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The Cherry Orchard
Title estate sold by Madame Ranevyska to Lophakin
The Cherry Orchard
One character is haunted by Grisha's death; Grisha's sister is Anya
The Cherry Orchard
Gayev eats sweets and plays billiards in head to turn down a banker job; also sees old nursery bookcase
The Cherry Orchard
Leonid Andreyevitch goes outside with a light overcoat
The Cherry Orchard
Senile servant Fiers and Eternal student Trofimov
The Cherry Orchard
"Twenty-two calamities"
The Cherry Orchard
Pischik evades financial problems
Uncle Vanya
Telegin has a face which looks like waffles and plays guitar
Uncle Vanya
Old woman spends whole life reading pamphlets
Uncle Vanya
Marina offers "lime-flowered tea"
Uncle Vanya
One character in this play laments that if he had a normal life, he could have been a Schopenhauer or a Dostoyevsky
Uncle Vanya
Vera's brother tries to kill Yelena's husband Serebriakov
Uncle Vanya
Astrov visits estate of Serebriakov
The Seagull
Doctor Yevgeny Dorn is attracted to Paulina; offers to help write to main character
The Seagull
Konstantin Treplev commits suicide after finding out that Nina still loves Trigorin
The Seagull
Pyotr Sorin wrote "The Man Who wished"
The Seagull
Trigorin loves actress Irina Arkadina
The Seagull
Medvendenko marries Masha, who is in love with Treplev
Three Sisters
Solyony kills Tuzenbach in a duel
Three Sisters
Olga, Masha, and Irina are the Three Sisters
Three Sisters
One character tries to dismiss the old maid Anfisa; Natasha is with Andrey Prozorov but has affair with Protopopov
Three Sisters
Captain Vershinin's transfer to another post leaves one title character trapped in her marriage to Kulygin
Anton Chekhov
Stuff with Dmitry Gurov, Ivan Dmitrich Gromov, and Anna Sergeyevna in Yalta
Anton Chekhov
Sakhalin in "The Murder"
Anton Chekhov
Ward No. 6
Anton Chekhov
The Chemist's Wife
Anton Chekhov
The Steppe
The Idiot
One character in this novel is enraptured by Holbein's Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb
The Idiot
The protagonist recounts a story in which a man is sentenced to death by guillotine
The Idiot
Usurer Ptitsyn and the senile General Ivolgin
The Idiot
Ganya is bribed to marry Totsky's mistress Nastasya Filippovna, but wants to marry the General Epanchin's daughter Aglaya
The Idiot
Prince Mishkin is the title fool
The Idiot
One character nearly kills all the protagonists
The Brothers Karamazov
Dmitri, Alexi, and Ivan
The Brothers Karamazov
Madame Khohkhlakov tells a character to "go to the mines"
The Brothers Karamazov
The Grand Inquisitor is told
The Brothers Karamazov
Smerdyakov actually committed the central crime
The Brothers Karamazov
A boy has a dog called Perezvon
The Brothers Karamazov
The teacher of one character is Father Zosima
The Brothers Karamazov
Marfa and Grigory take in one character
The Brothers Karamazov
Dream about the biblical wedding at Cana
Crime and Punishment
"My Village" is sung
Crime and Punishment
Murder of Alena, the landlady, and Lizaveta, her half-sister
Crime and Punishment
Zamyotov believes the protagonist's explanations as a farce
Crime and Punishment
One character dreams about putting a girl to bed and "going to America" and that mice are all over him
Crime and Punishment
Raskolnikov kills an old moneylender
Crime and Punishment
The pedophile Svidrigaylov and Peter Luzhin court Dunya (protagonist's sister), who ends up with Razumikhin
Crime and Punishment
Katerina's husband, Marmeladov, dies in the arms of his daughter Sonia after drunkenly running in front of a carriage
Crime and Punishment
Katerina Ivanova throws a banquet for husband
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Possessed
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"An Honest Thief"
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Kirilov falsely confessing to shooting Shatov at the insistence of Pyotr Verhovensky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Apropos of the Wet Snow"
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A Writer's Diary
