qb lit etc

lawrence

A poem by this author describes "a king in exile, uncrowned in the underworld" who visits the speaker's water trough. In a short story by this author, the protagonist partners with Oscar Cresswell and the gardener Bassett after hearing the repeated phrase "There must be more money". This author of "The Snake" wrote a novel whose protagonist leaves Miriam Lievers in favor of Clara Dawes, but remains attached to his (*) mother Gertrude. Another of his novels is set at the estate of Wragby, where the protagonist has an affair with Michaelis and divorces Clifford after being impregnated by Oliver Mellors. For 10 points, name this author of "The Rocking Horse Winner", who wrote about Paul Morel in Sons and Lovers and penned Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Christina Rossetti

A poem by this author includes questions like "Will there be beds for me and all who seek?" and "Does the road wind uphill all the way?" In a poem by this author, the speaker's heart is compared to a "singing bird," an "apple tree," and a "rainbow shell" because "my love has come to me." A poem by this author notes, "One may lead a horse to water, twenty cannot make him drink," before describing a character being kicked and pinched. This author wrote, "Better by far you should forget and smile," in the poem "Remember." This poet included the moral "there's no friend like a sister" in a poem in which Lizzie begins to waste away after buying fruit from merchants crying "come buy, come buy." For 10 points, name this poet of "Goblin Market."

AE housman

A poem by this person claims he will see a tree "hung with snow" fifty more times and describes that tree as "Wearing white for Eastertide". This poet of "Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now" wrote a poem in which a man who eats his "victuals fast enough" says that "Malt does more than Milton can / To justify God's ways to man." This poet wrote "And early though the laurel grows / It withers quicker than the rose" in a poem that begins "The time you won your town the race / We chaired you through the market place." Name this poet whose collection A Shropshire Lad includes his works "Terence, this is stupid stuff" and "To an Athlete Dying Young".

garcia marquez

A work by this man opens with an examination of a chess player who committed suicide by breathing gold-cyanide. Popularity of the title figure of one of his works declines due to the daughter who transforms into a tarantula. This author of "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" wrote a novel in which José Arcadio starts speaking Latin while tied to a tree. The Vicario brothers murder Santiago Nasar in one work by this man, and another novel by this man features the Buendia family in Macondo. For 10 points, name this author of Chronicle of a Death Foretold and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

john maxwell coetzee

At the end of one of this man's novels, the protagonist attempts to write an opera about Teresa Guiccioli, Lord Byron's mistress. Another of his protagonists is forced to work on a railway after being arrested for vagrancy on his way to Port Albert. One of his characters ends his regular appointment with the escort Soraya and grows closer to his daughter Lucy after losing his job as a Professor of Modern Languages due to an (*) affair with his student Melanie Isaacs. Like Peter Carey, this author won two Booker Prizes, the first for his novel about a harelipped gardener's attempt to bury his mother. For 10 points, identify this South African author who wrote about David Lurie in Disgrace and penned Life and Times of Michael K

christie

British Literature Two of her recurring characters are Thomas Beresford and Prudence Cowley, who are commonly referred to as Tommy and Tuppence, get married at the end of The Secret Adversary, and eventually age into retired grandparents. Another famous character is a resident of Saint Mary Mead who was featured in The Moving Finger and Four Fifty from Paddington. This author also wrote Murder on the Orient Express. Name this crime writer whose most famous play is The Mousetrap.

gargantuan and pantagruel

Donald M. Frame asserts that this collection's last book had been compiled from unfinished material. The introduction to this series instructs readers to "BE HAPPY!" and bakers who refuse to sell cakes to shepherds cause a war declared by King Picrochole in the first book. One book of this series tells how two characters discuss with many people whether or not one of them should get married, and the Shysteroos are encountered in another book in Friar John's quest to find the Oracle of the Holy Bottle with Panurge and one of the titular characters. For 10 points, name this series of five novels about two giants by Francois Rabelais.

marlowe

George Chapman finished this writer's poem about a lover who nearly drowns swimming across the Hellespont titled "Hero and Leander." In a play by this man, the title character burns a copy of the Qu'ran after conquering Babylon and becoming emperor of Persia. The most famous play by this writer of (*) Tamburlaine sees one character poison his daughter Abigail and opens with a parody of Machiavelli. In that play, the title character alternately betrays the Christians and the Turks before falling in a boiling cauldron. The merchant Barrabas is the title character of, for 10 points, what playwright's The Jew of Malta?

donne

In a poem, this author compares himself to a "usurp'd town" and tells the addressee that he is "betroth'd unto your enemy" before declaring "Yet dearly I love you, and would be lov'd fain." A poem by this man begins by describing how "virtuous men pass mildly away" before telling the addressee that "thy firmness makes my circle just" in a metaphor comparing their souls to a pair of "stiff twin (*) compasses." This author of "Batter my heart, three-person'd God" declares that his addressee is "slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men," in a poem concluding "one short sleep past, we wake eternally." For 10 points, name this author of "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" whose Holy Sonnets include "Death be not Proud."

winter

In a short story titled for this period of time, a woman falls in love with a successful laundry store chain owner named Dexter Green; that story was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. During a conflict named for this event, an ambush at Raate Road gave immense power to the Motti. Franz Schubert represents a beggar with a hurdy-gurdy in a work titled for a journey associated with this period of time. According to Norse myth, Ragnarok will be preceded by three successive periods of this event. In 1939, the Soviet Union and Finland fought a war named for it. For 10 points, name this season caused by Persephone's return to the underworld, ushering in death, cold, and snow.

ishmael

In his childhood, a phantom hand gripped this character after he was sent to bed early on the summer solstice for climbing up a chimney. This character likens his activity to a brief interlude between a presidential election and a battle in Afghanistan. At the beginning of the novel in which he appears, this character is spurred to leave Manhattan by "a (*) damp, drizzly November" in his soul. This character gets the 300th lay from Peleg and Bildad, two Nantucket Quakers, by changing his custom of enlisting as a merchant sailor. In New Bedford, this character hears Father Mapple's sermon on Jonah. This character survives the aftermath of a three-day chase by floating on the coffin of his friend Queequeg. For 10 points, name this narrator of Moby-Dick.

garcia marquez

In one of his novels, a rogue general is served on a platter and fed to the palace guard, while in a short story by this author, a group of small people give an enormous drowned man a funeral. In addition to The Autumn of the Patriarch, he wrote a novel titled Leaf Storm. Florentino wins the heart of Fermina after Dr. Urbino's death in Love in the Time of Cholera, and his best known work describes several generations of the Buendia family. For 10 points, name this Colombian author of No One Writes to the Colonel and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

vonnegut

In a novel by this author, blue paint that peels off the canvas is used in a painting by Rabo Karabekian. In another of his novels, most people are either part of the army or the Reconstruction and Reclamation corps, both of which do absolutely nothing. Bluebeard and Player Piano are by this author, who also wrote about false karasses like Hoosiers, and the manufactured religion Bokononism. In his Breakfast of Champions, Kilgore Trout is set free. This author created ice-9 in Cat's Cradle, and wrote about a character who becomes "unstuck in time", Billy Pilgrim. For 10 points, name this science fiction writer of Slaughterhouse-Five.

death

In a poem titled after this condition, the speaker "leave[s] singing my lovely revenge" after lowering the addressee "from the icy niche where men placed you". Romelio Ureta inspired that sonnet by Gabriela Mistral. One poem's speaker asserts "we wake eternally" and easily overcome this after "one short sleep". That speaker dismisses its personification as "slave to fate, chance, and desperate men". A Tennyson poem describes the Light Brigade charging into its jaws, while a Dylan Thomas poem repeatedly asserts that it "shall have no dominion". For 10 points, name this condition that Donne's Holy Sonnet X commands to "be not proud".

atwood

In one of this author's novels, the unnamed narrator and her boyfriend Joe spend a week on the island where her father used to live, and another of her novels has Simon Jordan investigate a historical murder. In addition to Surfacing and Alias Grace, she won the 2000 Booker Prize for a book in which Iris Chase attributes a novel to her dead sister, The Blind Assassin, but her most famous novel concerns Offred's life in the dystopian Gilead. For 10 points, name this Canadian author of The Handmaid's Tale.

albee

In one of this author's plays, Nancy and Charlie discuss a falling jet while walking on a beach, and then they are visited by a human lizard named Leslie. One of his best known plays has acts titled "Walpurgisnacht," "Fun and Games," and "The Exorcism." This author of Seascape wrote a play that ends when Peter stabs Jerry on a bench in Central Park. In another play by this author, the new professor Nick takes his wife Honey to a party hosted by the abusive couple Martha and George. For 10 points, name this American playwright who wrote Zoo Story and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

borges

In one of this author's works, a minister gashes his forehead on a beam after buying The Arabian Nights. This author of "The South" dissects sentences like "Upward beyond the onstreaming it mooned" in a story where hronir leak from an idealistic planet, "Tlön, Uqbar,(*) Orbius Tertius". In one of his stories an infinite collection of books is arranged in hexagonal galleries, while in another the German spy Dr. Tsun murders the sinologist Dr. Albert. For 10 points, name this Argentinian author of "The Library of Babel" and "The Garden of Forking Paths".

jonson

In one play by this writer, a Puritan is willing to accept forged money because its creation is called casting rather than coining. Much of that work is about a butler named Jeremy who calls himself Captain Face when Lovewit leaves town. In another play by this writer, the title character refers to three companions as his dwarf, his eunuch, and his fool. That title character pretends to be very sick so that Voltore, Corbaccio, and Corvino attempt to be placed in his will. Name this early 17th Century playwright of The Alchemist and Volpone.

dover beach

In one response to this poem by Anthony Hecht, a character is addressed as a "sort of mournful cosmic last resort." One section of this work describes retreating towards the "naked shingles of the world," while in another section of this work the narrator claims the world "hath neither joy, nor love, nor light." Another stanza of this work sees a (*) playwright imagine the "turbid ebb and flow / Of human misery," having heard it on the Aegean. This poem ends by noting that "we are here as on a darkling plain," and this work earlier states that "the cliffs of England stand" and notes that "The sea is calm tonight." For 10 points, identify this poem by Matthew Arnold.

go down, moses

In one section of this work, Walter Ewell's horn signals the arrival of a massive buck, which two hunters dub "grandfather" and do not shoot. Another section features a poker game between Uncle Buck and Hubert, in which Buck wins Sophonisba in marriage and the slave Tennie. In addition to "The Old People" and "Was," this work tells of the interracial relationship between a "Negress" and Roth Edmonds, while another story in this work tells of Ike McCaslin and Boon Hogganbeck's hunt for Old Ben. For 10 points, name this short story collection that features "Delta Autumn" and "The Bear," with a Biblical name by William Faulkner.

robert louis stevenson

In one work by this author, Mr. Guest recognizes two characters' similar handwriting and Danvers Carew is murdered. In another work, Squire Trelawney hires Captain Smollett to lead a crew that includes young (*) Jim Hawkins and the pirate Long John Silver in a journey to the title location. For 10 points, identify this author of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Treasure Island.

grass

In one work by this author, a sunken Polish minesweeper is salvaged by Joachim Mahlke. He wrote the memoir Peeling the Onion to describe his time in the Hitler Youth, and this author of Cat and Mouse and Dog Years created "the Dusters," a children's gang in the streets of (*) Danzig led by a boy who stopped growing at the age of three. For 10 points, name this German author who created Oskar Matzerath in The Tin Drum.

dickinson

In one work, this poet of "The Soul" describes one "defeated-dying" who hears the "distant strains of triumph." The author of "Success is Counted Sweetest", this poet's works were first collected in The Single Hound, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson was her mentor. Her characteristic use of slant rhyme and dashes can be seen in lines like "My life had stood—a loaded gun" and "I heard a fly buzz—when I died." For 10 points, name this Belle of Amherst who penned "Because I could not stop for death."

sherlock holmes

In the 1994 novel The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie King, precocious 15 -year-old Mary Russell meets this 50-year-old Sussex beekeeper and brings him out of retirement during the World War I years. For ten points, name this fictional lead character, introduced in a short story in Beeton Christmas Annual which would later be organized into A Study in Scarlet, the best-known creation of Arthur Conan Doyle.

main street

In the novel, the protagonist goes to Washington after an argument with her husband, the town doctor. Bea and her son Olaf die of typhoid, and the dramatic club started by the protagonist flops on its first play, The Girl from Kankakee. The protagonist becomes very close to a young man named Erik Valborg. Dr. and Mrs. Will Kennicott live in a town where people gossip for the majority of their time. For ten points, name this novel describing a young woman named Carol Milford in the town of Gopher Prairie, written by Sinclair Lewis.

the jungle

In this novel, the protagonist commits crimes with Jack Duane and works for the corrupt Mike Scully. Later, he goes to jail after attacking Phil Connor, who had slept with his wife Ona. The end of this novel focuses on a socialist rally whose speaker chants, "Chicago will be ours!" The protagonist of this novel is a Lithuanian immigrant named Jurgis Rudkus. And the outcry from this novel was largely responsible for the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act. For 10 points, name this Upton Sinclair novel known for its graphic depictions of Chicago slaughterhouses.

a doll's house

In this work, the protagonist is renowned for her ability in dancing the Tarantella.

yosserian

On Thanksgiving Day, this atheist chooses not to sleep with a friend of Dori Duz, and instead has a debate with her, claiming that the God in whom he does not believe is actually sadistic.

mexico

One author from this country wrote "Madre, la de los primores," and another author from this country wrote a work featuring Hanuman entitled The Monkey Grammarian and a work analyzing the writing and history of this country entitled The Labyrinth of Solitude.

australia

One author from this country wrote about the artist Hurtle Duffield Courtney, while the Newby family is killed by a half-native of this country in another work. In addition to The Vivisector and The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, another novel in this country is written in the style of the Jerilderie Letter, and another tells the story of a German explorer named Voss. Its only Nobel Laureate is Patrick White, while other authors from this country include Nevil Shute Norway, Thomas Keneally, and Peter Carey. For 10 points, name this country, the setting of Oscar and Lucinda, in the outback.

fathers and sons

One character in this novel meets his love interest through the feminist Kukshina. That character's love interest kisses him on the head before he dies of typhus contracted during an autopsy. One character is invited to Kolyazin's ball and another meets Sitnikov, who arrives uninvited at Anna Odintsov's. In this novel, Pavel is shot in the leg in a duel while his father Nikolai marries Fenitchka, and his brother marries Katya Odintsov. Centering on Arkady Kirsanov and the nihilist Bazarov, for 10 points, name this novel by Ivan Turgenev.

the ambassadors

One character in this novel rushes into a jeweler's shop, inspired by "sacred rage." That character, Waymarsh, eventually falls in love with Miss Barrace and informs for Jim and Sarah Pocock. At a party hosted by the sculptor Gloriani, the main character urges John Little Oldham to not waste his youth, and eventually he rejects Maria Gostrey's advances. Madame de Vionnet's affair is the impetus for the protagonist's trip to Europe in, for 10 points, what novel in which Lambert Strether is sent to Paris to find Chad Newsome, written by Henry James?

cherry orchard

One character in this play, dubbed "Twenty-Two Calamities," is the old servant Firs, who babbles about the pre-emancipation era, while Boris Pishchik comically asks for loans and depends on bizarre money-making schemes. The main family includes Leonid Andreievitch Gayev, who explains pool shots when nervous and censures his sister's behavior, such as her affair in Paris; afterwards, he realizes his niece Anya has overhead him in the doorway. For 10 points, name this Chekhov drama about a "remarkable" feature of a Russian estate that gets chopped down.

the house of the seven gables

One famous scene in this work depicts the changing patterns of light through a room as a man, who recently died of a stroke, sits in a chair and his watch ticks. This novel comes out in favor of the idea that families should merge with the mass of humanity instead of confining themselves by social class through the words of a daguerrotypist. That daguerrotypist reveals that the curse laid by his ancestor may have been possible through knowledge of a tendency toward apoplexy in the owners of the title estate. The judge stole the title estate from Matthew, but at the end, the last Pyncheon marries the last Maule. For ten points, name this novel whose title object sits in Salem, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

hawthorne

One novel by this author features a visit to Eliot's Pulpit and sees the feminist Zenobia committing suicide after Hollingsworth betrays her for her half-sister. In another work by him, Hepzibah feels shame when poverty forces her to open a penny shop, and she eventually leaves her estate behind to Holgrave, a descendant of (*) Matthew Maule. For 10 points, name the author of The Blithedale Romance and The House of the Seven Gables, who wrote about Pearl and her adulterous mother Hester in The Scarlet Letter.

france

One poet from this country described the color of the vowels as "A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green." A medieval poet from this country asked "where are the snows of yesteryear?" in his poem The Ballad of Dead Ladies." Another poet from this country included his poems "The Swan" and "The Litanies of Satan" in a collection divided into sections such as "Death," "Revolt," and "Spleen and Ideal," entitled The (*) Flowers of Evil. A novelist from this country wrote about Captain Nemo in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. For 10 points, name this European country, the home to Arthur Rimbaud (ram-bo), Charles Baudelaire, and Jules Verne.

republic of chile

One sonnet written by an author from this country ends "No hand will reach into the obscure depth/to argue with me over your handful of bones." Another poem written by an author from this nation ends 'It is the hour of departure. Oh abandoned one!" This nation, home to the author of Sonnets of Death, is also home to an author who wrote an ode to tuna, and proclaimed "Arise to birth with me, my brother" in his "Heights of Macchu Picchu". A poet from this country lamented "Tonight I can write the saddest lines". For 10 points, name this nation home to Gabriela Mistral and the author of Canto General and Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Pablo Neruda.

kipling

One work by this author encourages Europeans to colonize and rule over the rest of the world as their duty. In addition to "The White Man's Burden," another work by this man encourages the reader on the premise that if he can do many things, "Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,/ And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!" He also wrote an anthology of stories that include "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" and three surrounding the man-cub Mowgli. For 10 points, name this man who authored such works as the poem "If--" and The Jungle Book.

in medias res

One work that makes use of this technique employs it to present the election of Godfrey of Bouillon as captain of a group of crusaders, while another depicts Satan and Beelzebub lying on a lake of fire, and sees the decision of the former to rebel against God immediately following the exposition of that work. This technique's frequent use in epic poetry includes its depiction of Telemachus at the beginning of the Odyssey as Odysseus is already voyaging home. For 10 points, name this literary technique that literally means "into the middle of things," in which a story begins in the midst of the action.

eugene onegin

Opening with a seemingly harmless meeting between the title figure and his naïve, overly emotional neighbor, this novel describes how the sister of the neighbor's fiancée quickly falls in love with the title character, who brusquely rejects her advances. The protagonist then thoughtlessly flirts with his neighbor's fiancée, Olga Larina, which prompts a challenge to a duel by the neighbor, Alexander Lensky. For ten points, the titular aristocratic dandy dallies with Tatyanaand later murders Lensky in which influential novel of the Russian Romantic movement written by Alexander Pushkin?

ibsen

One protagonist created by this writer, who normally builds churches but is working on a large tower for his own house, has a fear of heights and is named Solness. Another of his protagonists is a doctor who discovers that the baths in his town are polluted, eventually leading him to conclude that "a majority is always wrong". Another of his protagonists forged her father's signature after his death in order to take out a loan without her husband's knowledge; that character helps Christine Linde, who used to have a relationship with Nils Krogstad, and is married to the banker Torvald Helmer. Name this author of The Master Builder, An Enemy of the People, and A Doll's House, a Norwegian playwright.

