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1. Oscar Wilde - 'Ballad of Reading Goal' (written as Sebastian Melmoth)
'each man kills the thing he loves'
'Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee'
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
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - 'On the Pulse of Morning -' 'Still I Rise'

2. Sense and Sensibility
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James

3. Richard Wright
'The Jungle'
'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
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider

4. Samuel Beckett
Daisy Miller - Henry James
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable

5. John Fenimore Cooper
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
'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
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
The American - Henry James

6. John Donne sermon - 'Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions'
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
'Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee'
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'

7. Mark Twain
Prince and the Pauper - Life on the Mississippi - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur'S Court - Roughing It - The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims' Progress - Letters from Earth - 'Votes for Women -' The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Adventures of H
The American - Henry James
The pathetic fallacy
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion

8. John Keats
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Endymion - The Fall of Hyperion - Lamia - 'Ode to a Nightingale -' The Eve of St. Agnes - La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad - 'On First Looking Into Chapman'S Homer -' 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'

9. Herman Melville
Hudibras
The American - Henry James
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'

10. T.E. Lawrence
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - 'On the Pulse of Morning -' 'Still I Rise'
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last

11. Lord Byron
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'
'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:/Its loveliness increases; it will never/Pass into nothingness; but still will keep/A bower quiet for us - and a sleep/Full of sweet dreams - and health - and quiet breathing.'
Dracula

12. Christopher Marlowe
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''
Tamburlaine the Great
'Silence - cunning - and exile'
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdrckh

13. Charles Dickens
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times

14. Rainer Maria Rilke
Culture and Anarchy - 'The Scholar Gypsy -' Essays in Criticism - 'Dover Beach -' 'The Function of Criticism at the Present Time -' Friendship'S Garland - 'The Study of Poetry -' 'Literature and Science'
The Beautiful and the Damned - This Side of Paradise - Tender is the Night - The Great Gatsby - The Love of the Last Tycoon - 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
The Oresteia

15. Anthony Trollope
Tamburlaine the Great
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire

16. First line of The Iliad
'This is the story of an angry man'
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
Culture and Anarchy - 'The Scholar Gypsy -' Essays in Criticism - 'Dover Beach -' 'The Function of Criticism at the Present Time -' Friendship'S Garland - 'The Study of Poetry -' 'Literature and Science'
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

17. Alexander Pope'S The Rape of the Lock - 1717
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
'The Odour of Chrysanthemums -' Lady Chatterly'S Lover - The Rainbow - Women in Love - 'Why the Novel Matters'
In a fair season when soft was the sun

18. Walt Whitman - 'Song of Myself'
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
Things Fall Apart
The American - Henry James
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable

19. Kate Chopin
The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana
Houyhnhnms
Sophocles
Brobdingnag

20. Aeschylus. Agamemnon - Choephoroe - The Eumenides. About the cursed house of Atreus
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
The Oresteia
Castle of Otranto

21. Nadine Gordimer
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'
The Pilgrim'S Progress - Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners
The Lying Days - The Conservationist - Burger'S Daughter

22. George Bernard Shaw
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'
Under the Volcano
Piers Plowman
Mrs. Warren'S Profession - Pygmalion - Heartbreak House - Major Barbara - Saint Joan - Man and Superwoman

23. Edith Wharton
The Ocean to Cynthia - The Lie - The Nymph'S Reply to the Shepherd - History of the World
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'

24. Honor de Balzac
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
Martinus Scriblerus Club
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - A Pair of Blue Eyes - Far from the Maddening Crowd - The Return of the Native - The Mayor of Casterbridge - The Woodlanders - Jude the Obscure
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)

25. Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'
Mark Twain'S real name
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 (

26. George Meredith
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
Every Man in His Humour (1598) - The Mask of Blackness (1605) - Volpone (1606) - Epicoene; or - The Silent Woman (1609) - The Alchemist (1610) - and Bartholomew Fair (1614) - 'Song to Celia'
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness - starving hysterical naked - dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix; Angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry d
Martinus Scriblerus Club

27. Richard Sheridan 'The School for Scandal' 1777
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface
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
'Sweetness and light -' 'philistinism'

28. Chinua Achebe'S retelling of Nigerian independence
'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation'
On Liberty - 'What is Poetry?' - The Subjection of Women - Autobiography
George Eliot'S real name
Things Fall Apart

29. Daniel Defoe
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'

30. Countee Cullen
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
'Incident'
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
Utopia

31. Charlotte Bronte
'The Wreck of the Deutschland -' 'The Windhover -' 'Spring and Fall'
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 (
Shirley - The Villette - The Professor - Jane Eyre
The Ambassadors - Henry James

32. Upton Sinclair
'The Jungle'
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways and other Lucy poems - 'The World is Too Much With Us'
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus

33. Algernon Charles Swinburne
The American - Henry James
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
Poems and Ballads (esp. to Sappho) - 'Hymn to Proserpine -' 'The Triumph of Time -' Songs before Sunrise - Tristam of Lyonesse
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)

34. Eugene O'Neill
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'
The Philadelphia Negro; The Souls of Black Folk; John Brown; Black Reconstruction; Black Folk - Then and Now; The Negro; The World and Africa: An Inquiry into the Part That Africa Has Played in World History
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'

35. Eric Arthur Blair
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)
George Orwell real name

36. Milly Theale - an American heiress stricken with a serious disease - and her impact on the people around her (Kate Croy - Merton Densher)
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
Every Man in His Humour (1598) - The Mask of Blackness (1605) - Volpone (1606) - Epicoene; or - The Silent Woman (1609) - The Alchemist (1610) - and Bartholomew Fair (1614) - 'Song to Celia'
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness - starving hysterical naked - dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix; Angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry d
In a fair season when soft was the sun

37. William Carlos Williams
Ulysses - Maud - The Idylls of the King - 'The Charge of the Light Brigade -' 'Tithonus -' 'Break - Break - Break -' 'Locksley Hall'
'Silence - cunning - and exile'
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'

38. John Skelton
The Aspern Papers - The Golden Bowl - Daisy Miller - the Turn of the Screw - The Portrait of a Lady - The Wings of the Dove - The Ambassadors - The American
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
The Tuning of Elinour Rumming - Elegy on the Death of the Earl of Northumberland - Speculum Principis - The Bowge of Court - Phyllyp Sparrow - A Lawde and Prayse Made for our Souereigne Lord of the Kyng - Magnyfycence - Speak - Parrot - Colyn Cloute

39. Henry James
The Aspern Papers - The Golden Bowl - Daisy Miller - the Turn of the Screw - The Portrait of a Lady - The Wings of the Dove - The Ambassadors - The American
A Tale of a Tub - The Battle of the Books - Gulliver'S Travels - A Modest Proposal
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'
'Youth -' Lord Jim - Heart of Darkness - Nostromo - The Shadow-Line - Typhoon - The Secret Agent - Under Western Eyes - Victory - An Outcast of the Island

40. Gulliver'S Travels - unhappy immortals who wish they could die
'The shot heard round the world'
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan - Biographia Literaria - Cristabel - 'Frost at Midnight -' Lyrical Ballads
Struldburgs
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View

41. Matthew Arnold
Culture and Anarchy - 'The Scholar Gypsy -' Essays in Criticism - 'Dover Beach -' 'The Function of Criticism at the Present Time -' Friendship'S Garland - 'The Study of Poetry -' 'Literature and Science'
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last

42. First Englishwoman to publish a substantial volume of original poems (1611)
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'
'Rage - rage against the dying of the light' and 'do not go gentle into that good night'
'Funeral Blues -' 'September 1 - 1939 -' 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats -' 'As I Walked Out One Evening -' 'Lullaby'
Amelia Lanyer

43. John Ruskin in Modern Painters
The pathetic fallacy
'To a green thought in a green shade'
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' The Waste Land - 'Murder in the Cathedral -' 'The Hollow Men' - Ash Wednesday - Four Quartets - The Cocktail Party - 'Old Possum'S Book of Practical Cats'
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'

44. Alexander Pope
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
The Playboy of the Western World
Wilhelm Meister'S Apprenticeship - The Sorrows of Young Werther - Faust - Theory of Colours
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

45. Ernest Hemingway
Culture and Anarchy - 'The Scholar Gypsy -' Essays in Criticism - 'Dover Beach -' 'The Function of Criticism at the Present Time -' Friendship'S Garland - 'The Study of Poetry -' 'Literature and Science'
Lilliput
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
On Liberty - 'What is Poetry?' - The Subjection of Women - Autobiography

46. Dylan Thomas
'Rage - rage against the dying of the light' and 'do not go gentle into that good night'
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget
Under the Volcano
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'

47. John Stuart Mill
On Liberty - 'What is Poetry?' - The Subjection of Women - Autobiography
The Oresteia
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness - starving hysterical naked - dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix; Angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry d
inscape and instress

48. Gulliver'S Travels - intelligent - clean-living horses
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
Houyhnhnms
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
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs

49. Gulliver'S Travels - flying island where practical projects neglected and impractical projects pursued
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'
Sophocles
Laputa
Nature - 'The American Scholar -' The Dial - 'Self-Reliance -' Experience -' 'Compensation -' 'The Over-Soul -' 'The Poet -' 'Politics.' 'The Concord Hymn -' 'The Rhodora'

50. Anonymous author of Cleanness and Patience - Pearl
Culture and Anarchy - 'The Scholar Gypsy -' Essays in Criticism - 'Dover Beach -' 'The Function of Criticism at the Present Time -' Friendship'S Garland - 'The Study of Poetry -' 'Literature and Science'
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
Pyramus and Thisbe

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