Patrick White (1900s) -
Happy Valley (scathing analysis of Australian town),
The Tree of Man (dairy farming family),
Voss (man disappears into Australian interior),
The Eye of the Storm (heirs disrupt woman's death),
The Cockatoos,
A Frincge of Leaves,
The Twyborn Affair,
Flaws in the Glass,
Memoirs of Many in One
Maurice Maeterlinck (1800s-1900s) - Pelleas et Melisandre (King Arkel's grandson Golaud
marries Melisandre but she loves his brother Pelleas; Golaud kills Pelleas)
Elias Canetti (1900s) - The Tongue Set Free, The Torch in the Ear, The Tower of Babel
(sinologist Prof. Kien marries housekeeper and discovers horrors in world), Crowds and Power
Margaret Atwood - The Circle Game, The Edible
Woman, Surfacing, Lady Oracle, Life Before
Man, Dancing Girls
Earle Birney - David and Other Poems, Now Is
Time, Turvey, Down the Long Table
Chou Dynasty 1027 BC - 256 BC
Compilation - Book of Odes (see Han Dynasty)
Ch'u Yuan - Elegies of Ch'u (songs about misfortunes at the court of Ch'u state)
Confucius (Kung Fu-tse; philosopher c. 500 BC; taught humanity, reverence for ancient sages, and
government by virtue)
Mencius (second most important Confucian philosopher, c. 300 BC)
Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching (81 paragraphs; advocates following the Way, or Tao; established Taoism)
Chuang Chou - Chuang Tzu (Taoist text; includes Butterfly Dream of Chuang Tzu)
Ch'in Dynasty 221 BC - 206 BC
Han Dynasty 206 BC - 220 AD
Ssu-ma Ch'ien - Shih chi (history)
Five Classics (Confucian canon established in Han dynasty)
Book of Odes (Shih ching; 305 songs)
Book of Changes (I ching; Changes of Chou; 64 hexagrams used for fortune-telling;
edited by Confucius)
Book of Rites (Li chi; texts about ritual and behavior)
Book of Documents (Shu ching; history dating to first half of Chou dynasty)
Spring and Autumn Annals (Ch'un ch'iu; chronicle of Lu feudal state 722-481 BC; dry)
Six Dynasties 222-589
T'ang Dynasty 618-907
Wang Wei (Buddhist poet)
Li Po (Turkic origin; poet; exiled for role in An Lu-shan Rebellion; may have died embracing
moon's reflection; exuberant and unconventional)
Tu Fu (Confucian scholar; wrote about An Lu-shan Rebellion)
Po Chu-i - The Lute Song, The Song of Everlasting Regret
Sung Dynasty 960-1279
Four Books (Chu Hsi established these as texts of education and basis for civil service exams)
Analects (collection of anecdotes and sayings of Confucius; translated by Arthur Waley)
Great Learning (originally a chapter from Book of Rites; emphasizes self-cultivation)
Mean (originally a chapter from Book of Rites; discusses moral concepts)
Mencius (The Book of Master Meng; teachings of Mencius [c. 300 BC])
Yuan Dynasty 1279-1368
Lo Kuan-chung - Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Outlaws of the Marsh (The Water Margin)
Wu Ch'eng-en - Journey to the West (Buddhist priest Hsuan-tsang, with 3 magic helpers including
a comic monkey, goes to India searching for holy scriptures)
Unknown - The Golden Lotus (story of Hsi-men Ch'ing and his six wives)
Ts'ao Hsueh-ch'in - The Dream of the Red Chamber (The Story of the Stone; autobiographical;
describes decline of Chia family)
Ming Dynasty 1368-1644
Ch'ing Dynasty 1644-1912
Communist 1912-
Hu Shih (started 1920s literary revolution; studied at Columbia) - China's Place in the Present
World Struggle, Collected Essays
Lu Hsun (doctor) - Selected Stories of Lu Hsun, A Brief History of Chinese Fiction
Pa Chin - The Family
Lao She - Rickshaw Boy
Gao Xingjian - Soul Mountain, One Man's Bible, Fugitives
Franz Kafka (1900s) -
The Trial (bank assessor Joseph K is executed for an unknown crime by mysterious legal
authority),
The Castle (K is unable to enter a castle where he has been summoned to work as a land
surveyor; made school janitor instead),
Amerika (Karl Rossman, a social misfit),
Metamorphesis (Gregor Samsa awakens as a huge insect)
Karel Capek (1900s) - RUR = Rossum's Universal Robots (introduced word robots)
Jaroslav Seifert (1900s) - The Nightingale Sings Badly, Put Out the Lights (about Nazi threat in
Prague)
Jaroslav Hasek (1900s) - The Good Soldier (Schweik goes to military prison, goes to insane
asylum, interferes in superior's love life, is accused of spying, and goes to Russian front)
Vaclav Havel (1900s) - The Garden Party
Emperor's New Clothes, Little Mermaid
Isak Denison (Karen Blixen, 1800s - 1900s) - Out of Africa, Seven Gothic Tales
Karl Gjellerup (1800s-1900s) - Richard Wagner in His Chief Work, The Pilgrim Kamanoto
Henrik Pontoppidan (1800s-1900s) - Emanuel or Children of the Soul, The Promised Land, Does Rige
Johannes Jensen (1900s) - The Long Journey (evolution of man), The Fall of the King
Louis Couperus (1900s) - The Book of the Small Souls (Van Lowes spend Sundays at Granny's)
Naguib Mahfouz (1900s) - The Cairo Trilogy, The Children of Gebelawi
Elias Lonnrott (1800s) - Kalevala (national epic; origin of world; adventures of Kaleva's sons
Wainamoinen, Ilmarinen, and Lemminkainen)
Frans
Eemil Sillanpaa (1900s) - Meek Heritage, Fallen
Asleep While Young
Chanson de Roland (Charlemagne follows
Ganelon's advice to negotiate with Saracen leader
Marsile about Saragossa; 400000 Saracens ambush
20000 rear guard under Charlemagne's
nephew Roland [Hruotland
of Brittany] at pass of Roncesvalles; despite Olivier's pleas
Roland does not sound ivory horn to summon
rest of army until only 60 remain; blessed by
Archbishop Turpin; Roland's fiancee Aude dies; Ganelon quartered; written 1100, part of
the
Cycle de France)
Romance of the Rose (Lover tries to pick a
rosebud)
Renaissance 1500s
Francois Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel
(giant Gargantua's son Pantagruel accompanies
Panurge on quest to decide if he should
marry; eventually reach Oracle of the Holy Bottle at
Cathay, where the oracle answers
"Drink!", meaning all must solve own problems)
Michael de Montaigne - (humanist,
"invented" essays) Essais, Apology for
Raymond Sebond