ezra pound

One section of a work by this author compares the Bank of England's charging of interest to the production of bad Baroque art. This author wrote a poem that compares people to "petals on a wet, black bough" called "In a Station of the Metro." This poet translated "The River Merchant's Wife," a poem by (*) Li Po. One work by this author was written partially in Pisa, Italy, where he lived due to Fascist sympathies that led to his confinement after World War II in an American mental hospital. For 10 points, name this author of the Cantos.

portrait of a lady

One setting in this work is the country manor Gardencourt in England, and another setting is Florence, where Countess Gemini enjoys gossiping about the affairs of married women. In this literary work, Mr. Bantling serves as an escort for the journalist Henrietta Stackpole, and the main character rejects marriage proposals from Lord Warburton and Caspar Goodwood. At the end of this novel, Madame Merle leaves for America, and the Isabel Archer returns to her husband Gilbert Osmond. For 10 points, name this novel by Henry James, in which Isabel is the title woman.

cry, the beloved country

One character in this work recalls a twelve-year-old boy who died crossing the street while he waits at the Carisbrooke train station and has some money stolen by a boy who promises to help him arrive in Sophiatown. That character also tests the integrity of his son's fiancée by making false advances; that son has fallen in with a criminal who claims to have a blessed crowbar, Johannes Pafuri. Other characters include the protagonist's politician brother John and sister Gertrude, for whom he leaves Ndotsheni to find. Arthur Jarvis is murdered by Absalom in, for 10 points, which novel about Stephen Kumalo written by Alan Paton?

little women

One character's love in this novel is revealed when a stolen glove is discovered. One character in this novel is seen weeping after selling her chestnut hair for $25. That decision was made to raise money to visit the family patriarch, a Civil War chaplain. At the end of this novel, Plumfield is turned into a school for boys by Professor Bhaer and his wife. One of its sequels was Jo's Boys. Jo's sisters were Meg, Beth, and Amy. Name this first novel about the March sisters, written by Louisa May Alcott.

whittier

This American wrote the 1833 anti-slavery pamphlet Justice and Expediency and numerous poems on that subject, including "Clerical Oppressors" and "The Yankee Girl." He also wrote a 900-line poem criticizing the fortune teller "Moll Pitcher," but better known are short works, including one about a woman who shames Stonewall Jackson's men into passing by her Union flag, "Barbara Frietchie", and another about the "barefoot boy with cheek of tan." For 10 points, name this poet of "Snow-Bound".

petrarch

This author claimed that "This sleep of forgetfulness will not last forever" in the conclusion to a long work that includes the death of Magone and the suicide of Sophonisba. He expressed a "hope to find pity, and forgiveness" between "vain hope and vain sadness" in the first entry in a 366-poem collection of "scattered (*) rhymes". He was crowned the first modern poet laureate on the strength of works like On Illustrious Men and the epic poem Africa. This man codified a poetic form consisting of an eight-line octave followed by a six-line sestet. For 10 points, identify this namesake of the Italian sonnet, a poet whose Canzoniere describes his love for Laura.

sienkiwicz

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

tagore

This author created a play in which a young boy is taken in by a Zamindar and later runs away from a marriage arranged to the Zamindar's daughter. In another play by this author, Nandini speaks out against a mining operation led by the king of Yakshapuri. In addition to Atithi and Red Oleanders, he also wrote a hymn which was translated into (*) Hindi by Abid Ali. This author of Jana Gana Mana wrote a work prefaced by Yeats that begins, "Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure." For ten points, name this Bengali author of the poetry collection Gitanjali.

the merchant of venice

In act 2 of this play Lancelot Gobbo leaves his master and then meets his father, asking where Lancelot lives. Old Gobbo is then convinced that Lancelot is dead. Later, Jessica confides in Lancelot that she is ashamed to be her father's daughter, and then she elopes. The title character is friends with Gratiano, Salarino, and Solario, and he agrees to lend money to (*) Bassanio, who is believed to be his homosexual lover. Bassanio then goes to Belmont to court Portia, who disguises herself in the trial of Antonio to give the "quality of mercy" speech in For 10 points this William Shakespeare comedy about the Jewish money lender Shylock who sues the title character for "a pound of flesh."

jonson

Quarulous seeks to marry Dame Purecraft in one of this man's plays, which later features a conciliatory speech by Justice Adam Overdo. The protagonist of another of his plays is assisted by Face and is sought out by, among others, Sir Epicure Mammon and the Abel Drugger. This author of Bartholomew Fair is best known for a play in which Corbaccio, Voltore, and Corvino buy into a scam seeking to become the title character's heir. For 10 points, name this Elizabethan dramatist of The Alchemist and Volpone.

heaney

This author described a "girl's head like an exhumed gourd" in his sonnet "Strange Fruit," which appears a collection whose title poem includes the command to "Keep your eye clear / as the bleb of the icicle." This author of North adapted Sophocles's Antigone and Philoctetes into his plays The Burial at Thebes and The Cure at Troy. In another poem, he describes his younger brother Christopher's (*) coffin as "a four-foot box, a foot for every year," while he noted that "By God, the old man could handle a spade" in another poem. Those poems, "Mid-term Break" and "Digging," are found in his collection Death of a Naturalist. For 10 points, name this Irish poet who, in 1999, released a popular translation of Beowulf.

marquez

This author fictionalized "La Violencia" in a novel featuring a Doctor, Mayor, and Father Angel. Such stories as "The Saint" and "I Only Came to Use the Phone" are collected in his Strange Pilgrims, whose themes are recapitulated in Memories of My Melancholy Whores. He wrote of Pelayo and Elisenda's discovery of "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," as well as a novel about the murder of Santiago Nasar. For 10 points, name this author of Chronicle of a Death Foretold and No One Writes to the Colonel, who created Macondo and the Buendía family in One Hundred Years of Solitude.

hawthorne

This author of a campaign biography for Millard Fillmore wrote about Reverend Hooper's refusal to remove sinister headwear in "The Minister's Black Veil." This man included a story about Aylmer killing Georgianna while trying to remove the title blemish in his story collection Mosses from an Old Manse. For 10 points name this author of "The Birthmark" also known for novels like The House of the Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter.

flaubert

This author of the short story "Herodias" claimed to have read fifteen hundred books in his last decade to mimic the doomed intellectual ambitions of his clerks Bouvard and Pecuchet. The Egyptian dancer Kuchuk Hanem was the model for his Carthaginian romance Salammbo, but he's more famous for writing of the ineffectual foot surgery made by Charles, which sets off his wife's affairs. For 10 points, name this man who depicted Frederic Moreau's Sentimental Education and wrote about the infidelities of Emma in Madame Bovary.

soyinka

This author wrote a novel in which Ilosa contrasts with Aiyero, the city where "the Dentist" tries to assassinate the Coordinator of the National Cocoa Corporation, Ofeyi. This author of Season of Anomie wrote about Eman, a member of the title group of "carriers" in The Strong Breed, and also wrote a play in which the British officer Pilkings interrupts Elesin's suicide, causing his son Olunde to take his place. For 10 points, name this Nigerian author of Death and the King's Horsemen.

hesse

This author wrote a novel in which Knulp wanders into the forest and questions God about the purpose of his existence. In another novel by this man, Hans Giebenrath befriends Hermann Heilner and is found drowned in a river. This author of Beneath the Wheel created a character who is introduced to the god Abraxas by the organist Pistorius. In addition to Demian, he wrote a novel in which the ferryman Vasudeva leads the title figure to enlightenment, while in another, the saxophonist Pablo shows The Magic Theatre to Harry Haller. For 10 points, name this German author of Siddhartha and Steppenwolf.

fleming

This author wrote a popular book series, whose main character was named after an ornithologist who studied Caribbean birds. After graduating from Eton ("EE-ton") College and the military academy in Sandhurst, this author worked with Naval Intelligence before building a summer home called Goldeneye in Jamaica. He wrote a children's book for his son Caspar about a flying car. His novels Casino Royale and From Russia with Love were later adapted into films during the 1960s. For 10 points, name this author of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the James Bond Series.

bradbury

This author wrote a short story in which a man built an exact replica of the mansion from "The Fall of the House of Usher." The prologue to one of his novels describes Halloween occurring at 3 AM on October 24. That novel described the arrival of the Pandemonium Shadow Show to Green Town. This author of Something Wicked This Way Comes wrote of atomic war survivors as "living books" that escaped the Mechanical Hound. Name this author of The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.

chekov

This author wrote a work about Andrei Prozorov and his Three Sisters. One of this author's works sees Ivan Voynitsky [voy-NIHT-skee] court Yelena despite the anger of her husband, Serebryakov [say-REH-byah-koff]. In another, Konstantin Treplev shoots a bird for Nina. This man wrote a play in which (*) Ranevsky's land is purchased by Lopakhin. He is the author of Uncle Vanya, The Seagull, and The Cherry Orchard. For 10 points, name this Russian dramatist.

ayn rand

This author wrote a work in which Karen Andre is put on a trial for the murder of Bjorn Faulkner. In addition to the Night of January 16th, this author wrote a novel in which the protagonist works for Henry Cameron, gains the attention of Gail Wynand, and falls in love with Dominique. In addition to creating the architect Howard Roark, this author wrote a novel in which steel magnate Hank Rearden and railroad owner Dagny Taggart fall in love while many people ask, Who is John Galt? For 10 points, name this objectivist author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

synge

This author wrote a work in which the absence of a can prevents Sarah Casey and Michael Byrne's wedding. In addition to The Tinker's Wedding and In the Shadow of the Glen, this author wrote about Conchubor's failed attempt to wed the title character in Deirdre of the Sorrows and Bartley returning drowned to his mother Maurya in Riders to the Sea. He may be best remembered for a play in which Pegeen breaks her engagement to Shawn Keogh to wed Christy Mahon. For 10 points, name this Irish playwright of The Playboy of the Western World.

mahfouz

This author wrote about a Marxist, who is released from prison and murdered in a cemetery. Said Mahran appears in his The Thief and the Dogs. In another of his novels, the title character points to a mansion and declares it the house of his ancestors, and treats his son Adam better than Moses, Jesus and Muhammad. This author of Children of Gebelawi wrote about Ahmad Abdel Gawad's family in the novels Palace Walk, Palace of Desire and Sugar Street. For 10 points, name this Egyptian author of "The Cairo Trilogy."

evangeline

The inspiration for Germaine Taillefer's opera "For the Exiles" and for Michael Hjortsberg's novel "Fallen Angel," it tells the story of two lovers separated during the exile of their people. After much travail, the title protagonist, who has waited all her life to be reunited with her lover, Gabriel Lajeunesse, finds him dying during an epidemic in Philadelphia. For 10 points identify this long poem set against the backdrop of the British expulsion of Acadians from Nova Scotia, a work of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

the secret life of walter mitty

The protagonist of this work is described as "undefeated, inscrutable to the last", and is laughed at for saying "puppy biscuit". That protagonist of this story claims to have been able to shoot Gregory Fitzhurst though he is wearing his right hand in a sling. A "pocketa-pocketa- pocketa" noise is made by three machines in this work. This short story's protagonist appears as a surgeon, a pilot, and a defendant. This story is set in Waterbury, where the protagonist is driving with his wife, and it ends with the protagonist facing a firing squad. Name this James Thurber story about a daydreaming title character.

ode on a grecian urn

The speaker asks "To what green altar, O mysterious priest,/Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies?" Earlier, the speaker implores "Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed/Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu", after commenting that "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/Are sweeter". This poem begins by addressing the title object as an "unravish'd bride of quietness." For 10 points, identify this poem by John Keats which declares "'Beauty is truth, truth beauty.'"

she walks in beauty

The subject of this poem has "a mind at peace with all below". It is in perfect iambic tetrameter except for the fourth line, which begins "Meet in her aspect", and it has three six-line stanzas. By looking at the subject of this poem, the narrator can tell that her thoughts have a "pure" and "dear" dwelling place. In possible contrast to Shakespeare's sonnet comparing a woman to a summer's day, this poem says its subject is "like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies". It was written in 1814, before its writer left his wife and England amidst scandalous rumors of affairs. Name this work describing an idealized woman, written by Lord Byron.

tolstoy

The title character of one work by this author cuts off his own finger to prevent himself from sleeping with the divorcee Makovkina. In addition to Father Sergius, his works include a trilogy beginning with the novel Childhood as well as a collection entitled Sevastopol Sketches. A more famous novel by this author of The Death of Ivan Ilych ends with the marriage between Natasha Rostov and Pierre Bezuhkov after Napoleon's failed invasion of Russia. For 10 points, identify this author who wrote the lengthy but brilliant novel War and Peace.

bradstreet

This author addresses a subject who, if asked, should say that its father did not exist and that its mother threw it from her door due to poverty, in her poem "The Author to Her Book." A posthumous collection of her poems contains "To My Dear and Loving Husband," but she had gained some notice during her lifetime when her brother-in-law John Woodbridge published some of her manuscripts. For 10 points, name this early American poet, who lamented the loss of her possessions in Upon the Burning of Our House, and whose works were collected in The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up In America.

cummings

This author asserted that "love is the whole and more than all" in one poem, and repeated the line "with up so floating many bells down" in another. This author of "my father moved through dooms of love" described a time "when the world is puddle-wonderful" in his poem "in Just-." He wrote a novel detailing the time he spent in a French (*) prison camp during World War I, and asked "how do you like your blueeyed boy/Mister Death" in his poem "Buffalo Bill's defunct." For 10 points, identify this author of "anyone lived in a pretty how town" and The Enormous Room, known for his eccentric typography and capitalization.

pip

This character wonders whether his sister washes herself with a nutmeg grater and tries to eat a breakfast consist- ing largely of diluted milk while being quizzed by his brother-in-law's uncle. Because this protagonist reminds one of his friends of the song "The Harmonious Blacksmith", his friend calls him Handel. That friend, who challenges this character to a fight in the garden of Satis House, is Herbert Pocket. Pocket is the son of the cousin of the woman that this character believes is his benefactor, Miss Havisham. Identify this character who is kind to the escaped convict Abel Magwitch in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations.

don quixote

This character's books about Amadis of Gaul are burned by a priest at the beginning of the novel in which he appears. This character sees a barber wearing a washbasin on his head, mistaking it for Mambrino's helmet. His defeat at the hands of the Knight of the White Moon does not cause this rider of (*) Rocinante to abandon his quest, which is driven by his love for Dulcinea. For 10 points, name this elderly knight who attacks windmills with his squire Sancho Panza in a Miguel de Cervantes novel.

chicago

This city is where Frankie Machine struggles to stay off heroin after leaving prison in Nelson Algren's The Man with the Golden Arm. A chicano neighborhood here provides the setting for Esperanza's coming of age in Sandra Cisneros's novel The House on Mango Street. It is also the city in which Mary Dalton is suffocated by Bigger Thomas in Richard Wright's Native Son, though it is more famously described in one work as the "Hog butcher of the world". For 10 points, name this city described as having "big shoulders" by Carl Sandburg.

donne

This author wrote his sonnet "Since she whom I lov'd hath paid her last debt" while mourning the death of his wife Anne. One of his poems imagines people worshiping the speaker and his lover after someone digs up his grave and discovers "a bracelet of bright hair about the bone". Another of his poems ends "Thy firmness makes my circle just / And makes me end where I begun," and compares the souls of the speaker and his lover to "stiff twin (*) compasses". His collection Songs and Sonnets includes his poems "The Relic" and "The Canonization". Another of his collections contains "Batter My Heart, Three Person'd God" and "Death, Be Not Proud". For 10 points, name this metaphysical poet of "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" and the Holy Sonnets.

whitman

This author wrote one work in which the narrator is curious about the men and women "attired in the usual costumes" aboard the title boat. One poem by this author talks about a ship that has "weathered every rack" and laments that the title character has "fallen cold and dead." This poet of "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" wrote one poem in which the narrator announces that he "celebrates" himself. For 10 points, name this American poet of "Oh Captain! My Captain!" whose poem "Song of Myself" appears in the collection Leaves of Grass.

yeats

n one work, a visit to a school when this writer is sixty leads him to ask, "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" In another work, this writer claims to leave a place where people are caught in "sensual music" to travel to a "holy city" to be gathered "into the artifice of eternity." In another work by this poet, he imagines a place where "mid- night's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow" while he stands on a roadway. In that work, he says he will build a cabin and start "nine bean rows" and a beehive, beginning with the claim, "I will arise and go now." Another work by this poet provided the title for Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Name this Irish poet who wrote "Among School Chil- dren", "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", "The Second Coming", and "Sailing to Byzantium".

waiting for godot

one character in this play exclaims "one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day" when asked when he went blind. And a repeated line in this play is "nothing to be done". The play is set on a country road, where there is tree that has miraculously grown leaves in Act II, and which two characters discuss hanging themselves from, only they haven‟t any rope. One character in this play delivers a long nonsense speech when commanded to "speak" by a character that whips him and calls him "hog"; they are Lucky and Pozzo. The protagonists munch carrots, argue, and exchange hats in, For 10 points, what play in which Vladimir and Estragon try to bide time before the arrival of the title figure by Samuel Beckett?

blake

one of his poems extols, "Such, such were the joys" on the titular feature, "The Echoing Green". This man advised "cherish pity lest you drive an angel from your door" in his poem "Holy Thursday". One of his title characters claims "O! my soul is white," and this poet hears "mind-forg'd manacles" in his poem (*) "London". This poet collected his works in the volume Songs of Innocence and Experience. In one of his poems, he asks the title animal,"Dost thou know who made thee?" Another poem describes an animal who is "burning bright". For 10 points, name this poet of "The Lamb" and "The Tyger".

nabokov

one of this man's works contains a character named Van Veen and is subtitled "A Family Chronicle." This man's son publish his incomplete The Original of Laura. This writer of the autobiography Speak, Memory created a work featuring the spontaneous combustion of a monkey and the character Cincinnatus, who is accused of "gnostic turpitude." This author of (*) Invitation to a Beheading wrote a work about John Shade and Charles Kinbote, and also created Dolores Haze. For 10 points, name this author of Pale Fire, who created Humbert Humbert Lolita.

the great gatsby

owl eyes, funeral, lists self improvement

dover beach

poem - ignorant armies clash by night

the raven

poem - is there balm in gilead??

quo vadis

After a tour of military duty, the main character Marcus Vinicius returns to Petronius. The young man falls in love with Lygia, the daughter of a foreign king who is served by the giant Ursus, but she goes into hiding. Vinicius is injured trying to recover her and winds up learning of the Christian philosophy, ultimately eschewing his pagan lifestyle. For 10 points, name this 1895 novel set in the time of Nero's reign, written by Polish Nobel laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz.

fathers and sons

After dying, a character in this novel opens an eye and shudders when he sees the priest anointing him with oil. At the Governors' Ball in this novel, that character explains that "free-thinking women are all monsters", before visiting such a woman at Nikolskoe ("nee-kol-sko-ye") and offering her a chemistry textbook. Another character in this novel moves to Maryino after losing Princess (*) R, and winds up falling in love with his brother's maidservant. Two characters marry Katya and Fenichka in this novel, while another character saves a sick person from typhus, but accidentally infects himself, and reunites with Anna Sergeyevna Odintsova on his deathbed. For 10 points, name this novel about Arkady Kirsanov and his nihilistic friend Bazarov, written by Ivan Turgenev.

who's afraid of virginia woolf?

