Literary Trivia #2

Century of Milton's "Paradise Lost"

17th

"Tropic of Cancer" is an autobiographical look at Henry Miller's life in Paris during this decade

1930s

Stephen King's first published book

Carrie

"Centennial" by James Michener was set in this state

Colorado

In Stephen Vincent Benet's story "The Devil and" him, Mr. Scratch has come to collect a debt

Daniel Webster

One minute, this 1890 title guy is young & handsome; the next, his old corpse is only I.D.'d by his rings

Dorian Gray

Her 1929 story "Big Blonde" is about an aging party girl named Hazel Morse

Dorothy Parker

The "idiot"! He got mixed up with the Petrashevsky Circle of socialists & did 8 months in 1849

Dostoyevsky

In 2013 this author of the memoir "Eat Pray Love" turned to historical fiction with "The Signature of all Things"

Elizabeth Gilbert

Her book "My Story" suggests that her Mormon faith helped her through her 9-month kidnap ordeal

Elizabeth Smart

Her poem No. 288 asks, "I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you--Nobody--too?"

Emily Dickinson

In a letter to a friend in 1845: "I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year"

Emily Dickinson

This American's earliest poem, "Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine", dates to Valentine week 1850

Emily Dickinson

This Austen girl: "Dear Mrs Weston, do not take to match-making... Jane Fairfax mistress of the Abbey!--Oh! no, no"

Emma

This title woman gets Harriet to reject a farmer's marriage proposal, but that turns out badly

Emma

Her 1883 "1492" celebrates "A virgin world where doors of sunset part, / Saying, 'Ho, all who weary, enter here!'"

Emma Lazarus

Spoiler alert! Jane Austen had George become the Knightley in shining armor for this woman

Emma Woodhouse

A stand-in for Ibsen himself, truth-telling medical inspector Thomas Stockmann becomes this "of the people"

Enemy

Before her first novel, "Fear of Flying", she published a poetry collection about some bawdy "Fruits & Vegetables"

Erica Jong

To F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925: "We are going in to Pamplona tomorrow. Been trout fishing here"

Ernest Hemingway

This Edith Wharton title man, "throwing back his worn bearskin, made room for me in the sleigh at his side"

Ethan Frome

This Romanian-born French playwright also wrote for children, the series "Stories 1, 2, 3, 4" that he himself called "silly"

Eugene Ionesco

A character named Berenger appears in plays by this Romanian-born man, including "The Killer" & "Rhinoceros"

Eugene Ionescu

By Leon Uris, it opens in 1946

Exodus

Here is Amantine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, known by this pen name; she loved Chopin in more ways than one

George Sand

"Dark Places", by this author of "Gone Girl"

Gillian Flynn

This monster in "Beowulf" was said to be descended from Cain

Grendel

In 1915 his reasons for naturalization included "having lived and worked in England for the best part of forty years"

Henry James

This author's 1936 novel "Black Spring", a bawdy tale of Paris, came between 2 more famous books

Henry Miller

He narrates "The Catcher in the Rye"

Holden Caulfield

His novel "Atonement" was turned into a 2007 movie with Keira Knightley

Ian McEwan

"Noble six hundred!" ends this poem

The Charge of the Light Brigade

In this 1678 British work, you'll find mention of a stately palace, "the name of which was beautiful"

The Pilgrim's Progress

The 1684 second part of this allegory features the compassionate Mr. Great-Heart

The Pilgrim's Progress

This Poe story tells of a prisoner's torture during the Spanish Inquisition

The Pit and the Pendulum

Published in 1513, it was dedicated "to the magnificent Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici"

The Prince

When he was just 24, Stephen Crane published this novel about Union soldier Henry Fleming

The Red Badge of Courage

T.S. Eliot divulged in a letter that a difficult marriage "brought the state of mind out of which came" this poem in 1922

The Waste Land

"A Novel Without a Hero" is the subtitle of this Thackeray work

Vanity Fair

She is credited with writing Beauty and the Beast

Villeneuve

"Pale Fire", a reference to moonlight in "Timon of Athens", is the title of a 1962 novel by this Russian-born man

Vladimir Nabokov

In the Bastille in 1717, this philosopher wrote his epic poem "La Henriade"

Voltaire

This Brit's works included many political poems, including "Spain 1937" about the Spanish Civil War

W.H. Auden

"Baby, if you've ever wondered, wondered whatever became of me", I became a DJ here

WKRP in Cincinnati

From July 4, 1845 to Sept. 6, 1847, Thoreau made his home on the shore of this

Walden Pond

1940: Richard Llewellyn's "How Green Was My Valley" dug into the lives & loves of coal miners in this country

Wales

A Herman Wouk sequel, later a miniseries

War and Remembrance

Full of greed, ego & backstabbing, this is the town covered in Mark Leibovich's "This Town"

Washington D.C.

Budd Schulberg's Hollywood novel about Sammy Glick

What Makes Sammy Run?

His experience teaching unruly boys helped inspire his book "Lord of the Flies"

William Golding

This "lord of the" British novelists was knighted in 1988

William Golding

This politician was the subject of Vachel Lindsay's 1919 poem "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

William Jennings Bryan

Early in "1984" this character writes, "Down with Big Brother" over & over again in his diary

Winston Smith

Just in time for the centennial of this comes Robert Olen Butler's latest, "The Star of Istanbul", set during it

World War I

Earth is a scary place in this recent Max Brooks novel subtitled "An Oral History of the Zombie War"

World War Z

Camden College is the setting for "The Rules of Attraction" by this 3-named chronicler of amoral youth

Bret Easton Ellis

In 2010, the 25th anniversary of his "Less Than Zero", he published a sequel called "Imperial Bedrooms"

Bret Easton Ellis

"The Women of" this location in the 1982 novel by Gloria Naylor include Etta Mae & Kiswana

Brewster Place

This 1945 Evelyn Waugh novel is subtitled "The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder"

Brideshead Revisited

Drug-fueled debauchery in New York City takes up much of this Jay McInerney debut novel

Bright Lights, Big City

This utopian farm in West Roxbury, Mass. counted among its members Nathaniel Hawthorne

Brook Farm

Jack London wrote that he "was neither house-dog nor kennel-dog. the whole realm was his"

Buck

Beatrix Potter's stories of dressed, talking animals influenced some "chronicles" by this author, 32 years younger

C.S. Lewis

The neurotic Captain Queeg faces a mutiny aboard this ship

Caine

The logo seen here belongs to this University Press, founded in 1534, and claiming the title of the world's oldest publisher

Cambridge

This character "piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage & hate felt by his whole race"

Captain Ahab

He "went content to the crocodile"; instead of "Bad form", his last words should have been "Here's seconds!"

Captain Hook

This 1870 sci-fi captain claimed the South Pole with an appropriate flag

Captain Nemo

The modest home at 4646 N. Hermitage in the Ravenswood area of Chicago is where he wrote his famous poem about the city

Carl Sandburg

"History of My Life" by this 18th century Italian adventurer relates his (many) conquests as a lover

Casanova

In 1906 Grantland Rice wrote "Casey's Revenge", a reply to this baseball classic

Casey at the Bat

This 1955 play by Tennessee Williams won a Pulitzer Prize

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Vonnegut volume about a possibly world-ending form of water called ice-nine

Cat's Cradle

In a trilogy, it's the book that comes between "The Hunger Games" & "Mockingjay"

Catching Fire

Washington Irving admitted that when he wrote Rip Van Winkle, he'd never been to these mountains, the tale's setting

Catskills

This ancient Roman wrote poems in praise of the lady he called Lesbia & on the death of her sparrow

Catullus

"The Zoo Story": a Sunday afternoon in summer in this park

Central Park

In Ariosto's chivalric romance "Orlando Furioso", Orlando is this great king's nephew

Charlemagne

Irving Stone's 1980 historical novel "The Origin" focuses on this scientist & his 1831-36 voyage

Charles Darwin

1999: A. Scott Berg won a Pulitzer writing about this pilot; 1954: the same pilot won a Pulitzer writing about himself

Charles Lindbergh

Melanie Benjamin's "The Aviator's Wife" fictionalized the life & marriage of Anne Morrow & this man

Charles Lindbergh

During the Hundred Years' War, this famous author was taken prisoner near Reims, France & held for ransom

Chaucer

Fittingly, this last name of "Girl With A Pearl Earring" historical novelist Tracy means "Knight"

Chavalier

In 2010 this city gave landmark status to the homes of Lorraine Hansberry, Gwendolyn Brooks & Richard Wright

Chicago

Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" depicted the gory world of this city's meatpacking industry

Chicago

In Isabel Allende's coming of age story "Maya's Notebook", Maya's grandparents are emigres from this country

Chile

Byron based "The Prisoner of" here on Francois Bonivard, a Genevan patriot who was jailed for his beliefs

Chillon

In "Empire of the Sun", J.G. Ballard drew upon his own experiences as a boy in this country during wartime

China

Evil is alive & inhabiting a 1958 Plymouth Fury in this Stephen King tale

Christine

Shift the ape convinces a donkey to don a lion's skin so as to be Aslan in "The Last Battle" of this series

Chronicles of Narnia

"Resistance to Civil Government" was an early title of this essay printed a year after "The Communist Manifesto"

Civil Disobedience

This 1980 novel by Jean Auel is a saga of the dawn of modern humans

Clan of the Cave Bear

In 1882, she wrote "An Official History of the Red Cross"

Clara Barton

This is the first name of the title character in "Mrs. Dalloway"

Clarissa

Last name of mother & daughter Mary Higgins & Carol Higgins, who collaborate in the Christmas suspense genre

Clark

Hugo wrote that this Archdeacon of Notre Dame "had been destined from infancy... for the ecclesiastical state"

Claude Frollo

This debut novel by Charles Frazier was a take on Homer's "Odyssey" set during the Civil War

Cold Mountain

"The Cat" by this single-named Frenchwoman is about a Russian blue who's devoted to her master--but not to his fiancee

Colette

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in this country in 1928

Colombia

Like "The Shining", "Misery" deals with a writer stuck in this U.S. state during winter

Colorado

Louis L'Amour wrote many of his western novels in room 222 of the Strater hotel in Durango in this state

Colorado

"I can't count the reasons I should stay, one by one they all just fade away" (it should be the Greendale fight song)

Community

When "A Week on" this "and the Merrimack Rivers" sold only 220 copies, publishers dumped the last 700 on Thoreau's door

Concord

This Pulitzer winner changed his first name to that of an Irish king, avoiding associations with a famous ventriloquist's dummy

Cormac McCarthy

This prolific social critic & author of "Race Matters" was my co-author on the 1996 book "The Future of the Race"

Cornel West

The first part of "Les Miserables" is called "Fantine"; the second part is named for her

Cosette

1980 nonfiction book by Carl Sagan

Cosmos

Imprisoned, Raskolnikov has a long wait until he can again be with his beloved Sonia at the end of this novel

Crime and Punishment

Inspector Porfiry Petrovich is on the case in this 1866 novel

Crime and Punishment

This 1897 work includes the line "a great nose indicates a great man"

Cyrano de Bergerac

David Herbert were the given names of this author whose 1915 "The Rainbow" was banned as obscene

D.H. Lawrence

This Henry James heroine is shunned after she befriends an Italian man

Daisy Miller

This personality first won friends & influenced people while teaching public speaking at the YMCA

Dale Carnegie

Robert Langdon feels the burn dealing with a riddle involving Dante's "Inferno" in an offering from this author

Dan Brown

This 1957 Ray Bradbury novel is named for a potent potable made from a lawn weed

Dandelion Wine

The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County was named after this New Hampshire orator & statesman

Daniel Webster

This poet had mooned over Beatrice Portinari for 9 years before she even spoke to him in 1283

Dante Aligheiri

A veteran of both world wars, this creator of Sam Spade was buried in Arlington in 1961

Dashiell Hammett

By Dickens: "Wickfield and Heep" is a chapter in this novel

David Copperfield

This Dickens character is mentioned in the first line of "The Catcher in the Rye"

David Copperfield

This character is Charles Dickens' most autobiographical; his initials are the reverse of the author's

David Copperfield

Name the playwright: "The Glengarry Highland's leads, you're sending Roma out, fine. He's a good man"

David Mamet

St. Francis Cathedral is one of the many structures built by Jean-Baptiste Lamy, the first archbishop of Santa Fe & the model for the quiet, pious title character in this Willa Cather novel

Death Comes for the Archbishop

This 1949 drama that ends with a requiem asks, "Why did you do it? I search & search & I search, & I can't understand it"

Death of a Salesman

The murder in this mystery takes place aboard the Karnak, a small river steamboat

Death on the Nile

"The Painted Girls" is a novel of 2 sisters in Paris, one of whom models for a dancer sculpture by this artist

Degas

Y'all might be shaken up by this James Dickey book about a canoeing trip that turns into a struggle for survival

Deliverance

Alice begins & ends "Through the Looking Glass" by talking with Kitty, the offspring of this old cat

Dinah

Clive Cussler's "Atlantis Found" finds this protagonist in Antarctica

Dirk Pitt

Chapter 15 of this novel reports that one day Lara "went out and did not come back. She... probably died somewhere"

Doctor Zhivago

This Russian physician is married to Tonya but falls in love with Lara while working in a military hospital

Doctor Zhivago

"His madness being stronger than any other faculty", he "resolved to have himself dubbed a knight by the first person he met"

Don Quixote

This "tasty" author bakes her novels a while: 1992's "The Secret History" was her 1st, & "The Goldfinch" from 2013 is her 3rd

Donna Tartt

Lord Henry tells him, "What an exquisite life you have had!... It has not marred you. You are still the same"

Dorian Gray

In "Nocturne", this woman known for her table talk wrote, "Cover with ashes our love's cold crater"; always so cheery!

