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Novel · 1936
AP Literature
Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
9 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Novella · 1843
Eduqas
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
5 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 2015
General
A Court of Thorns and Roses
by Sarah J. Maas
23 chapters · 13 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Short story · 1917
Edexcel
Adlestrop
by Edward Thomas
1 chapters · 2 characters · 6 themes · 6 quotes
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Play · 1879
AP Literature
A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen
3 chapters · 8 characters · 7 themes · 10 quotes
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Novel · 1929
AP Literature
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
22 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Short story · 1964
Eduqas
Afternoons
by Philip Larkin
1 chapters · 4 characters · 6 themes · 6 quotes
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Novel · 1993
AP Literature
A Lesson Before Dying
by Ernest J. Gaines
25 chapters · 10 characters · 7 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 2015
General
A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara
13 chapters · 14 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Play · 1947
AP Literature
All My Sons
by Arthur Miller
3 chapters · 10 characters · 7 themes · 10 quotes
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Novel · 2014
General
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
14 chapters · 13 characters · 8 themes · 11 quotes
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Novel · 1992
AP Literature
All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy
4 chapters · 8 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Short story · 1664
Eduqas
A Married State
by Katherine Philips
1 chapters · 3 characters · 6 themes · 7 quotes
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Novel · 2013
AP Literature
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
8 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Play · 1600
General
A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
5 chapters · 10 characters · 7 themes · 9 quotes
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Non-fiction · 1729
Common Core
A Modest Proposal
by Jonathan Swift
1 chapters · 6 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Short story · 1964
Leaving Cert
An Arundel Tomb
by Philip Larkin
1 chapters · 4 characters · 6 themes · 8 quotes
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Novella · 1945
OCR
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
10 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Play · 1945
Eduqas
An Inspector Calls
by J. B. Priestley
3 chapters · 8 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1996
Eduqas
Anita and Me
by Meera Syal
12 chapters · 10 characters · 7 themes · 10 quotes
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Novel · 1878
Common Core
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
8 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Short story · 1890
Common Core
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
by Ambrose Bierce
3 chapters · 6 characters · 7 themes · 9 quotes
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Play · 441
IB Literature
Antigone
by Sophocles
7 chapters · 9 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Play · 1623
General
Antony and Cleopatra
by William Shakespeare
5 chapters · 10 characters · 7 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1924
AP Literature
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
12 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Short story · 1794
Edexcel
A Poison Tree
by William Blake
1 chapters · 3 characters · 6 themes · 8 quotes
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Novel · 1916
AP Literature
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
5 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Play · 1959
AP Literature
A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
6 chapters · 9 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Short story · 1930
AP Literature
A Rose for Emily
by William Faulkner
5 chapters · 8 characters · 7 themes · 8 quotes
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Novel · 1930
AP Literature
As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
25 chapters · 10 characters · 7 themes · 12 quotes
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Short story · 1891
Eduqas
As imperceptibly as Grief
by Emily Dickinson
1 chapters · 3 characters · 5 themes · 7 quotes
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Play · 1947
AP Literature
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
5 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Play · 1623
General
As You Like It
by William Shakespeare
5 chapters · 14 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1859
Common Core
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
11 chapters · 14 characters · 7 themes · 11 quotes
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Short story · 1899
Eduqas
A Wife in London
by Thomas Hardy
2 chapters · 3 characters · 5 themes · 7 quotes
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Novel · 1962
Common Core
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
12 chapters · 12 characters · 7 themes · 10 quotes
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Short story · 1957
AQA
Bayonet Charge
by Ted Hughes
1 chapters · 2 characters · 6 themes · 9 quotes
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Short story · 1993
AQA
Before You Were Mine
by Carol Ann Duffy
1 chapters · 5 characters · 6 themes · 8 quotes
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Short story · 1989
Edexcel
Belfast Confetti
by Ciaran Carson
1 chapters · 3 characters · 6 themes · 8 quotes
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Novel · 1987
AP Literature
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
