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1. Last paragraph of James Joyce'S 'The Dead' from Dubliners

2. Gulliver'S Travels - intelligent - clean-living horses
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
Houyhnhnms
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'
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'

3. George Etherege 'The Man of Mode -' 1676
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
Under the Volcano
The Sun Rising
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

4. Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
'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.'
'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.'
'Silence - cunning - and exile'

5. Winterbourne courts young - flirtatious - nouveau-riche American girl in Europe
Daisy Miller - Henry James
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
Dracula
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil

6. Samuel Johnson
Sophocles
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare
The Way of the World - Love for Love
Shirley - The Villette - The Professor - Jane Eyre

7. Maya Angelou

8. Honoré de Balzac
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
The Ocean to Cynthia - The Lie - The Nymph'S Reply to the Shepherd - History of the World
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'

9. John Dryden
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
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther
Mr. W.H.
Under the Volcano

10. John Milton
A Tale of a Tub - The Battle of the Books - Gulliver'S Travels - A Modest Proposal
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
'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'

11. Sir Walter Raleigh

12. Horace Walpole
A Tale of a Tub - The Battle of the Books - Gulliver'S Travels - A Modest Proposal
Castle of Otranto
'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night -' 'Fern Hill -' Under Milk Wood - Portrait of an Artist as a Young Dog
Wilhelm Meister'S Apprenticeship - The Sorrows of Young Werther - Faust - Theory of Colours

13. Oscar Wilde

14. F. Scott Fitzgerald

15. Alexander Pope'S The Rape of the Lock - 1717
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'
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable

16. Opening lines of Dryden'S Mae Flecknoe

17. Salman Rushdie

18. James Joyce

19. Milly Theale - an American heiress stricken with a serious disease - and her impact on the people around her (Kate Croy - Merton Densher)
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James

20. Nathaniel Hawthorne

21. Oscar Wilde - 'Ballad of Reading Goal' (written as Sebastian Melmoth)

22. Emerson - 'Concord Hymn'

23. Gerard Manley Hopkins

24. J. M. Synge
Daisy Miller - Henry James
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
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair
The Playboy of the Western World

25. Gulliver'S Travels - flying island where practical projects neglected and impractical projects pursued
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
'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.'
Laputa
On Liberty - 'What is Poetry?' - The Subjection of Women - Autobiography

26. John Gower - 1390 - treatment of a suffering lover
Confessio Amantis
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe
Houyhnhnms

27. Malcom Lowry
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'
The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana
Under the Volcano
'The Jungle'

28. Mansfield Park
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion
"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

29. Emily Dickinson
"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
'The Balcony'
The Ocean to Cynthia - The Lie - The Nymph'S Reply to the Shepherd - History of the World
'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night -' 'Fern Hill -' Under Milk Wood - Portrait of an Artist as a Young Dog

30. Chinua Achebe'S retelling of Nigerian independence
Wuthering Heights - 'Often Rebuked - But Always Back Returning'
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
'The Yellow Wallpaper -' Herland
Things Fall Apart

31. Dedication of Shakespeare'S sonnets
The Playboy of the Western World
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'
Becky Sharp - Amelia Sedley - Miss Pinkerton'S Academy for Young Ladies - Rawdon Crawley - Sir Pitt Crawley - George Osborne - William Dobbin - Joe Sedley
Mr. W.H.

32. William Carlos Williams

33. Washington Irving

34. Imaginary philosopher in Thomas Carlyle'S Sartur Resartus
'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
'The snow falling faintly through the universe'
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'

35. George Bernard Shaw

36. Anton Chekhov
'Funeral Blues -' 'September 1 - 1939 -' 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats -' 'As I Walked Out One Evening -' 'Lullaby'
Three Sisters - Uncle Vanya - The Cherry Orchard
Becky Sharp - Amelia Sedley - Miss Pinkerton'S Academy for Young Ladies - Rawdon Crawley - Sir Pitt Crawley - George Osborne - William Dobbin - Joe Sedley
Mark Twain'S real name

37. William Wordsworth

38. Endymion (John Keats - 1818)

39. John Donne

40. Aeschylus. Agamemnon - Choephoroe - The Eumenides. About the cursed house of Atreus
The Oresteia
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View
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
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'

41. Henry Fielding
'To be great is to be misunderstood' and 'Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.'
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
The Way of the World - Love for Love
Ulysses - Maud - The Idylls of the King - 'The Charge of the Light Brigade -' 'Tithonus -' 'Break - Break - Break -' 'Locksley Hall'

42. T.E. Lawrence
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''
'This is the story of an angry man'
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Hudibras

43. Walt Whitman

44. Matthew Arnold

45. Henry Wadsworth Longsfellow

46. Gertrude Stein

47. John Webster
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
Mark Twain'S real name
In a fair season when soft was the sun
Dracula

48. Robert Browning

49. Gulliver'S Travels - utopian land of giants that highlights the failures of English goverment
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'
'Youth -' Lord Jim - Heart of Darkness - Nostromo - The Shadow-Line - Typhoon - The Secret Agent - Under Western Eyes - Victory - An Outcast of the Island
Brobdingnag
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia

50. Samuel Pepys
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas