Authors
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Author |
Biography |
Works |
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Alcott, Louisa May (1832-88) |
American | Little Women |
| Advocated for women's suffrage | Little Men | |
| Austen, Jane | English | Sense & Sensibility |
| Never married | Pride & Prejudice | |
| Mansfield Park | ||
| Emma | ||
| Cather, Willa | American, born in Virginia | One of Ours (Pulitizer Prize) |
| O Pioneers | ||
| My Antonia | ||
| Dumas, Alexander | French | Count of Monte Cristo |
| High-ranking military official | Three Musketeers | |
| Man in the Iron Mask | ||
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | American | Self-Reliance (Essay) |
| Transcendentalist | ||
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-64) |
American | The Scarlett Letter |
| Reclusive | The House of Seven Gables | |
| Hemingway, Ernest | American | The Sun Also Rises |
| Served in the Spanish-American War | A Farewell to Arms | |
| Alcoholic | The Torrents of Spring | |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | ||
| To Have and to Have Not | ||
|
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936) |
English, born in India | Mandalay (Poem) |
| Won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 | Gunga Din (Poem) | |
| Jungle Book | ||
| Kim | ||
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London, Jack (1876-1916) |
American, born in San Francisco | Call of the Wild |
| Died at age 40 | White Fang | |
| By 20: Sailor, hobo, Klondike adventurer | The Sea Wolf | |
| Paulsen, Gary | American | Hatchett |
| Children's author | Brian's Winter | |
|
Shelley, Mary (1797-1851) |
English | Frankenstein |
| Wife of Percy Shelley | ||
| Daughter of feminist Mary Wollstonecraft | ||
| Twain, Mark | American |
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County |
| Samuel Clemens | Roughing It | |
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | |
| Prince and Pauper | ||
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | ||
| Shakespeare, William | English | Romeo and Juliett |
| Othello | ||
| Macbeth | ||
| Hamlet | ||
| Julius Caesar | ||
| Much Ado About Nothing | ||
| Richard III | ||
| Midsummer's Nights Dream | ||
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Henry IV |
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| Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | Russian | Crime and Punishment |
| Engineer | The Gentle Spirit | |
| Imprisoned and sentenced to death and then later released | The Posssesed | |
| The Idiot | ||
| The Brothers Karamazov | ||
|
George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron) |
English | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
| Satyrist | Don Juan | |
| Romantic Poet | Ode to an Nightingale | |
| Burns, Robert | Scottish | To a Louse |
| Romantic Poet | The Red, Red Rose | |
| Songwriter-Auld Lang Syne | The American War | |
| I Murder Hate | ||
| Flow Gently Sweet Afton | ||
| Blake, William | English | A Divine Image |
| Poet and Painter | A Dream | |
| Romantic and Pre-Romantic | A Little Boy Lost | |
| Influenced by French and American Revolutions | A Poison Tree | |
| Jerusalem | ||
| Burgess, Anthony | English | A Clockwork Orange |
| Wrote in several languages | Nothing Like the Sun | |
| teacher | Earthly Powers | |
| Gogol, Nikolai | Russian | Dead Souls |
| critical realism | Taras Bulba | |
| Milne, A.A. | English | The House at Pooh Corner |
| Winnie-the-Pooh | ||
| The Red House Mystery | ||
| Mann, Thomas | German | The Black Swan |
| poet and novelist | Doctor Faustus | |
| The Decline of a Family | ||
| Death in Venice | ||
| The Magic Mountain | ||
| Faulkner, William | American | As I Lay Dying |
| Absalom, Absalom | ||
| The Sound and the Fury | ||
| The Sanctuary | ||
| Williams, Tennessee | American | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| The Glass Menagerie | ||
| A Street Car Named Desire | ||
| The Rose Tattoo | ||
| Baby Doll(Screenplay) | ||
| Aeschylus | Greek | Seven Against Thebes |
| Dramatist | Euminides | |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | American | Slaughterhouse-Five |
| Cat's Cradle | ||
| Breakfast of Champions | ||
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Harrison Bergeron |
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| Wells, H.G. | English | The Time Machine |
| The Invisible Man | ||
| The War of the Worlds | ||
| Orwell, George | Indian-Engilsh | 1984 |
| Animal Farm |
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