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The House of the Dead
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"A Gentle Creature"
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"White Nights"
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Insulted and The Humiliated
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Raw Youth
Anna Karenina
Title character has an affair with Count Vronsky before throwing herself in front of a train
Anna Karenina
French psychic named Landau
Anna Karenina
Countess Lydia Ivanonva gives advice to one character
Anna Karenina
Nikolai is revealed to be dying of consumption; recovers at a spa in Germany
Anna Karenina
Kitty marries Levin
Anna Karenina
One character cries when the horse Frou Frou falls and breaks her back while racing Gladiator
Anna Karenina
Begins by describing the infidelities of Stepan Oblonksy with wife Dolly
Anna Karenina
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
War and Peace
Princess Marya marries soldier Nikolai Rostov; Nikolai also hits on Helene and is a gambler
War and Peace
Natasha Rostov marries Pierre Bezukhov
War and Peace
A stout woman nicknamed "The Terrible Dragon" berates a female protagonist for failing to kill herself with arsenic
War and Peace
Platon is killed by an unseen shot; Platon is friend of Pierre
War and Peace
Natasha is in love with Andre Bolkonsky, but they are forbid to marry
War and Peace
One character loses 40,000 rubles while gambling with Dolohov; Vassily Denohov is rebuffed
The Death of Ivan llyich
Praskovya Fëdorovna Golovin is Ivan's unsympathetic wife
The Death of Ivan llyich
Gerasim is the Golovin's young butler assistant
The Death of Ivan llyich
Peter Ivanovich is Ivan's longtime friend and colleague
The Death of Ivan llyich
Lisa Golovin is Ivan's daughter
The Death of Ivan llyich
Fëdor Petrishchev is Lisa's fiancé
Leo Tolstoy
"How Much Land Does a Man Need?"; A grave that is only six feet long
Leo Tolstoy
"The Kreutzer Sonata"; Trukhashevsky causes Pozdnyshev to stab his wife to death
Leo Tolstoy
The Cossacks; Olenin fails at proposing to Maria
Leo Tolstoy
The Power of Darkness
Leo Tolstoy
"Master and Man"
Leo Tolstoy
Resurrection
Leo Tolstoy
"A Letter to a Hindu"
Leo Tolstoy
Maslova is sent to Siberia after she is impregnated by Nekhyludov
Leo Tolstoy
"What is Art?"
Leo Tolstoy
"The Raid"
Leo Tolstoy
Hadji Murad
Leo Tolstoy
"Alyosha the Pot"
Leo Tolstoy
Devil helps Pahom in one work
The Overcoat
One character drinks whenever there is a cross on the calendar and only has one eye
The Overcoat
Ghost of Akaky Akakievich haunts St. Petersburg
The Overcoat
Protagonist has a "strange and farfetched name"
The Overcoat
The protagonist of this story stops drinking tea at night in order to save more money
The Overcoat
Petrovich helps protagonist sell 80 rubles
The Overcoat
Ashoke Ganguli reads this story prior to a train derailment in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake
The Overcoat
"Person of Consequence"
The Overcoat
Protagonist hangs around Kalinkin Bridge
The Overcoat
Petrovich makes title object
The Overcoat
Protagonist is a copyist; stuff with copyists
Nikolai Gogol
Arabesques
Nikolai Gogol
Major Kovalyov wakes up missing his nose in one work
Nikolai Gogol
Also wrote ABOUT a Cossack being chained to a tree with sons Andrei and Ostap
Nikolai Gogol
"Nevsky Prospect"
Nikolai Gogol
"The Nose"
Nikolai Gogol
Insane Poprishchin thinks he is King of Spain
Nikolai Gogol
Khoma Brut escapes a witch
Nikolai Gogol
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol
Tchichikov buys a census of dead people in above work
Nikolai Gogol
Stories narrated by Rudy Panko, Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
Lysistrata
Title character is Athenian woman tired of war and treatment of women; least feminine of women
Lysistrata
Kleonike is the first to show up at title character's meeting; neighbor
Lysistrata
Myrrhine would be the second strongest woman. Myrrhine is able to seduce her husband, but she refuses sex with him just at the last minute.
