| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Aesop | Fables; examples: The Lion And The Mouse, The Ants And The Grasshopper |
| Agatha Christie | The Mousetrap |
| Alexandre Dumas | The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers |
| Anne Bradstreet | 1650 - Book of Poems (The First American Published Woman Author) |
| Arthur Miller | Death of a Salesman, The Crucible |
| Ben Franklin | Poor Richard's Almanac |
| Bram Stoker | Dracula |
| Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, Bleak House, Great Expectations, David Copperfield, The Cricket on the Hearth, Our Mutual Friend, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit |
| Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre, The Professor, Villette |
| Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders |
| Dante (Alhegheri) | The Divine Comedy |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado |
| Edward Lear | The Owl and the Pussycat |
| Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights |
| Emily Dickinson | I Heard A Fly Buzz-When I Died, Because I Could Not Stop for Death |
| Ernest Hemmingway | The Old Man and The Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, (he committed suicide and he was a famous adventurer) |
| Ezra Pound | "In a Station of the Metro", "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter", Cantos |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby |
| Franz Kafka | The Trial, The Metamorphosis |
| Frederick Douglass | My Bondage and My Freedom |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | Crime And Punishment |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales, The Parliament of Fowles, Troilus and Criysede |
| George Orwell | 1984, Animal Farm |
| H.G. Wells | The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine |
| Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1851 - Uncle Tom's Cabin (President Lincoln made the statement to her, "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!") |
| Henry David Thoreau | Walden, Civil Disobedience (He lived in the woods for a year) |
| Homer | The Odyssey, The Iliad |
| Jack London | The Call Of The Wild, Valley Of The Moon, White Fang |
| James Fillmore Cooper | The Last of the Mohicans |
| Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility |
| John Steinbeck | Of Men and Mice, The Grapes of Wrath, The Pearl, East of Eden |
| Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels |
| Jules Verne | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days |
| Leo Tolstoy | War And Peace |
| Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through The Looking Glass |
| Lord Byron | Don Juan |
| Louisa May Alcott | Little Women |
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | Anne Of Green Gables, The Golden Road |
| Mark Twain | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer, The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Life on the Mississippi |
| Mary Shelley | Frankenstein |
| Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote |
| Nathaniel Hawthorn | The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nature, Self-Reliance, Concord Hymn. The Snowstorm |
| Robert Burns | "Auld Lang Syne" |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island |
| Rudyard Kipling | If, Gunga Din, Danny Deever, "Riki Tiki Tavi" |
| Samuel Johnson | A Dictionary of the English Language |
| Paul Lawrence Dunbar | Douglass, We Wear the Mask |
| Sophocles | Oedipus Rex, Antigone |
| Stephen Crane | The Red Badge of Courage, An Episode of War |
| T. S. Eliot | "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday |
| Sir Walter Scott | Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, The Lady of the Lake. Waverley |
| Victor Hugo | Les Miserables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| Walt Whitman | Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself, O, Captain, My Captain. A Noiseless Patient Spider |
| Washington Irving | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle |
| William Blake | Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, Visions of the Daughters of Albion |
| William Golding | Lord of the Flies |
| William Shakespeare | Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and many more |
| William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Lyrical Ballads |
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