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LIST OF THE TITLES MENTIONED IN THE BOOK English Literature
1//() 13, 16 19
Geffrey Chauser (1340-1400)
CanterburyTales ( ) 35 37,241
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Utopia () 50
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
Tamburlaine the Great () 54 Doctor Faustus ( ) 54 The Jew of Malta ( ) 54 Edward//( II) 54
William Shakespeare (1565-1616)
Love's Labour's Lost ( ) 61
The Comedy of Errors ( ) 61
The Two Gentlemen of Verona ( ) 61
A Midsummer Night's Dream ( ) 61
The Merchant of Venice ( ) 62
77ie Taming of the Shrew ( ) 62
Much Ado About Nothing ( ) 62
The Merry Wives of Windsor ( ) 62
As You Like It ( ) 62
Twelfth Night ( ) 62 63
King Henry VI ( VI) 68
The Tragedy ofKing Richard III (ػ) 68
Titus Andronicus ( ) 68
The Tragedy ofKing Richard II (Ȼ) 68
The Life and Death of King John ( ) 68
King Henry /V( IV) 68
The Life of King Henry V ( V) 68
Romeo and Juliet ( ) 68, 81,82
Julius Caesar ( ) 68
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark () 70, 71 76
Troilus and Cressida ( ) 70
Othello, the Moor of Venice () 70,71, 82
King Lear ( ) 70,71, 81
Macbeth () 70,71,82
Antony and Cleopatra ( ) 70
Coriolanus () 70
Timon of Athens ( ) 70
All's Well That Ends Well ( ) 70
Measure for Measure ( ) 70
Pericles, Prince of Tyre () 70
Cymbeline () 80 t
The Winter's Tale ( ) 80
The Tempest () 80,82
Henry VIII (VIII) 80
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Four Pastorals () 87
Essay on Criticism ( ) 87
The Rape of the Lock ( ) 87
TheDunciad () 88
The Essay on Man ( ) 88
Moral Essays ( ) 88
Daniel Defoe (1661-1731)
Essay on Projects ( ) 90 Hymn to the Pillory ( ) 90 Robinson Crusoe ( ) 90,91 92 Captain Singleton ( ) 90 Moll Flenders () 90 Colonel Jack ( ) 90 Roxana () 90
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
The Battle of the Books ( ) 94
A Tale of a Tub ( ) 94
Gulliver's Travels ( ) 95 98
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (,
) 100 My Heart's in the Highlands ( ) 102103 Address to Edinburgh ( ) 103 Bruce atBannockburn (-) 103 104 A Man's A Man ForA'That ( ) 104 105 The Tree of Liberty ( ) 105 John Barleycorn ( .) 105 106 Oh, My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose ( , ...)
106-107 Auld Lang Syne ( ) 107 The Book-Warms ( ) 108 The Parson's Looks ( ) 108 Pinned to a Lady's Coach ( ) 109
William Blake (1757-1827)
Songs of Innocence ( ) 112
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ( ) 112
Songs of Experience ( ) 112
The Tiger () 112,113-114
The Lamb () 112
London () 114
The ChimneySweeper ( ) 115
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Lyrical Ballads ( ) 119 The Daffodils ( ) 120
George Byron (1788-1824)
Hours of Idleness ( ) 122
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (
) 123 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage ( )
124,127-130 Oriental Tales ( ) 124 The Giaour () 124 The Corsair () 124
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Ode to the Framers oftheFrame Bill (
) 124,135 The Prisoner of Chillon ( ) 124 Manfred () 124
Song for £ Luddites () 125,135136 () 125 DonJuan ( ) 125,131 - 134 The Prophecy of Dante ( ) 125 Cain () 125
Percy Byshe Shelley (1792-1822)
