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17 Cards in this Set
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Features Humbert Humbert and Dolores Haze. Humbert's childhood love, Annabel Leigh, dies. Title character rehearses for a school play directed by Claire Quilty. |
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov) |
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Pavel Chichikoc buys rights to title characters. Pavel argues with gambler Nozdryov after convincing Sobakevitch and Maniloff to sell him title entities. Famously compares a country to a troika. |
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol) |
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Felix Honnecker plays title game when bomb drops. World ends when Papa Monzana's frozen corpse falls into the ocean, turning the oceans into ice-nine. Locals in this work practice Bokononism. |
Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut) |
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Title character rafts the Mississippi with runaway slave Jim. The conmen Duke and Dauphin convince townspeople to come see their play called the Royal Nonesuch. |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) |
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Protagonist Oskar Matzerath decides to stop growing at the age of three. Oskar can shatter glass with his voice. Bruno Matzerath makes knot sculptures based off of Oskar's tales. |
The Tin Drum (Gunther Grass) |
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Play in which Gwendolyn and Cecily are led to believe their suitors have the title name which "inspires absolute confidence". Protagonists are named Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing. |
The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
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Play in which a beautiful girl named Sidi is lusted after by the village chief Baroka. |
The Lion and the Jewel (Wole Soyinka) |
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This poem was published in the author's collection "Hesperides" in 1648. Its first line says "Gather ye rosebuds, while ye may". |
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time (Robert Herrick) |
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This poem begins, "About suffering they were never wrong, / The Old Masters". Pieter Brueghel's painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus inspired the author to write this poem. |
Musee des Beaux Arts (Wystan Hugh Auden) |
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The books belonging to the title character of this work are burned by a barber and a priest because they cause him to think of Dulcinea as his true love. The title character does battle with windmills. The titular character's squire is Sancho Panza. |
Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes) |
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This work begins on the nights before Good Friday, "halfway along our life's path," indicating that the narrator/author is 35. A sign to an entrance reads, "abandon all hope, ye who enter here". While being guided by Virgil, the narrator encounters Brutus, Cassius, and Judas next to Satan. |
The Inferno (Dante) |
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In this long novel, the protagonist is tricked into marrying the shallow Helene Kuragina. After Prince Andrey Bolkonsky dies, the protagonist marries Natasha Rostova. The protagonist, Pierre Bezhukov believes he is destined to kill Napoleon after seeing the Battle of Borodino. |
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy) |
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The protagonist horrifies her husband Will by redecorating his Victorian House. This novel centers on protagonist Carol Kennicott's attempts to bring culture to Gopher Prairie. |
Main Street (Sinclair Lewis) |
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This satiric poem sees the gnome Umbriel visit the Cave of Spleen and collect items, after the sylphs are thrown into a state of disarray after Baron cuts off a piece of Belinda's hair. |
The Rape of the Lock (Alexander Pope) |
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At the end of this detective novel, a Russian general is revealed to have made a fake version of the title item, keeping the original for himself. Floyd Thursby and Cairo are hired by Gutman to retrieve the title object along with Miss Wonderly, who is actually Brigid O'Shaughnessy. This novel's main detective is Sam Spade. |
The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett) |
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This text outlines the paths of wisdom, action, and devotion as ways to transcend the three Gunas. This tale begins with a warrior thinking about how he must fight his relatives. It constists of dialogue between Arjuna and his charioteer Krishna. |
Bhagavad-Gita (part of the Hindu epic Mahabharata) |
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Titular character encounters a saxophonist who also loves Mozart, Pablo. Pablo has an affair with the title character's lover, prompting him to stab Hermine in the Magic Theatre. Titular character's name is Harry Haller. |
Der Steppenwolf (Hesse) |
