Literature

The protagonist of this novella remembers his ex-fiancee, Belle, and his sister, Fan, before meeting a guide who keeps Ignorance and Want under his cloak. One of the protagonist's revisited memories takes place in Fezziwig's warehouse, and other scenes in this novella are set at the home of the the Cratchit family. After being visited by three spirits of Christmas, this work's protagonist becomes a patron to the crippled Tiny Tim. Name this Charles Dickens work about the miserly Ebeneezer Scrooge.

A Christmas Carol

A character in this novel is nearly incriminated for saying that George Washington could eventually become as famous as George III. In this novel's chapter, "The Sea Still Rises," Foulon is murdered and his mouth is filled with grass. This book depicts a nobleman's ritualistic drinking of hot chocolate; a note reading "Drive him fast to his tomb" is left by a knife after Gaspard kills that noble to avenge a child run over by a carriage. The spies John Barsad and Roger Cly try to frame a man in this book, which showcases prison cell One Hundred and Five, North Tower. In a celebrated passage from this novel, hundreds of people scramble to drink the wine spilled from a broken cask on the street. The banker Mr. Lorry writes a note reading, "Recalled to Life," near the beginning of this novel in which the protagonist is incriminated for being the nephew of the Marquis St. Evremonde. Madame Defarge is from this book, as is the phrase "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done," spoken by Sidney Carton when he takes Charles Darnay's place at the guillotine. For 10 points, name this novel about the French Revolution, which opens "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," by Charles Dickens.

A Tale of Two Cities

One character in this novel recognizes the love for his wife during a thunderstorm, while anotheris publicly snubbed by Princess Betsy. On the advice of Count Ivanova to visit French clairvoyant Landau, one character in this novel informs his son, Seryozha, that his mother is dead when she has in fact fled to Italy. In this novel, Princess Shcherbatskaya [sher-BAT-skee] has trouble deciding which of two men would be the better suitor, and another scene shows Makhotin's horse, Gladiator, defeating Frou-Frou in a race. Dolly is devastated by the infidelity of Stiva in this work, which later sees Levin's marriage to Kitty. Beginning with the line "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way", identify this novel about a woman in love with Count Vronsky who throws herself under a train, written by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

This poem was sold to Sartain's Union Magazine and published by Rufus Wilmot Griswold two days after its author's death. In this poem, "A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling" the title character, who is bore away by "her highborn kinsmen". The narrator reflects that "the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams" of the title character, and that "the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes" of that character as well. "I was a child and she was a child", the narrator states, before the title character was placed "in her sepulchre there by the sea" by "the winged seraphs of Heaven". FTP, name this poem in which the title character is killed by jealous angel, a work by Edgar Allen Poe.

Annabel Lee

One character in this novel warns against the exploration of a subway tunnel; that character is International 4-8818. Another character in this novel justifies his role as a street sweeper instead of a scientist as a "Transgression of Preference", and loves a woman despite it not being the "Time of Mating". That woman, nicknamed "Gaea" and "The Golden One", meets the protagonist in the forest after his ouster by the World Council and the Department of Candles for discovering electricity. Her true name is Liberty 5-3000. FTP, name this Ayn Rand work in which Equality 7-2521 discovers the pronoun 'I'.

Anthem

This story opens by describing a "wavy ocean" made up of the heads of "curious caddies", "ingenious chauffeurs" and "the golf professional's deaf sister". Characters in this story include Bessie MacRae, who has been "the life of the party a little too long-ten years" and Charley Paulson, who's told by the protagonist she "[wants] to be a society vampire". The title character initially bores her companions by talking about her car and her hometown of Eau Claire. The title action of this story finally takes place at the Sevier Hotel and was prompted by Warren McIntyre's interest in the protagonist and the scheming of cousin Marjorie. For 10 points, name this story from Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald where the title character gets sheared in a new style.

Bernice Bobs her Hair

One character in this work catches syphilis from Paquette and is cured by Jacques, while another is raped and disemboweled by an invading Bulgur force. The protagonist survives a large earthquake, satirizing the All-Saints Day Lisbon Earthquake. 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 after his tutor is hanged by the Spanish Inquisition. The protagonist of this work cautions "we must cultivate our garden" in response to his Leibnitzian mentor. The main character is forced to leave the castle of Baron Thunder-ten-Tronckh when he kisses Cunegonde, and Dr. Pangloss believes "all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds" in, for 10 points, this novella by Voltaire.

Candide

A character in this novel says he is "going to America" before shooting himself, and Lebeziatnikov reveals the framing of Marmeladov's daughter. Svidrigailov is shot at by Dounia in this work, which sees Porfiry Petrovich's mind games and Sonya's urgings provoke the protagonist to confesses to the murder of the pawnbroker Alyona Ivanova and her sister Lizaveta. Raskolnikov appears in, for 10 points, what Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel?

Crime and Punishment

One story of this name describes Poprischchin, who believes he is crown prince Ferdinand VIII of Spain. For 10 points, give this title of a story by Gogol, a written journal whose author descends into insanity.

Diary of a Madman

One character in this novel imprisons a man for publishing The Vermont Vigilance, and later attempts to seduce that man's daughter, Sissy. That character is Shad Ledue, who is sent to a concentration camp by Francis Tasbrough. Senator Walt Trowbridge forms The New Underground to combat the fascist Minute Men in this novel. At the conclusion of this novel, Lee Sarason is overthrown by General Dewey Haik, and General Emmanuel Coon leads America in a civil war against the Corpos. FTP, name this Sinclair Lewis novel in which Doremus Jessup attempts to undermine President Buzz Windrip.

It Can't Happen Here

The carriage-driver Hivert explains that the protagonist's dog, Djali, ran away. A letter arrives at the bottom of a basket of apricots in this novel, while one character in it meets another at a performance of Lucia di Lammermoor. In this novel, Hippolyte's leg is amputated after a failed attempt to fix his clubfoot. One character in this novel betrays a rich widow named Heloise Dubuc from Tostes to marry a woman who later gives birth to Berthe. Monsieur Homais is the pharmacist in the town of Yonville in this work, in which the protagonist lies about taking piano lessons from a law student whom she rediscovers in Rouen, named Leon Dupuis. That character has a four-year affair with Rodolphe Boulanger and swallows arsenic when she cannot repay her debts. For ten points, name this French novel by Gustave Flaubert about the wife of Charles, Emma Rouault

Madame Bovary

The protagonist of this story is smuggled into Warsaw by Yankel the Jew. After spotting his son in enemy armaments, the protagonist tells him "I gave you life, I will take it" before shooting him dead. That son is named Andriy. Later on, the protagonist's other son calls out for his father just before his execution; that son's name is Ostap. The protagonist is nailed to a tree and set aflame by the Poles, in a patriotic ending added in an 1842 revision. For 10 points, name this Gogol novel about a namesake Cossack warrior.

Taras Bulba

This poem describes "cold sea-maids" that "rise to sun their streaming hair" and describes an "irised ceiling" and a "sunless crypt". It urges its subject to "leave thy low-vaulted past" and to "let each new temple" "shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast". It describes "silent toil" that spreads the title creature's "lustrous coil" and commands "Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul". For 10 points, name this poem about a creature that lives in a "ship of pearl", a work of Oliver Wendell Holmes.

The Chambered Nautilus

Mrs. Podtochin is accused of witchcraft by the protagonist, who refused to marry her daughter, and he later tips a policeman that stops a stagecoach headed for Riga. The protagonist is offered money by a doctor to pickle the object that the barber Yakovlevich awakes and finds in his loaf of bread. That item spends time imitating a State Councillor before being chased down Nevsky Prospect. Kovalyov is relieved when the titular appendage returns to his face at the end of, for 10 points, what Nikolai Gogol short story?

The Nose

At one point in this work, the protagonist meets Codlin and Short, who operate a traveling Punch and Judy show. One antagonist in this work contemplates murdering a lawyer named Brass before losing his footing and drowning. The protagonist of this work is sought by an unnamed character known as the "Single Gentleman," and that unnamed character is eventually revealed to be a character from another of the author's works, "Master Humphrey." After staying with a schoolmaster who is heartbroken by the death of a sick pupil, the protagonist of this novel gets a job giving tours of a traveling waxworks. In this novel, a mistreated servant nicknamed "the Marchioness" marries Dick Swiveller, a rascal who frees the protagonist's friend Kit. Crowds mobbed the docks of New York City to read the maudlin ending of this novel, in which the protagonist dies from a journey to the countryside while being pursued by the evil dwarf Daniel Quilp. For 10 points, name this Charles Dickens novel in which the orphan Nell Trent has to leave the title store.

The Old Curiosity Shop

Ashoke Ganguli reads this story prior to a train derailment in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake, and names his son after its author. One character in this work is identified by his fist the size of a man's head, and after the protagonist is reprimanded for implying that secretaries are untrustworthy, he curses at an unseen "your excellency" while on his deathbed. The mother of this story's red-haired protagonist rejected the names Mokiya, Sossiya or Khozdazat for her son, who as an adult enjoys hand-copying documents. Its opening paragraph declares that "there is nothing more irritable" than "people in government departments". This story centers on a "perpetual titular councilor" who uses his Christmas bonus to enlist the services of Petrovich before becoming a ghost and retrieving the title object from the "Very Important Personage". For 10 points, name this story in which the clerk Akaky Akakievich dies after losing the title piece of clothing, a work of Nikolai Gogol.

The Overcoat

Some scholars speculate that this novel's last chapter The Floating Bridge of Dreams" is separate from its final Uji section, which chronicles the protagonist's grandson, Niou, and his wife's illegitimate son, Kaoru, and their pursuit of three sisters. At one point in this work, the protagonist dances the "Waves of the Blue Sea", and marries the daughter of the Minister of the Left. He is entertained by Akashi Novice after his exile to Suma, and his death is depicted in "Vanished into the Clouds". After affairs with Utsuemi and Yugao, the mother of a friend of Tō no Chūjō, Kiritsubo, dies after being neglected by her husband, who paid more attention to the concubine Lady Kokiden. Kokiden's son, Emperor Suzaku is replaced by Emperor Reizei. The protagonist fathers Reizei with Lady Fujitsubo after his marriage to Lady Aoi. For 10 points, name this early novel set during the Heian period by Lady Murasaki. The Tales of Genji.

The Tales of Genji

A doctor in this work smashes a clock because he gets drunk and is unable to practice, and another character constantly puts perfume on his finger-tips because they smell like corpses. One character is fascinated with a spinning top given as a gift by Fedotik. Characters in this work include Ferapont and the old nurse Anfisa. In the final act a school teacher puts on a fake beard and moustache that he confiscated from a student to cheer up his wife, who is heartbroken because her lover Vershinin is leaving town. At the end of this play one character learns that Solony has killed her fiance Baron Tuzenbach in a duel, while Natasha carries on an affair with Protopopov after marrying Andrei Prozorov. For 10 points, identify this play by Anton Chekhov whose title characters are Olga, Masha, and Irina.

Three Sisters

In this novel, Anne marries the schoolmaster Dr. Strong and resists the seduction of her cousin Jack Maldon. The protagonist, who marries Dora Spenlow, lives with his aunt Betsy Trotwood. That man befriends Tommy Traddles and James Steerforth, who runs off with Little Em'ly. During this novel, one character is exposed by Mr. Micawber, while another is cared for by Pegotty. The protagonist is supervised by Mr. Creakle at Salem House, after biting his step-father Edward Murdstone. For 10 points, name this Dickens novel featuring Uriah Heep, titled after Agnes Wickfield's husband.

