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This document presents a list of notable books, authors, and literary movements. It includes titles, authors, and brief descriptions, along with important Awards.

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Literature Tintern Abbey - William Wordsworth Books & Authors The Idiot Boy - William Wordsworth Don Quixote (first modern novel) - Miguel Preface - William Wordsworth de Cervantes James Bon...

Literature Tintern Abbey - William Wordsworth Books & Authors The Idiot Boy - William Wordsworth Don Quixote (first modern novel) - Miguel Preface - William Wordsworth de Cervantes James Bond - Ian Fleming Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer The Divine Comedy (original name = La Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe commedia) (divided into 3 major sections: The Wandering Jew - Eugene Sue Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso) - Dante Paradise Lost (greatest epic poem in War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy English) - John Milton Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy Paradise Regained - John Milton Dracula - Bram Stoker Footnote to youth - Jose Garcia Villa Les Mandarins - Simone de Beauvoir Murder in the Cathedral - T.S. Eliot (Thomas David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Stearns Eliot OM) Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien (John (latest winner of pulitzer prize) Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Trust - Hernan Diaz (latest winner of pulitzer THe Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien prize) Voyage to Houynhnms (last book in The Spirit of Laws - Montesquieu Gulliver’s Travels) - Jonathan Swift Metamorphoses - Ovid The Time Machine - H.G. Wells (Herbert Bleak House - Charles Dickens George Wells) Areopagitica - John Milton The Defence of Poesie - Sir Philip Sidney Antony and Cleopatra - William The Murders in the Rue Morgue (First Shakespeare detective story) - Edgar Allan Poe (Father of Bioi parallēloi - Plutarch Horror) Parallel Lives - Sir Thomas North The Castle of Otranto (first gothic novel) - Horace Walpole Awards Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Caldecott Medal - annual prize awarded “to (greatest novelist of the victorian era) the artist of the most distinguished Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll (Charles American picture book for children” Ludwig Dodgson) Nebula Award - given annually for a book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis of science fiction Carroll (Alice Pleasance Liddell - inspired Coretta Scott King Book Awards - given in him) the United States by the American Library Argonautica - Apollonius of Rhodes Association (ALA) to African American Hero and Leander - Christopher Marlowe writers and illustrators of books for children (completed by George Chapman) or young adults The Gift of the Magi - O. Henry (William Prix Goncourt - French equivalent to the Sydney Porter) Pulitzer Prize in the United States or the A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Booker Prize in the United Kingdom Dune - Frank Herbert Pulitzer Prize - award administered by Lyrical Ballads - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Columbia University for achievements in and William Wordsworth newspaper, magazine, online journalism, Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor literature, and musical composition within Coleridge the United States. Henry Fielding - Father and Founder of the Movement English novel Imaginism - concerned with clear, direct Samuel Richarsdon - Founder of the expression English novel Beat movement - a.k.a. Beat Generation; Charles Dickens - Greatest novelist of the centered in the bohemian artist communities Victorian Era Symbolism - loosely organized literary and artistic movement that originated with a Theater group of French poets in the late 19th Theatre of Cruelty - was a project for an century experimental theatre that was proposed by the French poet, actor and theorist Antonin Words Artaud Aptronym - coined by Franklin P. Adams; Thespis - First actor in Greek Drama name that fits some aspect of a character A Midsummer Night’s Dream - comedy play Abstract poem - coined by Edith Sitwell; written by William Shakespeare describes a poem in which the words are chosen for their aural quality rather than specifically for their sense or meaning. Literary device Dramatic irony - the audience’s or reader’s understanding of events or individuals in a work surpasses that of its characters Pseudonym Saki - Hector Hugh Munro Characters James Bond - The designated Agent 007 in the British Secret Intelligence Service or MI6 Authors Geoffrey Chaucer - Father of literature Aristophanes - Father of Comedy Aeschylus - Father of Tragedy Maupassant - Father of modern short story Homer - Father of Epic literature Leo Tolstoy - Master of realistic fiction Simone de Beauvoir - won Prix Goncourt Barbara Kingsolver - latest winner of pulitzer prize Hernan Diaz - latest winner of pulitzer prize