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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 ||| (<a>Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Rosenborg Castle Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark.</a>) In one translation of an 1868 work, <a>this</a> author calls Denmark’s Rosenborg “the Castle of the Roses, as beautiful as the flower that gave it its name”

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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

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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

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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

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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”

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Tom Sawyer

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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “I never liked long walks”, says the heroine of this Charlotte Bronte novel

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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”

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Elizabeth (I)

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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Her 1942 novel “Dragon Seed” was yet another tale of Chinese peasant farmers

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(Pearl) Buck

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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| His novel “Sister Carrie” sold fewer than 500 copies in its first edition

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(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

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(William) Burroughs

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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This novel by Richard Wright tells of Bigger Thomas, the product of a Chicago slum

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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

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Metamorphoses

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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Isabel Archer is the title woman of this Henry James masterpiece

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Portrait of a Lady

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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE IN OTHER WORDS ||| A Joyce epic: “Odysseus”

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Ulysses

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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE IN OTHER WORDS ||| A puritanical tale: “A Note From Miss Johansson”

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The Scarlet Letter

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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE IN OTHER WORDS ||| It has Dickensian structure: “Desolate Abode”

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Bleak House

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$10800 ||| Category: LITERATURE IN OTHER WORDS ||| A Miller’s tale: “23 Degrees, 27 Minutes North of the Equator”

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Tropic of Cancer

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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE IN OTHER WORDS ||| An 1888 Kipling work: “Prince Charles”

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“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

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War and Peace

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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Many say that Tu Fu was this country’s greatest poet

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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

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the Wife of Bath

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$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Flaubert led this movement in French literature also called naturalism

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realism

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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The full title of this Spanish novel includes “de la Mancha, El Ingenioso Hidalgo”

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Don Quixote

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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Bernard Binlin Dadie’s novel “Climbie” depicts this “Ivorian” country, his homeland, during colonial times

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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

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mystery writing

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$1600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| His essay “Civil Disobedience” was delivered as a lecture & printed as “Resistance to Civil Government”

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(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

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Pushkin

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$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In a Defoe novel, this companion is described as “a comely handsome fellow”

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Friday

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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “Jo’s Boys” was the second sequel to this 19th century novel

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Little Women

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$500 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Chapter 48 of this English novel deals with “The Flight of Sikes”–Bill Sikes

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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

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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

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Marie Roget

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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE PUZZLES ME ||| You don’t know “Jack” if you don’t know <a>this</a> beat novel

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On the Road

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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE PUZZLES ME ||| Longfellow gave us <a>these</a> instructions

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“One if by land, two if by sea”

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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE PUZZLES ME ||| <a>This</a> brought E.M. Forster his first major success; thanks, President Taft!

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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

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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”

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Don Juan

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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| He wrote the “2001”, “2010”, “2061” & “3001” Odyssey books

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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

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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

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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

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The Good Earth

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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Washington Irving based this character on his friend Jesse Merwin, a schoolteacher

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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

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Teapot Dome

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$1600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In this title “incident”, vigilantes hang 3 men falsely accused of cattle rustling

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Oxbow

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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The title of this Steinbeck novel refers to a district above Monterey inhabited by Paisanos

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Tortilla Flat

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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Published in Spain in 1605, this classic of world literature was an instant hit

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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”

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500

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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This title Sir Walter Scott character is torn between Rebecca & the Saxon Rowena

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Ivanhoe

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$1600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Bank official Joseph K. is on the defensive as the accused in this Kafka work

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The Trial

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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In a Thomas Hardy novel, Michael Henchard is this title mayor

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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’?”

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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?”

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Hans Christian Andersen

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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE FOR KIDS ||| In “Little Women”, Margaret March is better known by this nickname

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“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

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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”

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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

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Oliver Twist

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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| 19th c. author known for writing about a “venerable mansion” with “seven acutely peaked gables”

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(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”

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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

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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

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Beowulf

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$None ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Maris, Lycon, Laogonus, Erymas, Sarpedon, Erylaus & Patroclus die in Book 16 of this work

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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

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Mark Twain

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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE OF THE 19-OUGHTS ||| Throughout the decade, he cranked out sequels like “Ozma of Oz”

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(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

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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”

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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”

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(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

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the octopus

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$None ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This 1877 novel was written “to induce kindness, sympathy and an understanding treatment of horses”

