Literature Study Packet - PC\|MAC
Literature Study Packet
(updated 12-14-09)
Novels
Kobo Abe – The Woman in the Dunes
Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] – Things Fall Apart; No Longer at Ease [sequel to Things Fall Apart]; Anthills of the Savannah; Arrow of God
Douglas Adams – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Richard Adams – Watership Down
James Agee – A Death in the Family
Louisa May Alcott – Moods; Flower Fables; Eight Cousins; Jo’s Boys
Horatio Alger [“rags-to-riches” stories] – Ragged Dick; Luck and Pluck; Tattered Tom
Nelson Algren – The Man with the Golden Arm
Isabel Allende [Chile] – The House of the Spirits
Sherwood Anderson – Winesburg, Ohio; Windy McPherson’s Son; Poor White
Ivo Andric – The Bridge on the Drina
Apuleius – The Golden Ass [the only completely preserved novel in ancient Latin]
Asimov – I, Robot; Foundation series
Margaret Atwood [Canada] – The Handmaid’s Tale; Cat’s Eye; Alias Grace; The Blind Assassin
Jane Austen – Persuasion; Northanger Abbey; Mansfield Park; Sanditon [unfinished]; Emma; Pride and Prejudice
James Baldwin – Giovanni’s Room; Another Country; Go Tell it on the Mountain
Balzac – The Human Comedy [series of novels, plays, essays]; Cousin Bette; Pere Goriot; Eugenie Grandet
Samuel Beckett – Malone Dies; Molloy
Edward Bellamy – Looking Backward
Saul Bellow – The Adventures of Augie March; Seize the Day; Herzog; Henderson the Rain King; Humboldt’s Gift; Dangling Man; The Victim
Richard Blackmore – Lorna Doone
Heinrich Boll [German] – Billiards at Half-Past Nine; The Clown
Pierre Boulle – Planet of the Apes; Bridge on the River Kwai
Ray Bradbury – Something Wicked this Way Comes; Dandelion Wine; The Martian Chronicles; Fahrenheit 451
Anne Bronte – Agnes Grey; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
Charlotte Bronte – Shirley; Villette; The Professor; Jane Eyre
Gwendolyn Brooks – Maud Marth
Pearl Buck – “House of Earth” trilogy: The Good Earth, Sons, A House Divided;
East Wind: West Wind
Mikhail Bulgakov – The Master and Margarita; Heart of a Dog
Edward Bulwer-Lytton – The Last Days of Pompeii; Paul Clifford
Anthony Burgess – A Clockwork Orange; Enderby novels [series of 4 comic novels]
Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan of the Apes
William S. Burroughs – Naked Lunch
Samuel Butler – Erewhon; The Way of all Flesh
Erskine Caldwell – God’s Little Acre; Tobacco Road
Italo Calvino – If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Albert Camus [born in Algeria] – The Stranger; The Plague; The Fall
Cao Xuegin (Chinese, 1700s) – Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as Story of the Stone)
Truman Capote – Breakfast at Tiffany’s; The Grass Harp; Other Voices, Other Rooms; Answered Prayers [unfinished]
Orson Scott Card – Ender’s Game
Lewis Carroll – Through the Looking Glass [sequel to Alice in Wonderland]
Jimmy Carter – The Hornet’s Nest
Willa Cather – One of Ours; The Song of the Lark; O Pioneers; My Antonia; Alexander’s Bridge; Sapphira and the Slave Girl
Cervantes – La Galatea; Don Quixote
Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay; Wonder Boys
Raymond Chandler – The Big Sleep; The Long Goodbye
Kate Chopin – The Awakening
Agatha Christie – Murder on the Orient Express; Death on the Nile; The Mysterious Affair at Styles; The Murder of Roger Ackroyd; And Then There Were None
Winston Churchill -- Savrola
Sandra Cisneros – The House on Mango Street
Walter Van Tilburg Clark – The Ox-Bow Incident
Arthur C. Clarke – 2001: A Space Odyssey
James Clavell -- Shogun
J.M. Coetzee [South Africa] – Disgrace; The Life and Times of Michael K; Waiting for the Barbarians; The Master of Petersburg
Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone; The Woman in White
Joseph Conrad – Almayer’s Folly [his first novel]; Lord Jim; Typhoon; Nostromo; The Secret Agent; The Secret Sharer; The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’; Victory; Typhoon; Under Western Eyes
Pat Conroy – The Prince of Tides
James Fenimore Cooper – Precaution [his first novel]; The Pilot; The Spy; Leatherstocking Tales: The Deerslayer; The Last of the Mohicans; The Pathfinder; The Pioneers; The Prairie
Stephen Crane – Maggie: A Girl of the Streets; The Red Badge of Courage
Michael Crichton – Jurassic Park; The Andromeda Strain
Michael Cunningham – The Hours [based on life of Virginia Woolf]
Simone de Beauvoir – The Mandarins
Daniel DeFoe – Robinson Crusoe; Moll Flanders; Roxana
Philip K. Dick – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [science fiction novel that is the basis of the movie “Blade Runner”]
Charles Dickens – Bleak House; Hard Times; The Pickwick Papers; Oliver Twist; Nicholas Nickleby; The Old Curiosity Shop; Barnaby Rudge; Dombey and Son; Little Dorrit; Martin Chuzzlewit; Our Mutual Friend; The Mystery of Edwin Drood
James Dickey -- Deliverance
Benjamin Disraeli -- Sybil
E.L. Doctorow – Ragtime; Billy Bathgate; The Book of Daniel [fictionalized account of Rosenberg trial]
John Dos Passos – USA Trilogy [The Big Money; 1919; The 42nd Parallel]; Three Soldiers; Manhattan Transfer
Dostoevsky – Poor Folk [his first novel]; The Double; The House of the Dead; Notes from the Underground; The Idiot; The Possessed; The Gambler; The Brothers Karamazov; Crime and Punishment
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The White Company [historical novel]; The Lost World [fantasy]; The Hound of the Baskervilles; A Study in Scarlet; The Sign of the Four
Theodore Dreiser – Jennie Gerhardt; Sister Carrie; An American Tragedy; The Financier; The Titan
Daphne Du Maurier -- Rebecca
Alexander Dumas [pere] – The Three Musketeers; The Count of Monte Cristo; Twenty Years After; The Black Tulip
Umberto Eco [Italy] – The Name of the Rose; Foucault’s Pendulum
George Eliot – Adam Bede; Daniel Deronda; Felix Holt; Romola; The Mill on the Floss; Middlemarch; Scenes of Clerical Life; Silas Marner
Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man; Juneteenth
Laura Esquivel – Like Water for Chocolate
James T. Farrell – Studs Lonigan [trilogy of novels]
Faulkner – The Reivers; A Fable; Sanctuary; The Snopes Trilogy [The Town; The Hamlet; The Mansion]; Soldier’s Pay; Requiem for a Nun; Absalom, Absalom; Intruders in the Dust; Light in August; The Sound and the Fury; As I Lay Dying
Edna Ferber -- So Big; Show Boat; Giant
Henry Fielding – Tom Jones; Joseph Andrews; Shamela
F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Last Tycoon [unfinished when he died]; The Beautiful and Damned; The Great Gatsby; Tender is the Night; This Side of Paradise
Flaubert – Madame Bovary; Salammbo; Sentimental Education; The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Ford Madox Ford – The Good Soldier
C.S. Forester – The African Queen; “Horatio Hornblower” series
E.M. Forster – Howard’s End; A Room with a View; A Passage to India; Where Angels Fear to Tread; Maurice