(Spaniard's attempt to prove God exists)
Classical Period 1600s
Pierre Corneille - Le Cid
Jean Baptiste Racine -
Berenice (Emperor Titus doesn't
marry Berenice of Palestine because the people object),
Phedre (Theseus's wife Phaedra loves stepson
Hippolyte who repulses her but nurse
Oenone says Hippolyte made advances and
Theseus calls Neptune to destroy his son;
Hippolyte loves Aricie),
Esther (Esther adopted by Mordecai and
replaced Vashti as Ahasuerus's wife; she saved
Israelites from Haman's plot, who was hanged
on gallows he built for Mordecai),
Mithridate (Mithridate loves Greek Monime but his son Pharnaces
tries to marry her, but
she loves his other son Xiphares;
Pharnaces refuses to marry princess of Parthia;
Xiphares defeats Romans under Pharnaces),
Bajazet (1638 Constantinople: sultana Roxane allows Bajazet to be executed when she
learns he loves Atalide;
Roxane is executed and Atalide commits suicide),
Britannicus (Nero poisons Britannicus, his half brother,
because he loves Junia),
Les Plaideurs
(magistrate Dandin locked up by son but hears cases
from attic windows;
condemns his dog for eating a chicken),
Iphigenie in Aulide
(Agamemnon plans to sacrifice daughter Iphigenia to get good winds
in harbor but slave-girl Eriphile
sacrificed instead)
Moliere -
Les precieuses
ridicules,
Tartuffe (religious hypocrite Tartuffe gets
Orgon to deed him his home and give him his
daughter, but Orgon's wife tricks him into
seducing her while Orgon is watching, and
he kicks him out, although Tartuffe owns
house and king must intervene),
Le misanthrope (Alceste
vows to be honest; loves vain Celimene; loses court
case and
abandons society),
The Bourgois
Gentleman (France under Louis XIV: Monsieur Jourdain tries to make
himself a gentleman, being fleeced by
nobleman Dorannte, and forbids daughter's
marriage to Cleonte),
The Miser,
Les Femmes savantes
(Philaminte wants daughter Henriette to marry Trissotin but she
loves Clitandre; Armande likes science; Belise
thinks all love her),
Le Malade imaginaire (hypochondriac Argan victimized by doctors Purgon and Difoirus;
wants daughter to marry Diafoirus's
son)
Blaise Pascal - Pensees
Age of Enlightenment
1700s
Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet)
-
English or Philosophical Letters (attack
church),
Candide (Candide's tutor Pangloss says
"All is for the best in this best of all possible
worlds"; Candide loves Cunegonde; the
three have many disastrous adventures,
including 1755 Lisbon earthquake, Inquisition,
and pirates),
Brutus,
Zaire,
La Henriade
(assassination of Henry III and struggle of Henry of Navarre to obtain throne)
Jean Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract,
Confessions, Emile, Julie or the New Eloise
Charles de Montesquieu - The Spirit of the
Laws (favors constitutional monarchy)
Marquis de Sade - Justine The Misfortunes of
Virtue (Justine vexes men and suffers; her sister is
happy prostitute)
Romantic Movement early
1800s
Victor Hugo -
Hernani,
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Paris: gypsy
dancer Esmeralda loves Captain Phoebus;
evil archdeacon Claude Frollo
denounces Esmeralda as a witch; deformed bell ringer
Quasimodo saves Esmeralda but she is later executed and he kills Claude),
Les Miserable (Jean Valjean sentenced to 5
years for stealing bread and 19 for escaping;
released and becomes M. Madeleine but sent
back to prison by Javert; befriends
Fantine and rescues her daughter Cosette)
Alexandr Dumas the Elder -
The Three Musketeers (1625-1665 France: D'Artagnan, a Gascon, arrives in Paris on
pony and wants to be a guardsman for Louis
XIII; he duels Athos, Porthos, and Aramis,
and is welcomed into fellowship of Three Muskateers; many exploits; battle Cardinal
Richelieu; sequels Twenty Years After and The
Viscount of Bragelonne),
The Count of Monte Cristo (Restoration
France: Edmond Dantes falsely accused and
imprisoned; flees to Monte Cristo),
The Black Tulip (1600s Holland political
rivalry)
Alexandr Dumas the Younger - Camilla (Paris:
Marguerite Gautier, Armand Duval)
Realist Period mid
1800s
Honore de Balzac - The Human Comedy (includes The
Wild Ass's Skin [Raphael gets skin that
grants wishes but
makes the owner grow smaller], Cousin Bette [Lisbeth Fischer destroys her
niece's romance], The Country Doctor [kind
Dr. Benassis], Le Pere Goriot
[Pere Goriot sacrifices
for ungrateful daughters Nucigen
and Restaud])
Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary (Emma Bovary
is unsatisfied with stupid doctor husband; she
has affairs, incurs debts, and commits
suicide), Salammbo (history of Carthage), A Simple
Heart
(portrays life of widow Mme
Aubain's servant Felicite)
Naturalist Period
late 1800s
Emile Zola -
The Dram Shop,
Earth,
Les Rougon-Macquart
(20 novels about Rougon-Macquart family in Second Empire;
includes Nana [Gervaise's
daughter Nana becomes prostitute], Germinal [coal workers
Etienne Lantier and
the Meheu family strike in 1884], L'Assommoir,
and La Terre)
J'accuse (open letter to French President in Aurore
denouncing Dreyfus affair, who was
pardoned by the Cour
de Cassation when Major Esterhazy was found guilty)
Edmund Rostand - Cyrano de Bergerac (soldier
Cyrano fears his long nose will deter Roxane; he
confesses his love for her before dying)
Jules Verne -
Around the World in 80 Days (Phileas Fogg and
Passepartout win bet),
20000 Leagues Under the Sea (Nautilus
submarine, under Captain Nemo, picks up
shipwrecked Professor Aronnax,
his servant Conseil, and harpoonist Ned Land),
Journey to the Center of the Earth,
Five Weeks in a Balloon
Stendhal - The Red and the Black (Julien
Sorel), The Charterhouse of Parma (Fabrizio del Dongo)
Guy de Maupassant - The Necklace, The
Umbrella, En Famille, Le
Rendezvous, Une Vie, Bel-Ami,
Pierre et Jean
Twentieth Century
Sully Prudhomme - The Destinies, The Empty
Endearments, Happiness
Anatole France (Jacques Anatole Francois
Thibault) - The Crime of Sylvester Bonnard, The
