Index 1213Oedipus Rex (Sophocles) III:1001, 1002,
1004–1008
Oedipus the King (Sophocles)
abandonment I:1–2
community I:20
fate I:33
love I:67
parenthood I:79
pride I:82
religion I:91
sex and sexuality I:99
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)
III:1015–1018
“Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession”
(Paine) III:862
Of Plymouth Plantation (Bradford)
I:225–229
Old Man and the Sea, The (Hemingway)
I:107; II:548–551
Old Testament
ambition I:5
Inherit the Wind II:700
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe II:710
Of Plymouth Plantation I:226, 227
Oliver Twist (Dickens) I:341–344
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
(Solzhenitsyn) III:997–1001
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Kesey)
II:646–649
“One Holy Night” (Cisneros) I:288, 289
One Hundred Years of Solitude (García
Márquez) I:55; II:473–477
O’Neill, Eugene I:31, 57; III:843–850
On Heroes (Carlyle) I:48
“On Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
(Keats) II:640
“On the Grasshopper and the Cricket”
(Keats) II:642
On the Origin of Species (Darwin) I:104;
III:1055
On the Road (Kerouac) II:643–646
On Violence (Arendt) I:117
“Open Boat, The” (Crane) I:304–308
O Pioneers! (Cather) I:94, 268–271
oppression I:76–78
Animal Farm III:852
Anthem III:896–897
Anthills of the Savannah I:124–125
Black Elk Speaks I:213–215
Call of the Wild II:716
Cane III:1074–1075
Common Sense III:863
David Copperf ield I:337
Dream of the Red Chamber I:253–254
Dubliners II:629
Dutchman II:627
Fine Balance II:777–778
gender I:40
Go Tell It on the Mountain I:196
Great Gatsby II:439
Handmaid ’s Tale I:175–179
House of the Spirits I:147–148
Jane Eyre I:231
Lesson before Dying II:472
Long Day’s Journey into Night III:848
Medea I:420
Merchant of Venice III:946
Mumbo Jumbo III:898–899
Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass I:361, 362
Nineteen Eighty-Four III:854, 856
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
II:648–649
Passage to India II:449
Small Place II:654–656
Sula II:805
Surfacing I:178
Tracks I:417
Unbearable Lightness of Being
II:682–683
Vindication of the Rights of Woman
III:1169–1170
White Fang II:720–721
“Oppression” (Frye) I:76
Oprah’s Book Club II:774
optimism III:1103
Optimist’s Daughter, The (Welty) I:44;
III:1119–1122
oral tradition
Beowulf I:165
Fahrenheit 451 I:222
House Made of Dawn II:787, 788
Way to Rainy Mountain II:791
Woman Warrior II:669
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
(Winterson) III:1163–1167
Order of the Virtues (von Bingen) I:50
Orlando (Woolf ) III:1176
Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (Behn)
I:202–206
Orwell, George III:850–857
Animal Farm III:850–853
love I:67
Nineteen Eighty-Four III:853–857
parenthood I:81
Othello (Shakespeare) I:42, 65;
III:956–959
Our Town (Wilder) I:32; III:1147–1151
outcasts III:843, 844, 1086, 1184
“Outcasts of Poker Flat, The” (Harte)
II:521–524
Out of Africa (Dinesen) I:66, 351–354
“Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”
(Whitman) III:1133Outsiders, The (Hinton) II:565–568
“Over the hill and over the dale” (Keats)
II:641
Ovid
ambition I:6
death I:24
Midsummer Night’s Dream III:949
Pygmalion III:974
Oxford Book of Work, The (Thomas) I:120
Oxford English Dictionary I:47, 77
“Ozymandias” (Shelley) III:982
P
pacifism III:1112
paganism II:760, 762
Paine, Thomas III:857–863
“Painful Case, A” ( Joyce) II:630–631
Painted Bird, The (Kosinski) II:676–680
Pamela (Richardson) I:80
parables I:105; III:1163
Paradise Lost (Milton) II:770–774
ambition I:6
death I:24
Frankenstein III:978
freedom I:36
nature I:74
parenthood I:79
religion I:91
survival I:113
Paradiso (Dante) I:312–314
paradox II:743, 762, 763, 775
paralysis II:631
paranoia III:882, 883
parenthood I:78–81
American Pastoral III:905–906
Beloved II:793
Bluest Eye II:796
Buddha of Suburbia II:684–685
The Chosen III:888–889
Farewell to Arms II:546–547
Fathers and Sons III:1080–1082
Little Women I:140–141
love I:67
Rabbit, Run III:1096
Scarlet Letter II:535–536
Sula II:804–805
Tar Baby II:806–807
War and Peace III:1071–1072
Winesburg, Ohio I:159
Woman Hollering Creek and Other
Stories I:289
World According to Garp II:597–598
Parks, Suzan-Lori I:35, 41, 42
Parsons, Talcott I:56–57
“Parson’s Tale, The” (Chaucer) I:274
“Passage to India” (Whitman) III:1135
Passage to India, A (Forster) II:448–452