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Lit Set #2
Famous Author, Semi-Famous Work
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Rebecca | Daphne Du Maurier |
| The History of the Peloponnesian War | Thucydides |
| The Rubiyat | Omar Khayyam |
| Cyrano de Bergerac | Edmund Rostand |
| El Cid | Pierre Corneille |
| The Clan of the Cave Bear | Jean M. Auel |
| Gargantua and Pantagruel | Francois Rabelais |
| The Gift of the Maji | O. Henry (Real Name: Sydney William Porter) |
| Fathers and Sons | Ivan Turgenev |
| Netherlandish Proverbs | Pieter Brueghel the Elder |
| Tower of Babel | Pieter Brueghel the Elder |
| The Awakening | Katherine Chopin |
| All the King's Men | Robert Penn Warren |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel | Baroness Orczy |
| Critique of [Pure Reason, Practical Reason, Judgment] | Immanuel Kant |
| The Life of Samuel Johnson | James Boswell |
| Spoon River Anthology | Edgar Lee Master |
| Go Tell It on the Mountain | James Baldwin |
| "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" | Robert Herrick |
| The Decameron | Giovanni Boccacio |
| Lonesome Dove | Larry McMurtry |
| Cry, the Beloved Country | Alan Paton |
| The Ox-Bow Incident | Walter van Tilberg Clark |
| R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) | Karel Capek |
| Of Human Bondage | William Somerset Maugham |
| "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" | Thomas Gray |
| Six Characters in Search of an Author | Luigi Pirandello |
| Remembrance of Things Past | Marcel Proust |
| In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust |
| Ecclesiastical History of the English People | Bede |
| Jonathon Livingston Seagull | Richard Bach |
| "Dover Beach" | Matthew Arnold |
| The Tale of Genji | Murasaki Shikibu |
| "America the Beautiful" | Katherine Lee Bates |
| Trees, and Other Poems | Joyce Kilmer |
| The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath |
| Out of Africa | Isak Dinesen (Real Name: Karen Von Blixen-Finecke) |
| The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco |
| Utopia | Sir Thomas More |
| The Tin Drum | Gunther Grass |
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Robert M. Pirsig |
| The Human Comedy | Honore de Balzac |
| "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" | Dylan Thomas |
| A Good Man is Hard to Find | Flannery O'Connor |
| The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | James Thurber |
| A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole |
| A Separate Peace | John Knowles |
| The Faerie Queen | Edmund Spenser |
| Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett |
| "To His Coy Mistress" | Andrew Marvell |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert |
| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers |
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott |
| Up From Slavery | Booker T. Washington |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| The Color Purple | Alice Walker |
| Le Morte d'Arthur | Sir Thomas Mallory |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe | Edward Albee |
| "The 10th Muse Lately Sprung Up in America" | Anne Bradstreet |
| The Jungle | Upton Sinclair |
| The Lottery | Shirley Jackson |
| The Good Earth | Pearl S. Buck |
| On the Road | Jack Kerouac |
| The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan |
| Roots | Alex Haley |
| Frankenstein | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker |
| A Raisin in the Sun | Lorainne Hansberry |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte (Pen Name: Ellis Bell) |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte (Pen Name: Currer Bell) |
| Agnes Gray | Anne Bronte (Pen Name: Acton Bell) |
| The Little Prince | Antoine Saint-Exupery |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| The Chronicles of Narnia | C.S. Lewis |
| The Divine Comedy | Dante |
| Of Human Bondage | William Somerset Maugham |
| "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" | Thomas Gray |
| Six Characters in Search of an Author | Luigi Pirandello |
| Remembrance of Things Past | Marcel Proust |
| In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust |
| Ecclesiastical History of the English People | Bede |
| Jonathon Livingston Seagull | Richard Bach |
| "Dover Beach" | Matthew Arnold |
| The Tale of Genji | Murasaki Shikibu |
| "America the Beautiful" | Katherine Lee Bates |
| Trees, and Other Poems | Joyce Kilmer |
| The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath |
| Out of Africa | Isak Dinesen (Real Name: Karen Von Blixen-Finecke) |
| The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco |
| Utopia | Sir Thomas More |
| The Tin Drum | Gunther Grass |
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Robert M. Pirsig |
| The Human Comedy | Honore de Balzac |
| "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" | Dylan Thomas |
| A Good Man is Hard to Find | Flannery O'Connor |
| The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | James Thurber |
| A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole |
| A Separate Peace | John Knowles |
| The Faerie Queen | Edmund Spenser |
| Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett |
| "To His Coy Mistress" | Andrew Marvell |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert |
| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers |
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott |
| Up From Slavery | Booker T. Washington |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| The Color Purple | Alice Walker |
| Le Morte d'Arthur | Sir Thomas Mallory |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe | Edward Albee |
| "The 10th Muse Lately Sprung Up in America" | Anne Bradstreet |
| The Jungle | Upton Sinclair |
| The Lottery | Shirley Jackson |
| The Good Earth | Pearl S. Buck |
| On the Road | Jack Kerouac |
| The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan |
| Roots | Alex Haley |
| Frankenstein | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker |
| A Raisin in the Sun | Lorainne Hansberry |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte (Pen Name: Ellis Bell) |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte (Pen Name: Currer Bell) |
| Agnes Gray | Anne Bronte (Pen Name: Acton Bell) |
| The Little Prince | Antoine Saint-Exupery |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| The Chronicles of Narnia | C.S. Lewis |
| The Divine Comedy | Dante |
| The Aeneid | Virgil (Real Name: Vergilus Publius Maro) |
| Paradise Lost | John Milton |
| Lord of the Flies | William Goulding |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou |
| How to Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie |
| Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| The Canterbury Tales | Geoffery Chaucer |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | Arthur C. Clark |
| "Casey at the Bat" | Ernest Lawrence Thayer |
| "The New Colossus" | Emma Lazarus |
| "Candide" | Voltaire |
| "Defense of Fort McHenry | Francis Scott Key |
| The Star-Spangled Banner | Francis Scott Key |
| Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak |
| "A Clockwork Orange" | Anthony Burgess |
| Metamorphoses | Ovid |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey |
| Peter Pan | J.M. Barrie |
| The Boy that Wouldn't Grow Up | J.M. Barrie |
| Catch 22 | Joseph Heller |