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| George Orwell, totalitarian state where Winsotn meets a girl, both of them go seek to join resistance but wnd up getting tortured |
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| Adventures of Huckelberry Finn |
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| Mark Twain, Justice and honor are celebrated in this story about Huck’s adventures on the Mississippi River with the runaway slave Jim. |
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| All Quiet on the Western Front |
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| Erich Maria Remarque, though the war he describes is World War I, Remarque writes eloquently of all wars in this tale of a young German sent to fight in the trenches. |
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| Tony Morrison, Morrison’s heart-breaking novel tells the story of a woman who escapes from slavery to freedom in Cincinnati but remains haunted by her daughter’s murder. |
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| O. Henry, Short vignettes display irony and coincidence in everyday life. O. Henry’s forte is the surprise ending. |
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| Aldous Huxley, Huxley brilliantly satirizes contemporary society’s dehumanization in this grim novel of the future. |
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| Jack London, When his beloved master is killed, the dog Buck flees to the wild, where he becomes the leader of a wolf pack. Rousing adventure set in Alaska’s Klondike country. |
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| Joseph Heller, this black comedy about World War II Army Air Corps aviators attempting to survive the absurdities of military bureaucracy has become a part of the American collective consciousness. |
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| J.D. Salinger, fleeing his Pennsylvania prep school, Holden Caulfield holes up in New York City and rails against adult phoniness while trying to lose his innocence. |
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| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Baker Street saga is chronicled in this collection that includes “A Study in Scarlet,” the 1887 story that introduced the English detective Sherlock Holmes, and his assistant Dr. Watson. |
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| Fyodor Dostoevsky, First published in Russian in 1866, this masterful psychological novel shows the horror and remorse of Raskolnikoff, a student, after he has killed an old woman for her money. |
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| Alan Paton, In lyrical language Paton relates the moving story of a Zulu minister who searches for his children in Johannesburg, only to learn that South African society has destroyed their lives. |
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| Alan Paton, In lyrical language Paton relates the moving story of a Zulu minister who searches for his children in Johannesburg, only to learn that South African society has destroyed their lives. |
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| Miguel de Carvantes, Originally published in Spanish in 1605, Cervantes’ satire about a gentle visionary who becomes a knight after reading too many chivalric romances is a universal tale of idealism versus practicality. |
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| Edith Wharton, An unhappy couple attempts suicide but find a far worse fate in this tale of irony and retribution in rural New England. |
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| Margaret Mitchell, Set against the backdrop of Georgia during the Civil War, Mitchell’s massive historical novel chronicles the tempestuous romance of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara. |
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| Pearl S. Buck, This Pulitzer Prize winner follows Wang Lung’s family from their early struggles to live off the land to their final disintegration as they move to the city. |
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| John Steinbeck,Proletarian fiction at its finest, Steinbeck’s portrait of an Oklahoma family during the Depression spurred legislation to help stricken migrant workers. |
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| F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby has built an illegal empire to win the love of Daisy Buchanan, but his sacrifices for her prove to be his downfall. |
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| Joseph COnrad, Marlow relates the tale of Mr. Kurtz, successful in his greedy quest for ivory in the African Congo but leaving in its place hunger, death and slavery, for the natives. |
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| Ralph Ellison, A young African American man moves to New York City and discovers he is “invisible,” seen only as a racial stereotype and never as himself. |
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| Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre’s ill-fated love for the brooding Mr. Rochester endures in this story of a strong-willed heroine who refuses to compromise herself. |
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| Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre’s ill-fated love for the brooding Mr. Rochester endures in this story of a strong-willed heroine who refuses to compromise herself. |
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| William Golding, A group of English schoolboys, marooned on a tropical island during a time of atomic warfare, bring both civilization and savagery to their community. |
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| Herman Melville, Captain Ahab’s obsessive struggle to defeat Moby Dick, the great white whale who maimed him, is the focus of Melville’s masterpiece. |
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| Willa Cather, In spite of a life of hard work, Bohemian immigrant Antonia Shimerda is sustained by the healthy Nebraska soil and her warm-hearted brood of children. |
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| Richard Wright, The accidental death of his white boss’s daughter begins a chain of events from which Bigger Thomas, a bitter young black man, cannot escape. |
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| W. Somerset Maugham, Afflicted with a club foot, Philip Carey suffers through his life, struggling to free himself from a destructive love affair and finally finding contentment as a country doctor. |
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| John Steinbeck, George and Lenny, itinerant Depression-era farm laborers, have their dream of attaining the good life shattered on a troubled ranch in the the Salinas Valley in Steinbeck's monumental novella of social realism. |
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| Ernest Hemmingway, Santiago realizes the dream of catching a giant marlin, but he must battle the sharks for two days to bring his prize home. |
