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Section 1
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The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
The Pearl
John Steinbeck
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
The Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
1984
George Orwell
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Beloved
Toni Morrison
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
Ulysses
James Joyce
Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
The Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
Go Tell it on the Mountain
James Baldwin
The Time Machine
H.G. Wells
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jules Verne
Slaughterhouse Five
Kurt Vonnegut
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Billy Budd
Herman Melville
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
The Awakening
Kate Chopin
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkein
The Invisible Man
H.G. Wells
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
Winnie the Pooh
A.A. Milne
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
Charlotte's Web
E.B. White
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Section 2
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The Rabbit series
John Updike
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Tarzan of the Apes
Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkein
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
The Naked Lunch
William Burroughs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkein
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
The Cider House Rules
John Irving
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert Heinlein
2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Truman Capote
My Antonia
Willa Cather
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Howard Pyle
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
A Room with a View
E.M. Forster
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Tender Buttons
Gertrude Stein
The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hamlett
Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
Hansel and Gretel
The Brothers Grimm
Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe
O Pioneers!
Willa Cather
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
The Castle
Franz Kafka
Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
The Red and the Black
Stendhal
Peyton Place
Grace Metalious
Daisy Miller
Henry James
The Return of the King
J.R.R. Tolkein
Wonderful World of Oz
L. Frank Baum
The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain
The Hollow Men
T.S. Eliot
The Judgment
Franz Kafka
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren
The World According to Garp
John Irving
Anthem
Ayn Rand
The Celebrating Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Mark Twain
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
The Tale of Genji
Lady Murasaki Shikibu
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather
Jaws
Peter Benchley
Section 3
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The Tale of the Argonauts
Bret Harte
Main Street
Sinclair Lewis
Arrowsmith
Sinclair Lewis
In Our Time
Ernest Hemingway
House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck
Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus
Mary Shelley
The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ivanhoe
Sir Walter Scott
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
Douglas Adams
The Chronicles of Narnia series
C.S. Lewis
The Art of Writing
Robert Louis Stevenson
Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
The Maze Runner series
James Dashner
The Beautiful and the Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
A Separate Peace
John Knowles
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
The Phantom Limb
William Sleator
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
It Can't Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis
The Satanic Verse
Salmon Rushdie
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Percy Jackson series
Rick Riordan
I, Robot
Isaac Asimov
The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Laroux
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
From the Earth to the Moon
Jules Verne
The Red Pony
John Steinbeck
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Franny and Zooey
J.D. Salinger
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut
Don Quixote
Miguel Cervantes
The Hunger Games series
Suzanne Collins
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeline L'Engle
Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones)
George R.R. Martin
The School for Scandal
Richard Sheridan
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dressier
Babbit
Sinclair Lewis
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
Around the World in 80 Days
Jules Verne
Parasite Pig
William Sleator
Howard's End
E.M. Forster
Tender is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Section 4
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Looking for Alaska
John Green
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
James Thurber
Native Son
Richard Wright
The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe
Black Beauty
Anne Sewell
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green
The Story of Mankind
Hendrik van Loon
50 Shade of Grey series
E.L. James
The Pit and the Pendulum
Edgar Allan Poe
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
The Waves
Virginia Woolf
The Giver
Lois Lowry
The Devil and Daniel Webster
Stephen Vincent Benet
Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
Carrie
Stephen King
The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
The Shining
Stephen King
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter
Divergent series
Veronica Roth
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
Invisible Man (not THE Invisible Man)
Ralph Ellison
The Devil and Tom Walker
Washington Irving
Ugly Duckling
Hans Christian Andersen
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
The Three Musketeers
Alexander Dumas
Twilight series
Stephanie Meyer
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexander Dumas
Roots
Alex Haley
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino
Rip Van Winkle
Washington Irving
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Victor Hugo
The Most Dangerous Game
Richard Connell
Paper Towns
John Green
Kim
Rudyard Kipling
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Baroness Orczy
Foundation series
Isaac Asimov
Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe
The Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
Black Boy
Richard Wright
Section 5
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The Bourgeois Gentleman
Moliere
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Ragged Dick
Horatio Alger
Boule de Suif
Guy de Maupassant
