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Sophocles, Golden Age of Ancient Greece, famous for birth of the tragedy
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Geoffrey Chaucer, medieval, popularising the literary use of vernacular English, Chaucer’s vivid and humorous verse and lively and lifelike characters his text was more accessible and he certainly brought English in from the cold to displace French and Latin in English writing
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Thomas More, contrast the problems of the world and suggests utopian practices are noble
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William Shakesphere, adadored from the tragical history of Romeus. Most famous love story in English literature.
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William Shakespeare, Renaissance
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Homer, epic poem, one of the the worlds oldest surviving texts.
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William Shakespeare, the end does not justify the means, evil does not lead to good, only more evil
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William Shakespeare, The destruction wrought when ambition goes unchecked by moral constraints
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John Milton, widely regarded as the greatest epic poem in the English language, substantially influenced the emergence of feminism in the 19th and 20th centuries
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Jonathon Edwards, Puritan
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Jane Austen, connection to pride and prejudice, popularizing the idea that readers could be interested in the everyday lives and emotions of characters who were not experiencing anything out of the ordinary
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Anonymous Anglo-Saxon, shows human prowess that everybody wants to acquire, fame among society, pride in oneself, and power to overcome
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Mary Shelley, pressing message is that science and technology can go too far
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Edgar Allen Poe, gothic, romanticism, used sensory detail and how to establish and evoke mood through description
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Charolette Bronte, this novel helped introduce the idea of “modern individual”, she changed the people’s perception of women
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Emily Brontë, Romanticism, psychological realism
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Charles Dickens, connected to Wuthering Heights,
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Edwin A. Abbott, British letters about Victorian society and unique insights
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Joseph Conrad, explores the issues of imperialism, displays darkness, alienation, and chaos
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Willa Cather, romanticism, strong feminism
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Herman Hesse, German Romanticism literature, challenges our ideas of what it means to lead a spiritual life, to strive after and to achieve meaningful self-growth through blind adherence to a religion, philosophy, or indeed any system of belief
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, realism, embodies the American spirit, will to reinvent oneself, disparity between rich and poor in a poignant way
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John Steinbeck, realism, about devastating impact of the Great Depression had on the financially well-being of Americans
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George Orwell, dystopian, late modern, influential in popular culture and in political culture, totalitarian and authoritarian social practices
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John Steinbeck, naturalism
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Arthur Miller, post modern, Salem witch trials inspiration
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Ray Bradbury, Contemporary, post modern
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William Golding, psychological fiction novel, literary phenomenon for society breakdown
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Ellie Wiesel, novel about his experiences as a Jew in the Holocaust and how it affected his faith, set during WW2 in Auschwitz
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John Knowels, realism novel, praised for its rich characterization, artful symbolism, and effective narrative
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Robert Bolt, Reformation
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Irving Shulman, fiction and romantic drama novel, two different films have been made out of the book.
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Toni Morrison, Reconstruction, provided a realistic insight on problems that African Americans face. Her writing was not meant to make readers comfortable — it was meant to create dialogue
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Sandra Cisneros, fiction novel, it affected and inspired the growth of culture novels.
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John Krakauer, romantic and transcendentalism novel, similar to Emerson and Thoreau
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Markus Zusack, historical fiction novel, provides a new perspective unit the world of the victims of the Holocaust