Lysistrata
The representative for rival women is well-built; name is Lampito
Lysistrata
Ismenia is a good looking, mute girl
Lysistrata
Policewoman offers help to shelter
Lysistrata
Koryphiaos of Men and Chorus of Old Men
Lysistrata
Commissioner of Public Safety is the head of security and law in central city; He ends up dressing like a woman after being overwhelmed
Lysistrata
Kinesias is the husband of one of the central women; he is the first man affected by the central action and comes to a city enflamed; he is a clown
Lysistrata
Four policemen are continually humiliated
Lysistrata
Title character's handmaid is Peace
Lysistrata
Oath is made over jug of Thracian Wine
Emma
Title character is "handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition."
Emma
Title character's brother in law lives in Donwell Abbey; leases property to the Martins
Emma
George Knightley
Emma
Title estate is Hartfield estate; owned by protagonist's father
Emma
One character is a pretty but unremarkable seventeen-year-old woman of uncertain parentage, who lives at the local boarding school.
Emma
Harriet Smith
Emma
Frank Churchill seen as a possible suitor
Emma
The Westons
Emma
Jane Fairfax has an affair with Frank
Emma
Randalls Estate
Emma
The Coles throw an important party
Emma
The words "Blunder" and "Dixon" referring to another character's shady past
Emma
Miss Bates is middle age spinster
Emma
The Dixons have a shady past; Mr. Dixon with lover of a suitor to the protagonist?
Emma
There is a ball at Crown Inn; Mrs. Goddard, Churchill, Elton
Sense and Sensibility
The Dashwood Family
Sense and Sensibility
Colonel Brandon is in love with Marianne
Sense and Sensibility
The Ferrars are rich; one brother conceited while other nice
Sense and Sensibility
Mrs. Jennings is one character's gossipy mother
Sense and Sensibility
Lady Middleton lives at Barton Cottage with husband John; John owns Norland Park
Sense and Sensibility
The Palmers are daughter and in laws of a gossipy character
Sense and Sensibility
Willoughby marries Sophia Grey after abandoning one main character/ also called Coombe Magnon
Pride and Prejudice
Central character marries Darcy
Pride and Prejudice
One main character owns Pemberley and is Lady Catherine's nephew
Pride and Prejudice
Charles Bingley is one main character's best friend
Pride and Prejudice
One character stays with Gardiners
Pride and Prejudice
Lydia runs away with treacherous Wickham
Pride and Prejudice
Mr. Collins is clergyman who stands to inherit protagonist's father's property
Pride and Prejudice
Charlotte Lucas marries clergyman
Pride and Prejudice
Georgiana has skill in playing the pianoforte
Pride and Prejudice
One character in this novel uses the deceitful governess Mrs. Younge to plan an elopement with Georgiana
Go Tell it On the Mountain
John Grimes is both attracted and repulsed by church
Go Tell it On the Mountain
Gabriel is sinful man; he married Debroah, had an adulterous affair with Esther, and endured the early death of his unacknowledged son, Royal, from a distance. His son by Elizabeth, Roy, is his new hope.
Go Tell it On the Mountain
All events take place on a single March Day, 1935
Go Tell it On the Mountain
After a scene in which the protagonist falls comatose on the floor, he is kissed by his seventeen-year-old crush and told "Run on, little brother."
Go Tell it On the Mountain
"Prayers of the Saints"
Our Town
Omniscient Narrator is called Stage Manager
Our Town
Central character is high school baseball star who plans to attend the State Agricultural School after high school.
