English IV: Cult Lit 1-13

An English author of the twentieth century who experimented with stream-of-consciousness narrative technique. Her works include the novel "To the Lighthouse" and the essay "A Room of One's Own," which is about the problems of female artists.

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A NOVEL OF SATIRE by George Orwell. Animals take over a farm to escape human tyranny, but the pigs treat the other animals worse than the people did. A famous quotation from the book is "ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS".

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A British author of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; her best known works are the novels "Pride and Prejudice" and "Emma". Austen is particularly famous for her witty irony and perceptive comments about people and their social relationships.

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Two English authors of the nineteenth century, known for their novels. Charlotte Bronte wrote "Jane Eyre"; her sister, wrote "Wuthering Heights".

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An English writer and logician, best known as the author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass".

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A poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson that celebrates the heroism of a British cavalry brigade in its doomed assault on much larger forces. The poem contains the well-known lines "Theirs not a reason why/ Theirs but to do and die".

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A novel by Charles Dickens, largely the story of Dickens's own life. David Copperfield is sent away to work at a very young age, and grows to manhood over the course of the book. The account of David's grim boyhood was designed to expose the cruel conditions of child labor in Britain at the time.

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A native character in Robinson Crusoe, so named by Crusoe because Crusoe found him on a Friday. Friday places himself in service to Crusoe, and helps him survive. Figuratively, a "man Friday" or "girl Friday" is a valued helper.

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The first land that Lemuel Gulliver visits in Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift. The inhabitants, though human in form, are only six inches tall. Something "Lilliputian" is very small. The expression is especially appropriate for a miniature version of something.

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A character in The Rivals, an English play from the late eighteenth century by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Mrs. Malaprop constantly mixes up words that sound similar, declaring, for instance, "He is the very pineapple of politeness", when she means pinnacle.

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