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96 Cards in this Set
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The House of Mirth (orphan Lily Bart loves Lawrence Seldon but reject him
because he is poor; blackmailed and falsely accused by other men; becomes milliner and takes overdose of sleeping pills) |
(Edith) Wharton
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The Age of Innocence (NY 1870s: Neland Archer marries May Welland but
loves her cousin Ellen Olenska) |
(Edith) Wharton
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Ethan Frome (MA farm: farmer Ethan Frome marries whining hypochondriac
Zeena but loves her cousin Mattie; Ethan and Mattie injured in bobsled suicide attempt; Zeena becomes devoted nurse and Mattie becomes nag) |
(Edith) Wharton
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The Custom of the Country (Undine Spragg samples pleasures, marries
millionaire from hometown) |
(Edith) Wharton
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Old New York (4 novellas about 1840 to 1880, including False Dawn [Lewis
Raycie buys modern pictures], The Old Maid [Charlotte Lovell's cousin raises her illegitimate daughter Tina], The Spark [Walt Whitman influences old man], New Year's Day [wife sacrifices for sick husband]) |
(Edith) Wharton
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A Lost Lady (Marian Forrester's pioneer husband dies and she becomes mistress of Ivy
Peters; Niel Herbert adores her; she disappears to South America) |
(Willa) Cather
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Death Comes for the Archbishop (Jean Latour and Father Joseph Vaillant
establish diocese in NM) |
(Willa) Cather
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My Antonia (Bohemian immigrant Antonia Shimerda works on farms after
father's suicide, elopes with railway conductor, and marries farmer Anton Cuzak; others include lawyer Jim Burden) |
(Willa) Cather
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O Pioneers (Alexandra Bergson takes over NE farm when dad dies; brother Emil
killed; marries Carl Linstrum) |
(Willa) Cather
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One of Ours (Claude Wheeler grows up on Western farm, goes to college, killed
in army in France) |
(Willa) Cather
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The Song of the Lark (Coloradoan Thea Kronborg, daughter of Swedish
clergyman, goes to Chicago, has affair with Fred Ottenburg, and becomes soprano at Met. Opera House in NY) |
(Willa) Cather
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Alexander's Bridge
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(Willa) Cather
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Youth and the Bright Medusa (stories, including Paul's Case)
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(Willa) Cather
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Winesburg Ohio (23 stories; reporter George Willard develops),
Dark Laughter, The Triumph of the Egg (chicken farmer is unable to perform simple trick with an egg) |
(Sherwood) Anderson
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First American to win a Nobel Prize
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(Sinclair) Lewis
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Main Street (Carol Kennicott tires of physician husband Will and tries to bring
culture to dull Gopher Praire, MN [based on Sauk Centre]) |
(Sinclair) Lewis
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Dodsworth
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(Sinclair) Lewis
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Arrowsmith (Martin Arrowsmith, a bacteriologist, goes to VT farm and West Indies)
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(Sinclair) Lewis
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Babbitt (Zenith, the Zip City: George F. Babbitt, real estate broker, fears
ostracism but encourages son Tom to rebel) |
(Sinclair) Lewis
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Elmer Gantry (Kansas City: ex-football player Elmer Gantry becomes popular
but hypocritical minister) |
(Sinclair) Lewis
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It Can't Happen Here (Berzelius Windrip sets up fascist dictatorship in US;
Doremus Jessup and Walt Trowbridge in Canada oppose him) |
(Sinclair) Lewis
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The Sun Also Rises (Lost Generation 1925 France: journalist Jake Barnes narrates;
Lady Brett Ashley is divorcing and may love Jake but plans to marry Michael Campbell and has affair with Spanish bullfighter Pedro Romero in Pamplona; others include Greek Bill Gorton and American-Jewish writer Robert Cohn) |
(Ernest) Hemingway
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A Farewell to Arms (WWI ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry loves English
nurse Catherine Barkley, who becomes pregnant; Henry deserts after Caporetto in Italy and they go to Switzerland, where she dies) |
(Ernest) Hemingway
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In Our Time (short stories about Nick Adams, including Indian Camp and Big
Two-Hearted River) |
(Ernest) Hemingway
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Men Without Women (short stories including The Killers [Nick Adams warns
Ole Andreson that two hired gunmen from city are coming to kill him], The Undefeated, Fifty Grand, Hills Like White Elephants, A Simple Inquiry) |
(Ernest) Hemingway
