Lit Cards I

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Joyce Kilmer wrote a poem about one of these objects, which was parodied by Ogden Nash

Trees

Orlando and Rosalind get married in this play

As You Like It

“All the world’s a stage”

As You Like It

Bill Smithers

The Red Badge of Courage

“The ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain” poet

Bradstreet

Shep Huntleigh is from - romance

A Streetcar Named Desire

The White Tiger was written by an author from this country

India

The Battle Hymn of the Republic is about this man

John Brown

Pepe El Romano dies in a play by this author

Garcia Lorca

“The Veldt” is by…

Bradbury

Who wrote Cyrano de Bergac

Edmund Rostand

2001: A Space Odyssey author

Arthur C. Clarke

“The Sentinel” author

Arthur C. Clarke

Khlestakov takes bribes until people realizes he’s not the title person

Gogol - The Inspector General

Chichikov is rumored to be Napoleon in disguise

Gogol - Dead Souls

Captain Kopeikin is compared to Chichikov

Gogol - Dead Souls

About the lunatic Poprishchin

Gogol - Diary of a Madman - believes himself to be the king of Spain

Title Cossack shoots his son after learning he’s a traitor

Gogol - Teras Bulba

Piskaryov accidentally follows a woman to a brothel

Nevsky Prospekt

Major Kovalyov

Gogol - The Nose, it’s his nose

Ivan Yakovlevich, a barber

Gogol - The Nose

“Thurn und Taxis”

Mailing monopoly in The Crying of Lot 49

Bleeding Edge - follows the detective Maxine Tarnow

Pynchon

Callisto attends a party held by Meatball Mulligan

Pynchon - story is “Entropy”

“Florida idea”

Death of a Salesman

Podznshev murders his wife after catching her with a violinist

The Kruetzer Sonata - Tolstoy

Protagonist runs off to France with the academic Bernard Chabalier

Burger’s Daughter

Protagonist has to deal with the legacy of her communist father Lionel

Burger’s Daughter

Julie moves to the illegal immigrant Abdu’s country - The Pickup

Gordimer

Jacobus finds a dead body on Mehring’s farm

Gordimer - The Conversationalist

Daniel steals a gun in this novel

July’s People

The House on Eccles Street - Retelling of Ulysses from Molly Bloom’s perspective

Coetzee

“Complacencies of the peignoir ("PAY-nwar"), and late / Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair"

Sunday Morning - Wallace Stevens

“Gray and bare” jar in Tennessee

Anectode of the Jar - Stevens

Big argument about the death of Charles Parnell started by Dante Riordan

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Retelling of a story of a “moocow” and “baby tuckoo”

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Father Arnall gives fiery sermons on Hell

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Clongowes School

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man“

“The Sisters” - youth lament the death of Father Flynn

Joyce

“Nausicaa” chapter

Ulysses

“An Encounter”

Dubliners - Joyce

“The great” Malhke

Cat and Mouse

Crabwalk is by…

Gunter Grass

Paul Pokriefke is born on the day of a shipwreck

Crabwalk - Gunter Grass

"how can I face such slaughter and be cool”?

A Far Cry From Africa - Walcott

“Harrison Bergeron”

Vonnegut

Comedy centered on Beatrice and Benedick

Much Ado About Nothing

Alden Pyle

The Quiet American - Greene

Thomas Fowler

The Quite American - Greene

Brighton Rock - Pinkie Brown the gangster is the protagonist

Graham Green

Dr. Hasselbacher is murdered

Our Man in Havana

Coral Fellows

The Power and the Glory

Mr. Trench the dentist

The Power and the Glory

Pudd’nhead Wilson is by…

Mark Twain

Tom Driscoll and Chambers were switched at birth, uses fingerprints to prove

Pudd’nhead Wilson - Twain

A “modern sequel” to the Oddyessey

Nikos Kazantzakis

Title character Madame Hortense before working in a Cretian lime mine

Zorba the Greek - Kazantzakis

The Last Temptation of Jesus Christ

Kazantzakis

Paul Pennyfeather is expelled from university in this author’s novel Decline and Fall

Waugh

Coppelius

“The Sandman” - Hoffman

Nathaniel yells “pretty eyes!” before throwing himself to his death

“The Sandman” - Hoffman

“The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” is by…

Hoffman

Gabriel Oak marries Bathsheba Everdene

Far From the Madding Crowd

“Birthday Letters” is by…

Ted Hughes

“Candle that burns at both ends” that “will not last the night.”

A“First Fig” - Few Figs From Thistles collection - Millay

“Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare”

Millay

“All I could see from where I stood / was three long mountains and a wood” - “Renascence”

Millay

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep author

Dick

“Send forth the best ye breed” in order to “take up” the title concept

“The White Man’s Burden”

The Island of the Day Before is by…

Eco

The Prague Cemetery is by…

Eco

“No ideas but in things”

Paterson - Williams

“By the road to the contagious hospital” is the opening line

“Spring and All”

“Asphodel, That Greeny Flower”

William Carlos Williams

“Who shall say I am not / the happy genius of my household?”

“Danse Russe” - Williams

Book about Howard Roark, an individualistic young architect who designs modernist buildings

The Fountainhead

Names her child “Sorrow”

Tess

Elizabeth Bishop and Hemingway both at times lived on this island

Key West

Holly Golightly is the protagonist of this novella

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

A character fakes their own death to Monte Carlo in this author’s novel The Late Mattia Pascal

Pirandello

Antionette Cosway narrates this novel

Wide Sargasso Sea

Where is Wide Sargasso Sea set?

Jamaica

Wide Saragsso Sea is by…

Jean Rhys

Norwegian author of Hunger

Knut Hamsun

Franz Moor abandons his brother Karl

The Robbers

German art movement Goethe and Schiller were a part of

Sturm und Drang

“I think I made you up inside my head”

Plath

Ends in the marriage of George and Arabella Wilmont

The Vicar of Wakefield

Primrose family

Goldsmith

Charles Marlowe and Kate Hardcastle

She Stoops to Conquer

Constance and Hastings get married because Tony Lumpkin is told that he’s 21

She Stoops to Conquer

The Black Book is by…

Pamuk

The suicides of “headscarf girls” are investigated by the poet Ka

Snow

Zaim is shot during a performance of The Spanish Tragedy

Snow

Director of the Institute of Education is shot

Snow

Protagonist sends love letters to Shekure

My Name is Red

Atalanta in Calydon is by…

Swinburne

Nicholas Schliemann explains socialism in this novel

The Jungle

Antanas drowns in a muddy street

The Jungle

“Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”

Borges