David Copperfield

A chapter in this work purports to be a "sort of very sad seal National Anthem," which celebrates the "beaches of Lukannon," while in the second one a pack of dhole is defeated with the aid of an ordinarily hostile python in the story "Red Dog." In this work, Messua [meh-soo-ah] takes in a young boy to replace her long-lost son, Nathoo; that boy, nicknamed "the frog," was earlier pursued by Lungri [loon-gree], the "lame one," and was saved by Akela [ah-kay-lah] and Raksha, the Mother Wolf. Nag and Nagaina are killed by a mongoose in one story from this collection, and another tale sees Shere Khan chased off. "Toomai of the Elephants" and "Kaa's Hunting" are two stories in this collection. For 10 points, name this collection of stories also including "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" and several tales about Mowgli, written by Rudyard Kipling.

The Jungle Book

A footnote in this poem begins by reciting "Holy!" fifteen times and charters a man "who threw potato salad at CCNY lectures on Dadaism." This poem inquires about a "sphinx of cement and aluminum" and sympathizes with "angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection", who are "looking for an angry fix." This poem condemns "Moloch whose mind is pure machinery," and assures "I'm with you in Rockland." Published in 1955 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Bookstore, this poem was dedicated to Carl Solomon. For 10 points, name this poem which begins "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness," a beatnik anthem by Allen Ginsberg.

Howl

One character in this novel punctuates her speech with "whatitsname;" that character in this novel marries her doctor husband after he examines her through a perforated bed sheet. That doctor's grandson, the narrator, loses his memory because of a silver spittoon, and loses his special ability after undergoing sinus surgery. The protagonist marries Parvatithe-witch and has an oversized nose that is constantly dripping. In this novel, the strong-kneed Shiva was switched at birth by Nurse Mary Pereira with the telepathic Saleem Sinai. For 10 points, name this novel about children born with magical powers during India's independence, by Salman Rushdie.

Midnight's Children

This character lost his shadow for a short time after a window was shut behind him. Jane eventually becomes his mother, and Jane sends her daughter Margaret to fill that role. He nearly died after becoming trapped on Marooners' Rock. The Lost Boys ended up with a mother after this character taught the Darling children to fly. Accompanied by Tinker Bell, name this "boy who would not grow up," created by Sir James Barrie.

Peter Pan

This play pulls material from Plautus' Menaechmi and John Gower's Apollonius of Tyre. The protagonists of this play were born at Epidamnum , and were raised separately by Aemilia and Aegeon following a storm. The centerpiece of this play's plot was Solinus' extension regarding a thousand-mark fine or execution. Solinus, the Duke of Ephesus, was talking about a merchant from Syracuse. Name this Shakespeare comedy about the mass confusion resulting from two sets of long-lost twins, Antipholus and Dromio of Ephesus and Syracuse.

The Comedy of Errors

One novel with this title sees a visit to Ara's Market in Ithaca, California by Homer Macauley and was written by William Saroyan. In one work in a collection of this title, Nanon serves Felix, the miserly father of the title character, who does not want to marry Cruchot or Adolphe des Grassins. Another work in this collection centers on a object which gets smaller whenever a wish is granted, and in a third novel in that collection, Rastignac is one of few to attend the title character's funeral. For ten points, give this name of a collection that contains Eugenie Grandet, The Wild Ass's Skin, and Pere Goriot, written by Honore de Balzac.

The Human Comedy

This poem describes the drowning of the "ceremony of innocence" by the "blood-dimmed tide." The speaker imagines seeing "A shape with lion body and the head of a man;" the "vast image out of Spiritus Mundi" troubled the narrator's sight. This poem also notes that "The falcon cannot hear the falconer" and it begins with the line "Turning and turning in the widening gyre and ends by describing a "rough beast [that] slouches towards Bethlehem. For 10 points, name this poem that claims that "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold," by William Butler Yeats.

The Second Coming

In an incident in this novel the protagonist befriends a woman after mistakenly assuming she had not yet taken off her shoes. Nancy Derek has an affair with the superintendent of police McBryde, while Harry Turton is the tax collector for a town whose Chief Civil Surgeon, Major Callendar, is the protagonist's boss. During the Krishna Festival, the protagonist meets Stella, and this novel is divided into sections including "Mosque" and "Temple." This novel takes place in Chandrapore, where Ronny Heaslop, Mrs. Moore's son, rejects Cyril Fielding's advice and decides not to marry Adela Quested when she withdraws charges against the protagonist. For 10 points, name this novel in which Dr. Aziz is accused of raping a woman at the Marabar Caves, written by E. M. Forster.

A Passage to India

Mr. Eager accosts a chauffer in this novel, and the protagonist undergoes a startling realization while reading a "Joseph Emery Prank" novel. This novel is set into motion by a complaint about the location of the Arno at the "The Pension Bertoli." One character in this novel throws away some blood-soaked photographs in the aftermath of a street fight and becomes enraptured by the protagonist's beauty in a field of violets. Another character in this novel rents the decrepit Cissie Villa from Harry Otway as part of a cruel joke, and later the rector Mr. Beebe leads a duo into the woods. The protagonist of this novel gets lost near the Santa Croce church while travelling with Eleanor Lavish. Cecil Vyse loves the main character of this novel, who tours Italy with her aunt Mrs. Bartlett and falls in love with George Emerson. For 10 points, name this novel about Lucy Honeychurch by E.M. Forster.

A Room with a View

The protagonist of this play is evicted from the Flamingo Hotel, and fantasizes about Shep Huntleigh. Her husband, Allan Grey, commits suicide, and she is the heir of Belle Reve. One resident of Elysian Fields throws a radio out a window during a poker game involving Pablo, Steve, and Mitch. Before being taken to an asylum, one character, who previously shouted "Fire!" to avoid assault, declares "I have always depended upon the kindness of strangers." Stanley rapes the sister of Stella Kowalski in, for ten points, what play by Tennessee Williams about a Southern Belle named Blanche Dubois?

A Streetcar Named Desire

This work's second book opens with the author comparing writing about truth to drawing a gryphon and addresses complaints about Augustus Irwin in a chapter called "In which the Story Pauses a Little." Earlier the protagonist angrily stays up all night finishing a coffin his missing father was supposed to make, only to discover his father Thias has drowned in a creek. The title character recalls a quarrel over a frame for Miss Lydia when Bartle Massey suggests that the protagonist might be replacing a recently deceased character. The protagonist is accompanied by his dog Gyp and works for Jonathan Burge in Hayslope where Rachel and Martin Poyser runs Hall Farm. One character is imprisoned in Stoniton for abandoning her illegitimate child in the forest. The main character marries the Methodist preacher Dinah Morris after feuding with Arthur Donnithorne over Hetty Sorel. For 10 points, name this novel by George Eliot about a virtuous carpenter.

Adam Bede

In this novel, the protagonist lies about what happened to an amethyst brooch so she can go to a picnic. That protagonist makes up names like Willowmere for locales around her village and inadvertently gets her friend Diana Barry drunk on "raspberry cordial." For 10 points, name this novel about a redheaded orphan adopted by Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island, a novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Anne of the Green Gables

At the end of this work, the fictional author Benengeli admits that his only purpose in writing about this character was to indicate the demise of chivalry. In this novel, after a priest reads a manuscript in which a newly-wed man asks Lothario to woo his wife Camilla, Ferdinand and Lucinda disguise themselves to meet Dorothea and Cardenio. Marcela shows up to the funeral of Grisostomo in this work, and the protagonist believes a bowl to be the Helmet of Mambrino. This novel's protagonist's library is burned by a barber and the priest Dr. Perez. He fights Samson Carrasco in the guises of the Knight of the Wood and the Knight of the White Moon, and he searches for his idealized love Dulcinea. Featuring the squire Sancho Panza and Rocinante, for 10 points, name this novel written by Miguel de Cervantes in which the "ingenious gentleman" from La Mancha becomes a knight after reading chivalric romances.

Don Quixote

In this novel, Mrs. Phelps is moved to tears when the protagonist reads "Dover Beach" and Mildred is obsessed with her gigantic television set. The protagonist of this work seeks solace with his teenage neighbor Clarisse. Items in this novel include Seashell earbud radios and a "green bullet" that one character uses to communicate with the protagonist. The protagonist later floats down a river and encounters Granger. The professor Faber helps the protagonist of this novel escape from the Mechanical Hound. That protagonist kills Captain Beatty and memorizes parts of Ecclesiastes. For 10 points, name this novel about Guy Montag, which was named by its author, Ray Bradbury, for the temperature at which books burn.

Fahrenheit 451

This work draws its title from "Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae" by Ernest Dowson. One character in this work is rescued by Big Sam, and another pretends to have visited Belle Watling's brothel. The protagonist marries Frank Kennedy, as well as Charles Hamilton, brother of Melanie Hamilton. Bonnie dies in a horse accident in this novel. This work's protagonist stays in love with the owner of the Twelve Oaks plantation, Ashley Wilkes, even while she is married to the Confederate blockade runner Rhett Butler. It largely takes place on the plantation Tara. For 10 points, name this Margaret Mitchell novel about the Southern beauty Scarlett O'Hara.

Gone with the Wind

While in a flower shop, this woman hears the backfiring of a car that she believes may be carrying the queen; that event occurs shortly after this woman meets Hugh Whitbread. A soldier in this novel loses his capacity for feeling after the death of his commander Evans but soothes himself by making a hat with his wife Lucrezia. In one episode in this work, Doris Kilman shops for petticoats with Elizabeth while bemoaning the fact that her only pleasure left in life is eating. In another episode in this novel, Dr. Holmes calls cowardly a character who threw himself out of a window after considering a bread knife, a gas fire, and razors as methods of suicide, Septimus Smith. The protagonist of this novel reminisces about time spent at Bourton with Peter Walsh and Sally Seton, and regrets marrying Richard. For 10 points, name this stream-of-consciousness novel in which Big Ben constantly chimes, a work by Virginia Woolf centering around Clarissa's dinner party.

Mrs. Dalloway

The protagonist of this work meets John and Isabella during her stay in Bath, and becomes disturbed by Isabella's conduct with after Isabella deserts her lover James. The protagonist, who loves The Mysteries of Udolpho, is forced to make a seventy-mile journey on her own. John lies about the protagonist's wealth in this novel, and takes revenge after his advances are spurned by the protagonist. The protagonist is delighted to be invited to the titular location, and suspects that one of its residents was killed by her husband, but her stay is abruptly cut off after she is forced to leave by General Tilney. Henry Tilney apologizes to the protagonist and proposes the protagonist's hand in marriage For 10 points, identify this novel about Catherine Morland, who is interested in Gothic romances, a work by Jane Austen.

Northanger Abbey

One character in this play visits the prostitute Bianca, and he is later made governor by Lodovico after wounding Montano in a duel. Early in it, the title character and his wife are accosted at the Sagittary by Roderigo and Brabantio, while later, this play's antagonist warns its protagonist against "the green-eyed monster" of jealousy. A handkerchief recovered by Emilia is used by one character to accuse Cassio of adultery in this play, set in Cyprus and Venice. FTP, name this play in which Iago tricks the title Moor into killing his wife Desdemona, a work by William Shakespeare.

Othello

This work begins by invoking a "Heav'nly Muse" from "the secret top of Oreb or of Sinai." One character in this work takes the form of a toad after deceiving the Regent of the Sun, Uriel. After describing the work of the architect Mulciber, proposals from Belial and Mammon are heard in a council held in Pandemonium before Beelzebub's proposal is accepted. Raphael recounts a three day-long battle that sends rebellious angels to hell for 10 points, this epic poem featuring Satan's temptation of Adam and Eve, by John Milton.

Paradise Lost

One character in this novel is fatally bitten by a snake after having a child with the protagonist. Working with the merchant Kamaswami, the protagonist becomes wealthy to court the courtesan Kumalo. However, he isn't truly happy until he learns the message of the river after living with Vasudeva the Ferryman. FTP, name this novel about a friend of Govinda who seeks enlightenment, a work by Herman Hesse in which the protagonist shares his first name with the Buddha.

