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GRE Literature: Subject Test Authors And Works
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1. John Fenimore Cooper
George Orwell real name
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
2. Samuel Pepys
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
Houyhnhnms
Pyramus and Thisbe
Martinus Scriblerus Club
3. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
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4. James Baldwin
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son
Wuthering Heights - 'Often Rebuked - But Always Back Returning'
Piers Plowman
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
5. William Langland - search for the right way to salvation - controversial as it explores rebellion - revolution - social and religious issues
Houyhnhnms
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last
Piers Plowman
6. In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred - Lord Tennyson
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7. Edmund Spenser - 1590
The Faerie Queene
Confessio Amantis
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times
8. Henry David Thoreau
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9. Sean O'Casey
Mrs. Warren'S Profession - Pygmalion - Heartbreak House - Major Barbara - Saint Joan - Man and Superwoman
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways and other Lucy poems - 'The World is Too Much With Us'
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh
The Plough and the Stars
10. Kate Chopin
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11. Thomas Hardy
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12. J. M. Synge
The Playboy of the Western World
'Youth -' Lord Jim - Heart of Darkness - Nostromo - The Shadow-Line - Typhoon - The Secret Agent - Under Western Eyes - Victory - An Outcast of the Island
Upon Appleton House - The Rehearsal Transprosed - An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell'S Return from Ireland - 'To His Coy Mistress'
'My Last Duchess -' 'A Gramarian'S Funeral -' 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came -' Men and Women - Dramatis Personae - 'Caliban upon Sebetos -' The Ring and the Book - 'Love Among the Ruins'
13. Jean Genet
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14. Andrew Marvell - 'The Garden'
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15. George Etherege 'The Man of Mode -' 1676
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'
16. Maya Angelou
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17. F. Scott Fitzgerald
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18. William Congreve
The Way of the World - Love for Love
Shirley - The Villette - The Professor - Jane Eyre
'The Cry of the Children -' 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim'S Point -' Sonnets from the Portuguese - Aurora Leigh - 'How Do I Love Thee'
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan - Biographia Literaria - Cristabel - 'Frost at Midnight -' Lyrical Ballads
19. Chinua Achebe'S retelling of Nigerian independence
Things Fall Apart
Struldburgs
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways and other Lucy poems - 'The World is Too Much With Us'
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell
20. John Donne sermon - 'Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions'
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21. T.S. Eliot'S The Waste Land
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22. E.M. Forster
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
'To a green thought in a green shade'
The Old Man and the Sea - For Whom the Bell Tolls - The Sun Also Rises - A Farwell to Arms - Death in the Afternoon - The Garden of Eden - The Nick Adams Stories
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View
23. John Dos Passos
A Tale of a Tub - The Battle of the Books - Gulliver'S Travels - A Modest Proposal
'The Jungle'
Castle of Otranto
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
24. Algernon Charles Swinburne
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25. Gulliver'S Travels - everyone is 6' tall and cruel
Biathanatos (defense of suicide) - Pseudo-Martyr - Ignatius His Conclave - The First Anniversary (1611) - The Second Anniversary (1612) - Poems (1633) - 'Hymn to God My God - in My Sickness -' 'Death'S Duel' (own funeral sermon) - Songs and Sonnets (
The Ambassadors - Henry James
Lilliput
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon
26. Emily Bronte
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27. Alexander Pope'S The Rape of the Lock - 1717
Sophocles
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
Daisy Miller - Henry James
28. Anthony Trollope
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
Mark Twain'S real name
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
'Sweetness and light -' 'philistinism'
29. Samuel Johnson
'Ballad of Reading Goal -' 'De Profundis -' Lady Windermere'S Fan - A Woman of No Importance - An Ideal Husband - 'The Critic as an Artist -' Salome - The Portrait of Dorian Gray - The Importance of Being Earnest
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Castle of Otranto
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare
30. Pen names of Bronte sisters (Charlotte - Emily and Anne)
Nature - 'The American Scholar -' The Dial - 'Self-Reliance -' Experience -' 'Compensation -' 'The Over-Soul -' 'The Poet -' 'Politics.' 'The Concord Hymn -' 'The Rhodora'
'The Cry of the Children -' 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim'S Point -' Sonnets from the Portuguese - Aurora Leigh - 'How Do I Love Thee'
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell
'Youth -' Lord Jim - Heart of Darkness - Nostromo - The Shadow-Line - Typhoon - The Secret Agent - Under Western Eyes - Victory - An Outcast of the Island
31. Mark Twain
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32. Christopher Marlowe
The pathetic fallacy
Tamburlaine the Great
Beowulf
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'
33. Salman Rushdie
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34. Gertrude Stein
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35. Goethe
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36. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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37. Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Rise of Silas Lapham
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
inscape and instress
Mrs. Warren'S Profession - Pygmalion - Heartbreak House - Major Barbara - Saint Joan - Man and Superwoman
38. Robert Herrick
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39. Lord Byron
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40. Oscar Wilde
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41. Oscar Wilde - 'Ballad of Reading Goal' (written as Sebastian Melmoth)
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42. Milly Theale - an American heiress stricken with a serious disease - and her impact on the people around her (Kate Croy - Merton Densher)
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
The Playboy of the Western World
43. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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44. John Lydgate
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes
A Tale of a Tub - The Battle of the Books - Gulliver'S Travels - A Modest Proposal
The Task - Olney Hyms
45. Samuel Beckett
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
And now the Sun had stretch'd out all the hills - And now was dropt into the Western bay; At last he rose - and twitch'd his Mantle blew: To morrow to fresh Woods - and Pastures new
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
The Sun Rising
46. Gerard Manley Hopkins
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47. William Butler Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innisfree
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48. Charles Lamb
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare
"Death is a dialogue between the spirit and dust -" "Because I could not stop for death -" " There is another sky -" "I'm Nobody! Who are you? -" "I Started Early - took my dog - -" Nobody knows
Ulysses - Maud - The Idylls of the King - 'The Charge of the Light Brigade -' 'Tithonus -' 'Break - Break - Break -' 'Locksley Hall'
The Reason of Church Government (1642) - The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (1643) - Areopagitica (1644) - Poems (1645) - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649) - Eikonoklastes (1649) - Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth (166
49. Anonymous author of Cleanness and Patience - Pearl
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Way of the World - Love for Love
'The snow falling faintly through the universe'
'Sailing to Byzantium -' 'Leda and the Swan -' The Countess Cathleen - 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree -' 'The Second Coming'
50. 'The Way of the World' by William Congreve - 1700
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
'I Carry Your Heart With Me -' 'Buffalo Bills'
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')
Mr. W.H.
