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Classic Literature

Question	Answer
This European author's nonfiction collection of philosophical essays called The Myth of Sisyphus addressed the problems that arise from the concept of the absurd. Who is the author of this non-fiction work?	(Albert) Camus
This man, a Dominican friar and a great scholastic philosopher, was the teacher of Thomas Aquinas and was the first western thinker to outline the complete philosophy of Aristotle. Who was he?	(Albertus) Magnus
Consisting almost entirely of anecdotes and character sketches, what Laurence Sterne novel is a chaotic account of the life of its title character?	Tristram Shandy
Name the author of 'Brave New World'?	(Aldous) Huxley
Who is the author of 'The Man in the Iron Mask'? He is more famous for 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Count of Monte Cristo'?	(Alexander) Dumas
Considered Russian's greatest poet and playwright, he wrote 'Eugene Onegin' and 'The Captain's Daughter'. Who is he?	(Alexander) Pushkin
Name the first black to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature.	(Alice) Walker
Name the author of "A Clockwork Orange".	(Anthony) Burgess
What Russian Playwright and author wrote "The Three Sisters" and "The Cherry Orchard"?	(Anton) Chekhov
Name the author of '2001: A Space Odyssey'?	(Arthur C.) Clarke
She is the author of 'Atlas Shrugged' and 'The Fountainhead'. Who is she?	(Ayn) Rand
Name the main lady in Thackeray's 'Vanity Fair'.	(Becky) Sharp
This German dramatist and poet founded the Berliner Ensemble. Name the author of 'The Three Penny Opera'.	(Bertolt) Brecht
What author wrote "Penrod" and won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, "The Magnificent Ambersons"?	(Booth) Tarkington
The Russian novel, 'Dr. Zhivago' was written by what author?	(Boris)Pasternak
What is the name of the 19th Century author who wrote the novel Dracula?	(Bram) Stoker
This English novelist penned 'The African Queen' and 'Horatio Hornblower'.	(C.S.) Forester
What Southern author wrote 'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter'?	(Carson) McCullers
Who is the author of 'Flowers of Evil'?	(Charles) Baundelaire
Name the English author of Bleak House?	(Charles) Dickens
Name this English poet and playwright, best known for 'Dr. Faustus'. At the age of 29, in an argument over his bill, he was killed in a bathroom brawl.	(Christopher) Marlowe
Name the author of "Sons and Lovers", "Women in Love", and "Lady Chatterly's Lover".	(D.H.) Lawernce
Who is the author of 'Moll Flanders'? He is better known for 'Robinson Crusoe'.	(Daniel) Defoe
Who wrote the gothic novel, "Rebecca"?	(Daphne) du Maurier
Name this American author of detective stories such as 'The Maltese Falcon' and 'The Thin Man'.	(Dashielle) Hammet
Name the Dutch humanist who lived during the reformation and who wrote 'The Praise of Folly'.	(Desiderius) Erasmus
Name the author of the "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog".	(Dylan) Thomas
What author from Taos, New Mexico wrote "A Passage To India", "A Room With a View", and "Howard's End"?	(E.M.) Forster
Who is the author of "Ethan Frome", "The Age of Innocence" and "The House of Mirth"?	(Edith) Wharton
Who is the author of 'Cyrano de Bergerac', the man with the large proboscis?	(Edmond) Rostand
What satiric American playwright's great success came with 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'?	(Edward) Albee
What American novelist and political theorist is the author of 'Looking Backward'?	(Edward) Bellamy
Name the French author of "J'accuse" which asserted the innocence of Major Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer who was falsely accused of treason.	(Emile) Zola
Whose most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying'?	(Erica) Jong
Who is the author of "All Quiet on the Western Front?"	(Erich Maria) Remarque
Who is the author of "A Farewell to Arms','For Whom the Bell Tolls' and 'The Old Man and the Sea'?	(Ernest) Hemingway
What Southern author wrote "God's Little Acre" and "Tobacco Road"?	(Erskine)Caldwell