Mother-of-Pearl Box, Penguin Island (Breton
monk Saint Mael baptizes penguins and
tows island back to shore), Thais
(Alexandrian monk Paphnutius converts and loves
Thais)
Albert Camus (French-Algerian) -
The Fall (former Paris lawyer Jean-Baptiste Clamence owns bar in Amsterdam; judge-penitent
regrets not saving girl on bridge; speaks to
Van Eyck's Adoration of the Lamb),
The Plague (Algerian port Oran overcome by
plague; Doctor Bernard Rieux does his best),
The Stranger (Meursault has affair with
Marie, kills an Arab, and is executed),
The Myth of Sisyphus (essay on theory of the
absurd),
Caligula,
The Rebel (essay on theory of the absurd)
Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex
Romain Rolland - Jean Christophe (novel
series about German musician Jean Christophe Kraft
who travels and criticizes
civilization)
Henri Bergson - Creative Evolution, The
Creative Mind, Time and Free Will, Matter and Memory, Laughter
Roger Martin du Gard - Les Thibaults (dutiful Antoine and rebellious brother Jacques
Thibault
die in WWI), The Postman
Andre Gide -
The Fruits of the Earth (poems),
The Immoralist (Michel marries Marceline and
gets TB in North Africa; he likes young
Arab boys; friend Menalque tells him to follow passions; Marceline gets TB
and dies),
Strait Is the Gate (Jerome woos cousin Alissa but she wants to sacrifice her happiness to
God),
Lafcadio's Adventures (The Vatican Cellars; swindler
extorts money by claiming pope
was kidnapped; Lafcadio
kills one of three brothers-in-law),
The Counterfeiters (boys Bernard Profitendieu and Oliveier Molinier try to befriend
novelist Edouard),
The Pastoral Symphony (Swiss pastor adopts
and loves blind orphan Gertrude who might
love Jacques; her
sight is restored and she commits suicide)
Francois Mauriac - Therese Desqueyroux (Therese Desqueyroux
poisons husband but is
acquitted), Genitrix, A Woman of the
Pharisees, The Desert of Love, Vipers' Tangle, The Kiss to
the Leper, Life of Jesus, The Son of Man, Asmodee
St.-John Perse -
Seamarks, Exile, Rains, Winds
Claude Simon - The Wind, The Grass, The
Flanders (3 soldiers recall fall of France), The Palace
(Loyalist Frenchman in Spanish Civil War), Historie
Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past
(contrasting Meseglise Way and Guermantes
Way
in Faubourg St. Germain;
Swann's daughter marries a Guermantes; Swann's Way,
Within a
Budding Grove, The Guermantes
Way, Cities of the Plain, The Captive, The Sweet Cheat Gone,
The Past Recaptured), Jean Santeuil
Jean-Paul Sartre -
Being and Nothingness ("an essay on
phenomenological ontology"; existentialism),
No Exit (3 dead people locked in room),
Les Temps Modernes,
Dirty Hands (Proletarian Party sends Hugo to
kill Hoederer, whom he sees kissing his
wife Jessica; Hugo
kills him but then feels there was no reason),
The Respectful Prostitute (senator's son Fred
gets Lizzie to testify against innocent black
as scapegoat for cousin
Thomas),
Nausea (historian Roquentin
and wife Anny feel there is no reason for existing),
The Flies (based on Orestes),
The Wall (short stories, including The Wall
[Spanish Civil War prisoner lies about
location of his leader, but leader moves and he is correct]),
The Roads to Freedom (3 novels: The Age of
Reason [Mathieu], The Reprieve [Sept.
1938 Munich Pact], Troubled Sleep [1940 fall
of France])
Old High German
Period 800-1100
Lay of Hildebrand epic (Hildebrand, follower
of Theodoric the Great, tries to stop combat with
son Hadubrand)
Middle High German
Period 1100-1370
King Rother epic
The Nibelungenlied (Hagen tells Burgundian
kings about Siegfried, who helps Gunther court
Iceland Queen Brunhild in exchange for
marrying his sister Kriemhild)
Wolfram von Eschenbach - Parzival
(guileless fool Parzival leaves wife Kondwiramur visits
castle of Holy Grail ,
asks questions which cure Amfortas and becomes king
of the Grail)
Thomas a Kempis - Imitation of Christ
Gudrun (Hetel
courts Irish King Hagen's daughter Hilde)
Reformation 1500-1700
Sebastian Brant - Ship of Fools
Eighteenth Century
Johann Gottfried von Herder - philosopher of
Sturm und Drang movement
Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger - Sturm und Drang play
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Gotz von Berlichingen (1500s peasant revolt),
The Sorrows of Young Werther (artistic,
talented Werther loves Lotte who marries
steadier man; Werther shoots himself),
Faust,
Iphigenia in Tauris (Orestes goes to Tauris
to rescue statue of Artemis, which Apollo said
would cure Orestes' madness; high priestess
Iphigenia recognizes brother and they
escape),
Reineke Fuchs (Reynard the Fox outwits Isengrim the wolf, King Noble the lion, Sir
Bruin the bear, Tibert
the cat, Chanticleer the cock),
Torquato Tasso (based on 1500s Italian poet)
Friedrich von Schiller -
William Tell (William Tell is forced to shoot
apple off son's head by Gebler because he
had not saluted Austrian hat on a pole),
Kabale und Liebe (love of musician's daughter Luise Miller and aristocrat Ferdinand von
Walther opposed by his dad),
Mary Stuart,
On Naive and Sentimental Poetry,
The Robbers (brother cheats Karl Moor out of
inheritance, and he forms band of robbers
but eventually turns himself in)
Immanuel Kant - (idealist classical
philosopher) Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical
Reason, Critique of Judgment
Early Nineteenth Century
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm - Grimm's Fairy Tales
(Rapunzel,
Hansel and Gretel, and
Rumpelstiltskin)
Nationalism 1871-1945
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Beyond Good and
Evil, The Will to Power, Thus Spoke
Zarathustra
Twentieth Century
Rainer Maria Rilke - Dinggedichte,
The Duino Elegies, The Sonnets to Orpheus
Theodor Mommsen - Romische
Geschichte (history of Rome)
Gerhart Hauptmann -
The Weavers (based on 1844 Silesian weavers rebellion),
Drayman Henschel (man promises to be faithful
to wife's memory but trapped into
