Praxis II 0049: Components of Literary Works
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ssimmons on May 28, 2009
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Praxis II 0049 Middle School Language Arts
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Important literary works, including author facts, dates of publications and settings, as well as characters and plot overviews.
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Praxis II middle school LA, HS Test Practice, Praxis Study Group, 11th lang arts, Mrs. Kachur's class
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 A Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Patterson | fantasy childrens' novel published 1977 by American author (1932-), Characters include Jess Aarons, Leslie Burke, Mr and Mrs Aarons; set in the late 1970s in Lark Creek; Friendship, Childhood, Conformity and individuality, Gender Roles , education |
| Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare | comparative poem of the Elizabethian Movement, author was born in 1564 and died in 1616, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" |
| Not Without Laughter, Langston Hughes | written and set during the Harlem Renaissance (1920s, 30s); African American author known for Jazz poerty, characters include Sandy Rogers, Jimboy, Annjee Williams; realities of black life in a small Kansas town |
| Sounder, William Armstrong | young adult novel published in 1969, based on a true story, set during 19th century in Southern America; characters include "the boy", "the boy's father", "the boy's mother"; author 1914-1999 |
| The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan | postmodern novel published in 1989; characters include the Woo, Jong, Hsu, and St. Clair families, set in China from the 1920s to 1980s; author born in 1952 |
| The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien | postmodern, fantasy, heroic quest novel by British author (1892-1973) published in 1937; characters include Bilbo Baggins, Gandolf, Gollom; set the Third Age of Middle-Earth, 2941-2942 in various locales in the imaginary world of Middle-Earth |
| HG Wells | British author (1866-1946), wrote mainly science fiction including "The War of the Worlds","The Time Machine", and "The Invisible Man" |
| Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; Mildred Taylor | historical fiction concerning racial tension published in 1976 by African American author (1943-); characters include Casey, Stacey, Christopher, and David Logan; set in 1930s in Mississippi |
| Holes, Louis Sacher | Mystery; folk tale; adventure novel; published 1998 by American author (1954-); characters include Stanley Yelnats, Zero, Xray, Squid, Magnet, Armpit; set in 20th century in Green Lake, Texas |
| Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy | Realist, psychological, tragic novel by Russian writer (1828-1910); published in 1873; characters include Anna Karenina, Alexei Karenin, Alexei Vronsky, Konstantin Levin; themes include adultery and suicide |
| Sarah, Plain and Tall; Patricia MacLachlan | children's novel set in 19th century Kansas, published in 1985 by American author (1938-); characters include Sarah, Anna, Caleb; deals with abandonment, loneliness, and death |
| To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee | Southern Gothic novel published in 1960 by American author (1926-); characters include Scout Finch, Atticus Finch, Boo; set 1933-1935 in fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama; deals with goodness, integrity, rape and racial inequality |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde | Gothic work written in Victorian era (1837-1901) by Irish playwright (1854-1900); characters include Basil Hallward, Dorian Gray, Lord Henry, Sibyl Vane; set 1890s in London, England; deals with fear of lost beauty, low morality, pursuit of happiness |
| Little Women, Louisa May Alcott | dramatic, comedic novel published in 1869 by American novelist (1832-1888); characters include Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March; set during Civil War period (1861-1865); deals with poverty, personal growth |
| The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare | historical fiction published by American author in 1958; characters include Katherine "Kit" Tyler, Hannah Tupper, Nathaniel Eaton; set in 1697 in Connecticut Colony |
| A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway | Literary war novel published in 1929 by American author (1899-1961); set during WWI (1916-1918) in Italy and Switzerland; characters include Lt. Frederic Henry, Catherine Barkley, Rinaldi; deals with romance and war |
| The Call of the Wild, Jack London | adventure novel involving Realism and Naturalism published in 1903 by American author (1876-1916); characters include dog named Buck, Judge Miller, John Thornton, "devil dog" Spitz; set in late 1890s in California; deals with cruelty |
| Frankenstein, Mary Shelley | Sci-fi, horror, Gothic novel written during the Romantic Movement ( second half of 18th century) and Industrial Revolution (late 18th, early 19th century); published in 1818 by British novelist ( 1797-1851); characters include Victor, the monster, Robert Walton, Elizabeth Lavenza |
| Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte | Gothic, Romantic, bildungsroman novel by British novelist (1816-1855) published in 1847, characters include Jane, St. John, Edward Rochester, Bertha Mason; set in early 19th century in 5 different locations in England |
| Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe | adventure, frame tale published in 1719 by English writer (1659-1731); characters include Crusoe, "Friday", The Portuguese captain, Xury; set 1659-1694 at many different locations including the island |
| The Giver, Lois Lowry | fantasy, science fiction, dystopian novel published in 1993 by American author (1937-); characters include Jonas, The Giver, Lilly, Gabriel; set in an unspecified time in the future in an utopian community |
| Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse | historical fiction published in 1997 by an American author ( 1952-); characters include Billy Jo Kelby Anne, Ma (Polly), and Pa ( Bayard) ; set in 1934-35 in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl years; deals with guilt, sorrow, and anger |
| The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger | bildungsroman novel by American author (1919-) published in 1951; characters include Holden Caulfield, Ackley, Stradlater; setting is a long weekend in late 1940, early 1950s in Pennsylvania and New York; deals with teenage rebellion and defiance |
| The Outsiders, SE Hinton | bildungsroman novel published in 1967 by American author (1950-); set in the mid 1960s in Tulsa, Oklahoma; characters include Ponyboy Curtis, Darrell Curtis, Sodapop Curtis, Steve Randle, Greasers and Socs; deals with social division and class struggles |
| Because of Winn Dixie, Kate DiCamillo | animal fiction published in 2000 by an American author (1964-); characters include dog (eponymous), Opal Buloni, Miss Franny Block; set in Naomi, Florida at an unspecified time; deals with emotional growth |
| Aurora Leigh, Elizabeth Barrett Browning | epic/novel prose poem written in 1st person blank verse, published during Victorian Era (1837-1901) by an English author (1806-1861); eponymous character is a heroine |
| Prometheus Unbound, Percy Bysshe Shelley | romantic 4 act play (closet drama), published in 1820 by an English poet (1792-1822) |
| Hoot, Carl Hiaason | adventure novel published in 2002 by an American author (1953-); set in Florida; characters include Roy Eberhardt, Mullet Fingers, Beatrice |
| Narrative of the Life and Times of Frederick Douglas | memoir and treatise on abolition encompassing 11 chapters published in 1845; describes events of African American author's life (1818-1895) ; deals with Civil Rights, but NOT written during Civil Rights Movement (1950-1980) |
| The Scarlett Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne | historical fiction during Romantic Movement (second half of the 18th century); published in 1850 by American novelist (1804-1864); characters include Hester Pryne, Pearl, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth; set in the mid 17th century in Puritan Boston; deals with adultery and symbolism |
| Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell | historical fiction published in 1960 by American author (1898-1989); characters include Karana, Ramo, Rontu, Tutok, set in 1835-1853 in Ghalas-at, an island off the coast of California |
| Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury | dystopian science fiction novel published in 1953 by an American writer (1920-); characters include Guy Montag, Mildred Montag, Captain Beatty, Granger; set sometime in the twenty-first century, in and around an unspecified city |
| The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath | semi-autobiographical bildungsroman published in 1963 by American author (1932-1963); characters include Esther Greenwood, Buddy Willard, Doctor Nolan; set 1953-54 in New York City and Boston; deals with suicide and mental instability |