Our Town
Central character prostrates before wife's grave
Our Town
Father was a town doctor
Our Town
Mr. Simon Stimson commits suicide in the attic by hanging himself
Our Town
The choirmaster is an alcoholic
Our Town
Joe Cromwell is the paperboy; he has unique conversations during paper rides and his brother is Si
Our Town
Professor Willard appears once and then disappears
Our Town
Joe Stoddard prepares one character's grave
Our Town
"Blessed Be the Tie That Binds"
Thornton Wilder
The Long Christmas Dinner
Thornton Wilder
Chrysis
Thornton Wilder
The Bridge of San Luis Rey; Brother Juniper investigates the deaths of the Marquesa de Montemayor and Uncle Pio after the collapse of the title structure
Thornton Wilder
Theophilus North; The protagonist of one novel by this author works several jobs after his car breaks down in Newport, Rhode Island in 1926
Thornton Wilder
The Skin of Our Teeth; the maid Sabina and George Antrobus
Thornton Wilder
Plays for Bleecker Street
Thornton Wilder
The Eighth Day
Thornton Wilder
The Ides of March
Thornton Wilder
The Trumpet Shall Sound; The Cabala and The Woman of Andros
On the Road
Roland Major, Denver D. Doll, and Ed Dunkel
On the Road
Elmer Hassel, a stand-in for Herbert Huncke
On the Road
Intellectual Poet Carlo Marx
On the Road
Its narrator is delighted to be sold marijuana in Gregoria, and after meeting a woman named Terri, gets a job in her hometown picking cotton.
On the Road
Marylou, Camille, and Inez
On the Road
Remi Boncouer gets its narrator a job as a security guard
On the Road
The Rawlinses are friends of the narrator; Babe Rawlins is Tim Gray's girlfriend
On the Road
Terry: A pretty Mexican girl with whom Sal spends fifteen days in California. She comes from a family of grape-pickers in Sabinal, has a son, and is trying to escape a husband who beat her.
Jack Kerouac
The Sea is My Brother
Jack Kerouac
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks with William Burroughs
Jack Kerouac
Visions of Cody
Jack Kerouac
Mexico City Blues
Jack Kerouac
Short film Pull My Daisy
Jack Kerouac
Doctor Sax
Jack Kerouac
The Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac
The Scripture of Golden Eternity
Jack Kerouac
Book of Dreams
Saul Bellow
The Dean's December
Saul Bellow
Humboldt's Gift
Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow
Herzog
Saul Bellow
"The Victim" and "Dangling Man"
Saul Bellow
"The Theft"
Saul Bellow
"Mr. Sammler's Planet" and "Henderson, the Rain King"
My Antonia
Anton Cuzak
My Antonia
Jimmy Burden and the Shimerda family
My Antonia
The title character is enthralled by the music of the Blind D'Arnault
My Antonia
Mrs. Gardener's hotel
My Antonia
The protagonist avoids being raped by Wick Cutter
My Antonia
The protagonist of this novel goes to work for the Harling family after her neighbors move to Black Hawk
My Antonia
Lena Lingard convinces the narrator to visit the title character after she has been abandoned by her fiancée Larry Donovan
O Pioneers!
"The White Mulberry Tree"
O Pioneers!
One climactic action in this book is triggered by the death from appendicitis of Amedée Chevalier
O Pioneers!
The central character realizes her vulnerability and marries Carl Linstrum
O Pioneers!
Frank kills his wife Marie Shabata and her lover Emil
O Pioneers!
Crazy Ivar, the hermit horse doctor
Willa Cather
Pavel tells a story about how he threw a newlywed couple out of a carriage to save himself from wolves
Willa Cather
Moonstone, Colorado, where the mandolin player Spanish Johnny lives
Willa Cather
A protagonist of this author is moved by a Julie Breton painting and has an epiphany at Panther Canyon
Willa Cather
In addition to the story of aspiring opera star Thea Kronborg, this author wrote about Joseph Vaillaint's journey through the New Mexican desert with Jean Latour
Willa Cather
"The Novel Demeuble"
Willa Cather
April Twilights
Willa Cather
My Mortal Enemy
Willa Cather
Lucy Gayheart, the story of the daughter of a German-born watchmaker who moves to Chicago to study music
Willa Cather
Obscure Destinies
Willa Cather
Sapphira and the Slave Girl and One of Ours
Daniel Defoe
The Political History of the Devil
Daniel Defoe
"Hymn to the Pillory"
Daniel Defoe
"The True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal."
