Classic Brit Lit
Austen begins this beloved British classic by sharing with her readers a “truth universally acknowledged.”
Pride and Prejudice
This titular Fitzgerald character makes a new name for himself after the First World War, throwing lavish parties out on Long Island.
Jay Gatsby
Penelope wouldn’t be thrilled to know what her husband has been up to while she’s been holding off the 108 suitors in this Greek epic.
The Odyssey
This author brought the March sisters into generations of American homes in her novel “Little Women.”
Louisa May Alcott
This former slave and early civil rights thinker also had a career in government, being appointed Minister Resident to Haiti in 1889.
Frederick Douglass
In the 1892 short story “The Red-headed League,” this famous detective uncovers and puts an end to a convoluted caper involving a secret tunnel into a bank vault.
Sherlock Holmes
This series of semi-autobiographical novels about prairie life has sold over 60 million copies and spawned a long-running television show that first aired in 1974.
Little House on the Prairie
As Aeneas sails for Italy, this tragic Carthaginian queen self-immolates, and we have Cupid to blame.
The Aeneid
This distinguished Southern author told us just how hard it is to find a good man.
Flannery O'Connor
This female novelist penned “Their Eyes were Watching God,” considered a classic of the Harlem Renaissance.
Zora Neale Hurston
This titular Dickens character would like to “please sir” have some more.
Oliver Twist
This author, in addition to a novel about an unsually-colored whale, also wrote a short story about a legal clerk who would “prefer not to.”
Herman Melville
In this landmark Russian novel by Dostoevsky, a student down on his luck finds that dealing with the guilt of being an axe-murderer is perhaps its own punishment.
Crime and Punishment
This British novelist was the daughter of a prominent womens’ rights advocate of the same first name.
This American novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and activist left the United States at the age of 24 and lived abroad most of his life, dying in 1985 in France.
James Baldwin
Lewis Carroll published “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” a continuation of a story he told to entertain the three young daughters of Henry Liddell, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University in 1865. Six years later, in 1871, this sequel to Alice’s adventures was published.
Through the Looking Glass
Although she could not stop for Death, Death kindly stopped for this mysterious Massachusetts poetess in 1886.
Emily Dickinson
This notable work of the Islamic Golden Age contains two characters named Sinbad. One a porter, the other a sailor who partook in seven fantastic voyages.
The One-Thousand-and-One Arabian Nights
This writer of murder mysteries wrote over 66 detective novels over the course of her literary career, many of them centering on fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
Agatha Christie
This Asian American author is best known for her novel “The Joy Luck Club.”
Amy Tan
In this groundbreaking dystopian novel by Orwell, Airstrip One is located in this fictional nation-state.
Oceania
This American author-in-self-imposed-exile spawned his own school of literary criticism and penned “The Waste Land.”
T.S. Eliot
The mythology of the Lenape tribe, much like the Iroquois, details how the world sits on the back of this giant animal.
The World-Turtle, a Turtle
This accomplished British novelist committed suicide in 1941 after her husband, Leonard, enlisted in the Home Guard.
Virginia Woolf
This Vietnamese American author of “Dragonfish” spoke at UT Martin in the Fall of 2018.