Anatole France – The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard; Penguin Island
Carlos Fuentes [Mexico] – The Old Gringo; The Death of Artemio Cruz
John Galsworthy – The Forsyte Saga
Gao Xingjian [Chinese; winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature] – Soul Mountain
Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Colombia] – Love in the Time of Cholera; Memories of My Melancholy Whores; One Hundred Years of Solitude; Chronicle of a Death Foretold
John Gardner – Grendel
Andre Gide – The Counterfeiters; The Immoralist
Goethe – The Sorrows of Young Werther; Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship
Nikolai Gogol – Dead Souls; Taras Bulba
William Golding – Lord of the Flies; The Inheritors; Pincher Martin; Free Fall; The Spire
Oliver Goldsmith – The Vicar of Wakefield; The Deserted Village
Nadine Gordimer [South Africa] – Burger’s Daughter; July’s People; Get a Life
Maxim Gorky -- Mother
Robert Graves – I, Claudius
Gunther Grass – “Danzig” Trilogy: The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Dog Years; Crabwalk
Graham Greene – The Power and the Glory; The Heart of the Matter; The End of the Affair; The Quiet American
Zane Grey – Riders of the Purple Sage
H. Rider Haggard – King Solomon’s Mines
Alex Haley -- Roots
Dashiell Hammett – The Maltese Falcon; The Thin Man
Knut Hamsun [Norway] -- Hunger
Thomas Hardy – Under a Greenwood Tree; Far From the Madding Crowd; The Mayor of Casterbridge; Jude the Obscure; Tess of the D’Urbervilles; The Return of the Native; A Pair of Blue Eyes
Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Blithedale Romance; The Marble Faun; Fanshawe; The Scarlet Letter; The House of the Seven Gables
Robert Heinlein – Stranger in a Strange Land
Joseph Heller – God Knows; Good as Gold; Closing Time [sequel to Catch-22]; Catch-22; Something Happened; Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man
Ernest Hemingway – To Have and Have Not; Islands in the Stream; Across the River and Into the Trees; A Farewell to Arms; The Sun Also Rises; For Whom the Bell Tolls; The Old Man and the Sea
Frank Herbert -- Dune
John Hersey – A Bell for Adano
Herman Hesse – Steppenwolf; Siddhartha; The Glass Bead Game; Demian; Beneath the Wheel
DuBose Heyward – Porgy [novel that was the basis for Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess]
James Hilton – Lost Horizon; Goodbye, Mr. Chips
William Dean Howells – A Hazard of New Fortunes; The Rise of Silas Lapham
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; Hans of Iceland; Toilers of the Sea
Zora Neale Hurston – Their Eyes Were Watching God; Moses, Man of the Mountain; Jonah’s Gourd Vine; Seraph on the Suwanee
Aldous Huxley – Antic Hay; Point Counter Point; Eyeless in Gaza; After Many a Summer Dies the Swan; Brave New World; Crome Yellow
John Irving – The World According to Garp; The Cider House Rules
Kazuo Ishiguro – The Remains of the Day
Helen Hunt Jackson -- Ramona
Henry James – The Ambassadors; Washington Square; Daisy Miller; The Wings of the Dove; Roderick Hudson; The Turn of the Screw; The Portrait of a Lady; The American; The Golden Bowl; The Europeans; The Bostonians
Sarah Orne Jewett [from Maine] – The Country of the Pointed Firs
James Weldon Johnson – The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
James Jones – From Here to Eternity; The Thin Red Line
Robert Jordan – The Wheel of Time [fantasy series]
James Joyce – Finnegan’s Wake; Ulysses; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Stephen Hero [precursor to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]
Franz Kafka [Czech; wrote in German] – Amerika; The Castle; The Trial; The Metamorphosis
Kawabata – A Thousand Cranes; Snow Country; The Master of Go
Kazantzakis – Zorba the Greek; The Last Temptation of Christ
Thomas Keneally – Schindler’s List
William Kennedy -- Ironweed
Jack Kerouac – The Dharma Bums; The Town and the City; On the Road
Imre Kertesz [Hungarian – Jewish, writes about the Holocaust] – Kaddish for a Child Unborn; Fateless (also known as Fatelessness)
Ken Kesey – Sometimes a Great Notion; One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Daniel Keyes – Flowers for Algernon
Rudyard Kipling – Captains Courageous; Kim; The Light that Failed; The Naulakha
John Knowles – A Separate Peace; Peace Breaks Out [sequel]
Arthur Koestler – Darkness at Noon
Milan Kundera [Czech] -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being; The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
D.H. Lawrence – Sons and Lovers; Women in Love; Kangaroo; The Plumed Serpent; The White Peacock; The Rainbow; Lady Chatterley’s Lover
John Le Carre [spy novels] – The Spy Who Came in From the Cold; The Little Drummer Girl
Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
Mikhail Lermontov – A Hero of our Time
Gaston Leroux – The Phantom of the Opera
Doris Lessing – The Golden Notebook
C.S. Lewis – Out of the Silent Planet [science fiction]
Sinclair Lewis – Dodsworth; It Can’t Happen Here; Arrowsmith; Main Street; Elmer Gantry; Babbitt
Jack London – The Iron Heel; The Sea Wolf; Martin Eden; John Barleycorn; The Cruise of the Snark; The Call of the Wild; White Fang; The Star Rover
Longfellow -- Hyperion
Naguib Mahfouz [Egyptian] – Palace Walk (part of “Cairo Trilogy”); Midaq Alley
Norman Mailer – The Naked and the Dead; The Executioner’s Song; Ancient Evenings
Bernard Malamud – The Assistant; The Fixer; The Natural
Sir Thomas Malory – Le Morte d’Arthur
Thomas Mann – Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man; Joseph and His Brothers; Doktor Faustus; Death in Venice; The Magic Mountain; Mario and the Magician; Tonio Kroger; Buddenbrooks; Lotte in Weimar
Maugham – Of Human Bondage; The Razor’s Edge; Cakes and Ale; TheMoon and Sixpence [fictionalizes the life of Paul Gauguin]
Cormac McCarthy – All the Pretty Horses; No Country for Old Men
Carson McCullers – The Heart is a Lonely Hunter; The Member of the Wedding; The Ballad of the Sad Café; Reflections in a Golden Eye
Larry McMurtry – Lonesome Dove
Herman Melville – Typee; Omoo; White-Jacket; Benito Cereno; Billy Budd; Moby Dick
George Meredith – The Egoist
Prosper Merimee – Carmen [novella that was the basis for the Bizet opera]
James Michener – Tales of the South Pacific; Hawaii; Centennial; The Source
Henry Miller – Tropic of Cancer
Yukio Mishima [Japanese] – Sea of Fertility [4-volume epic novel]; Confessions of a Mask; The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea; After the Banquet
Margaret Mitchell – Gone with the Wind
Montesquieu – The Persian Letters [epistolary novel]
Toni Morrison – Jazz; Sula; Beloved; The Bluest Eye; Song of Solomon; Tar Baby
Vladimir Nabokov [pseudonym: V. Sirin] – Invitation to a Beheading; Ada; Pale Fire; Pnin; Look at the Harlequins; Lolita; The Real Life of Sebastian Knight; King, Queen, Knave
