BB Lit up to 1900 2

Question 1

Jules Verne

Answer 1

A Voyage to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days 1828-1905

Question 2

Count Leo Tolstoy

Answer 2

War and Peace and Anna Karenina 1828-1910

Question 3

Emily Dickinson

Answer 3

American poet 1830-86

Question 4

Louisa May Alcott

Answer 4

Little Women and Little Men 1832-88

Question 5

Lewis Carroll

Answer 5

(Charles Dodgson) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass 1832-98

Question 6

Horatio Alger

Answer 6

American writer 1832-99

Question 7

Mark Twain

Answer 7

(Samuel L Clemens) The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Count, Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, and Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court 1835-1910

Question 8

Thomas Hardy

Answer 8

The Mayor of Casterbridge and Tess of the D’ubervilles 1840-1928

Question 9

Henry James

Answer 9

Daisy Miller, The Portrait of a Lady, and The Turn of the Screw 1843-1916

Question 10

Bram Stoker

Answer 10

Dracula 1847-1912

Question 11

Emma Lazarus

Answer 11

The New Colossus 1849-87

Question 12

Robert Louis Stevenson

Answer 12

Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1850-94

Question 13

Jose Marti

Answer 13

Cuban poet 1853-95

Question 14

Oscar Wilde

Answer 14

Irish The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest 1854-1900

Question 15

L. Frank Baum

Answer 15

Wizard of Oz 1856-1919

Question 16

Joseph Conard

Answer 16

Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness 1857-1924

Question 17

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Answer 17

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles 1859-1930

Question 18

O. Henry

Answer 18

(William Sydney Porter) The Gift of the Magi 1862-1910

Question 19

Edith Wharton

Answer 19

The Age of Innocence 1862-1937

Question 20

Rudyard Kipling

Answer 20

Gunga Din, The Jungle Book, Captains Courageous, and Kim 1865-1936

Question 21

William Butler Yeats

Answer 21

Irish Second Coming and Sailing to Byzantium 1865-1939

Question 22

Stephen Crane

Answer 22

The Red Badge of Courage 1871-1900

Question 23

Gertrude Stein

Answer 23

Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (coined the Lost Generation) 1874-1946

Question 24

Robert L. Frost

Answer 24

Mending Wall, the Death of the Hired Man, The Road Not Taken, and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (JFK inauguration poem) 1874-1963

Question 25

Jack London

Answer 25

The Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf, and White Fang 1876-1916

Question 26

Willa S. Cather

Answer 26

My Antonia and Death Comes for the Archbishop 1876-1947

Question 27

Hermann Hesse

Answer 27

German Siddhartha and Steppenwolf 1877-1962

Question 28

Carl Sandburg

Answer 28

Abraham Lincoln writes about Chicago 1878-1967

Question 29

Upton Sinclair

Answer 29

The Jungle 1878-1968

Question 30

Wallace Stevens

Answer 30

Emperor of Ice-Cream 1879-1955

Question 31

James Joyce

Answer 31

Irish Dubliners, Ulysses, and a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1882-1941

Question 32

Franz Kafka

Answer 32

Austrian Metamorphosis 1883-1924

Question 33

William Carlos Williams

Answer 33

Red Wheel Barrow and This is Just to Say(Plum poem) 1883-1963

Question 34

Sinclair Lewis

Answer 34

Main Street 1885-1951

Question 35

T.S. Elliot

Answer 35

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Wasteland, The Hollow Men, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 1888-1965

Question 36

Boris L. Pasternak

Answer 36

Doctor Zhivago 1890-1960

Question 37

J.R.R. Tolkien

Answer 37

The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, and Silmarillron 1892-1973

Question 38

Pearl S. Buck

Answer 38

The Good Earth 1892-1973

Question 39

e e cummings

Answer 39

In Just Spring (no capitalizations) 1894-1962

Question 40

Aldous L. Huxley

Answer 40

Brave New World 1894-1963

Question 41

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Answer 41

This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, and The LastTycoon196-1940

Question 42

Wiliam Faulkner

Answer 42

The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Barn Burning 1897-1962

Question 43

Thornton N. Wilder

Answer 43

The Bridge of San Luis Rey 1897-1975

Question 44

C. S. Lewis

Answer 44

The Screwtape Letters and Narnia Chronicles 1898-1963

Question 45

Erich Maria Remarque

Answer 45

German All Quiet on the Western Front 1898-1970

Question 46

Ernest M. Hemingway

Answer 46

The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea 1899-1961