Short Summaries of the Books
You Have to Read in the course of the English Literature by Stulov
Thursday, April 3 2002
Contents
1. AN OVERVIEW OF THE DEVELOPMENT FROM THE 17TH TO THE 20TH CENTURIES 2
2. ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN 5
3. ALL THE KING’S MEN 13
4. CATCH-22 22
5. CATCHER IN THE RYE 31
6. FAREWELL TO ARMS 35
7. GRAPES OF WRATH 41
8. GREAT GATSBY 46
9. LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO THE NIGHT 49
10. MOBY DICK 53
11. SCARLET LETTER 63
12. SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE 67
13. SOUND AND THE FURY 73
14. STREETCAR NAMED ”DESIRE” 87
AN OVERVIEW OF THE DEVELOPMENT FROM THE 17TH TO THE 20TH CENTURIES
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When Huck discovers his father has come to town, he wisely signs his fortune over to the Judge. Judge Thatcher has a daughter, Becky, whom Huck calls "Bessie."
Aunt Polly { Tom Sawyer's aunt and guardian. She appears at the end of Huckleberry Finn and properly identifies Huck, who has pretended to be Tom; and Tom, who has pretended to be his brother, Sid (who never appears in this novel).
The Grangerfords { The master of the Grangerford clan is "Colonel"Grangerford, who has a wife. The chil-dren are Bob, the oldest, then Tom, then Charlotte, aged twenty- five, Sophia, twenty, and Buck, the youngest, about thirteen or fourteen. They also had a deceased daughter, Emme- line, who made unintentionally humorous, maudlin pictures and poems for the dead. Huckleberry thinks the Grangerfords are all physically beautiful. They live on a large estate worked by many slaves. Their house is decked out in humorously tacky finery that Huckleberry innocently admires. The Grangerfords are in a feud with the Shepardsons, though no one can remember the cause of the feud or see any real reason to continue it. When Sophia runs off with a Shepardson, the feud reignites, and Buck and another boy are shot. With the Grangerfords and the Shepardsons, Twain illustrates the bouts of irrational brutality to which the South was