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Critique of Pure Reason

(1781) An influential book by Inmanuel Kant that helped to summarize the romantic movement by describing how in areas where science couldn't prove or disprove concepts people are justified in having faith. designed to explore the possibility of synthetic a priori judgments. A synthetic judgment is one whose predicate is not contained in the subject; an a priori judgment is one whose truth can be known independently of experience.

angelou

?In a memoir, this author writes of forgetting the lines of an Easter poem and her Uncle Willie's encounter with the Ku Klux Klan. That memoir ends with this author at age sixteen, in San Francisco, giving birth to her son Guy. This author also writes that she stopped speaking after her reporting of a rape led to Mr. Freeman's fatal beating and her own return to Stamps, Arkansas. For 10 points, name this author, who read her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at Bill Clinton's inauguration, and wrote the autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

brave new world

Aldous Huxley. The novel examines a futuristic society, called the World State, that revolves around science and efficiency. In this society, emotions and individuality are conditioned out of children at a young age, and there are no lasting relationships because "every one belongs to every one else" Theres this drug named soma that everyone is addicted to.

the brothers karamazov

Book by dostoevsky. Fyodor Pavlovich is a coarse, vulgar man whose main concerns are making money and seducing young women. He marries twice and has three sons: Dmitri, the child of his first wife, and Ivan and Alyosha, children of his second wife.

dracula

Bram Stoker. Jonathan Harker, a young English lawyer, as he travels to Transylvania. Harker plans to meet with a client of his firm, in order to finalize a property transaction. When he arrives in Transylvania, the locals react with terror after he discloses his destination

blake

British Literature Many of this writer's poems originally pictured plants growing around the lines, and angels dancing on the plants for "The Blossom". One of this writer's poems states that he finds marks of weakness and woe in everybody in London, and another begins, "O Rose thou art sick." Another is about a lamb that is meek and mild; it is often paired with a poem that wonders whether a tiger could have been made by the same creator. Name this poet of Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.

jane eyre

Charlotte Bronte. One character in this novel encounters the protagonist after that character falls off of their horse when it slips on ice. In this novel, Helen Burns dies in the arms of the title character, who had earlier spent time with her Aunt Reed. This work's protagonist attends the Lowood school which is run by Mr. Brocklehurst, and Bertha Mason's husband loses his vision in a fire in this work. For 10 points, name this novel in which the title character falls in love with Mr. Rochester, by Charlotte Bronte

crime and punishment

Dostoyevsky book. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student, conceives of himself as being an extraordinary young man and then formulates a theory whereby the extraordinary men of the world have a right to commit any crime if they have something of worth to offer humanity.

the time machine

Early in this work, the protagonist quotes the work of Professor Simon Newcomb to the Medical Man and the Provincial Mayor and argues with Filby over the existence of an "instantaneous cube". This novel's protagonist finds a locked structure topped by a giant sphinx, which turns out to be connected to the Palace of Green Porcelain. After arriving late for his own dinner party, this novel's protagonist produces two unusual (*) flowers to prove the veracity of his tale. Its protagonist is saddened to see the sun dying and the Earth growing cold after escaping from a place where Weena dies in a forest fire while being pursued by the Morlocks. For 10 points, name this H. G. Wells novel in which the Traveller goes to the distant future.

100 Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez. the history of the isolated town of Macondo and of the family who founds it, the Buendías. ... Macondo changes from an idyllic, magical, and sheltered place to a town irrevocably connected to the outside world through the notoriety of Colonel Buendía.

Canterburry Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer. written in a combination of verse and prose, tells the story of some 30 pilgrims walking from Southwark to Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of St Thomas Beckett. On route, the pilgrims engage in a story telling competition to win a meal at the Tabard Inn

pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw. Eliza Doolittle, a young flower girl who speaks cockney and does not get respect from others. ... Eliza wants to improve her life and agrees to allow Professor Higgins to help her learn proper English and present her as a duchess

1984

George Orwell. Oceania is an omnipresent state ruled by Big Brother with a totalitarian society and in permanent war, presently against Eurasia, with the intention of keeping the proletariat without education and possibility of capital accumulation.

gustave flaubert

Gustave Flaubert. Flaubert's story of a woman who engages in adulterous affairs in an attempt to escape from a loveless marriage. Emma, a peasant who marries an older doctor, Charles Bovary, to escape the dullness of rural life. Emma swiftly grows disillusioned with both her husband and their provincial ways, especially after she attends a ball thrown by one of her husband's aristocratic patients

yeats

He became a devotee of the spiritualist Madame Blavatsky in 1887, and, in 1891, he founded the Rhymer's Club. His melancholic early poems include "The Lake Isle of Winnisfree," while his poems after 1898 often featured the actress Maud Gonne. Still later, he wrote "Lapis Lazuli" and "Leda and the Swan." For 10 points—name this Irish poet of "The Wild Swans at Coole" and "Sailing to Byzantium."

defoe

He participated in the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion and defended William III of Orange in his work The True-Born Englishman. After promising to work as a Tory pamphleteer for Robert Harley, he was released from prison, where he had been placed as punishment for his work The Shortest Way with Dissenters. However, he may be best known for two novels: one about a girl in Newgate prison, and another based on the adventures of Alexander Selkirk. For 10 points, name this author of Moll Flanders

walden

Henry David Thoreau. an account of the two years during which Henry David Thoreau built his own cabin, raised his own food, and lived a life of simplicity in the woods near Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau's idea was that one's true self could be lost amid the distractions of ordinary life.

the rape of the lock

In addition to several Shakespearean-inspired names, Uranus has a few moons named for characters from this poem, including Umbriel, a gnome bearing magical gifts, and Belinda, the heroine of the work. Another major character in the poem is the Baron, perpetrator of the titular misdeed. For ten points, name this mock epic written by Alexander Pope which records the theft of a single curl.

