| Question |
Answer |
| Poet’s Corner |
Southern end of South transept of Westminster Abbey |
| On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer |
Keats |
| Chichikov |
main character in Gogol’s Dead Souls |
| Jacob’s Room |
Virginia Woolf |
| Awkward Age |
Henry James |
| Philippics |
Demosthenes |
| Maurice |
autobiographical novel by E. M. Forster |
| Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle |
Shirley Jackson |
| Mahabharata |
written by the sage Vyasa in Sanskrit; contains the Bhagavad-Gita |
| Transcendentalism |
founded by George Ripley |
| Letter from Jamaica, The Manifesto of Cartagena |
Simon Bolivar |
| Hawthorne |
Melville dedicated Moby Dick to him |
| The Woman in White and The Moonstone |
Wilkie Collins |
| Aeschylus |
fought at Salamis |
| Vanity Fair |
Amelia Sedley and Becky Sharp are characters |
| Lawrence Seldon and Lily Bart |
characters in The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton |
| The Black Cauldron |
Lloyd Alexander |
| Fitzwilliam Darcy, Elizabeth Bennett, and Wickham |
characters in Pride and Prejudice |
| The Ring and the Book |
Robert Browning |
| Minerva Jones, Traynor, Emily Sparks |
speakers in Spoon River Anthology by Masters |
| Jeeter Lester, Dude, Ada, and Ellie May |
characters in Tobacco Road by Caldwell |
| Pocock brothers |
are The Ambassadors by Henry James |
| Roberta Alden and Clyde Griffiths |
main characters in An American Tragedy by Dreiser |
| Kalevala |
national epic of Finland tells of 3 semi-divine brothers |
| The Shortest Way with Dissenters and Colonel Jack |
Daniel Defoe |
| Silas |
is the name of the “Hired Man” in Frost’s The Death of the Hired Man |
| Judge Brack |
character in Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler |
| Florizel, Leontes, and Perdita |
characters in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale |
| Arrabella Don |
character in Hardy’s Jude the Obscure |
| Barry, Ann Rutledge, Ninian Edwards |
characters in Sherwood’s Abe Lincoln in Illinois |
| Dr. Pangloss |
sold into slavery in Constantinople, hanged in Lisbon, etc. in Candide |
| All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes |
Maya Angelou |
| The World as Will and Idea |
Schopenhauer’s masterpiece |
| Horatio Hornblower |
captain of HMS Lydia; created by C.S. Forester |
| The Africa Queen |
written by Forester, adapted by Agee into a film starring H. Bogart |
| William Armstrong |
wrote Sounder about a dog |
| Remains of the Day |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Dr. Krokowski, Hoffrat, Director Adriana Mylendonk, and Peeperkorn |
characters in The Magic Mountain |
| Beranger |
main character in the Rhinoceros by Ionesco |
| Scenes of Clerical Life |
Eliot, George |
| Claggart |
hates Billy Budd |
| Macon Dead |
character in Morrison’s Song of Solomon |
| Emperor of Ice Cream |
Wallace Stevens |
| The White Company |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Quip and Little Nell |
characters in the Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens |
| Valentine, Christopher Newman, and Noemi |
The American by Henry James |
| Charles Lutwidge Dodgson |
Lewis Carroll’s real name |
| Count Vronsky |
the lover of Anna Karenina by Tolstoy |
| Oscar Wilde |
wrote Lady Windermere’s Fan |
| Alex Hailey |
created the character Kunta Kinte in his novel Roots |
| Eudora Welty |
wrote Delta Wedding and Why I Live at the P.O. |
| Hemingway |
wrote The Snows of Kilimanjaro |
| Pamela Travers |
wrote Mary Poppins |
| Byron |
wrote She Walks in Beauty |
| Thomas Harris |
wrote Black Sunday and Silence of the Lambs |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs |
created the character Tarzan |
