1212 Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
The Chosen III:887–890
Christmas Carol I:331–334
Color Purple III:1113–1116
Crime and Punishment I:358–361
Cry, the Beloved Country III:864–867
David Copperf ield I:334–337
Dracula III:1032–1035
Dream of the Red Chamber I:250–254
Emma I:185–189
Ethan Frome III:1126–1129
Fahrenheit 451 I:219–222
Fathers and Sons III:1077–1082
Fifth Business I:314–318
Fine Balance II:774–778
Frankenstein III:977–981
Giver II:721–724
God of Small Things III:911–914
Going after Cacciato III:830–833
Golden Notebook II:704–707
Go Tell It on the Mountain I:196–199
Grapes of Wrath III:1012–1015
Great Expectations I:337–341
Great Gatsby II:438–442
Handmaid ’s Tale I:175–178
Heart Is a Lonely Hunter II:742–745
Heart of the Matter II:501–504
The Hobbit III:1063–1067
Hound of the Baskervilles I:365–369
House for Mr. Biswas III:823–827
House Made of Dawn II:785–789
House of Mirth III:1129–1133
House of the Spirits I:144–148
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
I:148–150
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I:160–163
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
II:608–611
Invisible Man I:390–393
Jane Eyre I:229–232
Joy Luck Club III:1049–1052
The Jungle III:991–994
To Kill a Mockingbird II:701–704
Kim II:670–673
Lesson before Dying II:470–473
To the Lighthouse III:1174–1177
Light in August II:425–429
Little Women I:137–141
Lolita III:815–818
Lonesome Dove II:749–753
Lord Jim I:301–304
Lord of the Flies II:491–494
Lord of the Rings III:1067–1070
Love Medicine I:411–414
Lucky Jim I:150–154
Madame Bovary II:445–448
Main Street II:711–715Member of the Wedding II:745–749
Of Mice and Men III:1015–1018
Midnight’s Children III:914–918
Moby-Dick II:759–763
Moll Flanders I:321–324
Mrs Dalloway III:1170–1173
Mumbo Jumbo III:897–901
My Ántonia I:265–268
Native Son III:1183–1187
The Natural II:728–732
Nineteen Eighty-Four III:853–857
North and South II:477–481
Oliver Twist I:341–344
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
III:998–1001
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
II:646–649
One Hundred Years of Solitude
II:473–477
O Pioneers! I:268–271
Optimist’s Daughter III:1119–1122
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
III:1163–1167
Painted Bird II:676–680
Passage to India II:448–452
Picture of Dorian Gray III:1144–1147
Portrait of a Lady II:615–618
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
II:633–636
Pride and Prejudice I:189–193
Rabbit, Run III:1096–1099
Rainbow II:691–695
Red Badge of Courage I:308–311
Red Pony III:1022–1025
Remembrance of Things Past
III:891–894
On the Road II:643–646
Robinson Crusoe I:325–328
Room with a View II:452–455
Salt Eaters I:200–202
Sense and Sensibility I:193–196
Separate Peace II:673–676
Sister Carrie I:373–376
Slaughterhouse-Five III:1110–1113
Song of Solomon II:799–803
Sound and the Fury II:431–435
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
III:1025–1028
Surfacing I:178–181
Tale of Two Cities I:345–348
Tar Baby II:806–809
Tender Is the Night II:442–445
Things Fall Apart I:126–130
Things They Carried III:833–837
Tin Drum II:498–501
Tom Jones II:435–438
Tracks I:414–418Treasure Island III:1028–1032
Tree Grows in Brooklyn III:994–997
Tripmaster Monkey II:663–666
Unbearable Lightness of Being
II:680–683
Uncle Tom’s Cabin III:1035–1039
U.S.A. trilogy I:354–358
Waiting for the Barbarians I:291–294
War and Peace III:1070–1074
White Fang II:718–721
White Noise I:328–331
Wide Sargasso Sea III:901–904
Wise Blood III:840–843
Women in Love II:695–698
Women of Brewster Place III:827–830
Wuthering Heights I:232–235
“Nun’s Priest’s Tale, The” (Chaucer) I:274
“Nurse’s Song” (Blake) I:217
O
obligation II:727–729
O’Brien, Flann I:30; III:830–833
O’Brien, Tim III:830–837
Going after Cacciato III:830–833
grief I:44
guilt I:45
heroism I:48
identity I:55
Things They Carried III:833–837
obsession
Fifth Business I:315
House of the Spirits I:146
Lolita III:818
Lord of the Flies II:491
love I:68
Picture of Dorian Gray III:1144
Poisonwood Bible II:661
Song of Solomon II:800
“Tell-Tale Heart” III:881
Tin Drum II:499
Wuthering Heights I:235
“O Captain! My Captain!” (Whitman)
III:1134
“Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, An”
(Bierce) I:209–212
O’Connor, Flannery I:23; III:837–843
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” (Keats) I:70;
II:640, 643
“Ode to a Nightingale” (Keats)
II:640–642
“Ode to the West Wind” (Shelley)
III:983–984
Odyssey, The (Homer) II:571–575
Aeneid III:1099–1100
death I:23
hope I:51
religion I:91