Oklahoma Academic Team
World Literature: Titles and Authors M-Z

ALISTAIR MacLEAN (British):
The Guns of Navarone
Where Eagles Dare
Ice Station Zebra

MAURICE MAETERLINCK (1862-1947) (Belgian):
--1911 Nobel Prize in Literature
The Blue Bird (of Happiness)
Pelleas and Melisande

NAGUIB MAHFOUZ (MAJIB MAHFUZ) (1911-) (Egyptian):
--1988 Nobel Prize
--known as the "Balzac of Egypt"
Adrift on the Nile
God's World
     "Zaabalawi"
Miramar
Under the Bus Shelter
There Only Remains One Hour

RIAN MALAN (1874-1959) (South African):
My Traitor's Heart

STEPHANE MALLARME (1842-1898) (French):
"The Afternoon of a Faun"
"Dice Thrown Will Never Annul Chance"
English Words

SIR THOMAS MALORY (c. 1400-1471) (English):
La Morte d'Arthur

ANDRE MALRAUX (1901-1976) (French):
Man's Fate

THOMAS MANN (1875-1955) (German):
--1929 Nobel Prize Winner
The Magic Mountain
A Death in Venice
Doctor Faustus
Buddenbrooks
"Tonio Kroger"
"Little Herr Friedemann"
"Tristan"
"Mario and the Magician"
The Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man

KATHERINE MANSFIELD (1888-1923) (British):
"Bliss"
"A Dill Pickle"
The Garden Party

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564-1593) (English):
Tamburlaine the Great
Doctor Faustus
The Jew of Malta
Edward II
The Massacre at Paris
Dido, Queen of Carthage
"Hero and Leander"

ROGER MARTIN DU GARD (1881-1958) (French):
--1937 Nobel Prize Winner
Les Thibault

ANDREW MARVELL (1621-1678) (English):
"To His Coy Mistress"

KARL HEINRICH MARX (1818-1883) and FRIEDRICH ENGELS (German):
The Communist Manifesto
Das Kapital

JOHN MASEFIELD (1878-1967) (British):
Salt Water Ballads
"Sea Fever"
"Cargoes"

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM (1874-1965) (British):
Of Human Bondage
Cakes and Ale
The Razor's Edge
The Moon and Sixpence
The Summing Up
The Letter
Liza of Lambeth
The Painted Veil
The Narrow Corner
Then and Now
Vagrant Mood
Points of View

GUY DE MAUPASSANT (1850-1893) (French):
"The Necklace"
"A Life"
"Bel-Ami"
"The Specter"
"A Piece of String"
"The Umbrella"

FRANCOIS MAURIAC (?-?) (French):
--1952 Nobel Prize winner
The Lamb
Asmodee
Young Man in Chains

VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY (Russian):
The Cloud in Trousers
"Vladimir Ilych Lenin"
"Very Good!"
"150,000,000"

JOHN McCRAE (Canadian):
"In Flanders Fields"

COLLEEN McCULLOUGH (Australian):
The Thorn Birds
The First Man in Rome

PROSPER MERIMEE (1803-1870) (French):
Carmen

A.A. MILNE (1882-1956) (British):
Winnie-the-Pooh
The House at Pooh Corner
When We Were Very Young
Now We Are Six

CZESLAW MILOSZ (1911-) (Polish):
--1980 Nobel Prize Winner
The Captive Mind

JOHN MILTON (1608-1674) (English):
Il Penseroso
Defensio Secundia
Comus
Areopagitica
Lycidus
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained
Samson Agonistes
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

MISHIMA YUKIO (Hiraoka Kimitake) (1925-1970) (Japanese):
Runaway Horses
The Temple of Dawn
The Decay of the Angel
Confessions of a Mask
The Sound of Waves
The Sea of Fertility
The Sailor that Fell from Grace with the Sea

GABRIELA MISTRAL (1889-1957) (Chilean):
--1945 Nobel Prize
Sonnets of Death
Desolation
Tala
Lagar

(JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN) MOLIERE (1622-1673) (French):
Le Tartuffe (The Impostor)
The School for Husbands
The School for Wives
Les Preciuses Ridicules (The Ridiculous Preciuses)
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Don Juan
The Versailles Impromptu
The Doctor in Spite of Himself
The Misanthrope
The Imaginary Invalid