| Mickey Spillane |
created the detective Mike Hammer |
| Shakespeare |
wrote unrhymed iambic pentameter called Blank Verse |
| Hawthorne’s |
first book, Fanshawe, was about his time at Bowdoin College with Franklin Pierce |
| Petrarch |
created the Italian form of the sonnet |
| Robert Service |
wrote The Cremation of Sam McGee |
| Longfellow |
wrote The Cross of Snow |
| Fannie Flagg |
wrote Fried Green Tomatoes |
| Brunoff |
wrote Babar |
| Sherwood Anderson |
wrote Winesburg, Ohio |
| Kino |
main character in The Pearl by Steinbeck |
| “Frailty thy name is woman” |
quote from Hamlet |
| “All the perfumes of Arabia…” |
quote comes from Macbeth |
| Henry Fleming and Wilson |
characters in Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage |
| Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’s |
title came from graffiti on a bathroom wall |
| Tennessee Williams |
wrote The Night of the Iguana |
| Thomas Wolfe |
wrote Look Homeward, Angel |
| Goldsmith |
The Deserted Village (poem), The Vicar of Wakefield (novel), She Stoops to Conquer (play) |
| Margaret Sanger |
wrote My Fight for Birth Control |
| Vanity Fare |
title comes from Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress |
| Philip Roth |
wrote Goodbye, Columbus, and Portnoy’s Complaint and Zuckerman Unbound |
| Dylan Thomas |
born in Swansea, Wales |
| Coleridge |
wrote Dejection, an Ode |
| Percy Shelley |
wrote To a Skylark and Ozymandias |
| Rawlings |
wrote The Yearling |
| Epistolary novel |
novel comprised of letters |
| Solzhenitsyn |
wrote Cancer Ward |
| Pearl Buck |
used the pseudonym John Sedges |
| Chloe Anthony Wofford |
real name of Toni Morrison |
| James Russell Lowell |
wrote A Fable for Critics and The Bigelow Papers |
| Limericks |
come from a county in Ireland |
| Kesselring |
wrote Arsenic and Old Lace |
| London |
wrote John Barleycorn |
| Frank Norris |
wrote The Octopus |
| The Bay Psalm Book |
first book printed in the American colonies |
| J.M. Coetzee |
wrote Dusklands and Waiting for the Barbarians |
| Bierce |
wrote Cobwebs from an Empty Skull |
| Fitzgerald |
wrote Bernice Bobs Her Hair |
| Dostoyevsky |
wrote The Gambler |
| Pastoral work of literature |
about life in the country |
| The Idiot |
is really Prince Mishkin by Dostoyevsky |
| Miles |
young boy in The Turn of the Screw by James |
| Tonka |
Japanese poem with 31 syllables with 5 lines |
| Jurgus Rudkus |
main character in The Jungle by Upton Sinclair |
| Virgil |
wrote The Georgics |
| Frost |
won 4 Pulitzers in Poetry, more than anyone else |
| William James |
wrote The Principles of Psychology |
| David Hume |
wrote An Essay Concerning Human Understanding |
| Shaw |
wrote Arms and the Man |
| Durkheim |
wrote On Suicide |
| Swift |
wrote Battle of the Books and A Tale of a Tub |
| Racine |
wrote Phaedre |
| Corneille |
wrote Le Cid |
| Hans Castorp |
main character in The Magic Mountain by Mann |
| Ida Tarbell |
wrote A History of Standard Oil |
| Christopher Isherwood |
wrote the stories that made Cabaret |
| Faulkner |
first novel was Soldier’s Pay |
| Objectivism |
Ayn Rand’s philosophy in novels like The Fountainhead |
| Juvenal |
wrote On Women |
| Cesare Borgia |
the model for Machiavelli’s The Prince |
| Major Barbara |
Shaw play about a woman in the Salvation Army |
| Hero and Claudio |
characters in Much Ado About Nothing |
| Edna Pontillier |
main character in The Awakening by Chopin |
| Gogol |
wrote The Overcoat and Dead Souls |
| Dr. Pangloss and Cunegonde |
characters in Candide by Voltaire |
| Mahfouz |
Egyptian writer who won the Nobel Prize |
| Isaac Dinesen |
used the pen name Baroness Karen Blixen |
| War and Peace |
