Violence in Literature

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Representative Works

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Hart Crane
The Bridge (poetry) 1930
The Poetry of Hart Crane (poetry) 1967

Harry Crews
The Hawk Is Dying (novel) 1973
A Feast of Snakes (novel) 1976

William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury (novel) 1929

Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye (novel) 1970

Flannery O’Connor
Wise Blood (novel) 1952
The Violent Bear It Away (novel) 1960
Flannery O’Connor: The Complete Stories (short stories) 1971

George Orwell
1984 (novel) 1949

Sylvia Plath
The Collected Poems (poetry) 1981

Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow (novel) 1973

Alain Robbe-Grillet
Le Voyeur [The Voyeur] (novel) 1955

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Player Piano (novel) 1952
Cat's Cradle (novel) 1963
Slaughterhouse-Five (novel) 1969

John Wain
Living in the Present (novel) 1955

Alice Walker
The Color Purple (novel) 1982

Richard Wright
Native Son (novel) 1940

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