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
Dragon's Teeth
Upton Sinclair
The Deerslayers
James Fenimore Cooper
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Peter Pan
Sir James Barrie
Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Pierre Boulle
The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper
John Brown's Body
Stephen Vincent Benet
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe
The Imaginary Invalid
Moliere
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
Antigone
Sophocles
The Crucible
Arthur Miller
The Crossover
Kwame Alexander
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy O'Toole
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
The Gilded Age
Mark Twain
The Godfather
Mario Puzo
Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice
Dracula
Bram Stoker
The Prince of Tides
Pat Conroy
The Chocolate War
Robert Cormier
The Lottery
Shirley Jackson
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding
Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
The Caine Mutiny
Herman Wouk
Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James
The Natural
Bernard Malamud
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D.H. Lawrence
The Stranger
Albert Camus
White Man and Yellow Man
Endo Shusaku
Island of Doctor Moreau
H.G. Wells
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
The Stranger
Albert Camus
Insvisible Cities
Italo Calvino
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe
Candide
Voltaire
The Winter of Our Discontent
John Steinbeck
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Section 6
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Metamorphoses
Ovid
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray
The Bacchae
Euripides
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein
Othello
William Shakespeare
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee
The Birds
Aristophanes
The Merry Wives of Windsor
William Shakespeare
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare
Analects
Confucius
Oresteia
Aeschylus
Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare
King Lear
William Shakespeare
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
The Clouds
Aristophanes
The Night of the Iguana
Tennessee Williams
The Metamorphis
Franz Kafka
The Frogs
Aristophanes
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Medea
Euripides
Shiiku
Oe Kenzaburo
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles
Mourning Becomes Electra
Eugene O'Neill
The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams
Aeneid
Virgil
Seven Against Thebes
Aeschylus
Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare
Emperor's New Clothes
Hans Christian Andersen
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
The Planet of the Apes
Pierre Boulle
Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann
Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostovesky
Dune
Frank Herbert
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
Inferno
Dante
Tar Baby
Toni Morrison
The Divine Comedy
Dante
Antony & Cleopatra
William Shakespeare
Section 7
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Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser
The Japanese Lover
Isabel Allende
Lorax
Dr. Seuss
Uncle Vanya
Anton Chekov
Forever
Judy Blume
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Judy Blume
The Iceman Cometh
Eugene O'Neill
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney
The Voyage Out
Virginia Woolf
The Black Cat
Edgar Allan Poe
Siddhartha
Herman Hesse
The Overcoat
Nikolai Gogol
Oh the Places You Go
Dr. Seuss
The Inspector General
Nikolai Gogol
Snow Upon the Desert
Agatha Christie
The Train Was On Time
Heinrich Boll
Terms of Endearment
Jeff McMurtry
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Roald Dahl
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingslover
Trilogy of Desire
Theodore Dreiser
Sor Juana, or, the Traps of Faith
Octavio Paz
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Heinrich Boll
1Q84
Haruki Murakami
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl
Eva Luna
Isabel Allende
African Slavery in America Age of Reason Rights of Man Common Sense
Thomas Paine
July's People The Burgher's Daughter
Nadine Gordimer
Fudge series
Judy Blume
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Carlos Fuentes
In the Penal Colony
Franz Kafka
The Bean Trees
Barbara Kingslover
The Cask of Amontilado
Edgar Allan Poe
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
Heinrich Boll
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
The Jolly Story
Henry James
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
Our Town
Thornton Wilder
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Eugene O'Neill
The Financier
Theodore Dreiser
The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekov
An Ideal Husband
Oscar Wilde
The Labyrinth of Solitude.
Octavio Paz
After Dark
Haruki Murakami
Lonesome Dove
Jeff McMurtry
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Sugar Street and Palace of Desire
Naguib Mahfouz
Gift of the Magi
O. Henry
Section 8
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Gabriela Mistral
The first Latin American to win the Nobel Literature Prize, she was actually named Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, but took her pen name from the Italian and French poets Gabriele D'Annunzio and Frédéric Mistral respectively. (1889-1957, Chile; Nobel 1945)
Mario Vargas Llosa
hile attending military school in Lima, he wrote the play The Escape of the Inca (1952), but the harsh treatment he received there was the basis for his best-known novel, The Time of the Hero. (1936-present, Peru).
Where the Red Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls
Self-Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jorge Luis Borges
By his fifties, a disorder inherited from his father had taken his eyesight, but in 1962 he completed the influential story collection Labyrinths. (1899-1986, Argentina)
José Martí
Imprisoned at age 16 and exiled from the island several times, he settled in New York for the last fifteen years of his life, where he wrote essays on Walt Whitman, Jesse James, and the threat of Latin American economic dependence on the United States. (1853-1895, Cuba)
Pablo Neruda
1923 saw the publication of his best-known work, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, which led to diplomatic appointments. (1904-1973, Chile; Nobel 1971)
Isabel Allende
Other works of fiction include the short-story collection Eva Luna (1989) and Paula (1995), which detailed Allende's care for her terminally ill daughter. (1942-present, Chile)
Pablo Neruda
As a penniless consul in Burma in the 1930s, he wrote the surrealist collection Residence on Earth. He served in the Chilean senate in the 1940s, though government opponents forced him into exile over his Communist views. (1904-1973, Chile; Nobel 1971)
Octavio Paz .
