italo Calvino Marco Polo describes 55 title entities to Kublai Khan while playing chess in imperial magnolia garden "Thin," "Trading," "Continuous", and "Hidden" varieties One title location, Despina, looks like a camel to those approaching by ship and like a ship to those approaching by camel All are thinly veiled versions of Venice and are named after women such as Theodora, Octavia, Diomira, and Berenice Ersilia contains no people but merely strings charting the former inhabitants' relationships "It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear" One is a massive spider-web over an abyss

The Nonexistent Knight

by Italo Calvino Part of Our Ancestors trilogy alongside The Cloven Viscount and The Baron in the Trees Agilulf- knight under Charlemagne whose body is a suit of armor Gurduloo- Agilulf's squire Torrismund is sought by Agilulf

The Baron in the Trees

by Italo Calvino Part of Our Ancestors trilogy alongside The Cloven Viscount and The Nonexistent Knight Cosimo Piovasco becomes title character after renouncing his parent's estate, refuses to eat his sister Battista's snail soup at the start Ends with Cosimo grabbing onto a hot air balloon Narrated by Cosimo's brother Biagio Cosimo works with the beekeeper Carrega to set up an irrigation system, wars with "fruit theives", has an affair with Viola Protagonist trades books with the brigand Gian dei Brughi, owns a dog named Ottimo Massimo

The Cloven Viscount

by Italo Calvino Part of Our Ancestors trilogy with The Nonexistent Knight and The Baron in the Trees A cannonball splits Medardo, the title nobleman from Terralba, into two halves- "The Good 'Un" and "The Bad 'Un." Dr. Trelawney stitches title character together so that he can marry Pamela and regain his position Dr. Trelawney walks around graveyards searching for will-o-the-wisps, believes chickens tied to a terrace railing represent diarrhea Colony of lepers lives in Pratofungo

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino Protagonist is "you", the Reader who is depicted in odd chapters while even chapters are the first chapters of different books that together create a long sentence You meet Ludmilla(love interest) after you both return Tazio Bazakbal's Outside the Town of Malbork due to printing error You and Ludmilla seek out Professor Uzzi-Tuzzi, a researcher of Dead Languages who explains conflict between Cimmeria and Cimbria Ludmilla's sister Lotaria wants to create a machine that condenses literature into a series of numbers. Antagonist- shadowy fake translator Ermes Marana who lives in Ataguitania Includes the diary of Silas Flannery- author of "In a network of lines that enlace" who meets a UFO cult, tries to plagiarize Crime and Punishment A professor hears various telephones ringing in different houses while jogging before picking one up to find out a stranger has kidnapped his crush/student Marjorie Stubbs Outside the town of Malbork- Mr. Kauderer fights Ponko over a picture of Zwida Policeman uses the password "Zeno of Elia" at a train station to tell another man to hang on to his suitcase Ukko Ahti- Cimmerian author who wrote Leaning from the Steep Slope One section- Narrator has sex with Madame Miyagi while her daughter Makiko watches

The Path to the Nest Spiders

by Italo Calvino Set during WWII Pin steals a Nazi's gun and later shares title hiding place to the Communist Red Wolf Pin's sister is a prostitute nicknamed "the Dark Girl of Long Alley"

Mr. Palomar

by Italo Calvino Title man spies on a cheese shop

A Sportsman's Sketches

by Ivan Turgenev "Hamlet of the Shchigrovsky District"- compares an indecisive nobleman to Hamlet "Khor and Kalinych"- dialogue between the two title peasants

Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Turgenev Arkady Kirsanov is friends with Evgeny Bazarov, they advocate for "nihilism" Arkady's father Nikolai struggles to understand his son Bazarov dissects frogs, contracts typhus while performing an autopsy and dies, calls Anna Odintsova to his deathbed Nikolai's brother Pavel marries Princess R Pavel duels Bazarov over Fenichka Arkady marries Katya "A passable chemist is twenty times as useful as any poet"

Diary of a Superfluous Man

by Ivan Turgenev Tchulkaturin recounts his childhood Title man archetype- Russian Literary figure that is born with goodwill, wealth, power, and status but is unable to accomplish anything

Giovanni's Room

by James Baldwin David's fiancé Hella discovers his homosexuality Guillaume is murdered

The Fire Next Time

by James Baldwin Examines his experiences with The Nation of Islam Essays: "My Dungeon Shook" and "Down on the Cross."

Emma

by Jane Austen Title character Woodhouse Title character sets up best friend, Harriet Smith with Robert Martin before confessing love for George Knightly Frank Churchill is revealed to have been secretly engaged to Jane Fairfax(niece of the chatty Miss Bates) Title character rejects Mr. Elton Piano is anonymously given to Jane

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

by John Bunyan Autobiography written in Bedford Gaol

The Life and Death of Mr. Badman

by John Bunyan dialogue between Mr. Wiseman and Mr. Attentive

The Flea

by John Donne "sucked me first, and now sucks thee" "you and I and this our marriage bed" "hast thou since / Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence?"

Death be not Proud

by John Donne In author's Holy Sonnets "Batter my heart, three-person'd God."

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

by Jonathan Edwards "let everyone that is out of Christ now awake" Nothing but the "mere pleasure of God" keeps "wicked men" out of hell "over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider" "Their foot shall slide in due time."

Everything is Illuminated

by Jonathan Safran Foer About author's family's experience with the Holocaust, fictional version of Foer travels to Ukraine

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

by Jonathan Safran Foer Oskar Schell's father dies in 9/11, he attempts to contact everyone with the surname "Black" as he searches for a lock that matches a key he finds

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote

by Jorge Borges About a French writer who has rewritten a Cervantes work word for word

The Garden of Forking Paths

by Jorge Borges Doctor Yu Tsun is a Professor of English & spy for Germany in WWI Yu Tsun is pursued by Irish MI5 agent Richard Madden, murders Sinologist Stephen Albert to send message to superiors about location of an artillery park in Albert Title refers to novel written by protagonist's ancestor, Ts'ui Pen that considers every outcome of every action to create an infinite labyrinth- "I leave the several futures (not to all) my garden of forking paths"

Death and the Compass

by Jorge Borges Red Scharlach murders the detective Erik Lonnrot at Triste-le-Roi

Ficciones

by Jorge Borges The Library of Babel The Garden of Forking Paths Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

The Library of Babel

by Jorge Borges Title building has infinite hexagonal rooms & contains all possible books- books contain all possible arrangements of 22 letters, spaces, commas, and periods in 410 pages Faction of workers in title structure called "Purifiers" seek out Crimson Hexagon at the center, another faction seeks out "Man of the Book" who is said to have read index of the library One book is full of gibberish except phrase "Oh time, thy pyramids" on second to last page Other Books: The Combed Thunderclap and The Plaster Cramp

Funes, the Memorious

by Jorge Borges Title character can remember everything after falling off a horse

The Aleph

by Jorge Borges Title location is a point in space where one can see every point in the universe from every angle, is located in a Carlos Daneri's cellar and he tries to use it to write a poem

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbus Tertius

by Jorge Borges Tlön is a fictional country in an encyclopedia which eventually becomes the real world Borges's friend Adolfo Bioy Casares maintains the fictional world Language contains no nouns Hronir begin appearing in the real world

Pedro Paramo

by Juan Rulfo Juan Preciado travels to town of ghosts Comala to meet his father Title narrator is stabbed to death by his illegitimate son Abundio Martinez Initial narrator is sent to home of Dona Eduviges After death of Susana San Juan, title character "crosses his arms" and lets whole village starve to death Gabriel Garcia Marquez claimed he was only able to finish writing One Hundred Years of Solitude after reading this novel Father Renteria is bribed into absolving a killer and rapist Bartolome lowers his daughter into a mine shaft to look for gold coins, she sees a skeleton

Tell Them Not to Kill Me!

by Juan Rulfo in the collection The Burning Plain Character makes title plea to his son Justino after arrival of the firing squad

Because We Are So Poor

by Juan Rulfo in the collection The Burning Plain Sibling of Tacha describes losing the cow named La Serpentina in a flood

The Insect Play

by Karel Capek "Butterflies" section

War with the Newts

by Karel Capek Captain van Toch discovers a group of intelligent lizards on an island near Sumatra that take over and destroy Earth's landmass to make more coastline Captain van Toch enslaves title creatures for pearl farming and industrialist Gussie H. Bondy harnesses them for hydroengineering projects Includes Mr. Povondra's newspaper clippings One of the title creatures kept in the London Zoo named Andrew Scheuchzer learns English by reading newspapers Includes mock-academic account of the "Sex Lives" of the titular creatures

The Makropulos Affair

by Karel Capek Opera singer Emilia Marty procures a formula that allows her to live for 300 years Inspired an opera of the same name by Leos Janacek Inspired an essay of the same name by Bernard Williams subtitled "Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality"

Hordubal

by Karel Capek Peasant returns home from working in American coal mines

The White Disease

by Karel Capek Play satirizing Nazi Germany in which Dr. Galen cures a disease that only affects people over the age of 45

The Absolute at Large

by Karel Capek Rudolph Marek invents the Karburator, a machine which uses the title residue-less energy

Sometimes a Great Notion

by Ken Kesey Henry Stamper- woodcutter whose motto is "Never give an inch!" Title comes from line from the song "Goodnight Irene" Set in Wakonda, Oregon Henry's half brother Lee elopes with Viv

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

by Ken Kesey Mental institution in Oregon run by Nurse Ratched, residents are divided into "acutes" and "chronics" Randall McMurphy attempts to rebel, is lobotomized, and smothered by narrator Chief Bromden Billy Bibbit- stutters, has sex with prostitute named Candy Starr, commits suicide sparking attack on Ratched Narrator refers to forces of authority as "the Combine" which he believes can control fog Characters go on a fishing trip and watch the world series Bromden reveals he is not a deaf-mute after being offered Juicy Fruit, throws a control panel through a window in order to escape

Colonel Sun

by Kingsley Amis First non-Fleming James Bond novel published under pseudonym "Robert Markham" Title Chinese agent sends two servants to kidnap a man at his estate called Quarterdeck

The Green Man

by Kingsley Amis Ghost of Dr. Underhill haunts the inn owned by Maurice Allington

Lucky Jim

by Kingsley Amis Title character is Professor Jim Dixon, gives a drunken lecture on "Merrie England" resulting in him being fired by Professor Ned Welch His rival Bertrand gives him a black eye after Jim sleeps with Bertrand's girlfriend Christine Callaghan After boyfriend Catchpole dumps her, Margaret Peel pretends to attempt suicide. Julius Gore-Urquhart gives protagonist a job Protagonist's paper on shipbuilding techniques is plagiarized in an Italian translation by Dr. Caton

The Old Devils

by Kingsley Amis, won the Booker prize Alun Weaver and his wife Rhiannon drink themselves into a stupor after returning home to Wales Relives past with Charlie Norris