The Necessity of Atheism ( ) 137
Queen Mab ( ) 138
The Revolt of Islam ( ) 138
Prometheus Unbound ( ) 138
The Masque of Anarchy ( ) 139
Song to the Men of England ( ) 139140
The Cloud () 140
To a Skylark () 140
Ode to the West Wind ( ) 140
Winter () 140
Walter Scott (1771-1832)
The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border ( ) 142 The Lay of the Last Minstrel ( ) 142 Marmion () 143
The Lady of the Lake Waverley ( ) 143 Waverley () 143 GuyMahnering ( ) 143 The Antiquary () 143 The BlackDwarf ( ) 143 Old Mortality () 143 Rob Roy ( ) 143
The Heart of Midlothian ( ) 143 The Bride ofLammermoor ( ) 143 The Legend of Montrose ( ) 143 Ivanhoe () 143,145146
The Monastery () 143 The Abbot () 143 Kenilworth () 143 QuentinDurward ( ) 143
Jane Austen (1795-1817)
Sense and Sensibility ( ) 148
Pride and Prejudice ( ) 148
Mansfield Park (-) 148
Emma () 148
Norfnanger Abbey ( ) 148
Persuasion () 149
Sandition () 149
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
SketchesbyBoz ( ) 156
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (
)156 Oliver Twist ( ) 156 157 Nicholas Nickelby ( ) 157 158 The Old Curiosity Shop ( ) 158 Barnaby Rudge ( ) 158 American Notes ( ) 158 Martin Chuzzlewit ( ) 158 A Christmas Carol ( ) 158 The Chimes () 158 The Cricket on the Hearth ( ) 158 Dombeyand Son ( ) 158,159 161 David Copperfield () 158 Bleak House ( ) 158 Hard Times ( ) 158 Little Dorrit ( ) 158 A Tale of Two Cities ( ) 158 Great Expectations ( ) 159 Our Mutual Friend ( ) 159 The Mystery of Edwin Drood ( ) 159
William Thackeray (1811-1863)
The Book of Snobs ( ) 163
Vanity Fair ( ) 163, 165168
The History of Pendennis ( ) 163
TheNewcomes () 163
Henry Esmond ( ) 164
The Virginians () 164
DenisDuval( ) 164
Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)
The Professor () 170 JaneEyre ( ) 170, 171 - 172 Snz'r/ey () 170 Villette () 170
Emily Bronte (1818-1848)
WutheringHeights ( ) 173
Anne Bronte (1820-1849)
Agnes Grey ( ) 170
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ( ) 170,174
George Elliot (1819-1881)
Adam Bede ( ) 176
The Mill on the Floss ( ) 176, 177
Silas Marner ( ) 176
Romola () 176
Felix Holt, the Radical ( , ) 176
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Daniel Deronda () 176
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
) 183,184 Alice through the Looking Glass ( ) 184 The Hun ting in the Snark ( ) 184
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Desperate Remedies ( ) 186
Under the Greenwood Tree ( ) 186
Far from the Madding Crowd ( ) 186
The Return of the Native ( ) 186
The Mayor of Casterbridge () 186
The Woodlanders ( ) 186
Wessex Tales ( ) 186
TessoftheD'Urbervilles ( ') 186, 188
Jude the Obscure ( ) 186
The Dynasts ( ) 187
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
The Land of Counterpane ( ) 189, 190
A Child's Garden of Verse ( ) 190
Treasure Island ( ) 191,192
The BlackArrow ( ) 191
Kidnapped () 191
Catriona () 191
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde (
) 191 The Master of Ballantrae ( ) 191 WeirofHerminston ( ) 191
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
The Happy Prince and Other Tales () 193, 197
The Picture o/Dorecm Gray ( ) 193,194 196
Lady Windermere's Fan (Beep ) 193
A Woman of No Importance (, ) 193