He published the poetry collection Luna silvestre at age 19, and his 584-line poem The Sun Stone deals with the planet Venus, an important symbol to the Aztecs. (1914-1998, Mexico; Nobel 1990)
Gabriel García -Marquez
Other prominent novels include In Evil Hour, Love in the Time of Cholera, and The General in His Labyrinth, a depiction of Simón Bolívar's final years. (1928-present, Colombia; Nobel Prize for Literature 1982).
José Martí
He was killed in a skirmish at Dos Ríos while participating in an invasion with other Cuban exiles. (1853-1895, Cuba)
Murasaki Shikibu
Novelist, diarist, and courtesan. She was the author of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari), the first known novel; the diary, Murasaki Shikibu nikki; and a collection of tanka poems.
Jorge Luis Borges
One-quarter English,he learned that language before he learned Spanish. (1899-1986, Argentina)
Carlos Fuentes
Other notable novels include Terra nostra, set during the reign of King Philip II of Spain, and The Old Gringo, which portrays Ambrose Bierce's last days in Mexico. (1928-present, Mexico)
Gabriel García-Marquez
A newspaper journalist in the 1950s,he exposed a naval scandal (chronicled in The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor).
Jorge Luis Borges
While working in a library, he developed his greatest short stories, collected in A Universal History of Infamy (1935), Ficciones (1944), and The Aleph (1949). (1899-1986, Argentina)
Crome Yellow
Aldous Huxley
Two Years Eight Months and Twentyeight night
Salmon Rushdie
Miguel Asturias
He most famous novel, El señor presidente (1946), was a satire against the oppressive Guatemalan dictatorship. (1899-1974, Guatemala; Nobel 1967)
Gabriela Mistral
At first a prominent educator, she wrote "Sonnets of Death" (1914) after the suicide of her fiancé. Those sonnets later appeared in her most famous collection, Desolation (1922). (1889-1957, Chile; Nobel 1945)
Miguel Asturias
He also completed a trilogy that blasted exploitation by the American-led United Fruit Company, and the short-story collection Weekend in Guatemala (1956), based on the CIA-led overthrow of president Jacobo Arbenz's liberal government. (1899-1974, Guatemala; Nobel 1967)
Eyeless in Gaza
Aldous Huxley
Gabriel García-Marquez
The master of magic realism, his birthplace of Aracataca was the model for the fictional town of Macondo. (1928-present, Colombia; Nobel Prize for Literature 1982).
Mario Vargas Llosa
Conversation in the Cathedral (1969) was Vargas Llosa's serious take on living under the dictatorship of Manuel Odría, while in 1977 he published the lighter, autobiographical Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, about soap operas. (1936-present, Peru)
Jorge Luis Borges
Educated in Europe during WWI, he met a circle of avant-garde poets in Spain, which inspired him to found the ultraismo movement and publish the collection Fervor of Buenos Aires (1923) when he returned to Argentina. (1899-1986, Argentina)
Arrow of God
Chinua Achebe
Pablo Neruda
Crossing the Andes on horseback inspired his epic Canto general (1950). He died of cancer days after his friend Salvador Allende was executed. (1904-1973, Chile; Nobel 1971)
The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster
Carlos Fuentes
He has also penned absurdist plays and essay collections on Mexican and American art and literature. (1928-present, Mexico)
Octavio Paz
A prominent poet and essayist, he supported leftist causes in Mexico; he fought briefly for the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War. (1914-1998, Mexico; Nobel 1990)
José Martí
Best known as a poet and a revolutionary, he fought tirelessly for Cuban independence. (1853-1895, Cuba)
Miguel Asturias
Left his native Guatemala in 1923 to study in Paris. There he discovered Mayan mythology, and translated the Popol Vuh into Spanish; the theme would pervade his work, such as 1963's Mulata de tal. (1899-1974, Guatemala; Nobel 1967)
Mario Vargas Llosa
Other important works include The War of the End of the World and A Fish in the Water, which discusses his political career; Vargas Llosa ran for president of Peru in 1990 but was defeated by Alberto Fujimori. (1936-present, Peru)
Carlos Fuentes
Though born into a well-to-do family, he has often dealt with the betrayed ideals from the Mexican Revolution of 1910, the subject of both his first novel, Where the Air is Clear (1958), and his most successful book, The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962). (1928-present, Mexico)
Isabel Allende
Her formal literary career began at age 40, when she published The House of the Spirits, a magic realist work that chronicles several generations of the Trueba family. (1942-present, Chile)
Octavio Paz
While studying in Los Angeles, he observed flamboyantly dressed Mexican-American pachucos ("zoot-suiters"), who inspired him to write about Mexico and its Native American/mestizo heritage in his pivotal essay collection, The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950). (1914-1998, Mexico; Nobel 1990).