| Beowulf, anonymous | heroic, epic poem displaying alliterative verse and elegy; characters include Beowulf, King Hrothgar, Grendel; set around 500 AD in Denmark and Geatland (a region in what is now southern Sweden) ; Anglo-Saxon literature, using "Old English" |
| Beloved, Toni Morrison | postmodern, contemporary historical fiction published in 1987 by African American author (1931-); characters include Sethe, Denver, Beloved; set in 1873 in Cincinnati, Ohio; includes ghosts and flashbacks |
| Night, Elie Wiesel | Holocaust memoir set during WWII (1941-45); follows author Eliezer (1928-) through loss of faith, abuse and other experiences, set in Transylvania (beginning) and concentration camps in Europe |
| The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald | Modernist novel during the Jazz Age published in 1925 by American author (1896-1940), considered to be part of the "Lost Generation"; characters include Nick Carraway, Joy Gatsby, Jordan Baker; set in summer of 1922 in Long Island and NY City |
| Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf | Modernist, formalist, feminist novel published in 1925 by English novelist (1882-1940); set one day of party preparation in mid-June 1923 in London, England; characters include Clarissa Dalloway, Peter, Septimus; deals with judgement |
| A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle | science fantasy novel published in 1962 by American writer (1918-2007); characters include Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Which, Mrs Who, Meg Murray, Charles Wallace, Caulin O'Keefe; set at an unspecified time and throughout the universe |
| Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech | quest, adventure novel published in 1994 by an American novelist ( 1945-); characters include Sal, Phoebe Winterbottom; set in 1980s or early 1990s in Kentucky and Ohio; deals with abandonment |
| Animal Farm, George Orwell | Animalism dystopian novella published in 1945 by English author (1903-1950); characters include Old Major, Snowball, Napoleon, Squealer; set in unspecified time on Manor Farm in England |
| Aenied, Virgil | Latin mythological, heroic epic poem written in dactylic hexameter by Roman poet (70 BCE-19 BCE); set in the late 1st century (29-19 BCE) during the aftermath of the Trojan War in The Mediterranean, including the north coast of Asia Minor, Carthage, and Italy; characters include Aenas, Dido, Turmis |
| Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky | psychological suspense novel published in 1866 by Russian author (1821-1881); characters include Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, Sofya Semyonovna Marmeladov, Porfiry Petrovich; set in 1860s in St. Petersburg and a prison in Siberia, deals with existentialism, alienation from society, the idea of superman |
| 1984, George Orwell | dystopian political novel published in 1949 by English author (1903-1950); characters include Winston Smith, Julia, O'Brien, Big Brother; set in 1984 in London, England; deals with individuality and totalitarian regime |
| The Color Purple, Alice Walker | epistolary, confessional novel published in 1982 by African American author (1944-); characters include Celie, Alphonso, Nettie, Mr.__, Harpo; set 1910-1940 in rural Georgia |
| The Real McCoy: The Life of an African American Inventor, Wendy Towle | Biography of Elijah J McCoy (1843-1929), an engineer and investor, who was known for over 57 US patents, mainly in automatic lubrication; published in 1995 by American author; displays heroic status in African American community |
| Macbeth, William Shakespeare | tragic play published in 1623 by English poet and playwright (1564-1616) of the Elizabethan Era (1558-1603); characters include 3 witches, Duncan, Macbeth, Banquo; set during The Middle Ages, specifically the eleventh century in various locations in Scotland; also England, briefly |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neele Hurston | Bildungsroman, American Southern spiritual journey novel published in 1937 by American author (1891-1960); characters include Janie Crawford, Tea Cooke, Phoeby Watson, Jody; set in rural Florida in the 1920s and 30s (Harlem Renaissance); deals with younger love and search to find peace |
| Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman | part of poetry collection, published 1855 by American Realist and Transcendentalist poet (1819-1892) known as the "father of free verse" during Civil War period (1861-1865); author wrote about sexuality (especially homosexuality) |
| Charlotte's Web, EB White | children's novel published in 1952 by American author (1899-1985); characters include Wilbur, Charlotte, Fern; set at unspecified time in a barn on farm |
| Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton | tragic romance novel published in 1911 by an American author (1862-1937); characters include Ethan Frome, Mattie Silver, Zeena; set in the late nineteenth-early twentieth century in Starkfield, Massachusetts; deals with sexual tension and suicide |
| Lord of the Flies, William Golding | allegorical adventure novel published in 1954 by British novelist (1911-1993); characters include Ralph, Piggy, Island Beast, Jack, Simon, Roger; set in the near future on a deserted tropical island; deals with loss-of-innocence |
| A Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story, Mary Downing Hahn | horror mystery novel published in 1994 by American author; characters include Drew Tyler, Aunt Blythe |
| Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson | essay written by Transcendentalist American author (1803-1882); essay NOT anti-society, however focuses on the avoidance of conformity and the importance of individualism |
| Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe | tragic play written in blank verse, published 1604 during Elizabethan Era by English dramatist (1564-1593); characters include Mephastophilis, Wagner, Faustus; set during the 1580s in Europe; deals with magic, the supernatural, and tricks |
| The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer | frame tale, collection of narrative poems published sometime during the 14th century or Middle English period (1066-1470), by an English author/poet (1343-1400); characters include pilgrims, Knight, Miller, Squire, Reeve whom all share there stories; set during the 14th century |
| The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allen Poe | sci-fi, gothic, horror detective short story published in 1839 by American writer/poet (1809-1849) during the Romantic Movement ; characters include the narrator, Roderick Usher, Madeline; set deals with a gloomy and mysterious estate |
| The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrok, TS Eliot | dramatic monologue with refrains published in 1915 by American poet (1888-1965); isolation and compulsion |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou | Bildungsroman autobiography published in 1969 by African American author/poet (1928-); set during the 1930s-1950s in California, Arkansas, and Missouri; deals with abandonment, racism, insecurity/inferiority, and shame; other characters include Bailey, Momma, Vivian |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll | fantasy, fairy tale, allegorical, satiric literary nonsense novella published in 1865 by a British author (1832-1898); characters include Alice, White Rabbit, Mouse, Cheshire Cat, Dyna; set during the Victorian Era c. 1865 |
| On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, John Keats | sonnet published during Romantic Movement (second half of 18th century) by a British poet (1795-1821); focused on the astonishment at reading the works of ancient Greek poet Homer; "Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,..." |
| Watership Down, Robert Adams | allegorical heroic fantasy published in 1972 by English writer (1920-); characters include Fiver, Hazel, Threarah, Big Wig, Captain Holly; set May-June c.1972 between Berkshire and Hampshire, England; deals with search for a home |
| The Glory Field, Walter Dean Myers | collection of stories about the Lewis family published in 1994 by an African American author (1937-); set 1753-1994; focuses mainly on slavery and the struggle for freedom and dignity during the Civil Rights Movement (1920s-80s) |
| The Swiss Family Robinson, Johann David Wyss | family adventure novel published in 1812 by German author (1743-1818); characters include Mom, Dad, Fritz, Jack, Ernest, and Franz (Swiss family); set at an unspecified time on an island; deals with confinement, good values, husbandry, the uses of the natural world, and self-reliance |
| Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes | Bildungsroman historical war novel published in 1943 by American novelist (1891-1967); characters include Johnathan Tremain, Rab Silsbee, Priscilla Lapham, Ephraim Lapham; set in the summer of 1773 and ends during April of 1775 in Colonial Boston (during Boston Tea Party and American Revolution); deals with transition from arrogance to idealistic selflessness |
| The Lion, the Witch,and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis | fantasy novel published in 1950 by Irish author (1898-1963); characters include Aslan, The White Witch, Peter, Susan, Edmond, and Lucy Pevensie; set during WWII (1939-1945) on the English countryside and the magical land of Narnia |