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Black Beauty

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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| E.B. White spun this tale about a spider & a pig

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Charlotte’s Web

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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In this Edgar Allan Poe poem, the title bird’s favorite word is “nevermore”

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“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”

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A Christmas Carol

101
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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”

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Tolkien

102
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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”

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Amy

103
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$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Of Pastism, Presentism or Futurism, the literary movement that began around 1909

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Futurism

104
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| (<a>Jon of the Clue Crew stands next to a statue in the harbor of Copenhagen, Denmark.</a>) This author once said that “<a>The Little Mermaid</a>” was the only one of his stories he felt moved by when he wrote it

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Hans Christian Andersen

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$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “The Miller’s Tale” is one of the naughtiest of these famous Chaucer stories

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The Canterbury Tales

106
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The prep school classic “A Separate Peace” takes place during this war

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the Second World War

107
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$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This scary Edgar Allan Poe story takes place at a spooky masked ball given by a prince

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The Masque of the Red Death

108
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Not Natty Dresser but Natty this dies in the novel “The Prairie”

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Bumppo

109
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Melville character’s artificial leg is carved from the jawbone of a sperm whale

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Ahab

110
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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Jim Hawkins narrates this 1883 novel

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Treasure Island

111
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$1600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| At the start of this Dickens novel, Pip meets an escaped convict who threatens to eat him

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Great Expectations

112
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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

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Willie Stark

113
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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

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Beowulf

114
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$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Chapter 13 of this classic novel is called “Another View of Hester”

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The Scarlet Letter

115
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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

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Hans Christian Andersen

116
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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”

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H.G. Wells

117
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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

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Pearl Buck

118
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$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In Wonderland, Alice comes across a large one of these with a snooty caterpillar atop it

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a mushroom

119
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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

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a frog

120
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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

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Jane Eyre

121
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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Jane Austen novel begins, “The family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex”

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Sense and Sensibility

122
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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

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Cyrano de Bergerac

123
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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Tolstoy wrote this character’s “life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible”

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Ivan Ilyich

124
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Britannica states that the name “Agora” was first found in the work of this ancient Greek poet

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Homer

125
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This 1953 book title tells us the temperature at which books burn

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Fahrenheit 451

126
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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”

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L. Frank Baum

127
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$1600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This 1952 Pulitzer-winning book grew out of Herman Wouk’s experiences on a WWII destroyer-minesweeper

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The Caine Mutiny

128
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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

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Sonnets from the Portuguese

129
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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”

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Shogun

130
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In Pierre Boulle’s “Planet of the Apes”, Zira & Cornelius are this species of ape

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chimpanzees

131
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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Milan Kundera’s “Immortality” read in this, its original language, may be unbearably light reading

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Czech

132
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$1600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Goethe called him Faust; Marlowe dubbed him this

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Dr. Faustus

133
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$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Completes the title of Eldridge Cleaver’s 1968 memoir “Soul on…”

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Ice

134
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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

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Gone with the Wind

135
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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

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Egypt

136
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Danish fairy tale author wrote an autobiography called “The Fairy Tale of My Life”

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Hans Christian Andersen

137
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$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| His first “Jungle Book” was so popular that he published his “Second Jungle Book” in 1895

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Rudyard Kipling

138
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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

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Little Women

139
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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”

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Charles Dickens

140
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Her career as a novelist dawned with “Dawn O’Hara”; “Show Boat” showed up later

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Edna Ferber

141
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Gom Gut & Plick et Plock were pseudonyms of this Inspector Maigret creator

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Georges Simenon

142
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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Hmm… he dedicated his 1820 poem “The Witch of Atlas” to his wife Mary

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(Percy Bysshe) Shelley

143
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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

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Pittsburgh

144
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$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

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Far From the Madding Crowd

145
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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

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Elmer Gantry

146
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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

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All Quiet on the Western Front

147
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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”

A

Zane Grey

148
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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

A

So Big

149
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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”

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey

150
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$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The cheery first “Masterpiece Theatre” season included “Jude the Obscure” & this Russian’s “The Possessed”

A

Dostoevsky

151
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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

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Rochester

152
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$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In 1856 Revue de Paris readers followed this tale of the miserable wife of a boring doctor

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Madame Bovary

153
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| A fling with the valet is one of the escapades of this Strindberg title “Miss”