25 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1000
AP Literature
Beowulf
by Anonymous
9 chapters · 12 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novella · 1924
AP Literature
Billy Budd, Sailor
by Herman Melville
3 chapters · 8 characters · 6 themes · 10 quotes
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Non-fiction · 1945
Common Core
Black Boy
by Richard Wright
18 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1853
AP Literature
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
25 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Novel · 1972
AP Literature
Bless Me, Ultima
by Rudolfo Anaya
22 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 11 quotes
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Play · 1983
OCR
Blood Brothers
by Willy Russell
2 chapters · 8 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Novel · 1985
AP Literature
Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
17 chapters · 9 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1932
AP Literature
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
18 chapters · 11 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1961
AP Literature
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
25 chapters · 15 characters · 8 themes · 7 quotes
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Play · 1955
AP Literature
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
by Tennessee Williams
3 chapters · 9 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Short story · 1978
Edexcel
Catrin
by Gillian Clarke
1 chapters · 3 characters · 6 themes · 5 quotes
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Novel · 1977
AP Literature
Ceremony
by Leslie Marmon Silko
15 chapters · 10 characters · 7 themes · 10 quotes
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Short story · 1996
AQA
Checking Out Me History
by John Agard
1 chapters · 6 characters · 6 themes · 8 quotes
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Short story · 1963
Leaving Cert
Child
by Sylvia Plath
1 chapters · 2 characters · 5 themes · 6 quotes
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Novella · 1981
IB Literature
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
by Gabriel García Márquez
5 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Non-fiction · 1849
Common Core
Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau
3 chapters · 6 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Short story · 2000
AQA
Climbing My Grandfather
by Andrew Waterhouse
1 chapters · 2 characters · 6 themes · 6 quotes
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Novel · 1997
AP Literature
Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier
17 chapters · 10 characters · 7 themes · 12 quotes
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Non-fiction · 1776
Common Core
Common Sense
by Thomas Paine
5 chapters · 6 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Short story · 1807
Edexcel
Composed upon Westminster Bridge
by William Wordsworth
1 chapters · 1 characters · 5 themes · 9 quotes
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Short story · 1862
Edexcel
Cousin Kate
by Christina Rossetti
1 chapters · 4 characters · 5 themes · 11 quotes
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Short story · 2004
Eduqas
Cozy Apologia
by Rita Dove
1 chapters · 3 characters · 6 themes · 8 quotes
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Novel · 1866
Common Core
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
7 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1948
AP Literature
Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
20 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1850
AP Literature
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
25 chapters · 17 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Play · 1991
IB Literature
Death and the Maiden
by Ariel Dorfman
3 chapters · 3 characters · 7 themes · 10 quotes
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Short story · 1633
Leaving Cert
Death, be not proud
by John Donne
1 chapters · 3 characters · 6 themes · 8 quotes
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Short story · 1966
Eduqas
Death of a Naturalist
by Seamus Heaney
1 chapters · 3 characters · 6 themes · 7 quotes
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Play · 1949
AP Literature
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
3 chapters · 9 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Short story · 1966
Leaving Cert
Digging
by Seamus Heaney
1 chapters · 3 characters · 6 themes · 7 quotes
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Novel · 1999
AP Literature
Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
24 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Play · 2008
OCR
DNA
by Dennis Kelly
4 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Novel · 1605
Common Core
Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
21 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1897
AP Literature
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
25 chapters · 12 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Non-fiction · 1914
AP Literature
Dubliners
by James Joyce
15 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Short story · 1920
Eduqas
Dulce et Decorum Est
by Wilfred Owen
1 chapters · 4 characters · 6 themes · 11 quotes
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Short story · 1916
Leaving Cert
Easter, 1916
by W. B. Yeats
1 chapters · 6 characters · 7 themes · 9 quotes
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Novel · 1952
Common Core
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
15 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Short story · 1988
AQA
Eden Rock
by Charles Causley
1 chapters · 3 characters · 6 themes · 8 quotes
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Novel · 1815
AP Literature
Emma
by Jane Austen
12 chapters · 10 characters · 7 themes · 12 quotes
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Short story · 1920
AQA
Exposure