An Ideal Husband ( ) 193
The Importance of Being Earnest ( ) 193
The Ballad of Reading Gaol ( ) 194
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Departmental Ditties ( ) 199 Barrack Room Ballads ( ) 199 The Seven Seas ( ) 199
The Five Nations ( ) 199 //...() 199-200 The Jungle Books ( ) 200 Captains Courageous ( ) 200 Just So Stories ( ) 200 Something of Myself (- ) 200
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Widower's Houses ( ) 205
The Philanderer () 205
Mrs Warren's Profession ( ) 205
Arms and the Man ( ) 205
The Man of Destiny ( ) 205
Candida () 205
Three Plays for Puritans ( ) 205
Caesar and Cleopatra ( ) 205
The Devil's Disciple ( ) 205
CaptainBrassbound's Conversion ( -)205 Pygmalion () 206,208 210 The Apple Cart ( ) 206 Too True to Be Good (, ) 206
Herbert Wells (1866-1946)
The Time Machine ( ) 212,213
The Invisible Man (-) 212,213,214
The War of the Worlds ( ) 212
The First Men in the Moon ( ) 212
Russia in the Shadows ( ) 212
The World of William Clissold ( ) 212
Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island (
)212 Experiment in Autobiography ( ) 212 The Warin the Air ( ) 213 When the Sleeper Wakes ( ) 213
John Galthworthy (1867-1933)
Jocelyn () 216
VillaRubein ( ) 216
The Island of Pharisees ( ) 216
The Country House () 216
Fraternity () 216
The Patrician () 216
The Dark Flower ( ) 216
The Freelands () 216
The Forsyte Saga ( ) 216,217
The Man of Property () 216,219 - 221 In Chancery ( ) 216
let ( ) 216 Awakening () 216
Indian Summer of a Forsyte ( ) 216 AModern Comedy ( ) 216
The White Monkey ( ) 216
The Silver Spoon ( ) 216
The Swan Song ( ) 217
ASilent Wooing () 217
Passers-By () 217 End of the Chapter ( ) 217
Maid m Waiting (-) 217
Flowering Wilderness ( ) 217
Over the River ( ) 217 Strife () 217 The Mob () 217
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
The Wild Knight ( ) 222 The Defendant ( 222 Twelve Types ( ) 222 Heretics () 222
The ]٫>>) 222 77ie Club of Queer Trades ( ) 222 The Man Who Was Thursday (, ) 222 The Innocence of Father Brown ( ) 222 The Wisdom () 222 The Incredulity () 222 The Secret () 222
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The Scandal of Father Brown ( ) 222
Somerse t Ma ugham (1874-1965)
Liza of Lambeth () 224
Of Human Bondage ( ) 224
Cakes and Ale ( ) 225
The Moon and Sixpence ( ) 225
Theatre () 227
Razor's Edge ( ) 227
Rain () 227
The Unconquered () 227
Gigolo and Gigolette ( ) 227
The Man with the Scar ( ) 227
The Luncheon () 227
Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970)
Where Angels Fear to Tread ( ) 228
A Room With a View ( ) 228,229
The Longest Journey ( ) 228
Howards End ( ) 229
A Passage to India ( ) 229,230 231
Aspects of the Novel ( ) 229
Eternal Moment ( ) 229
Abinger Harvest ( ) 229
Two Cheers for Democracy ( ) 229
James Joyce (1882-1941)
Dubliners () 235
The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ( ) 236 Ulysses () 236 237 Finnegan's Wake ( ) 237
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
The Voyage Out () 238 Night and Day ( ) 238 Jacob's Rom ( ) 238 Mrs Dalloway ( ) 239 To the lighthouse ( ) 239 The Waves () 239
Orlando () 239
The Years () 239
Between the Acts ( ) 239
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ( .