Chekhov

In one of his novels, a man keeps bringing up his wife's faults instead of teaching a college class about a certain drug. Another of his stories sees a lawyer challenge a banker to stay in confinement for fifteen years, with two million rubles up for grabs. This author of "On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco" and "The (*) Bet" wrote about Masha in a work in his work about Konstantin Treplyov. Another of his plays sees Serebryakov live with the title doctor. For 10 points, name this Russian author of The Seagull and Uncle Vanya who wrote about Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard.

Whitman

In one of his poems that takes place "along Paumanok's shore" a boy observes two birds and hears "the low and delicious word death." Another poem mourns "the great star early droop'd in the western sky," and in another poem the narrator "Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars" after leaving a lecture by the title "learn'd astronomer." For 10 points, name this American poet of "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," who included most of his poetry in the collection Leaves of Grass.

Kawabata

In one of this author's short stories, the protagonist writes a letter asking for permission to kill a pair of canaries and bury them with his wife. Another one of his works centers on Old Eguchi's visits to the title location, where he sleeps with narcotized virgins. This author of The House of the Sleeping Beauties also wrote a novel Hideo mixes up Chieko and Naeko. Several of his "Palm-of-the-Hand" stories accompany his most well-known novel, and that novel centers on Shimamura's affair with the geisha Komako during his visit to the titular Japanese region. For 10 points, name this author of The Old Capital and Snow Country.

hesse

In one of this man's novels, Gertrud marries Heinrich Muoth instead of the composer Kuhn, while Leo abandons a group of travellers in the Morbio gorge in his Journey to the East. The protagonist of another of this author's works befriends Father Jacobus before drowning while swimming with Tito. Another protagonist of his is employed by (*) Kamaswami and loves Kamala, but ultimately reunites with Govinda as an enlightened ferryman, and a different protagonist meets Pablo and Hermine in the Magic Theatre. For ten points, identify this German author of The Glass Bead Game, Siddhartha, and Steppenwolf.

cooper

In one of this man's novels, Major Dunwoodie tries to obtain a pardon for Henry Wharton, who was accused of espionage. This man wrote a novel in which Oliver Edwards marries Elizabeth, the daughter of Marmaduke Temple. This author of The Spy wrote a novel in which the protagonist captures Henry March and Tom Hutter and saves Wah-ta-Wah from the [*] Hurons. In another novel by this author, Magua is the antagonist and another character is a friend of Chingachgook. For 10 points, name this author who wrote The Deerslayer and Last of the Mohicans, whose character Natty Bummpo is featured in his Leatherstocking Tales.

lewis

In one of this man‟s novels, Elwin Ransom learns that Earth is "Thulcandra," a "silent planet" in this author‟s "Space" trilogy. Bree and Hwin help Shasta in one of this man‟s novels, and in another Prince Rilian is tied nightly to the title (*) Silver Chair. The Pevensie children become kings and queens with the guidance of Aslan in a work by, for 10 points, this author, whose The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe begins The Chronicles of Narnia.

Langston Hughes

In one poem by this author, the speaker shouts "Police! Police! Come and get this man!" In another poem by this author of "Ballad of the Landlord", the speaker wants "Bessie, bop or Bach" records, and describes his instructor telling him to "Go home and write a page tonight." This poet described a man "droning a drowsy(*) syncopated tune" and another poem repeats that "my soul has grown deep" like the title water feature. For 10 points, name this Harlem Renaissance poet of "Theme for English B", "The Weary Blues," and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."

robert frost

In one poem by this man, the speaker holds a pane of glass "against the world of hoary grass" and wonders if his sleep is "just human sleep", and in another, Warren finds Silas dead beside the stove. The narrator of another poem remarks that he could say "Elves" to a man who is "all pine", whereas he is "apple orchard". In addition to "The Death of the Hired Man", this man wrote a poem which states "I shall be telling this with a sigh / Somewhere ages and ages hence" and concludes "And that has made all the difference." For 10 points, name this American poet of "Mending Wall" and "The Road Not Taken".

pound

In one poem, this author lamented the death of "a myriad" for "two gross of broken statues" and for "a botched civilization." That poem by this author describes its title figure's three-year attempt to "maintain "the sublime"" and "resuscitate the dead art of poetry," and notes that figure's "true Penelope was Flaubert." Another of this man's works begins "and then went down to the ship" and features such sections as "Thrones," "Leopoldine," and (*) Rock-Drill. This poet of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley wrote the "Pisan" section of his most famous work while imprisoned in Italy for treason. For 10 points, name this American poet who never finished his Cantos.

bradstreet

In one poem, this author wrote that the value of the subject's love was worth "more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold." Another work by this poet looks at a place where once "lay that store" the poet "counted best," which now "in ashes lie." She wrote that poem after her house caught fire. For 10 points, name this early American female poet of "To My Dear and Loving Husband" and "Verses Upon the Burning of Our House" who had her works published in The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America.

