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40 Cards in this Set
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Chinua Achebe (1930--) |
<Nigerian> Igbo(Ibo) writer; Things Fall Apart (58); No Longer At Ease; Arrow of God; Anthills of the Savannah |
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Maya Angelou (1928--) |
<AfrAm> Marguerite Johnson; autobiographical writings, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (69); All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (86); poetry volume, Just Give Me A Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die; autobiographical book, Gather Together In My Name; The Heart of a Woman; poem, On the Pulse of Morning read at Clinton's inauguration (93) |
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Aristophanes |
<Greek> Chief librarian of Alexandria; edited great Greek writers |
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Aristotle |
<Greek> Metaphysics; Physics; On the Heavens |
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Jane Austen (1775-1817) |
<Eng> Mansfield Park; Pride and Prejudice; Emma; Persuasion; Sense and Sensibility; Northanger Abbey |
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James Baldwin (1924-1987) |
<AfrAm gay> wrote from Fance; books Go Tell It on the Mountain; Notes of a Native Son; Giovanni's Room; essay collections Nobody Knows My Name; The Fire Next Time; More Notes of a Native Son; novels Another Country; Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone; play 'Blues for Mr. Charlie' based on Emmet Till murder; received Commander of the Legion of Honor from France |
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Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) |
<Fr> 90 novels and short stories collected under the title The Human Comedy; divided into groups of novels-Scenes of Private Life; Scenes of Parisian, etc... |
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Saul Bellow (1915--) |
<Can.-born Am> author; became famous in '53 for The Adventures of Augie March; Seize The Day; collection of 3 short stories, plays, novellas; Herzog earned him a 2nd Nat'l Book Award; Humboldt's Gift got him the '75 Pulitzer and Nobel Prize for Lit; compared to Tolstoy and Dostoevsky |
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Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) |
<Eng> Jane Eyre (47) |
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Emily Bronte (1818-1848) |
<Eng> wrote poetry like her sisters; got it published; it attracted no attention; Wuthering Heights was her next and best work |
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
<British> The Seraphim and Other Poems, Sonnets form the Portuguese |
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Robert Browning |
<British> Poet/Playwright |
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Pearl Buck |
<West Virginia> The Good Earth -novel about Chinese farmers |
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Robert Burns (1759-1796) |
<Scot>Nat'l poetry & composer; Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect; inclu. To a Mouse; wrote 200 songs to Scots Musical Museum; 70 more songs to Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs for the Voice, inclu. Auld Lang Syne & Comin' thru the Rye |
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Albert Camus (1913-1960) |
<Fr> The Stranger (1942), The Plague, The Fall; 1957 Nobel Prize for Lit. |
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Truman Capote (1924-1984) |
<Am gay> Breakfast at Tiffany's; In Cold Blood, huge-selling criminal study and b/w film by Richard Brooks, starring Robert Blake as Perry Smith |
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Lewis Carroll (1832-98) |
<British> Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through The Looking Glass pseudonym for Chas. L. Dodgson, mathematician (???) |
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Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964) |
<Am> Under the Sea Wind, The Sea Around Us, Edge of the Sea, & Silent Spring ( 1962 ) |
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Willa Cather (1873 - 1947) |
<Am> assoc. ed. Of McClure's mag; O Pioneers!; My Antonia |
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Miguel de Cervantes |
<Sp> Don Quixote |
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Raymond Chandler ( 1888 - 1959 ) |
<Am> created fictional detective Philip Marlowe; The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; Lady in the Lake; The Long Goodbye; also screenplays Double Indemnity; Strangers on a Train (cow. w/C. Ormonde) |
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Kate Chopin |
<Am> wrote real realistic novels of Cajun and Creole life; At Fault; The Awakening |
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Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) |
<British> The World Crisis; The Second World War; The History of the English-Speaking Speaking Peoples; 1953 Nobel Prize for Literature |
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Tom Clancy |
<Am> Hunt for Red October; Patriot Games; Clear and Present Danger |
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Joseph Conrad |
<Brit> Heart of Darkness - one source for film Apocalypse Now, Lord Jim |
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Stephen Crane |
<Am> The Red Badge of Courage - set during American Civil War |
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Daniel Defoe |
<British> Robinson Crusoe |
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Dante Alighieri |
< Italian > The Divine Comedy; Hell, Purgatory, & Paradise ( called The Inferno) his "love" was Beatrice, pronounce BAY - ah- TREE-chat |
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Charles Darwin |
<British> On the Origin of Species...; The Descent of Man... |
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Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) |
<British> Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Pickwick Papers |
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Emily Dickinson |
<Am> Poet; 1830 -1886; six volumes of poetry published posthumously 1890 - 1945 |
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Joan Didion (1934 - -) |
<Am> essayist/novelist; question about sixties counterculture, Slouching Toward Bethlehem; collection The White Album (1979); nonfiction Salvador; Miami; Tim screenplays Panic in the Needle Park; Play It as It Lays; A Star is Born; True Confessions; Up Close and Personal |
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John Donne |
<Eng>poet; 1572-1631; premier metaphysical poet; no man is an island |
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John Dos Passos |
<Am> Manhattan Transfer; USA Trilogy; District of Columbia Trilogy |
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Fyodor Dostoevski |
<Rus> Crime & Punishment |
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Daphne DuMaurier (1907 - 1989) |
<British> novels The Loving Spirit; Jamaica Inn ( also Hitchcock film ); Rebecca (update of Eyre; Hitchcock film); short story The Birds ( Hitchcock film ) |
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Umberto Eco |
< Italian > Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, Cabala ( historical fiction) |
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George Eliot |
< British > pseudonym for Mary Ann Evans; the Mill on the Floss; Silas Marner |
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Ralph Ellison |
< African American > 1914 - 1968; novel Invisible Man |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) |
<Am> circle of friends included Alcott, Thoreau, Hawthorne; leader of literary efflorescence; nature outlined his trancendentalism; abolitionist; welcomed the Civil War; Poems; Representative Men; English Traits; The Conduct of Life; Society and Solitude; Letters and Social Aims; Natural History of Intellect |
