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Chapter 41 of this novel features a game where players re-arrange alphabet blocks to form words, and one character spells out the words "Blunder" and "Dixon" referring to another character's shady past. That character receives an anonymous gift of a piano, which leads to gossip in Highbury. A woman is saved from a band of vicious gypsies after the ball at the Crown Inn by Frank Churchill, who later marries Jane Fairfax. The title character tries to convince a nearby boarder to pursue Mr. Elton, but Robert Martin ends up marrying that character, Harriet Smith. For 10 points, name this novel in which Mr. Knightley marries the titular Miss Woodhouse, by Jane Austen.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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Jerome Klapka Jerome
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Jerusalem Delivered
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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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John Donne
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John Dryden
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Karel Capek
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Kidnapped
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King Lear
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L'Avare or The Miser
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La Chartreuse de Parme [or The Charterhouse of Parma]
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
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Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter or Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias
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Lazarillo de Tormes
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Le Cid
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Le Cid [accept The Cid but not El Cid]
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The Razor's Edge
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The Red Room (accept Roda Rommet)
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The Red and the Black [or Le Rouge et le noir]
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The Robbers [or Die Räuber]
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The Satanic Verses
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The School for Wives or L'Ecole des femmes
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The Shadow of a Gunman
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The Shoemaker's Holiday: A Pleasant Comedy of the Gentle Craft
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The Song of Roland [or La Chanson de Roland]
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 The Tempest
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“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourningâ€
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“Andrea del Sartoâ€
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“Il Penserosoâ€
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“Ode to a Nightingaleâ€
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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Arcadia
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Arms and the Man
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Arthur Koestler
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August Strindberg
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Bel Ami
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Belgium
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Belize
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Ben Jonson
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Boris Pasternak
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Brave New World
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Brave New World Â
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Brideshead Revisited
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Bérenger
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Caliban
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Candide
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Cardinal de Richelieu [or Duc de Richelieu; or Armand-Jean du Plessis]
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Channel Firing
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Charles Lamb
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
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Clive Staples Lewis
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Cloudcuckooland or Nephelokokkygia
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Colly Cibber
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Comus
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Count Alexei Vronsky
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Cousin Bette
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Crome Yellow
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Daphne Du Maurier
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Dario Fo
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Darkness at Noon
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David Herbert [D.H.] Lawrence
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Death in Venice [or Der Tod in Venedig]
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Death of a Naturalist
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Decline and Fall
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Denis Diderot
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DenisDiderot
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Dirty Hands or Les Mains Sales
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Don Quixote
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Dorian Gray [prompt on partial name]
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Doris Lessing
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Dracula
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Edward Morgan Forster
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Edward the Confessor
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Effi Briest
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Emma
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Endgame
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Equus
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Erich Maria Remarque
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Essay on Man
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Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Onegin
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Eugene Ionesco
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Eugène de Rastignac
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Evelina: Or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World
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Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
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Everyman
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Far from the Madding Crowd
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Felix Lope de Vega y Carpio
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Francois Mauriac
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Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
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Franz Werfel
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Friedrich von Schiller
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Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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George Eliot [accept Mary Ann Evans]
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George Eliot [or Mary Ann Evans]
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George Gissing
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Ghosts [accept Gengangere]
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Graham Greene
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Gulliver [or Lemuel Gulliver; or Gulliver's Travels]
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Gustave FlaubertÂ
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Harold Pinter
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Heartbreak House
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Hedda Gabler
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An Enemy of the People [accept En Folkefiende]
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An Enemy of the People [or En Folkefiende]
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Anatole France
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Andre Gide
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Andre Malraux
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Andrew Marvell
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A quote from this play about committing fornication that ends "the wench is dead" is used as the epigraph for T.S. Eliot's "The Portrait of a Lady." "Laws were then most sure/When, like the Draco's, they were writ in blood," claims a character in this work, whose name is fittingly Machiavel. The title character sends a slave named Ithamore to kill all of the nuns in a nunnery, including his daughter Abagail, but eventually dies when he falls into his own boiling cauldron. For 10 points, name this work that may have inspired The Merchant of Venice, a play about the life of a Semite named Barabas by Christopher Marlowe.
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Jean Sibelius composed incidental music to this author's fairy tale Swanwhite. One of this author's plays ends with the image of Bocklin's painting The Isle of the Dead, while in another, Agnes is born to a glazier to disprove her immortal father's assertion that "Complaining is their mother tongue." This playwright wrote about the Captain, who dies of a stroke after his miserable marriage to Alice, in The Dance of Death. Another of his plays is set on Midsummer Eve, and ends with Jean handing the title character a razor and telling her to commit suicide. For 10 points, name this playwright, the author of A Dream Play and Miss Julie.
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Jean-Baptiste-Henri de Valincour wrote a book consisting of three letters criticizing this novel. The Peace of Chateau-Cambresis causes the Mareschal de St. Andre to leave the central location of this novel. Another character steals a painting of the protagonist, and later observes her gazing at a portrait of him in her garden in Colomiers. The title character's husband dies after discovering that she is in love with the Duc de Nemours. This novel is set in the court of Henry II of France, and focuses on the title youthful heiress. Often considered the first modern French novel, for 10 points, name this work published anonymously in 1678, which is usually attributed to Madame de La Fayette.
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John Mood wrote books about this author "on Death and other Oddities" and "On Love and other Difficulties." William Gass translated this author's concept of "weltinnenraum" as "innerworldspace" in a book titled "reading" this author. This poet described a caged animal who sees "a thousand bars, and beyond them no world" in a poem inspired by a Rodin sculpture, and praised Gaspara Sampa as an ideal hero in the first of a set of ten poems. This author of "thing-poems" like "The Panther" asked "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders?" in poems named for a castle. For 10 points, name this German poet of the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies.
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One anecdote told in this novel features a woman who abandons her lover Horatio in favor of another man's unsurpassed equipage. An injury to the protagonist's leg precipitates a brawl at an inn that ends with one character being drenched in hog's blood. That character is later forced to battle some hunting dogs upon mistaken for a hare, and hilarity ensues after an accidental bedroom encounter with the bizarrely amorphous Mrs. Slipslop. The resolution of this novel centers on the protagonist's strawberry-shaped birthmark, which is spoken of by his foster parents Gaffer and Gammer and his true father, Mr. Wilson.. Ending with the title character's marriage to Fanny Goodwill, this is, for 10 points, what novel about the adventures of Parson Abraham Adams and the brother of Pamela Booby, the first novel by Henry Fielding.
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Several characters in this work saw off the legs of a harpsichord to use it as a table during a ceremony at which one character sings “Jenny the Pirate.†One character in this work shows the beggar Filch the five types of human misery before barring him from receiving a license from Beggar's Friend, Ltd. Jonathan Jeremiah threatens to ruin the Queen's coronation by flooding it with poor people in this play, a gambit which neutralizes the protagonist's friendship with Chief of Police Tiger Brown. The protagonist of this work leads a gang that includes Crook Finger Jack, Matt of the Mint, and Sawtooth Bob, but draws the ire of the Beggar Boss by marrying his daughter Polly Peachum. For 10 points, name this work about Mac the Knife, a play by Bertolt Brecht based on a John Gay drama.
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The Prologue to this play laments that the Comic Muse is dying and asks the audience to pronounce a doctor regular or "dub him quack." One character in this play sings "Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain / With grammar, and nonsense, and learning" while drinking at the Three Jolly Pigeons. That character later drives some ladies around in a circle for three hours instead of taking them to Aunt Pedigree's house, before taking his Constance Neville back to Hastings. In its main plot, Kate disguises herself as a servant in order to be courted by Marlow. Subtitled "the mistakes of a night," for 10 points, name this about the Hardcastle family, a comedy by Oliver Goldsmith.
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The declaration of one character in this play that “Our revels now are ended†is sometimes seen as its author's farewell to the stage. One character in this play allies with the clownish Trinculo and the drunken butler Stephano to plot a rebellion. One character in this play guides another character by singing the lines “Full fathom five thy father lies.†The deceased witch Sycorax is the mother of one character in this play, which opens after Antonio usurps the throne of Milan. In this play, Caliban fails in his attempts at revolt and Ariel serves a central character after being freed from a tree. For 10 points, name this Shakespeare play in which Miranda and her magician father Prospero are stranded on an island.
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The phrase "twenty centuries of stony sleep" in this poem is a reference to William Blake, and it follows a line stating "the darkness drops again." One image in this poem is a "shape with lion body and the head of a man" with "a gaze black and pitiless as the sun." This poem recalls the troubling image of the "vast image out of Spiritus Mundi." It contains the lines "The falcon cannot hear the falconer" and "Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold." For 10 points, identify this poem beginning "Turning and turning in the widening gyre," a poem about an apocalyptic event, written by William Butler Yeats.
"Easter 1916"
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David Herbert Lawrence
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Doktor Faustus
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Ebenezer Scrooge [accept either underlined part]
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Faust Part II (prompt on Faust; do not accept Faust Part I, obviously)
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Federico Garcia Lorca
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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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Our Man in Havana
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Our Mutual Friend
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Pale Fire
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Peer Gynt
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Poland
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the ForsytesÂ
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The Pickwick Papers [or The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club]
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The Plague [or La Peste]
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The Prince [or Il Principe]
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The Princess of Clèves [or La Princesse de Clèves]
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The Revenger's Tragedy
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The Three Sisters [or Tri sestry]
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The Threepenny Opera [or Die Dreigroschenoper]
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The Tin Drum (or Die Blechtrommel)
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The Tin Drum [or Die Blechtrommel]
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Under the Volcano
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Utopia
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Vanity Fair
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Victor Hugo
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Virgil [or Publius Vergilius Maro]
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Volpone or The Fox
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Voltaire [or François-Marie Arouet]
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Waiting for Godot [or En Attendant Godot]
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War and Peace [or Voyna I mir]
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Where Angels Fear to Tread
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Wilfred Owen
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William Blake
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William Butler Yeats
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The protagonist of this work confides to another character that he had hoped to send her to the Conservatory. Oversleeping his alarm by two and a half hours, the protagonist of this work tries to roll out of bed to go to work, but the Manager quickly runs down the stairs after entering his room. While Grete initially tries to help him by providing milk, her father pummels the protagonist with apples, one of which lodges itself in his back and eventually causes his death. Gregor Samsa discovers that he has undergone the title transformation into a giant insect at the beginning of, FTP, which short story by Franz Kafka?
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The protagonist of this work dreams about the last time he saw his mother and sister, when he stole their chocolate and ran away. Later on, two characters repeat "We are the dead" before the same words come from a picture of St. Clement's Church, after which the pink coral paperweight that he had bought from Mr. Charrington is smashed. At the end of this novel, the protagonist drinks Victory Gin and traces "2+2 = 5" in the dust after recalling a meeting with the woman whom he had betrayed to O'Brien in Room 101. Julia's relationship with Winston Smith is discovered by the Brotherhood and Big Brother by the end of, FTP, which novel by George Orwell?
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The protagonist of this work enjoys the prelude to Wagner's Tannhauser, believing that it reflects the tragedy of his own soul. He attempts to console himself by dating Hetty Merton, whose heart he does not break, unlike that of his first love, a Shakespearean actress from the slums of London. That woman, Sybil Vane, commits suicide after she is rejected by the protagonist. He is driven to this life of sin by Henry Wotton, whose hedonistic world view convinces the protagonist to wish that he could remain young while Basil Hallward's title creation could grow old. However, the protagonist stabs the title painting at the end of, FTP, which novel by Oscar Wilde?
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The protagonist's mother is conceived when the fugitive Joseph Koljaiczek takes refuge from constables under a woman's skirt in a potato field. She dies after a dead horse's head full of eels inspires her to eat only fish. Its protagonist outlandishly seduces Maria, the younger sister of a man with hieroglyph-like scars on his back, Herbert Truczinski, and his father Alfred dies from swallowing a pin to conceal his fascist affiliations from the Russians. The title object is given to the protagonist for his third birthday, after which he decides to stop growing. Set in Danzig, FTP, name this novel about Oskar Matzerath by Gunter Grass.
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The speaker laments that he has not skill in speech, and he wonders how he "could have made [his] will quite clear" while referencing someone who had "exceed[ed] the mark." The title figure is described as possessing a "half-faint flush that dies along her throat" and "a spot of joy," though her "heart too soon made glad" caused the speaker to "give commands," upon which "all smiles stopped together." This monologue ends with the speaker directing attention to Claus of Innsbruck's bronze statue of Neptune, away from Fra Pandolf's painting of the title woman. FTP, identify this poem about the murdered wife of the Duke of Ferrara, written by Robert Browning.
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The speaker of one poem in this collection sees "the land of lost content" after his heart is affected by "air that kills." The speaker of another poem in it hears one church bell tolling his death after remembering lying with his lover atop "Bredon Hill". Originally intended to be called The Poems of Terence Hearsay, this collection includes a poem mourning the deaths of "many a rose-lipt maiden / And many a lightfoot lad," titled "With rue my heart is laden," and a poem about the "Loveliest of leaves, the cherry now." FTP, name this poetry collection containing "When I was one-and-twenty" and "To an athlete dying young," the masterpiece of A.E. Housman.
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The title character of this work has a dream in which he drinks milk from the breast of his best friend, who had just turned into a woman. In another dream, he releases a songbird from its golden cage and throws it out onto the street. That bird's owner helps the title character get a job as a businessman with Kamaswami, which allows him to learn the ways of love from the courtesan Kamala. At the beginning of this work, the title character had left his father and joined the Samanas, and he ends his journey at Vasudeva's river. This is where Govinda finds the title character, who kisses him so that he too may achieve nirvana. FTP, name this Herman Hesse novel about Buddha.
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The title character of this work tells another that he wishes to have the quote "We must eat to live, not live to eat" engraved in gold in his dining-room. Later on, La Fleche leaves with his master's casket, after which a police officer attempts to arrest Elise's lover. It is revealed that Valere, the steward, is the son of Don Thomas d'Alburci, who died in a shipwreck. It turns out that his family is still alive as his father is Anselme and his sister is Marianne, who has been courted by Cleante and his father. However, Harpagon, the title character, agrees to the marriages when he is promised the return of his money at the end of, FTP, which play by Moliere?
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This author argued that Satan was responsible for the crusades in The Political History of the Devil. One of this author's characters wears a Turkish dress to seduce a jeweler on the advice of her servant Amy. Along with that novel about a "fortunate mistress," Roxana, he wrote a "Hymn to the Pillory" after being jailed for writing the satirical pamphlet "The Shortest Way with the Dissenters." H.F. narrates his novel about London during the year 1665, A Journal of the Plague Year, while his other title characters include a picaresque heroine born in Newgate and a shipwrecked sailor based on Alexander Selkirk. FTP, name this author of Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe.
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This author argued that the Ring cycle was an allegory about industrial exploitation in The Perfect Wagnerite. Anthony Anderson saves the life of Dick Dudgeon in this author's only play set in America, The Devil's Disciple. He wrote about Ariadne Utterword and Hesione Hushabye, the daughters of Captain Shotover, in Heartbreak House. Raina leaves her fiancee Sergius for the Swiss soldier Bluntschli in one of his Plays Pleasant, Arms and the Man. His other protagonists include the idealistic daughter of Andrew Undershaft, and Henry Higgins, who wins a bet by refining the speech of Eliza Doolittle. FTP, name this British playwright of Major Barbara and Pygmalion.
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This author asked the Lord to avenge "thy slaughter'd Saints, whose bones / Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold" in his sonnet about the "Late Massacre in Piedmont." Another of his sonnets describes how soon "Time, the subtle thief of youth" has stolen "on his wing" his "three and twentieth year." He wrote "Hence vain deluding joyes" in the companion piece to his poem "L'Allegro," "Il Penseroso," and foretold the ruin of the "Corrupted clergy" in his monody inspired by the death of Edward King, "Lycidas". Jesus says "Tempt not the Lord thy God" to defeat Satan in the climax of the sequel to his epic poem about "man's first disobedience, and the fruit." FTP, name this British poet of Paradise Regained and Paradise Lost.
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This author explained his philosophy of writing in The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts and wrote about two émigrés meeting in a Paris airport in his recent novel Ignorance. He wrote a fictional biography of the poet Jaromil in Life is Elsewhere, while Ludvik, Kostka, and Jaroslav are among the narrators of his first novel, The Joke. He described life in his native country through such characters as Marketa and Mirek in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, while his most famous novel sees the doctor Tomas lose his job for criticizing communists during Prague Spring. FTP, name this Czech author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
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This author wrote a retelling of John the Baptist's beheading in "Herodias," which appeared in his Three Tales, along with "Saint Julian" and "A Simple Heart." Hilarion and the Queen of Sheba are among those who entice the title character of his The Temptation of Saint Anthony, while the title Carthaginian princess submits to the advances of Mathô in his Salammbô. Better known works by this author include one about Rosanette and Madame Arnoux, the love interests of Frederic Moreau, while the title character of another novel takes Leon Dupuis and Rodolphe Boulanger as her lovers. FTP, name this French author of A Sentimental Education and Madame Bovary.
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This author wrote about Schoner strangling his captain in the short story "The Prussian Officer". His longer works include one about Kate Leslie's encounter with Don Cipriano during the Mexican Revolution, as well as one about the title character's trip to Italy before his flute explodes via an anarchist's bomb. This author of The Plumed Serpent and Aaron's Rod may be better remembered for writing novels about Paul Morel's relationship with Miriam Leivers and Clara Dawes, and about about Constance's affair with the Wragby estate gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. FTP, name this British author of Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley's Lover.
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This author wrote about the psychological disintegration of Kayerts and Carlier in "An Outpost of Progress." He wrote that his task was "to make you hear, to make you feel...above all, to make you see" in the preface to his novel about James Wait, and he coauthored Romance and The Inheritors with Ford Madox Ford. Mr. Verloc fails to blow up the Greenwich Observatory in his novel The Secret Agent, while he wrote about a rebellion in Costaguana in Nostromo. The title character of another of his novels moves to Patusan after abandoning the Patna. FTP, name this author of Lord Jim who described Marlow's encounter with the ivory trader Kurtz in Heart of Darkness.
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This author wrote that love "makes one little room [of] everywhere" in "The Good-Morrow." This poet argued that "Here upon earth, we're kings, and none but we / Can be such kings, nor of such subjects be" in "The Anniversary" and wrote of people worshiping a "bracelet of bright hair about the bone" in "The Relic". An attack of "relapsing fever" inspired his Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, whose seventeenth meditation states "No man is an island." He asserted "death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die" in one of his Holy Sonnets, which begins "Death, be not proud." FTP, name this metaphysical poet of "The Flea" and "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning."
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This author's attacks on the British government in plays like Pasquin and The Historical Register prompted the passage of the Theatrical Licensing Act. This author contrasted Mr. and Mrs. Heartfree with the title "great man" in a satirical novel about the life of a notorious criminal, Jonathan Wild. Lady Booby fails to seduce the virtuous title character of his novel Joseph Andrews, which parodies Samuel Richardson's Pamela. Another of his novels follows the rival of Bilfil, a sexually promiscuous "foundling" who is raised by Squire Allworthy and marries Sophia Western. FTP, name this 18th-century British author of Tom Jones.
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This author's protagonists include a boy traveling to Jersey who discovers his Uncle Jules opening oysters, and a country farmer who is accused of stealing a pocketbook. He wrote about the amoral editor George Duroy, who manipulates his way to the top of French society, in his novel Bel Ami. This author of "La Horla" also wrote a short story about the prostitute Elizabeth Rousset, who is forced to sleep with a Prussian officer after being trapped in Tôtes. Best known for a short story about Mathilde Loisel, who discovers that the title piece of jewelry is fake after losing it at a party, FTP, name this French author of "Ball of Fat" and "The Necklace."
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This character avoids capture by the Oreillons when he proves that he is not a Jesuit. A slave-owner steals a jewel-encrusted sheep from him, but he recovers it when that slave-owner's ship is sunk, and he later loses some of his wealth to Parisians. He was befriended by James the Anabaptist after deserting the Bulgarian army, which occurred after he was booted out of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh's castle. Cacambo leads him to Paraguay sometime after leaving Portugal, where he witnesses the hanging of his philosophical teacher, Dr. Pangloss. FTP, name this lover of Cunegonde, the optimistic title character of a work by Voltaire.
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This novel was written as a response to the idealism of R. M. Ballantyne's The Coral Island. One character in this novel throws stones at Henry, but intentionally misses. A climactic event in this novel occurs at Castle Rock, where one character is killed by a boulder released by Roger. In its eighth chapter, Simon loses consciousness after imagining himself engulfed by the mouth of the title entity. In its last chapter, Sam and Eric reveal the hiding place of the protagonist, who is hunted by Jack after the death of Piggy leaves him as the lone representative of order. A group of boys degenerate into savagery after being shipwrecked on an island in, FTP, what novel by William Golding?
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This play opens as Miss Juliana enters her nephew's house, followed by the servant Bertha, who places a bouquet of flowers on the piano. Having returned from her honeymoon, the title character reads the attached card, which reveals that her old friend will later visit. Later on, that friend's husband commits suicide in Madame Diana's boudoir, having been encouraged by the title character, whose jealousy of Thea Elvsted causes her to burn his manuscript. After Judge Brack threatens to reveal the circumstances of Eilert Lovborg's death, the title character commits suicide with one of her father's pistols at the end of, FTP, what play about the wife of George Tesman by Henrik Ibsen?
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This poem's speaker compares his praise of the "glories of [his] King" with the singing of "committed linnets." Its speaker lies tangled in the hair of the title character, who is based on Lucy Sacheverell, and contrasts "Fishes that tipple in the deep" with "Angels alone, that soar above." The speaker argues that "When Love with unconfinèd wings / Hovers within [his] gates," the "birds that wanton in the air / Know no such liberty." FTP, identify this poem that declares "Stone walls do not a prison make / Nor iron bars a cage," by Richard Lovelace.
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This work is often published with prefatory letters between such figures as Guillaume Budé, Thomas Lupset, Jerome Busleiden, and Peter Giles, one of which blames an ill-timed cough for difficulty in locating the title entity. There is a reference to Plato in a verse written by the poet laureate of the title location, whose capital, situated near the river Anider, is called Amaurot. That poet laureate is also the nephew of the Portuguese traveler who happens upon the titular crescent-shaped island, Raphael Hythloday. FTP, identify this philosophical novel by Thomas More that depicts a perfect society.
"The Metamorphosis" or "Die Verwandlung"
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"The Overcoat" or "The Cloak"
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"To Althea, From Prison"
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"To His Coy Mistress"
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A Dance to the Music of Time
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A Shropshire Lad
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Bertolt Brecht
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D. H. Lawrence
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Daniel Defoe [or Daniel Foe]
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Death in Venice or Der Töd in Vendig
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Eugene Onegin [accept Yevgeny Onegin]
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Eugène Ionesco
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George Bernard Shaw
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Great Expectations
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Gustave Flaubert
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Guy de Maupassant
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Henry Fielding
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Joseph Conrad (or Jósef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski)
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The Flowers of Evil or Les Fleurs du Mal
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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The Seagull or Chayka
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A "military medical commission" digs up a corpse and marches it with fanfare through a crowd in this author's poem "The Legend of the Dead Soldier." A wealthy merchant unjustly shoots his servant while crossing the Yahi Desert in his play The Exception and the Rule, while Azdak awards Michael to Grusha after she refuses to pull him out of the title location of his play The Caucasian Chalk Circle. The title character of another of his plays sees the deaths of Eilif, Swiss Cheese, and Kattrin while pulling her canteen during the Thirty Years War. Believing that actors should strive for an "alienation effect" to distance themselves from the audience, FTP, name this German playwright of The Threepenny Opera and Mother Courage and Her Children.
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A character in this work sings of a cook who beats a dog to death with a ladle for stealing a breadcrust, and that character stinks of garlic, which he eats for the health of his kidneys. One character provides another some chicken bones to gnaw on and a boy in this work tends to the title character's goats and acts as his messenger. This work mentions a "personal god" uttered forth by "Puncher and Wattmann" during a nonsensical monologue that results when Pozzo's servant Lucky is instructed to "think." FTP, name this "tragicomedy in two acts" in which Vladimir and Estragon linger in hopes of seeing the title character, an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett.
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A tense moment in this novel comes when a band in Piccadilly nervously awaits the arrival of the title character, who tells the protagonist that he wishes to be "among the millions." Minor characters in this novel include the American Quincy Morris and Peter Hawkins, who sends the protagonist to discuss a real estate venture with the title character. Dr. Seward presides over the care of Arthur Holmwood's fiancée, and his insect-eating patient Renfield can conveniently detect the title character's movements. Lucy Westenra dies despite the efforts of Abraham Van Helsing in, FTP, what novel about Jonathan Harker's struggle with the titular blood-sucking count by Bram Stoker?
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After setting out a plate of cucumber sandwiches, one character in this work notes that champagne in married households is rarely of a first-rate brand. Later on, another character appears at a Hertfordshire manor to announce the death of his brother, who has surprisingly preceded him and met with Cecily Cardew. Her guardian promises to approve of her marriage to the inventor of the fictional Bunbury after Lady Bracknell approves the marriage of another character, which she does after learning that he is the son Miss Prism left in a handbag in the cloakroom of Victoria Station. Ending with the engagements of Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing, FTP, identify this play by Oscar Wilde.
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At one point in this work, one character vomits up the meat prepared from a dog he killed because he hasn't eaten meat in years. Weigand creates a surprisingly light coffin for one of the title characters, who are warned against singing Moritz Jaeger's marching song by the policeman Kutsche, and whose procession is opposed by Pastor Kittelhaus. The overseer Dreissiger has the young Becker arrested, but the title characters free him and begin a riot, in which they are joined by Luise and Gottlieb despite the advice of Old Hilse. Based on riots that took place in the author's birthplace of Silesia, FTP, name this play about the revolt of the titular workers, written by Gerhart Hauptmann.
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At the end of the work in which this character appears, her sister Liza-Lu sees her dead as the result of a crime at The Herons in Sandbourne. She has a child whom she names Sorrow after being either seduced or raped by her supposed cousin. This former milkmaid at Talbothays Dairy is a "pure woman" according to the novel's subtitle, but her husband will not forgive her for her one indiscretion and flees to Brazil to start a new life, only to later returns to her. FTP, name this woman, the object of the affections of both Alec Stoke and Angel Clare, the descendant of a formerly noble family and the title character of a Thomas Hardy novel.
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At the opening of this work, the protagonist reads quotes of scriptural texts on the façade of a Byzantine mortuary chapel before encountering a man who inspires him to go to distant places. Later, the protagonist purchases overripe strawberries and mulls upon the divinity of beauty, as told by Socrates to Phaedrus, and has his hair dyed by a barber, partly in response to the spread of cholera through the title location. After following a governess and her children for several days, the protagonist watches Jaschiu wrestle with Tadzio before suffering the title affliction. FTP, name this Thomas Mann novella about the last days of Gustav von Aeschenbach in the title Italian city.
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Because the mother of the protagonist of this work believes some names are too poor and others unheard of, her son is thus named after his father, whereupon the protagonist cries and makes a grimace. Despite being mocked by his co-workers, the protagonist is later invited to tea with an official, after which he is accosted in a square after midnight. Later on, the protagonist is advised to go to a prominent personage, whose disgust with the protagonist's low rank prevents him from finding out that the title item, made by Petrovich, has been stolen. Akaky Akakievitch haunts St. Petersburg to recover the titular lost garment at the end of, FTP, which short story by Nikolai Gogol?
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He asked his eyes to be shelled "with double dark" to "find the uncreated light" in "The Habit of Perfection." His reading of Duns Scotus inspired his concept of a unifying "inscape," and his "terrible sonnets" include "No Worst, There is None" and "Carrion Comfort". This author of "As Kingfishers Catch Fire" wrote "Generations have trod, have trod, have trod" in a poem comparing the title concept to "shook foil" and "the ooze of oil / crushed," "God's Grandeur." He wrote about a "dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon" in "The Windhover," which features his characteristic sprung rhythm. FTP, name this nineteenth-century British poet and Jesuit priest of "The Wreck of the Deutschland" who wrote "Glory be to God for dappled things" in "Pied Beauty."
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In one of his novellas, a man drowns along with the newly purchased fishing boat which he had been saving to buy, and in another the vicar Dooley advances a scheme for "compulsory salvation" throughout England. He made an analogy between low-ranking revolutionaries and holstered revolvers in "A Story About the Most Important Thing" and wrote the script for Jean Renoir's film adaptation of The Lower Depths. He died while working on The Scourge of God, his third attempt to tell the story of Attila the Hun, and in fact this author of the play The Fires of Saint Dominic completed only one full-length novel. That book discusses the building of the Green Wall following the Two Hundred Years War, and depicts a rebellion against The Benefactor. FTP, name this author who described I-330 and D-503 in the anti-Soviet dystopian classic We.
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In one of this man's works, the doctor reports to Marguerite and Marie, wives of the title character, that Mars and Saturn have collided and exploded. In addition to Exit the King, this author wrote about Marie, the Maid, reminding the professor that he has now killed forty students in The Lesson, while an old man and woman usher in invisible guests before the Orator and Emperor arrive in his The Chairs. Better known works by this author include one where the Fire Chief comes to visit the Smiths and Martins, and another where Berenger watches everyone around him turn into the title creature. FTP, name this French dramatist whose works include The Bald Soprano and Rhinoceros.
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In this novel's third section, Mrs. Skiffins marries Wemmick, and the protagonist is nearly killed by Orlick. One character in this novel marries the abusive nobleman Bentley Drummle after continually warning the protagonist that she has no heart. At the end of this novel, the protagonist begins working for the firm of Herbert Pocket, the "pale young gentleman" he had earlier fought at Satis House, whose clocks are all stopped at twenty minutes to nine. Throughout this novel, Mr. Jaggers gives the narrator money sent by an unknown benefactor, which turns out to be the ex-convict Abel Magwich instead of the wealthy Mrs. Havisham, who raises Estella to break men's hearts after being left at the altar on her wedding day. FTP, name this novel narrated by Pip, by Charles Dickens.
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Martin Esslin analyzed the works of this author in The Peopled Wound. In one of this author's plays, Flora seduces a Matchseller who eventually replaces her husband Edward. In addition to A Slight Ache, this author wrote a play ending with Rose Hudd becoming blind, The Room, and wrote about the tramp Davies, who is evicted by brothers Mick and Aston, in The Caretaker. Another of this playwright's "comedies of menace" ends with Goldberg and McCann removing pianist Stanley Webber from a decrepit boarding house after the title celebration. FTP, name this British playwright of The Birthday Party and The Dumb Waiter.
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One character in this novel is initially uninterested in Riemann surface tennis and obstacle golf, and loses social standing when the protagonist refuses to appear before the Arch-Community Songster. Beginning with an explanation of the Bokanovsky Technique, this novel focuses on dissatisfied characters like Helmholtz Watson, who is exiled by World Controller Mustapha Mond. Its protagonist commits suicide after being seen whipping himself by Lenina and had earlier caused a riot among Deltas by throwing away their soma. Named for a line from The Tempest, FTP, name this novel in which Bernard Marx brings John the Savage to the World State, a dystopia by Aldous Huxley.
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One character in this work lies alive on the ground while his brother Nicholas announces to his mother Margaret that he has killed him. Taking place in the market town of Cool Clary, this work sees the aforementioned scene take place because Nicholas hopes to win the hand of Alizon, who had left a convent after the marriages of her five sisters. Humphrey is promised her hand, but he rejects her at the end of this work, which is irrelevant since she has married Hebble Tyson's clerk, Richard. This takes place while a discharged soldier, who has been trying to get hanged, falls in love with a woman who has been accused of turning a man into a dog. Skipps turns up, however, preventing Jennet Jourdemayne from being charged with witchery as she flees with Thomas Mendip in, FTP, which comedy by Christopher Fry?
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One character in this work marries a man from the army some time after the Larins celebrate her sister's name day. Zaretsky has several chances to prevent a duel between the title character and a minor poet, the latter of whom is shot in the ensuing showdown, due to the title character's dances with Olga. Olga's romantic book-obsessed sister had been introduced to the title character by his friend Lensky, but the title character rejects her and continues his life of boredom in his uncle's estate before returning to Moscow. It is only after she is married to a prince that Tatiana earns the affections of the title character of, FTP, which "novel in verse" by Alexander Pushkin?
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One character in this work recalls that a famous author had to flee from the Eiffel Tower as it was about to crush him by its vulgarity. After learning that Masha is going to marry the schoolmaster Medvedenko, one character is left a message on page 121, lines 11 and 12, of his own book Days and Nights. That character plans to meet him at the Hotel Slavianski Bazaar, and she bears him a child that dies young, whereupon Nina is deserted by her lover, a playwright. She returns to Sorin's home while Arkadina and Trigorin are visiting, but when she leaves for Eltz, Treplev shoots himself, like he had the title creature. Thus ends, FTP, which play by Anton Chekhov?
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One character performs in The Duchess of Malfi before marrying a music critic, which factors into another character's treatise, The Gothic Symbolism of Mortality in the Texture of Jacobean Stagecraft. At an award banquet for necrophile Russell Gwinnett, we learn that Scorpio Murtlock has started a new cult based on the teachings of Dr. Trelawney. The protagonist learns about sex from Peter Templer and has an affair with Peter's sister Jean before marrying Isobel Erridge. Kenneth Widmerpool is one of two characters who appear in each volume, including Casanova's Chinese Restaurant and A Question of Upbringing, which are narrated by Nicholas Jenkins. FTP, name this twelve-novel series by Anthony Powell whose title comes from a painting by Nicholas Poussin.
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One of minor character in this play is Filipote, a servant to Madame Pernelle, who criticizes all members of the household except for the title character. While Madame Pernelle's son also shares her admiration, the wise servant Dorine can see the truth. At her suggestion, Damis hides in a closet to spy on the title character, who is announced as the future husband of the already-engaged Mariane. Only after overhearing advances made towards his wife Elmire does the gullible Orgon avoid losing all his property to the devious title character, who is eventually arrested. FTP, name this 1664 comedy about the schemes of the titular religious hypocrite, written by Molière.
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One of the narrators is scolded for interrupting a reading lesson with the song "Fairy Annie's Wedding," while the other narrator takes a trip to the chapel of Gimmerden Sough to hear a sermon by Jabez Branderham in a dream. After her tiny dog is hung on a doorpost, Isabella leaves for London, giving birth there to a son, Linton, by a man who eventually dies after starving himself for four days. That man had been brought to the title location from Liverpool, immediately becoming Hindley's enemy. Narrated by Mr. Lockwood and the housekeeper at Thrushcross Grange, Nelly Dean, this is, FTP, what novel about the love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff by Emily Bronte?
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Ones by Thomas Wyatt include "Like to these unmeasurable mountains" and "Whoso List to Hunt." The author of The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge wrote ones dedicated to Vera Knoop, and a notable series of them is addressed to a Fair Youth and a Dark Lady. Vikram Seth's novel The Golden Gate consists of Pushkinian ones, while another sequence of them begins by considering "how Theocritus had sung" and includes the line "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." FTP, name this poetic form, whose collections include Elizabeth Barrett Browning's ones "From the Portuguese," and whose types include Petrarchan and Spenserian.
George Chapman
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Growth of the Soil [or Markens Grøde]
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Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant
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Henry III or Henry of Winchester
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Henry James
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Holden Caulfield [accept either name]
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Holy Sonnets [accept "Death, be not proud" before "set"]
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Honore de Balzac
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Horace
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Horace [or Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
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In Praise of Folly [or The Praise of Folly; or Moriae encomium before mentioned]
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Italo Calvino
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Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
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Ivan Ilych [both or either names acceptable]
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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
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Ivan Turgenev
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Ivanhoe
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Jack London
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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
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Jean Racine
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John Milton
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Jonathan Swift
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Joseph K
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Jude the Obscure
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Lucia di Lammermoor
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Lyrical Ballads
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Margarita
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Mary Stuart or Maria Stuart
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Mathew Arnold
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Measure for Measure
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Melmoth the Wanderer
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Micromegas
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Milan Kundera
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Miss Julie
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Miss Julie [accept Froken Julie]
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Molière [or Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
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Molière [or Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
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Mother Courage and Her Children [accept Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder]
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Mrs. Warren's Profession
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Murder on the Orient Express [accept Murder on the Calais Coach]
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Muriel Spark
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Nausea [or La Nausée]
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Nikolai Gogol
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Nikos Kazantzakis
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Norway
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Oliver Goldsmith
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Ophelia
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Os Lusiadas
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Paul Bäumer [accept either name]
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Penguin Island or L'lle des Pengouins
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre
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Persuasion
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Phillips curve
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Pride and Prejudice
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Prometheus Unbound
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Prosper Merimee
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Publius Papinius Statius
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Quixote (accept Don Quixote or The Spiritual Quixote before the second sentence)
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R.U.R. [or Rossum's Universal Robots]
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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Rainier Maria Rilke
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Rebecca
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Republic of Poland
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Republic of Poland [or Rzeczpospolita Polska]
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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The Marquise of O [accept Die Marquise von O or The Countess of O]
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The Master and Margarita
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The Master and Margarita (or Master i Margarita)
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Right you are (If you think you are) or Right you are (if you think so) or Così è (se vi pare)
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Rob Roy
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
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Sean O'Casey [or Seán Ó Cathasaigh; or John Casey]
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Sense and Sensibility
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She Stoops to Conquer: Or, the Mistakes of a Night
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Shylock
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Siddhartha
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Sir Thomas More
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Sonnets from the Portugese
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Spain [or España]
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Steppenwolf
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The Miser [or L'Avare]
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The Mourning Bride
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The Count of Monte Cristo [accept Le Comte de Monte-Cristo]
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The Country Wife
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The Crime of Sylvester Bonnard or Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard
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The Critic
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The Decameron: Prencipe Galeotto
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The Duchess of Malfi
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The Duino Elegies
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The Dwarf or Dvargen
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The Eve of Saint Agnes
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse [or Los Cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis]
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The Glass Bead Game [accept Magister Ludi before it is read; or Das Glasperlenspiel]
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The Glass Bead Game [or Das Glasperlenspiel; or Magister Ludi]
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The Golden Bough
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The Golden Notebook
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The Heart of Midlothian
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams
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The Idiot
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The Imaginary Invalid or The Hypochondriac [accept La Malade Imaginaire]
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The Inspector-General [accept Revizor]
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The Italian (or The Confessional of the Black Penitents)
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The Jew of Malta
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The Knight from Olmedo or El Caballero de Olmedo or [The Knight of Olmedo]
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The Life of Gargantua and Pantagruel
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The Lusiads or Os Lusiadas
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The Man of Mode
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"Eveline"
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"Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"
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A parody of this poem mentions that "the PRB must keep the shady side" and is about a figure who is "getting his pictures, like his supper, cheap;" that parody was written by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Though it has fifteen lines, this poem otherwise is structured as a Petrarchan sonnet. Its placement of the title figure at Judgment Day is possibly based on the forty-second line of the first book of Paradise Lost. The title entity "hath lain for ages" and "will lie until the latter fire shall heat the deep," when he will "once by man and angels" "be seen." This poem describes the "ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep" of a creature that is covered in "sponges of millenial growth and height" and is "battening upon huge seaworms" as "enormous polypi winnow with giant arms the slumbering green." For 10 points, name this poem by Tennyson, set "far far beneath in the abysmal sea," about a legendary monster.