marrying housekeeper),
The Sunken Bell (bell-maker Heinrich's bell
falls into lake and he leaves family for sprite
Rautendelein),
Rose Bernd (Rose is engaged to August Kiel
but has child by town magistrate and kills it
and is arrested)
Thomas Mann -
The Magic Mountain (Hans Castorp
visits Joachim Ziemssen in Haus Berghof
TB
sanatorium in Swiss Alps and decides to stay;
active Dr. Behrens, Settembrinin, and
Peeperkorn vs. decadent Leo Naphta
and Dr. Krokowski; sees vision of temple with
two hags; leaves in 1914 but WWI has begun),
Death in Venice (aging writer Gustav von Aschenbach gazes on beauty of 14-year-old
Tadzio; choleric epidemic hits Venice),
Buddenbrooks (Christian and Thomas fail to
maintain the estate of their grandfather Johann),
Mario and the Magician (waiter Mario shoots
magician Cippla who humiliated him in trance),
The Beloved Returns (Charlotte Buff visits
Goethe),
Doktor Faustus (collapse of composer Adrian Leverkuhn parallels German collapse in
WWII, narrated by Serenus
Zeitblom),
Joseph and His Brothers (4-novel Bildungroman based on Joseph in Genesis),
Tonio Kroger (Tonio
Kroger is ridiculed by schoolmates; unrequited loves
for Hans
Hansen and Ingeborg Holm; becomes famous
writer)
Bertolt Brecht -
Mother Courage and Her Children (Mother Courage
sells trifles to soldiers during
Thirty Years War; her 3 kids die),
The Threepenny
Opera (Polly Peachum marries robber Macheath; music by Kurt Weill),
The Life of Galileo,
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (city founded by pleasure-seekers collapses)
Erich Maria Remarque (later moved to US) - All
Quiet on the Western Front (WWI German trenches)
Hans Sachs - The Nightingale of Wittenberg
(about Martin Luther), Epitaphium
Gunter Grass - The Tin Drum (hunchback Oskar Matzerath recollects events in Danzig during
Hitler era; beats
drum to relieve anger), The Flounder (4000 years of women in history; narrator
married to cook Ilsebill),
Cat and Mouse
Heinrich Boll - The Clown (Hans Schnier and
Marie show audiences their follies through
pantomimes; Marie leaves him), Traveller
If You Come to Spa, Adam Where Art Thou, Billiards
at Half-Past Nine
George Seferis (1900s) - Turning Point, In the Manner of GS, Helen, Against Whitethorns
Odysseus Elytis (1900s) - The Axion Esti of Odysseus Elytis, Six and One Regrets for the Sky
Halldor Kiljan Laxness (1900s) - Under the Holy Mountain, The Great Weaver from Kashmir,
The Book of the Pieople, Paradise Reclaimed, Christianity at the Glacier)
Seamus Heaney (1900s) - Death of a Naturalist, Door Into the Dark
Rabindranath Tagore - Ravindrasangeet (poems set to music), The Gardner, Fireflies, Red
Oleanders, Gitanjali, The Golden Boat
Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children (Shiva and Saleem, 2 of 1001 born in hour after independence
August 15 1947), Satanic Verses, Grimus (American Indian), Shame (based on Bhutto and Zia
in Pakistan), Gulliver's Travels Tristram Shandy and The Jaguar Smile (Nicaragua revolution)
Shmuel Yosef Agnon - The Bridal Canopy, Days of Awe, A Guest for the Night
Petrarch (1300s) - On Illustrious Men, Africa (hero Scipio Africanus; Masinissa loves
Sophonisba), Secretum (love for Laura), Rime, Trionfi, De remediis
Giovanni Boccaccio (1300s) - The Decameron (1348 Florence: 10 noblemen, 100 stories,
including Calandrino and the Heliotrope [Calandrino thinks he has found a stone that can make
him invisible]), Il Filocolo (travails of Florio and Biancofiore, including Thirteen Questions of
Love digression), Il Filostrato (Trojan Troliolo loves Criseida and is helped by Pandaro)
Dante Alighieri (1300s) - The Divine Comedy (Vergil takes Dante on tour of Hell on Good Friday
1300; Beatrice takes Dante from Purgatory to Paradise; Inferno: anteroom for those who
did no good or bad, 9 levels: Limbo for unbaptized but blameless, Paolo and Francesca carnal
sinners, City of Dis torments of heretics, worst for Brutus, Cassius, and Judas; Purgatorio: Vergil
guides Dante up mountain where people are cleansed from sins, Matilda conducts Dante to Edenlike
garden where Beatrice takes over as guide; Paradiso: 8 heaves of the planets, ninth heaven Primum
Mobile with 9 orders of angels, radiant Empyrean River, St. Bernard replaces Beatrice as guide)
Matteo Maria Boiardo (1400s) - Orlando Innamorato (Angelica sows discord among Charlemagne's paladins)
Lodovico Ariosto (1500s) - Orlando Furiosos (Charlemagne entrusts Angelica to Duke Namo;
rescued by Ruggiero)
Niccolo Machiavelli (1500s) - The Prince (model prince Cesare borgia, son of Alexander VI),
Collodi (Crlo Lorenzini, 1800s) - Pinocchio (puppet comes to life; nose grows when he lies)
Giosue Carducci (1800s) - The Hymn to Satan, Juvenilia
Grazia Deledda (1900s) - Elias Portulu, Ashes, The Mother
Salvatore Quasimodo (1900s) - To Give and to Have
Ignazio Silone (1900s) - Bread and Wine (Communist hero Pietro Spina disguises self as priest;
anti-Fascist; old priest Don Benedetto)
Eugenio Montale (1900s) - Cuttlefish Bones, The Butterfly of Dinard, Occasions
Luigi Pirandello (1900s) - Six Characters in Search of an Author (six persons demand they be
permitted to perform the drama implied in their lives)
Dario
Fo (1900s) - Comic Mysteries, Accidental Death of an
Anarchist
Nara Period 710-794
Compilation - Man' Yoshu (anthology of 4500 poems)
Heian Period 794-1185
Lady Murasaki - Tale of Genji (describes Prince Genji and the women he loves, including
Murasaki; translated by Arthur Waley)
Sei Shonagon - The Tosa Diary (The Pillow-Book of Sei Shonagon; diary of a lady-in-waiting in
late 900s empress's court)
Kamakura Period 1185-1333
Kamo no Chomei - An Account of My Hut (Buddhist; describes natural disasters at Kyoto)
The Tales of the Heike (epic about rise of Taira or Heike family in late 1100s and their defeat by
the rival Minamotos)
Muromachi Period 1333-1600
No drama (elaborate masks and costumes; Buddhist; deals with famous historical themes)
