Pride and Prejudice (N)

-Elizabeth and Jane Bennett, Mr.Darcy, and Mr. Bingley)

The Advancement of Learning

-from Instauratio Magna (Great Renewal) that was intended to be a compilaton of his work in experimental science, but he only completed two of the six parts

Sir Francis Bacon

-a solicitor general, attorney general, and Lord Chancellor to James I

-created Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans

Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (PL)

-Wendy, Michael, and John Darling, Tinkerbell, and Captian Hook

-set in Never-Never-Land

The Tyger (P)

-"Tyger, tyger, burning bright, in the forests of the night"

Song of Innocence (collection of P)

William Blake

-illustrated the covers of his works

Songs of Experience (collection of P)

The Life of Samuel Johnson

-Johnson's quote: "Hell is paved with good intentions."

Jane Eyre (N)

-Jane is a governess

-Edward Rochester

-set in Thornfield Hall

Wuthering Heights (N)

-Heathcliffe, Catherine Earnshaw, and Edgar Linton

-only novel by this author

-set in the mansions of Wuthering Heights and Thruschcross Grange

Sonnets From the Portuguese (P)

-a collection of sonnets which express her love her love for her husband

-the 43rd sonnet contains the line: "How do I love thee, let me count the ways"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

-eloped with Robert Browning

-maiden name was Moulton

Pilgrim's Progress (full title: The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which is to Come)

-Prose allegory recounts the adventures of Christian as he makes his way to the Celestial City

-written during his second imprisonment

John Bunyan

-a Baptist minister, he was in prison from 1660-72 and in 75 for not obeying royal edicts regarding his nonconformist preaching

A Clockwork Orange (N)

-about a world terrorized by teenage gangs who speak Nadsat, a blend of British, American, and Russian slang

To a Mouse (P)

-"The best laid schemes o' mice and men, gang aft a-gley (oft go awry)"

Auld Lang Syne (Old Long Ago) (P)

-a traditional song he wrote down and formalized

Robert Burns

-known as the Scottish Poet or The Bard of Ayoshire

Don Juan (P)

-unfinished at death, he considered it his masterpiece

Lord George Gordon Byron

-the 6th Baron of Rochdale, he served in the House of Lords

-was short and had clubfoot

-died fighting in the Greek revolution

-created the "Byronic hero", a melancholy, defiant young man who committed a mysterious sin in his past

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (N)

-The Queen of Hearts, March Hare, Cheshire Cat, White Rabbit, Mock Turtle, Mad Hatter

-written for Alice Liddell

-illustrated by John Tenniel

Lewis Carroll

-pen name of the Reverand Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

-a mathematics lecturer at Oxford

Canterbury Tales

-Harry Bailly, the owner of the Tabard Inn, sets out with a group on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas Beckett as the judge of their storytelling contest

-contains 24 tales including: Wife of Bath's, Prioress', and Knight's Tales

-first line: "Whan that April with his shoures soote"

Geoffrey Chaucer

-Father of English Literature

-given lifetime pensions by Kings Edward III and Richard II

-served in the English army and Parliament, was a Clerk of the King's Work and a Controller of Customs

Murder on the Orient Express (N)

-dectective Hercule Poirot

Agatha Christie

-most widely translated author in English

-born Agatha Clarissa Miller

2001: A Space Odyssey (N)

-also wrote the screenplay for the movie with Stanley Kubrick

-David Bowman

-set on the spaceship Discovery on its voyage to and in orbit around Jupiter

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (P)

-deals with the punishment and penance of a seaman who kills and albatross while traveling to a wedding

-"Water, water everywhere, and all the boards did shrink; Water, water everywhere, not any drop to drink"

-"He prayeth best who loveth best all things, both great and small"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

-member of the Lake District poets

Kubla Khan, or A Vision in a Dream (P)

-composed during a dream induced by opium, when he awoke he was unable to write it all down because he interrupted by the unknown "Person from Porlock"

-"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

-member of the Lake District poets

Heart of Darkness (SS)

-Marlow and Kurtz

-Kurtz's dying words are "The horror! The horror!"