| The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | Bildungsroman young adult novel published in 1938 by an American author (1896-1953); characters include Jody Baxter, Ora and Penny Baker; set during the 1870s in the animal-filled Florida backwoods; deals with companionship, strained relationships, hunger, death |
| Touching Spirit Bear, Ben Mikaelson | teen novel published in 2002 by author who grew up in the Andes Mountains, Bolivia, later moving to US in 7th grade (1952-); characters include Cole Matthews, Peter Driscal, Garvey; set on a remote island in Alaska for one year; deals with anger, rage, hate, blame, fear, learned forgiveness |
| Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George | children's novel published in 1972 by American author (1919-); characters include Miyax, Aunt Martha, Amaroq, Daniel; set in early 1970s in Northern Alaska (tundra); deals with acceptance, life as an Americanized Eskimo, running away from home |
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving | Gothic, folktale, historical short story published in 1820 by American author (1783-1859) during the Romanticism Movement and American Revolutionary War; characters include Ichabod Crane, Katherine Van Tassel, Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, Headless Horsemen; set circa 1790 in Dutch Settlement of Tarry Town, NY, in secluded glen |
| The Voice on the Radio, Caroline B Cooney | novel published in 1996 by American author (1947); characters include Janie, Reeve; deals with kidnapping, and acceptance issues |
| She Walks in Beauty, Lord Byron | poem which focuses on beauty of one particular woman; "She walks in beauty...like the night"; published in 1815 by British poet (1788-1824) during Romanticism Movement |
| In Reference to Her Children, Anne Bradstreet | poem written in forty-eight tetrameter couplets by English-American author (1612-1672) during Colonial American period; maintains the bird reference throughout poem; "I had eight birds hatch in one nest..." |
| The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier | controversial novel published in 1974 by American author (1925-2000); characters include Jerry Renault, Archie Costello, The Goober, The Vigils; setting is relatively modern at Trinity High School; deals with rebellion against bullies |
| The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros | Bildungsroman novella published in 1984 by Chicana author (1954-); characters include Esperanza Corderon, Lucy, Rachel, Sally; set in crowded Latino neighborhood in Chicago over a period of one year; deals with poverty, sexual growth and maturity, writing as an outlet |
| The History of the Nun, Aphra Behn | prose narrative (short story) published in 1688 by British author (1640-1689) who was the first woman to write professionally in English; speculated to be based on author's romantic relationship with Hortense Mancini; set in the 17th century; analyzed female sexual desire |
| Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte | Gothic novel published in 1847 by English novelist and poet (1818-1848); characters include Heathcliff, Catherine Earnshaw, Hindley, Nelly Dean; set 1770s-1802 at Thrushcross Grange; deals with love |
| The Pigman, Paul Zindel | Young adult novel published in 1968 by American author (1936-2003); characters include John and Lorraine (both narrators), Mr. Angelo Pignati; set on Staten Island New York, early to mid 1960s; deals with friendship, symbolism, death, maturation, trust |
| Shiloh, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | children's novel published in 1991 by American author (1933-); characters include Marty Preston, Judd Travers, Dad, David; set in Friendly, West Virginia; deals with companionship and loss |
| Hatchet, Gary Paulson | Bildungsroman, adventure, survival novel published in 1987 by American author (1939-); characters include Brian Robeson, Brian's mother and father, Terry; set in Hampton, NY, Canadian woods presumably in the 1980s; deals with death, self-reliance on island |
| The Story of My Life, Helen Keller | autobiography published in 1903; author (1880-1968) was women's suffragist, workers rights activist, socialist, who was the first deaf-blind individual to earn a Bachelors degree; well respected and honored by society; includes Anne Sullivan (teacher) |
| Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis | historical fiction novel published in 1999 by African American author (1953-); characters include Bud Caldwell, Herman Calloway, Todd Amoses; set in Flint, Michigan 1936 during the Great Depression; deals with racism, abuse in foster home, search for father |