Who is the author of 'Brideshead Revisited'?	(Evelyn) Waugh
Who is the author of 'Tender is The Night'? He is better known for 'The Great Gatsby'?	(F. Scott) Fitzgerald
Who is the author of 'Crime and Punishment' and 'The Brothers Karamazov'?	(Feodor) Dostoevsky
This Southern author who was deeply concerned with the spiritual battle between good and evil died tragically of lupus at the age of 39. Name the author of 'A Good Man is Hard to Find'.	(Flannery) O'Connor
Who is the author of 'Gargantua and Pantagruel', which tells of a giant and his son, both known for their tremendous appetites for food and drink?	(Francois) Rabelais
Who is the author of 'The Trial' and 'The Metamorphosis'?	(Franz) Kafka
What former escaped slave became a great orator, newspaper writer, abolitionist and famous diplomat and whose autobiography was an instant and enduring classic story of courage?	(Frederic) Douglass
Who wrote 'Beyond Good and Evil' and asserted that 'God is dead'?	(Friedrich) Nietzche
Name the author of "A Hundred Years of Solitude".	(Gabriel) Garcia-Morquez
Who authored the books 'The Mill on The Floss', 'Adam Bede', and 'Middlemarch'? This author also wrote 'Silas Marner'.	(George) Eliot
Who is the author of 'The Decameron'?	(Giovanni) Boccaccio
He was born in Germany and drafted into the Luftwaffe at age 16. After the war, he became sculptor and painter and then turned to writing. Name this author of 'The Tin Drum'.	(Gunter) Grass
Who wrote 'Madam Bovary'?	(Gustav) Flaubert
Who is the author of 'To Kill A Mockingbird'?	(Harper) Lee
Who wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?	(Harriet Beecher) Stowe
Nam the author of 'Doll'a House'?	(Henrik) Ibsen
He wrote an essay called 'On Civil Disobedience'. Name this author of 'Walden'.	(Henry) Fielding
Who is the author of "The Turn of the Screw", "The Ambassadors" and "A Portrait of a Lady"?	(Henry) James
Who wrote "Tropic of Cancer"?	(Henry) Miller
Who wrote 'Billy Budd'? He is more famous for 'Moby Dick'.	(Herman) Melville
'The Winds of War' and its sequel 'War and Remembrance' were novels about World War II in Europe and the Pacific. Name the American author of these works.	(Herman) Wouk
This author won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946. Who is the author of 'Steppenwolf' and 'Sidhartha'?	(Hermann) Hesse
Who wrote "The Human Comedies"?	(Honore) Balzac
Who is the author's 'Castle of Otranto', considered to be the first gothic novel.	(Horace) Walpole
Which author created many stories based on a "rags to riches" theme?	(Horatio) Alger
His story about Michaelangelo was called 'The Agony and the Ecstasy'. Name the author.	(Irving) Stone
What scince fiction writer wrote "The Foundation of Trilogy" and "I, Robot"?	(Isaac) Asimov
Who is the author of 'Cater in the Rye', whose main character is Holden Caulfield?	(J.D.) Salinger
'On the Road', is regarded by many as the archetypal novel of the Beat movement. Who is the author?	(Jack) Kerouac
Name the author of 'Go Tell It on the Mountain'.	(James) Baldwin
Who wrote 'The Life of Samuel Johnson', a book about an English author who complied and important English dictionary?	(James) Boswell
The novel, "Deliverance" was written by whom?	(James) Dickey
Name the author of 'Lost Horizon', a story of Hugh Conway's journey to a place where time stands still and people do not age.	(James) Hilton
The novel "From Here to Eternity" was written by what author?	(James) Jones
Name the author of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man".	(James) Joyce
What humorist is best remembered for his work, 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'?	(James) Thurber
Who is the author of 'Emma' and "Pride and Prejudice"?	(Jane) Autsen
Who was the author of 'Social Contract', which had an important influence on the French Revolution?	(Jean Jacques) Rousseau
Who is the author of Emile, a work on education which had enormous influence on education during the age of Romanticism, and 'The Social Contract'?	(Jean Jacques) Rousseau
A leading existentialist, he wrote 'Being and Nothingness'. Who was he?	(Jean Paul) Sartre