Slaughterhouse Five

by Kurt Vonnegut Billy Pilgrim, an optometrist, becomes "unstuck in time" during WWII, survives bombing of Dresden Protagonist is forced to mate with Montana Wildhack in a public zoo on Tralfamadore for aliens shaped like toilet plungers. Ends with a bird saying "Poo-tee-weet" Every time someone dies the phrase "So it goes" is recited Eliot Rosewater introduces protagonist to the books of Kilgore Trout Paul Lazzaro commits murder to avenge the death of Roland Weary Edgar Derby is executed for stealing a teapot

All the King's Horses

by Kurt Vonnegut Captured army pilot forced for participate in human game of chess

The Sirens of Titan

by Kurt Vonnegut Malachi Constant visits Saturn

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

by Kurt Vonnegut Norman Mushari attempts to have title character declared insane to steal his fortune

Breakfast of Champions

by Kurt Vonnegut Pontiac salesman, Dwayne Hoover goes on a rampage after reading a Kilgore Trout novel, becomes obsessed with Trout

Bluebeard

by Kurt Vonnegut Rabo Karabekian paints a potato barn

Cat's Cradle

by Kurt Vonnegut Set mostly on Caribbean Island of San Lorenzo Ice-Nine is invented by Felix Hoenikker which can freeze an entire world Bokononism- manufactured religion, practitioners put their bare feet together in a ritual, have a fake language where "karass" is a group of cosmically linked people, "granfalloon" is a false karass Hoosiers are a granfalloon

Player Piano

by Kurt Vonnegut, his first novel Paul Proteus is set up as leader of Ghost Shirt Society

The Kreutzer Sonata

by Leo Tolstoy Based on a work by Beethoven Pozdnyshev kills his wife after he finds her having an affair with a violinist

Resurrection

by Leo Tolstoy Dmitri Nekhludoff falls in love with Maslova

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Set during Napoleon's invasion of Russia Pierre Bezhukov initially marries Helene Kuragin, she has an affair with Nikolay Rostov who almost dies in a subsequent duel with Pierre Anatole- brother of Helene, son of Vassily Natasha Rostov is initially married to Prince Andrei Bolkonsky who dies at Battle of Borodino Pierre Bezhukov joins the Freemasons and marries Natasha Rostov

How Much Land Does a Man Need

by Leo Tolstoy The devil challenges Pahom to collect as much property as possible He collapses while running and dies

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

by Leo Tolstoy Title action occurs when title character falls while hanging curtains Title character is a judge served by Gerasim

The Walrus and the Carpenter

by Lewis Carroll In Through the Looking Glass Two travelers eat a group of sentient oysters and "talk of many things" They discuss "cabbages and kings."

The Old and the Young

by Luigi Pirandello Flaminio tries to starve Sicilian workers by shutting down a mine

Tonight We Improvise

by Luigi Pirandello Forms a trilogy of "theater within the theater" with Six Characters in Search of an Author and Each in His Own Way A group of actors directed by Doctor Hinkfuss attempt to put on a production of Pirandello's Leonora, Addio!

Each in His Own Way

by Luigi Pirandello Forms a trilogy of "theater within the theater" with Six Characters in Search of an Author and Tonight We Improvise Play-within-a-play in which Delia Morello plays an unfaithful fiancée Francesco Savio and Doro Palegari duel over affections of Delia

One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand

by Luigi Pirandello Genge goes mad after his wife comments that his nose tilts to the right

Right You Are (If You Think You Are)

by Luigi Pirandello Lamberto Laudisi attempts to dissuade a group of townspeople from determining whether Signora Frola's daughter Lena is dead or actually Ponza's wife Laudisi discuses insanity with a mirror Counselor Agazzi also attempts to find out Signora Ponza's identity Policeman Centuri announces "there is news"

The Man With the Flower in His Mouth

by Luigi Pirandello One-act dialogue in which a man who has missed his train converses on a terrace with a man dying of facial epithelioma (title cancerous growth new his mustache) Produced on BBC as a TV experiment

Playful Evil

by Luigi Pirandello Poetry collection

The Late Mattia Pascal

by Luigi Pirandello Title character wins a small fortune in Monte Carlo, finds out a corpse has been mistaken for him and he has been declared dead Title character assumes the name Adriano Meis to start a new life Title character abandons his wife Romilda Pescatore

Enrico IV

by Luigi Pirandello or Henry IV Man hits himself on the head after falling off of a horse during a pageant and believes himself to be the title Holy Roman Emperor. Title character stabs Tito Belcredi who stole his beloved Donna Matilda Spina during pageant Count de Nolli- nephew of title character, funds actors to play roles in "court" of title character for 20 years Frida- Matilda's daughter who dresses as Matilda in attempt to "cure" title character Title character gets angry when he thinks a character disguised as a monk is Peter Damian Dr. Dionysius Genoni helps cure title character

Bound to Violence

by Malian writer Yambo Ouologuem Sued by Graham Greene for plagiarism

Eternal Curse on the Reader of these Pages

by Manuel Puig Dialogue between wheelchair-bound union organizer Mr. Ramirez and his part-time assistant Larry

Heartbreak Tango

by Manuel Puig Nene Fernandez sends letters to Leonor about tubercular Juan Carlos Etchepare "Big Fanny" kills the police officer Francisco

The Kiss of the Spider Woman

by Manuel Puig Novel which Puig also adapted into a play Homosexual Molina relates the plots of movies to his cellmate Valentin Films include one about woman who turns into a cat person, one about a zombie infested island, and a fictional Nazi propaganda film Ends with Valentin being tortured, morphine-induced dream where he lands on a tropical island and meets his lover Marta Footnotes explaining psychoanalytic ideas about homosexuality

Betrayed by Rita Hayworth

by Manuel Puig, his first novel Centers on Jose Casals, aka Toto's obsession with films Includes Toto's school essay about The Great Waltz called "The Movie I Liked Best"

Alias Grace

by Margaret Atwood Framed as a dialogue between the title character and Dr. Simon Jordan Title character is institutionalized for murders of Nancy Montgomery and Thomas Kinnear, hopes to be proven hysteric

Oryx and Crake

by Margaret Atwood Jimmy/Snowman is last man on earth, former salesman for genetically engineered products like the BlyssPluss pill Jimmy plays with Glenn(who he calls Crake) in Extinctathon trivia game, discover the other title character on the child porn site HottTotts Crake attends Watson-Crick Institute, is hired by RejoovenEsense, creates the bubble dome of Paradice, develops perfect race (his namesake "Children") Sequels-The Year of the Flood and MaddAddam Pet rakunk named Killer

Cat's Eye

by Margaret Atwood Painter, Elaine Risley reflects on one of her works, keeps title marble in red purse

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood Protagonist Offred, described as "two-legged womb", sleeps with the chauffeur Nick, a member of the Mayday resistance Set in the Republic of Gilead Offred works for Serena Joy- who is married to the Commander Offred plays Scrabble with the Commander, steals butter(hides it in her shoes) to use as lotion Latin phrase is translated to "Don't let the bastards grind you down" Transcribed from cassette tapes discovered by Professor Pieixoto Judd came up with the Particicution(aka "salvaging" where title characters beat to death someone at the signal of a whistle) in its epilogue Offred trains at the Red Center with Aunt Lydia, is friends with a lesbian named Moira who becomes a prostitute at Jezebel's Luke- husband of Offred "The Wall"- where bodies are often hung Secret police - the Eyes of God, Ofglen commits suicide before she can be arrested

Hag-Seed

by Margaret Atwood Retells The Tempest from point of view of Felix, a theater director

The Year of the Flood

by Margaret Atwood Sequel to Oryx and Crake, its sequel is MaddAddam Ren- prostitute, former God's Gardener Toby- God's Gardener, goes into hiding at AnooYoo spa

The Penelopiad

by Margaret Atwood The Odyssey from a female perspective Poems from the perspective of twelve hanged maids lead by Melthano

The Robber Bride

by Margaret Atwood Tony, Charis, and Roz each encounter their long dead classmate Zenia

The Blind Assasssin

by Margaret Atwood sisters Iris and Laura Chase- daughters of a button factory owner in Port Ticonderoga Contains novel within a novel written by Laura but published by Iris to expose how Robert Griffin raped Laura Opens with suicide of Laura when she drives a car over a bridge Title refers to a novel within a novel within a novel inspired by Laura's affair with Alex Thomas- man falls in love with a girl from Zycron in the city of Sakiel-Norn

The War of the End of the World

by Mario Vargas LLosa About War of Canudos uprising in Brazil state Bahia Inspired by Rebellion in the Backlands(or Os Sertoes) by Euclides da Cunha, Cunha is represented as the Nearsighted Journalist in this work Antonio Conselhiero, known as "The Counselor." leads the Canudos Redheaded Scottish phrenologist named Galileo Gall joins the Canudos and smuggles guns after being tricked by Epaminondas Goncalves Jurema, wife of Rufino, is raped by Galileo Gall

The Dream of the Celt

by Mario Vargas Llosa About Roger Casement and the Easter Revolution

The Temptation of the Impossible

by Mario Vargas Llosa Analysis of Les Miserables

The Way to Paradise

by Mario Vargas Llosa Follows the lives of Paul Gauguin and his feminist grandmother Flora Tristan as they meet in Tahiti

A Fish in the Water

by Mario Vargas Llosa Memoir discussing his 1990 loss to Alberto Fujimori in the Peruvian presidential election

The Time of the Hero

by Mario Vargas Llosa Original title translated to The City and the Dogs Set in Leoncio Prado Military Academy Events are told by Lieutenant Gamboa to Alberto "The Poet" Jaguar- leader of "The Circle" murders Ricardo Arana, a boy nicknamed "the Slave" and was raised by his Aunt Adelina Porfirio Cava breaks a window to steal a chemistry test Circle member Boa molests children, chickens, and his own dog Skimpy Many students lose their virginity to the prostitute Golden Toes

The Bad Girl

by Mario Vargas Llosa Retelling of Madame Bovary Title character goes by the names Lily and Arlette, is admired by Ricardo

Conversation in the Cathedral

by Mario Vargas Llosa Santiago Zavala- protagonist who meets his chauffer Ambrosio at a dog pound where a dachshund is beaten to death and they continue their conversation at title bar Depicts life in Peru under dictator Manuel Odria Don Fermin- lover of Ambrosio Santiago asks "At what precise moment had Peru f'ed itself up?" Cayo Bermúdez- military dictator who inspires Ambrosio to murder Hortensia Superbrain- nickname of Santiago

The Storyteller

by Mario Vargas Llosa Saul Zuratas integrates himself into the Machiguenga tribe

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

by Mario Vargas Llosa Semi-autobiographical about Mario's affair with first title character Radio Panamericana, lead by the Genaros hires Pedro Camacho to write soap operas, goes insane and mixes up and kills characters in big fire at a monastery during an earthquake. First title character and Mario travel with Javier and Pascual from town to town to try and get a mayor to marry them Jehovah's Witness Gumercindo Tello threatens to castrate himself to prove himself innocent of rape Epigraph is from The Graphographer and contains the quote "I write. I write that I am writing." Pedro Camacho's wife is an Argentinian prostitute, fueling his irrational hatred for the country Joaquin Hinostroza Bellmont- famous soccer referee Federico Tellez Unzategui becomes obsessed with killing rats after they eat his baby sister Donald Duck comic-reading policeman Jaime Concha One character learns to hate children after accidentally running one over with the help of a psychiatrist

Captain Pantoja and the Special Service

by Mario Vargas Llosa Title straitlaced Peruvian army officer is tasked in creating a prostitution service for a group of demoralized army troops in the Amazon.

