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66 Cards in this Set
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Maya Angelou
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i know why the caged bird sings
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Jane Austen
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sense and sensability
pride and prejudice emma mansfield park |
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Ray Bradbury
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Farenheit 451
the martian chronicles |
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Willa Cather
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Amcn. (early 1900s)
She is best known for her depictions of frontier life on the Great Plains in novels such as: O Pioneers! My Ántonia Death Comes for the Archbishop one of ours |
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Stephen Crane
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the red badge of courage
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emily dickinson
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wrote poems (mostly about flowers and gardens)
morbidity gospel "the master" (to: sir) |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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poet
leader of Transcendentalist movement in the early 19th century |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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(jazz age - 1920s)
the great gatsby |
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robert frost
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american poet
fire and ice nothing gold can stay |
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Amcn. folklorist (early 1900s)
Harlem Renssnce their eyes were watching God (Janie Crawford - autobiographical) |
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john keats
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English romantic poet (19 century)
a song about myself alfred tennyson sleep and poetry ode to... |
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Harper Lee
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to kill a mockingbird
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C.S. Lewis
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British medieval literature, Christian apologetics, literary criticism, radio broadcasts, essays on Christianity, and fiction relating to the fight between good and evil
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Herman Melville
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Amcn. novelist / poet
Moby Dick |
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George Orwell
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English
His work is marked by a profound consciousness of social injustice, an intense dislike of totalitarianism, and a passion for clarity in language. He wrote works in many different genres including fiction, polemics, journalism, memoir and critical essays, but his most famous works are two novels: Animal Farm (1945) Nineteen Eighty-Four |
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Amcn. gothic poet / essayist
tales of mystery and terror |
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J.D. Salinger
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Catcher in the Rye (Holden -17)
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William Shakespeare
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English poet/playwright
late 1500s |
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Percy Shelley
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English Romantic poet Promethus
Unbound To a Skylark |
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J.R.R. Tolkein
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English writer/poet
the hobbit lord of the rings |
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Alice Walker
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amcn. feminist
the color purple |
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walt whitman
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amcn. 19th century free-verse poet
leaves of grass (overt sexuality) developed his own poetic style |
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john steinbeck
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east of eden
the pearl grapes of wrath of mice and men red pony |
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mildred taylor
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late 1900s
roll of thunder, hear my cry (Cassie Logan) |
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langston hughes
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amcn. poet, novelist, playwright
Harlem Renssnc Raisin in the Sun poem |
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alexander dumas
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french novelist / 1800s
the count of monte cristo three musketeers twenty years after |
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william faulkner
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Amcn. / 1900s
as i lay dying |
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louisa may alcott
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Amcn. novelist / 1800s
little women |
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charlotte bronte
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British novelist / 1800s
jane eyre wuthering heights |
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lewis carroll
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English / British / 1800s / fantasy
alice's adventures in wonderland |
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charles dickens
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England / 1800s
david copperfield great expectations oliver twist a tale of two cities |
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ernest hemingway
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Amcn. / 1900s
old man and the sea a farewell to arms |
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victor hugo
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french / 1800s
les miserables hunchback of notre dame |
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ken kesey
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Amcn. 1900s
one flew over the cuckoo's nest |
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jack london
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Amcn. / late 1800s
white fang sea-wolf call of the wild |
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jonathan swift
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Irish / early 1700s
gulliver's travels a modest proposal |
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H.G. Wells
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British / 1800s-1900s
the invisible man the time machine the war of the worlds |
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oscar wilde
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Irish 1800s
picture of dorian gray |
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robert louis stevenson
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poet / late 1800s
dr. jekyll and mr. hyde kidnapped treasure island |
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william b. yeats
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Irish Renaissance
20 century poet |
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james joyce
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Irish Renaissance
20th century author |
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E.M. Forster
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A Passage to India
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thomas pynchon
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V
Postmodernism 1900s |
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flannery o'connor
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the violent bear it away (Francis Tarwater)
(Southern Gothic) 1900s |
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chinua achebe
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things fall apart
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isabel allenda
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the house of the spirits
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sandra cisneros
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the house on mango street
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joseph conrad
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heart of darkness
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ralph ellison
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invisible man
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franz kafka
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the metamorphosis
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maxine hong kingston
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the woman warrior
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jamaica kinkaid
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annie john
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arthur miller
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death of a salesman
the crucible |
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n. scott momaday
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house made of dawn
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leslie marmon silko
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ceremony
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edith wharton
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ethan frome
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elie wiesel
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night
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james baldwin
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go tell it on the mountain
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william gibson
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the miracle worker
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henry james
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the turn of the screw
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thorton wilder
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our town
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richard wright
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native son
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paul zindel
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the pigman
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robert cormier
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the chocolate war
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richard wright
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black boy
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flannery o'connor
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the violent bear it away
(new england regionalist) southern gothic |