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| Jane Austen, A delightful comedy of marriage traces the courtship of Elizabeth and Darcy as they overcome his pride and her prejudice and fall in love. |
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| Sthephen Crane, Through the eyes of Henry Fleming, a young Civil War soldier, we see the fears of battle and the inexplicable courage that comes when soldiers unite in a wartime machine. |
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| Daniel Defoe, Defoe’s novel about a castaway marooned for twenty-four years on a deserted island is an engrossing story of survival, civilization, and barbarism. |
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| Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hawthorne’s novel is a study of sin, guilt, and revenge. Adultress Hester Prynne must bear public humiliation but Roger Chillingsworth and Arthur Dimmesdale suffer equally. |
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| John Knowles, Fifteen years later, the narrator remembers his boarding school roommate. The rivalry that tinged their friendship eventually leads to tragedy. |
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| George Eliot, This classic story shows redemption for a lonely and bitter man in the form of a child who brings him love and hope. |
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| William Faulkner, The moral decay of the Old South is presented through the eyes of four members of the once prominent Compson family of Jefferson, Mississippi. |
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| Albert Camus, First published in French in 1942, the narrator of Albert Camus’ existential masterpiece is an autobiographical figure who does not conform to religious morality or social convention. |
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| This dramatic story of Paris and London during the Reign of Terror contains some of Dickens’ most memorable characters—Madame Defarge with her knitting and the self-sacrificing Sidney Carton. |
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| Edgar Allan Poe, A collection of short stories by the nineteenth century master of the macabre. Included are “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.” |
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| Thomas Hardy, Tess is ruined when her father’s vanity forces her to seek the favors of rich relations, and her life becomes a study in the grim reality of her times. |
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| Their Eyes Were Watching God |
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| Zora Neale Hurston, An African-American woman in 1930s rural Florida finds freedom and self-knowledge through a personal journey encompassing three very different marriages. |
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| Harper Lee, Small town Alabama in the 1930s is the setting for this fine novel of a child’s brutal introdution to racial prejudice and adult injustice. |
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| Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stowe’s sentimental but realistic novel is often credited with heightening public awareness about the evils of slavery, thus hastening the Civil War. |
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| Leo Tolstoy, An enormous cast of characters brings life to Tolstoy’s panoramic chronicle of Napoleonic Russia. Originally published in the 1860s. |
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| Sherwood Anderson, Twenty-three stories of small town America show the characters’ spiritual dreams in conflict with society’s provincialism and materialism. |
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| Emily Bronte, Catherine and Heathcliff are the tempestuous lovers in this tale of passion and revenge on the Yorkshire moors. |
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| Shakespeare, young Hamlet avenges the murder of old Hamlet by killing the murderer Claudius, his gf Ophelia, courtesans Rosencraz and Guildenston, theking's advisor Polonius and his son Laertes, and his mother Gertude. |
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| Shakespeare, a mighty thane (Scottish lord) usurps the throne by killing the king at the behest of his wife, and the prophecies f 3 witches. A massive cover-up ensues and the new king dies by the hands of Macduff. |
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| Shakespeare, the old king akss nice things from 3 daughters, but Cordelia the honest one declines. Goneril and Regan oblige, but only to serve themselves and take power. |
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| Shakespeare, a moor from Venice is convinced by Iago that his wife has been unfaithful to him with Michael Cassio. He smothers her to death but the truth is later revealed by Shylock's wife. SHe is too late to prevent the murder and the moor commits suicide in grief. |
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| Shakespeare, the sorcerer Prospero and his daughter Miranda are stuck on a magical island for 12 years. The spirit Ariel and the monster Caliban are also there. After a shpwreck caused by a titular storm, Propero takes back his rightful title of Duke of Milan from his brother Antonio, breaks his wizard's staff and his daughter marries Ferndinand, King of Naples' son. |
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| James Baldwin, takes place in Harlem on John Grimes’ 14th birthday, father Gabriel is preacher in Temple of the Fire Baptized church, J ashamed for masturbating in school bathroom, J wrestles w/ Brother Elisha, G gets angry at J when brother Roy gets into knife fight, J sees picture of G’s late first wife Deborah (current wife is Elizabeth), J’s Aunt Florence still hiding letter from Deborah to G, J is actually Elizabeth’s bastard son with Richard who committed suicide after being wrongly arrested, G had first son Royal (by Esther) who was killed in a knife fight, Florence reveals letter from Deborah to G, ends with J being saved “on the threshing-floor” of Church |
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| James Baldwin, set in Paris, white David’s girlfriend Hella off in Spain, David has affair with bartender Giovanni in Paris after meeting him at Guillaume’s gay bar with Jacques, David has sex with Sue to convince self he’s not gay, Giovanni murders Guillaume after being fired and is executed by guillotine, Hella/David’s relationship falls apart after Hella discovers him with sailor |
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| James Baldwin, jazz drummer Rufus Scott has rocky relationship with white Leona, RS suicides off George Washington Bridge after Leona enters mental hospital, novelist best friend Vivaldo has affair w/ RS’s sister Ida |
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| Tell Me How Ling the Train's Been Gone |