Siddhartha

The protagonist of this work is discovered to be masquerading as a girl when he cannot thread a needle. One antagonist in this novel confuses the "To Be or Not To Be" soliloquy and stages "The Royal Nonesuch". After failing to identify a tattoo on Peter Wilkes, the protagonists are outed as imposters, and the protagonist is forced to hide money inside Wilkes's coffin to escape the duke and dauphin. Fleeing the drunk Pap, the protagonist of this work is stuck in fog and misses Cairo, Illinois. FTP, name this novel in which the title character flees Widow Douglas down the Mississippi with his slave-friend Jim and meets Tom Sawyer, written by Mark Twain.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

A schoolhouse in this work was designed so a thief could easily get in, but not out, though this proves ineffective against Abraham Van Brunt. The protagonist of this story encounters the ghost of Major Andre after leaving Baltus's party. Katrina Van Tassel marries Brom Bones after a schoolteacher disappears in this story, which was collected in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. Ichabod Crane flees the Headless Horseman in, for 10 points, what story by Washington Irving?

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

This poem lends its name to the Robert Penn Warren novel in which the Kentuckian Jeremiah Beaumont kills Colonel Cassius Fort. It counselled that they should, "like amorous birds of prey," "tear our pleasures with rough strife through the iron gates of life." This poem uses events like "ten years before the Flood" and "the conversion of the Jews" to mark the passage of time. This poem points out that people do not embrace in a grave and claims that "deserts of vast eternity" lie be- fore both the narrator and the subject. This poem's speaker's "vegetable love" would "grow vaster than Empires" if it weren't for the coming "deserts of vast eternity" and "time's winged chariot hurrying near." For 10 points, name this metaphysical poem that begins "Had we but world enough and time," written by Andrew Marvell.

To His Coy Mistress

A character in this work covers a boar's head with her green shawl so her youngest daughter can sleep. Minta Doyle looses her brooch on the beach and Macalister catches fish on the climactic journey. One character in this novel, Charles Tansley, states that women cannot paint or write during a party whose guests include Paul Rayley. Only Augustus Carmichael is allowed to see Lily Briscoe's paintings in this work. Prue and Andrew die in this novel's second section "Time Passes." After ten years, Cam, James, and Mr. Ramsay finally take the title voyage in, for 10 points, what novel by Virginia Woolf?

To the Lighthouse

This work includes social climber Eleanor Stoddard and marketer J. Ward Moorehouse. The second volume of this work concludes with the death of an unnamed soldier in WW1, called "The Body of an American". Its first volume contains Margo Dowling, who becomes a movie star, and the pilot Charley Anderson, who dies after descending into alcoholism, and ends with a description of a hitchhiker in a section called "Vag." In the second volume, an account of the deeds and works of Thorstein Veblen is presented in the biographical section "The Bitter Drink." This book states "all right we are two nations" as Mary French returns for the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. This series of books incorporates many newsreels and "Camera Eye" sections to convey a stream of consciousness style. FTP, name this trilogy including The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money, a work by John Dos Passos.

USA trilogy

One character in this work lectures on deforestation and remarks that when he plants a tree "my heart swells with pride". A woman in this play proclaims, "I shall take this pencil for your memory!" after her love interest cries, "E finita la commedia!" in the final act. At the end of this work, a man nicknamed "Waffles" plays guitar while one character delivers a Utopian vision of the future ending with the sentence "We shall find peace" repeated three times. The character who gives that speech is in love with a doctor obsessed with restoring the forests, but Astrov only has eyes for Helen, the young wife of retired professor Alexander Serebryakov. FTP, name this play set on a country estate worked by Sonya and her title relative, a work by Chekhov.

Uncle Vanya

The protagonist of this novel is knocked unconscious by Hercules and stabbed by Sir Meliagraunce. His protege is Amyas le Poulet, and La Cote Male Taile is one of his soap missionaries, who uses the slogan "Patronized by the Elect." After the blacksmith Dowley complains about wages, the protagonist of this novel explains the concept of real wages to a perplexed audience, and the common people call him The Boss. In this work, the title character explodes a tower and repairs the masonry in the bottom of a well, and that character eventually marries Sandy, and has a child named Hello-Central, whose illness forces a trip to France. The protagonist of this work finds himself backed into a cave with his protege Clarence, with whom he makes a final stand against all the knights of England with a few Gatling guns and electrocuted fences, on which Merlin electrocutes himself. 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.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

This novel inspired a nonfiction book written by Elizabeth Jane Cochrane under the pseudonym Nellie Bly. In this novel, James Forster is fired for preparing shaving water at 84 degrees Fahrenheit. Due to his resemblance to James Strand, the protagonist is pursued by Inspector Fix. After missing the Carnatic, the protagonist travels aboard the Tankadere and later the General Grant to go from Hong Kong to San Francisco. Later, the protagonist purchases the China, instructing its crew to burn wood for fuel. This novel's protagonist rescues Aouda from performing Sati, and retrieves his manservant from a circus in Yokohama. The International Dateline saves the day, and allows the protagonist to win a bet with the Reform Club. FTP, name this novel by Jules Verne, in which Passepartout and Phileas Fogg circumnavigate the globe.

Around the World in Eighty Days

The protagonist of this novel takes a job under an ignorant boss who just organizes rallies such as Tougher Teeth Week and Banish the Booze Week. The title character is fired for ordering the McCandless tenements to be burnt down after inheriting the position of Dr. Almus Pickerbaugh. Its protagonist is modeled after Paul DeKruif, and discovers that the X Principle might prevent bacterial disease, only to learn that D'Herelle has already published the results. At the end of this novel the protagonist divorces his second wife Joyce Landon and goes to work with Terry Wickett in rural Vermont. The title character is invited to join the McGurk Institute by his former teacher Max Gottlieb, and his wife Leora Tozer dies from an infected cigarette while he is studying the bubonic plague on the island of St. Hubert. For 10 points, name this novel about the title doctor, Martin, by Sinclair Lewis.

Arrowsmith

People who disappear in this work include Midas Mulligan, Richard Haley and Ellis Watt. Quentin Daniels eventually joins them when he attempts to discover the secrets of a scientifically impossible motor. Wesley Mouch passes legislation to cripple industrialists such as Dan Conway in this work. Another of its characters, Ragnar Danneskjold, is a ship-plundering pirate.One character in this novel sets oil wells to fire, called Wyatt's torch, after the government passes laws that hamper his business. Francisco d'Anconia sacrifices his love in order to join a group opposing the looters, an organization including the protagonist's brother James, who suffers a mental breakdown at the novel's end. By the end, Hank Rearden and Dagny Taggart join a strike lead by John Galt. Conveying its writer's philosophy of objectivism, for 10 points, name this Ayn Rand novel named after a Titan.

Atlas Shrugged

At the beginning of this novel, the main character believes his alarm clock to be a status symbol, and his blanket to represent the Wild West. One of this novel's chapters parallels awkward dinner parties with the McKelveys and the Overbrooks, and its main character receives a private loan from William Washington Eathorne after helping him publicize the Sunday School of Reverend John Jennison Drew. Ted marries Eunice at the end of this novel, in which the protagonist attacks liberal lawyer Seneca Doane. His wife's appendicitis causes him to rekindle his marriage, which he'd abandoned during a period in which he refuses to join the Good Citizen's League, has an affair with (*) Tanis Judique, and supports the socialist Seneca Doane. Paul Riesling's imprisonment for shooting his wife Zilla inspires this husband of Myra to rebel against conformity For 10 points, name this novel about the title businessman in the town of Zenith, a work of Sinclair Lewis.

Babbitt

Near its end, former soldier George Rouncewell touchingly reunites with his mother after being wrongfully imprisoned, and Caddy Jellyby and Prince Turveydrop recount their marriage. In this novel, an opium overdose kills a lodger at the rag and bottle shop owned by Mr. Krook, who spontaneously combusts. That lodger, Captain Hawdon, is the father of this novel's narrator with Lady Dedlock. In this novel, Tulkinghorn is killed by Hortense and Richard Carston wastes away while pursuing a case involving a man who becomes the guardian of Esther Summerson at this novel's title estate. For 10 points, name this novel about the case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, by Charles Dickens.

Bleak House

A character in this novel asks to be brought a copy of Cherbuliez's Paule Méré, whose plot mirrors that of this work, and 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.

Daisy Miler

This novel ends mid-sentence with the words "we can scarcely" as the Prince comments on the dark future, and its first part ends with a comparison of a country to a speeding sled. That prince, Prince Uziakin imprisons the protagonist for forging a will, and another character is described as bearlike and owns furniture that resembles himself. The protagonist is accused first of being Napoleon, and then the one-armed, one-legged Captain Kopeikin, and bets the title items with the gambler Nozdrev. In this novel, Petrushka and Selifan aid the protagonist, a traveling salesman, in his dealings with the landowners Sobakevitch and Manilov. Set in 19th century Russia, the title entities mean status for Pavel Chichikov. For 10 points, name this novel by Nikolai Gogol.

Dead Souls

In this work, the Spaniard Allende references a lost El Greco painting. One character is known by the nicknames 'Blanchett and 'Trompe-la-morte', or death-cheater, while another hires French architect Molny to complete a Santa Fe cathedral. Including the aboriginal Sada, parrot-collecting Father Jesus de Baca, and Bishop Montferrand, this novel bases its protagonists off Jean-Baptiste Lamy and Joseph Projectus Machebeuf, and those protagonist loose many of their supplies in a shipwreck off Galveston. In this work, Jacinto is seen guarding the opening of a ceremonial cave. Antonio Jose Martinez instigates a revolt of the Taos Indians earlier in this work. Magdalena warns the title character of the evil intentions of her husband Buck Scales and lives with Kit Carson. The lifelong friend of the title character of this work is Father Joseph Vaillant. For 10 points, name this novel centering on Father Jean Marie Latour's experiences in New Mexico, a work of Willa Cather

Death Comes for the Archbishop

The protagonist of this work includes the poems "Bad Roads in Spring" and "Fairy Tales" in a seasonally themed collection opening with "Hamlet". Opening with the title protagonist being escorted to his mother's funeral by his uncle Kolia, this novel sees that character marry Tonia before being drafted into World War I. As a student, the protagonist lives in Professor Gromeko's household, and later the nickname Strelnikov, or "the shooter", is applied to his friend Pasha. The protagonist of this novel is kidnapped by the leader of the Forest Brotherhood, Liberius. In a scene in this novel, Amalia Guishar attempts to kill herself by drinking poison, but is saved by Misha Gordon. After causing the ruin of the protagonist's father, Victor Komarovsky grows obsessed with Lara. For 10 points, name this novel smuggled out of the Soviet Union following the life of Yuri, by Boris Pasternak.

Doctor Zhivago

In one line from this poem, the speaker describes the illusion of a world that appears "so various, so beautiful, so new". One part of this work sees the author use the metaphor of the "folds of a bright girdle furl'd" while another section states the world lies "before us like a land of dreams". The "turbid ebb and flow / Of human misery" posited in this poem stems from an "eternal note of sadness" heard under the "naked shingles of the world" and also by "Sophocles long ago." Beginning with "the sea is calm tonight," identify this work in which a "tranquil bay" sits near where "the cliffs of England stand", in a world "where ignorant armies clash by night", a poem by Matthew Arnold.

Dover Beach

In a story from this collection, Kathleen's mother refuses to let her daughter participate in her third concert until she is paid in full. In another story in this book, a man who drinks with Ignatius Gallaher becomes frustrated after his reading of Byron's poetry causes his child to cry. Stories in this collection include "A Mother" and one about Little Chandler, "A Little Cloud." The Hungarian pianist Villona performs aboard Farley's yacht in a story from this collection that introduces Jimmy Doyle as a passenger in Charles Segouin's car. In a different story, a boy goes to buy a gift for Mangan's sister at a bazaar. Those works are "After the Race" and "Araby." A man suffers a nervous breakdown after breaking a chalice in one story in this collection, which includes the boy, Old Cotter, and Eliza mourning Father James Flynn. The last story in this collection is set at the Morkan sisters' annual dance, and ends with an image of snow falling on the grave of Michael Furey's grave, a youthful love of Gabriel Conroy's wife. "The Sisters" and "The Dead" bookend, for 10 points, what short story collection by James Joyce?

Dubliners

In this poem, "my friend" likely refers to the poet to whom it was originally dedicated, Jessie Pope. An early version of this poem was sent to the author's mother from Craiglockhart. It discusses how a group of "Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots but limped on, blood-shod", before claiming that "all went lame; all blind; drunk with fatigue". The second section of this work describes how "someone still was yelling out and stumbling, and flound'ring like a man in fire or lime" after "tired, outstripped Five-Nines...dropped behind". Its second stanza describes an "ecstasy of fumbling", after which a man plunges at its speaker, "guttering, choking, drowning". In this poem's third stanza, the speaker claims that "If you could hear...the blood / Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs," then "My friend, you would not tell...The old Lie" of the title. For 10 points, name this poem about a gas attack on retreating infantrymen by Wilfred Owen, whose title is a quotation from Horace.

Dulce Et Decorum Est

This work contains excerpts from the text In My Father's House by Princess Irulan and its central family is betrayed by the Suk Doctor Wellington Yueh. Another character practices the Weirding Way , the fighting technique of the Reverend Mother, in preparation for war with Padishah Empoeror Shaddam IV and Baron Vladimir Harkonnen. The Ginaz swordsman Duncan Idaho dies during a raid of Empirial Sardaukar, but his reincarnated ghola is revealed to be the true Kwisatz Haderach sought by the Bene Gesserit. Its main characters include Lady Jessica and her son Paul Atreides, who settle on the titular planet, Arrakis. For 10 points, name this science fiction novel that centers on the spice produced by giant sandworms, a work by Frank Herbert.

Dune

Onomatopoeic images appearing early in this poem include a beetle's "droning flight" and a "moping owl" under the moon. In the fourth stanza, the speaker of this poem sees "mouldering heaps" of turf around objects, and later laments the "heart once pregnant with celestial fire." This poem asks "Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust, / Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death?" before lamenting that "Full many a gem of purest ray serene, / The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear." This poem claims that "The paths of glory lead but to the grave" and later describes how one of the people in the title location may be "Some mute inglorious Milton" or "Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood." This poem includes the line "The paths of glory lead but to the grave," and it describes a location where one can avoid "ignoble strife," "far from the madding crowd." For 10 points, name this elegy written for common people, a work of Thomas Gray.

Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard

One character in this novel is worried after hearing an acquaintance dined with the Cox family at the Coles' party, and another character in it travels to Highbury as a result of Colonel and Mrs. Campbell's trip to Ireland. One episode in this novel sees boarding school mistress Mrs. Goddard attend a dinner party, and this novel begins with Miss Taylor leaving Hartfield. The protagonist of this novel suspects a piano was gifted by Mr. Dixon. The niece of the chatty Miss Bates, Jane Fairfax, is secretly engaged to Frank Churchill in this novel, which later sees Robert Martin, rather than Mr. Elton, ends up marrying Harriet Smith. For 10 points, name this novel by Jane Austen in which the titular matchmaking Miss Woodhouse marries George Knightley.

Emma

This poem was a reworked version of its author's earlier "I stood tiptoe upon a hill." Its protagonist sees his lover's face in a well and hears her voice emerging from a cave. The title character of this poem overhears the river Alpheus complaining to the chaste nymph Arethusa after a butterfly leads him to Adonis. The protagonist fulfills the prophecy of a scroll by descending to the bottom of the ocean, where he helps Glaucus revive the drowned lovers and goes to the Hall of Neptune. In the first of this poem's four books, the title character's sister Peona asks him why he is so depressed at a festival of Pan. It begins "a thing of beauty is a joy forever." For 10 points, name this long John Keats poem in which the title shepherd is loved by the moon goddess Cynthia.

Endymion

Two characters in this play use the code word "Kenilworth" to pretend that they immediately need to leave and catch a plane. A character in this play pretends to be an executive from American Express, Ray Morton, to prevent James Lingk from canceling a contract. A competition in which the winner receives a Cadillac and the loser is fired is announced by Mitch and Murray before the action of this play. Moss attempts to convince Aaronow to go along with his plan. At the end of this play, the fact that the Nyborgs are mentally ill and have no money is revealed by manager John Williamson, whose office was robbed by Shelley Levene, who has been outperformed by the younger Ricky Roma. For 10 points, identify this play about Chicago real estate agents by David Mamet.

Glengarry Glen Ross

Two characters in this novel argue whether women have been cursed to suffer the fate of putting up with men, or vice versa. One character in this novel goes to prison after getting grouped in with a bunch of robbers in a subway station; that character, who falls in love with Elizabeth at a diner, is revealed to be the protagonist's true father, Richard. One character in this novel is asked if he has never been "made to drink a cup of sorrow" before being shown a letter from his dead wife Deborah, which Florence kept in her handbag for years. This novel's protagonist is upset when his brother comes home with a knife gash and doesn't know why that brother, Roy, is favored by his preacher stepfather Gabriel. This novel takes place on the fourteenth birthday of its protagonist, who experiences a religious revelation. For 10 points, name this semi-autobiographical novel about John Grimes, by James Baldwin.

Go Tell It on the Mountains

In this play, a father sends Reynaldo to France to spy on his son, and "The Murder of Gonzago" is staged to verify one character's guilt. In this play, Osric invites the protagonist to fence a man with a poisoned sword. The central character swaps execution letters before entering England, leading to the deaths of two friends from Wittenberg, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Fortinbras is greeted by Horatio in this work, and that character soliloquizes the death of Yorick. The title character of this work tells Ophelia to "get thee to a nunnery" before she commits suicide, and duels Laertes. Polonius is killed by that character, who suspects Gertrude and Claudius for being complicit in his father's death. FTP, name this Shakespearean tragedy about a Prince of Denmark who asks, "to be or not to be."

Hamlet

In this play, a porter and man complain about the crowds at a christening. One character's letters to the pope are sent instead to the kick, and he subsequently must send away his follower Cromwell. The Duke of Norfolk and Lord Abergavenny discuss the power of one character with Lord Buckingham, who is later arrested for treason. Another character confers with the Old Lady before being Marchioness of Pembroke, and had previously danced with the title character dressed as a masquer. A different character in this play is visited by Caputius and tried by Campeius for adultery. Cardinal Wolsey puppeteers, for 10 points, the divorce of Queen Katherine in favor of Ann Boleyn by the title king in this play by Shakespeare.

Henry VIII

One character in this novel perceives "a goblin footfall" in Beethoven's Fifth, and that character's sister perceives "rounded Druids" and is "thrilled with poetry" at the dwelling of Oniton. Tibby is told of his sister's intent to travel to Germany after Aunt Juley Munt tells that sister to break off her affair with Paul. Paul's father marries a woman who insists he see the connection between his own affair with Jacky and the affairs of a man who dies when a bookcase falls on him after Charles beats him with a saber for an affair with Helen. Seeing the death of Leonard Bast and the marriage of Henry Wilcox to Margaret Schlegel, thus giving her the deed to the title estate, for 10 points, name this novel of E.M Forster.

Howard's End

In this play, a chorus of Troezan wives profess the title character's innocence. One character in this play reminds his father that he had promised him three curses. In a monologue, this play's protagonist says that men should be able to go to Zeus's temple and buy a child. This play opens with the monologue of a goddess who identifies herself as Cypris and explains her plan to punish the protagonist for spurning her in favor of Artemis. At the end of this play, Poseidon heeds the plea of Theseus and sends a bull from the sea to frighten the horses pulling the title character's chariot, mortally wounding him. For 10 points, name this Euripides play in which Aphrodite makes Phaedra fall for her title misogynistic stepson.

Hyppolytus

After disguising as a gypsy, one character in this novel breaks off his engagement to Blanche Ingram, and another has the word "Resurgam" placed on her tombstone after dying of consumption. That character, Helen Burns, attended the Brocklehurst-run Lowood school with this novel's protagonist, who rejects St. John Rivers and a chance to be a missionary's wife in India after hearing her former love call her name. That protagonist, the governess of Adele Varens doubts Alice Fairfax, who blames strange happenings on Grace Poole. Those happenings are caused by Bertha Mason, who burns down Thornfield Hall. FTP, identify this novel whose protagonist eventually marries Rochester, the most famous work of Charlotte Bronte.

Jane Eyre

The protagonist of this work offers a five-shilling reward to a blind man with a pistol to guide him to Torosay and soon encounters Mr. Henderland in the chapter "The Lad with the Silver Button". Its narrator is almost killed when he is tricked into ascending a poorly-lit, unfinished staircase after leaving his home of Essendean. The protagonist of this work encounters Cluny Macpherson, and witnesses a bagpipe contest involving Robin Oig and halted by Duncan Dhu. A cabin boy named Ransome is brutally beaten by Mr. Shuan in this novel, whose protagonist becomes a confidant of Alan Breck Stewart, a Jacobite who is hunted by the Red Fox. Its narrator initially believes he's being cheated out of his father's inheritance by his uncle, Ebenezer, and soon gets shanghaied by Captain Hoseason of the Covenant. For 10 points, name this novel about the adventures of David Balfour following his abduction, a work by Robert Lewis Stevenson.

Kidnapped

This work equates Satan with Hermes Trismegistus, and a poem published posthumously in it is dedicated to Theodore de Banville. Excised poems from this work were later published as Les Epaves. "My decomposed love" is the addressee of a poem in this work, "A Carcass". This work, which describes a place of "luxury, peace, and pleasure" in one section, repeats the line "have pity on my long despair!" in "The Litanies of Satan". One part of this work describes the title location as "the land of hot and languorous nights . . . where the kisses are like cascades!" In addition to "Lesbos", another poem in this collection is addressed to "mother of memories, mistress of mistresses" and is titled "The Balcony". One poem describes what "the men of a crew" do "to amuse themselves," and another poem talks about a figure who "like the stab of a knife / entered my plaintive heart." Its longest section features poems such as "Sorrows of the Moon," "The Sick Muse," and "Invitation to the Voyage." Containing poems such as "The Albatross" and "The Vampyr," this work is dedicated to Theophile Gautie. Including such sections as "Wine", "Death", and "Spleen and Ideal", this collection describes boredom as the worst of evils, which lurks inside the "hypocrite reader, you, my twin, my brother!". For 10 points, name this vaguely scandalous poetry collection penned by Charles Baudelaire.

Les Fleurs du Mal

One character in this novel saves a man's life while looting corpse, and receives two silver candlesticks from Bishop Myriel shortly before stealing a coin from a child named Petit Gervais. Enjolras leads the Friends of the ABC in the June 5 revolt, during which Gavroche is shot and killed. During that conflict, Eponine takes a bullet for one character and subsequently dies. After being fired from a factory, one character sells her hair and front teeth. That character is Fantine, and her daughter is dogged by the Patron-Minette. The protagonist settles down at Gorbeau House after confronting Thenardiers and retrieving Cosette, who promptly falls in love with a revolutionary named Marius. FTP, Inspector Javert attempts to apprehend Jean Valjean, by Victor Hugo.

Les Miserables

Inspired after the author went on a trip of Southern England with his friend William Culvert, the narrator of this poem says to another person that "thy memory be as a dwelling place" and "thy mind / Shall be a mansion." The speaker of this poem laments that "the fever of the world" has "hung upon the beatings of my heart" before elaborating about a "wanderer thro' the woods." The speaker sees "hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows" and notices "some Hermit's cave, where by his fire/the Hermit sits alone." The narrator describes "when I again repose / here" after "Five years have passed" and the "Steep woods and lofty cliffs" of the title location have become "More dear". Set on July 13, 1798., FTP, name this final poem in Lyrical Ballads about revisiting the title location near the river Wye with his sister Dorothy, written by William Wordsworth.

Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

In one part of this work Phoebus states that "fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. The central event of this poem is described as "killing as the canker to the rose". Its speaker asks for our "frail thoughts" to "dally with false surmise" to "interpose a little ease". This poem calls fame the "last infirmity of noble mind". Keys "of metals twain" are borne by the "Pilot of the Galilean lake" in one part of this work, and in another section of this work the narrator asks "who would not sing for" the title character and invites the "sisters of the sacred well" to begin. The narrator laments his plucking of "Berries harsh and crude" in this poem, while Dolphins are ordered to "waft the helpless youth" after the lines "Look homeward angel now, and melt with ruth" and "weep no more". For 10 points, name this pastoral elegy written for Edward King by John Milton.

Lycidas

Thomas de Quincey wrote an essay about the event that opens this play's Act II, Scene 3. After Malcolm and Donalbain flee, the title character hires three men to kill Fleance, but he escapes. A soliloquy from this play features the main character lamenting "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player". That character dreams of a bloody dagger, while his wife states "too full o' the milk of human kindness," and "Screw your courage to the sticking place," and sleepwalks, mumbling "Out, damned spot! Out, I say!" After receiving a prophecy from Hecate, one of the three witches, the title character murders his friend Banquo and delivers the soliloquy "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" after his wife's suicide. While an army disguised as Birnam Wood approaches Dunsinane, the title character is defeated by a man not born of woman, Macduff. FTP, name this play in which the title character murders King Duncan, in a work often called The Scottish Play by Shakespeare.

Macbeth

One character in this play cites the Roman Empire under the Antonines as an example of why one's successor should always be adopted. In it, Lord Saxmundham of Bodger's Whiskey is willing to donate five thousand pounds to Mrs. Baines, a sum which is matched by the owner of Perivale St. Andrews. One character was laid off because he could not afford threepenny's worth of hair dye. A different character in this play beats another while searching for his girl, Mogg Abijam, who ran off with the wrestler Todger Fairmile. Two characters in this play are nicknamed Cholly and Dolly. Rummy and Snobby Price please Jenny Hill by lying about their crimes and Bill Walker attacks Mitchens. This play ends with the middle child of Lady Britomart and Andrew Undershaft attempting to convert the factory workers to God after resigning from the Salvation Army and marrying Adolphus Cusins. For ten points, name this play by George Bernard Shaw.

Major Barbara

At the end of one section of this play, a woman asks "Tell me where can I find" the title character, to which another character responds, "He is not yet created;" that section is interrupted by a voice slowly becoming intelligible crying, "Automobile, Automobile." A woman in this play announces her pregnancy and impending marriage but only at the end does she reveal her partner to be the wealthy Hector Malone. That woman is Violet, sister of suitor Octavius Robinson. A famous sequence in this play occurs after the chauffeur Henry Straker and his employer are imprisoned by the League of the Sierra under Mendoza; that third act features Roebuck Ramsden as a Statue and Mendoza as the Devil and is sometimes performed on its own as "Don Juan in Hell." For 10 points, name this play about the pursuit by Ann Whitefield of John Tanner written by George Bernard Shaw

Man and Superman

At the end of this play, the gardener Seth assists in boarding up the house. One character in this novel carries on an affair with a Polynesian man named Avihenna. A brother and sister named Peter and Hazel become engaged to two of the central characters, though both engagements are broken. One character's brother, Dave, ran off with an Indian girl named Marie Brantome. That union produced Adam Brant, who has an affair with Christine, who kills Ezra. For 10 points, name this play in which Orin commits suicide at the behest of Lavinia, a work about the Mannons that is a retelling of the Orestia by Eugene O'Neill.

Mourning Becomes Electra

A celebrated passage in this novel describes its protagonist as being as "free from evil in the moment of waking as a magnificent wild beast" before stating that "under a thoughtful frown appeared the man." This novel opens by relating a story of two treasure seekers whose ghosts haunt a ravine in the Azuera peninsula. Its protagonist is named Giovanni Battista Fidanza, and, after overthrowing Guzman Bento, Ribiera takes control of the central country. Its protagonist rides to Cayta to rescue Barrios and defeat the Monterists on the urging of Dr. Monygham. Other characters in this novel include Martin Decoud, who commits suicide after hiding silver on the island of the Great Isabel, and Charles Gould, who runs the San Tome mine in Sulaco. Set in the South American republic of Costaguana, it focuses on the "incorruptible" Capitaz de Cargadores. For 10 points, name this 1904 Joseph Conrad novel about the title Italian.

Nostromo

Originating from a contest with Horace Smith, this poem was composed as a Petrarchan sonnet. A figure in this poem who "stamped on these lifeless things passions read" is referenced as "the hand that mocked them and the hand that fed". This poem is framed as the story of "a traveler from an antique land" who describes a "half sunk" and "shattered visage" near "two vast and trunkless legs of stone". For 10 points, name this Percy Bysshe Shelley poem about the "colossal wreck" of a "king of kings" who ironically commands, "look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!".

Ozymandias

In this novel, Rooke tends to a woman who warns the protagonist. That woman is Mrs. Smith. During a trip to Lyme Regis in this novel, the protagonist meets James Benwick and Captain Harville, and Louisa Musgrove gets a concussion. Mrs. Clay becomes the mistress of William Elliot after he leaves Bath. FTP, name this novel in which navy captain Frederick Wentworth marries Anne Elliot, a work by Jane Austen.

Persuasion

The title character of this poem may have been modeled after the author's brother Hennan, though that man was a heavy drinker, unlike the subject of this poem. The pronoun "we" likely refers to the residents of Tillbury Town, who are "on the pavement" and later "[wait] for the light". The title character is described as being imperially slim, clean favored, and quietly arrayed. He was always human when he walked and glittered when he talked. A gentleman from sole to crown, he was richer than a king and admirably schooled in every grace. Others went without meat and cursed the bread, but on a calm summer night he went home and put a bullet through his head. Turned into a song with the same name and a similar theme by Simon & Garfunkel, this is, for 10 points, what titular character of an Edwin Arlington Robinson.

Richard Cory

One character in this play explains that if the roast chicken is dropped, it will have to be washed off with the wine and then he will have to make iced tea, and concludes that he has died from eating bad liver paste before his wife instructs him to adopt the posture of a submissive animal. Another character in this play repeats the line "Such noise they make!" each of the four times a jet passes by overhead. Act I of this play ends with those two characters rolling onto their backs as one tells the other to "smile! And mean it!" The end of its second and final act sees those characters explain the process of evolution, as one of them describes life with the phrase "mutate or perish", to this play's two other characters. One of the four characters in this play is driven to tears when asked what she would do if her husband left her forever. Two characters realize that they must change or perish after Leslie tries to choke Charlie. Nancy is Charlie's human wife, and Sarah is Leslie's lizard mate, in, for 10 points, what play by Edward Albee?

Seascape

This work sees Mr. Kimble, a town doctor without a medical degree, become very irritable when playing cards, as well as the marriage of William Dane to Sarah, the former fiancee of another character. The main character of the work begins the novel living in Lantern Village before he is falsely accused of stealing from his church's congregation and driven out of town.The title character of this work goes to an inn called The Rainbow to because he suspects Jem Rodney of stealing his money, though it is actually stolen by a man who injures the prized horse Wildfire. Molly Farren dies in the snow during her journey to Red House, freeing one character from a marriage preventing him from marrying Nancy Lammeter, while that character's brother Dunstan steals the title character's gold. In this novel, Aaron Winthrop wants to marry a character whose biological father is Godfrey Cass. The title character cares for Eppie in, for 10 points, which novel about the titular weaver of Raveloe, a work by George Eliot?

Silas Marner

The protagonist of this novel is allowed to keep some savings for a hat in the winter season and is taken to Garfield Park before being given 20 dollars after a huge lunch. This novel ends with a man using a gas jet to commit suicide in a flophouse, and that character used to frequently stay in hotels looking at rich people. The protagonist uses the last name Wheeler while married, and assumes a pensive pose while on a rocking chair frequently. Bob Ames and the Vances help the protagonist join the stage, and that protagonist lives with Lola and is the subject of interest of Charles Drouet. For ten points, money is stolen from a salon by George Hurstwood in this work focusing on Caroline Meeber written by Theodore Dreiser.

Sister Carrie

Thomas James Wise authenticated a valuable forgery of this work called the Reading Edition. One poem in this collection recalls how the addressee "stole betwixt" the speaker "and the dreadful outer brink" and begins "The face of all the world is changed, I think." In its first poem, the speaker describes being drawn "backward by the hair" by a "mystic Shape" misidentified as Death. The speaker urges: "Gather the north flowers to complete the south / And catch the early love up in the late" in one of these poems. One of these declares: "If thou must love me, let it be for naught / Except for love's sake only". Due to their intimate nature, these works were originally presented as having been written in Bosnian. The first poem in this collection evokes "how Theocritus had sung of the sweet years." Its most famous poem declares that "if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death." the penultimate poem in this collection, the speaker claims she loves "to the depth and breadth and height / My soul can reach". For 10 points, name this poetry collection which includes the lines "call me by my pet name" and "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways," and which was written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Sonnets from the Portugese

The author had originally intended to name the three main characters Francis Melarkey, and Seth and Dinah Piper but changed them around when he finished the novel. Some characters, such as the McKiscos, however, did survive the character changes. In one scene from this novel the main character saves Lady Caroline Sibly-Biers from prison after he had earlier screamed at her while on T. J. Golding's yacht. In this novel Jules Peterson is found murdered in a hotel room in a series of incidents blamed on Abe North. In this novel Elsie Speers manages the career of an actress who starred in the film Daddy's Girl. Dr. Franz Gregorovius runs a Zurich clinic where the main character meets his wife who later has an affair with Tommy Barban. At the end of this novel Nicole Warren asks the protagonist for a divorce because of his affair with Rosemary Hoyt. For 10 points, name this novel about the failed psychologist Dick Diver, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Tender is the Night

After the incident in the Village Hall, the narrator of this work claims to see an Indian chief, the goddess Diana, and a Bavarian broom-girl in the forest outside Paul Dudley's ancient stone wall. In this novel, the story of Fauntleroy is told by a character who seeks to obtain money from the narrator's daughter to build a school for criminals. In its fourteenth chapter, the main characters discuss the place of women after journeying to Eliot's pulpit, and in its first chapter, the narrator talks with Old Moodie before setting out for the title location. After a magician's show in which Westervelt produces a Veiled Lady, Hollingsworth reveals his love for Priscilla, leading to the death of her half-sister Zenobia. Narrated by Miles Coverdale, FTP, name this Nathaniel Hawthorne novel based on Brook Farm.

The Blithesdale Romance

This work includes the ridicule of Pertelote after her husband fox Don Russell, captures the Chauntecleer. One part of this work features a schoolboy murdered by Jews who sings until a grain is removed from his tongue. Another chronicles three revelers who seek to slay death, only to be distracted by a bushel of gold. Those stories are told by the Nun's Priest, the Prioress, and the Pardoner. A different story in this work, set during the reign of Theseus, features a duel between Arcite and Palamon in order to win the love of Emily. Absolon brands the protagonist of another story after he convinces John to sleep in a bathtub. That man, Nicholas, loves John's wife Alison. A famous story in this work discusses the protagonists fifth marriage to Jankyn, and declares to Arthur's knight that women desire sovereignty over their husbands. Those stories are told by the knight, the miller, and the wife of Bath. Frequently interrupted by Harry Bailey, the storytellers of this work stay at Tabard Inn in Southwick, while on a pilgrimage to see the shrine of Thomas Beckett. FTP, name this work about a storytelling contest, written by Geoffrey Chaucer.

