Literature Part 2 Flashcards
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| A line from this 1894 Kipling book says, “Rikki-Tikki had a right to be proud of himself; but he did not grow too proud”
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The Jungle Book
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$3800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Chapters in this James Bond novel include “Gem Quality” & “Hot Ice”
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Diamonds Are Forever
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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| One reviewer called this recent Sara Gruen bestseller “so much more than a tale about a circus”
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Water for Elephants
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$1600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| He wrote “Bech: A Book”, “Bech Is Back” & “Bech At Bay” in addition to his “Rabbit” novels
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(John) Updike
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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This 1930 William Faulkner novel deals with the death & burial of Addie Bundren
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As I Lay Dying
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Henry Fielding called a 1749 novel “The History of” him, “a Foundling”
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Tom Jones
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| An 1894 Anthony Hope romance was titled this “of Zenda”
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the Prisoner
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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| 1868 Wilkie Collins novel about a mysterious rock
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The Moonstone
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$1600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Rowena has Saxon the brain in this 1819 work by Sir Walter Scott
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Ivanhoe
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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Sophocles wrote a tragedy about this self-sacrificing daughter of Oedipus
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Antigone
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE SEQUELS? ||| He jazzed up one of his stories, “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”, with “The Desperate Housewife of Bath’s Revenge!”
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Chaucer
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE SEQUELS? ||| Aronnax rethinks his decision to leave the ship in “Finding Nemo!”, our sequel to this 1870 Jules Verne novel
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE SEQUELS? ||| Florentino Ariza’s nephew falls for a young woman in this Marquez novel’s sequel, “Love in the Time of the Sniffles”
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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$1600 ||| Category: LITERATURE SEQUELS? ||| This playwright’s title guy takes on a new troll king in “Trollbusters! The Return of Peer Gynt”
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Ibsen
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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE SEQUELS? ||| “Findlay, Ohio”, “Sandusky, Ohio” & “Zanesville, Ohio” didn’t go as well for Sherwood Anderson as this 1919 book
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Winesburg, Ohio
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$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ALIASES ||| In the Sindarin tongue he was known as Mithrandir, the “Grey Wanderer”
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Gandalf
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ALIASES ||| If you’re looking for Mr. (Robin) Goodfellow, ask for this Shakespearean character
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Puck
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$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ALIASES ||| In an 1844 novel, Edmond Dantes disguises himself as Abbe Busoni & this title noble
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the Count of Monte Cristo
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ALIASES ||| AKA Barbecue, this character was also “The Sea Cook”, another title for the novel in which he appeared
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Long John Silver
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$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ALIASES ||| Randall Flagg, a character created by this man, is aka Nyarlathotep, Walter Padick & Walter O’Dim
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Stephen King
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$None ||| Category: LITERATURE & MUSIC ||| The band called “They Might Be Giants” ultimately gets its name from a phrase said by this title hero in a 1605 work
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Don Quixote
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$None ||| Category: LITERATURE OF THE 1800s ||| This character said, “I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me”
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Ebenezer Scrooge
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$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE IN THE 1800s ||| Stephen Crane subtitled this novel “An Episode of the American Civil War”
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The Red Badge of Courage
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE IN THE 1800s ||| The first chapter of this Carlo Collodi classic appeared in an Italian children’s magazine in 1881
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Pinocchio
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$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE IN THE 1800s ||| (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Rosenborg Castle Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark.) In one translation of an 1868 work, this author calls Denmark's Rosenborg "the Castle of the Roses, as beautiful as the flower that gave it its name"