by Wilfred Owen
1 chapters · 4 characters · 7 themes · 10 quotes
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Non-fiction · 1850
AQA
Extract from The Prelude
by William Wordsworth
1 chapters · 4 characters · 6 themes · 8 quotes
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Novel · 1953
Common Core
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
3 chapters · 11 characters · 8 themes · 11 quotes
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Play · 1985
AP Literature
Fences
by August Wilson
2 chapters · 8 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Short story · 1982
Edexcel
First Flight
by U. A. Fanthorpe
1 chapters · 3 characters · 5 themes · 6 quotes
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Short story · 1966
AQA
Follower
by Seamus Heaney
1 chapters · 3 characters · 6 themes · 6 quotes
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Novel · 1940
AP Literature
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
16 chapters · 9 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Novel · 2023
General
Fourth Wing
by Rebecca Yarros
25 chapters · 14 characters · 7 themes · 10 quotes
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Novel · 1818
OCR
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
23 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Play · 1881
AP Literature
Ghosts
by Henrik Ibsen
3 chapters · 5 characters · 7 themes · 10 quotes
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Novel · 1936
General
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
11 chapters · 15 characters · 8 themes · 9 quotes
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Novel · 1953
AP Literature
Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
5 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1861
AP Literature
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
25 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1726
Common Core
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
9 chapters · 9 characters · 7 themes · 12 quotes
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Short story · 1996
Edexcel
Half-caste
by John Agard
1 chapters · 4 characters · 6 themes · 8 quotes
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Novel · 2006
AP Literature
Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
18 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Play · 1603
General
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
5 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1854
AP Literature
Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
23 chapters · 10 characters · 7 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1987
Common Core
Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen
19 chapters · 6 characters · 7 themes · 10 quotes
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Short story · 1960
Eduqas
Hawk Roosting
by Ted Hughes
1 chapters · 3 characters · 6 themes · 8 quotes
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Novella · 1899
AP Literature
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
3 chapters · 9 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Play · 1891
AP Literature
Hedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen
4 chapters · 8 characters · 8 themes · 11 quotes
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Play · 1598
General
Henry IV, Part 1
by William Shakespeare
5 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1998
Common Core
Holes
by Louis Sachar
16 chapters · 15 characters · 7 themes · 11 quotes
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Novel · 1969
AP Literature
House Made of Dawn
by N. Scott Momaday
14 chapters · 9 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1910
AP Literature
Howards End
by E. M. Forster
25 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Novella · 1974
Leaving Cert
How Many Miles to Babylon?
by Jennifer Johnston
9 chapters · 7 characters · 8 themes · 9 quotes
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Short story · 1896
Leaving Cert
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
by Emily Dickinson
1 chapters · 3 characters · 6 themes · 9 quotes
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Non-fiction · 1969
Common Core
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
19 chapters · 9 characters · 8 themes · 11 quotes
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Non-fiction · 1966
Common Core
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
4 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1994
IB Literature
In the Time of the Butterflies
by Julia Alvarez
14 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1952
AP Literature
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
19 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1847
AP Literature
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
11 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Play · 1988
AP Literature
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
by August Wilson
2 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Novel · 1895
AP Literature
Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
6 chapters · 8 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Play · 1599
Common Core
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
5 chapters · 14 characters · 7 themes · 10 quotes
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Short story · 2013
AQA
Kamikaze
by Beatrice Garland
1 chapters · 5 characters · 6 themes · 9 quotes
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Play · 1606
General
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
5 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novella · 1988
IB Literature
Kitchen
by Banana Yoshimoto
3 chapters · 6 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Novel · 1862
General
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
5 chapters · 14 characters · 7 themes · 12 quotes
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Non-fiction · 1963
Common Core
Letter from Birmingham Jail
by Martin Luther King Jr.