Name the famous Irish author who used the 'stream of consciousness' technique. His works include 'Ulysses' and 'The Dubliners', and 'Finnegan's Wake.	(James) Joyce
He is considered to by the French to be their greatest writer of tragic drama. Who is this playwright whose best-known play is 'Phaedre'?	(Jean) Racine
Who was the author of 'Faust'?	(Johann Wolfgang von) Goethe
Who created the detective character, Travis McGee?	(John D.) MacDonald
Name the author of the USA Trilogy.	(John Dos) Passos
Who was the author of Utilitarianism, which argued that we should weigh the greater good for the greatest number?	(John Stuart) Mill
Who is the author of 'A Pilgrim;s Progress'?	(John) Bunyan
The title of Ernest Hemingway's novel, For Whom the Bells Tolls was taken from the work of what English poet?	(John) Donne
Name the author of The World According to Garp.	(John) Irving
Who wrote A Separate Peace?	(John) Knowles
What is the name of the English philosopher who wrote the following sentence? All men are created equal.	(John) Locke
Who is the author of The Pearl. East of Eden, Cannery Row, and Of Mice and Men? His greatest work was The Grapes of Wrath.	(John) Steinbeck
Rabbit Run was a novel about a misfit ex-athlete burdened with a loveless marriage and a child on the way. Name the author of this novel.	(John) Updike
Gulliver's Travels tells the adventures of the Lemuel Gulliver, who traveled to Lilliput. Name the author.	(Jonathon) Swift
Who is the author of Lord Jim? This author also wrote The Heart of Darkness?	(Joseph) Conrad
Who was the author of Catch-, a war novel from the 1960's?	(Joseph) Heller
What southern author wrote The Awakening?	(Kate) Chopin
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was written by whom/	(Ken) Kesey
Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five were written by what author?	(Kurt) Vonnegut, Jr.
What Russian penned Anna Karenina and War and Peace?	(Leo) Tolstoy
"If music be the food of love, play on" opens what play by Shakespeare?	Twelfth Night
What book by Sir Thomas More is about an imaginary ideal society free from poverty and suffering?	Utopia
Name the two gentlemen in Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona.	Valentine and Proteus
Name the best selling novel of all time.	Valley of the Dolls
Who said the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman and was not much of an empire.	Voltaire
The line The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation comes from what work by Henry David Thoreau that describes his two years of seclusion?	Walden
What were the crude, dirty brutes encountered by Gulliver?	Yahoos
Who wrote Candide?	Voltaire
She achieved fame with her first play The Children's Hour. Name this American playwright and essayist whose other plays include Watch on the Rhine And The Little Foxes.	(Lillian) Hellman
Name the playwright best known for the play A Raisin in the Sun.	(Lorraine) Hansberry
Who is the French author known for a series of novels called Rememberance of Things Past?	(Marce) Proust
Who is the author of Gone With the Wind?	(Margaret) Mitchell
Who is the author of Frankenstein?	(Mary Wollstone) Shelley
What 16th century French writer is known as the Father of the Essay?	(Michel de) Montainge
Who created the detective character Mike Hammmer?	(Mickey) Spillane
Who is Mickey Spillane's famous detectice character?	Mike Hammer
Who wrote Don Quixote?	(Miquel de) Cervantes
Name the lady from the play The Rivals who constantly mixes up words that sound similar.	(Mrs.) Malaprop
Who wrote The House of the Seven Gables?	(Nathaniel) Hawthorne
Who wrote The Prince?	(Niccolo) Marchiavelli
What author wrote The Naked and The Dead?	(Norman) Mailer
Who was the author of 'She Stoops to Conquer'?	(Olivia) Goldsmith
What author is famous for his creation of the characters of Wooster and Jeeves?	(P.G.) Wodehouse
The 'Good Earth' was written by whom?	(Pearl S.) Buck
This brilliant lecturer and teacher wrote the world's first text of Scholasticism, but is better known due to his love for Heloise, one of his students. Who is he?	(Peter) Abalard
Who wrote the novel, "Portnoy's Complaint"?	(Philip) Roth