) 240 TheWasteLand ( ) 241 Ash Wednesday ( ) 241 Murder in the Cathedral ( ) 241 The Four Quarters ( ) 241 The Family Reunion ( ) 241 The Cocktail Party ( ) 242 The Confidential Clerk ( ) 242 The Elder Statesman ( ) 242
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
Crome Yellow ( ) 244
Antic Hay ( ) 244
Point Counter Point () 244
Brave New World (, ) 244,245
Doors of Perception ( ) 244
Heaven and Hell ( ) 244
After Many a Summer Dies (TSwan ( ) 244
Ape and Essence ( ) 244
The Doors of Perception ( ) 244
Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles ( )
246 Curtain () 247
The Murder of RogerAckroyd ( ) 247 The Mousetrap () 247 Witness for the Prosecution ( ) 247
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)
The Silmarillion () 248
TheHobbit () 249
The Lord of the Rings ( ) 249
George Orwell (1903-1950)
Burmese Days ( )
Down and Out in Paris and London (
) 253 A Clergyman's Daughter ( ) 253 The Road to Wigan Pier ( ) 253 Homage to Catalonia ( ) 253 Animal Farm ( ) 254 255 Nineteen Eighty-four ( ) 254
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
Proust () 257
More Pricks than Kicks ( , ) 257
Murphy (̸) 257
Watt () 257
Molloy () 257
MaloneDies () 257
The Unnameable () 257
Waiting for Godot ( ) 251,257,258 - 259
Krapp's Last Tape ( ) 257
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Happy Days ( ) 257
William Golding (1911)
Lord of the Flies ( ) 260,261 262
The Inheritors () 260
PincherMartin ( ) 260
Free Fall ( ) 260
The Spire () 260
Darkness Visible ( ) 260
Rites of Passage ( ) 260
Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)
Under the Net ( ) 263
The Bell () 263
The Red and the Green ( ) 263
Black Prince ( ) 263
A World of Child ( ) 263
The Sea, the Sea (, ) 263
American Literature
Washington Irving
A History of New-York ( ) 276
Sketch Book ( ) 276,277
Bracebridge Hall () 276
Tales of a Traveller ( ) 276
TheAlhambra () 276
Rip Van Winkle ( ) 277
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ( ) 277
Fenimoie Cooper (1789-1859)
Precaution () 278
Spy () 278
The Pioneers () 279,280
T he Last of the Mohicans ( ) 279,280
TheLeatherstocking Tales ( ) 279,280
TheDeerslayer () 279,280
The Pathfinder () 279,280
The Prairie () 279,280
The Pilot () 279
Red Rover ( ) 279
The Two Admirals ( ) 279
Lionel Lincoln ( ) 279
The Bravo () 279
TheHeidenmauer () 279
The Headsman () 279
TheMonikins () 279
Homeward Bound () 279
Home as Found () 279
A Letter to his Countrymen ( ) 279
The American Democrat () 279
Edgar (1809-1849)
Tamerlane and Other Poems ( ) 282 AlAaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems ( ,
)282 MS Found in a Bottle (, ) 282 The Fall of the House of Usher ( ) 283 The Black Cat ( ) 283
The Descent into Maelstrom ( ) 283 The Murders in Rue Morgue ( ) 284 The Mystery of Marie Roget ( ) 284 The Raven () 284 The Bells () 284 Annabel Lee () 284
Henry Longfellow (1807-1882)
Hyperion () 285
Voices of the Night ( ) 286
Poems on Slavery ( ) 286, 287
The Slave's Dream ( ) 286
The Negro in the Dismal Swamp ( ) 286
Evangeline () 287
The Building of the Ship ( ) 287
The Song of Hiawatha ( ) 288,290 293
Poets of Europe ( ) 289
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The Celebrated Jumping Frog ofCalaveras Country (
) 298 The Innocents Abroad ( ) 298 The GuildedAge ( ) 299
The Adventures of Sawyer ( ) 299 300 A Tramp Abroad ( ) 299 The Prince and the Pauper ( ) 299, 302 303 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( )
299,301-302 A Connecticut Yankee in the Court ofKing Arthur (
) 299 The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (, -
)299 Autobiography () 299
O.Henry (1862-1910)
Cabbages and Kings ( ) 305
The Four Million ( ) 305
The Trimmed Lamp ( ) 305
Heart of the West ( ) 305
The Voice of the City ( ) 305
The Gentle Graffer ( ) 305
Roads of Destiny (, ) 305
Options () 305
Strictly Business ( ) 305
The Ransom of Red Chief ( ) 305
The Gift of Magi ( ) 306
A Service of Love ( ) 306
The Last Leaf {/ ) 306
The Cop and the Anthem ( ) 306
Jack London (1876-1916)
To the Man on Trail ( , ) 309
The Son of the Wolf ( ) 309
The God of His Fathers ( ) 309
Children of the Frost ( ) 309
A Daughter of the Snows ( ) 309
The Call of the Wild ( ) 309
The People of the Abyss ( ) 309
The War of the Classes ( ) 309
The Iron Heel ( ) 309
Revolution and other Essays () 309
The White Fang ( ) 310
The South Sea Tales ( ) 310
MartinEden () 310,311 313
The Valley of the Moon ( ) 310
The Little Lady of the Big House ( ) 310
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
Sister Carrie ( ) 317
Jennie Gerhardt ( ) 317
The Financier () 317
The Titan () 317
The Stoic () 317
The Trilogy of Desire ( ) 317
The Genius () 317
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AnAmerican Tragedy () 317,318
Dreiser Looks at Russia () 317
Tragic America ( ) 317
America Is Worth Saying ( ) 317
The Bulwark () 317
Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
This Side of Paradise ( ) 321
The Beautiful and Damned ( ) 321
Great Gatsby ( ) 321,322
Tender is the Nigh t ( ) 321
Tales of the Jazz Age ( ) 321
AlltheSad YoungMen ( ) 321
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
The Marble Faun ( ) 324 Soldiers Pay ( ) 324 Mosquitos () 324 Sartories () 324 The Sound and the Fury ( ) 324 Sanctuary () 324 As ILay Dying ( ) 324 Light in August ( ) 324 Absalom, Absalom! (, !) 324 Go Down, Moses, and Other Stories (, , ) 324 The Bear () 324
Intruder in the Dust ( ) 324 The Snopes Trilogy ( ) 324
The Hamlet () 324
Town () 324
The Mansion () 324 The Fable () 324
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In Our Time ( ) 327 The Sun Also Rises ( ) 327 AFarewell to Arms (, ) 327,328,330-331 Men Without Women ( ) 327 Winner Take Nothing ( ) 327 Death in the Afternoon ( ) 327 The Green Hills of Africa () 327 The Snows of Kilimangaro ( ) 327 The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber ( ) 327
The Spanish Earth ( ) 327
The Fifth Column ( ) 327
For Whom the Bell Tolls ( ) 327
Men at War ( ) 328
The Old Man and the Sea ( ) 327,331 332
Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)
Gone with the Wind ( ) 334
Jerome Salinger (1919)
Young Men ( ) 338
The Catcher in the Rye ( ) 337,338 339
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
On theRoad () 341
TheDharma Bums ( ) 341
Doctor Sax ( ) 341
Big Sur ( ) 341
Desolation Angels ( ) 341
John Updike (1932)
The Carpentered Hen and Othjer Tame Creatures (
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ENGLISH LITERATURE
THE DAWN OF ENGLISH LITERATURE...................................................... 9
The Ancient Britons and Their Language..................................................... 9
The Roman Invasion......................................................................................... 11
The Invasion by Germanic Tribes............................................................... 12
Literature of the Germanic Tribes................................................................ 14
ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE (the 7th - 11th centuries)........................... 22
The Danish Conquest and Its Influence on the Language
of the Anglo-Saxons................................................................................. 25
THE NORMAN PERIOD (the 12th - 13th centuries)..................................... 27
The Norman Conquest.................................................................................. 27
Literature in the Norman Times................................................................... 30
ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE 14th CENTURY..................................... 32
Pre-Renaissance in England.......................................................................... 32
Geoffrey Chaucer........................................................................................... 34
ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE 15th CENTURY..................................... 39
The Wars of the Roses................................................................................... 39
Folk-Songs and Ballads................................................................................. 40
ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE 16th CENTURY..................................... 45
The Renaissance............................................................................................. 47
Thomas More.................................................................................................. 50
The Development of Drama in England.................................................... 51
Christopher Marlowe....................................................................................... 54
William Shakespeare..................................................................................... 55
ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE 17th- 18th CENTURY........................... 84
Enlightenment................................................................................................. 84
Alexander Pope............................................................................................... 87
DanielDefoe..................................................................................................... 89
Jonathan Swift................................................................................................ 93
RobertBurns..................................................................................................... 99
ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE SECOND HALF
OFTHE 18thCENTURY......................................................................... Ill
Pre-Romanticism........................................................................................... Ill
William Blake................................................................................................ 112
ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE BEGINNING
OFTHE 19th CENTURY........................................................................ 117
Romanticism................................................................................................. 117
William Wordsworth.................................................................................... 119
George Byron................................................................................................... 121
Percy Bysshe Shelley....................................................................................... 137
WalterScott....................................................................................................... 142
Jane Austen....................................................................................................... 147
ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE 19TH CENTURY
Critical Realism............................................................................................. 151
Charles Dickens............................................................................................ 152
William Thackeray....................................................................................... 162
The Bronte Sisters......................................................................................... 169
George Eliot.................................................................................................. 175
ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE SECOND HALF
OFTHE 19th CENTURY.......................................................................... 179