FERENC MOLNAR (1878-1952) (Hungarian):
Liliom
The Guardsman
The Swan
At the Castle

GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH (Welsh):
The History of the Kings of Britain

LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY (Canadian):
Anne of Green Gables
Emily of New Moon
Chronicles of Avonlea

LADY MURASAKI SHIBUKU (978?-1031?) (Japanese):
The Tale of Genji

VLADIMIR NABOKOV (1899-1977) (Russian):
Ada, or Ardor
King, Queen, Knave
Laughter in the Dark
Lolita
Pale Fire
Pnin

PABLO NERUDA (Ricardo Neftali Reyes) (1904-1973) (Chilean):
Twenty Love Poems and One Song of Despair (One Desperate Song)
Toward the Splendid City
Crepusculary
Residence on Earth

LAURENCE NORFOLK (English):
Lempriere's Dictionary

ALFRED NOYES (British):
Drake
The Torchbearers
The Highwayman

SEAN O'CASEY (1884-1964) (Irish):
Juno and the Paycock
The Plough and the Stars
Within the Gates
The Shadow of a Gunman
The Silver Tassie

KENZABURO OE (Japanese):
--1994 Nobel Prize Winner
The Silent Cry
The Pinch Runner Memorandum
A Personal Matter
The Crazy Iris
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness

BARONESS EMMUSKA ORCZY:
The Scarlet Pimpernel

GEORGE ORWELL (Eric Arthur Blair) (1903-1950) (British):
Animal Farm
1984
Burmese Days
Down and Out in Paris and London
Homage to Catalonia
A Clergyman's Daughter
Coming Up for Air
"Inside the Whale"
"Shooting an Elephant"

JOHN OSBORNE (1929-1994) (British):
Look Back in Anger
Luther
A Better Class of Person

OVID (43 B.C. - A.D. 17) (Roman):
Metamorphoses
The Art of Love
Ex Ponto
Fasti
Tristia

WILFRED OWEN (1893-1918) (British):
"Anthem for Doomed Youth"
"Strange Meeting"
"Greater Love"
"Dulce et Decorum Est"

BORIS PASTERNAK (1890-1960) (Russian):
--1958 Nobel Prize in Literature
Doctor Zhivago
My Sister, Life
The Twin in the Clouds

ALAN PATON (1903-) (South African):
Cry, the Beloved Country
The Land and People of South Africa

OCTAVIO PAZ (Mexican):
--1990 Nobel Prize Winner
Eagle or Sun
Configurations
Conjunctions and Disjunctions
Labyrinth of Solitude
Tree Within

CHARLES PERRAULT (1628-1703) (French):
Bluebeard
Mother Goose stories
"Sleeping Beauty"
"Puss in Boots"

FRANCESCO PETRARCA (Italian):
--Petrarchian sonnets, many dedicated to Laura
Africa
Trionfi
On Solitude
Canzoniere
Secretum (The Secret)
The Triumphs
De Rebus Familiaribus
"To Posterity"
"The Ascent of Mount Ventoux"

HAROLD PINTER (1930-) (British):
The Caretaker
The Dumbwaiter
The Birthday Party
The Black and the White
Mountain Language
The Homecoming
The Room

LUIGI PIRANDELLO (1867-1936) (Italian):
--1934 Nobel Prize in Literature
Six Characters in Search of an Author
A Character in Distress
Henry IV
Right You Are, If You Think So
Tonight We Improvise!

TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS (c.254-c.184 B.C.) (Roman):
--noted as writer of comedies
Menaechemi
Vidularia
Amphitruo
Rudens
Casina
Captivi
Trinummus

PLUTARCH (46-120) (Roman):
The Fall of the Roman Republic
Of the Face of the Moon
Apothems of the Lacedaemonians
Lives

ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744) (British):
The Rape of the Lock
An Essay on Man
An Essay on Criticism
The Dunciad
The Pastorals
Moral Essay
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Understanding

BEATRIX POTTER (English):
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The Tailor of Gloucester
Benjamin Bunny
Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
Jemima Puddle-Duck
Pigling Bland

MARCEL PROUST (1871-1922) (French):
Swann's Way
Rememberance of Things Past (A la rechance de temps perdu)

MANUEL PUIG (Argentinian):
Kiss of the Spider Woman

ALEKSANDR PUSHKIN (1799-1837) (Russian):
Boris Godunov
Eugene Onegin
The Bronze Horseman
The Queen of Spades
The Prisoner of the Caucasus

HOWARD PYLE (British):
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood and His Men

SALVATORE QUASIMODO (Italian):
--1959 Nobel Prize for Literature
Sunken Oboe
Scent of Eucalyptus

FRANCOIS RABELAIS (c. 1490 - 1553) (French):
Gargantua and Pantagruel

JEAN RACINE (1639-1699) (French):
Andromaque
Phadre
Berenice
Brittanicus
Mithridate

ERICH MARIA REMARQUE (1898-1970) (German):
All Quiet on the Western Front
Bobby Deerfield

GREGOR VON REZZORI (Austrian):
Memoirs of an Anti-Semite
The Snows of Yesteryear
The Death of My Brother Abel
The Orient Express

JEAN RHYS:
After Leaving Mr. McKenzie
Good Morning, Midnight
Wide Sargasso Sea

SAMUEL RICHARDSON (British):
Clarissa Harlowe
Pamela:  Virtue Rewarded

MORDECAI RICHLER (Canadian):
The Apprenticeship of Dudley Kravitz
Joshua Then and Now

RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875-1926) (German):
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Life and Songs
Divine Elegies
Poems from the Book of Hours

ARTHUR RIMBAUD (1854-1891) (French):
A Season in Hell
"The Drunken Boat"
Illuminations
"Sentences"

EDMOND ROSTAND (1868-1918) (French):
Cyrano de Bergerac

SALMAN RUSHDIE (British):
Shame
The Satanic Verses
East, West
Midnight's Children

JOHN RUSKIN (1819-1900) (British):
Modern Painters
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
The Stones of Venice
The Two Paths
Sesame and Lilies

ANTOINE de SAINT-EXUPERY (1900-1944) (French):
Wind
Sand and Stars
Sothern Mail
Night Flight
The Little Prince

SAKI (H.H. Munro) (British):
Reginald
The Chronicles of Clovis
Beasts and Super-Beasts
The Unberable Bassington
"The Open Window"
"The Monkey's Paw"

GEORGE SAND (Amandine Aurore Dupine) (1804-1876) (French):
Consuelo
The Haunted Pool
The Master Bell-Ringer
Indiana

JEAN-PAUL SARTRE (1905-1980) (French):
No Exit
The Flies
Being and Nothingness
The Wall
"The Respectful Prostitute"

FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER (1759-1805) (German):
--associated with "Sturm und Drang" plays
Don Carlos
Mary Stuart
Wilhelm Tell
The Maid of Orleans
Wallenstein

SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832) (Scottish):
Ivanhoe
The Bride of Lammermoor
The Black Dwarf
"Marmion"
"The Lady of the Lake"
Rob Roy
The Heart of Midlothian
Kenilworth
Waverly Novels
The Talisman
The Legend of Montrose

MAURICE SENDAK:
Where the Wild Things Are

LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA (c.4 B.C.-65 A.D.) (Roman):
Epistles
Of Providence
Of Wrath
De Clementia

ANNA SEWELL (British):
Black Beauty

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856-1950) (Irish/British):
--1925 Nobel Prize Winner
Major Barbara
Candida
Pygmalion
Man and Superman
St. Joan
Misalliance
Heartbreak House
Arms and the Man
Mrs. Warren's Profession
Caesar and Cleopatra
The Devil's Disciple
John Ball's Other Island
Androcles and the Lion
Back to Methuselah
You Can Never Tell
Widowers' Houses
Captain Brasshound's Conversion
Fanny's First Play
Buoyant Billions
Commonsense About the War
The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism

MARY WOLLENSTONECRAFT SHELLEY (1797-1851) (British):
Frankenstein
Lodore -- autobiographical novel
The Last Man

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822) (British):
"Adonais"
"Ode to the West Wind"
"Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"
"Prometheus Unbound"
"Ozymandias"
"The Sensitive Plant"
"The Cloud"
"To a Skylark"
The Necessity of Atheism
"Epipsychidon"
The Cenci
"A Defence of Poetry"
"England in 1819"
"Stanzas Written in Dejection"

RICHARD SHERIDAN (1751-1816) (British):
The Rivals
School for Scandal

MIKHAIL SHOLOKHOV (1906-1984) (Soviet):
--1965 Nobel Prize
And Quiet Flows the Don

HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ (Polish):
--1905 Nobel Prize
Quo Vadis?