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James Baldwin, actor Leo Proudhammer has heart attack on stage, Leo is friends-with-benefits with white Barbara and “Black Christopher”
If Beale Street Could Talk – Tish is pregnant when boyfriend Fonny is accused of rape |
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| gay Arthur Montana becomes “Emperor of Soul” |
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| James Baldwin, white Lyle Britten murders black Richard Henry |
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| Going to Meet the Man (ss collection) |
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| James Baldwin, narrator’s brother Sonny caught in heroin bust, becomes jazz pianist |
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| The Fire Next Time (essays) |
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| James Baldwin, – two parts: “My Dungeon Shook” and “Down at the Cross” |
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| Evidence of Things Not Seen |
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| James Baldwin, analyzes Wayne Williams murders |
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| Adventures of Augie March |
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| Saul Bellow, Augie is Chicago boy who lives with brothers Simon and mentally disabled Georgie, Grandma Lausch rules house as tyrant, lives w/ Mrs. Renling in Evanston, Augie works for cripple Einhorn, helps train dogs, has affair with Greek hotel maid Sophie, flees to Mexico with Thea who uses eagle named Caligula to try to hunt lizards, marries Stella, joins merchant navy and is stranded on lifeboat w/ lunatic Bateshaw |
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| Saul Bellow, College professor Moses Herzog lives in Berkshires, visits friends in Martha’s Vineyard to escape lover Ramona, fights ex-wife Madeleine for custody of daughter June, Valentine Gersbach is Madeleine’s lover, H gets into car accident after meeting June at aquarium, H’s lawyer Simkin helps w/ custody battle, H considers killing ex-wife and takes dead father Jonah’s gun and Russian rubles, stays with friend Lucas Asphalter, plot told through unsent letters |
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| Saul Bellow, College professor Moses Herzog lives in Berkshires, visits friends in Martha’s Vineyard to escape lover Ramona, fights ex-wife Madeleine for custody of daughter June, Valentine Gersbach is Madeleine’s lover, H gets into car accident after meeting June at aquarium, H’s lawyer Simkin helps w/ custody battle, H considers killing ex-wife and takes dead father Jonah’s gun and Russian rubles, stays with friend Lucas Asphalter, plot told through unsent letters |
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| Saul Bellow, allegory of Bellow’s friendship w/ poet Delmore Schwartz, Von Humboldt Fleisher (Schwartz) and Charlie Citrine (Bellow) are two writers, wannabe gangster Rinaldo Cantabile wants Citrine to sell out |
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| Saul Bellow, failed actor Wilhelm Adler is unemployed, scammed by Dr. Tamkin |
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| Saul Bellow, Narrator “Chick” has aids, wants professor Abe Ravelstein to write memoir about him after he dies, Ravelstein’s lover Nikki is Malaysian |
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| Saul Bellow, Eugene Henderson goes to Africa to find himself, hires native Romilayu, later becomes Rain King of Wariri after moving statue of goddess Mummah, strikes friendship with King Dahfu, who is killed by lion |
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| Saul Bellow, Holocaust survivor Artur Sammler is Columbia lecturer |
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| Willa Carther, Alexandra Bergson and Carl Linstrum live in Hanover, Nebraska, Carl rescues Emil’s cat from telephone pole, Alexandra’s brother Emil goes to Mexico City for work, Frank Shabata shoots Emil who loves Frank’s wife Marie, Crazy Ivar discovers bodies by white mulberry tree, Alexandra marries Carl after he returns from Alaska |
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| Willa Carther, Centers on Jim Burden and Antonia Shimerda in Black Hawk, Shimerda family works for Peter Krajiek, Jim impresses her by killing rattlesnake, Antonia’s violinist father commits suicide, pianist Blind d’Amault cheers Jim, Antonia starts working for perverted Wick Cutter, Jim goes to college & romance with Lena Lingard & friendship w/ Latin teacher Gaston Cleric, Antonia has child with Larry Donovan but is abandoned, twenty years later, Jim finds Antonia has married Anton Cuzak |
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| Willa Carther, Thea Kronborg’s quest to become an opera singer, aunt Tilly brags about her, Thea has romance w/ Fred Ottenburg, train conductor Ray Kennedy and Dr. Archie help Thea, Thea takes piano lessons from Wunsch and Harsanyi |
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| Death Comes for the Archbishop |
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| Willa Carthur, Bishop Jean Marie Latour travels with Joseph Vaillant to diocese in New Mexico, stays with Buck Scales until wife Magdalena reveals Buck kills travelers, befriends Kit Carson |
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| Willa Carthur, Godfrey St. Peter moves to new house, grieves death of friend |
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| Willa Carthur, – Bartley Alexander dies while fixing bridge in Canada |
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| Willa Carthur, Claude Wheeler marries Enid Royce, enlists in army |
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John Dos Passos, - The 42nd Parallel, 1919, The Big Money
“The Camera Eye” sections are stream-of-consciousness autobiography of Dos Passos, contain line “all right we are two nations” on Sacco and Vanzetti
“Newsreels” are front page headlines from Chicago Tribune and New York World, contains lyrics of “The Internationale”
“The Body of an American” tells story of unknown soldier killed in WWI
characters include journalist Mary French, Fainy “Mac” McCreary |
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| John Dos Passos, Jimmy Herf and lawyer George Baldwin both fall for actress Ellen Thatcher who is married to John Oglethorpe, Baldwin takes case of milkman Gus McNeil who was hit by train car, Jimmy eventually marries Ellen, in the end they divorce & Ellen marries Baldwin, Frenchman Congo Jake becomes a millionaire through bootlegging, Jimmy leaves Manhattan after seeing Empire State Building as Tower of Babel |
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John Dos Passos, Adventures of a Young Man, Number One, The Grand Design
tells of young radical who fights with Republicans in Spanish Civil War
Three Soldiers – World War I from perspective of Andrews, Chrisfield, and Fuselli |