The Canterbury Tales

A landlady in this novel finds sympathy from the stable-boy Hans when she is abandoned by her love interest. The narrator of this novel is sheltered by the tanner Lasemann, who is the brother-inlaw of Otto Brunswick, according to Mark Harman's 1998 translation of this novel. A cobbler in this novel has his business ruined after his daughter Amalia rejects the advances of Sortini. Because the protagonist of this novel cannot tell his assistants Jeremiah and Arthur apart, he calls them both Arthur. This novel abruptly ends on the phrase "She spoke with difficulty, it was hard to understand her, but she said," an oddity preserved by Max Brod when he revised this novel to continue past the point where the barmaid Frieda leaves the protagonist. This novel's protagonist offends the villagers by trying to get a meeting with Klamm to discuss how a mistake in paperwork led to his being called in to work as a land surveyor. For 10 points, name this unfinished novel in which K is frustrated by an absurdly bureaucratic fortress, written by Franz Kafka.

The Castle

One part of this work describes souls that appear like snowflake falling upward, and St. Bernard provides the final instructions. This poem is set into motion by a lion, leopard, and she-wolf chasing a man halfway through his Biblical life. This poem's narrator sees soothsayers walking with their heads backwards, and on the frozen lake Cocytus, he encounters Brutus, Cassius, and Satan. One character from Malebolge gnaws on the head of Bishop Ruggieri, and another, Geryon, assists the protagonist. This work concludes with a visit to the Empyrean, and the protagonist is given misinformation about the existence of a certain bridge by Malacoda. This poem's narrator encounters Count Ugolino and Guido de Montefeltro, after being lost in a dark wood and passing through a gate inscribed "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here". He enters the city of Dis after encountering a couple murdered by Giovanni Malatesta, the adulterers Paolo and Francesca. The narrator is led through Hell and Purgatory by Virgil and through Heaven by Beatrice in, for 10 points, what epic poem by Dante?

The Divine Comedy

At the end of this story, the narrator attempts to calm down his friend by reading a story about a knight named Ethelred who kills a dragon in order to obtain a large amount of gold, a work called The Mad Trist. Earlier, one character in this work sings about "evil things, in robes of sorrow" which "assailed the monarch's high estate" in a poem titled "The Haunted Palace." A crack splits the title residence in two at the end of this novel. When Madeline dies, she is buried beneath the house, and the narrator learns that she is a twin with his friend Roderick. There are two versions of this story, since it was edited before being included in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. For 10 points, name this Edgar Allan Poe short story which ends with the collapse of the title estate.

The Fall of the House of Usher

This novel's narrator discusses tennis shoes over the phone with Klipspringer, and another character cries over a pile of shirts. Dan Cody served as a mentor for the title character, who dropped out of St. Olaf's College before befriending a gambler who allegedly fixed the World Series, Meyer Wolfsheim. 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. The protagonist watches a green light from his deck in West Egg. 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. FTP, what is this Jazz Age novel narrated by Nick Carraway and written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The Great Gatsby

Citizens in this novel use the Compuphone to order printed prayers from the franchise Soul Scrolls. A television broadcast in this work describes conflict between the Angels of the Apocalypse and Baptist guerillas, and later mentions the continuing resettlement of the Children of Ham in National Homeland One. This novel originates from cassettes transcribed by Professor Knotly Wade and Professor Pieixoto. A man affiliated with the Mayday resistance is kicked to death by Ofglen, who commits suicide before she can be arrested. A character frequents an illegal club in this novel known as Jezebel's, where Moira works as a prostitute after escaping the Red Center. Born Eurydice, the protagonist has a relationship with Mayday agent Nick and plays Scrabble with her boss, whose wife Serena Joy is jealous of the protagonist's fertility. For 10 points, name this dystopian novel set in the Republic of Gilead, run by the Sons of Jacob, about Offred, written by Margaret Atwood.

The Handmaid's Tale

In the seventh chapter of this novel, one character is revealed to have been romantically linked with both Lord Hubert and Prince Varigliano, and a panicked claim that the protagonist had been visiting a dressmaker raises suspicion over an innocent cup of tea at the Benedick in this novel. In one scene in this novel, Carry Fisher organises a tableaux vivante at a party in the Brys's conservatory, where the protagonist is presented as a Reynold's portrait and ends up kissing Gerty Farish's cousin. During a cruise on the yacht Sabrina, one character in this novel covers up an affair with Ned Silverton by accusing the protagonist of sleeping with her husband George Dorset. The protagonist's crippling bridge addiction drives off Percy Gryce, and she later rejects Simon Rosedale by burning love letters implicating Bertha Dorset, after a refusal to provide sexual favors to Gus Trennor triggers her ostracism from New York high society. Lawrence Selden discovers the overdosed body of Lily Barth at the end of, for 10 points, what novel by Edith Wharton?

The House of Mirth

One character in this play is mocked for not knowing which side of a cow has horns and tries to play the song "The Sunshine of Paradise Alley;" another is the son of a wealthy bucket manufacturer named Bill Oban. This play's three female characters include Margie and Pearl, who call themselves "tarts" rather than whores.Characters in this play include casino proprietor Joe Mott and Bible-quoting anarchist editor Hugo Kalmar. Other characters in this play include two former enemies from the Boer War named Cecil Lewis and Piet Wetjoen. The protagonist justifies to Detectives Moran and Lieb the murder of his wife Evelyn. The proprietor of this play's indoor setting hasn't left it for twenty years, since his wife Bess's death. Don Parritt finds an ex-anarchist named Larry in this play, whose intoxicated cast talks with salesman Theodore Hickman, nicknamed Hickey, about their "pipe dreams." For 10 points, name this play about the deadbeats at Harry Hope's bar, by Eugene O'Neill.

The Iceman Cometh

In this novel, Christopher Coney digs up a corpse to retrieve four pence. The protagonist doesn't give Joshua Jopp a job, but hires a man he meets at the Three Mariners. He loses respect when he punishes a perpetual over-sleeper by making him work without his pants. That character, Abel Whittle, later reveals a bunch of love letters, which leads to a skimmy ride that kills Lucetta Templeman. The title character dies sad and lonely after learning that Newson and Susan are the real parents of Elizabeth-Jane. Donald Farfrae takes the title position in, for 10 points, what novel about the fall of a man who sells his wife and daughter for five guineas, Michael Henchard, written by Thomas Hardy?

The Mayor of Casterbridge

One character in this play confides in her father's servant Lancelot and runs off with her mother's turquoise ring to marry Lorenzo. That character is Jessica. In this play, the Prince of Morocco declares "Never so rich a gem / Was set in worse than gold" while choosing from among three caskets. After the title character of this play tries to figure out why he is sad in a conversation with Salarino and Salanio, he is approached by Bassanio with a request for a loan. The clerk Stephano and the lawyer Balthazar in this play are really two women in disguise, one being Nerissa. One character states "If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?" before asking "Hath not a Jew eyes?", while another character, Portia, delivers the "Quality of Mercy" speech and tells "All that glisters is not gold". For 10 points, name this William Shakespeare play in which Antonio is sued for "a pound of flesh" by the Jewish moneylender Shylock.

The Merchant of Venice

In this play two marquises make a secret compact to work together to gain the affection of the title character's love interest. After announcing the appearance of an ominous man in a black suit who left a warrant for one character's arrest, the messenger Du Bois realizes he lost the warrant. Another character in this play, Oronte, recites a mediocre sonnet beginning, "Hope comforts us awhile, t'is true / Lulling our cares with careless laughter" before starting a libel case against the main character for criticizing the poem. In the final act of this play Arsinoe and Clitandre stand with a group of men who read aloud the love letters Celimene sent each of them, while Philinte becomes engaged to Eliante. For 10 points, name this Moliere play whose title character, Alceste, detests humanity.

The Misanthrope

The title object is originally owned by Joel Nolander, but is traded for one and a half slaves to Ophelia, who carves it with the likeness of those slaves. One character in this play sells a "magic suit," which he claims will help attract ladies, and the character Lymon attempts to get rich selling watermelons. One character's husband Crawley is killed during a failed timber robbery with two men who are sent to the Parchman Prison Farm. A legend from this play concerns a group of men burned alive by a mob in a train-car who later become the Ghosts of Yellow Dog, while one subplot sees Reverend Avery Brown court Maretha's mother. At the end of this play Willie Boy confront Sutter's ghost who only vanishes when Berniece plays the title musical instrument. For 10 points, name this 1990 play by August Wilson.

The Piano Lesson

One character in this novel gives a yellow book to the protagonist, who then ends up buying nearly a dozen copies of it. This novel's protagonist goes to an opium den after leaving Lady Narborough's party early. The central object of this novel is observed to be "sweating with blood" after the protagonist smells the nitric acid used by chemist Alan Campbell to dispose of a body. In this novel, a Shakespearean actress from the slums of London calls her lover "Prince Charming." That character, Sibyl Vane, commits suicide after being rejected by the protagonist, whose appearance fools her brother, James Vane. FTP, name this work in which Lord Harry Wotton inspires a character painted by Basil Hallward to pursue beauty and pleasure, the only novel by Oscar Wilde.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

A character in this novel believes that watches are "silly gadgets" and keeps time by transferring peas between two jars constantly. Other minor characters include smuggler Raoul and superintendent M. Michel. At the conclusion of this novel, a dragged-looking spaniel "somersaults like a pancake" after it is shot by a character whose shooting rampage kills nothing but the dog. An actor dies on stage while performing Orpheus and Eurydice in this novel, in which the magistrate Othon creates isolation camps. Earlier, the Jesuit Father Paneloux delivers impassioned sermons before joining Tarrou's quarantine effort. The journalist Raymond Rambert tries to flee from the setting of this novel, where Cottard is a smuggler of black market goods. Thousands of rats die in the streets of Oran at the opening of this novel. For 10 points, Doctor Bernard Rieux is the protagonist of what novel by Albert Camus, named for a disease?

The Plague

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. One character is encouraged by the protagonist, who visits her aunt Lydia, to marry the art collector Edward Rosier. The protagonist of this novel receives an estate bequeathed by Ralph Touchett, and rejects marriage proposal from both Lord Warburton and Caspar Goodwood. At the end of this novel, Madame Merle leaves for America, and Pansy begs the protagonist to return to her marriage with Osmond. For 10 points, name this novel by Henry James, in which Isabel Archer is the title woman.

The Portrait of the Lady

This work ends by extolling freedom from "dirty wind, fire, and water." "A hair ... divides the False and True," and "a single Alif were the clue." It begins by describing "the Sun, who scatter'd into flight / The Stars before him from the Field of Night." The narrator of this poem mentions a rose "where some buried Caesar bled" and many translations of this work begin with the word "Awake!" One stanza of this poem describes "Eternal Saki" pouring from a bowl. In one famous translation, it describes an argument between "Doctor and Saint" about "the Two Worlds." A phrase originating in this work is "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, / Moves on." One translation of this work describes "singing in the Wilderness" along with "A Book of Verses underneath the Bough / A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread--and Thou" and was made by Edward Fitzgerald. Name this collection of 11th- and 12th-century quatrains written in Persian by Omar Khayyam.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Translator Hitoshi Igarashi was killed as a result of the controversy generated by this novel. The radio evangelist Eugene Dumsday denounces evolution in this novel shortly before Jumpy Joshi dies in the burning Brickhall Community Relations building. A character in this novel is forced to eat his own excrement by the immigration officers Novak and Stein, and after he finally returns home he loses his job on The Aliens and finds his wife Pamela Lovelace having an affair. One of its protagonists struggles to reconcile with his cancer-ridden father Changez, who forces a maid/concubine to dress up as his dead wife. Dreams in this novel include one in which the butterfly-eating mystic Ayesha leads a pilgrimage into the ocean and one in which Jahilia is conquered by Mahound. Allie Cone is killed by a character in this novel who develops schizophrenia after surviving a fall from an exploding airplane. That man resembles the devil, while his rival symbolizes Archangel Gabriel. For 10 points, name this novel about Saladin Chamcha and Gibreel Farishta which prompted Ayatollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa calling for the death of its author, Salman Rushdie.