5 chapters · 8 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Short story · 1991
AQA
Letters from Yorkshire
by Maura Dooley
1 chapters · 3 characters · 6 themes · 6 quotes
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Novel · 1932
AP Literature
Light in August
by William Faulkner
21 chapters · 10 characters · 7 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1989
IB Literature
Like Water for Chocolate
by Laura Esquivel
12 chapters · 9 characters · 7 themes · 11 quotes
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Novel · 1868
Common Core
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
23 chapters · 12 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Short story · 1997
Eduqas
Living Space
by Imtiaz Dharker
1 chapters · 3 characters · 6 themes · 8 quotes
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Short story · 1794
AQA
London
by William Blake
1 chapters · 4 characters · 6 themes · 8 quotes
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Play · 1956
AP Literature
Long Day's Journey into Night
by Eugene O'Neill
5 chapters · 5 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1900
AP Literature
Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
20 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1954
Eduqas
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
12 chapters · 8 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1985
IB Literature
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel García Márquez
6 chapters · 9 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Short story · 1820
AQA
Love's Philosophy
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
1 chapters · 3 characters · 4 themes · 8 quotes
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Play · 1623
General
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
5 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Non-fiction · 1991
IB Literature
Maus
by Art Spiegelman
11 chapters · 9 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Play · 431
IB Literature
Medea
by Euripides
12 chapters · 9 characters · 8 themes · 11 quotes
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Novel · 1871
AP Literature
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
8 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1851
AP Literature
Moby-Dick
by Herman Melville
16 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Short story · 1961
Leaving Cert
Morning Song
by Sylvia Plath
1 chapters · 4 characters · 6 themes · 8 quotes
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Short story · 1993
AQA
Mother, any distance
by Simon Armitage
1 chapters · 2 characters · 6 themes · 6 quotes
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Novel · 1925
AP Literature
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
16 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 11 quotes
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Play · 1623
OCR
Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare
5 chapters · 10 characters · 7 themes · 11 quotes
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Short story · 1842
AQA
My Last Duchess
by Robert Browning
1 chapters · 5 characters · 7 themes · 10 quotes
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Non-fiction · 1845
Common Core
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass
11 chapters · 9 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1940
AP Literature
Native Son
by Richard Wright
3 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Short story · 1898
AQA
Neutral Tones
by Thomas Hardy
1 chapters · 2 characters · 6 themes · 8 quotes
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Novel · 2005
OCR
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
23 chapters · 9 characters · 7 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1949
OCR
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
24 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1960
AP Literature
No Longer at Ease
by Chinua Achebe
19 chapters · 10 characters · 7 themes · 10 quotes
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Short story · 1992
Edexcel
No Problem
by Benjamin Zephaniah
1 chapters · 3 characters · 6 themes · 7 quotes
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Novel · 1987
IB Literature
Norwegian Wood
by Haruki Murakami
12 chapters · 8 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Play · 429
IB Literature
Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles
4 chapters · 8 characters · 8 themes · 11 quotes
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Novella · 1937
Edexcel
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
3 chapters · 9 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1838
AQA
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
19 chapters · 15 characters · 7 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1962
AP Literature
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
13 chapters · 14 characters · 8 themes · 11 quotes
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Novel · 1967
IB Literature
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
12 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Novel · 1928
AP Literature
Orlando
by Virginia Woolf
6 chapters · 8 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Play · 1603
General
Othello
by William Shakespeare
5 chapters · 9 characters · 8 themes · 11 quotes
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Short story · 1818
AQA
Ozymandias
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
1 chapters · 4 characters · 6 themes · 8 quotes
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Novel · 1667
Common Core
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
12 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Non-fiction · 2000
IB Literature
Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi
20 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Novel · 1817
AP Literature
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
15 chapters · 10 characters · 7 themes · 11 quotes
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Play · 1964
Leaving Cert
Philadelphia, Here I Come!