Dorothy Parker

This author's crime? Discussing banned books in the Petrashevsky Circle group in 1849; punishment? 4 years in Siberia

Dostoyevsky

Matthew Arnold mixed pessimism & hope for love in his poem titled this "beach" in southeast England

Dover Beach

The first edition of his "Diet Revolution" was a bestseller back in 1972

Dr. Atkins

Chee-Chee was an organ grinder's monkey rescued by this doctor

Dr. Dolittle

Joe McGinniss' controversial books include "Fatal Vision", about this doctor & convicted murderer

Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald

Magazine stories about this young doctor spawned several movies & a TV series starring Richard Chamberlain

Dr. Kildare

Shipwrecked in the South Seas, Edward Prendick stumbles on the island of this doctor who's creating human-animal hybrids

Dr. Moreau

In 1937 his sister said he had "hats of every description" which he would use as a "foundation of his next book"

Dr. Seuss

This 1897 novel was influenced by "Carmilla", an 1872 novella about a female vampire

Dracula

Sturm Brightblade is a knight of Solamnia in this series named for a weapon that sounds like it could kill Smaug

Dragonlance

With hundreds of performers in an evening, Victorian pantomime peaked at the theater named for this lane

Drury Lane

"The Boarding House" & "The Sisters" are 2 of the 15 stories appearing in this 1914 James Joyce collection

Dubliners

Born in Swansea, Wales, he went somewhat gentle into that good night in 1953

Dylan Thomas

This Welsh poet wrote the play "Under Milk Wood"

Dylan Thomas

Mrs. Honeychurch in his "A Room with a View" was based on his grandmother

E.M. Forster

Chapter 1 of this 1952 book ends, "This is about the way the Salinas valley was when my grandfather... settled in the foothills"

East of Eden

Lying sick in bed, Adam gives his son Caleb his blessing by saying the Hebrew word "timshel" at the end of this novel

East of Eden

Retells a biblical story: "First Aron prayed silently for Cal"

East of Eden

Fittingly, Luca Spaghetti is one of the people Elizabeth Gilbert meets in the first section of this 3-word book

Eat, Pray, Love

This bestseller by Lynne Truss has been described as "a book for people who love punctuation"

Eats, Shoots and Leaves

In 1995 Richard Preston had a No. 1 bestseller with "The Hot Zone", about a scary outbreak of this virus from Africa

Ebola

Name the poet: "Lenore 'hath gone before', with hope, that flew beside, leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride"

Edgar Allan Poe

His "Murders in the Rue Morgue" in 1841 is considered the first detective story in English

Edgar Allen Poe

In 1936 he published an autobiography titled "Across Spoon River"

Edgar Lee Masters

This author's ashes were buried under a large walnut tree in front of his office on Ventura Blvd. in Tarzana, California

Edgar Rice Burroughs

He dedicated "The Faerie Queene" to Queen Elizabeth; she rewarded him with a pension

Edmund Spenser

Some of this Maine-born poet's finest verse appears in her 1931 collection "Fatal Interview", a group of love sonnets

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Name the poet: "There was an old man in a tree, who was horribly bored by a bee"

Edward Lear

This writer "helped make the memory of the Holocaust eternal by preserving the story of 6 million Jews in his works"

Elie Wiesel

This flower girl tells Henry Higgins, "Every girl has a right to be loved"

Eliza Doolittle

She spent the last 14 years of her life with her husband at Casa Guidi in Italy

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The 44 sonnets in an 1850 volume by her are largely in iambic pentameter

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Clapp Library at Wellesley College has the love letters exchanged by these 2 English poets in 1845 & 1846

Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Robert Browning

At the time of his death, Charlie Chaplin was married to this playwright's daughter, Oona

Eugene O'Neil

This U.S. playwright won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936

Eugene O'Neill

In this Longfellow poem, the little village of Grand-Pre lay "in the Acadian land on the shores of the Basin of Minas"

Evangeline

In a Tennyson poem, Bedevere is asked to make a run with this & fling it "into the middle mere"

Excalibur

This is a historical novel by Leon Uris about the founding of Israel

Exodus

This Imagist became immersed in Fascist politics while living in Italy

Ezra Pound

"The Post-American World" gave us the analysis of this end-of-the-alphabet pundit born in India

Fareed Zakaria

Subtitled "The Dark Side of the All-American Meal", this expose was made into a 2006 film

Fast Food Nation

Turgenev novel with Nikolai Kirsanov & his kid

Fathers and Sons

Punning on a word for a soccer field, Nick Hornsby gave a book this 2-word title referring to intensity

Fever Pitch

You do not talk about how Chuck Palahniuk drafted his first novel in 3 months

Fight Club

This author of "Madame Bovary" campaigned for the Legion of Honor, which he received in 1866

Flaubert

This Hemingway novel takes place over 3 days near Segovia, Spain in 1937

For Whom the Bell Tolls

"Parade's End", a series of novels by this redundantly named Brit, became an HBO miniseries

Ford Madox Ford

In 1986 he was the subject of Kitty Kelley's "His Way"

Frank Sinatra

"What do school teachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?" is one question asked in this "crazy" 2005 book

Freakonomics

From 1845, the "Narrative of the Life of" this man is a firsthand account of the life of an American slave

Frederick Douglass

"The Last of the Mohicans" is set in this war

French and Indian War

Perfect beach reading in 1951 was this James Jones novel set in Hawaii just before Pearl Harbor

From Here to Eternity

Born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in Vicuna, Chile, she was the first Latin American woman to win a Nobel Prize in literature

Gabriela Mistral

This Joyce Carol Oates work shares its title with a Hieronymus Bosch depiction of paradise & more

Garden of Earthly Delights

John Irving wrote, "But in the world according to" him, "we are all terminal cases"

Garp

F. Scott Fitzgerald probably drew upon Max Gerlach, a bootlegger & a Long Island neighbor, for this title character

Gatsby

"(About 1340-1400). Called the father of the English language and the Morning Star of Song"

Geoffrey Chaucer

The real first name of Lord Byron

George

Name the playwright: "By George, Eliza, the streets will be strewn with the bodies of men shooting themselves for your sake"

George Bernard Shaw

She & Harriet Beecher Stowe corresponded by letter, discussing such things as her portrayal of Jews in "Daniel Deronda"

George Eliot

The Dorlcote Mill is "The Mill on the Floss" in a book written by this woman

George Eliot

"The American Tolkien" was what Time magazine called this author with the same 2 middle initials as Tolkien

George R.R. Martin

Drogon, Viserion & Rhaegal are 3 dragons with a mother; their true "father" is this author

George R.R. Martin

This author of a fantasy series set in the land of Westeros was a conscientious objector during Vietnam

George R.R. Martin

Some say this title guy who 2 tramps are set to meet in a play represents a distant & unresponsive deity

Godot

From 1791 to 1817 this poet & playwright served as director of the Weimar court theater

Goethe

His "The Inspector General" made fun of authorities, & it took a special order from the Czar to let it be performed

Gogol

This 1959 Philip Roth novella begins, "the first time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her glasses"

Goodbye, Columbus

In this 1934 novel, the title character teaches at Brookfield, an all-boys school in England

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Aspects of his 1958 novel "Our Man in Havana" seemed to predict the Cuban Missile Crisis

Graham Greene

"The Ant and" this leaping insect are in a fable by Aesop

Grasshopper

In an ode, Keats called this object an "unravish'd bride of quietness," a "foster child of silence"

Grecian urn

This Kafka guy awakes to find he has an armor-plated back, a domelike brown belly & numerous legs

Gregor Samsa

We never learn her name, but the mother of this monster seeks her revenge against Beowulf

Grendel

1933: Allan Nevins won a Pulitzer writing about this pres. (hint: Nevins won in non-consecutive years, for 1937's "Hamilton Fish")

Grover Cleveland

Don Pedro de Mendez rescues this title character after he's left the country of the Houyhnhnms

Gulliver

Take a large swallow, as you may do with some of Mary Roach's digestive tract descriptions in her book of this title

Gulp

In 1880 this French novelist sometimes accused of immoral writing stated, "What is beautiful is moral"

Gustave Flaubert

In 1893 this British man published his "initial" book, a "text-book of biology"; many sci-fi novels followed

H.G. Wells

Erik Larson's "The Devil in the White City" tells the story of this serial killer

H.H. Holmes

Miskatonic University makes its "initial" appearance in this author's 1922 serial "Herbert West--Reanimator"

H.P. Lovecraft

Thomas Harris revealed that this character was inspired by a murderous Mexican surgeon, elegant & insane

Hannibal Lecter

Her indignation over the Fugitive Slave Act led to the writing of her most famous novel, published in 1852

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The 1853 dedication of "12 Years a Slave" was to this woman author "whose name... is identified with the Great Reform"

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Cho Chang & Fleur Delacour are 2 of the many witches in this book series

Harry Potter

The mysterious Kurtz is the object of Marlow's quest in this Joseph Conrad tale

Heart of Darkness

Since he can't have Cathy, he marries Isabella Linton

Heathcliff

Neurosurgeon Eben Alexander recounts his near-death experience during a coma in "Proof of" this

Heaven

This 7-year-old orphan is kidnapped from the Swiss Alps & taken to Frankfurt

Heidi

F. Scott Fitzgerald said this author's "inclination is toward megalomania and mine toward melancholy"

Hemingway

This American's "Death in the Afternoon" says, "If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it"

Hemingway

A year after he retired to Walden Pond, he headed for the backwoods of Maine & wrote 3 essays about his trip there

Henry David Thoreau

On his death in 1862 a Massachusetts paper said, "No man ever lived closer to nature, and reported her secrets more eloquently"

Henry David Thoreau

Squire Allworthy is a character in a 1749 novel by this man

Henry Fielding

In 1930 this Michigan businessman wrote a book, "Edison as I Know Him"

Henry Ford

In Peter Roach's phonetics glossary, this alliterative guy is "the best-known fictional phonetician"

Henry Higgins

The strange men playing 9-pins in Rip Van Winkle were said to be this British captain & his crew, who would visit the area every 20 years

Henry Hudson

To Anais Nin: "I think I have discovered a title for the book. How do you like... 'Tropic of Cancer' or 'I Sing the Equator'"

Henry Miller

Tired of whaling, he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in July 1842 & lived there for a month

Herman Melville

At age 97 in 2012, quite a few years after his bestseller "The Caine Mutiny", he came out with "The Lawgiver"

Herman Wouk

Self-help author & guru Stephen Covey, who penned the highly successful "7 habits of" this group of folks

Highly Effective People

In "Treasure Island", Long John Silver & his crew attempt a mutiny on this island-named ship

Hispaniola

The life & death dates for this poet in Britannica simply say, "flourished 9th or 8th century BCE?, Ionia? (now in Turkey)"

Homer

In "The House Without a Key" readers said aloha to Charlie Chan, a detective on this island city's police force

Honolulu

Harris Wittels' book was titled this oxymoron: "The Art of False Modesty"

Humblebrag

When Alice first meets this character, he's sitting on top of a high wall "with his legs crossed, like a Turk"

Humpty Dumpty

Stevenson: "all human beings...are commingled out of good and evil: and" this man "alone... was pure evil"

Hyde

This "Sleepy Hollow" teacher had "huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose"

Ichabod Crane

"Force 10 from Navarone" is a sequel to this book

The Guns of Navarone

This 1985 Margaret Atwood novel was challenged in N.C. as "sexually explicit, violently graphic and morally corrupt"

The Handmaid's Tale

You're going on an adventure with dwarves & dragons if you're reading this book subtitled "There And Back Again"

The Hobbit

This New England title establishment is located in Derry; would you like turndown service?