'Invisible Man', a novel written in 1952 about blacks in America, was the work of what American writer?	(Ralph) Ellison
Name this American author of detective work such as 'The Big Sleep' and 'Farewell My Lovely'. He is often considered the greatest writer of detective fiction.	(Raymond) Chandler
This African-American author's most famous book is 'Native Son'. Who is he?	(Richard) Wright
Who is the author of 'All The King's Men'?	(Robert Penn) Warren
What dramatist and biographer is the author of "The Petrified Forest", "Idiots Delight" and "There Shall Be No Night"?	(Robert) Sherwood
Who was the the title character in the baseball story, 'The Natural'?	(Roy) Hobbs
Name the famous American cartoonist famous for his humorous designs of incredibly intricate machines designed to carry out simple tasks.	(Rube) Goldberg
Name the author of Midnight's Children.	(Salman) Rushdie
Name the author whose best known play is Waiting for Godot, a play from the Theater of the Absurd.	(Samuel) Beckett
Name the author of The Way of All Flesh	(Samuel) Butler
This Canadian author of Russian-Jewish parents was educated in Chicago and received the Nobel Prize in 1976. Who is this author of The Adeventures of Augie March and Humboldt's Gift?	(Saul) Bellow
What author wrote Winesburg, Ohio?	(Sherwood) Anderson
Name the villian in Uncle Tom's Cabin.	(Simon) Lagree
Name the author of Elmer Gantry, Babbitt, and Main Street and Arrowsmith.	(Sinclair) Lewis
Called by Scotsmen The Wizard of the North, he wrote Rob Roy. Lady of the Lake and Ivanhoe. Name him.	(Sir Walter) Scott
Who wrote The Open Boat? He is more famous for The Red Badge of Courage?	(Stephen) Crane
It was first published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, but later it was published under the auhtor's real name. Who is this author of Bell Jar?	(Sylvia) Plath
The Glass Menagerie is a play about a fragile dream world of a St. Louis family. Who wrote this play?	(Tennessee) Williams
What Shakespearean comedy's plot revolves around mistaken identities betweentwo sets of twins and their twin servants?	(The) Comedy of Errors
It is written in Greek hexameters and commerorates the deeds of Achilles. Name this epic poem of 24 books about the siege of Troy	(The Iliad
What is the name of the author who wrote the novel An American Tragedy and Sister Carrie?	(Theodore) Dreiser
Who wrote Summa Theologica?	(Thomas) Aquinas
Name the archbishop of Canterbury whose tomb became a shrine after he was killed by the King's men.	(Thomas) Becket
Who is the author of Jude the Obscure, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Return of the Native, and Far From the Madding Crowd.	(Thomas) Hardy
Who was the author of the Leviathan, which advocated a strong government to keep people from lapsing into a savage exsistence?	(Thomas) Hobbles
Look Homeward Angel is a novel by what author?	(Thomas) Wolfe
What author won a Pulitzer prize for The Bridge of San Luis Rey? He is perhaps better known for his play Our Town.	(Thorton) Wilder
Name the first black to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.	(Toni) Morrison
the work Beloved which won the Putlitzer Prize was written by whom?	(Toni) Morrison
Name the American author who wrote In Cold Blood.	(Truman) Capote
In Dicken's Divid Copperfield, who was the wicked clerk who hated David Copperfield?	(Uriah) Heep
Who was the 8th century Anglo-saxon monk and translator?	(Vernerable) Bede
Who wrote Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame?	(Victor) Hugo
Name the author of Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse.	(Virginia) Woolf
Who is the author of Pale Fire? He is better known as the author of Lolita.	(Vladimir) Nabokov
Who is the author of The Moon and the Sixpence based on the life of a painter Paul Gaugin? He is better known for Of Human Bondage.	(W.Somerset0 Maugham
Who is the author of Death Comes for the Archbishop, My Antonia, and O'Pioneers!	(Willa Cather
What famous American author wrote Light in August?	(William) Faulkner
Who is the author of As I Lay Dying and The Sound and The Fury?	(William) Faulkner