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Edward Said claimed in his book Culture and Imperialism that the "dead silence" that arises when she asks her uncle about the slave trade in Antigua is representative of British imperialism, while Lionel Trilling described her in The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent as "overtly virtuous and consciously virtuous," claiming that no one has ever thought it possible to like her. Saying that she "cannot act", she refuses the role of Cottager's Wife in Lovers' Vows, although she helps her cousin Edmund and Mary Crawford rehearse their roles. Henry Crawford makes it his goal to "make a hole in [her] heart," but despite his assistance in helping her brother William obtain his commission, he runs off with Maria after this character rejects his proposal. For 10 points, name this Jane Austen heroine, the protagonist of Mansfield Park.
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In Act III of this play, one starving character is tormented by a man who teases, "you shall have the mustard, or else you get no beef of Grumio." In one subplot, Tranio convinces a woman he is rich while vying for her daughter's hand, and Hortensio abandons his pursuit of one character and marries a widow. At the opening of this play, Christopher Sly is intoxicated and tricked into thinking he is part of the nobility. In this work, Baptista forbids his eldest daughter to marry before Bianca, who eventually married Lucentio. For 10 points, name this comedy by Shakespeare centering on Petruchio's courtship of Katherina, the title figure.
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In one novel, this writer depicted a titular character observing a blackbird, a gecko, a cheese shop, and a pair of naked breasts. In another novel by this author, Estomac marries a snail cooker who is the sister of a later lover of Violante. In another novel, this writer contrasted the robot-like reading approach taken by Lotaria with the pleasure-seeking approach taken by Lotaria's sister Ludmilla. He explained, “It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear,†in a novel that depicted Kublai Khan's attempts at soliciting the unambiguous reality of certain titular entities from the persistently uncertain Marco Polo. For 10 points, name this Italian author who wrote Mr. Palomar, The Baron in the Trees, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, and Invisible Cities.
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In one of this author's plays, Diocletian commands a playwright to write a play mocking Christianity, only for that playwright to convert. In another, Diana is enraged that her secretary Teodoro is sleeping with Marcella. This author of From Make Believe to Reality characterized Francis Drake as a merciless pirate in La Dragontea, and expanded on Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso in the lengthy poem La Hermosura de Angelica. In one of his plays, the citizens of the title village are pardoned for killing a commander who raped Jacinta by Ferdinand and Isabella. For 10 points, name this Spanish playwright of The Dog in the Manger and The Sheep Well, as well as hundreds of other plays.
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In one of this author's works, Lll leaves the narrator to marry the fish N'ba N'ga. In another, the narrator creates galaxies by playing marbles with hydrogen atoms. Those stores, "The Aquatic Uncle" and "Games Without End," are narrated by Qfwfq, who also narrates four stories in this author's collection t zero. This author's trilogy Our Ancestors ends with a novel about a suit of armor named Agilulf, The Nonexistant Knight. In another of this author's novels, the locations of Olinda, Zobeide, and Armilla are described by Marco Polo to Kubla Khan, while in yet another, you, the reader, pursue an international book fraud. For 10 points, name this author of Invisible Cities and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler.
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In the opening scene of this work, one character asks "Why should a man whose blood is warm within / Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?" after Salerio and Solanio fail to cheer up the title character. Another character reunites with his blind father after identifying Margery as his mother, while Gratiano falls in love with Nerissa on a trip to Belmont. In Act 2, the Prince of Morocco and the Prince of Aragon both lose their chance to marry a rich widow by opening the wrong caskets. In Act 4, one character impersonates a doctor named Balthasar, and delivers a speech beginning "The quality of mercy is not strained." FTP, name this play featuring Portia, Antonio, and Shylock.
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In this literary collection, Rubens, Rembrandt, Goya, and five other artists, are described in the work titled "The Beacons," while the work "Benediction" describes its author's feelings of rejection after his mother remarried. The deaths of lovers, the poor, and artists are described in the last section of this work, which had a new section, describing the streets of its author's hometown, added to it in 1861. Only five poems appear in its section "Wine," while "The Denial of St. Peter" and "The Litanies of Satan" appear in its third section, "Revolt." "Spleen and Ideal" is the first and longest section of, FTP, what poetry collection by Charles Baudelaire?
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Minor characters in this book include the amiable Jack Coverley and the jealous Watkins sisters. Mrs. Selwyn takes the title character to Bristol Hot Wells after she received an insulting letter which she mistakenly believed was sent by her love. The title character had earlier offered a Scottish poet money hoping to prevent him from killing himself and later discovers him to be her half-brother, Macartney. That figure's depression was heightened by his belief that he was in love with his sister, Polly, though it is later revealed that she is actually the daughter of an impoverished nurse. Despite the actions of characters like Clement Willoughby, the Branghtons, and Madame Duval, all ends well for the guileless title figure when Sir John Belmont recognizes his late wife's features in her and takes her in as his real daughter, facilitating her marriage to her true love, Lord Orville. For 10 points, identify this epistolary novel centered around the ward of Reverend Villars, a work of Fanny Burney.
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Names of relations and names of the dead are among the “tabooed words†discussed in Chapter 22 of this work, and its discussions of the fire-festivals of Europe are inspired by the myth of the Norse god Balder. It begins by discussing the ritual murder of a priest of Nemi, and argues that the worship and sacrifice of the Sacred King of the Wood is central to most mythologies. It heavily influenced Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces. For 10 points, identify this work that takes its name from an object used by Aeneas, a “study in magic and religion†by James Frazer.
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This author wrote a play in which a woman dreams that she gives birth to a snake that bites at her breast, drawing both blood and milk. Another play by this author is set into motion when Eteocles refuses to step down as king, which prompts a group that includes Adrastus and Tydeus to invade the title city. This author wrote a trilogy in which the Furies are renamed “The Kindly Ones†after the title character is acquitted of his mother Clytemnestra's murder. For 10 points, name this ancient Greek playwright, the author of Seven Against Thebes and the Oresteia.
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This author's late novels St. Leon and Mandeville were commercial failures. He attacked the law as "inevitably corrupt" and coined the term "philosophical anarchism" in his tract Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. Charles Brockden Brown was heavily influenced by his novel about the despotic Squire Tyrrel. That novel's characters include the brooding, cultured Lord Falkland and the title character, who eventually goes mad. He lived in a separate house from his wife, Mary Wollstonecraft. For 10 points, identify this father of Mary Shelley, an English author who pioneered the psychological novel with Caleb Williams.
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'Allusions to classical imagery, including \"the dewless asphodel of Elysisum\" and \"Polypheme\'s white tooth,\" abound in this work which is written mainly in the first person. At one point, the speaker asserts \"I will not soil thy purple with my dust\" and notes that \"no poison\" will be exhaled on \"your Venice glass.\" In one of them, the speaker recalls giving away locks of hair, while in another the speaker compares a suitor\'s entreaties to a \"cuckoo song.\" With the line, \"My future will not copy fair my past,\" the last of them quotes from \"Past and Future,\" another of its creator\'s works first published in 1844. The first one begins, \"I thought once how Theocritus had sung,\" and this collection\'s title originated with its author\'s \"From Catarina to Camoens.\" For 10 points, identify this sequence of poems that included the lines \"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways,\" a work by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. '
"A Shropshire Lad"
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"Boule de Suif" or "Ball of Fat" (or "Tub of Lard")
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"Convergence of the Twain"
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"Dejection: An Ode"
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"Dulce et Decorum Est"
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"Kubla Khan or a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment"
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"Lapis Lazuli"
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"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"
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"Lycidas"
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"My Last Duchess"
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"Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes"
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"Ode to a Nightingale"
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"The Bronze Horseman" or "Medni Vsadnik"
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"The Dead"
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"The Earthquake in Chile" [or "Das Erdbeben in Chili"]
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"The Flea"
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"The Kraken"
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"The Lady of Shallott"
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"The Lady of Shalott"
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"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
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"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
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"The Second Coming"
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"The Vanity of Human Wishes"
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"The Wilde Swans at Coole"
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"To a Skylark"
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(Benjamin Franklin) Frank Wedekind
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A Clockwork Orange
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A Doll's House or Et dukkehjem (accept A Doll's House Repaired)
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A Handful of Dust
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A Hero of our Time [or Geroy Nashego Vremeni]
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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A Room with a View
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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
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A Tale of Two Cities
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A Vision
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Aaron's Rod
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Aeschylus
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Albert Camus
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Aldous Huxley
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Alessandro Manzoni
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Alexander Pope
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Alexander PopeÂ
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Alfred Edward Housman
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
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All Quiet on the Western Front [or Im Westen nichts Neues]
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All Quiet on the Western Front [or Im Westen nichts Neues]Â
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Anna Karenina
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Annus Mirabilis
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Antoine Roquentin (accept either)
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Antoinette Cosway or Bertha Mason or the Madwoman in the Attic [prompt on Mason and Mr. Rochester's Wife]
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Benjamin or Ben Jonson
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Beowulf
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Canzoniere[also accept Song Book and accept Rerum vulgarium fragmenta before it is said]
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Council of Trent [or Nineteenth Ecumenical Council]
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Crime and Punishment [or Prestuplenie i nakazanie]
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Czech
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Daniel Defoe
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Dubliners
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Duino Elegies [or Duineser Elegien]
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Dylan Thomas
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Every Man in His Humour
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Fanny Price
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Federico García Lorca
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Feste the jester [prompt on clown before it is read]
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
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François Villon (accept François de Montcorbier or François de Loges)
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Friedrich Holderlin
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Gaius Valerius Catullus
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Germinal
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Ghosts (also accept Gengangere)
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Heinrich Heine
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Henrik Ibsen
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Herman Hesse
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Hungary [or Magyarország]
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John Ford
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John Gower
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John MiltonÂ
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John Suckling
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John Donne
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Les fleurs du mal [or Flowers of Evil]
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Lolita
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Lord Jim
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Lord of the Flies
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Luigi Pirandello
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MacFlecknoe
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Madame Bovary
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Mandragola [or Mandrake Root]
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Mansfield Park
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Maxim Gorky [or Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov]
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Philip Larkin
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Robert Browning
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Robert Burns
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Robert Oxton Bolt
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Robert Southey
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Robinson Crusoe [accept either underlined part]
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Roland Barthes [BART]
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Rome [or Roma]
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Romeo Montague [prompt on Montague]
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
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Salvatore Quasimodo
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Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Sartor Resartus
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Scoop
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Seamus Heaney
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Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz or Juana Inez de Asbaje y Ramirez de Santillana
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Tartuffe
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles [or Tess Durbeyfield]
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The Acharnians
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The Anatomy of Melancholy
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The Bacchae
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The Bald Soprano
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The Bridge on the Drina or Na Drini cuprija
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The Brothers Grimm [or Jacob Grimm, or Wilhelm Grimm]
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle or Die Kaukasische Kreidekreis
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The Clown or Ansichten eines Clowns
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The Confessions or Les Confessions
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The Lady's Not for Burning
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The Leopard or Il Gattopardo
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The Master and Margarita [or Master i Margarita]
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The Merchant of Venice
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The Sonnets to Orpheus or Die Sonette an Orpheus
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The Sorrows of Young Werther [or Die Leiden des Jungen Werther]
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The Spanish Tragedy
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The Sportsman's Sketches or Sketches from a Hunter's Album or The Hunting Sketches or A Hunter's Sketches or Zapiski Okhotnika
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The Stranger [or L'Etranger]
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The Taming of the Shrew
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The Three Sisters [Accept Tri Sestry]
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The Trial [accept Der Prozess]
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The Trial [or Der Process]
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The Trial [or Der Prozess]
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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The Waves
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The Weavers or Die Weber
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The White Devil
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The Spanish Tragedy
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Thomas Love Peacock
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Thomas Mann [or Paul Thomas Mann]
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Tobias Smollett
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Twelfth Night
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Ulysses
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Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
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William Godwin
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William Makepeace Thackeray
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William Wordsworth
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Wuthering Heights
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Wystan Hugh Auden
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Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin
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Yevgeny Vasil'evich Bazarov [JG]
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Zaire [or Zara]
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[King] Bérenger
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du Maurier [George and/or Daphne]
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sheep
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sonnets [accept Sonnets to Orpheus, Shakespeare's Sonnets, or Sonnets from the Portuguese]
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A Mulk Raj Anand collection of letters "to 'Bapu' from Bombay" is titled for this character and Gandhi. His address "to the Audience" forms the final section of W. H. Auden's "The Sea and The Mirror," and he names the ship of which Captain Steerforth is captain in Waugh's The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. He represents the crass utilitarianism associated with North America in an essay by José Rodó, but he is portrayed more positively as a militant black man who demands to be called "X" in a play by a co-founder of négritude. His natural theology includes a supreme deity described by his witch mother as "the Quiet" and the cruel title god of a Robert Browning poem. FTP, name this worshipper of Setebos and son of Sycorax who claims in Aimé Césaire's A Tempest that his attempted rape of Miranda was due to his education by Prospero.
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A character in this novel compares life to the wheel at Luna Park, dividing people into static and dynamic types, and also claims the purpose of architecture is to remove all humanity from a building. King's Thursday is rebuilt as a modernist monstrosity by that man, Otto Silenus. Another character in this novel, identified as Arnold Bennett when seen in a Rolls Royce, claims to be a ship magnate who shot a Portuguese count, or a retired gentleman thief. The conman Sir Solomon Philbrick appears in this work, which sees the protagonist arrested for unknowingly trafficking prostitutes to South America on the day of his wedding to Margot Beste-Chetwynde. For 10 points, identify this novel about a man sent down for indecent behavior at Scone College, who then ends up at Llanabba Castle as a schoolmaster and is named Paul Pennyfeather, a work by Evelyn Waugh.
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A character in this novel nicknamed "Echo," Nepomuk, dies of meningitis while visiting the main character's farm. The protagonist of this novel comes under the influence of Ehrenhrid Kumpf and Eberhard Schleppfuss at the University of Halle. Rudiger Schildnapp inspires this novel's main character to plan an work based on Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost. This novel's title character creates a composition titled Marvels of the Universe and an oratorio titled Apocalypse during a period of twenty-four years of genius he is granted after renouncing love. Narrated by Serenus Zeitblom, for 10 points, name this novel about Adrian Leverkuhn, a composer who makes a deal with the devil, written by Thomas Mann.
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A character in this play claims that he is descended from Demeter and Triptolemus just before being dragged out of the Pnyx, and some ambassadors deliberately misinterpret insults as promises of gold; those insults come from a character referred to as the "Great King's Eye." Three leather straps are "elected" as commissioners and the protagonist is offered three symbolic wineskins by Amphitheus. The informer Nicarchus is traded to a Theban, while two girls are disguised as pigs and sold after the protagonist opens a market. The protagonist avoids being stoned by the chorus by threatening a basket of coals with a knife and later dresses in the rags of Telephus which he borrows from Euripides. The end of this play mirrors the protagonist's drunken revels with Lamachus's war preparations. For 10 points, name this Aristophanes play in which Dikaiopolis signs a personal peace with the Spartans despite the wishes of the title people.
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A dialogue between a dead boy and a dead cat takes place in this author's four hour unperformable puppet play Once Five Years Have Passed, and in a "puppet farce" by this man he stands on stage and argues with a puppet called "the poet." The title character walks on stage leading his four children, declares, "My poor children," then kills them with a wooden dagger in his Buster Keaton's Constitutional, while a black cockroach with artistic aspirations is enraptured by the title character in his The Butterfly's Evil Spell. The image of a bleeding horse pervades a lullaby in a better-known work, and the title character's namesake condition leads her to kill her husband Juan in Yerma. For 10 points name this author of Blood Wedding and The House of Bernarda Alba.
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A discussion of Verdi's Ernani occurs early in this work, with one participant believing it to feature a devil in red velvet. After correcting him, the other participant brags absurdly about her stairwell and claims to have the only library in the country. Other characters include a servant who dreams of opening a shop in the capital city, Nicola, and another servant who catches the eye of the fiancée of her mistress, Louka. That fiancée, Major Saranoff, ends the play by exclaiming, "What a man! Is he a man?" of a character whom he attempts to engage in a machine gun duel. That man eventually marries the girl who gave him the epithet "Chocolate Cream" after he climbed through her bedroom window, Raina. Dubbed an anti-romantic comedy by its author, this is, for 10 points, what play about the Petkoff family and the Swiss Captain Bluntschli, titled after The Aeneid by George Bernard Shaw.
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A group of drunken farmers sings “There came two ladies out of the woods†during an incidental ballet in this play. One character in this play claims that he attempted to commit suicide by sleeping in a bed of oats and elderberry blossoms, and that he learned French while serving at the largest hotel in Lucerne. That man appalls the title character by beheading Serena, the title character's pet canary, and in the end that man, the butler Jean, hands the title character a razor. For 10 points, name this play in which the titular countess seduces and then is persuaded to commit suicide by Jean, a work of August Strindberg.
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A key motif in this work is an inlaid handkerchief box that was lent by one character to another. Chapter six ends with the protagonists attending a spirited performance of Lucia de Lammermoor. It opens by recounting the rejection of the perfectly suitable Mr. Kingcroft and the haphazard education of young Irma. Prompted by the news of a member of the family's engagement to a dentist's son, a pair of siblings leaves from Sawston to meet up with Caroline Abbott in Monteriano in an attempt to bring back their headstrong sister in law. The climax of the novel occurs after Harriet's attempt to kidnap a baby ends in tragedy when a carriage overturns and the child is killed. For 10 points, identify this 1905 novel, which takes its title from Pope's Essay on Criticism and traces the consequences produced by the union of Gino Carella and Lilia Herriton, a work by E.M. Forster.
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A key revelation in this work involves a dispute over the establishment of a committee with six votes. At one point the protagonist recalls receiving poisoned chocolates from a man named Dresch while he is in jail. In another scene we are introduced to two men, George and Slick, who walk around a summer house with machine guns and ogle the main character's upper-class wife, Jessica. The seventh and final act ends with the protagonist yelling, "Unsalvageable," as he leaves his one-time comrade Olga behind and prepares to be executed by the revolutionary party he once killed for. For 10 points, identify this play, centering on the idealistic Hugo's struggle over the assassination of the pragmatic Hoederer, a work by Jean Paul Sartre.
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A librarian is saved from death via self-caused pneumonia in France, but the arrival of the Baroness leads to their relationship in this author's The Confession of a Fool, while Frederick's mother jumps out the window of the burning house while Frederick and his wife embrace each other at the end of another of his works. This author also wrote about Indra's visit to Earth in another work, while Hummel attempts to set up his daughter with the student Arkenholz in another work. This author of The Pelican, A Dream Play, and The Ghost Sonata may be better known for a work about Laura's struggle over how to raise Bertha, as well as one about Jean's relationship with the count's daughter. The author of The Father and Miss Julie, this is, for 10 points, which Swedish dramatist?
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A magic potion made of tears achieves what arguments could not in this writer's work in which love "comes to the help of my intentions." In addition to "This Afternoon, My Love," which can be found in this author's group of poems titled "Of Love and Discretion," this writer invoked "false syllogisms of color" in a critique of a biased portrait entitled "This Painted Lie You See." This poet claimed that the title group wanted a "Thais when you're courting her, Lucretia once she falls to you," in her poem "Stupid Men Who Accuse," and a "shadowy war" is waged "in gaseous blackness," in her only noncommissioned poem, the philosophical "First Dream." More famous is this writer's justification of her desire to learn in her Reply to Sister Philotea of the Cross. For ten points, identify this author of Inundacion castalida de la unica poetisa, a nun known as the "tenth muse" of Mexico.
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A medieval poet from this nation developed a nine line stanza that is given his name and was used in his collection of Flower Songs. A playwright from this country wrote about a man who spends sixteen years in purgatory but is given a chance to visit his daughter, after he commits suicide when he is caught stealing money to help his family. That author of Liliom hails from this nation, whose epic describes the heroics of Nicholas Zrinski defending Sziget during a siege by the forces of Suleyman the Magnificent. A modern author from this country wrote about a man who refuses to have a child in a world full of atrocities in his Kaddish for a Child not Born, and wrote a semi-autobiographical work about his experiences during the Holocaust in Fatelessness. For 10 points, identify this country home to such authors as Valentin Balassi, Ferenc Molnar, Miklos Zrinyi, and Imre Kertesz.
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A post-copulatory execution in this work reminds the title character of a similar experience with his pet kitten, and he is appalled by another character's request to dissect the corpse of Francesco. Early on he strangles his only rival, Jehoshaphat, and information provided by him leads to the beheading of Giovanni for sleeping with Angelica. He participates in a military campaign against Il Toro and the Montanzas with the help of Boccarossa, who switches sides after the title character poisons Lodovico and his master's best friend, Don Ricardo. He had earlier been entrusted with love letters to Don Ricardo from a woman of whose death by flogging he is eventually accused. After Teodora's death, Bernardo, a fictionalization of da Vinci, paints a portrait of her for the unnamed Prince who is the title character's master. For 10 points name this novel about the 26 inch tall Piccolino by Pär Lagerkvist.
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A posthumously published novel of this writer sees Ross and Natasha hook up in New York. Ernst Graeber reunites with his childhood playmate Elizabeth and falls in love in another work by this author. This man played the role of Pohlmann the schoolmaster in a film adaptation of one of his works. John Cromwell's So Ends the Night adapted his novel about refugees in 1939 Czechoslovakia. Sydney Pollack filmed one of his novels under the title Bobby Deerfield, and Douglas Sirk adapted his A Time to Live and a Time to Die. This author of Flotsam and The Night in Lisbon depicted the death of a man nicknamed "Kat" and some articles which Muller takes from the body of Kemmerich in another novel, which sees several young characters victimized by Corporal Himmelstoss. For 10 points, name this author of The Road Back, which was a sequel to his work about a well-traveled pair of boots and the draftee Paul Baumer, All Quiet on the Western Front.
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A revisionist version of this work was created by Israel Zangwill, who also coined the phrase "The Melting Pot," and the daughter of Karl Marx. In that revision of this work, one character seeks a boarding school recommendation for his children from a clergyman, while in the original the protagonist abandons religion and states that she only knows what her clergyman has told her. In that revision, the protagonist also invites her friend to move into a spare bedroom, while in the original that friend, Christine Linde, collects the protagonist's things after a forged loan document leads to her abandonment of her husband and children. FTP, name this play by Ibsen which centers on a lover of macaroons, Nora Helmer, who escapes the title abode.
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A scene in this poem describes "surly village churls and the red cloaks of market girls". One character in this poem sings a "carol, mournful, holy, chanted loud and chanted lowly". The appearance of the title character of this poem "in the lighted palace near" causes "the sound of royal cheer" to die, and the participants of a feast to "cross themselves in fear." A character in this poem sings "tirra-lirra" by a river and is described as having "coal-black curls" flowing from his helmet. At the end of this poem, one character says "She has a lovely face, God in his mercy lend her grace" of the titular character; the character who says that is Lancelot. For 10 points, name this poem about a woman who "weaves night and day" scenes of Camelot, a work by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
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A servant in this play is forced to lie about the availability of cucumbers at the market because another character eats all of the sandwiches before the guests arrive. One character in this play notes that Lady Harbury looks "twenty years younger" after the death of her husband. This play opens with the sound of piano playing in an apartment on Half Moon Street. Miss Prism and Doctor Chaucible pass the afternoon in a garden and discuss morality in this play, before another character notes that one should know everything, or nothing. That character is Lady Bracknell, who grills a character who enjoys "Bunburying" on his suitability for her ward. Also concerning Cecily and Algernon, for 10 points, name this Oscar Wilde play whose title refers to Gwendolen's desire for a husband of a certain name.
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A solid gold bathtub is the centerpiece of a castle in this novel, which is filled with wealth gained from one character's auctioneering. Near the end of this novel, that character has his furnishings defecated on by the company of the son of Karl Hartrott. The Senator Lacour, whose son is engaged to the protagonist's daughter Chichi, enables him to witness the brutality of the German invaders near Paris. That protagonist's skill at the tango enables him to have an affair with Marguerite Laurier, upsetting his father Julio Madariaga, who fled his home country for Argentina after that nation's participation in the Franco-Prussian war. For 10 points, name this novel in which the Dürer image of a scene from the Book of Revelation symbolizes the horror of World War I, the magnum opus of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.
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A speaker describes the plight of the character Ulrich who accepts his adulterous wife in this man's "The Faithlesss Louisa." Another work by this author describes the actions of a drummer boy and was published in the collection Poems for the Times. One of his final works was a set of poems inspired by the story of Lazarus and his early works include the tragedy William Ratcliff. Yet another work by this author, subtitled "A Summer Night's Dream," described the protagonist visualizing honey dripping down from a tree before he is shot by Laskaro. That work Atta Troll was published three years after its author's work celebrating a revolt in Silesia, Germany: A Winter's Tale. In addition to "Two Grenadiers" which reflected his love for Napoleon, this man wrote a poem about a beautiful woman who lures sailors to their death. For 10 points, name this poet of the lyrics The North Sea and The Lorelei.
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A speaker in one of this author's works predicts that "You shall be true to them who are false to you." In addition to "The Indifferent," this author penned a work that compares the bravery of passion to that of the nine worthies in "The Undertaking." This author responded to Marlowe's Passionate Shepherd to His Love with "The Bait," and celebrated "full nakedness" in an Elegy subtitled "To His Mistress Going to Bed." He wrote a set of five Satires, as well as two poems on the death of his patron, Robert Drury's daughter: the Anniversaries, one of which includes the oft anthologized "An Anatomy of the World." A 1633 collection by this man, the Songs and Sonnets, included a work that compared a pair of souls to "stiff twin compasses." For 10 points, name this author of the line "Death, be not proud," a Metaphysical poet whose works include the Holy Sonnets and "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning."
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A version of this play that added the servant Arante and a happy ending was created by Nahum Tate. The servant Oswald urges his killer to deliver a letter in this play, and another character in this work is prevented from committing suicide by his son, who takes him to some imaginary cliffs. One character in this play disguises himself as Tom O Bedlam to escape his bastard half-brother Edmond. After demonstrating loyalty to the title character, Gloucester is blinded by Cornwall and Regan. For 10 points, name this Shakespeare play in which Cordelia is the only faithful daughter of the title British king.
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About this author's translation of the Iliad, the classical scholar Richard Bentley said, "It is a pretty poem, but you must not call it Homer." This collaborator on the play Three Hours after Marriage with John Gay also wrote a work, whose addendum extols the virtues of the Peace of Utrecht, a long poem called Windsor Forest, and the line "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel" can be found in his "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot." John Dennis attacked one of his works which refers to Homer, Virgil, and Horace, but this author may be better known for a work which makes Lewis Theobald the prince of dullness, as well as another about an incident that occurred between Lord Petre and Arabella Fermor. FTP, name this English author of "An Essay on Criticism", The Dunciad, and "The Rape of the Lock".
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According to one work in this collection, "The house would stink long after" the titular occasion, "acrid as a sulfur mine." In addition to "Churning Day," the collection features a poem about a "hitherto snubbed rodent" and another concerning a food shortage on a ship, "For the Commander of the Eliza." The poet speaks of his childhood affinity for wells in the final poem, which ends with the declaration, "I rhyme/To see myself, to set the darkness echoing." The image of a coffin as "A four foot box, a foot for every year" dominates a poem about the death of the poet's younger brother, "Mid-Term Break. "The squat pen rests; as snug as a gun" in the hand of the opening poem's speaker, and the title poem of the collection concerns a boy fascinated by frogspawn near the flax-dam. Containing the poem "Digging," this is, for 10 points, what early poetry collection by Seamus Heaney?
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Act II features the primary villain meeting an Old Lady to purchase some apricots, while Act III ends with a pilgrimage from Ancona to the Shrine of our Lady of Loretto. Turning points in this work concern the misplacement of a horoscope and the inability of the servant girl Cariola to keep a secret. Act IV features several scenes in a madhouse before the title figure is strangled under the direction of a servant, who has returned after serving seven years in the galleys. The plot is set in motion when a steward named Antonio returns from France and his secret marriage to a widow above his station is discovered by her vicious brothers, Ferdinand and the Cardinal. For ten points, identify this 1623 work that is dominated by the melancholy Bosola, but ostensibly concerns a doomed Italian noblewoman, the best known work of John Webster.
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Allusions to classical imagery, including "the dewless asphodel of Elysisum" and "Polypheme's white tooth," abound in this work which is written mainly in the first person. At one point, the speaker asserts "I will not soil thy purple with my dust" and notes that "no poison" will be exhaled on "your Venice glass." In one of them, the speaker recalls giving away locks of hair, while in another the speaker compares a suitor's entreaties to a "cuckoo song." With the line, "My future will not copy fair my past," the last of them quotes from "Past and Future," another of its creator's works first published in 1844. The first one begins, "I thought once how Theocritus had sung," and this collection's title originated with its author's "From Catarina to Camoens." For 10 points, identify this sequence of poems that included the lines "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways," a work by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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Among the memories recalled by the protagonist of this work include one in which her father put on her mother's bonnet while picnicking at the Hill of Howth. The protagonist of this work notes that she never knew the name of the priest whose picture hangs on the wall, whose photograph her father passed to friends saying, "He is in Melbourne now." She has a letter for her brother Harry, a church decorator, and, while she will not miss working at the Stores, she recalls her mother's voice saying, "Derevaun Seraun," preventing her from marrying and escaping the past. The title character does not accompany Frank to Buenos Aires at the end of, FTP, which Dubliners short story by James Joyce?
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An 1829 work by Robert Southey imagines a conversation between Southey and this man's ghost. This man's own writings include an imaginary conversation set in 16th-century Hungary in which Vincent learns not to be afraid of an impending Turkish invasion thanks to his wise uncle Anthony. In addition to A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation, this man wrote a History of Richard III and a translation into Latin of the works of Lucian, on which he collaborated with his friend Erasmus. FTP, name this author best known for a work featuring traveller Raphael Hythloday, 1515's Utopia.
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An early excerpt of this writer's most famous prose work was published in the periodical New Thalia, and he suggested that "where there is danger, a rescuing element grows as well" in his poem "Patmos." Many of this writer's works, such as "Memnon's Lament for Diotima," are dedicated to Susette Gontard, while the transition from ancient Greece to Christianity is the subject of another of his poems, "Bread and Wine." His most famous play exists in three different versions, in one of which Manes, the titular philosopher's teacher, admonishes him for his decision to leap into Mt. Etna. His hymns "Germania," "The Rhine," and "The Ister" are the subject of three Heidegger lectures on this writer. For 10 points, identify this German Romantic author of the drama The Death of Empedocles and the unfinished novel Hyperion: Or, The Hermit in Greece.
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As it ends a character describes how to ascend above the music of the spheres and confirms his return to the Gardens of Hesperus. In one section of this work a character asserts that he would follow his antagonist from Africa to India and "drag him by the curls to his foul death." In another scene, the coming of a dark cloud covers the stars in the wood and forces another character to sing and beseech Echo for guidance. During the climactic encounter, two brothers follow the shepherd Thyrsis' advice and attempt to break a glass and seize a "charming rod." It ends with the summoning of the river nymph Sabrina who frees the protagonist, a virtuous young lady, from the title figure's spell. First performed for the Earl of Bridgewater at Ludlow Castle, for 10 points, identify this masque about the son of Circe and Bacchus, a work by John Milton.
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As one of them begins, the axle of a wagon catches fire and a funeral procession for Martin the carpenter passes by, this forces the narrator to ask an old dwarf for help. The narrator later witnesses a bailiff abusing his power by treating minor disturbances as crimes in "The Counting House." The narrator also discusses the nature of "quit-rent" property with an older man named Foggy in a piece called "Raspberry Water." In addition to "Lebedyan," which is set at a horse fair, the final version of this work includes an appendix entitled "The Russian German." Composed of 25 episodes, this volume features such characters as "Khor and Kalinych" whose namesake tale begins the compilation, as well as Old Knot and Vladimir, who team up to shoot ducks in "Lgov." For 10 points, identify 1852 short story collection centered on the theme of the chase, a work by Ivan Turgenev.
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At one point in this novel the protagonist refuses to pick up a dusty copy of the novel How Grete was Plagued by her Husband Hans. In another episode the main character opens a door to find Willem and Franz being beaten by The Whipper. The servant Leni takes a liking to this novel's protagonist, who fires the advocate Huld before buying three identical canvases from the painter Titorelli. In this novel's penultimate section, a priest recites a parable about a man who accepts a command not to travel through the door to the law; and this book begins with two men waking the protagonist to inform him he is under arrest. For 10 points, name this novel in which Joseph K is arrested for an unknown crime by Franz Kafka.
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At one point in this novel, a couple assembles a boat in the middle of the Hotel Liberty. In another scene, the narrator describes the transformation of Jacksonburg to Marxville. Its final pages reveal the futures of such principal characters as the sometime friends Corker and Pigge, as well as the Madagascar bound Katchen. Additionally, the sycophantic Mr. Salter ends up happily editing Home Knitting. This prognostication occurs in the third section of the novel called The Banquet, which opens with the protagonist's triumphant return to England, only to have another character steal his glory and pitch an all-women expedition to the South Pole. The novel opens with the section The Stitch Service, describing a case of mistaken identity as Lord Copper seeks out the author of the nature column, Lush Places, and sends him to cover a potential civil war in Ishmaelia.Depicting the intense competition between the Daily Brute and the Daily Beast, it was based on the author's own experience working for the Daily Mail and was written before its author's Brideshead Revisited. For 10 points, identify this 1937 work about William Boot navigating the British newspaper industry, by Evelyn Waugh.
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At one point in this novel, four village notables are called, a group which contains a schoolmaster who prides himself in his exceedingly concise history. Tosun accompanies a man who hopes "even harsher and darker tales" will go before him, and violence perpetrated in this novel includes a shopkeeper being nailed to a post by his ear. . The Jew Lotte constructs a hotel near the title location, at which the Gypsy Salko nearly dies while drunkenly dancing. The corrupt vizier Abidaga is later implied to have killed grand vizier Mohammed Pasha Sokollu, the man initially responsible for the central element in this novel. Radisav is impaled after being caught trying to stop the construction of the title structure. The residents of Visegrad appear in, FTP, what Ivo Andric novel about a titular structure that links Bosnia and Serbia.
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At one point in this novel, the protagonist has a dream in which he breastfeeds from a woman who had been his best friend, and he leaves a city after dreaming of a dead song bird in a golden cage. Characters in this novel include Kamaswami, who was skilled in business, and the protagonist's son runs away from home after stealing his money. That child's mother was killed by snakebite and named Kamala. After spending time with the Samanas, the central character of this work apprentices to the ferryman Vasudeva for most of his life since leaving home with his friend Govinda in search of Gotama. For 10 points, name this novel about the title Brahmin written by Herman Hesse.
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At one point in this play, a character claims the head of a man is actually the head of a slain lion. In the second scene a servant says he saw chains miraculously disappear from prisoners after he discusses arresting a man who did not resist and voluntarily offered his wrists. One character foils the protagonist by summoning an earthquake to allow him to escape prison. One character in this play dresses like a woman and hides in pine branches after hearing rumors of women suckling wolves and girdling themselves with tame snakes. At the end of this play Agave leads a group of women who tear apart her son Pentheus. For 10 points, name this Euripides play titled for the frenzied maenads who worship Dionysius.
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At one point in this play, one character is too occupied by keeping a sparrow away from a cat to open the door. Alain and Georgette, servants to one of the central characters, provide comic relief, while another character in this work who believes that babies come from the ear is forced to recite ten sayings by her master. The central character's plans backfire upon the arrival of his friend's brother-in-law, Enrique, to whose daughter the central character's rival is to be betrothed. That friend, Chrysalde, is hesitant from the start about his friend's plans for marriage. In the end, a marriage is arranged between Oronte's son-who has been confiding in Monsieur de la Souche, the main character in disguise-and the main character's ward. Horace and Agnès find happiness in spite of Arnolphe's plans for a cuckold-free existence in, for 10 points, what play by Molière?
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At one point in this work, a messenger arrives to give one character the sword formerly belonging to the slain Danish prince Sweno. One woman convinces fifty men to follow her to her castle, where she turns them into fish. In this work, the disappearance of a statue of the Virgin Mary leads King Aladine to condemn Olindo and Sophronia to be burnt at the stake. In this work Erminia of Antioch steals the armor of one character, so she can gain entrance to her beloved's camp. The sorceress Armida falls in love with Rinaldo. At the beginning of this poem the Archangel Gabriel tells Godfrey de Bouillon to go to war, while at the end, Clorinda converts to Christianity after being killed by her lover Tancred. For 10 points, name this Italian epic poem about the First Crusade by Torquato Tasso.
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At one point in this work, its author makes a curious distinction between the Saracens and the Ishmaelites. Towards the end of this work, the narrator describes entering a temple with a foreign king and looking at images made out of stone and wood that appeared "as if the devil had devised them." The fourth part of this work catalogs certain doomed couples, including Hercules and Omphale, and makes the point that lust always has consequences, even for the powerful. Scattered throughout this work are references to the historical exploits of Gerald the Fearless and the shepherd warrior Viriatus. Canto V, which documents a vision of St. Elmo's fire and a landing at Saint Helena Bay, may be best known for its introduction of the evil Adamastor, who controls the Cape of Good Hope and who is sent to interfere with the heroic fleet. First published in 1572, it begins with the author's appeal to the "nymphs of the Tagus" and sets up a struggle between Bacchus and Venus over a quest to reach India. For 10 points, identify this epic celebrating Vasco de Gama and the Portugese people, a work by Luiz vaz de Camoes.
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At one point in this work, the protagonist walks into a lumber room, where he sees a Whipper preparing to flog the two warders whom the protagonist complained about due to their behavior during an earlier interrogation. Later in this work, the protagonist is made to escort an Italian around the city, but is told by Leni just before leaving his office, “They're goading you.†The novel ends with the protagonist, who had purchased three identical paintings from Titorelli, waving to a figure in a distant house while being stabbed to death in a quarry on the outskirts of his town. It was edited by Max Brod after its author's death. For 10 points, name this novel that describes the titular proceeding concerning an undisclosed crime committed by the protagonist, Josef K., written by Franz Kafka?
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At one point in this work, the protagonist's brother and another character go swimming with the Reverend Arthur Beebe. One character in this work throws away some bloody photographs that the protagonist had purchased shortly before witnessing a murder. After a tennis game, one of this novel's characters reads aloud a passage about a couple kissing on a violet-covered terrace from a novel by Joseph Emery Prank, the penname of Eleanor Lavish. Early in this novel, its protagonist and her cousin Charlotte Bartlett switch quarters at the Pensione Bertolini with the Emersons. The protagonist of this work breaks her engagement to Cecil Vyse to marry George Emerson. For 10 points, name this novel about Lucy Honeychurch's stay in Rome, written by E. M. Forster.
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At one point in this work, two characters approach an empty boat and imagine themselves traveling two-thousand miles. At another point in this work, Countess Trifaldi tells the central character to board a flying wooden horse. One character in this work is named Samson Carrasco and disguises himself as the Knight of the White Moon to challenge the title character to a duel. This novel focuses on a man in search of his love Dulcinea who rides the steed Rocinante and attacks windmills, believing them to be giants. For 10 points, identify this novel featuring Sancho Panza and the title man of La Mancha, written by Miguel de Cervantes.
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At one point the speaker admits his contradictory tone when he asserts that his call to is always full of "get away." In another of these poems, the speaker notes that humans "don't love like flowers" and that "memory climbs into our arms." In yet another selection, the speaker discusses the "cheap winter hats of fate" made by the milliner, Madame Lamort. Although the first one celebrates the accomplishments of a brokenhearted 16th Century poet in publishing her Rime, the second to last of them is more pessimistic as it compares the "half-certainty" of a bird to an "Etruscan soul." That poem, the eighth, is dedicated to Rudolf Kassner and is preceded by another, containing a description of acrobats tumbling, inspired by Picasso and dedicated to Frau Hertha Koenig. This cycle of poems, which was ultimately completed in 1922, begins with the speaker asking, "If I cry out, who would hear me through the Angel orders?" and was named for a castle in Trieste. For 10 points, identify this collection of ten poems, whose subtitle marks them as "property of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis-Hohenlohe," a work by Rainer Maria Rilke.