O'Connor

In one story by this author, the 104-year-old general George Poker Sash dies onstage in a wheelchair at a graduation before his granddaughter Sally collects her diploma. In another story by this author, a man sneers, "I've been believing in nothing ever since I was born" to a philosophy Ph.D. who often quotes Malebranche; that Bible salesman, Manley Pointer, steals a (*) wooden leg from Hulga Hopewell. In a story by this author of "A Late Encounter with the Enemy" and "Good Country People," the antagonist tells his mook Bobby Lee that "It's no real pleasure in life" after killing Bailey's family. For 10 points, name this author who created the Misfit in "A Good Man is Hard to Find.

gogol

In one story by this author, the narrator imagines that two dogs are exchanging amorous letters and that he has been crowned king of Spain. This author also wrote a play in which the Mayor is fooled by Khlestakov. One story by this author involves a trip by Kovalyov to Kazan Cathedral to view a (*) body part exiting a carriage. In this author's best-known story, Akaky Akakievich haunts Saint Petersburg after the title garment is stolen from him. For 10 points, name this Russian author of "The Nose" and "The Overcoat."

allen poe

In one work by this author, the narrator observes skull-shaped markings on the back of a scarab that bit William Legrand. In one of this author's short stories, a shrouded figure infiltrates Prince Prospero's masquerade, and another story by this man sees (*) Madeline rise from her tomb to attack her brother, Roderick. "The Gold-Bug" and "The Masque of the Red Death" are by, for 10 points, what American author of "The Fall of the House of Usher?"

marlowe

In one work by this author, the title characters are at Sestos and Abydos in modern-day Dardanelles, while in one poem, a title character promises that "silver dishes for thy meat ... shall on an ivory table be." This author of Hero and Leander and The Passionate Shepherd to his Love also wrote a play in which a character learns necromancy and sacrifices his soul to Lucifer. In another play, Abigail joins a convent and the title character Barabas falls into a boiling cauldron. For 10 points, name this Elizabethan playwright of Doctor Faustus and The Jew of Malta.

Maupassant

In one work by this man the protagonist's attempt to pick up the titular object lead him to be accused of theft, and in another work, the titular Madame and her employees attend her niece's confirmation. In addition to "A Piece of String" and" Madame Tellier's Establishment" he wrote about a Brazilian vampire spirit in "La Horla." A woman is snubbed after sleeping with a Prussian officer in this man's story "The Ball of Fat." For 10 points, name the prolific French short story writer who wrote about Madame Loisel losing a replica of the title piece of jewelry in "The Necklace."

pinter

In one work by this writer, Albert Stokes briefly gets away from his mother, and in another work Max meets his daughter-in-law Ruth six years after she marries his son Teddy. In addition to A Night Out and The Homecoming, he wrote a play in which Lulu delivers a package that contains a toy drum for Stanley, who lives with Meg and Petey Boles and is tormented by Goldberg and McCann. Another work involves an envelope with twelve matches and takes place in Birmingham, England. That work has two characters, and when it opens one is tying his shoes while the other reads the newspaper. Those two characters are hit men who occasionally get food orders. Name this playwright of The Birthday Party and The Dumb Waiter.

mason

In the first novel to feature him, he is approached by the less-than- truthful Eva Griffin, while in the last novel written by his creator, Penn Wentworth is investigating his client, Mae Farr, for forgery. One of his frequent tactics was to use a lookalike to discredit identifications, and clients were sometimes given advice by his secretary, Della Street. His clients are always arrested by Lieutenant Tragg, and are always opposed by Hamilton Burger, while after the death of his creator, Thomas Chastain wrote a story involving him, The Case of Too Many Murders. For 10 points, identify the fictional detective created by Erle Stanley Gardner.

the magic mountain

In this novel, a duel takes place in which Settembrini refuses to fire at a Jesuit who was converted from Judaism, thus leading the character Naphta to shoot himself. The Dutch planter Mynheer Peeperkorn comes to the title location after working in Java, and he loves Clavdia Cauchat. Joachim Ziemssen is the cousin of the main character, who visits for three weeks and discovers that he has tuberculosis, before going skiing against doctor's orders. For 10 points, name this Thomas Mann novel about Hans Castorp's stay in a Swiss sanatorium.

The Sun Also Rises

In this novel, the protagonist enjoys fishing at Burguete with Wilson- Harris and Bill Gorton before heading to the Festival of San Fermin. Earlier, the protagonist has a drink with the prostitute Georgette but refuses to kiss her due to "sickness". Montoya asks the protagonist for advice in handling the young bullfighter, Pedro Romero, but he introduces Pedro to an English Lady, which leads to a fistfight with a Jewish boxer, Robert Cohn. For 10 points, name this novel about American expatriates in Europe, centered on Lady Brett Ashley and emasculated World War I veteran Jake Barnes, a work by Ernest Hemingway.

Anna Karenina

In this novel, the titular character has a son Seryozha and a daughter out of wedlock, Anna. Dolly's sister Kitty eventually marries Konstantine Levin in this novel which begins "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." The protagonist's husband refuses to consider a divorce because it will soil their reputation but that doesn't stop that character from meeting Count Vronsky. In the end, she feels that Vronsky has lost interest in her and throws herself in front of a train. For 10 points, name this book written by Leo Tolstoy

emma

Jane Austen. Mrs. Goddard receives a goose from another character who lives at Abbey-Mill-Farm with her brother Robert. One character in this work must wait to marry until his aunt, Miss Churchill, has died, and Mr. Elton unexpectedly finds a wife in Bath. The title character of this work is rude to Miss Bates, the aunt of Jane Fairfax, and also unsuccessfully attempts to play matchmaker for Harriet Smith. The title character of this novel eventually realizes she loves Mr. Knightley.