centered around the Battle of Borodino |
| Don Quixote |
horse was Rosinante |
| Rousseau |
wrote The Social Contract |
| St. Jerome |
wrote the Vulgate version of the Bible |
| Gorky |
wrote The Lower Depths |
| Hesiod |
wrote Theogony and Works and Days |
| Paul Baumer |
main character in All Quiet on the Western Front |
| Basho |
famous Haiku writer from Japan |
| Jim Casey |
preacher in The Grapes of Wrath |
| Flaubert |
wrote A Sentimental Education |
| Michael Henchard |
is The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy |
| Henry James |
wrote the Aspern Papers |
| Eudora Welty |
wrote One Writer’s Beginnings |
| The 4,000,000 |
written by O. Henry |
| Humbert Humbert |
character in Nabokov’s Lolita |
| Aristophanes |
wrote The Frogs |
| Milton Friedman |
wrote A Monetary History of the US |
| Camus |
wrote The Fall and The Myth of Sisyphus |
| Thucydides |
wrote A History of the Peloponnesian War |
| Kierkegaard |
wrote Sickness Unto Death |
| Sherlock Holmes |
arch-nemesis was Moriarty and both die at Reichenback Falls |
| Clym Yeobright |
main character in The Return of the Native by Hardy |
| Pinter |
wrote The Dumbwaiter, The Birthday Party, and won Nobel in 2005 |
| Tarkington |
wrote The Plutocrat |
| Euclid |
wrote The Elements |
| Stephen Daedalus |
main character in Ulysses by Joyce |
| Nietzsche |
wrote Thus Spake Zarathustra |
| Housman |
wrote To An Athlete Dying Young |
| Cherokee Sal |
character in The Luck of Roaring Camp by Bret Harte |
| Virginia Woolf |
wrote Mrs. Dalloway |
| “The Valley of Ashes” |
location in The Great Gatsby |
| Swift |
wrote The Tale of a Tub |
| Amery Blaine |
character in Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise |
| Freud |
wrote Civilization and Its Discontents |
| Charlie Croker |
character created by Tom Wolfe |
| Tom Wolfe |
wrote I Am Charlotte Simmons |
| Hegel |
wrote Phenomenology of Spirit and it deals with the concept of “Geist” |
| Pushkin |
wrote The Captive of the Caucasus and Boris Godunov |
| “The Hearth and the Salamander” |
first section of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury |
| Alice Walker |
wrote Meridian, Temple of My Familiar, and Go-Go Girl |
| Mena, Tragoran, and Treplev |
characters in The Seagull by Chekhov |
| Robert Penn Warren |
first Poet Laureate of the U.S. |
| Chinua Achebe |
wrote Anthills of the Savannah |
| Sophocles |
wrote about the Seven Against Thebes who were Polynices supporters |
| Margaret Atwood |
wrote The Handmaid’s Tale |
| Shields |
wrote The Stone Diaries |
| George Bernard Shaw |
wrote Mrs. Warren’s Profession |
| John Kenneth Galbraith |
wrote The New Industrial State and The Affluent Society |
| Garcia-Lorca |
killed in Spanish Civil War; wrote Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter & Blood Wedding |
| Wang Lung |
main character in The Good Earth by Pearl Buck |
| T. S. Eliot |
wrote The Wasteland which contains the line “April is the cruelest month” |
| John Sinjohn |
pseudonym of Galsworthy |
| Invitation to a Beheading |
written by Vladimir Nabokov |
| Algernon Moncrief and Jack Worthing |
characters in The Importance of Being Earnest by Wilde |
| Toni Morrison |
born in 1931 in Lorraine, Ohio |
| The Lady or the Tiger |
written by Frank Stockton |
| Edna Ferber |
won the 1925 Pulitzer Prize for So Big |
| Larry McMurtry |
won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Lonesome Dove |
| Buddenbrooks |
written by Thomas Mann |
| Player Piano |
written by Kurt Vonnegut |
| A Worn Path |
written by Eudora Welty |
| Baldwin |
was a preacher in Harlem before he became a writer |
| Lincoln Steffens |
wrote The Shame of the Cities |
| Philip Carey |