Octavio Paz
Another prose work, In the Light of India (1997), reflected his part-(East) Indian heritage. (1914-1998, Mexico; Nobel 1990).
Principia Mathematica
Isaac Newton
Midnight's Children
Salmon Rushdie
Isabel Allende
Actually born in Peru, at age three she moved to her mother's native Chile. (1942-present, Chile)
Gabriela Mistral
A native Chilean, she served as a diplomat both in the United States and Europe. Langston Hughes translated a portion of Mistral's poetry into English just after she died. (1889-1957, Chile; Nobel 1945)
Isabel Allende
A successful news reporter in her twenties, she and her family fled to Venezuela after General Augusto Pinochet deposed and executed her uncle, setting up a dictatorship. (1942-present, Chile)
The American Scholar
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
Gabriel García-Marquez
The town of Macondo played a prominent role in many of his works, such as Leaf Storm and his seminal novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), which details the decline of the Buendía family over seven generations. (1928-present, Colombia; Nobel Prize for Literature 1982).
José Martí
His Ill-Omened Friendship (1885) is considered the first Spanish modernist novel, and his poetry collections include Our America and Simple Verses; the poem "Guantanamera" was the inspiration for several songs. (1853-1895, Cuba)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie
Pablo Neruda
Born Neftalí Reyes, he adopted the surname of the 19th century Czech poet Jan Neruda. Gabriela Mistral was the head of his school in the small city of Temuco. (1904-1973, Chile; Nobel 1971)
Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie
Section 9
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Sei Shonagan )
Her only work is the Pillow Book (Makura no soshi), which is considered the best source of information about life at the Japanese court during the Heian period (784-1185).
Mishima Yukio
He organized the Tate no kai, a right-wing society stressing physical fitness and the martial arts, committed ritual suicide after a public speech failed to galvanize the armed forces into overthrowing the government. (pseudonym of Hiraoka Kimitake)
Kawabata Yasunari
He is best known for three novels: Thousand Cranes, based on the tea ceremony and inspired by The Tale of Genji; The Sound of the Mountain, about the relationship of an old man and his daughter-in-law; and Snow Country, about an aging geisha.
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
His scripts fall into two categories: historical romances (mono) and domestic tragedies (wamono).
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Coleridge Tyalor
Paradise Lost
John Milton
Zeami
Also a drama critic, he established the aesthetic standards by which plays have been judged ever since. His Fushi kaden (The Transmission of the Flower of Acting Style) is a manual for his pupils. (also called Kanze Motokiyo)
Fire and Ice
Robert Frost
Matsuo Basho
Generally acknowledged as the master of the haiku form, the most notable influences on his work were Zen Buddhism and his travels throughout Japan. pseudonym of Matsuo Munefusa
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
One of his most popular plays was The Battles of Coxinga, an historical melodrama about an attempt to re-establish the Ming dynasty in China.
The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot
Mishima Yukio
He was a novelist whose central theme was the disparity between traditional Japanese values and the spiritual emptiness of modern life. He failed to qualify for military service during World War II, so worked in an aircraft factory instead. (pseudonym of Hiraoka Kimitake)
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
He was Japan's first professional dramatist. Originally named Sugimori Nobumori, he wrote more than 150 plays for both the bunraku (puppet theater) and the kabuki (popular theater).
Endo Shusaku
Silence tells of the martyrdom of Catholic converts of Portuguese priests. The Samurai recounts the tale of a samurai sent to establish trade relations between his shogun & Mexico, Spain, & Rome. These 2 books are considered to be his greatest achievement
Matsuo Basho
He took his pseudonym from the name of the simple hut where he retired: Basho-an, which means "Cottage of the Plaintain Tree." pseudonym of Matsuo Munefusa
Eugene Onegin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Mishima Yukio
His first novel, Confessions of a Mask (Kamen no kokuhaku), was successful enough to allow him to write full time.
