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Beowulf by unknown
OLD ENGLISH
-Beowulf
-King Hrothgar
-Grendel
-Grendel's mother
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
A Nigerian clan leader, terrified of being weak like his father was, brings destruction and tragedy on himself and his family.
A Death in the Family by James Agee
Largely autobiographical, the novel deals in part with the death of Agee's own father but also with the growing tension between rural and urban America (and their differing cultures and views on religion) at the time. The novel centers on the family of Jay, including his wife Mary and their son Rufus. Jay goes to see his father after a call from his drunk brother Rufus, who erroneously says their father has had a heart attack. On the way back from this visit Jay's car spins out of control and he is killed. The remainder of the novel deals with the next few days, especially the funeral and the family's attempts to process this tragedy.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Romantic)
, A popular novel in the English language, it is regarded as the first "chic-lit" novel. The novel encompasses strong female protagonists and their journeys to find love, in a world centered around marriage. Austen provides a spot on view of propriety in society as well as well-rounded, believable characters.
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (Harlem Renaissance)
, published in 1953. In large part autobiographical, the novel, set in Harlem, focuses on John Grimes on his 14th birthday in 1935. The five sections are told from the perspective of John and three other members of his family and explore John's resentment toward his father, Gabriel, for loving his other brother, Roy, more. The reader learns that the family's history stretches back to slaves in the South and that Gabriel is not John's real father. The novel largely deals with the central father-son conflict and John's coming of age and religious crisis.
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
novel that identified the unrealistic; two men wait for an appointment that may or may have not been made; the suspense is not what is going to happen, but what is exactly happening right now
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
(Romantic)
1847 involves strong elements of social criticism, not to mention a strong, independent female protagonist, that challenged class, gender, and religious roles of the time. The protagonist is an orphan brought up by a cruel aunt, Mrs. Reed, who eventually sends her to the Lowood School, which is run by the hypocritical Mr. Brocklehurst. He is ousted after an epidemic that claims the life of one of the protagonist's dear friends, Helen Burns, and the protagonist goes on to enjoy the rest of her time at the school. After teaching briefly, she becomes the governess at a manor called Thornfield, which is owned by a dark man named Rochester. The protagonist falls in love with him and he proposes, but it is unveiled that he is already married to a woman who has gone mad. The protagonist leaves, but years later returns and tracks down Rochester, who has been disfigured by a fire set by the mad wife (Bertha) that burned down Thornfield. They marry and live happily ever after.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
(Romantic)
"You love Mr Edgar, because he is handsome and young and cheerful and rich and loves you", 1847 novel influenced by gothicism. The frame story involves a man named Lockwood, who moves to an estate on the moors next to one owned by the mysterious Heathcliff, so he asks his housekeeper, Nelly Dean, to tell him about this man. As a young girl Nelly worked at the manor for the owner, Mr. Earnshaw and his family. Earnshaw one day brings home an orphan boy - Heathcliff - and raises him as his own, loving him more than his own son Hindley. However, after Earnshaw's death his real son enacts revenge on Heathcliff, treating him very poorly, and Earnshaw's daughter Catherine, who Heathcliff loves, marries another man. Heathcliff leaves and returns years later, wealthy and intent on enacting his own revenge. He drives Hindley and Catherine to despair, destitution, and death, mistreats his wife, and toys with Catherine's daughter and his own. We later learn that Heathcliff dies and the estate passes on to Catherine's daughter and her new husband.
The Stranger by Albert Camus
First novel by Albert Camus, published in 1942, and an illustration of his absurdist world view. The novel follows the aimless life of the narrator, Meursault, a young man living in Algiers. It opens with his mother dying and him going to the funeral, where he does not cry. He then returns to Algiers where he becomes entangled in the life of his neighbor, Raymond, who abuses his mistress, who has been cheating on him. Meursault also gets involved in an emotionless and indifferent romance with a former co-worker, Marie, who wants to marry him. One day on the beach Meursault takes Raymond's gun and shoots the brother of Raymond's mistress, who has been harassing them, and once he is taken into custody all around him are astonished at his lack of remorse for his crime and his general emotionless indifference to everything around him. His trial focuses mainly on this part of his character, and he is sentenced to be executed by beheading. By the end he abandons all hope for the future and accepts the "gentle indifference of the world", which makes him feel happy.
