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Author, Title
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Death
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Date
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1.
Unknown, Gilgamesh
2.
King
James, The Bible, Deuteronomy 32 & 34
3.
King James, The Bible, Ecclesiastes
9 & 12
4.
Unknown, Book of J. 177 & 178
5.
Homer, The Iliad
The Trojan Wars
(Translation, Pope, 1760)
The
Trojan Wars
(Translation, Fitzgerald, 1974)
6.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
7.
Thucydides, Pericles, The Funeral Speech
8.
Sophocles,
Oedipus The King (Translation, Green)
Oedipus, The King
(Translation,
Murray)
9. Euripides,
Alcestis (Translation Richard Aldington)
Medea
The Trojan Women
(Translation, Murray)
10.
Plato, Phaedo
11.
Gaius, Velerius Catullus, # 101
12.
Ovid, Metamorphoses
13.
King James, New Testament
Gospel
According to Mathew 27:35 – 28:20
Gospel
According to John 20: 1 – 18
Gospel
According to Mark 15:24 – 16:20
14.
Hippolytus, The Story of a Maiden of Cornith
15.
Gregory of Nyssa, Life of Macrina
16.
Theodoret, Of the Massacre of Thessalonica
17.
John of Apamea, Ecclesiastical History (Fragments)
18.
Jacob of Sarug, The Fall of the Idols
19.
The Holy Qur’an
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Enkidu
Moses
Humankind
Moses
Patroklos
Sarpedon
Sarpedon
Agamemnon
Greek
Soldiers
Jocasta
Jocasta
Alcestis
Her
Children
Astyanax
Socrates
Brother
Pyramus
& Thisbe
Jesus
Jesus
Jesus
Nobel
Youth
Macrina
Towns’
people
Soldiers
Martyr
Believers
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3000 BCE
1405
931
900
720
680
680
458
431
427
427
430
428
417
360
57
1 CE
50
80-90
140
240
Est.
375 Est.
419 Est.
448-449
500-521
610-632
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20.
Plutarch,
Moralia
21.
Bulfinch
Mythology, Legends of Charlemagne
22. Arabian Nights, Angel of Death
23. Roswitha, Dulcitus
24.
The Battle of Maldon
25.
Beowulf
26. Snirru Sturluson, Prose Edda,
The Death of Balder
27.
Unknown, Chanson de Roland
28. Omar
Khayyam, Rubaiyat
29.
Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias
30.
The Sagas of the Icelanders, Viga Glum’s Saga
31 J. Bedieren,
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
32.
Dante Alighieri, La Vita Nuova
33.
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron
34.
Geoffrey Chaucer, Knight’s Tales
35. Sir Thomas Malory,
Le Morte d’Arthur
36.
Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
37.
Shakespeare
Richard II
Othello
Hamlet
Henry V
Anthony & Cleopatra
King Lear
Macbeth
38.
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
39.
John Milton, Paradise Lost
40. Johathan Swift,
Gulliver’s Travel’s
41.
Wolfgang Von Goethe, Sorrows of Young Werther
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Daughter
Rinaldo
The
Proud, The Devout
Irena
Brythnoth
Beowulf
Balder
Roland
Omar
Khayyam
Martyrs
Thorvald
Tafald
Tristan & Iseult
Beatrice
Salvestra & Girolamo
Arcite
King
Arthur
Faustus
Richard
Othello & Desdemona
Ophelia
Falstaff
Cleopatra
Lear/Cordelia
Lady
Macbeth
Don
Quixote
Redeemer
Burial
Rites
Werther
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611
768
850
965
991
1000
1015
1090
1115
1141
1200’s
1209
1292
1348
1387
1469
1588
1597
1601
1603
1605
1605
1606
1606
1615
1674
1726
1774
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42. Sir
Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor
43.
Mary Shelley, The Last Man
44.
James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans
45.
Marie Henri Beyle (Stendhal), Red & Black
46.
Victor Hugo, Hunchback of Notre Dame
47.
Alexander Pushkin, Queen of Spades
48.
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
The Old Curiosity Shop
49. Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions
50.
Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-Seller
51.
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
52.
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
53.
Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
54. Gustave Flaubert,
Madame Bovary
55.
Herman Melville,
Moby Dick
56.
Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
1852
57.
George Eliot, Mill on the Floss
58.
Walt Whitman, Death of a Pennsylvania Soldier
59.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime & Punishment,
Friend
Crime & Punishment,
Pawnbroker
Crime & Punishment, Pawnbroker’s Sister
60.
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
61.
Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now
62.
Emile Zola, Nana
63.
Henry James, Portrait of a Lady
64.
Leo Tolstoy
War
and Peace
Anna Karenina
Death of Ivan Ilych
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Lucy
Son &
Wife
Cora &
Magua
Julien
Sorel
Priest &
Esmerelda
Countess
& Ghost
Nancy
Little
Nell
Lucien/
Suicide Thoughts
Match-girl
Bertha
Rochester
Catherine
Arthur
Huntingdon
Madame
Bovary
Death of Old Whale
Little Eva
Tom &
Maggie
Frank H.