Lewis Carroll................................................................................................... 182
ThomasHardy...................,........................................................................... 185
V Robert Louis Stevenson................................................................................... 189
OscarWilde.................................................................................................... 193
Rudyard Kipling............................................................................................. 199
THE EARLY 20th CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE.......................... 202
Bernard Shaw................................................................................................ 203
Herbert Wells................................................................................................. 211
John Galsworthy........................................................................................... 215
Gilbert Keith Chesterton...........................................................................222
Somerset Maugham...................................................................................... 223
Edward Morgan Forster............................................................................. 228
ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE 20TH CENTURY (THE 20s - 30s).. 233
James Joyce..................................................................................................... 235
Virginia Woolf.............................................................................................. 238
Thomas Stearns Eliot.................................................................................... 240
Aldous Huxley...........................,................................................................... 243
Agatha Christie............................................................................................. 246
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien........................................................................ 248
^OST-WARAND MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE.............................. 251
George Orwell............................................................................................... 252
Samuel Beckett.............................................................................................. 256
William Golding........................................................................................... 260
IrisMurdoch................................................................................................... 263
AMERICAN LITERATURE
THE BEGINNING OF LITERATURE IN AMERICA................................. 267
Historical Background.................................................... '........................... 267
Enlightenment in America........................................................................... 269
AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE FIRST HALF
OFTHE 19thCENTURY.......................................................................... 272
Romanticism.................................................................................................. 272
Washington Irving........................................................................................ 275
Fenimore Cooper........................................................................................... 278
EdgarPoe........................................................................................................ 282
Henry Longfellow.......................................................................................... 285
AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19th
CENTURY AND THE BEGINNING OF THE 20th CENTURY.. 295
Critical realism............................................................................................... 295
Mark Twain.................................................................................................... 296
O. Henry.......................................................................................................... 304
JackLondon................................................................................................... 307
AMERICAN LITERATURE BETWEEN 1917 AND WORLD WARII.. 315
Theodore Dreiser.......................................................................... f............... 316
Francis Scott Fitzgerald.............................................................................. 320
William Faulkner............ i............................................................................ 323
Ernest Hemingway......................................................................................... 325
Margaret Mitchell ____............................................................................... 333
AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE POST-WAR PERIOD...................... 336
Jerome Salinger............................................................................................. 337
Jack Kerouac................................................................................................. 340
John Updike................................................................................................... 342
Ken Kesey....................................................................................................... 344
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List of the Titles Mentioned in the Book........................................................ 360
Sources.................................................................................................................. 377
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