The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
(Middle English)
Chaucer (14th Century) First work in English vernacular. Stories of 12 pilgrims traveling to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket. A picture of English society through estates satire (social commentary on people's estates: life, property)
The Cherry Orchard by Anto Chekov
Play first performed in 1904. The whole of the action takes place on a Russian estate of Ranevsky, who returns, with her daughter Anya and their entourage, after several years in France because the debt she has accumulated there necessitates that she sell the Russian estate. The action follows conversations about this sale with Lopakhin, a friend of the family who wants to buy the estate and build vacation cottages on the site of an enormous cherry orchard, which Ranevsky does not want to be cut down. In the midst of all this there are conversations and intrigue among the play's lesser characters, including the servents, who are involved in a love triangle with Dunyasha at the center. In the end, Lopakhin buys the estate and everyone leaves as the cherry orchard is being cut down.
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
... a married woman who defies social convention first by falling in love with another man, and then by committing suicide when she finds that his views on women are as oppressive as her husband's. The novel reflects the changing role of women during the early 1900s.
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
A sailor tells the story of his journey through the Congo, where he met an enigmatic, powerful, insane imperialist who had abandoned the rules of English civilization., story reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad himself experienced in 1890, when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo.
The Last of Mohicans by James Cooper
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The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
is a war novel (1871-1900). Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with shame, he longs for a wound—to counteract his cowardice. When his regiment once again faces the enemy, Henry acts as standard-bearer.
The Wasteland by T.S Elliot
(1922) epic poem, depicting a world devoid of purpose or meaning.
Inferno by Dante
(Middle Ages)
Allegorical journey through hell
Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes
A comedic book written by during the reign of Philip II. The title character is now used to refer to idealists that champion hopeless or fanciful causes. This book was a comment on the Middle Ages and Philip II's idealistic wars of religion. A major influence on the novel form of literature.
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe was based on the true story of a shipwrecked seaman named Alexander Selkirk and was passed off as history, appealing to a middle-class audience.With Robinson Crusoe's theme of solitary human existence, Defoe paved the way for the central modern theme of alienation and isolation. (sparknotes.com)
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
1859
Set in the late 18th century, the novel takes place in London and Paris on the eve of and during the French Revolution. It has a typically Dickensian plot with lots of characters and twists and turns, but it revolves around the love triangle of Charles Darnay, Lucie Manette, and Sydney Carton. Lucie and Darnay marry, and in the end Carton tricks the imprisoned Darnay, switches places with him, and is executed instead of Darnay, giving Carton's life meaning and saving the lives of Lucie, Darnay, and their daughter. Steeped in social criticism, Dickens's writing provides a keen, sympathetic chronicle of the plight of the urban poor in nineteenth-century England.
Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky
A novel about the poor student Raskolnikov who kills two old women, because he believes he is beyond the bounds of good and evil. This psychological novel examines Raskolnikov's anguished mind before, during and after the crime.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
(1845) The autobiography of Douglass begins with his first memory: the whipping of his Aunt. The Narrative undertook to be not only a personal account of Douglass's experiences as a slave, but also an eloquent anti-slavery treatise.
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
1844 novel (originally serialized) that combines historical fiction with the romantic. It follows a poor young nobleman named d'Artagnan in his quest to become a Musketeer. In the process he befriends the Three Musketeers Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, and the four together try to foil a plot by the Cardinal Richelieu.
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
1860--The Mill on the Floss involves many autobiographical details, and it reflects Eliot's close childhood relationships with her father and her older brother Isaac. In the Mill on the Floss, Mr. Tulliver's financial downfall is depicted within the larger context of the increased materialism of the British midlands in the first half of the nineteenth century, but it is also portrayed as the result of minute social and psychological actions and reactions of Mr. Tulliver and the characters that affect him, such as Mrs. Tulliver and Mr. Wakem. (sparknotes.com) Evans' most successful novel is Middlemarch.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
1952--Kaleidoscopic novel written that forcefully accentuated the problem of alienation by using a black narrator who is struggling to find and liberate himself in the midst of an oppressive white society. "He did not want to write another protest novel, and also seeing the highly regarded styles of Naturalism and Realism too limiting to speak to the broader issues of race and America, Ellison created an open style, one that did not restrict his ideas to a movement but was more free-flowing in its delivery . . . To this end, he modeled his narrator after the nameless narrator of Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground, which similarly applies irony and paradox toward far-reaching social criticism"- Wikipedia
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
1930 novel that is much more sparse and clear than many of his works. It is composed of 59 segments narrated by 15 different characters and follows the Bundren family over a series of days as they travel from their home to the town of Jefferson to bury the family's matriarch, Addie, whose body they carry with them.