Endo Shusaku
He converted to Catholicism at the age of 11, and majored in French literature. His first works, White Man and Yellow Man, explored the differences between Japanese and Western values and national experiences.
Leaves of Grass collection
Walt Whitman
I'm Nobody! Who Are You?
Emily Dickinson
Oe Kenzaburo
His fiction centers on the alienation following Japan's surrender and his political writings focus on the search for cultural and ideological roots.
Zeami
He provided 90 of the approximately 230 plays in the modern repertoire. Among his best works are Atsumori, The Robe of Feathers, Birds of Sorrow, and Wind in the Pines. (also called Kanze Motokiyo)
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
He is also largely responsible for developing the sewamono (contemporary drama on contemporary themes) in the joruri, a style of chanted narration adapted to bunraku.
Akutagawa Ryunosuke
In 1927 he committed suicide by overdosing on pills, and his suicide letter A Note to a Certain Old Friend became a published work.
Akutagawa Ryunosuke
His mother died insane while he was a child, and his father was a failure who gave him up to relatives.
Iliad
Homer
Matsuo Basho
He is noted for works like The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Oku no hosomichi), which includes descriptions of local sights in both prose and haiku. pseudonym of Matsuo Munefusa)
Kawabata Yasunari
His works are often only a few pages long, a form given the name "palm-of-the-hand."
Kawabata Yasunari
A friend of Mishima Yukio, he was also associated with right-wing causes and openly protested the Cultural Revolution in China. He committed suicide two years after Mishima.
Oe Kenzaburo
Novelist and recipient of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Chicago
Carl Sandburg
Rape of the Lock
Alexander Pope
Sei Shonagan
Like Lady Murasaki, Sei Shonagan was a lady-in-waiting of the Empress. Since Lady Murasaki and herwere contemporaries and known for their wit, they were often rivals.
Akutagawa Ryunosuke
Rashomon also was key to his international fame, when Kurosawa Akira made it into a film in 1951. One of Japan's two most prestigious literary prizes is named for Akutagawa; it is awarded for the best serious work of fiction by a new Japanese writer.
Akutagawa Ryunosuke
Despite this inauspicious childhood, his 1915 short story Rashomon brought him into the highest literary circles and started him writing the macabre stories for which he is known.
Murasaki Shikibu
The daughter of the court official Fujiwara Tametoki, she sat in on the classical Chinese literature lessons that her brother received, in spite of the Heian traditions against higher education for women.
Zeami
The second master of the Kanze theatrical school, which had been founded by his father, he is regarded as the greatest playwright of the No theater. (also called Kanze Motokiyo)
Odyssey
Homer
Oe Kenzaburo
His first work, Shiiku (The Catch in the Shadow of the Sunrise), describes a friendship between a Japanese boy and a black American POW, and won him the Akutagawa award while he was still a student.
Aeneid
Virgil
Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
The Divine Comedy
Dante Aligheri
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
Howl
Allen Ginsberg
Mishima Yukio
His 4 volume epic, The Sea of Fertility (Hojo no umi, consisting of Spring Snow, Runaway Horses, The Temple of Dawn, and The Decay of the Angel), is about self-destructive personalities and the transformation of Japan into a modern, but sterile, society. pseudonym of Hiraoka Kimitake
Kawabata Yasunari
Recipient of the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature, he was the first Japanese author to be so honored. His works combine classic Japanese values with modern trends and often center on the role of sex in people's lives.
Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Oe Kenzaburo
His later works (including A Personal Matter (Kojinteki-na taiken) and The Silent Cry (Man'en gannen no futtoboru)) reflect the experience of being the father of a brain-damaged child.
Oe Kenzaburo
His early works are filled with insanity, abuse, perverse sex, and violence
Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Section 10
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A Girl
Ezra Pound
Paul Revere's Ride
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Phenomenal Woman (collection)
Maya Angelou
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas
A Dream Within a Dream
Edgar Allan Poe
I carry your heart with me
e.e cummings
Metamorphoses
Ovid
I, Too
Langston Hughes
"Sonnet 18" (Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?)