The Hotel New Hampshire

"They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral" is from this Arthur Conan Doyle work

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The peat bogs of Dartmoor, England inspired the fictional home of the beastly title character in this 1902 tale

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The title of this Edith Wharton novel is taken from Ecclesiastes

The House of Mirth

Hawthorne based this novel about a cursed home in Salem on an old family legend

The House of the Seven Gables

New England's oldest surviving wooden mansion, the home seen here in Salem, inspired this 1851 novel

The House of the Seven Gables

A chapter heading in this 19th century work calls the title character "one-eyed, lame", another calls him "deaf"

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Set in the 15th century, but written in the 19th: "A Bird's Eye View of Paris" is a chapter in this novel

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Captain First Rank Marko Ramius ordered a sub to go (defect) in this Tom Clancy novel

The Hunt for Red October

The women in this Amy Tan title group share dim sum, mah jong & immigrant angst

The Joy Luck club

This 1882 story by Frank Stockton leaves its title question unanswered

The Lady, or the Tiger?

The villain of this novel is a cunning & vengeful Huron named Magua

The Last of the Mohicans

This collective title of James Fenimore Cooper's 5 novels about frontier life includes a kind of legwear

The Leatherstocking Tales

Her grandmother told her that when she was 15, she could rise out of the sea & sit on the rocks in the moonlight

The Little Mermaid

This James Herriot book completes a series that began with "All Creatures Great & Small", & its title completes the rhyme

The Lord God Made Them All

Professor Challenger finds dinosaurs & adventure in the Amazon jungle in this Conan Doyle tale

The Lost World

"Persuader" by Lee Child featured the return of this ex-military cop, 6'5", 250 in the book series & not 6'5", 250 onscreen

Jack Reacher

Richard Wright wrote "Native Son"; this African-American writer put out "Notes Of A Native Son"

James Baldwin

6'3'' from Fairfax High, this author of crime books like "L.A. Confidential"

James Ellroy

His L.A. novels include "The Black Dahlia"

James Ellroy

All things were bright & beautiful for veterinarian Alfred Wight when he wrote under this name

James Herriot

He based "stately, plump Buck Mulligan" in "Ulysses" on his friend Oliver Gogarty

James Joyce

In 1905 this Dubliner & his future wife Nora moved to Trieste, where he taught English

James Joyce

1980: His newest epic was "The Covenant", spanning the settlement of South Africa

James Michener

Whenever life gets too mundane, this author's Walter Mitty creates his own fantasy

James Thurber

This "Poet of the Common People" wrote "When the Frost is on the Punkin"

James Whitcomb Riley

"Persuasion", her last completed novel, was published only months after her death in 1817

Jane Austen

In 2011 Oxford's Bodleian Library acquired her handwritten draft for "The Watsons", a novel begun around 1804

Jane Austen

She described her work as "Human nature in the Midland Counties" & involving "three or four families in a country village"

Jane Austen

Adele Varens is the pupil to whom this title Bronte character is a governess

Jane Eyre

On the day of her wedding, she learns that her groom-to-be, Mr. Rochester, already has a wife

Jane Eyre

This character says, "I have told you, reader, that I had learnt to love Mr. Rochester; I could not unlove him now"

Jane Eyre

Ruth Benedict's "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword" is a classic 1946 study of this country's culture

Japan

This Robert Ludlum mystery man first appears floating in the Mediterranean & suffering from amnesia

Jason Bourne

For stealing a loaf of bread during the French Revolution, he ended up serving 19 years

Jean Valjean

This existentialist won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964, but refused to accept the award

Jean-Paul Sartre

P.G. Wodehouse introduced this valet in a Saturday Evening Post story, "Extricating Young Gussie"

Jeeves

This character created by P.G. Wodehouse has been called the "most gentlemanly of gentlemen's gentlemen"

Jeeves

Andersen's "The Nightingale" was a tribute to this Swedish soprano who never returned his love

Jenny Lind

It's the full name of the town visited by vampires in "'Salem's Lot"

Jerusalem's Lot

"The Lowland" is the second novel by this acclaimed author of "Interpreter of Maladies"

Jhumpa Lahiri

"Crash Diet" is a brilliant collection of stories by this Southern author; her novels include "Carolina Moon" & "Tending to Virginia"

Jill McCorkle

About this George Bernard Shaw title character, the executioner says, "Her heart would not burn, my lord"

Joan of Arc

This English poet, writer, and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack", was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1972 until his death in 1984

John Betjemen

An 1859 plea by Thoreau for this radical abolitionist asks, "When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?"

John Brown

Tony Horwitz' "Midnight Rising" dealt with this man "and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War"

John Brown

This man's "peerage", dating back to 1826, is a guide to the noble families of the United Kingdom

John Burke

Wapshot chronicler who published his first short story at age 18

John Cheever

"I am a lawyer, and I am in prison. It's a long story" is the opening line of "The Racketeer" by this novelist

John Grisham

"Sweetest Fanny...I love you ever and ever and without reserve", this poet wrote in 1820

John Keats

His headstone in Rome reads in part: "This grave contains all that was mortal, of a young English poet"

John Keats

This Brit's poem "La Belle Dame sans Merci" says, "She looked at me as she did love, And made sweet moan"

John Keats

Name the poet: "So glistered the dire snake, and into fraud / Led Eve our credulous mother, to the tree / Of prohibition, root of all our woe"

John Milton

His ashes were buried in his mother's family plot in Salinas, California

John Steinbeck

In 1938 he published "The Long Valley", a collection including "The Red Pony"

John Steinbeck

He's the most recent winner of 2 Pulitzer prizes for fiction, winning in 1982 & 1991 for books in the same series

John Updike

This author's early novels, including one about Harry Angstrom, were set in his native Pennsylvania

John Updike

"Carsick" is this cult film director's tale of hitchhiking from Baltimore to California

John Waters

I spied "A Delicate Truth", a 2013 thriller by this British octogenarian

John le Carre

In 1943 kids were enjoying Esther Forbes' novel about this title Johnny & the Revolutionary War

Johnny Tremaine

Visit Brobdingnag with Hugh Laurie as your guide in an abridged version of a book by this author

Jonathan Swift

The "winner" of the title event of this Shirley Jackson story is stoned to death

The Lottery

He was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, known for presenting subversive perspectives on historical events

Jose Saramago

E.M. Forster called this "Lord Jim" author "misty in the middle as well as at the edges"

Joseph Conrad

In an 1890 letter, he called himself "a Polish nobleman, cased in British tar"

Joseph Conrad

Published posthumously in 2003, a novel by this Brooklyn guy was titled "Catch as Catch Can"

Joseph Heller

In 2014 she celebrated her 50th year as a novelist with the release of "Carthage"

Joyce Carol Oates

Sadly, there are no trees near this poet's plot in an American military cemetery in Picardie, France

Joyce Kilmer

This self-described "fool" wrote, "a tree that looks at God all day / and lifts her leafy arms to pray"

Joyce Kilmer

Hey, this Thomas Hardy character "opened the book... which Mr. Phillotson had bestowed on him as a parting gift"

Jude

Criticism of this gloomy novel & its loser title hero put Thomas Hardy off writing novels forever

Jude the Obscure

His "Lighthouse at the End of the World" was published in Paris shortly after his death in 1905

Jules Verne

In 1863 he put out a book originally titled "Voyage au Centre de la Terre"

Jules Verne

In 1865 this French author wrote about a space flight launched from Florida that later splashes down in the Pacific

Jules Verne

This writer's tomb in Amiens, France was featured on the masthead of Amazing Stories magazine for many years

Jules Verne

William S. Burroughs' first published book

Junkie

The prologue of this novel is called "The Bite of the Raptor"

Jurassic Park

This Roman satirist whose name sounds like a word meaning "childish" asked, "But who is to guard the guards?"

Juvenal

It refers specifically to an author who died in 1924, or broadly to senseless, menacing complexity

Kafkaesque

The Wizard tells Dorothy that he's from this state, "Born and bred in the heart of the Western wilderness"

Kansas

Fittingly, this character is named for a plant also known as arrowhead that belongs to the genus Sagittaria

Katniss Everdeen

In "The Hunger Games" books, Primrose is her younger sister

Katniss Everdeen

1964: Walter Jackson Bate won a Pulitzer writing about this "Endymion" poet

Keats

His 1898 story "The Reluctant Dragon" was reissued in 1953 to coincide with a "Wind in the Willows" reissue

Kenneth Grahame

"Born Free" is set in this country

Kenya

Of Irish descent but raised in India, this Kipling title youngster joins the English Secret Service

Kim

In this "royal" H. Rider Haggard adventure novel, a character uses his knowledge of a solar eclipse to fool tribesmen

King Solomon's Mines

Shh! It's the title of Anthony Bourdain's "Adventures In The Culinary Underbelly"

Kitchen Confidential

This novel set over a hot summer holiday weekend became a movie starring Kate Winslet & Josh Brolin

Labor Day

This woman mentioned in the title of a controversial novel is the former Constance Reid

Lady Chatterley

Estate Gamekeeper Oliver Mellors is the title paramour in this D.H. Lawrence novel

Lady Chatterley's Lover

His poem about a "dream deferred" ends, "maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?"

Langston Hughes

Inspiring the film "Rescue Dawn" was Dieter Dengler's "Escape from" this Indochinese nation

Laos

This Wichita Falls author took us to the "Streets of Laredo" 8 years after creating Texas Ranger Woodrow Call

Larry McMurtry

This iconic canine made her bow wow in a 1938 Saturday Evening Post story

Lassie

On April 6, 1348, 21 years to the day after Petrarch first saw her, she died in Avignon, possibly of the plague

Laura

Her first publications were accounts of the travels of her & husband Almanzo in the De Smet News in South Dakota

Laura Ingalls Wilder

On February 7, 1867 she was born in a little house in the big woods in Lake Pepin, Wisconsin

Laura Ingalls Wilder

2-word bestselling title (& advice) from Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg

Lean In

In "The Pioneers", one of these "Tales", James Fenimore Cooper wrote that a buck "darted like a meteor"

Leatherstocking Tales

This auto executive wrote the bestselling hardcover nonfiction book of 1984 & 1985

Lee Iacocca

A series of 16 best-selling religious fiction novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, dealing with Christian dispensationalist End Times

Left Behind

At last count there were 16 books in this apocalyptic series that began with "A Novel of the Earth's Last Days"

Left Behind

A plaque on Burritt St. in San Francisco marks the spot where in this novel, "Miles Archer, partner of Sam Spade, was done in"

The Maltese Falcon

In 1876 Edward Everett Hale wrote a novelette, "Philip Nolan's Friends", to complement this 1863 short story

The Man Without a Country

Captain Rouget de Lisle wrote this one work that is remembered; it begins, "Allons, enfants de la patrie"

The Marseillaise

In this Edgar Allan Poe story, a fatal & hideous pestilence causes scarlet stains upon the body & "face of the victim"

The Masque of the Red Death

The title & theme of this Ibsen play about an ambitious architect reflect a folktale

The Master Builder

Carson McCullers told this tale of a 12-year-old taking an overly active role in her older brother's pending nuptials

The Member of the Wedding

A line in this short story is "Slowly, awkwardly trying out his feelers, which he now first learned to appreciate..."

The Metamorphosis

King Arthur's half-sister Morgaine is the main character in this Marion Zimmer Bradley book

The Mists of Avalon

The nonfiction book about these title men tells how art historians & museum curators saved art from Nazi looting

The Monuments Men

In 1981, Paul Theroux got the itch to publish this novel set in the jungles of Central America

The Mosquito Coast

This Agatha Christie play that features Detective Sergeant Trotter is something most cats would love to have

The Mousetrap

The violent killings of an old woman & her daughter are the title crimes of this Poe detective story

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

A 2012 Bicentennial exhibition featured the manuscript of this unfinished Dickens mystery

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

It's Dickens' only true mystery; the end of the work & the solution are a mystery that went to the grave with the author

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

2 siblings create a sinister, unreal world of their own in Cocteau's tale of these "enfants"

Les Enfants Terribles

A novel by Anne Rice begins, "I am the vampire" him. "I'm immortal. More or less"

Lestat

Anne Rice's first sequel to "Interview with the Vampire" was "The Vampire" him

Lestat

Shhhh! The U.S. Poet Laureate works on the third floor of this institution's Jefferson building

Library of Congress

This 2013 novel by Kate Atkinson wonders, what if you could live again & again, until you got it right?