Hans Christian Andersen
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE IN THE 1800s ||| In 1859 Edward Fitzgerald translated this Persian's 12th c. work into rhymed quatrains
Omar Khayyam
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$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE IN THE 1800s ||| This 1898 Henry James novella is considered one of the greatest ghost stories ever written
The Turn of the Screw
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In 1917 L. Frank Baum wrote about "The Lost Princess of" this place
Oz
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| When he first saw Becky Thatcher, "a certain Amy Lawrence vanished out of his heart and left not even a memory"
Tom Sawyer
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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| "I never liked long walks", says the heroine of this Charlotte Bronte novel
Jane Eyre
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$1600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Wordsworth's poem about her begins, "Hail, Virgin Queen! O'er many an envious bar triumphant"
Elizabeth (I)
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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Her 1942 novel "Dragon Seed" was yet another tale of Chinese peasant farmers
(Pearl) Buck
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| His novel "Sister Carrie" sold fewer than 500 copies in its first edition
(Theodore) Dreiser
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This experimental novelist named William published a 1953 account of drug addiction under the name William Lee
(William) Burroughs
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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This novel by Richard Wright tells of Bigger Thomas, the product of a Chicago slum
Native Son
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$1600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This series of tales by Ovid with a plural title begins with the creation of the world
Metamorphoses
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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Isabel Archer is the title woman of this Henry James masterpiece
Portrait of a Lady
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE IN OTHER WORDS ||| A Joyce epic: "Odysseus"
Ulysses
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE IN OTHER WORDS ||| A puritanical tale: "A Note From Miss Johansson"
The Scarlet Letter
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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE IN OTHER WORDS ||| It has Dickensian structure: "Desolate Abode"
Bleak House
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$10800 ||| Category: LITERATURE IN OTHER WORDS ||| A Miller's tale: "23 Degrees, 27 Minutes North of the Equator"
Tropic of Cancer
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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE IN OTHER WORDS ||| An 1888 Kipling work: "Prince Charles"
"The Man Who Would Be King"
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$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Our copy of this 1865-69 Tolstoy work is 1,444 pages long
War and Peace
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Many say that Tu Fu was this country's greatest poet
China
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" , this bawdy wife tells of her 5 husbands & her desire for a sixth
the Wife of Bath
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$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Flaubert led this movement in French literature also called naturalism
realism
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The full title of this Spanish novel includes "de la Mancha, El Ingenioso Hidalgo"
Don Quixote
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Bernard Binlin Dadie's novel "Climbie" depicts this "Ivorian" country, his homeland, during colonial times
Côte d'Ivoire (or the Ivory Coast)
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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| New Zealand-born Dame Ngaio Marsh became famous for her work in this field of fiction
mystery writing
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$1600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| His essay "Civil Disobedience" was delivered as a lecture & printed as "Resistance to Civil Government"
(Henry David) Thoreau
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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Some have described his "Eugene Onegin" as the first great Russian novel, although it was written in verse
Pushkin
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$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In a Defoe novel, this companion is described as "a comely handsome fellow"
Friday
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| "Jo's Boys" was the second sequel to this 19th century novel
Little Women
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$500 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Chapter 48 of this English novel deals with "The Flight of Sikes"--Bill Sikes
Oliver Twist
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Richard Middlemas gets crushed by an elephant in "The Surgeon's Daughter", an 1827 tale by this Edinburgher
Sir Walter Scott
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$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The NYC murder of Mary Rogers inspired Poe, who changed the setting to Paris & created "The Mystery of" her
Marie Roget
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE PUZZLES ME ||| You don't know "Jack" if you don't know this beat novel
On the Road
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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE PUZZLES ME ||| Longfellow gave us these instructions
"One if by land, two if by sea"
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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE PUZZLES ME ||| This brought E.M. Forster his first major success; thanks, President Taft!