Zeami Motokiyo - Atsumori, The Robe of Feathers, Birds of Sorrow
Sengoku Period 1482-1588
Tokugawa Period 1616-1868
Ihara Saikaku - The Life of an Amorous Man, Five Women Who Loved Love, Worldly Mental Calculations
Bunraku theater (plays with 3-foot lifelike puppets)
Kabuki theater (all-male historical or domestic dramas; lines spoken by narrators not actors)
Chikamatsu Monzaemon - Love Suicides at Sonezaki, Battles of Coxinga, Love Suicide
at Amijima
Joruri songs (chanted narration of tales)
Haiku (3 lines 5-7-5 syllables; contrast with tanka, 5 lines 5-7-5-7-7 syllables)
Matsuo Basho - The Narrow Road to the Deep North, The Records of a Travel-Worn
Satchel
Kawabata Yasunari - The Izu Dancer, Snow Country, Thousand Cranes, The Sound of the
Mountain, Beauty and Sadness
Oe Kenzaburo - The Catch, Nip the Buds Shoot the Kids, Hiroshima Notes, The Silent Cry
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o - Weep Not Child (Njoroge Ngotho deals with Mau-Mau uprising), A Grain
of Wheat (Kenyan independence Mau-Mau uprising), The River Between
Sixteenth Century
Alfonso de Ercilla
y Zuniga (Spanish/Chilean) - La Araucana (about Spain's conquest of Chile)
Seventeenth Century
Juana Ines de la Cruz (Mexico) - First Dream,
A Woman of Genius
Nineteenth Century
Jose Hernandez (Argentina) - Martin Fierro
(Martin Fierro tells of life as gaucho and flight with
friend Cruz into Indian territory)
Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi
(Mexico) - El periquillo sarniento
Jorge Isaacs (Columbia) - Maria (romance
novel)
Jose Marti (Cuba) - Free Verses, Whitman,
Emerson, Our America, Bolivar, Inside the Monster,
Our Education
Julian del Casal
(Cuba, Parnassian)
Jose Maria Heredia (Cuba/France) - Ode to
Niagara
Twentieth Century
Ruben Dario (Nicaragua) - Azul, Prosas profanas, Cantos de vida y esperanza
Pablo Neruda (Chile, 1971 Nobel) - Canto general, Twenty Love Poems, Residencia en la tierra,
Anillos, Alturas de Macchu Picchu, Elemental Odes
Gabriela Mistral (Chile, 1945 Nobel) - Sonnets of Death, Desolation, Tenderness, Destruction,
The Wine Press
Octavio Paz (Mexico) - The Labyrinth of Solitude (Spanish conquest made Mexico become
isolated and obscured by masks), Early Poems, Selected Poems
Ricardo Guiraldes (Argentina) - Don Segundo Sombra (boy goes on odyssey with ranch worker
Don Segundo Sombra and learns gaucho code of honor)
Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala, 1967 Nobel) - El senor presidente
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Columbia, 1982 Nobel) - One Hundred Years of Solitude (recounts
seven generations of Buendias family, which founded isolated Macondo [based on Aracataca]),
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Manuel Ugarte (Argentina, militant) - The Future of Latin America, The Destiny of a Continent
Federico Gamboa (Mexico) - Santa
Mariano Azuela (Mexico) - Los de abajo (about Mexican Revolution)
Manuel Puig (Argentina) - The Kiss of the Spider Woman
Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina, ultraismo) - Ficciones (stories, many including labyrinths; includes
El Aleph)
Isabel Allende (Chile)
Laura Esquivel (Mexico) - Like Water for Chocolate
Carlos Fuentes - The Death of Artemio Cruz (Mexican political boss), The Old Gringo,
Christopher Unborn, The Campaign
Derek Walcott (St. Lucia, 1992 Nobel) - Another Life, Dream on Monkey Mountain, Ti-Jean and
His Brothers, Odyssey
Katherine Mansfield (1900s) -
Bliss (Bertha Young is happy until she learns husband is unfaithful),
A Dill Pickle (woman meets former lover in restaurant; rediscovers his charm and then
his faults),
The Garden Party (Laura takes leftover cakes to family of poor worker killed setting up
for her family's party),
The Dove's Nest
R.A.K. Mason (1900s)
Hugh Walpole (1900s, moved to England) - Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill (at English boarding school,
Mr. Perrin tries to murder rival teacher Mr. Traill), The Herries Chronicle (novel series set in Lake
District; Rogue Herries, Juith Paris, The Fortress, Vanessa)
Frank
Sargeson - That Summer, Conversation with My Uncle, A
Man and His Wife, Joy of the Worm
Cyprian Ekwensi (1900s) - People of the City (crime reporter and band leader Amusa Sango)
Wole Soyinka (1900s, 1986 Nobel) - (plays) The Swamp Dwellers, Death and the King's Horseman, A Play
of Giants, (poetry) Shuttle in the Crypt, (fiction) The Interpreters, Season of Anatomy, (memoirs)
Ake, Isara, The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal History of the Nigerian Crisis
Henrik Ibsen (1800s) -
A Doll's House (Nora Helmer commits forgery to save banker husband Torvald's life; she realizes
he views her as a doll and leaves him; contrasted with Krogstad and Kristine Linde),
Hedda Gabler (Hedda Gobler steals book from Eilert Lovberg, who had been reformed
by wife Thea Elvsted and became rival of Hedda's husband for professorship, and gives
him a gun to commit suicide; Judge Brack extorts Hedda and she commits suicide; selfless
Miss Juliana Tesman),
Ghosts (widow Helene Alving tells Paster Manders that she will open an orphanage in
memory of her late drunken husband; son Oswald is dying of hereditary syphilis),
Peer Gynt (Peer Gynt ships missionaries and idols to China, makes and loses money, saves his life
at expense of another in shipwreck; Button Molder tries to melt him in his ladle, but is
rescued by Soveig; Great Boyg tries to eat him; he marries Troll King's daughter),
Brand,
When We Dead Awaken (sculptor Rubek meets his model Irene; she says they have both
been dead for years; they go into wild mountains and are swallowed in storm),
Rosmersholm (Rebecca West gets Johannes Rosmer's wife Beata to commit suicide so he
can marry her; Johannes and Rebecca leap into millrace and die)
John Gabriel Borkman (Borkman broke engagement to Ella Rentheim because of Hinkel
whose help he needed; married Ella's sister; jailed for misuse of bank money),