Who is the author of Lord of the Flies?	(William) Golding
Name the author of Sophie's Choice.	(William) Styron
Who is the author of Vanity Fair?	(William) Thackeray
What Harlem Renaissance author wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God?	(Zora Neale) Hurtson
a mischievous fairy speaks this line, 'Lord, what fools these mortals be' in what play by Shakespeare?	Midsummer Night's Dream
Gene is the narrator and Phineas is his close friend as well as a respected athlete. Give the title of this 1959 young adult classic by John Knowles.	A Separate Peace
What is the title of Johnathan Edwards' famous sermon?	A Sinner In The Hands of An Angry God
The line 'It is a far better thing I do, than I have ever done before' is from what novel by Charles Dickens?	A Tale of Two Cities
In the 19th century, Lord Acton wrote that "Power currupts, and Absolute power currupts ..."	Absolutely
What Greek writer of tragedy wrote 'Agamemnon' and 'Eumenides'?	Aeschylus
The plot of which Shakespearian comedy was taken from Boccaccio's 'Decameron'?	Alls Well That Ends Well
This line 'All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others' comes from a book by George Orwell that is an allegorical attack upon the Russian revolution and the resulting regime. Name the book.	Animal Farm
These famous words, 'Happy families are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way' opens what novel by Leo Tolstoy?	Anna Karenina
Name the daughter of Oedipus who disobeyed the king. Her brother had been killed and the king refused to have the body buried. She took the body, buried it, and was condemned to death.	Antigone
What Greek writer of comedy wrote 'The Birds', 'The Wasp', and 'The Clouds'?	Aristophanes
What philosopher is the author of the 'Nichomachean Ethics'? He was the pupil of Plato and the teacher of Alexander the Great?	Aristole
Who was Sinclair Lewis' Vermont doctor character?	Arrowsmith
What is the title of the Faulkner novel that tells the story of the death of Addie Bundren and the journey her family make to get to her burial place?	As I Lay Dying
From what Shakespearean play does this quote come 'All the Worlds a Stage'?	As You Like It
Name the legendary island in the Atlantic that was destroyed by an earthquake and sank into the ocean.	Atlantis
Who was Sinclair Lewis' real estate agent character?	Babbitt
This character once worked in the Dead Letter Office, but his job during this story at a copying company leaves him starting at a "dead brick wall." Who is this Herman Melville title character known for saying, "I would prefer not to"?	Bartleby
In the Divine Comedy, who is the woman who guides Dante through paradise?	Beatrice
Full name answer. This man was a friend of George IV and leader of fashion in London. Today, his name refers to a dandy or fop. Who is he?	Beau Brummell
Name the best selling book of all time.	Bible
What character created by George Orwell has become an allusion for governmental invasion of privacy?	Big Brother
First and last name answer required. Who is the main character in Richard Wright's 'Native Son' , who is executed for the accidental death of a wealthy family's daughter?	Bigger Thomas
What British authors, all sisters, used pen names whose last name was Bell?	Bronte's
What is the name of the character of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar who is referred to in the following line? "This was the noblest Roman of them all."	Brutus
In the Tempest, what deformed monster serves Prospero?	Caliban
The characters Yossarian, Major Major Major, and Dr. Minderbender are in what novel by Joseph Heller?	Catch-22
What is the destination of Christian in A Pilgrim's Progress?	Celestial City (Heaven)
First and last name answer required. Who was the main character in the novel 'Flowers For Algernon'?	Charlie Gordon
First and last name required. Who is the author of 'Jane Eyre'?	Charlotte Bronte
Which country serves as the location of Pearl Buck's novel 'The Good Earth'?	China
In the novel of Human Bondage, what physical deformity did the main character possess?	Club-foot