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For Whom the Bell Tolls (Spanish Civil War: American professor Robert Jordan
assigned by Pablo and Pilar to blow up a bridge; Jordan loves Maria for three days; Jordan carries out mission but is left to die; title from Donne's Devotions upon Emergent Occasions) |
(Ernest) Hemingway
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The Old Man and the Sea (Cuban fisherman Santiago catches marlin on 85th day
but it is slowly eaten by sharks on way home) |
(Ernest) Hemingway
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The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber (English guide Wilson saves
Macombers from lion on African safari; next day Macomber fights wild buffalo but wife shoots him) |
(Ernest) Hemingway
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro (writer Harry goes on African safari to "work fat off
his mind" but gets gangrene, sees vision of a frozen leopard, and dies) |
(Ernest) Hemingway
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To Have and Have Not (Harry Morgan smuggles Chinese and liquor in Key
West during Depression and is shot) |
(Ernest) Hemingway
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The Great Gatsby (Jazz Age Long Island: Jay Gatsby loves Daisy
Buchanan, cousin of narrator Nick Carraway, but she stays with husband Tom; Daisy runs over Tom's mistress Myrtle Wilson and Tom shoots Jay) |
(F. Scott) Fitzgerald
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Tender Is the Night (wealthy schizophrenic Nicole Warren marries her
psychiatrist Dick Diver; she becomes mentally stable but he deteriorates; she leaves him for a lover) |
(F. Scott) Fitzgerald
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This Side of Paradise (spoiled Middle Westerner Amory Blaine goes to
Princeton and joins literary cults; loves Rosaline Commase but is rejected; serves in WWI; starts career in advertising) |
(F. Scott) Fitzgerald
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The Devil and Daniel Webster (NE farmer Jabez Stone sells his
soul to the devil but is saved by Webster's oratory before demonic jury, John Brown's Body (Civil War narrative beginning with Harper's Ferry), Western Star |
(Stephen Vincent) Benet
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Of Mice and Men (strong giant half-wit migrant worker Lennie accidentally kills woman
who seduces him and is shot by friend George to protect him from lynch mob) |
(John) Steinbeck
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The Grapes of Wrath (Joad family travels from OK to CA during the Great
Depression to find work picking fruit; Tom Joad becomes involved in strikes and kills a man; Rose of Sharon has baby) |
(John) Steinbeck
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Travels With Charlie
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(John) Steinbeck
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In Dubious Battle (Communist Mac's friend Jim Nolan murdered; Doc Burton
helps striking CA fruit pickers) |
(John) Steinbeck
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East of Eden (Salinas Valley: Adam Trask and Cathy have two sons; Cal kills
Aron by telling him mom is a prostitute) |
(John) Steinbeck
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Tortilla Flat (carefree Danny meets with simple friends Pablo, Big Joe Portagee,
Jesus Maria Corcoran, and Pirate in his home, "like the Round Table") |
(John) Steinbeck
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The Pearl (CA Indian pearl-fisher and wife Juana's baby bitten by scorpion; they
pay doctor with large pearl) |
(John) Steinbeck
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USA Trilogy (panoramic picture of US life from just before WWI to Great
Depression; The 42nd Parallel, 1919, The Big Money; consists of "newsreels," "camera eyes," and biographies) |
(John) Dos Passos
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Manhattan Transfer (NYC: journalist Jimmy Herf and actress wife Ellen Thatcher
divorce; Bud Korpenning commits suicide; gambler Joe Harland becomes beggar) |
(John) Dos Passos
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Three Soldiers (3 American WWI soldiers: Italian Dan Fuselli, Indianan
Chrisfield, musician John Andrews) |
(John) Dos Passos
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Look Homeward Angel (describes youth of Eugene Gant in Altamont, Catawba
[based on Asheville, NC]; Eugene attends mother's boarding house, has romance, and goes to college; brother Ben Gant dies at St.Louis World's Fair) |
(Thomas Clayton) Wolfe
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Of Time and the River (Eugene Gant studies drama at Harvard under James
Hatcher; dad dies; tours France; teaches literature in NYC) |
(Thomas Clayton) Wolfe
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The Web and the Rock (George Webber goes to "Enfabled Rock" of NY and
has affair with scenic designer Mrs. Esther Jack but he breaks from her web of devotion to NY to seek stability) |
(Thomas Clayton) Wolfe
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You Can't Go Home Again (George Webber returns from Germany, resumes
affair with Esther Jack, becomes writer, and is disillusioned by hometown) |
(Thomas Clayton) Wolfe
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Soldiers' Pay
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(William) Faulkner
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The Reivers