-basis for the movie Apocalypse Now

Joseph Conrad

-rose to the rank of Captiain in the British merchant service

-born: Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski in Poland

Lord Jim (N)

-Marlow

Joseph Conrad

-born: Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski in Poland

Charles Robert Darwin

-did research as a biologish on the H.M.S. Beagle

The Life and Strange Suprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (N)

-Friday, a native Robinson saves from the cannibals

-based on the real life adventures of Alexander Selkirk

Daniel Defoe

-the first author of ghost stories in modern English literature

Death Be Not Proud (P)

-part of Cycle of Holy Sonnets

John Donne

-founder and greatest member of the Metaphysical poets

-dean at St. Paul's Cathedral

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

-served as a physician in the Boer War

Silas Marner, or the Weaver of Raveloe (N)

-Eppie

George Eliot

-really Mary Ann Evans

The Waste Land (P)

-edited by Ezra Pound

-consists of five sections: The Burial of the Dead; A Game of Chess; Fire Sermon; Death by Water; and What the Thunder Said

-"April is the cruelest month"

Thomas Stearns Eliot

-Nobel Prize for Literature 1948

-described himself as "an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics"

The Hollow Men (P)

-"This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper"

Thomas Stearns Eliot

-Nobel Prize for Literature 1948

-described himself as "an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics"

Thomas Stearns Eliot

-Nobel Prize for Literature 1948

-described himself as "an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics"

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (N)

-Swuire and Sophia Western, and Supire Allworthy

Henry Fielding

-his plays inspired the Licensing Act of 1737 which banned the use of the stage for political satire

-organized the "Bow Street runners" an early London police force

Edward Morgan Forster

-member of the Bloomsbury Group of writers

Where Angels Fear to Tread (N)

-title taken from a ling in Pope's An Essay on Criticism

Edward Morgan Forster

-member of the Bloomsbury Group of writers

Lord of the Flies (N)

-a group of boys including Piggy, Simon, Ralph, and Jack are stranded on a desert island where they revert to savagery

William Golding

-awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983

-served in the Navy during WWII

The Vicar of Wakefield (N)

-Dr. Charles Primrose

Oliver Goldsmith

-coined the term "Poet Corner" for the burial plot in Westminster

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (P)

-often considered the greates poem written in the 18th century

-"Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife."

-"The curfew tolls the knell of parting day."

Henry Graham Greene

-worked for MI6, the British intelligence service

-works relfect the deep spiritualism he felt as a convert to Catholicism

The Mayor of Casterbridge (N)

- Michael Henchard is the Mayor

-Susan Henchard, Elizabeth-Jane and Donald Farfrae

The Return of the Native

-Clym Yeobright and Eustacia Wye

Tess of the D'ubervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented (N)

-Tess Durbeyfield

Leviathan, or The Matter, Form and Power of Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil

-"The life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short"

Thomas Hobbes

-spent life as a tutor of the Cavendish family

Brave New World

-title taken from Shakespeare's The Tempest

-set in the year 632 AF(after Ford), and deals with the character John the Savage who is introduced to a controlled and repressed society

-Mustafa Mond

Aldous Huxley

Samuel Johnson

-known as Dr. Johnson or the Great Cham of Literature

- "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel"

Ode to a Nightingale (P)

-"Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!"

John Keats

-recieved a medical certificate but never practiced

-died of tuberculosis in Italy

Ode on a Grecian Urn (P)

-"Truth is beauty, beauty truth. That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"

John Keats

-recieved a medical certificate but never practiced

-died of tuberculosis in Italy

John Maynard Keynes

-represented the British Treasure at the Paris Peace Confrence

-first Baron of Tilton

The Jungle Book (N)

-a collection of animal stories

-Mowgli, Baloo (bear), Shere Khan (tiger)

-contains story: Riki-tiki-tavi

Rudyard Kippling

-1907 first Englishman and youngest man ever to win the Nobel Prize for Literature

-Known as The Bard of the Empire

Sons and Lovers (N)

-autobiographical novel was attacked for its frank discussion of sexual matters

Lady Chatterly's Lover (N)