Life After Life

In a letter to the author, President Obama called this "a lovely book--an elegant proof of God, and the power of storytelling"

Life of Pi

Pancho Villa's revolutionary deeds influence the lives of the characters in this Laura Esquivel bestseller

Like Water for Chocolate

A biography of Michael Ventris is titled "The Man Who Deciphered" this ancient Cretan script

Linear B

Thomas Berger died in 2014, the 50th anniversary of this novel of his about a 111-year-old survivor of Custer's army

Little Big Man

Amy is the real name of this Dickens title character who was born in the Marshalsea debtor's prison

Little Dorrit

The second in Ian Fleming's series, it features James Bond battling Soviet spies & voodoo

Live and Let Die

Dolores Haze was the real name of this 12-year-old nymphet who stood "four feet ten in one sock"

Lolita

In a Nabokov novel, it precedes "light of my life, fire of my loins"

Lolita

I like that "It was raining" is the first line of a story about "Life" in this city where Henry James mainly lived from 1876 on

London

This O'Neill drama: Act I begins at 8:30 a.m.: Act IV is set about 15 hours later

Long Day's Journey into Night

He began a poem, "Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere"

Longfellow

Eugene Gant in this novel & its sequel "Of Time and the River" was based on the author, Thomas Wolfe

Look Homeward, Angel

This coming-of-age story is set in the fictional town and state of Altamont, Catawba, a fictionalization of the author's home town, Asheville, North Carolina.

Look Homeward, Angel

In this Judith Rossner novel, Theresa Dunn is murdered by a man she'd picked up in the title singles spot

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

In 1816 this Lord left England for good; in 1818 he praised Italy in his poem "Beppo"

Lord Byron

In an 1869 Atlantic shocker, Harriet Beecher Stowe exposed this "noble" romantic poet's affair with his half-sister

Lord Byron

This Joseph Conrad character receives the title of lord from natives on the remote island of Patusan

Lord Jim

"Perhaps there aren't any grownups anywhere", says Ralph at the start of this 1954 novel

Lord of the Flies

In the title of a 1967 work, Desmond Morris called humans this type of ape

The Naked Ape

Stephen King borrowed the name of his fictional town Castle Rock from this 1950s novel that greatly influenced him

Lord of the Flies

Between 1872 & 1882 she wrote 6 volumes of "Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag"

Louisa May Alcott

Boy meets girl, boy loses girl in this tearjerker about Oliver & Jenny

Love Story

Where do I begin to tell the tale of this tearjerker that topped The New York Times bestseller list for most of 1970

Love Story

In this Garcia Marquez book with "Love" in the title, Fermina will wed Florentino if he never makes her eat eggplant

Love in the Time of Cholera

In "Through the Looking Glass", the original illustrations depict the messengers Haigha & Hatta as this tea party pair from the first book

Mad Hatter & March Hare

Sinclair Lewis' first critical & commercial success, this 1920 novel satirized small-town small-mindedness

Main Street

I like the novel "What" this little girl "Knew", & the 2013 movie based on it too

Maisie

The "10,000 Rule"--10,000 hours of practice to become expert at any competition--was popularized in his book "Outliers"

Malcolm Gladwell

This 1903 play presented Shaw's theory of an evolutionary "life force"

Man and Superman

It's a day in the "park" & the price is right--the price being Fanny--in dealing with the Bertram family in this novel

Mansfield Park

A 1936 N.Y. Times review called the debut novel by this author "in all probability, the biggest book of the year: 1,037 pages"

Margaret Mitchell

The story of a young divorcee pursuing a Ph.D., the feminist classic "The Women's Room" is by her

Marilyn French

To Marlon Brando: "I wrote a book called 'The Godfather'... and I think you're the only actor who can play the part"

Mario Puzo

This Peruvian writer and politician won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature

Mario Vargas Llosa

The monument for his grave in Elmira, New York is 2 fathoms tall

Mark Twain

Vachel Lindsay's poem "The Raft" said this author "in white stands gleaming like a pillar of the night"

Mark Twain

This John Grogan bestseller is subtitled "Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog"

Marley & Me

"120 Days of Sodom" by this man was published in 1904, nearly 100 years after his death

Marquis de Sade

While jailed in the Bastille, he wrote an early version of his most famous work, "Justine; or, The Misfortunes of Virtue"

Marquis de Sade

Jen Lancaster channeled this domestic queen for her humorous 2013 memoir "The Tao of Martha"

Martha Stewart

"The Dovekeepers" blends together stories centered on the siege at this Judean desert stronghold 2,000 years ago

Masada

Captain Jack Aubrey & surgeon Stephen Maturin first set sail in 1969 in this Patrick O'Brian novel

Master and Commander

He once said, "It is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things"

Maurice Sendek

Name the poet: "A bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage"

Maya Angelou

This Emma Lazarus poem is engraved in bronze at the base of the Statue of Liberty's pedastal

The New Colossus

Argos is the faithful dog who recognizes his long-lost master in this ancient Greek work

The Odyssey

Some men can be real pigs, especially after Circe gets done with them in this epic poem

The Odyssey

The wanderer sails for the South Pole in Nikos Kazantzakis' 33,333-line sequel to this ancient poem

The Odyssey

The title of this essay collection by David Sedaris refers to his attempt to learn to speak French

Me Talk Pretty One Day

After this book was released in 1997, Mineko Iwasaki, on whom it was based, sued for defamation

Memoirs of a Geisha

In Homer's works, these men with rhyming names are a trusted advisor & a guy with a voice as strong as 50 men

Mentor & Stentor

This messenger of the gods "and the Woodman" is a fable by Aesop

Mercury

Bracton College in "That Hideous Strength" by C.S. Lewis is home to the tomb of this magician

Merlin

After Noah Webster's death, the company named for these brothers bought the rights to his dictionary

Merriam Brothers

Book 1 of this epic narrative by Ovid begins with a story of the creation of the world

Metamorphoses

Detective Harry Bosch looks back 20 years at a killing during the 1992 L.A. riots in "The Black Box" by this novelist

Michael Connelly

6'9'' from Harvard, this man who wrote thrillers under the name John Lange (Lange is "tall" in German)

Michael Crichton

In 1999 this novelist found the time to pick up a Pulitzer Prize for "The Hours"

Michael Cunningham

Born in Ceylon, this bestselling author of "The English Patient" emigrated to Montreal in the 1960s

Michael Ondaatje

He wrote "I, the Jury" in less than 3 weeks & introduced us all to Mike Hammer

Mickey Spillane

The title of this short novel by Nathanael West refers to an advice column for the lovelorn

Miss Lonelyhearts

Agatha Christie's collection "Thirteen for Luck" includes 3 stories about this spinster

Miss Marple

"The Help" was set in this state

Mississippi

This misbehaving Defoe title woman is eventually deported to America, where she reforms

Moll Flanders

Leopold Bloom is her husband

Molly Bloom

Clary Fray crosses paths with the demon-killing Shadowhunters in "City of Bones", the first book in this series

Mortal Instruments

George S. Kaufman was no rolling stone, as he gathered this partner to write "The Man Who Came to Dinner"

Moss Hart

This Kipling character first appeared as an adult in the story "In the Rukh", then as a boy in "The Jungle Book"

Mowgli

What, were you raised by wolves? Actually, yes, this Indian boy was, in 1895's "The Jungle Book"

Mowgli

Called "South Africa's grande dame of literature", she passed away at age 90 in 2014

Nadine Gordimer

Bill Sikes is this character's boyfriend

Nancy

Jadis of Charn is the evil White Witch laying chilly havoc to this C.S. Lewis land

Narnia

In 1830 he had 5 tales & sketches published in the Salem Gazette

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Bigger Thomas kills a woman in a moment of panic in this novel by Richard Wright

Native Son

His play "The Prisoner of Second Avenue" tells the sad but funny tale of a fired exec having a nervous breakdown

Neil Simon

The Nautilus is this mad captain's submarine

Nemo

Gibson: "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel"

Neuromancer

Death Comes for the Archbishop concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in this former U.S. Territory

New Mexico

"A Streetcar Named Desire": spring, summer & early fall in this city

New Orleans

"Washington Square" was set in this state

New York

The title of O. Henry's short story collection "The Four Million" refers to the population of this city

New York City

This Dickens novel features Wackford Squeers, the villainous proprietor of Dotheboys Hall

Nicholas Nickleby

This coin phrase is the punning title of Barbara Ehrenreich's chronicle of making ends meet on $7 an hour

Nickel and Dimed

"The Man Died" by Wole Soyinka was inspired by his years in prison in this West African country

Nigeria

This Cormac McCarthy novel with the cattle gun-wielding Chigurh

No Country for Old Men

Best known for a different work, in 1833 he produced a "Common Version" of the Holy Bible "with Amendments of the Language"

Noah Webster

In preparation for a work he published in 1828 that was over 20 years in the making, he learned 26 languages

Noah Webster

In 1938 Dashell Hammett created this amateur detective & husband in "The Thin Man"

Nora & Nick Charles

The 1879 play "A Doll's House" was a sensation as this female character challenged the traditional roles of wife & mother

Nora Helmer

In 1991 this Brooklyn guy penned "Harlot's Ghost", focusing on the CIA

Norman Mailer

Nicholas Sparks has set many novels, including "Safe Haven" & "Nights in Rodanthe", in this, his home state

North Carolina

Before "Downton Abbey", there was this, the shortest of Jane Austen's 6 major novels

Northanger Abbey

This novel with a monastic title was sold to a publisher in 1803 but didn't appear until after Jane Austen died in 1817

Northanger Abbey

Name the 3 warring superstates in 1984

Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia

The last name of this Mexican poet, a Nobel prize winner in 1990, means peace

Octavio Paz

Lennie & George talk rabbits in this Depression-set Steinbeck tale

Of Mice and Men

14-year-old Mary catches the eye of Henry VIII, but her sister Anne is soon favored by him in this novel by Philippa Gregory

The Other Boleyn Girl

"Hand in hand, on the edge of the sand," these 2 title animals of an Edward Lear poem "danced by the light of the moon"

The Owl and the Pussycat

The 2012 book "Portrait of a Novel" is about "Henry James & the Making of" this "American masterpiece"

The Portrait of a Lady

This Henry James novel concerns a young American women who inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates

The Portrait of a Lady

1961 Muriel Spark novel about an Edinburgh educator in her "Prime"

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Born in Lebanon, Khalil Gibran titled books in English "The Madman", "The Forerunner" & this foreteller

The Prophet

In this 1845 story, the stolen title object has been hidden in plain sight

The Purloined Letter

Stephen Crane based this story on the experience of a soldier at the battle of Chancellorsville

The Red Badge of Courage

This 1830 Stendhal work paints a colorful portrait of post-Napoleon France

The Red and the Black

This is the second book in the Hitchhiker Guide series

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Tom Wolfe worked for six years on this bestseller about the early space program

The Right Stuff

In this poem, Coleridge wrote, "and a good south wind sprung up behind; the albatross did follow"

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Seen here is the symbol of Simon Templar, also known as this modern-day Robin Hood

The Saint

After publishing this book in 1988, Salman Rushdie was forced into hiding

The Satanic Verses

In 1989 Ayatollah Khomeini called this book blasphemous & condemned Salman Rushdie, its author, to death

The Satanic Verses

The manuscript of a novel called "Bombyx Mori" is at the heart of this second mystery by Robert Galbraith

The Silkworm

Ann Brashares' "The Second Summer of the Sisterhood" was a follow-up to this novel

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

1929 William Faulkner title pair

The Sound and the Fury

Over 1,000 pages long, this Stephen King novel sees 108-year-old Abagail face off against "the dark man"

The Stand

In John Campbell's novella "Who Goes There?", filmed with this title, an alien ship is found in Antarctica

The Thing

This Kurt Weill musical drama was produced in German as "Die Dreigroschenoper" in 1928

The Threepenny Opera

Arriving naked is one problem of this guy whose "wife" was the subject of Audrey Niffenegger's novel

The Time Traveller

These spirits of dead miners who try to warn the living of cave-ins may have inspired King's 1987 novel of the same name

The Tommyknockers

It's never clear why Joseph K. is arrested in this Kafka novel, but he's executed anyway

The Trial

In this story "The great swans swam round the newcomer; and stroked his neck with their beaks"

The Ugly Duckling

Lewis Carroll poem about a pinniped & a woodworker

The Walrus and the Carpenter

April is the cruelest month, at least according to this T.S. Eliot poem

The Waste Land

Made into a successful TV miniseries, this Philippa Gregory novel dramatized the life of the wife of Edward IV

The White Queen

Jane, Alexandra & Sukie are the 3 title uninhibited magical mavens in this Updike novel

The Witches of Eastwick

Daniel Radcliffe starred in a big screen version of this Susan Hill horror novel about a ghost haunting a town

The Woman in Black

In 1859 Wilkie Collins published this mystery novel based on an actual criminal case

The Woman in White

Jody's companion is a fawn named Flag in this novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The Yearling

Name the poet: "If called by a panther / don't anther"

Ogden Nash

You can find a book of the Pentateuch in the name of this T.S. Eliot cat who has "buried nine wives"