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(William) Faulkner
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Sanctuary (Popeye rapes Temple Drake with corn cob and takes her to a
Memphis brothel, but she protest him and testifies against Lee Goodwin, defended by Horace Benbow, and Goodwin is lynched) |
(William) Faulkner
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The Sound and the Fury (4 sections narrated by Compson family: idiot Benjy;
Harvard student Quentin, whose ties with sister Caddy shattered by her loveless marriage; Jason, who keeps money Caddy sends to support daughter Quentin; black cook Dilsey) |
(William) Faulkner
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The Hamlet - The Town - The Mansion trilogy (Flem Snopes becomes part
owner of Will Varner's store in Frenchman's Bend and marries his daughter Eula; becomes VP of bank in Jefferson and drives president Manfred De Spain from town; Gavin Stevens loves Eula and her daughter Linda) |
(William) Faulkner
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Go Down Moses (series of stories about McCaslin family in Yoknapatawpha
County, including Was, The Fire and the Hearth, Pantaloon in Black, and The Bear [hunt for Big Ben]) |
(William) Faulkner
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Light in August (part-black Joe Christmas employed by Joe Brown has affair
with Joanna Burden and kills her; Christmas is killed by mob; pregnant Lena Grove comes to Jefferson looking for her lover; Revereand Gail Hightower loses his church because of devotion to the past) |
(William) Faulkner
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Absalom Absalom (Thomas Sutpen elected colonel in Jefferson MS's Civil War
regiment; daughter Judith's lover Charles Bon killed by Sutpen's son) |
(William) Faulkner
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As I Lay Dying (husband Anse and kids Cash, Darl, Jewel, Vardaman, and
Dewey Dell carry body of Addie Bundren to Jefferson MS) |
(William) Faulkner
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A Fable (allegory of Jesus in WWI France)
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(William) Faulkner
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Knight's Gambit (stories involving Detective Gavin Stevens, including Monk)
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(William) Faulkner
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Requiem for a Nun (Temple Drake marries Gowan Stevens; Pete blackmails her; black
servant Nancy Manningoe kills her youngest child, but Temple also is responsible) |
(William) Faulkner
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Intruder in the Dust (Chick Mallison, Aleck Sander, and Miss Eunice
Habersham prove innocence of non-servile black Lucas Beuchamp) |
(William) Faulkner
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Sartoris (Col. John Sartoris's descendant Bayard returns from WWI guilty about
brother John's death; grandfather dies of heart attack in car; Bayard marries Horace Benbow's sister Narcissa; Bayard dies as Ohio test pilot) |
(William) Faulkner
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The Unvanquished (7 stories about Sartoris family during Civil War; adventures
of Bayard Sartoris and black companion Ringo) |
(William) Faulkner
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These Thirteen (short stories including A Rose for Emily [Southern spinster
Emily Grierson locks Yankee construction worker Homer Barron, who courted her, in upstairs bedroom, where he dies]) |
(William) Faulkner
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The Enormous Room (WWI French concentration camp where
Cummings was imprisoned on false treason charge) |
(E. E.) Cummings
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The Naked and the Dead (Lt. Robert Hearn's infantry platoon invade
Japanese island in Pacific in WWII) |
(Norman) Mailer
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The Executioner's Song
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(Norman) Mailer
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An American Dream (Stephen Rojack)
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(Norman) Mailer
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Armies of the Night ("History as a Novel, the Novel as History" from Dover
Beach; anti-Vietnam march on Pentagon) |
(Norman) Mailer
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Tales of the South Pacific
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(Jame) Michener
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A Bell for Adano, Hiroshima (tells of nuclear bombing throught the eyes
of six people, including priest, minister, and two doctors) |
(John) Hersey
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The Catcher in the Rye (Holden Caulfield runs away from his prep school
and drifts about NY), Franny and Zooey (college student Franny Glass and actor brother Zooey feel alienated) |
(J.D.) Salinger
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Catch-22 (Pianosa Island during WWII: Yossarian can only stop bombing
missions if insane but wanting to stop is sane), Something Happened, Good as Gold |
(Joseph) Heller
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Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance with
Death (optometrist Billy Pilgrim survives Dresden firebombing and returns to Illium NY; kidnapped by aliens from Talfamadore who teach about 4D world), Cat's Cradle, Player Piano |