by Brian Friel
3 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Short story · 2009
AQA
Poppies
by Jane Weir
1 chapters · 3 characters · 7 themes · 10 quotes
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Short story · 1836
AQA
Porphyria's Lover
by Robert Browning
1 chapters · 3 characters · 7 themes · 10 quotes
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Novel · 1813
AP Literature
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
23 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 2021
General
Project Hail Mary
by Andy Weir
18 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Novel · 2003
AP Literature
Purple Hibiscus
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
13 chapters · 10 characters · 7 themes · 12 quotes
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Play · 1913
AP Literature
Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
5 chapters · 8 characters · 7 themes · 11 quotes
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Short story · 2008
AQA
Remains
by Simon Armitage
1 chapters · 4 characters · 6 themes · 10 quotes
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Play · 1597
OCR
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
5 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 11 quotes
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Play · 1967
AP Literature
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
by Tom Stoppard
3 chapters · 8 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Play · 2009
AP Literature
Ruined
by Lynn Nottage
2 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Short story · 1928
Leaving Cert
Sailing to Byzantium
by W. B. Yeats
1 chapters · 3 characters · 6 themes · 8 quotes
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Non-fiction · 1841
Common Core
Self-Reliance
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 chapters · 7 characters · 7 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1811
AP Literature
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
17 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Short story · 2007
AQA
Singh Song!
by Daljit Nagra
1 chapters · 4 characters · 7 themes · 8 quotes
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Novel · 1969
AP Literature
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
10 chapters · 14 characters · 7 themes · 11 quotes
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Novel · 1977
AP Literature
Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
18 chapters · 10 characters · 7 themes · 12 quotes
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Short story · 1850
AQA
Sonnet 29 — I think of thee!
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1 chapters · 4 characters · 6 themes · 7 quotes
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Short story · 1850
Eduqas
Sonnet 43 — How do I love thee?
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1 chapters · 3 characters · 5 themes · 9 quotes
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Short story · 1923
Leaving Cert
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost
1 chapters · 3 characters · 6 themes · 8 quotes
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Short story · 1966
AQA
Storm on the Island
by Seamus Heaney
1 chapters · 3 characters · 6 themes · 8 quotes
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Novel · 1973
AP Literature
Sula
by Toni Morrison
11 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Play · 2015
AP Literature
Sweat
by Lynn Nottage
2 chapters · 9 characters · 8 themes · 9 quotes
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Novel · 1891
AP Literature
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
7 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1884
Common Core
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
25 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1988
General
The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
12 chapters · 11 characters · 7 themes · 11 quotes
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Novel · 1899
AP Literature
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
25 chapters · 9 characters · 7 themes · 11 quotes
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Novel · 1970
AP Literature
The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
16 chapters · 10 characters · 7 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 2005
Common Core
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
12 chapters · 14 characters · 7 themes · 11 quotes
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Novel · 1880
Common Core
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
13 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1400
Common Core
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
20 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Short story · 1846
Common Core
The Cask of Amontillado
by Edgar Allan Poe
1 chapters · 4 characters · 5 themes · 8 quotes
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Novel · 1951
Common Core
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
25 chapters · 14 characters · 8 themes · 9 quotes
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Short story · 1854
AQA
The Charge of the Light Brigade
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
1 chapters · 4 characters · 7 themes · 11 quotes
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Play · 1904
AP Literature
The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov
4 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Short story · 1982
Edexcel
The Class Game
by Mary Casey
1 chapters · 2 characters · 4 themes · 6 quotes
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Novel · 1982
AP Literature
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
10 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1844
General
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
25 chapters · 15 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Play · 1953
AP Literature
The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
4 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Non-fiction · 1776