Allusions to "The Poker Night" and one character entering with snapdragons are among the references to Tennessee Williams in this play. One character compares herself to Lady Chatterley and claimed to be "revirginized" by annulment, while her husband shot her with a prop shotgun after she recalled beating him in a boxing match. One character tells a story of how a boy's father died in a car crash as the boy tried to avoid hitting a porcupine, while the events in this play occur after two characters return from a party held by a college president, Martha's father. For 10 points, identify the play that also features Nick, Honey, and George by Edward Albee.

gogol

Although this author's poem Hans Kachelgarten was a huge failure, he was more successful with a story about a man who lives through the deaths of his sons Andriy and Ostap. His short story collections include Mirgorod and Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, and he left Russia due to backlash against his play about Khlestakov, who is mistaken for the title official. He also wrote a short story about Akaki Akakievich's purchase of the title garment and a novel about Chichikov. For 10 points each, name this Russian author of Taras Bulba, The Inspector General, "The Overcoat" and Dead Souls.

atticus

As part of a punishment, this character forces his children to read to the dying Mrs. Dubose for a month. One argument made by this man focuses on how a left-handed person would be more likely to produce a bruise on the right side of the face than a man with a shriveled left arm. At one point, this man's sister, Aunt Alexandra, stays at his house. He lives with his maid Calpurnia, and defends Tom Robinson on charges of rape brought up by Mayella Ewell. For 10 points, name this father of Jem and Scout, a central character in To Kill a Mockingbird.

house

At one of these places, the dog of a former sign-writer is killed before the place of this type gets struck by lightning and remains incomplete. In another work, one of these things has a feature "all lopsided and jutting like crooked teeth" and is owned first by Cathy, then by Meme Ortiz; that one disappoints the narrator by being red, not white. After leaving one named for Hanuman, one of these things with an exterior staircase is bought by V.S. Naipaul's protagonist Mr. Biswas. For 10 points, name these buildings, exemplified in a novel by Sandra Cisneros by Esperanza's dwelling On Mango Street.

raisin in the sun

Beneatha wants to go to medical school and become a doctor in Africa. Lena wants to purchase a new house. Walter wants to quit his chauffeur's job and open a liquor store. Eventually, Walter resolves to join in the plan to move into a white neighborhood despite the objections of residents, providing final resolution to the life insurance money left by Big Walter Younger. For 10 points, name this play, the first by Lorraine Hansberry.

marx

He fled to Paris after the closing of the newspaper which he edited in Cologne. He wrote against Proudhon in The Poverty of Philosophy and collaborated on the anti-Hegelian The Holy Family. In 1864, he was the speaker of the First International. For 10 points—name this man who worked with Friedrich Engels on Capital and "The Communist Manifesto."

magwitch

He once worked for a rich and handsome man who used his looks to sway the jury in a court case. He was sentenced to twice the jail time of his good-looking employer before escaping from prison and making a great deal of money in Australia. With his money, he helped Philip Pirrip go to London and become a gentleman. For 10 points—name this convict from Great Expectations.

pound

He wrote an opera, Le testament, and he helped to rehabilitate the reputations of both Antonio Vivaldi and Sextus Propertius, writing an "homage" to the latter. He was declared unfit to stand trial for anti-American broadcasts during World War II, thirty years after teaming with Amy Lowell to found the Imagist movement. For 10 points—identify this American author of the 800-page Cantos.

garcia lorca

He wrote gacelas "of the Dark Death" and "of Unforseen Love" in his collection Divan. This author names an Albee play, and he wrote a poem about a black man using a spoon to gouge out crocodile eyes in "The King of Harlem." He wrote about a barren woman married to Juan who visits a witch to try and conceive, and in another play Angustias, Poncia, and Adela are the repressed daughters of the title character. An unnamed bridegroom kills Leonardo in the other play in this author's Rural Trilogy. For 10 points, name this author of Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba, and Blood Wedding.

sinclair lewis

His "caustic tales about American life" including The Willow Walk are collected in the posthumous collection Go East, Young Man. After using the pseudonym Tom Graham and publishing Hike and the Aeroplane, this author wrote a man who needed the warm nod of a ticket taker at a Nickelodeon in Our Mr. Wrenn. A better known novel sees Fran caught up in a vastly different lifestyle than her husband Samuel Dodsworth and another tells of Carol Milford and the town of Gopher Prairie. One of his best known works is a 1922 novel set in Zenith which concerns a titular real estate agent. For 10 points, identify this American Nobel Laureate, author of Main Street and Babbit.

thomas

His Collected Poems appeared in 1953, the year his alcoholic lifestyle finally caught up to him and killed him. Many of his best stories appear in the collections Adventures in the Skin Trade and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. Among his best-known works in the 1952 "play for voices", Under Milk Wood. For ten points name this Welsh author, perhaps best known for such poems as "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night."

donne

In his own lifetime, he was best known as a bureaucrat and clergyman, and his poems circulated privately among members of the court. A master of the conceit, he famously compared two lovers to the legs of a compass and the sun to a pesky busybody. For ten points, identify this seventeenth-century English metaphysical poet, whose works include the Holy Sonnets, "The Sun Rising," and "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning."

dogs

Montmorency is one of these creatures whose idea of life entails lying in slums and is the subject of the subtitle of the novel Three Men in a Boat. The organs of one of these is replaced with human organs in a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. One of these creatures dies immediately upon seeing Odysseus return to Ithaca; that animal is named Argos and is known for his faithfulness to his master. For 10 points, name these animals, exemplified by the faithful pet of Dorothy Gale, the animal Toto from The Wizard of Oz.

sense and sensibility

Much of the action of this novel takes place in Barton Park at a cottage owned by John Middleton. One character is engaged to Lucy Steele, who leaves him for his wealthier brother Robert. After the dastardly actions of John Willoughby, one sister in this novel marries the old but kind Colonel Brandon and another marries Edward Ferrars. For 10 points, name this novel in which Marianne and Elinor Dashwood represent to two title qualities, a work of Jane Austen.

dracula

One of the major characters in this novel visits her friend, Lucy, in England where she learns that Lucy has received three separate marriage proposals. Meanwhile, that character's fiancé, Jonathan, is confined within a castle that he went to in order to conclude a real estate transaction with the title character. During the story, Mina once again finds Lucy in the town cemetery sleepwalking with two red marks on her neck. This begins the plot of, for ten points, what novel in which the titular character is pursued and killed by a team led by Professor Van Helsing, a work of Bram Stoker?

go tell it on the mountain

The novel centers on the events of the 14th birthday of the main character, a boy growing up in Harlem. His mother Elizabeth came from the South to follow her boyfriend Richard, but he committed suicide before the birth of their son. Roy, younger brother of the main character, receives the affection of his father Gabriel, a preacher who is cold to his step-son John Grimes, the main character in this 1952 novel by James Baldwin.

ae housman

a shropshire lad

jonson

author - wrote play w/ characters voltore, corbaccio, and corvino

santiago

character - d'maggio, fisherman, old man, hemingway

sherlock holmes

character - injected coke into his eyeballs

colombia

country of marquez

tale of genji

hile exiled to Suma, this novel's protagonist seduces the daughter of a rich man, and the result is his only daughter. One chapter, left blank, is titled "Vanished into the Clouds," marking the protagonist's death, while the last ten chapters take place at Uji and concern Kaoru, the "son" of the protagonist, who loves the same woman as his friend Niou. The title prince is married to Lady Aoi, but has numerous affairs with other women of the court. For 10 points, name this Heian-age novel by Lady Murasaki.

daisy miler: a study

A character in this novel asks to be brought a copy of Cherbuliez's Paule Méré, whose plot mirrors that of this work. Another character in this novel talks about a doctor in Schenectady, Mr. Davis, who sought to cure her dyspepsia. Mrs. Costello, the aunt of this novel's protagonist, is shocked that her nephew accompanies the title character from Vevey to the Chateau de (*) Chillon. Mrs. Walker ostracizes the title character because she walks about Rome too much with Italian men like Mr. Giovanelli, and that character eventually contracts malaria after a nighttime visit to the Colosseum. For 10 points, name this novella in which Frederick Winterbourne falls for an innocent American girl traveling in Europe, written by Henry James.

pride and prejudice

A character in this novel is described as a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humor, reserve, and caprice; and another character states "I do not cough for my own amusement." In this work, Mary King is proposed to after inheriting ten thousand pounds, an incident described in a letter written to Mrs. Gardiner in London. The man who proposes to her, a disappointed military officer and unsuccessful gambler named George Wickham, eventually marries Lydia. Wickham is often at odds with the owner of Pemberley, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy. Name this work about Elizabeth Bennet and her sisters, written by Jane Austen.

mansfield park

A character in this novel is disappointed when a man won't take her outside to see the Cassiopeia constellation after he tries to defend a woman who was mocking Dr. Grant. Later, another man frets over casting the role of the clergyman Anhalt for a production of Elizabeth Inchbald's play Lover's Vows. This novel sees Mr. Yates elope with the sister of (*) Maria, who herself runs off after spurning her husband Mr. Rushworth for Henry Crawford. Sir Thomas returns from Antigua to this work's title location and eventually gives his blessing to the marriage between Edmund Bertram and Fanny Price. For 10 points, name this novel published three years before Northanger Abbey by its author, Jane Austen.

crime and punishment

A group of spectators believe that the protagonist of this novel is crazy when he kneels on the ground and starts kissing it. One character in this novel asks the protagonist if he recalls seeing two workers painting a building, and Svidrigailov threatens to use the secret he overheard against the protagonist. Dunya marries Razumihin instead of the greedy Luzhin, and near the end of this novel, Sonya encourages the protagonist to confess his murder of Lizaveta and the pawnbroker Alyona. For 10 points, name this novel about Raskolnikov, a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

all quiet on the western front

A group of the central characters in this work break orders when they swim across a river to spend a night with a group of French women. That encounter includes an extremely popular ladies-man named Leer, who dies alongside Bertinck. Other characters in this novel include the patriotic school teacher Kantorek, the power hungry Himmelstoss, and the bed wetting Tjaden. Followed by The Road Back, this novel sees the death of Stanislaus Katczinsky, often referred to as "Kat", a friend of the protagonist Paul Baumer. For 10 points, name this novel about a German military unit during World War One written by Erich Remarque.

sister carrie

A key conversation in this novel takes place over a meal of sirloin and asparagus, while two men watch the play "Under the Gaslight" in another scene, not knowing that they love the same actress. One of those men, a fancy travelling salesman, provides the title character a lavish lifestyle unlike her hometown of Columbia City. In a new city without Charles Drouet, that protagonist's career improves greatly while her husband George Hurstwood descends into poverty and gambling before committing suicide in a flophouse. Name this controversial novel about a rural Midwestern girl in an urban setting named Caroline Meeber, the debut novel of Theodore Dreiser.

turgenev

A man is unable to sleep in Alexander's house in this man's short story "Hamlet of the Shchigrovsky District". In one work by him, Vladimir learns that the object of his affections, Zinaida, is his father's mistress. Varvara's affairs prompt Fyodor to fall for Liza in his novel Home of the Gentry, and this author of First Love wrote about Elena's love for Insarov in On the Eve. This author of the short story collection A Sportsman's Sketches is most famous for a novel about Arkady Kirsanov and his mentor, the nihilist Bazarov. For ten points, name this Russian author of Fathers and Sons.

mamet

A recent missive from this author repeatedly denigrates "blue-suited penguins" and asserts that when conveying information, writers must "figure it out." The second scene of one of his plays opens with Karen reading from The Bridge; or, Radiation and the Half-Life of Society before sleeping with the movie producer Bobby Gould. Fletch never appears in another of his plays, which sees Walter "Teach" Cole convince Don Dubrow that Bob has actually stolen a man's rare (*) coin collection. This author of Speed-the-Plow and American Buffalo also wrote a work in which John Williamson accidentally blows a deal with James Lingk and Dave Moss assists Shelly "The Machine" Levene in stealing the leads for the title property. For 10 points, identify this screenwriter and playwright of Glengarry Glen Ross.

allende

A recent novel by this author concerns Tete, a mulatto woman sold to Toulouse Valmorain, the owner of a Haitian sugar plantation. In another novel, this writer describes a woman who goes to La Senora's brothel, is accused of the murder of Zulema Halabi, and finally marries Rolf Carle. In addition to The Island Beneath the Sea and Eva Luna, this author created a family that lives in the (*)"big house on the street," includes Clara, a telekenetic who can move a three-legged table, and Esteban, who enlists help to rescue his granddaughter Alba from the military. For 10 points, name this Chilean novelist who wrote about three generations of the Trueba family in The House of the Spirits.

a farewell to arms

After this novel's protagonist returns from a horse race with the Meyerses, he comforts his love interest who claims that "rain is very hard on loving." In one scene, the protagonist of this work jumps into a river to escape interrogation by the battle police while another sees the protagonist's convalescence leave revoked after Miss Van Campen confiscates his alcohol. After arriving at a (*) hospital in Milan, the protagonist has his knee operated on by Dr. Valentini and is able to pursue a relationship with nurse Catherine Barkley, who later dies after giving birth to a stillborn child. For ten points, name this novel detailing Lieutenant Frederic Henry's life during WWI as an ambulance driver, a work by Ernest Hemingway.

lolita

Although this novel's foreword is penned by John Ray, its protagonist writes the bulk of the work, also known as The Confession of a White Widowed Male, as a testimonial for the jury that is set to convict him for the murder of Clare Quilty. The protagonist had encountered Quilty while on a cross-country road trip with his deceased wife's twelve-year-old daughter, who had become his lover shortly after her mother's death. The nickname of this young girl, whose real name was Dolores Haze, was given to her by the protagonist, her stepfather, Humbert Humbert. For 10 points, name this novel by Vladimir Nabokov.

howl

Among the actions the narrator sees performed are eating "fire in paint hotels" and drinking "turpentine in Paradise Alley", and the people the speaker sees "got busted in their pubic beards returning through Laredo." At the beginning of the second section, he asks "what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination" and spends most of it describing Moloch. The last section elaborates on how the narrator is with the poem's dedicatee, Carl Solomon, in Rockland, while the first section describes people who are "starving hysterical naked." For 10 points, the narrator "saw the best minds of his generation destroyed by madness" in what poem by Alan Ginsberg?

dos passos

An Italian American and a boy from Indiana join a Harvard student named John Andrews in a quest to find themselves as they go to war in one of his works. Another of his novels centers on George Baldwin and the narrator Emily. This author of Three Soldiers and (*) Manhattan Transfer wrote about a man who fights for the Second Spanish Republic in one part of a series. The author of the District of Colombia volume set, name, for 10 points, this American author of The U.S.A. Trilogy.

basho

An autobiographical work by this author begins by describing days, months, and years as travelers of eternity. He abandoned his early "shriveled chestnuts" style. One of his later poems focuses on the sound of water as a frog jumps in to a pond. This author of The (*) Narrow Road to Deep North lived in the Genroku era. He used kigo, or "season words," richly in his works. For 10 points, what poet, who traveled around Japan under the Tokugawa Shogunate, was a master of the seventeen-syllable haiku?

germinal

At one point in this novel, Maigrat refuses to give bread to Maheude, who has dragged along two of her seven children. Her children, who shared three beds and a cradle, include Catherine. Catherine is in a relationship with Chaval but is pursued by the protagonist Etienne Lantier. This novel, the thirteenth in a series of twenty novels, is named after a French Revolutionary Calendar month and involves a strike and riot by coal miners. Name this 1885 novel by Emile Zola.

rappacini's daughter

At one point in this story, a man wakes up to find that a purple mark shaped like four fingers has appeared on his hand. The protagonist bribes Lisabetta to show him a secret entrance into a garden he had seen from the window of his Padua apartment. The main character learns from Professor Baglioni about the unethical experiments of the garden's owner. At the end of this story the protagonist learns he has been contaminated through his interactions with the title character, Beatrice. For 10 points, name this story in which Giovanni Guasconti discovers that the title character is poisonous, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

volpone

At one point in this work, one character is forced to hide in a tortoise shell after he is tricked into believing he has been arrested for passing secrets to the Turks. At another point in this novel, a man makes his wife walk backwards after she throws her hankerchief from a window at the title character, who is pretending to be Scoto the Mounteback. The title character is accompanied by the dwarf Nano, and a subplot concerns the travels of Lady Politic Would-Be. The title character pretends to be dying in order to trick Voltore, Corbaccio, and Corvino. Eventually the title character's servant Mosca supposedly gets all of his money. For 10 points, identify this novel about the title "Big Fox," a play by Ben Jonson.

the man that corrupted hadleyburg

At one point in this work, the lawyer Wilson claims that John "Shadbelly" Billson's attempt to defraud was foiled because of the presence of the word "very," and Billson is exposed as a fraud along with the banker Pinkerton. Barclay Goodson is widely suspected as being the man who gave twenty dollars to a stranger, and Reverend Burgess's efforts to protect the Richards fail. The town motto becomes "Lead us into Temptation" after the civic reputation for honesty is destroyed. For 10 points, name this Mark Twain story.

hedda gabler

At the beginning of this work Aunt Julle's hat is mistaken for Berte's, while in another section the protagonist exclaims she is burning Thea's child. One character is repeatedly referred to as having "vine-leaves in his hair"; that character later dies at Mademoiselle Diana's soiree. The protagonist recounts lying about wanting to live in Councilman Falk's villa to Judge Brack in this play. The protagonist's husband is alarmed when he learns he may lose a professorship to Ejlert Lovborg, who the protagonist drives to commit suicide after he loses his manuscript. She then shoots herself in the temple in, for 10 points, what Henrik Ibsen play?