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At one point the speaker describes jewels originally designed to give joy that "lie lightless, all their sparkles bleared and black and blind." In another section, this work poses the question, "What does this vaingloriousness down here?" before asserting that everything is stirred along and urged by the "Immanent Will." First published in its author's collection Satires of Circumstance, this work's seventh stanza depicts the preparation of a "sinister mate" in the "shadowy silent distance." Its opening line reads "In a solitude of the sea" and depicts the aftermath of the titular meeting between "the smart ship" and "a shape of ice." For 10 points, identify this work subtitled "Lines on the Loss of the "Titanic,"" a poem by Thomas Hardy.
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At one point, in this work, a character compares nature to an "assembly of blondes and brunettes," before he is admonished to stop searching for comparisons and decides to leave his mistress behind. Another section describes the futility of the Russo-Turkish War, which is cited by the narrator as an example of man's capacity to do evil despite his short life. Earlier, the protagonist laments that even with a thousand senses he sometimes feels a vague longing, a realization that is followed by a refutation of Father Castel's Treatise of Universal Gravitation and the arrival of two travelers on the northern shore of the Baltic. Subtitled "A Philosophical Story," this work in seven chapters opens with a description of a young man from Sirius who is 24,000 "geometrical paces" tall. For 10 points, identify this satire about a visit to Earth by the title giant, a work by Voltaire.
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At one point, this book's protagonist discovers a handkerchief monogrammed with an H that is eventually found to be a Cyrillic N. Later in this work, a red kimono is unaccounted for, until it is found planted in the protagonist's luggage. The events of this novel are sparked when the protagonist runs into Monsieur Bouc in the Tokatlian Hotel. At one point its protagonist has trouble sleeping due to a peculiar silence after he hears the words “Ce n'est rien. Je me suis trompe.†A burned letter reveals that this work's antagonist was actually a fugitive named Cassetti, who had kidnapped the heiress Daisy Armstrong. For 10 points, name this novel in which Hercule Poirot determines that all twelve suspects in the title crime stabbed Ratchett, an Agatha Christie book set on a train.
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At the beginning of Act 3, one character in this play asks her maid to sing "When first Amintas charm'd my heart,/My heedless sheep began to stray" and claims another character is possibly a tolerable "blockhead." One character in this work accuses another of having had business "with a vizard at the playhouse" after they have a brief discussion with the Orange-Woman. The protagonist takes Bellinda as mistress and disguises himself as "Courtage" to charm Lady Woodvil, whose daughter he wishes to marry. At the end Bellair pairs off with Emilia, while Lady Lovewit is left bitter and alone when the protagonist marries Harriet. Featuring a discussion of fashion between Sir Fopling Flutter and Dorimant, for 10 points, name this play by George Etherege.
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At the beginning of this work's second part, the author notes that the first part was written with pleasure at Wootton or in the Chateau of Trye. In Book 12, we learn about the author's move to Motiers, where he came under the protection of a Marshal of Scotland named George Keith. In book 1, the author remembers being locked out of his city at the age of 16, after which he ran away from home. Women in the author's life include Madame d'Houdetot, Madame de Warens, and Thérèse Levasseur, the laundress whose children the author took to the Foundling Hospital. Covering the years 1712 to 1765, it discusses the reception of the Discourse on Inequality. FTP, name this book published in 1781, the autobiography of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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At the end of the first printing of this play, the author included an epigram of Martial's, "Haec fuerint nobis praemis si placui," and thanked the actor Richard Perkins for his "well-approved industry." It features a ghost urging a brother to avenge a fallen woman, as well as a dirge sung by a grieving mother, "Call for the robin redbreast, and the wren." The action is set in motion when the central character recounts a dream about a "goodly yew tree" whose branch falls on and kills two people trying to uproot it. This leads to a plot whose outcome is displayed by a Conjuror in the shows that make up Act II, scene ii: Camillo's death is staged as a vaulting accident, while the Duchess, Isabella, kisses a poisoned portrait of her husband. Flamineo carries out these murders in the service of the Duke of Bracciano and his adulterous lover, Vittoria. For 10 points, identify this revenge tragedy by John Webster.
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At the end of the novel in which he appears, this character fights off wolves while crossing the Pyrenees with the wealth from his Brazilian plantation. He is portrayed as a compulsive terrace-builder in a 1986 novel. This character calls an island at the mouth of the Orinoco “Despair.†He fights cannibals to free a man whom he teaches English and converts to Christianity. This character takes supplies from a sinking ship to help him survive after his companions die in a storm. For 10 points, name this companion of Friday, a marooned sailor who titles a novel by Daniel Defoe.
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Before settling this place, its founders believed themselves to have been tricked by a merchant named Philocrates. Other sites suggested before this place included the shore of the Red Sea, as well as the general vicinities of Lepreum and Opuntian, while one name suggested for this place was Sparta. It was zoned by Meton, and an unknown poet sang its praises just after it had been founded, even though he found it cold. Its 600-foot-high walls ended up causing problems for Iris, and its dictator eventually married Basileia to become the supreme tyrant of the universe. Founded by Pisthetairos and Eulepides, this is, FTP, what city whose construction prevents sacrifices from reaching the gods in The Birds?
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Benjamin Franklin claimed to be indebted to this author for his highly practical civic study An Essay upon Projects. Mrs. Bargrave meets the title character, unaware that she is a ghost, in his short story "The True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal." This author of the satirical poem "The True Born Englishman" wrote a novel about a woman whose maid Amy inspires her to accumulate a fortune by selling her body. In addition to that novel about a "fortunate mistress," Roxana, this author chronicled a disease which ravaged London in 1665 in a work narrated by H.F, A Journal of the Plague Year. For 10 points, name this British author of Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe.
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Calculus racked and "Tussis attacked" the subject of this author's poem "A Grammarian's Funeral." The subject of one of his poems refers to "a great text in Galatians" which "entails / Twenty-nine distinct d@mnations" as he condemns the indulgences of Brother Lawrence, while another of his poems begins by exclaiming "Grow old along with me! / The best is yet to be." This author of "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" and "Rabbi Ben Ezra" and the collection Dramatis Personae wrote of someone who "found a thing to do" in strangling the title character with her own hair. His best-known poem reflects on a man with a "nine-hundred-years-old name" who is proud of a statue of "Neptune... taming a sea-horse" by Claus of Innsbruck. FTP, name this poet of "Porphyria's Lover" and "My Last Duchess."
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Characters created by this author include the crippled cooper Yvars. In one of his stories the engineer d'Arrast helps move the title object. This author of "The Silent Men" and "The Growing Stone" also wrote an unfinished novel about Jacques Cormery titled The First Man. In one novel, he wrote of Raymond Rambert's attempt to escape the city of Oran with Tarrou and Dr. Rieux. This author created a character who smokes a cigarette before the body of his dead mother, and who vacations with his friend Raymond and shoots an Arab on the beach. For 10 points, name this French existentialist author of The Plague and The Stranger.
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Characters in this novel include a consumptive boy who forgets to put a firing cap on his pistol after reading his “Essential Statement.†That boy, Hippolite, dies after befriending Kolya the younger son of General Ivolkin. Other characters include Burdovsky who tries to scam the protagonist out of part of his inheritance. The protagonist of this novel has an epileptic fit after breaking an expensive vase at a party. Aglaya Yepanchin is abandoned by a Polish count in this novel, and Rogozhin offers Nastassya one hundred thousand rubles but ends up stabbing her. For 10 points, name this work about the kind but naive Prince Myshkin by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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Characters in this novel include the jester Wamba and Lucas de Beaumanoir, who accuses another character of witchcraft. One character in this work breaks out of his casket at his own funeral. One of its characters called "The Black Sluggard" is accompanied by the old woman Ulrica, who burns Torquilstone castle. In this novel, the Grand-Master of the Templars forces Bois-Guilbert to fight against the champion of Rebecca. At the end of this novel, Cedric the Saxon allows Lady Rowena to be married to his son. For 10 points, name this Waverly novel in which King Richard the Lion-Hearted helps the title night, a work of Sir Walter Scott.
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Comic scenes in this work include a discussion of the love triangle surrounding Don Ferolo Whiskerandos and a trilingual dialogue involving Signor Pasticcio Ritornello and his French interpreter. Handel's Water Music is played in this work to accompany the entrance of the British Rivers, while praise is given to another character when he sits down and shakes his head. One of the central characters praises Tilburnia's second sight, and early in the play he explains that there are five different kinds of his namesake written piece. One interaction in this play is written entirely using fencing jargon, of which Sneer is dubious. The play begins at Dangle's with the arrival of a playwright based on Richard Cumberland, Sir Fretful Plagiary, but it is Puff's play The Spanish Armada that ultimately occupies the other characters. For 10 points name this satire of the world of theater by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
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Diane Watt wrote a book describing this author as "amoral," though he is considered as a "moral philosopher" in a classic book on him by John Fisher. One of his last poems, "In Praise of Peace," was probably written after he went blind, while his Fifty Ballades were written around the time he produced the Cronica Tripertita, a sequel to one of his major works. The tale of Mundus and Paulina and the story of Aspidis the Serpent appear in a book on "Pride" which opens one of his works. His earliest major work, sometimes known as Speculum Meditantis, dealt with the existence of sin, while he wrote about the political world of the late fourteentth century in Vox Clamantis. For 10 points, name this English poet to whom Troilus and Criseyde was dedicated by his friend Geoffrey Chaucer, and who inspired part of the lot of Shakespeare's Pericles with his Confessio Amantis.
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Disagreement over the existence of Dame Aubert's dispute with a butcher prompts the protagonist of this work to take dueling advice from Jacques Rival for his standoff with Langremont. The old poet Norbert de Varenne urges the protagonist to marry to stave off loneliness, though he engineers the downfall of Laroche-Mathieu when he divorces his wife. The title character gets his nickname from Laurine, daughter of his lover Clotilde de Marelle, whose affections for him remain undimmed even after he marries Suzanne Walter, daughter of his boss at the publication La Vie Francaise. This novel opens with the penniless title character meeting his friend Charles Forestier. For 10 points, name this novel about George Duroy, a work of Guy de Maupassant.
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Disapproval of the protagonist of this play leads townspeople to fire his daughter Petra from her teaching job. Later, this work's protagonist writes "No!" three times on a card and sends it to Morten Kiil, who had threatened the protagonist's inheritance. Earlier in this work, Hovstad refuses to publish a revealing report in the People's Herald, leading one character to hold a meeting at Captain Horster's home, which ends with Aslaksen declaring the protagonist as the title type of citizen. For 10 points, name this Henrik Ibsen play in which Dr. Thomas Stockmann's discovery of waste contamination in the town baths causes everyone to turn against him
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During an event of a certain Brick Lane Branch in this novel, a melody from the Old Hundredth, written by Charles Dibdin, is used for a poem when one character is asked by his father what Anthony Humm means by the phrase "soft sex." That son, who later looks intently at the dashing and partially dressed Mr. Smangle, is Samuel Weller. The son is incarcerated in Fleet Prison after losing a trial to Mrs. Bardell. "Speculations on the Source of the Hampstead Ponds, with some Observations on the Theory of Tittlebats" is a document that is read out-loud at the beginning of, for 10 points, what novel concerning the adventures of misters Snodgrass, Tupman, and Winkle as members of a London association along with the titular chairman, by Charles Dickens?
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During his last night in Ossenburger Hall, this character reads Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa. Acquaintances that he makes include a nun with whom he discusses Romeo and Juliet. His voyeurism at the Edmont Hotel results in his seeing a transvestite and a couple that spit their drinks at each other. He backs out of a tryst with the prostitute Sally, and asks where the ducks in Central Park go during the winter. Amidst his wandering, he recalls his relationships with Jane Gallagher and Sally Hayes while reflecting on the suicide of James Castle and the death of his younger brother Allie. For ten points, name this main character of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.
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Early on in this work, an old woman mutters "Wel-a-wel-a-day" as she recounts the dangers presented by Lord Maurice, the "dwarfish" Hildebrand, and the "barbarian hordes." In another section, this work compares Merlin's Demon debt with the protagonist's attempt to hide in a closet filled with "cates and dainties." As it ends, the combination of the dragoons having drunk Rhenish wine and the cover provided by an "elfin storm" allows a pair of figures to slip out of the Baron's mansion and, with Angela's help, escape across the moors. Composed in 1819, its 32nd stanza alludes to a poem by Alain Chartier that would be adapted by its author as "La Belle Dame Sans Merci." Inspired by the belief that a virgin would see an image of her future husband after performing certain rites on a particular night, for 10 points, identify this work, about lovers Porphyro and Madeline, a poem by John Keats.
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Elizabeth's running with Ann in pursuit results in the trodding on of the title figure in “The Use and Abuse of Toads,†which was written by this author, who also wrote, “The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowers†in another poem. This author wrote about those who “followed their mercenary calling / And took their wages and are dead†in “Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries,†while this author also wrote a work in which a dead character asks, “Is my girl happy,†one whose title character “eats [his] victuals fast enough,†and one whose narrator is advised to “Give crowns and pounds and guineas / But not your heart away.†“Is my team ploughing,†“Terence, this is stupid stuff,†and “When I was one and twenty†were written by, for 10 points, which author of A Shrophire Lad?
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Fictional treatises described in this work include History of Styles in Sixteenth-Century Lute Music and an essay comparing the horoscopes of Goethe and Spinoza. Its protagonist expresses admiration for the Swabian theologian Johann Albrecht Bengel while studying at the monastery of Mariafels with the Benedictine monk Father Jacobus. This novel represents Nietzsche as Fritz Tegularius, and Thomas Mann as Thomas van der Trave. The protagonist dies by drowning after overseeing the synthesis of mathematics, art, and music by inhabitants of Castalia. For 10 points, name this novel in which Joseph Knecht becomes the Master of the titular pursuit, written by Hermann Hesse.
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Georges de Scudéry's Observations of this play attacked its subject, which was based on a chronicle written by Guillem de Castro. In one scene, a man insists that his valor is being rewarded by the king, but his foil tells him that his machinations and old age are the true source of his honors. The second act begins with Arias discussing an insult delivered by Gomes, who is then challenged to a duel by the title character. That character is loved by Urraque, and duels with Sanche in the fifth and final act. It focuses on the relationship between Chimène and the title character, a son of Don Diègue, and this play was the subject of a furious pamphlet war after being condemned by the Académie Française for not conforming to the classical unities. The title character is originally named Rodrigue and successfully battles the Moors, thus earning the title nickname. For 10 points, name this play by Pierre Corneille about a medieval Spanish hero.
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He asserts "deep waves, what dreadful tales you could recite" in his poem "Oceano Nox," found in the collection Sunlight and Shadows. The "Comprachicos" deform Gwynplaine's face, giving him a permanent smirk in The Man Who Laughs, and he wrote about the bandit who serves Ruy Gomez in Hernani. Deruchette will marry anyone who saves the Durande from a dangerous reef in a novel about the fisherman Gilliatt. In addition to The Toilers of the Sea, one of his protagonists is imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread, takes care of Cosette, and is tracked by Inspector Javert. For 10 points, name this man who created Jean Valjean in Les Miserables.
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He attends a hunting party which ends early when Geoffrey Clouston accidentally shoots James, a sailor who was stalking this man after he heard a prostitute refer to him as "Prince Charming." His mother Margaret of Devereux dies of grief after his grandfather Lord Kelso has his father murdered in a duel, and he blackmails the chemist Alan Campbell to help dispose of a body, and his philosophy is shaped by a "yellow book" given to him by Lord Wotton. For 10 points, name this character, who forsakes the actress Sibyl Vane after being a model for painter Basil Hallward in a novel by Oscar Wilde, and has a namesake "picture" that ages in his place.
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He compared Alexander Pope's Illiad to George Chapman's Odyssey in his lecture series On Translating Homer. This author wrote that one of the title concepts was the “best that has been thought and said in the world†in his nonfiction Culture and Anarchy, and he exclaimed “Go, for they call you, Shepherd!†in “The Scholar Gypsy.†After the death of his friend Arthur Clough, this man penned a monody titled Thyrsis. Another of his works opens “The sea is calm to-night†and notes that “Sophocles long ago, Heard it on the Agaean.†For 10 points, name this critic and poet who wrote about a "darkling plain" where "ignorant armies clash by night" in “Dover Beach.â€
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He concluded that "Love's wings are over fleet / And like the panther's feet / The feet of love" at the end of his "Fragoletta." He wrote about a wind which blows "out of the golden remote wild west where the sea without shore is" at the beginning of his "Hesperia," while he wrote "I am tired of tears and laughter / And men that laugh and weep" in a poem set "where the world is quiet." He wrote about a "mystic and sombre" "Lady of Pain" in his "Dolores," which appears in his Poems and Ballads. FTP, name this Victorian poet who in 1865 published a verse drama about a figure from Greek myth, Atalanta in Calydon.
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He described art as an expression of human drive in his On the Aesthetic Education of Man. In one of his plays Eboli offers false testimony to the Duke of Alva against the title character, who is distraught because his beloved, Elizabeth de Valois, has married his father Philip II, while another of his plays sees Davison punished by Elizabeth regarding the death warrant of the title figure. In addition to Don Carlos and Mary Stuart, he wrote about the struggles of two aristocratic siblings, Karl and Franz Moor. For 10 points, name this author of The Robbers, who wrote about the enemy of Gessler in William Tell and also wrote "Ode to Joy."
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He included the Syrian governor Vitellius and the executioner Mannaeus in his retelling of the John the Baptist story titled after Herod's wife. He considered his masterpiece to be a work about a saint who is confronted by Frailty, Science, the Queen of Sheba, and a version of the devil called Hilarion during a night in the desert. In addition to “Herodias†and The Temptation of Saint Anthony, he wrote about a daughter of Hamilcar who is pursued by the mercenary leader Matho in Salammbo. In another of his novels, Charles botches a foot surgery and the title character runs up huge debts after having affairs with Leon and Rodolphe. For 10 points, name this French author of Madame Bovary.
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He is called "a wretched little cricket" by the Second Man and scoffed at by John Ball, and this character describes his "physical" happiness to Josephine during a Sunday afternoon when he suddenly takes flight. In another work, this character's first wife is named Marguerite and he is over four hundred years old. The protagonist of A Stroll in the Air, he loses his control over nature and refuses to accept his death as the titular monarch in Exit the King. In another work, he falls in love with Dany and disappears after encountering the "radiant city." The protagonist of The Killer, he appears alongside Botard, Jean, and Daisy in a work where he doesn't transform into the title animal. For 10 points, name this protagonist of Ionesco's Rhinoceros.
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He meditates on a cobblestone thrown at his grandmother on her wedding day because she married a Catholic in his elegies, "Clearances," which are found in his collection Haw Lantern, while his other works include Wintering Out and Station Island. The speaker of one poem comments, "Between my finger . . . the squat pen rests; as snug as a gun" while observing his father digging, and in the title poem of one work Mrs. Walls' mundane explanation of reproduction contrasts with his adventures in the "flax-dam" gathering frog spawn. For 10 points, identify this Irish poet of Death of a Naturalist, who translated Beowulf.
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He quoted Aeschylus's line that "I say the dead slay the living" in his collection The Incomparable Earth, and his notable translations include those of Moliere's Tartuffe and e.e. cummings. His early works, first published in the journal Solaria, include "Vento a Tindari" and "Vicolo", part of his first collection Water and Land. First coming to international attention with And Suddenly It's Evening, one of his poems was set by Elliot Carter in Tempo e Tempi along with works of his compatriots Ungaretti and Montale; that work was the titular poem of his 1932 collection The Sunken Oboe. For 10 points, name this Italian hermeticist who shares a name with the bell-ringer from The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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He served as Under-Secretary of State in the government of de Marsay and later became minister of Public Works, in which position he became an enemy of Charles de Salleneuve. Despite financial embarrassment in the Nucingen affair, he managed to arrange marriages for his sisters Agathe and Laure-Rose. His youthful foibles were detailed by Bianchon in Etude de Femme, while in his first appearance, he is seen living in a boarding-house with an impoverished vermicelli merchant. Unlike the tragic figure Lucien de Rubempré, he rejects the assistance of the master criminal Vautrin. FTP, name this cynical character in Balzac's La Comédie humaine who makes his first appearance in Père Goriot.
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He warned that "Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate," and that being "crushed beneath the furrow's weight" will also be the reader's "doom," at the end of a poem addressed to "a mountain daisy." He adjured the title river to "flow gently" and "disturb not [the] dream" of his beloved Mary in "Afton Water." The title character of one of his works begs pardon for lifting "a lawless leg" upon Meg. In addition to "Holy Willie's Prayer," he wrote a mock epic whose hero costs Maggie her tail after he calls encouragement to Nannie, whom he calls Cutty-sark; that "bletherin', blusterin', drunken blellum" is the title character of "Tam o' Shanter." He wrote about turning up with his plow a "Wee, sleekit, cow'rin', tim'rous beastie" in "To a Mouse." FTP, name this poet of "Scots, Wha Hae" and "Auld Lang Syne."
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He wrote a collection recounting the lives of such characters as Don Juan and Alexander the Great, while in another work he described eating lettuce three times a day to avoid being wasteful and laments the destruction of lilies by too much rain. Both Apocryphal Tales and The Gardener's Year preceded his response to Nazism, The White Plague. Early in his career he wrote the mystery, Tales from Two Pockets, and, along with his brother, published symbolist pieces like Insect Play. The virile Manya is contrasted with the titular miner, who returns home from America, in Hordubal, the first part of a trilogy that also includes Meteor and An Ordinary Life. Yet his best known characters remain Dr. Gall and Dr. Mercier, whose attempts at creating class of servants dooms mankind. For ten points, identify this Czech author of the early science fiction classics War with the Newts and R.U.R.
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He wrote a political romance about a barmaid who refuses to kill the czar, but it only lasted a week on the stage. Before the failure of Vera, he wrote about Mrs. Cheveley's attempt to blackmail Sir Robert Chiltern in his play An Ideal Husband. He wrote that “each man kills the thing he loves†in a poem about of a prisoner who “did not wear his scarlet coat,†“The Ballad of Reading Gaol.†He is better known for a novel centering on a painting by Basil Hallward and a play which includes the young Cecily Cardew and the friends Jack and Algernon. For 10 points, name the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest.
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He wrote about Mrs. Placentia and Diaph Silkworm in a play about Lady Loadstone, The Magnetic Lady. In another play Dauphine tricks his uncle Morose into marrying Epicoene, who is actually a boy, while Captain Bobadill teaches Master Matthew how to duel after Edward Knowell travels to meet Wellbred in Every Man in His Humour. In one of his plays Face allows Doll Common and Subtle into Lovewit's house where they dupe Epicure Mammon, and in another play Bonario sees the title character attempt to rape Celia, while earlier Mosca convinces everyone that the title character is dying. For 10 points, name this author of The Alchemist and Volpone.
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He wrote about an eel and her son who are watching a fisherman when a piano falls into the sea and nearly crushes them in his story "The Big Gravel-Sifter." After a play set in early Ireland, The Outlaw, gained attention, he received a stipend that allowed him to return to school. He wrote about Arvid Falk in his first novel, Roda Rummet, while his other early works include a historical play about Olaus Petri, Master Olof. The dramas Easter and A Dream Play appear in his Damascus trilogy, while his other plays include The Spook Sonata and The Father. FTP, name this Swedish author of Miss Julie.
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He wrote that "Poor Labour sweet in sleep was locked" in a poem addressed to "Poor naked wretches" that "bide the pelting of this pitiless storm," titled "A Winter Night." The speaker of one of his poems asks God to destroy "glib tongu'd Aiken" on Judgement Day for laughing at him. In another of his poems, the title character sees "warlocks and witches in a dance" in Alloway Kirk. In addition to "Tam O'Shanter," he also wrote a poem comparing his love to "a red, red rose" and one addressed to a "cowrin, tim'rous beastie" that includes the line "the best-laid schemes o' mice and men / Gang aft agley." FTP, name this Scottish poet of "To a Mouse" and "Auld Lang Syne."
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Her mother is described as "pretty like pretty self," and she describes herself as having "streaming hair" when she sees herself in a mirror. She denies that she lives in England and demands to be taken to the "real" England, a park where she purchases a knife that she uses to stab her stepbrother, Richard. With the help of her Martinique-born servant, Christophine, this title character of a collection of criticism by Gilbert and Gubar creates a voodoo concoction to try to make her husband love her, but it backfires, leading to her forced incarceration. Her guardian, Grace Poole, however, likes whiskey, so this woman can sometimes escape, as she does when she destroys a bridal veil belonging to the governess at Thornfield Hall. Eventually jumping off a burning roof, this is, for 10 points, what protagonist of Wide Sargasso Sea and wife of Edward Rochester in Jane Eyre?
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His fragment "Gabriel" includes a soliloquy spoken to Guinevere that was influenced by Idylls to the King, though he would later call Tennyson "unreal in motive." He wrote that "some spirits start upwards at once and win their aureoles" in a poem entitled "Shakspere." A poem which begins with the line "I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day" is grouped with others like "No Worst, There is None" and "Carrion Comfort" in the so-called "terrible sonnets." He describes the title locale as a "towery city and branchy between towers" in his "Duns Scotus's Oxford." Another of his poems describes the title creature as "morning's minion" and a "dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon." FTP, name this poet of "Pied Beauty" and "The Windhover."
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His poetry includes a tongue in cheek work based on a meter learned from George Wither, "The Farewell to Tobacco," as well as the ballad "Hester." His criticism, which was singled out by A.C. Bradley, includes "On the Artificial Comedy of the Last Century" and "On the Genius of and Character of Hogarth." He collaborated with Charles Lloyd on Blank Verse, and he was referred to as "gentle hearted" in "This Lime Tree Bower My Prison," a work by his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Though he struggled with play writing, as evidenced by the failures of both the satire, Mr H, and the Elizabethanesque drama, John Woodvil, he found great success with a series of prose pieces such as "The Praise of Chimney Sweepers," "Christ's Hospital," and "A Dissertation on Roast Pig," all of which were written after adopting the persona of a former Italian clerk at the South Sea house. For 10 points, identify this British writer of the Essays of Elia.
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His series of five plays spanning 4,000 BC to 32,000 AD includes characters who will themselves to great ages to avoid creative evolution. In another of his works, Reverend James Morell realizes his dependence on his wife after she rejects Eugene Marchbanks. This author of Back to Methusalah and Candida wrote a play in which Raina discovers that the Swiss soldier Bluntschi carries chocolate instead of pistols. Another of his characters rejects the arms manufacturer Andrew Undershaft's donation to the Salvation Army. For 10 points, name this playwright of Arms and the Man and Major Barbara who wrote about Henry Higgins instructing the cockney flower seller Eliza Doolittle in Pygmallion.
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In 1911, Hugo von Hofmannsthal adapted this work for the Salzburg Festival, and according to E. R. Tigg, it is largely a translation of the Dutch play Elckerlijc. One character uses the excuse of having a cramp in his toe to avoid journeying with the protagonist. The protagonist makes a confession after renouncing his Goods, and is later forsaken by Five-Wits, Discretion, Strength, and Beauty, although Good-Deeds accompanies him to the grave. Ending with a doctor interpreting this play's religious message, this play begins with God asking Death to take the title character to his reckoning. FTP, name this fifteenth century morality play about the judgment of the allegorical title character.
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In Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, the novel Looks Down in the Gathering Shadow is by a fictional author from this country, which is the location of the monastery that is the final resting place of the narrator of August Strindberg's Inferno. Sylvia, the wife of Vonnegut's Mr. Rosewater, ends up in a nunnery here, while fictional characters from this country include a horse painter in The Enormous Room and the lover of the title character of Charlotte Bronte's Shirley, Louis Gerard Moore. One work from this country is set partially in a dream world created by Tyltyl and Myltyl, while novels from this country include The Abyss and The Watchmaker of Everton, the latter written by the creator of Inspector Maigret, Georges Simenon. Also the homeland of the author of Pelleas et Melisande, Maurice Maeterlinck, this is, for 10 points, what European country with capital at Brussels.
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In Chapter 30of this work the Marshall Prince de Wissembourg tells a story about a man who eats glass in order to save his honor. That story is told after a character in this work discovers a letter written from a prison in Oran, where his uncle, Johann, has been arrested for a scheme to defraud the crown. This work's final chapter, which ends with the declaration that "children cannot prevent the folly of parents in their second childhood," depicts Agathe seducing the purportedly reformed Baron. Upon hearing that her beloved, a struggling sculptor, is engaged, the main character entreats Grasset to arrest him for debt. When Hortense and Steinbock, marry anyway, it is left up to the opportunistic Mme. Marneffe to break up the union at the title character's behest. Ultimately the Hulot family is ruined by Adeline's family relation. For 10 points, identify this work centering on the scheming Lisbeth Fischer, a novel by Honore de Balzac.
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In Flaubert's Parrot, Geoffrey Braithwaite claims that Flaubert was greatly amused by a deformed one of these at a fair. One of these lists its kinsmen that have been consumed by men in The Blue Bird, and the "long-legged Sleepyman" loves them in a Carl Sandburg poem. In a Sylvia Plath poem one of them is described "in fog," and villagers claim that the town named for this animal saved Frondoso and killed the Commander during the last act of a play by Lope de Vega. Don Quixote kills seven of them whom he thinks are Alifanfaron's army. A vision of a man dressed as one begins Dance, Dance, Dance, while a Hokkaido postcard including one with a star on its back led the narrator to the Rat in an earlier novel. For 10 points, name this animal, for which a man went on a wild chase in a Murakami novel and the fleece of which was sought after by the Argonauts.
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In Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Starting from San Francisco, an imitation of this poem follows the poem "Underwear" and is set "under the cypress tree / In the sweet grasses." Another imitation of this poem, "Song" by Cecil Day-Lewis, contains the hope to "hear some madrigals" during the evening "by the sour canals." A more famous work written about this poem laments that "wanton fields / To wayward winter reckoning yields." This poem imagines the creation of a "thousand fragrant posies," a "gown made of the finest wool," and a "belt of straw and ivy buds," all of which are supposed to move someone to perform the action suggested in the first line. FTP, name this poem whose title figure requests that someone "Come live with" him and be his love, a lyric by Christopher Marlowe.
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In Melville's Billy Budd, Captain Vere takes his nickname “Starry†from this author's poem “Upon Appleton House.†He wrote that “the Irish are ashamed / to see themselves in one year tamed†in a “Horatian Ode.†This poet also wrote a series of poems about a figure “against Gardens†and “to the Glowworms.†This author of “The Mower†is most famous for a narrator who discusses his “vegetable love†growing until “the conversion of the Jews,†but regrets “Time's winged chariot hurrying near.†For 10 points, name this British poet who penned the lines “Had we but world enough and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime†in “To His Coy Mistress.â€
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In Yury Olesha's novel Envy, a computer is named for this figure. An Arthur Rimbaud poem titled for this figure describes her as "beautiful as snow" on "the calm black water where the stars are sleeping." She tells her brother not to emulate a "ungracious pastors" who preach morality while treading "the primrose path of dalliance," and exclaims "O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!" In "The Waste Land," the end of "A Game of Chess" quotes this character's last words. In a play, she sings "He is dead and gone" and "Larded all with sweet flowers" after lapsing into madness. Told "Get thee to a nunnery," for 10 points, name this sister of Laertes, daughter of Polonius, and lover of Hamlet.
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In a novel by this man, the title character surprises Mynheer van der Pissen during his daily combat with his Moorish servant, his dog, and his monkey in the court of an orphan girl and her pet parrot. In addition to The Memoirs of Herr von Schnabelewopski, this man wrote a play about a crazy person later adapted by Cesar Cui into a like-titled opera, William Ratcliff. The title character and his wife Mumma have been transformed into dancing bears at the beginning of his epic poem Atta Troll, while "Evening Twilight," "The Avowal," and "Night in the Cabin" are all part of his North Sea cycle. His Romanzero is divided into "Histories," "Lamentations," and "Hebrew Melodies," but better known is a poem about a woman combing her hair and singing a song that drives sailors to their deaths. For 10 points name this poet of "Die Lorelei."
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In a short story by this author, the narrator realizes that he is “driven and derided by vanity†in his quest to buy a gift for Mangan's sister. He wrote Father Arnall's fire-and-brimstone sermon into his novel that begins with a nursery story about Baby Tuckoo. This author created a character who climaxes during a bottle rocket explosion in a novel in which Blazes Boylan has an affair with the protagonist's wife, Molly. For 10 points, name this author of “Araby,†who created Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom in his novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses.
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In addition to his early Cantiques spirituelles, this author created a character who decides to go to bed in his judge's robes one evening, and later he is put to sleep by the impassioned arguments another character makes defending Citron, a dog that had eaten a chicken. That character, Dandin, tries to climb out a window to go to court in this author's only comedy, which closes with the marriage of Leandre and Isabelle. In another play by this author, Roxane attempts to marry the title character in order to dethrone Amurat. This author of some biblically inspired works about Esther and Athalia wrote the plays The Litigants and Bajazet. He also wrote about a character who is urged to murder another by Hermione, who then betrays him, explaining that she'd been distraught that Pyrrhus had wanted to marry the title character. Another of his plays is about a character whose love for Aricie leads him to declare that he will leave Troezen, only for his stepmother to fall in love with him. For 10 points, identify this author of Andromache and a play based on Euripedes's Hippolytus, Phedre.
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In an erotic novel by this author, the genie Cucufa gives Sultan Mangogul a silver ring that causes women's vulvas to describe their sexual experiences. This author illustrated his belief that theatre should teach virtue with a play about Saint-Albin, who convinces M. d'Orbesson to allow him to marry the lower-class girl Sophie,The Family Father. This author wrote a novel set in Longchamp where Suzanne is initiated into lesbian debauchery by her Mother Superior. Inspired byTristram Shandy, this author wrote a novel narrated by a character who describes how being shot in the knee caused him to fall in love with Denise. This author ofThe Indiscreet JewelsandThe Nunalso wrote a satiric dialogue named for the composer ofHippolyte and Aricie. For 10 points, name this eighteenth century French author ofJacques the FatalistandRameau's Nephew, the chief editor of the Encyclopedie.
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In one episode from this work, a friar shows the people coals instead of a feather from Gabriel. One man in this work beats his wife into submission after Solomon tells him to go to the Bridge of Geese. Dineo narrates the final part of this work, in which the Marquis of Saluzzo marries the patient Griselda. A group of characters, including Pamfilo and Filistrato, initiate this work's narrative by gathering at the basilica of Santa Maria Novella and fleeing the Black Death in Florence. For 10 points, name this collection of one hundred stories related by Boccaccio.
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In one his stories a man eats a bewitched pellet that he stole from a museum, which allows him to understand animals. He wrote about Hans Giebenrath, who mysteriously drowns after he is sent home from the Maulbronn seminary in Beneath the Wheel, and in another work Pistorius Pistorius introduces the occult god Abraxas to Emil Sinclair, who later goes to live with Max Demian. The protagonist of another novel is taught to dance by Hermine and is induced by the saxophonist Pablo to enter the Magic Theater. For 10 points, name this man, who wrote about Harry Haller in Steppenwolf, and also penned Siddhartha.
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In one novel by this author, Charlotte loves the Captain but is married to Edward, who loves Ottilie. In another of this author's plays, Klarchen kills herself after the title character is put to death by the Duke of Alba. This author of Elective Affinities and Egmont wrote a play in which Helen has a son named Euphorion with the title character and in which Wagner creates a homunculus. Another character created by this author kills himself after he is spurned by Lotte, and a play by this author sees Gretchen drown her child after the title character makes a deal with Mephistopheles. For 10 points, name this author of The Sorrows of Young Werther and Faust.
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In one novel by this author, the protagonist resolves to learn classical languages to help her husband write The Key to All Mythologies. She created a title character who loves Hettie Sorel, a woman who has Arthur Donnithorne's illegitimate child. One novel by this author sees Dunstan Cass steal the title character's gold. In another novel by this author, Dorothea Brooke marries Will Ladislaw despite the provisions of Edward Casaubon's will. For 10 points, name this author of Adam Bede, Silas Marner, and Middlemarch, a British female novelist with a male pen name.
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In one of his novels, Florentine Vivier murders Lord Frederick, leaving her son Hyancinth to Miss Pynsent, and in another novel Mrs. Bread gives the title character evidence that Madame de Bellegarde murdered her husband, which he could use to blackmail Claire de Cintré. In addition to writing The Princess Casamassima and describing Christopher Newman in The American, another of his works climaxes when Countess Gemini reveals that Pansy is the illegitimate daughter of Madame Merle and the title character's husband Gilbert Osmond. For 10 points, name this author, who wrote about Lambert Strether and Isabel Archer in The Ambassadors and The Portrait of a Lady.
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In one of his works Orual describes her sister Psyche's romance with Cupid, and another novel centers on Elwin Ransom's mission to Mars to stop Professor Weston from corrupting the new Adam and Eve. In addition to Till We Have Faces and Perelandra, which forms a trilogy with That Hideous Strength and Out of the Silent Planet, one of his characters is annoyed that his nephew never learned the "Law of Undulation," from Slubgob at Training College before berating Wormwood for failing as a tempter. For 10 points, name author of The Screwtape Letters, who wrote about the Pevensie children in his Narnia series.
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In one of his works, the blacksmith Vakula asks to marry Oksana after being whipped by Choub. In addition to "The Night Before Christmas," he wrote about the decision of Petro and Ivan to capture a pasha for King Stepan in "The Terrible Vengeance." In a play by this man, Zhevakin and Omelet pursue the central female character, Agafya Tikhonovna. In addition to Marriage, he wrote such stories as "Viy" and "Old World Landowners," while he gained fame for a book introduced by the fictional beekeeper Rusty Panko, Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka. Also the author of "Nevsky Prospect" and "The Diary of a Madman," FTP, name this Russian author of "The Nose" and Dead Souls.
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In one of them, the speaker asks that the paper he composes upon be blessed, while another describes the fatality of the butterfly. They include a characterization of the world as "changing and arrogant" and a plea to the stars for the return of the gone day. Another reflects that it has been seventeen years since the speaker has "burned with fire." Often published alongside two of its author's letters, The Ascent of Mount Ventoux and The Letter to Posterity, one of them, "If it's not love, then what is that I feel," was adapted for Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer. Originally given the name Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, they were championed by Pietro Bembo and subsequent editors divided them into two sections: poems composed during their primary subject's life and poems composed after her death. Including such poems as, "Oh God! That lovely face, that Gentle Look," and, "Diana never pleased her lover more," its author completed 366 of these poems in all, with 317 of them written in his namesake sonnet style. For 10 points, identify this collection of verse focusing on a tortured poet's love for Laura, a work by Petrarch.
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In one of this author's novels, Roberto de la Grive becomes marooned with his alter ego Ferrante on an island across the International Date Line. In addition to The Island of the Day Before, this author wrote a novel about Belbo, Diotellavi, and Casubon, who work for a publishing company and create a worldwide conspiracy theory about the Knights Templars. This author wrote a novel about investigations of murders in an Italian monastery by Adso of Melk and William of Baskerville. For 10 points, identify this author of Baudolino, Foucault's Pendulum, and The Name of the Rose.