This literary hero oves Roxanne but helps Christian de Neuvillete win her by writing eloquent letters for him. Name this fictional swordsman from the novel by Edmond Rostand.	Cyrano de Bergerac
First and last name answer is required. in Fitzgerlad's novel The Great Gatsby, who was the Great Gatsby's love?	Daisy Buchanan
In allegorical form it depicted the triumph of Death over all things and reminded people of their morality. Reenactments of it may be found in many paintings and in the drama Everyman. What was this medieval ceremony led by the dead themsleves?	Danse Macabre (Dance of Death)
Who wrote The Divine Comedy?	Dante
What social satire written by Nikolai Gogols, is Russia's greatest comic novel?	Dead Souls
What play by Arthur Miller concerns Willie Loman, who seeing himself as a failure, commits suicide?	Death of a Salesman
What was Sinclair Lewis' novel of European travels?	Dodsworth
The title of Thomas Hardy's novel, Far from the Madding Crowds was taken from what poem by Thomas Gray?	Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
First and last name required. Who is the author of Wuthering Heights?	Emily Bronte
In the novel Great Expectations, what is the name of Miss Havisham's ward?	Estella
Name the Greek writer of Tragedy lampooned by Aristophanes in The Clouds. His works include Electra and Medea.	Euripides
Who were the three great Greek writers of tragedies?	Euripides, Aeschylus, and Sophocles
name the classi medieval morality play.	Everyman
Who was the criminal pick-pocket in the Dickens' Oliver Twist?	Fagin
What novel by Ray Bradbury was named for the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns?	Fahrenheit 451
Name the endearing, fat, aging rogue who appears in serveral of Shakespeare's plays, and is prominent in King Henry the Fourth.
This is from what story by Daniel Keyes? "Dr. Strauss says I should rite down what I think and every thing that happins to me. I hope they use me. Miss kinnian says maybe they can make me smart. I want to be smart.	Flowers for Algernon
What is the title of Ernest Hemingway's story that is about Robert Jordan and the Spanish Civil War?	For Whom the Bell Tolls
First and last name. When Aldous Huxley taught in England, Eric Arthur Blair was one of his students. By what name was this student much better known as, especially after he wrote Animal Farm?	George Orwell
Name the famous theater where Shakespeare performed and where many of his plays were first performed?	Globe (Theater)
What is the title of the James Hilton Novel that is about a beloved schoolmaster?	Goodbye Mr.Chips
What is the title of the Dickens' novel that features the character Pip?	Great Expectations
Give the name of the town and state in Thornton Wilder's play Our Town.	Grover's Corners, New Hampshire
Which Shakespearean Character makes the following statement? "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him Horatio!	Hamlet
Name the African-American cultural movement during the 1920's in New York City.	Harlem Renaissance
Marlow goes up the Congo River and meets a white trader named Kurtz who dies while uttering, "The horror! The horror! in what short story by Joseph Conrad?	Heart of Darkness
What Greek wrote The Theogeny?	Hesiod
Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?	Homer
Name the top award given for Science Fiction literature.	Hugo
In what Classic American novel does Ralph Ellison's nameless hero, speaking from his underground hideaway, ask, "Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you"?	Invisible Man
First and Last name answer required. Who was the lady in Henry James novel. "A Portrait of A Lady?	Isabel Archer
First and last name required. In Dickens' A Christmas Carol, what was the name of Scrooges deceased partner?	Jacob Marley
This play by Shakespeare opens with the appearance of the King's ghost. Name the play.	Hamlet
Edward Rochester is a violent man bereft of conversational courtesy. He is moody because of his marriage to an insane wife. But he really loves a governess named...?	Jane Eyre
In what Shakespeare play is someone told to beware the "Ides of March"?	Julius Caesar

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