main character in Of Human Bondage by Maugham |
| Being and Nothingness |
written by Sartre |
| Billy Buck |
main character in The Red Pony by Steinbeck |
| Juvenal and Horace |
wrote satires |
| Maxim Gorky |
the Lower Depths |
| Tom Wolfe |
lived from 1900 |
| Leopold Bloom |
main character in Ulysses by James Joyce |
| Yoknapatawpha County |
founded in part by the Sutpen family |
| Okonkwo |
main character in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe |
| Hawthorne |
wrote Twice Told Tales, called such since they had been published elsewhere before |
| Agatha Christie |
wrote Mousetrap, a play where the audience determines the action |
| Waverly |
setting for the novel Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier |
| Hrothgar |
king that calls on Beowulf to kill the monster Grendel |
| Hansberry |
wrote the Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window |
| Typee |
first novel by Melville |
| Goethe |
discovered the Intermaxillary bone |
| Mr. Sauerberry and Mr. Brumble |
characters in Oliver Twist by Dickens |
| Xenobia |
wife of Ethan Frome by Wharton |
| Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Love in the Time of Cholera |
Garcia-Marquez |
| Shamela and Joseph Andrews |
H. Fielding |
| Holly Golightly |
main character in Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Capote |
| A Christmas Memory |
Capote |
| 731 |
Bede publishes An Ecclesiastical History of the English Speaking Peoples |
| Kris Kristopherson |
father of Anna Christie by O’Neill |
| Catherine Moreland |
character in Northanger Abbey, a gothic novel by Jane Austen |
| Son of Polonius and brother of Ophelia in “Hamlet” |
Laertes |
| The Good Soldier |
Ford Maddox Ford |
| Birth of Tragedy |
Nietzsche |
| Le Morte D’Arthur |
Arthurian legend by Thomas Mallory |
| Author of Lucky Jim |
Kingsley Amis |
| Anthills of the Savannah |
Chinua Achebe |
| “Snowbound,” and “Barbara Frietchie” |
Whittier |
| “Ace in the Hole” and “A & P” |
Updike |
| Point Counterpoint and Eyeless in Gaza |
Huxley |
| Vargas Llorsa |
Peruvian author who ran for president in 1990 |
| “Hyperion” |
Longfellow |
| Madame Bovary’s lover |
is named Rudolf |
| Hubbard family |
main characters in The Little Foxes by Hellman |
| “In Memoriam, A. H. H.” |
poem by Tennyson about his dead friend Arthur Henry Hallam |
| “The Hollow Men” |
T.S. Eliot |
| Essay on Population |
Malthus |
| Scottish knight in a famous ballad who dies “fifty fathoms deep” |
Sir Patrick Spens |
| The Charterhouse of Parma and The Red and the Black |
Stendhal (aka Marie-Henri Beyle) |
| Sartre work including character Antoine Roquentin |
Nausea |
| Hunger |
work by Knut Hamsun |
| Nabokov work with character Hermann |
Despair |
| Orlando |
V. Woolf |
| Austen novel with Isabella Thorpe, Henry Tillney, Catherine Moreland |
Northanger Abbey |
| Look Lake, Welcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel, and Ragtime |
E.L. Doctorow |
| 3 young ruffians try to kill Death in this “Canterbury Tale” |
“Pardoner Tale” |
| “The Congo” |
Vachel Lindsay poem |
| Characters include Count Teck de Brancovis and Kurt Mueller |
Watch on the Rhine by Hellman |
| Tennyson poem about King Arthur |
“Idylls of the King” |
| Characters include Mrs. Costello, Mr. Giovanelli, Winterbourne |
Daisy Miller by H. James |
| 12th century work by P. Abelard |
Sic et Non (or Yes and No) |
| Dr. Primrose |
is the Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith |
| Simon Legree |
bad guy in Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Stowe |
| Cat and Mouse, Dog Years, and The Tin Drum |
make up the Danzig Trilogy by Grass |
| Alice Adams |
Tarkington |
| Being and Nothingness |
