Literary Facts Flashcards
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Bestselling book of all time
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The Bible
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Second-Best Selling book of all time
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Quotations of Mao Tse-Tung
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Bestselling Continuously Updated Book of all time
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Guinness Book of World Records
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Storyteller from Thrace
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Aesop
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Virgil WRites that this man is the ancestor of all romans
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Aeneas
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5th or 6th Century Saxon Saga
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Beowulf
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First century satire of roman empire
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Satyricon
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Beowulf Monster
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Grendel
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8th Century Anglo-Saxon Monk and Translator
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Venerable Bede
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William 1 Survey of England, 1085
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Domesday Book
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Classic Medieval Mortality Plays
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Everyman
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14th Century “Father of English Lit”
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Wife of Bath Appears in this book
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The Canterbury Tales
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Crystal City is in this work
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Pilgrim’s Progress – is a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan and published in February, 1678. It is regarded as one of the most significant works of religious English literature
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1653 Book on Fishing
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The Compleat Angler
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Dante’s Love
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Beatrice
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Samuel Johnson Biographer
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James Bozwell –
arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history
James Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson.[2]
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Milton Work about the fall of Satan
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Paradise Lost
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Mephistopheles is the devil in this Work
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Dr. Faustus
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Vlad the Impaler is the basis for this character
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Count Dracula
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Cryano De Bergerac’s Love
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Roxanne
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Sir Galahad’s Father
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Lancelot
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King Arthur’s Island
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Avalon
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Edmond Dantes is this man
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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Don Quixote's Squire
Sancho Panza
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Count Vronsky's Love
Anna Karenina
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Land in "Lost Horizon"
Shangri-la
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Subject of the Agony and the Ecstasy
Michalangelo
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Baroness Orczy's Hero
The Scarlet Pimpernel (aka Sir Percy Blakeney,
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Oscar Wilde's never aging murderer
Dorian Gray
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C.S. Forester's Naval hero
Captain Horatio Hornblower
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Jules Verne's Captain
Captain Nemo
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Captain Nemo's Sub
Nautilus
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Philease Fogg is in this novel
Around the world in 80 Days
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Fogg's Sidekick
Passepartout
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Creator of the Character Jane Valjean
Victor Hugo
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Main Character in the Hunchback of Notre Dame
Quasimodo
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Quasimodo's love