The Green House

by Mario Vargas Llosa Title structure is a brothel built by the harp player Don Anselmo in the jungle Anselmo abducts Antonia to be his wife, her eyes and tongue are eaten out by vultures, she dies giving birth to Chunga Chunga rebuilds title structure Bonifacia becomes a prostitute named "Wildflower" in title location Sargent Lituma, husband of Bonifacia, plays Russian Roulette

The Feast of the Goat

by Mario Vargas Llosa Urania Cabral returns to the Dominican Republic after her rape by dictator Rafael Trujillo Agustin- aka "Egghead", paralyzed father of Urania who works for Trujillo Studies the rule of Rafael Trujillo and his assassination, which took place in a car

The Perpetual Orgy

by Mario Vargas Llosa study of Madame Bovary Highlights extended metaphor comparing Emma's memory of Léon to a campfire Calls Flaubert the "first modern novelist" Subtitled "Flaubert and Madame Bovary"

Time's Arrow

by Martin Amis Follows the life of a doctor at Auschwitz in reverse chronology Narrator assumes the alias Tod Friendly to conceal his true identity, Odilo Unverdorben

Money

by Martin Amis John Self goes to New York to work on dissatrous movie that turns out to be fake, is stalked by Frank the Phone, realizes his father is actually Fat Vince

London Fields

by Martin Amis Samson Young narrates the story of Nicola Six's murder that hasn't happened yet.

Mother

by Maxim Gorky Pelagea Nilovna supports her revolutionary son Pavel who is arrested while carrying a banner at a May Day celebration Pelagea makes copies of her Pavel's speech and distributes them as pamphlets

Children of the Sun

by Maxim Gorky Protasov is a chemist during a cholera outbreak

Twenty-six Men and a Girl

by Maxim Gorky Soldier successfully seduces Tanya after a challenge from a baker, leading to the collective heartbreak of a group of pretzel-makers who loved her

The Artamanov Business

by Maxim Gorky The hunchbacked Nikita gives up on being a monk

The Lower Depths

by Maxim Gorky The vagrant Luka visits title boarding house, briefly bringing hope to residents inside Kostilyoff- runs title location, is killed by Vaska Pepel Natasha- Kostilyoff's sister, plans to run off with Vaska before Vassilisa (Kostilyoff's wife) pours boiling water on her feet, leading the a brawl where Vaska kills Kostilyoff The Actor sustains himself with a belief in a "land of righteousness," hangs himself after abandoning hope of going to a sanatorium to cure his alcoholism One character spends all day fitting old keys and locks while sitting on a bench in the basement of title location while his wife Anna dies of tuberculosis Satine argues with Luka, cheats at cards causing devout Muslim, Hassan the Tartar, to erupt Bubnoff and Zoba sing while playing cards The Baron hits a woman over the head with a copy of romance novel Fatal Love

Summerfolk

by Maxim Gorky Vlass goes to work with Dvoetochie to found new schools Ends after Ryumin's failed suicide

Rabelais and His World

by Mikhail Bakhtin Asserts title author employed trope of the "grotesque body" to critique the wars of his time connects the carnivalesque with the "grotesque realism"

Death of the Poet

by Mikhail Lermontov Poem about the death of Alexander Pushkin

Get a Life

by Nadine Gordimer About ecologist Paul Bannerman's struggle with thyroid cancer He becomes radioactive

Burger's Daughter

by Nadine Gordimer About the title character Rosa's involvement in the anti-apartheid movement Rosa has to come to terms with Lionel's membership in SACP (communist party), was raised alongside a black boy called "Baasie" by her mother Cathy The professor Bernard Chabalier has an affair with the protagonist while she is visiting Lionel's first wife Katya Bagnelli in France Marisa Kgosana and protagonist are arrested following Soweto riots at the end Rosa has an affair with Conrad Title family loosely based on Bram Fischer's whose quotes are included in this work What Happened to it, or How South African Censorship Works- essay by Gordimer discussing banning and un-banning of this work Brand Vermeulen helps title character get a passport

Occasion for Loving

by Nadine Gordimer Ann Davis's affair with the painter Gideon Shibalo is sheltered by Jessie Stillwell

A Soldier's Embrace

by Nadine Gordimer Collection of short stories "Oral History" - village of Dilolo is burned after its chief reveals that it is harboring guerrillas during the Rhodesian Bush War

The Soft Voice of the Serpent

by Nadine Gordimer Collection of short stories "The Talisman" "The Umbilical Chord"

What Happened to Burger's Daughter or How South African Censorship Works

by Nadine Gordimer Discusses banning and subsequent un-banning of Burger's daughter

None to Accompany Me

by Nadine Gordimer Disintegrating marriage of Vera Stark, who takes a government position and forces her husband Bennet to join a luggage company

July's People

by Nadine Gordimer Historical fiction depicting reality where apartheid has been overthrown in a violent revolt by black population. White couple Bamford and Maureen Smales take refuge with title character, their former servant, in tribal village Gina, Victor, Royce- Smales children Ends with Maureen running towards a helicopter whose inhabitants are unknown. July drives the Smales' yellow "bakkie" truck Bam shoots two warthogs with shotgun, Daniel steals shotgun to go fight with black rebels Maureen feels guilty for photograph of her servant Lydia carrying Maureen's books as a kid that appeared in Life magazine Maureen drowns two kittens after Gina and Nyiko play with them, refuses to finish reading a copy of Manzoni's The Betrothed Title character accidentally kills a chicken that still has eggs within it

A Sport of Nature

by Nadine Gordimer Kim Capran decides to rename herself "Hillela" before becoming first lady of South Africa

The Late Bourgeois World

by Nadine Gordimer Max commits suicide by driving his car into the ocean

The Pickup

by Nadine Gordimer Mechanic named Abdu, an illegal Arab immigrant, meets a wealthy white woman named Julie whose car breaks down in the street

The Conservationist

by Nadine Gordimer Set on four hundred acre farm of white businessman Mehring, bought it as a tax write off and a place to take his girlfriend, Antonia Mancebo. Terry - gay son of Mehring (discovered when Mehring finds the erotic handbook Eros Himself in Terry's backpack) who ran away to New York The foreman Jacobus finds the buried body of a black man on the farm that is washed up by a rainstorm and given a more proper burial afterwards Opens with children playing with eleven freckled guinea fowl eggs against orders of Mehring Interspersed quotes from the Reverend Henry Callaway between chapters

The Day the Leader was Killed

by Naguib Mahfouz About assassination of President Anwar Sadat Randa has to marry her boss, whom her ex-boyfriend Elwan kills at the same time as title murder

The Children of Gebelawi

by Naguib Mahfouz Controversial allegorical history of the Abrahamic religions set in Cairo- lead to Mahfouz being stabbed in neck by extremists in 1994 Five sections First four: Adham, Gabal, Rifa'a, and Qasim--represent Adam, Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed Final section: Arafa represents science and progress, his attempts to discover secrets of title character leads to title character's death Chief Strongman- controls alley, each character tries to overcome him Satanic Idris tries to tempt title characters

Sugar Street

by Naguib Mahfouz Final novel in Cairo trilogy Typhoid epidemic kills all of Aisha's family except her and on daughter causing her to go mad Yasin's son Ridwan becomes a gay politician Ahmad- Khadija's son who becomes Marxist journalist and marries a co-worker Kamal becomes a teacher, carries Al-Sayyid Ahmad to an air raid shelter

Palace Walk

by Naguib Mahfouz First novel in Cairo trilogy Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad- patriarch, hypocritically returns home drunk and has many affairs with women he meets at his grocery store despite demanding extreme piety from his family Amina- Al-Sayyid Ahmad's wife, fractures her collar bone after feinting from heat and being hit by a car while heading to the al-Hussein mosque Fahmy- Eldest son of Amina, law student who is killed in peaceful demonstration, loves Maryam Yasin- Eldest son of Al-Sayyid Ahmad from his first marriage, realizes his father's hedonism after seeing him play the tambourine, tells Fahmy after Jalila confronts their father at Aisha's wedding, marries Zanuba Kamal- youngest son, based on Mahfouz Aisha- prettiest daughter marries Khalil Shawkat Khadija- eldest daughter, marries other Shawkat brother

The Thief and the Dogs

by Naguib Mahfouz Recently freed Said Mahran plans to get revenge on those who put him in jail, takes shelter with cafe-owner Tarzan and prostitute Nur Said targets ex-wife Nabawiyya, her husband Ilish, and the rich journalist/Said's mentor Rauf Ilwan using title animals Said accidentally kills two innocent people instead

Palace of Desire

by Naguib Mahfouz Second novel in Cairo Trilogy Yasin marries and divorces Maryam Kamal writes a magazine article about Darwin, enraging Al-Sayyid Ahmad Kamal falls for Aida and studies philosophy

Arabian Nights and Days

by Naguib Mahfouz Sequel to 1001 Nights including such stories as "The Invisibility Cap."