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John Dreiser, An American Tragedy
Clyde Griffiths rebels against religious preacher parents, works as bellboy in Kansas City hotel, wants to win love of Hortense Briggs, but leaves to become factory foreman in Lycurgus, NY after killing kid in stolen car, falls in love with poor farm girl Roberta Alden, but instead wants to marry rich Sondra Finchley, CG hits RA with camera in Big Bittern Lake & she drowns, CG is convicted and executed, based on real-life case of Chester Gilette |
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| Theodore Dreiser, “Sister Carrie” Meeber leaves Wisconsin & moves in with sister Minnie and her husband Sven in Chicago, Carrie hates working in shoe factory so moves in with traveling salesman Charlie Drouet, CD gives her $20, Carrie meets George Hurstwood (manager of bar Fitzgerald and Moy’s) and has affair, CD convinces Carrie to play Laura in “Under the Gaslight” for Elks club, however affair is revealed & GH embezzles money, Carrie/GH try to flee to Canada but are caught, go to New York under the name Wheeler, Carrie becomes chorus girl & befriends artistic Robert Ames and other chorus girl Lola Osborne, Carrie leaves GH and achieves stardom, GH becomes homeless and commits suicide |
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| Theodore Dreiser, Hotel worker Jennie in Columbus, Ohio impregnated by Senator George Bradner who dies after, has daughter Vesta, falls in love w/ Lester Kane |
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| Theodore Dreiser, Quaker Solon Barnes marries wealthy Beneficia Wallin |
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Theodore Dreiser, The Financier – Frank Cowperwood’s financial exploits, marries Aileen Butler
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| Ralph Ellison, “invisible man” narrator lives underground stealing electricity from Monpolated Light & Power Company burning 1369 light bulbs simultaneously, story begins in South when IM gets briefcase w/ scholarship to black college for public speaking, but white men force him to fight in “Battle Royal” blindfolded w/ other black men, forced to scramble on electrified rug to grab fake gold coins, IM dreams his grandfather gives him briefcase containing paper w/ racial slur, in college IM drives white trustee Mr. Norton around campus, Norton interested in story of black Jim Trueblood who impregnated own daughter, Norton passes out at Golden Day saloon, Rev. Homer Barbee gives sermon about college’s founder, president Dr. Bledsoe expels narrator for showing Norton bad side of school & sends him to New York, son of trustee Mr. Emerson reveals that Bledsoe’s letters of recommendation portray IM negatively, IM gets job at Liberty Paints plant making “Optic White” paint with Lucius Brockway, boiler tank explodes during fight w/ Brockway, IM becomes temporarily mute & doctors do electric shock therapy on him, IM boards w/ Mary in Harlem, empties spittoon on man he confuses for Bledsoe who turns out to be famous preacher, banned from Men’s House for 99 years & 1 day as a result, Brother Jack inducts IM into Brotherhood at Chthonian Hotel, IM destroys Mary’s grinning black man-shaped coin bank, IM meets white Brother Hambro and black Tod Clifton, Tarp gives him link from time in chain gang for saying “no” to white man, black nationalist leader Ras the Exhorter hates Brotherhood, IM later sees Clifton selling “Sambo” dolls & shot dead by police, glass eye falls out of Jack’s eye as he scolds IM for holding funeral for Clifton, IM wears dark glasses to hide from Ras & is mistaken for pimp Rinehart, Brotherhood member Sybil tries to use IM for rape fantasy, finally IM falls into manhole fleeing from Ras and begins living underground |
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| Ralph Ellison, Reverend Alonzo Hickman attempts to warn white racist senator Adam “Bliss” Sunraider of assassination plot by young black man |
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| Ralph Ellison, fuller version of Juneteenth |
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| Ralph Ellison, airplane crashes into power lines during lynching, causing woman to be electrocuted to death, Jed Wilson leads mob in burning black man to death |
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| Ralph Ellison, man wants to win bingo game to pay for doctor to save Laura, must get wheel to land on double zero to win jackpot, won’t stop pressing button, man is taken away from police offers and knocked unconscious |
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| Ralph Ellison, includes “The World and the Jug” |
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| William Faulkner, story of Compson family in Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha |
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William Faulkner, Part 1: narrator: handicapped Benjy, caretakers throughout life include Luster, T.P., and Versh; Compsons sell land to golf club for course, B’s first memory is seeing sister Caddy’s muddy underwear as she climbs tree, B’s name originally Maury until disability discovered, B castrated after assaulting girl
Part 2: (flashback) Harvard student Quentin, C becomes pregnant by Dalton Ames, Q lies about committing incest, C marries Herbert Head, Q buys iron weights, Q meets Italian immigrant girl whom he calls “sister”, assaulted by her brother Julio, Q drowns self in Charles River
Part 3: Jason is mother Caroline’s favorite, takes place on Good Friday, J looks for C’s daughter Miss Quentin
Part 4: black matriarch Dilsey narrates, D takes B to church to hear Easter sermon of Reverend Shegog, Miss Q runs away with carnival worker in night w/ money from Jason’s strongbox, B cries because Luster takes wrong turn w/ carriage in graveyard |
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| William Faulkner, legend of Thomas Sutpen told to Quentin Compson by Rosa Coldfield and his father, Q later tells it to roommate Shreve, TS cheats Chicasaw chief out of 100 acres & builds huge mansion in Jefferson and has kids Henry and Judith, H befriends Charles Bon, but TS thinks CB is his son with a part-black wife, when CB wants to marry J => H shoots him and flees, TS tries to start anew by marrying young Milly, Milly’s grandfather Wash Jones kills TS, Q and R go to Sutpen’s house to find his daughter Clytie w/ Henry, but both die and only CB’s son Jim Bond survives dynasty |
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| William Faulkner, Bundren family’s matriarch Addie dies, son Cash builds coffin, father Anse sends sons Darl and Jewel on lumber job for neighbor Vernon Tull, family transports corpse to Jefferson, daughter Dewey Dell wants abortion in town, youngest Vardaman confuses her with fish he caught, mules are killed crossing river, Anse sells horse & uses money for new false teeth/gramophone to buy mules, Darl sets fire to barn w/ body in it, C gets cement cast for broken leg, finally arrive in Jefferson, C gets Dr. Peabody’s help to fix broken leg, DD fooled to having sex w/ Skeet MacGowan for fake abortion pills, Addie had affair with Whitfield (father of Jewel), Bundrens stay at Gillespie, Samson, and Armstid farms |
