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57 Cards in this Set
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Daniel Defoe
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"Robinson Crusoe, which is considered the first English novel.
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Jonathan Swift
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Gulliver’s Travels was written as a satire of human existence
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"The Scarlet Letter,The House of the Seven Gables, which deals with Puritanism.
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James Fenimore Cooper
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Last of the Mohicans,The Leatherstocking Tales, which begins with The Deerslayer
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Edgar Allen Poe
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The Raven and The Fall of the House of Usher,The Masque of the Red Death and the poems The City in the Sea and Annabel Lee
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Herman Melville
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Moby Dick
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Charles Dickens
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"Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby,A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations(Pip), David Copperfield, and A Christmas Carol.
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Mark Twain
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"real name was Samuel Clemens,The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and The Prince and the Pauper.
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Joseph Conrad
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"The Nigger of Narcissus, The Secret Agent, and Heart of Darkness.,novella Youth and the novels Nostromo and Under Western Eyes.
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Jack London.
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Call of the Wild
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William Faulkner
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The Sound and the Fury, and As I Lay Dying,The 1949 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature
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henry Fielding
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Tom Jones, picaresque
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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This Side of Paradise, are loosely based on his own life. greatest works include The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and the Damned, and Tender is the Night
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James Joyce
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Ulysses, based largely on Homer’s Odyssey,Dubliners and the book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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John Steinbeck
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"Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath,The Sea of Cortez to the folk piece The Short Reign of Pippin IV. Many take place in Salinas Valley, His other novels include East of Eden and Winter of Our Discontent.
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Ernest Hemingway
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The Sun Also Rises, The Torrents of Spring, A Farewell to Arms, In Our Time, a collection of short stories
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Anne Bronte
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Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
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Charlotte Bronte
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Jane Eyre, (Gothic romance)
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Emily Bronte
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Wuthering Heights
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Jane Austen
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"Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Emma.
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Virginia Woolf
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The Waves,(A fan of stream of consciousness),The Common Reader and The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
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Miguel Cervante
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Don Quixote, first Western novel, parody
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John Bunyon
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Pilgrim’s Progress, allegory.
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King Arthur
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poem Gododdin in 600 B.C,from Celtic mythology
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Stephen Crane
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"The Red Badge of Courage, The Monster and Other Stories.
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Simone de Beauvoir
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"The Second Sex.
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All Men Are Mortal, The Mandarins, and The Blood of Others, and even edited Satre’s letters."
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Amy Tan
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"Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife and The Hundred Secret Senses, both also about Asian-American struggles.
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
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The Sport of the Gods and the poetry collection Lyrics of Lowly Life, Folks from Dizie
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Ray Bradbury
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"The Martian Chronicles, short stories such as The Golden Apples of the Sun and Something Wicked This Way Comes.
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Mary McCarthy
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The Oasis (1949) and The Group (1963).,Birds of America and Cannibals and Missionaries, satire
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George Sand
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"Amandine Dupin, her given name, The Haunted Pool and The Master Bell-Ringers, Rose et Blance, published in 1831, and other notable works include Indiana, Consuelo, and Francis the Waif.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Poor Richard’s Almanack,
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Jules Verne
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"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea., Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days, and The Mysterious Island, among some fifty others.
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Alexandre Dumas
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The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo
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Victor Hugo
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables
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Mary Shelley
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Frankenstein, husband Percy, Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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The Prince
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Henry Miller
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The Tropic of Cancer and The Tropic of Capricorn
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Aldous Huxley
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Brave New World, test tube babies
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George Orwell
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1984, Big Brother , Orwell’s real name was Eric Blair
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Toni Morrison
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Song of Solomon, Beloved, Sula, Tar Baby, and Jazz , racial tensions in the South and the quest to understand family heritage
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J.D. Salinger
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"The Catcher in the Rye, (Picaresque),Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters.short stories involve the Glass family
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Ernest Gaines
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"A Lesson Before Dying, young black man sentenced to death by electrocution for a crime he did not commit—-and how his lawyer helps him to come to grips with taking his final breath.
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Betty Smith
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,
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William Golding
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Lord of the Flies
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Harper Lee
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To Kill A Mockingbird
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Slaughterhouse Five, aliens-Billy pilgrim
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Joseph Heller
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Catch 22
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Anthony Burgess
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Clockwork Orange
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Ken Kesey
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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Jack Kerouac’s
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"On The Road, loosely autobiographical, follows Sal Paradise on a cross-country journey, exploring the basics and intricacies of life itself.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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Voltaire
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Candide
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Moliere
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Le Misanthrope
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Upton Sinclair’s
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"The Jungle, immigrant Jurgis through meat-packing, living on the streets, and then an eventual rise to management.
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