Daniel Defoe
"The True Born Englishman"
Daniel Defoe
A Journal of the Plague Year
Daniel Defoe
"fortunate mistress" Roxana
Daniel Defoe
An Essay Upon Projects
Daniel Defoe
An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions
Daniel Defoe
"Scandal Club"
Daniel Defoe
"The Ghost of Dorothy Dingley"
Robinson Crusoe
The title character goes to Toulouse/crosses the Pyrennes after killing a number of wolves and a bear
Robinson Crusoe
Writes a letter to his old friend at Lisbon authorizing the latter to dispose of a plantation in the Brazils
Robinson Crusoe
The title character writes a letter to the Prior of Saint Augustine which instructs him on how to dispose of 872 moidores
Robinson Crusoe
Protagonist's slavery in Sallee
Robinson Crusoe
Chapter 11, in which the title character finds a print of a man's foot in the sand
The Red Badge of Courage
Jim Conklin is a tall soldier hurt during the regiment's first battle. Jim soon dies from his wounds.
The Red Badge of Courage
Wilson is a loud private; sympathetic comparison to protagonist
The Red Badge of Courage
The Tattered Soldier says "watch out fer ol' number one" ; does old man stuff
The Red Badge of Courage
Lieutenant Hasbruck swears profusely; calls protagonist "wild cat"
The Red Badge of Courage
304th Regiment
The Red Badge of Courage
The protagonist promises to take care of Jim, but Jim runs from the line into a small grove of bushes where the protagonist and the tattered man watch him die.
The Red Badge of Courage
His lieutenant says that with ten thousand Henrys, he could win the war in a week.
The Red Badge of Courage
"the red sickness"
Stephen Crane
"In the Desert"
Stephen Crane
"The Blue Hotel"
Stephen Crane
"The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky"
Stephen Crane
Maggie, a Girl of the Streets
Stephen Crane
The Greco-Turkish War was the subject of his Active Stories
Stephen Crane
"The Open Boat"
Stephen Crane
The Black Rider and Other Lines
Stephen Crane
George's Mother focuses on life in the Bowery
Stephen Crane
The O'Ruddy
Stephen Crane
The Monster
Flannery O'Connor
A Good Man is Hard to Find; Bailey, Grandmother, John Wesley, June Star, Hiram, Bobby Lee
Flannery O'Connor
Mr. Head denies knowing Nelson; doesn't want to pay medical bill
Flannery O'Connor
"Green Leaf"; Mrs. May is ultimately killed by an animal on the farm
Flannery O'Connor
Wise Blood; Enoch Emery's theft of "the new jesus" and the fake blind man Asa Hawks; Hazel Motes
Flannery O'Connor
The Violent Bear it Away; Francis Marion Tarwater
Flannery O'Connor
Everything that Rises Must Converge
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Man named Finito made a scene at a dinner after being hit by a bull
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Another of its characters is moved by reading the letters of a dead cavalryman
For Whom the Bell Tolls
One group in this novel meets with a force under El Sordo, who is later ambushed on a hill
For Whom the Bell Tolls
In this novel, the elderly Anselmo is tasked with killing a sentry
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Pilar's husband Pablo steals detonators
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Novel about Robert Jordan which is set during the Spanish Civil War
A Farewell to Arms
Miss Van Campen actively keeps an eye on the protagonist
A Farewell to Arms
Count Greffi is a virile 94-year old who acts as a father figure to the protagonist
A Farewell to Arms
Miss Ferguson and Miss Gage tacitly disapprove of a burgeoning relationship
A Farewell to Arms
Moretti's egotism and Gino's patriotism
A Farewell to Arms
Doomed WWI love of Catharine Barkley and Frederic Henry
A Farewell to Arms
The chaos of the retreat and some help from Ralph Simmons allow the couple to row from Stresa to Switzerland
A Farewell to Arms
Hero is recuperating after an operation done by Dr. Valentini
A Farewell to Arms
Eventually protagonist flees from the retreat at Caporetto to Switzerland with his lover
The Sun Also Rises
Narrator's insecurity is evident when he explains to Georgette the reason why he cannot have sex with her
The Sun Also Rises
One character in this novel spends an evening drinking with Harvey Stone at the Café Select
The Sun Also Rises
Unpleasant encounter with Frances Clyne and her lover
The Sun Also Rises
Back at the Montoya Hotel, a young man named Pedro Romero proves attractive to this novel's central female character
The Sun Also Rises