R.U.R

At the end of this work, Alquist blesses two lovers and rechristens them Adam and Eve. The psychologist Hallemeier says that the title characters occassionally ignore orders while talking to the main female role, who has arrived on the island where this work takes place on a humanitarian mission. The founders of the enterprise on the island do not appear, but Domin tells them about them: the son, who sees the title characters as inexpensive workers, (*) and the father, who instead wanted to play a Creator role. Helena Glory finds all this out in, For 10 points, what sci-fi play by Karel Capek which introduced the term robot?

wine

Conditura and mulsum were two Roman variants of this good. After an exhortation to be wise, Leuconoe is told to "strain" this substance in Horace's "Carpe Diem" ode. The Ancient Greek kylix and krater were used to handle this good, over which Athenian women swear to stop pleasing their husbands in the play Lysistrata. According to a Roman adage, in this good there is "veritas," or truth, and Homer describes the sea as "dark" like this good, which was made in Roman villas with screw-presses. This consumable good was served at a symposium. For 10 points, name this liquid which ancient men diluted before drinking, and was made from fermented grapes.

pynchon

Dennis Flange meets a midget girl in a dump in this author's "Low-Lands." Callisto warms a bird with body heat only for it to die during a chaotic party held by Meatball Mulligan, in his story "Entropy" from the collection Slow Learner. He wrote about Grigori, a giant intelligent octopus, and of the Whole Sick Crew and Herbert Stencil's search for the title entity. He wrote about Oedipa Maas's search for the meaning of Trystero, while his most famous work includes characters like Roger Mexico and Tyrone Slothrop. For 10 points, name this author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity's Rainbow.

the time machine

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

mother courage

Eilif never again sees his family after he is drafted into the Swedish army. Though rewarded for his massacre of villagers, he is executed after the fighting ends. His sister, Kattrin, is punished for stealing Yvette's red boots. Because a soldier's assault has left her mute, she must beat a drum to warn of an invasion, though she is shot for her troubles. Their brother, a young man named Swiss Cheese, had earlier been arrested for stealing an army paybox. For ten points, name this Bertolt Brecht play in which a woman loses her family to war and is left to pull her cart through Poland alone.

mystery

From the French for "morality," these plays of the 14th and 15th centuries were performed from town to town, the most famous of which was the Wakefield Second Shepherd's Play. These anonymous plays dramatize Old Testament incidents and are aimed at teaching morals. For 10 points, name these plays, not at all like The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie.

the hollow men

Images in this poem include a "Multifoliate rose" and "Sunlight on a broken column." The narrator of this poem describes "Eyes I dare not meet in dreams, in death's dream kingdom" and declares "Between the essence and the descent falls the Shadow." This poem substitutes the "prickly pear" into a children's song, and the epigraph for this poem reads, "Mistah Kurtz--he dead." For 10 points, name this poem concluding "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with a whimper," a poem about "stuffed men" by T. S. Eliot.

to throw

In Japanese, this English verb translates as "furu" (FOO-roo). In German, it is "werfen" (VAIR-fen). In French, this word is "geter" (je-TAY). In Latin, it is "iactare" (yok-TAH-ray). Spanish uses "tirar" for this verb, which, in English, has a slang meaning of intentionally losing a contest, such as the 1919 World Series. For 10 points, give this word, which normally refers to something one can do with a javelin or baseball.

tale of genji

In his study Seeds in the Heart, Donald Keene suggests that a chapter of this work was ordered destroyed since it told its readers to "flee the world." A poem called "Song of Unending Sorrow" is referred to repeatedly by this book, whose chapter "The Mayfly" describes the third daughter of the Eighth Prince becoming a nun after she decides not to throw herself into a river. This book's protagonist is caught sleeping with "The Lady of the Misty Moon" while in the house of the (*) Minister to the Left, and that protagonist is implied to have died during a blank chapter called "Vanished into the Clouds." This novel's title character is called "Shining" and is unfaithful to his wife Lady Aoi. For 10 points, name this novel about Heian court life by Lady Murasaki.

invisible man

In one episode from this novel, the narrator is tricked into jumping onto an electrified carpet in order to pick up gold coins. The narrator attends a college financed by a man obsessed with his dead daughter, Mr. Norton, and is later kicked out of college by a man who told him he was a "nobody," Dr. Bledsoe. The narrator is repeatedly mistaken for Rinehart, a black man who sacrifices his skin color to fit into white society. The death of Tod Clifton sparks a riot in Harlem which leads one character to rename himself Ras the Destroyer. For 10 points, name this novel narrated by a nameless black man and written by Ralph Ellison.

satan

In one form, this figure predicted the death of Berlioz [behr-lee-oze] and later hosts a ball in the dead editor's apartment. In one novel, he isolates a man trying to obtain the unobtainable, and later utilizes the Witch's Kitchen in a wager. In another wager, he offered the "empire of the mind," but was countered with the sacred texts of the Hebrews by Jesus. Name this ruler of Hell.

fuentes

In one novel by this author, Norma is loved by the aspiring poet turned successful screenwriter Rodrigo, as well as a banker who loses all of his money, Federico. The title character of another work by this author of Where the Air is Clear carries a copy of Don Quixote in his saddlebags and is shot by Arroyo. Catalina and Regina are among the women remembered by one of this man's title characters, while Harriet Winslow claims the body of another, Ambrose Bierce. For 10 points, name this Mexican author of The Old Gringo and The Death of Artemio Cruz.

morrison

In one novel by this author, Soaphead tricks the protagonist into poisoning his landlady's dog as she pursues the title feature, and in another novel, Guitar Bains befriends but later fights Milkman Dead after a search for gold. Another of her novels sees an escaped slave from Sweet Home Plantation, Sethe, kill her daughter to prevent her from being recaptured. For 10 points, name this author of The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved.

carson mccullers

In one novel by this author, the cook Berenice looks after the twelve-year-old protagonist, the younger sister of Jarvis and cousin of John Henry. This author also wrote a short story in which the hunchback Lymon is taken in by the wife of Marvin Macy and proprietor of a combination store and cafe, Amelia. In another work by this author of The Member of the Wedding, the idealistic Jake, Dr. Copeland, and Mick Kelly are among those who interact with a man who communicates in sign language with his friend Antonapoulos, the mute Mr. Singer. For 10 points, name this Southern author of "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

solzhenitsyn

In one novel by this author, the student Dyomka has his leg amputated against the advice of Asya, and another of this man's novels includes research done by Sologdin and refused by the mathematician Nerzhin. In addition to Cancer Ward and The First Circle, this man wrote a novel in which an orderly writes poetry and the Baptist Alyosha has been imprisoned for his religion. That novel also features the the title character's squad leader Tiurin, and this man also wrote an autobiographical work with a similar setting. For 10 points, name this Russian author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago.

forster

In one novel by this man, Stephen Wonham collapses on the railroad crossing after breaking his promise not to drink. In addition to The Longest Journey, this author also wrote a novel in which Charles beats Leonard Bast to death with a German sword. In that novel by this man, the romantic Schlegels eventually reconcile with the materialistic Wilcox family and live together at the title (*) estate. For 10 points, name this author of Howards End, who also wrote of Dr. Aziz's frustration with the British in A Passage to India.

pirandello

In one novel by this man, a man who runs off to Monte Carlo is thought to have been killed by his hometown community. In a play by him, the father of the central character has a scandalous encounter at the brothel of Madame Pace. In addition to The Late Mattia Pascal, this man wrote a work in which an actor who fell off his horse believes himself to be the title king. In another work, a production of Mixing It Up is interrupted by a group of abandoned literary creations. For 10 points, name this Italian dramatist who wrote the play Six Characters in Search of an Author.

maupassant

In one novel by this man, the soldier Georges Duroy becomes a leading journalist and political figure with the help of Madeleine Forestier. In a story by this author, a man is accused of stealing a wallet after bending down to pick up the title piece of string. This author of Bel Ami set many of his stories during the (*) Franco-Prussian War. He wrote a story about the devastating realization that the title item is a fake after Madame Loisel loses it at a party. For 10 points, name this French short story writer who authored "The Necklace."

china

In one novel from this country, the protagonist is born with a sentient mineral in his mouth, Dream of The Red Chamber. Another work from this country centers on a band of 108 outlaws with a stronghold in a marsh. Another work from here details Pigsy and Sandy's journey to India. For 10 points, identify this country whose four great classics include Water Margin and Journey to the West, home to such writers as Li Po.

odysseus

In one of Sophocles' plays, a man falls on his sword after this man wins the armor of a deceased comrade. He is told not to steal the cattle of Helios by Tiresias ("tie-REE-see-as"). An olive tree makes up the main leg of his marriage bed, and his knowing this fact proves his identity to his wife. This man kills all of Penelope's suitors after being sidetracked on a voyage by others like Calypso and Circe ("SER-see"). For ten points, name this Greek King of Ithaca known for his cunning intelligence, who appears in the titular epic written by Homer.

mario vargas llosa

In one of this author's novels, rebel troops are followed by a nearsighted journalist modeled on the real-life Euclides da Cunha (COON-yah). Another novel by this author has four narrators, one of whom is a shy boy called "The Poet," who works to avenge the death of his friend "The Slave." This author of a novel fictionalizing Brazil's Canudos War followed a gang called The Circle in a novel partly narrated by (*) Jaguar and Boa, who are cadets at a military academy. A novel by this author of The War of the End of the World divides its even and odd chapters between radio soap operas and the love story of an employee at Radio Panamericana. For 10 points, name this author of The Time of the Hero and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, a Peruvian Nobel Laureate.

graham greene

In one of this author's novels, the unscrupulous journalist Parkinson travels to a leper colony to sensationalize the story of the "famous ecclesiastical architect" Monsieur Querry. The protagonist of another of this author's novels meets with Dr. Hasselbacher at a luncheon and later nearly dies when a man named Carter poisons his drink. In that novel by this author, the protagonist adopts the (*) codename 59200/5 after his daughter Milly's extravagant lifestyle nearly bankrupts him. This author of A Burnt Out Case wrote about a salesman who submits vacuum cleaner schematics as intelligence to MI-6. For 10 points, name this author who wrote about agent James Wormold in Our Man in Havana and whose other novels include The Power and the Glory and The End of the Affair.

mishima

In one of this author's works, a member of a gang of "objectivists" kills Ryuji because he gives up being a sailor. Spring Snow and Runaway Horses are the first two volumes of a work that focuses on Shigekuni Honda, his Sea of Fertility tetralogy. In another of his works, Mizoguchi burns down the title structure. For 10 points, name this author of Confessions of a Mask and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion who committed seppuku on national television in Japan.

kawabata

In one of this man's novels, the protagonist takes pictures at the title character's funeral and notes a single long eyebrow which was for good luck. That novel follows Otake beating Honinbo Shusai after the title game was postponed for six months. Shingo Ogata is awakened by the title entity in another work by this author of The Master of Go. He wrote a novel about Yoko and Komako, geishas visited by the protagonist Shimamura. For 10 points, name this Japanese Nobel laureate author of The Sound of the Mountain and Snow Country.

forster

In one of this man's stories, Mr. Bons travels to Heaven with Dante, who drives the titular conveyance. He wrote about Harriet and Philip Herriton's attempts to retrieve their sister-in-law's baby from Italy in a novel named for a quotation from Alexander Pope. In addition to "The Celestial Omnibus" and Where Angels Fear to Tread, he wrote novels about Leonard Bast's involvement with the Schlegels, the Wilcoxes, and the titular estate, and about Adela Quested and Dr. Aziz's trip to the Malabar Caves. For 10 points, name this author of Howard's End and A Passage to India.

henry

In one of this man's works, Detective Woods arrests Kernan for the murder of Norcross, "The Clarion Call." One story by this man sees Mr. Behrman paint a leaf on a wall, while in another, Jimmy Valentine opens a safe in order to save a child. This author of "A Retrieved Reformation" wrote stories such as "The Furnished Room" in his collection The Four Million. He wrote about two kidnappers who pay Ebenezer Dorset to take back the title character in "The Ransom of Red Chief," and his most famous story features Jim and Della selling their most prized possessions to buy Christmas gifts for each other. For 10 points, name this author of "The Gift of the Magi."

sinclair lewis

In one of this man's works, the title character Sam and his wife split after a trip to Europe. In another work by this man, a doctor has to deal with the bubonic plague and research institution he works for. This author also wrote about Buzz Windrip and a Fascist takeover of America. In addition to Dodsworth, Arrowsmith, and It Can't Happen Here, this man wrote about a realtor rebelling against his society, and another novel sees Carol marry Will Kennicott and settle in Gopher Prairie. For 10 points, name this author of Babbitt and Main Street.

robert browning

In one of this poet's works, one of the title characters describes how the other title character lives in "the cold o' the moon" and mentions how Miranda and Prospero sleep while another work opens with the lines "Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be". In addition to Caliban upon Setebos and Rabbi Ben Ezra, this author wrote one work which describes a heart "too soon made glad, too easily impressed" in describing the titular adulterous figure while in another work, the speaker states "I'm my own master, paint now as I please" in describing an artist from the Italian Renaissance. For 10 points, identify this author of Fra Lippo Lippi and My Last Duchess.

red badge of courage

In this novel, the protagonist's group is described as "mule drivers" and "mud diggers." The protagonist abandons a "tattered man" and his colleague Jim Conklin. Wilson takes care of the protagonist of this work, believing him (*) wounded, when in fact he was hit in the head with a rifle. At the end of this novel, the 304th Regiment is victorious. For 10 points, name this novel featuring Henry Fleming's adventures and maturation in the Civil War, a work by Stephen Crane.

milton

In one of this poet's works, the narrator desires for Mirth to be with "Jest and youthful Jollity" and "wanton Wiles" and ends by asserting that "I mean to live with [it]." This author wrote a closet drama in which the Philistine Dalila deceives the title character, who is "eyeless in Gaza." He is most famous for a work in which (*) Mammon and Beelzebub aid a character who claims that it is "better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven." In that work, Satan tempts Adam and Eve to commit "Man's first disobedience." For ten points, name this author of Samson Agonistes and Paradise Lost.

canterbury tales

In one part of this work, Celia survives boiling and beheading because of her Christian faith. In another section of this work, Chanticleer tricks Reynard into letting him go. This work includes the story of Nicholas telling John the Carpenter about a flood to sleep with his wife Allison. In its first story, Arcite and Palomon fight over Emily. For 10 points name this work in which characters like the Manciple, Nun's Priest, Miller, and Knight tell stories while on a pilgrimage, a work of Geoffrey Chaucer.

sheridan

In one play by this author, Sir Lucius O'Trigger and Bob Acres are the two other suitors of the main character's love interest, whom he woos by disguising himself as Ensign Beverly. In that work, Lydia wants to sleep with a poor soldier to irk her mother. Another comedy by this author sees Sir Oliver return from India disguised as Mr. Premium and as Stanley. In that play, Lady Sneerwell intervenes in the lives of the Surface brothers Charles and Joseph. For 10 points, name this Irish playwright who wrote The School for Scandal and created Captain Jack Absolute and Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals.

solzhenitsyn

In one play by this man Lyuba sleeps with a doctor, Mereshchun, against the will of Nemov. In addition to "The Love-Girl and the Innocent," this author wrote about the rape and murder of a young woman by soldiers in his poem [*] "Prussian Nights" and about Oleg Kostoglotov, who is shocked by the state of life outside the titular location. Another of his works details the life of a man who has been falsely accused and imprisoned for being a German spy. For 10 points, name this Soviet dissident, the author of Cancer Ward, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and The Gulag Archipelago.

troy

In one play set in this place, the deaths of Polyxena and Polydorus cause the title queen to go mad. In a poem set here, two men exchange a crimson sash and a silver sword. Pandarus convinces a prince from this place to marry the daughter of Calchas in a Geoffrey Chaucer poem. The corpse of a hero from this city is drawn behind a chariot for twelve days. Euripides wrote about the "women" of this place, which is the setting for Troilus and Cressida. The theft of Briseis outside this city prompts Patroclus to wear his best friend's armor. King Priam attempts a truce in this location before Achilles is killed. For 10 points, name this city, the setting of the Iliad.

li po

In one poem by this author, the narrator states that "Fallen leaves gather and scatter" as "This hour, this night, my feelings are hard", and another poem claims that "Listless, my shadow creeps about at my side". In a very brief poem, this poet imagines frost on the ground before dreaming of home. This poet of "Quiet Night Thoughts" also wrote a poem expressing his wish to meet his friends "on the cloudy river of the sky" and begins with the image of "A cup of wine under the flowering trees". For 10 points, name this contemporary of Wang Wei and Du Fu who wrote "Drinking Alone by Moonlight".

keats

In one poem by this author, the speaker falls fast asleep and dreams of "death-pale figures" who warn him of trickery, and that poem by this author centers on a woman who abandons a knight she had just met. Another poem by this author asks "where are the songs of Spring?" while yet another poem by this author of (*) "To Autumn" begins "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." This poet is perhaps best known for a poem in which the speaker refers to the title object as a "still unravished bride of quietness," a poem that includes the line "beauty is truth, truth beauty." For 10 points, name this author of "La Belle Dame Sans Merci," "Endymion," and "Ode on a Grecian Urn."

dickinson

In one poem by this author, the speaker notices that "a plank in reason, broke" and later "finished knowing, then." A poem by this author of "I felt a funeral in my brain" describes an event as "like the stillness in the air" and that "I could not see to see." In another of this poet's works, she enters a carriage that "held just but Ourselves - and Immortality." For 10 points, name this American poet, the reclusive author of "I heard a fly buzz when I died"and "Because I could not stop for Death."

dickinson

In one poem, this author compares one phenomenon's appearance on "winter afternoons" to "the weight of cathedral tunes." In another poem, this author wrote "I'm (*) nobody, who are you?" This author of a poem about a "certain slant of light" described a "blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz, between the light and me" in her poem "I heard a fly buzz when I died." This poet was known for extensive use of slant rhyme in such works as "Because I could not stop for Death." For 10 points, name this reclusive American poet nicknamed the Belle of Amherst.

tagore

In one poem, this author writes about "[sitting] on the river bank, sad and alone," a view on village life from an outsider's perspective. Besides writing "The Golden Boat," he also portrays his conflicting ideas about Western culture with the educated and gentle Nikhil, and Nikhil's plain, traditional, and devoted wife Bimala in his novel The Home and the World. He wrote a play in which Nandini leads the oppressed citizens of a kleptomaniac king towards the destruction of an eponymous red flower. This playwright of Red Oleanders wrote Jana Gana Mana, the national anthem of India. For 10 points, name this Bengali poet of the "Song Offerings", who was introduced by W.B. Yeats in the Gitanjali.

uncle tom's cabin

In one scene in this novel, Senator Bird disobeys a law he just passed to help Eliza. The plot of this novel begins when Mr. Shelby becomes indebted and the protagonist meets Haley as a result. In this novel, the saintliness of Eva is contrasted with the petulant Topsy and cranky aunt Ophelia. The death of Eva and her father Augustine St. Clare force the title character to go to a plantation in rural Louisiana. In this novel, Cassie unsuccessfully tries to convince the protagonist to kill the cruel slave driver Simon Legree. For 10 points, name this 1852 anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

journey to the west

In one section of this work, the White Bone Demon is defeated, and later in this work a monk sees his body float under a bridge. Its protagonist can "cloud-somersault", could perform seventy-two transformations, is born from a stone egg on a mountain, and wields a golden-banded fighting staff. That character, who was sealed in a mountain after failing to escape from the Buddha's palm, is given a headband by Guanyin for a voyage in which the protagonist, Pigsy, and Sandy help Tripitaka obtain sutras. For 10 points, name this work centering around Sun Wukong, one of China's Four Great Classical Novels by Wu Cheng'en.

summa theologica

In one section of this work, the author argues that our life can only result in imperfect happiness, and that all our good actions are working toward the ultimate goal of perfect happiness in the afterlife. This work lists sovereign authority, right intention, and righteous cause as the three major components of a just war. In its most famous section, its author argued that it is impossible for everything to be contingent, therefore God must exist. Other arguments include one borrowed from Aristotle, the "Unmoved Mover," as well as the teleological argument. For 10 points, name this work, which lists the quinquae viae as proofs for God, the magnum opus of St. Thomas Aquinas.