William Shakespeare
O Captain! My Captain
Walt Whitman
Dream Deferred
Langston Hughes
Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Black Man's Burden
H.T. Johnson
Messy Room
Shel Silverstein
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Crossing the Bar
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Decameron
Giovannia Boccacio
White Man's Burden
Rudyard Kipling
Bear In There
Shel Silverstein
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
Walt Whitman
Old Ironsides
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Limbo
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For Some We Loved
Omar Khayyam
Kim
Rudyard Kipling
Amores (Love Affairs)
Ovid
I taste a liquor never brewed
Emily Dickinson
A Red, Red Rose
Robert Burns
If You Forgot Me
Pablo Neruda
Sailing to Byzantium
William Butler Yeats
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud
William Wordsworth
How Do I Love Thee?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If those I loved were lost
Emily Dickinson
Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll
Love and Friendship
Emily Bronte
Charge of the Light Brigade
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Poor Old Lady
Anon
Life Is Fine
Langston Hughes
The Tyger
William Blake
Christabel
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"We'll Go No More A-Roving"
Lord Byron
Where The Sidewalk Ends collection
Shel Silverstein
"Casey at the Bat"
Ernest Thayer
I Hear America Singing
Walt Whitman
The Tower collection
William Butler Yeats
The Wreck of the Hesperus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
There is another sky
Emily Dickinson
Time, Real and Imaginary
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If
Rudyard Kipling
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J'accuse
Emile Zola
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Lord Byron
Common Sense
Thomas Paine
Tintern Abbey
William Wordsworth
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Pablo Neruda
Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill
The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Book of Ecclesiastes
Solomon
Pragmatism
William James
Book of Genesis (950-500 BC)
Moses
Brown Penny
William Butler Yeats
Prelude
William Wordsworth
Book of Numbers
Moses
The Elements
Euclid
Acts of the Apostles
Luke
The Gospel According to John
Saint John the Apostle
Remember
Christina Rossetti
95 Theses
Martin Luther
The Elephant
Hilaire Belloc
The Federalist Papers (1787-1788)
John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Book of Revelation (c. 95)
John of Patmos
Book of Mormon
Joseph Smith
On the Origins of Species
Charles Darwin
A Word to Husbands
Ogden Nash
Tonight, I Can Write the Saddest Lines
Pablo Neruda
Quiet Night Thought (aka Li Bo)
Li Bai
Jerusalem
William Blake
Hope is a Thing with Feathers
Emily Dickinson
Resolution and Independence
William Wordsworth
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Canto General
Pablo Neruda
Magna Carta
King John (signer)
Three Hundred Tang Poems (aka Li Bo)
Li Bai
Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
U.S. Constitution (1787)
James Madison
Book of Exodus
Moses
Qur'an (660)
Mohammed
Cross of Gold Speech
William Jennings Bryan
Bill of Rights
James Madison
Coming of Age in Samoa
Margaret Mead
Principia Mathematica
Isaac Newton
Leviathan (1651)
Thomas Hobbes
Book of Psalms
David
Gospel According to Matthew (1st century)
Saint Matthew
Torah
Moses
Tonight, I Can Write the Saddest Lines
The third line of this poem states, "The night wind revolves in the sky and sings." Name this poem in which the author opens by describing what he plans to do for the evening.
The Republic
Plato
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Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies
Margaret Mead
Ethics
Benedict de Spinoza
Letters from a Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King, Jr.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke
Rights of Man
Thomas Paine
Aristophanes
The Birds
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Edmund Burke
Walden II
B.F. Skinner
Summa Theologica
Thomas Aquinas
Aristophanes
The Frogs
Aeschylus
Seven Against Thebes
Philippics
Demosthenes
The Division of Labour in Society
Emile Durkheim
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
A Dictionary of the English Language
Samuel Johnson
Apology
Plato
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
John Maynard Keynes
The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
Phaedo
Plato
The Rules of Sociological Method
Emile Durkheim
Sophocles
Antigone
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
Patterns of Culture
Ruth Benedict
The American Crisis
Thomas Paine
Aristophanes
Lysistrata
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Max Weber
Almagest
Ptolemy of Alexandria
On Liberty
John Stuart Mill
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
The Affluent Society
John Kenneth Galbraith
Aristophanes
The Clouds
Deuteronomy
Moses
Poetics
Aristotle
A Theory of Human Motivation
Abraham Maslow
Consensus Tigurinus
John Calvin
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Jonathan Edwards
Two Treatises of Government
John Locke
The Book of Judges
Samuel
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Ruth Benedict
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara Kingslover
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
The Spirit of Laws
Montesquieu
Sophocles
Oedipus Rex
Book of Leviticus
Moses
Novum Organum
Francis Bacon
Essay on Population
Thomas Malthus
Crito
Plato
Institutes of the Christian Religion
John Calvin
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Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
A shepherd from Mount Cithaeron reveals the awful truth: in response to the prophecy about their son, Laius and Jocasta had tried to expose the infant king in the wilderness. Not knowing his true heritage, the king eventually left home to avoid harming the people whom he believed to be his parents, but unknowingly fulfilled the prophecy by killing Laius and marrying Jocasta
Zoroastrianism
the religion is still practiced by about 120,000 Parsees in Bombay and a few thousand adherents in Iran and Iraq.