The Satanic Verses

This work introduces its narrator in "The Author's Account of Himself" and attempts to locate the Boar's Head Tavern. That character also stays at Bracebridge Hall for Christmas. Two famous stories in this collection are told by the fictional Dutch professor Diedrich Knickerbocker. One story in this collection features a man who plays ninepins in the Catskills, while Ichabod Crane is scared away from Katrina van Tassel by Brom Bones in another. FTP, name this collection of short stories which includes "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", a work by Washington Irving.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon

A section deleted from this novel titled "The Grey Man" was originally added at the request of William Ernest Henley. This book ends with the narrator missing his meeting with the publisher Richardson in order to wait half an hour for a character who never reappears. 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". The protagonist of this novel notices that a red rock is actually a giant crab, and the protagonist had previously entered the Palace of Green Porcelain and believed that he was in a communist society. This novella's protagonist accidentally sets a forest on fire, killing his diminutive companion Weena, though he is able to escape from the cave-dwelling Morlocks, who terrorize the peaceful Eloi. For 10 points, name this H.G. Wells novella whose protagonist uses the title device to visit the year 802,701 A.D.

The Time Machine

Two characters in this book later appear as the main characters of Many Waters. At one point in this book, two characters recite nursery rhymes and the Gettysburg Address to avoid being hypnotized by a man with red eyes. The main character of this book meets several tentacled creatures, including one called Aunt Beast. Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs.Which start this journey in this book. Some characters in this novel can kythe ("KITHE"), while others can tesseract. On Camazotz, the characters in this novel fight IT, who has imprisoned Dr. Murray, although Charles Wallace is able to defeat him after Meg loves him. For 10 points, name this novel by Madeleine L'Engle.

A Wrinkle in Time

The stage directions for this play, whose author revised its ending confrontation six times, include a "light box" upstage. Two men who interrupt each other to relay gossip in this play are called the Venticelli, and the king in this play randomly exclaims "There it is!" Its narrator slits his throat after calling himself the "patron saint of mediocrities," seduces Katherina with candies called "nipples of Venus," and rejects God after throwing a rival's manuscript pages in the air. At its end, Constanze cradles her dying, infantile husband as an "Amen" chord fails to resolve. For 10 points, name this Peter Shaffer play narrated by Salieri, who rages against a child prodigy composer.

Amadeus

A character in this novel deliberately makes the protagonist jealous by referring to the charms of Wallace Trone and a "peach of a boy" named Charlie. In the final chapter of this novel, Reverend Duncan MacMillan finds himself unable to lie to Governor David Waltham. This novel's protagonist withholds money from his pregnant sister Esta in order to buy a jacket for Hortense Briggs, money he earns while working at the Green-Davidson Hotel in Kansas City. After fleeing from a car accident caused by Willard Sparser, the protagonist of this novel contacts his uncle Samuel, who gets him a job in Lycurgus, New York. A climactic event in this novel takes place on Big Bittern Lake, where the protagonist's desire to marry Sondra Finchley leads him to kill his girlfriend Roberta Alden. For 10 points, name this novel about Clyde Griffiths, written by Theodore Dreiser.

An American Tragedy

One scene in this play sees a drunken man ejected after interrupting a meeting to demand his right to be heard. Petra loses her teaching position because of public outrage, and Morten Kiil tries to bribe one character with his inheritance. That character denounces the majority in a meeting held in Captain Horster's home. The People's Herald refuses to publish a report after Peter tells Aslaksen and Hovstad that its findings will cause the town's income to suffer. For 10 points, name this play in which Dr. Thomas Stockmann discovers that the town baths are contaminated, a work of Henrik Ibsen.

An Enemy of the People

This story's narrator believes that the constellations are arranged in a "secret and malign order" when he travels by nightfall. Divided into three parts, this story recounts how the protagonist observes that grey-eyed marksmen have the keenest eyes. At one point the protagonist of this work compares the ticking of his watch to the stroke of a blacksmith's hammer upon the anvil. In one scene the protagonist's wife gives a drink of water to a man who is actually a Federal scout. In its third section the protagonist, an Alabama planter, eludes a volley of gunfire after falling into a river, but this is later revealed to be a vision the protagonist has at the moment of his death. Found in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, Peyton Farquhar is hanged for attempting to burn down the titular structure in, for 10 points, what short story by Ambrose Bierce?

An Occurrence at Owl Bridge

One character in this play is killed by Orestes while voyaging to the Oracle of Delphi. That character, Neoptolemus, is married to the daughter of Menelaus, who find the protagonist's son Molossos. At the end of this play, the intervention of both Peleus and Thetis saves the protagonist, who is feuding with Hermione. FTP, identify this play about the mother of Astyanax and wife of Hector, a work by Euripides.

Andromache

In this novel, a woman divorces her second husband after finding him having sex with the maid Babette. A 48-year-old Senator in this novel falls into the snow and dies from a rotten tooth extraction shortly after reading a chapter of The World as Will and Idea. In this novel, Erica's failed marriage to Herr Weinschenk echoes her mother's two failed marriages to Herr Permaneder and Herr Grunlich. Christian's sexual deviance puts him at odds with his brother Tom in this novel, whose other major characters include the pair's sister, Tony. In this novel, Johann and Jean the Consul foster a dynasty that ends with Hanno's death from typhoid. For 10 points, name this Thomas Mann novel recounting generations of a merchant family in Lübeck.

Buddenbrooks

One character in this novel is a Francophile painter who sees, or hallucinates, a man slitting a baby's throat on a park bench. The sequel to this novel depicts Hazel receiving a fateful astrological reading from Fauna and is called Sweet Thursday. In one episode in this novel, the dog Darling eats most of a cake while a group of character are busy trading frogs for party supplies. The most respected character in this novel is based on the author's friend Ed Ricketts, who wrote Between Pacific Tides. Important locations in this novel include The Palace Flophouse, which is home to Mack and his boys, and the Bear Flag Restaurant, a brothel owned by Dora Flood. The grocer Lee Chong and the marine biologist Doc appear in, for 10 points, which novel set on a Monterey street lined with sardine fisheries, a work of John Steinbeck?

Cannery Row

One relationship in this play is described as so clean that "death was the only icebox where you could keep it." Another character in this play recounts how a drunk spat tobacco juice at Susan McPheeters, the Cotton Carnival Queen. The male lead in this play injured his ankle reliving his glory days jumping hurdles on a track. One character in this play is quickly rebuffed after mentioning that Sonny Boy Maxwell had made a pass at her. That character speaks about her romantic involvement with her husband's best friend before being interrupted by Dixie. In this play, the Ochsner Clinic falsely diagnoses one character with a "spastic colon" instead of terminal cancer, a lie that is further perpetuated by physician Doc Baugh. A character in this play doesn't feel peaceful unless he drinks until he hears a "click", which also eases his disgust with the world's "mendacity" and his sadness over Skipper's suicide. Gooper and Mae scheme against this play's protagonists to acquire the inheritance of the dying Big Daddy. For 10 points, name this Tennessee Williams play about Brick and Maggie Pollitt.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

The speaker of this poem sees "the marks of wanton hunger" on the faces of women and children, and described the title entity as "Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness." The speaker of this poem notes how the title entity laughs "with white teeth" and "as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle". Although the speaker concedes that he has seen "the gunman kill and go free to kill again" and "painted women under the gas lamps", he issues a challenge to, "Come and show me another (*) city with lifted head singing" and defends the title entity of this poem by asserting that it is a "Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler". For ten points, name this Carl Sandburg poem which calls the title city a "Tool maker", "Stacker of Wheat", "Hog Butcher for the world", and "City of the Big Shoulders".

Chicago

One character in this work frequently refers to waitresses as "goosepeppy", while another states that she shot nine Indians before she was five years old. Minor characters include Fernande Azered, a half Russian, half Portuguese woman that the protagonist has a brief affair with, and Ross Ireland, a reoccurring vagabond journalist that chats and travels with the protagonist. The protagonist meets his wife at the Kennepoose Canoe Club. This novel's protagonist is given a golden cigarette case after a three day love affair with the loud Nande Azerdo, and earlier he unsuccessfully attempts to hook up with Elsa under the assumed name of Pearson J. Thomas. While in Berlin, the protagonist is upset that his wife does not want to return home to see his new grandson from his daughter Emily, and earlier that protagonist attempts to refute some of Ross Ireland's criticisms of America. The protagonist flees England after Major Lockert makes advances on his wife, and returns to Paris after his wife gets too close to Arnold Israel. The protagonist, whose company was bought out by the U.A.C., ultimately ends up with Edith Cortright while Kurt von Obersdorf refuses to marry his wife Fran. For 10 points, name this novel by about the European travels of the titular Zenith auto executive, by Sinclair Lewis.

Dodsworth

Inspired by William Wilkinson's book "An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia with Political Observations Relative to Them", this novel features 'Count De Ville', who purchases fifty boxes and communes with a man who desires to absorb the life-forces of insects, Renfield. That man, this novel's antagonist, arrives in Whitby on the Russian ship Demeter, and leaves on the ship Czarina Catherine. Another character, working for Peter Hawkins of Exeter, is confronted by the three 'Weird Sisters'. One character in this novel is described by children as a "bloofer lady" and is engaged to a man who later becomes Lord Godalming. The Texan, Quincy, is killed while stabbing the antagonist in the heart. Much of this epistolary novel is narrated by Dr. Seward and Jonathan Harker, who attempts to save his fiancee Mina Murray by joining with Abraham Van Helsing. After the title character attacks Lucy Westenra, Lucy is destroyed by a stake through the heart. For 10 points, name this Bram Stoker novel about an immortal, bloodsucking Transylvanian noble.

Dracula

Toomis assigns the protagonist of this novel to work in Banjo Crossing, and after having a second child with Cleo Bentham, he starts sleeping in a separate bedroom from her. A graduate of Terwilliger college, the protagonist of this novel is inspired at a YMCA meeting, and the protagonist is blackmailed at the end of this novel because of his affair with Hettie Dowler. One character loses his sight in one eye after being beaten by an Albuquerque mob after changing the content of his messages to refer to a "Universal Spirit." Along with Frank Shallard, one character in this novel dies holding a wooden cross in the face of a fire, Sharon Falcon, and like Lulu Baynes, she has an affair with the protagonist. For ten points, identify this novel about the titular evangelist, which was written by Sinclair Lewis.

Elmer Gantry

In this novel, the protagonist's love interest first appears as an anonymous girl in a red scarf at a church dance. That girl rejects an advance by Denis Eady before the protagonist escorts her home. The title character of this work entertains the idea of deceiving Andrew Hale into lending him money to flee his home. While the wife of this novel's title character is away seeing a doctor, her favorite pickle dish is broken. This story is told as a flashback, as the narrator tries to uncover details about a man injured in a "smash up" in Starkfield. That man is the husband of the invalid Zeena, but he falls in love with her cousin, Mattie Silver. For 10 points, name this novel by Edith Wharton in which the title character and his lover attempt to commit suicide by crashing a sled

Ethan Frome

This work's antagonist is shot after saving a drowning girl, and before that learns of the love between Felix and the Turkish Safie. A character in this novel has a dream about kissing his lover, who then withers and turns into the maggot-infested corpse of his mother Caroline. That character, a student of Professors Krempe and Waldman. Another character in this book reads Plutarch's Lives while simultaneously observing the lives of the De Laceys, who live in a cottage. Alphonse, the father of the protagonist, dies soon after his son's wedding night, and Justine Moritz is framed for the murder of William. The frame story of this novel is told in a series of letters written to Margaret Saville by her brother, ship captain Robert Walton. The protagonist of this novel is friends with Henry Clerval, and marries Elizabeth Lavenza. For ten points, identify this Mary Shelley novel in which Victor, the title scientist, creates a monster in the lab.