(Kurt) Vonnegut
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Stranger in a Strange Land (a Martian)
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(Robert) Heinlein
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Giles Goat-Boy The New Revised Syllabus (computer WESAC's developer
Max Spielman designates George Giles, who had been raised by goats and opposed by poet Harold Bray, as Our Great Tutor; Giles's teachings are edited by WESAC, the academician JB, and a publisher), The Sot-Weed Factor (Ebenezer Cooke comes from England to take charge of MD tobacco plantation Malden) |
(John) Barth
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All the King's Men (US South: Willie Stark, like Huey Long;
narrated by Jack Burden) |
(Robert Penn) Warren
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The Four Million (title from NYC population; 25
stories including An Unfinished Story and The Gift of the Magi [poor man sells watch to buy combs for wife, who sells hair to buy watch fob for him]), The Last Leaf (ill girl decides to die when last of five leaves outside her window falls but one hangs) , A Retrieved Restoration (Jimmy Valentine tries to reform but foiled when he opens a safe during an emergency) |
O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
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The Wapshot Chronicle, Falconer
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(John) Cheever
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Rabbit Run (salesman Harry Angstrom leaves alcoholic wife Janice and
child to find freedom but returns), Rabbit is Rich, Rabbit at Rest |
(John) Updike
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Pipostes, Cantos (ancient Greece, 1800s US, Renaissance Italy; Pisan
Cantos written when arrested for pro-Fascist Italian radio broadcasts, awarded Bollingen Prize; Section Rock-Drill), Personae ("masks of the actor") |
(Ezra) Pound
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The Crisis (Stephen Brice and Virginia Carvel in St. Louis), Richard Carvel
(hero rescued by John Paul Jones in American Revolution) |
(Winston) Churchill
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The Town Down the River, Miniver Cheevey, Richard
Cory, The Man Against the Sky |
(Edwin Arlington) Robinson
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North of Boston, Stopping by Woods on Snowy Evening, The Road Not
Taken (takes the one less traveled and "that has made all the difference"), The Gift Outright, Fire and Ice, Mending Wall (narrator's neighbor says "good fences make good neighbors"), A Boy's Will, Birches, The Death of the Hired Man (farmer and wife debate keeping returned hired man), A Further Range (including Ten Mills and Build Soil) |
(Robert) Frost
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Ballad of the Harp Weaver, A Few Figs from Thistles
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(Edna St. Vincent) Millay
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(NJ pediatrician) Paterson (Passaic River, NJ: mythical
Paterson wanders about his environs and reflect on history of the locale and contemporary scene), In the American Grain (study of Columbus, Cortez, De Soto, Raleigh, Franklin, and others) |
(William Carlos) Williams
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Something Wicked This Way Comes, Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles
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(Ray) Bradbury
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Death in the Family, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (about AL farmers in
the Depression, with photographer Walker Evans) |
(James) Agee
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Riders of the Purple Sage, The Last of the Plainsmen, Tales of Fishing
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(Zane) Grey
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(American Indian) The House Made of Dawn
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(N. Scott) Momaday
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Collected Poems, The Pot of Earth (fertility rite)
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(Archibald) MacLeich
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The Fountainhead (architect Howard Roark, possibly based on Frank Lloyd
Wright, turns down commissions rather than sacrifice integrity), Atlas Shrugged (railroad worker Dagny Taggart finds government-free utopia at Gat's Gulch, CO) |
(Ayn) Rand
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Miss Lonelyhearts (love advice columnist murdered), The Day of the
Locust (Hollywood painter Tod loves starlet; paints "The Burning of Los Angeles") |
(Nathaniel) West
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Middletown (Muncie IN)
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(Robert and Helen) Lynd
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The Children's Hour (lesbian teachers), The Little Foxes (story of
Hubbard family condemns new industrial Southerners), Watch on the Rhine (German refugee kills informer at German embassy in US) |
(Lillian) Hellman
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The Late George Apley (A Novel in the Form of a Memoir;
Horatio Willing tells about life of Bostonian George Apley), Wickford Point (upper-class family near Boston declines) |
(John Phillips) Marquand
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