Common Core
The Declaration of Independence
by Thomas Jefferson
4 chapters · 8 characters · 8 themes · 9 quotes
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Short story · 1815
Edexcel
The Destruction of Sennacherib
by Lord Byron
1 chapters · 4 characters · 6 themes · 8 quotes
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Short story · 1993
AQA
The Emigrée
by Carol Rumens
1 chapters · 3 characters · 7 themes · 8 quotes
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Play · 2013
Edexcel
The Empress
by Tanika Gupta
2 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Short story · 1839
Common Core
The Fall of the House of Usher
by Edgar Allan Poe
3 chapters · 5 characters · 7 themes · 10 quotes
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Short story · 1912
AQA
The Farmer's Bride
by Charlotte Mew
1 chapters · 4 characters · 7 themes · 9 quotes
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Non-fiction · 1787
Common Core
The Federalist No. 10
by James Madison
1 chapters · 5 characters · 7 themes · 10 quotes
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Short story · 1946
Leaving Cert
The Fish
by Elizabeth Bishop
1 chapters · 3 characters · 6 themes · 7 quotes
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Short story · 1633
Leaving Cert
The Flea
by John Donne
1 chapters · 3 characters · 6 themes · 8 quotes
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Play · 1944
AP Literature
The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
5 chapters · 5 characters · 7 themes · 10 quotes
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Novel · 1997
AP Literature
The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
21 chapters · 10 characters · 7 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1939
Common Core
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
30 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1925
AP Literature
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
9 chapters · 9 characters · 7 themes · 12 quotes
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Play · 2004
OCR
The History Boys
by Alan Bennett
2 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Play · 1945
IB Literature
The House of Bernarda Alba
by Federico García Lorca
3 chapters · 9 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1982
IB Literature
The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
14 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 11 quotes
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Novella · 1984
AP Literature
The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
3 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Novel · c. 750 BCE
General
The Iliad
by Homer
24 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Play · 1895
AP Literature
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
3 chapters · 9 characters · 7 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1937
AP Literature
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
20 chapters · 9 characters · 7 themes · 10 quotes
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Short story · 1948
Common Core
The Lottery
by Shirley Jackson
1 chapters · 10 characters · 5 themes · 10 quotes
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Short story · 2008
Eduqas
The Manhunt
by Simon Armitage
1 chapters · 2 characters · 6 themes · 10 quotes
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Novel · 1967
IB Literature
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
25 chapters · 15 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Novel · 1886
AP Literature
The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy
16 chapters · 8 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Play · 1600
OCR
The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare
5 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 9 quotes
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Novella · 1915
IB Literature
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
3 chapters · 7 characters · 8 themes · 11 quotes
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Short story · 1924
Common Core
The Most Dangerous Game
by Richard Connell
1 chapters · 4 characters · 6 themes · 8 quotes
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Novel · c. 800 BCE
General
The Odyssey
by Homer
6 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1967
Common Core
The Outsiders
by S. E. Hinton
12 chapters · 13 characters · 6 themes · 9 quotes
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Play · 1990
AP Literature
The Piano Lesson
by August Wilson
2 chapters · 9 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1890
AQA
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
20 chapters · 12 characters · 7 themes · 12 quotes
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Play · 1926
Leaving Cert
The Plough and the Stars
by Seán O'Casey
4 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Short story · 1951
Leaving Cert
The Prodigal
by Elizabeth Bishop
1 chapters · 3 characters · 6 themes · 6 quotes
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Novel · 2006
AP Literature
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
11 chapters · 7 characters · 7 themes · 10 quotes
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Short story · 1916
Leaving Cert
The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
1 chapters · 2 characters · 6 themes · 9 quotes
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Novel · 1850
AP Literature
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
24 chapters · 8 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1942
General
The Screwtape Letters
by C. S. Lewis
25 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Play · 1896
AP Literature
The Seagull
by Anton Chekhov
4 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Short story · 1920
Leaving Cert
The Second Coming
by W. B. Yeats
1 chapters · 4 characters · 6 themes · 10 quotes
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Novel · 1992
General
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
