Cult lit

Concise

Expressing much in a few words

Lament

To regret; to show grief for

Animosity

Bitter hostility

Benign

Kind, beneficial

Ambiguous

Unclear; open to more than one interpretation

Reproach

To criticize sharply; censure

Imperious

Domineering; arrogantly authoritative

Resilience

Ability to recover quickly

Nostalgia

A bittersweet longing for the past

Indulge

To please or satisfy

Irately

Angrily

Constrain

To hold back; to restrict

Genially

Pleasantly

Conscientious

Through and careful

Facetiously

Jokingly

Whim

A passing fancy

Precarious

Dangerously unstable or insecure

Denunciation

Condemnation

Instigate

To urge on

Discreet

Careful in conduct and speech

Heresy

Unthinkable violation

Magnanimous

Noble and generous in spirit

Affable

Friendly; approachable

Advocate

To speak in favor of; promote

Empirical

Based on observation or experiment

Enhance

To make greater or better

Aribitrary

Determined by impulse or chance; without reason

Assess

To make a judgement about

Ardor

Energy, intensity, enthusiasm

Discrepancy

An unexpected difference

(e) George Orwell

Animal Farm

(a) Sinclair Lewis

Babbitt

(e) Samuel Richardson

Clarissa Harlowe

(a) Henry James

Daisy Miller

(e) Charles Dickens

David Copperfield

(a) Arthur Miller

Death of a Salesman

(a) Edith Wharton

Ethan Frome

(e) John Galsworthy

The Forsyte Saga

(a) John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath

(e) Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

(a) William Faulkner

Intruder in the Dust

(e) Sir Walter Scott

Ivanhoe

(e) Henry Fielding

Joseph Andrews

(a) Eugene O'Neill

Long Day's Journey into Night

(e) Joseph Conrad

Lord Jim

(e) William Golding

Lord of the Flies

(a) Thornton Wilder

Our Town

(e) Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

(e) Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe

(a) Booth Tarkington

Seventeen

(a) Theodore Dreiser

Sister Carrie

(a) Tennessee Williams

A Streetcar Named Desire

(e) Thomas Hardy

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

(a) William Faulkner

The Unvanquished

(e) William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair

Honore Daumier/ French/ 19th

The Third Class Carriage

George Caleb Bingham/ American/ 19th

Shooting for the Beef

William Morris/ English/ 19th

The Woodpecker Tapestry

Pablo Picasso/ Spanish/ 20th

The Old Guitarist

N.C. Wyeth/ American/ 20th

They Fought with Him on Foot More Than Three Hours, Both Before Him and Behind

Diego Rivera/ Mexican/ 20th

Campesino con Sombrero

Joseph Stella/ American/ 20th

The Brooklyn Bridge: Variation on an Old Theme

Alfred Stieglitz/ American/ 20th

Georgia O'Keeffe

Norman Rockwell/ American/ 20th

Homecoming Marine

Andrew Wyeth/ American/ 20th

Christina's World