Writer Bill Gorton, a friend of the narrator, and another writer, Robert Cohn
The Sun Also Rises
Michael Campbell is the drunken fiancé of Lady Brett Ashley in this story told by Jake Barnes
The Old Man and the Sea
84 days without catching a fish
The Old Man and the Sea
Boy's favorite baseball player is Joe Dimaggio
The Old Man and the Sea
Trying to get a marlin to take bait
The Old Man and the Sea
Tourists at the nearby café mistakenly take it for a shark
The Old Man and the Sea
Manolin, worried during the old man's endeavor, cries upon finding him safe asleep
The Old Man and the Sea
The boy brings central character newspapers and coffee
The Old Man and the Sea
Upon his return to sleep, central character dreams of his youth—of lions on an African beach
Ernest Hemingway
"Cat in the Rain" and "The Battler"
Ernest Hemingway
"Islands in the Stream" and "True at First Light"
Ernest Hemingway
Harry Morgan runs contraband
Ernest Hemingway
Wounded Mexican named Cayetano recovers along with the writer Mr. Frazer
Ernest Hemingway
"A Day's Wait"
Ernest Hemingway
"A Clean Well Lighted Place"
Ernest Hemingway
"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
Ernest Hemingway
Wilson asks Margot, "Why didn't you poison him"
Ernest Hemingway
Another short story by this author sees Al and Max discuss murdering the boxer Ole Andreson
Herman Melville
Wrote a novel in which the title character pretends to be president of Black Rapids Coal Company on the Fidele on April Fools' Day
Herman Melville
Nippers, Turkey, and Ginger Nut are coworkers of the titular Wall Street worker
Herman Melville
The Confidence Man
Herman Melville
The Piazza Tales
Herman Melville
The titular sailor punches Claggart before getting hung by Captain Vere
Herman Melville
Ratcliffe's impressment of a character
Herman Melville
"The Bell-Tower"; Architect Bannadonna is killed by his automaton
Herman Melville
"The Lightning-Rod Man"
Herman Melville
Redburn
Herman Melville
The Encantadas; The mestizo Hunilla is stranded on Norfolk Island
Herman Melville
Timoleon
Herman Melville
Seminole Widow, Orphan Society, and a beggar named Black Guinea
Herman Melville
This author coined the phrase "the shock of recognition" in his essay "Hawthorne and His Mosses."
Herman Melville
One of his title characters has a vision of Enceladus' attack on the Mount of Titans before he drinks poison
Herman Melville
Amasa Delano's discovery of a slave rebellion led by Babu aboard the San Dominick in Benito Cereno
Moby Dick
Fedallah (Devil in Disguise, Braided Beard, Zoroastrian)
Moby Dick
Pip (drowning, set adrift)
Moby Dick
Father Mapple
Moby Dick
Aunt Charity
Moby Dick
Sprouter Inn
Moby Dick
A Shaker man who believes he is the angel Gabriel declares that the title character is a god
Moby Dick
Prediction that one character will be killed by hemp rope is correctly made
Moby Dick
New Bedford
Moby Dick
A man named Elijah asks this novel's protagonist if he has sold his soul to the devil to work for "Old Thunder"
Moby Dick
"Queen Mab" describes a dream in which a merman tells the dreamer that it's honorable to get kicked
Candide
Title character meets Pococurante
Candide
Title character is expelled from the castle of Baron Thunder-Ten-Tronckh
Candide
Cunégonde is love interest
Candide
Cacambo encounters El Dorado with main character
Candide
Dour philosopher Martin
Candide
Protagonist must choose between being flogged thirty-six times by every soldier in a regiment and having twelve bullets in his brain
Candide
Jacques the Anabaptist dies near Lisbon
Candide
A hangman's inability to tie a proper knot saves one character from death
Candide
One character criticizes Homer's Iliad, the works of Milton, and everything else in his house
Candide
Two characters take diamonds on a convoy of red sheep
Theodore Dreiser
Trilogy of Desire
Theodore Dreiser
The Financier
Theodore Dreiser
Frank Copperwood
Theodore Dreiser
George Hurstwood embezzles money to elope with the title character, but that member of the Meeber family eventually abandons him
Theodore Dreiser
Sherwood Anderson wrote a noted tribute to this author in Horses and Men
Theodore Dreiser
The Titan
Theodore Dreiser
The Stoic
Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser
Painter Eugene Witla and a man who marries Aileen Butler
An American Tragedy
Social climber Clyde Griffiths drowning the pregnant Roberta Alden
An American Tragedy
When the protagonist is working in a hotel in Kansas City, he falls in love with Hortense Briggs.