steinbeck

In one short story by this man, a traveling tinker mends two of Eliza's pans, but breaks her heart by discarding the flowers she gives him. This author of "Chrysanthemums" also wrote a novella in which an old man named Gitano arrives at the protagonist's farm and Gabilan is cared for by Jody. This man wrote a novel in which the Chinese housekeeper (*) Lee tries to warn Adam not to name his sons Caleb and Aron. Another novella by this author of The Red Pony sees one character reveal his dreams to Crooks and Candy. In that work by this author of East of Eden, George is forced to shoot Lennie. For 10 points, name this author of Of Mice and Men.

water margin

In one story from this work, a man kills a tiger after consuming lots of alcohol and later kills his sister-in-law to avenge the death of his brother. Another character in this work was framed by a government official lusting after his wife. The central characters of this work are comprised of two groups, one being the Thirty-Six Stars of Heavenly Spirits. Mt. Liang is a central gathering point in this novel, in which both Lin and Wu follow Song Jiang, the leader of the titular group. For 10 points, name this work by Shi Na'ian about 108 criminals during the Song dynasty.

kafka

In one work by this author, Delamarche and Robinson help get Karl Rossmann menial jobs until Karl escapes to Oklahoma. Another work by this author sees Leni fall in love with the protagonist, who is not helped by his lawyer Herr Huld after he is arrested for an unknown crime. This author of Amerika wrote about (*) Josef K in The Trial. In this man's most famous novella, the protagonist is wounded when his father throws an apple that gets stuck in his back, which occurs after he awakes to discover he is vermin. For 10 points, name this author, who wrote about Gregor Samsa in The Metamorphosis.

goldsmith

In one work by this author, Solomon Flamborough fails to prevent Moses from buying a gross of green spectacles from Ephraim Jenkinson. David Garrick wrote a prologue in which the actor Mr. Woodward laments the death of comedy for another work by this man. The plot of that work is set in motion in the Three Pigeons Inn, where the protagonist and Hastings encounter Tony (*) Lumpkin. This author penned a novel in which Sophia is abducted by Timothy Baxter but rescued by Mr. Burchell, who eventually reveals himself to be Squire Thornhill's virtuous uncle and saves the family of Charles Primrose. For 10 points, name this author who wrote about Charles Marlow and Kate Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer and penned The Vicar of Wakefield.

huxley

In one work by this author, the protagonist is disturbed by a red notebook containing a series of caricatures of him drawn by the deaf girl Jenny Mullion. In that novel, Mr. Scrogan and Denis Stone attend a party held at the Wimbush estate. In another novel, the story of a black man kidnapping a woman in a helicopter is told in a "feely" watched by a character who whips to death Lenina Crowne and debates the World Controller Mustapha Mond after being brought from New Mexico by Bernard Marx. Writing about John the Savage in that work, For 10 points, name this British novelist who wrote Crome Yellow and Brave New World.

wordsworth

In one work by this man, the narrator says "We poets in our youth begin in gladness; / But thereof come in the end despondency and madness." In another work by this man, he wonders: "Whither is fled the visionary gleam? / Where is it now, the glory and the dream?" Neither Resolution and Independence nor the Ode: Intimations of Immortality were included in this man's 1798 collection, Lyrical Ballads, which he published with his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge. For 10 points, name this English Romantic, who wrote about daffodils in "I wandered lonely as a cloud", the author of Tintern Abbey.

miller

In one work by this playwright, Ann Deever plans to run off with and marry Chris, the son of the main character. That play by this man ends with the suicide of Joe Keller after it becomes clear to the other characters that he allowed cracked cylinder heads to be sold to the Air Force, resulting in 21 pilots dying. This writer of All My Sons also wrote a play in which Abigail Williams ruins the life of John Proctor and a car-driving suicide is enacted by the father of Biff and Happy. For 10 points, name this American playwright of The Crucible and Death of a Salesman.

aristophanes

In one work by this playwright, Strepsiades burns down The Thinkery, and in another of his plays, Pisthetaerus builds Cloud●cuckoo●land. Dionysus witnesses an underworld poetry battle in a play by this author of The (*) Clouds and The Birds. In another of his plays, the women of Greece refuse to sleep with their husbands until they end the Peloponnesian War. For 10 points, name this Greek comic playwright of The Frogs and Lysistrata

dryden

In one work of criticism, this writer used the backdrop of a naval battle between the English and Dutch for a discussion of literature. He utilized Neander as a mouthpiece for his own opinions in Of Dramatic Poesy. He wrote of a monarch who chose a man "mature in dullness from his tender years" and "stands comfirm'd in full stupidity." In one satire, this writer compared King Charles II to David, and the Duke of Monmouth and the Earl of Shaftesbury to the title characters. His longest poem, describing his conversion to Catholicism, is The Hind and the Panther. Name the author of "MacFlecknoe" and Absalom and Achitophel.

invisible man

In this novel, Mr. Emerson's son informs the protagonist that his "recommendation letter" is fake. The protagonist of this novel steals a coin bank from Mary, and was previously expelled from college by Dr. Bledsoe. The protagonist is mistaken as Rinehart in several occasions near the end of this novel, and he is injured when a boiler explodes during a fight with Lucius Brockway at Liberty Paints. Tod Clifton quits the Brotherhood and starts selling dolls instead, and Ras the Exhorter begins a riot at the end of this novel. For 10 points, name this novel featuring a "Battle Royal" scene, a work by Ralph Ellison.

portnoy's complaint

In this novel, a woman runs scalding water over the utensils used by her black maid, who eats lunch "alone like a leper." A boy in this novel is berated for supposedly eating French fries with Melvin Weiner after he lies about having diarrhea. A man in this novel recalls bathing with his frequently-constipated father, an insurance salesman. This novel ends with the question, "Now vee may perhaps to begin. Yes?" While in Connecticut, its protagonist pretends to be married to his (*) sexually adventurous girlfriend, who he nicknames "The Monkey". The title character describes his adolescent obsession with masturbation and his overbearing mother Sophie to his psychiatrist, Dr. Spielvogel. For 10 points, name this novel about the title "nice Jewish boy", by Philip Roth.

a tale of two cities

In this novel, it is said that one character would never be a lion but is an amazingly good jackal. Another character in this novel gives a couple a gold coin after his carriage runs over their son. When that character, Marquis Evrémonde, is murdered in his bed, the assailant leaves a note signed "Jacques". In this work, there is a strong resemblance between Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay, both of whom love Dr. Manette's daughter Lucie. Identify this novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris during "the best of times [and] the worst of times".

the great gatsby

In this novel, the Greek Michaelis informs the narrator of the climactic event. That narrator realizes it is his thirtieth birthday after the conclusion of a fight in which the title character of this novel reveals he only attended Oxford for five months after fighting a war. One of few people in this novel to attend a (*) funeral is Owl-Eyes, and it takes place in a "Valley of Ashes" watched over by T.J. Eckleburg. This novel's title character hosts parties attended by golfer Jordan Baker, and is shot in his swimming pool after Myrtle Wilson is run over by Daisy Buchanan. For ten points, identify this Jazz Age novel narrated by Nick Carraway and written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

fathers and sons

In this novel, the death of one character occurs after performing an autopsy on a local peasant who had died of typhus, and after attending a ball, two characters in this work travel to Abdotya Stepanovna's estate, Nikolskoe, where Madame Odintsova also lives. In this novel, two characters eventually marry Fenichka and Katya, while Pavel is shot in the leg during a duel. Centering on Arkady Kirsanov and Evgeny Bazarov, for 10 points, name this novel by Ivan Turgenev which introduced Nihilism.

tobacco road

In this novel, the harelipped character Ellie distracts another character from his turnips. Ellie is pursued by Lov who had tied his wife to their bed but that wife eventually freed herself and ran away later in this novel. In this novel, that wife was the fifteen year old daughter of the protagonist known as Pearl. In this novel, a black man and a grandmother are ran over by the evangelist Bessie and the sixteen year old Dude. A fire set for burning broomsedge leads to the death of Ada and Jester near the end of this novel. For 10 points, name this American novel describing a poor family from Georgia depicted as the Lester family by Erskine Caldwell.

the sun also rises

In this novel, the protagonist's friend, Bill Gorton, is a heavy drinker, while Robert Cohn is a rich stuck-up Jew who refuses to participate in the revelry. Pedro Romero is a nineteen year old matador who sleeps with Lady Brett Ashley. The protagonist is an American World War I veteran who works as a journalist in Paris and falls in love with Lady Brett on a trip to Pamplona. Name this book that concerns the exploits of Jake Barnes, written by Ernest Hemingway.

pygmalion

In this play, one character inherits a fortune after a millionaire is convinced that he is the "most original moralist" of England. In an earlier scene, a young lady pays a shilling in Wimpole Street to be able to work in a flower shop; that character later marries (*) Freddy Eynsford Hill. This play begins in Covent Garden, where an interpreter of Indian dialect, Colonel Pickering, accepts a bet with a phonetics professor that the latter can change a cockney-speaking girl into a proper woman. For ten points, identify this play in which Eliza Doolittle betrays Henry Higgins, written by George Bernard Shaw.

catch 22

In this work, Gus and Wes give their superior a check-up and are forced to tell him he's dead. Morphine syringes are removed from a plane by a man who sells chocolate-covered cotton as candy in this novel, leaving (*) Snowden to die without sedatives. World War II helps M&M Enterprises to flourish under Milo Minderbinder, and Yossarian finally escapes to Sweden to avoid honorable discharge. For 10 points, name this novel by Joseph Heller

portrait of the artist as a young man

In this work, Johnny Cashman is an old man who claims to be twenty-seven. Father Arnall's fiery sermons nearly cause the protagonist to become a Jesuit, and the boys at Clongowes Wood College wear red and white roses during academic competitions. The main figure grows suspicious of Father Moran's feelings for Emma Clery and watches his father and his aunt, Mrs. Dante Riordan, argue about Parnell. For 10 points, name this novel about the aesthetic awakening of Stephen Dedalus, by James Joyce.

song of roland

In this work, Pinabel and Thierry duel over the freedom of Pinabel's kinsman, and Thierry is victorious through God's intervention. It also sees the protagonist's fiancé, Aude, die of grief before her fiancé is revenged by the drawing and quartering of Ganelon. The title protagonist dies after blowing his ivory horn with such power that his temples explode, much to the chagrin of Olivier, who had counseled him to blow it before their rear guard was massacred by Saracens. Identify this oldest surviving major work of French literature, chronicling the Battle of Roncevaux Pass.

the good earth

In this work, a flock of crows encircling the protagonist's house is interpreted as a bad omen regarding the birth of his daughter, and the protagonist supports his family by pulling a rickshaw in a city which is looted by beggars when the wealthy flee the war. During a time of flood, the protagonist frequents a tea shop where he meets Lotus Blossom, and after the death of the overseer Ching, the protagonist gives up working his own land, which his sons Nung Wen and Nung En plan on selling. Following the family of the farmer Wang Lung, For 10 points, name this novel by Pearl Buck.

the necklace

In this work, the cloth at Matilda's table has not been changed for three days, and she hates eating in her shabby apartment and thinks of luxurious surroundings and priceless ornaments decorating graceful furniture instead. She envies Jeanne, a very wealthy friend with whom she went to school. Matilda's life changes after the Commissioner Ball, for which she borrows the title object, for her loss of which she and her husband pay dearly for ten years. For ten points, name this story about a forged piece of jewelry in a story by Guy de Maupassant.

othello

In this work, the title character successfully defends himself from accusations of using magic to secretly marry the daughter of a senator named Brabanzio. When the villain's scheme is exposed and an explanation is demanded, he refuses, saying "what you know, you know: From this time forth I never will speak word." Earlier, that villain had advised his superior officer to beware of "the green-eyed monster" that is jealousy. A handkerchief planted in Cassio's room by Iago convinces the title character that his wife Desdemona has been unfaithful in, for 10 points, what Shakespeare play about a Moor of Venice?

anna karenina

In this work,Sergei Koznyshev joins a movement for the Slavs, and another character is upset that his horse Frou-Frou must be put down after a race. Levin impregnates Kitty in this novel, which sees Stiva cheat on his wife, Dolly. After a fight with (*) Count Vronsky, this novel's title character commits suicide by jumping in front of a train. For 10 points, name this novel about a title woman, written by Leo Tolstoy.

nature

It argues for commodification as "mean and squalid" in section five, "Discipline," and identifies matter, not as a substance, but as a phenomenon. Other sections of this 8 part work include "Discipline," where its author notes that "sensible objects conform to premonitions of reason," and "Prospects," the latter of which quotes a poem by George Herbert that begins "Man is all symmetry." Its "Introduction" notes that this work will concern itself with the "NOT ME" and asserts that the universe is composed of the Soul and the title entity. Perhaps most famous for its metaphor of a "transparent eyeball" that sees nothing but sees all, it was partially completed in the same room as Mosses for an Old Manse. Published in 1836, a year before its author would make a name for himself with his "The American Scholar," for 10 points, identify this first major essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

vanity fair

It begins with a main character throwing away a copy of the dictionary while leaving Miss Pinkerton's academy. Sir Pitt lusts after that character, and Pitt's son Rawdon is a brawling captain who competes for the inheritance of Miss Crawley. Many characters go to the mainland when the Napoleonic Wars break out, and in the town of Pumpernickel, Dobbin is attacked by Amelia Sedley. For 10 points, name this novel in which Jos Sedley wants to leave Becky Sharp, written by William Thackeray.

thanatopsis

It begins, "To him who in the love of Nature holds/ Communion with her visible forms, she speaks/ A various language." It ends with an admonishment to act not as a "quarry-slave at night," but as one who "lies down to pleasant dreams" when approaching the grave. _FOR 10 POINTS--_ten points, name this poem, whose name is Greek for "meditation on death," by William Cullen Bryant

journey to the west

It was published anonymously, and it was only attributed to its author in the 20th century. In part of this work spirit transforms into the various women that the protagonist has killed, and another section sees the protagonist's former sworn brother become immobilized by golden bands. One of the characters used to live near the Flowing Sands River, and terrorized people trying to cross it. Another character abducted the daughter of a village elder was banished from the world of the gods. The protagonist, who was born from an egg on a mountain, was imprisoned under a mountain for angering the Jade Emperor. Sha Wujing, Zhu Baije, and Sun Wukong all travel with Xuánzàng in For 10 points what classical Chinese novel about a voyage to India?

uncle tom's cabin

Its publication in 1852 intensified sectional conflicts but it was also the best-selling novel of the century. Minor characters include the little girl Eva as well as Cassy and Emmeline, who meet Eliza's family in Canada before continuing on to France and later Liberia. Meanwhile, the title character is killed by Simon Legree for keeping their secret. For 10 points name this influential anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

greene

James Callifer's uncle had brought that character back to life in the title structure of this author's play The Potting Shed. He wrote about Maurice Castle's treachery being blamed on Arthur Davis in The Human Factor, while Pinkie Brown attempts to kill the waitress Rose in his Brighton Rock. This author may be better remembered for creating the characters Alden Pyle and Major Scobie and writing about the death of a Mexican priest. For 10 points, name this American author of The Quiet American, The Heart of the Matter, and The Power and the Glory.

charles dickens

John Harmon and Bella Wilfer become the heirs of the Boffins after a drowning victim is misidentified in one of this author's later novels. "Mr. Minns and his Cousin," his first published work of fiction, was included in an 1836 collection published under the pseudonym Boz. Nell Trent's grandfather gambles away the title structure in his novel The Old Curiosity Shop, while the title character beats up Wackford Squeers in one episode of his Nicholas Nickleby. Novels like Great Expectations and David Copperfield were written by, for ten points, which English novelist?

pale fire

Noted for its unusual form, its plot centers around the murder of an amateur poet, who has left behind the title poem, missing its final line. Although the poem begins as a typical meandering reminiscence of a childhood in which nothing happened, subsequent stanzas reveal the poet to have been a madman who believed himself to be the exiled king of a mythical country, Zembla. The principal narrator, Charles Kinbote, writes commentary on the poem and undergoes an existential crisis related to the delusion and insignificance of the poet, John Shade. For ten points identify this 999line poem and its commentary, a work of Vladimir Nabokov (neBOHkov).

china

One author from this country wrote "Diary of a Madman" in A Call to Arms, but is more famous for The True Story of Ah Q. Another author from this country created a street urchin who uses his skill at a form of soccer to become prime minister and attack 108 men hiding near a rugged mountain. Another novel from this country features a boy who prefers opera to studying the Four Books, while another work details the exploits of Cao Cao. For 10 points, identify this country that has produced Water Margin, Dream of the Red Chamber and Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

haiku

One author in this poetic form wrote The Narrow Road to the Deep North and sought to bring "elegance" to this poetic form. This form makes use of a "cutting word," and seventeen on ["own"], and relies on (*) natural imagery. The sound of water as a frog jumped into a pond inspired Matsuo Basho [mah-tsoo-oh bah-"show"] to write, for 10 points, what style of Japanese poetry, which in English consists of three lines of five, seven, and five syllables.

smith

One author of this surname edited The Book of Other People and wrote White Teeth, and it names the couple who invite the Martins in The Bald Soprano. Another character with this surname develops paranoia about Dr. Holmes and Sir Bradshaw after returning from war and jumps out of a window; that character from Mrs. Dalloway has the first names Septimus Warren. Another character of this name is attacked by rats in Room 101, causing him to denounce Julia and declare his love for Big Brother. For 10 points, give this surname borne by Winston in 1984.

the tin drum

One chapter in it contains a lengthy discourse on artificial lemonade powder, and frequent references are made to a lawyer named Klepp. The second chapter, "Wide Skirt," details the relationship between the protagonist's maternal grandparents, while in the third chapter the protagonist recalls a moth hitting a light bulb during his birth. The protagonist rejects the possibility of working for his father Alfred, a member of the Nazi party, by refusing to grow after the age of three. For 10 points, name this novel that features the dwarfish protagonist Oskar Matzerath's beating on the titular object, written by Gunter Grass.

mann

One character created by this author fervently reads Schopenhauer's The World As Will and Representation and is the father of the sickly Hanno. Torre di Venere is the setting of an anti-fascist novella by this author in which the title character kills the hypnotic Cipolla [chee-POHL-lah]. This author also wrote about a writer inspired to travel after a man with red hair stares at him. This author of Mario and the Magician and Buddenbrooks wrote about a widower who becomes obsessed with a Polish teen while traveling to a place suffering a cholera epidemic. Identify this German author who wrote about Tadzio and Gustav von Aschenbach in Death in Venice.

vonnegut

One character created by this author is a member of the volunteer fire department who accepts fifty-seven children as his heirs and gives away lots of money to the denizens of his Indiana town. Another of his characters nicknames his son Leon Trotsky, has his finger bitten off by Dwayne Hoover, and authors Venus on the Half-Shell. A third character created by this author meets Montana Wildhack on Tralfamadore after becoming unstuck in time. For 10 points, name this creator of Eliot Rosewater, Kilgore Trout, and Billy Pilgrim, the author of Slaughterhouse-Five.

cat's cradle

One character in this book proudly declares that "nobody has to be ashamed of being a Hoosier," probably because Hoosiers are a granfalloon. In this novel, the sun and the moon are sometimes referred to as Borasisi and Pabu, and a common practice is called bokumaru, and consists of two people touching at the feet. One character, Felix Hoenikker, developed a configuration of water that is solid at room temperature, ice-nine. For 10 points, identify this novel about San Lorenzo's religion of Bokononism and the end the world, by Kurt Vonnegut.