Howards End
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| At the end of this novel, Reverend Dimmesdale reveals publicly that he is the father of Hester Prynne's daughter
The Scarlet Letter
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This character's first literary appearance was in the tragic drama "The Seducer of Seville"
Don Juan
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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| He wrote the "2001", "2010", "2061" & "3001" Odyssey books
Arthur C. Clarke
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$1600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Nevil Shute novel depicts the coming annihilation of the human race after a nuclear war
On the Beach
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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The 2-word title of this 1985 Bobbie Ann Mason novel refers to the time a soldier spent in Vietnam
In Country
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| As this 1931 novel begins, Wang Lung travels to the house of Hwang to fetch his bride
The Good Earth
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Washington Irving based this character on his friend Jesse Merwin, a schoolteacher
Ichabod Crane
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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel "Oil!" was based on this presidential scandal of a few years earlier
Teapot Dome
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$1600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In this title "incident", vigilantes hang 3 men falsely accused of cattle rustling
Oxbow
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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The title of this Steinbeck novel refers to a district above Monterey inhabited by Paisanos
Tortilla Flat
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Published in Spain in 1605, this classic of world literature was an instant hit
Don Quixote
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Of 50, 200 or 500, the one closest to the number of characters in "War and Peace"
500
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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This title Sir Walter Scott character is torn between Rebecca & the Saxon Rowena
Ivanhoe
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$1600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Bank official Joseph K. is on the defensive as the accused in this Kafka work
The Trial
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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In a Thomas Hardy novel, Michael Henchard is this title mayor
the Mayor of Casterbridge
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$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE A LA SEUSS ||| Hester looked at the frock / she looked in dismay / "Do you have it in something/ other than 'A'?"
The Scarlet Letter
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE A LA SEUSS ||| George said, "No, Lennie, No! / I won't get you a guppy! / You think I've forgotten / what you did to that puppy?"
Of Mice And Men
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$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE A LA SEUSS ||| I sat there with Winston / We sat there, we 2 / But when busted for thoughtcrime / I knew I was through
1984
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE A LA SEUSS ||| No Brontes, just Dantes / Got sent off to D'if / But with Danglars, that Danglars! / He had a big beef
The Count Of Monte Cristo
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$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE A LA SEUSS ||| So on again, o again, from Laputa to Glubbdubdrib / I'm giving up, something something a Flubbdubgrib
Gulliver's Travels
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE FOR KIDS ||| "We looked! Then we saw him step in on the mat! We looked! And we saw him!" This famous cat
the Cat in the Hat
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE FOR KIDS ||| In a fairy tale by this Danish author, the Snow Queen takes little Kay away in her sleigh to her icy palace
Hans Christian Andersen
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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE FOR KIDS ||| In "Little Women", Margaret March is better known by this nickname
"Meg"
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$1600 ||| Category: LITERATURE FOR KIDS ||| This loving relative who takes care of Tom Sawyer was inspired by Mark Twain's own mother
Aunt Polly
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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE FOR KIDS ||| This author who wrote about "The Princess Who Could Not Laugh" made us smile with "Winnie-the-Pooh"
A.A. Milne
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In chapter 52 of this novel, a boisterous crowd is gathering for Fagin's execution
Oliver Twist
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| 19th c. author known for writing about a "venerable mansion" with "seven acutely peaked gables"
(Nathaniel) Hawthorne
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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| People from the past appear to a brother & sister in "Rewards and Fairies" by this author of "The Jungle Book"
Kipling
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$1600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Modern novels with biblical titles include Jane Hamilton's "The Book of Ruth" & Toni Morrison's "Song of" him
Solomon
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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Even Grendel would love Seamus Heaney's new translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic about this title geat
Beowulf
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$None ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Maris, Lycon, Laogonus, Erymas, Sarpedon, Erylaus & Patroclus die in Book 16 of this work
the Iliad
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$None ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In 1852 his story "The Dandy Frightening the Squatter" appeared in The Carpet-Bag, a humorous paper
Mark Twain
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE OF THE 19-OUGHTS ||| Throughout the decade, he cranked out sequels like "Ozma of Oz"
(Frank) Baum
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE OF THE 19-OUGHTS ||| Also in the title, it's the last word of the Joseph Conrad tale about the mysterious Mr. Kurtz
darkness
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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE OF THE 19-OUGHTS ||| Date in 1900 on which Thomas Hardy wrote, "The land's sharp features seemed to be / The century's corpse"
Decemer 31st
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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE OF THE 19-OUGHTS ||| 1903 Irish literary works included Synge's "In the Shadow of the Glen" & this poet's "In the Seven Woods"
(William Butler) Yeats