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Upon learning this, Jocasta commits suicide, and the king blinds himself with Jocasta's brooches. Creon assumes control of Thebes as the king begs to be exiled along with his daughters, Ismene and Antigone.
The Clouds by Aristophanes
This comedy lampoons Athenian philosophers, especially Socrates and his Sophist followers, whose insubstantial, obfuscating arguments are inspired by the title goddesses.
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Title character of this comedy is an Athenian woman who decides to end the Peloponnesian War, which was still raging when the play premiered in 411 BC. She assembles a secret Council of Women whose members represent many parts of Greece.
The Clouds by Aristophanes
Pheidippides is also pressured into studying at the Thinkery, where he and Strepsiades are instructed by the beings Just and Unjust Discourse.
Apocrypha
Catholics and Orthodox Christians consider the books that make up this text to be "deuterocanonical," meaning that they are just as important and divinely-inspired as other parts of the Old Testament.
The Birds by Aristophanes
Peisthetaerus & Euelpides eat a root that gives them wings, and aid the birds in the construction of the city Nephelokokkygia, or "Cloudcuckooland."
Bhagavad-Gita
Krishna tells Arjuna that humans possess a divine self within a material form, and that Arjuna's duty is to love God and do what is right without thinking of personal gain--some of the main tenets of Hinduism.
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
The king initially rejects the claim that he is the killer, but begins to have doubts after talking with his wife Jocasta, who was once married to Laius. Jocasta recalls a prophecy that Laius would be killed by his own son, but she claims that this prophecy did not come true, because Laius was murdered by highwaymen.
Analects
Confucianism is more of a philosophical system than a religion, and Confucius thought of himself more as a teacher than as a spiritual leader.
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
The Oracle attributes the plague to the fact that the murderer of Laius, the previous king of Thebes, has never been caught & punished. The king then seeks information from the prophet Teiresias, who is provoked into revealing that the king himself was the killer.
Analects
The philosopher Confucius did not write or edit the words that make up this text; his disciples compiled them in the 5th or 4th century BC.
The Clouds by Aristophanes
Pheidippides refuses, so Strepsiades enrolls in the Thinkery himself. There, Strepsiades learns about new discoveries, such as a technique to measure how far a flea can jump.
Tao Te Ching
It instructs adherents in restraint and passiveness, allowing the natural order of the universe to take precedent. Dao de Jing (or The Way and Its Power)
Antigone by Sophocles
Along with Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus, this is one of the three surviving "Theban plays" by Sophocles that center on the family of Oedipus. The tragedy takes place in the immediate aftermath of a battle in which Oedipus's two sons, Polyneices and Eteocles, killed each other while struggling to control Thebes.
Avesta
The Gathas may be as old as the 7th century BC, when Zoroaster is thought to have lived, but most of this text was put together by the Sassanid Persian dynasty, between 200 and 640. (or Zend-Avesta)
Hadith
Each consists of a matn, or text of the original oral law itself, as well as an isnad, or chain of authorities through which it has been passed by word of mouth through the generations.
Avesta
It consists of five parts: Gathas (poems written by Zoroaster), Visparat (homages to spiritual leaders), Vendidad (legal and medical doctrine), Yashts (hymns to angels and heroes), and Khurda (lesser rituals and hymns). (or Zend-Avesta)
Hadith
Collectively, it points Muslims toward the Sunna, or practice of the Prophet, which together with the Qur'an forms the basis for shari'a , usually translated as Islamic law.
The Birds by Aristophanes
On the advice of Prometheus, Peisthetaerus demands that Zeus give up his mistress Basileia, or Sovereignty, from whom "all things come." Peisthetaerus marries Basileia, and is crowned king.
The Clouds by Aristophanes
Strepsiades believes that the education will enable Pheidippides to foil all creditors, but Pheidippides instead uses his new-found debating skills to justify beating up his father. In response, Strepsiades leads a mob to destroy the Thinkery.
The Birds by Aristophanes
Peisthetaerus convinces Tereus & his fellow birds to build a city in the sky, which would allow the birds to demand sacrifices from humans, & to blockade the Olympian gods.