The Sound and Fury by William Faulkner
1929-At a basic level, the novel is about the three Compson brothers' obsessions with the their sister Caddy, but this brief synopsis represents merely the surface of what the novel contains. A story told in four chapters, by four different voices, and out of chronological order, The Sound and the Fury requires intense concentration and patience to interpret and understand. Faulkner's reputation as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century is largely due to his highly experimental style. Faulkner was a pioneer in literary modernism. (sparknotes.com)
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling was published in 1749. Almost every aspect of Fielding's own life is apparent in the novel, from the love and reverence he had for his first wife to his extensive knowledge of the Southwestern part of England. (sparknotes.com)
Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald was the most famous chronicler of 1920s America, an era that he dubbed "the Jazz Age." Written in 1925, The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest literary documents of this period (sparknotes.com).
Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
(1856) Based on the true story of Daphine Delamar, an adulterous wife married to a country doctor, who died of grief after deceiving and ruining her husband. The hatred of middle-class values is strongly apparent in Madame Bovary; in addition to criticizing the middle class, Flaubert's novels also reacted against Romanticism in literature (sparknotes.com). "Perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism" in France (wikipedia).
The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
1915-Portrays pre-WWI society's shifting morals and loss of steadfast social rules. It is narrated, unreliably, by John Dowell in a form that prefigures stream-of-consciousness, following Dowell's recollections of his and his wife's relationship with Edward and Leonora Ashburnham in non-chronological order. "The Good Soldier is frequently included among the great literature of the 20th century" (wikipedia)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1954-Golding's experience in World War II had a profound effect on his view of humanity and the evils of which it was capable. In The Lord of the Flies, a group of school boys, ages six to twelve, are marooned on an island after their plane crashes. Some behave peacefully and work together to maintain order and achieve common goals, while others rebel and seek only anarchy and violence.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
1891 --This novel aroused controversy for its sympathy for England's lower classes, particularly for rural women victimized by the country's rigid social morality. It follows Tess of the title, whose family (falsely) discovers that they are descendants of a noble family. Tess ends up executed for murdering a member of the false family. Hardy cannot solely be labeled a Victorian novelist, nor can he be categorized simply as a Modernist. In many respects, Hardy was trapped in the middle ground between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,between tradition and innovation.
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1850-The majority of Hawthorne's work takes America's Puritan past as its subject, but The Scarlet Letter uses the material to greatest effect. Set in the 17th-century Boston, Hester Prynne is being publicly shamed and ostracized as an adulteress. Her husband, Roger Chillingworth (who was missing for over seven years) is intent on revenge against Hester and her "accomplice," who is revealed to be the delicate Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale. Eventually Arthur and Hester make a plan to flee the colony with their daughter Pearl, but before they can go, Arthur dies of apparent remorse. Hester takes Pearl and leaves Boston, and Chillingworth dies shortly after. When Hester dies many years later she is buried next to Arthur.
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
1961--The novel generated a great deal of controversy upon its initial publication. Catch-22 has become one of the defining novels of the twentieth century. It presents an utterly unsentimental vision of war. Catch-22 is often thought of as a signature novel of the 1960s and 1970s; it was during those decades that American youth truly began to question authority. Catch-22 can be found in the novel not only where it is explicitly defined but also throughout the characters' stories.
A Tale of two Cities by Charles Dickens
1859. Victorian period. Industrial Revolution. Social reform. Child labor. Autobiographical novels. Serial Novelist.
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
1837-Victorian period. Industrial Revolution. Social reform. Child labor. Autobiographical novels. Serial Novelist.
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (Naturalist)
(1925) Story of Clyde Griffiths, whose troubles with women and the law take him from his religious upbringing in Kansas city to the town of Lycurgus, New York, where he is eventually convicted of murder. (Dreiser liked younger women and was separated from his wife as the result of his infatuations.)
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
1927-The novel is based upon the life of Jean-Baptiste Lamy, and portrays two well-meaning and devout French priests--Jean Marie Latour (the Tower) and Joseph Valliant--sent to supplant a well-entrenched Spanish-Mexican clergy after the Mexican-American war. Several of these entrenched priests are depicted as examples of greed, avarice, and gluttony, while others live simple lives among the Native Americans. Cather portrays the Hopi and Navajo sympathetically. (wikipedia)
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekov
Drama--1904. During Chekhov's childhood reforms liberalized Russia and its economy. The most important of these was the Emancipation Declaration of 1861, which freed the serfs from bondage.The situation displayed in The Cherry Orchard, of a wealthy landowning family forced to sell their estate in order to pay their debts, was thus a familiar one in the Russian society of Chekhov's day.
