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| 7567757687 | Bildungsroman | German term for 'coming-of-age'; Novel in which an adolescent protagonist comes to adulthood by a process of experience and disillusionment. This character loses his or her innocence, discovers that previous preconceptions are false, or has the security of childhood torn away, but usually matures and strengthens by this process. (Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird) | 0 | |
| 7567757688 | Epistolary Novel | Novel that takes the form of a letter or consists of letters written from one character to another. (Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Alice Walker's The Color Purple) | 1 | |
| 7567757689 | Gothic Novel | Elements of this novel include: Setting in a castle with an atmosphere of mystery and suspense pervaded by a threatening feeling, a fear enhanced by the unknown; omens, portents, visions; supernatural or otherwise inexplicable events populated with ghosts, monsters, and vampires; high, even overwrought emotion—characters are often overcome by anger, sorrow, surprise, and especially, terror; women in distress—as an appeal to the pathos and sympathy, female characters often face events that leave them fainting, terrified, screaming, and/or sobbing; women threatened by a powerful, impulsive, tyrannical males; pervasive imagery of gloom and horror. (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre) | 2 | |
| 7567757690 | Novel of Manners | works of fiction that re-create a social world, conveying with finely detailed observation the customs, values, and mores of a highly developed and complex society. This type of novel often shows a conflict between individual aspirations or desires and the accepted social codes of behavior. (Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence) | 3 | |
| 7567757691 | Picaresque Novel | Loose qualities of this type of novel: (1) Usually written in first person as an autobiographical account. (2) The main character is often of low character or social class (a 'picaro' in Spanish), and gets by with wit rarely holding a job. (3) There is no plot. The story is told in a series of loosely connected adventures or episodes. (4) There is little character development— (5) Satire is a prominent element. Carefree or immoral rascality positions the picaresque hero as a sympathetic outsider, untouched by the false rules of society. (Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) | 4 | |
| 7567757692 | Utopian/Dystopian Novel | This is a type of fiction that is the creation of an ideal world, or utopia, as the setting for a novel or a type of fiction that is the opposite: creation of a nightmare world, or dystopia. In general, the first type show us what our world could become if we change; the second type show us what our world will become if we don't change. (First: Voltaire's Candide, Sir Thomas More's Utopia, Aldous Huxley's Island. Second: George Orwell's 1984, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games) | 5 | |
| 7567757698 | Bildungsroman | Charles Dickens' Great Expectations | 6 | |
| 7567757699 | Epistolary Novel and Novel of Manners | Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice | 7 | |
| 7567757700 | Gothic Novel and Epistolary Novel | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | 8 | |
| 7567757703 | Utopian/Dystopian Novel | Voltaire's Candide | 9 | |
| 7567757702 | Picaresque Novel | Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote | 10 | |
| 7591163274 | Bildungsroman | J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye | 11 | |
| 7591166117 | Bildungsroman | Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird | 12 | |
| 7591170768 | Picaresque Novel | Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist | 13 | |
| 7591178086 | Picaresque Novel | Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | 14 | |
| 7591185274 | Utopian/Dystopian Novel | Sir Thomas More's Utopia | 15 | |
| 7591190789 | Utopian/Dystopian Novel | Aldous Huxley's Island | 16 | |
| 7591194588 | Utopian/Dystopian Novel | George Orwell's 1984 | 17 | |
| 7591202155 | Utopian/Dystopian Novel | Aldous Huxley's Brave New World | 18 | |
| 7591208382 | Utopian/Dystopian Novel | Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games | 19 | |
| 7591211106 | Novel of Manners | F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby | 20 | |
| 7591213867 | Novel of Manners | Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence | 21 | |
| 7591218749 | Gothic Novel | Bram Stoker's Dracula | 22 | |
| 7591221203 | Gothic Novel | Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre | 23 | |
| 7591231514 | Epistolary Novel | Alice Walker's The Color Purple | 24 |
