WORLD LITERATURE, AUTHORS AND RANDOM QUESTIONS Flashcards
Random levels (Easiest to hardest)
THE ANALECTS
CONFUCIUS
ILIAD AND ODYSSEY
HOMER
THE METAMORPHOSES
OVID
ROMEO AND JULIET
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
OEDIPUS REX
SOPHOCLES
CANTERBURY TALES
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
GITANJALI
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
RUBAIYAT
OMAR KHAYYAM
MAHABHARATA
VED VYASA OR VYASA
GILGAMESH
Sîn-lēqi-unninni
MERCHANT OF VENICE
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
LEWIS CAROLL
ANNABEL LEE
EDGAR ALLAN POE
FALL INTO THE HOUSE OF USHER
EDGAR ALLAN POE
THE RAVEN
EDGAR ALLAN POE
THE HOBBIT
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
LORD OF THE RINGS
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
HARRY POTTER
J.K ROWLING
THE NOTEBOOK
NICHOLAS SPARKS
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
JANE AUSTEN
THE METAMORPHOSIS
FRANZ KAFKA
DOLL’S HOUSE
HENRIK IBSEN
THE SONG OF ICE AND FIRE
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
ROBERT FROST
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
HARPER LEE
CHRONICLES OF NARNIA
C.S LEWIS
CAT IN THE HAT
DR. SEUSS
HUNGER GAMES
SUZZANE COLLINS
CHARLOTTE’S WEB
E.B WHITE
PERCY JACKSON
RICK RIORDAN
MAZE RUNNER
JAMES DASHNER
THE DIVINE COMEDY
DANTE ALIGHIERI
MRS. DALLOWAY
VIRGINIA WOOLF
ANIMAL FARM
GEORGE ORWELL
TALE OF TWO CITIES
CHARLES DICKENS
THE GREAT GATSBY
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
THE LITTLE PRINCE
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY
THE HAND OF THE ENEMY
KERIMA TUVERA
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
ALEXANDER DUMAS
THE JOY LUCK CLUB
AMY TAN
PILGRIM’S PROGRESS
JOHN BUNYAN
LE MISERABLES
VICTOR HUGO
WAR AND PEACE
LEO TOLSTOY
THE TALE OF GENJI
LADY MURASAKI SHIKIBU
THE TRIAL
FRANZ KAFKA
OH CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN
WALT WHITMAN
HAMLET
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
ROMEO AND JULIET
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
OTHELLO
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
MACBETH
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
THE GIFT OF THE MAGI
O. HENRY
THE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF
O. HENRY
THE DUPLICITY OF HARGRAVES
O. HENRY
WILLIAM FAULKNER
THE SOUND AND THE FURY
CABBAGES AND KINGS
O. HENRY
AS I LAY DYING
WILLIAM FAULKNER
ABSALOM, ABSALOM
WILLIAM FAULKNER
RESOLUTION AND INDEPENDENCE
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
SANCTUARY
WILLIAM FAULKNER
RESOLUTION AND INDEPENDENCE
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD” ALSO KNOWN AS “DAFFODILS”
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE
WILLIAM BLAKE
A POISON TREE
WILLIAM BLAKE
THE TYGER
WILLIAM BLAKE
THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
MICHAEL ROBARTES AND THE DANCER
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
THE TOWER
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
THE WINDING STAIR
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
BIRCHES
ROBERT FROST
STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING
ROBERT FROST
NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY
ROBERT FROST
THE RING AND THE BOOK
ROBERT BROWNING
THE LAST DUCHESS
ROBERT BROWNING
HAMELIN OF PIED PIPER
ROBERT BROWNING
A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
TREASURE ISLAND
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
KIDNAPPED
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
THE ART OF SEDUCTION
ROBERT GREENE
THE 48 LAWS OF POWER
ROBERT GREENE
FACTOTUM
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
POST OFFICE
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
HAM ON RYE
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
CHARLES DICKENS
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
CHARLES DICKENS
HARD TIMES
CHARLES DICKENS
THE ALCHEMIST
PAULO COELHO
THE VALKYRIES
PAULO COELHO
BRIDA
PAULO COELHO
TO HELEN
EDGAR ALLAN POE
THE RAVEN
EDGAR ALLAN POE
THE TELL-TALE HEART
EDGAR ALLAN POE
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
EDGAR ALLAN POE
MARK TWAIN
THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
MARK TWAIN
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
LEO TOLSTOY
WAR AND PEACE
ANNA KARENINA
LEO TOLSTOY
PARADISE LOST
JOHN MILTON
SAMSON AGONISTES
JOHN MILTON
LYCIANS
JOHN MILTON
THE CASTLE
FRANZ KAFKA
THE SUN ALSO RISES
ERNEST HEMMINGWAY
A FAREWELL TO ARMS
ERNEST HEMMINGWAY
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
ERNEST HEMMINGWAY
GUY DE MAUPASSANT
THE NECKLACE
MATSUO BASHO
THE OLD POND
THE KITCHEN GOD’S WIFE
AMY TAN
THE HUNDRED SECRET SENSES
AMY TAN
THE BONESETTER’S DAUGHTER
AMY TAN
ARLENE J. CHAI
THE LAST TIME I SAW MY MOTHER
EATING FIRE AND DRINKING WATER
ARLENE J. CHAI
THE REMAINS OF THE DAY
KAZUO ISHIGURI
ANGELS & DEMONS
DAN BROWN
THE VINCI CODE
DAN BROWN
THE LOST SYMBOL
DAN BROWN
HIS WORKS INCLUDE PLAYS, POETRY, LITERATURE, AND AESTHETIC CRITICISM AS WELL AS TREATISES ON BOTANY, ANATOMY AND COLOR.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
AN AMERICAN WRITER KNOWN FOR HER NOVELS OF LIFE
E.G. ONE OF OURS, A LOST LADY, THE PROFESSOR’S HOUSE
WILLA CARTHER
AN AMERICAN AUTHOR, TELEVISION WRITER, AND TELEVISION PRODUCER
E.G. A SONG OF FIRE AND ICE
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
AN ANGLO-IRISH AUTHOR WHO IS REGARDED AS ONE OF THE FOREMOST PROSE SATIRISTS IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
E.G. A TALE OF A TUB, AN ARGUMENT AGAINST ABOLISHING CHRISTIANITY, GULLIVER’S TRAVELS, A MODEST PROPOSAL.
JONATHAN SWIFT
ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PLAYWRIGHTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
E.G. THE THREEPENNY OPERA, THE GOOD PERSON OF SZECHWAN, THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI
BERTOLT BREECHT
AN ENGLISH POET OF THE VICTORIAN ERA
E.G. AURORA LEIGH, THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN, CASA GUIDI WINDOWS
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
AN 18TH CENTURY BRITISH SCHOLAR WHO MADE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FIELD OF LITERATURE AND WRITING
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Virgil
Aeneid
Shah Nameh
Ferdowsi
Giovanni Boccaccio
Decameron
Jane Austen
Emma
Persuasion
Jane Austen
Hans Christian Andersen
The little match girl
Nostromo
Joseph Condrad
The three musketeers
Alexander Dumas
Arachne
Olivia Coolidge
The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli
The republic
Plato
The romance of three kingdoms
Luo Guanzhong (Luo Kuan-Chung)
The Confession
Saint Augustine
The Ramayana
Valmiki
The book of Mencius
Mencius
He wrote the Clouds, Lysistra, The Birds, the wasp, the frogs
Aristophanes
He is the father of Comedy?
Aristophanes
He is the father of tragedy?
Aeschylus
Of the nature of things
Lucretius
The cloud messenger
Kalidasa
Oldest existing epic in history of Mankind
Epic of Gilgamesh
One of the greatest epics of Rome by Virgil
Aeneid
It means the song of the Gods. It is the conclusion of Mahabharata
Bhagavad Gita
He is the Indian Shakespeare. He is the greatest Indian writer of all time. He wrote Shakuntala
Kalidasa
Indian longest epic attributed to Vyasa
Mahabharata
Indian collection of sacred hymns. It is the oldest Sanskrit literature.
Rig Veda
A drama of Japanese bourgeoisie
Kabuki
He gouges his own eyes after his mother’s death.
Oedipus
He wrote The social contract and Return of Nature.
He is the forerunner of romanticism and naturalism.
Jean Jacques Rosseau
The hunchback of Notre Dame
Victor Hugo
He wrote Kubla khan and the Rime of ancient mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lord of the flies
William Golding
He is considered to be the most famous author of Fables
Aesop
HE IS THE GREATEST GREEK PHILOSOPHER
PLATO
IT IS CALLED THE ORIGIN OF gods in mythology?
Theogony
It is the battle among the gods of supremacy between good and evil in mythologies
Theomanchy
It is the war between the Titans and the Olympian gods.
Titanomanchy
It is the visible appearancr of a god to a man
Theophany
HE was William Shakespeare’s senior by two months. One of the most striking figures of the English Renaissance and the true founder of the popular English drama, hence the father of English tragedy.
He wrote four great tragedies and became a forerunner of Shakespeare.
Christopher Marlowe
His real name is William Sydney Porter
O. HENRY
It is the collection of Indian fables originally written in Sanskrit
Panchatantra
This poem commemorates the life of a public leader, Abraham Lincoln
Oh Captain! My Captain!
These poems are often erotic and espouse
E.G. CARPE DIEM (SIEZE THE DAY)
CAVALIER POEMS
IT IS REGARDED AS THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOK IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH CIVILIZATION
THE KING JAMES BIBLE
THIS CAME FROM F. BACON’S ESSAY WHICH THE LINE TAKEN “SOME BOOKS ARE TO BE TASTED, OTHERS ARE TO BE SWALLOWED, AND SOME FEW TO BE CHEWED AND DIGESTED.”
OF STUDIES
HE IS THE CATILINA FATHER OF REALISM AND THE FATHER OF MODERN DRAMA
HENRIK IBSEN
HIS PLAYS ARE ABOUT ISOLATION AND DESPAIR.
HE WROTE THE PLAYS: SEAGULL, UNCLE VANYA, THREE SISTERS AND CHERRY ORCHARD.
HE ALSO WROTE STORIES SUCH AS: THE CHAMELEON, VANKA 1886, KASHTANKA, GOOSEBERRIES, THE DARLING, A DAY IN THE COUNTRY.
HE COINED THE TERM “BREVITY IS THE SISTER OF TALENT”
ANTON CHEKHOV