An American Tragedy
Characters in this work include the bad influences Thomas Ratterer and Willard Sparser
An American Tragedy
The protagonist of this novel has a sister named Esta who is impregnated and abandoned by her lover
An American Tragedy
Both Ratterer and the protagonist had held the same job at the Green-Davidson
An American Tragedy
The protagonist of this novel mixes lemonade and Coca-Cola at a drugstore
An American Tragedy
Lusts after the wealthy Sondra Finchley
An American Tragedy
Big Bittern Lake
Sinclair Lewis
It Can't Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis
Elmer Gantry
Sinclair Lewis
US is turned into a fascist state led by President "Buzz" Windrip
Sinclair Lewis
Kingsblood Royal
Sinclair Lewis
Created the fictional US state of Winnemac
Sinclair Lewis
Arrowsmith
Sinclair Lewis
Dodsworth
Sinclair Lewis
The Revelation Motor Company
Sinclair Lewis
Free Air
Sinclair Lewis
The Job
Sinclair Lewis
The Trail of the Hawk
Sinclair Lewis
Ann Vickers
Babbitt
"The Prophet with a Punch"; Prizefighter-turned-evangelist Mike Monday
Babbitt
Howard Littlefield drags his daughter away from the protagonist's son
Babbitt
The main character of this novel has an affair with Tanis Judique
Babbitt
Best friend Paul Riesling is incarcerated
Babbitt
Good Citizen's League
Babbitt
Husband of Myra
Babbitt
His oldest child is a Bryn Mawr alum who married Kenneth Escott
Babbitt
Coal-dealer Vergil Gunch is shocked after this character begins associating with the socialist Seneca Doane
Main Street
Cy Bogart
Main Street
Vida Sherman marries Raymond Wutherspoon
Main Street
Carol Kennicott and Gopher Prairie
Main Street
Hugh to Washington state
Main Street
Androcles and the Lion
Main Street
The protagonist of this work scandalized her husband Will by redecorating his Victorian House
Main Street
Percy Bresnahan, the president of the Velvet Motor Company
Main Street
Members of the Thanatopsis club instead choose The Girl from Kankakee
Chinua Achebe
An Image of Africa
Chinua Achebe
"Dead Men's Path"
Chinua Achebe
Arrow of God; Heated battle between the Okperi and Umuaro is stopped by Captain Winterbottom
Chinua Achebe
"Civil Peace"
Chinua Achebe
"Marriage is a Private Affair"
Chinua Achebe
"Today, a Balance of Stories"
Chinua Achebe
Morning Yet on Creation Day
Chinua Achebe
Thieves who demand one hundred pounds from Jonathan
Chinua Achebe
My Home Under Imperial Fire
Chinua Achebe
The Empire Fights Back
Things Fall Apart
Royal python was killed by Enoch
Things Fall Apart
School is built by Mr. Brown, who is a missionary sent to the village
Things Fall Apart
Search for the iyi uwa, a sacred stone that links the ogbanje Ezinma with the spirit world
Things Fall Apart
Villagers in this work disregard the fate of the village Abame
Things Fall Apart
People riding "iron horses"
Things Fall Apart
"If a man says yes, his chi says yes also."