mansfield park

Jane Austen. the main character's family is from a lower echelon of British society than most of the author's other writings. That character is sent to live with her cousins Tom, Edmund, Maria and Julia at home of her aunt and uncle, the Bertrams. Their aunt, Mrs. Norris, spoils the Bertram children, and the Crawford siblings cause much consternation in young adulthood for those living at the title locale.

faust

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. the protagonist has a son named Euphorion, but that son with Helen of Troy eventually dies. The Homunculus is destroyed during the revelry of Walpurgis Night, and the title character's companion helps save the emperor. While walking with his assistant Wagner, the title character is followed home by a black poodle who is not what he seems. The title character of this play also uses his companion's aid to seduce a girl who is later imprisoned for murdering her child, Gretchen. For 10 points name this play by Goethe ["gur-tah"] about a man who sells his soul to Mephistopheles.

catch-22

Joseph Heller. One character in this book repeatedly says "Old Aarfy never paid for it" before murdering a maid. The character Sammy Singer appears in this novel's sequel Closing Time. The C.I.D. investigate the secret agent Washington Irving as the result of some false signatures in this book, which also sees an (*) IBM machine make Major Major a major as a prank. The world's Egyptian cotton supply is bought by the capitalist Milo in it, while everyone in the 256th squadron of the Air Force is forced to constantly fly more deadly air missions.

war and peace

Leo Tolstoy. focuses on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both men.

woolf

Michael Cunningham's 1999 Pulitzer-prize winning novel The Hours ties in the lives of Laura Brown (a pregnant housewife in 1952 Los Angeles), Clarissa Vaughn (a 52-year-old book editor living in Greenwich Village) and the author of the book they both can't stop reading. For ten points, what author in Cunningham's story wakes up in 1923 from a dream in London that inspires her to write the novel Mrs. Dalloway?

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes. revolves around the adventures of a noble (hidalgo) from La Mancha named Alonso Quixano, who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his mind and decides to become a knight-errant (caballero andante) to revive chivalry and serve his nation. Fights windmills.

to the lighthouse

Mrs. Ramsay, Mr. Ramsay (a philosopher), their eight children, and several guests are staying at the family's summer home in the Hebrides, on the Isle of Skye, just before the start of World War I. Just across the bay is a lighthouse, which becomes a prominent presence in the family's life.

the tempest

One character in this play draws an analogy to an "unstanched wench," and some of its characters had previously attended Claribel's wedding to the king of Tunis. Some of the nobles' speeches in this play paraphrase Montaigne's "On Cannibals." Stephano and Trinculo give alcohol to a native of this play's setting, who is the son of the witch Sycorax. In this play, one character claims "we are such stuff / as dreams are made on," and celebrates the marriage of Ferdinand to his daughter Miranda. The air spirit Ariel and the native Caliban are servants to Prospero, who conjures up the title storm in, for 10 points, what play by Shakespeare?

a raisin in the sun

One character in this play performs a traditional tribal dance while chanting "OCOMOGOSIAY" ("oh-coh-mohgo-say"). That character is later joined by another character who skips work for three days in order to listen to his favorite jazz duo at the Green Hat Bar. In this play, a down payment made by the main characters on a house in Clybourne Park leads to a visit by Karl Lindner. Following advice from Joseph Asagai, one character in this play straightens her hair; that character is Beneatha. For 10 points, name this play that chronicles the result of a large life insurance payout received by the Younger family, a work by Lorraine Hansberry

Six Characters in Search of an Author

One character in this play speaks in a comical tone described as a jargon of half Italian and half Spanish. In this work, a man tells his wife that she should live with another man she loves more; when that second husband dies, she reluctantly moves back. The main characters of this work first appear interrupting a rehearsal of the play Mixing it Up. One character in this play nearly has an affair with a member of his own family while working as a prostitute for Madame Pace. The father, mother, son and stepdaughter appear in, for 10 points, what play by Luigi Pirandello about a group of creations that lack a creator?

heart of darkness

One character in this work sees a painting of a blindfolded woman holding a torch, which a brick-maker says was painted by this novel's antagonist. The protagonist finds a note left in a pile of firewood, which a wandering Russian claims he left there. That Russian as well as native tribes in the area come to worship one character, whom they believe to be a god. Later in the work, the protagonist picks up and reads a pamphlet from the antagonist, which states, (*) "Exterminate all the brutes!" "The Horror! The Horror!" are the last words of the Congo ivory collector Kurtz in, for ten points, what novel about Charles Marlow by Joseph Conrad?

Mourning Becomes Electra

One character in this work, jealous of Peter's engagement to his sister, commits suicide before he can complete a history of his family's crimes. The gardener Seth reveals that Captain Adam Brant is the daughter of Ezra's brother Dave, which only serves to increase Lavinia's distrust of her mother, Christine. Orin eventually avenges his father's death, leading to the decline of the Mannon family. For 10 points, name this trilogy by Eugene O'Neill, based on Aeschylus' Oresteia, whose title alludes to the grief of a daughter of Agamemnon.

marquez

One novel by this author, set in a town excited about the arrival of a bishop to bless a wedding, involves the murder of Santiago Nasar by the twins Pablo and Pedro. This author also wrote about the son of Pilar Ternera, a man named Arcadio who is eventually killed by firing squad after becoming a dictator. Another work starts with the suicide of Jeremiah de Saint-Amour, which is investigated by his friend Dr. Juvenal Urbino. Dr. Urbino's wife, who is loved by Florentino Ariza, is Fermina Daza. His story "Leaf Storm" was the first time he mentioned the town of Macondo, the home of the Buendia family. Name this author who wrote Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Love in the Time of Cholera, and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

the sound and the fury

One of the narrators of this novel finds himself in trouble after attempting to help a little Italian girl, and another of the narrators works at Earl's farm supply store. Those characters' sister has a child, most likely with Dalton Ames, and names her after her brother whose college roommate is Shreve, Quentin. This novel concludes with Dilsey at an Easter church service, and another of its four narrators is the cynical Jason. Jason's sister Caddy runs off, devastating the mentally handicapped Benjy. For 10 points name this novel by William Faulkner about the Compson family which takes its title from a line in Macbeth.