Beneath the Shelter

by Naguib Mahfouz Set in a bus stop

Midaq Alley

by Naguib Mahfouz Set on title street in Cairo Hashish-smoking cafe owner Kirsha and the sexually insatiable Salim Alwan Mr. Booshy- dentist who makes a living by stealing from corpses Hamida tries to escape the titular location through marriage and prostitution The barber Abbas is beaten to death by British soldiers at the end after smashing beer glass on former-lover Hamida

Miramar

by Naguib Mahfouz Title boarding house is run by Mariana. Various characters represent Egyptian political philosophies and most are entranced with the servant girl Zohra

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

by Nathan Englander Title inspired by Raymond Carver collection Short story collection originally published in the New Yorker about title author

Nevsky Prospect

by Nikolai Gogol Lieutenant Pirogov and Piskaryov travel along the title street

Dead Souls

by Nikolai Gogol Pavel Chichikov buys dead serfs in order to use as collateral in a loan Sobakevitch and Maniloff sell him the title entities Protagonist accused of being Napoleon or Captain Kopeikin in disguise

Diary of a Madman

by Nikolai Gogol Poprishchin believes he is heir to the Spanish throne

The Overcoat

by Nikolai Gogol Title article of clothing is stolen from Akaky Akakievitch, he dies and his ghost haunts st. petersburg Ghost assaults the "person of consequence", steals title object from "very important person" Title object made by Petrovich

The Nose

by Nikolai Gogol Yakovlevich finds title object in his loaf of bread Title object briefly becomes a State Councillor Title object returns to face of Platon Kovalyov at the end

Fearful Symmetry

by Northrop Frye Critical study of The Tyger by William Blake

Anatomy of Criticism

by Northrop Frye Historical approach to the modes of literature Composed of four essays Last essay classifies genres Contrasts "high" and "low" forms of mimesis

The Vicar of Wakefield

by Oliver Goldsmith About the tribulations of the Primrose family George Primrose marries Arabella Wilmot Title character is Dr. Charles Primrose Sophia marries Mr. Burchell who saves her from drowning and turns out to be uncle of Squire William Thornhill Ephraim Jenkinson swindles Moses out of a horse for a gross of green spectacles Olivia Primrose fakes her death and obtains her marriage license to Squire Thornhill

The Deserted Village

by Oliver Goldsmith Describes going to Auburn, where "wealth accumulates and men decay" Inspired George Crabbe's poem "The Village" "where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain"

The Citizen of the World

by Oliver Goldsmith Letters attributed to Chinese traveler Lien Chi

She Stoops to Conquer

by Oliver Goldsmith Titled for Kate Hardcastle's strategy to marry Charles Marlow At the Three Pigeons alehouse, Tony Lumpkin tricks two travelers into thinking Hardcastle Manor is an inn, allowing the Kate to pose as a barmaid Constance Neville steals jewels to elope with George Hastings at the end Prologue written by David Garrick begins with actor Mr. Woodward lamenting that the "Comic Muse, long sick, is now a-dying" Mr. Hardcastle tells story of Duke of Marlborough Opens with complaining about boring houseguests Mr. Cripplegate and Mrs. Oddfish

The New Life

by Orhan Pamuk Dr. Fine who leads a conspiracy to assassinate readers of the title book

The Museum of Innocence

by Orhan Pamuk Kemal falls in love with shopgirl Füsun, collects every day objects that remind him of her eventually filling a museum with them Pamuk created a real life version of title location in Istanbul Objects in the museum include 4,213 cigarette butts, china dogs, Jenny Colon handbag Kemal buys a counterfeit handbag for his fiance Sibel from Füsun Fusun's earring becomes first object in the museum after she dies in a car crash Kemal fails to launch Lemon Films

The White Castle

by Orhan Pamuk Narrator is a traveling Italian scholar kidnapped and becomes the slave of the Ottoman scholar Hoja, is forced to help build giant weapon to take title location

My Name is Red

by Orhan Pamuk Set in 16th century Istanbul under the reign of Ottoman Sultan Murad III Opens with Elegant Effendi's recently murdered body being thrown in a well Various narrators include a gold coin, Satan, the dead Elegant Effendi, title color, a horse, and a tree Protagonist named Black arrives in Istanbul at the request of his uncle Enishte Effendi, who is later murdered Black loves his cousin Shekure (Enishte's daughter) whose husband is missing and has children Orhan and Shevket Jewish clothier Esther delivers messages between Black and Shekure Enishte is commissioned by the Sultan to make a book in secret, in the style of the Venetian masters, he employs miniaturists Olive(Murderer of Elegant and Enishte), Elegant, Stork, and Butterfly Master Osman, who taught the miniaturists, helps Black find killer by examining imperfections in the nostrils of a drawing of a horse (fake contest having miniaturists draw horses for comparison) Osman blinds himself with plume needle in the Sultan's treasury Many stories about style, signature, and blindness in the lives of master miniaturists

The Black Book

by Orhan Pamuk The lawyer Galip searches for his wife Ruya and her brother, the columnist Celal Galip tries to live the life of Celal to find them, discovers them both shot dead outside Aladdin's shop

Snow

by Orhan Pamuk The poet Ka returns to Turkey from exile in Germany, prompted by reports of women committing suicide after being forced to remove their headscarves Set in city of Kars Kadife- leader of the "headscarf girls," loves character named Blue, shoots actor Sunay Zaim after removing her headscarf during an adaptation of Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy Ka reunites with his childhood love Ipek, older sister of Kadife who once had an affair with Blue Discussion about headscarves in New Life Pastry Shop leads to shooting of director of the Institute of Education High school student and aspiring science-fiction writer Necip competes with Ka for love of Ipek and is killed during performance of My Fatherland or My Head Scarf in the National Theater when soldiers march onstage and fire into crowd Narrator is fictionalized version of Orhan Pamuk who loses his green notebook containing poetry and searches for it in an apartment in Frankfurt

The Red-Haired Woman

by Orhan Pamuk Well-digging apprentice obsessed with both Oedipus Rex and Rostam and Sohrab becomes entranced by the title actress.

Sir Vidia's Shadow

by Paul Theroux Account of terse friendship between Theroux and V.S. Naipaul

The Great Railway Bazaar

by Paul Theroux Describes traveling from London to Tokyo on Trans-Siberian railroad

The Mosquito Coast

by Paul Theroux Titled for region on eastern coast of Nicaragua and part of Honduras

American Pastoral

by Philip Roth About Seymour "The Swede" Levov's supposedly idyllic life, his daughter Merry converts to Jainism and bombs a postal office in protest of the Vietnam War Nathan Zuckerman- Narrator Seymour inherits his father's glove factory, moves to Old Rimrock with wife, former Miss New Jersey Dawn Dwyer Dawn has affair with Bill Orcutt who stabs Swede in face with fork at the end Rita Cohen helps Seymour find his daughter

The Human Stain

by Philip Roth About professor Coleman Silk who is secretly black, calls two black students "spooks" Narrated by Nathan Zuckerman, set in Athena College Janitor Faunia Farley has affair with Silk after his wife dies Delphine Roux- assistant professor

I Married a Communist

by Philip Roth Anti-semetic Eve Frame reveals socialist past of her husband, radio host "iron rinn" Based on Philip Roth's ex-wife Claire Bloom

The Plot Against America

by Philip Roth Charles Lindbergh, assisted by Rabbi Bengelsdorf, defeats FDR in 1940 election, turns America into a fascist state A radio broadcast of world series is interrupted to announce death of Presidential candidate Walter Winchell Set during WWII

Exit Ghost

by Philip Roth E. I. Lonoff George Plimpton publishes the writing of Nathan Zuckerman

Goodbye, Columbus

by Philip Roth Includes short story "Defender of the Faith" Neil Klugman woos Brenda Patimkin, who runs into trouble when her mother discovers her diaphragm "The Conversion of the Jews" - Ozzie Freedman is slapped by Rabbi Binder for asking about the possibility of Mary's virgin birth. Takes title from record Ron owns commemorating his graduation ceremony at Ohio State

Operation Shylock

by Philip Roth Philip Roth visits John Demjanjuk's trial in Israel

Portnoy's Complaint

by Philip Roth Title character Alexander describes his adolescent obsession with masturbation(with a piece of liver) and his Oedipal love for his mother Sophie to his psychiatrist, Dr. Spielvogel Girlfriends nicknamed "The Pilgrim", "The Pumpkin", and (Mary Jane Reed) "The Monkey" "Now vee may perhaps to begin. Yes?"- only line of dialogue from Spielvogel

Epinikia of Pindar

by Pindar, aka his "victory odes" Commemorates athletic achievements at the Olympic Games

Red Oleanders

by Rabindranath Tagore Nandini leads revolution against king of Yakshapuri who forces citizens to mine gold

Jana Gana Mana

by Rabindranath Tagore National anthem of India Originally in Bengali

The Home and the World

by Rabindranath Tagore love triangle between Nikhil, Sandip, and Bimala

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury 13-year-old best friends Jim Nightshade and William Halloway encounter the evil being Mr. Dark who terrorizes Green Town, Illinois with his sinister carnival Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show Charles Halloway (William's dad) shoots the Dust Witch with a wax bullet Mr. Electrico A lightning rod salesman named Tom Fury tells Jim his house will be hit by lightning in the next storm

A Sound of Thunder

by Ray Bradbury Eckels accidentally steps on a butterfly and changes the future when he goes back in time to shoot a T-rex Leads to the fascist Deutscher defeating Keith in an election Title phenomenon is heard before Travis shoots Eckels

Usher II

by Ray Bradbury In collection The Martian Chronicles William Stendahl rebuilds the mansion from Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" and takes revenge on the people of mars

Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury Mechanical Hound pursues the fireman(salamander insignia) Guy Montag who burns books Clarisse McClellan- Guy Montag's neighbor, 17yo girl who is killed by a speeding car Professor Faber- helps Montag escape the Hound and embrace books, gives him a "green bullet" that is a two way radio for communication Montag kills his boss Captain Beatty with a flamethrower and meets Granger after the city burns down Montag's wife Mildred watches four TV walls in parlor, is addicted to sleeping pills. Montag reads "Dover Beach" for Mildred, Mrs. Phelps, and Mrs. Bowles which horrifies Mildred and makes Mrs. Phelps cry Montag memorizes parts of Ecclesiastes after his copy of the Bible was burned, is almost run over by a group of teenagers in a "beetle car" Stoneman and Black- Montag's coworkers

The Third Expedition

by Ray Bradbury Originally titled "Mars is Heaven!" Explorers find an idyllic small town populated by their families, only to be murdered in their sleep

Dandelion Wine

by Ray Bradbury Sequel is Farewell Summer Douglas Spaulding nearly dies after learning of his own mortality, spends his summers in Green Town, Illinois Leo Auffman creates a Happiness Machine that only makes his family sad 12yo Doug Spaulding runs errands for Mr. Sanderson in exchange for new shoes

There Will Come Soft Rains

by Ray Bradbury in collection The Martian Chronicles Breakdown of an automated house that continues to function long after its inhabitants are killed in a nuclear explosion Titled after a Sara Teasdale poem of the same name, the house continues to read title poem out loud to no one A dog dies in living room as stove makes breakfast

A Small, Good Thing

by Raymond Carver Extended version of Carver's earlier story "The Bath" After Howard and Ann Weiss get home from the hospital, a baker insistently calls them to ask them to pick up a cake for their son Scotty who died in a car crash on his birthday

Where I'm Calling From

by Raymond Carver Frank Martin's "drying-out facility" Narrator J.P. describes his alcoholism by comparing himself to the protagonist of "To Build a Fire." Roxy offers a good luck kiss to J.P. when she comes to sweep his chimney Tiny has seizures

Gazebo

by Raymond Carver In collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Hotel managers Holly and Duane

Cathedral (collection)

by Raymond Carver Title short story "Where I'm Calling From" "A Small, Good Thing"

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (collection)

by Raymond Carver Title story "Gazebo" "So Much Water So Close to Home" "The Bath" "The Third Thing That Killed My Father Off" Edited by Gordon Lish of Esquire Magazine