Old Deuteronomy

Before writing "The Vicar of Wakefield", this 18th century author studied medicine in Leyden

Oliver Goldsmith

"Don't send me back to the wretched place I came from. Have mercy", begs this title orphan to Mr. Brownlow

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens Novel subtitled "The Parish Boy's Progress"

Oliver Twist

He wrote about the USS Constitution, "The meteor of the ocean air shall sweep the clouds no more"

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Jack Kerouac claimed he banged out the first draft of this novel in 3 weeks in April 1951

On the Road

This novel's Chief Bromden says he's telling the story about "The hospital, and her, and the guys--and about McMurphy"

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

When Alexander the Great razed Thebes in 335 B.C., he spared the home of this lyric poet

Pindar

This Robert Browning title girl "passes" the time on her day off from a silk mill

Pippa

This Astrid Lindgren character is described as having "hair the color of a carrot"

Pippi Longstocking

This Swedish girl's "hair, the color of a carrot, was braided in two tight braids that stuck straight out"

Pippi Longstocking

Michael Chabon: "The Mysteries of ____"

Pittsburgh

In 1907 the performance of this John Millington Synge play set off riots in Dublin

Playboy of the Western World

The "lives" of Aristides & Cato the Elder were among those this biographer covered

Plutarch

In the 1950s Charles Bukowski worked sorting mail in one of these, the title of his 1971 novel

Post Office

Alice's wonderland croquet game ends early as this character keeps ordering "off with" the heads of other players

Queen of Hearts

In 1922, 4 years before his death, this German-language poet produced the 55 "Sonnets to Orpheus"

Rainer Maria Rilke

In a 1952 novel he wrote, "I am invisible... simply because people refuse to see me"

Ralph Ellison

"The transcendent simplicity and energy of the highest law" is mentioned in his essay "The Over-Soul"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The 2 great Sanskrit epic poems are the Mahabharata & this tale of an avatar of Vishnu

Ramayana

In "Farewell My Lovely", he wrote one woman was "a blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window"

Raymond Chandler

This hard-boiled writer took the big sleep for real on March 26, 1959

Raymond Chandler

Thomas Paine's opponents bashed "The Age of" this as an "atheist's bible", but the work does talk about a creator

Reason

Daphne du Maurier remembered her original idea for this book as "A beautiful home... a first wife... jealousy..."

Rebecca

Its first chapter recalls "the little scallop-shell of pastry, so richly sensual under its severe, religious folds"

Remembrance of Things Past

Frank & April Wheeler start out as a model 1950s couple in this Richard Yates novel made into a 2008 film

Revolutionary Road

In the "Nun's Priest's Tale", Chaucer used some of the French material about this fox of medieval French fable

Reynard

One of this man's "most priceless memories" is of "a delicately nurtured Southern belle with her Irish up"

Rhett Butler

The German epic "Nibelungenlied" sees an evil family bury their magic gold in this body of water

Rhine

Susan Orlean wrote a biography of this movie star dog

Rin Tin Tin

After drinking the liquor supplied by odd-looking fellows, he "fell into a deep sleep"

Rip Van Winkle

6'6'' from the Repton School in Derbyshire, this children's author seen with wife Patricia Neal

Roald Dahl

Taste testing chocolate bars for Mr. Cadbury inspired his most famous kids' novel

Roald Dahl

"Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" were written by him

Robert Burns

Busy guy; this poet wrote love poems to a "Jean", a "Bonnie Lesley" & a "Highland Mary"

Robert Burns

The Nancy in this Scot's "A Fond Kiss" was Agnes McLehose

Robert Burns

Beryl Bainbridge's "Birthday Boys" fetes this explorer's fatal 1912 expedition to the South Pole

Robert Falcon Scott

Pseudonym of J.K. Rowling

Robert Galbraith

"A Memory of Light" was the long-awaited 14th & final book in this late fantasy author's "Wheel of Time" series

Robert Jordan

Known for his "Wheel of Time" series, he is also one of several writers to write books featuring Conan the Barbarian

Robert Jordan

After his death in Samoa, this Scotsman's body was taken to a plot atop Mount Vaea

Robert Louis Stevenson

In 1879 this young Scot documented his adventures in France in "Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes"

Robert Louis Stevenson

In 1990 his "Bourne Ultimatum" was a bestseller

Robert Ludlum

Unfinished at his death, his "Silent Night: A Spenser Holiday Novel" was completed by his agent & published in 2013

Robert Parker

Daniel Defoe was about 60 when he wrote of the "Adventures of" him & also of his "Further Adventures"

Robinson Crusoe

This literary character was based on Alexander Selkirk, a sailor marooned on a South Pacific island for 4 years

Robinson Crusoe

Gary Wolf's book questioned, "Who Censored" this character; in the movie he was "framed"

Roger Rabbit

Among his siblings are Charlie, Percy, Fred, George & Ginny

Ron Weasley

This 18th century Frenchman's "Confessions" set the template for modern autobiographies

Rousseau

A college called Salomon's House in Sir Francis Bacon's "New Atlantis" may have inspired the 1660 founding of this society

Royal Society

"The female of the species is more deadly than the male", wrote this Bombay-born British poet

Rudyard Kipling

Sadly, the daughter for whom he wrote the "Just So Stories" died at age 6

Rudyard Kipling

This trio sang, "Today's Tom Sawyer, he gets high on you, & the space he invades, he gets by on you"

Rush

In 1972 her first book was called "Mmmmm"; after stints at Gourmet & the New York Times, her first novel is "Delicious"

Ruth Reichl

Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" of this village leaves his wife, Faith, to a attend a witches' Sabbath

Salem

In "The Thirteenth Sacrifice", witches have returned to this city & Boston cop Samantha Ryan is hunting them

Salem

"Tell me more", said puss about the Paul Torday love story with the odd title this "in the Yemen"

Salmon Fishing

In the late 1920s Dashiell Hammett lived in an apt. at 891 Post St. in San Francisco, also this detective's address

Sam Spade

For his work with the French Resistance during WWII, this Irish playwright was awarded the Croix de Guerre

Samuel Beckett

1944: Carleton Mabee won a Pulitzer writing about this "American Leonardo", master of the dot & dash

Samuel Morse

Not quite Rocinante, the mount used by this character is a brown donkey

Sancho Panza

This poetess of Lesbos was known as the "tenth muse"

Sappho

Mr. Rhett Butler returns to Tara & once again finds himself in the arms of his beloved in this 1992 novel

Scarlett

Annie Fitzgerald Stephens, who survived the burning of Atlanta, was a model for this Southern belle

Scarlett O'Hara

Robert Heinlein's "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" mentions a cat named Pixel, a reference to this physicist's cat

Schrodinger

"Innocent", a legal thriller published in 2010, is a sequel to his bestselling debut novel, "Presumed Innocent"

Scott Turow

1960: The Senate does not "Advise and Consent" when a Commie-coddler is nominated as this Cabinet secretary

Secretary of State

Featured in a 1933 novel, this fictional location may have been inspired by the 1920s Tibetan travel writings of explorer Joseph Rock

Shangri-La

Elinor Wylie's "The Orphan Angel" imagines this poet not drowning & coming to America

Shelley

Chief among the tigers in Kipling's "The Jungle Book" is this beast whose name means "tiger"

Shere Khan

He was the less than legal lawman trying to keep the peace around Sherwood Forest

Sheriff of Nottingham

Readers' letters to this author about her 1948 short story asked where the title event was held & if they could go & watch

Shirley Jackson

This Yiddish author wrote "Rabchik, a Jewish Dog", or as we like to call it, "Piddler on the Rug"

Sholem Aleichem

Characters in this Edna Ferber novel set in the Mississippi include Captain Hawks & Gaylord Ravenal, a handsome gambler

Show Boat

This 1922 novel's first chapter is titled "The Son of the Brahman"

Siddharta

This medieval German hero killed a dragon & bathed in its blood to gain invulnerability

Siegfried

"A Long Way Gone" is Ishmael Beah's memoir of being a boy soldier during the 1990s civil war in this African nation

Sierra Leone

Chapters in this 1962 classic include "Earth's Green Mantle", "Needless Havoc", "Rivers of Death" & "And No Birds Sing"

Silent Spring

In "Uncle Tom's Cabin", he's "that brutal man, familiar with every form of cruelty"

Simon Legree

He said his novel "Main Street" was his first "to rouse the embattled peasantry"

Sinclair Lewis

Kurt Vonnegut begins this 1969 novel by writing, "All this happened, more or less"

Slaughterhouse-Five

This collection of essays by Joan Didion is a portrait of 1960s California

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"My teeth are swords, my claws spears... and my breath death!" claims this dragon in "The Hobbit"

Smaug

Aristophanes' "The Clouds" satirizes this philosopher as the representative of Atheism

Socrates

The longest poem in "Leaves of Grass", called this since 1881, consists of 52 sections

Song of Myself

This title of an 1850 collection doesn't refer to a language but to a nickname the poet's husband gave her

Sonnets from the Portuguese

"At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?" is a query from this 1979 novel

Sophie's Choice

Name the playwright: "Show to all in Thebes his father's murderer"

Sophocles (Oedipus Rex)

Owned by black sharecroppers, this title dog was named for his bark

Sounder

"The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition": "____"

South

"Cry, the Beloved Country" is set in this country

South Africa

Dostoyevsky's short story "White Nights" is a romance set in this capital under the czars

St. Petersburg

In a bestselling tale about high school, Bel Kaufman took us "Up the Down" this

Staircase

Lady Penelope Rich was the "star" of Sir Philip Sidney's sonnet cycle "Astrophel and" her, published in 1591

Stella

Janet Evanovich is best known for creating this character, a lingerie buyer turned bounty hunter

Stephanie Plum

This "Red Badge of Courage" author covered the war in Cuba as a reporter for Pulitzer's New York World newspaper

Stephen Crane

This horror master didn't sugarcoat it: "(J.K.) Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn"

Stephen King

This vampire romance novelist whose books have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide is a Mormon

Stephenie Meyer

Hermann Hesse's tale of Harry Haller

Steppenwolf

This Robert Frost poem says, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep"

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

This poem's title has 7 words, like its last line "and miles to go before I sleep"

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

"Kinsey and Me" is a collection of short stories & autobiographical sketches by this author of the alphabet mysteries

Sue Grafton

The "Art of War" by this man says, "He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared"

Sun Tzu

In W.H. Auden's "Funeral Blues": "He was... My working week and my ____ rest"

Sunday

The novel "Trilby" is mostly remembered for this character who hypnotizes & controls the title singer

Svengali

19th century pastor Johann David Wyss & his son wrote this children's book about a shipwrecked clan

Swiss Family Robinson

Fabled weapon precariously suspended over a leader in Greek literature

Sword of Damocles

Anne Sexton's elegy for this fellow doomed poet recalls the time "we downed three extra dry martinis in Boston"

Sylvia Plath

She used the pseudonym Victoria Lucas for her most famous novel

Sylvia Plath

Though dead almost 20 years, she won a 1982 Pulitzer for her "Collected Poems"

Sylvia Plath

Funds provided by his widow were used to set up a literary charity called Old Possum's Practical Trust

T.S. Eliot

He explained, "The naming of cats is a difficult matter, it isn't just one of your holiday games"

T.S. Eliot

Anton Chekhov, a man of letters, was felled by this 2-letter disease

TB

In Maugham's "The Moon and Sixpence", Charles leaves his wife & eventually goes to this Pacific island to paint

Tahiti

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was on of the stories in this "musical" F. Scott Fitzgerald collection"

Tales of the Jazz Age

"The Coral Sea" & "Mutiny" were 2 of the stories in this 1947 James Michener work

Tales of the South Pacific

In the books not Cheetah the chimp but Nikma the monkey was the companion of this man

Tarzan

This lord of the jungle books swung into print in October 1912

Tarzan

Given name Edward, he became poet laureate in 1984

Ted Hughes

Sylvia Plath was married to this writer

Ted Hughes

After hearing this children's rhyme in an Agatha Christie play, William Blore dies from a bashed head

Ten Little Indians

Name the playwright: "Whoever you are--I have always depended on the kindness of strangers"

Tennessee Williams

Queen Victoria dubbed him baron of Aldworth & Freshwater

Tennyson

"The Last Picture Show" was set in Anarene in this state

Texas

With Jim set free, the protagonist is headed for Indian territory because Aunt Sally wants to adopt him at the end of this novel

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The "Gossip Girl" series of books was inspired by this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel also set in New York City but 120 years earlier

The Age of Innocence

Thomas Paine wrote "The Age of Reason"; Edith Wharton wrote this 1920 satire of social life in 1870s New York City

The Age of Innocence

Kitty's ears perk up when she hears the title of this Daphne du Maurier tale of fierce finches & robins

The Birds

It's the rhyming title of the book about "how a gang of fame-obsessed teens ripped off Hollywood"

The Bling Ring

"The Devil's Candy" chronicled the disastrous film production of this Tom Wolfe bestseller

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Tom Wolfe wrote about the fall of Wall Street master of the universe Sherman McCoy in this, his first novel

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Henry James dealt with radical feminism in this novel whose title tells you it's set in Massachusetts

The Bostonians

2000: This John Grisham novel concerns 3 disgraced judges who hatch another scam while in jail

The Brethren

"Until I'm one with you my heart shall not pass through"--a reference to the U.S./Mexico border?