17 chapters · 12 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Novel · 1929
AP Literature
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
4 chapters · 10 characters · 7 themes · 10 quotes
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Novella · 1886
Edexcel
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
3 chapters · 8 characters · 8 themes · 11 quotes
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Novel · 1942
IB Literature
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
11 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1926
AP Literature
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
19 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Short story · 1843
Common Core
The Tell-Tale Heart
by Edgar Allan Poe
1 chapters · 3 characters · 6 themes · 8 quotes
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Play · 1611
General
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
5 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 11 quotes
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Non-fiction · 1990
AP Literature
The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
22 chapters · 14 characters · 8 themes · 9 quotes
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Novel · 1959
IB Literature
The Tin Drum
by Günter Grass
20 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Short story · 1972
Leaving Cert
The Tollund Man
by Seamus Heaney
1 chapters · 4 characters · 6 themes · 7 quotes
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Novel · 1925
IB Literature
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
10 chapters · 10 characters · 7 themes · 10 quotes
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Short story · 1794
Edexcel
The Tyger
by William Blake
1 chapters · 4 characters · 6 themes · 8 quotes
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Short story · 1918
Leaving Cert
The Windhover
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
1 chapters · 3 characters · 5 themes · 8 quotes
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Novella · 1983
OCR
The Woman in Black
by Susan Hill
14 chapters · 9 characters · 7 themes · 12 quotes
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Short story · 1892
Common Core
The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
3 chapters · 6 characters · 7 themes · 12 quotes
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Novel · 1958
IB Literature
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
25 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes
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Short story · 2006
AQA
Tissue
by Imtiaz Dharker
1 chapters · 2 characters · 6 themes · 8 quotes
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Short story · 1820
Eduqas
To Autumn
by John Keats
1 chapters · 4 characters · 6 themes · 8 quotes
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Novel · 1960
OCR
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
31 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Play · 2001
AP Literature
Topdog/Underdog
by Suzan-Lori Parks
6 chapters · 6 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Novel · 1927
AP Literature
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
9 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Play · 1980
Leaving Cert
Translations
by Brian Friel
3 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Play · 1623
General
Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare
5 chapters · 10 characters · 7 themes · 11 quotes
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Short story · 1993
Eduqas
Valentine
by Carol Ann Duffy
1 chapters · 2 characters · 6 themes · 10 quotes
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Play · 1952
AP Literature
Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
2 chapters · 6 characters · 7 themes · 10 quotes
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Non-fiction · 1854
Common Core
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
18 chapters · 7 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Short story · 1962
AQA
Walking Away
by C. Day-Lewis
1 chapters · 3 characters · 6 themes · 10 quotes
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Novel · 1869
Common Core
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
17 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Short story · 1985
AQA
War Photographer
by Carol Ann Duffy
1 chapters · 3 characters · 5 themes · 8 quotes
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Novel · 2014
General
We Were Liars
by E. Lockhart
17 chapters · 13 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Short story · 1816
AQA
When We Two Parted
by Lord Byron
1 chapters · 3 characters · 6 themes · 10 quotes
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Short story · 1913
Edexcel
Where the Picnic Was
by Thomas Hardy
1 chapters · 3 characters · 5 themes · 6 quotes
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Play · 1962
AP Literature
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
by Edward Albee
3 chapters · 4 characters · 8 themes · 11 quotes
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Novel · 1995
General
Wicked
by Gregory Maguire
5 chapters · 13 characters · 8 themes · 10 quotes
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Novel · 1966
AP Literature
Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
12 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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Short story · 2005
AQA
Winter Swans
by Owen Sheers
1 chapters · 3 characters · 5 themes · 7 quotes
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Novel · 2012
General
Wonder
by R. J. Palacio
8 chapters · 12 characters · 5 themes · 10 quotes
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Novel · 1847
AP Literature
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
25 chapters · 10 characters · 8 themes · 12 quotes
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14 plays with scene-by-scene analysis, character maps, and the quotes examiners reward — the comedies, tragedies, histories, and romances on the syllabus.