Cathedral (story)

by Raymond Carver Titles collection it is in Narrator watches TV film about the Middle Age and smokes marijuana with his wife's blind friend Robert, the two share a spiritual experience while drawing the title building Narrator's wife Beulah dies of cancer, narrator comments that her name is "a name for a colored woman." Beulah writes a poem about having her face touched by Robert, corresponds with him using audio tapes

So Much Water So Close to Home

by Raymond Carver in collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Narrator Claire is perturbed that her husband Stuart may have committed murder

The Bath

by Raymond Carver in collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love predecessor of "A Small, Good Thing" Scotty is walking to school when he is hit by a car and knocked unconscious

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (story)

by Raymond Carver in namesake collection Cardiologist Mel McGinnis talks about an elderly couple that was injured in a car accident Mel and Terri debate whether her abusive ex-husband Ed had really loved her Nick and Laura- other couple that listen, the two couples discuss title concept Ed fails to kill himself by drinking rat poison Mel discusses wanting to use bees to kill his ex-wife Marjorie Manuscript version is called "Beginners"

Will You Please Be Quiet Please?

by Raymond Carver short story collection "Neighbors" "Signals" "Fat" "Are You a Doctor"

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson Scientist creates a potion which turns him into a monstrous alter-ego. Mr. Enfield discusses incident in which Mr. H tramples a little girl, goes on walks with the lawyer Gabriel Utterson Utterson investigates murder of Sir Danvers Carew Dr. Lanyon dies of shock after seeing Dr. J transform into Mr. H

At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers

by Salman Rushdie About author's beloved childhood film The Wizard of Oz which inspired his writing career

The Ground Beneath Her Feet

by Salman Rushdie Alternative history of rock and roll Rock musician Ormus Cana and the half-Indian singer Vina Apsara become 20th-century analogues of Orpheus and Eurydice

Shalimar the Clown

by Salman Rushdie American diplomat Max Ophuls is killed Title character walks the tightrope

Grimus

by Salman Rushdie Flapping Eagle drinks a magic immortality potion, searches for his sister for 777 years, goes to Calf Island

The Enchantress of Florence

by Salman Rushdie Juxtaposes Machiavelli's childhood and friendship with Amerigo Vespucci's with the court of Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great where a blonde traveler saves himself from Akbar's elephant by claiming descent from Lady Black Eyes

Joseph Anton: a Memoir

by Salman Rushdie Memoir about the time he spent in hiding following the fatwa Titled after the pseudonym/fake identity he took in hiding, comes from the first names of Conrad and Chekhov Describes Rushdie's marriages to Padma Lakshmi and Marianne Wiggins

The Moor's Last Sigh

by Salman Rushdie Narrated by Moraes Zogoiby, title refers to where last Muslim ruler of Spain, Boabdil surrendered Granada

The Jaguar Smile

by Salman Rushdie Nonfiction, about author's travels to Nicaragua, documents the rise of the Sandinistas

The Satanic Verses

by Salman Rushdie Resulted in Ayatollah Khomeini placing a fatwa on author for violating anti-blasphemy laws Opens with a hijacked plane explosion over the English Chanel involving survivors Bollywood actor Gibreel Farishta and voice over actor Saladin Chamcha Gibreel Farishta takes the role of the archangel Gabriel, shoots his producer Whisky Sisodia Farishta kills himself after throwing his mountaineer girlfriend Alleluia "Allie" Cone off of Everest Apartments where she lives Allie once summited Everest Saladin Chamcha takes the role of Satan/the Devil, begins transforming into a goat Even chapters depict Farishta's dreams which follow the butterfly-eating prophet Ayesha and her followers' pilgrimage, they walk into the Arabian Sea and all drown In Farishta's dream sequences, Mahound or "the Messenger" (represents Mohammad) conquers Jahilia The priestess Hind and the poet Baal appear in Farishta's dreams Mishal's breast cancer inspires Ayesha's pilgrimage Rekha Merchant- Farishta's former lover, haunts him A disgraced poet hides in a brothel where he "marries" twelve prostitutes Riots break out when the black activist Uhuru Simba dies after being wrongly imprisoned for the"Granny Ripper Murders." Pamela Lovelace- Saladin Chamcha's wife who has an affair with Jumpy Joshi after she believes him dead Chamcha gets fired from the show "The Aliens"

Shame

by Salman Rushdie Set in the fictional town "Q" which represents Pakistan Describes relationship between Sufiya Zenobia Hyder and Dr. Omar Khayyam Shakil Fictionalizes Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as Iskander Harappa Sufiya beheads 218 turkeys, transforms into a white panther before beheading husband Omar and exploding into a fireball General Raza Hyder deposes Iskander Harappa The three sisters Chunni, Munnee, and Bunny- mothers of Omar Khayyam, never reveal which is his real mother

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

by Salman Rushdie Title character and his father Rashid Khalifa travel with the water genie Iff to the moon Kahani Rashid works for corrupt politician Snooty Buttoo Title character meets Butt the Hoopoe and helps defeat Khattam-Shud

Luka and the Fire of Life

by Salman Rushdie Title character is the brother of Haroun Khalifa from Haroun and the Sea of Stories Title character seeks title substance which is gaurded by the Aalim Prometheus throws a phantom named "Nobodaddy" into space

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie Title characters are born on August 15, 1947, at the exact moment of the partition of India Protagonist Saleem Sinai has a gigantic, always dripping nose that gives him telepathic abilities, loses powers after sinus surgery Saleem marries Paravati the Witch "the Widow" - represents Indira Gandhi, sterilizes title characters Saleem's grandfather, the doctor Aadam Aziz slowly falls in love with Naseem(who refers to things as "whatsitsname") while viewing her through hole in a perforated bedsheet Saleem's sister Jamila Singer aka "Brass Monkey" becomes a singer in Pakistan Mary Pereira runs a pickle factory, switches Saleem with Shiva "of the Knees" at birth on the Methwold estate, Saleem later becomes manager of the pickle factory William Methwold sells cheap villas, seduces the wife of accordionist Wee Willie Winkie Methwold is Saleem's biological father, Winkie is Shiva's Joseph D'Costa betrays Pereira leading to her swapping Saleem and Shiva A silver spittoon falls on Saleem's head causing him to lose his memory Amina- Saleem's mother, daughter of Aadam Aziz Awarded the first "Booker of Bookers" Saleem's son Aadam's first word is "abracadabra"

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

by Salman Rushdie Title is equal to 1001 nights

The Adventures of Augie March

by Saul Bellow Opening sentence: "I am an American, Chicago born" Title character has brothers Simon and the mentally-disabled Georgie, their landlord Grandma Lausch helps raise them Title character goes to Mexico with Thea Fenchel to catch lizards with a trained eagle named Caligula during which time he falls off the horse Bizcocho and fractures his skull Title character ends up marrying Stella, enlists in the merchant marines during WWII and is stranded on a lifeboat with the insane/homicidal man Bateshaw Title character works for the crippled business man Einhorn Title character helps his friend Mimi Villars get an abortion, leading to his breakup with Lucy Magnus Title character is briefly adopted by the Coblin family including character named Five Properties Opening paragraph paraphrases Heraclitus's thought that "a man's character is his fate."

Henderson the Rain King

by Saul Bellow Title American millionaire pigfarmer Eugene travels to Africa to satisfy his inner voice that repeats "I want" over and over Title character meets Romilayu in Arnewi who guides him to a Wariri village where he carries and whips a gigantic statue of Mummah earning title epithet and becoming a spiritual leader of the tribe Title character builds a bomb to kill the frogs in a cistern in the village Arnewi that ends up destroying the entire cistern King Dahfu dies on a quest to hunt the lion he believes is the reincarnation of his dead father, after which title character returns to America Dahfu's wife teaches title character about grun-to-molani

The Dean's December

by Saul Bellow Title character Albert Corde travels with his wife Minna to his mother's deathbed in Romania Albert writes politically charged articles for Harper's

Herzog

by Saul Bellow Title character Moses writes many letters to many living and dead people including Nietzsche and Eisenhower but never sends them Title character's wife Madeleine leaves him for his friend Valentine Gersbach, title character plans to shoot them both and struggles to win custody of his daughter Junie Title character has an affair with Ramona, is arrested after a car accident when police find his dead father's revolver in the car Lucas Asphalter is mentioned in a newspaper article after he attempts to revive his tuberculosis-infected monkey Rocco with mouth to mouth Title character condemns "potato love," uses lawyers Simkin and Sandor Himmelstein

Humboldt's Gift

by Saul Bellow Title character Von Humboldt Fleisher is based on writer Delmore Shwartz Charlie Citrine- Poet based on Bellow, is mentored by title character The gangster Roland Cantabile takes a baseball bat to Citrine's Mercedes Benz for unpaid poker debts

Mr. Sammler's Planet

by Saul Bellow Title character is a one-eyed Polish holocaust survivor

Seize the Day

by Saul Bellow Titled for an expression coined by Horace Failed actor Tommy Wilhelm is given the title advice by the sinister psychologist Dr. Tamkin Tommy loses seven hundred dollars investing in lard stocks Maruice Venice - talent agent that recruits Tommy Wilhelm Ends with Tommy crying at the funeral of a stranger after his father Dr. Adler refuses to help him financially

Ravelstein

by Saul Bellow, his final novel Title character Abe is based on Bellow's friend Allan Bloom Narrator is "Chick" the alter ego of Bellow writes memoir about title philosophy professor who dies of AIDS Title character has male lover Nikki

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

by Stephen Crane Title woman becomes a prostitute after her lover, the bartender Pete, leaves her for Nellie Mary(mother) and Jimmie Johnson(her brother) throw her out Opens on street fight between residents of Devil's Row and Rum Alley Her mother screams "I'll fergive her!" at the end

The Open Boat

by Stephen Crane, based on his experience after the sinking of the Commodore Billie the oiler died The cook, the correspondent, and the captain survive Opening line: "None of them knew the color of the sky." "Funny they don't see us!"

American Names

by Stephen Vincent Benet Final line: "Bury my heart at Wounded Knee" Says he has "fallen in love" with title things

The Devil and Daniel Webster

by Stephen Vincent Benet New Hampshire farmer Jabez Stone's soul is saved by the lawyering of an American senator Judge Hathorne rules in favor of Jabez Stone against Mr. Scratch References John Greenleaf Whittier's "Ichabod."

By the Waters of Babylon

by Stephen Vincent Benet Post-apocalyptic story where "The Great Burning" left old houses as "dead places" title from Psalm 137 The priest John travels to the Place of the Gods

The Mountain Whippoorwill

by Stephen Vincent Benet Tells the story of how a country bumpkin wins a violin contest at a county fair

Western Star

by Stephen Vincent Benet Unfinished About American frontier

John Brown's Body

by Stephen Vincent Benet, epic poem Narrated by Connecticut soldier Jack Ellyat Describes the raid on Harper's Ferry Title object "lies a-mouldering in the grave" while "His soul's marching on."