An Enemy of the People (Dr. Stockman wants to close tourist spa for repairs),
The Master Builder (architect Halvard Soness, married to Aline, fears new generation of
architects; Hilde Wanger inspires him to try to build a castle in the sky but he dies),
The Wild Duck (schoolfriend idealist Gregers Werle tries to free photographer Hjalmar
Ekdal from illusions; Hjalmar rejects daughter Hedvig believing she is not his; Gregers
tells Hedvig her dad will accept her if she sacrifices her beloved wild duck but she shoots
self instead)
Bjornstjerne Bjornson (1800s-1900s) - Trust and Trial, Arne, A Happy Boy, Sigurd the Bastard
trilogy, The Editor, The Bankrupt, Beyond Our Power, In God's Way
Sigrid Undset (1800s-1900s) - Kristin Lavransdatter (about a woman's life in 1200s and 1300s
Catholic Norway), Saga of Saints, The Snake Pit, In the Wilderness
Knut Hamsun (1800s-1900s) - The Growth of the Soil, Hunger, Pan, Mysteries
Collected stories (1300s - 1500s, Persian/Indian/Arabic) - The Arabian Nights: The Thousand and
One Nights (King Schahriah marries and kills new woman each night, Scheherazade tells "to be
continued" story each night to keep king from killing her; includes
The History of Aladdin [Aladdin, son of Chinese tailor Mustafa, given lamp with two
genii by African magician who shuts him in cave; Aladdin gets wealth and marries
sultan's daughter Badroulboudour],
The History of Sinbad the Sailor [Baghdad merchant Sinbad describes 7 voyages to
porter Hindbad; mistakes whale for island; gets diamonds from Roc's eggs; meets
Cyclops; burned alive; kills Old Man of the Sea; visits Serendip; sold into slavery
and shoots elephants from trees],
The History of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves [woodcutter Ali Baba sees robbers open
cave by saying "Open Sesame" and gets treasure; thieves kill his brother Cassim
who forgets secret words; Ali's slave Morgiana kills band of thieves with boiling
oil];
English translation by Sir Richard Burton 1888)
Henryk
Sienkiewicz (1800s-1900s) Quo Vadis? (historical novel about first Christians
in ancient
Rome),
With Fire and Sword (history of Poland 1648-1699; war with Ukrain;
King John III), The
Teutonic
Knights, Portrait of America
Wladyslaw
Reymont (1900s) - The Peasants, The Comedienne, The Promised Land, Rok
Czeslaw Milosz (1900s) - The Captive Mind, Native Realm,
The Usurpers, The Issa Valley, The
Witness
of Poetry, The Land of Ulro, Bells in Winter, History
of Polish Literature
Wislawa
Szymborska (1900s) - That's Why We're Alive, View with a Grain of Sand
Jose Saramago (1900s) - Baltasar and Blimunda, The Stone Raft, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
Eugene Ionesco - The Bald Soprano (antiplay; nameless characters repeat empty gestures),
Rhinoceros (man fears remaining human as fellow citizens become rhinos), The Chairs
Twelfth Century
Unknown - The Igor Tale (Russian prince
battles Polovtsy tribes in 1185)
Nineteenth Century
Aleksandr Pushkin -
Boris Godunov (1598-1605 Russia: Czar Boris Godunov kills Dmitry, the crown prince),
Eugene Onegin,
The Captain's Daughter,
Tales of Belkin (includes The Stationmaster story),
The Bronze Horseman (flood kills fiancee of Yevgeny and he blames Peter the Great),
Little Tragedies (4 dramas: The Stone Guest, Mozart and Salieri, The Covetous Knight,
The Feast during the Plague Year)
Nikolay Gogol -
The Overcoat (St. Petersburg: civil servant Akaky Akakyevich Bashmachkin loves
copying documents; buys new coat and gains status but coat is stolen and he dies),
The Government Inspector (Russian town: Khlestakov impersonates inspector but
escapes before being discovered by postman),
Dead Souls (Pavel Chickhkov buys serfs who have died since last census and mortgages
them for land; landowners include Manilov, Sobakevich, Korobochka, and Plyushkin)
Ivan Turgenev -
Fathers and Sons (nihilist Bazarov opposes aristocrat Pavel Kirsanov),
A Month in the Country (Natalia and her ward Vera love her son's tutor),
A Nest of the Gentlefolk (Fyodor Lavretsky's presumed-dead wife returns as he is about
to marry Liza Kalitina),
On the Eve (Elena Stakhova scorns scholar Bersenev, sculptor Shubin, and civil servant
Kurnatovsky but loves Bulgarian revolutionary Insarov),
Rudin (Dmitry Rudin talks brilliantly but does not take action; frightened by love of
Natalya Alekseyevna; shot during 1848 Paris revolt),
Smoke (Litvinov loves Tanya but is distracted by old lover Irina),
A Sportsman's Sketches (short stories about life on feudal estates in Russia),
Virgin Soil (student Nezhdanov and Marianna join revolution but he realizes he is not
fitted for it and kills self; she marries Solomin who works for democratic Russia)
Count Leo Tolstoy -
War and Peace (1805-1820; Napoleon invades Russia 1812; Natasha Rostova is engaged
to Prince Andrey Bolkonsky, who struggles to find meaning of life through intellect and
calmly accepts death, but marries rake Anatol Kuragin; after war, Natasha marries Pierre
Bezukhov, who finds peace in living under wisdom of peasant Karatayev),
Anna Kerenina (Anna Kerenina leaves husband and child for Count Aleksei Vronsky,
then commits suicide by jumping under a train; Konstantin and Kitty Levin have a
happy marriage),
The Power of Darkness (Nikita seduces Marina, poisons Peter, marries his wife Anisya,
seduces Anisya's stepdaughter Akulina, and kills their baby),
Resurrection (Prince Nekhlyudov seduced Katyusha Maslova; she became prostitute and
poisoned a man; he serves on jury and marries her since he feels guilty but she refuses),
A Confession,
What Is Art? (should be simple enough for all to understand),
The Cossacks (Olenin tries to find happiness among wild Cossacks of the Caucasus;
Maryana and Eroshka),
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (man with cancer ponders death),
Sevastopol Stories (3 stories about Crimean War siege in December, May, and August 1855)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -
Crime and Punishment (St. Petersburg: Raskolnikov murders old pawnbroker and her
sister; his motives are proven false by his conscience; turns to prostitute Sonya
Marmeladovna, who convinces him to confess to policeman Porfiry Petrovich;
Raskolnikov and Sonya go to Sibera),
The Idiot (Prince Mishkin pities Nastasya Filipovna, whom Rogozhin loves; Mishkin proposes
to Aglaya Epanchin; Rogozhin tries to murder Mishkin and does kill Natasya),
The Possessed (spiritual nihilist Nikolay Stavrogin commits crimes and infects Shatov
and Kirilov with ideas he does not believe; Lizaveta Nikolayevna loves Stavrogin
but he marries cripple Marya Lebyadkin; Pyotr Verkhoven tries to get Stavrogin to
join revolution; Verkhovensky murders Shatov),
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and son Dmitri compete for Grushenka;
Fyodor is murdered; Dmitri [passionate] brought to trial; Ivan [intellectual] feels guilty,
Alyosha [mystical] introduces Zosima; Smerdyakov [bastard]; Ivan tells Alyosha The
Legend of the Grand Inquisitor parable [Jesus is arrested by Inquisition in Seville]),
The Double (government clerk Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin driven mad when another
Golyadkin appears and succeeds as he had yearned to; helped by servant Petrushka),
Notes from the Underground (recounts adventures of author's life),
A Diary of a Writer (includes The Meek One and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man stories),
The Raw Youth (Versilov's illegitimate son Arkady goes to St. Petersburg but learns his dad is
his rival for Katerina Akhmatovo; Arkady gets brain fever and is visited by pilgrim Makar
Dolgoruky; Arkady abandons plan to become Rothshild and make money to get power),
The Insulted and Injured (Vanya loves Natasha Ikhmeneva but helps her woo Alyosha Valkovsky;
Ivan and Prince Valkovsky debate philosophy; Dickens character Nelly appears),
The Friend of the Family (Foma Opsikin rules household by playing on master's guilt),
The Gambler (Aleksey Ivanovich has gambling weakness; Polina based on Dostoyevsky's lover),
Poor Folk (drunk clerk Makar Devushkin loves Varvara Dobroselova but she marries
wealthy landlord),
The Eternal Husband (Pavel Pavlovich Trusotsky torments wife's ex-lover Aleksey
Ivanovich Velchaninov and mistreats his girl)
Ivan Goncharov - Oblomov
Anton Chekhov -
The Sea Gull (writer Konstantin Trepliov loves actress Nina Zarechnaya; his play is a
failure and she takes interest in writer Trigorin, lover of Trepliov's mom Irina Arkadina;
Trepliov kills gull and places it at Nina's feet; Trigorin becomes good writer and Nina is
cast away by Trigorin; Trepliov kills self),
Uncle Vanya Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts (Ivan Voinitsky [Uncle Vanya]
manages estate of brother-in-law Prof. Aleksandr Serebryakov, who he learns is
somewhat a fraud; Vanya loves Serebryakov's second wife Elena Andreyevna;
Serebryakov agrees not to sell the estate Vanya has worked so hard for after he tries
to shoot him),
Three Sisters (Andrey Prozorov wants to be professor but wife Natalya Ivanovna
becomes despotic; sister Masha marries schoolmaster Kulygin but has affair with officer
Vershinin, who moves away; youngest sister Irina marries officer Baron Tuzenbakh who
is killed in a duel; other sister is Olga; all want to go to Moscow),
The Cherry Orchard (Ranevsky family estate sold at auction to Lopakhin who builds
houses on it),
A Dreary Story (Prof. Nikolay Stepanovich and ward Katya review their aimless lives but
cannot communicate to each other),
My Life (Poleznev becomes a laborer),
Peasants (long story about somber peasant life),
Ward No. 6 (mental hospital head Dr. Andrey Ragin withdraws into private study and
alcohol, neglecting patients, except for conversations with Ivan Gromov, and is himself
committed and experiences the maltreatment he allowed the patients to undergo)
Twentieth Century
Maksim Gorki - The Lower Depths (Kostylev owns a flophouse for indigents, talks with wife
Vasillissa, thief Vaska Pepel, Natasha, truth-seer Satin, and tramp Luka), Mother (Pelageya Nilovna
becomes involved in Russian Revolution with son Pavel Vlasov), Klim Samgin
Boris Pasternak - Doctor Zhivalgo (Russian Revolution: Doctor Yury Zhivalgo likes writing;
denounces Marxism to uncle Kolya, mistress Lara)
Leonid Leonov - The Badgers, The Thief (civil war veteran Mitka Vekshin becomes thief during
time of New Economic Policy)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Ivan Denisovich survives a day in a Soviet labor camp),
The First Circle (Nerzhin [like Solzhenitsyn] is inmate in sharashka prison where educated people
continue research; Lev Rubin [like Lev Kopelev] maintains faith in Communism),
Cancer Ward (Kostoglotov and others come to terms with death),
The Gulag Archipelago (acronym for Soviet Chief Administration of Corrective
Labor Camps; literary investigation of prison camps 1918-1956)
Ivan Bunin - The Village, Dry Valley, The Gentleman from San Francisco
Mikhail Sholokhov - The Quiet Don (Cossack Gregor Melekhov is indecisive about Russian Revolution;
Ivan Bunchuk fights with Bolsheviks but is killed by Melekhov), Virgin Soil Upturned
Joseph Brodsky - A Halt in the Wilderness, The End of a Lovely Era
South African Literature
Absalom in Johannesburg slums)
Nadine Gordimer (1900s) - The Soft Voice of
the Serpent, The Conservationist, Burger's
Daughter, None to Accompany Me
Spanish Literature
Middle Ages
Anonymous - Poem of the Cid (1140)
Juan Ruiz - Book of Good Love (1330)
Fernando de Rojas - La Celestina (1499)
Unknown - Roderick (slain by Moors under
Tarik 711; hermit makes him do penance in tomb of snakes)
Renaissance
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don
Quixote of the Mancha (Alonso Quijano reads chivalry romances and changes name to Don
Quixote de la Mancha; loves Aldonza Lorenzo, renamed Dulcinea del Toboso; acquires squire
Sancho Panza and horse Rocinante; thinks windmills are giants and sheep armies), Exemplarie