Farenheight 451

Ray Bradbury. In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task. Guy Montag is a firefighter who lives in a lonely, isolated society where books have been outlawed by a government fearing an independent-thinking public

leo tolstoy

One of this author's novels contrasts the strained relationship between Dolly and Stepan Oblonsky with the happy relationship of Kitty and Constantine Levin. Another of this author's novels describes Pierre Bezukhov's attempt to capture Napoleon. This author wrote a novel about an upper-class woman's affair with Count Vronsky and a sweeping historical novel about the French invasion of Russia. For 10 points, name this Russian author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace.

irving

One of this man's novels involves a murder mystery surrounding a serial killer who draws elephants on his victims stomachs. In addition to A Son of the Circus, this author wrote a novel about Patrick Wallingford, a reporter for the "disaster network" who lost his hand to a circus lion, The Fourth Hand. The son of the feminist Jenny Fields is the title character of another novels, and Dr. Wilbur Larch runs St. Cloud's orphanage in another of his works. For 10 points, name this author of <The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules.

crane

One short story by this author begins with a man that has to deal with a drunk Scratchy Wilson, who puts down his gun when learning that Potter is recently married. In another story by this author, one of the characters keeps repeating the phrase "funny they don't see us." This author of "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" and "The (*) Open Boat" also wrote a work in which the title character is left to a life of prostitution by Pete. In one novel by this author, the tattered soldier bugs Henry Fleming about the title wound. For 10 points, name this author of Maggie, A Girl of the Streets and The Red Badge of Courage.

boll

One work by this author sees Boris Lvovich impregnate Leni Pfeiffer, who constantly draws genitalia. One of his works centers on the breakup of Marie Derkum and Hans Schnier, and another sees Werner Totges ask for a "bang." Innocent "lambs" are contrasted with fascist "buffalo" in his work about the reconstruction of St. Anthony's Abbey. This author of Group Portrait with Lady, The Lost Honor of Katarina Blum, and The Clown also wrote a novel about the (*) Faehmel family. For 10 points, name this German author of Billiards at Half-Past Nine.

George Bernard Shaw

Pygmalion and Major Barbara. cockney flower girl eliza

Silent Spring

Rachel Carson. A book written to voice the concerns of environmentalists. Launched the environmentalist movement by pointing out the effects of civilization development.

Hedda Gabler

Several unseen episodes in this play take place in Mademoiselle Diana's boudoir, and the invalid Aunt Rina dies soon after her nephew returns from his honeymoon. One scene in this play sees Mrs. Elvsted told that another character's manuscript has been torn up, which is described as killing a child, while another character secretly burns that manuscript later on. One character in this play points a pair of pistols at Brack, pistols she later gives to her Lovborg. For 10 points, name this play, in which the title character, the wife of the academic Jurgen Tesman, kills herself to escape blackmail, a work by Henrik Ibsen.

oedipus the king

Sophocles' best-known play, which Aristotle used as his model in discussing the nature of tragedy. On his return, Creon announces that the oracle instructs them to find the murderer of Laius, the king who ruled Thebes previously. The discovery and punishment of the murderer will end the plague. ... As a young man, he learned from an oracle that he was fated to kill his father and marry his mother.

Remarque

The Nazi agent Georg attempts to track down his dissident brother-in-law Schwarz in this man's novel The Night in Lisbon, and his other late novels include The Black Obelisk and Heaven Has No Favorites. His major work opens with a card game played upon latrines and features the vengeful beating of the cruel Himmelstoss, before both Kemmerich and Muller pass along a pair of boots. That work by this author was followed by the sequel The Road Back. For 10 points, name this author who described the World War I death of Paul Baumer in All Quiet on the Western Front

Thanatopsis

The author juxtaposes the "Barcan desert" of Libya with "the continuous woods/ where rolls the Oregon" to give the poem a sense of universality. The last stanza, in which the author orders the reader to "go not like the quarry slave at night" but instead to go ahead "sustain'd and sooth'd/ by an unfaltering trust," was added seven years after the poet first completed the work at age seventeen. It opens with a comment that Nature "speaks in various languages" and contains the lines "All that tread/ The globe are but a handful to the tribes/ that slumber beneath in its bosom." For 10 points name this poem about death written by William Cullen Bryant.

All Quiet on the Western Front

The narrator of this novel ends up in his predicament due to the speeches of his schoolmaster, Kantorek. To the amusement of the narrator and his friends, Kantorek is later drafted. Corporal Himmelstoss is the other main antagonist of the narrator and his friends, including Tjaden and Katczinsky, besides the French army. For 10 points name this Erich Maria Remarque novel in which the narrator Paul Baumer dies on the day of the title report.

Divine Comedy

The narrator of this work notes that his old teacher, Brunetto Latini, seemed to be "one who wins, and not the one who loses." The author begins this work with the line "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita" and describes meeting a leopard, a lion, and a wolf in the dark forest. Afterward, this work describes the fate of Paolo and Francesca, as well as the icy realm of Cocytus, where Satan chews on Judas, Brutus, and Cassius. For 10 points, name this first part of the Divine Comedy, a description of Hell by Dante.