Sartre |
| Boston |
Upton Sinclair |
| More Stately Mansions |
O’Neill |
| Inside the Whale and Shooting an Elephant |
Orwell |
| The Primitive Mind of Man |
Boas |
| Before Adam |
London |
| Passions of the Soul |
Descartes treatise |
| The Sea of Fertility |
Yukeo |
| “The Lady doth protest too much” |
Hamlet |
| “Othello” |
we know nothing about it |
| “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” |
we know nothing about it |
| “All art is quite useless” |
Wilde |
| The Temptation of Christ |
Kempis |
| The Consolation of Philosophy |
Boethius |
| Thyrsis and The Scholar Gypsy |
Arnold |
| Equus |
Shaffer |
| “The Rights of Man” |
Thomas Paine |
| Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners |
Bunyan’s autobiography |
| “The Wild Swans at Coole” |
Yeats |
| Pushcart War |
Merrill |
| “Battle of the Sand Belt” |
in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Twain |
| Dangling Man |
Bellow |
| How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale |
Terry McMillan |
| Stilwell and the American Experience in China and The Guns of August |
Barbara Tuchman |
| Despair |
Nabokov’s first novel |
| Lambert Strether & Widow Newsome |
The Ambassadors by Henry James |
| 1764 |
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon |
| Carter |
man who lives on Mars created by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 2 Years Before the Mast |
Richard Henry Dana |
| Four and a Half Years of Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice |
Hitler’s title for Mein Kampf |
| Dusklands |
J. M. Coetzee |
| The Hunting of the Snark |
Bellman is the narrator |
| “Passionate Shepherd to his Love” |
Marlowe; Raleigh “Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” |
| Letters from the Black Sea |
Ovid |
| Desiderata |
Max Hermann |
| Levin |
suffers a loss of faith in Anna Kerinina |
| Ada Lovelace |
Lord Byron’s daughter who wrote programming language for polynomials |
| Griffin |
is the name of The Invisible Man created by Wells |
| Earth-Sea |
fictional locale created by Ursula K. LeGuin in a sci-fi series |
| The Virginians |
Thackeray |
| Blackberry Winter |
Margaret Meade |
| Ann Singleton |
Ruth Benedict’s pen name for her poetry |
| Czech Authors |
1) Milan Kundera |
| 3) Havel, Vaclav |
author turned head of state |
| Barchester Towers |
Trollope, Anthony |
| America: A Prophecy |
Blake, William |
| Hanno |
musician in Buddenbrooks by Mann |
| Kristine Lind and Krogstad |
characters in A Doll’s House |
| Enrico IV |
Pirandello |
| Mr. Palomar |
Calvino |
| Raphael Hythloday |
narrator of Utopia by More |
| Sea of Fertility |
Mishima |
| Idiots First |
Malamud |
| Mules and Men |
Hurston, Zora Neale |
| Gabriel Tolliver |
Harris, Joel Chandler (he wrote for Atlanta Constitution) |
| Concept of the Guardian Spirit in North America |
Benedict, Ruth |
| Salammbo |
Flaubert |
| Ellsberg |
Pentagon Papers |
| The Town Crier |
Bierce |
| The Matchmaker |
Wilder |
| Player Piano |
Vonnegut |
| Astronomia Nouva |
Kepler |
| The Third Life of Grange Copeland |
Walker, Alice |
| Ouse River |
river that Virginia Woolf drowned herself in |
| Beyond the Pleasure Principle |
Freud |
| Lula Smith |
Carson McCullers’ real name (born in Columbus, GA) |
| Malamud |
The Natural |
| “A Diamond as Big as the Ritz” |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Poor Folk |
Dostoevsky |
| The Moon and Sixpence |
Maugham |
| The Agony and the Ecstasy |
Stern (about Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel) |
| The Cider House Rules |
John Irving |
| Plain Tales from the Hills |
Rudyard Kipling |
| “After the Fall” |
Miller |
| Washington Square |
Henry James |
| Barrack Room Ballads |