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

by Tadeusz Borowski Short story collection inspired by author's time in Auschwitz

The Four Prentices of London

by Thomas Heywood Elizabethan play about the sons of the Earl of Boulogne

A Woman Killed with Kindness

by Thomas Heywood Wendoll seduces Master Frankford's wife Anne, leading Frankford to exile her to a country house Anne dies of a broken heart

The Real Thing

by Tom Stoppard About playwright Henry who writes the play The House of Cards to be performed by his wife Charlotte and Max in the first act Henry has an affair with the actress Annie, who tries to free the Scottish soldier Brodie from prison Annie convinces Henry to ghostwrite a play for Brodie Ends with the protagonist listening to "I'm a Believer" by the Monkees

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

by Tom Stoppard Andre Previn wrote the music for it

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

by Tom Stoppard Based on two minor characters from Hamlet, they are sent on a ship with a swapped out letter from Hamlet that demands their execution Begins with title characters betting on whether a birth year doubled is an odd number after first title character wins a game flipping a coin 92 times by calling heads every time, leading second titular character to wonder whether the world operates within "un-, sub- or supernatural forces" Title characters meet the Player, who leads a troupe of actors called the Tragedians The Tragedians put on a performance of "The Rape of the Sabine Women" in which Alfred is forced to wear a skirt Title characters "impossibly" hide in barrels after being ambushed by pirates following a Tragedian performance of The Murder of Gonzago that angers Claudius Music emanates from barrels the Tragedians are hiding in Tennis scoring is used in a "game of questions" which Hamlet wins over title characters 27 to 3 Second titular character believes he has killed the Player with a retractable knife only for the Player to stand up moments later Title characters often end the Lord's Prayer "give us this day our daily-" with words like "week" "mask" "cue" and "music". One character muses that a certain event "must be indicative of something, besides the redistribution of wealth."

The Coast of Utopia

by Tom Stoppard Cycle of three plays: Voyage, Shipwreck, and Salvage Real life Russian thinkers Alexander Herzen, Mikhail Bakunin, and Ivan Turgenev engage in a lot of philosophical discussion

Indian Ink

by Tom Stoppard Eldon Pike investigates Flora Crewe's death

Arcadia

by Tom Stoppard Set at Sidley Park, where in 1809, Septimus Hodge (a friend of Lord Byron) tutors to the precocious mathematical prodigy Thomasina Coverly In second plot set centuries later, Bernard Nightingale and Hannah Jarvis study the life of Lord Byron In opening scene, Thomasina asks Septimus "What is carnal embrace?", Septimus replies "the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef" Septimus asks Thomasina to prove Fermat's last theorem in hopes of getting enough time to finish reading "The Couch of Eros" Hannah disproves Bernard's theory that Lord Byron killed Ezra Chater in a duel Lightning and Plautus are tortoises which are featured in every scene Valentine does research about grouse population, helps Hannah research the "hermit of Sidley Park" (Septimus) Thomasina begs Septimus to teach her how to waltz, he finally agrees at end of play Septimus burns a letter by Lord Byron in front of Lady Croom, another letter from Lord Byron to Septimus discusses how you can stir jam into rice pudding but never unstir it

Rock 'n' Roll

by Tom Stoppard Set in Cambridge and Prague Jan studies under Max Morrow at Cambridge

Travesties

by Tom Stoppard Set in World War I Zurich Henry Carr reminisces about being in a production of The Importance of Being Earnest Portrays a fictional meeting between Tristan Tzara, Vladimir Lenin, and James Joyce Tristan Tzara creates a poem by pulling words from Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 out of a hat

Jumpers

by Tom Stoppard Sir Archie uses the "more gymnastic members" of philosophy professors for title acrobat troupe

Hapgood

by Tom Stoppard Title spymaster must figure out if Ridley is a traitor

The Real Inspector Hound

by Tom Stoppard Two critics named Birdboot and Moon watch a murder mystery set at Muldoon Manor before becoming involved in said mystery Muldoon Manor is served by the maid Mrs. Drudge

Sula

by Toni Morrison aka Chloe Ardelia Wofford About friendship between title character and Nel Wright Title character accidentally drowns Chicken Little, learns that Albert Jacks was the real name of her lover, Ajax Set in "The Bottom"

The Origin of Others

by Toni Morrison aka Chloe Ardelia Wofford Author's most recent and final novel, came out in September, 2017

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison aka Chloe Ardelia Wofford Members of the Dead family are named by placing a pin randomly in the bible Protagonist Milkman Dead, who got his name because he breastfed at a late age, travels to the south to find his ancestral home Milkman's siblings are First Corinthians, Magdalene, and Pilate(who is "navel less") Guitar Bains- Milkman's childhood best friend

A Mercy

by Toni Morrison aka Chloe Ardelia Wofford Set in 17th century America Florens and Lina are slaves on Jacob Vaark's plantation

Beloved

by Toni Morrison aka Chloe Ardelia Wofford Sethe kills her baby (title character) to save it from slavery, escapes with her daughter Denver from plantation Sweet Home to Cincinnati where they live at 124 Bluestone Road which was once occupied by Baby Suggs Title character returns as a ghost to haunt Sethe Protagonist believes Paul D's heart is like a "tobacco tin" with the lid sealed shut The protagonist mistakes Mr. Bodwin for Schoolteacher and attacks him with an ice pick Protagonist is guided across the Ohio River by Stamp Paid Protagonist's sons Howard and Buglar flee 124 Bluestone Road as they think it is haunted Paul D refuses to believe that a person in a newspaper picture is Sethe and says "that ain't her mouth"

The Bluest Eye

by Toni Morrison aka Chloe Ardelia Wofford The chapter titles come from a Dick and Jane book Pecola Breedlove seeks title body part, is raped by her father Cholly, eventually goes insane and believes she has title feature Narrated mostly by Claudia MacTeer Pecola idolizes Shirley Temple The half-Chinese pedophile Soaphead Church tricks protagonist into giving his landlady's dog poisoned meat in exchange for "granting her wish" Protagonist's mother, Polly, stepped on a nail as a child, leading to a deformed foot and a limp

Foucault's Pendulum

by Umberto Eco "The Plan"- Three publishers, Belbo, Diotallevi, and Casaubon, use Colonel Ardenti's book about the Knights Templar(secret society) to construct a conspiracy Plan to use the title device to search for "telluric currents." They work for Garamond Publishing, use the computer Abulafia Narrator Casaubon follows his girlfriend Amparo to Brazil where she was taken after being kidnapped by Aglie, who claims to be the Count of St. Germain

The Name of the Rose

by Umberto Eco Apprentice Adso of Melk and monk William of Baskerville solve murders in a 14th-century monastery Blind librarian Jorge of Burgos eats poisoned pages of Aristotle's Second Book of Poetics and burns down the aedificium Inquisitor Bernard Gui burns Remigo, the hunchback Salvatore, and a village girl Venantius is found dead in a vat of pig's blood Adelmo is persuaded by Berengar to have sex with him, and commits suicide Herbalist Severinus dies One character deduces whereabouts of lost horse, Brunellus Finds hidden room finis Africae

The Prague Cemetery

by Umberto Eco Framed as diaries of Simone Simonini, who forges the note that sets off Dreyfus affair and writes The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Destroys Ippolito Nievo's ship Simonini is revealed to be Abbé Dalla Piccola

Baudolino

by Umberto Eco Title character recounts searching for Prester John's kingdom to Niketas Choniates during fourth crusade siege of Constantinople Title character is adopted son of Frederick Barbarossa, loves Hypatia, a satyr, is friends with the monopod Gavagai

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

by Umberto Eco Yambo has a stroke and can only remember books he has read until he discovers copy of First Folio, returns to Solara

How to Travel with a Salmon

by Umberto Eco computer glitch at a hotel causes a delay in him putting a fish he bought in Stockholm in a minibar fridge

Travels in Hyperreality

by Umberto Eco essay which compares LBJ's presidential library to the Fortress of Solitude to explain the phenomenon of copies being more "real" than their originals Originally titled "Faith in Fakes" Also discusses Disneyland

The Enigma of Arrival

by V.S. Naipaul Autobiographical novel that gets its title and cover from a painting by Giorgio de Chirico

Miguel Street

by V.S. Naipaul Collection of stories set on title road Bogart- arrested for bigamy Mr. Popo- carpenter who tires to make "the thing without a name" B. Wordsworth- wrote first line of the greatest poem ever written Hat- gambler Man-man- declares himself a prophet after his dog dies, stages his own crucifixion and stoning Elias- becomes a cart-driver after failing exams Narrator passes exams and leaves title locale

The Mystic Masseur

by V.S. Naipaul Ganesh Ramsumair can cure illness with his hands, becomes a successful politician under the name G. Ramsay Muir

A Bend in the River

by V.S. Naipaul Indian muslim Salim sets up a store on title location in an African country lead by the dictator "Big Man" (based on Mobuto Sese Seko's Congo) The magician Zabeth patronizes Salim's shop, Salim helps Zabeth's son Ferdinand get an education from Belgian priest Father Huismans (collects African masks and is murdered) Salim builds a Madonna cult in honor of his mother(a former hotel maid), has an affair with Yvette(wife of Raymond, a scholar who works for Big Man) The Domain/New Domain created by Big Man Metty- Salim's servant/assistant, betrays Salim by framing him for selling ivory Salim marries Nazruddin's daughter Big Burger franchise is opened across from Salim's shop Ferdinand declares "We're all going to hell" Patrick French's biography of Naipaul takes its title from the opening line of this novel: "The world is what it is..."