FRANS SILANPAA (Finnish):
--1939 Nobel Prize for Literature
Life and the Sun
Fallen Asleep
Way of a Man
Meek Heritage

ALLAN SILLITOE (British):
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
The Lost Flying Boat
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

CLAUD SIMON (French):
--1985 Nobel Prize
Georgiques
Grass
Triptych
Rite of Spring
Palace
Wind
World About Us

CHARLES PERCY SNOW:
The Masters
The Corridors of Power
Last Things
The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolutions

ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN (Russian):
The Gulag Archipelago
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Cancer Ward
The First Circle
August 1914

SOPHOCLES (Greek):
Oedipus Rex
Oedipus at Colonus
Antigone
Electra
Ajax
Philoctetes
Trachiniae (The Women of Trachis)

ROBERT SOUTHEY (British):
Life of Nelson

WOLE SOYINKA (Nigerian):
--1986 Nobel Prize
Ake:  The Years of Childhood
Death and the King's Horseman
Forest of a Thousand Demons
Idanre
Isara:  A Voyage Around "Essay"

ALBERT SPEER (German):
Inside the Third Reich

EDMUND SPENSER (c. 1552-1599) (English):
The Faerie-Queen
Epithalamion

STENDHAL (Marie Henri Beyle) (1783-1842) (French):
The Red (Scarlet) and the Black
The Charterhouse of Parma

LAURENCE STERNE (1713-1768) (British):
Tristram Shandy

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) (British):
Treasure Island
Kidnapped!
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A Child's Garden of Verses
The Master of Ballantrae
"Requiem"
An Inland Voyage
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

BRAM STOKER (British):
Dracula

TOM STOPPARD (1938-) (British):
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Artist Descending a Staircase
Travesties
Undiscovered Country
Arcadia
India Ink

AUGUST STRINDBERG (1849-1912) (Swedish):
The Ghost Sonata
The Father
Miss Julie
The Dance of Death
A Dream Play
The Son of a Servant Woman (autobiography)

JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745) (British):
Gulliver's Travels
"A Modest Proposal"
"The Battle of the Books"
The Tale of the Tub

ALGERNON C. SWINBURNE (1837-1909) (British):
Atalanta

JOHN M. SYNGE (1871-1909) (Irish):
Riders to the Sea
The Playboy of the Western World
The Tinker's Wedding
The Well of Saints
In the Shadow of the Glen
Dierdre of the Sorrows

TARQUATO TASSO (1544-1595) (Italian):
Jerusalem Delivered
Rinaldo

ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892) (British):
Idylls of the King
In Memoriam A.H.H.
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"
"Ulysses"
"The Lady of Shallot"
"Morte d'Arthur"
"The Lotus-eaters"
"Passing of Arthur"
"Break, Break, Break"
"Locksley Hall"
"Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington"
"Crossing the Bar"
"Maud"
The Princess
"Tithonus"

TERENCE (Roman):
Phormio
Andria

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY (British):
Vanity Fair
Henry Esmond
Pendennis
The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon
"The Rose and the Ring"
The Newcomes
"Rebecca and Rowena"

DYLAN THOMAS (Welsh):
"Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"
A Child's Christmas in Wales
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
The Map of Love
Dragon Seed

THUCYDIDES (Greek):
A History of the Peloponnesian War

J.R.R. TOLKIEN (British):
The Lord of the Rings trilogy:
1)  The Fellowship of the Ring
2)  The Two Towers
3)  The Return of the King
The Hobbit
The Silmarillion
Tree and Leaf
Mr. Bliss
The Father Christmas Letters
Smith of Wooton Major
Farmer Giles of Ham
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
The Book of Lost Tales