Rudyard Kipling |
| The Dynasts |
Hardy (about Napoleon) |
| Saphira and the Slave Girl |
Cather |
| “Santa Claus: A Morality,” “Is Five,” and “Tulips and Chimneys” |
Cummings |
| “House of Bernarda Alba” |
Garcia Lorca |
| Miles Glorioso |
Plautus |
| Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon |
Fielding |
| “The Man Without a Country” is Philip Nolan |
Hale |
| Mason & Dixon |
Pynchon |
| “Maud” |
Tennyson |
| Economic Consequences of the Peace |
Keynes |
| Argonauts of the Western Pacific |
Malinowski |
| “Everyday Use” |
Alice Walker |
| Beneath the Wheel |
Hesse |
| “Funeral Blues” |
W. H. Auden |
| RUR |
“Rossum’s Universal Robots” by Karel Capek |
| Clement C. Moore |
A Visit from St. Nicholas (aka “Twas the night before Christmas”) |
| “The Dial” |
Transcendentalist newspaper edited by Margaret Fuller |
| Desperate Remedies |
Hardy |
| Playboy of the Western World |
Synge |
| “Christabel” |
Coleridge |
| Fern Hill |
Dylan Thomas |
| “Second Coming” |
Yeats |
| “A Little Learning is a Dangerous Thing” |
said by Pope |
| “East is East & West is West” |
Kipling |
| Caine Mutiny |
Wouk |
| Deliverance |
Dickey |
| Breakfast at Tiffany’s |
Capote |
| Claude Frollo |
character in Hunchback of Notre Dame (by Hugo) |
| Julian Sorrel |
character in Stendhal’s The Red and the Black |
| Barnaby Rudge |
Dickens |
| “Yellow Wallpaper” |
Gilman |
| “The Minister’s Black Veil” |
Hawthorne |
| “My Kinsman, Major Molineux” |
Hawthorne |
| “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” |
Wilson, August |
| Jacob’s Rooms |
Woolf, Virginia |
| “Call me, Jonah” |
1st line of Cat’s Cradle |
| “The Valley of Ashes” |
location in The Great Gatsby |
| “Tale of A Tub” |
Swift’s 1st major work |
| Amory Blaine |
main character in Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise |
| “Captive of the Caucasus” |
Pushkin |
| Gogo Girl; Meridian; Temple of My Familiar |
Alice Walker |
| Chronicle of A Death Foretold |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| Longfellow |
“Hyperion” |
| Either/Or |
Kierkegaard |
| The Natural |
Malamud |
| Preacher/con-man |
Elmer Gantry by Lewis, Sinclair |
| “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” |
Whitman |
| “If music be the food of love, play on” |
from “Twelfth Night” |
| Point Counterpoint and Eyeless in Gaza |
Aldous Huxley |
| Becky Thatcher & Injun Joe |
characters in Tom Sawyer |
| Fern Hill and Under Milkwood |
D. Thomas |
| “A & P” |
Updike |
| Charles Lyell |
Principles of Geology |
| Arrabella Don & Mr. Fawley |
Jude the Obscure |
| Winter Trees & Ariel |
Plath |
| “Cobwebs in an Empty Skull” |
Bierce |
| “The Hollow Men” |
T. S. Eliot |
| Dick Diver |
character in Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night |
| “Curious George” |
Margaret Ray |
| Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque |
Poe |
| A Sentimental Education |
Flaubert |
| Man in the Iron Mask |
Dumas |
| Portnoy’s Complaint |
Roth |
| Caliban and Ariel |
characters in Shakespeare’s The Tempest |
| The Birds |
set in Cloud-Cuckoo-Land by Aristophanes |
| Agee |
did screenplay for “The African Queen” |
| “A Confession” |
Tolstoy |
| Wonders of the Invisible World |
Cotton Mather |
| The Angelic Avengers and 7 Gothic Tales |
Dinesen |
| Fences |
August Wilson |
| Blackberry Winter |
M. Meade, student of Ruth Benedict (a great anthropologist) |
| Juneteenth |
Ellison’s 2nd novel |
| Sophia Western |
character in Fielding’s Tom Jones |
| The Professor and Vilette |
Charlotte Bronte |
| Out of Africa |
Isaak Denison (pen name of Baroness Karen Blixen) |
| The Little Hero & The Idiot |
Dostoyevsky (almost executed before being exiled to Siberia) |