A House for Mr. Biswas

by V.S. Naipaul Title character Mohun Biswas, marries Shama of the Tulsi family while working as a sign painter, sends her note that says "I love you and I want to talk to you", he spends the rest of his life trying to escape them Tulsi's live in Hanuman House, Owad (the "young god") leaves and studies in England, a man nicknamed W C Tuttle clashes w Biswas Mohun reports for the Sentinel in Port-of-Spain, finds "Deserving Destitutes", writes a series of "Escape" stories, reads Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus Mohun is born with six fingers and told to avoid water, his father drowns trying to save a calf Mohun lost while being distracted by seeing a river for the first time Mohun moves between the Chase, Green Vale, and Hanuman House while trying to acquire title object, has lifelong stomach problems after eating seven bananas Mohun's son Anand becomes terrified after his dog is killed during labor dispute

In a Free State

by V.S. Naipaul, won the Booker prize for it Consists of three stories Third story is gives novel its title: Bobby and Linda take a long drive through an African country going through a revolution between the King and the President, Bobby is beaten at an army checkpoint Other stories are "One Out of Many" and "Tell Me Who to Kill" Santosh works for Priya, who sets up a marriage for Santosh to gain American citizenship Dayo's brother moves to London

Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight

by Vachel Lindsay "thinks of men and kings" Title figure figure paces in Springfield, Illinois, "cannot sleep upon his hillside" "bronzed, lank man" "high top-hat"

The Eagle That is Forgotten

by Vachel Lindsay Elegy for John Peter Altgeld

General William Booth Enters Into Heaven

by Vachel Lindsay procession following leader of the Salvation Army into paradise "Are you washed in the blood of the lamb?" "led boldly with the big bass drum"

The Waves

by Virginia Woolf Consists entirely of soliloquies spoken by six different characters, who describe their collective hero Percival

A Room of One's Own

by Virginia Woolf Essay about Shakespeare's sister Judith States women writers need title space

The Death of a Moth

by Virginia Woolf Essay comparing struggles of title creature to daily lives of humans

Mrs. Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf One day in the life of title house wife Clarissa Septimus Smith throws himself out of a window Title character is married to politician Richard but reminisces about kissing Sally Seton and her time with Peter Walsh Begins with title character buying flowers for a party she is hosting

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf Painter Lily Briscoe lives with Ramsay family and they travel to title location

Orlando

by Virginia Woolf Protagonist and many characters are gender shifting Inspired by author's friend/lover Vita Sackville-West

Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov About Humbert Humbert's love for the "nymphet" Dolores Haze Humbert shoots his rival Claire Quilty, playwright of "The Enchanted Hunters" at Beardsley School, Quilty kidnaps title character at one point Charlotte dies in car accident after reading Humbert's diary about title character(her daughter) Detective Gustave Trapp Humbert is jailed for shooting Quilty Title character attends Camp Q Annabel Leigh dies of Typhus

Pale Fire

by Vladimir Nabokov Consists of John Shade's title 999-line poem and Charles Kinbote's editorial comments on that poem Kinbote believes he is the exiled king of Zembla Opening line: "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain"

The Defense

by Vladimir Nabokov Luzhin plays chess against Turati

Pnin

by Vladimir Nabokov about a professor at Waindell College

Beat! Beat! Drums!

by Walt Whitman "through the windows" and "through doors."

Song of Myself

by Walt Whitman 52 sections "(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" Opening line: "I celebrate myself, and sing myself" Ends "I stop somewhere, waiting for you" "Do I contradict myself?," admits "Very well then I contradict myself," A woman joins some young men "by the shore" as the "the twenty-ninth bather" Narrator sounds his "barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." speaker answers "the beautiful uncut hair of graves" to a child's question of "What is grass?" "every atom belonging to me as good as belongs to you" "I loaf and invite my soul" "a uniform hieroglyphic" "I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul"

Song of the Broad-Axe

by Walt Whitman Addressed to a "weapon, shapely, naked, wan"

A Noiseless Patient Spider

by Walt Whitman Compares his soul to title creature that "launches forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself" Surrounded by "oceans of space"

I Hear America Singing

by Walt Whitman Describes the carpenter "as he measures his plank of beam" "what belongs to him or her and to none else."

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd

by Walt Whitman Elegy for Abraham Lincoln, he is compared to a "western orb sailing the heaven" "great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night" solitary thrush that "sings by himself a song." "Come lovely and soothing death, undulate round the world" "Song of the bleeding throat" Shifts into italics to demarcate a "carol of death" sung by a hermit thrush/"gray-brown" bird in a swamp "what shall I hang on the chamber walls?" "the fragrant pines and the cedars dark and dim" Narrator gives a sprig of the title flower to a "coffin that passes through lanes and streets." Final section begins "Passing the visions, passing the night"

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

by Walt Whitman First poem in Sea Drift section of Leaves of Grass Originally titled "A Word Out of the Sea" Set on Paumanok's shore Begins with a mockingbird crying out, describes a boy awakening as a poet Narrator says "the sea whisper'd to me," "the low and delicious word death" "the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle." "solitary guest from Alabama" "A thousand warbling echoes have started to life within me, / Never to die"

I Sing the Body Electric

by Walt Whitman From "Children of Adam" sequence of Leaves of Grass Celebration of the human form, includes catalog of anatomical parts "the armies of those I love engirth me" "I say now these are the soul" "If the body were not the Soul, what is the Soul?" describes the female body as "the bath of birth" Speaker assumes the role of a "sloven" auctioneer examining people on auction at a "slave-mart" to praise the male and female versions of the title object Description of an 80-year-old farmer who is "the father of five sons" "Swim with the swimmers, wrestle with wrestlers, march in line with the firemen."

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

by Walt Whitman From the Calamus poems in Leaves of Grass Was first titled "Sun-Down Poem" A person travels over the East River "Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!" "you furnish your parts toward the soul." "What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us?" "the similitudes of the past and those of the future" "Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes" "Whatever it is, it avails not- distance avails not, and place avails not" Speaker claims "the dark threw patches down upon me" before comparing himself to "the wolf, the snake, the hog" "I am he who knew what it was to be evil."

Pioneers! O Pioneers!

by Walt Whitman Provided title of Willa Cather novel Praises westward expansion, ends every line with title phrase "Come my tan-faced children"

On the Beach at Night Alone

by Walt Whitman Set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams along with "A Passage to India"(Gave title to E M Forester book) Details a "vast similitude" that interlocks "all lives and deaths, all of the past, present, future"

Go Down, Moses

by William Faulkner set of seven interrelated stories "Delta Autumn" "The Bear"

The Confessions of Nat Turner

by William Styron About Virginia slave revolt Lawyer Thomas Gray listens to the title character Judge Jeremiah Cobb sentences title character and his friend Hark to death Title character is goaded into killing Margaret Whitehead by the crazed, axe-wielding Will Will murders Joseph Travis Controversial novel as title character is depicted as a sexual deviant

Sophie's Choice

by William Styron Title character(last name Zawistowska) has to decide which one of her children will survive the Holocaust Sophie has affair with novelist Stingo before committing suicide with schizophrenic lover Nathan Landau. Set in Auschwitz

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

by William Yeats "I will arise and go now" builds a cabin made of "clay and wattles"

The Second Coming

by William Yeats "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" "what rough beast . . . Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?" "The falcon cannot hear the falconer"

Sailing to Byzantium

by William Yeats "This is no country for old men" "an aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick."

The Wild Swans at Coole

by William Yeats "scatter wheeling in great broken rings."

Easter 1916

by William Yeats about uprising in Ireland "a terrible beauty is born" "polite meaningless words"

Snow Country

by Yasunari Kawabata About doomed affair between Tokyo dilettante Shimamura and geisha Komako Shimamura is a self-appointed Western Ballet expert despite never having seen one Shimamura also fantasizes about Yoko, a girl he sees on a train on the way to hot spring town where Komako lives Komako lives in paralyzed music teacher's old home Yoko nurses Yukio(music teacher's son), who has tuberculosis and may have once been engaged to Komako Ends with Yoko dying in a silkworm cocoon warehouse fire as Shimamura feels the "Milky Way flow inside him." Opens with Shimamura enraptured with the reflection of a woman caring for a sick man in a frosted train window (Yoko and Yukio) Opening line: "The train came out of the long tunnel" Story of a farmer who started a restaurant named after his mistress only for his wife to run it after his mistress ran away Komako sings the song "Dark Hair" while accompanying herself with a samisen Shimamura visits weavers of Chijimi

The Grasshopper and the Bell-Cricket

by Yasunari Kawabata Array of different-colored lanterns around a playground attract a creature that a schoolboy offers to his classmate

The Master of Go

by Yasunari Kawabata Based on real match reported on by Kawabata Journalist Uragami chronicles the retirement match of title character Honinbo Shusai Otake- young player based on Minoru Kitani, beats Shusai after a 237-move, 5-month long match Match is sealed by Move 121, game is visualized with images of board interspersed Uragami takes pictures at Shusai's funeral, is pleased that Shusai's one long eyebrow signifies good luck

The House of the Sleeping Beauties

by Yasunari Kawabata Eguchi visits title location where men sleep with drugged young virgins

Thousand Cranes

by Yasunari Kawabata Kikuji Mitani begins an affair with the much older Mrs. Ota after meeting her at a tea ceremony Title comes from pattern on handkerchief of Yukiko Inamura, the suggested proper bride for Kikuji Kikuji also has an affair with Mrs. Ota's daughter Fumiko Fumiko smashes a cylindrical white tea bowl stained with a trace of her mother's lipstick after Mrs. Ota overdoses on sleeping pills Chikako has a huge black birthmark on her chest and tries to interfere with Kikuji marrying Yukiko

The Dancing Girl of Izu

by Yasunari Kawabata Narrator is a college student who becomes infatuated with drum-wielding title character only to discover she is actually a child

Beauty and Sadness

by Yasunari Kawabata Oki Toshio impregnates fifteen year old Otoko Ueno then abandons her Otoko Ueno begins lesbian relationship with her maid Keiko Sakami Oki writes book "A Girl of Sixteen" about his relationship with Otoko, prompting Keiko to drown Oki's son out of revenge

The Sound of the Mountain

by Yasunari Kawabata Only elderly businessman Shingo Ogata can hear title noise Shingo is married to Yasuko, has children Shuichi and Fusako who both experience failing marriages Shuichi cheats on his wife Kikuko with a war widow, Kinuko, Kikuko has an abortion Shingo lusts after his secretary Eiko and after Kikuko, suggests a family trip to see maple trees

The Old Capital

by Yasunari Kawabata Protagonist- foundling Chieko Sada, whose family runs a kimono business. Chieko finds out her parents abandoned her when she discovers her twin sister Naeko, confusing Hideo

Diary of My Sixteenth Year

by Yasunari Kawabata Relates having to help his grandfather urinate

One Arm

by Yasunari Kawabata Young girl gives one of her arms to protagonist who decides to replace it for one of his own

Their Eyes were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston Crawford has to shoot husband after he is bitten by a rapid dog Eatonville, Florida floods from a hurricane

Lyrical Ballads

by william wordsworth and samuel taylor coleridge Tintern Abbey The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather

collection by Gao Xingjian title story- narrator's fond memories are triggered by seeing title fiberglass object in store window "The Accident" "Cramp" "The Temple" "In the Park"

East, West

collection by Salman Rushdie "Chekhov and Zulu" - title characters give themselves names from Star Trek, story is book-ended by assassinations of Indira and Rajiv Ghandi "Yorick" - about the childhood of Hamlet

Ariel

essay by José Rodó "to reform oneself is to live"

Democratic Vistas

essay by Walt Whitman written in response to Thomas Carlyle's "Shooting Niagara"

Chekhov's Gun

if you are going to put something in a story, it needs to be used later "If a gun is placed on stage in Act I, it must go off by the end"

Palm-of-the-Hand Stories

name given by Yasunari Kawabata to his works of fiction and short stories Published as a collection of short stories later in his career

HERmione

novel by Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) Autobiographical, about her relationship with Francis Gregg