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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE OF THE 19-OUGHTS ||| Frank Norris titled his 1901 novel about a railroad that's strangling farmers after this marine mollusk
the octopus
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$None ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This 1877 novel was written "to induce kindness, sympathy and an understanding treatment of horses"
Black Beauty
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| E.B. White spun this tale about a spider & a pig
Charlotte's Web
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In this Edgar Allan Poe poem, the title bird's favorite word is "nevermore"
"The Raven"
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$6000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Dickens divided this book into staves instead of chapters; Stave IV is called "The Last of the Spirits"
A Christmas Carol
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$1600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| If you're in the "hobbit" of reading his books, try his non-hobbit tale "Farmer Giles Of Ham"
Tolkien
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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In "Little Women", this youngest of the 4 sisters is "a most important person, in her own opinion at least"
Amy
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$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Of Pastism, Presentism or Futurism, the literary movement that began around 1909
Futurism
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| (Jon of the Clue Crew stands next to a statue in the harbor of Copenhagen, Denmark.) This author once said that "The Little Mermaid" was the only one of his stories he felt moved by when he wrote it
Hans Christian Andersen
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$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| "The Miller's Tale" is one of the naughtiest of these famous Chaucer stories
The Canterbury Tales
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The prep school classic "A Separate Peace" takes place during this war
the Second World War
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$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This scary Edgar Allan Poe story takes place at a spooky masked ball given by a prince
The Masque of the Red Death
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Not Natty Dresser but Natty this dies in the novel "The Prairie"
Bumppo
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Melville character's artificial leg is carved from the jawbone of a sperm whale
Ahab
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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Jim Hawkins narrates this 1883 novel
Treasure Island
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$1600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| At the start of this Dickens novel, Pip meets an escaped convict who threatens to eat him
Great Expectations
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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This governor of a Southern state asks his aide to dig up dirt on Judge Irwin, a man of integrity
Willie Stark
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$None ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Northumbria in the "Age of Bede" or Mercia in Offa's reign are guesses as to where & when this work was created
Beowulf
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$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Chapter 13 of this classic novel is called "Another View of Hester"
The Scarlet Letter
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| He published the first 4 of his fairy tales in an 1835 pamphlet; "The Tinder Box" was among them
Hans Christian Andersen
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$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Nicodemus Frapp is a narrow-minded evangelist in "Tono-Bungay", a 1909 novel by this author of "The Time Machine"
H.G. Wells
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This author of "The Good Earth" based the heroine of her 1938 novel "This Proud Heart" on herself
Pearl Buck
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$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In Wonderland, Alice comes across a large one of these with a snooty caterpillar atop it
a mushroom
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In the 1600s Basho wrote a famous hard-to-translate haiku about this creature jumping into a pond
a frog
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The infamous Lowood School in this novel was based on a real school that Charlotte Bronte attended at age 8
Jane Eyre
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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Jane Austen novel begins, "The family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex"
Sense and Sensibility
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$6000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| After Christian's death in an 1897 drama, this title character still acts as a platonic friend to the widow
Cyrano de Bergerac
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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Tolstoy wrote this character's "life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible"
Ivan Ilyich
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Britannica states that the name "Agora" was first found in the work of this ancient Greek poet
Homer
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This 1953 book title tells us the temperature at which books burn
Fahrenheit 451
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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In 1900 he wrote the line, "The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick"
L. Frank Baum
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$1600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This 1952 Pulitzer-winning book grew out of Herman Wouk's experiences on a WWII destroyer-minesweeper
The Caine Mutiny
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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Elizabeth Barrett Browning gave this volume of 44 sonnets to Robert in 1847, a year after they eloped
Sonnets from the Portuguese
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| "Tai-Pan" was a "Novel of Hong Kong" by James Clavell, & this was his 1975 "Novel of Japan"
Shogun
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In Pierre Boulle's "Planet of the Apes", Zira & Cornelius are this species of ape
chimpanzees
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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Milan Kundera's "Immortality" read in this, its original language, may be unbearably light reading
Czech
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$1600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Goethe called him Faust; Marlowe dubbed him this
Dr. Faustus
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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Completes the title of Eldridge Cleaver's 1968 memoir "Soul on..."