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In one of this author's novels, Sir Hargrave Pollexfen kidnaps Harriet Byron, until she is rescued by the title character. In addition to that novel which was a favorite of Jane Austen, this author wrote a work in which Mr. Williams is jailed after smuggling the title character's letters. This author of Sir Charles Grandison wrote a novel in which Robert Lovelace elopes with the title character after her father Mr. Harlowe locks her in her room. In addition to that “History of a Young Lady,†this author wrote about the domineering “Mr. B†in his novel about “Virtue Rewarded.†For 10 points, name this rival of Henry Fielding and author of the long epistolary novels Clarissa and Pamela.
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In one of this author's novels, the protagonist compares the concentric circles of Hell to Amsterdam after witnessing a woman jump off of a bridge. This creator of Jean-Baptiste Clamence wrote a novel in which thousands of rats die in Bernard Rieux's hometown of Oran. In another novel, he wrote of a man who helps Ramon Sintes beat up an unfaithful girlfriend, fails to weep at his mother's funeral, and kills a man on the beach for no real reason. For 10 points, name this author of The Fall and The Plague, who created the Arab-slaying Meursault in The Stranger.
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In one of this author's novels, the title character is sent a ring by the "princess of the golden locks." He wrote a play in which a cheap landlady passes off rotten veal as curry and a Jewish schemer tries to collect investments for a fictitious silver mine until a rhetorically gifted stranger arrives at the boarding house to moralize the inhabitants. In addition to Paul Kelver and The Passing of the Third Floor Back, he wrote about a man who remembers burying two malodorous cheeses on a beach in another novel. That man has every disease except housewife's knee and treats himself by eating a one-pound steak and a pint of beer every six hours. This author wrote of that man's journey from Kingston to Pangbourne with Harris and George, as well as Montmorency the dog, in a work that was followed by a story set "on the bummel." For 10 points, name this English humorist who wrote Three Men in a Boat.
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In one of this author's plays, the prime minister Proteus struggles with king Magnus and his mistress Orinthia. He wrote about Tom Broadbent's trip to the title place with his partner Larry Doyle in another play. In addition to writing The Apple Cart and John Bull's Other Island, this author wrote a work about a daughter of Andrew Undershaft who is an officer in the Salvation Army. His play about Raina Petkoff takes its title from the first line of the Aeneid. This author is better known for a work centering on the education of Eliza Doolittle by Henry Higgins. For 10 points, identify this British playwright of Major Barbara, Arms and the Man, and Pygmalion.
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In one of this author's short stories, Tina Sarti's betrayal by Anthony Wybrow causes her to rekindle her love of music with the title vicar. One of this author's title characters competes with Harold Transome for the hand of Esther Lyon, and is arrested after an election day riot in Treby Magna. In addition to "Mr. Gilfil's Love Story" and Felix Holt, the Radical, this author's other title characters include a carpenter who marries Dinah Morris after Hetty Sorrel is sentenced to death and a weaver who cares for Eppie after his gold is stolen by Duncan Cass. FTP, identify this British author of Adam Bede, Silas Marner, and Middlemarch.
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In one of this author's stories, a physician married an "ill-tempered woman" who does nothing but sleep in order to punish himself for falling in love with Alexandra, a dying maiden. In addition to "The District Doctor," this man wrote a novel in which the protagonist's plan to marry Liza is thwarted when he finds his purportedly dead wife, Varvara Pavlova, waiting for him in the foyer. In another of his novels, the titular friend of Lezhnev impresses the household of Darya Mikhailovna and falls in love with Natasha. Vassily Vassilevitch goes to Alexander Mikhalyich's dinner party in this man's story "Hamlet of the Shchigrovsky District," and this man wrote about Elena's fascination with the Bulgarian Insarov in On the Eve. Another work by this author of The Home of the Gentry and Rudin discusses the dissection of a frog and a man's death from cutting himself with an infected knife during surgery. For 10 points, name this Russian author of The Sportsman's Sketches who created Kirsanov and Bazarov and Fathers and Sons.
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In one of this author's works the Countess Mathilde's ownership of a beautiful heirloom inspires the jealous Saint Clair to fight a duel and he dies. That work, The Etruscan Vase, was written four years before this writer's reimagining of the Don Juan legend, The Souls of Purgatory. In addition to such historical novels as The False Demetriuses, this author created such fantastic characters as a copper statue that comes to life and kills would be lovers in The Venus of Ille, as well as a dissolute young man who is granted three wishes by Jesus, Federigo. He first made his name with a pair of literary hoaxes titled The Theater of Clara Gazul and La Guzla. Most of his short stories were published in the volume Mosaic, including one set in Porto Vechhio, Corsica, that ends with Fortunato being killed by the title character, "Mateo Falcone." For 10 points, identify this French author of a story about Don Jose's love for a gypsy named Carmen.
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In one of this author's works, Margery Meanwell grows up to become a schoolteacher. In another of his works, Edwin becomes a recluse beside the Tyne and Angelina must seek him dressed as a boy. In addition to "The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes" and the "The Hermit," he also wrote about the village of Auburn, which had become depopulated because of a sudden influx of money, in "The Deserted Village." His other works include one in which Kate Hardcastle meets Charles Marlow, and a work about Mr. Burnell, who is actually Squire Thornhill. For 10 points, name this man, who wrote She Stoops to Conquer and The Vicar of Wakefield.
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In one of this author's works, the Communist Carson helps the wife of Maurice Castle escape to South Africa. Another of his works features the vacuum cleaner salesman James Wormold, who is offered a job by Hawthorne. This author of The Human Factor also wrote a work in which Sarah Miles promises God to stop seeing Maurice Bendrix if he should survive his injury from an explosion. However, this author is better known for a novel set in Mexico featuring characters such as The Mestizo, Coral Fellows, and the Whiskey Priest. For 10 points, name this British author of Our Man in Havana, The End of the Affair, and The Power and the Glory.
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In one of this man's works, a boy narrates the impact of his stepmother, Brigitte's quest for moral perfection. In another work, the charismatic leader of a movement that is condemned by the Vatican confuses a student. In addition to, Young Man in Chains, this writer's works include The Black Notebook and the foreword for Elie Wiesel's Night. The development of his own philosophy can be traced in his The Stumbling Block and God and Mammon and is on display in a novel about a woman lusted after by a physician and his son, The Desert of Love. Other works include a novel about old Louis, who tries to keep his fortune from his wife and children, and a1927 novel inspired by the trial of Henriette-Blance Canby, which depicts a Bordeaux woman who plots to escape her bourgeois marriage by poisoning her husband. For 10 points, identify this Nobel Prize winning author of A Woman of the Pharisees, The Knot of Vipers and Therese Desqueyroux.
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In one of this man's works, the titular scholar is killed while on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, while a debate set at the court of King Pedro I of Castille forms the basis for his "Disputation." His late works include a ballet libretto entitled Doctor Faust, and a prose work called The Gods in Exile. One of this writer's collections contains "Evening Twilight," "The Avowal," and "Night in the Cabin," and in addition to writing The North Sea cycle, this poet wrote about a Babylonian king in his poem "Belshazzar." This poet wrote epics like Atta Troll and Germany: A Winter's Tale, while another one of his collections includes the sections "Stories," "Lamentations," and "Hebrew Melodies," and is entitled Romanzero. For ten points, identify this poet of the "Book of Songs," who described a mythical creature that combed its hair and sung a deadly song in his "Die Lorelai."
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In one play by this author, Sultan Orosmane stabs the title slave when he mistakes her meeting with a priest for a romantic rendezvous. This author wrote a story about two giants visiting earth. Azora, Sémire, and Astarté are the lovers of the title Babylonian philosopher of a novel by this author. This author of Zaire, Micromegas, and Zadig, is most famous for a work whose title character kills Don Isaachar and the Grand Inquisitor, and whose teacher is given syphilis by Paquette. That character travels with a woman with one buttock along with his beloved, Cunégonde. For 10 points, the optimistic Dr. Pangloss is the creation of what French author of Candide?
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In one play by this author, the title character shoots himself after the honest doctor Eguene Lvov accuses him of cheating on his tubercular wife Anna. In another of his works, Dmitri Gurov meets Anna Sergeyevna while on vacation in Yalta. This author of Ivanov and Lady with a Lapdog wrote about the Baron Tuzenbach and Kulygin, who marry two of the title characters in one play. Another of his works sees Anya's pursuit of Trofimov and concerns Madame Ranevskaya's departure to Paris after selling the title estate to Lopakhin. For 10 points, name this Russian playwright who wrote about Olga, Irina, and Masha in Three Sisters, the author of The Cherry Orchard.
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In one play, this character returns from space with the news that there is no better hope for man than there is on earth. In another play, this character is a monarch whose wife says he is “four-hundred years old.†In another work, he falls in love with Dany and meets a man who wishes to cause chaos. That man lures his victims by telling them he will show them a “picture of the colonel.†In the second play of this character's “cycle,†he exclaims, “I'm the last man left, and I'm staying that way until the end. I will not capitulate!†after Daisy leaves him. He tracks down a murderer in The Killer and comes to terms with death in Exit the King. For 10 points, identify this Eugene Ionesco character who refuses to become one of the titular animals in Rhinoceros.
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In one poem by this author, the gossip Miriam Lane reveals the identity of the title character after he returns from being lost at sea to find his wife Annie married to Philip. This author of “Enoch Arden†noted that his sorrow came from the “depth of some divine despair†in “Tears, Idle, Tears.†In another work, this poet wrote “Sunset and evening star, /And one clear call for me!†and expressed his hope to see his “Pilot face to face.†He also described a group of six hundred who rode “Half a league onward†“into the valley of death.†For 10 points, name this poet of “Crossing the Bar†and “The Charge of the Light Brigade,†the longest serving Poet Laureate of Great Britain.
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In one poem by this author, the narrator encounters a boring poet on the Sacred Way and can't get out of the conversation until the bore is dragged to prison. Another poem by this author begins "Now it is time to drink," and notes that Cleopatra "sought to die more nobly." This author commissioned 27 boys and 27 girls to sing his Carmen Saeculare, and one poem by this author is addressed to Leuconoe and advises her to "trust as little as possible in tomorrow." He wrote the essay Ars Poetica. For 10 points, identify this ancient Roman author of the Satires and Epodes whose Odes contain a poem which includes the line "carpe diem."
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In one poem in this collection, a father does not understand why his son wishes to be on the shore of Kilve rather than at Liswyn farm. Another poem in this collection begins "Her eyes are wild, her head is bare / The sun has burnt her coal-black hair." The moon follows the speaker to the cottage of his lover in one of this book's poems, while a further poem describes a girl "who seemed a thing that could not feel." In addition to a subsection containing "A Slumber did my Spirit Seal" and "Strange Fits of Passion I have Known," the Lucy poems, this collection includes verses addressed directly to Dorothy and one in which a Wedding Guest is told "water, water, everywhere / nor any drop to drink." For 10 points, identify this collection containing "Lines Written Above Tintern Abbey" and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," a volume of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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In one poem, this author observes a “bronze soldier†who “hitches a bronze cape / That crumples stiffly in the imagined wind;†later, he hears the “sure confusing drum†the title figure “followed...to the Balkans.†Another poem by this author of “In Memoriam F.E. Ledwidge†opens with its narrator in “the college sick bay†and sees a mother “cough[ing] out angry tearless sighs.†That poem ends with the line “A four foot box, a foot for every year,†a reference to his brother Christopher's early death. This author of “Mid-Term Break†described a “squat pen†resting “between my finger and my thumb†and declared “By God, the old man could handle a spade†in “Digging.†For 10 points, name this author of the collection Death of a Naturalist and recent translator of Beowulf, an Irish poet.
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In one scene in this novel a one-legged character compares a dead bird to Cock Robin just before it is roasted on a spit. A friend of the protagonist, Eugene, eventually marries the drifter's daughter Lizzie, and the central villain is kicked out of the house and into a garbage cart by the Golden Dustman. An affidavit from Rogue Riderhood clears suspicion of murder from Gaffer Hexam in this work, and that murder's investigator is a lawyer named Lightwood. The taxidermist Venus joins up with a greedy street peddler named Wegg to blackmail another character in this novel. Bella Wilfer initially rejects the protagonist, but is finally tricked into abandoning her money-lust by the Boffins, who inherit the protagonist's fortune but pretend not to realize he is still alive. For 10 points, name this work about John Harmon, who adopts the identities of Handford and Rokesmith, the last complete novel by Charles Dickens.
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In one scene in this novel, a crippled urchin murders a soldier whose body is then hidden by the main character, who is later trapped by the sabotage of Souvarine. Late in this novel, the main character kills Chaval, his competitor for the affections of Catherine. In this novel, Victor Maheu is known as "Bonnemorte" for surviving so long while working in Le Voreux, but is killed when soldiers fire into a mob striking in protest of Hennebeau's wage structure. Ending with the departure of Etienne Lantier from the town of Montso, for 10 points, identify this book about the plight of coal miners, an Emile Zola novel named for a month of the French Revolutionary calendar.
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In one scene in this play, two characters tie their belts together to trap another character. Earlier, the protagonists employ tennis scoring in their Game of Questions. Two characters in this play hear music emanating from some barrels before the arrival of pirates prompts them to hide. The protagonists encounter the Player, who leads a troupe of actors called the Tragedians in a performance of the Murder of Gonzago. This play opens as one character continuously wins a coin flipping game, and ends with the English ambassador announcing the deaths of the title characters at Elsinore Castle. For 10 points, name this Tom Stoppard play centered on two minor characters from Hamlet.
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In one scene in this work, one character reveals that she does not trust the valet Laurent and believes that Daphne and her little husband are slandering her family. Argas, a political exile, has his political secrets kept in a casket entrusted to one character in this work, whose mother, Madame Pernelle, eventually believes that the title character is a villain when being evicted by the bailiff Loyal. Damis witnesses the title character's attempted seduction of his mother, which occurs in spite of the title character's betrothal to Valere's daughter Mariane. For 10 points, name this play about Orgon and the title hypocritical houseguest, a play by Moliere.
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In one scene of this novel, the protagonist drunkenly dreams of a black scorpion and a leg in a box, among other things. After a woman takes him shopping for a gramophone, the narrator is able to learn the foxtrot despite his stiff dancing. Another scene in this novel shows the narrator in a whirling hall of mirrors, which occurs after he skips a magic show advertised "FOR MADMEN ONLY" in order to buy a book. Although he has a three-week long affair with the beauty Maria, the protagonist is actually in love with Hermine. That love culminates in the protagonist's inviting Hermine and Pablo into the Magic Theater, after which the protagonist murders her. For ten points, name this novel centering on Harry Haller written by Herman Hesse.
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In one scene of this play, a character talks about the scarf he retrieved from the corpse of his slain friend with his lover. Earlier, the audience indirectly learns that the three judges of the underworld debated whether to place one character in this play in the Martian field or the field of love before sending him to Pluto and Proserpine. The climactic scene occurs during a performance of a play-within-this-play called Soliman and Perseda. Don Andrea forms the chorus of this play, accompanied by the spirit of Revenge. After Pedrigano helps Serberine kill Lorenzo's rival for Bel-Imperia's love, Hieronimo goes insane and takes revenge on everyone. For 10 points, essentially all the major male characters are dead by the end of which work by Thomas Kyd?
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In one scene, this character hears someone playing Schubert's "Die Erwartung" on the cello, but mocks the musician after finding out who it is. He verbally opposes many of the characters in the novel, especially in the scenes leading up to the Governor's Ball. This character states, "We break things down because we are a force" and tells another character, who he later shoots in the leg in a duel, that he is going to dissect frogs rather than argue with him, something he frequently does. In the penultimate chapter, he performs an autospy on a patient with typhus and cuts his finger, which leads to his death. However, he is better known for expressing his love for Anna Odintsov, his travels with his friend and apprentice Arkady Kirsanov, and his belief in nothing. For ten points, Ivan Turgenev created what character, the nihilist protagonist of Father and Sons?
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In one section of this poem, it is noted that no "trembling harp," "tumbling hawk," or "swift horse" had "emptied the earth of entire peoples." Those lines come from its section named for the "Last Survivor," which is considered to be the third of its "four funerals." Its closing scene dedicates a barrow to that title figure, who as a youth allegedly lost a swimming contest with Breca in the North Sea. The title figure receives two weapons that eventually fail, acquiring Naegling from Hygelac and Hrunting from Unferth in, for 10 points, which epic poem in which the title figure fights a dragon after rescuing Heorot from the ravages of Cain's descendent Grendel?
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In one section of this work, the speaker asserts that a certain commodity "cannot grow by an inch or ounce," before moving on to discuss the "handiwork of Callimachus." The speaker, who had also previously asserted that "All things fall, and are built again," later imagines a figure asking for "mournful melodies" and "delight[s] to imagine" a long legged bird, a "symbol of longevity," flying over a trio still seated on the mountain and the sky. The second section of this 56 line work reads, "All perform their tragic play, / There struts Hamlet, there is Lear, / That's Ophelia, that Cordelia," while it begins with a stanza about "hysterical women" who criticize the poet's inefficacy and dread the coming of the "Aeroplane and Zeppelin." Composed to commemorate a birthday gift given to the poet by his friend, Harry Clifton, it depicts a set of "Chinamen" carved out of the title material. For 10 points, identify this William Butler Yeats poem named for a rich blue stone.
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In one section, the speaker compares smoke from a cannon to the vapors rising off a monster's hide. In a letter to Sir Robert Howard, this work's author claimed that it was written in the style of Virgil, an assertion that fails to acknowledge the influence of William Davenant's Gondibert. Stanza 155 introduces a "Digression concerning shipping and navigation" that leads into a section featuring the line "Who great in search of God and Nature grow," the "Apostrophe to the Royal Society." Prefaced by "Verses to her Highness and Duchess" [of York], several of this work's 304 stanzas chronicle the Battle of Solebay, while a later section celebrates the work of Christopher Wren and the rebirth of London from a "chymic flame." Taking as its subjects the Second Anglo-Dutch War and the Great Fire, for 10 points, identify this work, subtitled or The Year of Wonders, 1666, a poem by John Dryden.
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In one story by this author, a boy ignores a warning from a spring and is turned into a deer, which leads the king to marry his sister. In another story by this author, four talking animals travel to the title town to become musicians and defeat a band of robbers. This author of "Brother and Sister" and "The Bremen Town Musicians" wrote a story in which the servant Heinrich grieves over the transformation of his master into a frog, as well as a story in which a boy and girl eat from a gingerbread house. For 10 points, name this duo who collected such stories as "The Frog King," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Little Red Riding Hood" into their namesake "Fairy Tales."
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In one story by this author, a peasant stoops to pick up a bit of string, causing his fellow townsmen to accuse him of stealing a purse. He created a title character who sleeps with a Prussian officer so a traveling party can leave Totes. In another of his stories, Monsieur Loisel uses the money he had been saving for a rifle to buy his wife a dress, after which she borrows the title object from Madame Forestier. In that story, the protagonist borrows a piece of jewelry that is made out of paste. For 10 points, name this French author who wrote “The Ball of Fat†and “The Necklace.â€
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In one story by this author, the friendship between Ben and the daughter of author Henry Castlemain spells the end of Carmelita Hope's happiness. "The Father's Daughter," along with "The Black Madonna," is collected in The Go-Away Bird and Other Stories. The addition to the Meadows Meade textile firm of the hunchback Dougal Douglas is the subject of The Ballad of Peckham Rye, while an anonymous caller telephones Dame Lettie Colston to tell her "Remember, you must die" in Memento Mori. Better-known are novels about the May of Teck club and the headmistress of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh. FTP name this author of The Girls of Slender Means and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
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In one story by this author, the narrator and his wife follow their Uncle Augusto's suggestion and move to a region where Captain Brauni's inventions and the Corporation's "molasses system" do nothing to kill the title insects. In another of his stories, Amerigo Ormea goes to the Hospital for Incurables to monitor an election. In addition to "The Argentine Ant" and "The Watcher," he wrote about "The Aquatic Uncle" and "The Distance of the Moon" in a 1965 story collection, while one of his novels begins on June 15, 1767, when Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo sits with his family for the last time. For 10 points, name this author of the novel The Baron in the Trees and the stories collected in Cosmicomics, who also wrote If on a Winter's Night a Traveler.
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In one work by this author, a man named Gorgibus sees his daughter and niece, the two title characters, fall in love with two impostors who pretend to be wealthy socialites while in another work, the author acted out the part of Sganarelle the servant during on stage performances. Besides those two early works, The Affected Ladies and The Flying Doctor, this playwright also composed plays in which a doctor takes advantage of the hypochondria of the titular character and another where Arnolphe enrolls Agnes in the titular institution. He is perhaps better known for a play in which the titular character is taken away by an officer after trying to con Orgon. For 10 points, identify this French playwright of The Imaginary Invalid, The School for Wives, and Tartuffe.
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In one work by this author, the title character murders Amedee Fleurissoire after discovering that he and Julius de Baraglioul have the same father. In another of this author's novels, a schoolboy dies during an initiation for a secret society in which he has to shoot himself with a blank bullet but the gun is accidentally filled with a live cartridge. In another novel Gertrude gets pneumonia from jumping into an icy river after a surgery restores her eyesight, while another of his characters does not punish Moktir for stealing his wife's sewing scissors. Along with The Pastoral Symphony, he wrote about Jerome and Alyssa making a pact of eternal love as ten-year-olds in his novel Strait is the Gate. This author wrote about Marcelline who dies of tuberculosis in Algeria while her husband Michel pursues Arab boys. For 10 points, name this French author who wrote The Counterfeiters and The Immoralist.
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In one work by this man, Dirck's horse Roos gives out near Hasselt and Joris's dies after sighting a “dome-spire†by Dalhem, but the speaker's “horse without peer,†Roland, survives the titular trip. The speaker claims he could “blend all hideous sins, as in a cup†because he has “God's warrant†in another poem by this man. This author of “How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix†paired “Johannes Agricola in Meditation†in Madhouse Cells with a work whose speaker claims “And yet God has not said a word!†after he strangles a woman with her own hair. The speaker of another of his poems notes that its title figure, the subject of a Fra Pandolf painting, “had a heart too soon made glad.†For 10 points, name this British author of “Porphyria's Lover†and “My Last Duchess.â€
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In one work by this man, a retired army officer claims that "everything passes, everything is forgotten," to which an innkeeper counters that not everything is forgotten. In addition to that work about the lost love between Nikolai and Nadezhda, he wrote a novel which sees Rodka poisoned by his wife, the Bride, who eventually becomes Kuzma's housekeeper and is seduced by Tikhon. This author of "The Dark Avenues" and the autobiographical The Life of Arseniev, also wrote "The Elaghin Affair" and the novel The Village. In another of his works, a soda-water crate is used as a makeshift coffin, and after becoming bored of looking at churches, the title millionaire dies of a heart attack on Capri. For 10 points, identify this first Russian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the author of "The Gentleman from San Francisco".
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In one work, this author describes a conversation in the Café de la Regence that pits his own moralist views against the passionate opinions of a composer's relative. In another work by this author, a servant trying to tell the story of his loves is constantly interrupted, but does reveal his philosophy that all events are written already on a great scroll in the sky. This author of Rameau's Nephew and Jacques the Fatalist may be best known for working with Jean D'Alambert in creating a “Figurative system of human knowledge†and editing articles on philosophy, politics, and religion. For 10 points, name this French chief editor of The Encyclopedia.
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In the preface to this poem, the author references Theocritus's Idyls in saying that "I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow, but the to-morrow is yet to come." The poem itself compares "huge fragments" to "rebounding hail, / Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail." The main action of this work is set near "caves of ice" and a "deep romantic chasm" through which the river Alph meanders, and, later on, its poet describes a "damsel with a dulcimer" whose "symphony and song / To such a deep delight 'twould win me;" however, that Abyssinian maid's music contrasts with "ancestral voices prophesying war." A visitor from Porlock interrupted,.FTP, which opium trip of a poem in which "a stately pleasure-dome" is decreed in Xanadu by the titular Mongol emperor, a work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
Do I wake or sleep?" For 10 points, name this poem which opens, "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk" and contains the phrase "tender is the night," a poem written by John Keats to a title bird.
In the second stanza of this poem the speaker longs for a "beaker full of the warm South" that "tastes of Flora" and is compared to the "blushful Hippocrene." The speaker of this work discusses Ruth "sick for home" and is carried away "on the viewless wings of Poesy" to a place where "there is no light." This poem closes after the speaker asks, "was it a vision, or a walking dream? Fled is that music:
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In the third act of this work, one character asks "Am I the bosom Snake, that sucks thy warm Life-Blood, and gnaws thy heart?" A captain of the guards named Perez escorts various people, one of whom laments the loss of his friend Heli, though they soon meet in prison. Garcia is the noble son of Gonsalez and Leonora is the faithful servant of the main character, a daughter of King Manuel of Granada named Almeria, who is contrasted with the captive queen Zara. This work notably asserts that "heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor Hell a fury like a woman scorned," and its opening line claims that "musick has charms to soothe a savage breast." FTP, name this 1697 work, the lone tragedy of William Congreve.
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In the third section of In Search of Lost Time, Marcel becomes enthralled with the Duchesse de Guermantes while going to see a work by this author. In one of this author's plays, the title king dies after allowing his son Xiphares to marry Monime. In another, Joad brings about the death of the title daughter of Ahab and Jezebel after she attempts to kill Joas. In addition to Mithridate and Athalie, this playwright's title characters include a woman who tries to save her son Astyanax by marrying Pyrrhus and a queen who poisons herself after a sea monster kills her stepson Hippolytus. FTP, identify this 17th-century French tragedian of Andromaque and Phèdre.
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In the third section, the speaker states that the title character's "soul transpires / At every pore with instant fires." The poet warns of "Deserts of vast eternity," and states that his "vegetable love should grow / Faster than empires, and more slow." This poem's first section imagines the title character discovering rubies by the Ganges, while in the final section, the poet wishes to roll "all / Our sweetness" into "one ball" in order to "tear our pleasures with rough strife / Thorough the iron gates of life." Opening by asking "Had we but world enough, and time," FTP, name this carpe diem poem by Andrew Marvell which exhorts the title woman to sleep with the speaker.
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In this author's first play, a wounded insect falls into a group of cockroaches and falls in love with. Another work by this author is described as a "tragic poem" and sees the title character strangle her impotent husband. This author wrote the poem "Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter." In addition to Yerma, this member of the Generation of '27 wrote about Leonardo Felix, who attends the title event and shoots the groom. He wrote a drama about the title widow and her five daughters featuring the character Pepe El Romano. For 10 points, name this Spanish author whose "Rural Trilogy" includes the plays Blood Wedding and The House of Bernarda Alba.
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In this author's only play, two aliens arrive on Earth and give humanity three days to raise the global happiness quotient, threatening to exterminate the human race if their demands are not met, but are soon revealed to be powerless and simply thrown in jail. In addition to writing that play, Twilight Bar, this author coined the term "cocacolonization" in his final novel The Call Girls and wrote a critical appraisal of Eastern religions in The Lotus and the Robot. He contrasted two types of political problem-solving approaches, those who change themselves and those who change the environment, in The Yogi and the Commisar, and he speculated that the emotional and rational portions of the brain do not cooperate in his treatise The Ghost in the Machine. In a novel by this author, Number 402 converses with the protagonist through tapping on the wall. In that work, Rubashov is executed for offenses he did not commit in order to prove his loyalty to the Communist cause. For 10 points, identify this Hungarian-born author of Darkness at Noon.
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In this man's first novel, Arthur marries Carrie despite being in love with Helen, who dies of consumption after exhausting herself with teaching adults to read. In another of his novels, Rhoda Nunn provides a contrast with the weak-willed title group, who are left impoverished after the death of their father, Dr. Madden. In addition to Workers of the Dawn and The Odd Women, he wrote travel books such as By the Ionian Sea and the autobiographical The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft. However, he is best known for a work about an author who trades artistic merit for social standing, Jasper Milvain. For 10 points, name this friend of H. G. Wells who wrote Demos and New Grub Street.
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In this novel, Duncan Maclaren manages to keep Alan and Robert Oig Macgregor from engaging in a duel by having them compete in a bagpipe competition instead, and the murder of the "Red Fox" Colin Campbell in this work was based on an actual historical event. The minister of Essendean, Mr. Campbell, is a friend of the protagonist, who encounters such characters as the polite bandit Cluny Macpherson and Captain Hoseason. The protagonist of this novel is aided by the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart, and at the end of this novel, Uncle Ebenezer of Shaws is forced to give up two thirds of his yearly income to the hero, and the plot of this novel was set into motion when the hero of this novel was tricked by Ebenzer into boarding the ship The Covenant. For 10 points, name this novel about the adventures of David Balfour following his abduction, a work by Robert Lewis Stevenson.
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In this novel, Lankes takes a coin from his left pocket and puts it in his right whenever he borrows a cigarette, and an attendant at the Maritime Museum commits suicide by impaling himself on the mast of the "Niobe" after falling in love with its wooden figurehead. Vittlar's testimony inadvertently implicates the protagonist in a murder after he finds the severed ring finger of Sister Dorothea. The protagonist of this novel plays in "The Onion Cellar" with Klepp and Scholle in a troupe of dwarves, can shatter glass with his scream, and refuses to grow after age three. For 10 points, name this novel in which Oskar Matzerath refuses to give up the title instrument, by Gunter Grass.
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In this novel, a gorilla wedding is captured on film by a character named Darwin Bonaparte. An Hourly Radio reporter named Primo Mellon is beaten up at a Wey Valley lighthouse by one character in this work, who also swears in Zuñi while refusing to meet the Arch-Community Songster. While on vacation in New Mexico, this novel's protagonist visits a community known as Malpais. This book opens with a description of the Bokanovsky process on a tour led by Thomakin, whose son is later found by the protagonist and Lenina Crowne. Its protagonist and his friend Helmholtz Watson are eventually exiled by the World Controller Mustapha Mond. For 10 points, name this novel about Bernard Marx and John the Savage that features the drug soma, a work of Aldous Huxley.
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In this novel, a shopping trip for a wedding dress is interrupted by a bottle of Zubrowka, and Sophie, who is unable to recover from the deaths of her husband and her little boy, disappears. Kosti, who works in the coal mines, urges the main character to seek spiritual answers, and the Benedictine Father Ensheim urges that character to go to Benares and Madura. Gray Maturin's headaches are cured by the main character of this novel, who gained his skills of hypnotic suggestion from Shri Ganesha in India. After Gray's stockbroker business fails, he and his family move to Paris, where they encounter the main character. Isabel had earlier dumped this novel's protagonist Larry when he returned traumatized from the war, delayed their wedding, and moved to Paris. For 10 points, name this Somerset Maugham work which ends with Larry Darrell pursuing the life that pleases him.
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In this novel, after being offered a small cottage, a widow dines with two daughters and her generous cousin John Middleton. One character in this novel falls in love with a man after he carries her inside when she slips in the rain and falls. John is the owner of Norland Park in this novel, in which Lucy Steele marries Robert. Colonel Brandon explains the true character and infidelity of John Willoughby in this novel that ends with the marriage of Edward Ferrars and Colonel Brandon to Elinor and Marianne. For 10 points, name this Jane Austen novel centered on the Dashwood sisters.
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In this novel, one character discovers that the legendarily pious invalid Madame Stahl stays in bed to hide her stubby legs. The title character is stunned to meet Sappho Sholtz, and earlier breaks into tears when the horse Frou-Frou trips and breaks its back while trying to race Gladiator. One character is induced to trust the psychic Landau by the insidious tutor Lydia, who tries to prevent the title character from bringing gifts to her son Seryoza. Stiva's infidelities upset Dolly, who encourages Kitty's marriage with the plain Konstantin Levin. For 10 points, name this novel, in which the title character hooks up with Count Vronsky and jumps in front of a train, by Leo Tolstoy.
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In this novel, the violinist Vieuxtemps plays in an orchestra conducted by Johann Strauss. A ball in this novel takes place at Apartment 50, and Rimsky is the manager of the Variety Theatre who flees to Leningrad. In an insane asylum, the poet Ivan Bezdomny meets a man who wrote a work about Pontius Pilate. At the beginning of this novel, a foreign magician predicts the death of Berlioz, the head of MASSOLIT who is decapitated. That character Woland is the devil is disguise and is accompanied by a giant black cat called Behemoth. For 10 points, name this work of Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov about a title writer and his lover.
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In this play the gossiping neighbor Daphne is excoriated by Madame Pernelle, and later the maid Dorine is criticized by the righteous Laurent for concealing a handkerchief in between the pages of her Bible. A casket containing secrets owned by the political exile Argas is exploited for blackmail by the title character, who earlier uses his influence to disinherit Damis and break Valere's engagement to Marianne. The title character is eventually banished from house after his unsuccessful seduction of Elmire is witnessed by Orgon. For 10 points, name this play about the titular hypocrite, written by Moliere.
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In this play's first interlude the elderly money-lender Punchinello has to bribe a group of archers to not arrest him for serenading a woman, while earlier in the first act the protagonist chases a servant with a stick for criticizing his decision to betroth his daughter to Thomas Diafoirus. In this play's third act the diagnosis of Fleurant and Mr. Purgon is contradicted by the maid Toinette while she is disguised pretending to be a famous doctor. The title character of this play discovers the insincerity of his wife Beline when his brother Beralde convinces him to play dead and he ultimately allows his daughter Angelique to marry Cleante. For 10 points, name this Moliere play about Argan who is constantly concerned with his health.
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In this play's first scene, one character notes that a woman is watering "once a day her chamber round / With eye-offending brine" to "season a brother's dead love." Later, Fabian is excited about the chance to get revenge on a "rascally sheep-biter" who had caused him trouble over a bear-baiting. In the final act, one character notes that the "whirligig of time brings in his revenges" before someone who has been falsely imprisoned promises to be "revenged on the whole pack of you," and the play ends with a song whose refrain is "For the rain it raineth every day." The opening line "If music be the food of love, play on," is spoken by the Duke of Illyria, Orsino. FTP, name this play featuring Sebastian and Viola.
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In this play's third act, the maid Elvire tells the protagonist to hide before he gives his beloved a dagger asking her to kill him after overhearing her conversation with Sanche. The attendant Leonor consoles Dona Urraque for loving the main character. The central conflict of this play is instigated when one man slaps another character because he was selected as the tutor for the King's son. In the second act, Don Diegue begs the King to spare his son for killing Don Gomes in a duel, an action that forces the main female character to seek revenge against the man she loves. At the end of this play Chimene rejects Don Rodrigue even though he had just defeated the Moors. For 10 points, name this play about the titular Spanish hero, written by Pierre Corneille.
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In this play, Peter Lamb owns a tavern in Holland and offers a job to one character, who sings the "Song of Great Capitulation." The protagonist of this work received her nickname for delivering fifty loaves of bread during the bombardment of Riga. At the beginning of this work some characters receive black crosses while drawing lots, and one character is executed for stealing a cashbox and throwing it into a river. The title figure in this work operates a canteen wagon and loses her three children Eilif, Kattrin, and Swiss Cheese. For 10 points, name this play set during the Thirty Years War and centering on the family of Anna Fierling, the title matriarch, written by Bertolt Brecht.
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In this play, one character claims he is a son of Thomas d'Alburci of Naples and has survived a shipwreck on the way to Paris. Characters in this work include the matchmaker Frosine and one who is supposed to be wed to the older Anselme. The central character of this play has a cook named Master Jacques who falsely attributes a theft to Valère, the lover of Elise. In this play, Cleante loves the young Mariane, who is to be wed to Cleante's father, the title character whose hidden "best friend" is a casket of gold. For 10 points name this Molière comedy in which Harpagon is the title money saving character.
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In this play, one of the protagonists often cuts his fingernails, but never, to the best of his knowledge, cuts his toenails. In Act II, that character's pants fall down when he tries to block another character's path with his belt, and shortly after, he finds himself in pitch darkness, hearing soft sea sounds. In Act I, the main characters are offered a performance of The Rape of the Sabine Women, or rather woman, or rather Alfred. Later, in order to prepare for a confrontation with a Dane, the two main characters play questions, but they eventually discover, on a boat en route to England, that they are going to die, and they vanish from the stage at the work's end. For 10 points, identify this play beginning with 89 coin flips, written by Tom Stoppard from the perspective of two characters of Hamlet.
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In this poem's eighth stanza, a "funeral with plumes and lights" travels "through the silent nights," and the poem earlier discusses a place of "Four grey walls and four grey towers" that "overlook a space of flowers / And the silent isle." The title character proclaims that she is "half sick of shadows", and only the "reapers...among the bearded barley" are able to hear her, though she longs to meet a man who sings "Tirra lira." The title character cries "The curse is upon me" after her "mirror cracked from side to side" after she stops weaving when she sees "bold Sir Lancelot." For 10 points, name this poem about a woman who is trapped in a castle near Camelot, by Tennyson.
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In this work a character's wife attempts to enter society by joining the "Administrative Committee of the Crèche Bethlehem" in charge of decorating the church's nativity scene. That character is later disgraced when her husband, Charles Nicholas, makes a donation of shares in an illegitimate insurance company named Triton. In this novel, the elderly actor Falander's affair with a sixteen-year-old girl disgusts Rehnhjelm. Later that same girl, Agnes, becomes the protagonist's lover after changing her name to Beda Petterson. The main character of this novel discovers the painter Sellen has become fashionable and the philosopher Olle Montanus has committed suicide when he returns to Stockholm to learn the fate of his former colleagues who once met at the titular café. For 10 points, name this novel centering on the journalist Arvid Falk, a work by August Strindberg.
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In this work, Eurydice is taken back to the Underworld, after which Orpheus collapses on stage, in a performance of Gluck's Orpheus. Another character in this work witnesses a man spitting on cats from across his hotel room. Grand's anxiety prevents him from writing a letter to his former wife Jeanne in this work. This work's protagonist converses with Tarrou about Father Paneloux's sermons, which change in nature throughout this novel. The criminal Cottard fires his gun in the streets near the end of this work, at which point Raymond Rambert's wife visits him from Paris. This work opens with the death of thousands of rats in the streets of Oran, and focuses on Dr. Bernard Rieux. For 10 points, name this Albert Camus novel about the title epidemic.
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In this work, a footman interrupts one of the main characters talking to himself in the mirror, this is followed by a scene in which a woman's piano playing precipitates an emotional confrontation. Act 2 opens with a call by the Commissary ascertaining whether any records exist from a village recently left in ruins. Punctuated throughout by the laughter of Uncle Tino, it opens in a dressing room where a group discusses the peculiar relationship between a young woman who stands on a balcony and an older lady who visits, leaves notes, but never enters the house. Act 3 begins with Centuri announcing that "there is news," but that it is not definite, a revelation that disappoints the snooping Counselor Agazzi and his wife. For 10 points, identify this play that ends with Giulia revealing that she is both Ponza's second wife and Signora Frola's daughter, thereby proving the title point about "truth," a work by Luigi Pirandello.
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In this work, the Island of Ennasins is inhabited by a race with noses shaped like the Ace of Clubs, and earlier a dispute in which the bakers of Lerne refuse to sell cakes to shepherds prompts an invasion by King Picrochole. One character is confused by the contradictory advice he receives from Raminagrobis, Herr Tripa, and Friar John and leads a quest to consult the Oracle of the Holy Bottle. That character Panurge first meets one of the title characters after his father sends him to study in Paris because he requires four thousand six hundred cows to feed him and must be restrained by four massive chains. For 10 points, name this work about a pair of giants by Francois Rabelais.
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In this work, the protagonist's uncle introduces him to Huld, whose nurse becomes the protagonist's lover. After the protagonist encounters a tradesman named Block, he is unable to sway the Whipper from beating two agents. Despite the nosy Assistant Manager, the protagonist manages to obtain the address of Titorelli, a painter of the Magistrates who sells the protagonist a set of identical landscapes. The protagonist of this novel describes his own death as “Like a Dog!†when he is stabbed by two men. For 10 points, name this work about the bank clerk Joseph K., an unfinished novel by Franz Kafka about the title mysterious legal proceeding.
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It begins with the protagonist's wife apologizing for the cold meat offered to a character who describes his boss as a "chicken-hearted chap, a coward". The protagonist notes how he once wrote a favorable article in The Messenger about an entity he later describes as "the main artery" and "nerve center". The protagonist's daughter gets fired from her teaching position after her supervisor receives threats, and, besides Petra, Vik fired Captain Horster for providing the main character with a speaking venue. Other characters include Aslaksen and Billing, two men who work on The People's Herald under Hovstad. The protagonist is accused by the mayor of writing his inflammatory article because of the will of Morten Kill. For 10 points, name this Henrik Ibsen play about Dr. Stockmann, a man who finds contaminated water in the town's baths.
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It ends with the return of a seal by an old adviser named Shrewsbury and the flight of a former love interest to France. As it opens, a hidden compartment containing jewelry is discovered much to Hannah Kennedy's chagrin. Though based on such historical sources as William Camden's Annals, it reimagines the signing of the Treaty of Blois and features several fictional characters including the murderous O'Kelly and the fanatical Mortimer, who aims to succeed where Babington's conspiracy failed. Composed of five acts that shift from Fotheringay Castle to the Palace of Westminster, the titular heroine, who first appears wearing a veil with a crucifix in her hand, confronts her first cousin and royal rival in a park outside of her prison. For 10 points, identify this tragedy about a deposed Queen of Scotland, a work by Friedrich Schiller.
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Its first part ends with a discussion of whether a priest could really be a pickpocket, after which the narrator advices "fair mystic nymphs" to "pluck" their roses, apparently an allusion to the urination of Madame de Rambouliet. Its second part involves several chapters centering on a passport, all of which are set at Versailles. The narrator meets a poor monk of the order of St. Francis in Calais after introducing himself with the famous line "They order, said I, this matter better in France." It was published in the year of its author's death, 1768, and is based on a trip the author took to France and Italy. For 10 points, name this fictional work narrated by Yorick, a travel narrative by Laurence Sterne.
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Its second section ends with speculation that a young woman died because she tried to cross the lake at Lochan Neck, or because she lost her way "by turning left from Bridgeroad." The third section opens by punning on Rabelais's last words and describing death as the "grand potato" before discussing the I.P.H., or Institute or Preparation for the Hereafter, which hires the author to "speak on death." It was written by the author of the essay collection The Universal Seahorse, who in its fourth and final canto discusses the difficulty of shaving and his certainty that he will wake on the morning of July 22, 1959. FTP, name this poem which is 999 lines long, a work of John Shade which is paired with a commentary by Charles Kinbote in a novel by Vladimir Nabokov.
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Jacques-Louis David is featured in a novel about Evariste Gamelin, by this author, entitled The Gods Are Athirst, while in another novel, Madme Gilberte is a librarian and Julien Arcade is the guardian angel of the lazy young man Maurice d'Esparvieu. In addition to writing Revolt of the Angels, this novelist wrote At the Sign of the Reine Pedaque. In a more well-known work, the title character has a consuming love of books and is made the guardian of Jeanne, who marries Gelis. In addition to that work, he wrote a novel in which Mael goes to the title location to convert the indigenous creatures. For ten points, identify this man who wrote The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard and Penguin Island, a French novelist.
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Jerry Tugwell and Geoffry Wildgoose go on a "summer ramble" to meet George Whitefield in a novel about a "spiritual" one of these written by Richard Graves. Sir George Bellmour and Sir Charles Glanville vie for the affections of Arabella in a novel about a "female" one of these written by Charlotte Lennox. Graham Greene wrote a book about a "Monsignor" of this name, while a fragmentary version of it was written by a man whose other works include an invective against Paul Valéry and a monograph on Leibniz's Characteristica universalis, Pierre Menard. FTP, name this character who was most famously written about by Miguel de Cervantes.
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Minor characters in this novel include Liddy Smallbury, a maid working for the protagonist, and Pennyways, a bailiff who is caught stealing grain and dismissed but returns later when he recognizes another character at Greenhill Fair. Fanny Robin is a young orphan who attempts to marry the antagonist of the work but is unsuccessful when she goes to the wrong church. The climatic action of the novel takes place at a Christmas party, where the obsessive William Boldwood shoots Sergeant Troy. The novel ends with the protagonist marrying the honest Gabriel Oak, her first suitor. For 10 points, identify this novel about Bathsheba Everdene, a work of Thomas Hardy.
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Minor characters in this work include the servant Christophil and a character who tries to frame a nobleman for murder, the deceitful Viluppo. One character has his servant kill Serberine because he believes that he informed the protagonist of his crime. Pedringano believes that a messenger is bringing him a pardon for murder, which prevents him from exposing Lorenzo. The protagonist's wife Isabella serves as a foil to Bel-Imperia, who loved Andrea before Balthazar killed him. FTP, name this revenge play centering on Hieronimo's attempt to avenge the death of his son Horatio, the most famous work of Thomas Kyd.
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Mother Peep is a facist demagogue in a play that this author set in the Radiant City, which also includes the typist Dany. Another play by this author claims that philology leads to calamity, which is said by the maid in response to the Professor and the Student. In addition to The Killer and The Lesson, he rewrote a Shakespearean tragedy into MacBett. He wrote a play in which Marguerite and Marie are the wives of the title character, entitled Exit the King . An elderly couple jumps out of a window in one play, while multiple Bobby Watsons appear in a play by this author, which also shows a fireman looking for a fire. For 10 points, identify this most famous for The Chairs, The Bald Soprano, and a play where everyone except Berénger turns into the title animal, The Rhinoceros.
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Musical performances in this short story include one by Bartell D'Arcy, who's described as full of conceit, while one character is shocked to learn that another character worked at the gasworks. One character in this short story debates whether he should quote Browning, and chooses Shakespeare because it seems less pretentious. That quote is part of a speech that he must give after he carves a goose. The story opens at a party held by Miss Kate and Miss Julia, who give an annual Christmas party. The dead man Michael Furey prevents Gretta from loving the central character of this story, who sees snow falling all over Ireland in the famous last paragraph of this story. For ten points, identify this story in which Gabriel Conroy joins the title group of people, which is the last story from Dubliners.
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Near the beginning of this novel the protagonist is woken by a 7 a.m. bugle call, and not served breakfast because he is suffering from a toothache. This novel is broken into four sections, the First, Second, and Third Hearing, and The Grammatical Fiction. This work never explicitly mentions the Soviet Union, and Stalin is alluded to by the totalitarian leader "Number One". The protagonist develops a code that he taps on the wall in order to communicate with his neighbor, the occupant of cell number 402. When it is deemed Ivanov is being too soft in interrogating the protagonist, he is replaced by Gletkin, who has the hare-lipped Keiffer testify against the protagonist. For 10 points, name this novel about the imprisonment and eventual execution of Rubashov, a work by Arthur Koestler.
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Near the opening of the work in which this character appears, he is “underneath the grove of a sycamore†lamenting his unrequited love for a woman with “Dian's wit,†Rosaline. He is visited by Balthazar towards the end of the work in which he appears. This target of a speech about Queen Mab laments that he is “fortune's fool†after stabbing Tybalt, for which he is banished from Verona. He had earlier gone to Friar Lawrence to make plans for his wedding. For 10 points, name this star-crossed lover who commits suicide beside a seemingly dead Juliet.
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One author from this country described the freezing of Mientus's face as the result of a "duel of grimaces" with Siphon. That writer from this country spent two decades in Argentina attempting to make a Spanish translation of one of his novels and composing an account of his exile entitled Trans-Atlantyk. That writer from this country included the story "The Rat" in his Memoirs of a Time of Immaturity and also described the suitor of Zutka, a thirty-year old man named Johnnie, who is abducted by his old schoolmaster, Professor Pimko, and returned to the classroom. This country is home to the author of Kosmos, Pornografia, and Ferdydurke, as well as the author of patriotic historical fiction such as Without Dogma, The Deluge, and With Fire and Sword. For 10 points, identify this homeland of the man who wrote the Roman-set religious novel Quo Vadis?, Henryk Sienkiewicz, as well as Witold Gombrowicz.
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One author from this country wrote about Professor Pimko in a work that sees the transformation of a thirty-year-old man into a schoolboy. In addition to that author of Ferdydurke, another writer from this country wrote a trilogy that includes With Fire and Sword. This country's national epic is Pan Tedeusz. A Nobel-winning author from this country told the story of a Christian woman named Lygia, who has an affair with the Patrician Marcus Vinicius, in his novel Quo Vadis. For 10 points, name this country, home to Witold Gombrowicz and Henryk Sienkiewicz.
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One character created by this author has a heart attack while playing in a cimbalom band after organizing the poorly attended Ride of the Kings. A character in another of this author's novels abides by the “rule of threes†for committing infidelity and is given the epitaph “He wanted the Kingdom of God on Earth†after dying in a car accident while working at a dairy collective. Ludvik Jahn writes “Optimism is the opium of the people!†on a postcard, resulting in his expulsion from the Communist Party in this author's The Joke. For 10 points, name this Czech author who wrote about the photographer Tereza's relationship with the Tomas in The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
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One character has a dream of a chained bear being attacked by a greyhound, and Bramimonde changes her name to Juliana at the end of this work. Ivor and Samson are among "The Twelve Peers," while the meek Thierry miraculously defeats Pinabel in a duel. King Marsile sends a tribute to save the city of Saragossa with his envoy Blancandrin, who plots with Ganelon to betray his stepson. Archbishop Turpin and Oliver are killed standing beside the title character, who "burst[s] both the temples of his brain" while blowing his horn Oliphant. For 10 points, the wielder of Durandal is ambushed by the Saracens in what epic poem about a paladin of Charlemagne?
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One character in this book continuously repeats "Nobody loves me. I need to be loved." At one point in this novel, the protagonist thinks of Cleopatra while making love. The protagonist is frightened when, during his travels, someone shoots a dog twice and the police round up a group of protesters, and in another town he encounters an Australian and a Welsh painter as well as the writer James Argyle. The protagonist later starts an affair with a woman whose husband is only identified as an army colonel, Nan. An earlier affair with the artist Josephine leads the protagonist to leave his wife and his job with the miners' union. Rowland Lilly advises the protagonist to travel to Italy rather than continue his career at the London Opera. For 10 points, name this novel which ends with the destruction of the title flute, by D.H. Lawrence.
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One character in this novel adorns a cave with marble after burying the protagonist's severed head in it. The protagonist of this novel steals Voltaire books from a library, and his friend Foque offers him a position in his lumber business. The corrupt poorhouse official Valenod writes an anonymous letter that results in the protagonist losing his tutoring job. After he leaves the seminary at Besancon, the protagonist of this work has his marriage to the wealthy Mathilde de la Mole ended when he shoots at Madame de Renal after she reveals his affair with her. For 10 points, name this novel in which the Napoleonic ambition of Julien Sorel results in his downfall, a novel by Stendhal.
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One character in this novel buys a diamond before murdering a jeweler and being taken out of prison by Lord Wilmore. Another character in this work betrays Ali Pasha during the Greek revolution and sells his wife into slavery. At the end of this novel, the title character falls in love with the slave girl Haydee, and Luigi Vampa captures Danglars and imprisons him. In this novel, the Morcerf marries Mercedes and the protagonist finds the treasure described by Abbe Faria after breaking out of the Chateau d'If, where he was falsely imprisoned. For 10 points, name this revenge novel centering on Edmond Dantes, written by Alexandre Dumas.
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One character in this novel declares "a man that is born falls into a dream," and advises the protagonist to submit "to the destructive element." The narrator remarks that the protagonist is either "too interesting or too unfortunate" to collect guano with Chester and Robinson. Its title character wins an important military victory against Sharif Ali with the aid of Tamb'Itam, but is later betrayed by Gentleman Brown. Based on the account of the Jeddah, this novel climaxes with the willingness of the title character to be shot by Doramin for the death of Dain Waris in Patusan. Narrated by Marlow, for 10 points, name this novel about a sailor who abandons the sinking ship Patna, written by Joseph Conrad.
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One character in this novel gets her fiancée a gift of a turtle with her initials encrusted in diamonds on its shell. The protagonist meets two prostitutes, who he nicknames "The Death's Head" and "The Sickly Child," during his trip to Ma Mayfield's "Old Hundredth," which ends badly when Boy Mulcaster gets arrested for drunk driving and Rex Mottram has to bail them out of jail. The deathbed repentance of Lord Marchmain leads the protagonist to end his affair with Julia Flyte. For 10 points, name this novel in which Sebastian first brings Charles Ryder to the titular Catholic estate, written by Evelyn Waugh.
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One character in this novel has a dog named Hamilcar, while another has noticeably red hands. The protagonist once loved the daughter of a choleric mapmaker, Clementine, who was locked up after an argument involving the protagonist's uncle. The first segment, "The Log," takes its name from a gift that sets the novel's action in motion, including a gift in the form of a fake log with violets. The protagonist endeavors to acquire a volume owned by Signori Pozzi, The Golden Legend, which leads to his acquaintance with the Princess Trepof. The protagonist has two visions of a fairy, who throws ink at him, and who is represented in a statue by the protagonist's ward, Jeanne. That ward had previously been sequestered by Mademoiselle Prefere, but the protagonist helps her escape, which constitutes the title action. For ten points name this novel about an aging bibliophile by Anatole France.
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One character in this novel has a penchant for watching her children while stroking a lapdog named Pug. As a child, the protagonist is labeled ignorant because she lacks list knowledge like the chronological order of the kings of England. At the urging of Mr. Yates, characters in this novel plan to put on a performance of Elizabeth Inchbald's Lovers' Vows. In this novel, Maria runs from her husband Mr. Rushworth to elope with Henry, while Thomas travels to Antigua to look over his possessions. Its protagonist is brought to the title place on the urging of Mrs. Norris, and falls in love with Edmund Bertram. For 10 points, name this novel about Fanny Price's upbringing at the title estate, by Jane Austen.
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One character in this novel has written a textbook which is used by Gaston Godin at the Beardsley College for Women. The narrator of this work believes he is being followed by an Aztec Red Convertible driven by Inspector Trappe. The narrator of this novel stays in the Enchanted Hunters Hotel after driving to Camp Q. In this novel, Charlotte is run over by a car after reading her husband's diary, and the title character eventually marries Dick Schiller after running away with by the playwright Clare Quilty. For 10 points, name this work in which Dolores Haze is the subject of Humbert Humbert's proclivity for “nymphets,†a novel by Vladimir Nabokov.
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One character in this novel is a Legion of Honor winner who writes a series of editorials that put a blind man into an asylum. The title character of this novel steals arsenic from Homais. A failed operation on Hippolyte's clubfoot occurs in this novel, in which the title character owes money to the money-lender Lheureux. This novel's title character attempts to borrow money from Rodolphe Boulanger and claims to be taking piano lessons when she visits Léon Dupuis. For 10 points, name this novel about Charles and his unfaithful wife Emma, by Gustave Flaubert.
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One character in this novel is a pope's daughter who was forced to eat one of her own buttocks cheeks when taken prisoner by Muslims. Its title character is accompanied by the dour philosopher Martin, and encounters the city of El Dorado with Cacambo. It begins when the title character is thrown out of Baron Thunder-ten-Tronckh's castle for kissing Cunegonde. The title character claims that we must all tend our garden at the end of this novel, which is set in the “best of all possible worlds,†according to Dr. Pangloss. For 10 points, name this novel by Voltaire.
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One character in this novel is blackmailed by a man named John Barsad. Jerry Cruncher nicknames himself "resurrection man" because he steals fresh corpses to sell to medical students. One character is discovered spending nine straight days making shoes in a fit of temporary insanity by Jarvis Lorry, who works for Tellson's Bank. That character was unjustly imprisoned for eighteen years because he refused to cover up St. Evremonde Brothers' rape, and Miss Pross shoots Madame Defarge to protect the secrecy of Lucie Manette's escape from Paris. For 10 points, name this novel in which Sydney Carton takes the place of the condemned Charles Darnay by Charles Dickens.
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One character in this novel is called Something Something Rubinstein, and another has a vision of a silver wrapper growing to engulf the whole universe before attempting suicide. The protagonist first sees this work's title on the typewriter of F. Alexander and spits in correctional officer P.R. Deltoid's face. This novel opens with "your humble narrator" sitting in Korova milkbar. The protagonist has his love of "Ludwig van" removed by Doctor Brodsky and the Ludovico method. For 10 points, name this novel which is narrated in nadsat slang, a dystopian novel about the sociopathic Alex and his "droogs," written by Anthony Burgess.
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One character in this novel is left without a job after his producer Hal Valence cuts his role of Maxim Alien. Another character in this novel loves the mountaineer Alleluia Cone. A girl named Ayesha leads a pilgrimage which ends as people disappear intothe Arabian Sea. Other dream sequences in this novelfeature a character called "Mahound." Saladin Chamcha is detained on a beach for being an illegal immigrant after a plane explosion over the English Channel causes him and the Bollywood star Gibreel Farishta to take on the personas of the devil and the archangel Gabriel. For 10 points, name this novel which led to a fatwa against its author, Salman Rushdie.
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One character in this novel is served by Wenham and buys expensive jewels for another character. This novel features Lord Steyne and is partially set at a residence located on Great Gaunt Street. In this novel, Captain Dobbin serves in India and brings news of war during a meeting at Brighton. One character in this book goes to work for the Crawley family and marries the son Rawdon after scheming to marry Jos for his money. Its protagonist attends Miss Pinkerton's school as a child and hears George Osborn is killed during the Battle of Waterloo. For 10 points, name this "novel without a hero" about Amelia Sedley and Becky Sharp, written by William Makepeace Thackeray.
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One character in this novel reads about the smuggler Yanko from a journal. The title character of one of this novel's sections is pursued by the protagonist in order to cover up his illicit affair with Vera. In order to win Azamat's sister, the protagonist of this novel steals the horse of Kazbich, leading him to stab that sister, Bela. This novel's unnamed narrator learns about the title character from Maksim Maksimich, and its climax features a clifftop pistol duel which ends with Grushnitski's death. For 10 points, name this novel about the gloriously superfluous Grigory Pechorin, the masterpiece of Mikhail Lermontov.
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One character in this novel repeatedly poses as a bespectacled Jewish peddler to meet with the woman he loves. The arrival of the title character is precipitated by a dog biting then being kicked by a servant in one of two scenes involving upturned carriages. Another character in this novel marries Lieutenant Obadiah Lismahago, who tells stories of fighting Indians. The protagonist is released from jail after convincing the other inmates to stop visiting the jail's taproom, and his identity is eventually revealed by examining a snuff box. The Jewish peddler turns out to be George Dennison, whom Jerry Melford attempts to duel over his affection for Lydia. Upon hearing the name Matthew Lloyd, the protagonist learns that he is actually Squire Bramble's son, but marries the maid Winifred anyway. For 10 points name this novel about a servant and Methodist preacher, the final novel of Tobias Smollett.
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One character in this novel takes another to see Three Weeks in a Helicopter. One of its characters meets with a former lover called Tomakin after a period of drinking mescal with her lover Pope. This novel features the use of Podsnap's Technique, and characters in this novel include Helmholtz Watson and Mustapha Mond, the Resident World Controller. People in this novel worship Henry Ford and take a drug called soma. The beginning of this novel features the romance of Lenina Crowne and Bernard Marx, who witnesses the introduction of John the Savage into modern society. For 10 points, identify this dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley.
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One character in this novel tells of a man who was hanged for stealing a coffin for his dead child. The protagonist of this work is so moved by the hymn “The Foot of the Cross†that he visits its composer. As a child, this novel's protagonist works as a scarecrow but is fired when Farmer Troutham catches him talking to the birds. Doctor Vilbert sells a love potion to a character who tricks this work's protagonist into marriage by pretending to be pregnant. One of its characters leaves a note reading “Done because we are too menny†after hanging himself and his siblings. Following the death of Little Father Time, Sue Bridehead becomes religious, and this novel's title character remarries Arabella Donn. For 10 points, name this work about a stonemason, the last novel of Thomas Hardy.
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One character in this novel uses the deceitful governess Mrs. Younge to plan an elopement with Georgiana. One character in this work stays with the Gardiners while visiting London. This novel features the haughty Catherine de Bourgh, who supports the clergyman Mr. Collins, a man who marries the protagonist's best friend Charlotte Lucas. The protagonist's youngest sister Lydia causes a scandal by eloping with the villainous officer Mr. Wickam in this novel. The protagonist of this novel helps match up her sister Jane with Mr. Bingley, before finally accepting Fitzwilliam Darcy's second proposal. For 10 points, name this Jane Austen novel about Elizabeth Bennet.
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One character in this play describes a condition where a certain group gnashes its teeth and go into a stamping-mill. Characters in this work include the psychologist Dr. Hallemeier and Busman, who work with the engineers Fabry and Dr. Gall. At the end of this work, Alquist realizes that Primus and Helena are a new Adam and Eve. In this play, Helena Glory meets and eventually marries Harry Domin, and later both of these characters are killed in a revolt led by the title entities, whose name is Czech for "serf" or "worker." For 10 points, name this play by Karel Capek that introduced the word "robot".
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One character in this play is wary of going to the city because he heard a story of a man dying from eating fifty pancakes. Another character attempts to dismiss the old maid Anfisa and tries to force refugee victims of a local fire out of the house under the pretense of protecting her baby Bobik. In the last act Baron Tuzenbach is killed by Solony in a duel over one central character, while Captain Vershinin's transfer to another post leaves one title character trapped in her marriage to Kulygin. For 10 points, Irina, Olga, and Masha are the title characters of which Anton Chekhov play?
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One character in this play moans "I feel me going, uh, uh, uh, uh / I am sailing to my port, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh?" while pretending to die. One character in this play orders his wife to talk and walk backwards after she throws her handkerchief to a man disguised as the quack Scoto Mantua. In its fourth act, Bonario saves a woman from being raped after her husband Corvino makes her sleep with the title character, who receives gifts from Corbaccio and Voltore in the hope of becoming his heir. In its final act, the title character consigns himself to prison rather than give up his fortune to Mosca. For 10 points, name this play about a rich Venetian con man by Ben Jonson, which compares the title character to a fox.
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One character in this play reprimands a young man for smoking his father's meerschaum pipe and credits himself for saving his parents' marriage. Another character in this play wants to stay at Little Harbor street with his daughter and asks for help funding his plan for a sailor's boarding house. In this play's third act Jacob reports seeing another character drop a candle, which started a fire that results in the burning of an uninsured an orphanage, and Pastor Manders is infuriated when the orphanage's benefactor won't pay to rebuild it. In this play Regina discovers her father is not Jacob Engstrand, and she is actually the half sister of the artist Oswald. For 10 points, name this Ibsen play in which Helen Alving realizes her husband's syphilis has been passed to her son.
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One character in this play speaks of a man who forbade a horse-groomer from greasing the teeth of his horses in order to teach him how to do so. Another scene sees the protagonist declare that a woman who "wants wit in a corner" "has it nowhere." A scene in this work, in which one character describes his china collection, is discussed by in a later play by the same dramatist that includes the characters of Olivia and Eliza. In another scene in this play, a group of women, including Lady Fidget, meet to drink, during which it is revealed that every member of the group is having sex with the same man. One subplot involves Alithea, who is originally engaged to Sparkish, but, after being caught in a compromising situation, leaves him for Harcourt. Another character in this play pretends to be a eunuch. Pinchwife brings Margery, the titular character, to London, after which she has an affair with Harry Horner in, for 10 points, what play by William Wycherley?
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One character in this play tells the story of a man who snatches back a bouquet he gave to his fiancée. Another character declares that her real name is Sherlock Holmes after proving that two characters aren't who they think they are because Donald's daughter has a red right eye and Elizabeth's daughter has a red left eye. Two characters in this play argue about whether a ringing doorbell means someone is always there or never there, and earlier discuss a family of people all named Bobby Watson, before the Fire Chief arrives. For 10 points, name this play by Eugene Ionesco in which the Smiths and the Martins discuss the title woman who always wears her hair in the same style.
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One character in this play urges another not to obtain insurance because it might show an unreliance on divine Providence. Another character defends going townspeople leaving for Paris and cohabitating without marriage, which he claims is educational. One character convinces another that he had lit an ash into a pile of oil-soaked shavings, and that character convices Regina to leave with him. That character, the carpenter Engstran, convinces the minister Manders that he should be given the money to start a sailor's home, instead of the orphanage which is being erected to spend the fortune of the protagonist's dead husband. For ten points, identify this play in which Oswald Alving has venereal disease and his mother Helen tries to start an orphanage, a play by Henrik Ibsen.
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One character in this poem describes "nations striving strong" as being "mad as hatters", and another wonders "will the world ever saner be." Another stanza cites the drooling of the "glebe cow," as well as "the howl of wakened hounds" and describes how "the worms drew back into the mounds" after the titular event. Stourton Tower, Camelot, and "starlit Stonehenge" are reached by the sound of the title activity which "broke the chancel window-squares," and caused the narrator and his companions to think "it was the Judgment-day". Written in April 1914, its second to last stanza features Parson Thirdly, a character from the author's novel Far From the Madding Crowd, noting that he should have stuck to pipes and beer rather than preaching. Beginning "That night your great guns, unawares / shook all our coffins as we lay," for 10 points, name this poem describing English naval drills, a work by Thomas Hardy.
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One character in this work angrily writes notes in his copy of Don Juan, and another character in this work is called the "precious ideal." In this poem, an overweight general called "the prince" marries another character, and another character in it is served by Guillot. The protagonist of this work is tricked into attending a ball celebrating another character's name-day, but danced too much with Olga. After a lack of preventative attempts from Zaretsky, Vladimir Lensky is shot through the heart in a duel by the title character, who was loved by Tatyana Larin. For 10 points, name this verse novel by Alexander Pushkin.
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One character in this work compares an apple orchard to the Garden of Eden, and several editions have expunged the line "you mustn't let the cat out of the bag about the miller and his wife." Two of the characters in this play make plans to run away to Italy together, and another character makes a joke about being in an outhouse, which e calls a temple. The title character claims that Serena is "the only living thing who loves me since Diana was unfaithful to me!" which is odd, since Diana is a dog and Serena is a canary. Anna, Clara, and Sophie are all named characters who never appear, and near the end of the play, Christine leaves to listen to a sermon on the beheading of John the Baptist. For 10 points, name this play about the valet Jean and the crazy title noblewoman, by August Strindberg.
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One character in this work describes an infant on a chariot whose "two eyes are heavens/ Of liquid darkness" and who holds "a quivering moon beam" in hand before her sister talks of a sphere of music and light. This work's second act ends when "The pale stars are gone! / For the sun...hastes, in meteor eclipsing array" is claimed by The Voice of Unseen Spirits. That "Familiar acts are beautiful through love" and that "Soul meets soul on lovers' lips" are mentioned during a dialogue between the Earth and Moon, which is interrupted by Panthea and Ione. The title character says "Thy words are like a cloud of winged snakes;/ And yet I pity those they torture not" to a lone fury, and the Spirit of the Hour proclaims the title character's freedom after Heracles frees him from his chains. This play ends with the declaration "This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory" by Demogorgon, who proclaims his superiority over Jupiter. This work opens with the title character speaking of his love for Asia and bemoaning his torture by the hawks of Jupiter. For 10 points, name this closet drama by Percy Bysshe Shelley, a sequel to a work by Aeschylus.
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One character in this work dreams about a man with a rifle on Petrin Hill who helps three suicidal people kill themselves; after that dream, she spits in the face of an engineer during sex. The story about Yakov Stalin's death is told in one section, in which a mugging in Cambodia results in the death of Marie-Claude's husband, who had been seeing a character trying to escape kitsch. One character in this work becomes a window washer after referring to the Oedipus tale in an anti-Communist newspaper article, and his dog Karenin dies of cancer shortly before its owners die in a truck accident. For 10 points, name this book about the experiences of Tereza, Tomáš and Sabina during and after the Prague Spring, a work by Milan Kundera.
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One character in this work is criticized by the protagonist for making a young child hold a loaded gun, which eventually led to the child's death. That character had also labeled the protagonist a "defeatist," an accusation that precipitated one of two incidents in which the protagonist remembers his father exhibiting compassion. The protagonist's brother Leo has converted to Catholicism, something the protagonist wouldn't do for his lover. He recalls his dead sister being sent by her mother, now the head of a committee to reconcile racial difference, to protect her from the "Yankee Jews." The protagonist is extremely critical of Prelate Sommerwild and Mr. Kinkel after the Catholic Herbert Züpfner marries his former mistress, Marie Derkum. Ending with the protagonist singing "Poor Pope John," this is, for 10 points, what novel about former entertainer Hans Schneier by Heinrich Böll?
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One character in this work is described as "handsome like a young god," and later he is called both a devil and an angel by the protagonist. The servant Leopardo is falsely blamed for the central action of this work, while the actual culprit attempts to meet the protagonist by sneaking into her garden. An important scene in this work occurs after the protagonist's father "howled [such that] that the walls resounded" and involves a markedly erotic reconciliation of father and daughter. The work begins with a newspaper ad taken out by the protagonist in an attempt to find her child's father, who eventually agrees to meet her on the 3rd on his way back from Naples. Upon doing so, Count F. reveals that it was he who raped Giulietta after saving her from Russian soldiers, but she agrees to marry him anyway. For 10 points name this novella about a noblewoman by Heinrich von Kleist.
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One character in this work is gossiped about by Miss Atkinson, who compliments his behavior at the Wallises'. Another character is looked down upon for skipping a meeting with Lady Dalrymple and worries about the machinations of Mrs. Clay. A visit to Harville at Lyme Regis results in an injury to the protagonist's putative rival, who eventually marries Benwick. A friend of the protagonist, Mrs. Charles Smith, reveals the true character of her cousin William, who schemes to marry her to secure his inheritance of Kellynch Hall. The central family resides in Bath while Kellynch is being leased to Admiral and Mrs. Croft, the sister of the protagonist's former love who nearly marries Louisa Musgrove. A letter from Captain Wentworth eventually secures the hand of Anne Elliot in, for 10 points, what final novel by Jane Austen?
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One character in this work is mocked when Kat shouts "Change at Lohne" and attacks him with a bedcover when he is coming home from his favorite pub. One of the protagonist's friends mourns that he will never become head forester, and gives away his boots. Some of the main character's other friends include the locksmith Tjaden and the peat-digger Haie. The protagonist feels obligated to lie to Kemmerich's mother, and stabs Gerard Duval when they both hide in the same shell hole. The protagonist dies on an otherwise uneventful day. For 10 points, name this work about Paul Baumer's World War I experiences, written by Erich Maria Remarque.
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One character in this work listens to a recording of the jazz song "Some of these Days" on a battered phonograph in a cafe, and another is kicked out of a library after making advances on a young boy. The central character of this work makes advances on a café owner named Francoise, and remembers his fling with the fat English girl Anny. The protagonist, a historian, tries to reconstruct the life of the Marquise of Rollebon before meeting "the Self-Taught Man" Ogier P. in the seaport town of Bouville. The protagonist becomes obsessed with the idea that objects are “touching†him, and questions his existence, asking if he is a “mere figment of the imagination.†For 10 points, name this novel about the “sweetish sickness†that Antoine Roquentin experiences, a work by Sartre.
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One character in this work muses on the concept of "Thalavethiparothiam," or "strength obtained by decapitation," while shaving the protagonist. Recurring images in this novel include a horse branded with the number seven and posters for the film "The Hands of Orlac," running at the cinema owned by Señor Bustamante. After watching his brother fight a bull, the protagonist drunkenly recalls waiting for Lee Maitland on a train platform, though she never arrived. The conflict of the novel centers around his struggle to forgive his estranged wife Yvonne for her affair with Hugh, but she is eventually trampled to death by a horse while searching for him. The story of the protagonist is told by Jacques Laurelle as he prepares to leave Quauhnahuac. Taking place on the Day of the Dead, this is, for 10 points, what novel about the demise of Geoffrey Firmin by Malcolm Lowry?
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One character in this work reviews knights for a tournament which is won by a competitor in rusty armor emblazoned with the motto "In hac spe vivo." That character is a daughter of the King of Pentapolis who is found by Cerimon and Philomon, after which she becomes a priestess at Ephesus. In the fourth act of this paly, Dionyza encourages Leonine to commit a murder, but the girl he wants to kill is instead seized by pirates and ends up in a brothel. It opens with a prologue spoken by Gower, and features women named Thaisa and Marina. FTP, name this Shakespearean romance about a prince of Tyre.
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One character that this author created is writing a text on the “Domestic Industries in the Brabant in the Middle Ages.†Another character created by this author is Dr. Rank, who has tuberculosis of the spine. He created a woman who tells Løvborg to “die beautifully†and is blackmailed by Judge Brack. In another work, this playwright wrote about the banker Krogstad, whose return of incriminating documents prompts Nora Helmer to walk out on her husband Torvald. For 10 points, name this author of Hedda Gabler and A Doll's House, a Norwegian playwright.
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One couple in this work is pleased to hold a party that is exactly like everyone else's, down to the cakes served as snacks. Another character forces his son to postpone marriage for a year, out of disapproval of his son's fiancé, and his daughter lives with him on their estate at Bald Hills. In this work, Dolokhov is wounded in a duel over Elena and later joins the Masons. This novel opens with a party held by Anna Scherer and ends with the weddings of Nikolai and Maria and Natasha Rastov to Pierre Bezukhov. For 10 points, name this novel focusing on the events surrounding the invasion of Russia by Napoleon, a work of Leo Tolstoy.
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One episode in this novel sees two illicit lovers descend into hatred while trapped in a room in a convent and culminates in the man devouring his erstwhile paramour's shoulder in a pelopsian fit of hunger. Disaster ensues in this novel after Antonio is told his real name is Manasseh-ben-Solomon by his father, who tells the story of the native girl Immalee. The stories of the lovers John Sandal and Elinor Mortimer and of the starving Walberg family are told to Immalee's father, Don Francisco de Aliaga, by the title character, who eventually comes to claim Immalee at a masked ball. Other characters previously approached by the title character include Stanton, who was eventually confined to Bedlam, and Alonzo Moncada, who tells John the story of his titular ancestor. The title character is condemned to serve Satan by tempting the innocent for 150 years in, for 10 points, what gothic novel by Charles Robert Maturin?
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One episode in this novel shows a washerwoman screaming while clutched by another character, while she later is seized and carried away by a student. Another character appears in her nightgown and explains that she has a businessman locked up in a small room. The protagonist of this novel is confused to see a person in Fraulein Burstner's room, and he later buys three paintings from Titorelli in exchange for advice. Leni is the assistant to the lawyer Hull in this novel, who is engaged by the protagonist but only considers drafting a petition. This novel concludes when the protagonist is taken to a quarry and executed on his 31st birthday. For 10 points, name this novel about the arrest and persecution of a bank manager named Joseph K, written by Franz Kafka.
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One family in this work flees France after rescuing an "unfortunate Muhammadan" who is arrested for his religion the day his daughter Safie arrives from Constantinople. In addition to the De Laceys, another character in this work educated himself by reading about the Northwest Passage, and begins the novel by writing a series of letters to Margaret. Justine Moritz is falsely accused of the murder of the title character's brother William in this novel, which causes the title character to travel to England with Clerval to satisfy the demands of the antagonist for a female companion. The protagonist is rescued by Robert Walton in the Arctic and hails from Lake Geneva. For 10 points, identify this novel subtitled The Modern Prometheus, a Mary Shelley work about creating a certain monster.
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One figure described in this play always jumps on his desk when lecturing on the Macedonian Wars. Another character kisses a young lady on the shoulder and then ogles her mother shortly before skipping town and recounting his love-making in a letter delivered by the Postmaster. A waiter in this play serves a soup and hen meal to a guest and fights with the servant Osip over the remains. Ammos notes that the assessor to sporty judge Lyapkin-Tyapkin constantly smells of brandy. After a marriage proposal to Maria, Khlestakov leaves before it is discovered he is not actually the title character. For 10 points, name this Gogol play about Anton Antonovich's efforts to clean up a town before the title official arrives.
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One line in this poem notes that "the Queen Moon sits on her throne." The speaker of this poem speaks of his desire of a "Provencal vintage" that would turn his mouth purple, and later draws a parallel to Ruth, who "stood in tears among alien corn." Another moment in this poem occurs when the speaker hears the word "forlorn", which he says is "like a bell to toll me back from thee." The speaker says that he "had been half in love with easeful death" and notes to the subject that "to thy high requiem I am become a sod." In the last stanza of this poem, the speaker wonders "was it a vision, or a waking dream" and "do I wake or sleep?" For ten points, identify this poem which describes the feelings brought on by the title bird, an Ode by John Keats.
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One man in this work is offended when he cannot find the source of a name engraved on a cigarette case, and later quips that only relatives or creditors ring in a "Wagnerian manner" after his aunt finds that all of the cucumber sandwiches are gone. One character tells a man she just met that they've been engaged three months, and writes letters three times a week in her diary. Another character gets Reverend Chasuble to rechristen him. Miss Prism's revelation that she left a baby in a bag in a cloakroom leads Lady Bracknell to approve Gwendolen Fairfax's marriage to Jack Worthing. For 10 points, name this play about the significance of a certain name, by Oscar Wilde.
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One novel by this author features Worm and Mahood, a body and head stuck in a jar. Another work of this author features no characters and is meant to be performed in 35 seconds. This author of Breath and The Unnamable wrote play in which the title sixty-nine year old listens to recordings he made in his youth. This author of Krapp's Last Tape wrote a work featuring two characters that live in trashcans and interact with Hamm and Clov. Another work by this author features the arrival of Lucky and his slave Pozzo. For 10 points, name this author of Endgame who wrote about Vladimir and Estragon in the absurdist work Waiting for Godot.
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One novel written in this language concerns the post-war experience of a saxophone player named Danny and is entitled The Cowards. In another novel written in this language, the main character attempts to blow up the titular conveyances, and the author of that novel, Closely Watched Trains, also wrote I Served the King of England and Dancing Lessons for an Advanced Age. The main character in another novel written in this language is arrested for sending a postcard on which he writes "Optimism is the Opiate of the People," while a more famous work by an author writing mostly in this language concerns the romantic entanglements of Sabina, Tomas, and Tereza. For ten points, identify this language in which such works as The Good Soldier Schweik and The Unbearable Lightness of Being were written, the native tongue of Bohumil Hrabal, Jaroslav Siefert, Jaroslav Hasek, and Milan Kundera.
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One of his first works ends with the destruction of an attacking army by a school of scorpions in the surrealistic setting of "Farfelu." Another work follows the adventures of the Seven Sins and was dedicated to Max Jacob. A prodigious biographer, he depicted the effects of his final illness in the volume Lazarus, while another work begins with a section called "Chartres Camp" and depicts an Alsatian, Vincent Berger, coming to grips with the legacy of war. That work, The Walnut Trees of Altenburg was preceded by a work about Kassner an intellectual who escapes a concentration camp in Days of Wrath. In another work, this author tracks a group of varied characters, including the medical student Katow and the Chinese figher Ch'en, during a Communist uprising in Shanghai that is later crushed by Nationalist forces. For 10 points, identify this author of The Royal Way and Man's Fate.
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One of his poems discusses a "beautiful mild woman" and states that the title character's fall "needs much laboring." Another poem by this man states that the title characters "were all on show" and ends with the image of "the foul rag and bone shop of the heart." In addition to "Adam's Curse" and "The Circus Animals' Desertion", he asked "how can we tell the dancer from the dance?" in the last line of his poem "Among School Children," and wrote of a people to whom "no likely end" could bring loss, "or leave them happier than before." In that same poem, the title character believes "that he shall meet his fate / somewhere among the clouds above," while another poem compares an old man with a tattered robe upon a stick and opens by describing the title place as "no country for old men." For 10 points, name this author of "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death", and "Sailing to Byzantium."