V.S. Naipaul [Trinidad] – A Bend in the River; A House for Mr. Biswas
Frank Norris – The Octopus; The Pit (these are the first two parts of the unfinished “Epic of the Wheat” trilogy); McTeague
Flannery O’Connor – Wise Blood; The Violent Bear it Away
Kenzaburo Oe – A Personal Matter; The Silent Cry; Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
Ben Okri [Nigeria] – The Famished Road
Baroness Orczy – The Scarlet Pimpernel
George Orwell – Burmese Days; Coming Up for Air; 1984; Animal Farm
Chuck Palahniuk – Fight Club
Orhan Pamuk [Turkey; winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize] – Snow; My Name is Red
Alan Paton [South Africa] – Cry, the Beloved Country; Too Late the Phalarope; Ah, But Your Land is Beautiful
Petronius -- Satyricon
Sylvia Plath – The Bell Jar [written under the name “Victoria Lucas”]
Poe – The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym [Poe’s only complete novel]
Katherine Anne Porter – Ship of Fools
Chaim Potok – The Chosen
Annie Proulx – Brokeback Mountain
Marcel Proust – Remembrance of Things Past [semi-autobiographical novel in seven volumes – also called In Search of Lost Time]; Swann’s Way [first volume]
Manuel Puig [Argentina] – Kiss of the Spider Woman; Betrayed by Rita Hayworth
Alexander Pushkin – Boris Godunov [basis for a Mussorgsky opera]; Eugene Onegin [novel in verse form; basis for a Tchaikovsky opera]; The Captain’s Daughter
Mario Puzo – The Godfather
Thomas Pynchon – Gravity’s Rainbow; V; The Crying of Lot 49; Mason & Dixon
Rabelais – Gargantua and Pantagruel
Ann Radcliffe – The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ayn Rand [created a philosophy called “Objectivism”] – The Fountainhead; Atlas Shrugged; Anthem; We the Living
Alice Randall – The Wind Done Gone [“reinterpretation” of Gone with the Wind]
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings – The Yearling
Remarque – All Quiet on the Western Front; The Road Back [sequel]
Jean Rhys – Wide Sargasso Sea [a prequel to Jane Eyre; it is the story of the first Mrs Rochester]
Samuel Richardson – Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded; Clarissa
Ole Rolvaag [Norwegian-American] – Giants in the Earth
Philip Roth – Portnoy’s Complaint; The Plot Against America
Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Julie, or the New Heloise
Arundhati Roy [Indian] – The God of Small Things
Salman Rushdie – The Satanic Verses; Midnight’s Children; Shalimar the Clown; Shame
Marquis de Sade -- Justine
Carl Sagan [American astronomer] -- Contact
J.D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye; Franny and Zooey
William Saroyan [Armenian-American] – The Human Comedy [novel]
Sartre -- Nausea
Dorothy Sayers – The Nine Tailors
Sir Walter Scott – Ivanhoe; The Heart of Midlothian; Rob Roy; Waverley; The Bride of Lammermoor; Guy Mannering; Kenilworth
Nevil Shute – On the Beach
Alan Sillitoe – The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Upton Sinclair – “Lanny Budd” novels; Dragon’s Teeth; Oil!; Boston [about the Sacco and Vanzetti trial]; The Jungle
Isaac Bashevis Singer [wrote in Yiddish] – The Family Moskat
Jane Smiley – A Thousand Acres
Betty Smith – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Solzhenitsyn – The Gulag Archipelago; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; August 1914; Cancer Ward; The First Circle
Gertrude Stein – Three Lives
John Steinbeck – Cup of Gold [his first novel]; Cannery Row; Tortilla Flat; The Winter of Our Discontent; The Red Pony; The Moon is Down; The Pearl; East of Eden;
The Grapes of Wrath; In Dubious Battle; Of Mice and Men
Stendhal [French] – The Red and the Black; The Charterhouse of Parma
Laurence Sterne – Tristram Shandy
Robert Louis Stevenson [Scottish] – Kidnapped; Catriona [sequel to Kidnapped]; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Treasure Island; The Master of Ballantrae
Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
William Styron – Confessions of Nat Turner; Lie Down in Darkness; Sophie’s Choice
Amy Tan – The Joy Luck Club; The Kitchen God’s Wife; The Hundred Secret Senses; Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat
Jun’ichiro Tanizaki – The Makioka Sisters
Booth Tarkington – Alice Adams; The Magnificent Ambersons
Thackeray – Vanity Fair; Barry Lyndon
John Kennedy Toole – A Confederacy of Dunces
Leo Tolstoy – The Cossacks; Resurrection; The Death of Ivan Ilych; Childhood; Boyhood; Youth
Anthony Trollope – Barchester Towers; “Barsetshire Novels” series
Dalton Trumbo – Johnny Got His Gun [anti-war novel set during World War I]
Ivan Turgenev – Rudin; Fathers and Sons
Mark Twain – Puddn’head Wilson; The Prince and the Pauper; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Anne Tyler – The Accidental Tourist; Breathing Lessons
John Updike – Rabbit, Run [and other “Rabbit novels]; The Witches of Eastwick; The Poorhouse Fair; The Centaur
Leon Uris -- Exodus
Maria Vargas Llosa [Peru] – Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Jules Verne – The Mysterious Island; Five Weeks in a Balloon; A Journey to the Center of the Earth; From the Earth to the Moon
Voltaire [real name: Francois-Marie Arouet] – Candide; Zadig
Kurt Vonnegut – Cat’s Cradle; Timequake; Breakfast of Champions; Player Piano; Slapstick; Jailbird; Mother Night; God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; Slaughterhouse-Five
Alice Walker – Meridian; The Third Life of Grange Copeland; The Temple of My Familiar; The Color Purple
Lew Wallace – Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Horace Walpole – The Castle of Otranto [considered the first Gothic novel]
Robert Penn Warren – All the King’s Men
Evelyn Waugh – Brideshead Revisited; Scoop
H.G. Wells – Island of Dr. Moreau; Kipps; Tono-Bungay; The History of Mr. Polly; The Chronic Argonauts [a precursor to The Time Machine]; The First Men in the Moon
Eudora Welty – Delta Wedding; The Optimist’s Daughter
Nathanael West [real name: Nathan Weinstein] – Miss Lonelyhearts; The Day of the Locust
Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence; The House of Mirth; The Custom of the Country; Ethan Frome; The Buccaneers; Summer; The Reef
T.H. White – The Once and Future King
Walt Whitman – Franklin Evans [his only novel, a “temperance” or anti-drinking novel]
Elie Wiesel – Night; Dawn; Day
Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray
Thornton Wilder – The Bridge of San Luis Rey; Ides of March; The Eighth Day; Theophilus North; The Cabala
Owen Wister – The Virginian [early western published in 1902]
Thomas Wolfe – Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and the River [sequel]; The Web and the Rock; You Can’t Go Home Again
Tom Wolfe – Bonfire of the Vanities; A Man in Full; I am Charlotte Simmons
Virginia Woolf – The Voyage Out; Mrs. Dalloway; The Waves; To the Lighthouse; Jacob’s Room; Orlando; Between the Acts [her final novel]
Herman Wouk – The Caine Mutiny