-Sir Clifford and Constance Chatterly, and Oliver Mellors, the lover

-banned in Europe and the US until 1960 for obscene content

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

-an account of his adventures in the Middle East fomenting an Arab revolt during WWII

Thomas Edwards Lawrence

-known as Lawrence of Arabia

-seeking obsurity, he joined the RAF under the name Shaw

The Narnia Chronicles (N)

-includes the book: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Prince Caspian; Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The Silver Chain; The Horse and His Boy; The Magician's Nephew; and The Last Battle

C. S. Lewis

(Clive Staples Lewis)

Le Morte D'Arthur (The Death of Arthur) (N)

-recounts the legends of King Arthur

-completed in prison

Sir Thomas Malory

-a Member of Parliament

-died in prison where he was serving time for armed assult and rape

An Essay on the Principle of Population as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society

-set forth the idea that the food supply increases arithmetically and the population geometrically

Sir Thomas Malthus

-clergyman of the Church of England

Tamburlaine the Great (PL)

-based on the life of Mongol conqueror Tamerlane

-"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?"

Christopher Marlowe

-killed in a duel with Ingram Frizer over a tavern bill

The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus (PL)

-about a scholar who sells his soul to the devil

Christopher Marlowe

-killed in a duel with Ingram Frizer over a tavern bill

The Jew of Malta (PL)

-Barabas

Christopher Marlowe

-killed in a duel with Ingram Frizer over a tavern bill

Of Human Bondage (N)

-Philip Carey, a club-footed orphan who becomes a country doctor

William Somerset Maugham

-awarded the Order of Merit on his 18th birthday

John Stuart Mill

-a Member of Parliment from 1865 to 1868

John Stuart Mill

-a Member of Parliment from 1865 to 1868

Winnie-the-Pooh

-Tigger, Piglet, Roo, and Eeyore

A. A. Milne

-the Pooh books were written for his son Christopher Robin who also appears as the only human in the works

A. A. Milne

-the Pooh books were written for his son Christopher Robin who also appears as the only human in the works

Paradise Lost (P)

-generally considered the greatest epic ever written, it tells the story "Of man's first disobedience and the fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death into the world, and all our woe, with loss of Eden."

-appearing in the work, the city of Pandemonium is the "high capital of Satan and his peers."

-"It is better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven"

John Milton

-lost eyesight in 1652 and Andrew Marvell became his assistant

-a strong Puritain, he was in charge of the foreign correspondence of Oliver Cromwell

-when Carles II returned, he was fined and arrested but escaped prison

Areopagitica

-a pamphlet which was written in support of freedom of the press

John Milton

-lost eyesight in 1652 and Andrew Marvell became his assistant

-a strong Puritain, he was in charge of the foreign correspondence of Oliver Cromwell

-when Carles II returned, he was fined and arrested but escaped prison

Utopia

-taken from Greek for "not a place", this island has become the general name for any ideal place

Sir (Saint) Thomas More

-Member of Parliament and Lord Chancellor

a leader of English humanisim

-refused to acknowledge his friend Henry VII as head of the Church, was imprisoned and executed, then canonized by the Pope

-he is the subject of the movie and play "A Man for All Seasons"

Principia Mathematica (full title: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy))

-presented the laws of motion and gravitation

Diary

-written in shorthand it was not deciphered until 1825, now best historical source of information about mid-late 1600s historical period

Samuel Pepys

-was a President of the Royal Society

-served in Parliament and was later imprisoned for Stuartist sympathies

The Rape of the Lock (P)

-"What dire offense from amorous causes spring, what mighty contests rise from trivial things"

-a mock epic based on a real incident in which Lord Petre cut off a lock of Arabella Fremor's hair, this results in a feud between the family

-Belinda

Alexander Pope

-nicknamed the Wicked Wasp of Twickenham

An Essay on Criticism (P)

-"Fools rush is where angels fear to thread"

-"A little learning is a dangerous thing."

-"To err is human, to forgive is divine."