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
1604-Verse play based on a sixteenth-century German legend about a traveling physician who, bored with his station in life, sold his soul to the devil, a character named Mephistopholes, in return for infinite knowledge. "The idea of an individual selling his or her soul to the devil for knowledge is an old motif in Christian folklore, one that had become attached to the historical persona of Johannes Faustus, a disreputable astrologer who lived in Germany sometime in the early 1500s"-- sparknotes.com.
A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
1931--A Science fiction story, Brave New World deals with the themes of technology and totalitarian governments in the modern world, of the pitfalls of linking science, technology, and politics, and its argument that such a link will likely reduce human individuality.
A Doll's House by Hendrick Ibsen
Drama-1879.- Nora's primary struggle is against the selfish, stifling, and oppressive attitudes of her husband, Torvald, and of the society that he represents. Ibsen felt that husband and wife should live as equals, free to become their own human beings; this stirred controversy in his community.
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (Psychological Realism)
1880s- The Portrait of a Lady is often considered to be James's greatest achievement. In it, he explored many of his most characteristic themes, including the conflict between American individualism and European social custom and the situation of Americans in Europe. It also includes many of his most memorable characters, including the lady of the novel's title, Isabel Archer, the indomitable Mrs. Touchett, the wise and funny Ralph Touchett, the fast-talking Henrietta Stackpole, and the sinister villains, Gilbert Osmond and Madame Merle (sparknotes.com).
The American by Henry James (Realism)
1876-77 Serial Novel; published novel 1907. The revisions of the 1907 edition focused mainly on individual phrases and words, leaving plot details entirely intact. The book's great triumph remains its sympathetic and intricate character study against the clear backdrop of tragedy.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (Irish Modernist)
1916--James' first novel. One of the first writers to make extensive and convincing use of stream of consciousness, Joyce also notably used epiphany-- sudden moments of spiritual revelation. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man tells the story of Stephen Dedalus, a boy growing up in Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century, as he gradually decides to cast off all his social, familial, and religious constraints to live a life devoted to the art of writing (sparknotes.com).
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
In this work the main character dies of an infection after being pelted by apples by his father and his sister wishes to go to music school to play violin.
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
1976 memoir known for its blending of voices and styles and for taking autobiography into the postmodern literary age. Kingston blends autobiography with ancient Chinese folk tales as she tells the stories of a long-dead aunt, "No-Name Woman"; a mythical female warrior, Fa Mu Lan; Kingston's mother, Brave Orchid; Kingston's aunt, Moon Orchid; and herself. These stories integrate her own experiences with "talk-stories" - blends of Chinese history, myths and beliefs - that her mother tells her.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
follows widower and father Atticus Finch, a small-town southern lawyer, and his daughter Scout as they navigate racially-charged events in a small southern town.
Babbitt by Lewis Sinclair
A self-satistied person concerned chiefly with business and middle-class like material success; a member of the American working class whose unthinking attachment to its business and social ideals is such to make him a model of narrow-mindedness and self-satisfaction; after George F. Babbitt, the main character in the novel Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
a pampered dog (Buck) and how he adjusts to the harsh realities of life in the North as he struggles with his recovered wild instincts and finds a master (John Thorton) who treats him right; novel, adventure story, setting late 1890s
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Set in Macondo, this novel tells of Ursula, the Buendia family matriarch who dies the size of a fetus at the age of 120.
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
a monomaniacal captain tries and fails to kill a monstrous white whale; adventure story, quest tale, allegory; protagonist: Ishmael, Ahab; antogonist: Ahab, great white sperm whale
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
(Arthur Miller, 1953). Miller chose the 1692 Salem witch trials as his setting, but the work is really an allegorical protest against the McCarthy anti-Communist "witch-hunts" of the early 1950s. In the story, Elizabeth Proctor fires servant Abigail Williams after she finds out Abigail had an affair with her husband. In response, Abigail accuses Elizabeth of witchcraft. She stands trial and is acquitted, but then another girl accuses her husband, John, and as he refuses to turn in others, he is killed, along with the old comic figure, Giles Corey. Also notable: Judge Hathorne is a direct ancestor of the author Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Beloved's identity is mysterious. The novel provides evidence that she could be an ordinary woman traumatized by years of captivity, the ghost of Sethe's mother, or, most convincingly, the embodied spirit of Sethe's murdered daughter. On an allegorical level, Beloved represents the inescapable, horrible past of slavery returned to haunt the present. Her presence, which grows increasingly malevolent and parasitic as the novel progresses, ultimately serves as a catalyst for Sethe's, Paul D's, and Denver's respective processes of emotional growth.
Animal Farm by George Orwell
a group of animals mount a successful rebellion against the farmer who rules them, but their dreams of equality for all are ruined when one pig seizes power; novella, dystopian animal fable..ALLEGORY AND FABLE
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
challenge to communism, tells story of a prerevolutinoary intellectual who rejects the violence and brutality of revolution of 1917 and stalinist years, even as he is destroyed he triumphs because of his humanity and christian spirit
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
a young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
The first volume, published in 1913, immense novel, Remembrance of Things Past. This volume tells two related stories, the first of which encounters a young Marcel, modeled on the author, exploring the French town of Combray and vowing to become an author. The second story jumps back in time fifteen years to tell about the romance between Charles Swann, a friend of Marcel's grandparents who appears regularly in the first story, and his wife Odette, who is presented toward the end of the first story. Swann falls in love with an idealized version of Odette he has constructed and they eventually marry; after time, Swann realizes Odette has been having numerous affairs and is not the woman he imagined her to be.
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
(1929) a novel written illustrating the horrors of World War I and the experiences of veterans and soldiers. It was extremely popular, but also caused a lot of political controversy when it was first published, and was banned in Germany in the 1930's.
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
A poet, swordsman, scientist, playwright, musician, and member of the Cadets of Gascoyne, a company of guards from Southern France. For all his prodigious talents, he is unattractive, cursed with a ridiculously long nose that makes him insecure and keeps him from revealing his love for his cousin Roxane.
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger
Based partly on Salinger's own childhood but set in post-WWII America, the novel follows Holden Caulfield, an adolescent who feels pressure from all sides to grow up and conform to the rules of the adult world. It's use of slang and profanity and its frank discussions of sexuality had caused it to be banned in many places since its publication. The novel tells of Holden's three days in Manhattan after getting expelled from boarding school but before going home to his family.
Hamlet by Shakespeare
"To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them."
Macbeth by Shakespeare
"It will have blood, they say. Blood will have blood. Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak. Augurs and understood relations have By magot pies and choughs and rooks brought forth The secret'st man of blood.—What is the night?
A midsummer night's dream by Shakespeare
(Fantasy Setting) It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors, who are manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set.
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
Two star crossed lovers
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
(Greek mythology) a king who created a statue of a woman and fell in love with it
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Also known as The Modern Prometheus,. The novel is about a scientist named Victor Frankenstein, who in his quest for knowledge, creates a monster through unorthodox means. Once the monster is brought to life, Frankenstein abandons his creation out of fear. This begins a war between man and his creation, which ends very tragically.
Antigone by Sophocles
A daughter of the accidentally incestuous marriage between King Oedipus of Thebes and his mother Jocasta. She attempts to secure a respectable burial for her brother Polyneices
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The story follows the fortunes of a poor family as they travel from the Dust Bowl region to California. based on the great depression written by John Steinbeck
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Jim Hawkins (narrator), a young boy who goes on a journey to discover pirate treasure. Long John Silver, former pirate, goes to take back treasure; shifting loyalties. Dr. Livesey, steady, practical leader of the expedition.
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
powerful novel that make american aware of the harsh and inhumane conditions of slavery and put the country on the road to civil war,
Gulliver's Travels By Johnathan Swift
Officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travelers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
wrote about his experiences while living alone on Walden Pond
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
. It delineates in graphic detail events leading up to Napoleon's invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families. Portions of an earlier version were serialized in the magazine The Russian Messenger between 1865 and 1867. The novel was first published in its entirety in 1869. Newsweek in 2009 ranked it top of its list of Top 100 Books.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Here was this [black person] which I had as good as helped to run away, coming right out flat-footed and saying he would steal his children -- children that belonged to a man I didn't even know; a man that hadn't ever done me no harm.
Candide by Voltaire
in response to the questioning of other writers against the pessimism present in his poem regarding the deadly earthquake of Lisbon in 1755. It was a satire attacking war, religious persecution, and what he considered unwarranted optimism.
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
A veteran of World War II remembers being in Dresden during the firebombing and describes his postwar existence.
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The story of a protagonist who is repeatedly raped by a man she thinks is her father. A missionary family in Africa adopts the resulting children. The protagonist's sister, Nettie, works for the missionary family, and the novel takes the form of a series of letters between the sisters. Name this Pulitzer Prize winning novel featuring Celie.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
the portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
The Glass Menegarie by Tennessee Williams
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To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolfe
Charles Tansey convinces Lily Briscoe that women can neither write nor paint, James and the Ramsay family travel with Macalister to the title location
Native Son by Richard Wright
Tells the Story of Bigger who is being convicted for murder
A Good Man is Hard to find by Flannery O'Conner
Short story by that epitomizes the genre of Southern Gothic. The story follows a family on vacation who get lost and whose car flips before they are found by the Misfit, an escaped convict.