The Bridge

Novel in which Robert Kincaid says to Francesca, "this kind of certainty comes only once"

The Bridges of Madison County

By first names, this title group is Alyosha, Ivan, Dmitri & Smerdyakov

The Brothers Karamazov

Partly set in the Klondike: "The Sounding of the Call" is a chapter in this novel

The Call of the Wild

Printing in England was still a novelty in the 1470s when William Caxton printed this work about 30 pilgrims

The Canterbury Tales

The title of this 1951 novel comes from the hero's fantasy of rescuing children falling from a cliff

The Catcher in the Rye

This 1904 Russian play ends with the sound of an axe striking a tree

The Cherry Orchard

This Chekhov play: Madame Ranevsky's estate in the full bloom of May

The Cherry Orchard

Son, want to know what this South Carolina military college was like 50 years ago? Read Pat Conroy's "The Boo"

The Citadel

From 1982: "Dear God, he beat me today because he say I winked at a boy in church"

The Color Purple

In this play set in the 1600s, John Proctor tells Rev. Hale, "though you be ordained in God's own tears, you are a coward"

The Crucible

"The Wizard and Glass" is one entry in this series

The Dark Tower

King: "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed"

The Dark Tower

After a stint as an assistant at Vogue, Lauren Weisberger wrote this 2003 novel about an assistant at a fashion mag

The Devil Wears Prada

In one story they consisted of trousers, a coat & a cloak that were "light as a cobweb"

The Emperor's New Clothes

This book written by Norman Mailer focused on condemned killer Gary Gilmore

The Executioner's Song

This Edmund Spenser work is named for Gloriana, who had several knights in her service

The Faerie Queen

In this Edgar Allan Poe tale, Roderick confesses that his not-dead-yet twin sister Madeline has been laid in the family tomb

The Fall of the House of Usher

This novel is dedicated to Esther Earl, who died of thyroid cancer at 16 & never got to read it

The Fault In Our Stars

The first of 3: "The Breaking of the Fellowship" is a chapter in this novel

The Fellowship of the Ring

The chorus in this play by Aristophanes takes the form of amphibians, hence the title

The Frogs

Not knowing when to hold 'em or when to fold 'em, a big-in-debt Dostoevsky began & ended this novel in October 1866

The Gambler

Roald Dahl's James says, "I know what this is! I've come to the stone in the middle of" this

The Giant Peach

The boy in this Shel Silverstein classic tale never even says thanks for the branches, the apples...anything!

The Giving Tree

I like the symbolism in this Henry James novel, such as the shattering of the title object

The Golden Bowl

A little birdie told us Donna Tartt won a 2014 Pulitzer prize for this novel that deals with a small, mysterious painting

The Goldfinch

"Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there" is a line from this Steinbeck classic

The Grapes of Wrath

In 1940 House Representative from Oklahoma Lyle Boren denounced it as a "dirty, lying, filthy manuscript"

The Grapes of Wrath

Published in 1925, it still sells 500,000 copies a year & was on the bestseller lists in 2013

The Great Gatsby

Much of this 1976 novel is based on author Pat Conroy's family, especially his dad, a fighter pilot

The Great Santini

For some reason faking one's own death is a Russian literary motif, as in "The Living Corpse" by this count

Tolstoy

Sofya Andreyevna, wife of this great Russian novelist, is a narrator of "The Last Station", about his final year

Tolstoy

Henry Fielding's title foundling

Tom Jones

This Howard grad won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993

Toni Morrison

This woman is truly "Beloved", winning a Pulitzer in 1988 & a Nobel in 1993

Toni Morrison

Published in 1935, it's named for a district once near Monterey

Tortilla Flat

The Hispaniola reaches Bristol & Captain Smollett retires at the end of this novel

Treasure Island

In "Paradise Lost" it stood in the Garden of Eden "high eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit"

Tree of Life

Set in the 1850s in Paris, it features the stories of two English artists and a Scottish artist, but one of the most memorable characters is Svengali, a Jewish rogue, masterful musician and hypnotist

Trilby

A big-time case of writer's block (& maybe a lot of partying) delayed "Answered Prayers" by this "non-fiction novelist"

Truman Capote

This writer famously said of Jack Kerouac's output, "it isn't writing at all--it's typing"

Truman Capote

In "Through the Looking-Glass", these "fat little men only looked at each other and grinned", not good for much else

Tweedledee & Tweedledum

The first of a "Saga": "Blood Type" is a chapter in this novel

Twilight

She cries out, "You cursed brat! Look what you've done! I'm melting! Melting!"

Wicked Witch of the West

This Chaucer gal tells soon-to-be hubby No. 5 she'd marry him if she were a widow

Wife of Bath

Dickens met this "Moonstone" author & writing partner through a man named Augustus Egg

Wilkie Collins

One of his "Songs of Innocence" says, "we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love"

William Blake

The line "no country for old men" comes from this Irishman's poem "Sailing To Byzantium"

William Butler Yeats

This doctor-poet was the son of William George Williams; his mother was Raquel from Puerto Rico

William Carlos Williams

His 1942 story "The Bear" relates the story of Ike McCaslin & his companions as they hunt a bear named Old Ben

William Faulkner

In the early 1920s he briefly served as a scoutmaster for an Oxford, Mississippi Boy Scout troop

William Faulkner

He wrote that "naked lunch" means "a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on... every fork"

William S. Burroughs

This New York Times "On Language" columnist: "We're becoming a short-take society... our food for thought is junk food"

William Safire

Research for his novel "Sophie's Choice" included a reading of the memoirs of the commandant of Auschwitz

William Styron

This former UK prime minister won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953

Winston Churchill

This D.H. Lawrence novel continued the stories of sisters Ursula & Gudrun Brangwen, who 1st appeared in "The Rainbow"

Women in Love

Name the playwright: "I'm not like you. At the end of 'Casablanca' when you lost Ingrid Bergman, weren't you crushed?"

Woody Allen (Play It Again, Sam)

A poem by him ends, "and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils"

Wordsworth

Coleridge & this Romantic published "Lyrical Ballads" together but failed to finish "The Wanderings of Cain"

Wordsworth

This lake poet's "Ecclesiastical Sonnets" is a history of the church in England

Wordsworth

Unlike some other Romantics, this "Tintern Abbey" poet did not die young

Wordsworth

These Comedy Central cubicle guys insist, "You gotta, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta be fresh"

Workaholics

"Heartbreak House" is set in the Sussex home of Captain Shotover on the eve of this war

World War I

Antiwar poet Wilfred Owen was killed in action one week before the end of this war

World War I

Cathy marries Edgar, so Heathcliff marries Edgar's sis for revenge in this novel

Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte said it was "the name of Mr. Heathcliff's dwelling"

Wuthering Heights

Subtitled "The Last Man", Brian Vaughan's 2002 apocalyptic epic bears this chromosomal letter as its title

Y

The movie "Life of Pi" was based on a novel by this author

Yann Martel

Aldous Huxley's first novel, a social satire of British literati, is called "Crome" this color

Yellow

1920: "The Man of the Forest" created by this "Purple Sage" author prefers the company of bears to people

Zane Grey

"Z" by Therese Anne Fowler is a novel about this real literary wife

Zelda Fitzgerald

Last name of the life-loving Alexis, "the Greek" in a novel by Nikos Kazantzakis

Zorba

Looking like a giant lying down, Cave Hill near Belfast inspired this man in the 1720s

Jonathan Swift

Eric Knight touched hearts with the 1940 novel imploring this dog to "Come Home"

Lassie

It's Tarzan's noble title

Lord Greystroke

"A Raisin in the Sun" was this woman's first produced play

Lorraine Hansberry

Thomas Paine was elected to France's Natl. Convention in 1792 but was imprisoned in 1793 after opposing this king's execution

Louis XVI

007's boss

M

His 1909 will named his daughter Clara & biographer Albert Bigelow Paine to help manage his literary estate

Mark Twain

His "The Unbearable Lightness Of Being" was banned in his native Czechoslovakia until 1989

Milan Kundera

Winston Smith works at for this agency in the novel 1984

Ministry of Truth

Longfellow called her the "handsomest of all the women in the land of the Dacotahs"

Minnehaha

She wrote "Heartburn", based on her breakup with husband Carl Bernstein

Nora Ephron

This author of "The Bone Bed" once worked as a computer analyst at the chief medical examiner's office in Richmond

Patricia Cornwell

She's Hester Prynne's daughter

Pearl

This daughter of missionaries won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938

Pearl Buck

In 1341 this Italian sonneteer was crowned poet laureate, with real laurel

Petrarch

Dame Judi Dench wrote the foreword to this expose on the role of the Catholic church in forced adoptions

Philomena

In "The Grapes of Wrath", Jim Casy is called this, similar to a minister

Preacher

This is the second book in the Chronicles of Narnia series

Prince Caspian

His "spinal column was curved"... the "head was between the shoulder-blades and... one leg was shorter than the other"

Quasimodo

"Gorillas in the Mist" is set in this country

Rwanda

Will Eisner created this jungle queen of the pulps in the 1930s

Sheena, Queen of the Jungle

This 19th century character talks about his own writings about tattoo marks & on the tracing of footsteps

Sherlock Holmes

In a C.S. Forester novel, Charlie Allnutt pilots this title craft on the Ulanga River

The African Queen

It's the English title of Brazilian author Paulo Coelho's "O Alquimista"

The Alchemist

It is over 1,100 pages in modern editions and gives an account of Balkan history and ethnography from the author's six week trip to Yugoslavia in 1937

Black Lamb and Gray Falcon

The title of this Dickens novel refers to a residence near St. Albans

Bleak House

This 1985 Cormac McCarthy novel has the alternate title "The Evening Redness in the West"

Blood Meridien

He works for Scrooge & is Tiny Tim's father

Bob Crachit

He published "Up from Slavery" in 1901 & "Tuskegee and Its People" in 1905

Booker T. Washington

Dennis Lehane is a trustee of this city public library, which beats NYC as the USA's biggest in number of volumes held

Boston

In 1834 Charles Dickens began using this pseudonym, a joking nickname for his youngest brother

Boz

This Irish-born writer's most famous novel is partly narrated by Jonathan Harker in the form of a journal

Bram Stoker

The young girl in this 1958 Truman Capote work is described as having "a face beyond childhood"

Breakfast at Tiffany's

This Sinclair Lewis title character is a real estate salesman who lives in the suburbs of the city of Zenith

(George) Babbitt

In a Goethe novel "The Sorrows of" this man include the fact that Lotte is engaged

(Young) Werther

Name the Song of Ice and Fire books in order

1. A Game of Thrones 2. A Clash of Kings 3. A Storm of Swords 4. A Feast for Crows 5. A Dance with Dragons 6. The Winds of Winter 7. A Dream of Spring

Name the Harry Potter books in order

1. The Sorcerer's Stone 2. Chamber of Secrets 3. Prisoner of Azkaban 4. Goblet of Fire 5. Order of the Phoenix 6. Half-Blood Prince 7. Deathly Hollows

Conan Doyle introduced Sherlock Holmes in this decade

1880s

George Orwell completed the manuscript for "1984" in this year

1948

This novel by Arthur C. Clarke is subtitled "Odyssey Two"

2010

Anastasia Steele falls for a troubled man in this first book in an erotic trilogy

50 Shades of Grey

The second line in a haiku typically has this many syllables

7

This Neil Sheehan book focuses on Lt. Col. John Paul Vann to illuminate America's failures & disillusionment in Vietnam

A Bright Shining Lie

Title of a 1970s bestseller complaining about Americans' bad English--keep it "in your head"

A Civil Tongue

Chapter 1 of this 1889 novel begins "'Camelot--Camelot...I don't seem to remember hearing of it before.'"

