The House of Mirth
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Wharton, Edith -1905, New York socialite Lily Bart. The title is taken from
Ecc. 7:4 "...the heart of fools is in the house of mirth." One of E. Wharton's
most tragic novels. The heroine is so bound-up in her rigid principles that
she refuses to grab hold of the virtual life-rafts thrown to her. She doesn't
marry Lawrence Selden because he's not rich enough, she refuses to help
Bertha Droset's husband get a divorce, she snubs Mr. Gryce, her Aunt Julia
disinherits her because of her (Lily's) gambling debts. She sinks lower and
lower, seeking increasingly menial and disreputable work.
H.G. Wells
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, American author. British Victorian period. The War of the
Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The Island
of Doctor Moreau.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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follows widower and father Atticus Finch, a small-town southern lawyer,
and his daughter Scout as they navigate racially-charged events in a small
southern town.
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot.
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Maggie Tulliver has to choose betweeen her each of her suitors and her
duty to her family. Adores brother Tom Tulliver. Mr. Tulliver (victim of
character and circumstances), Philip Wakem (Maggie's sensible lover-
encourages her to give up her unnatural self-denial)
A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens
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, On the surface it's about the French Revolution; it is really a warning to
nineteenth century Britain that the same thing will happen there if they
don't take care of the poor.
Leaves of Grass (1855)
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a collection of poems written by Whitman; highly romantic, emotional, and
unconventional; handled sex with frankness; was banned in Boston; was a
financial failure at first and had only three reviews secretly by Whitman
himself; later revived and honored in America and Europe
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathon Swift
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- Satire on human nature that follows Lemuel Gulliver to many mystical
lands; watches Gulliver transition from an optimist into a misanthrope; has
three themes: satirizing European government and religious differences,
man's corruption, and the "ancients vs. moderns" controversy.
- Influenced some Enlightenment philosophers.
Doctor Zhivago
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, novel by Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957 in Italy. The novel is named
after its protagonist, a physician and poet, and takes place between the
Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Civil War.
A Doll's House (Ibsen)
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Torvald Helmer, Nils Krogstad, Christine Lind, Doctor Rank, Nora
nora forges her deceased fathers signature to get money for her ill
husband without her knowledge. the man she is borrowing money from
works for her husband and her husband wants to fire him but then he
blackmails her and her husband finds out and shames her. all ends well and
her husband is happy again but she now sees him as a coward and leaves
him.
John Keats
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was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main
figures of the second generation of Romantic poets along
with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work
having been in publication for only four years before his
death.[1] (Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode on a Nightingale)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Wharton, Edith -1905, New York socialite Lily Bart. The title is taken from
Ecc. 7:4 "...the heart of fools is in the house of mirth." One of E. Wharton's
most tragic novels. The heroine is so bound-up in her rigid principles that
she refuses to grab hold of the virtual life-rafts thrown to her. She doesn't
marry Lawrence Selden because he's not rich enough, she refuses to help
Bertha Droset's husband get a divorce, she snubs Mr. Gryce, her Aunt Julia
disinherits her because of her (Lily's) gambling debts. She sinks lower and
lower, seeking increasingly menial and disreputable work.
H.G. Wells
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, American author. British Victorian period. The War of the
Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The Island
of Doctor Moreau.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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follows widower and father Atticus Finch, a small-town southern lawyer,
and his daughter Scout as they navigate racially-charged events in a small
southern town.
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot.
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Maggie Tulliver has to choose betweeen her each of her suitors and her
duty to her family. Adores brother Tom Tulliver. Mr. Tulliver (victim of
character and circumstances), Philip Wakem (Maggie's sensible lover-
encourages her to give up her unnatural self-denial)
A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens
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, On the surface it's about the French Revolution; it is really a warning to
nineteenth century Britain that the same thing will happen there if they
don't take care of the poor.
Leaves of Grass (1855)
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a collection of poems written by Whitman; highly romantic, emotional, and
unconventional; handled sex with frankness; was banned in Boston; was a
financial failure at first and had only three reviews secretly by Whitman
himself; later revived and honored in America and Europe
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathon Swift
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- Satire on human nature that follows Lemuel Gulliver to many mystical
lands; watches Gulliver transition from an optimist into a misanthrope; has
three themes: satirizing European government and religious differences,
man's corruption, and the "ancients vs. moderns" controversy.
- Influenced some Enlightenment philosophers.
Doctor Zhivago
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, novel by Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957 in Italy. The novel is named
after its protagonist, a physician and poet, and takes place between the
Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Civil War.
A Doll's House (Ibsen)
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Torvald Helmer, Nils Krogstad, Christine Lind, Doctor Rank, Nora
nora forges her deceased fathers signature to get money for her ill
husband without her knowledge. the man she is borrowing money from
works for her husband and her husband wants to fire him but then he
blackmails her and her husband finds out and shames her. all ends well and
her husband is happy again but she now sees him as a coward and leaves
him.
John Keats
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was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main
figures of the second generation of Romantic poets along
with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work
having been in publication for only four years before his
death.[1] (Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode on a Nightingale)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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