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1. George Etherege 'The Man of Mode -' 1676
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
Dracula
'The Yellow Wallpaper -' Herland
'The Cry of the Children -' 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim'S Point -' Sonnets from the Portuguese - Aurora Leigh - 'How Do I Love Thee'

2. James Joyce
The Rise of Silas Lapham
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')
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 (
'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.'

3. First line of The Iliad
Castle of Otranto
'This is the story of an angry man'
Go Down - Moses - The Sound and the Fury - As I Lay Dying - Absalom - Absalom! - Light in August - 'A Rose for Emily' - 'Red Leaves' - 'That Evening Sun' - and 'Dry September'
'Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee'

4. John Milton
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
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
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'
'This is the story of an angry man'

5. Edmund Spenser
Tamburlaine the Great
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'
Castle of Otranto

6. John Donne
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Struldburgs
The Sun Rising
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

7. William Makepeace Thackeray
The Weary Blues - 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers -' 'A Dream Deferred -' 'I - Too - Sing America'
The Playboy of the Western World
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'

8. Ann Radcliffe
'This is the story of an angry man'
The Mysteries of Udolpho
inscape and instress
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

9. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
The Playboy of the Western World
Mark Twain'S real name

10. Edmund Spenser - 1590
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 Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion
The Faerie Queene
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James

11. T.S. Eliot'S The Waste Land
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'
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
'each man kills the thing he loves'
First lines: 'April is the cruelest month - breeding/Lilacs out of the dead land - mixing/Memory and desire - stirring/Dull roots with spring rain.' Last lines: 'Datta - Dayahvam - Damyataya./Shantih shantih shantih'

12. Joseph Conrad
'The weariness - the fever - the fret'
'Youth -' Lord Jim - Heart of Darkness - Nostromo - The Shadow-Line - Typhoon - The Secret Agent - Under Western Eyes - Victory - An Outcast of the Island
'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'
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

13. William Blake
Poetic Sketches - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Experience - Jerusalem - The French Revolution: A Prophecy - America: A Prophecy - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - Visions of the Daughters of Albion - The Four Zoas
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last

14. John Henry - Cardinal Newman
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578) - Euphues and His England (1580) - Campaspe - Sapho and Phao - Gallathea - Endimion - Midas - Love'S Metamorphosis - Mother Bombie - The Woman in the Moon
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
The Sun Rising
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent

15. Samuel Pepys
Wilhelm Meister'S Apprenticeship - The Sorrows of Young Werther - Faust - Theory of Colours
The Weary Blues - 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers -' 'A Dream Deferred -' 'I - Too - Sing America'
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
Mark Twain'S real name

16. Allen Ginsberg - 'Howl'
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
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
'Sailing to Byzantium -' 'Leda and the Swan -' The Countess Cathleen - 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree -' 'The Second Coming'
Ulysses - Maud - The Idylls of the King - 'The Charge of the Light Brigade -' 'Tithonus -' 'Break - Break - Break -' 'Locksley Hall'

17. Ben Jonson
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
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'
Laputa
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'

18. Eric Arthur Blair
'The Cry of the Children -' 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim'S Point -' Sonnets from the Portuguese - Aurora Leigh - 'How Do I Love Thee'
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
George Orwell real name
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'

19. Thomas Carlyle
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe
Brobdingnag
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus

20. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Upon Appleton House - The Rehearsal Transprosed - An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell'S Return from Ireland - 'To His Coy Mistress'
Becky Sharp - Amelia Sedley - Miss Pinkerton'S Academy for Young Ladies - Rawdon Crawley - Sir Pitt Crawley - George Osborne - William Dobbin - Joe Sedley
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'

21. Gulliver'S Travels - everyone is 6' tall and cruel
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
Lilliput
Piers Plowman

22. Emerson - 'Self-Reliance'
'To be great is to be misunderstood' and 'Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.'
'The Balcony'
The Bell Jar - Ariel poems ('Daddy')
Wilhelm Meister'S Apprenticeship - The Sorrows of Young Werther - Faust - Theory of Colours

23. Honor de Balzac
Sophocles
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
Wilhelm Meister'S Apprenticeship - The Sorrows of Young Werther - Faust - Theory of Colours
In a fair season when soft was the sun

24. Edith Wharton
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare
Piers Plowman
Kidnapped - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Treasure Island - 'Requiem'
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance

25. Aeschylus. Agamemnon - Choephoroe - The Eumenides. About the cursed house of Atreus
Mrs. Warren'S Profession - Pygmalion - Heartbreak House - Major Barbara - Saint Joan - Man and Superwoman
'The Odour of Chrysanthemums -' Lady Chatterly'S Lover - The Rainbow - Women in Love - 'Why the Novel Matters'
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'
The Oresteia

26. Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James

27. Richard Wright
Amelia Lanyer
The Tyger
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
The Oresteia

28. Emerson - 'Concord Hymn'
The Ambassadors - Henry James
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')
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
'The shot heard round the world'

29. James Joyce
'Silence - cunning - and exile'
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'
'The Yellow Wallpaper -' Herland

30. Anthony Trollope
'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'
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance

31. Upton Sinclair
'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.'
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'
'The Jungle'
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'

32. T.S. Eliot 'The Hollow Men'
Plain Tales from the Hills - 'White-Man'S Burden -' 'The Man Who Would be King.' 'Mandalay -' 'Gunga Din' Something of Myself - Jungle Book - Kim - 'If--'
'Incident'
'This is the way the world ends/This is the way the world ends/ This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper.'
Piers Plowman

33. Robert Browning
'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'
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
'Youth -' Lord Jim - Heart of Darkness - Nostromo - The Shadow-Line - Typhoon - The Secret Agent - Under Western Eyes - Victory - An Outcast of the Island
The Mysteries of Udolpho

34. John Donne
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
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 (
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.
Ulysses - Maud - The Idylls of the King - 'The Charge of the Light Brigade -' 'Tithonus -' 'Break - Break - Break -' 'Locksley Hall'

35. Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights - 'Often Rebuked - But Always Back Returning'
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
The Sun Rising

36. Final lines of Lycidas by Milton - pastoral elegy for Edward King - his colleague at Cambridge that drowned
George Chapman
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'
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

37. Lord Byron
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan - Biographia Literaria - Cristabel - 'Frost at Midnight -' Lyrical Ballads
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
Wise Blood - The Violent Bear it Away - Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose - A Good Man is Hard to Find - Everything that Rises Must Converge - The Complete Stories

38. Charles Lamb
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare
Plain Tales from the Hills - 'White-Man'S Burden -' 'The Man Who Would be King.' 'Mandalay -' 'Gunga Din' Something of Myself - Jungle Book - Kim - 'If--'
Things Fall Apart
The Cantos - 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -' 'A Girl -' 'Ancient Music'

39. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
The Tyger
Becky Sharp - Amelia Sedley - Miss Pinkerton'S Academy for Young Ladies - Rawdon Crawley - Sir Pitt Crawley - George Osborne - William Dobbin - Joe Sedley
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England

40. John Fenimore Cooper
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
Becky Sharp - Amelia Sedley - Miss Pinkerton'S Academy for Young Ladies - Rawdon Crawley - Sir Pitt Crawley - George Osborne - William Dobbin - Joe Sedley
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans

41. John Dryden
Houyhnhnms
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan - Biographia Literaria - Cristabel - 'Frost at Midnight -' Lyrical Ballads
Kidnapped - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Treasure Island - 'Requiem'

42. Alan Ginsberg
'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'
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
Poetic Sketches - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Experience - Jerusalem - The French Revolution: A Prophecy - America: A Prophecy - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - Visions of the Daughters of Albion - The Four Zoas
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'

43. Winterbourne courts young - flirtatious - nouveau-riche American girl in Europe
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan - Biographia Literaria - Cristabel - 'Frost at Midnight -' Lyrical Ballads
The Sun Rising
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'
Daisy Miller - Henry James

44. Sean O'Casey
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'
The Playboy of the Western World
The Plough and the Stars

45. Jeffrey Aspern - Modeled after Lord Byron) as long-dead famous poet - biographer is trying to secure some papers from Aspern'S former mistress and homely daughter. Set in Venice.
'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'
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
Yahoos

46. Daniel Defoe
Mark Twain'S real name
'The Yellow Wallpaper -' Herland
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
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'

47. William Langland - search for the right way to salvation - controversial as it explores rebellion - revolution - social and religious issues
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
Piers Plowman
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)

48. Washington Irving
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Gent. (includes 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow')
'The Cry of the Children -' 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim'S Point -' Sonnets from the Portuguese - Aurora Leigh - 'How Do I Love Thee'
Utopia
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James

49. Sir Walter Raleigh
'each man kills the thing he loves'
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')
The Ocean to Cynthia - The Lie - The Nymph'S Reply to the Shepherd - History of the World
'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.'

50. Countee Cullen
'Incident'
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
The Pilgrim'S Progress - Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners
Brobdingnag

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