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This tragic British couple, both of whom are noble figures in Shakespeare's play, end up dying due to a series of unfortunate events.

Romeo and Juliet

100

This 19th-century American poet, known for her unconventional style, wrote Because I Could Not Stop for Death.

Emily Dickinson

100

This British author of Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse is a key figure in modernist literature.

Virginia Woolf

100

This genre focuses on the relationships and emotions of the main characters, often emphasizing family or romantic love.

Romance

200

This American author depicted the life of slaves in the pre-Civil War South, with a famous novel featuring the character Uncle Tom.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

200

This poet, famous for her confessional style and poems like Lady Lazarus, is often considered one of the 20th century's most influential poets.

Sylvia Plath

200

This British modernist writer, best known for Ulysses, is noted for his stream-of-consciousness technique.

James Joyce

200

This genre focuses on futuristic or technological advancements and often explores the impact of science on society.This genre focuses on futuristic or technological advancements and often explores the impact of science on society.

Science fiction

300

This American writer’s short story “The Lottery” critiques the dangers of blind tradition in a small town.

Shirley Jackson

300

This American author wrote Invisible Man, which addresses race and identity in America.

Ralph Ellison

300

This novelist is best known for his epic works David Copperfield and A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

300

A genre that deals with society’s moral issues, political, and often involves absurd situations.

Satire

400

This American poet, a contemporary of Emily Dickinson, is known for his 9-line poem "A Noiseless Patient Spider," a metaphor for the soul’s search for meaning.

Walt Whitman

400

This author, famous for The Last of the Mohicans, wrote about the early American frontier and Native American experiences.

James Fenimore Cooper

400

This British author, a leader of the Romantic movement, is best known for Songs of Innocence and of Experience and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

William Blake

400

E`mphasis on themes of freedom and responsibility, choice, authenticity, absurdity, finitude, faith, death, ambiguity, and despair.

existentialism 

500

In this British novel, the protagonist is a brooding antihero whose obsessive love for Catherine Earnshaw leads to his eventual self-destruction.

Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

500

This early American writer and poet, known for The Raven, is also credited with pioneering the detective fiction genre.

Edgar Allan Poe

500

This Victorian novel by George Eliot explores themes of morality, faith, and social class through the character of Dorothea Brooke.

Middlemarch

500

In this genre, the protagonist's internal growth and life challenges take precedence over external conflicts.

coming-of-age

600

This British literary movement, emphasizing beauty and the rejection of moral or social themes, had figures like Oscar Wilde and Algernon Swinburne.This British literary movement, emphasizing beauty and the rejection of moral or social themes, had figures like Oscar Wilde and Algernon Swinburne.

Aestheticism

600

This novel set during the American Civil War explores the brutal realities of war through the story of a soldier named Henry Fleming.

The Red Badge of Courage

600

This novel by Elizabeth Barrett Browning tells the story of a troubled marriage and is written as a series of letters.

Aurora Leigh

600

This genre of literature tells stories about journeys, usually involving adventure, exploration, and overcoming obstacles.

Epic

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