Irwin
Marmeladov
Alena
Ivanovna
Lizaveta
Beth
Melmotte
Nana
Ralph
Touchett
Prince
Andrey
Anna
Karenina
Ivan
Ilych
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1818
1826
1826
1830
1831
1834
1838
1841
1843
1846
1847
1847
1848
1848
1849
1852
1860
1865
1867
1867
1867
1869
1875
1880
1881
1869
1877
1886
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65.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
66.
Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands
67.
Steven Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
68.
Anton Chekhov, The Bishop
69.
Mark Twain, The Death of Jean
70. D.H. Lawrence,
Sons and Lovers
71.
Franz Kafka
Metamorphosis
The Trial
72.
Thomas Mann
Death in Venice
Magic Mountain
73.
John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga
74.
Marcel Proust, Guermantes Way
75.
James Joyce, Ulysses
76.
Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie
An American Tragedy
77.
Katherine Mansfield,
The Canary/ Dove’s Nest
78.
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
79. F.
Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
80.
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
81.
Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop
82.
Erich M. Remarque, All Quiet On the Western Front
83. William
Faulkner
As I Lay Dying
Light in August
Delta Autumn
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Dorian
Gray
Willems
The Tall
Soldier
The Bishop
Jean,
Daughter
Mother
Gregor
Samsa
Herr K
Gustav
Aschenbach
Joachim
Ziemssen
Old
Jolyon & Balthasar
Grandmother
Patty
Digham’s Funeral
Hurstwood
Roberta
& Clyde
The Canary
Septimus
Gatsby
Bull
Fa. Jean
Marie Latour
French
Soldier
Addie
Joe
Christmas
McCaslin
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1890
1895
1896
1902
1904
1913
1915
1925
1915
1925
1918
1921
1925
1900
1925
1923
1925
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1932
1940
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84. Helen Zenna
Smith, Not so Quiet on the Western Front
85. Vita
Sackville-West, All Passion Spent
86. Katherine Anne
Porter
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Ship of Fools
87. Joseph Roth
The Radetzky March
The Tale of the 1002nd
Night
88. Audous Huxley
Brave
New World
Brave New World
89. Radclyffe
Hall, Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself
90. John
Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
91. Zora Neale
Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
92. Caroline
Slade, The Triumph of Willie Pond
93. Eudora Welty,
Death of a Traveling Salesman
94. Irene Nemirovsky
David
Golder
Suite Francaise
95. Albert Camus,
The Stranger
96. Simone De
Beauvoir, She Came to Stay
97. Conrad
Richter, The Town
98. Harold
Robbins, A Stone For Danny Fisher
99. Flannery
O’Connor, Wise Blood
100. Farley Mowat,
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be
101. Truman Capote
A Christmas Memory
In Cold Blood
102. Carson
McCullers, Clock Without Hands
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Women -
WWI
Lady
Slane
Granny
Adam
Echegaray, The Basque
Emperor Francis Joseph
Von Taittinger
Linda
Savage
Miss
Ogilvy
Lenny
Tea Cake
Willie
Pond
R. J.
Bowman
David Golder
Charlie Langelet
The Arab
Xaviere
Mother
Sayward
Danny
Fisher
Mr.
Motes
Mutt
Cousin
Hickock
J. T.
Malone
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1930
1931
1929
1936
1945
1932
1939
1932
1932
1934
1937
1938
1940
1941
1929
1941
1942
1943
1950
1951
1952
1957
1958
1965
1960
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103. Nevil Shute,
Trustee from the Tool Room
104. Joseph
Heller, Catch 22
105. C.S. Lewis,
A Grief Observed
106. Ray Bradbury,
Dandelion Wine
107. Eva Figes,
Waking
108. John le Carre',
Smiley’s People
109. Toni
Morrison, Beloved
110. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
111. Adam Zameenzad, My Friend Matt
112. Sebastien
Japrisot, A Very Long Engagement
113. Michael
Ondaatje, The English Patient
114. Jose΄ Saramago,
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
115. Jennifer Lash,
Blood Ties
116. Charles Frazier,
Cold Mountain
117. Barbara Kingsolver,
The
Poisonwood Bible
118. Alice Sebold,
The Lovely Bones
119. Monique
Truong, The Book of Salt
120. Harold
Pinter, Death etc.
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John Dermott and wife
Snowden
Wife, Helen Joy
Great-grandma
Woman in Old Age
Leipzig
Sethe
Dr. Juveral Urbino
Golam et.al.
French Soldiers
English Patient
Death of Jesus
Birkin
Inman
African Gray Parrot
Susie Salmon
Mother & Pigeon
Anonymous Body
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1960
1961
1961
1975
1981
1982
1987
1988
1988
1991
1992
1994
1997
1997
1998
2002
2003
2005
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