Santa Claus: A Morality

play be E. E. Cummings

The Mousetrap

play by Agatha Christie Frequently uses the music for "Three Blind Mice" which it is loosely based on Murder investigator Sergeant Trotter skis to Monkswell Manor, it turns out he is the perpetrator Monkswell- guesthouse owned by Mollie Ralston Maureen Lyon is murdered Christopher Wren is first guest to arrive at Monkswell

Axel

play by Auguste Villiers de I'Isle-Adam The protagonist and Sara kill themselves as the sun rises, since they believe that their love is too beautiful for the world Edmond Wilson overview of Symbolist literature titled after protagonist's "Castle"

Ti-Jean and His Brothers

play by Derek Walcott A frog sneezes and exclaims, "Aeschylus me!" at the beginning Devil is accompanied by aborted fetus Bolom

The Other Shore

play by Gao Xingjian Group of actors play a game with ropes before crossing river to reach title location

A Month in the Country

play by Ivan Turgenev

The Theater of the Absurd

plays stressed the illogical, irrational aspects of life Eugene Ionesco Luigi Pirandello Samuel Beckett

Star-Apple Kingdom

poetry collection by Derek Walcott Title poem: "let me in...I am the revolution." , "voice had the gutturals of machine guns / across khaki deserts" "The Schooner Flight"

The Martian Chronicles

series of short stories by Ray Bradbury "There Will Come Soft Rains" "Usher II" "Ylla" "The Third Expedition"

Life on the Mississippi

Autobiography of Mark Twain about his life on a river boat

Moxon's Master

By Ambrose Bierce About a chess playing "robot" (called automatons) Automaton ends up killing its creator

Chickamanga

By Ambrose Bierce Deaf boy stumbles upon a battlefield He runs home only to find that his house has been burned and his parents have been killed

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

By Ambrose Bierce Peyton Farquhar is given a tip that the Union will travel a certain way, he tries to blow up bridge but gets caught Farquhar escapes being hung Ticking noise of his pocketwatch Turns out it was all a dream, Farquhar was actually hung, dream ends when the ticking stops

Agnes Grey

By Ann Bronte, aka Action Bell

The Mysteries of Udolpho

By Ann Radcliffe One of the first Gothic Novels

The Luck of Roaring Camp

By Bret Harte Cherokee Sal Mining camp Kentuck dies to save Cherokee Sal when the camp floods

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

By Bret Harte Uncle Billy steals horses John Oakhurst commits suicide

Jane Eyre

By Charlotte Bronte, aka Currer Bell Governess at Thornfield hall owned by Mr. Rochester Bertha Mason married to Rochester, is kept in attic, burns down Thornfield Hall(Grace Poole is blamed) Saint John- cousin of title character, proposes to her Lowood- girl's school run by Mr. Brocklehurst, title character meets Helen Burns Title character is confined to "Red Room" where her uncle John Reed died Title Character marries Mr. Rochester at the end Wide Sargasso Sea- prequel written by Jean Rhys

The Yellow Wallpaper

By Charlotte Perkins Gilman Husband thinks wife is crazy after childbirth, locks her in a room with yellow wallpaper She hallucinates the wallpaper is moving and tears in down

Casey at the Bat

By Earnest Thayer Really good baseball player strikes out Set in a town called Mudville

The House of Mirth

By Edith Wharton Lily Bart is socially ostracized Book gets its title from The Book of Ecclesiastes

Age of Innocence

By Edith Wharton Newland Archer loves Ellen Olenska but ends up marrying May Welland Archer visits Europe with his son Dallas

Ethan Frome

By Edith Wharton Title character has an affair with Mattie Silver They attempt to commit suicide at the end by running a sled into a tree Setting: Starkfield Title character's wife Zeena is sick and he must care for her Red pickle dish is shattered by a cat

Paul Clifford

By Edward Bulwer-Lytton "It was a dark and stormy night"

Miniver Cheevy

By Edwin Arlington Robinson Poem about a "child of scorn" who "eyed a khaki suit with loathing" "Loved a Medici" "Born too late"

Richard Cory

By Edwin Arlington Robinson Poem about a "gentleman from sole to crown" who was "richer than a king" He went home one night and "put a bullet in his head"

Sonnets from the Portugese

By Elizabeth Barret Browning Collection of poems Sonnet #43- "how do I love thee, let me count the ways"

Wuthering Heights

By Emily Bronte, aka Ellis Bell about Heathcliff's(an orphan from Liverpool) romance with Catherine Earnshaw, he is forced to marry Isabella Linton instead Framed as narrative told by Nelly Dean to Mr. Lockwood Set at Thrushcross Grange Protagonist sees ghost hand of Catherine break the glass window and reach into the room

The New Colossus

By Emma Lazarus Poem on the Statue of Liberty

The Little Mermaid

By Hans Christian Anderson When walking, it feels like she is walking on knives doesn't get prince to fall in love, turns into seafoam

Pride and Prejudice

By Jane Austen "it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a bachelor..." Follows the Bennet family Elizabeth Bennet falls in love with Mr. Darcy who owns Pemberley Estate Jane Bennet Falls in love with Charles Bingley Lydia Bennet marries a militia officer George Wickham Netherfield Ball scene Clergyman Mr. Collins proposes to Elizabeth Bennet but is rejected and ends up marrying Charlotte Lucas

Sense and Sensibility

By Jane Austen The Dashwood Family Edward Ferrars Mr. Willoughby

Mansfield Park

By Jane Austen Fanny Price

Northanger Abbey

By Jane Austen- her only gothic novel, published after her death Catherine Morland The Tilneys

The Good Soldier Svejk

By Jaroslav Hasek Dog thief in WWI

Ode on a Grecian Urn

By John Keats "Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all" "Thou still unravished bride of quietness" "Sylvan Historian" A man looks at the art on the title object "Heard melodies are sweet/but those unheard are sweeter" "foster child of silence and slow time"

Ode to a Nightingale

By John Keats "do I wake or sleep" "was it a vision or a waking dream?" "thou wast not born for death immortal Bird" Ruth "stood in tears amid the alien corn"

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

By John Keats French for the young woman without mercy "O what can ail thee, knight at arms"

Trees

By Joyce Kilmer Poem "I think I'll never see a poem as pretty as a tree"

Story of an Hour

By Kate Chopin Short story about a wife who thinks her husband is dead Wife is happy about her husbands death Husband turns out to be alive and the wife dies of a heart attack

Desiree's Baby

By Kate Chopin Two white people have a black baby Husband is outraged and throws out his wife and baby He eventually finds out he is the descendent of an escaped slave

The Storm

By Kate Chopin Woman has an affair while her husband is out caught in a storm

Don Juan

By Lord Byron Parody of Don Juan story (Huron)

Little Women

By Louisa May Alcott March Sisters: Amy Meg Beth Jo Marmee- mom Boy's school at Plumfield Sequels: Little Men, Jo's Boys

The Prince and the Pauper

By Mark Twain About two guys who randomly meet and decide to switch places

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By Mark Twain Becky Thatcher Engine Joe: Native American White washing scene: title character tricks kids into helping him wash a fence

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveris County

By Mark Twain Frog named Daniel Webster Stones are stuffed down the frog's throat so it cannot jump

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By Mark Twain Hank Morgen is sent back in time He is saved from hanging because he knew a solar eclipse was coming

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

By Mark Twain Jim the slave runs away from Douglass Jim meets The Duke and The Dauphin(the king)- con artists

The Man that Corrupted Hadlyburg

By Mark Twain Man who died leaves his fortune to someone who knows his last words, the town becomes hostile and nasty fighting over the fortune

Pudd'nhead Wilson

By Mark Twain Southern aristocrat baby and a slave baby are switched at birth

A Vindication of the Rights of Women

By Marry Wollstonecraft, mother of Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley In the book the monster is yellow Robert Walton sails around arctic sea, finds title doctor running from his monster Monster kills Henry Clervill As monster runs comes across bag of books, reads Paradise Lost, Plutarch's Lives, and Sorrows of Young Werther(by Goethe)

Dover Beach

By Matthew Arnold "Seas of faith ebbing away" "Where ignorant armies clash by night"

Thyrsis

By Matthew Arnold Elegy for Arthur Hugh Clough

The Scholar-Gypsy

By Matthew Arnold Oxford student joins a band of gypsies

The Joke

By Milan Kundera "Long live Trotsky"

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

By Milan Kundera Thomas, surgeon, loses his job because writes letter comparing the government to Oedipus story, married to Tereza(photographer of Prague Spring) Sabina, Thomas's mistress, painter, moves to American has sex while wearing a bowler hat, hates "kitsch" Franz, lover of Sabina, professor, dies in Bangkok while being mugged Kerenin, Thomas and Tereza's dog, reference to Tolstoy, dies of cancer

Sonnets to Orpheas

By Rainer Maria Rilke Poems over ancient greek hero

The Ring and the Book

By Robert Browning 21,000 lines; each a dramatic monologue(style of writing where stories are from one character's perspective) 12 books

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Recited by "the wedding guest" Famous line: "water water everywhere nor any drop to drink" Ship is destroyed after a man shoots an Albatross

A White Heron

By Sarah Orne Jewett Hunter goes to Maine, asks girl to show him where the white heron lives Metaphor for young women coming of age, white heron represents virginity

The Red Badge of Courage

By Stephen Crane Henry Fleming joins the Union army in the Civil War Red badge=wound he gets in battle Flemming's group called "mule drivers" or "mud diggers" Protagonist meets a "tattered soldier" Jim Conklin dies

An American Tragedy

By Theodore Dreiser Clyde Griffiths kills his girlfriend Roberta Alden at Big Moose Lake after he falls for Sondra Finchley

On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth

By Thomas DeQuincey Act II Scene 1 from Macbeth

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

By Thomas DeQuincey Based on real life of author Divided into "pleasures" and "pains" of title substance

The Garden Party

By Vaclav Havel Hugo Pludek becomes head of the Central Inauguration and Liquidation Party He is very good with answering with the "right answer" Criticism of communism

O Pioneers!

By Willa Cather Swedish Immigrant named Alexandra Bergson She gets married after her younger brother Emil is killed

The Song of the Lark

By Willa Cather Thea Kronberg becomes an opera singer and eventually dies at the end

A Poison Tree

By William Blake Guy gives his enemy a poisoned apple

The Tyger

By William Blake In collection called Songs of Experience Title animal "burning bright/in the forests of the night" "What immortal hand or eye/could frame thy fearful symmetry?"

The Lamb

By William Blake In collection called Songs of Innocence

Endymion

by John Keats "a thing of beauty is a joy forever" Greek shepherd's love for Cynthia

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

by John Keats "stout Cortez" standing "upon a peak in Darian" looking out over the pacific ocean About reading a translation of the odyssey

The Eve of St. Agnes

by John Keats Angela allows Porphyro to visit Madeline on the title night

To Autumn

ode by John Keats "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness."