19th Century Authors
Her sisters Charlotte and Anne were also published writers, but originally used pen names.
Emily Bronte
Once luring men to danger, now one warns of it.
A siren
One reason he is not buried in West Minster Abbey is epitaph, which concludes, "Curst be he that moves my bones"
William Shakespeare
The name of this character, introduced in Rudyard Kipling's 1894 story "The Jungle Book," is from the Hindi word for "bear"
baloo
"1801 – I have just returned from a visit to my landlord – the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with” starts this brooding Victorian romance.
Wuthering Heights
In German, this classic story is called "Die Kleine Seejungfrau"
The Little Mermaid
A 1965 novel by this author introduced his alter ego, sci-fi writer Kilgore Trout.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The famous line "Out, out, brief candle!" is spoken after the announcement of this woman's death.
Lady Macbeth
The name of this punctuation mark is Greek for "together"
hyphen
SPEAK, MEMORY—Of the cunning hero, The wanderer, blown off course time and again After he plundered Troy’s sacred heights.
Odyssey
In 1964, in a rare interview, she said, "All I want to be is the Jane Austen of South Alabama..."
Harper Lee
Poe wrote "To" her, "Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home..."
Helen
He's won 3 Pulitzer prizes for drama-- 1967, 1975, & 1994.
Edward Albee
Appropriately, this word comes from the Greek words meaning "sharp" & "dull"
oxymoron
All this happened, more or less.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Number of lines in the Elizabeth Barrett Browning sonnet that begins "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways"
14
This book says "Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner... that's our official slogan"
Fahrenheit 451
All 6 of his signatures are known to exist date from between 1612 & 1616.
William Shakespeare
Jonathan Swift defined it as "A [mirror] wherein beholders discover everybody's face but their own"
Satire
"The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest" begins this novella about the darkness of humanity
The "X-Files episode entitled "Post Modern Prometheus" was an update of this classic 1818 tale.
Frankenstein
The title object of this 1850 novel is described as "so fantastically embroidered and illuminated on her bosom"
The Scarlet Letter
Appropriately, the Salem Witch Trials Memorial was unveiled by this playwright (and author of The Crucible)
Arthur Miller
This British word meaning a line, a homonym of a letter in the alphabet, has one consonant followed by a line of four vowels
queue
"I've been to the zoo" is the first line of this absurdist one-act play.
The Zoo Story