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One of his protagonists refers to his sister as the "Dark Girl of Long Alley" and steals a gun from her Nazi lover to bury in a secret location. The title character of another work battles with the "fruit thieves," dies by fastening himself to the anchor of a balloon, and refuses to eat his sister's snail soup. Those novels about Pin and Cosimo are The Baron in the Trees and The Path to the Nest of Spiders. In another of his novels, Medardo of Terralba is split in half by a cannonball, and in another a plot about swapping suitcases devolves into a romance between Ludmilla and "The Reader." For 10 points, name this author of The Cloven Viscount and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler.
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One of the central characters in this work is a cotton merchant who has a resemblance to King Henry IV, while the main female character is said to have a crimson face and the tiniest of white teeth. Over dinner the stories of Judith and Holofernes and Lucrece and Sextus are offered as examples of self-sacrifice in which the "end justifies the means." The clanging of the scabbard of a Prussian officer at Totes is the first sign of trouble for a group of travelers on a journey to Le Havre from Rouen. FTP, name this story which was adapted for film by John Ford as Stagecoach, a work by Guy de Maupassant centering on Elisabeth Rosset, the titular portly prostitute.
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One of the characters tells of a madman, who was a painter and an engraver, who thought the end of the world had come, while his father tells of an Englishman who needed a pair of striped trousers for the New Year festivities. It is also revealed that Mother Pegg died of darkness by a character who doesn't know the combination of the cabinet of his master. His master's mother, who nearly drowned with her husband at Lake Como, later opens the lid of her ashbin and asks for a sugar-plum, although she later expresses her desire for a Turkish delight to her blind son, who is constantly wheeled around by his servant. Nell believes that unhappiness is the funniest thing in the world, but his death at the end of the play occurs shortly before Clov leaves Hamm. FTP, identify this one act play by Samuel Beckett.
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One of the final scenes in this novel depicts the estate of the protagonist being inspected by the clergy for the presence of idols, as three spinster sisters keep watch. Another scene in the novel sees the protagonist visit the town after dinner with his priest with him. That priest, Father Pirrone, visits his home village in one part of the novel to settle a family dispute and educate the villagers about the changing political landscape. The protagonist's nephew joins the redshirts and boasts about this at a dinner party, much to the disgust of his cousin Concetta. Angelica falls in love with the dashing Tancredi in the town of Donnafugata where the protagonist and his family are visiting. Centering the Risorgimento's impact on a Sicilian family, for 10 points, name this novel about Prince Salina who goes by the titular animal nickname, a work of Giovanni Tomasi di Lampedusa.
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One of these poems notes that "the free creature / has its progress always behind it, / and God before it," and concludes by observing that "We arrange it. It collapses. / We arrange it again, and collapse ourselves." In another, constellations like "the Rider, the Staff, and... Fruit-Garland" are enumerated by a personified Lament, and that one ends by supposing "if the endless dead woke a symbol in us." One of these invokes the lover Gaspara Stampa, and a better-known example invokes the "days of Tobias" and declares in its first line that "Every Angel is terror." Beginning by invoking "if I cried out, who would hear me, among the angelic orders," for 10 points, identify this series of ten poems named for a castle by Rainer Maria Rilke.
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One of these works revels in the immense joy of eating "Fat apple, banana, pear, / gooseberry", while another asks, "Is there no constellation Rider?" The author of these exhorts the reader to "take inspiration from the flame" in transforming and "turn[ing] yourself into wind" like Daphne. One poem in this collection worries about offending "the great unsuing gods" "Just because they do not know the hard / strong steel that we produce", one of several that laments the aesthetic problems with the industrial age. One of these poems states, "Erect no monument. Just let the roses / blossom" as a reward for the title character, who "drowned out" the shouting of Maenads "with beautiful order" and "uplifting playing". Written to commemorate the death of the young dancer Vera Knoop, for 10 points, name this cycle of 55 fourteen-line poems addressed to a lyre-playing Greek by Rainer Maria Rilke.
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One of this author's books includes a poem which asks "Whither away, brisk egg?" and describes "Tortoise Family Connections." That book of "unrhyming poems" opens with a prose poem noting that "fruits are all of them female," and includes poems describing "birds, beasts, and flowers." Another of his poetry books depicts a protagonist who throws in his lot with a woman who is already married, though they eventually "transcend into some condition of blessedness." In addition to Look! We Have Come Through!, he wrote the volume Pansies and a poem which implores the reader to "build your ship of death." This British author's novels include one about an amateur flautist, Aaron's Rod, as well as a novel about Gertrude Coppard and her son, Paul Morel. For 10 points, name this author of Kangaroo and Sons and Lovers.
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One of this author's novels shows Basil Seal attempting to slow the growing insanity of the Chief of the Chiefs of Sakuyu, an Oxford graduate named Seth who has proclaimed himself the emperor of Arizona. In addition to Black Mischief, this author wrote about John Beaver, who attempts to seduce Brenda in order to further the business of his interior decorator mother. That same novel shows the owner of Hetton Abbey forced to read Charles Dickens novels to a savage in the jungle; that man is Tony Last. His best-known novel shows Samgrass hold on to all the expense money of Sebastian's regiment; Sebastian is a friend of Charles Ryder, a painter who is a houseguest at the residence of Lord and Lady Marchmain. For 10 points, name this author of A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited.
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One of this author's poems condemns a man who goes to parties and steals people's napkins, and another describes a voyage home on a boat that resembles a bean pod. This author addressed his town Sirmio as “the most pleasant of peninsulas,†and asks for more kisses than grains of sand in the desert in another poem. He translated Callimachus's poem “The Lock of Berence,†and this member of the Neoteric group dedicated his collection of poems called “nugae†to Cornelius Nepos. This figure's more famous poems include one about the death of his lover's sparrow, and one beginning “ave atque vale†on the death of his brother. For 10 points, name this Roman poet who wrote poems to Lesbia.
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One of this author's poetry collections contains such verses as "After the Storm" and "Eve," while another is divided into sections like the "Illness Cycle" and the "Could I ever forget Cycle." Those volumes, entitled When It Clears Up and Themes and Variations, respectively, were published 36 years apart and span a career that began by imitating Rilke. This man's short stories include "The Apelles Mark" and a tale about the kidnapping of young boy named Tosha, who is rescued, but later executed by the Red Guards, called "Aerial Ways." This author's longer lyrics include a panoramic ode to the revolution and an autobiographical portrait of the leader of the Sevastopol mutiny. In addition to 1905 and Lt. Schmidt, this author published a work that centers on a young woman who rejects both her husband Pascha and the vindictive Komarovsky to be with a man she once worked with as a nurse. For 10 points, identify this Russian author, who created the lovers Lara and Yurii, in his Doctor Zhivago.
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One of this author's stories ends with a teenager pointing a gun at his sister after raping the elderly prostitute living upstairs, while others are collected in The Temptation of Jack Orkney. This author's dramas include Each His Own Wilderness and Play with a Tiger. Three men lust after the title figure of this author's "A Woman on a Roof," while Catherine's crush on Philip leads her to borrow a book by the titular author in her "Homage for Isaac Babel." George Sherban is the incarnation of Johor, a representative of the Canopus empire, in her space novel Shikasta, and an abandoned house is restored by Alice Mellings in The Good Terrorist. A Ripple from the Storm, A Proper Marriage, and Martha Quest make up her trilogy Children of Violence, while a better-known work contains the novel The Shadow of the Third by Anna Wulf. For 10 points name this author of The Golden Notebook.
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One of this author's title characters writes the poems for The Poet, befriends Abdul, and attempts to seduce his adopted father's wife, Queen Beatrice. In one of his better known works, SFAs make way for Diabolicals as target customers for the vanity publishing label Manuzio. An antique book seller named Yambo must rediscover his youth after his memory is erased in another of his novels. One of his title characters authors a phony letter from Prestor John addressed to Frederick the Great. Besides The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana and Baudolino, one work by this author sees Diotallevi, Belbo and Casaubon form “The Plan†to write a fake history of the Knights Templar. For 10 points, name this Italian author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum.
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One of this author's works begins with Menaphon and Amethus sighing about their love for Thamasta and Cleophila. Later, Corax heals Meleander, the father of Eroclea. Besides The Lover's Melancholy, this man wrote a historical play in which Daliell is the suitor of the daughter of Lord Huntley, Katherine, the eventual wife of the title claimant to the throne of King Henry VII. His collaborations with Thomas Dekker include The Sun's Darling and The Witch of Edmonton. In one of his plays, Donado's simple nephew, Bergetto, tries to woo the title character, and Hippolita is poisoned by Vasques. That man's master, Soranzo, is murdered by Giovanni, the incestuous brother and killer of the title character, Annabella. For 10 points, name this author of Love's Sacrifice and 'Tis Pity She's a *****.
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One of this man's collections of essays includes "Mrs. Grundy at the Parkers'" as well as papers on Gemistus Pletho, Cardan, and Howard Overing Sturgis. His short story collectoin The Life to Come was published posthumously, while during his life he published a book of stories of the supernatural entitled The Eternal Moment. After the publication of The Celestial Omnibus in 1911, he didn't publish anything for over a decade, though he wrote a guide to Alexandria during that period as well as the novel that would be published posthumously as Maurice. FTP, name this English author of Where Angels Fear to Tread and A Room with a View.
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One of this man's novels opens with the disruption by Sir Ralph of the marriage at Rubygill of Robert Fitz-Ooth and Matilda Fitzwater. Chapters on "Pantopragmatics" and "Aristophanes in London" appear in this man's last novel, which features Algernon Falconer and the Reverend Doctor Opimian. This man never finished a novel which features John Figginbotham, Calidore, though he did complete Melincourt and Gryll Grange. His best-known poem, "The War-Song of Dinas Vawr," appears in the novel The Misfortunes of Elphin. FTP, name this author of Maid Marian, Crotchet Castle, and Headlong Hall, a friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley who was the foremost English satirical novelist of the early 19th century.
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One of this man's stories involves a murder committed via stewed currants. Another work by this author features a caricature entitled "The Fable of the Wall-Flower and the Sour Grapes" drawn by the deaf Jenny Mullion. Characters in this man's works include the inventor of inflatable underwear and the leader of the Brotherhood of British Freemen, and one of this man's novels features a millionaire once called "Jelly-Belly" who repeatedly tells himself "God is love, there is no death," Jo Stoyte. In addition to writing After Many a Summer Dies a Swan, this man wrote about Walter Bidlake and Phillip Quarles in Point Counter Point. FTP, name this author who also created John the Savage and Bernard Marx in Brave New World.
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One of this writer's narrators comments that woodcocks remind him of a mad woman who froze after being abandoned in a forest tied to her bed by vindictive soldiers, and a group of repentant prostitutes inspire an entire church congregation to weep during Constance's confirmation in "Madame Tellier's Establishment." The title character of one work gives her wine to nourish Mrs. Carre-Lamadon, before she is coerced into sleeping with a Prussian officer and another story ends when Jeanne Forestier reveals to Matthilde Loisel that the title object is a fake. For 10 points, name this author who penned "Ball of Fat" and "The Necklace."
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One part of this poem describes how Indians see God in clouds and the sky, and another section describes how, with sense true, a nice bee can derive honey from poison herbs. Before this poem notes "One truth is clear, whatever is, is right", it asks if a lamb would skip and play were it endowed with the knowledge of its impending doom. The fourth and last epistle concludes by informing the reader that "all our knowledge isâ€"Ourselves to know", while the first epistle of this poem begins with an invocation to St. John and the announcement that this work will "vindicate the ways of God to man", before noting that "Hope springs eternal in the breast of man". For 10 points, name this poem which pronounces the "proper study of mankind", a work of Alexander Pope about people.Â
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One passage in this book discusses a figure who wrote the four-volume work The Pronunciation of Latin in the Unversities of Southern Italy toward the End of the Twelfth Century, while another person mentioned in this book spent thirty years translating all known Egyptian texts into Greek and Sanskrit. Part of this novel recalls the long-dead Plinius, who lived during the Age of the Feuilleton. A character based on Jakob Burkhardt, the Benedictine Father Jacobus, challenges the protagonist of this novel to several theological debates. The protagonist of this novel is required to write three sketches, including one of his previous life as an eastern philosopher. Friedrich Nietzsche is represented in this novel by the eccentric Thomas van der Trave. The protagonist of this novel dies while taking care of the child of his friend and rival Plinio Designori, and he previously had attended school at Waldzell and Eschholz. For 10 points, identify this novel set in Castalia about the Magister Ludi Joesph Knecht, a work by Hermann Hesse.
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One play by this author features characters named Lady Loadstone and Sir Diaphanous Silkworm, and this author wrote a poem beginning "Drink to me, only with thine eyes and I will pledge with mine." In addition to The Magnetic Lady and "To Celia," this author wrote a play about Knowell and his servant Brainworm. Another play by this author is set in Venice and features Corvino, Corbaccio, and Voltore vie to be the heir of the title character served by Mosca. Another play by this author sees Master Lovewit marry Dame Pliant and confront Face. For 10 points, name this British dramatist who authored Every Man in His Humour, Volpone, and The Alchemist.
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One play by this man ends with Gwendolyn Dean slashing a painting by Holbein and pinning Louis Flax's anti-nuclear-weapons petition over it. His historical works include State of the Revolution , about Lenin's relationship with Stalin, and a play regarding the conflict between Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots, Vivat! Vivat Regina! This author of The Tiger and the Horse adapted Somerset Maugham's play The Circle into his own The Critic and the Heart, and he wrote another play in which the Spanish ambassador Chapuys tries to find out the title character's intentions. In that play, Richard Rich commits perjury and the central figure's daughter Margaret wishes to marry the Lutheran Roper, with the action narrated by The Common Man. For 10 points, name this author who wrote the screenplays for Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia as well as a historical drama which ends with the beheading of Thomas More, A Man for All Seasons.
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One poem by this author is set on "the lonely moated grange" and includes a title character who weeps "I am aweary, aweary, i would that I were dead!" This author of "Mariana" is better known for a poem whose title character bemoans, "The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts" to Eos for granting him immortality. He wrote a poem which begins "sunset and evening star" in which the speaker hopes to see his Pilot "face to face." For 10 points, name this poet of "Tithonus" and "Crossing the Bar," who wrote "Into the valley of Death rode the six hundred" in a memorial written after a Crimean War loss, his "Charge of the Light Brigade."
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One poem by this man states “Love is the fart / Of every heart / It pains a man when 'tis kept close / And others doth offend when 'tis let loose.†In that poem by this author, William Davenant is denied a laurel from Apollo due to lacking a nose. This author of “The Sessions of the Poets†wrote a parody of an epithalamium that describes how a bride's “feet beneath her petticoat / Like little mice, stole in and out / As if they feared the light.†The characters Orsabrin and Reginella fall in love in Tamoren's underground citadel in a play by this man named for some disguised outlaws. This author of “A Ballad upon a Wedding†and the play The Goblins wrote his best-known lyrics in Aglaura. For 10 points, name this Cavalier poet of “Why so pale and wan, fond lover?â€
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One poet from this country asked if the title animal would “climb the walls†in her poem “Cat in an Empty Apartment.†This country is the setting for a Spanish play in which Basilio locks his son in a tower and convinces him that he only imagined actual events. This setting of Life is a Dream has a national epic sometimes titled Mister Thaddeus. One author from this country wrote a novel in which Nero burns down Rome for the sake of artistic accuracy and Marcus Vinitius falls in love with the persecuted Christian Ligia. For 10 points, name this home of Quo Vadis author Henryk Sienkiewicz and Nobel Prize winning poet Wislawa Szymborska.
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One section of this work describes the "lights of the world" reduced to a wallet. Another section sardonically advises conscripting Scotists, Occamists, and Albertists to use their "subtleties" to fight the Turks. This work contains sections on the happiness of self-love and the importance of flattering oneself, and ends by describing Christianity's alliance with the title character. The title character describes being raised by Drunkenness and Ignorance after being born to Plutus and Youth, and claims that she "frees" people from inhibition, fear, and shame that would prevent "real experience." Also titled Moirae Encomium, for 10 points, name this fictional oration written in 1511 by Erasmus.
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One section of this work follows five men wearing an advertisement for Wisdom Hely's on their hats. Another of its sections sees the protagonist rescued from a shouting match with The Citizen by the arrival of Martin Cunningham. One character in this work gets his pay from Garrett Deasy, and wakes up with his friend and the Englishman Haines in a Martello tower. This novel's protagonist climaxes as a Roman candle explodes after watching Gerty MacDowell at the beach and masturbating, in the episode “Nausicaa.†Blazes Boylan has an affair with its protagonist's wife Molly, whose “soliloquy†ends this book. For 10 points, name this novel, which parallels the wanderings of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom's with the events of the Odyssey, a work of James Joyce.
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One section of this work takes place in the Anti-Emperor's Tent, which Get-Quick and Quickloot ransack for treasure. An earlier scene takes place on the Pharsalian Fields, and features such characters as Erichtho and the river god Peneus. Its protagonist devotes the end of his life to reclaiming land from the sea in a costal province of which he has been made governor. St. Francis appears at the end along with the Virgin Mary, while Euphorion, the son of the protagonist's love interest, appears in act III. He fell for that love interest, Helen of Troy, after he conjured her for the Holy Roman Emperor. FTP name this work in which a German scientist sees the conclusion of his deal with Mephistopheles, a sequel to an earlier play of Goethe.
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One speech in this play asserts that "the Devil isn't made by what mummy says and daddy says. The Devil'sthere. It's an old-fashioned word, but a true thing." In another scene, the protagonist remembers working in a store and being overwhelmed by customers asking for brand names like Philco, Hoover, and Remington. One character in this play dreams of being a priest in Homeric Greece and slicing open children in Argos. In its second act, this play's protagonist recalls finding his father, a socialist named Frank, watching an erotic movie after taking a pill he believes to be truth serum, which causes him to describe his failed sexual encounter with Jill. At the end of the first act, the protagonist strips naked and ecstatically worships Nugget in the presence of psychologist Martin Dysart. For 10 points, name this play about Alan Strang, who enters therapy after using a steel spike to blind six horses, written by Peter Shaffer.
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One stanza of this poem counters “fast-fading violets covered up in leaves†with “the murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.†This poem describes the “Queen-Moon†in one of its stanzas, which opens with a contrast between “Bacchus and his pards†and “the viewless wings of Poesy.†This poem's speaker describes the “sad heart of Ruth,†who “stood in tears amid the alien corn.†Its speaker calls this poem's title creature “soft names in many a musèd rhyme†and “light-wingèd Dryad of the trees†and notes that he feels as if he'd taken “hemlock†or “some dull opiate,†as his “heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains.†For 10 points, name this poem about an “immortal bird†that “wast not born for death,†a work of John Keats.
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One story from this collection ends with the copyist Farrington beating his son Tom, while in another story Mr. Duffy causes Mrs. Sinico great pain. In addition to "Counterparts" and "A Painful Case," this collection includes a story about canvassers hoping to elect Richard Tierney. In addition to "Ivy Day in the Committee Room," this book contains a story in which a boy buys a gift for Mangan's sister at the title bazaar. In its final story, Gretta's memory of Michael Furey causes a devastating epiphany for Gabriel Conroy. For 10 points, "Araby" and "The Dead" are found in what short story collection by James Joyce which takes its name from the residents of the Irish capital?
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One work by this author centers on a play about the pilot Rico Verri directed by Dr. Hinkfuss's. The protagonist of one of this author's novels abandons his wife Romilda and wins big at Monte Carlo before trading identities with a dead man. This author of Tonight We Improvise and The Late Mattia Pascal wrote about a man who falls off of his horse and believes he is the title Holy Emperor. One of his plays is partially set in Madame Pace's shop and sees the Father, the Mother, the Stepdaughter, the Son, The Boy, and the Little Girl ask the Stage Manager to put them in a play. For 10 points, identify this Italian author of Henry IV and Six Characters in Search of an Author.
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One work by this author consists of letters written to Franz Kappus at a military academy, and one poem by this author includes the lines "We cannot know his legendary head" and "you must change your life." In addition to writing Letters To a Young Poet and "Archaic Torso of Apollo," one collection by this author dedicated to Vera Knoop contains fifty-five poems addressed to a mythological figure who "performed his song," and another collection by this author takes its name from an Italian castle and begins, "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the Angelic Orders?" For 10 points, identify this author of Sonnets to Orpheus and The Duino Elegies.
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One work set in this country ends when the dog Aesop is shot by his owner Thomas Glahn, while the title character of a trilogy about this country assists in the murder of Eline to marry a knight in the first part entitled The Wreath. In another work from this country The People's Herald withdraws its support for Dr. Stockmann's claim that the bathes are contaminating the local water, and in another work Nils Krogstad's blackmail leads to Nora leaving her husband Torvald Helmer. For 10 points, An Enemy of the People and A Doll's House are set in this country, the home of Knut Hamsun, Sigrid Undset, and Henrik Ibsen.
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One writer with this last name coined the phrase “bedside manner†in a cartoon and created the evil hypnotist Svengali in a novel. In addition to George, who authored Trilby, another writer with this last name wrote of Jack Favell's plot to blackmail Maxim de Winter, who had earlier shot his first wife and sunk her corpse in a boat. That writer with this surname wrote a short story that Hitchcock adapted into film, “The Birds,†as well as a novel in which the estate of Manderley is burned down. For 10 points, give this surname of Daphne, the author of Rebecca.
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Oscar Wilde wrote a poem that begins, "the corn has turned from gray to red / Since first my spirit wandered forth" about this city "Unvisited," and Christina Light has her bust made by the sculptor Roderick Hudson in this city. Hilda witnesses Miriam Schaefer inducing her lover Donatello to murder a monk by throwing him off the Tarpeian Rock in one novel set here, The Marble Faun, while the title character of another book is snubbed at a party hosted by Mrs. Walker in this city because she spurned Winterbourne to carry on a scandalous affair with Giovanelli. For 10 points, name this city, in which Daisy Miller contracts malaria during a tour of the Coliseum.
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Part four opens with a visit to the Shanghai in search of a nude dancer named Teresa. Later in this work, which features a scene wherein a character tries to lose a game of checkers played with whiskey bottles, a dog named Max is mistakenly poisoned at the European Trader's Association Dinner held at the Hotel Nacional. That episode, leads to an interrogation of the protagonist by his daughter Milly's admirer, the ruthless Captain Segura. By the end of the novel, Dr. Hasselbacher has been killed and the confusion surrounding a curious series of schematics. Subtitled "An Entertainment," this work features a series of interludes set in London where Hawthorne and the Chief discuss the latest "filings" by the title character. For 10 points, identify this work that centers on vacuum salesman James Wormold's work as a spy on the island of Cuba, a novel by Graham Greene.
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Several secrets come to light in this play when a character remembers the burning of Caesarea. Chatillon laments that he has been freed but his king remains enslaved after a monarch is so impressed by the honor of a former captive in this play that he frees one hundred slaves upon receiving ransom for ten. The sultan ultimately orders Corasmin to free all the Christians before stabbing himself at the end. Misunderstandings began over a furtive letter sent by Nerestan, who learns that the title character is his sister and both are the children of Lusignan, the putative king of Jerusalem. For 10 points, name this play in which the title slave girl converts back to Christianity and ends her plans to marry Orosmane, a melodrama by Voltaire about the Crusades whose title figure once shared her name with an African country.
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Shorter works by this writer include "The Blue Lenses," about a woman who sees animal heads on everyone around her, and "The Pool," about a magical world in the woods. This author's Frenchman's Creek, a novel about pirates, was followed by the story of Philip, a young man obsessed with his dead uncle Ambrose Ashley's wife, who may or may not be a murderer. That work, My Cousin Rachel, was published before The King's General, a historical novel set at the author's Cornwall estate Menabilly. A historical estate would also be at the center of this writer's best-known work., which, like her short story "The Birds," was filmed by Alfred Hitchcock. FTP, name this author of Jamaica Inn and a novel about Maxim de Winter's dead wife, Rebecca.
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Stan Smith divides this poet's work into two periods, with "Going" and "Wedding Wind" chosen as two representative poems from the later style. He notes that if he were called in to construct a religion, he would make liberal use of the titlar "Water" in another poem. Looking out the window while "Groping back to bed after a piss" inspires wistful thoughts in this man's "Sad Steps". In another poem concludes that "Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love" while observing the titular resting place of the "earl and countess." The narrator of another poem by this author watches "a couple of kids," and thinks "he's !ucking her and she's taking pills or wearing a diaphragm." The author of "An Arundel Tomb", one of his best known poems comes from the collection High Windows and notes "they !uck you up, your mom and dad". For 10 points, identify this 20th century British poet of "This Be the Verse".
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Subplots involve the manipulation of a peasant family and a one year window to rescue the princess Erona from being burned at the stake. It includes such poems as "What tongue can her perfections tell" and a double sestina depicting a discussion between Klaius and Strephon. The first part ends with the heroes fighting off a lion and a bear, while another scene involves a prince disguising himself as an Amazon. The first iteration of this work included an appendix titled "A Debate on Versification," as well as a dedication to the author's "dear sister," the Countess of Pembroke. Composed in five "Books or Acts," it opens with the ruler of the title realm, Basilius, receiving dire prophecies concerning the fate of his two daughters, Pamela and Philoclea. For 10 points, identify this 16th century pastoral romance, a work published in "Old" and "New" versions and written by Philip Sydney.
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The Béjart sisters acted lead roles in many plays by this author. In one of this author's plays, the daughters of Gorgibus spurn the advances of La Grange and Du Croisy, but fall in love with their valets. In another, the title character delivers a long dialogue of nonsense Latin to prove his learning, and examines Lucinde after being beaten with sticks. This playwright wrote about Magdelon and Cathos in The Pretentious Young Ladies, and Sganarelle in The Doctor in Spite of Himself, and created the hypochondriac Argan for The Imaginary Invalid. He also wrote a play about Alceste's hatred of hypocrisy. For 10 points, name this French playwright of The Bourgeois Gentleman and The Misanthrope.
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The Prologue of this work notes that "Words are but air; the wise man will ignore / A monster whose existence is not sure," implying that the prologue may have been originally performed by the lyre-playing centaur depicted on the cover of an early edition of this play.The password is "Saint Cuckoo," the "most celebrated saint in France," though that password is never actually used during the abduction of a beggar. Fra Timoteo's question "What brings you here?" is answered, "Very well, thank you" by Nicia, whom the marriage broker Ligurio has instructed to act deaf. A fake doctor claims to be able to cure Lucrezia's barrenness with the side effect that the first man to sleep with her after a potion takes effect will die within eight days. For 10 points, name this play in which Callimaco successfully schemes to sleep with Lucrezia, named after the titular ingredient in that potion and written by Niccolo Machiavelli.
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The Seven Hundred Pyrotists and the Count de Maubec de la Dentdulynx are among the figures appearing in Book Six of this work, which involves the "affair of the eighty thousand trusses of hay." Trinco and Madame Cérès are among the other figures appearing in the books devoted to "modern times," while the eighth and final book deals with the "endless history" of "future times." In Book Two, Kraken and Orberosia fool the creatures of the village into thinking that Kraken is actually the Dragon of Alca, after though creatures were accidentally baptized in the first book by the blind Saint Maël. FTP, name this satirical world history, a 1908 novel by Anatole France about some flightless waterfowl.
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The Two Admirers attempt to get a peek at the title character in this man's work The Leader, and he wrote a work in which Jack and Roberta are ordered to go to "the hatching," The Future is in Eggs. One of his works sees the title character lure victims to their drowning death by offering to show them "A picture of the colonel." In addition to The Killer, one of his plays deals with the dinner party conversations between the Fire Chief and the title character, who always wears her hair in the same style, while another features Berenger, who refuses to turn into the title beast. For 10 points, name this absurdist playwright who wrote The Bald Soprano and Rhinoceros.
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The brief first section of this work describes how the protagonist is a servant of Mrs. Van Hopper in Monte Carlo before shockingly marrying an upper-class man. The protagonist of this novel is nearly hypnotized into jumping to her death before rockets signaling a shipwreck snap her back to sanity. At the end of this novel, a magistrate named Colonel Julwin deems a suspicious death a suicide before Jack Favell and Mrs. Danvers burn down the male protagonist's home. The unnamed protagonist of this novel marries Maxim de Winter, who shot the adulterous title character, his first wife, and sunk her corpse in a boat. The oft-quoted first line of this novel is "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again". For 10 points, name this novel by Daphne du Maurier.
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The chaplain Raymond makes an announcement during Act III of this work, after which the aria "Il dolce suono" is sung. The air "Il pallor funesta porrendo" is sung in the beginning of Act II, while its most notable musical feature is the sextet that is sung at the end of Act Two, after the signing of a marriage contract. That marriage contract was arranged between Lord Arthur Bucklaw and Lord Henry Ashton's sister. However, by the end of the opera, the title character kills her husband, and while waiting for a duel with Lord Henry, Edgar of Ravenswood stabs himself in his churchyard. FTP, identify this Gaetano Donizetti play that is based off of a work of the same name by Sir Walter Scott.
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The character of Varrius first appears in Act IV, around the same time the Provost enters with the head of a dead pirate. Earlier in the play, an exchange about what sort of apparel fits a thief takes place between the executioner, Abhorson, and the imprisoned clown, Pompey. A subplot focuses on Frederick's sister, who is introduced listening to the song "Take, O take those lips away," and pines for a lover who abandoned her. The heroine is introduced during a discussion with Francisca that is interrupted by Lucio who informs her that a new Lord now governs Vienna. Based on George Whetstone's Promos and Cassandra, the main plot revolves around a woman asked to sacrifice her virginity to save her brother. For 10 points, identify this Shakespeare play that that ends with the marriage of Mariana and Angelo, the return of the Duke, and Isabella securing the release of Claudio.
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The first production of this work was set in Florence and featured characters with such names as Hesperida, Prospero, and Lorenzo di Pazzi, while the published version is set in the London suburb of Hogsden. A cloak inlaid with "russet lace" is seized by an aspiring falconer after the garment's owner flees a swordfight in this play, while a butler disguises himself as Fitz-Sword and Formal. Tib attempts to prove her fidelity to Cob and the Kiteleys turn on each other after the prospect of a duel between Matthew and Downright is fanned by Bobadill. Justice Clement settles the confusion, which began when Brainworm delivered Wellbred's letter to the younger Edward Knowell. FTP, name this play by Ben Jonson which was followed by a similarly-named sequel about being "out of" the title state.
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The frame story of this novel begins with a man who had had a torrid love affair in London attempting to get some time in the country by renting a home. That character later has a dream in which he slams a window down on the arm of a ghost who attempts to get into his room. A different dream in this novel sees one character expelled from both heaven and hell, which she equates with the titular place of this novel. Lockwood attempts to rent Thrushcross Grange, although it hasn't been well-taken care of by the maid Nelly Dean. One character in this novel is taken in by Earnshaw, whose son Hindley hates him; he in turn abuses Hareton, who marries Catherine Linton. For 10 points, name this novel about the mutually destructive love of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a novel by Emily Bronte.
and as for the author, he admits that he wrote the book to remain busy and avoid it. Boswell wrote that this work brought Johnson to rise two hours early, while Keats proclaimed it his favorite book. The introduction contains a Latin poem dedicated to the book from Democritus Junior, the pseudonym under which it was published. For 10 points, name this Jacobean medical treatise, an analysis of depression by Robert Burton.
The index, itself famous, of this book includes the entry "Cabbage brings heaviness to the soul," an example of how broadly the author interprets his remit in analyzing the title disposition. The love and religious varieties of that disposition are addressed in the third partition, where the author, a clergyman and bachelor, characteristically runs through a variety of kisses with a thicket of Latin quotations before breaking off with "What have I to do with this?" The second partition offers potential medical cures, ranging from change of diet to bloodletting
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The main female character of this novel carried on a romance with the easy-going miner Gustaf before marrying her husband. Prior to selling his land, one man helps another character leave prison, where she was sent after the rumor-mongering of her sister and the Lapp tramp Os-Anders. In this novel, the daughter of the lazy Brede Olson was forced to live with Fru Heyerdahl after she defended her from accusations of infanticide. Babro's claim that she stumbled in a brook while pregnant, which led to her daughter drowning, does not convince the owner of Maaneland, though he ends up marrying her anyways. Another infanticide resulted after the birth of a daughter with a harelip, though the mother later gives birth to Leopoldine in prison. Sivert is the good son of this novel's protagonist, and is unlike Eleseus, who leaves the farm Sellanraa for America. Oline, Inger, and the corrupting influence of the city are all problems that Isak faces in, for 10 points, what novel by Knut Hamsun?
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The main narrative of this poem is interrupted by a "loud uproar" and "vesper bell" that bids the title character to pray, while he notes later that "He prayeth best, who loveth best/ All things both great and small." The title character falls asleep and dreams of buckets filled with dew, after he had previously blessed a nest of writhing sea snakes. In the opening section, the title character seizes "one of three" wedding guests and recounts his long journey at sea, including the ill-advised shooting of the Albatross. For 10 points, name this poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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The narrator of one poem in this collection "minds the house of dust / Where [his] sojourn shall be long," while, in another poem, he hears his bones say, "Another night, another day." The narrator notes that Dick "lies long in the churchyard" and Ned "lies long in jail" when he returns to Ludlow in one part, while another part details the trouble of the wood on Wenlock Edge. The lines "though the laurel grows / It withers quicker than the rose" and "Loveliest of leaves, the cherry now" can be found in this collection, as can the lines "Give your crowns and pounds and guineas / But not your heart away." For 10 points, name this poetry collection, which includes "Terence, this is stupid stuff," "When I was one and twenty," and "To an Athlete Dying Young" and was written by A. E. Housman.
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The narrator of this poem promises “thirteen scudi for the ruff,†referring to a figure known as “The Cousin†whose whistle ends this poem. The narrator of this work addresses his “melancholy little house,†which he built with money stolen from Francis I. Its speaker brushes off criticism by asking “what does the mountain care?†but concedes that “a man's reach should exceed his grasp.†That speaker asserts “that arm is wrongly put†in critiquing a work of Raphael but is forced to agree that “there burns a truer light of God in them.†Its speaker asks “What wife had Rafael, or has Agnolo?†and tells his own wife, Lucrezia, “do not let us quarrel any more.†For 10 points, name this dramatic monologue about a “Faultless Painter,†written by Robert Browning.
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The opening line reveals that the main characters' father dies on one of the main characters' name-day, and one unseen character in this play is the male character's son Bobik. In this play, a fire destroys the belongings of Fedotik, and another unseen character in this play is a councilman with whom the main male character's wife has an affair, Protopopov. That wife throws Anfisa out of the lead family's house, to be taken in by one of the title characters, a school teacher. Another character in this play frequently quotes Lermontov, and that character, Solyony, kills Tuzenbach in a duel over the love of Irina. For ten points, name this play featuring Andrey Prozorov and his titular siblings, a play by Anton Chekhov.
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The poet used intentionally archaic language in the first two cantos of this work as a tribute to Edmund Spenser. The title character ambles into the land of Cintra while taking a horseback journey through Portugal, and muses on cruelty while watching a bullfight in Spain. After deciding that Albanians are noble savages, the central figure of this work falls in love with the German woman Julia and dies in Rome. The second half of this work nearly ignores the title figure, at first setting him aside for an extended description of the sorry present state of Greek culture, and then admitting that the ruse of an authorial stand-in had run its course. For 10 points, name this narrative poem which introduced a certain type of "hero," a travelogue of a Romantic youth in Europe by Lord Byron.
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The preface to one novel by this author invokes the "dual substance" of its title character, who lives with Mary and Martha and raises a family. Another work by this author centers on the lives of Nuri Bey and Captain Michaelis and is usually published as Freedom or Death. In another of this author's novels, the narrator's friend had derided the title character as a "bookworm" for not going with him to rescue people in the Caucasus. The title character of that novel uses a cimbalom to seduce Madame Hortense while he is helping the narrator to start a lignite mine. For 10 points, name this author of The Last Temptation of Christ and Zorba the Greek who hailed from Crete.
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The preface to this work notes that "those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying" and contrasts the title thing to a "prison for horses" named Horseback. At the beginning of the second act, one character notes that macaroni is too rich for him, because he's a man of business and thus is "always thinking." The final scene sees Nurse Guinness warning the characters that they will be summoned by the police if they don't put the light out. At the end, we learn that Randall at last "succeeds in keeping the home fires burning on his flute," while an explosion seems to have killed Mangan. It also features Hesione Hushabye, Ellie Dunn, and the dynamite-obsessed rum fiend who has built the title structure in the shape of a ship, Captain Shotover. For 10 points, name this 1919 play, a "fantasia in the Russian manner on English themes" written by George Bernard Shaw.
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The protagonist of this man's first novel chases his naked father around a billiard table in an attempt to bludgeon him to death with iron dumbells only to relent once he catches him. This author explored his religious heritage in Embezzled Heaven and Hearken unto the Voice, while this man's dramatic subjects include the Emperor Maximilian and the apostle Paul. Better-known plays by this author include an adaptation of The Trojan Women and a play in which vagabonds deify the malformed son of Stevan Milic, Goat Song. This author fictionalized himself as Arthur Englander in The Pure of Heart, but he is better known for characters like Gabriel Bagradian and a girl who has a religious vision in the Grotto of Massabielle, Bernadette. For 10 points, name this Austrian author of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh.
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The protagonist of this novel believes that his grandfather is a paper magnate living in Buffalo, New York under the name Joe Colchic. Its protagonist is accused of the murder of Sister Dorothea Kongetter after falling in love with Roswitha Raguna while working for Bebra's troupe. Alfred swallows a party pin in this novel, and his son is the protagonist who helps Bronski steal a necklace for Agnes by cutting a hole through glass with his voice. The protagonist of this novel grows a hump after he stops growing at the age of three. For 10 points, name this novel about Oskar Matzerath who plays the title musical instrument, the first book of the Danzig Trilogy by Gunter Grass.
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The protagonist of this novel created a richly patterned tapestry called Maia, a discourse on the theme of Mind and Art ranked with Schiller's Simple and Sentimental Poetry. Later, that protagonist drinks a glass of pomegranate juice and soda water while watching musicians perform in the gardens. He remains in the Hôtel des Bains, even after his bags have returned from being mistakenly sent to Como, and he follows a governess around the title locale before watching his love suffer injury from Jaschiu. The protagonist becomes enraptured with the Polish boy Tadzio. For 10 points, name this novel about Gustave von Aschenbach's demise in Italy, by Thomas Mann.
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The protagonist of this novel dreams about being offered large sums of money for a closed box which contains a sardonic crocodile whose tears form diamonds. One section of this novel relates how Mrs. Boothby expels the cook Jackson from the Mashopi Hotel. Another section of this novel describes the affair between Ella and Paul Tanner, and is given the title The Shadow of the Third by the narrator, who lives off the royalties from her novel Frontiers of War. In the frame story Tommy becomes blind after shooting himself, and Marion leaves Richard, the former husband of the narrator's friend Molly Jacobs. This novel intersperses sections titled "Free Women" with the contents of black, red, yellow, and blue journals, before the narrator attempts to interweave all of her experiences in the title book. For 10 points, name this novel about the author Anna Wulf, written by Doris Lessing.