Wuthering Heights

The protagonist of this work throws hot applesauce in the face of a boy who made fun of his hair length, and boasts about turning Hareton into an ignorant brute. One character in this novel is bitten by a bulldog while walking the moors, and becomes acquainted with the Lintons. That character eventually dies after Edgar's altercation with her love interest, which leads her love interest to elope with Isabella. After being tyrannized by Hindley, the protagonist returns to Thrushcrosse Grange to find Catherine Earnshaw. For 10 points, name this novel about a gypsy Heathcliff, by Emily Brontë.

burke

The publication of his most famous work lead to his falling out with Charles Fox, which he tried to rectify in his Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, and Immanuel Kant praised this man's Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. His most famous work argued that the title event wasn't a move toward democracy, but merely a rejection of just authority and tradition. For 10 points, name this conservative political philosopher, the author of Reflections on the Revolution in France.

Sienkiewicz

This author constructed a medieval form of his native language for a novel about a man who falls in love with Danusia while returning with his uncle Macko from a war with the title group. A character known as "the small knight," Micha?, is at the center of a series by this man that culminates with the book Fire in the Steppe. The best-known work by this author of The Teutonic Knights sees Ursus fight and defeat Croton and describes the (*) baptism of Chilo Chilonides by Paul. That novel also sees Tigellius suggest that Nero set Rome aflame and describes the conversion to Christianity of Marcus Vicinius, who falls in love with Lygia. For 10 points, identify this author of With Fire and Sword and Quo Vadis, a Nobel Laureate from Poland.

paz lozano

This author noted that "the spirit/ is an invention of the body" in one of his works, while his first collection of poems was titled Wild Moon. He discussed the "word bridge" in his poem "Salamander" and discussed his theory of poetry in The Bow and the Lyre. This man wrote a poem whose 584 lines each represent a day of the Aztec calendar and a collection of essays that discusses topics like machismo and "The Day of the Dead". For 10 points, name this Mexican author of "Sunstone" and The Labyrinth of Solitude.

conrad

This author of "Gaspar Ruiz" wrote about Kayerts hanging himself at the grave of the former manager in his story "An Outpost of Progress." The title character of another novel falls in love with the daughter of Giorgio Viola and tries to exploit Charles Gould's silver mine in Costaguana.This author wrote a novel in which Dain Waris is killed by Gentleman Brown in Patusan. This author of Nostromo created a character whose dying words are "The Horror! The Horror!" For 10 points, name this author of Lord Jim who wrote about Marlow's journey to find Kurtz in the Heart of Darkness.

Emily Bronte

This author promises to walk "where the wild wind blows on the mountain side" in a poem that begins "Often rebuked, yet always back returning." In a novel by this author, an alcoholic attaches a spring-knife to the barrel of his pistol to kill the man who continually loans him money to feed his gambling addiction. This author wrote a notebook of poems set in the invented land of Gondal. A character created by this author humiliates his (*) adoptive brother Hindley and forcibly marries the heir to Thrushcross Grange to his son Linton. This author's only published novel is framed as a narrative told to Mr. Lockwood by Nelly, who recalls the romance between Catherine and Heathcliff. For 10 points, name this author of Wuthering Heights.

eco

This author tells of Roberto della Griva, who is stranded near the International Date Line, in his Island of the Day Before. In another book of his, Jacopo Belbo uses the computer Abulafia (AH-boo-LAH-fee-uh) to concoct a parody of conspiracy theories. This author and semiotician's (SEM-eye-ott-ISH-in's) first novel features Adso of Melk trying to solve a series of murders in a medieval monastery. For 10 points, name this Italian author of Foucault's Pendulum and The Name Of The Rose.

grapes of wrath

man fed by nipple milk. John Steinbeck. Tom Joad and his family are forced from their farm in the Depression-era Oklahoma Dust Bowl and set out for California along with thousands of others in search of jobs, land, and hope for a brighter future.

scott

This author was inspired by the life of John Gow to create Captain Cleveland, the title character of his novel The Pirate. Other historical figures written about by this author include Amy Robsart and Robert Dudley, whose marriage is the subject of his novel Kenilworth. He also wrote a novel about a knight who falls in love with Lady Rowena. For 10 points, name this Scottish historical novelist who wrote Ivanhoe.

wolfe

This author wrote about a man who meets Lloyd McHarg after leaving his hometown of Libya Hill to work with the editor Foxhall Edwards. This writer featured the character George Webber in his novels You Can't Go Home Again and The Web and the Rock. He wrote about a southerner who befriends Francis Starwick and studies under Professor Hatcher at Harvard. This novelist's best known work describes Oliver's relationship with his wife Eliza in the town of Altamont as they raise their son Eugene Gant. identify this author who fictionalized his experiences growing up in North Carolina in his novels Of Time and the River and Look Homeward Angel.

milne

This author's poems read, "They're changing the guard at Buckingham Palace" and, "Halfway down the stairs is a stair where I sit. There isn't any other stair quite like it." Tales by this author see a group of friends go on an "expotition" to the North Pole and fall into a trap set for a (*) "heffalump;" those tales are illustrated by E.H. Shephard. For 10 points, name this author who entertained his son, Christopher Robin, with stories of Winnie-the- Pooh.