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Twain satirized the customs & institutions of the feudal world in this 1889 novel

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Frederic Henry, the protagonist of this Hemingway novel, is in the Italian ambulance service during WWI

A Farewell to Arms

"In the lighted windows, his books arranged three by three kept watch like angels" is from this Proust work

A Remembrance of Things Past

A Katy, Texas school district didn't have a Jane Smiley face after complaints about this numerically titled book

A Thousand Acres

The title of this 1943 bestseller refers to an Ailanthus

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

This book begins, "serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York, especially in the summer of 1912"

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

His books include "The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" & "A Short History of Nearly Everything"

Bill Bryson

In an Anna Sewell novel, Duchess was the mother of this title horse

Black Beauty

Prolific short story writer Frank O'Connor once served in the I.R.A. & on the board of directors of this playhouse

Abbey Playhouse

Pete Seeger's picture book about this giant was inspired by a South African folktale

Abiyoyo

In this story of a Trojan hero, Virgil wrote that "fortune favors the brave"

Aeneid

Of the 90 plays written by this ancient Greek, only 7 have survived intact, including the "Oresteia"

Aeschylus

This "Oresteia" man was the first to use 2 actors in a tragedy to create dialogue, instead of having one just play to the chorus

Aeschylus

Khaled Hosseini's "A Thousand Splendid Suns" explores the last 30 years in this Asian nation

Afghanistan

Set on a coffee plantation: "Out of ____"

Africa

A collection of short stories, her "Miss Marple's Final Cases" was published in 1979

Agatha Christie

The Pharmaceutical Journal praised her 1920 first novel, saying it dealt "with poisons in a knowledgeable way"

Agatha Christie

We find out a surprise about the narrator at the end of her 1926 mystery "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"

Agatha Christie

The title character in Anne Rice's "Queen of the Damned", she's a really old vampire

Akasha

"Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" is by this funnyman-turned-Minnesota senator

Al Franken

In 1956 he published "La Chute", or "The Fall"; the next year he won the Nobel Prize for Literature

Albert Camus

This French writer was just 44 when he got the Nobel Prize for Literature for works like "The Myth of Sisyphus"

Albert Camus

In "Queen", published in 1993, he told of his grandmother, the daughter of a slave & a white slave owner

Alex Haley

In 1845 this pere continued the story of a certain trio in "Twenty Years After"

Alexander Dumas

Oscar Wilde said, "there are two ways of disliking poetry...to dislike it (&) to read" this author of "An Essay on Man"

Alexander Pope

In 1824 this great poet was exiled to his mother's estate, where he wrote the historical drama "Boris Godunov"

Alexander Pushkin

French author Albert Camus set several works in this country of his birth

Algeria

"Open sesame!" cried this man, & the hidden cave of the 40 thieves opened to him

Ali Baba

"Dance of the Happy Shades" is the title story of the first book by this Canadian woman who won a 2013 Nobel Prize

Alice Munro

The Kristen Wiig movie "Hateship Loveship" is based on a story with 2 more "ships" in the title by this Canadian woman

Alice Munro

Set in Georgia, her first novel was 1970's "The Third Life of Grange Copeland"

Alice Walker

She was the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Alice Walker

This play details President Lyndon B. Johnson's efforts to maneuver members of Congress to enact, and civil rights leaders including Martin Luther King, Jr. to support, the Civil Rights Act of 1964

All the Way

This "Devil's Dictionary" wit went down Mexico way in 1913 & vanished without an adios

Ambrose Bierce

This dictionary, still around, was spun off from a magazine of U.S. history that stopped printing in 2012

American Heritage

"Rise to Rebellion" by Jeff Shaara is about this war

American Revolution

This youngest sister in "Little Women" was based on the author's sister May--note the anagram

Amy

This Al Gore book is subtitled "The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It"

An Inconvenient Truth

"At liftoff, Matt Eversmann said a Hail Mary", begins this Somalia-set nonfiction book

Black Hawk Down

Maybe the 2012 bio of Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman & this political movement has randomly numbered pages & no cover

Anarchy

The lover's plea "To His Coy Mistress" is this 17th century poet's best-remembered work

Andrew Marvell

Frank McCourt won a 1997 Pulitzer for this poignant account of his growing up poor in New York & Ireland

Angela's Ashes

This title woman takes a pregnant pause after having an affair with Count Vronsky

Anna Karenina

"In her sepulchre there by the sea, in her tomb by the sounding sea" ends this poem

Annabel Lee

She was the first female poet to be published from either America or England, and her work met with a positive reception in both the Old World and the New World

Anne Bradstreet

When she received her diary in 1942, she named it "Kitty"

Anne Frank

AKA Akasha, the Queen of the Damned was a title character from this author

Anne Rice

Most of her main characters, including those in "The Accidental Tourist", have lived in Baltimore, like she does

Anne Tyler

"Anne of Windy Poplars" is a sequel to this 1908 classic

Anne of Green Gables

Loosely modeled on 12-step programs is James Franco's debut novel titled "Actors" this

Anonymous

We'll be cruel & ask for the first word in the first line of "The Waste Land"

April

If a Judy Blume title were one word longer, it might include Simon, the last name of this 12-year-old girl

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

This ancient playwright's "Lysistrata" contains the line "can't live with them, or without them!"

Aristophanes

"Greek Fire" tells of the lives & love affair of singer Maria Callas & this shipping tycoon

Aristotle Onassis

This author's "Tales of the City" center on the denizens of an apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane in San Francisco

Armistead Maupin

"Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours" is the French title of this 1873 book

Around the World in 80 Days

His 1973 "Rendezvous with Rama", about an encounter with an alien spaceship, won both nebula & Hugo awards

Arthur C. Clarke

The author of more than 50 books, he won 6 Hugo awards & was nominated for a 1968 Oscar

Arthur C. Clarke

On occasion he humorously signed autographs "Dr. John Watson"

Arthur Conan Doyle

As William Faulkner sat writing, it took him six weeks to come up with this 1930 classic

As I Lay Dying

Cash builds a coffin for his mother in this Faulkner novel

As I Lay Dying

He's the character in "Gone with the Wind" whose world is truly gone with the wind: "winnowed out", as Rhett says

Ashley Wilkes

A Swedish award for adolescent & children's literature is named for this "Pippi Longstocking" author

Astrid Lindgren

In 1960 she delivered a campus lecture titled "Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World"

Ayn Rand

The "Love" part of the memoir "Eat, Pray, Love" is set on this balmy Indonesian island

Bali

Jim Bouton, on Nov. 15, 1968 in this book: "I signed my contract today to play for the Seattle Pilots at a salary of $22,000"

Ball Four

Bukowski wrote the screenplay for this boozy 1987 film starring Mickey Rourke as Bukowski's alter ego

Barfly

1982 Hubbard tale: "____ Earth"

Battlefield

Tom Wolfe's "From" this "to Our House" cleverly rhymes a Gropius creation

Bauhaus

Poet Gregory Corso & novelist William S. Burroughs were part of this hip midcentury movement

Beat Movement

The writer who named this U.S. movement said the term referred to supreme blessedness, not exhaustion

Beat Movement

William S. Burroughs & Jack Kerouac of this movement co-wrote a 1944 novel, unpublished until 2008

Beat Movement

In a Whitman poem, this 3-word title precedes "Blow! Bugles! Blow!"

Beat! Beat! Drums!

Emma Thompson was tapped to write the first authorized sequel to this author's "Peter Rabbit" stories

Beatrix Potter

In "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", she is described as "a lovely little blue-eyed creature with yellow hair"

Becky Thatcher

She's a recently relocated & torn-between-2-creatures Forks High School student

Bella Swan

This "Volpone" author admired his contemporary Shakespeare but did find the Bard sometimes "full of wind"

Ben Jonson

In this novel subtitled "A Tale of the Christ", the title man's mom & sis are converted & cured of leprosy

Ben-Hur

In an epic poem written around the 700s, this title guy is fatally wounded by a fire-breathing dragon

Beowulf

In a much lighter vein than "Gone Girl", there's "Where'd You Go," this French-sounding first name

Bernadette

In 1974 he sued & stopped the sale of a book of his "Complete Uncollected Short Stories"

J.D. Sallinger

He created Tinker Bell

J.M. Barrie

In a preface to "Through the Looking Glass", Lewis Carroll gives the pronunciation of some new words found in this poem

Jabberwocky

He spent 30 days in jail for vagrancy in 1894 before heading to the Klondike, the setting for some of his best stories

Jack London

This author's 1909 title character Martin Eden is a sailor turned writer in San Francisco--reminds me of someone

Jack London

This 1955 drama: In & around the Hillsboro Courthouse in July

Inherit the Wind

A North Carolina county board made this 1952 Ralph Ellison classic disappear, saying it didn't have "any literary value"

Invisible Man

"The Shahnama" of 1000 A.D. is an epic from this current country

Iran

Celebrated in April, National Robotics Week honors this man who coined the word "robotics" in a 1941 story

Isaac Asimov

In the short story "Nightfall" by this prolific sci-fi writer, a planet with 6 suns goes dark

Isaac Asimov

This Yiddish writer's short story "Gimpel the Fool" was translated into English in 1953

Isaac Bashevis Singer

I'd have liked to meet this "lady" that an 1881 Henry James novel is "the portrait" of

Isabel Archer

She was talking about West Kenya when she began a book, "I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills"

Isak Dinesen

In Chapter 2 of "Moby Dick", he tucked his carpetbag under his arm & "started for Cape Horn and the Pacific"

Ishmael

In "From Russia with Love", Bond & babe board a famous westbound train in this Eastern city

Istanbul

These 7 words penned by Edward Buller-Lytton have inspired an annual contest dedicated to bad opening lines

It was a dark and stormy night

After the Trojan War, Odysseus wandered for 10 years before returning home to here

Ithaca

A tale of the Soviet labor camps tells of "one day in the life" of him, patronymic Denisovich, last name Shukhov

Ivan

Tolstoy's "Death of" this title character initially deals with others' reactions to his passing

Ivan Illytch

This "Father of Angling" was a well-known writer of biographies, his first being a short account of John Donne

Izaak Walton

Piper Kerman played on a cliche about fashion trends for this title of her memoir of her time in jail

Orange is the New Black

"De Profundis" tells the story of his affair with Alfred Douglas & its aftermath

Oscar Wilde

1989: Richard Ellmann won a Pulitzer writing about this "earnest" Irish wit

Oscar Wilde

In "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", he wrote that "each man kills the thing he loves"; "the brave man with a sword"

Oscar Wilde

In May 1895 this author was sentenced to 2 years at hard labor, mostly served at Reading Gaol

Oscar Wilde

"Written in My Own Heart's Blood" is Diana Gabaldon's eighth novel in this series about Claire Randall in the 18th century

Outlander

In 1920 H.G. Wells turned to nonfiction & published one of these "of History"

Outline

A crowning event in Mark Twain's life was receiving an honorary degree from this British university in 1907

Oxford

The creator of this title place said its name came from the letters labeling the last drawer of his file cabinet

Oz

Born Helen Lyndon Goff in Australia, she wrote 1934's "Mary Poppins" & several sequels

P.L. Travers

Roddy Doyle's bestseller about a young Irish lad growing up in the '60s is called this boy "Ha Ha Ha"

Paddy Clarke

A thriller by Le Carre: "The Tailor of ____"

Panama

Riotous capital of Hell in Milton's "Paradise Lost"

Pandemonium

Milton begins this work with Satan in hell, plotting against Adam & Eve

Paradise Lost

This poem about "man's first disobedience" appeared in 1667

Paradise Lost

This minister wrote anecdotal bios of Ben Franklin & William Penn as well as the one about George Washington

Parson Weems

Like many of her works, this author's 1946 novel "Pavilion of Women" 'takes place in China

Pearl Buck

Selecting her for 1938, the Nobel committee cited her "rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China"

Pearl Buck

He met Mary Godwin in 1812, but they didn't wed until 1816 because he was still married to his first wife, Harriet

Percy Shelley

Marjane Satrapi's heroine in this graphic novel has to deal with the overthrow of the shah

Persepolis

Church, the cat in this Stephen King novel, is killed one day, then pops up the next day like nothing happened--typical cat

Pet Sematary

This naughty little guy disobeyed his mother & "first ate some lettuces and some French beans; and then he ate some radishes"

Peter Rabbit

Rip was a descendant of the Van Winkles who served under this one-legged governor of New Netherland

Peter Stuyvesant

On Easter Sunday 1341, this Italian was crowned poet laureate, the first to be named in Rome since antiquity

Petrarch

This sonnet form is named for the 14th century poet who perfected it

Petrarch

In "The Big Sleep" he describes himself as being "Neat, clean, shaved and sober"

Philip Marlowe

Born in Senegal around 1753, she wrote "Poems on Various Subjects: Religious and Moral" after coming to America

Phillis Wheatley

It's the Martin Sixsmith biography of a 1950s Irish woman forced to give up her baby for adoption

Philomena

12th century England is the setting of Ken Follett's historical novel these "of the Earth"

