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What character operates a holistic detective agency
Dirk Gently
What author wrote The Turn of the Screw and The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James
What author wrote about a dying writer who dreams of a plane taking him to the top of the title peak
Ernest Hemingway
In what work are soft pipes told to pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone
Ode On a Grecian Urn
Who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Remarque
What character is traumatized by the death of Snowden
John Yassarian
What character is rescued from the vengeful Orlick by Startop
Pip
Who wrote Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Douglas Adams
What pessimistic German philosopher wrote The World as Will and Representation
Arthur Schopenhauer
What author wrote that dirt and not copper makes a color darker and proclaimed that rose is a rose is a rose is a rose
Gertrude Stein
In what novel does Joseph Knecht earn the title of Magister Ludi
The glass bead game
In what novel does the ferryman Vasudeva mentor the protagonist
Siddharta
Who wrote The glass bead game and Siddhartha
Herman Hesse
Near the end of what play are Juno, Isis, and Ceres summoned to celebrate a betrothal
The Tempest
What Irish dramatist wrote the play Endgame which preceded the 1957 premiere of Act Without Words
Samuel Beckett
What language did Beckett translate Act Without Words into
French
In what play is Xanthias forced to walk around a lake and exchanges clothes with the protagonist
The Frogs
Who wrote The Outsiders
S.E Hinton
In what novel does an aspiring actresses life change after meeting Charles Drouet on a train
Sister Carrie
Who wrote Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
What author wrote a poem where the author urges it’s subject to come into the garden before he kills her brother in a duel
Alfred Lord Tennyson
What martyred English saint do the characters visit in the Canterbury Tales
Thomas Beckett
What author wrote about a character who had no hopeful verse carved on his tombstone since he became a stern and sad man
Nathaniel Hawthorne
What author wrote 3 laws of robotics and I, Robot
Isaac Asimov
What author wrote about how Toby joined the god’s gardeners religion in The Year of the Flood
Margaret Atwood
What colony was founded by the British as a home for black loyalists after the American revolution
Sierra Leone
What family employs the housekeeper Calpurnia in To Kill a Mockingbird
Finch family
What Scottish poet said that “My love is like a red,red rose” after he heard it sung by a country girl
Robert Burns
What character meets Biddy’s son after spending 11 years in Egypt
Pip
What character is repeatedly pranked by the duchess and duke
Don Quixote
What story ends with the narrator shouting tear up the planks
The Tell tale heart
What author wrote about a man named Leggat who kills a crew member
Joseph Conrad
Who wrote about Beatrice Okoh in Anthills of the Savannah
Achebe
What work claims that Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter
Ode on a Grecian Urn
What author wrote 3 sketches describing the city of Sevastopol
Tolstoy
What poet created Tilbury Town
Edwin Robinson
In what novel does Lena Lingard work as a dressmaker in Black Hawk
My Antonia (Cather)
What poet presented two contrary states of the human soul in songs of innocence
William Blake
What character claims that the world was created by the god benamuckee
Friday
In what novel does Constance Bonacieux try to retrieve a pair of diamond studs that Queen Anne had given to her lover
The Three Musketeers
What character suffers from liver problems that fall “just short of being jaundice”
John Yossarian
What novel is John Yassarian in
Catch-22
What novel depicts a group of pug faced 8 year olds who stare at patients in a Galloping Senility ward
Brave New World
Who wrote Metamorphoses and Ars Amatoria
Ovid
What author urged Drink to me only with thine eyes in To Celia
Ben Johnson
What author wrote The Passionate Shepard to His Love
Christopher Marlowe
What author wrote about an exiled doctor living in Paris in Arch of Triumph
Erich Remarque
Who wrote the Femenine Mystique
Betty Friedan
Who wrote Coming Of Age in Samoa
Margaret Mead
Who wrote 6 characters in search of an author
Lugi Pirandello
What author wrote a poem whose speaker complains that the gift of a nine hundred year olds name was not sufficiently valued
Robert Browning
What poet wrote Richard Cory
Edwin Robinson
In what work do characters tell 100 stories over 7 days
The Decameron
Who wrote the Decameron
Boccaccio
In what novel does poet Miles Coverdale join a utopian farming community
The Blithedale Romance
Who wrote the Blithedale Romance
Nathaniel Hawthorne
What philosopher wrote a book that contrasts aesthetic and ethical phases of life
Kierkegaard
What novel’s narrator recalls loaning a turtleneck sweater to James Castle
Catcher in the Rye
In what novel does the sailor Charles Marlow hear The horror the horror
Heart of Darkness
What author wrote the Pathfinder
James Fenimore Cooper
What author wrote Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses
Mark Twain
What author depicted a man’s suspicions about his daughter’s parentage in The Father
August Strindberg
In what August Strindberg play does the title character flirt with the servant Jean
Miss Julie
In what novel does Adela believe that Dr Aziz assaulted her during a trip to the Marabar Caves
A Passage To India
Who wrote A Passage to India
EM Forster
What collection of stories was assembled by Thomas Malory which begins by describing Uther Pendragon’s passion of Igraine
The Death of Arthur
What poet drew from le Morte d’Arthur to write the Idylls of the King
Alfred Lord Tennyson
What author referred to himself as that writer with the walrus mustache in a book whose 100 chapters each focus on a year between 1900 and 1999
Gunter Grass
What author wrote about his job as a plongeur at the Hotel X in Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
What work describes a heifer with silken flanks that is led to a green altar for sacrifice
Ode On a Grecian Urn
What author wrote about the boxer Ole Anderson who responds to the news that the title characters are coming for him
Ernest Hemingway
What donkey riding squire appears in a 1605 novel
Sancho Panza
What novel’s title character spends almost a year travelling from Ohio to New Mexico
Death comes for the Archbishop
Who wrote Death comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather
What novel is narrated by Jim Burden
My Antonia
In what sonnet does a traveller from an antique land describe a ruined monument to a king of kings
Ozymandias
Who wrote Ozymandias
Percy Shelley
What poem begins Hail to thee blithe spirit
To a Skylark (shelley)
What plays protagonist tries to flirt with a man who is collecting for the evening star
A Streetcar Named Desire
What poet claimed that we are out of tune for the winds that will be howling at all hours
William Wordsworth
What anthropologist wrote The Golden Bough
James Frazer
In what play does the actress nina sign letters with the name of a bird
The Seagull
Who wrote the Seagull
Anton Chekhov
What money lender bears an ancient grudge against the Antonio
Shylock
What play does Shylock appear in
The Merchant of Venice
Who wrote the Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare
What author included a poem beginning Tonight I can write the Saddest lines in his collection 20 love songs and a song of Despair
Pablo Neruda
What country was Pablo Neruda from
Chile
In what novel does the merchant Isaac of York provide a horse and armor to the title saxon hero
Ivanhoe
Who wrote Ivanhoe
Sir Walter Scott
What poem describes a city that is Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job
Chicago
Who wrote Chicago
Carl Sandberg
In what poem does Carl Sandburg reflect on historical memories by saying Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo
Grass
In what book does John Marcher pass up a chance for love with May Bartram out of fear of an unknown catastrophe
The Beast in The Jungle
Who wrote the Beast in The Jungle
Henry James
What author wrote the carpe diem poem To his Coy Mistress
Andrew Marvell
What book’s narrator supposedly died of a drug overdose
Go Ask Alice
What man wrote about a Swiss marksman who inspired a revolt against the tyrannical Gessler in the play WIlliam Tell
Friedrich von Schiller
In what greek drama does a spy report the sons of Oedipus have killed one another
Seven Against Thebes
Who wrote Seven Against Thebes
Aeschylus