Richard Wright – The Outsider; Native Son
Johann Wyss – Swiss Family Robinson
Emile Zola – Nana; Germinal; Les Rougon-Macquart [set of 20 novels]
Children’s Literature
L. Frank Baum – The Wizard of Oz
Barry – Peter Pan
Brunhoff -- Babar
Frances Hodgson Burnett – The Secret Garden; The Little Princess; Little Lord Fauntleroy
Carlo Collodi – Pinocchio
Mary Mapes Dodge – Hans Brinker, or, The Silver Skates
Kenneth Grahame – The Wind in the Willows
S.E. Hinton – The Outsiders
Madeline L’Engle – A Wrinkle in Time
Ursula LeGuin – The Wizard of Earthsea
Hugh Lofting – Dr. Doolittle
A.A. Milne – Winnie the Pooh
L.M. Montgomery – Anne of Green Gables [set in Prince Edward Island]
Charles Perrault [French] – Tales of Mother Goose
Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Margret and H.A. Rey – Curious George
Maurice Sendak – Where the Wild Things Are
Anna Sewell – Black Beauty
St. Exupery – The Little Prince
Chris Van Allsburg – Jumanji; The Polar Express
E.B. White – Charlotte’s Web; Stuart Little; The Trumpet of the Swan
Laura Ingalls Wilder – Little House on the Prairie
Paul Zindel – The Pigman
Plays
Aeschylus – Oresteia [trilogy: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides]; Seven Against Thebes; The Persians; Prometheus Bound
Edward Albee – The Zoo Story; The American Dream; The Sandbox; Tiny Alice; A Delicate Balance; Seascape; Three Tall Women; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf;
The Death of Bessie Smith [one-act play]
Maxwell Anderson – Winterset [based on the Sacco and Vanzetti case]
Aristophanes – Lysistrata; The Wasps; The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs
James Baldwin – Blues for Mister Charlie [inspired by the murder of Medgar Evers];
The Amen Corner
Beaumarchais – The Barber of Seville; The Marriage of Figaro [basis for the Rossini and Mozart operas]
Samuel Beckett – Endgame; Krapp’s Last Tape; Waiting for Godot; Happy Days
Robert Bolt – A Man for All Seasons [based on the true story of Sir Thomas More]
Bertolt Brecht – The Three Penny Opera; Mother Courage and Her Children;
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Robert Browning – Pippa Passes
Karel Capek [Czech] – R.U.R. [science fiction play that introduced the term “robot”]
Anton Chekhov – Uncle Vanya; The Cherry Orchard; The Seagull; The Three Sisters; The Wood Demon [comedic precursor to Uncle Vanya]
Agatha Christie – The Mousetrap
Pierre Corneille – Le Cid
Noel Coward – Blithe Spirit; Hay Fever; Private Lives
Theodore Dreiser – The Hand of the Potter
Alexander Dumas [fils] – The Lady of the Camellias [often called Camille, it is the basis for the Verdi opera La Traviata]
T.S. Eliot – Murder in the Cathedral; The Cocktail Party; Sweeney Agonistes
Euripides – Medea; Alcestis; The Trojan Women; The Bacchae; Orestes; Hecuba
Athol Fugard [South Africa] – Master Harold… and the Boys; Blood Knot
Federico Garcia Lorca [Spain] – Blood Wedding; The House of Bernarda Alba
John Gay – The Beggar’s Opera
Jean Genet – The Balcony
William Gibson – The Miracle Worker [about Helen Keller]
Goethe – Egmont; Faust
Nikolai Gogol – The Inspector General
Oliver Goldsmith – She Stoops to Conquer
Maxim Gorky [Russian] – The Lower Depths
Lorraine Hansberry – A Raisin in the Sun; The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window
Thomas Hardy – The Dynasts
Vaclav Havel [Czech; in addition to being a playwright, he was the first president of the Czech Republic] – The Garden Party
Joseph Heller – We Bombed in New Haven [delivered an anti-war message while discussing the Vietnam War]
Lillian Hellman – The Children’s Hour; The Little Foxes; Watch on the Rhine; Toys in the Attic; Another Part of the Forest
Ernest Hemingway – The Fifth Column [his only full-length play]
Victor Hugo – Hernani; Le Roi S’Amuse [The King Amuses Himself] – basis for Verdi’s opera Rigoletto; Cromwell
Henrik Ibsen – Brand; The Burial Mound; Catilina [also known as Catiline]; Ghosts; When We Dead Awaken; The Master Builder; Peer Gynt; Hedda Gabler; A Doll’s House; An Enemy of the People; John Gabriel Borkman; The Wild Duck
William Inge – Picnic; Bus Stop; Come Back, Little Sheba
Ionesco [French; member of the “Theater of the Absurd”] – Rhinoceros; The Bald Soprano; The Lesson; The Killer; The Chairs
Ben Jonson – Volpone; The Alchemist; Bartholomew Fair; Every Man in His Humour
James Joyce – Exiles [his only published play]
Tony Kushner – Angels in America [play about AIDS]
Thomas Kyd – The Spanish Tragedy
Jonathan Larson -- Rent
Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee – Inherit the Wind [fictionalized account of the Scopes Monkey Trial]
Machiavelli – The Mandrake [La Mandragola in Italian]
Archibald MacLeish – J.B. [play in verse based on the book of Job]
David Mamet – Glengarry Glen Ross; American Buffalo; Speed-the Plow
Christopher Marlowe – Edward II; Tamburlaine; Doctor Faustus; The Jew of Malta; The Massacre at Paris [about the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre]
Arthur Miller – All My Sons; After the Fall; The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; A View from the Bridge; The Price
Moliere [real name: Jean-Baptiste Poquelin] – Tartuffe; The Misanthrope; The Miser; The School for Wives; The Imaginary Invalid
Marsha Norman – ‘night Mother
Sean O’Casey – Juno and the Paycock; The Plough and the Stars
Eugene O’Neill – Bound East for Cardiff [his first play]; More Stately Mansions;
A Moon for the Misbegotten; Desire Under the Elms; Anna Christie; The Emperor Jones; The Hairy Ape; Mourning Becomes Electra; Ah, Wilderness; The Iceman Cometh; Long Day’s Journey Into Night; Beyond the Horizon; Strange Interlude
Clifford Odets – Golden Boy; Awake and Sing; Waiting for Lefty
Pirandello – Six Characters in Search of an Author; Right You Are (If You Think You Are); Tonight We Improvise
Harold Pinter – The Birthday Party; The Caretaker; The Homecoming; The Dumb Waiter
Alexander Pushkin – Mozart and Salieri
Jean Racine – Phaedra; Andromaque [Andromache]; Britannicus
Edmund Rostand – Cyrano de Bergerac
William Saroyan – The Time of Your Life
Sartre – The Flies; No Exit
Schiller – William Tell
Peter Shaffer -- Equus
George Bernard Shaw – Man and Superman [famous section called “Don Juan in Hell”]; Saint Joan; Arms and the Man; Major Barbara; Heartbreak House; Mrs. Warren’s Profession; Pygmalion
Sam Shephard – Buried Child; Fool for Love
Richard Sheridan – The School for Scandal; TheRivals
Robert Sherwood – Idiot’s Delight; Abe Lincoln in Illinois; The Petrified Forest
Neil Simon – The Odd Couple; Barefoot in the Park; Brighton Beach Memoirs; Lost in Yonkers
Sophocles – “Theban plays”: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone; Ajax; Electra
Wole Soyinka [Nigeria] – Death and the King’s Horseman; Kongi’s Harvest
Tom Stoppard – Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; Arcadia; The Coast of Utopia; The Real Thing