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William Faulkner, Joe Christmas thinks he’s biracial, adopted by abusive McEachern whom he kills, has relationship with Joanna Burden, JB becomes crazy religious fanatic but JC kills her before she can, JC eventually lynched
Lena Grove is pregnant and looking for father Lucas Burch (living under pseudonym Joe Brown) w/ help from Byron Bunch
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| Ernest Hemmingway, WWI ambulance driver Frederic Henry has romance with Catherine Barkley (former love interest of surgeon Rinaldi), Helen Ferguson disapproves, FH gets Dr. Valentini to heal injured knee, FH sent back to front b/c Miss Van Campen believes he got jaundice b/c of drinking, FH shoots engineer to make them help when ambulance gets stuck in mud, FH escapes “battle police” by jumping in river, hides under tarp in train to Milan, opera singer Ralph Simmons gives FH clothes, reunites with CB in Stresa, hangs with bartender Emilio & plays billiards with Count Greffi, move to Switzerland, CB dies in childbirth |
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| Ernest Hemmingway, WWI vet Jake Barnes is journalist in Paris, Jewish writer/former boxer Robert Cohn wants JB to accompany him to South America, RC lives with gf Frances Clyne, JB loves Brett Ashley but is impotent from injury, BA wants to marry Mike Campbell; BA meets Jake with Count Mippipopolous, JB goes to Spain w/ friend Bill Gorton to go fishing in Burguete, JB and Bill stay in hotel owned by bullfighting fan Montoya, BA falls in love with bullfighter Pedro Romero, Cohn drunkenly attacks Romero b/c loves BA and tries to shake his hand after, Romero gives bull ear to BA, BA laments she and Jake could’ve been good couple |
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Ernest Hemmingway, Robert Jordan fights with Republicans in Spanish Civil War, ordered to blow up Fascists’ bridge, Anselmo guides RJ to guerilla camp, leader Pablo dislikes RJ but his woman Pilar does, RJ begins relationship from rescued Maria, Maria/RJ feel Earth move when make love, other guerilla El Sordo agrees to help w/ bridge, El Sordo’s camp bombed and beheaded, RJ sends Andres to General Golz asking to cancel operations, RJ’s Russian journalist friend Karkov worries about him, Pablo throws some of explosives into river, offensive takes place & RJ is trampled by his injured horse, stays to die on battlefield
guerilla fighters: Agustin, Fernando, Primitivo, Rafael, Andres |
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| Ernest Hemmingway, Fishing captain Harry Morgan smuggles contraband between Florida and Cuba, interacts with Great Depression “Conchs”, Mr. Johnson doesn’t pay him, HM smuggles Chinese immigrants |
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| Across the River and into the Trees |
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| Ernest Hemmingway, last day in life of Colonel Richard Cantwell, reminisces about woman Renata |
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| Ernest Hemmingway, Yogi Johnson and Scripps O’Neill work at pump factory |
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Henry James, – Lambert Strether, from Woolett, goes to Paris with Waymarsh to
retrieve Chad Newsome, son of his fiancée; falls in love with Marie de Vionnet and Maria Gostrey; other characters Sarah Pocock and Bilham
The Golden Bowl – Prince Amerigo marries Maggie Verver/affair with Charlotte Stant |
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Henry James, Mrs. Grose cares for Miles and Flora, thinks she sees ghosts of
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Henry James, Isabel Archer rejects Warburton and Caspar Goodwood; marries
Gilbert Osmond, who has a daughter Pansy |
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| Henry James,Winterbourne courts Daisy Miller, who has affair with Giovanelli in Rome; other characters include Daisy’s brother Randolph, courier Eugenio, takes place in Vevey, Switzerland; Millers originally from Schenectady, NY |
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Henry James, Densher wants to marry Milly Theale b/c she will die of
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| Sinclair Lewis, Realtor George Babbitt dissatisfied w/ life in Zenith, has wife Myra & children Verona/Ted/Tinka; friend Paul Riesling who wanted to be violinist unhappy with wife Zilla, B & PR vacation in Maine, PR shoots wife after having affair w/ May Arnold, B hates snobby real estate delegation chair Cecil Rountree, B has affair with Tanis Judique to realize fantasy of “fairy girl”, hangs out with her friends “The Bunch”, B shocks friends in Good Citizen’s League by supporting strikers, but returns to normal life after Myra gets appendicitis, Babbitt approves of Ted’s eloping w/ Eunice Littlefield & encourages him to be mechanic |
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| Sinclair Lewis, Carol Milford graduates from Blodgett College in Minneapolis, moves to Gopher Prairie after marrying doctor Will Kennicott, have maid Bea Sorenson, C wants to modernize town but villagers don’t like her, C befriends lawyer Guy Pollock & teacher Vida Sherwin, C joins women’s Jolly Seventeen bridge club and study group Thanatopsis Club, stages unsuccessful production of Shaw’s Androcles and the Lion, Bea marries also-unpopular Miles Bjornstam and have son Olaf (but die from typhoid), Swedish tailor Erik Valborg and teacher Fern Mullins strike friendship w/ Carol, Cy Bogart gets Fern kicked out of town, Kennicott has affair with Maud Dyer, Carol leaves for Washington D.C. for two years w/ son Hugh |
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| Sinclair Lewis, Martin Arrowsmith meets researcher Max Gottlieb at University of Winnimac med school, marries Leora Tozer, becomes physician (despite wanting to research) and moves around a lot (to Wheatsylvania, Nautilus) and works for Rouncefield Clinic w/ college rival Angus Duer, joins McGurk Institute to research w/ Gottlieb, discovers X Principle bacteriophage that kills plague but D’Herelle already published it, travels to St. Hubert to test further research and succeeds but Leora dies of plague, marries Joyce Lanyon, but leaves her and starts laboratory in woods with Terry Wickett |
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| Sinclair Lewis, EG is womanizing college athlete, mistakenly ordained as Baptist minister, later manages evangelist Sharon Falconer, but she is killed in fire at tabernacle, EG causes death of minister Frank Shallard, Gantry ends up as minister in Zenith |
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| Sinclair Lewis, Auto designer Sam Dodsworth travels to Europe w/ wife Fran Voelker after selling his Revelation Motor Company, Sam has affair w/ expatriate Edith Cortright in Venice & Fran has affair w/ Kurt von Obersdorf in Berlin |