Esmeralda
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Character Oliver Mellor was known as
Lady Chatterley's Lover (DH Lawrence)
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Philip Nolan is the title character
The Man Without a Country
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19th Century Writer of Dime Novels
Ned Buntline
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James Fenimore Cooper's Hometown
Cooperstown, NY
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Cooper's 5-novel Tales
The Leather-stocking Tales
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The First Leather Stocking Tale
The Pioneers
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Cooper's Scout in the Pathfinder and the Deerslayer
Natty Bumppo
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Natty Bumppo's Nickname
Hawkeye
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Cooper's Last Mohican
Uncas
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First American Man of Letters, From Tarrytown, NY
Washington Irving
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Ichabod Crane Appears in this Novel
The Legend of Sleepy Hallow
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Irving's Sleepy Hallow Rider
The Headless Horseman
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Mountains where Rip Van Winkle Slept for 20 years
The Catskills
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Louisa May Alcott's Literary Alter Ego
Jo March
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Salem, Massachusetts Author
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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She wore the scarlett letter
Hester Prynne
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Hester Prynne's Daughter
Pearl
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Vanity Fair Lady
Becky Sharp
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Albany NY AUthor
Herman Melville
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Melville's award-winning short story
Billy Budd
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Moby-Dick Story Teller and Sole Survivor
Ishmael
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First Female Writer in US Writer's Hall of Fame
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Uncle Tom's Cabin Villian
Simon Legree
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Little Girl for Uncle Tom's Cabin
Little Eva
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Sherlock Holme's Address
221B Baker Street
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Sherlock Holmes' Sidekick
Dr. Watson
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Sherlock Holme's Arch Villian
Professor Moriarty
66
Author and Anthropologist raised in Samoa
Margaret Mead
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Scottish Author from Edinburgh
Sir. Walter Scott
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Scottish Robin Hodd
Rob Roy
69
Innovative 20th Century Irish Novelist
James Joyce
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Stephan Daedalus is a character in this novel
Ulysses
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Humbert Humbert is a character in this novel
lolita
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Alexander Selkirk's life is the basis for this novel
Robinson Crusoe
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Author who saw the Alaska gold rush
Jack London
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Jack London's Sea Captain
Wolf Larson (The Sea Wolf)
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Call of the Wild Dog
Buck
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Scottish Author Who lived in America and Samoa
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Boy in Treasure Island
Jim Hawkins
78
Treasure Island Peg-Legged Pirate
Long John Silver
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Author from Hannibal Missouri
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain Title Lawyer
Pudd'nHead wilson
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Tom Sawyer's Girlfriend
Becky Thatcher
82
Tom Sawyer's Aunt
Aunt Polly
83
Huckleberry Finn's Black Friend
Jim
84
Mark Twain Worked for this author
Bret Harte
85
He was Pen-named Boz
Charles Dickens
86
Charles Dicken's Unfinished Novel
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
87
The two cities in tale of two cities
London and Paris
88
Pop and Mrs. Haversham appear in this novel
Great Expectations
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Uriah Heep appears in this novel
David Copperfield
90
Quilp appears in this novel
the Old Curiosity Shop
91
Ebeneezer Scrooge's Deceased Partner
Jacob Marley (First Ghost)
92
Bob Cratchit's Son
Tiny Tim
93
Lucy Manett and Sydney Carton are in this novel
A Tale of Two Cities
94
Hans Brinker appears in this novel
The silver skates
95
English Novelist, Wrote of social injustice and totalitarianism
George Orwell
96
Napolean and snowball appear in this novel
Animal Farm
97
Big Brother watched Winston smith and Julia in this novel
1984
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Hester Prynne and pearl are in this novel