August Strindberg [Swedish] – Miss Julie; The Dance of Death; The Ghost Sonata; The Father
Synge – Riders to the Sea; Playboy of the Western World
Dylan Thomas – Under Milk Wood [radio play]
Ivan Turgenev – A Month in the Country
Alfred Uhry – Driving Miss Daisy
Wendy Wasserstein – The Sisters Rosensweig; The Heidi Chronicles
Peter Weiss [German] – Marat/Sade
Oscar Wilde – Lady Windermere’s Fan; Salome; An Ideal Husband; A Woman of No Importance; Importance of Being Ernest
Thornton Wilder – The Skin of our Teeth; The Matchmaker [basis for the musical “Hello, Dolly”]; Our Town; Pullman Car Hiawatha [one-act play]; The Long Christmas Dinner [one-act play]
Tennessee Williams – The Rose Tattoo; Suddenly Last Summer; Cairo, Shanghai, Bombay; Summer and Smoke; Sweet Bird of Youth; The Night of the Iguana;
A Streetcar Named Desire; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; The Glass Menagerie
August Wilson – “Pittsburgh Cycle” [cycle of 10 plays]: Joe Turner's Come and Gone; Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; The Piano Lesson; Seven Guitars; Fences; Two Trains Running; Jitney; King Hedley II; Radio Golf
Paul Zindel – The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Nonfiction
Peter Abelard [11th century philosopher] – Sic et Non [“Yes and No”]
Louisa May Alcott – Hospital Sketches
Hannah Arendt – Eichmann in Jerusalem
Aristotle – Nichomachean Ethics; Poetics
John James Audubon [Haitian-born American] – Birds of America
Augustine of Hippo [Saint Augustine] – Confessions; The City of God
Francis Bacon – Novum Organum; The New Atlantis
James Baldwin – Notes of a Native Son [essay]; The Fire Next Time; The Evidence of Things Not Seen [about Wayne Williams and the Atlanta child murders]
Ruth Benedict – The Chrysanthemum and the Sword; Patterns of Culture
George Berkeley [empiricism] – Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
Jakob Bernoulli – Ars Conjectandi
Ambrose Bierce – The Devil’s Dictionary [also known as The Cynic’s Word Book]
Franz Boas -- The Mind of Primitive Man; Race, Language, and Culture
James Boswell – The Life of Samuel Johnson; Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
William Bradford – History of Plymouth Plantation
Matthew Brady – Gallery of Illustrious Americans
Martin Buber [Jewish philosopher] – I and Thou
Edmund Burke – Reflections on the Revolution in France
Julius Caesar – The Gallic Wars
John Calvin – Institutes of the Christian Religion
Camus – The Myth of Sisyphus; The Rebel
Truman Capote – In Cold Blood
Thomas Carlyle – Sartor Resartus
Andrew Carnegie – The Gospel of Wealth [essay]
Rachel Carson – The Sea Around Us; Silent Spring
Castiglione – The Courtier
Geoffrey Chaucer – Treatise on the Astrolabe
Winston Churchill – A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
Cicero – De oratore; De republica
Eldridge Cleaver – Soul on Ice
Copernicus – On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Jacques Cousteau – The Silent World
E.E. Cummings – The Enormous Room
John Dalton – New System of Chemical Philosophy
Richard Henry Dana – Two Years Before the Mast
Dante – On Monarchy
Charles Darwin – The Origin of Species; The Descent of Man
Richard Dawkins – The Selfish Gene; The God Delusion
Simone de Beauvoir – The Second Sex
Daniel Defoe – A Journal of the Plague Year; The Shortest Way with the Dissenters [essay]
Thomas De Quincey – Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Jacques Derrida – Of Grammatology
Rene Descartes – Discourse on Method; Meditations on First Philosophy; Principles of Philosophy
John Dewey – Democracy and Education; Experience and Nature; The Quest for Certainty
Denis Diderot -- Encyclopedie
Isak Dinesen [Danish; real name: Karen Blixen] – Out of Africa
Frederick Douglass – My Bondage and My Freedom
John Dryden – The Hind and the Panther [a defense of Catholicism]
Emile Durkheim – Suicide; The Division of Labor in Society; The Rules of Sociological Method
Emerson – The American Scholar [speech given in 1837 to the Phi Beta Kappa Society in Cambridge, Massachusetts]; Nature; Self-Reliance; The Over-Soul; The Conduct of Life
Erasmus – In Praise of Folly
Friedrich Engels – Condition of the Working Class in England
Erik Erikson – Young Man Luther; Gandhi’s Truth [subtitled -- The Origins of Militant Nonviolence
Euclid -- Elements
Michael Faraday – The Chemical History of a Candle [originally a series of lectures]
F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Crack-Up
Dian Fossey – Gorillas in the Mist
James Frazer – The Golden Bough
Sigmund Freud – Interpretation of Dreams; Totem and Taboo; Beyond the Pleasure Principle; On Aphasia [his first published work]; Moses and Monotheism
Betty Friedan – The Feminine Mystique
Milton Friedman – A Monetary History of the United States; Capitalism and Freedom
John Kenneth Galbraith [Canadian-American] – The Affluent Society; The New Industrial State
Galileo – Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Edward Gibbon – Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Kahlil Gibran – The Prophet
Goethe – Metamorphosis of Plants; Theory of Colours
Gunther Grass – Peeling the Onion [autobiography]
Robert Graves – Goodbye to All That [memoir of World War I]
Alex Haley – The Autobiography of Malcolm X [written in collaboration with
Malcolm X]
Lorraine Hansberry – To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time; The Universe in a Nutshell
Friedrich Hayek – The Road to Serfdom
Hegel – Phenomenology of Spirit; The Science of Logic
Heidegger – Being and Time
Lillian Hellman – Pentimento [memoir]
Ernest Hemingway – A Moveable Feast; Death in the Afternoon; The Green Hills of Africa
Henry VIII – Defence of the Seven Sacraments
James Herriott – All Things Bright and Beautiful; All Creatures Great and Small [about his experiences as a veterinarian in Yorkshire, England]
John Hersey -- Hiroshima
Thor Heyerdahl – Kon-Tiki
Oliver Wendell Holmes – The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table [collection of essays]
Robert Hooke -- Micrographia
Horace – Ars Poetica [“The Art of Poetry” – a treatise on poetics]
David Hume [Scottish; he was associated with philosophical movement called Empiricism] -- A Treatise of Human Nature; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Zora Neale Hurston – Dust Tracks on a Road [autobiography]; Mules and Men
Aldous Huxley – The Doors of Perception [details his experiences when taking mescaline]
William James – Pragmatism; The Principles of Psychology; The Varieties of Religious Experience; The Meaning of Truth; The Will to Believe
Samuel Johnson – A Dictionary of the English Language; Lives of the English Poets
Kant – Critique of Pure Reason; Critique of Practical Reason
Helen Keller – The Story of My Life
Thomas a Kempis [late medieval Christian spiritual writer] – Imitation of Christ