mccullers

This author's unfinished autobiography, Illumination and Night Glare, was released over 30 years posthumous in 1999. Novels include one about a latent homosexual officer and his nymphomaniac wife, and one about Jester, Fox Clane, and J.T. Malone. In addition to Reflections in a Golden Eye and A Clock Without Hands, she wrote the short stories "A Domestic Dilemna" and "The Sojourner" in one collection. One of her more famous works features Janice Evans getting married to Jarvis, the brother of the title character, Frankie Addams, while her most famous novel includes Jake Blount, a drunk who frequents Biff Brannon's New York Cafe, as well as (*) Spiros Antonapoulos and John Singer, both of whom are deaf-mutes. For 10 points, name this author of The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, The Member of the Wedding, and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

pip

This character attends theatrical performances featuring a former clergyman who used to recite Mark Antony's funeral speech. That character, Mr. Wopsle, attends the Christmas dinner from which this character steals a pie. This character is tutored, like Startop and Bentley Drummle, by Matthew Pocket, though earlier he had lived with Joe Gargery. He discovers that his anonymous benefactor is the reformed criminal Abel Magwitch, rather than the mother of Estella who sits all day in her wedding gown, Miss Havisham. For 10 points, name this protagonist of Dickens's Great Expectations

caliban

This character exclaims "Thinketh! He dwelleth i' the cold o' the moon" in a poem which describes the making of the sun and moon by a creator who is "ill at ease." This character greets his white master with the Swahili word for freedom, uhuru, in a play by Aimé Césaire (ay-mee si-ZAIR). This character believes that two men who give him "celestial liquor" are gods and plots with them against his lord, who freed a character this figure's mother imprisoned in a (*) "cloven pine." This colleague of Stephano and Trinculo meditates on the god Setebos in a Robert Browning poem. This son of the Algerian sorceress Sycorax attempts to rape Miranda, the daughter of the Milanese magician he serves. For 10 points, name this slave of Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest.

caulfield

This character is bothered by nearly everything, including Ackley's poor personal hygiene and Stradlater's ineptitude at whistling in tune. He doesn't like Ernest Morrow either, but when he meets Ernest's mother on a train, he pretends to have much admiration for him. The things he loves seem to be few but include his red hunting cap that he wears often throughout the novel, his brother Allie who died of leukemia, and his sister Phoebe. He even seems to harbor some affection for Pencey Prep, the school he is expelled from at the beginning of the novel, even though it is filled with ―phonies‖. This is, For 10 points, what protagonist of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.

Turgenev

This contemporary and friend of Alexander Ostrovsky wrote a story in which a man becomes obsessed with finding his stolen horse Malek Adel, which is collected along with "Hamlet of Shchigrovsky District" in his Sportsman's Sketches. This author of Diary of a Superfluous Man wrote about a character who dies after being nicked by a scalpel in a work that features Madame Oditznoff, (*) Arkady Kirsanoff, and the central nihilist. For 10 points, name this author who created Bazarov in his novel Fathers and Sons.

Kierkigard

This man described despair as the title malady in one work, and, in another, a section entitled The Seducer's Diary parallels his own life, as Johannes' behavior towards Cordelia is very similar to the author's behavior towards Regine Olsen. In a third work, this man described the (*) knights of faith and infinite resignation, and discusses the ethics associated with Abraham's attempted sacrifice of Isaac. For ten points, name this Danish philosopher and author of Sickness Unto Death, Either/Or, and Fear and Trembling.

milton

This man wrote a play whose title character is a sorcerer whose liquor turns guests into monsters. In addition to Comus, this man wrote "Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil" in an elegy written on the drowning of Edward King, "Lycidas." In Book I of his most famous work, the palace of Pandemonium is built and Beelzebub presents Satan's plan for revenge against God following their banishment from heaven. For 10 points, name this English poet of Paradise Lost.

the birds

This play contains a parabasis [puh-RAB-uh-sis] that addresses the audience as "enfeebled and powerless creatures of earth." Famous real-life figures make appearances in this play, including the geometer Meton, who gives a set of town-plans to the protagonist, and the much-ridiculed poet Cinesias. At the end of this play, the protagonist is ultimately able to negotiate with the barbaric (*) Triballus and marries Zeus's daughter Sovereignty. The major plot point in this play concerns a blockade that prevents humans' offerings from reaching Mount Olympus, a plan that is formulated with the help of the Hoopoe Epops and Euelpides [you-ELL-pi-deez]. For 10 points, name this Greek comedy in which Pisthetaerus [piz-thuh-TEAR-uss] leads in the construction of Cloud-cuckoo-land, written by Aristophanes.

the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

This poem mentions a "yellow smoke that slides along the street." The speaker of this poem is "not Prince Hamlet," but only "an attendant lord," and "shall wear the bottoms of [his] trousers rolled," after stating that he has "measured out [his] life with coffee spoons." This poem's speaker wonders "Do I dare / Disturb the universe?" and "Do I dare to eat a peach?" in "the room where women come and go/Talking of Michaelangelo." For 10 points, name this poem that begins "Let us go then, you and I / When the evening is spread out against the sky," by T. S. Eliot.

tagore

This poet wrote that "all I had achieved was carried off on" "The Golden Boat," which he included in his collection Sonar Tori. He wrote about Bimala's marriage to Nikhil and subsequent affair with Sandip in his novel The Home and the World. He was the first non-European Nobel Prize recipient, and he wrote Jana Gana Mana and Amar Shona Bangla, the (*) Indian and Bangladeshi national anthems. This man's most famous poetry collection was introduced to the West with an introduction by W.B. Yeats. For ten points, name this Indian poet of "Song Offerings" in the Gitanjali.