| Any Human to Another, Countee Cullen | irregular rhyme, five stanza poem written during Harlem Renaissance by leading African American poet (1903-1946); "The ills I sorrow at, not me alone, like an arrow..."; was a cry for racial equality |
| Wild Nights! -- Wild Nights!, Emily Dickinson | 3 stanza poem published in 1891 and written by an eccentric, reclusive, and introverted American poet (1830-1886) ; some speculate the meaning of the poem - eroticism?, religion?; "Wild Night!-Wild Nights!, were I with thee, Wild Nights!-Wild Nights! should be our luxury..." |
| Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau | natural history essay published in 1849 by transcendentalist author (1817-1862) who was also an abolitionist and into simple living; the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands,and commands of a government or occupying power, w/o resorting to physical violence |
| Crispin: The Cross of Lead, Avi | historical fiction published in 2002 by American author (1937-); characters include Asta, Crispin, Duke of Lancaster, Father Quinel, John Aycliffe; set 14th century England; deals with being an outcast, hatred, learning difficiencies |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer | Bildungsroman, Picaresque novel published in 1884 by American author (1835-1910); characters include Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, Jim, Tom Sawyer, Widow Douglas and Miss Watson, The duke and the dauphin; set before the Civil War; roughly 1835-1845 on The Mississippi River town of St. Petersburg, Missouri; various locations along the river through Arkansas |
| Picaresque | episodic, colorful story often in the form of a quest or journey |
| The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost | 4 stanza, 5 line poem published in 1916 by an American poet (1874-1963) who believed in free will and fate as well as the appreciation of rural life; "...Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference"; irony, regret? |
| The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi | historical novel published in 1990 by American author (1937-); characters include Charlotte Doyle, Zachariah, Captain Jaggery, Samuel Hollybrass,Roderick Fisk, Seahawk (ship); set early summer in the year 1832 on voyage from Liverpool, England to Providence, Rhode Island; deals with upper-class lifestyle, rebellion, betrayal, racism |
| David Copperfield, Charles Dickens | Bildungsroman novel published in 1850 by English author (1812-1870), considered the most popular author of the Victorian Era; characters include Agnes Wickfield, James Steerforth, Clara Peggotty, Little Em'ly; set 1800s in England; deals with cruelty, the plight of the weak, wealth and class, and equality in marriage |
| The Awakening, Kate Chopin | Bildungsroman, modernistic novel published in 1899 by American author (1850-1904); characters include Edna Pontellier, Mademoiselle Reisz, Adèle Ratignolle, Robert Lebrun, Léonce Pontellier; set in 1899, at a time when the Industrial Revolution and the feminist movement were beginning to emerge yet were still overshadowed by the prevailing attitudes of the nineteenth century in New Orleans; deals with selfishness, feminist issues, the pursuit of happiness, and suicide |
| The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane | Realism psychological war novel published in 1895 by American novelist (1871-1900); characters include Henry Fleming, Jim Conklin, Wilson; set during the Civil War in 1863 presumably during the Battle of Chancellorsville; deals with courage, manhood, and self-preservation |
| We Are Seven, William Wordsworth | poem published in 1798 by English Romantic poet (1770-1850); focuses on the distinction between the dead and the living; "--A simple child, that lightly draws its breath, and feels its life in every limb, what should it know of death?"; poet had optimistic view of nature and dissatisfaction with rationality; believed that childhood was a "magical and magnificent time of innocence" |
| Moby Dick, Herman Melville | allegorical, tragic, epic, quest, adventure novel, sea story published in 1851 by American author (1819-1891); characters include Ishmael, Ahab, Starbuck, Queequeg; set 1830s or 1840s aboard the whaling ship the Pequod, in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans; deals with revenge, morals, death |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce | semi-autobiographical Kuntslerroman published in 1917 by Irish author (1882-1941); characters include Stephen Dedalus, Simon Dedalus, Emma Clery, Eileen Vance; set 1882-1903 primarily in Dublin and the surrounding area; deals with devotion of life to art of writing, development of individual consciousness, pitfalls of religious extremism |