Ice
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$None ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In early drafts, the heroine of this novel was named Pansy & her family home was called Fontenoy Hall
Gone with the Wind
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$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| "Child of the Morning" is the story of Hatshepsut, a woman who ruled this country as a pharaoh
Egypt
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Danish fairy tale author wrote an autobiography called "The Fairy Tale of My Life"
Hans Christian Andersen
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$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| His first "Jungle Book" was so popular that he published his "Second Jungle Book" in 1895
Rudyard Kipling
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$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Chapter 25 of this book is called "The First Wedding" & it described Meg's marriage to John Brooke
Little Women
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$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This author said that he was acting in a play with his kids when he came up with the idea for "A Tale of Two Cities"
Charles Dickens
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Her career as a novelist dawned with "Dawn O'Hara"; "Show Boat" showed up later
Edna Ferber
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Gom Gut & Plick et Plock were pseudonyms of this Inspector Maigret creator
Georges Simenon
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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Hmm... he dedicated his 1820 poem "The Witch of Atlas" to his wife Mary
(Percy Bysshe) Shelley
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$1600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Lloyd Brown, once an inmate of this city's Alleghany County jail, based his novel "Iron City" on life there
Pittsburgh
144
$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| "I shouldn't mind being a bride... if I could be one without having a husband", says Bathsheba in this Hardy novel
Far From the Madding Crowd
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE IN THE JAZZ AGE ||| This Sinclair Lewis character is a brazen ex-football player who enters the ministry
Elmer Gantry
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE IN THE JAZZ AGE ||| Erich Maria Remarque was working as a sportswriter in Germany when he wrote this novel about WWI
All Quiet on the Western Front
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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE IN THE JAZZ AGE ||| This bestselling Western author's 1920s novels included "The Call of the Canyon" & "The Mysterious Rider"
Zane Grey
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$1600 ||| Category: LITERATURE IN THE JAZZ AGE ||| This "huge" 1924 Edna Ferber novel is about a widowed truck farmer & her struggles
So Big
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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE IN THE JAZZ AGE ||| This 1927 Thornton Wilder novel begins, "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke"
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The cheery first "Masterpiece Theatre" season included "Jude the Obscure" & this Russian's "The Possessed"
Dostoevsky
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys is the story of the mad wife of this "Jane Eyre" character
Rochester
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$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In 1856 Revue de Paris readers followed this tale of the miserable wife of a boring doctor
Madame Bovary
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| A fling with the valet is one of the escapades of this Strindberg title "Miss"
Miss Julie
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$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| "I Married a Communist", "The Human Stain" & "American Pastoral" make up a recent trilogy by this novelist
Philip Roth
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This title character's ship, the Antelope, went down off the coast of Lilliput
Gulliver
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In a 1927 Hermann Hesse novel, newspaper writer Harry Haller, a loner, calls himself this
Steppenwolf
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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Hamlet's most famous one of these speeches includes the following lines Whether tis' nobler in the mind to suffer the slings & arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles & by opposing...
