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Education - Sellersburg: High School Authors

A - H

Agee, James                                              A Death in the Family

Austin, Jane                                               Pride and Prejudice

Baldwin, James                                          Go Tell It on the Mountain

Beckett, Samuel                                         Waiting for Godot

Bellow, Saul                                                The Adventures of Augie March

Bronte, Charlotte                                        Jane Eyre

Bronte, Emily                                              Wuthering Heights

Camus, Albert                                             The Stranger

Cather, Willa                                               Death Comes for the Archbishop

Chaucer, Geoffrey                                      The Canterbury Tales

Chekhov, Anton                                          The Cherry Orchard

Chopin, Kate                                              The Awakening

Conrad, Joseph                                         Heart of Darkness

Cooper, James Fenimore                          The Last of the Mohicans

Dante                                                         Inferno

Defoe, Daniel                                             Robinson Crusoe   

Dickens, Charles                                        A Tale of Two Cities

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor                                Crime and Punishment

Douglass, Frederick                                   Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Dreiser, Theodore                                      An American Tragedy

Eliot, George                                              The Mill of the Floss

Ellison, Ralph                                             Invisible Man

Emerson, Ralph Waldo                              Selected Essays

Faulkner, William                                       As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury        

Fielding, Henry                                          Tom Jones

Fitzgerald, F. Scott                                    The Great Gatsby

Flaubert, Gustave                                     Madame Bovary

Ford, Ford Madox                                     The Good Soldier

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von                 Faust

Hardy, Thomas                                         Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Hawthorne, Nathaniel                                The Scarlet Letter

Heller, Joseph                                           Catch 22

Hemingway, Ernest                                   A Farewell to Arms

Homer                                                       The Iliad, The Odyssey

Hugo, Victor                                              The Hunchback of Notre Dame

I - Z

Ibsen, Henrik                                             A Doll’s House

James, Henry                                            The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw

Joyce, James                                            A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Kafka, Franz                                             The Metamorphosis

Kingston, Maxine Hong                            The Woman Warrior

Lewis, Sinclair                                           Babbitt

Mann, Thomas                                         The Magic Mountain

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia                          One Hundred Years of Solitude                        

Melville, Herman                                       Bartleby the Scrivener, Moby Dick

O’Connor, Flannery                                  A Good Man is Hard to Find

Pasternak, Boris                                         Dr. Zhivago

Plath, Skylvia                                            The Bell Jar

Proust, Marcel                                          Swann’s Way

Pynchon, Thomas                                    The Crying of Lot 49

Roth, Henry                                              Call it Sleep

Salinger, J.D.                                            The Catcher in the Rye

Shakespeare, William                               Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo & Juliet

Shaw, George Bernard                             Pygmalion

Shelley, Mary                                            Frankenstein

Silko, Leslie Marmon                                Ceremony

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander                           One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich

Sophocles                                                Antigone, Oedipus Rex

Steinbeck, John                                       The Grapes of Wrath

Stowe, Harriett Beecher                          Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Thackeray, William                                  Vanity Fair

Thoreau, Henry David                             Walden

Tolstoy, Leo                                             War and Peace

Turgenev, Ivan                                        Fathers and Sons

Voltaire                                                   Candide

Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.                                  Slaughterhouse-Five

Walker, Alice                                           The Color Purple

Wharton, Edith                                       The House of Mirth

Whitman, Walt                                        Leaves of Grass

Wilde, Oscar                                          The Picture of Dorian Gray

Williams, Tennessee                              The Glass Menagerie

Woolf, Virginia                                       To the Lighthouse