Novels, The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda
Lope de Vega -
Fuenteovejuna (townspeople put Com. Fernan Gomez lord of Fuenteovejuna to death for
violating peasant Laurencia; king pardons village),
Peribanez y el comendador de Ocana (governor of Ocana sends Casilda's husband
Peribanez away in army and tries to take her but he returns and kills him),
El mejor alcalde el rey (king orders Don Tello to release Elvira to Sancho, but he refuses
so is forced to marry her and then be executed so she inherits property), La Dorotea
(prose romance; Dorotea based on actress Elena Osorio)
Pedro Calderon de la Barca -
El Alcalde de Zalamea (Pedro Crespo jails army captain Don Alvaro
for violating Pedro's daughter; commander Don Lope demands his freedom but he is
strangled in prison and King Philip II makes Pedro mayor of Zalamea),
El medico de su honra (Dona Mencia loves Prince Enrique but marries Don Gutierre,
who has surgeon bleed her to death; king consents),
La vida es sueno (Polish prince Segismundo is kept in tower under Clotaldo's care
because astrologers said he would hurt King Basilio; drugged and allowed to dinner
once, thinking it a dream; people revolt and liberate prince) ,
El magico prodigioso (Cipriano makes pact with devil to get Justina to love him; she
doesn't but he converts to Christianity and both are martyred by governor of Antioch),
El gran teatro del mundo (God presents performance but only he is eternal)
Jose Ruiz de Alarcon (born in Mexico; hunchback) - The Truth Suspected (liar Don Garcia loses
the woman he loves), Proof of the Promises, The Walls Have Ears
Twentieth Century
Esteban Echeverria - Elvira, El Matadero (denounces Juan Manuel de Rosas dictatorship)
Jacinto Benavente - Bonds of Interest, The Passion Flower, Senora ama
Juan Ramon Jimenez - Platero and I, Diary of a Recently Married Poet
Vicente Aleixandre - Revista de Occidente, Ambito, Twenty Poems, A Longing for the Light
Miguel de Unamuno - El Cristo de Velazquez, Cancionero
Camillo Jose Cela - The Hive, Mrs. Caldwell Speaks to Her Son
Epic of Gilgamesh (Goddess Aruru made hairy wild man Enkidu out of clay to oppose oppressive
King Gilgamesh of Erech; Enkidu protected the beasts; Gilgamesh sent a woman to seduce him;
Enkidu defeated Gilgamesh in wrestling, and they became friends; Gilgamesh and Enkidu cut
down a cedar in the sacred woods and beheaded the one-eyed monster Humbaba with the help
of Gigamesh's mom Ninsun; Ishtar tried to seduce Gilgamesh but he knew how she had treated
others such as Tammuz and refused; Enkidu died because he killed the storm bull of heaven;
Gilgamesh consulted Utnapishtim, who had been warned of a flood by wisdom god Ea and
survived by building an arc; got herb of youth from bottom of sea but stolen by a snake),
War of the Gods ("Enuma elish"; fresh water Apsu and salt water wife Tiamat had kids gods of
the deep Lahmu and Lahamu who had Anshar and Kishar, parents of sky Anu, father of wisdom
god Ea; Ea drugged and killed Apsu and dwarf counselor Mummu; Tiamat took Kingu as consort;
Ea and Damkina had storm god Marduk; Tiamat warred with principals gods who supported Marduk;
Marduk destroyed Tiamat and formed firmament and earth foundations from her body; Anu rules
area above firmament, Enlil between firmament and earth, and Ea waters below earth; Kingu killed to
make man puppet; gods built Babylon as shrine for Marduk)
Countess Elizabeth), Jerusalem (stories about Ingmar family and their farm at Ingmarson)
Verner von Heidenstram (1800s-1900s) - Dikter, Nya Dikter
Carl Spitteler (1800s-1900s) - Olympian Spring
Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1900s)
Par Lagerkvist (1900s) - Barabbas, Pilgrim at Sea, The Sibyl, The Dwarf, The Hangman, Guest of
Reality
Eyvind Johnson (1900s) - Novels of Olof, Krilon (trilogy), Return to Ithaca
Harry Martinson (1900s) - Cape Farewell, The Road, Aniara
South Sea island)
Hermann Hesse (1900s) -
Demian (Max Demian tells young Emil Sinclair about devil-god Abraxas),
Siddhartha (Siddhartha, a Brahmin, searches for ultimate reality in India),
Steppenwolf (Harry Haller is torn between artistic idealism and inhuman reality; ends in
magical theatre),
Magister Ludi The Glass Bead Game (Josef Knecht becomes master of 23rd Century glass
bead game in utopian society)
Yugoslav Literature
Ivo Andric (1900s) - The Bridge on the Drina (350 year history of bridge near Visegrad, Bosnia)
Charles Perrault's nursery tales (1697)
Beatrix Potter - The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Tom Kitten,
The Roly-Poly Pudding, Jemima Puddleduck
AA Milne - Winne-the-Pooh (Christopher Robin, Eeyore, Tigger, Piglet, Kanga, Roo)
Theodore Seuss Geisel - Horton Hatches the Egg, The Cat in the Hat, How the Grinch Stole
Christmas, and Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie books (move from Big Woods WI to Great Plains)
Frances Hodgson Burnett - Little Lord Fauntleray (good Cedric Errol, raised in NYC and heir to
earl of Dorincourt in England, has conflict with mean grandfather), The Secret Garden (Mary
Lennox lives with cold uncle Lord Craven after her parents die in India; she, servant's son
Colin Craven, and supposed invalid Dickon discover a secret garden)
T(erence) H(anbury) White - The Once and Future King
Edward L. Stratemeyer - The Hardy Boys, The Rover Boys, Tom Sift, Nancy Drew (continued by
daughter Harriet Adams)
Hugh Lofting - The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle (learns animal languages; Dab-Dab duck, Jip dog,
Gub-Gub pig)
Eric P. Kelly - The Trumpeter of Krakow
Madeleine L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
William H. Armstrong - Sounder
Robert C. O'Brien - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Mildred D. Taylor - Roll of Thunder Here My Cry
Beverly Cleary - Dear Mr. Henshaw
Patricia MacLachlan - Sarah Plain and Tall
Sid Fleischman- The Whipping Boy
Jerry Spinelli- Maniac Magee