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The protagonist of this novel forgets to turn off his scent tap before flying by helicopter to Malpais. Other characters in this work include a Polish boy named Reuben Rabinovitch, who learns English in his sleep. Technologies introduced in this work include Malthusian drills, Podsnap's technique, and Bokanovsky's human egg fertilization process, which is used to distinguish between Alphas and Epsilons. When Lenina brings John the Savage back to London, he gains instant celebrity. This novel is set in 632 Year of our Ford, and ends when Mustafa Mond exiles Helmholtz  and Bernard  Marx. For ten points name this dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley.
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The protagonist of this novel has an affair with Roswitha after fathering Kurt with Maria Trucinzki. Its protagonist plays in a jazz band at a nightclub called “The Onion Cellar.†This novel features a character who breaks glass with his high voice while a member of Bebra's troupe of performing midgets. One character in this novel dies after swallowing a Nazi party pin. Its protagonist refuses to grow after he receives the title object for his third birthday. For 10 points, name this novel about Oskar Matzerath, the owner of the title instrument, by Günter Grass.
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The protagonist of this novel imagines a meeting attended by Lady Cockpurse and Reggie St. Cloud, whom a bridge-playing morphine addict nicknamed the “shameless blond†had brought in an airplane. Minor characters include the private detectives Blenkinsop and James, who accompany the protagonist and a waitress named Milly to a seaside resort, and the protagonist's son, John Andrew, whose death while riding his horse Thunderclap leads the protagonist's wife to confess to an affair with John Beaver. The protagonist's wife Brenda eventually marries his friend Jock Grant-Menzies after he chooses to accompany Mettinger on an expedition to Brazil, where he is captured by Todd and forced to read Dickens to him in perpetuity. Taking its name from The Waste Land, this is, for 10 points, what novel about Tony Last by Evelyn Waugh.
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The protagonist of this novel is shaken when his mother dies from scarlet fever after treating his adopted sister, Elizabeth Lavenza. This novel's title character studies philosophy and chemistry at the University of Ingolstadt, where he becomes obsessed with the alchemist Paracelsus. This novel is recounted through a series of letters from Captain Robert Walton, who rescues the title character in the Arctic, where he had been seeking his creation. For 10 points, name this novel by Mary Shelley in which the title character is a professor who creates a monster.
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The protagonist of this novel learns that one character is a printer named Gerard Duval after finding his wallet. In one scene in this novel, three characters swim naked across a canal carrying only boots full of food. Earlier, the main character is attacked by a bull mastiff when he and Kat steal a goose. This novel's brief final section features an abrupt shift to the third person, and earlier in this novel, Mueller takes a pair of boots from the dying Himmerich. The protagonist of this novel helps beat up Himmelstoss, the drill sergeant who trained Paul Baumer's squad before it was sent to the trenches. For 10 points, name this World War I novel by Erich Maria Remarque.Â
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The protagonist of this novel recalls how earlier that morning, she had confused Francesco Francia with Piero della Francesca, while seeing a copy of Under a Loggia. Written under the name of "Joseph Emery Prank" by Mrs. Lavish, it was being read by one character in the garden of Windy Corner as he watched Freddy and others play tennis. However, it is later in that day that one character, inspired by a previous encounter in the Fiesole hills, kisses her once again, and later that character breaks off her engagement with Cecil Vyse. Despite her distress that Mr. Emerson knows about her love for his son, Lucy Honeychurch marries George Emerson, whom she had met earlier in Florence, at the end of, FTP, which novel by E. M. Forster?
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The protagonist of this novel receives some funding from a comical suitor, the Laird of Dumbiedikes, and watches the death of two characters near Haribee Brow. One of those characters, who earlier had captured her, is hanged, and the other is her daughter, Madge Wildfire. The grandfather of the the protagonist's betrothed had once assisted the ancestor of the Duke of Argyll, allowing Reuben to give her a letter. One historically inspired character in this novel fired into a crowd at the hanging of Andrew Wilson, and that character is killed by a mob led by the protagonist's future brother-in-law dressed as a woman. Early on, the protagonist's sister is unable to show that she did not kill her illegitimate child, landing her in the title location, Tolbooth Prison, with John Porteous. For 10 points, identify this novel about the journey to London in search of a pardon undertaken by Jeanie Deans, a work by Sir Walter Scott.
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The protagonist of this novel spends much of the early chapters traveling on the Great North Road to his family estate. The title character of this novel is married to Helen Campbell and she has Morris executed. The protagonist of this work must recover some of his merchant father William's documents that were stolen by his cousin and he befriends the merchant, Bailie Nicol Jarvie. Late in this novel Andrew Fairservice and the protagonist, Francis Osbaldistone, are arrested while on their way to meet the titular outlaw, who at the end of this novel escapes some soldiers by diving into the river and later kills Rashleigh. Set, like its author's earlier Waverly, during a failed Jacobite rebellion, for ten points, identify this Walter Scott novel about the titular Scottish highwayman.
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The protagonist of this play attributes Glesne's deer-hunting feats to himself, and tells a story about trapping the Devil in a nut to explain why he and the blacksmith Aslak don't like each other. The protagonist impregnates a girl in a green dress merely by desiring to marry her, and encounters the Bøyg in Act three. In this play's final act, a button-moulder comes to collect and melt down the soul of this play's title character, who tries to seduce Anitra in Morocco. The title character reunites with Solveig before returning home before to say farwell to his dying mother, Åse. For 10 points, name this verse drama by Henrik Ibsen featuring a scene in the hall of the Mountain King, which inspired a suite by Grieg.
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The protagonist of this work criticizes fops and their Fashionable Novels in "The Dandiacal Body," and he eschews a belief system in which man is but an "omnivorous Biped that wears Breeches." The protagonist asks, "What is this paltry little Dog-cage of an Earth?" in a chapter called "The Everlasting No," while in "The Everlasting Yea," the author commands the reader to "close thy Byron; open thy Goethe." The story of the protagonist is delivered in six paper bags to the narrator by Hofrath Heuschrecke, chronicling his life after being delivered in a basket to Andreas and Gretchen Futterall. Jonathan Swift's comparison of man to a Micro-Coat inspired the title and recurring clothing motif of this novel, which centers on the adventures of a professor at the University of Weissnichtwo. For ten points name this work about Diogenes Teufelsdröckh by Thomas Carlyle.
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The protagonist of this work cuts out an advertisement for Kruschen Salts from a newspaper to place in a photo album before noticing the robot like actions of a woman in a restaurant. The fact that the narrator had taken his girlfriend to a comedy with Fernandel in it, the testimony of the warden of the Home for Aged People in Marengo, and the use of four superfluous bullets, all outweigh the efforts of Marie Cardona and the pimp Raymond Sintes to defend the narrator. Above all, the fact that the narrator failed to cry at his mother's funeral results in his death sentence. For 10 points, name this novel in which Mersault shoots an Arab, a work of Albert Camus.
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The protagonist of this work earns a pile in a loaning business started with principle won from an essay contest. The protagonist was once beaten with a stump when he claimed that Byron was better than Tennyson, and gets in a long debate with the Master of Studies over using the word "tundish" instead of "funnel." This work includes an argument in which Mr. Casey claims to have hocked a tobacco-laced loogey in the face of a Catholic, much to Dante Riordan's chagrin. Its protagonist is spurred to holiness by Father Arnall's hellish sermon, and it begins with a story about a "moocow" and "Baby Tuckoo." For 10 points, name this work about Stephen Dedalus, by James Joyce.
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The protagonist of this work is unhappy with his black brother, the son of his widowed mother by their provider Zayde. One character in this work induces a seizure in a bailiff by praying, and the protagonist eats the cheese out of mousetraps and drills a hole in the bottom of a wine jug. The protagonist works for the aforementioned seller of indulgences after being clubbed by a priest for stealing bread. In another instance, the protagonist has his head knocked against a statue by his master, an old blind man. Named for the river over which he was born, the protagonist gains an influential government post due to some new clothes and is given a wife by the archpriest of Salvador. For 10 points, name this anonymously written picaresque novel.
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The protagonist of this work visits the estate of Pemberley after ensuring that the owner is away. Lady Catherine warns its protagonist not to accept her nephew's wedding offer near the end of this novel, in which Charlotte Lucas marries Mr. Collins. One relationship in this novel is kindled at Bingley's ball at Netherfield. In this novel, Lydia runs away with the treacherous, lady-spoiling Wickham. For 10 points, name this novel that focuses on the Bennet sisters, and ends with the marriage of Elizabeth to Mr. Darcy, written by Jane Austen.
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The second act features the symbolic vision of a goldfinch being captured and killed by a hawk, that scene is preceded by an episode in which the protagonist's footman pretends to be a Latin instructor from Coruna in order to gain access to his master's love. When a rival suitor takes the green ribbon from a railing, it leads to an unsolicited marriage proposal for the heroine, whose beauty had earlier captivated the hero at the Feria. Later, even though the title hero saves his rival from being gored by a bull in Medina, Rodrigo still ambushes him and shoots him to death. Its author adapted portions of La Celestina in this work's depiction of the witch Fabia, whose machinations fail to bring Ines and the noble Alonso together. For 10 points, identify this work about a warrior from a Castilian city, a play by Lope de Vega.
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The second of Carl Orff's three Trionfi cantatas is based on the poetry of this author, in whom Verona rejoices according to the last of Ovid's Amores. In an epyllion by this author about the marriage of Peleus and Thetis, the description of a bedspread leads to a long digression containing the lament of Ariadne on Naxos. Another of his poems is addressed to Asinius Marrucinus, a notorious napkin thief. He described traveling over the sea to pay his respects to his dead brother in a poem which ends "Ave atque vale," and wrote "Odi et amo" at the beginning of a poem to his mistress. For 10 points, name this Roman poet who wrote an elegy about the death of a pet sparrow and about his love affair with Lesbia.
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The sewing of diamonds into a coat provides its protagonist with the money he needs to get to Paris, where he pretends to be a seller of astrological instruments. In this novel, the new Duchess of Sanseverina is pursued by Count Mosca: that Duchess, Gina Pietranera, introduces her nephew to General Conti. Meanwhile, that nephew, this novel's protagonist, kills Giletti in a fight for the affections of Marietta Valsera, an actress, though he soon tires of Marietta and leaves her for a singer named Fausta. However, it is General Conti's daughter, Clelia, who gives birth to his son before her death, which prompts the protagonist to retire to the titular location. For 10 points, name this novel which begins with Fabrizio del Dongo's attempts to join Napoleon's army, a work of Stendhal.
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The speaker compares the "shrill delight" of the title figure to moonbeams "Keen as the arrows / Of that silver sphere" which are transparent in light of the "white dawn," but although they are "hardly seen, we feel that it is there." The title figure is later compared to a "rose embowered," a "glow worm- golden," and a "poet hidden / In the line of thought." In the final stanza the speaker asks, "teach me half the gladness / That thy brain must know," so "the world should listen" to the "harmonious madness" of the title creature's song. For 10 points, name this poem about a bird which begins, "Hail to thee blithe spirit," written by Percy Shelley.
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The speaker of one poem in this collection asserts that "The tree of man was never quiet," and compares wind blowing through woods to the "gale of life" which affected an ancient Roman. Another poem in this collection recalls "the happy highways where" the speaker "went / and cannot come again" after asking "What are those blue remembered hills, / What spires, what farms are those?" This collection includes a poem which ends "I cheer a dead man's sweetheart / Never ask me whose," "Is my team ploughing," and begins with a poem about the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria, "From Clee to heaven the beacon burns." Including "When I was one-and-twenty" and "To an athlete dying young," for 10 points, name this poetry collection by A. E. Housman.
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The speaker of this poem compares a particular entity to "hues and harmonies of evening" and "memory of music fled" before asserting "that for its grace [it] may be / Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery." In the fifth stanza the speaker remembers he "called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed" earlier in life "while yet a boy [he] sought for ghosts." This poem's final stanza begins "The day becomes more solemn and serene / When noon is past" before the speaker implores the title entity to lets its power "to my onward life supply / Its calm". The speaker of this poem addresses the titular ineffable quality in the opening lines, "The awful shadow of some unseen Power / Floats though unseen amongst us." For 10 points, name this poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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The speaker of this poem discusses the "gleams of half-extinguished thought" which makes "the picture of the mind revive again" and allows him to recognize the "still, sad music of humanity." The speaker hopes that another's person's memories of "wild ecstasies shall be matured / Into a sober pleasure" and form in her mind a "mansion for all lovely forms." The speaker concludes that "this green pastoral scene" has grown "More dear" to him after "Five years have past" since he first visited the title location with his sister Dorothy. For 10 points, name this poem named for an abandoned monastic building by William Wordsworth.
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The speaker of this poem is "cloistered in these living walls of jet" where "parents grudge" and "use makes you apt to kill me." The speaker asks if the listener has "purpled thy nail, in blood of innocence" and is then confused when he "findst not thyself, nor me, the weaker now." This poem mentions "A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead," and the title figure was said to "take life from thee." The title figure is compared to "a marriage bed and marriage temple," and that figure "sucked me first, and now sucks thee" so that "two bloods mingled be." For 10 points, name this John Donne poem about a blood-sucking bug.
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The speaker of this work asks its addressee to “endure not yet / A breach, but an expansion, / Like gold to aery thinness beat†after earlier expressing a desire to “melt, and make no noise.†This poem's speaker criticizes those “whose soul is sense†and who engage in “dull sublunary lovers' love,†arguing that while “Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears,†the “trepidation of the spheres†is innocent. Its addressee's soul is compared to “the fix'd foot†around which the speaker must “obliquely run,†and its speaker notes that “thy firmness makes my circle just / And makes me end where I begun.†For 10 points, identify this poem that depicts a pair of lovers using the metaphysical conceit of a compass, a work of John Donne that urges no grieving upon parting.
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The switchboard operator Madelaine argues with her husband about how to get rid of a constantly growing corpse in the next room in this author's play Amédée. The title character lures people to their death by offering to show them “a picture of the colonel†in his The Killer. The Orator is a deaf mute who is left alone after the Old Man and Old Woman jump out windows in this author's play The Chairs. This author used the recurring character of Berenger in Exit the King and a play in which Berenger's girlfriend Daisy and the rest of the world transform into the title horned animals. For 10 points, name this Romanian-French playwright whose absurdist works include The Bald Soprano and Rhinoceros. Â
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The third section, "The Body is Present," finds the speaker standing in front of a "stone" and urging his friend to be defiant. The second section, written to emulate the works of authors like Jorge Manrique, features the narrator beseeching the moon to come forth and asking its whiteness to hide the evidence of a tragedy. The fourth and final section, often translated as "The Soul is Absent," asserts the power of poetry in keeping memories alive. The first section, which is much more vivid, describes a white sheet and begins the repetition of the stanza "At exactly five in the afternoon," which the speaker fixes as the time of the goring. FTP, name this work by Garcia Lorca, an elegy for a dead matador.
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The title character in one of this man's novels composes incidental music for Love's Labours Lost and the oratorio Apocalypse cum figures. Another novel by this author contains frequent debates between the humanist Settembrini and the radical Naptha. In another novel, this author wrote about the downfall of a Lubeck-based merchant family. He wrote a novel in which Joachim Ziemmsen is visited at a sanatorium by Hans Castorp. For 10 points, name this German author of Buddenbrooks, Doctor Faustus, and The Magic Mountain.
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The title character of his last unfinished novel falls in love with Agnes de Saverne and struggles with the villainous Baron de la Motte. The title character of his last finished novel is left penniless after his father, Brand Firmin, loses his fortune and flees to America, after which his cousin Agnes Twysden rejects him. In addition to Denis Duval and The Adventures of Philip, he wrote such Christmas books as The Rose and the Ring and a novel about an Irish adventurer, Barry Lyndon. FTP, name this Victorian novelist of The Newcomes, The History of Henry Esmond, and Vanity Fair.
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The title character of one of his poems sends "his Train / To take a House in Warwick Lane" before trying to seize the title character for "Pluto's hall." In addition to "Death and Daphne," he described man as "a topsy-turvy creature" in "A Meditation upon a Broomstick." He foretold the death of John Partridge in Prediction for the Ensuing Year by Isaac Bickerstaff, argued against poorly minted copper coinage in The Drapier's Letters, and wrote about the brothers Jack, Peter, and Martin, who each inherit a coat in The Tale of a Tub. For 10 points, name this author of "A Modest Proposal" who described the lands of Brobdingnag and Laputa in Gulliver's Travels.
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The title character of this novel forces Abel Whittle to come to work without his pants to punish him for tardiness, and later he is infuriated when the carnival he planned is rained out while the indoor dance organized by his rival is a success. Jopp accidentally reveals the content of secret letters, which leads to the town organizing a parade featuring effigies of the title character and his lover Lucetta Templeton, and eventually the title character's step-daughter Elizabeth-Jane marries his rival Donald Farfrae. Elizabeth is sold to a sailor for five guineas, in, for 10 points, this novel about Michael Henchard by Thomas Hardy.
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The title character of this novel is rebuked by a judge when he unsuccessfully attempts to acquit a peasant, who he knows is guilty of murder. The title character encounters a crazy man, who is gathering nosegays for his imaginary mistress after resigning from a position assisting an ambassador that Wilhelm had acquired for him. After an intimate reading of Ossian's poetry ends badly when one character locks herself in her room, the title character borrows two pistols from Albert to commit suicide over his unrequited love for Charlotte. For 10 points, name this novel, which inspired a series of copycat suicides, written by Goethe.
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The title character of this play asserts she wants one character to return with "vine-leaves in his hair" before threatening to burn another woman's hair off. One character buys a villa that once belonged to the Cabinet Member, Secretary Falk, with his Aunt Juliana's help, and he spends his honeymoon researching the domestic handicrafts of Brabant. Thea Elvsted plans to reconstruct a manuscript that was burned by the title character, who is later blackmailed by Judge Brack, who knows she loaned one of her father's pistols to Eilert Lovberg. For 10 points, the wife of George Tasman achieves a "beautiful death" by committing suicide in this play by Henrik Ibsen.
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The title characters in one work by this author include Urthona, Urizen, Luvah and Tharmas, and another work opens with a roar by Rintrah, the son of Los, as he shakes the fires of the underworld. This author of The Four Zoas wrote about children sold off as chimney sweepers in one poem, and this author of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell asks if God smiled "when the stars threw down their spears" in another poem. That poem by this author asks "what immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry." For 10 points, name this British writer whose Songs of Innocence and Experience contains poems such as "The Lamb" and "The Tyger".
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The title location of one poem in this work is described as a "banal Eldorado," and it describes the sight of a hanged man being torn apart by birds. Some poems in this work describe "The Death of the Poor" and "The Death of Artists," and In another poem, one of four with the same title, the speaker claims that in his body the green waters of Lethe flow instead of blood, and he begins by describing himself as the king of a rainy country. While there are only five poems in the section Wine, the former poem is "A Voyage to Cythera," and in one poem, the title objects frame a the decapitated body of a woman, entitled "A Martyr." Beginning with the section Spleen and Ideal, for 10 points, identify this collection of poetry by Charles Baudelaire.
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The title of this work appears in a note published in a periodical concerned with "Domestic Intelligence," which mentions "a pair of lobsters for breakfast," and some have argued that this work was written by John Oldham, rather than the man considered as its author. A major theme in this work is an argument against the use of humours, and its subject, the author of The Medal of John Bayes, is referred to once as the "Northern Dedicator." The narrator of this work compares the day that he performed for King John of Portugal to the day that this work's title character cut his way "with well-timed oars." At one point in this work, one character says of the title character that "of all my sons is he/ who stands confirmed in full stupidity," and this work is subtitled "A Satire on a True-Blue Protestant Poet." For ten points, identify this mock epic poem which attacks the titular poet as well as Thomas Shadwell, and which was written by John Dryden.
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The titular queen of one work by this author uses bee stings as a breast enlargement technique, bickers with her maidservant Martha, and believes Shakespeare wrote Hamlet as a parody of her indecisive policies. In one work by this author of Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman, the chanting of "BABY-KILLER!" allows a group of women to pay whatever they want at a supermarket, and in another work by this author, a doctor helps convince a pastry shop owner that groom-to-be Lanky received food poisoning from eating cannolis. This author of We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! and Archangels Don't Play Pinball also wrote a work whose title character may have been pushed from a police headquarters window. For 10 points, name this Italian playwright of Accidental Death of an Anarchist.
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The unknown early progenitors of these people are consistently described as “very small beer.†This group experiences a form of apotheosis in the marriage of Michael Mont to one of its members. A so-called Buccaneer who was to marry into this family died shortly after losing a lawsuit. That man, Philip Bosinney, was sued due to his affair with a woman he met while designing a house at Robin Hill subsequently owned by four different members of this family. Irene provokes the Indian summer of this family's Old Jolyon and marries its Young Jolyon after divorcing this family's patriarch, Soames. For 10 points, name this archetypal Victorian family, the subject of a saga consisting of To Let, In Chancery and The Man of Property, all by John Galsworthy.
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The wife of this novel's protagonist has left him for an American, and his financial worries stem from having to care for his teenage daughter, who goes to an expensive Catholic school. At the beginning of the novel, that daughter, Milly, cajoles him into buying her a horse, and it is this additional expense that spurs him to accept an offer of work from Hawthorne. His German friend, Dr. Hasselbacher, advises him to "take their money, but don't give them anything in return," which inspires him to invent reports, agents, and schematics to send to his employers. For 10 points, name this novel, in which James Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman from Cuba, is recruited into the British Secret Service, a work by Graham Greene.
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This author described a general's "swift lightning strokes" that run from "Pyramids to Heights Alpine" in a Napoleonic Ode titled "Fifth of May." The title character of one of this author's novels is tortured after a victory at Macalo and is based on Francesco Bussone. In addition to The Count of Carmagnola, this author wrote about a Lombard son of Desedirio, whose sister Ermengarda was former wife of Charlemagne, in Adelchi. In one of his novels, Fra Cristoforo helps a woman pursued by the dastardly Don Rodrigo. For 10 points, name this Italian author who wrote about Renzo's love for Lucia in The Betrothed.
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This author described a mountaintop landscape as "The types and symbols of Eternity, / Of first, and last, and midst, and without end", which occurs after the speaker crosses the Alps. In another poem, he wrote "while the birds thus sing a joyous song", "to me alone there came a thought of grief:" That poem ends by noting that "the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears". In a better known poem addressed to his sister, this poet wrote that "a motion and a spirit, that impels all thinking things, all objects of thought, and rolls through all things" five years after his first visit to the titular location. For 10 points, identify this poet of The Prelude, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality", and "Tintern Abbey", a Romantic poet who collaborated with Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Lyrical Ballads.
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This author described a mystical nightingale-catching dwarf nicknamed the Flea in the short story "Kasyan From the Beautiful Lands." In an essay, this author argued that all mankind can be divided into into the character types of Hamlet and Don Quixote. His first novel is named for a "man of the forties" whose passionate rhetoric inspires love in Natasha Lasunsky, and his only major play focuses on Natalya Islaev, who schemes to marry off Vera after falling in love with her tutor Belyaev. This author of Rudin and A Month in the Country collected his stories about rural Russian peasants in A Sportsman's Sketches. For 10 points, name this Russian author who wrote about the nihilist Bazarov in Fathers and Sons.
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This author describes listening to children singing in "Ballad of the Little Square," while in another balled, he describes he experience of being a sleepwalker. A cat's paw is tragically crushed in this author's long poem "Poet in New York", while in a dramatic work, this author depicted the titular Marina Pineda. Some of his poems were collected in Gypsy Ballads, this author wrote a play in which the Felix family is hated by the Mother. In addition to that, this playwright wrote a play in which María Josefa is declared to have died a virgin by her mother. For 10 points name this author of Blood Wedding and The House of Bernarda Alba.
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This author detailed the life of an old bookseller named Iambo Bodoni who wakes from a coma and relives his lost memories in his novel The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana. One character created by this author saves Niketas Choniates, is adopted by Frederick Barbarossa, and travels to Constantinople in search of Prester John. This author wrote about Belbo, Diotallevi and Casaubon, who set out to invent a conspiracy called “The Plan.â€Â This author of Baudolino is better known for a novel in which Adso of Melk helps William of Baskerville solve a murder mystery in a Benedictine abbey. For 10 points, name this author of Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose.
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This author included events like the Four Days Battle and the Great Fire of London in his long poem about the year 1666. This author used Sicily as the setting for a comedy in which Rhodophil and Palamede fall in love with each other's fiancés while Leonidas overthrows the usurper Polydamas. This author of Marriage a la Mode and Annus Mirabilis depicted Antony and Cleopatra in his All for Love. This writer used the story of a rebellion against King David as an allegory on current events like the Popish plot in one work. For 10 points, name this Restoration author who mocked Thomas Shadwell in MacFlecknoe and wrote The Hind and the Panther and Absalom and Achitophel.
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This author is convinced by another to publish his work in The Hydra in Pat Barker's novel Regeneration. In real life, this author claimed that "Neither should I go fooling over clouds / Following gleams unsafe, untrue" in one work, while the line "Whatever shares / The eternal reciprocity of tears" ends another of his works. This author of "Six o'clock in Princes Street" and "Insensibility" also wrote a work in which a ram is "caught in the thicket by its horns" as it describes the near-sacrifice of Isaac. This author of "Futility" and "Strange Meeting" also wrote a work which opens with "What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?" and was named by Siegfried Sassoon, as well as another which ends by describing "the old Lie" as told by Horace. FTP, name this English poet of "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young," "Anthem for Doomed Youth," and "Dulce et Decorum Est."
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This author mentions “Callimachus, Who handled marble as if it were bronze,†in a poem that includes “a long legged bird†and “Two Chinamen, behind them a third†inscribed into the title gem. The narrator of another of his poems wishes for “such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make,†and asks “sages standing in God's holy fire†to “be the singing-masters†of his soul after leaving a place that is “no country for old men.†This author of “Lapis Lazuli†also asked “what rough beast†“Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born†in a poem in which “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.†For 10 points, name this Irish poet of “Sailing to Byzantium,†and “The Second Coming.â€
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This author reminisced about his time visiting with William Drummond in "My Picture Left in Scotland" and characterized a Spaniard as having "a Rhinoceroses' nose" in "On Don Surly." This author borrowed from Quintilian in advocating for a writer's personal style in the volume Timber; or Discoveries, while another of his works features the line, "Make room for the bouncing belly." That work, which ends with Daedalus leading some dances, is entitled Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue, and was staged in collaboration with Inigo Jones. This author's imitation of Horace, Inviting a Friend to Supper, was published alongside the country manor poem "To Penshurst" in a 1616 collection that also featured a piece beginning, "Drink to me only with thine eyes." For 10 points, identify this author of the "Ode on Cary and Morrison," "To Celia," as well as the plays Bartholomew Fair and Volpone.
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This author was the subject of Robert Louis Stevenson's story "A Lodging for the Night." In one of his works, this author insults the Keeper of the Seals by offering him a seal he has spat upon. In another poem, he ends each line with the letter "r" and inserts acrostics of his own name and that of his lover, Marthe, while in yet another he longs to be buried at the convent of Saint-Avoye. One of his ballads discusses famous rulers carried away by the wind of time and death, while the "Ballad of Dead Ladies" features the refrain "Where are the snows of yesteryear?" FTP, name this 15th-century French poet of The Grand Testament.
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This author wrote a collection of 32 poems that ends with an elegy on his adopted son. That work "A Lament for his Boy" is preceded by an ode to the god of slumber entitled "Sleep." That collection also featured a title that would later be adapted by Poliziano to characterize an entire genre of occasional verse. Another work by author, though left unfinished at his death, gives an account of a hero's childhood in Thessaly and concealment on the island of Scyros, it is called the Achilleid. In the Purgatorio Dante has the shade of this man explain that he secretly embraced Christianity after reading his fellow poet, Virgil's Eclogues. His greatest work, divided into twelve books depicts the institution of the Nemean Games and focuses on the brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, who hail from the title city. For 10 point, identify this court poet under the Domitian, the author of the Silvae and the Thebaid.
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This author wrote a poem about a dog's collar inscribed with the phrase “Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?†Another brief work by this author concludes “God said, “Let Newton be!†and all was light.†This poet concluded in one work that “One truth is clear, whatever is, is right.†This author wrote “To err is human, to forgive divine†in his poem “An Essay on Criticism.†This author of “An Essay on Man†also wrote a poem in which the spirits Umbriel and Ariel unsuccessfully prevent Lord Petre from cutting off a piece of Belinda's hair. For 10 points, name this British poet who used heroic couplets in mock epics like The Dunciad and The Rape of the Lock
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This author wrote a short story in which Elizabeth's abusive husband Walter dies in a coal mine. In another short story, he wrote of Paul, who dies in his mother's arms after picking Malabar to win a race while riding on a toy. This author of “Odour of Chrysanthemums†and “The Rocking Horse Winner†wrote two novels featuring the Brangwen family, one of which is The Rainbow. He wrote another work that details the affair between Constance and the gamekeeper Oliver Mellors. For 10 points, name this author of Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley's Lover.
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This author wrote a work ending when Don Caesar commits suicide after killing his brother Don Manuel when he realizes the woman they were fighting over is actually their sister Beatrice. In one work by this author, the antagonist's son, Arnold, gets Henry of Halden to give up his oxen, then joins a group led by Walter Fürst. This author of The Bride of Messina included The Piccolomini as part of a trilogy in which the title character contends with the war commissioner Von Questenburg. This author also wrote a play in which Franz Moor gets his father to disown his brother Karl, who kills Amalia. For 10 points, name this playwright of the Wallenstein trilogy, The Robbers and William Tell.
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This author wrote a work in which Father Chantavoine's bells are rung by the prostitute Rachel to celebrate her stabbing of the title effeminate captain. In another of his works, Count Bréville and Cornudet share a coach ride from Rouen to La Havre and encourage the prostitute Elisabeth Rousset to sleep with a Prussian officer. This author of "Mademoiselle Fifi" wrote a story in which Ramponneau invites the central characters to the Ministry of Education ball, where Mathilde loses Madame Forestier's title piece of jewelry, which turns out to be fake. For 10 points, name this French author of the ironic short stories "Ball of Fat," and "The Necklace."
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This author wrote about a husband who goes mad after his wife comments that his nose tilts to the right in One, None, and One Hundred Thousand. One work by this author sees a man escape to Monte Carlo where he discovers his family has declared him dead, and another work takes place within the audience where the stage manager Dr. Hinkfuss proclaim himself the author. In addition to writing Tonight We Improvise, this author described a character who falls off a horse and believes he is the titular Holy Roman emperor. He also wrote a play in which the Manager becomes angry at the title group of actors who rehearse in Madame Pace's shop. For 10 points, name this Italian author who wrote Henry IV and Six Characters in Search of an Author.
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This author wrote about a man who assassinates General Juan Alvarado before winning a boxing match against Danny Ward in "The Mexican". Another work by this author describes the Nashville Massacre, where eight hundred weavers were killed, and is written as the manuscript of Avis Everhard, who tried to sabotage "The Oligarchy". This author of The Iron Heel wrote about a man who ignores the warnings of the "old-timer on Sulphur Creek" and freezes to death after a tree dumps snow on his work. The protagonist of another novel defeats Spitz to become leader of a team before the Yee-hat Indians kill his master, John Thorton. For 10 points, name this author of "To Build a Fire" who wrote about the sled dog Buck in The Call of the Wild.
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This author wrote about an aged woman who tells stories about Danko, who tears his heart from his chest in a forest, and Larra, who becomes unable to die after killing a young girl, in "Old Izergil." This author's first play focuses on the expelled student Pyotr and his sister Tanya, who are oppressed by their father Vassily. Besides that play, which is variously translated as The Petty Bourgeois and The Philistines, this author wrote a play about the truth-telling Bubnov and the locksmith Kleshch, which is set in a boarding house run by Vassilissa and the landlord Kostylyov. For 10 points, name this Russian author who pioneered socialist realism in his novel Mother and wrote The Lower Depths.
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This author wrote about an innocent silk-winder whose journey connects the sordid lives of four others in a poem that coined the phrase “God's in His heaven All's right with the world.†This author of Pippa Passes wrote a poem in which the title painter urges “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.†This poet documented an Italian murder in his The Ring and the Book, and included “Rabbi Ben Ezra†among his dramatic monologues. One of this author's poems concerns a character who had a “heart too soon made glad,†and whose portrait by Fra Pandolf is “painted on the wall.†For 10 points, name this English poet of “My Last Duchess,†the husband of Elizabeth Barret.
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This author wrote about his friendship with Panamanian dictator Omar Torrijos in Getting to Know the General. Ida Arnold and the gangster Pinkie Brown investigate the murder of Hale in a novel by this author named for a type of candy. He wrote a novel about the love triangle between Thomas Fowler, a Vietnamese woman named Phuong, and Alden Pyle, and a novel about James Wormold, who passes off vacuum designs as top-secret intelligence. Besides Brighton Rock, The Quiet American, and Our Man in Havana, he also wrote about a "whiskey priest" captured and killed in Mexico. For 10 points, name this British author of The Heart of the Matter and The Power and the Glory.
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This author wrote short stories about Paul Hilbert, who resolves to shoot six random people with a revolver, and Lucien Fleurier, who punches a Jew in the face after joining a Fascist organization called the Camelot du roi. Besides "Erostratus" and "The Childhood of a Leader," this author wrote a play about a character who is sent poisoned chocolates in prison after killing the leader Hoederer, Hugo Barine, as well as a trilogy of novels about Mathieu Delarue, Roads to Freedom. His plays include The Respectful Prostitute and Dirty Hands, and he wrote a novel about a man who discovers that the essences of objects hide their existence, Antoine Roquentin. For 10 points, name this author of Nausea and No Exit.
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This author wrote “And I am dumb to tell the lover's tomb / How at my sheet goes the same crooked worm†in a poem that examines the link between the forces of destruction and creation. He wrote that Time would eventually take him “Up to the swallow-thronged loft by the shadow of my hand†in a work reminiscing about his childhood, when he was “young and easy under the apple boughs.†This author of the aforementioned “The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower†described how “Time held me green and dying / Though I sang in my chains like the sea†in another poem. For 10 points, name this author of “Fern Hill†who urged his father to “rage, rage against the dying of the light†in “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.â€
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This author's major comedic plays were all translated by American poet Richard Wilbur. One of this author's plays sees a potential marriage between Angelique and Thomas Diaforious planned by Angelique's father Argan, the role that this author was playing when he collapsed and died on stage. In another work, this playwright described how Damis (dah-MEE) is banished from Orgon's house on the whim of a scheming religious hypocrite. For 10 points, name this author of The Imaginary Invalid and Tartuffe, a French comic playwright of the mid 1600s.
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This author's nonsensical only novel features a discourse on the utility of pockets and is marked by an unknown triangular symbol attributed to the Garamna people. Sir Ralph the Rover comes upon the bell placed on the title outcropping by the Abbot of Aberbrothok in his "The Inchcape Rock," while Baly and Padalon are among the locales visited by the title character of his "The Curse of Kehama." In another poem, after Peterkin finds a human skull, Old Kaspar tells the story of the title conflagration. Subjects of his long poems include Robin Hood, Joan of Arc, and a Welsh prince who legendarily discovered America in 1170. Magicians from Domdaniel are dispatched to kill the titular "destroyer" of another poem, though better-known is a poem that inspired a parodic retort from Lord Byron. For 10 points name this author of "Thalaba" and A Vision of Judgement, a Lake Poet who also wrote about the Battle of Blenheim.
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This book closes with a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of Spanish and Swiss forces. Chapter twenty of this work concludes that the best fortress is to not be hated, while chapter nineteen examines the downfall of Roman emperors like Pertinax. Chapter eight praises the example of Agathocles, and another leader praised in this work is Cesare Borgia. Chapter eighteen of this work advises that a ruler should be both a fox and a lion and feign many good traits rather than have them. For 10 points, name this political tract which begins with a dedication to Lorenzo de' Medici, written by Niccolò Machiavelli.
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This book opens with a "packet" for another author, who is shown walking out at night and feeding cats with pieces of meat from his pockets. The book itself begins by quoting Empedocles on Discord and Concord before discussing Simplicius's commentary on Empedocles, and notes that Flaubert wanted to write a story called "The Spiral" which would have employed a similar concept. That opening section, "The Great Wheel," includes a discussion of the 28 Incarnations, which correspond to the Phases of the Moon. The idea for the book emerged on October 24, 1917, four days after the poet's marriage to a woman who practiced automatic writing. FTP, name this 1925 book that discusses the author's theory of gyres, which propounds a bizarre theory of history and was written by William Butler Yeats.
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This character asks, to another who has insulted him, if he should address that character “in a bondman's key / with bated breath and whispering humbleness.†He notes that some men “love not a gaping pig...and others, when the bagpipes sing i' th' nose, / cannot contain their urine†in justifying his feelings. He responds to accusations of being an “unfeeling man†by asking, “Wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?†While discussing the elopement of his daughter Jessica, this character discusses rumors of ships lost at sea and also asks, “If you prick us, do we not bleed?†and “Hath not a Jew eyes?†For 10 points, which Shakespearean character who is derailed by Portia in his attempt to remove a pound of flesh from Antonio in The Merchant of Venice?
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This character exclaims "what a pretty claw!" after being shown a "bodily defect" of a woman he has a romantic involvement with. This character is sent by a manufacturer to a cramped, two-doored attic apartment filled with small girls to meet with a painter who forces him to buy identical landscapes, Tintorelli. He becomes jealous of Block, a tradesman in his same situation, for staying overnight with Leni, before firing Herr Huld, a lawyer recommended to him by Uncle Karl. He is executed in a quarry "like a dog" after a priest tells him a parable about a man who comes "before the law." For 10 points, name this banker who is accused of an unknown crime in Franz Kafka's The Trial.
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This character forgives Frieda, a waitress who, after having an illegitimate child with her boss, sees a handkerchief with a dark-blue border every day, stuffs the handkerchief in her child's mouth, and buries it in the ground. Mistaken for Claudine by a man mumbling about his friend Guessard's bloody wedding in Paris, this relative of a 16th century French queen accuses Sitnik of using his slingshot to break windows after flooding Latunsky's apartment. This occurs after she and her maid Natasha are given a magic ointment by Azazello, having flown naked to Apartment 50, where she then serves as hostess of Satan's ball. Ultimately reunited with the author of a novel about Pontius Pilate, this is, for 10 points, what lover of the "Master" in a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov?
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This character is asked if he has seen Sarah Bernhardt in Arienne Levouvreur, sparking a disagreement between his family members about the realism of her acting. After graduating, he hangs a medallion inscribed "respice finem" on his watch-chain. His foils include his jovial colleague Schwartz, and he dreams of being stuffed into a deep black bag. The novella named for him opens with Peter Ivanovich talking to his former wife Praskovya, and he experiences a spiritual rebirth during a protracted illness caused when he bangs into a window frame. For 10 points, name this character nursed by his servant Gerasim before expiring in a novella by Leo Tolstoy.
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This character is disturbed when his beloved tells him about a dream in which an old peasant rummaging through a sack told her she would die giving birth. He survives a suicide attempt in which he shot himself in the chest after the birth of his daughter, and while living in Italy he hires Mikhailov to paint a portrait of his lover. His horse Frou-Frou breaks its back during a race while trying to pass another horse named Gladiator. Kitty initially rejects the proposal of Konstantine Levin because she loves this man, who has an affair with a woman who ultimately throws herself in front of a train. For 10 points, name this nobleman who loves Anna Karenina in a Tolstoy novel.