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| Sinclair Lewis, “Corporatist” Buzz Windrip elected POTUS and begins dictatorial reign, New Underground resistance movement led by Senator Trowbridge opposes him, focuses on NU newspaperman Doremus Jessup who publishes The Vermont Vigilance, eventually General Dewey Haik takes over |
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| Sinclair Lewis, Neil Kingsblood discovers he’s part-black and has identity crisis, ends w/ angry white mob outside his house |
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| Sinclair Lewis, follows life of AV, becomes suffragette, falls in love w/ corrupt judge |
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| Sinclair Lewis, first book |
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| David Mammet, Shelly Levene, Ricky Roma, George Aaronow, Dave Moss are real estate agents under manager John Williamson, bosses Mitch and Murray have sales contest |
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| David Mammet, Bobby Gould has to find scripts to bring to Hollywood producer Richard Ross, coworker Charlie Fox tells BG that famous Doug Brown wants to be in Fox’s movie, BG bets Fox he can seduce his temp. secretary Karen, instead Karen seduces BG & convinces him to pitch film based on book about radiation, Fox reveals Karen’s true motives, BG decides to pitch Doug Brown film w/o Fox |
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| David Mammet, Don Dubrow, Bobby, and Walter “Teach” Cole plan to steal coin collection after Don sells a nickel for less than its value, set at Don’s Resale Shop, Teach’s poker their own burglary |
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Davud Mamet, old men George and Emil watch ducks on park bench and talk
Sexual Perversity in Chicago
sex lives of Dan Shapiro, Bernard Litko, Deborah Soloman, and Joan Webber
Oleanna Carol is having problems in class of college professor John who’s about to get tenure, Carol accuses John of sexism & sexual harassment, John is denied tenure & suspended, Carol agrees to withdraw charges if John agrees to “her group’s” list of books to be removed, John beats Carol & holds a chair above her head |
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| David Mamet, Anna and Claire are Victorian women in “Boston marriage”, Anna tries to talk Claire out of relationship with young woman, girl arrives and recognizes Anna’s emerald necklace as her mother’s, Anna has Scottish maid Catherine |
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| David Mamet, Edmond Burke beats a black pimp, kills waitress Gleanna, is raped in prison |
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| Cormac McCarthy, Boy and Man traveling in post-apocalyptic world, have revolver w/ two bullets, Man uses one to kill “bad guy” who takes Boy hostage, find basement full of human captives of cannibals, find apple orchard/well, bomb shelter w/ canned food, wrecked ship w/ flare gun & batteries, thief steals their shopping cart/supplies, Man gets shot in leg w/ arrow and later dies, new family takes in Boy, Man often tells Boy they’re the “good guys” and are “carrying the fire”, Boy’s mom killed self before book started, weird old man Ely says God doesn’t exist and Death will disappear w/ human life |
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| Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West |
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| Cormac McCarthy, 14-year-old “the kid” born during meteor shower, meets albino Judge Holden in Nacogdoches, Texas, meets outlaw Toadvine with whom he burns down a hotel, kid recruited by Sergeant Trammel to join Captain White’s Mexican-killing company in Bexar, kid arrested by Mexicans while traveling w/ Sproule, joins Glanton’s scalphunting gang w/ Toadvine, members include Holden, ex-priest Tobin, and David Brown who wears human ear necklace, gang massacres Gileno Indians but don’t find prize bountyhead Gomez, Glanton betrays Yumas who were supposed to ferry them across Colorado River, kid leaves company after Yumas attack them, Holden kills kid in latrine at dancehall many years later, epilogue about unknown man digging holes in desert & lighting fires in them, Holden has rifle inscribed w/ “Et in Arcadia ego” |
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| Cormac McCarthy, Llewelyn Moss finds wounded Mexican in aftermath of drug deal while hunting antelope, steals satchel w/ $2.4 million, sends away wife Carla Jean to Odessa when people begin hunting him, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell investigates while protecting Moss, Bell received Bronze Star for abandoning unit in WWII, hitman Anton Chigurh hired to recover money, other hitman Carson Wells tries to negotiate w/ Moss for money, but Chigurh kills Wells, Moss murdered by Mexicans in motel, Chigurh retrieves satchel from airduct, kills Carla Jean after flipping coin |
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| All the Pretty Horses (1st book Border Trilogy) |
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| Cormac McCarthy, begins w/ funeral of John Grady Cole’s grandpa in Texas, JG runs away w/ friends Rawlins and Blevins, Blevins’ horse/gun stolen after he hides during lightning storm; in Encantada, Mexico, JG works as cowboy for Don Hector but falls in love w/ daughter Alejandra, aunt Alfonsa warns him, Hector turns JG/Rawlins in to police, prisoner Perez sends assassins after them, JG tries to return to Alejandra but she refuses to leave, JG goes back to Texas w/o a home |
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| The Crossing (Second Book Border Trilogy) |
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| Carmoc McCarthy, set on New Mexico/Mexico border, Billy Parham & brother Boyd trying to catch pregnant female wolf, Boyd shot in dispute over house & later dies in gunfight |
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| Carmoc McCarthy, John Grady and Billy Parham work together on ranch, JG falls in love with prostitute Magdalena, JG and pimp Eduardo kill each other after Eduardo’s henchman Tiburcio kills Magdalena Suttree Cornelius Suttree lives in houseboat on Tennessee River, meets Gene Harrogate who was sent to work camp for having sex with farmer’s watermelons, Gene shoots bats w/ poisoned meat/slingshot to claim bounty to fund tunneling underneath city |
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| The Sunset Limited, pplay |
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Carmoc McCarthy, Black saves White from jumping in front of a train
Child of God – violent Lester Ballard becomes cave-dweller and necrophiliac murderer
Outer Dark – Culla impregnates sister Rinthy & abandons baby, Tinker takes in baby
The Orchard Keeper – John Wesley Rattner meets Marion Sylder who killed his dad |