Alexander Pope

-nicknamed the Wicked Wasp of Twickenham

An Essay on Man (P)

-"Hope springs eternal in the human breast"

Alexander Pope

-nicknamed the Wicked Wasp of Twickenham

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

-Floppsy, Moppsy, and Cottontail

Beatrix Potter

-writter and illustrator children's book

Waverly (N)

-first of 32 historical novels and stories which became known as the Waverly Novels including: Rob Roy, The Bride of Lammermoor, The Heart of Midlothian, and Guy Mannering

Sir Walter Scott

-nicknamed the Wizard of the North

-refused poet laureateship in favor of Robert Southey

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (N)

-Victor Frankenstein is the name of a doctor, the monster was never given a name

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly

-born Mary Godwin

-second wife of Percy Shelley

Prometheus Unbound (PL)

Percy Shelley

-killed in a boating accident in Italy, his body was burned on the beach in the presence of Lord Byron

Ozymandias (P)

-inspired by Pharaoh Ramses II

-"I met a traveler from an antique land."

-"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings, look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair."

Percy Shelley

-killed in a boating accident in Italy, his body was burned on the beach in the presence of Lord Byron

Adonais (P)

-an elegy for the death of his friend John Keats

Percy Shelley

-killed in a boating accident in Italy, his body was burned on the beach in the presence of Lord Byron

The Wealth of Nations (full title: Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations)

-published in 1776

-"A nation of shopkeepers

-contains theory of the invisible hand and uses a pin factory to illustrate its points

Adam Smith

-The Father of Modern Economics

The Faerie Queene (P)

-Gloriana(The Faeire Queene who signifies Queen Elizabeth I) and Prince Arthur

-originally consist of twelve books, only six survivie: Red Cross Knight, Sir Guyon, Britomart, Cambel and Triamond, Artegal, and Calidore, each of whom represent a moral virtue

Edmund Spenser

-the Spenserian stanza, a type of stanza which has nine lines that he invented for use in The Faerie Queene

Dracula (N)

-Jonathan Harker

Abraham Bram Stoker

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (PL)

-concerns the fate of two minor characters from Hamlet

Gulliver's Travels (full title: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver) (N)

-he makes four voyages:

1. Lilliput, a land of size inch people

2. Brobdingnag, a land of giants

3. Laputa, an empire of scientists and musicians who live on a flying island

4. Houyhnhnmland, a land where intelligent horses rule over human-like slaves (Yahoos)

Jonathan Swift

-appointed Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin

-writing under the pseudonym M. B. Drapier, he inflamed the irish mood and British authorities offered a reward for his arrest

The Charge of the Light Brigade (P)

-celebrates the English cavalry charge at the battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War

-"Cannon to right of them, cannon to left of them, cannon in front of them volleyed and thundered"

-"Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die. Into the valley of Death rode the six hundered."

Alfred Tennyson

-1st Baron Tennyson, commonly called Alfred, Lord Tennyson

-poet laureate from 1850 to 1892

Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero (N)

-the title is taken from the name of a fair in Byyan's Pilgrim's Progress

-Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley

William Makepeace Thackeray

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (P)

-"Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation

-treatise on fishing in which Piscator (an angler) tries to convince Venator (a hunter) that fishing is the better sport

Izaak Walton

Evelyn Waugh

-served as an army officer in WWII

The Invisible Man (N)

-Griffin

H. G. Wells

Tintern Abbey (full title: Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye) (P)

-found in Lyrical Ballads (P collection)

William Wordsworth (and Coleridge)

-member of the Lake District Poets

-poet laureate from 1843-1850

-lived with his sister Dorothy for much of his life

-an enthusiastical supported of the French Revolution, while in France he had an affair with aand a daughter by Annette Vallon

The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind (P)

-an autobiographical poem, it was originally dedicated to Coleridge

William Wordsworth

-member of the Lake District Poets

-poet laureate from 1843-1850

-lived with his sister Dorothy for much of his life

-an enthusiastical supported of the French Revolution, while in France he had an affair with aand a daughter by Annette Vallon

William Wordsworth

-member of the Lake District Poets

-poet laureate from 1843-1850

-lived with his sister Dorothy for much of his life

-an enthusiastical supported of the French Revolution, while in France he had an affair with aand a daughter by Annette Vallon