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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
'In Reference to her Children'
The Outsiders
HG Wells
Karen Hesse
2. Wrote Doctor Faustus
David Copperfield
Carl Hiaason
Herman Melville
Christopher Marlowe
3. Wrote Walk Two Moons
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Sharon Creech
Lord Byron
Anna Karenina
4. Wrote Jane Eyre
Wendy Towle
Mary Shelley
William Shakespeare
Charlotte Bronte
5. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Ester Forbes
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Virginia Woolf
Ernest Hemingway
6. Wrote The Fall of the House of Usher - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - and The Raven; wrote poems: 'To Science -' 'The City and the Sea -' and 'Silence;' American writer - poet - editor and literary critic; part of American Romantic Movement
Countee Cullen
Walter Dean Myers
Edgar Allan Poe
Ben Mikaelson
7. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
CS Lewis
Edith Wharton
Robert Cormier
Emily Bronte
8. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Kate Chopin
Robert Cormier
Jerry Spinelli
Daniel Defoe
9. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Robert Cormier
Nathaniel Hawthorne
William Wordsworth
10. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Aurora Leigh
Alice In Wonderland
Mildred Taylor
Percy Bysshe Shelley
11. Wrote The Weary Blues - The Ways of White Folks - and Not Without Laughter; American poet - novelist - playwright - short story writer - and columnist; early innovator for literary art known as jazz poetry; best known for work during Harlem Renaissan
Moby Dick
Toni Morrison
Langston Hughes
Oscar Wilde
12. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Katherine Patterson
Wendy Towle
SE Hinton
13. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Washington Irving
Jane Eyre
Walt Whitman
Louisa May Alcott
14. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Johann David Wyss
Sylvia Plath
Kate Chopin
Washington Irving
15. Gothic novel; a scientist creates a monster - and then abandons it in horror - a decision that leads to disaster and the deaths of nearly everyone he loves
Charles Dickens
Avi
Not Without Laughter
Frankenstein
16. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
William Butler Yeats
William Golding
Ben Mikaelson
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
17. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Herman Melville
The Pigman
Sylvia Plath
Ruth Avi
18. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
The Outsiders
Mary Downing Hahn
Caroline Cooney
Avi
19. Wrote 'Any Human to Another -' 'Color -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl;' American Romantic poet; leading African - American poets of his time; associated with generation of poets of the Harlem Renaissance
Gary Paulson
SE Hinton
Countee Cullen
Beloved
20. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Jerry Spinelli
Karen Hesse
The Great Gatsby
Washington Irving
21. Wrote The Outsiders
SE Hinton
Henry David Thoreau
Animal Farm
Beowulf
22. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Alice Walker
Sylvia Plath
Jane Eyre
Jean Craighead George
23. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Jack London
Countee Cullen
Sharon Creech
Maya Angelou
24. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Toni Morrison
The Pigman
Anne Bradstreet
Ester Forbes
25. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Madeline L'Engle
Lois Lowry
Beloved
Jack London
26. Wrote 'The Road Not Taken;' American poet; highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech; won Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry four times
Robert Frost
Jack London
William Wordsworth
Crime and Punishment
27. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Walter Dean Myers
Paul Zindel
Alice Walker
Countee Cullen
28. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Aphra Behn
Charlotte Bronte
Not Without Laughter
Ester Forbes
29. Wrote Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
The Bell Jar
Charlotte Bronte
The Pigman
30. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Holes
Aurora Leigh
Lewis Carroll
George Orwell
31. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
The Red Badge of Courage
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
William Butler Yeats
Christopher Paul Curtis
32. A group of Chinese mothers and their American - born daughters struggle to communicate and understand each other; four families dipicted Woo - Jong - Hsu - and St. Clair
The Joy Luck Club
Aurora Leigh
William Armstrong
Virgil
33. After surviving a poverty - stricken childhood - the death of his mother - a cruel stepfather - and an unfortunate first marriage - a boys finds success as a writer; themes: plight of the weak - importance of equality in marriage - dangers of wealth
Lord of the Flies
Willa Cather
JD Salinger
David Copperfield
34. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Avi
William Shakespeare
Emily Bronte
Lewis Carroll
35. Wrote Hatchet
Sharon Creech
Gary Paulson
Alice In Wonderland
Ruth Avi
36. Wrote The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Walter Dean Myers
Frederick Douglass
Emily Bronte
37. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Gary Paulson
Willa Cather
Walter Dean Myers
David Copperfield
38. Wrote Holes
Louis Sacher
Animal Farm
Jane Eyre
'In Reference to her Children'
39. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
The Pigman
Robert Cormier
Mary Downing Hahn
William Golding
40. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Little Women
Caroline Cooney
SE Hinton
Charlotte Bronte
41. A group of poor kids (greasers) hold their own against a group of rich kids (socials aka socs) - losing two of their own in the process; protagonist: Ponyboy Curtis; bildungsroman; setting 1960s
Jerry Spinelli
Edgar Allan Poe
The Outsiders
Henry David Thoreau
42. The protagonist of the story is a boy named Sandy whose family must deal with a variety of struggles imposed upon them due to their race and class in society in addition to relating to one another
HG Wells
Not Without Laughter
Beloved
The Giver
43. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Scott O'Dell
EB White
Beowulf
Karen Hesse
44. Wrote The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Red Badge of Courage
Elie Wiesel
Daniel Defoe
45. Wrote Sounder
Countee Cullen
The Aeneid
Nathaniel Hawthorne
William Armstrong
46. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Zora Neale Hurston
Helen Keller
John Keats
Richard Adams
47. Wrote Mrs. Dalloway - Night and Day - The Voyage Out - and Jacob's Room; English novelist and essayist; one of the foremost modernist literary figures of 20th century
Toni Morrison
JRR Tolkein
Virginia Woolf
Fyodor Dostoevsky
48. Wrote Watership Down
Richard Adams
Carl Hiaason
Caroline Cooney
Lewis Carroll
49. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
Sonnet 18
Virginia Woolf
To Kill a Mockingbird
Mary Downing Hahn
50. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
The Giver
Ernest Hemingway
EB White
James Joyce