soliloquy
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$1600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| John Kennedy Toole immortalized the Lucky Dog vending carts in this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
"A Confederacy of Dunces"
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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Nelson Algren won a 1950 Nat'l Book Award for this novel about card dealer & morphine addict Frankie Machine
"The Man with the Golden Arm"
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE IN SPANISH ||| It took him 10 years to come out with "Don Quixote Part II"
Cervantes
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE IN SPANISH ||| "Barrabas came to us by sea" is how this female author began "The House of the Spirits"
Isabel Allende
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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE IN SPANISH ||| Pablo Neruda's website is on the server of the university of this country of his birth
Chile
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$1600 ||| Category: LITERATURE IN SPANISH ||| This "Blood Wedding" poet & playwright was executed in Spain in 1936
Federico Garcia Lorca
164
$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE IN SPANISH ||| In 1990 he became the first Mexican poet to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, not the eighth for Peace
Octavio Paz
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$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| At the end of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", this sadistic slave owner dies insane
Simon Legree
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In "Pudd'nhead Wilson", Twain wrote, "Put all your eggs in the one basket and" then do this to "that basket"
watch
167
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1922 collection of stories was titled "Tales of" this "Age"
the Jazz Age
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| A review said this 1979 William Styron novel "belongs on that small shelf reserved for American masterpieces"
Sophie's Choice
169
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| (Sarah of the Clue Crew in New Orleans) This author of the classic American novel "Winesburg, Ohio" once lived here in the Pontalba Apartments on Jackson Square
Sherwood Anderson
170
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The Bermoothes, where Prospero's brother was shipwrecked in this play, might have been named for Bermuda
The Tempest
171
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This dilapidated Hawthorne mansion is home to Pyncheon relatives Hepzibah, Phoebe & Clifford & a lodger
House of the Seven Gables
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$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| A dog named Jip chews up the cookbook belonging to this Dickens title character's wife Dora
David Copperfield
173
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The wife of this Sinclair Lewis research scientist dies during an epidemic in the West Indies
Arrowsmith
174
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a water theme park.) Hey, we can be this title duo from a Lewis Carroll poem
the Walrus and the Carpenter
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$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| James Fenimore Cooper's 1823 novel "The Pioneers" was the first in a series of these 5 "Tales"
"Leatherstocking Tales"
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In 1919 Booth Tarkington won a Pulitzer Prize for this "Magnificent" novel; in 1922 he won again for "Alice Adams"
"The Magnificent Ambersons"
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$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In this 1952 short story, Hemingway wrote, "A man can be destroyed but not defeated"
"The Old Man and the Sea"
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In "A Scandal in" this, Sherlock Holmes calls Dr. Watson his "Boswell"
"Bohemia"
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$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Graham Greene's "A Gun For Sale" was published in the U.S. under this title
"This Gun For Hire"
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$100 ||| Category: LITERATURE, JERRY SPRINGER-STYLE ||| On "You Made Me A Bloodsucking Monster!", vampires Lestat & Louis confront their creator, this author
Anne Rice
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$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE, JERRY SPRINGER-STYLE ||| This title character from John Irving's 4th novel appears on "You Think The World Revolves Around You!"
Garp
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$300 ||| Category: LITERATURE, JERRY SPRINGER-STYLE ||| Adam & Eve confront the big man himself & discuss this 1667 Milton poem on "I Can't Believe You Evicted Me!"
Paradise Lost
183
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE, JERRY SPRINGER-STYLE ||| George & Martha, characters in this Albee play, really let loose on "My Spouse Is Driving Me Crazy!"
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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$500 ||| Category: LITERATURE, JERRY SPRINGER-STYLE ||| Don't "count" on missing "You Stole My Life, I'm Paying You Back!" featuring this 1844-45 Dumas classic
The Count of Monte Cristo
185
$100 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Walt Whitman's 52-section "Song Of Myself" is the longest work in this collection first published in 1855
"Leaves of Grass"
186
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In this Steinbeck novel, Lennie has nightmarish visions of his dead aunt Clara & of a gigantic rabbit
"Of Mice and Men"
187
$300 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In this novel, Javert says, "There is a brigand, there is a convict called Jean Valjean, and I have got him!"