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Miss Julie

154
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$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “I Married a Communist”, “The Human Stain” & “American Pastoral” make up a recent trilogy by this novelist

A

Philip Roth

155
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This title character’s ship, the Antelope, went down off the coast of Lilliput

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Gulliver

156
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In a 1927 Hermann Hesse novel, newspaper writer Harry Haller, a loner, calls himself this

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Steppenwolf

157
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$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Hamlet’s most famous one of these speeches includes the following lines <i>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…</i>

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soliloquy

158
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$1600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| John Kennedy Toole immortalized the Lucky Dog vending carts in this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel

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“A Confederacy of Dunces”

159
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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

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“The Man with the Golden Arm”

160
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE IN SPANISH ||| It took him 10 years to come out with “Don Quixote Part II”

A

Cervantes

161
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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”

A

Isabel Allende

162
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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

A

Chile

163
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$1600 ||| Category: LITERATURE IN SPANISH ||| This “Blood Wedding” poet & playwright was executed in Spain in 1936

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Federico Garcia Lorca

164
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$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

A

Octavio Paz

165
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$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| At the end of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, this sadistic slave owner dies insane

A

Simon Legree

166
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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”

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watch

167
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$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1922 collection of stories was titled “Tales of” this “Age”

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the Jazz Age

168
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| A review said this 1979 William Styron novel “belongs on that small shelf reserved for American masterpieces”

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Sophie’s Choice

169
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$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

A

Sherwood Anderson

170
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$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The Bermoothes, where Prospero’s brother was shipwrecked in this play, might have been named for Bermuda

A

The Tempest

171
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This dilapidated Hawthorne mansion is home to Pyncheon relatives Hepzibah, Phoebe & Clifford & a lodger

A

House of the Seven Gables

172
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$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| A dog named Jip chews up the cookbook belonging to this Dickens title character’s wife Dora

A

David Copperfield

173
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$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The wife of this Sinclair Lewis research scientist dies during an epidemic in the West Indies

A

Arrowsmith

174
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$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| (<a>Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a water theme park.</a>) Hey, we can be this title duo from a Lewis Carroll poem

A

the Walrus and the Carpenter

175
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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”

A

“Leatherstocking Tales”

176
Q

$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In 1919 Booth Tarkington won a Pulitzer Prize for this “Magnificent” novel; in 1922 he won again for “Alice Adams”

A

“The Magnificent Ambersons”

177
Q

$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In this 1952 short story, Hemingway wrote, “A man can be destroyed but not defeated”

A

“The Old Man and the Sea”

178
Q

$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In “A Scandal in” this, Sherlock Holmes calls Dr. Watson his “Boswell”

A

“Bohemia”

179
Q

$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Graham Greene’s “A Gun For Sale” was published in the U.S. under this title

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“This Gun For Hire”

180
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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

A

Anne Rice

181
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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!”

A

Garp

182
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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!”

A

Paradise Lost

183
Q

$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE, JERRY SPRINGER-STYLE ||| George & Martha, characters in this Albee play, really let loose on “My Spouse Is Driving Me Crazy!”

A

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

184
Q

$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

A

The Count of Monte Cristo

185
Q

$100 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Walt Whitman’s 52-section “Song Of Myself” is the longest work in this collection first published in 1855

A

“Leaves of Grass”

186
Q

$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In this Steinbeck novel, Lennie has nightmarish visions of his dead aunt Clara & of a gigantic rabbit

A

“Of Mice and Men”

187
Q

$300 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In this novel, Javert says, “There is a brigand, there is a convict called Jean Valjean, and I have got him!”

A

“Les Miserables”

188
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$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This James M. Cain novel, which has been filmed “twice”, was written under the title “Bar-B-Q”

A

“The Postman Always Rings Twice”

189
Q

$500 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Muriel Spark novel is set at the Marcia Blaine School For Girls in Edinburgh

A

“The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”

190
Q

$None ||| Category: LITERATURE & FILM ||| Nicole Kidman, Helena Bonham Carter & Cybill Shepherd have all starred in films based on this man’s works

A

Henry James

191
Q

$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This quintessential New Englander published his first book of poems, “A Boy’s Will”, while living in England in 1913

A

Robert Frost

192
Q

$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Set in part in Philadelphia, “Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker” is a novel about this war