Pillars

"1Q84" by Haruki Murakami is set in 1984 in this city

Tokyo

The first Greek mime is said to have been Telestes, a dancer in "Seven Against" this city

Thebes

Real name of Dr. Seuss

Theodor Geisel

"The Bully Pulpit" is about the golden age of journalism & the relationship of these 2 presidents

Theodore Roosevelt & William Howard Taft

"The Wizard of Oz" ends with this 5-word phrase

There's no place like home

Igbo proverbs are found throughout this 1958 Chinua Achebe novel

Things Fall Apart

"Memoirs of a Cavalier" was a fictional account of this decades-long war of 17th century continental Europe

Thirty Years' War

The only known moving picture ever taken of Mark Twain is in a silent film produced by this man's studio in 1909

Thomas Edison

The success of "Far From the Madding Crowd" enabled him to give up architecture for writing

Thomas Hardy

"Hannibal" is this author's sequel to "The Silence of the Lambs"

Thomas Harris

Climb up "The Magic Mountain", a novel by this German

Thomas Mann

There was crying of a lot of 49-year-old fans of this author over Jeannie Berlin's reading of his "Bleeding Edge"

Thomas Pynchon

You may falter under the weight of "Gravity's Rainbow", by him

Thomas Pynchon

"A Winter Walk" & "Slavery in Massachusetts" are essays by this 19th century American

Thoreau

In the novel "1984", these cops are the enforcers of mental & political correctness

Thought Police

Middle-class pretensions! Despair! You want 'em, you got 'em in this Chekhov play that debuted in 1901

Three Sisters

"Come and knock on our door, we've been waiting for you"--Jack & the girls, that is

Three's Company

When war broke out between Athens & Sparta in 431 B.C., he began writing an 8-book history of the war

Thucydides

The Wicked Witch of the East maliciously enchants his axe over his love for a munchkin maiden

Tin Man

Wordsworth wrote lines composed a few miles above this place

Tintern Abbey

When Mrs. Cratchit asked her husband Bob how this son behaved in church, he replied, "as good as gold"

Tiny Tim

Dill in this novel is based on the author's childhood friend Truman Capote

To Kill a Mockingbird

1959 novel where you'll find inner city London secondary school teacher Mr. Braithwaite

To Sir, with Love

In 1987 Erskine Caldwell, who created this impoverished title road, died of lung cancer

Tobacco Road

In this novel, Molly Bloom thinks back on her husband's proposal: "then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower"

Ulysses

Virginia Woolf said this 1922 Joyce novel was by "a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples"

Ulysses

This Italian literary critic wrote the 1988 novel "Foucault's Pendulum"

Umberto Eco

Louis Zamperini, Olympic hero & WWII POW whose story of survival is told in this Laura Hillenbrand book, died at 97

Unbroken

This author whose early 20th century novels argued for social reform ran unsuccessfully for Californla governor

Upton Sinclair

In 1516 Sir Thomas More broke away from his dry histories of kings like Richard III to produce this "what-if" work

Utopia

In 1973 Mammoth thought it cheaper to hire David Lee Roth as a singer than rent his P.A. system; Mammoth became this in '74

Van Halen

This Dutch physician is knowledgeable in vampire lore & leads the group that destroys Dracula

Van Helsing

This man's discovery of a sea route to India is the subject of the Portuguese epic poem "The Lusiads"

Vasco de Gama

Mary McCarthy wrote "The Group", which follows the lives of friends who went to this women's college

Vassar

The romantic balcony seen here is one of the most popular tourist attractions in this Italian city

Verona

The letters of Walton, an English explorer in the Arctic, tell the story of this Swiss student of natural sciences

Victor Frankenstein

This 1818 novel character is a Swiss student of natural sciences who starts doing some peculiar experiments

Victor Frankenstein

Also a novelist, he began an 1839 poem, "The church is vast: its towering pride. Its steeples loom on high"

Victor Hugo

We have a "hunch" you'll know in 1852, this author wrote "Napoleon le Petit", an indictment of Napoleon III

Victor Hugo

"Fields of Fire" & "Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder" are set in this war

Vietnam War

He's the subject of the novel & movie "Lust for Life"

Vincent van Gogh

In the Alex Cross series, James Patterson immediately followed "Roses Are Red" with this title

Violets are Blue

In a 1930 letter she wrote, "As an experience madness is terrific... & in its lava I... find most of the things I write about"

Virginia Woolf

This British author's 1922 novel "Jacob's Room" is said to be a fictional biography of her brother Thoby

Virginia Woolf

The heroic tales in the collection called Mabinogion are an important part of this U.K. country's literary heritage

Wales

Because his own life is so boring, this title character in a 1939 story lives a "Secret Life" in his imagination

Walter Mitty

The daydreams of this James Thurber character include being a surgeon & the world's greatest pistol shot

Walter Mitty

It was 200 years ago that he published the first of his "Waverley" novels

Walter Scott

Kurt Vonnegut also wrote plays, like his 1970 offering "Happy Birthday" this person

Wanda June

Make a dent in this 1,400-page Tolstoy novel, issued in complete form in 1869

War and Peace

This Tolstoy tome centers on the 1812 invasion of Russia & the ensuing Russian resistance

War and Peace

"Le Morte d'Arthur" author Sir Thomas Malory was jailed often, the last time for favoring the Lancastrians in these wars

War of the Roses

In 1842, after an endorsement from Secretary of State Daniel Webster, President John Tyler appointed him as Minister to Spain

Washington Irving

Set in the Great Depression, this 2006 novel has an epigraph from "Horton Hatches the Egg"

Water for Elephants

Richard Adams conceived of this story about Hazel, Fiver & others while on a long car journey with his 2 daughters

Watership Down

In 1923 Henry Ford bought this Sudbury, Mass. inn popularized by Longfellow to make it a museum of American history

Wayside Inn

In 2012 the classic "Manual for Job Hunters" that asks this title question came out with its 40th edition

What Color Is Your Parachute?

Completes the title of a Joyce Carol Oates story inspired by a serial killer: "Where Are You Going..."

Where Have You Been?

This 1906 novel was partly inspired by an article in the San Francisco Chronicle called "The Call of the Tame"

White Fang

A National Book Award winner, this Don DeLillo novel covers a year in the life of a Midwestern college professor

White Noise

Alice overheard him say, "Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!"

White Rabbit

In 1972 disfigured Justin McLeod was "The Man Without a Face"; in 1863 exiled Philip Nolan was "The Man Without" this

a Country

This book's name may be from the Arabic for "camel rest stop" & once it gave the positions of the stars & planets

almanac

The Greek speirein, to scatter or sow, is related to this synonym for "irregularly" that also starts with "sp"

sporadically

Harold Evans covers 200 years of science history in "They Made America: From" this "Engine to" this "Engine"

steam engine to search engine

The first known one of these self-reflective chronicles in English is Thomas Whythorne's from circa 1576

autobiography

As a result of his 20-year slumber, Rip discovered that this "had grown a foot long!"

beard

This word for a person without certain abilities has made it from the realm of fantasy to the OED

muggle

It can be a branch of library science dealing with the history of books as well as a list of sources used

bibliography

In a novel by Jose Saramago, a whole society falls prey to this affliction, which they call the white evil

blindness

Sister Carrie lives in "a moderately well-furnished" this type of "house", not to be confused with a bawdy house

boarding house

Shakespeare used this 3-word phrase in "The Tempest" 320 years before Aldous Huxley used it as a title

brave new world

In "Lucifer's Hammer", the title object is not a tool but one of these that threatens earth

comet

The narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" hears a low, dull sound--"such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in" this

cotton

It answers the question posed by the Lion, "What makes a king out of a slave?"

courage

Holden Caulfield said, "you never saw so many" of these insincere people

phonies

1421: According to the title of a Gavin Menzies book, the Chinese do this, 7 decades before it was supposedly done

discover America

It was Giovanni Boccaccio who added this adjective to another Italian author's work

divine

The evil Roger Chillingworth practices this profession making use of herbs & roots

doctor

It was coined by George Orwell & means the capacity to accept 2 contradictory ideas at the same time

doublethink

Lowercase poet of "i carry your heart with me"

e.e. cummings

A genre of prose fiction that depicts the adventures of a roguish hero/heroine of low social class who lives by his or her wits in a corrupt society

picaresque

Literary genre of Piers Anthony & Robert Jordan

fantasy

In Chaucer's "Nun's Priest's Tale", a proud & foolish rooster escapes one of these predators by the skin of his beak

fox

A.A. Milne moved to London to make his living as this type of independent writer, though he did eventually join the staff of Punch magazine

freelance

Hemingway used Gertrude Stein's "You are all a lost" this word in the epigraph to "The Sun Also Rises"

generation

In a Christopher Marlowe poem, a "passionate" man with this job says, "Come live with me and be my love"

shepherd

Hunter S. Thompson described his writing as this kind of crazy journalism

gonzo

In "American Born Chinese", the first of these nominated for a national book award, Gene Luen Yang "drew" on his own heritage

graphic novel

Walt Whitman put this word in a book title & said it grows "among black folks as among white"

grass

From 1978's "Women": "A man gets paranoid when he has 300" of these after-drinking episodes "a year"

hangovers

God knows Thoreau wrote that this "is under our feet as well as over our heads"

heaven

This character in Rip Van Winkle is said to be "as much henpecked as his master"

his dog

Isaac Asimov's first law of robotics says that a robot may not allow one of these to come to harm

humans

This literary genre matter-of-factly includes mythical elements in the narrative, as seen in the work of Isabel Allende

magical realism

It's the job of the fictional Athos

musketeer

In "Paul Revere's Ride", these 9 words precede "and I on the opposite shore will be"

one if by land, and two if by sea

Thomas De Quincey's 1821 "Confessions of an English" eater or user of this drug is a classic of addiction lit

opium

Tom Joad was told, "They's a grove of" these--& "a guy with a gun that got the right to kill you if you touch one"

oranges

Jenny Joseph's "warning": "When I am an old woman I shall wear" this color "with a red hat"

purple

Bukowski's first published work was the 1944 story "Aftermath of a Lengthy" this kind of "slip"--he'd gotten his share

rejection

"Remembrance of Things Past" is a classic example of the type of series called a roman-fleuve, literally novel-this

river

It's the potent potable mentioned in a ditty in "Treasure Island"

rum

Cervantes wrote in "Don Quixote" that "Every man was not born with" one of these "in his mouth"

silver spoon

In Chapter 2 of "The Virginian", this 5-letter word follows "when you call me that..."

smile

In "Ballad of the Ladies of Yore", Francois Villon asked, "Where are" these "of yesteryear?"

snows

In a Le Carre title it's the job after tailor & before spy

soldier

"Dickory Cronke" was Defoe's tale of a philosopher born without this ability; that would be tough for a game show host

speech

This metaphor used by Shakespeare & Coleridge to denote an ending is based on a legend that never really happens in nature

swan song

A 1772 Thomas Paine work proposed a raise for excise officers, basically collectors of these--Paine's own job at the time

taxes

"My Posse Don't Do Homework" is LouAnne Johnson's memoir of her time in this profession

teacher

One of the Arabian Nights begins with a proud king who's not so proud when this heavenly being appears to him

the Angel of Death

This pickpocket befriends Oliver Twist & brings him to Fagin's house

the Artful Dodger

Glass Town is an imaginary place in the early collaborations of this famous trio of sisters

the Brontes

Beloved Aussie Banjo Paterson called one poem "A Singer of" this, another term for the Outback

the Bush

Twain took "a journey around the world" in his fifth & last travel book, "Following" this imaginary line

the Equator

A real disaster inspired Longfellow's ballad about "The Wreck Of" this schooner

the Hesperus

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "Tales of" this age, basically synonymous with the Roaring Twenties

the Jazz Age

This code name of a spy completes Ken Follett's title "Eye of..."

the Needle

Proverbs 9:1 & the title of T.E. Lawrence's memoir mention 7 of these

the pillars of wisdom

"A Journal of" this medical calamity "Year" was Defoe's story of 1665 London

the plague

In a famous poem, the narrator mistakes the presence of this title creature for the wind & later calls it prophet

the raven

Thomas Paine noted, "when authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the" this

the ridiculous

"Everyone wants a piece of land. It's the only sure investment", writes Sam Shepard in his play "Curse of" this group

the starving class

According to Longfellow, children love to see his "flaming forge, and hear the bellows roar"

the village blacksmith

Sadly or happily, modern versions of this oxymoronic literary genre include Pinter's "The Dumb Waiter"

tragicomedy

"All Creatures Great and Small" launched a series on James Herriot's many years in this profession

veterinarian

In 1962 Marshall McLuhan wrote "Electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global" this

village

Written about the U.S. occupation of the Philippines, a Kipling poem said, "take up" this now-controversial phrase

white man's burden