"Les Miserables"
188
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This James M. Cain novel, which has been filmed "twice", was written under the title "Bar-B-Q"
"The Postman Always Rings Twice"
189
$500 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Muriel Spark novel is set at the Marcia Blaine School For Girls in Edinburgh
"The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"
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$None ||| Category: LITERATURE & FILM ||| Nicole Kidman, Helena Bonham Carter & Cybill Shepherd have all starred in films based on this man's works
Henry James
191
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This quintessential New Englander published his first book of poems, "A Boy's Will", while living in England in 1913
Robert Frost
192
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Set in part in Philadelphia, "Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker" is a novel about this war
The Revolutionary War
193
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Taji & Jarl are deserters from a whaling ship in his 1849 novel "Mardi"
Herman Melville
194
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| "The Pentameron" is a volume of imaginary conversations between Petrarch & this author of "The Decameron"
Giovanni Boccaccio
195
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Great Chilean poet known for his "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair"
Pablo Neruda
196
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Polish-born Jerzy Kosinski wrote all of his novels, including "Being There" in this, his adopted language
English
197
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| She based the characters of Anne & Robert in her novel "The Mandarins" on herself & Jean-Paul Sartre
Simone de Beauvoir
198
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| It's the native country of Flora Nwapa, who wrote "This is Lagos, and Other Stories"
Nigeria
199
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The original Italian title of this Umberto Eco novel is "Il Nome Della Rosa"
"The Name of the Rose"
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$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In 2000 Turkish author Andrew Mango published a new biography of this founder of modern Turkey
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
201
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Chapter 83 of this Herman Melville novel is entitled "Jonah Historically Regarded"
"Moby Dick"
202
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| As well as the "Iliad" & "Odyssey", a number of hymns are attributed to him
Homer
203
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This American novelist created the old fisherman Santiago & the young bullfighter Pedro Romero
Ernest Hemingway
204
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Before "Les Miserables", he attacked the French penal system in the novel "Claude Gueux"
Victor Hugo
205
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Thoreau work includes a chapter on "The Pond in Winter"
"Walden"
206
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The 2 leading French Absurdists were Ionesco, from Romania, & this Irish author of "Waiting for Godot"
Samuel Beckett
207
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Nobel Prize winner dedicated "The Waste Land" to fellow poet Ezra Pound
T.S. Eliot
208
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| His "Dr. Zhivago" aroused so much opposition in the Soviet Union that he said "Nyet" to the Nobel Prize in 1958
Boris Pasternak
209
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In 1953 this British politician won the Nobel Prize for his biographical & historical works & for his oratory
Winston Churchill
210
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| He was no "Stranger" to the Nobel Prize for Literature, winning in 1957
Albert Camus
211
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| A poem by this 1923 Nobel Prize winner is heard here: ("I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made")
William Butler Yeats
212
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| "Les chatiments" is a group of satirical poems attacking Napoleon III by this creator of Quasimodo
Victor Hugo
213
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The Jindyworobak Movement of the 1930s celebrated this country's Aboriginal culture
Australia
214
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The heroine of her 1849 novel "Shirley" was inspired by her late sister Emily
Charlotte Bronte
215
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The title of this poet-playwright's 1893 book "The Celtic Twilight" became a synonym for the Irish literary revival
William Butler Yeats
216
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This South African called her 1965 story collection "Not For Publication"
Nadine Gordimer
217
$None ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| An edition of this 1934 book had on its cover a crab & "Not to be imported into Great Britain or U.S.A."
Tropic of Cancer (by Henry Miller)
218
$100 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This title French schoolgirl created by Ludwig Bemelmans is often found at the end of the line
Madeline
219
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In the title of a 14th century work, Sir Gawain is paired with this "knight"
the Green Knight
220
$300 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| A rundown Mexican hotel is the setting for "The Night of the Iguana", a play by this writer
Tennessee Williams
221
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This 1942 French novel begins, "Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure."
The Stranger (L'Etranger)
222
$500 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Despite its title, this 1848 Charles Dickens novel is ultimately about a father & his daughter, not his son
Dombey and Son
223
$100 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| William Faulkner's novel "Mosquitoes" satirizes the literary life in this Louisiana city
New Orleans
224
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Ford Madox Ford's 4-novel series "Parade's End" is set during & after this war in which Ford himself was shell-shocked
World War I
225
$300 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| "For men may come and men may go, but I go on forever", this "Lord" of poetry babbled in "The Brook"
Alfred Lord Tennyson
226
$500 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This 1871 sequel is subtitled "Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys"
"Little Men"
227
$500 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The title of this Willa Cather novel refers to a certain Ms. Shimerda
"My Antonia"