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This character may have been based on Douglas Jerrold's “Mr. Chokepear.†He reminisces about his fiancée Belle breaking off their engagement at a party hosted by his old master, Fezziwig. This character is reminded of the death of his sister Fran by her son, his cheery nephew Fred. He is visited by a man who cannot shake off chains and manacles, his former business partner Jacob Marley. For 10 points, name this employer of Bob Cratchit who is visited by various Yuletide-related ghosts in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
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This character reminds one of his sick friends of how they used to catch sticklebacks in the Klosterbach while trying to cheer him up. This character reveals that he has written a handful of poems and started a play called "Saul." In an earlier scene, two potato pancakes made by this character's mother are given to some Russians after a visit from this man's sister, Erna, and his father. When this character is hospitalized, he is saved from trouble when Josef Hamacher takes the blame for throwing a glass bottle. Near the end of the work in which this character appears, he carries his friend on his back for a long distance to a dressing station only to find out that friend is dead. Earlier, this character becomes stranded in a shell hole and kills the compositor, Gérard Duval. For 10 points, name this German soldier from World War I, the main character of Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front.
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This character's name means “head†in the Nadsat language that droogs speak in A Clockwork Orange. One man whom he meets is the solitude-seeking Portuguese captain Pedro de Mendez. He becomes embroiled in a war fought between two neighboring countries over whether eggs should be cracked from the big or little end. This surgeon visits a country in which horses lead men, called Hounyyhmms. His adventures lead him to Luggnagg, Lilliput, and Brobdignag. For 10 points, name this character whose “Travels†title a satirical novel by Jonathan Swift.
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This country's literary tradition includes a book of poetry detailing the narrator's escapades with Urraca to debauch mountain women, The Book of Good Love. An author from this country wrote about Crispin's plot to swindle the father of Silvia in Bonds of Interest. This country also produced an author who published a Secret Dictionary of dirty words in its native language, and an author who created a "nivola" about Augusto, Niebla. Home to the author of The Hive and The Family of Pascual Duarte, this country's literary movements include the Generation of 98 and Generation of 27. For 10 points, name this country home to Camilo Jose Cela, Juan Ramon Jimenez, and Miguel de Cervantes.
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This leader supported the canton of Grisons in its claim to the Valtelline Valley before signing the Treaty of Monzon. The Treaty of Regensburg went unsigned by this man. The Code Michaud issued by this man defined the role of intendants. One plot to overthrow him was organized by Cinq-Mars. Another attempt to remove this man from power was supported by the prince Gaston and resulted in the Day of the Dupes. That failed attempt led to this man's supremacy over Marie de Medici in influencing Marie's son, the king. For 10 points, name this chief minister and cardinal who served under Louis XIII of France.
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This man acknowledged his failure to counteract the sympathetic portrayal of the outlaws in Gay's The Beggar's Opera with his comedy of virtue Love in a Riddle, and this man portrayed Cardinal Pandulph in his Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John. His nonfiction works include The Character and Conduct of Cicero and A Rhapsody upon the Marvellous, and John Vanbrugh wrote The Relapse as a sequel to one of this man's works. That work describes the return of the debauchee Loveless to the faithful Amanda, and in another of his works, the Headpiece family is corrupted by London. The author of Love's Last Shift and The Provok'd Husband and creator of the character Sir Novelty Fashion, for 10 points, name this English dramatist who wrote An Apology for his life and replaced Lewis Theobald as the target of Alexander Pope's The Dunciad.
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This man contradicted the work of Didymus is his lost tract On Cicero's Republic, and his lost Prata is cited as the origin of a boomerang myth. The work of Marius Maximus was styled in imitation of this man, who wrote a work with sections on "Grammarians", "Rhetoricians", "Poets", and "Historians"- a largely-lost text entitled Concerning Illustrious Men. This man, a private secretary to Hadrian, is the source for scandalous anecdotes such as the maddened tirade "Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!" and the scheme to name a horse as consul cooked up by Caligula. For 10 points, name this Roman biographer who discussed leaders from Julius Caesar to Domitian in his Lives of the Caesars.
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This man may have used medical case studies by Antonio Benivieni as a source for a scene in one of his plays in which a character shot in the chest by an arrow promptly begins to prophesy. In one long poem by this author, the narrator states that he "consecrated [his] life" to the Palace of Ruth, and he calls religion both "a monster like" and "the only grace of dames and men" in his Eugenia. A soothsayer describes sacrificing a "milk-white ox" in this man's Caesar and Pompey, and in another of his plays, a man disguised as a soldier claims that he killed Cynthia's husband. The title character's lover kills Pyrrhot and l'Anou in one of his two plays involving Bussy d'Ambois. For 10 points, name this British co-author of Eastward Ho! who inspired a man to feel "like some watcher of the skies" with his translations of The Odyssey and The Iliad, as memorialized by John Keats.
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This man told of how the sun “Woke, once, the clays of a cold star†and asked “O what made fatuous sunbeams toil / To break earth's sleep at all?†in one poem. The speaker of another of his poems escapes “down some profound dull tunnel,†after which he encounters a man he'd killed the previous day. The title group of another work by this author of “Futility†is mourned by “bugles calling for them from sad shires.†That poem by this man ends by describing “each slow dusk†as “a drawing down of blinds†and earlier asks “What passing bells for these who die as cattle?†The speaker of another of his poems sees a man “guttering, choking, drowning†after a gas attack. For 10 points, name this poet who wrote “Strange Meeting,†“Anthem for Doomed Youth,†and “Dulce Et Decorum Est.â€
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This man wrote an essay on the trial of Gaston Dominici which described his conviction as "the triumph of literature," while another of his essays contrasts the Nautilus in Verne's novels with Rimbaud's Drunken Boat. His first book opens with a discussion of Hébert's technique of using obscenities in every issue of Le Père Duchene and ends with a chapter describing literature as "the utopia of language." One of this man's most famous essays criticizes the belief that texts have "a single 'theological' meaning," and instead posits that meaning should be "disentangled" rather than "deciphered" as a result of replacing the title figure with "the scriptor." That essay by this man opens by discussing Balzac's story "Sarassine," as did this author's book S/Z. FTPE, name this French literary critic who wrote Writing Degree Zero and "The Death of the Author."
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This man wrote the libretto for an opera composed by Linley and son; that opera focuses on the rich Jewish merchant Isaac Mendoza and his interactions with Jerome and Louisa and is entitled The Duenna. This man lampooned Richard Cumberland as his character Sir Fretful Plagiary in another work, which shows a rehearsal of The Spanish Armada. A better known work by this author of The Critic shows Snake enquire about the designs of a woman who desires Charles Surface, Lady Sneerwell. In this man's first work, a character disguises himself as Ensign Beverly in order to escape a marriage arranged by Sir Anthony Absolute. That character, Jack, desires Lydia Languish, the ward of Mrs. Malaprop. For 10 points, name this creator of A School for Scandal and The Rivals.
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This man wrote the words to a hymn beginning "The Lord will come and not be slow". In another sonnet, the nineteenth in a sequence, he wrote that "God doth not need either man's work or his own gifts".In one of his works, a wicked sorcerer betrays Lady Alice Egerton's trust, telling her that "beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded". In another, this author describes a "two-handed engine" in a pastoral elegy on the death of Edward King. He wrote a closet drama about a pained Old Testament Nazarite, Samson Agonistes, which was set in publication against his New Testament epic poem. The author of both Comus and "Lycidas", this is, for 10 points, which author who also wrote about the Fall of Lucifer in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained.
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This man's large-lipped wife became the model for many of his works, including a painting in which she is cloaked in red as a red dove lands on a branch above her head, a rendition of Boccaccio's muse. This artist of A Vision of Fiammetta also painted a work in which a red dove clutches a yellow flower in its beak below a sundial on the hands of a praying woman who shuts her eyes and motions skyward. That painting by this artist is his depiction of Dante's lover as his own wife, Elizabeth Siddel. For 10 points, name this painter of the Beata Beatrix and writer of the sonnet sequence The House of Life and the poem The Blessed Damozel, one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
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This man's probing of the medicinal value of the health resort at Bath led him to write the fascinating "An Essay on the External Use of Water." A character modeled after this man appears at the grand portico of the Pantheon and proclaims that "Tis nothing but a huge cock-pit," and is reported to have used the Venus of Medicis "worse than a common strumpet," in Sterne's A Sentimental Journey. Sterne's work was a response to this man's Travels Through France and Italy. He borrowed from Juvenal for his verse satires Advice and Reproof. A haberdasher gets a lesson about ancient Japan from an omniscient particle in his The History and Adventures of an Atom. For 10 points, name this author of picaresque novels concerning the adventures of individuals such as Sir Launcelot Greaves, Ferdinand, Count Fathom, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, and Roderick Random.
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This meeting was reassembled by Julius III by the bull "Quum ad tolenda." This council declared the entire Vulgate to be canonical, including the Deuterocanonical books. Pius IV reinstated this council for the last time and codified the mass eventually superseded by the one decided at the Second Vatican Council. This council defined original sin and the seven sacraments, and rejected threatening ideas like justification by faith alone and Huldrych Zwingli's version of the Eucharist. For 10 points, name this ecumenical council that condemned Protestant doctrines and began the Counter-Reformation.
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This monarch won his crown after hiring the mercenary Falkes de Breaute, whose seasoned troops overwhelmed his foes and captured an old Norma Fortress. This man was not crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury, because that man supported Louis VIII of France's claim to the throne at the time. Instead, this monarch relied on the support of a prolifically successful tournament champion, the 1st Earl of Pembroke, William Marshal, to secure his claim by winning the aforementioned Battle of Lincoln. His decision to fund a war in Sicily to secure a title for his son Edmund eroded his support, though his major domestic opponent would be killed by this man's son at the Battle of Evesham in the Second Barons' War. This father of Edward Longshanks succeeded John Lackland and was forced to sign the Provisions of Oxford by Simon de Montfort. For 10 points, identify this Plantagenet monarch of England, the third of his name.
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This novel ends during Remembrance Week with the wife of the protagonist flirting with Dr. Vilbert, who had earlier sold her a love potion. Earlier, that wife leaves him to go to Australia and marry Cartlett. Near the end of this novel, the protagonist's oldest son hangs himself and his two half-siblings; that son is known by the nickname "Father Time." The title character wooes a woman in Christminster, who becomes the wife of the schoolteacher Mr. Phillotson. Sue Bridehead leaves the title character of this novel in order to force him back to his first wife, Arabella Donn. For 10 points, name this book about a man surnamed Folly, a super-depressing novel about a stonemason by Thomas Hardy.
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This novel features a character that eats 10,400 peaches in order to donate the stones to the military, as well as a man who relates the story of Sir Hercules and his wife, a dwarf couple who commit suicide after they learn that their normal-height son plans to make them dance drunkenly for his friends. In another scene, it is revealed that the towers were constructed so that their builder, Sir Fernando Lapith, might defecate nearer to God. This novel's protagonist receives advice from Mr. Barbecue-Smith on how to write by tapping into his subconscious and later realizes that his love for Anne is the object of ridicule when he discovers caricatures drawn by the nearly deaf Jenny. All of these characters have been invited to visit the home of Henry Wimbush in, for 10 points, what novel centering on Denis Stone's visit to the titular estate, a work by Aldous Huxley.
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This novel repeats the refrain "O Gods, Gods," and its early drafts were titled Here I Am and The Foreigner's Horseshoe. Styopa awakens with a hangover to discover a delicious meal presented to him by a stranger in this novel's chapter "A Naughty Apartment." That character's Variety Theater hosts a mysterious magic show that discombobulates the members of MASSOLIT. This novel's antagonist engineers the decapitation of Berlioz and drinks blood from his skull on Walpurgis Night, and is called Professor Woland. Containing parts of a book by the first title character about Pontius Pilate's condemnation of Jesus, for 10 points, name this novel in which the devil comes to Moscow, by Mikhail Bulgakov.
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This novel's protagonist dreams of a mare tied to a wagon being beaten to death by a mob of drunkards. In this novel, Luzhin offers to marry Dunya after she leaves her position as a governess. Another of its characters, Marmeladov, is the drunken father of the prostitute Sonya, who moves to Siberia in its epilogue after falling in love with its protagonist. Its protagonist confesses to Porfiry Petrovich after murdering Lizaveta and her half-sister, the pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna. For 10 points, name this work about Raskolnikov, a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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This novel's third and final section begins with two central characters and their guide encountering a villa ruined by an earthquake and ends with Paulo repeatedly remarking "Oh, happy days!" The hero encounters the heroine in this novel's first line and helps her with her guardian Miss Bianchi, who is the first character to die. Among the last to die is Nicola, who is poisoned. Its hero is ultimately freed from the Inquisition and the rest of the denouement sees the verification of the heroine's identity as the daughter of the Countess Olivia. This allows for the Marchese's approval of a marriage that had been opposed throughout the novel by the evil Marchesa and her confessor. For 10 points, Vivaldi and Ellena end up together despite the actions of the villain and title character Schedoni in what Anne Radcliffe novel?
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This play features an oath sworn on a sword right before one of its main characters tries to procure his own sister, Gratiana. One of its characters rationalizes his actions by noting that a "bastard by nature should make cuckolds / because he is the son of a cuckold maker." That figure, Spurio, allows himself to be seduced by his step-mother, whose real son is charged with the rape of the virtuous Lord Antonio's wife in the first Act. The two protagonists spend much of this play disguised as men named Carlo and Piato, and in one notable scene a character is killed after kissing a poisoned skeleton. Its sources include Heliodorus' Aethiopian History, which features a similar scene to the one where Lussurioso bursts in on his father in bed, as well as Seneca's bloody Thyestes. It opens with the protagonist telling of his mistress' murder at the hands of the Duke as he cradles her skull and vows to get even. For 10 points, identify this Jacobean drama featuring the aptly named Vindice, a work attributed to both Thomas Middleton and Cyril Tourneur.
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This play was based on a Thomas Deloney tract which was the source for an "Epistle to the Professors" and which prefaced this work in its first edition. A boy in this play enters wearing an alderman's gown after one character mentions his dealings with Skellum Skanderbag. Another character grants command of his troops to Askew and returns disguised as the Dutchman Hans. Sir Roger Oteley, the mayor of London in this play, goes with the Earl of Lincoln to St. Faith's to disrupt the wedding of Jane and Ralph, and goes to Savoy only to be foiled by Simon Eyre, the title character. Shrove Tuesday is set aside as the title day, and the marriage of Rowland Lacy is recognized in, for 10 points, what play by Thomas Dekker about some cobblers?
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This play's second act begins with reflections on Shelley's verse and features a speech deriding a poet's responsibility to the people. That speech is interrupted when one of the main characters hears a "tappin'" that portends death. Later in the play a distraught wife complains that her husband never returned to Hilljoy Square from the Blue Lion pub. During the first Act, Mr. Gallogher seeks out the protagonist and reads him a complaint letter to Mr. Dwyer, while a young man assures him that he awaits the call to action. However, when the Auxiliary arrives, it is neither Tommy Owens nor the meek title character that put up any resistance. Instead the most courageous tenement residents turn out to be the verbose Mrs. Henderson and the doomed Minnie Powell. For 10 points, identify this tragicomic play about Donal Davoren, who pretends to be the titular IRA assassin; a work by Sean O'Casey.
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This poem discusses a bough of cherries that is broken in an orchard by an "officious fool," who is rewarded with "a blush at least," while earlier the speaker argues that strangers cannot understand "the depth and passion" of an "earnest glance." The speaker laments the gift of his "nine hundred year old name", and later points out a Claus of Innsbruck statue of a sea-horse being tamed by Poseidon. The speaker "gave commands," which stopped "all smiles" of the title character, who now "look[s] as if she were alive" in a Fra Pandolf portrait on the wall. For 10 points, name this poem about the Duke of Ferrara's former wife, written by Robert Browning.
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This poem is followed in its collection by a poem which begins, "Now that we're almost settled in our house, I'll name the friends that cannot sup with us." One scholar theorizes that the phrase "great broken rings" in this poem represents change, and man is caught in the flux of time between destruction and art, symbolized by the phrase "unwearied still, lover by lover." The speaker declares that the nineteenth autumn has come upon him and later laments, "Now my heart is sore;" he then explains that all's changed since he, during the October twilight, the first time on the shore heard the bell-beat above his head representing the title creatures, of which there are a symbolic number, nine-and-fifty. For 10 points name this poem by William Butler Yeats describing some beautiful birds.
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This poem notes that "defenceless realms receive [the] sway" of the "bold Bavarian, in a luckless hour." Its speaker asks what exiled Hyde, while one figure mentioned in this poem is a "soul of fire" who besieges "Moscow's walls till Gothic standards fly." That "Swedish Charles" is referenced in this poem alongside Xerxes and the "last sighs of Cardinal Wolsey." This poem, which describes the "toil, envy, and want" of a scholar's life, opens with the speaker expressing his desire to "watch the busy scenes" of lives from "China to Peru." It was written in imitation of Juvenal's Tenth Satire and published after its author's piece "London." For 10 points, name this Samuel Johnson work exploring the pitfalls of people's aspirations to greatness.
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This poem uses the rivers Alpheus and Arethusa to bookmark a section criticizing those who "play lean and flashy songs" on "scrannel Pipes of wretched straw." In this poem, the god of the Cam river asks "Who hath reft...my dearest pledge?" before "the Pilot of the Galilean lake" denounces "Blind mouths!" who swell their listeners with wind instead of feeding them. At the end of this poem, a swain calls the title character "the Genius of the shore"after imploring "Look homeward Angel now, and melt with ruth." Foretelling "the ruin of our corrupted / Clergy then at their height," for 10 points, name this elegy on the drowning of Edward King, written by John Milton.
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This poem was written in response to a poem which asks, "Who'll grip and tackle the job unafraid? / And who thinks he'd rather sit tight?" titled "Who's for the game." It mentions men who "marched asleep" towards their "distant rest" before "All went lame; all blind." In its second stanza, an "ecstasy of fumbling" precedes the sight of a man "yelling and stumbling" through "thick green light" and "flound'ring like a man in fire or lime." In this poem's third stanza, the speaker claims that "If you could hear...the blood / Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs," then "My friend, you would not tell...The old Lie" of the title. For 10 points, name this poem about a gas attack on retreating infantrymen by Wilfred Owen, whose title is a quotation from Horace.
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This poem's central action occurs as "Malignant Fate sat by, and smil'd." This poem's final line quotes a note read by the Prince of Morocco in The Merchant of Venice, while its first stanza describes a "lofty vase" where "China's gayest art had dyed the azure flowers that blow." Two figures in this poem are described as having armor of a "Tyrian hue" that is "richest purple to the view." The narrator notes that neither "cruel Tom nor Susan heard" the title character's pleas to "every watery God." This poem was dedicated to Horace Walpole and concludes that "Not all that tempts your wandering eyes, And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; Nor all, that glisters, gold." For 10 points, name this Thomas Gray poem that describes the drowning of the feline Selima.
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This poet asked "would you learn the spells that drowse my soul" in a poem about an concept that "draws nectar in a sieve." He talks of a "secret ministry" and icicles "Quietly shining to the quiet Moon" in another work. In addition to writing "Work Without Hope," and "Frost at Midnight," this poet wrote about "viper thoughts" and "grief without a pang" in a poem about a glum emotion. He described a location by the sacred river Alph. For 10 points, identify this poet of "Dejection: An Ode" who wrote of a "stately pleasure-dome" in Xanadu in "Kublai Khan" and depicted the shooting of an albatross in his long poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
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This poet compared TV antennas to "crucifixions without Christ" in "Girl Beatnik," and he wrote that the title figure "like a seasoned lion / buys bread in the shop" and asks for it to be wrapped like a book in "Epistle to Neruda." This man describes a woman who gives "herself entire to the rain" while berry picking in a poem which claims "as we get older we get honester" and relates the poet's trip to his boyhood home. In another poem, he refers to a certain figure as "mute and dread" and claims he "still lurks in the mausoleum." This author of "The Heirs of Stalin" and "Zima Junction" wrote that "we are denied the leaves, we are denied the sky" in a poem in which he compares himself to Dreyfus and to Anne Frank. For 10 points, name this Russian poet who wrote that "no monument stands over" the title ravine in a poem which inspired a Shostakovich symphony, "Babi Yar."
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This poet described a “long-legged bird†flying over “two Chinamen, behind them a third†carved in stone. In one of his poems, he imagines himself taking the form of “hammered gold and gold enameling†to sing for an emperor at the end of a poem that claims “that is no country for old men.†This author described a creature “slouching toward Bethlehem to be born†in a poem that states: “Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold.†He wrote the poems “Lapis Lazuli†and “Sailing to Byzantium.†For 10 points, name this Irish poet who also wrote “The Second Coming.â€
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This poet noted that he “had no human fears†in a quintet of poems that centered on “A Maid whom there were none to praise / And very few to love.†In another poem, he called his home country “a fen / Of stagnant waters†and wished that “Milton!†“shouldst be living at this hour.†In one poem, he described objects which “flash upon that inward eye†and provide “the bliss of solitude.†In another poem, he wrote that he'd “rather be / A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn.†This author included “She dwelt among the untrodden ways†and “A slumber did my spirit seal†in his Lucy poems. For 10 points, name this poet of “London, 1802†and “The World is Too Much with Us,†who described seeing "a host of golden daffodils" in “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud†and wrote “Tintern Abbey.â€
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This poet noted that “the gift of a kid goat†will “stain your ice-cold waters with crimson blood†in a poem about the Bandusian fountain. One work of this author compares the title discipline to painting, and expresses annoyance at continuity errors in stating that even “Homer nods.†This author claimed that “brave men lived before Agamemnon†in one work. This writer also noted that Homer didn't begin his story with “the double egg†in a treatise which coined the phrase “In Medias Res.†This author also inspired a rebuttal from Wilfred Owen with his patriotic claim “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.†For 10 points, name this Roman author of Ars Poetica and a series of Odes.
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This poet was inspired by Theocritus to invent a form that glorifies rural life. One of this author's poems sees Proteus blame Aristaeus for killing Eurydice, which is why all of Aristaeus's bees died. This author wrote a work in which the Cumaean Sibyl helps the title character enter the underworld after the deaths of his wife Lavinia and his father Anchises. This poet created a title character who kills Turnus after having an affair with the Queen of Carthage, Dido. For 10 points, name this Roman poet, the author of the Aeneid.
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This poet wrote "We can make our lives sublime, / And, departing, leave behind us / Footprints on the sands of time". He wrote about seeing the "face of one long dead" in a poem about the death of his wife titled "Cross of Snow". The speaker asserts, "Let us, then, be up and doing / With a heart for fate" in a poem that begins "Tell me not in mournful numbers, / Life is but an empty dream!" This author of "The Psalm of Life" wrote a poem about a man who stands "under a spreading chestnut tree", while another poem concerns an Arcadian woman who loves Gabriel Lajeunesse and begins with the line "This is the forest primeval". For 10 points, name this poet who wrote Evangeline and "Paul Revere's Ride".
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This poet wrote about a figure, who "when he cried the little children died in the streets" in "Epitaph on a Tyrant." One of his poems asserts that the "The death of the poet was kept from his poems," and another poem juxtaposes a lover's naïve comment that "love has no ending" against the clocks that "began to whir and chime" pronouncing "You cannot conquer Time." This author of "In Memory of W.B. Yeats," and "As I Walked Out One Evening" wrote "We must love one another or die" in a poem that begins, "I sit in one of the dives / on Fifty-second Street." For 10 points, name this poet, who wrote "September 1, 1939" and "The Unknown Citizen."
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This poet wrote about “the one landscape that we, the inconstant ones, Are consistently homesick for†in one work. In another of this poet's works, “the thin-lipped armorer, Hephaestos†carves a martial scene instead of a bucolic one into the title object. This author of “In Praise of Limestone†and “The Shield of Achilles†began one poem in “one of the dives, On Fifty-second Street.†This poet opened his “Funeral Blues†with “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,†and wrote about a “delicate ship†ignoring “a boy falling out of the sky†in a poem based on a Breughel painting. For 10 points, name this author of “September 1, 1939†and “Musee des Beaux Arts.â€
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This poet wrote that to “get with child a mandrake root†is more likely than to find a “woman true, and fair†in one poem. This author delivered a deathbed sermon about “Death's Duel†and wrote that “virtuous men pass mildly away†in a poem that uses a compass metaphor to connect him to his love. This author of the lines “Go and Catch a Falling Star†tells the listener to "mark this" titular creature that “suck'd me first, and now sucks thee" in his poem “The Flea.†This poet coined the phrase “For whom the bell tolls†in his Meditation XVII and wrote the sonnet “Death Be Not Proud.†For 10 points name this English poet of “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning.â€
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This relation was discovered by Irving Fisher in the 1920s, thirty-two years before its namesake published his work on it. The New Classical version of it was developed by Robert Lucas. Robert Solow and Paul Samuelson showed that this it applied to the United States. It was criticized by Edmund Phelps and Milton Friedman, who argued that it could not hold in the long run. This relation, which is similar to Okun's law, came under increasing attack in the 1970s due to stagflation. For 10 points, identify this curve in economics that gives an inverse relationship between inflation and unemployment.
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This ruler was unable to prevent Lothan and Girling from attacking the Isle of Wight and Sandwich. This man appointed Robert of Jumierges to be the archbishop of Canterbury, and he was in power when a riot at Dover threatened Eustace of Boulogne. Throughout his reign, this king was forced to appease the Earls of Leofric, Siward, and Godwin. This king had his mother tried on a charge of adultery after she supported Magnus instead of him; that woman's name was Emma of Normandy. This man succeeded Harthacanute, and he preceeded Harold Godwinsson, and he was the husband of Edith, whom he sent to a nunnery. For ten points, identify this son of Aethelred the Unready, the last English king form the House of Wessex, who was notably sainted.
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This story relates an incident about a man who is spotted running out the back door of a burning house and mistakenly hung for looting. Its central figures re-unite in a valley full of pomegranate trees, and one later accuses a group of being "bloodthirsty tigers" before being clubbed to death. At the start of this story, one character begins to hang himself in jail at the sound of bells, because his lover is going to be executed for committing adultery while a Carmelite nun at Our Lady of the Mountain. At the climax of this story, a shoemaker, inflamed by a sermon, kills the wrong child, with the surviving infant adopted by Don Fernando. For 10 points, name this tale in which Jeronimo Rugero's fate is delayed by the titular natural disaster, written by Heinrich von Kleist.
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This thinker followed the growth of agriculture and metallurgy in his Discourse on Inequality. In one work, he claimed that all passions grow out of amour de soi, including amour propre. He praised the independence of Sparta over the corruption of Athens in one work, while another advocates "negative education," where children discover things for themselves. He claimed that Sovereigns should advance the cause of the general will in a work which contains the line "man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains." For 10 points, name this French enlightenment author of Emile, or On Education and The Social Contract.
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This work is dedicated to George Lyttelton, who was partially the inspiration for one of its major characters. The lone childhood friend of this work's title character is the gameskeeper Black George, who later with the help of Mrs. Honour aids the character in exchanging love letters with a woman. The most prominent female character in this novel is subject to an attempted rape by Lord Fellamar, and Arabella Hunt proposes marriage to the title character of this novel by letter. The protagonist of this work helps a woman claiming to be the widow of Captain Waters, and also has an affair with Molly Seagram. Mr. Fitzpatrick is the traveling companion of the title character of this work, and that title character and his rival are tutored by Roger Thwackum. That rival, Bilfil, vies for the title character's love interest Sophia Western. For ten points, name this novel whose title character is raised by Squire Allworthy, a work by Henry Fielding.
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This work mentions demons in “fire, flood, air, or underground†and asks that the stories of Cabuscan, Campball, and Algarsife be told. This poem describes “the wondrous horse of brass / which the great Tatar king did ride†and a room where “embers teach light to counterfeit gloom.†Its narrator claims that he may “Outwatch the Bear†while in a tower with “thrice-great Hermes†and “the spirit of Plato.†Night often sees this work's narrator in his “Pale Career.†The subject of this poem has “saintly image too bright/to hit the sense of human sight†and is driven by “the cherub Contemplation.†This poem begins “Hence, vain deluding joys†and contains the line “Hail, divinest melancholy.†For 10 points, name this companion poem to “L'Allegro†that was written by John Milton.
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This work refers to Thomas Otway in the seventh section's discussion of a lost child hoping to make her mother hear her cries. Published on the day on which a friend of its author married Mary Hutchinson, this poem is addressed to a "Lady" who is told "we receive but what we give" and upon whom are wished joy and, ultimately, sleep. Its seventh line alludes to an Æolian lute, the subject of another poem by the same author. It begins by saying that the wind will disturb the now-calm night according to the Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence. This poem's third and shortest section contains its famous lament, "My genial spirits fail." FTP, name this poem about the decay of creative powers, an ode by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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This work's 27th chapter, "The End of Apartment No. 50," finds "a whole floor" of an organization not sleeping and hints that the House on the Embankment is the home of Sempleyarov. The novel within this novel centers on Yeshua, but claims that Arthanius arranged a certain murder. Only authors and lovers can see Woland and his cohorts for what they are, which leads to one of the main characters being found schizophrenic; it is thus that the male title character meets Ivan Bezdomny in an insane asylum. FTP, identify this novel setting a contest between Jesus and Satan in Stalinist Russia, the most famous work of Mikhail Bulgakov.
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This work's author was the subject of an 1881 biography by Richard Burton, who attempted a translation of this work into a form of English resembling that of Wyatt and Surrey. In this work's seventh canto, "Georgians, Armenians, Grecians, and hapless Thrace," are mentioned exhorting the title characters "to quell the unspeakable horde." In the final canto of this work, the lover of the protagonist reveals that he will need to brave "the Red Sea's dangers [which] shalt thou force / To Abyssinia's realm thy novel course." This is revealed during a feast on the Isle of Love, which the sailors encounter upon the request of Venus to Cupid. The "Silver Star of Love" helps calm the seas of the fleet which had previously traveled to Quiloa, Melinda, and Mozambique before venturing forth to their target land of India. For 10 points, identify this epic 16th century poem about the exploits of Vasco da Gama by Portuguese writer Luis Camoes.
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This work's description of mutability, "a shadow of a cloud on the stream," is contrasted with the steadfastness of the stone, which also becomes a heart in a subsequent stanza. In another section, the narrator recalls the sweetness and sensitive nature of a poet, and even agrees to sing the praises of a man he once thought of as a "vainglorious lout." It alludes to Gertrude's suffering with the lines "That is heavens part," while at the beginning the speaker recalls exchanging "polite meaningless words" with such figures as Countess Markiewicz and a man briefly married to its author's muse, Maud Gonne. Ending with the assertion that "A terrible beauty is born," its previous lines refer to the executions of such leaders as James Connolly and Patrick Pearse. Named for the holiday and the year on which a certain event took place, for 10 points, identify this poem commemorating a failed Irish uprising, a work by William Butler Yeats.
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This work's introduction beseeches its addressee to "vaunt thy splendor" and describes a bachelor's hour of feasting and the "playing fields of Mars." It includes a footnote that corrects the misrepresentations made in an earlier depiction of the same event by Mickiewicz. The recurring images in this work include a willow that marks the house of a widow and her daughter, as well as "two lions" constantly at guard. The main character who is described as "attacked" by "hideous thoughts" and dreams of seeing his beloved Parasha again, loses his home after a great flood levels the city. Divided into three parts, it was inspired by the author's admiration for an object created by Etienne Maurice Falconet and centers on a man named Yevegeny, whose curse brings the statue of a Russian ruler to life. For 10 points, identify this work subtitled "A Petersburg Tale," a poem by Alexander Pushkin.
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This work's protagonist wants "a novel with a good detective story in it", and wants to avoid the "romance and beauty of life" as well as "love's young dream." This declaration prompts her lover to leave her and vow to be like a brother to her, which he may indeed be, according to another character named Crofts. In another section of this work the reader learns of the "Gospel of Art," a philosophy espoused by an architect and central character. Another character's rejection is followed by the protagonist's decision to go to Chancery Lane to do actuary work at Honoria Fraser's chambers, ungratefully using the math education provided for by the profits of her mother's business. For 10 points, name this work that includes the characters of Praed and Frank Gardner and turns on Vivie's realization that Kitty is a Madam, a play by George Bernard Shaw.
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This writer depicted a place where the "sun burns sere and the rain dishevels" in "The Forsaken Garden," while his, Heptalogia, or the Seven Against Sense, offered a slew of parodies in the style of his contemporaries, such as the piece "The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell." He created a fictitious back-story about a damsel named Yolande de Sallieres in a work about a clerk who continues to caress the deformed body of his now dead mistress. That work, "The Leper," was published in a controversial 1866 collection alongside another poem that begins- "Swallow, my sister, o swallow--" and is named "Itylus." Other works by this author include "Laus Veneris," "Faustine," and a piece addressed to "Our Lady of Pain:" "Dolores." For 10 points, identify this English poet of such works as "Ave Atque Vale," "The Garden of Proserpine," and Atalanta in Calydon.
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This writer described Master Frenhofer creating a portrait in which nothing is visible except for a foot in the story The Unknown Masterpiece. This author wrote a novel in which the narrator is surprised to learn that the model for a portrait of Adonis is the castrato opera singer Zambinella, who was obsessively pursued by the title artist. In another book the title character facilitates the downfall of Baron Hulot after he arranges for his daughter Hortense to marry Count Steinbock. In addition to writing Sarrasine, this author wrote a novel in which neither of the title character's daughters, Anastasie or Delphine, go to his funeral, which is attended by Eugene de Rastignac. For 10 points, name this French author who included Cousin Bette and La Pere Goriot in his series The Human Comedy.
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Three of this novel's characters attend a school visually dominated by a portrait of Queen Alexandra of Denmark. Another character refuses to speak aloud in class due to his Australian accent and spends much of his time in his parents' attic. Early in the novel, one character brings his friend to a place he calls Elvedon to assuage her jealousy of Jinny. A character known as "the poet" falls in love while watching his friend flick the back of his neck. That friend is eventually thrown by his horse in India, after which Rhoda finds consolation in an opera house. In the final section, narrated by the "maker of phrases," it is revealed that Rhoda has killed herself, while at an earlier gathering at Hampton Court Bernard had compared the six-sided flower on the dinner table to Percival, their deceased mutual friend. Described by its author as a "play-poem," this is, for 10 points, what novel by Virginia Woolf?
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Twice during this work, one character asks to examine another character's hand. The second time, a fugitive offers to pay his suspicious rescuer 150,000 piastres to protect him. In another episode, a funeral and a wedding occur simultaneously, that is, until the "corpse" hears the war with the princes is over, at which point he recovers. Scene 3 sees the protagonist crossing a rotten bridge to reach the Northern Mountains. There she finds shelter with her brother Lavrenti. Punctuated throughout by various songs, it was written during its author's stay in California and it focuses on a peasant woman's journey to protect the Governor's abandoned child from the Ironshirts. The climax is presided over by the unconventional judge, Azdak, who administers the titular test after drawing it on the floor. For 10 points, name this play that ends with Grusha proving her love for baby Michael, a work by Bertolt Brecht.
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Vivian Bearing, the protagonist of Margaret Edson's play W;t [wit], is a scholar of this set of works and has published a work on criticism titled after its fifth member. Its author asks the Jews to "spit in my face" in one part, while other parts ask "if lecherous goats... cannot be d@mned, alas! Why should I?" and instruct angels to blow their trumpets "at the round earth's corners." The line "I am a little world made cunningly" opens one part of this work, whose fourteenth part asks a "three-person'd God" to "batter my heart." The main entity is described as the "slave to Fate, chance, kings, and desperate men" in its most famous section, the tenth. FTP, name this sequence of nineteen poems, the most famous of which begins with, "Death, be not proud," written by John Donne.
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We first hear this character's name from Curio, who goes in search of him.At one point he asks another character, "What is the opinion of Pythagoras concerning wild fowl?"Shortly therafter he sings "Hey Robin, jolly Robin, / Tell me how thy lady does" when he revisits that other character.That other character had earlier called this man a "barren rascal" and noted that "unless you laugh and minister occasion to him, he is gagged," an insult this character repays by playing the part of Sir Topas the curate while teasing an imprisoned, arrogant steward.He receives money from both of the twins Sebastian and Viola, and he helps Sir Toby Belch get revenge on Malvolio.For 10 points, name this clown and jester from Twelfth Night.
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When a figure in this work asks "what is the greatest sin," he is tormented by Pastor Moser's reply of "Parricide the one is called, fratricide the other" and kills himself using the cord from his hat shortly afterwards. The rescue of Roller leads to a climactic scene in which one character lashes his hand to a tree and demands that his men betray him. Later, Spiegelberg's treasonous plans lead to his stabbing by Schweitzer, and Maximilien dies of grief while Amalia is killed by her lover. For 10 points, name this play in which Karl von Moor is disinherited by his father, leading him to form the titular group, a work of Friedrich Schiller.
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While he was in prison for mocking a monarch's visit to Palestine he wrote the story "Mine-Haha: The Corporal Education of Young Girls." That stint in prison resulted from his work editing the satirical journal Simplicissimus, an experience which inspired his Oaha, the Satire of Satire. He wrote about a swindler who pretends to be the title nobleman in The Marquis of Keith, while a young girl is killed by taking abortion pills in his first major play, 1891's Spring Awakening. FTP, name this German author of Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box, whieh was adapted by Alban Berg into the opera Lulu.
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While looking in the window of a pork butcher's shop this character is disgusted upon seeing a fat blonde girl bend over. At one point he reads a portion of Eugenie Grandet in a restaurant, and he declares to Madeleine that he enjoys the song "some of these Days." He witnesses an acquaintance be thrown out of a library after he reveals that he's a homosexual. He goes to see an ex-girlfriend, Anny, only to find out that she has gotten fat, but his only sexual encounters occur with the owner of the Rendezvous de Cheminots, Francoise. Aside from occasional meetings with Ogier P., the "Self-Taught Man, most of this man's time is spent researching the Marquis de Rollebon, but he abandons the project due to a condition that he says travels to his body through his hands. For 10 points name this character who in a work by Jean-Paul Sartre suffers from nausea.
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While on a trip to the beach, this fictional character sees a seal that she mistakes for a mermaid, and during a later excursion she witnesses seven sailors pulled from a wrecked ship. The first time this character enters her husband's home, she notices a stuffed crocodile and shark hanging in the hall. The work in which she appears opens by describing her idyllic childhood with Herta, Berta, and Hulda. This character fears that her home is haunted by a ghost she calls the Chinaman, and discusses this situation with a hunchbacked chemist named Gieshubler. She has an awkward meeting with her daughter Annie, years after her carelessly hidden letters reveal a relationship with a dashing Major. That affair is what caused her husband, the Prussian politician Innstetten, to immediately divorce her. For 10 points, name this tragic lover of Crampas, the title character of a novel by Theodor Fontane.
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While staying at the Villa Esmeralda, the title character of this work meets the gondoliers Daniele and Giovanni and is urged to marry the abstract painter Duncan Forbes by her older sister Hilda. Bertha Coutts spreads rumors about her husband's infidelity, and one character in this novel has an affair with the playwright Michaelis, one of the intellectuals who gather at the estate of Wragby. The owner of that estate drives a motorized wheelchair after being paralyzed in World War I, an injury that leads the title character to seek companionship from the gamekeeper Oliver Mellors. For 10 points, name this novel in which Clifford is cheated on by Constance Reid, a work of DH Lawrence.
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Widda Machree and Kelly argue about the price of a cow in this author's one-act work Time to Go, while this author wrote a play in which Stoke and Poges attempt to restore a Tudor home. This author of Purple Dust wrote about a "demon bird" that terrorizes Mauthraun in Cock-a-Doodle Dandy, and this author wrote a play in which Nora Clitheroe goes mad after her husband Jack is killed on Easter. In another work, Joxer Daly often gets Jack Boyle drunk. For 10 points, name this Irish playwright who wrote The Plough and the Stars and Juno and the Paycock.