Euripides
Medea
Analects
It also contain some of the basic ideas found in Confucianism, such as ren (benevolence) and li (proper conduct).
Apocrypha
"Apocryphal" in general means "something outside an accepted canon," and, in particular, in ancient Greek it meant "hidden things."
The Frogs by Aristophanes
Dionysus and Xanthias then have a series of misadventures, during which they alternately claim to be Heracles.
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
This tragedy tells the story of a man who became king of Thebes by defeating a monster called the sphinx. After a mysterious plague devastates Thebes, he sends his brother-in-law Creon to ask the Oracle at Delphi about the cause of the affliction
Apocrypha
Protestants and Jews assign lower authority to this text because it was written between 300 and 100 BC.
Aeschylus
Oresteia
Bhagavad-Gita
Sanskrit for "The Song of God," it is a poem found in Book Six of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. Likely formalized in the 1st or 2nd century.
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Once the women have gathered, the title character reveals her proposal: all Greek women should abstain from having sex until the men agree to stop fighting in the Peloponnesian war
Hadith
It is a report of the words or actions of a Muslim religious figure, most frequently the Prophet Muhammad.
Bhagavad-Gita
It begins on the eve of a battle, when the prince Arjuna asks his charioteer Krishna (an avatar of Vishnu) about responsibility in dealing with the suffering that impending battle will cause.
The Clouds by Aristophanes
The protagonist Strepsiades fears that his horse-obsessed son, Pheidippides, is spending too much money. He wants Pheidippides to enroll in the Phrontisterion, or Thinkery of Socrates to learn specious arguments that can be used to avoid paying debts.
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Her plan draws protests from her bawdy neighbor Calonice, and from the amorous wife Myrrhine, the Spartan Lampito reluctantly supports the idea, and helps to convince the other women. As Athenian women capture the Acropolis, the female representatives from other regions return home to enlist their compatriots in the plan.
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
This leads the king to recall killing a man who resembled Laius, and a prophecy which had claimed that the king would kill his own father, and marry his own mother.
The Birds by Aristophanes
Peisthetaerus also drives away objectionable visitors, such as a poet, an oracle-monger, and a dealer in decrees. After the messenger goddess Iris is found in the city, the residents of Cloudcuckooland demand concessions from the Olympians.
The Birds by Aristophanes
At the start of this comedy, two Athenians named Peisthetaerus and Euelpides seek out Tereus, a human king who was transformed into a a bird called a hoopoe (some translations refer to Tereus as "Epops," the Greek word for hoopoe).
Book of Mormon
Published in 1830 by founder, Joseph Smith. Followers believe that the prophet Moroni revealed the location of this book to Smith, and then Smith translated it from a "reformed Egyptian" language.
Tao Te Ching
Philosophical text behind Daoism, a religion-philosophy founded by the semi-legendary Laozi in the sixth century BC, though scholars now believe it was written about 200 years later, during the Warring States period of the late Zhou Dynasty. Dao de Jing (or The Way and Its Power)
Apocrypha
Scholars differ as to which books make up this text, but Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach (or Ecclesiasticus), and Baruch are almost always included.
The Frogs by Aristophanes
As the ferryman Charon rows Dionysus to the underworld (Xanthias is forced to walk), a chorus of the title creatures appears and repeatedly chants the phrase "Brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax."
Avesta
Zoroastrianism centers on the eternal struggle between a good entity (Ahura Mazda, or Ormuzd) and its evil counterpart (Angra Mainyu, or Ahriman); (or Zend-Avesta)
The Frogs by Aristophanes
This comedy centers on the god Dionysus, who journeys to the underworld with his much smarter slave Xanthias. Dionysus is unhappy with the low quality of contemporary theater, and plans to bring the playwright Euripides back from the dead.
The Frogs by Aristophanes
Dionysus & Xanthais find Euripides arguing with Aeschylus as to which is the better author. After the dramatists "weigh" their verses on a scale, & offer advice on how to save Athens, Dionysus judges that it is Aeschylus who should be brought back to life.
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
The ensuing events include conflicts between a chorus of old women and a chorus of old men, and a personal plea to Myrrhine from her husband, Cinesias. Both genders suffer from sexual deprivation, but the women of Greece remain united. With the aid of a beautiful girl called Diallage, or Reconciliation, the title character convinces the frenzied men to agree to an equitable peace.
Avesta
Sacred scripture of Zoroastrianism. (or Zend-Avesta)
Euripides
The Bacchae
Analects
One of the "Four Books" used by the ancient Chinese for civil service study, it contains the sayings (aphorisms) of Confucius.
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