| The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, Nancy Farmer | science fiction novel published in 1994 by American author (1941-); characters include Tendai, Rita, Kuda (children of General Matsika), the "Mellower", Eye, Ear, and Arm (detectives), She-Elephant; set in Zimbabwe the year 2194; deals with isolation, pseudo-hypnosis |
| My Antonia, Willa Cather | historical, frontier fiction recollection memoir published in 1918 by American author (1873-1947); characters include Jim Burden, Ántonia Shimerda, Lena Lingard, Otto Fuchs; set 1880s-1910s in and around Black Hawk, Nebraska; also Lincoln, Nebraska; deals with humankind's relationship to the past and its environment |
| Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli | novel published in 1990 by American author (1941-); characters include Jeffery Lionel Magee, Aunt Dot, Uncle Dan, Beale and McNab families, set in the Pennsylvania towns of Hollidaysbury, Two Mills, and Bridgeport at unspecified time, deals with race relations, reconciliation, fearlessness, running away, friendships |
| The Whipping Boy, Sid Fleischman | novel published in 1987 by American author (1920-); characters include Jemmy, Prince Horace, Hold-Your-Nose-Billy, Cutwater, Betsy, Captain Harry Nips; set during an era of powdered wigs and highwaymen from the royal castle to the countryside; deals with misbehavior, running away, taking the blame |
| Old Yeller, Fred Gipson | childrens novel published in 1956 by American author (1908-1973); characters include The Coates Family (mother, father, Travis, and Arliss); set in Texas Hill Country, 1860s; deals with protection of family, loyalty, death |
| Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes | controversial sci-fi short story published in 1959 by American author (1927-); characters include Charlie Gordon, Alice Kinnian, Dr Strauss, Professor Harold Nemur, Algernon; set in New York city in the mid 1960s; deals with mistreatment of the mentally disabled, the tension between intellect and emotion, and the persistence of the past in the present |
| Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls | novel published in 1961 by American author (1913-1984); characters include Billy Coleman, Old Dan, Little Ann, Rainie, Rubin; set in The Ozarks, Oklahoma during the Great Depression (1929-1940s); deals with loyalty, death, competition |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare | Fantasy romantic comedy about the adventures of 4 Athenian lovers written 1594-1596 and published 1600 by English poet and playwright (1564-1616); characters include Puck, Oberon, Titania, Helena, Hermia, Hippolyta; set in Athens and the forest outside its walls, Combines elements of Ancient Greece with elements of Renaissance England; deals with love's difficulty, magic, and dreams |
| The Crucible, Arthur Miller | tragic, allegorical, dramatic play published in 1953 by American playwright (1915-2005); characters include Abigail Williams, John Proctor, Rev John Hale, Elizabeth Proctor, Rev Parris, Giles Corey; set in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692; based on actual events before Salem Witch Trials in 1692; deals with intolerance, hysteria, reputation |
| Gulliver's Travels, Johnathan Swift | satire novel published in 1726 by Anglo-Irish author (1667-1745); characters include Gulliver, The Emperor, The Farmer, Glumdalclitch, Lord Munodi, Laputans; set early 18th century primarily in England and the imaginary countries of Lilliput, Blefuscu, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the land of the Houyhnhnms; deals with might versus right, the individual versus society, and the limits of human understanding |
| Hamlet, William Shakespeare | tragic revenge play published in 1603 by English playwright (1564-1616); characters include Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude, Polonius, Horatio, The Ghost, Ophelia; set the late medieval period in Denmark, deals with the impossibility of certainty, the complexity of action, the mystery of death |
| Candide, Voltaire | Satire, adventure novel published in 1759 by French Enlightenment author (1694-1778); characters include Candide, Pangloss, Martin, Cunégonde, Cacambo; set in various real and fictional locations in Europe and South America in 1750s; deals with the folly of optimism, the uselessness of philosophical speculation, the hypocrisy of religion, and the corrupting power of money |
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