LIT Authors

Little Father Time kills himself and his half-siblings, leaving the note "Done because we are too menny," in this author's Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy

This author's poem "The Convergence of the Twain" describes the Titanic, the "Immanent Will," and "a Shape of Ice"

Thomas Hardy

Michael Henchard auctions off his wife Susan and daughter for five guineas in this author's The Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy

Egdon Heath, Eustacia Vye, Clym Yeobright, Wildeve, and the reddleman Diggory Venn appear in this author's The Return of the Native

Thomas Hardy

Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, Sergeant Troy, and Boldwood appear in this author's Far from the Madding Crowd

Thomas Hardy

A machine made of the Bed, the Designer, and the Harrow inscribes "BE JUST" on the Officer's back in this author's "In the Penal Colony"

Franz Kafka

Georg Bendemann jumps off a bridge after his father sentences him to "death by drowning" in this author's "The Judgment"

Franz Kafka

Karl Rossmann befriends a stoker and later works at the Hotel Occidental in this author's unfinished novel Amerika

Franz Kafka

A performer is buried with the straw from his cage and replaced by a panther in this author's "A Hunger Artist"

Franz Kafka

A gatekeeper tells a man he may enter "but not now" in this author's parable "Before the Law"

Franz Kafka