one hundred years of solitude

One character in this novel asks his recently-divorced wife to send him his velocipede, and another floats up into the sky while folding a sheet. That former character, the Belgian Gaston, was married to Amaranta Ursula, whose affair with her nephew produced a child with a pig's tail who is devoured by ants. The central character of this work bears 17 identically-named children and founds a town named (*) Macondo. It begins with a character facing the firing squad and remembering when his father took him to see ice for the first time. Following generations of the Buendia family is, for ten points, what magical realism novel about Colonel Aureliano by Gabriel Garcia Marquez?

one hundred years of solitude

One character in this novel eats plaster off the walls of her house and carries around a bag containing the bones of her parents. Another character in this work ascends to the sky and has the epithet "the Beauty," while another sees the future in cards. This novel featuring Remedios and Pilar Ternera includes a character who is carried off by [*] ants and is born with a pig's tail. One character in this novel loses thirty-two civil wars, crafts golden fishes, and has seventeen sons who share his name. Ursula Iguaran holds together a family of Jose Arcadios and Aurelianos in, for 10 points, what novel about the Buendias in Macondo, a work of Gabriel García Márquez?

frankenstein

One character in this novel ends up in Mr. Kirwin's Irish prison after washing ashore and being accused of murder. In exchange for that character's work in the Orkneys, another character in this novel vows to move to South America and tend a garden. That character in this novel improves his French by reading Paradise Lost and Plutarch's Lives outside Felix and Agatha's cottage. This novel's protagonist becomes disillusioned with the (*) science of Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus while studying at the University of Ingolstadt. This novel's antagonist strangles Henry Clerval and Elizabeth Lavenza. Near this novel's beginning, Captain Walton picks up a doctor who is chasing his monstrous creation on a dogsled across the Arctic ice. For 10 points, name this novel by Mary Shelley.

picture of dorian gray

One character in this novel gives a yellow book to the protagonist, who then ends up buying nearly a dozen copies of it. The protagonist meets one character at party held by Lady Brandon, and the chemist Alan Campbell is blackmailed into destroying the body of that character. The protagonist starts a relationship with Hetty Merton, and Sybil Vane commits suicide when the title character ends their engagement. Basil Hallward creates the title object, and the protagonist of this work is corrupted by Lord Henry Wotton. For 10 points, name this novel by Oscar Wilde.

the master and margarita

One character in this novel has a left eye that is green and mad and a right eye that is black and empty. He claims that a character he meets will not lead a meeting because Annushka has bought the sunflower oil, and that character, Berlioz, is soon beheaded by a streetcar. The setting of this novel alternates between the trial of Jesus in Jerusalem and a visit by Professor Woland to Moscow. Identify this novel about the title writer and his lover, a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov.

the great gatsby

One character in this novel infuriates the narrator when he calls during a funeral to request his tennis shoes. In addition to Ewing Klipspringer, this novel's character's include the coffee shop owner Michaelis, who reports that he saw his neighbor run out into the Valley of Ashes. The title character, the former protege of Dan Cody, is murdered in his pool after Myrtle Wilson is run over by the drunken Daisy Buchanan. For 10 points, name this novel in which Nick Carraway describes the downfall of Jay Gatz, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

call of the wild

One character in this novel is referred to as the "Scottish Half Breed" and is responsible for delivering mail. Other characters in this novel include Hal, Mercedes and Charles, who die while trying to cross ice weakened by the arriving spring. Another character is killed by Yeehat Indians while camping. That man, John Thornton, had earlier saved the central figure in this novel, a St. Bernard-collie mix who had been kidnapped from the California home of Judge Miller. For 10 points, identify this novel about the sled-dog Buck that was written by Jack London.

the adventures of huckleberry finn

One character in this novel tells about his smallpox-laden family in order to gain passage onto the Walter Scott. Readers of this book are warned that "persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot." An antagonist in this novel stages the Royal Nonesuch after mixing up Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy.The protagonist hides money in Peter Wilks's coffin to evade the duke and the dauphin, and escapes his abusive "Pap" before being taught by Aunt Polly to be civilized. For 10 points, name this novel in which the title character travels down the Mississippi with his slave-friend Jim and meets Tom Sawyer, written by Mark Twain.

as i lay dying

One character in this novel, Dr. Peabody, is blamed by a young boy for killing another character, and that boy accidentally bores two holes in that dead character's face. Another character in this novel receives ten dollars from the farmer Lafe to receive an abortion, but ends up seduced by a pharmacist. One chapter in this work consists entirely of the words, "My mother is a fish." The patriarch of the central family takes a horse from Jewel and money from Cash to pay for the central trip to bury his wife. For 10 points, name this novel in which Dewey Dell, Darl, Vardaman, and their father Anse try to bury the deceased Addie Bundren, written by William Faulkner.

merchant of venice

One character in this play confides in her father's servant Lancelot and runs off with her mother's turquoise ring to marry Lorenzo. Another character is able to marry the character he is courting after he chooses a casket made of lead. The clerk Stephano and the lawyer Balthazar in this play are really two women in disguise: Nerissa and Bassanio's wife Portia. At the end of this play, a character forfeits his property and fails to collect a contract without spilling blood. For 10 points, name this William Shakespeare play in which Antonio is sued for "a pound of flesh" by the Jewish moneylender Shylock.

six characters in search of an author

One character in this work asserts that acting is a profession for madmen, and that character sends away his wife when she falls in love with a clerk. That wife, Amalia, returns to the town after the death of the clerk, and finds work as a seamstress. Amalia's daughter works as a prostitute in this work, and is discovered by Amalia's former husband when he visits Madame Pace's shop. In its last scene, The Child drowns in a fountain, and The Boy shoots himself in the head. For 10 points, name this play in which The Father, The Mother, and four other characters seek a creator, a work by Luigi Pirandello.

the divine comedy

One character in this work believes that he hears the earth shout, a phenomenon which is explained by Statius. This work concludes with a visit to the Empyrean, and the protagonist is given misinformation about the existence of a certain bridge by Malacoda. The protagonist enters the city of Dis after encountering a couple murdered by Giovanni Malatesta, the adulterers Paolo and Francesca, and Beatrice becomes the protagonist's guide after Virgil. For 10 points, name this epic poem divided into Paradiso, Purgatorio, and Inferno, a work of Dante Alighieri.

candide

One character in this work is a nobleman who became an art collector for appearances but hates art, Count Pococurante. Vanderdendur steals the sheep that Cacambo and the protagonist of this work got while in Eldorado. The protagonist of this work meets an old woman with one buttock who helps him pursue the daughter of the baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh after his tutor is hanged by the Spanish Inquisition. For 10 points, the title character loves Cunegonde and believes Pangloss' motto that this is "the best of all possible worlds" in what satirical novella by Voltaire?

the iceman cometh

One character in this work reminisces about an argument he had over the differences between an anarchist and a socialist. Other characters in this work are "the old foolosopher," Cecil Lewis, and Piet Wetjoen, former enemies in the Boer War. The main character of this work kills his wife Evelyn, and he tries to get the group to fulfill their "pipe dreams," while getting drunk at Harry Hope's saloon. For 10 points, name this Eugene O'Neill work that centers on the group of characters waiting on the arrival of Theodore Hickman, nicknamed "Hickey."

musketeer

One character with this profession fathers Raoul with Marie Michon, whom another character of this profession had once kept as a mistress. Another character with this job owns a sword nicknamed Balizarde, and a character who becomes one of these carries on a courtship with Constance Bonicieux. One character having this occupation was married to (*) Milady de Winter, and another one of them becomes a priest in Twenty Years After. Those characters are Athos and Aramis. For 10 points, name this occupation held by three characters, and eventually by D'Artagnan, in an Alexander Dumas novel.

heart of darkness

One episode in this novel concerns the procurement of rivets which are needed by the protagonist. That man tells of receiving a job thanks to the influence of his aunt, and late in this novel that character lies to another character's "intended" about his last words. One character in this novel has power over Russian traders as well as (*) natives who raid surrounding areas for ivory. This story is told to men aboard the steamship Nellie, and one character's death is announced by the simple words, "he dead." Marlow sails up the Congo river in search of Kurtz, whose last words are "The horror! The horror!" in, for 10 points, what novel by Joseph Conrad?

epistolary

One example of this form of novel is a C. S. Lewis work that references "Our Father Below," about a demon. Another example is a novel about Celie by Alice Walker. In addition to The Color Purple and a work titled after Screwtape, one work of this type consists of a series of missives to Margaret Walton from her brother Robert, who meets the title doctor in the Arctic. For 10 points, identify this type of fictional work which consists of letters, exemplified by Frankenstein and The Screwtape Letters.

aside

One example of this literary device occurs in Troilus and Cressida when Nestor and Diomedes carry on a conversation making fun of Ajax during Ajax's own speech. In another example, Romeo asks in the middle of Juliet's balcony speech whether he should "hear more" or "speak at this." This device is used in Othello to allow Iago to explain his plan without letting any other character know his intentions. For 10 points, name this device that allows characters to speak to the audience without any other on-stage characters appearing to hear them.

king lear

One film version of this work is set after the Chernobyl explosion and sees its director Jean-Luc Godard play "Professor Pluggy," a man obsessed with Xeroxing his own hand. Another film version of this play centers on the allocation of the First, Second, and Third Castles; in that version the treacherous Lady Kaede convinces Jiro to have Lady Sue (soo-WAY) killed. Kyoami was that film version's take on this work's Fool. Adapted into Akira Kurosawa's film Ran, for 10 points, name this Shakespeare play about three daughters of the ruler of Britain.

roth

One novel by this author focuses on the trial of war criminal John Demjanjuk and hunting down an imposter using the author‟s name, while another imagines what would have happened had Charles Lindberg become president. Besides Operation Shylock and The Plot Against America, another novel by this author tells the story of a professor who was fired for racism, though he is secretly black passing for white, Coleman Silk. While, the title character of his most famous novel has girlfriends nicknamed The Pilgrim, The Pumpkin, and The Monkey. This is, For 10 points, what author of The Human Stain, American Pastoral, and Portnoy's Complaint.

gift of the magi

One object in this story has the name Dillingham written out in full on a letterbox, which its owners wish to change to the more modest "D." The author of this work claimed that if the protagonists had lived next to King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, the latter would have been put to shame. One character in this story goes to Madame Sofronie's, requiring her to curl her hair afterwards. At the end of this story, the narrator explains the origin of the Christmas present. For 10 points, name this short story in which Jim and Della sell their watch and hair to buy each other a watch chain and a comb, written by O. Henry.

murakami

One of this author's novels features a seventeen-year-old named Kizuki who commits suicide and is named after his girlfriend's favorite song. Another features an unemployed man who can't find his wife's cat and then can't find his wife. A more recent work features an old man who makes money by finding cats. Name this sixty-year-old Japanese author of Norwegian Wood, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and Kafka on the Shore.

capote

One of this author's novels is about a medicine maker named Dolly who lives in a treehouse with Collin and Cath- erine. This author's first novel is about a boy who goes to live with his stepmother Amy Skully and becomes friends with Idabel Thompkins. In addition to The Grass Harp and Other Voices, Other Rooms, this author wrote a novella about a woman who has a miscarriage after trying to control the narrator's horse. Identify this author who wrote about Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's and who also wrote In Cold Blood.

pushkin

One of this author's stories describing a dream about the revived corpses of the customers of Prokhorov, the title "Undertaker," was supposedly told to Ivan Belkin. A slave ancestor of this author was the basis for his novel Peter the Great's Negro, while in another of his stories Evgenii is chased by a (*) statue of Peter the Great. This author of The Bronze Horseman wrote about a Tsar whose death begins the Time of Troubles in the play Boris Godunov, and in another work described the rejection of Tatyana. In that verse novel, Lensky is killed by the title character in a duel. For 10 points, name this author of Eugene Onegin.

edgar allan poe

One of this author's stories is partially set in a pentagonal room in which there are five gigantic sarcophagi made of Luxor granite. A character in that story by this author writes a poem that includes the line "the play is the tragedy, 'Man.'" The narrator of one of this author's stories witnesses his second wife Lady Rowena Trevanion dying and transforming into his first wife, who had previously composed the poem "The (*) Conqueror Worm." Another of this author's stories, which opens by describing a man who outHeroded Herod, takes place during a masquerade hosted in six rooms of different colors; in that story by this author, Prince Prospero is killed by the title plague. For 10 points, name this author of the short stories "Ligeia" and "The Masque of the Red Death."

paton

One of this author's works includes the chapters "The Holy Church of Zion" and "The Defiance Campaign." Another of this author's novels begins "Perhaps I could have saved him, with only a word...but I never spoke" and is about police officer Peter van Vlaanderen. This author of Ah, But Your Land is Beautiful and (*) Too Late, the Phalarope wrote a novel in which a letter from Theophilus Msimangu informs the protagonist that Gertrude is ill. When the protagonist arrives, he learns of the murder of Arthur Jarvis by his son Abaslom. For ten points, identify this South African author most famous for a novel about Stephen Kumalo, Cry, the Beloved Country.

coleridge

One of this author's works tells his child that is "cradled by my side" that he "shalt wander like a breeze" and that "all seasons shall be sweet to thee." Another of his works exclaims "Joy, Lady! is the spirit and the power" after he is unable to "see, not feel how beautiful they are." This author of "Frost at Midnight" and "Dejection: An Ode" wrote a more famous work which mentions (*) "Alph, the sacred river" flowing "Through caverns measureless to man." That work begins with an order for "A Stately Pleasure-Dome", while another work by this poet cries "Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink," after the speaker kills an albatross. For ten points, name this English poet of "Kubla Khan" and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."

coleridge

One of this man's works begins by exulting, "How exquisite the scents / Snatch'd from yon bean-field!" This author wrote the Conversation poems, as well as a poem in which the narrator describes how "the night is chilly, but not dark" as the title character enters the woods to pray. He wrote a poem inspired by opium-induced visions of the river Alph and a "stately pleasure-dome." This author of "Christabel" also wrote about how a sailor's life is won by Life-in-Death after the unprovoked slaying of an albatross. For 10 points, name this author of "Kublai Khan" and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

hesse

One of this man's works contrasts two titular characters who represent "mother heritage" and "father heritage", and another novel by this man set in Castalia sees Joseph Knecht become the master of the titular pursuit. This author of Narcissus and Goldmund also wrote about a friend of Govinda who left the ascetic Samana sect to follow another teacher, and this man's best known novel follows the attempts of Goethe, Mozart, and Hermine to help Harry Haller live fully. For 10 points, name this German author of The Glass Bead Game, Siddharta, and Steppenwolf.

scott

One of this man's works deals with William de la Marck's murder of the Bishop of Liege and his subsequent arrest by Charles the Bold; a subplot follows the titular archer's attempts to win the hand of Isabelle. In addition to Quentin Durward, the title character of another of this man's novels kills Rashleigh, who is scheming against the narrator, Frank Osbaldistone. That novel is part of a series that also contains Guy Mannering and The Heart of Midlothian and is entitled Rob Roy. For 10 points, name this author of the Waverley series who also wrote about a disinherited son of Cedric the Saxon who marries Rowena in Ivanhoe.

donne

One of this man's works ends with Thy firmness makes my circle just, / And makes me end where I begun. Another one of his works asks a cruel and sudden creature hast thou since / Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence? and calls it both a marriage bed and a marriage temple, and in another he claims that the titular entity art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men, and that it shalt die. A Valediction Forbidding Mourning and The Flea are by - for 10 points - what British metaphysical poet whose Holy Sonnets include the 10th one, Death be not proud?

whitman

One poem by this author instructs to play certain instruments "through the windows" and "through doors," while another addresses an Alabaman he-bird who visits Paumanok Beach as a "solitary guest." This author of "Beat! Beat! Drums!" also "sound[ed] [his] barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world" in another poem. A more famous work by this author of (*) "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" states that he "mourn'd" after the "the great star early droop'd," referring to the death of Abraham Lincoln. For ten points, name this American author who included "Song of Myself" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" in his Leaves of Grass.

republic of cuba

One poet from this nation wrote about "shadows which only I see" in his "Ballad of the Two Grandfathers," and another poet from this country penned the line "My lyre! Give me my lyre!" in an ode to Niagara Falls. A novelist from this home nation of Nicolas Guillen created the metamorphosing slave Mackandal as well as Ti Noel in a novel set during the Haitian Revolution, The Kingdom of this World. This country produced the poem "I am a sincere man," part of its poet's Versos Sencillos, lines of which were taken to form the lyrics to the song "Guantanamera." For 10 points, name this home nation of Alejo Carpentier and Jose Marti.

china

One writer from this country wrote about Hothead and Glasses, who wait at the Bus Stop, and about four aspects named "I," "You," "He," and "She," who travel to Soul Mountain. One hundred five men and three women are the protagonists of a classic from this country called All Men are Brothers or Water Margin. Another classic, which concerns a character born with a jade in his mouth, is The Dream of the Red Chamber. For 10 points, Cao Cao and Liu Bei appear in The Romance of the Three Kindoms, which takes places after the fall of Han Dynasty in what nation?

ginsberg

Philip Glass' Sixth Symphony is named after one of this man's poems. In addition to "Plutonian Ode," this author wrote "lord lord lord caw caw caw" at the end of one poem dedicated to his mother. This author of "Kaddish" is most famous for a poem which sparked an obscenity trial and featured a section where the speaker repeats "I'm with you in Rockland." For 10 points, name this Beat-era author who wrote "I've seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness" in his poem "Howl."

paris

Popular meeting spots in this city included the Dingo Bar and Sylvia Beach's book store. In a novel set in this city, a law student befriends a man who impoverishes himself in giving his daughters a better life. In another novel, a fanatical police inspector drowns himself in this city that serves as the setting of Father Goriot. That inspector, (*) Javert, is saved by the bread-stealer Jean Valjean. For 10 points, name this setting of Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables.

charge of the light brigade

Rudyard Kipling wrote a sequel to this poem about the title group's visit to the author asking him to write another poem in their honor. This poem uses a phrase paralleling a verse in Psalm 23. In this poem, "All the world wondered" as "Cossack and Russian / Reeled from the saber stroke," leading the author to ask, "When can their glory fade?" According to this poem, it was "theirs not to make reply, / theirs not to reason why, / theirs but to do and die." The title event of this poem took place during the Battle of Balaclava. For 10 points, name this 1854 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, about "the six hundred" cavalrymen riding "into the Valley of Death."

neruda

Sections of his most famous work include A Lamp on Earth, The Sand Betrayed, and The Conquistadors and the second section is the most famous out of the fifteen. He writes of the Tiger's Eye in a section titled after an Incan ruin, The Heights of Macchu Picchu, and made his name as a poet with his second work, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. Best known for his Canto General, this is, for 10 points, what Chilean winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature?