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| Billy Bud, Sailor (An Inside Novel) |
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| Herman Melville, Billy Budd is sailor on Rights-of-Man under Captain Graveling, Lieutenant Ratcliffe of British Bellipotent impresses him onto ship, BB decides to behave well after seeing lashing, gains respect of Red Whiskers after punching him, the Dansker tells BB that master-at-arms John Claggart has grudge, Claggart & assistant Squeak grow more hostile after Billy spills soup that trickles to Claggart, unknown man offers BB two guineas, Claggart tells Captain Vere BB is leading mutiny, BB kills Claggart w/ punch to forehead, BB found guilty and hung, Vere later dies in Gibraltar after wounded in fight with French Athée |
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| Herman Melville, steamboat passengers on Mississippi River tell stories on April 1 |
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| Herman Melville, A Peep at Polynesian Life Tommo and Toby live among cannibal Typee tribe in Nuku Hiva |
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| Herman Melville, A Narrative of the South Seas – sequel to Typee in Tahiti |
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| The White Jacket: or, The Man in Man of War |
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Herman Melville, about life in the U.S. Navy, narrator has only white coat on ship, British Jack Chase is best sailor, novel got flogging abolished in Navy
Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile - IP fights in Bunker Hill and meets famous people
Pierre: or, the Ambiguities – Pierre leaves Lucy Tartan for half-sister Isabel Banford |
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| Bartleby the Scriviner (Pizza Tales) |
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| Herman Melville, the Lawyer employs Bartleby as copyist, other copyists are alcoholic Turkey and chronic indigestion-suffering Nippers, Ginger Nut is errand boy who brings little cakes, B replies “I would prefer not” to all requests, B only eats snacks and lives in office, Lawyer moves office when B refuses to leave, B gets arrested and dies in prison, Lawyer learns that B was once clerk in Dead Letter office, Lawyer likes sound of name “John Jacob Astor” |
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| Benito Cereno (Pizza Tales) |
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| Herman Melville, whaler Amasa Delano is captain of Bachelor’s Delight, crew of St. Dominick begs AD for supplies, captain Benito Cereno helped by servant Babo, slaves used to belong to Cereno’s friend Alexandro Aranda, AD suspicious BC wants to take over his ship, truth is revealed when BC leaps off his ship and Babo tries to stab him, in reality slaves led by Babo/Atufal revolted and held BC hostage, covered Aranda’s corpse w/ tarp |
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| The Encantandas (The Enchanted Isles) |
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| Herman Melville, “sketches” tell stories of Galapagos Islands, sketch 8 describes the “Chola widow” Hunilla who was stranded after family died after collecting tortoise oil, sketch 9 describes hermit Oberlus who rules as tyrant on Hood’s Isle |
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| Arthur Miller, Joe Keller sold damaged airplane parts during WWI causing 21 deaths, but goes innocent & blames on partner Steve Deever, Joe’s son Chris wants to marry Steve’s daughter Ann, Joe’s older son Larry missing for 3 years, neighbor Frank draws up Larry’s horoscope, letter from Larry says he wants to commit suicide b/c of Joe’s guilt, apple tree planted in memorial of Larry knocked down by storm, Joe commits suicide w/ gun, Joe’s wife = Kate |
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| Arthur Miller, salesman Willy Loman commits suicide in car crash to get $20000 insurance for sons Biff and Happy, Linda wanted Willy to ask boss Howard Wagner for local job, Willy regrets not going to Alaska with brother Ben, cheated on wife Linda with the Woman in Boston, Willy gifted Woman stockings, Biff failed math and never played football in college b/c caught Willy w/ Woman, Biff is kleptomaniac (steals fountain pen), Happy flirts with Miss Forsyth at Frank’s Chop House, Willy hates neighbor Charley’s smart son Bernard, Willy suddenly wants to plant garden, Willy’s entrances introduced w/ flute music, characters can “phase through” the set |
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| Arthur Miller, Eddie Carbone lives w/ wife Beatrice & niece Catherine, Eddie clashes with Beatrice’s illegal immigrant cousins Marco and Rodolpho, Rodolpho marries Catherine, Eddie rats them out despite lawyer Alfieri’s advice, Eddie attacks Marco w/ knife but is killed, takes place in Red Hook in Brooklyn |
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| Arthur Miller, takes place in mind of Quentin interacting with ex-wives Louisa and Maggie to decide if he should marry Holga, set is a chair in front of a concentration camp guard tower |
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| Arthur Miller, Furniture dealer Gregory Solomon sells to cop Victor Franz |
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| The Man Who Had All The Luck |
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| Arthur Miller, auto mechanic David Beeves has amazing good luck |
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Eugene O'Neill, update of Orestes, Agamemnon = Ezra Mannon is killed,
wife Christine has affair with Adam Brant, daughter Lavinia is engaged to Peter Niles, son Orin kills Christine and Brant |
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| Long Day's Journey into Night |
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Eugene O'Neill, about Tyrone family; James is an actor, wife Mary
addicted to morphine, older son Jamie is also an actor & alcoholic, younger son Edmund has tuberculosis, maid Cathleen sneaks a drink, Dr. Hardy is quack family doctor; Mary used to be convent girl and wanted to be a pianist; Mary wears old wedding dress, James tells story about prostitute Fat Violet |
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Hickman to arrive, Hickey reveals he killed his wife Evelyn, Hickey wants people to give up their “pipe dreams”, Don Parritt commits suicide at fire escape after former Syndicalist-Anarchist Larry Slade tells him to, other characters include black Joe Mott and Boer War vet Cecil Lewis |
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Island, gets killed by a silver bullet after natives revolt, Lem leads revolt, white trader Smithers also on island |
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Eugene O'Neill, Yank leaves job as a ship stoker after Mildred Douglas insults him, gets
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| Eugene O'Neill, characters speak their thoughts aloud, Nina Leeds is impregnated by Ned Darrell |