John F. Kennedy – Profiles in Courage
Kepler – Astronomia Nova
John Maynard Keynes [British economist] – The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money; The Economic Consequences of the Peace [denouncing the Versailles Treaty]
Kierkegaard [Danish] – Either/Or [a famous part is called “Diary of a Seducer”]; Fear and Trembling
Martin Luther King, Jr. – Letter from Birmingham Jail
John Knox – History of the Reformation in Scotland
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross – On Death and Dying
Lamarck – Animals without Backbones
T.E. Lawrence [Lawrence of Arabia] – Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Vladimir Lenin – What is to be Done? [political pamphlet]
Claude Levi-Strauss [structural anthropologist] – The Raw and the Cooked
C.S. Lewis – Mere Christianity; The Screwtape Letters
Carolus Linnaeus – Systema Naturae
John Locke – Two Treatises of Government; An Essay Concerning Human Understanding; The Reasonableness of Christianity; A Letter Concerning Toleration
Saint Ignatius Loyola – Spiritual Exercises [manual of self discipline and prayer]
Lucretius -- De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things) – philosophical and scientific poem
Martin Luther – On the Bondage of the Will
Charles Lyell – Principles of Geology
Machiavelli – Discourses on Livy
Norman Mailer – The Armies of the Night
Bronislaw Malinowski – Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Thomas Malthus – [An Essay on] The Principle of Population
Abraham Maslow – Toward a Psychology of Being
Marco Polo – Il Milione (The Million) – about his travels to the court of Kublai Khan
Marcus Aurelius -- Meditations
Karl Marx – Das Kapital; The Poverty of Philosophy; On the Jewish Question; The German Ideology
Cotton Mather – Wonders of the Invisible World
Frank McCourt – Angela’s Ashes
Margaret Mead – Coming of Age in Samoa; Blackberry Winter
Stanley Milgram – Obedience to Authority
John Stuart Mill – Utilitarianism; A System of Logic; The Subjection of Women; On Liberty
John Milton -- Areopagitica
Montesquieu – The Spirit of the Laws; The Persian Letters
Audie Murphy – To Hell and Back [memoir]
Vladimir Nabokov – Speak, Memory [autobiography]
Ralph Nader [consumer advocate] – Unsafe at Any Speed
Newton – Optics; Principia Mathematica [3-volume work]
Nietzsche – Thus Spake Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; The Twilight of the Idols; The Antichrist; Ecce Homo; Birth of Tragedy; The Gay Science; Human, All Too Human
Charles Nordhoff and James Hall – Mutiny on the Bounty
George Orwell – Shooting an Elephant [essay]; Down and Out in Paris and London; Homage to Catalonia; The Road to Wigan Pier
Thomas Paine – Common Sense; The American Crisis [series of pamphlets]; Age of Reason; Rights of Man [response to Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France]
Blaise Pascal – Pensees [“thoughts”]
Linus Pauling – The Nature of the Chemical Bond
Octavio Paz – The Labyrinth of Solitude [essay]; The Monkey Grammarian
Charles Peirce [pragmatism] – How to Make Our Ideas Clear
Plato – Crito; Phaedo; Apology; Symposium
Ptolemy -- Almagest
Ayn Rand – The Virtue of Selfishness; Philosophy: Who Needs It
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings – Cross Creek [autobiography]
David Ricardo – Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
Jacob Riis – How the Other Half Lives
Jean-Jacques Rousseau – The Social Contract; Emile; Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men
Bertrand Russell – The Principles of Mathematics
Carl Sagan -- Cosmos
Saint-Exupery – Wind, Sand and Stars [memoir]
Carl Sandburg -- Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years; Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
Sartre – Being and Nothingness
Schopenhauer – The World as Will and Representation
Shelley – The Necessity of Atheism [pamphlet]
Skinner – Beyond Freedom and Dignity; Walden Two
Adam Smith – The Theory of Moral Sentiments; The Wealth of Nations
Spinoza [17th century Dutch Jewish philosopher] -- Ethics
Dr. Benjamin Spock – Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
Lincoln Steffens – The Shame of the Cities
Gertrude Stein – The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
John Steinbeck – Travels with Charley; The Sea of Cortez [guide to marine biology]
Robert Louis Stevenson – Travels with a Donkey [travel book]
Suetonius [Roman biographer and historian] – Lives of the Caesars
Jonathan Swift – Tale of a Tub; A Modest Proposal
Tacitus [ancient Roman historian] – Agricola; Germania
Ida Tarbell – A History of the Standard Oil Company
Thoreau – Walden; Civil Disobedience; A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Thucydides – History of the Peloponnesian War
Alexis de Tocqueville – Democracy in America
Leo Tolstoy – What is Art? [essay]
Barbara Tuchman – The Guns of August [about World War I]
Mark Twain – The Innocents Abroad; Life on the Mississippi; Roughing It
Thorstein Veblen – Theory of the Leisure Class
Vesalius – On the Structure of the Human Body [also called Fabrica]
Virgil – Aeneid; Bucolics [also called the Eclogues]; Georgics
Izaak Walton – The Compleat Angler [published in the 17th century]
Robert Penn Warren – Who Speaks for the Negro [collection of interviews]
Booker T. Washington – Up from Slavery [autobiography]
James Watson – The Double Helix
Max Weber – The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Alfred Wegener – The Origin of Continents and Oceans
Edith Wharton – The Decoration of Houses
E.B. White – The Elements of Style [written with William Strunk]; One Man’s Meat; Is Sex Necessary? [written with James Thurber]
Albert North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell – Principia Mathematica
Wittgenstein – Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Tom Wolfe – The Right Stuff; The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
Mary Wollstonecraft – A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein – All the President’s Men [about Watergate]
Virginia Woolf – A Room of One’s Own; Three Guineas
Richard Wright – Black Boy
Xenophon – Anabasis
Philip Zimbardo – The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
Short Stories
Ryunosuke Akutagawa – “Rashomon”; “In a Grove” [basis for movies by Kurosawa]
Sherwood Anderson – “Sophistication”; “I’m a Fool”
Samuel Beckett – More Pricks than Kicks [collection]
Stephen Vincent Benet – “The Devil and Daniel Webster”
Ambrose Bierce – Cobwebs from an Empty Skull [originally published under the pseudonym “Dod Grile”]; “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”; “Chickamauga”
Jorge Luis Borges [Argentina] – Ficciones; Dreamtigers; “The Garden of the Forking Paths”; “The Aleph”; “The Library of Babel”
Erskine Caldwell – “Country Full of Swedes”
Willa Cather – “Paul’s Case”; “A Wagner Matinee”
Chekhov – “The Bet”; “Gooseberries”; “The Lady with the Dog”; “A Boring Story”
