Literature Flashcards
Writer of “Emma” about Emma Woodhouse
Who is Jane Austen?
Writer of “Anna Kerenina”
Who is Tolstoy?
Author of “Portnoy’s Complaint”
Who is Philip Roth?
Author of popular legal thrillers
Who is John Grisham?
“The Final Days” is Woodward and Bernstein’s sequel to this bestseller
What is “All the President’s Men”?
Author of “The Underground Railroad” and “The Nickel Boys”
Who is Colson Whitehead?
Dubbed “The Queen of Suspense”; Author of “You Belong to Me”
Who is Mary Higgins Clark?
Wrote “Stings” published posthumously in “Ariel” in 1965
Who is Sylvia Plath?
These shows were based on books by Candace Bushnell
What are “The Carrie Diaries” and “Sex and the City”?
“Little House on the Prairie” was based on books by this author
Who is Laura Ingalls Wilder?
Author of “Catch 22” (satirical war novel)
Who is Joseph Heller?
Hemingway story about a bull
What is “The Sun Also Rises”?
Utopian novel by Samual Butler
What is “Erewhon”?
Maurice Sendak book
What is “Where the Wild Things Are”?
Author of “Little Women”
Who is Louisa May Alcott?
Book with Stephen Dedalus and Molly Bloom
What is “Ulysses”?
Book with John Yossarian and Milo Minderbinder
What is “Catch 22”?
Book with Lucie Manette and Madame Defarge
What is “A Tale of 2 Cities”?
Author who wrote “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me”
Who is Ralph Ellison?
Author who wrote “From the forest came the call … distinct and definite as never before,—a long-drawn howl”
Who is Jack London (The Call of the Wild)?
The ‘winner’ of the title event in this classic Shirley Jackson story is stoned to death
What is “The Lottery”?
Name of the Lion who rules Narnia
Who is Aslan?
Author for “Heart of Darkness”
Who is Joseph Conrad?
Birthplace of the author of “The Kite Runner”
What is Afghainstan?
Author of Alice in Wonderland
Who is Lewis Carrol?
Born Chloe Anthony Wofford, she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993
Who is Toni Morrison?
He wrote the line ‘Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink’ in his poem ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’
Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
Wonderboy is the name of a bat, not a superhero, in this 1952 novel
What is “The Natural”?
He temporarily dropped the spy stuff in 1971’s ‘The Naive and Sentimental Lover’
Who is John le Carré
This Thomas Keneally bestseller was originally published with ‘Ark’ as the 2nd word in the title
What is “Schindler’s List”?
Chapter 9 of Ian Fleming’s “Casino Royale” is called “The Game is” this
What is Baccarat?
An ailing Chinese emperor tells this bird, you have ‘banished death from my heart, with your sweet song’
What is a nightingale?
Chapter 106 of ‘Moby Dick’ is titled ‘Ahab’s’ this
What is Leg?
Book/Author where Pencey is the school
What is “Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger?
Book with “Far off, the lofty jet of the whale might be seen”
What is “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville?
Book with “Didn’t firemen prevent fires rather than stoke them up and get them going?”
What is “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury?
Book with Tweedledee
What is “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll?
Life can only be understood _____, but it has to be lived _____. Bonus: Who said?
What are backwards and forwards? -Kierkegaard
5 letter goal of philosophy defined by Aristotle
What is truth?
In this book Auggie Pullman tells readers, “I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse”
What is “Wonder”?
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “There are no” these “in American lives”
What are second acts?
The only Ian Fleming James Bond novel not told in the third person, it’s narrated by one of 007’s paramours
What is “The Spy who Loved Me”?
In this novel an inmate named Abbe Faria helps Edmond Dantes plot his escape from prison
What is “The Count of Monte Cristo”?
In this drama by Sophocles, the Oracle of Delphi has bad news for the person who murdered Jocasta’s first husband
What is Oedipus Rex?
Siddhartha Mukherjee wrote a biography of cancer called this “of All Maladies”
What is The Emperor?
James Clavell set “Tai-Pan” in China; this 1975 novel of his is set in Japan in 1600
What is “Shogun”?
This story by Hans Christian Andersen served as an inspiration for the movie “Frozen”
What is “Snow Queen”?
This scary book mostly takes place in Derry, Maine
What is “It”?
The tomboy of Alcott’s March sisters, she wants to be a writer
Who is Jo?
Surname of physician Julius, antagonist of a 1958 Fleming novel
Who is Dr. No?
L. Frank Baum said he got the name for this after looking at his file cabinet
What is Oz?
Part of “Galileo’s Dream” by Kim Stanley Robinson takes place on this moon
What is Io?
This 1969 book was first printed in Japan because no U.S. company would then make a book with so many holes in the pages
What is “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”
You will definitely lose some time delving into his 7-volume “A la recherche du temps perdu”
Who is Proust?
You get more than 200 chapters of Gothic horror with the alliteratively titled “Varney” this creature
What is a vampire?
Dmitry is arrested & convicted for his dad’s murder in this Dostoyevsky novel, but Smerdyakov actually committed the crime
What is “The Brothers Karamazov”?
His aptly named “Infinite Jest” has drawn comparisons to the works of Thomas Pynchon & Don DeLillo
Who is David Foster Wallace?
This title elixir is poured in Ray Bradbury’s semi-autobiographical tale of a small-town summer in 1928
What is “Dandelion Wine”?
This British author was married to a woman also named Evelyn–they were called He-Evelyn & She-Evelyn by friends
Who is Waugh?
In 2020 this author of “Dear John” returned to familiar territory (love in North Carolina) with “The Return”
Who is Nicholas Sparks?
“Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘Fore I Diiie” is a 1971 collection of poetry by this African-American woman
Who is Maya Angelou?
Finally out in 2020, this feminist’s “The Inseparables” was not published in part because Jean-Paul Sartre didn’t like it
Who is Simone de Beauvoir?
He began “Dombey and Son” during a trip to Switzerland in 1846
Who is Charles Dickens?
The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine gave “rejoice” as a rhyme for the correct pronunciation of his name
Who is Dr. Seuss?
Hunter S. Thompson had mixed emotions:
“____ & ____ in Las Vegas”
What is Fear and Loathing?
About post-war youth in Britain:
“Look Back in ____”
What is Anger?
A biographical novel by Irving Stone:
“The ____ & the ____”
What is The Agony and the Ecstacy?
By Chester Himes:
“A ____ in Harlem”
What is rage?
Eugene O’Neill drew up Greek tragedy:
“____ Under the Elms”
What is desire?
Author of the “Oz” series
Who is L. Frank Baum?
Wrote an autobiography called “My Autobiography”
Who is Charlie Chaplain?
The first chapter of this Cuban leader’s autobiography “My Life” says, “I made myself into a revolutionary”
Who is Fidel Castro?
She has written “Madam Secretary” & “Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box”
Who is Madeleine Albright?
Chapters in his 1965 autobiography included “Harlemite”, “Saved” & “Mecca”
Who is Malcolm X
His autobiography “Surely You’re Joking, Mr.” him came out in 1985, 40 years after he worked on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos
Who is Richard Feynman?
Charles Baudelaire wrote a poem about these “vast birds of the sea” who famously show up in an English poem
What are Albatrosses?
In 2020 Patrick Stewart read these on social media starting with No. 116, “Let me not to the marriage of true minds”
What are Shakespeare Sonnets?
The 1827 volume “Poems By Two Brothers” had poems by 3 brothers in this family: Charles, Frederick & oh, Lord, Alfred
What is Tennyson?
This Whitman work in 52 sections is often described as “The Great American Poem”
What is “Song of Myself”?