The scarlet letter
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Nicknamed "papa" he commited suicide in Idaho
Ernest Hemingway
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Hemingway's novel of the Spanish Civil War
For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Hemingway novel of the low generation
The Sun also rises
102
Hemingway novel of bullfighting
Death in the afternoon
103
Hemingway's novel of WWi in italy
A farewell to arms
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Character in Old Man and the Sea
Santiago
105
Sauk Center, Minnesota Author
Sinclair Lewis
106
Town in Our Town
Grover's Corners
107
Sinclair Lewis' Vermont Doctor
Arrowsmith
108
Sinclair Lewis' Real Estate Agent
Babbit
109
Sinclair Lewis' Novel of European Travels
Dodsworth
110
Monterey, CA Author
John Steinbeck
111
Steinbeck Story of Friends in Monterey after WW1
Tortilla Flat
112
Stienbeck Popular Short Story
The Red Pony
113
Joad Family Appears in this novel
The Grapes of Wrath
114
Steinbeck's Fish Factory Tale
Cannery Row
115
Steinbeck's Poodle Tale
Travels with Charlie
116
Adam Trask Appears in This Novel
East of Eden
117
Russian-American Author Born in St. Petersburg
Ayn Rand
118
Dagney Taggart is a Character in this novel
Atlas Shrugged
119
Howard Roark is a Character in this novel
The Fountainhead
120
Deer Park Author
Norman Mailer
121
Normal Mailer Novel set in WW11
The Naked and the Dead
122
The Executioner's Song was about him
Gary Gilmore
123
After the Fall was about her
Marilyn Monroe
124
Taos, New Mexico Author
DH Lawrence
125
Paul Morel is a character in this third DH Lawrence Novel
Sons and Lovers
126
DH Lawrence's Highly-Censored Novel of 1928
Lady Chatterly's Lover
127
London Author of a Room with a view
E.M. Forester
128
E.M. Forster's Country Home
Howard's End
129
EM Forster Novel of India Independence Movement
A Passage to India
130
Lifelong Friend of Gertrude STein
Alice B. Toklas
131
Mansion in Rebecca
Manderly
132
Mr. Rochester Appears in this novel
Jane Eyre
133
Mansion in Jane Eyre
Thornfield Hall
134
Heathcliff is a character in this novel
Wuthering Heights
135
The Little House on the Prairie Family
Ingalls
136
Novel in which "Scout" Finch Appeared
To Kill a Mockingbird
137
Novel in which Willie stark Appeared
All the King's Men
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Novel in which billie Pilgrim appeared
Slaughterhouse Five
139
Novel in Which Howard Roark Appeared
Atlas Shrugged
140
Ed McBain's Precinct
87th Precinct
141
Salesman in Death of a Salesman
WIlly Loman
142
Poe's Rue Morgue and Perloined Letter Detective
C. August Dupain
143
Jeeve's Creator
PG Wodehouse
144
Nero Wolfe Creator
Rex Stout
145
Father Brown Creator
GK Chesterton (English Detective)
146
Lord Peter Wimsey Creator
Dorothy Sayer (Gentleman detective)
147
Nick and Nora Charles Creator
Dashiell Hammet (married detectives in The Thin Man)
148
Kay Scarpetta Creator
Patricia Cornwell (detective -- uses forensics)
149
Kinsey Millhone Creator
Sue Grafton "alphabet mysteries"
150
Doctor Fu Manchu Creator
Sax Rohmer an archetype of the evil criminal genius while lending the name to the Fu Manchu moustache
151
Mr. Moto
Mr. Moto is a fictional Japanese secret agent -Created after Charlie Chan creator died
152
Charlie Chan
Earl Derr Biggers
153
Perry Mason Creator
Erle Stanley Gardner
154
Nathan Zuckerman Creator
Phillip Roth (his alter ego)
155
Mike Hammer's Creator
Mickey Spillane (pulp detective)
156
Philip Marlowe's Creator
Raymond Chandler (pulp detective)
157
Sam Spade Creator
Dashiell Hammet (pulp detective)
158
Travis McGee Creator
John MacDonald (pulp detective)
159
Jim Chee Creator
Tony Hillerman (Navajo Policeman)
160
Alex Cross Creator
James Patterson (former FBI agent, physiologist)
161
Harry Potter Creator
JK Rowling
162
The Working Author
Studs Terkel ( “The Good War”, and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.
163
Lincoln Biographer
Carl Sandburg
164
The Queen of Suspense
Mary Higgins Clark
165
Pygmalion Professor
Henry Higgins
166
Lady in Portrait of a Lady
Isabel Archer
167
Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness Narrator
Marlow (hunting for Kurtz)
168
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Namesake
Francis Scott Key
169
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Wife
Zelda
170
Salesman in the great gatsby
Nick Carroway
171
The Great Gatsby's Love
Daisy Buchanan
172
Main Character in the Natural
Roy Hobbs
173
Roy Hobb's Bat
Wonderboy
174
Hero of Catcher in the Rye
Holden Caulfield
175
Winnie the Pooh's Human Friend
Christopher Robin
176
Pig in Charlotte's Web
Wilbur
177
The "Lady" in a Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche Dubois
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Leading man in a streetcar named desire
Stanley Kowalski
179
French-Born American Diarist
Anais nin
180
King of the Techno-Thriller
Tom Clancy
181
Tom Clancy's Government Agent
Jack Ryan
182
Castle Rock or Main Author
Stephen King
183
French Short Story Writer
Guy De Maupassant
184
Winner of the First US Nobel Prize for Lit
Eugene O'Neill
185
2001: a Space Odyssey Computer
Hal-9000
186
Never one the nobel for lit
Tolstoy, Ibsen and Henry James