Kate Chopin – Bayou Folk; A Night in Acadie; “The Story of an Hour”; “Desiree’s Baby”
Stephen Crane – “The Open Boat”; “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky”; “The Blue Hotel”
Charles Dickens – Sketches by Boz
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – “The Five Orange Pips”; “A Scandal in Bohemia”; “The Red-Headed League”
Faulkner – “The Bear”’; “A Rose for Emily”; “Barn Burning”; “Spotted Horses”; Go Down, Moses
Fitzgerald – “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz”; “Winter Dreams”;”Babylon Revisited”; “Bernice Bobs Her Hair”; The Pat Hobby Stories; Tales of the Jazz Age
E.M. Forster – “The Celestial Omnibus”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Leaf Storm [collection]
Charlotte Perkins Gilman – The Yellow Wallpaper
Nikolai Gogol – The Overcoat; The Nose; Diary of a Madman; Arabesques [collection]
Nadine Gordimer – Beethoven was 1/16th Black [collection]
Edward Everett Hale – “The Man Without a Country” [character: Philip Nolan]
Dashiell Hammett – The Big Knockover; The Continental Op
Bret Harte – “The Luck of Roaring Camp”; “The Outcasts of Poker Flat”
Nathaniel Hawthorne – Twice-Told Tales; Mosses from an Old Manse; “Young Goodman Brown”; “Rapaccini’s Daughter”; “The Minister’s Black Veil”; “The Birthmark”; “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”; “The Birthmark”; “My Kinsman, Major Molineux”
Ernest Hemingway – In Our Time; Men without Women; The Nick Adams Stories; The Fifth Column; “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”; “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”; “Hills Like White Elephants”; “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”
O. Henry [real name: William Sydney Porter] -- Cabbages and Kings [collection]; The Four Million [collection]; “The Gift of the Magi”; “The Ransom of Red Chief”; “The Last Leaf”
Langston Hughes – The Ways of White Folks [collection]
Washington Irving – “The Devil and Tom Walker”; “Rip Van Winkle”; “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”; Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon; Tales of the Alhambra
Christopher Isherwood – Goodbye to Berlin [basis for the musical “Cabaret”]
Shirley Jackson – “The Lottery”
Henry James – “The Jolly Corner”; “Paste” [short story based on Maupassant’s “The Necklace”]
James Joyce – Dubliners; “The Dead”; “Araby”
Franz Kafka – “The Hunger Artist”; “In the Penal Colony”
Kipling – Just So Stories; The Jungle Book; Plain Tales from the Hills; Puck of Pook’s Hill [children’s stories]; “The Man Who Would Be King”
D.H. Lawrence – “The Rocking Horse Winner”
Jack London – “To Build a Fire”
Bernard Malamud – The Magic Barrel [collection]
Katherine Mansfield [New Zealand] – The Garden Party
Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Colombia] – Leaf Storm [collection]
Guy de Maupassant – “The Necklace”; “Boule de Suif” [“Butterball” or “Ball of Fat”]
Herman Melville – “Bartleby, the Scrivener” [famous line repeated: “I prefer not to”]; Piazza Tales [collection of stories]
Haruki Murakami --
Flannery O’Connor – A Good Man is Hard to Find; The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Poe – Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
Edgar Allan Poe – “The Purloined Letter”; “The Mystery of Marie Roget”; “The Fall of the House of Usher”; “The Tell Tale Heart”; “The Pit and the Pendulum”; “The Black Cat”; “The Gold Bug”; “The Masque of the Red Death”; “The Cask of Amontillado”
Katherine Anne Porter – “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”
William Sydney Porter [O. Henry] – “The Last Leaf”; “The Gift of the Magi”; “The Ransom of Red Chief”
Alexander Pushkin – The Queen of Spades [basis for a Tchaikovsky opera]
Saki [real name: H.H. Munro] – “Tobermory”; “The Open Window”
J.D. Salinger -- Nine Stories; Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Seymour: An Introduction [collections]; “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”
Carl Sandburg – The American Songbag; Rootabaga Stories [stories for children]
Gertrude Stein – Three Lives [collection]
John Steinbeck – “Flight”; “The Chrysanthemums”
Dylan Thomas [Welsh] – Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog [collection]; Adventures in the Skin Trade [collection]
James Thurber – “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
Leo Tolstoy – Sevastopol Sketches; “The Kreutzer Sonata”; “How Much Land Does a Man Need?”
Ivan Turgenev – A Sportsman’s Sketches [collection]
Twain – “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg”
John Updike – “A & P”
Voltaire – “Micromegas”
Eudora Welty – “A Worn Path”; “Why I Live at the P.O.”
Richard Wright – Uncle Tom’s Children [collection]
Poetry
Maya Angelou – “Still I Rise”; “On the Pulse of Morning”
Ludovico Ariosto – Orlando Furioso [long narrative poem written during the Italian Renaissance]
Matthew Arnold – “Dover Beach”
Auden – Age of Anxiety; “Musee des Beaux Arts”
Basho [master of haiku] – The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Baudelaire – Flowers of Evil [Les Fleurs du Mal]
Stephen Vincent Benet – “John Brown’s Body”
William Blake – Songs of Innocence and Experience; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; “The Tiger”; “The Lamb”
Anne Bradstreet – “Verses Upon the Burning of Our House”; “To My Dear and Loving Husband”; The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
Gwendolyn Brooks – Annie Allen; A Street in Bronzeville; We Real Cool; Bronzeville Boys and Girls; The Bean Eaters; In the Mecca
Elizabeth Barrett Browning – “Sonnets from the Portugese”
Robert Browning – “The Ring and the Book” [long narrative poem]; “My Last Duchess”; “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”; “Fra Lippo Lippi”
William Cullen Bryant – “To a Waterfowl”; “Thanatopsis”
Robert Burns [Scotland] – “Auld Lang Syne”; “To a Mouse”; “To a Louse”; “A Red, Red Rose”; “Tam O’Shanter”; Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
Lord Byron – Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage; Don Juan; Hours of Idleness; English Bards and Scotch Reviewers; “She Walks in Beauty”; “The Corsair”; “The Prisoner of Chillon”; “The Destruction of Sennacherib”; “The Bride of Abydos”
Lewis Carroll – “The Hunting of the Snark”; “The Walrus and the Carpenter”; “Jabberwocky”
Geoffrey Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales; The Legend of Good Women; Troilus and Criseyde; The Book of the Duchess; Parlement of Foules; “The House of Fame”
Coleridge – “Dejection: An Ode”; “Kubla Khan”;” Frost at Midnight”; “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
E.E. Cummings – Tulips and Chimneys; “anyone lived in a pretty how town”
Dante – La Vita Nuova
Paul Laurence Dunbar – Lyrics of Lowly Life
John Dryden – Absalom and Achitophel; Annus Mirabilis