LEO TOLSTOY (Russian):
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Anna Karenina
War and Peace
Sevastopol
Two Hussars
Youth
The Cossacks
Father Sergius

PAMELA TRAVERS (1899-1996) (Australian):
Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins Comes Back

ANTHONY TROLLOPE (1815-1882) (British):
The Warden
Barchester Towers
The Eustace Diamonds
Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite
The Macdermots of Ballycloran
the Palliser series of books
the Parliamentary novels
the Barsetshire novels

IVAN TURGENEV (1818-1883) (Russian):
A Sportsman's Sketches
Fathers and Sons
First Love
A Month in the Country
The Torrents of Spring
Virgin Soil

SIGRID UNDSET (1881-1949) (Norwegian):
--1928 Nobel Prize in Literature
The Faithful Wife
Madame Dorothea
Return to the Future
The Longest Years (autobiography)
Kristin Lavransdatter Trilogy:
The Cross

MARIO VARGAS LLOSA (Peruvian):
The Story-Teller
The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta
Los Jefes (The Bosses)
The City and the Dogs
The Fish in the Water

JULES VERNE (1828-1905) (French):
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Around the World in Eighty Days
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Mysterious Island
A Man on the Moon

FRANCOIS VILLON (1431-?) (French):
"Songs of the Vagabonds"
"The Ballad of the Women Yesteryear"
"Ballade of the Hanged"
Testament

VIRGIL (70-19 B.C.) (Roman):
The Aeneid
Geogorics
Bucolics
Eclogae

VOLTAIRE (Francois-Marie Arouet) (1694-1778) (French):
Candide
"Henriade"
Philosophical Dictionary
History of Charles XII
Le Siecle de Louis XIV
Tancrede

HORACE WALPOLE (1717-1797) (British):
Castle of Otranto (first Gothic novel)

IZAAK WALTON (English):
The Compleat Angler

EVELYN WAUGH (1903-1966) (British):
The Loved One
Brideshead Revisited
A Handful of Dust
Decline and Fall
Men at Arms
Put Out More Flags
Black Mischief

H.G. WELLS (1866-1946) (British):
The Time Machine
The Invisible Man
The War of the Worlds
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The First Man in the Moon
Kipps
A Modern Utopia
Tono-Bungay
The History of Mr. Polly
The New Machiavelli
Outline of History

PATRICK WHITE (Australian):
--1973 Nobel Prize in Literature
Voss
The Tree of Man
The Eye of the Storm

T.H. WHITE (1896-1964) (British):
The Once and Future King
A Book of Beasts

OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900) (Irish):
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Importance of Being Earnest
Lady Windermere's Fan
Salome
De Profundis
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
"Ravenna"
Vera
"The Happy Prince"
A Woman of No Importance
"The Sphinx"
An Ideal Husband

VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) (British):
To the Lighthouse
Jacob's Room
Orlando
Between the Acts
Mrs. Dalloway
The Waves
A Room of One's Own

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (British):
"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"
"Ode:  Intimations of Immortality"
"The Daffodils"
"The Prelude"
"Ode to Duty"
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
"The World is Too Much With Us"
Lyrical Ballads (with Coleridge)
"The Excursion"

JOHANN R. WYSS (Swiss):
The Swiss Family Robinson

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939) (Irish):
--1923 Nobel Prize Winner
"A Last Confession"
"An Irish Airman Foresees His Death"
"At the Hawk's Well"
"The Wild Swans at Coole"
The Tower
Last Poems
"Sailing to Byzantium"
"Leda and the Swan"
Crazy Jane
The Countess Cathleen
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
"Among School Children"
"Easter 1916"
"The Second Coming"
"Lapis Lazuli"

YEVGENIY YEVTUSHENKO (1933-) (Russian):
Babi Yar
Monologue of a Polar Fox on an Alaskan Fur Farm
Precocious Autobiography

EMILE ZOLA (1840-1902) (French):
Nana
The Dram Shop
Germinal
"I Accuse" (pamphlet attacking the French military for its role in the Dreyfus affair)

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