| Proust |
Remembrance of Things Past (Swan is main character) |
| Sauk Center, Minnesota |
birthplace of Sinclair Lewis |
| The Prophet |
Gibran |
| Christian and Rosalind |
characters in Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac |
| A Man of the People & Arrow of God |
Achebe |
| “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” |
Twain |
| Founder of “The Inklings” |
Tolkien |
| “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” |
Albee (Nick, Honey, George, and Martha) |
| Mahfouz |
Cairo Trilogy |
| Michael Henchard |
is the Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy |
| Mary Westmacott |
pen name of Agatha Christie |
| Steward of “Twelfth Night” |
Malvolio |
| Natasha Rostova |
heroine of War & Peace |
| Count Vronsky |
character in War & Peace |
| Lillian Hellman + Dashiell Hammett = lovers |
|
| “Marriage of Heaven and Hell” |
Blake |
| Dean Moriarty & Sal Paradise |
characters in On the Road |
| Capt. Smollett |
character in Stevenson’s Treasure Island |
| Robert Penn Warren |
the first Poet Laureate of the US |
| “London, 1802” |
Wordsworth “Milton” (good use of apostrophe) |
| Sophocles |
Seven Against Thebes |
| Handmaid’s Tale |
Atwood |
| Shields |
Stone Diaries |
| “Mrs. Warren’s Profession” |
Shaw |
| Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter and Blood Wedding |
Garcia Lorca |
| 1906 |
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair |
| Edmond Dantes |
main character in The Count of Monte Cristo |
| “A Dome of Many-Colored Glass,” & “Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds” |
Amy Lowell |
| Satanic Verses & Midnight’s Children |
Salman Rushdie |
| Hemingway |
born in 1899 in Oak Park, IL; died in Ketchum, Idaho in 1961 |
| Herzog & Humboldt’s Gift |
Bellow |
| Abel Magwitch & Pip |
characters in Dickens’ Great Expectations |
| Dubliners has “The Dead” in it |
by James Joyce |
| Triumph of the Egg |
Sherwood Anderson |
| “When We Dead Awaken” |
Ibsen |
| One of Ours |
Cather |
| Mr. Gradgrind |
Hard Times by Dickens |
| Ancient Evenings |
Norman Mailer |
| Ned Land and Pierre Aronnax |
characters in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
| “Homage to Miss Bradstreet” |
Berryman |
| Leaf Storm |
Garcia Marquez |
| “Paris Spleen” |
Baudelaire |
| “Musee des Beaux Arts” |
W.H. Auden |
| Reverend Brown and Bertram Cates |
characters in Robert Lee’s “Inherit the Wind” |
| Fabrizio del Dongo |
character in The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal |
| Book of Twilights |
Neruda |
| Places in Pilgrim’s Progress |
City of Destruction, Slough of Despond, Mount Sinai, |
| Wicket Gate, The Land of Beulah, Doubting Castle, House Beautiful, Valley of |
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| Humiliation, Valley of the Shadow of Death |
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| Tilbury Town |
setting created by E. A. Robinson |
| “Afrika” |
Petrarch |
| “Out, Out” |
Frost |
| Bayou Folk |
Kate Chopin |
| The Art of Loving |
Erich Fromm |
| Faust loves Helen of Troy in Part II of Goethe’s Faust |
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| La Galatea |
Cervantes |
| The Voyage Out |
Virginia Woolf |
| Jane Eyre |
set at Thornfield Hall, written by Charlotte Bronte |
| 1928 |
1937 “Work In Progress” |
| “A Dialogue Concerning Heresies” |
T. More |
| Anticlimactus |
pseudonym used by Soren Kierkegaard |
| Hiawatha |
is a Mohawk Indian |
| The Commitments |
Doyle |
| The Master and Margarita |
Mikhail Bulgakov |
| On the Jewish Question |
Karl Marx |
| Mother Earth |
anarchist magazine published by Emma Goldman |
| The Moor’s Last Sigh |
S. Rushdie |
| The Joke |
Milan Kundera |