house of the seven gables

Several characters in this novel all die in a great oak chair beneath a portrait of a prominent ancestor. Minor characters in this novel include Ned Higgins, who eats gingerbread cookies, and the ghost Alice, who died of shame after being hypnotized in an attempt to locate deeds to Indian land. The patriarch of the central family in this novel was cursed by the wizard Matthew Maule. Jaffrey is the uncle of Hepzibah and Clifford, and the youngest member of the central family, Phoebe, marries a daguerreotypist named Holgrave. For 10 points, name this novel about the titular home of the Pyncheon family, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

li po

Short lyrics like "Song of the Forge" and "She Spins Silk," in translation by Arthur Waley, show this poet's love of workday subject matter. He describes listening to the song "Falling Plum Blossoms" in his "Listening to a Flute Player in Yellow Crane Pavilion," and his favorite subject can be seen in his complaint that "Shantung wine can't get me drunk" in a poem dedicated to his contemporary Tu Fu. Also having one of his lyrics adapted by Ezra Pound as "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter" and dying while trying to embrace the moon, this is for 10 points, what classical Chinese poet?

the awakening

Some women in this novel snack on a husband's gift of bonbons and observe a bilingual parrot. The protagonist of this novel attends the races with Mrs. Highcamp and is moved to tears by Madame Reisz's performance of a Chopin impromptu. Adèle Ratignolle's fidelity contrasts with this novel's protagonist, who cuckolds Léonce by carrying on an affair with Alcée. This book ends when the protagonist is rejected by her true love, Robert Lebrun, and drowns herself. For 10 points, name this novel about Edna Pontellier's arousal, a work of Kate Chopin.

the magnificent ambersons

Subplots include Eugene Morgan wanting to marry Isabel, who instead marries the dull Wilbur Minafer, and the eventual resentment that George feels at the attentions paid to his mother. Coming between The Turmoil and The Midlander in the Growth trilogy, it follows a spoiled scion as his family fortune collapses. For 10 points, name this 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington.

italian

The Betrothed was written in this language, which was used by the Nobel Laureate who wrote The Accidental Death of an Anarchist. The Manager attempts to direct a play with six family members in a play in this language, which was used to write a novel about a murder investigation carried out by Adso of Melk and William of Baskerville. Six Characters in Search of an Author and The Name of the Rose were written by Luigi Pirandello and Umberto Eco, writers in this language. For 10 points, name this language, whose earliest literature includes the works of Dante.

melville

The architecht Bannadonna is killed by his automaton in this man's story "The Bell-Tower." Another story in this author's Piazza Tales features a character who dies of starvation in prison after repeating the phrase "I would prefer not to." In that work, Ginger Nut delivers cakes for Nippers and Turkey, who work in an office owned by the narrator. In his most famous novel, Fedallah, Tashtego, and Queequeg serve as harpooners for Captain Ahab and meet the narrator, who instructs readers to "Call me Ishmael." For 10 points, name this author of "Bartleby the Scrivener", Billy Budd, and Moby Dick.

song of hiawata

The author described it as an Edda and he wrote it in the same meter as the Kalevala. The protagonist's grandmother Nokomis bore his mother after a star fell to the sky, and the most famous extract is usually published as the title character's childhood (*) which is the name of Book III of the original work. The poem tells the story of the eponymous character and his wife Minnehaha. Beginning with the lines "By the shores of Gitche Gumee / By the shining Big-Sea-Water", For 10 points, identify this epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

to althea from prison

The author of this poem sings "The sweetness, mercy, majesty and glories" of his King like committed linnets, and claims that "Enlarged winds," "The birds that wanton in the air" and "Fishes that tipple in the deep" all "Know no such liberty" as the author of this poem when he lies tangled in his lover's hair and "fetter'd to her eye." He declares that "minds innocent and quiet take" the titular locale for a hermitage. For 10 points, "Stone walls do not" make the title entity, "nor iron bars a cage" according to what poem by Richard Lovelace?

finnegan's wake

The author's brother called it "the work of a psychopath or a huge literary fraud." The Modern Library named it the 77th greatest English- language novel of the 20th century, though the author had the first and third spots as well. It allegedly has a plot and characters, though deciphering them through the constant wordplay and stream-of-consciousness style make it difficult, even in the first five words: "riverrun, past Eve and Adam's". For 10 points, name this final, practically unreadable James Joyce novel.

deus ex machina

The father in Kleist's The Marquise of O is revealed through this. Other examples include King Louis XIV in Tartuffe, and Fawkes in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, while Athena in the Orestia and Helios in Medea are famous early instances; its name comes fron the crane used to lower the titular character/literary device onto the stage in Greco-Roman tragedies. For 10 points which literary device involves an outside force interfering and solving all plot conflict or saving the characters from imminent doom, Latin for "god out of the machine".

the cantos

The first Bollingen Prize was controversially awarded for the partial completion of this literary work, whose 36th section opens with a translation of Guido Cavalcanti's Donna mi pregha. This poem, whose first section is a free verse adaptation of the underworld visit in the Odyssey, features a section in which Robert Browning is told "there can be but one Sordello!" In the "Fifth Decad" of this poem, its author delivers an invective against usury. The later sections of this poem incorporate (*) Chinese ideograms. "Rock-Drill," and "Pisan" are portions of this poem, which was partly inspired by the author's fascism and arrest in Genoa. For 10 points, name this multi-part poem by Ezra Pound, whose name comes from the Italian for "songs."

the imaginary invalid

The main character of this play hides money in the wainscoting of his house after the notary Bonnefoi tells him he can't will his assets to his wife. Beralde brings in a troupe of performing gypsies in an attempt to warm the heart of the protagonist, who is incensed to find his daughter's suitor posing as her music teacher. The main character is impressed by the histrionic speeches of Thomas Diaforious and Dr. Purgon. The maid Toinette helps the title character fake his death, which allows him to learn that his wife Beline is only after his money. This play ends when the title character allows his daughter Angelique to marry her beloved Cleante. For 10 points, name this Moliere play about Argan, the title hypochondriac.

dulce et decorum est

The narrator of this poem reveals that the central characters "All went lame; all blind" after noting that "many had lost their boots." Its narrator also describes seeing someone drowning "as under a green sea." This poem describes "An ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time" and ends by warning against "that old lie." The narrator describes how the troopers "coughed like hags" and "cursed through sludge" during their withdrawal, then witnessed the agony of a comrade stricken by the poisonous gases. For 10 points, name this anti-war poem that uses a Horace quote sarcastically, written by Wilfred Owen.

emerson

The phrase "Nature centers into balls" begins an essay where this writer compares men to the title geometric shapes. In addition to writing "Circles," this writer was a frequent contributor to The Dial. A speech given to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard University in 1837 advocating a break with the traditions of Europe was published as "The American Scholar." He also wrote an essay inspired by Hinduism, "The Over-Soul." For 10 points, name this Transcendentalist writer of essays such as "Self-Reliance" and "Nature."

oe

The protagonist of one of his works is nearly thrown into the water of the zoo's polar bear exhibit before the "fat man" rejects his mother's claims that he has syphilis, and in another story a boy brings food to a giant black man, who is imprisoned after his plane crashes. Along with "The Catch" and Teach us to Outgrow Our Madness, he wrote about a group of boys from a reformatory school, who are trapped in a town infected by rotting animal carcasses in Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids. In one of his works Himiko's plans to move to Africa are rejected by Bird, who instead decides to care for his son born with a brain tumor, and in another novel Mitsusaboro remembers his friend, who committed suicide after painting his face red and pushing a cucumber up his ass. For 10 points, name this Japanese author, of A Personal Matter and The Silent Cry.

der steppenwolf

The protagonist of this novel discusses ancient Indian philosophy with his landlady, and dreams of a girl from Bürger's poetry named Molly. The preface of this novel is addressed to a character called the Editor, and the protagonist frequents the Black Eagle bar and used to love Rosa Kreisler. The title character has an affair with Maria, and he skips a show advertised "FOR MADMEN ONLY" after the Fancy Dress Ball. He encounters a jazz saxophonist who also loves Mozart, Pablo. Pablo has an affair with the title character's lover, prompting him to stab Hermine in the Magic Theater. Name this novel about Harry Haller, a work by Hermann Hesse.

the stranger

The protagonist of this novel says Thomas Perez will either catch heatstroke by walking too slowly or a chill by walking too quickly. Two days later, that protagonist is fascinated by the seemingly robotic woman next to him at Celeste's, and he is later asked by a friend to help write a letter to lure his former Moorish mistress. While staying at Masson's seaside house, this novel's protagonist walks along the beach with Raymond Sintes where he gets into a fight with two Arabs, one of whom he later kills. For 10 points, identify this novel about Meursault by Albert Camus.

the old man and the sea

The protagonist of this work deals with a cramp in his hand as he attempts to cut up dolphin meat at the end of an eighty-four day unlucky streak. At the end of this work, two people in Pedrico's café observe the title character dreaming of lions on a beach. The title character of this work raves about "the great DiMaggio" to his apprentice Manolin. He tries to fight off sharks as they consume the huge marlin he has caught off the coast of Cuba. For 10 points, name this novel about a fisherman named Santiago by Ernest Hemingway.

the crying of lot 49

The protagonist of this work sees "Kirby" written on the wall of the bathroom at the Scope, a bar where Mike Fallopian talks about the Peter Pinguid society. This novel features characters like Genghis Cohen, a philate-list, and an ex- Nazi psychiatrist from Buchenwald, Dr. Hilarius. This novel details a fictional play titled The Courier's Tragedy, and the protagonist leaves KCUF radio to play "Strip Botticelli" with Metzger. As the estate of Pierce Inverarity is settled in this work, the muted post-horn symbol keeps popping up. Name this Thomas Pynchon work in which representatives from Tristero go to an auction to outbid Oedipa Maas during the title action.

vanity fair: a novel without a hero

The protagonist of this work throws a dictionary out the window in the beginning, and she later tricks Lord Styne into giving her double the money she needs. After the death of his wife, Sir Pitt proposes a marriage to the protagonist, who is already engaged to his son Rawdon. Captain Dobbin succeeds in reconciling Mr. Obsorne to his son's wife, who is left by herself to care for her child after the death of George during the Battle of Waterloo. For 10 points, name this work including characters like Amelia Sedley and Becky Sharp, a novel by William Thackeray.

to his coy mistress

The speaker of this poem compares himself and the addressee to "birds of prey" that "rather at once our time devour / Than languish in his slow chapp'd power." The speaker then requests to "let us roll all our strength and all / Our sweetness, up into one ball," in order that he and the addressee might tear through "the iron gates of life."

song of myself

The speaker of this poem describes his love for breathing the unperfumed and undistilled atmosphere. In this poem, which ends "I stop somewhere, waiting for you", the speaker listens in awe to the sound of his own "belch'd words" and asks the reader to "loose the stop from your throat". Its sixth canto describes "the beautiful uncut hair of graves" in response to a child who asks "What is the grass?". Its speaker asks the reader to "loafe with me on the grass" and declares "What I assume you shall assume" and "I am large, I contain multitudes". For 10 points, name this epic poem from Leaves of Grass that opens "I celebrate myself", written by Walt Whitman.

the passionate shepherd to his love

The speaker of this work promises that every day there will be "silver dishes for thy meat/As precious as the gods do eat" as well as promising "fair lined slippers for the cold,/With buckles of the purest gold", while the famous "reply" written by Sir (*) Walter Raleigh rejects that offer. The speaker also promises that of "hills, valleys, dale and field/And all the craggy mountains yield" they will "all the pleasures prove". For 10 points, identify this poem that asks the recipient to "come live with me and be my love", written by Christopher Marlowe.

cather

The title character of a story by this author loses his job at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Hall, goes on a spending spree in New York with stolen money, and steps in front of a train. This author set a novel about the talented singer Thea Kronborg in Moonstone, Colorado. This author of "Paul's Case" and The Song of the Lark wrote about Alexandra Bergson's successful management of a farm and love for Carl Linstrom in another novel. Many of her novels are set in Nebraska, including one about Jim Burden's remembrance of the title Bohemian girl. For 10 points, name this author of O Pioneers! and My Antonia.

orestes

The title characters of one play centering on this figure hum in unison when they wake up. In another play with this protagonist, Apollo convinces Athena that men are superior in marriage by noting that Athena was born directly from Zeus. In one play, this character travels with the son of the king of Phocis; they pretend to be ordinary travelers and request hospitality so they may enter the palace and kill Aegisthus. For 10 points, identify this character, who murders his father and faces judgment by the Furies in the plays making his namesake trilogy: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and the Eumenides, the slayer of Clytemnestra and brother of Electra.

plath

The title object of on of this author's poems proclaims "In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman / Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish" after claiming "I am silver and exact." Another of this author's poems reflects "I have done it again. / One year in every ten I manage it" before rising "out of the ash" and warning "I eat men like air." She included "Tulips" and (*) "Lady Lazarus" in a collection that also features a poem whose speaker tells the title figure "there's a stake in your fat black heart" before likening him to a Nazi and declaring "you bastard, I'm through." For 10 points, name this poet of Ariel and "Daddy" who reflected on on her mental illness in The Bell Jar.

salinger

The title of one of this author's stories references an elderly rabbit created by Howard R. Garis. He also created a character who brings the Russian religious text The Way of a Pilgrim to a date with her college boyfriend Lane Coutell and faints after explaining the Jesus Prayer. He wrote of a man who wears a bathrobe so no one will stare at a tattoo he doesn't have; that man shoots himself while sitting next to his wife Muriel in "A (*) Perfect Day for Bananafish." His most famous creation, who used to date Sally Hayes, cares deeply for his little sister Phoebe but not at all for the phonys at Pencey Prep. For 10 points, name this author who created the Glass family and penned Franny and Zooey and The Catcher in the Rye.

bridge to terabithia

The title place derives its name by way of C.S. Lewis from a tree in the Bible. It was written as a way for the author to help console her son after the death of one of the son's friends. The traumatic event in the book takes place while one of the main characters is in Washington D.C. with his music teacher, Miss Edmunds. While he is there, his best friend, Leslie goes to their imaginary kingdom accessible by swinging on a rope. Unfortunately the rope breaks over the swollen creek, leaving Jesse to deal with the resulting tragedy. For 10 points, what is this Katherine Paterson book that won the Newberry Award in 1978 and is the basis for an upcoming Disney film?

moliere

This author created the character of Sganarelle, who impersonates a physician in order to cure the daughter of Geronte, in The Doctor in Spite of Himself. He wrote about the tension between a frivolous gambler and his father Harpagon(*), who is devastated by the theft of his strongbox, in his play The Miser. Another of his plays ends with an emissary from the prince setting everything right after Orgon is deceived by the title religious hypocrite, while yet another of his plays centers on the cynical Alceste's pursuit of Celimene. For 10 points, name this 17th century French dramatist of Tartuffe and Le Misanthrope.

percy shelley

This author meets Murder, Fraud, and Hypocrisy as he "walk[s] in the vision of Poesy" in a poem inspired by the Peterloo Massacre. In addition to "The Masque of Anarchy," this man wrote a poem in which he urges others to weep for the title character's death after he reached "Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are." In a more famous poem, this author asks, "If (*) winter comes, can spring be far behind?" while in another poem he comments that the title entity is happier than humans as it has not "hate, and pride, and fear". For ten points, name this poet of "Adonais," "Ode to the West Wind," and "To a Skylark," who was married to the author of Frankenstein.

Joyce

This author wrote a novel that begins and ends in the middle of the same sentence. Another of this man's novels opens with a lullaby about a moocow that meets Baby Tuckoo. This author wrote about Gabriel Conroy's realization about his wife Gretta in his short story "The Dead." He created the character Buck Mulligan in a novel that features a Jewish businessman who is cuckolded by Molly. For 10 points, name this author of Finnegans Wake, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, and a book about Leopold Bloom, Ulysses.

brecht

This author wrote a play in which Leocadia Begbick advertises the title location, which is the home of Fatty the Bookkeeper. In another of his plays Arkadi narrates the story of Grusha. This man worte the plays Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. This author wrote about Shui Ta and the prostitute Shen Te in The Good Woman of Szechuan. Another of his plays involves Eilif, Kattrin, and Swiss Cheese, the children of Anna Fierling, who operates a canteen during the Thirty Years War. For 10 points, identify this dramatist who collaborated with Kurt Weill on The Threepenny Opera and wrote Mother Courage and Her Children.

blake

This author wrote a poem which claims "To see a world in a grain of sand / And a heaven in a wild flower / Hold infinity in the palm of your hand / And eternity in an hour." He asked "And did those feet in ancient time / Walk upon England's mountains green?" in a poem about his wish to build "Jerusalem / In England's green and pleasant land." Another of his poems wonders "Did he who made the (*) lamb make thee?", and describes an animal "burning bright / in the forests of the night." For 10 points, name this poet whose Songs of Innocence and Experience includes "The Tyger."

kafka

This author wrote about a music-loving mouse in the short story "Josephine the Singer." He wrote about an ape who teaches himself to act like a human in one work, and another character created by this author starves himself to death after hiring himself out to a circus. This author of "A Report to an Academy" and "A Hunger Artist" depicted The Officer's death from an engraving torture machine at the title location in his story "In the Penal Colony." He also described Grete's brother, who eventually dies after awaking as an insect. For 10 points, name this creator of Joseph K. and Gregor Samsa who wrote The Trial and "The Metamorphosis."

zola

This author wrote about a violence-obsessed train driver named Jacques Lantier in the novel The Human Beast. That novel is part of a twenty-novel cycle detailing the life of the Rougon-Macquart family, which also includes the novels Nana and Germinal. He also wrote an open letter accusing the French government of anti-Semitism for imprisoning Alfred Dreyfus. For 20 points, name this French naturalist author of "J'accuse."

morrison

This author wrote about an old mansion that was used as a school for Native American girls that houses Consolata and then becomes a shelter for women. That building is seventeen miles from Ruby, Oklahoma. This author also wrote about Sydney, a butler whose niece Jadine was supported by Valerian Street, and she wrote in another novel about the daughter of Paula and Cholly who wishes she could change her appearance. That character is Pecola Breedlove. In another novel, she wrote about boys who moved away when a mirror shattered and when hand prints appeared in a cake. Those boys, Howard and Buglar, were the brothers of Denver and sons of Sethe. Name this author of Paradise, Tar Baby, The Bluest Eye, and Beloved.

oe

This author wrote of a fat man who nicknames his mentally retarded son Eeyore in Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness. Takashi commits suicide after leading a failed rebellion against the "Emperor" in this author's novel The Silent Cry (*), while he described juvenile delinquents deserted in a remote village in his first novel, Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids. He fictionalized his reaction to the birth of his brain-damaged son Hikari in A Personal Matter. For 10 points, name this Japanese author, the winner of the 1994 Nobel prize in Literature.

wordsworth

This author wrote that he felt a "calm so deep" caused by "all the mighty heart...lying still" while pausing in the morning. In addition to Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, another work of his notes that "five years have passed" since last he saw the title structure on the banks of Wye. He described an outing with his sister Dorothy and the sight of "a host of golden daffodils" in his poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. For 10 points, name this author of Tintern Abbey who co-authored Lyrical Ballads with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

orwell

This author's experience working with the Indian Imperial Police in 1922 led to his essay "Shooting an Elephant." The Last Man in Europe was the original title for one of his famous books, until the publisher intervened. In this author's work, his main character manages to have an affair with a dark- haired girl named Julia, despite love being illegal. His antagonism for the Communist faction on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War shaped his political ideology. Born as Eric Blair, for 10 points, name this author of Burmese Days, 1984, and Animal Farm.