T.S. Eliot – Four Quartets; Ash Wednesday; “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”; “The Wasteland”; “The Hollow Men”; “Sweeney Among the Nightingales”; Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
Ralph Waldo Emerson – “Concord Hymn”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti – “A Coney Island of the Mind”
Philip Freneau [known as the “Poet of the American Revolution] – “The Indian Burying Ground”
Frost – A Boy’s Will; North of Boston; “Fire and Ice”; “Nothing Gold Can Stay”; “The Death of the Hired Man”; “After Apple-Picking”; “Mending Wall”; “The Road Not Taken”; “Birches”; “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”; “The Gift Outright”
Allen Ginsberg – “Kaddish”; “Howl”; “A Supermarket in California”; “Sunflower Sutra”; Reality Sandwiches
Kalil Gibran – The Prophet
Oliver Goldsmith – “The Deserted Village”
Thomas Gray – “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”; “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College”; “Ode (On the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes”
Thomas Hardy – “The Darkling Thrush”
Bret Harte – “Plain Language from Truthful James”
Seamus Heaney [Irish] – “Sweeney Astray”; new translation of Beowulf
Heinrich Heine – “Die Lorelei”
William Ernest Henley – “Invictus”
Robert Herrick – Hesperides [collection]; “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”
Hesiod – Theogony [poem that describes the origins of the gods of the ancient Greeks]
Oliver Wendell Holmes – “The Chambered Nautilus”; “Old Ironsides”
Gerard Manley Hopkins – “Pied Beauty”; “The Wreck of the Deutschland”; “The Windhover”
A.E. Housman – A Shropshire Lad; “To an Athlete Dying Young”; “Terence, This is Stupid Stuff”; “When I Was One-and-Twenty”
Langston Hughes – “Dreams”; “Dream Variations”; “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”; “Harlem”; “The Weary Blues”
Randall Jarrell – “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”
James Weldon Johnson – “Lift Every Voice and Sing”; God’s Trombone [book of poems]
Ben Jonson – “Song: To Celia”
Samuel Johnson – “The Vanity of Human Wishes”
Keats – “Ode to a Nightingale”; “Ode on a Grecian Urn”; “La Belle Dame sans Merci”; “Endymion”; “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer”; “Ode on Melancholy”; “Lamia”
Omar Khayyam – Rubaiyat [translated by Edward FitzGerald in the 19th century]
Joyce Kilmer – “Trees”
Kipling – Barrack Room Ballads [collection]; “Mandalay”; “If”; “Gunga Din”; “Danny Deever”; “White Man’s Burden”; “The Sons of Martha”
Sidney Lanier – “Song of the Chattahoochee”; “The Marshes of Glynn”
Emma Lazarus – “The New Colossus”
Edward Lear – limericks; “The Owl and the Pussycat”
Vachel Lindsay – General William Booth Enters Into Heaven
Longfellow – Tales of a Wayside Inn [collection]; “The Wreck of the Hesperus”; “Song of Hiawatha”; “Evangeline”; “The Courtship of Miles Standish”; “The Village Blacksmith”; “The Children’s Hour”; “Paul Revere’s Ride”
Richard Lovelace – “To Althea, from Prison”; “To Lucasta, Going to the Wars”
Amy Lowell [she led a movement called Imagism] – “Patterns”; What’s O’ Clock [collection]
Archibald MacLeish – “Ars Poetica”
Christopher Marlowe – “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”
Andrew Marvell – “To His Coy Mistress”
Edgar Lee Masters – Spoon River Anthology
John McCrae – “In Flanders Field”
Edna St. Vincent Millay – “First Fig”; Renascence
John Milton – “Lycidas”; “On His Blindness”; “Samson Agonistes”; “Paradise Lost”; “Paradise Regained”; Comus
Clement Moore – “A Visit from St. Nicholas”
Pablo Neruda [Chile] – Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair; Canto General
Alfred Noyes – “The Highwayman”
Ovid -- Metamorphoses
Wilfred Owen – Dulce et Decorum Est; Anthem for Doomed Youth
Octavio Paz [Mexico] – Luna Silvestre [his first poetry collection]; “Sun Stone”
Petrarch – Canzoniere [its central theme is the poet’s love for Laura]
Sylvia Plath – “Daddy”; Ariel; The Colossus and Other Poems; “Lady Lazarus”
Edgar Allan Poe – Tamerlane and Other Poems; “The Bells”; “The Conqueror Worm”; “Lenore”; “Annabel Lee”; “The Raven”; “Ulalume”; “To Helen”
Alexander Pope- The Dunciad [literary satire]; “An Essay on Criticism”; “An Essay on Man”; The Rape of the Lock
Ezra Pound – Cantos; The Pisan Cantos
Alexander Pushkin – The Bronze Horseman; Ruslan and Ludmila; The Tale of Tsar Saltan
Sir Walter Raleigh – “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” [written in response to Marlowe’s "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”]
Arthur Rimbaud [French] – Illuminations; A Season in Hell
Edwin Arlington Robinson – “Miniver Cheevy”; “Richard Cory”
Carl Sandburg – Cornhuskers; Smoke and Steel; “Fog”; “Chicago”; “Grass”
Sir Walter Scott – The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Robert Service [Canada; wrote about the Yukon] -- "The Shooting of Dan McGrew"; "The Cremation of Sam McGee."
Shelley – “Ode to Liberty”; “Ode to the West Wind”; “Ode to a Skylark”; Queen Mab; “Prometheus Unbound”; “Adonais” [elegy on the death of Keats]; “Ozymandias”
Sir Philip Sidney – “Astrophel and Stella”
Robert Southey – “The Battle of Blenheim”
Spenser – The Faerie Queen [written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I]; The Shepheardes Calender; Astrophel [an elegy on the death of Philip Sidney]; Epithalamion; Amoretti
Wallace Stevens – “Anecdote of the Jar”; “The Emperor of Ice Cream”; “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”; “The Idea of Order at Key West”
Robert Louis Stevenson – A Child’s Garden of Verses
Allen Tate – “Ode to the Confederate Dead”
Tennyson – “Charge of the Light Brigade”; “Ulysses”; “Idylls of the King”; “The Lotus-Eaters”; “In Memoriam”; “Crossing the Bar”; “Locksley Hall”; “The Lady of Shalott”
Ernest Thayer – “Casey at the Bat”
Dylan Thomas [Welsh] – “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”
Walt Whitman -- Leaves of Grass; Drum Taps [collection]; “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”; “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”; “I Sing the Body Electric”; “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”; “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” “O Captain, My Captain”, “A Noiseless Patient Spider”
John Greenleaf Whittier [“Quaker poet”] – “Snowbound”; “Barbara Frietchie”
Oscar Wilde – The Ballad of Reading Gaol
William Carlos Williams – Paterson; Pictures from Brueghel; “The Red Wheelbarrow”
William Wordsworth – “The Prelude”; “The World is Too Much with Us”; “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”; “Daffodils”; “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”; “Ode: Intimations of Immortality”
William Butler Yeats – “Easter, 1916”; “The Wild Swans at Coole”; “Leda and the Swan”; “The Second Coming”; “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”; “Sailing to Byzantium”; “Under Ben Bulben”
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