Things Fall Apart
One character in this novel breaks the Week of Peace
Things Fall Apart
Main character gained fame when he wrestled Amalinze the Cat
Things Fall Apart
Tortoise loses the smoothness of his shell
Things Fall Apart
The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger
Thomas Mann
"Kleist's Amphitryon"
Thomas Mann
"Freud and the Future"
Thomas Mann
Apocalypse cum figures
Thomas Mann
"Disorder and Early Sorrow"
Thomas Mann
Austere history professor Dr. Cornelius is grieved at his five year old daughter Ellie's attachment to Max Hergesell
Thomas Mann
Hypnotist by the name of Cipolla is eventually assassinated by the title character who hails from the small Italian town of Torre di Venere
Thomas Mann
Detlev Spinell writes Herr Kloterjahn a letter accusing him of not being worthy of his wife
Thomas Mann
Tristan
Thomas Mann
Felix Krull
Thomas Mann
Mario and the Magician
Buddenbrooks
Parties were once again held at the Mengstrasse mansion
Buddenbrooks
One of the characters' marriage to Gerda
Buddenbrooks
Herr Weinschenk married Erica but was ultimately sent to prison for business improprieties
Buddenbrooks
Beer merchant Herr Permaneder has an affair after marrying Tony
Buddenbrooks
Little Hanno
The Magic Mountain
"Walpurgis Night"
The Magic Mountain
"The Great Petulance"
The Magic Mountain
Radicalism of Leo Naptha with the humanism of Settembrini
The Magic Mountain
Protagonist successfully pursues Clavdia Clauchat
The Magic Mountain
Mynheer Peeperkorn comes to the title location after working in Java
The Magic Mountain
Hans Castorp's stay in a Swiss sanatorium
Doktor Faustus
Serenus Zeitblom
Doktor Faustus
Rudiger Schildnapp inspires this novel's main character to plan an work based on Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost
Doktor Faustus
Influence of Ehrenhrid Kumpf and Eberhard Schleppfuss at the University of Halle
Doktor Faustus
Oratorio titled Apocalypse
Doktor Faustus
Adrian Leverkuhn
Doktor Faustus
Marvels of the Universe
Doktor Faustus
A character in this novel nicknamed "Echo," Nepomuk, dies of meningitis while visiting the main character's farm
Siddhartha
Title character learns business from Kamaswami
Siddhartha
Apprentices to ferryman Vasudeva
Siddhartha
Protagonist's lover is Kamala, who is killed by snakebite after childbirth
Siddhartha
Kamala's son steals all the money from his house
Siddhartha
Dreams that Govinda, his best friend, turns into a woman and kisses him
Siddhartha
Protagonist is in search of Gotama
Siddhartha
Spends time with the Samanas; he can control one Samana's mind
Steppenwolf
The title character falls asleep at a bar called the Black Eagle after attending a dinner party where he insults a portrait of Goethe
Steppenwolf
Title character used to love Rosa Kreisler
Steppenwolf
There is a show advertised "For madmen only" after the Fancy Dress Ball; happens in horseshoe-shaped Magic Theater; Pablo the Saxophonist takes him there
Steppenwolf
Harry Haller is protagonist; he has a half man, half wolf personality
Steppenwolf
Protagonist has affair with Maria
Steppenwolf
Discusses Indian philosophy with landlady
Steppenwolf
A professor of oriental religion is chastised for his nationalistic views
Steppenwolf
After a discussion with Hermine, the protagonist notices a cinema playing The Ten Commandments.
The Glass Bead Game
Joseph Knecht is protagonist
The Glass Bead Game
Events include learning the art of meditation from the Music Master and debating with Plinio Designori about the merits of the insular Castalia.
The Glass Bead Game
Part of this novel recalls the long-dead Plinius
The Glass Bead Game
The protagonist of this novel dies while taking care of the child of his friend and rival Plinio Designori
The Glass Bead Game
Dasa becomes the disciple of a yogi
The Glass Bead Game
This novel represents Nietzsche as Fritz Tegularius, and Thomas Mann as Thomas van der Trave.
The Glass Bead Game
The builder of an organ takes the name Silbermann to hide his identity in this work
Herman Hesse
Hans Giebenrath befriends Hermann Heilner
Herman Hesse
Narcissus and Goldmund
Herman Hesse
Franz Kromer bullies a boy who studies Abraxas with Pistorus, Emil Sinclair; Demian
Herman Hesse
Beneath the Wheel
Herman Hesse
"Strange News from Another Star"
Herman Hesse
Protagonist befriends an older boy named Alfons Beck