burgess

This author's musically inspired novels include Napoleon Symphony and Mozart and the Wolf Gang. This twentieth century novelist wrote a book subtitled "A Story of Shakespeare's Love Life" in Nothing Like the Sun. One of this man's works focuses on a patron of the Korova Milk Bar. That main character of a work by this man undergoes the Ludovico technique, which causes him to hate Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and abandon ultraviolence. For 10 points, name this man who wrote about Alex DeLarge's droogs in the work A Clockwork Orange.

dylan thomas

This author's only play opens with a conversation between a bunch of drowned people and Captain Cat, and is titled Under Milk Wood. This poet wrote "After the first death, there is no other" in his collection Deaths and Entrances, which contains the poem "Refusal to Mourn the Death by Fire of a Child in London." He also wrote a poem about being "green and carefree," "Fern Hill," as well as one that claims that "old men should burn and rave at close of day." For 10 points, name this poet who wrote "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night."

zola

This author's work consists primarily of a series ending with Le Docteur Pascal that includes a work involving a painter's suicide that offended Cézanne, L'Oeuvre. That work follows Claude Lantier, a member of the branch of the family featured in La Bête Humaine, one of the last of the Rougon-Macquart [roo-GOHN mah-KAHR] series. For 10 points, name this French author of Germinal whose death conspiracists believe was murder by those enraged by his entrance into the Dreyfus Affair with J'Accuse.

the picture of dorian gray

This book's preface compares the dislike of realism to Caliban's rage upon seeing his face in a glass. The protagonist of this novel purchases nine editions of a certain novel that are bound in nine different colors. That protagonist's father's death was arranged by his maternal grandfather Lord Kelso. This novel's preface concludes that "all art is quite useless" and claims that no book is (*) moral or immoral, just well or poorly written. Its main characters meet with the Duchess of Monmouth to discuss the nature of love. This novel opens with an intellectual conversation between Lord Henry Wotton and the painter Basil Hallward. It ends with the title character rapidly aging after he stabs a painting. For 10 points, name this only novel by Oscar Wilde.

macbeth

This character asks "Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?" In a soliloquy, he says "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more"; that speech is often called "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow." He also asks whether Neptune's ocean could wash the blood from his hands after his wife assures him that a little water can do it. This man becomes Thane of Cawdor in fulfillment of a prophecy, and he then murders Duncan so that he can become king. Name this title character of Shakespeare's Scottish play.

santiago

This character remembers an all-night arm-wrestling match he won as a young man, giving him the title "The Champion." After a long journey, this character dreams of lions on an African beach while recalling his youth. This character often talks to a young boy about Joe DiMaggio and confides in Manolin that he would sail to Florida in order to break his eighty-four-day unlucky streak. The blood of a fish caught by this character attracts a shark, which this character kills with a harpoon before returning home with an eighteen-foot marlin, thus regaining his reputation. For 10 points, name this fisherman and protagonist of Ernest Hemingway's novella The Old Man and the Sea.

hester prynne

This former resident of Antwerp plans to leave her home on Election Day, but she doesn't make it. This woman embroiders gloves for Governor Bellingham. Earlier, this character's lover was driven to madness by a mysterious doctor who is finally revealed to be (*) Chillingsworth, this character's husband. For 10 points, name this Massachusetts resident who is the lover of Dimmesdale, mother of Pearl, and wearer of the title object in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.

capote

This man adapted his own novel about Collin Fenwick into a play, and this author of The Grass Harp wrote about the son of Edward Sansom in his debut novel. As well as writing about Joel Chandler Knox in Other Voices, Other Rooms, this author wrote about a woman who calls the narrator Fred in one novella. That novella ends with the break-up between the narrator and Holly Golightly. This author is most famous for writing about the murder of the farming Clutter family. For ten points, name this Southern writer behind Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood.

umberto eco

This man collaborated with Richard Rorty and others on Interpretation and Overinterpretation, and wrote a history of the belief in a primordial tongue, The Search for the Perfect Language. A man who can only remember books he has read is the focus of his The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loanna. The search for a lost volume of Aristotle and the attempts by Jorge of Burgos to suppress blasphemy are exposed by William of Baskerville in one of his novels. For 10 points, name this semiotician and author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum.

yeats

This man wrote a play in which a noblewoman, the lover of the poet Aleel, offers her soul to the devil in exchange for money to feed the poor. In addition to The Countess Cathleen, this man wrote a poem in which "the ceremony of innocence is drowned." In that poem by this man, "the falcon cannot hear the falconer," and it asks "what rough beast ... slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" That poem is this man's "The Second Coming." For 10 points, name this Irish poet who wrote "Sailing to Byzantium."

williams

This man's rewrite of his Battle of Angels features the musician Val, who always carries a guitar with him. In one novel by this man, the truck driver Rosario is killed, and Alvaro falls in love with Serafina. This author of Orpheus Descending and The Rose Tattoo wrote a work in which Maxine ties up one character in a hammock because he tries to swim to China. That character, Larry, later begs Hannah to free a tied-up iguana. A character created by this man kisses Laura Wingfield, while another is the son of Big Daddy, who drinks himself to death. For 10 points, name this author of The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire.

grapes of wrath

This novel begins as Tom returns home after serving a prison sentence for manslaughter, meeting a former preacher on the way. After a trip west during which Tom's grandparents die, that preacher is arrested for knocking out a policeman. The preacher, Jim Casy, is later killed by police in front of Tom, who retaliates and continues organizing the migrant workers while in hiding. For 10 points name this novel about the Joad family by John Steinbeck.

ethan frome

This novel ends with its narrator dining with Mrs. Varnum and her daughter, whose kiss with Ned Hale had been earlier recalled by the title character. This occurs after another character breaks a pickle dish, and when her cousin returns to her Starkfield home from the Bettsbridge doctor, the title character's wife announces that she will need a stronger household girl instead of Mattie. As a result, the title character fails to commit suicide on a sled ride to escape Zenobia at the end of, For 10 points, which novella by Edith Wharton?

oliver twist

This novel's protagonist is briefly employed by the undertaker, Mr. Sowerberry. In this novel, Old Sally takes a ring and locket, which Mr. Monks throws into a river, and a kind prostitute, Nancy, is brutally murdered by (*) Bill Sikes. This work‟s namesake protagonist joins a pickpocket gang that includes the Artful Dodger and Fagin. For 10 points, identify this Charles Dickens novel about a title orphan who asks "Please, sir, I want some more."

one day in the life of ivan denisovich

This novel's protagonist learns about the three patterns used by trendy carpet-dyers in a letter from his wife and recalls having to choose between leather boots and felt valenki. One character in this novel is a joker named Kilgas who aids the protagonist in carrying a roll of tar-paper to the Power Station. Its protagonist owns an aluminum (*) spoon with "Ust-Izhma" scratched on it. Another character in this novel, the Captain, debates film with an intellectual who receives food packages from his family. The protagonist, his roommate Alyosha the Baptist, and the aforementioned Caesar Markovich are among the members of Gang 104 in this novel. For 10 points, name this novel about the gulag experiences of a certain Mr. Shukhov, a work of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

myshkin, accept the idiot before it is mentioned

This person, a descendant of Madame Yepanchin, spent four years in a sanitarium in Switzerland. During his journey back to Russia, he meets Rogozhin, who is obsessed with Nastasya Filippovna, whom Rogozhin later murders. He asks Aglaya Epanchin to marry him, but later falls out of love with her. For 10 points, name this epileptic character created by Fyodor Dostoevsky whose naïveté can be seen in the novel The Idiot.

the tempest

This play is the basis for W.H. Auden's The Sea and the Mirror. One speech in this play begins "our revels now are ended" before claiming "we are such stuff as dreams are made on." One character remains unseen while repeating "thou liest" to the drunken Trinculo and Stefano, who scheme with the son of the witch Sycorax. In this play, Alonso, the King of Naples, searches for his son Ferdinand, who falls in love with Miranda. For 10 points, name this Shakespeare play featuring Caliban and Prospero, set on an island after a shipwreck.

charge of the light brigade

This poem describes a passage "thro' the jaws of Death, back from the mouth of Hell," and claims that the title group "Flash'd all their sabers bare, flash'd as they turn'd in air." The title group is described as facing "Cannon to the right of them, cannon to the left of them, cannon in front of them," though "Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred." It asserts "theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why," and begins "half a league, half a league, half a league onward." For 10 points, name this Tennyson poem about a failed cavalry charge.

the winter's tale

This work ends when a man who claims "Prosperity's the very bond of love" becomes engaged to a woman whose first husband was eaten by a bear. Before being eaten, that first husband abandoned an infant princess in Bohemia, naming her Perdita. Florizel falls in love with a woman he thinks is a poor shepherd's daughter, but she turns out to be Perdita, whose father once tried to poison Florizel's father. Identify this Shakespeare play in which Hermione, the Queen of Sicilia, is accused of having an affair by her husband King Leontes.

goblin market

This poem may have been written to be read aloud at the Highgate "House of Charity." This poem notes that "One may lead a horse to water / Twenty cannot make him drink," as one of the protagonists is "kicked and knocked," "mauled and mocked," until the attackers tire of her resistance. The central figures lie "golden head by golden head" and "locked together in one nest," and are haunted by the death of (*) Jeannie, who "should have been a bride." This work's title entity appears "morning and evening" by a brook and features "damsons and bilberries" and "swart-headed mulberries." Cries of "come buy, come buy" entice Laura and Lizzie to buy addictive fruit in, for 10 points, what Christina Rossetti poem?

in memoriam a.h.h.

This poem's epilogue claims that "regret is dead", following references to "faith that comes of self-control" and "truths that never can be proved"; those phrases occur in this work's 131st section. The prologue of this work is addressed to the "Strong Son of God, immortal Love," and says of the subject of this work, "I trust he lives in thee, and there / I find him worthier to be loved". This poem contains the stanza, "I hold it true, whate'er befall; / I feel it, when I sorrow most; / 'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all." Name this requiem about a recently deceased friend of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

mending wall

This poem's speaker wonders why he and his companion are working, as "here there are no cows." When his coworker wonders "to whom I was like to give offense," the speaker wants to answer "Elves." That coworker, who is identified with "an old-stone savage armed", is not convinced that the speaker's "apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines." Beginning with the line "Something there is that doesn't love a wall," For 10 points, identify this Robert Frost poem in which the narrator's companion remarks, "Good fences make good neighbors."

byron

This poet asserted "May this right hand be wither'd for ever/ Ere it string our high harp for the foe" in his poem "By the Rivers of Babylon we Sat Down and Wept." That poet wrote of how "the idols are broke in the temple of Baal" and recounted how "the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea" in a poem beginning "The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold," titled "The Destruction of Sennacherib." This poet of "She Walks in Beauty" and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage wrote an unfinished seventeen-canto epic poem about a man who is seduced by a long succession of women. For 10 points, name this author of Don Juan.

cooper

This prolific author's tales of history, the sea and the frontier made him one of the most popular writers of his time, but this did not stop Mark Twain from cataloguing a list of his literary offenses many years later. Twain was especially hard on his novel The Deerslayer, a personal favorite of this writer. For ten points, name this man behind the Leatherstocking Tales, including The Last of the Mohicans.

the devil's dictionary

This work describes Religion as "the child of Hope and Fear" and relates the story of a sage who says nothing but "abracadabra." This work also claims that "God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh," and quotes a French plaque detailing the devouring of Benjamin Franklin by cannibals in the Sandwich Islands. It describes a conservative as "[a] statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others." For 10 points, name this book that satirically defined a lawyer as "one skilled in circumvention of the law," a cynical work by Ambrose Bierce.

one thousand and one nights

This work includes stories about a hunchback who chokes on a fish bone during a dinner with a tailor and a fisherman who draws a donkey from the sea. In another of its stories, the former slave girl Morgiana kills a man masquerading as an important guest. It describes a character who battles with the Old Man of the Sea during his seven voyages, and its frame story reveals that it is narrated by the sister of Dunayazad, Scheherezade. Containing stories about Sinbad, as well as "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," for 10 points, name this collection of Middle Eastern tales.

canterbury tales

This work was the source of William Shakespeare and John Fletcher's Two Noble Kinsmen. One character in this work discusses her five marriages, the fifth to Jankyn. The final section of this work, which features the Knight and Wife of Bath, is narrated by the Parson. This work's Prologue describes how the characters meet at the Tabard Inn en route to the titular pilgrimage site, and agree to engage in a storytelling contest. For 10 points, name this Middle English collection of tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.

pope

This writer penned the lines "hope springs eternal in the human breast" as well as "eternal sunshine of the spotless mind," and this author targeted Colley Cibber and Lewis Theobald and wrote of the goddess Dulness in one satirical work. This author of (*) Eloisa to Abelard and An Essay On Criticism penned the line "what dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs" to begin another work involving characters like the guardian sylph Ariel. That mock epic sees Lord Petre steal the title curl of hair from Belinda. For 10 points, identify this English author of The Dunciad and "The Rape of the Lock."

the red and the black

Two characters in this novel become friends upon learning they had both been stealing Voltaire works from a nobleman's library. Earlier, the protagonist had declined Fouque's invitation to join the lumber business and had served in a seminary at Besancon where he befriended Abbe Pirard. Eventually, this work's protagonist shoots Madame de Renal for revealing their previous affair and ruining his chances with Mathilde de La Mole. For 10 points, name this work about Julien Sorel, whose titular colors refer to the army and the clergy in French society, written by Stendhal.

women in love

Two characters in this work discuss what they live for, leading one to ask, "So while you get the coal I must chase the rabbit?" One of these characters had been loved by Hermoine Roddice, whose departure for Italy sparks a relationship in Sherwood Forest. After the death of Diana at the water party, Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich meet in Innsbruck, but one character falls in love with Loerke, leading to Gerald's freezing to death after trying to stangle his former lover. Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen are the title characters in, for 10 points, what novel by D. H. Lawrence?

main street

When the main character in this novel asks her husband what other people think of her, he tells her to shop in town at stores owned by his friends and patients. In this novel, one of the teachers leaves town after false accusations are made by Cy Bogart, while another one marries Raymond Wutherspoon. The protagonist joins the Jolly Seventeen but figures out that she does not fit in when she defends her maid Bea Sorenson. That protagonist, who marries Dr. Will Kennicott, has the maiden name Carol Milford. Name this novel set in Gopher Prairie by Sinclair Lewis.

one hundred years of solitude

an eating competition with a woman known as The Elephant occurs in this novel, which also details a massacre of banana-farm workers. It ends with one character finally deciphering a message written by the gypsy Melquíades, who earlier introduces another character to ice. During his military conquests, that character fathers seventeen children with the name (*) Aureliano. This novel sees Úrsula live to a supernatural age, and with her husband José Arcadio Buendía she establishes the town of Macondo. For 10 points, name this novel by Gabriel García Márquez.

hughes

in one of this man's poems, the narrator claims "I'se been a-climbin' on, and reachin' ladders, and turning corners" after telling her child "life for me ain't been no crystal stair." In another poem by this author of "Mother to Son," the speaker asserts "my soul has grown deep like the (*) rivers." In another work, this poet asks if something "dr[ies] up, like a raisin in the sun?" For 10

great expectations

in this novel, the Stinger is fired at nine o' clock every evening at Walworth to satisfy the Aged P, the father of John Wemmick. At one point, a man nicknamed Dolge uses a leg iron to assault the protagonist's older sister. While avoiding Compeyson, that protagonist enlists the rowing of Startop and [*] Herbert Pocket, but fails to smuggle away the convict Abel Magwitch, who reveals that he, and not the wealthy old Miss Havisham, is the unknown benefactor. For 10 points, name this Charles Dickens novel about the rags-to-riches-to-rags life of Pip.

streetcar named desire

in this play, a blind Mexican woman comes around selling flowers for Day of the Dead. A character in this play is told she is "not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother," claims to receive a telegram from her old admirer Shep Huntleigh, and screams "Fire!" to avoid Mitch's advances. The Belle Reve plantation is in the backstory of this play, whose protagonist is led to an asylum after she says that she has "always depended on the kindness of strangers." For 10 points, name this play in which Stella and Stanley Kowalski are visited by Blanche DuBois in New Orleans by way of the title offstage vehicle, by Tennessee Williams.

song of roland

in this work, Alde dies of grief upon hearing of the death of her betrothed. The sun stands still in this poem to let one army chase another that drowns in the River Ebro, and this poem ends with Gabriel commanding a king to free a city from a pagan siege. In this non-Italian work, the sword (*) Durendal belongs to the title character. The Twelve Peers die in this work because of Ganelon's treachery. Olivier dies in this work alongside the title character who blows his oliphaunt so hard his temple bursts. The Battle of Ronceveaux Pass takes place in, for 10 points, what French tale about the title nephew of Charlemagne?

things fall apart

in this work, Reverend James Smith goes against the precedent of his predecessor Mr. Brown by sanctioning the zealotry of Enoch, a fanatical convert who incites a clash between colonists and indigenous peoples. The main character is terrified of being compared to his lazy, gentle father Unoka and attempts to demonstrate his manliness by beating his youngest wife Ojiugo and by hacking his ward Ikemefuna to death. For 10 points, name this novel about Okonkwo by Chinua Achebe.

a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court

novel - Demoiselle Alisande la Carteloise goes by the name Sandy, and Hugo is saved from imprisonment in this novel and joins the Man Factory. Its central character is given the title "The Boss." Early in this work, the main character meets the page (*) Clarence. Its title character is saved from execution by accurately predicting a solar eclipse. For 10 points, name this novel about Hank Morgan's adventures after an industrial accident transports him back in time to Camelot, written by Mark Twain.

spoon river anthology

one character in this book, Frank Drummer, is driven insane by attempting to memorize the Encyclopedia Britannica. A dentist in this book declares that "a moral truth is a hollow tooth / Which must be propped with gold." This book includes characters like Anne Rutledge, Voltaire Johnson, and Daisy Fraser, the prostitute of the title (*) location. It consists of two hundred and forty-four posthumous dramatic monologues spoken by characters in the title town's cemetery. For 10 points, name this poetry collection by Edgar Lee Masters.

aeschylus

this author wrote a play in which the queen Atossa and the ghost of Darius react to news of a military defeat; that play is the only classical tragedy on a contemporary, rather than mythical, subject. This author of The Suppliants and The Persians also wrote about a man who is pursued to Athens to stand trial for murdering Clytemnestra, which happens in The Libation-Bearers. For 10 points, name this author of The Eumenides (yoo-MEN-id-eez) and Agamemnon, part of his Oresteia.

tarzan

this character appears in 24 books, many of which were first published in serial form. He first obtains the help of the Waziri in the second book, which deals with his adventures after he nobly denies his heritage after receiving a telegram from his friend d'Arnot, telling him that he is the son of John Clayton. He does this to help Jane, the girl he loves. For 10 points name this Edgar Rice Burroughs character who defeats the apes Kerchak, Tublat, and Terkoz and becomes their king.

moliere

title religious hypocrite tartuffe-- author

six characters in search of an author

work -acting is a profession for madmen, character's wife amalia falls in love with a clerk. Amalia's daughter works as a prostitute, The Child drowns in a fountain, and The Boy shoots himself in the head. author - Luigi Pirandello.