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| Eugene O'Neill, only comedy, about Nat Miller and Essie |
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Thomas Pynchon, Oedipa Maas’s ex Pierce Inverarity dies, married to Mucho,
unravels conflict between mail companies “Trystero” and Thurn und Taxis, sees play The Courier’s Tragedy, meets Mike Fallopian of The Peter Pinguid Society at bar The Scope, meets band The Paranoids; ex-Nazi Dr. Hilarius prescribes people LSD, John Nefastis claims to invent perpetual motion machine; Trystero’s symbol is a muted post horn, ends with Oedipa bidding on postage stamps (Lot 49) at auction |
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Thomas Pynchon, protagonist Tyrone Slothrop predicts V-2 rocket landings with
` sexual encounters, discovers mysterious rocket 00000 with component S-Gerat made of Imipolex G, saves Katje from octopus Grigori, travels on ferry “The Anubis”; Blicero launched the 00000 and put Gottfried in the S-Gerat, book begins with Pirate Prentice picking bananas |
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Thomas Pynchon, Wicks Cherrycoke tells story of title men
V. – Herbert Stencil looks for title woman, Benny Profane meets group of artists called
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| Thomas Pynchon, Tariq Khalil hires PI Doc Sportello to look for Glen Charlock |
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| Thomas Pynchon, DEA agent Hector Zuniga pursues hippie Zoyd Wheeler |
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| Thomas Pynchon, takes place between Chicago World’s Fair and World War I |
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| Thomas Pynchon, Meatball Mulligan throws a party, Callisto and Aubade nurse a baby bird, compare entropy to American consumerism |
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| Thomas Pynchon, Grover Snodd protests racism against black Carl McAfee |
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| Thomas Pynchon, lawyer Dennis Flange meets beautiful 3 foot tall gypsy |
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| Thomas Pynchon, spies Porpentine and Goodfellow, Porpentine killed under Sphinx |
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| Thomas Pynchon, Nathan Levine picks up dead bodies after hurricane hits Creole |
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Upton Sinclair, Lithuanians Jurgis Rudkis/Ona move to Packingtown in Chicago & are in debt after wedding reception, live w/ Ona’s cousin Marija & stepmother Teta Elzbieta, JR’s dad Dede Antanas dies during job, violinist Tamoszius courts Marija, Ona’s boss Miss Henderson makes workers prostitutes, Ona names son Antanas after JR’s dad, JR out of work after spraining ankle, Teta’s youngest Kristoforas dies of food poisoning, Ona’s boss? Phil Connor rapes her, JR attacks Connor & goes to prison where he befriends Jack Duane, Ona dies in childbirth, JR abandons family after Antanas drowns in muddy street, Freddie Jones gives JR $100 but bartender short changes him, JR becomes Jack Duane’s partner-in-crime, JR works for corrupt political boss Mike Scully, ends with JR joining socialist party after meeting Ostrinski & becoming a porter at socialist Hinds’ Hotel
Oil!
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| World's End (Lanny bud Series 1st) |
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| Upton Sinclair, follows Lanny Budd through World War I |
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| Upton Sinclair, Lanny saves father from ruin in Great Depression, marries Irma |
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| Upton Sinclair, – Lanny helps rescue Jewish in-law from Nazi arrest |
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Robert Penn Warren, present: Jack Burden goes on road trip to Mason City w/ Willie Stark + WS’s wife Lucy and son Tom, want to pressure JB’s mentor Judge Irwin, WS wants to build free hospital, WS having affair w/ secretary Sadie Burke, JB finds out that Irwin took bribe that indirectly caused Mortimer Littlepaugh to commit suicide, Governor Stanton (father of friend Adam & lover Anne) also implicated, JB convinces Adam to become director of new hospital, JB previously married to Lois Seager, JB lives nihilistic philosophy of “Great Twitch”, Gummy Larson blackmails WS w/ the fact that Tom got Sibyl Frey pregnant, Irwin kills self when WS tries to blackmail him to help, Irwin was JB’s father, Tom injured in football game and is left braindead, Gummy tells Adam about WS’s affair with Anne, Adam kills WS and WS’s driver Sugar-Boy kills Adam, ends w/ Anne and Jack marrying
pre-civil war: JB’s great-uncle & plantation owner Cass Mastern has affair with Annabelle, wife of friend Duncan Trice, Duncan commits suicide & Annabelle thinks slave Phebe knows so she sells her, Cass feels awful and frees all his slaves
1896: JB’s mother meets his father Ellis Burden
1922: WS is fighting Mason City gov’t b/c they want to give contract to build school to big company, children die when new school’s fire escapes collapse which vindicates WS, JB realizes WS’s speaking abilities when he gets him drunk, WS is elected governor |
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Robert Penn Warren, lawyer Percy Munn involved in Black Patch Tobacco Wars
At Heaven’s Gate Sue Murdock has rocky relationship with Jerry Calhoun, then with pseudo-intellectual Slim Sarrett, then Sweetwater, Sue can’t relate to father Bogan |
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| The Skin of Our Teeth (Play) |
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| Thorton Wilder, Antrobus family in New Jersey is threatened with extinction by moving wall of ice, maid Sabina narrates & milks mammoth Dolly, son Henry’s name changed from Cain after killing brother Abel, Homer/Moses/Muses seek refuge in house, father George Antrobus sworn in as president of Ancient and Honorable Order of Mammals on Boardwalk in Atlantic City, Sabina dresses as beauty queen to tempt George, flood occurs & family directs pairs of animals onto ark, mother Maggie and daughter Sabina survive apocalyptic war by hiding in cellar, Sabina dressed as “Napoleonic camp-follower”, stage manager interrupts play because actors are sick from food poisoning, Sabina actress ate blue mold on lemon meringue pie, janitor/dresser/others fill parts |
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| The Long Christmas Dinner |
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| Thorton WIller, represents 90 Christmas dinners in the Bayard home |
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| The Happy Hourney to Trenton and Camden |
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| Thorton Willer, road trip of Kirby family to visit daughter |
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| Thorton WIller, adaptation about Horace Vandergelder |
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