A

The Revolutionary War

193
Q

$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Taji & Jarl are deserters from a whaling ship in his 1849 novel “Mardi”

A

Herman Melville

194
Q

$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “The Pentameron” is a volume of imaginary conversations between Petrarch & this author of “The Decameron”

A

Giovanni Boccaccio

195
Q

$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Great Chilean poet known for his “Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair”

A

Pablo Neruda

196
Q

$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Polish-born Jerzy Kosinski wrote all of his novels, including “Being There” in this, his adopted language

A

English

197
Q

$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| She based the characters of Anne & Robert in her novel “The Mandarins” on herself & Jean-Paul Sartre

A

Simone de Beauvoir

198
Q

$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| It’s the native country of Flora Nwapa, who wrote “This is Lagos, and Other Stories”

A

Nigeria

199
Q

$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The original Italian title of this Umberto Eco novel is “Il Nome Della Rosa”

A

“The Name of the Rose”

200
Q

$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In 2000 Turkish author Andrew Mango published a new biography of this founder of modern Turkey

A

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

201
Q

$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Chapter 83 of this Herman Melville novel is entitled “Jonah Historically Regarded”

A

“Moby Dick”

202
Q

$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| As well as the “Iliad” & “Odyssey”, a number of hymns are attributed to him

A

Homer

203
Q

$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This American novelist created the old fisherman Santiago & the young bullfighter Pedro Romero

A

Ernest Hemingway

204
Q

$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Before “Les Miserables”, he attacked the French penal system in the novel “Claude Gueux”

A

Victor Hugo

205
Q

$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Thoreau work includes a chapter on “The Pond in Winter”

A

“Walden”

206
Q

$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The 2 leading French Absurdists were Ionesco, from Romania, & this Irish author of “Waiting for Godot”

A

Samuel Beckett

207
Q

$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Nobel Prize winner dedicated “The Waste Land” to fellow poet Ezra Pound

A

T.S. Eliot

208
Q

$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| His “Dr. Zhivago” aroused so much opposition in the Soviet Union that he said “Nyet” to the Nobel Prize in 1958

A

Boris Pasternak

209
Q

$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In 1953 this British politician won the Nobel Prize for his biographical & historical works & for his oratory

A

Winston Churchill

210
Q

$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| He was no “Stranger” to the Nobel Prize for Literature, winning in 1957

A

Albert Camus

211
Q

$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”)

A

William Butler Yeats

212
Q

$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “Les chatiments” is a group of satirical poems attacking Napoleon III by this creator of Quasimodo

A

Victor Hugo

213
Q

$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The Jindyworobak Movement of the 1930s celebrated this country’s Aboriginal culture

A

Australia

214
Q

$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The heroine of her 1849 novel “Shirley” was inspired by her late sister Emily

A

Charlotte Bronte

215
Q

$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The title of this poet-playwright’s 1893 book “The Celtic Twilight” became a synonym for the Irish literary revival

A

William Butler Yeats

216
Q

$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This South African called her 1965 story collection “Not For Publication”

A

Nadine Gordimer

217
Q

$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.”

A

Tropic of Cancer (by Henry Miller)

218
Q

$100 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This title French schoolgirl created by Ludwig Bemelmans is often found at the end of the line

A

Madeline

219
Q

$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In the title of a 14th century work, Sir Gawain is paired with this “knight”

A

the Green Knight

220
Q

$300 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| A rundown Mexican hotel is the setting for “The Night of the Iguana”, a play by this writer

A

Tennessee Williams

221
Q

$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This 1942 French novel begins, “Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure.”

A

The Stranger (L’Etranger)

222
Q

$500 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Despite its title, this 1848 Charles Dickens novel is ultimately about a father & his daughter, not his son

A

Dombey and Son

223
Q

$100 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| William Faulkner’s novel “Mosquitoes” satirizes the literary life in this Louisiana city

A

New Orleans

224
Q

$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

A

World War I

225
Q

$300 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “For men may come and men may go, but I go on forever”, this “Lord” of poetry babbled in “The Brook”

A

Alfred Lord Tennyson

226
Q

$500 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This 1871 sequel is subtitled “Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys”

A

“Little Men”

227
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$500 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The title of this Willa Cather novel refers to a certain Ms. Shimerda

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“My Antonia”

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