Rashomon

This story takes place a few years after its setting was hit by a series of calamities, leading its residents to leave holy objects along roadsides for firewood. Recurring images in this story include a cricket perched on a crimson gate and the "red, festering pimple" on the cheek of its protagonist. A woman in this story explains that a woman sold snake meat as dried fish to justify collecting that woman's hair for a wig, prompting an (*) unemployed servant to steal her clothes and push her into a pile of corpses in the title place. A film named for this story mainly adapts a plot about conflicting accounts of a bandit's ambush of a samurai from "In a Grove," another story by this story's author. For 10 points, a dilapidated gate titles what Ryūnosuke Akutagawa story adapted into a Kurosawa film?

Fear and Trembling

This work analyzes Agnes and The Merman, Amor and Psyche, and Agamemnon at Aulus to establish the outer world of aesthetics and ethics. The author admits that he cannot understand the central character, who chooses to embrace absurdity. In contrast to Socrates, who strives asymptotically as a Knight of Infinity, that character is portrayed as a Knight of Faith. The author answers the first of its three problemata by concluding that the religious sphere is beyond the ethical. For 10 points, name this work that analyzes the "teleological suspension of the ethical" during Abraham's near-sacrifice of Isaac, written by Johannes de silento, a pseudonym of Søren Kierkegaard.

metamorphosis

This work's protagonist is asked by the chief clerk why he did not make the early train, and he dreams that his sister will play in the Conservatory. In this novella, the protagonist's sister plays violin to entertain three lodgers, to whom the family rented room to replace the protagonist's income. His father pummels him with (*) apples; after one gets lodged in him and causes an infection, Grete and the rest of his family abandon him. Name this existential novella about Gregor Samsa's life as a giant insect by Franz Kafka.

Rip Van Winkle

This work‟s protagonist discovers that Brom Dutcher and Nicholas Vedder have died, and is shocked by a picture he finds hanging on the outside of the Union Hotel. In this story, a man in Dutch clothing invites this tale‟s protagonist to play (*) nine-pins. The title man mourns the loss of Wolf but happily discovers that his tyrannical wife has died in his absence. For 10 points, name this short story in which the title man falls asleep for twenty years.

moliere

This writer created a character who is so stingy that he only lends people the phrase "good day." That character, Harpagon, suspects his children are conspiring to rob him in this author's play The Miser. In another of his plays, Alcest pines after the manipulative widow Celimene despite his high moral standards. In another of his plays, Orgon almost gives his estate away to the title religious hypocrite before a representative of the king saves the day. For 10 points, name this French comedic playwright and author of The Misanthrope and Tartuffe.

lord of the flies

William Golding. tells the story of a group of young boys who find themselves alone on a deserted island. They develop rules and a system of organization, but without any adults to serve as a 'civilizing' impulse, the children eventually become violent and brutal. Cut off head of pig...

O'Neill

Wint Selby appears in one work by this man, where he introduces Richard Miller to the prostitute Belle. Later in that work by this man, David McComber withdraws his objections to Richard dating his daughter, Muriel. This man also created the character Don Parritt, who throws himself from a fire escape shortly after Theodore Hickman is arrested for murder. He won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for one work in which Mary Tyrone is addicted to morphine. For 10 points, name this American playwright, the author of Ah, Wilderness!, The Iceman Cometh, and Long Day's Journey Into Night.

tale of genji

Written by Lady Murasaki; first novel in any language; relates life history of prominent and amorous son of the Japanese emperor; About the year 1000 during the Heian Period centers on the life and loves of a handsome son, Hikaru, born to an Emperor during the Heian Period. In the story, the beloved concubine of the Emperor gives birth and dies soon after.

David Copperfield

after surviving a poverty-stricken childhood, the death of his mother, a cruel stepfather, and an unfortunate first marriage, a boys finds success as a writer; themes: plight of the weak, importance of equality in marriage, dangers of wealth and class

the importance of being earnest

he second act of this play ends with characters fighting over eating muffins. Two characters in this play book back-to-back christenings with Dr. Chasuble. One character has invented the imaginary invalid Bunbury, to get him out of social obligations. At the end of this play, Miss Prism reveals it was she who accidentally left the protagonist in a handbag at Victoria Station when he was a baby, and Lady Bracknell consents to his marriage to Gwendoline. For 10 points, this is what play in which Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing both claim to have the titular name, by Oscar Wilde?

Nietzsche

influential German philosopher remembered for his concept of the superman and for his rejection of Christian values (1844-1900). Says that God is dead

ben johnson

poet praised Robert Sydney's home as "not...built to envious show" in a representative country house poem. This writer wrote a play in which a disguised justice is put into the stocks thanks to Wasp and Edgeworth, as is a man who preaches without a license named Zeal-of-the-Land Busy. In another play by this author of "To Penshurst," a character briefly disguises himself as Scoto the Italian mountebank; that play features Lady and Sir (*) Politic Would-Be. This author may be better known for a play whose title character pretends to be dying, assisted by Mosca, as three men vie to inherit his fortune. For 10 points, identify this Elizabethan-era playwright, the author of Bartholomew Fayre, The Alchemist, and Volpone.

The Scarlet Letter

| In this novel, John Wilson instigates some of the persecution of the main character, who earlier rejects assistance from the beadle. The protagonist is also distressed at being recognized by a man who has come to town with an Indian, to whom her backstory is revealed. Eventually, the protagonist's charitable works and quiet acceptance garner her favor among the same villagers who exiled her. However, Roger Chillingworth, her husband, eventually discovers that Arthur Dimmesdale, the town preacher, is the father of her daughter Pearl. For 10 points, name this Nathaniel Hawthorne novel about Hester Prynne's punishment for adultery.