Frankenstein

In the beginning of this play, one character cannot convince their father-in-law to buy them a taxicab, and another character's career as a promoter is ruined by the protagonist. Those characters are Siggie and Barker. Tokio trains the protagonist for his fight with Lombardo, and a broken hand shatters his father's dreams for him. The protagonist of this play is funded by Eddie Fuseli and mentored by Roxy Gottlieb. After killing the Baltimore Chocolate Drop in a fight, the protagonist is killed in a car crash with the lover of Tom Moody, Lorna Moon. FTP, name this play about a boxer torn between fighting and music, Joe Bonaparte, in a play by Clifford Odets.

Golden Boy

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. One character, groomed to be cold, is to marry Bentley Drummle, while another is a fraudster who abandons a woman from the Satis House and is killed identifying a criminal from New South Wales. That man is Comepyson. Dolge Orlick attempts to kill the protagonist after working as an assistant to the blacksmith Joe Gargery. This novel's main character befriends Startop and Herbert Pocket after moving to London with the help of Mr. Jaggers, who acts as the agent of a mysterious benefactor. The jilted Miss Havisham cares for Estella and a convict named Abel Magwich provides for Philip Pirrip in, for 10 points, what rags-to-riches novel about Pip, written by Charles Dickens?

Great Expectations

This poem is similar to one by Spenser that talks about smiling at one figure's pride, and this Petrarchan sonnet alludes to "terrified vague fingers" and transposes the image of shuddering loins with a burning tower and the corpse of Agamemnon. Concluding "before the indifferent beak could let her drop," for 10 points- name this Yeats poem about the conception of Helen and her siblings by Zeus in the form of a bird.

Leda and the Swan

A character in this novel initially confuses a woman with a ballet dancer named Sonia, and that character later scrawls a poorly-spelled letter warning his roommate to stay away from Marleen. The protagonist of this novel pretends to sing madrigals at a party where he falls asleep with a lit cigarette and sets a table on fire. This novel features a pretentious artist whose voice is often described as "braying," named Bertrand. Bertrand gives the title character a black eye after he has a secret rendezvous with Christine Callaghan. The title character is eventually fired from Redbrick University after he gives the drunken "Merrie England" speech satirizing Professor Welch and carrying on a disastrous romance with Margaret Peel.

Lucky Jim

At this novel's end, the protagonist gives birth to a baby girl who she decides will go to Vassar one day. The central location of this novel was based on the author's hometown of Sauk Centre, Minnesota. This novel's central character suggests Mrs. Bogart as a test during a car ride with Percy Bresnahan, the president of the Velvet Motor Company. Also in this novel, Bea Sorenson, marries Miles Bjornstam but later dies of illness. Vida Sherwin and Guy Pollock elect this novel's protagonist as part of a group that eventually puts on a performance of The Girl of Kankakee after Bernard Shaw is deemed to be too "highbrow." This novel's protagonist spends two years in Washington D.C. after the failure of her work with women's groups like the (*) Jolly Seventeen and the Thanatopsis Club. This novel's opening is set in Minneapolis, where the main character's future husband Will courts her before they resettle in Gopher Prairie. Carol Kennicott tries to change the humdrum townspeople in, for 10 points, what novel by Sinclair Lewis named for a small-town road?

Main Street

One character in this play is warned "not to unstop the wineskin's neck," and a woman reminds another character that she saved him from the "bulls of fiery breath," though that character later compares her to "a tigress or Scylla." A character in this play bemoans her lot as a barbarian bride and notes that she wreaked havoc upon Pelias' house in Iolcos. That woman leaves Corinth a the dragon-pulled chariot after she poisons Glauce and Creon with a magic robe. For 10 points, name this play in which the title sorcerer from Colchis slays her children as revenge for Jason's abandonment, a Greek tragedy by Euripides.

Medea

The narrator of this poem yells "Stay where you are until our backs are turned!" after discussing a "spell to make them balance." The narrator says that "Spring is the music in me," and notes that "here there are no cows" before discussing the difference between pines and apples in questioning the need for the titular structure. For 10 points, name this poem which includes the line "Good fences make good neighbors," written by Robert Frost.

Mending Wall

Some critics of this poem have focused on the role of the repetition of the words "and thought, and thought" in the second to last stanza. Other critics of this poem have noted its evocation of the Medici, although the subject of the poem "had never seen one." The title character of this poem, a "child of scorn" who "grew lean while he assailed the seasons", dreams of "Thebes and Camelot" and "Priam's neighbors" before he "coughed, and called it fate, and kept on drinking". FTP, name this poem by Edward Arlington Robinson who "loved the days of old when swords were bright and steeds were prancing".

Miniver Cheevy

In this novel, two Russians who threw a newlywed couple to a pack of hungry wolves in order to escape. This novel's narrator lends a good horse-collar to another character and grows angry when Ambrosch returns a worn-out one. In this novel, a former worker at the Gardener Hotel makes a fortune in the Yukon, making possible a life in San Francisco for that woman, Tiny Soderball. One protagonist of this novel meets the hired hands Otto Fuchs and Jake Marpole, shortly before the title character's father commits suicide. After the title character leaves the service of the Harling family, she works for the wicked moneylender Wick Cutter, who attempts to molest her. The protagonist of this novel is moved by Marguerite and Armand's drama in the play Camille, which he sees with longtime acquaintance Lena Lingard, who urges him to visit a woman abandoned by Larry Donovan. After twenty years, this novel's narrator returns to Black Hawk to visit the eldest Shimerda daughter, who is now married to Anton Cuzak. For 10 points, identify this novel about Jim Burden's friendship with a Bohemian woman in Nebraska, by Willa Cather. This character tells of two Russians who threw a newlywed couple to a pack of hungry wolves in order to escape.

My Antonia

At an auction in this novel, a character frantically signals her husband to buy another man's turquoise shirt stud, then retreats to her fortune-telling tent, where the other man kisses her. Near the end of this novel's first part, two characters take a five-day trip to the river country, where they encounter a man experimenting with clover hay and learn about Charley Fuller's acquisition plans. This novel's protagonist, against the wishes of siblings Oscar and Lou, resolves to not only keep the family farm but also to take out a second mortgage after a drought hits the area known as The Divide. A ruptured appendix causes the death of Amedee Chevalier in this novel's climactic fourth section, "The White Mulberry Tree". Its protagonist is advised to keep her hogs clean to ensure their survival by Crazy Ivar. Carl Linstrum marries this novel's protagonist, whose brother Emil is found embracing Marie and is killed by a drunken Frank Shabata. For 10 points, identify this Willa Cather novel about Alexandra Bergson.

O Pioneers

This poem compares wispy clouds to the "bright hair uplifted from the head / of some fierce Maenad." Its third stanza describes the "blue Mediterranean" and the "sapless foliage" which suddenly "grow grey with fear and tremble and despoil themselves." The title entity of this work is described as spreading "angels of rain and lightning." The narrator of this poem cries "I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!", and describes the title figure as both "destroyer and preserver." This poem employs the image of "ghosts from an enchanter fleeing" to describe the motion of dead leaves. The title force of this poem is the "breath of autumn's being." The speaker asks the title entity to "Drive my dead thoughts over the universe, / Like wither'd leaves" in this poem, which concludes by asking "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" For 10 points, name this poem addressed to a "breath of Autumn's being", written by Percy Shelley.

Ode to the West Wind

In the chapter of this work called "Rampart", the protagonist sees a mysterious cloud of smoke hovering over the seashore after escaping a watchtower in which he had been trapped by a herd of intelligent animals. At the end of this novel, the protagonist thinks "Zero hour...time to go" after habitually checking his broken watch. A flashback describes how its protagonist's father pursues a relationship with the lab tech Ramona after the protagonist's mother Sharon abandoned him, taking his pet rakunk Killer. In a narrative thread of this novel, the protagonist travels from the "pleeblands" to the ruins of Paradice. After spending a summer watching the Happicuppa riots, its protagonist lives with Bernice, who repeatedly burns his clothing, while attending Martha Graham Academy. That protagonist, who repeatedly remembers watching videos of Alex the parrot, finds a passage in the 1957 Encyclopedia Britannica in which Matthew of Edessa refers to the Pechenegs as "wicked blood-drinking beasts", giving him an edge in Barbarian Stomp, and later plays Blood and Roses with one of the title characters, who takes his nickname while playing Extinctathon. Those two characters later discover the other title character on the child porn site HottTotts. The second title character is hired by RejoovenEsense, where he hides the JUVE virus in BlyssPluss pills while working in the Paradice compound, paving the way for earth to be taken over by a race he engineered, known as his namesake "Children". This novel's sequel in the MaddAddam trilogy is The Year of the Flood. For 10 points, identify this postapocalyptic novel in which Jimmy, or Snowman, seems to be the last human on earth, a novel by Margaret Atwood.

Oryx and Crake

This work's last act begins with a train of dark Forms and Shadows mourning the death of the King of Hours. Act III, Scene II is set in a river in Atlantis, where Ocean and Apollo discuss how a shapeless extra-human evil has overthrown a monarch. The fourth act includes much dialogue between the Earth and the Moon and exults the liberation of man. This play's title character is in love with the character of Asia. "This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory" by Demogorgon". Beginning with the title character surrounded by Ione and Panthea, he later cries out against the tyrannical "Monarch of Gods and Daemons" Jupiter and mourns the fact that a hawk eats his liver out daily. For 10 points, identify this update of Aeschylus's Prometheia, a work of Percy Shelley.

Prometheus Unbound

This work's introduction is called "The Whisper to the Reader." Each chapter of this novel opens with an excerpt from the title character's calendar and a subplot in this novel concerns an expensive knife that was used to kill a man in India. That knife belonged to the Italian twins Luigi and Angelo before it is stolen by the antagonist and used to kill Judge Driscoll. This novel's main conflict is caused when the light-skinned slave Roxie switches two characters at birth. For 10 points, name this Mark Twain work in which the title character's extensive fingerprint collection is used to prove that Tom Driscoll was switched with Chambers at birth.

Pudd'nhead Wilson

Many cite this work as sourcing from the ancient Indian play Mudrarakshasa and later The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton. In this story, an old professor who has had too much to drink says that the title character "is already qualified to fill a professor's chair," though he declines to share "other absurd rumors." The title character of this story has a voice as "rich as a tropical sunset," which causes the protagonist to "think of deep hues of purple or crimson, and of perfumes heavily delectable." One character in this story tells the protagonist about an Indian doctor who presented Alexander the Great with a beautiful woman in a plot to kill him; that character gives the protagonist a vase by Cellini. Dr. Baglioni frequently tries to advise this story's protagonist against visiting a woman who was born at the same moment as a large purple flower and was seen killing a spider with her breath. It ends with the death of the title character after drinking an antidote given to her by Giovanni. For 10 points, name this Nathaniel Hawthorne story about Beatrice, who has become poisonous due to being raised among her father's plants.

Rappaccini's Daughter

Maud Allan created a famous production of this play titled for the "Vision" of its title character. It opens with a scene in which a Page and a Young Syrian discuss the nature of the moon, shortly after which a voice from a cistern prophesies the coming of Christ. This play was dedicated to Lord Alfred Douglas despite the fact that he'd botched the initial translation from the original French, and it was illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. At the climax of this play, its protagonist kisses an item she'd requested as a reward for performing the "dance of the seven veils". For 10 points, name this tragedy in which the stepdaughter of Herod demands the head of Jokanaan, or John the Baptist, on a silver platter, a play by Oscar Wilde.

Salome

In this novel, three coin tosses convince the protagonist to go visit his love interest, but he accidentally breaks a parasol handle when he finds her art dealer husband home. At a party in this novel, "The Sphinx" coughs up blood, and guests break pieces of china to honor a man who has moved into the porcelain business. The protagonist of this novel enters the theater of the Porte Saint-Martin and sees a couple who invites him to their home. After hearing that one character in this novel is in love with Prince Tzernoukoff, the protagonist ventures to give her the money she had requested. In this novel, Pellerin gives the main character painting lessons. When one character in this novel finally offers to become the protagonist's lover, she is rejected because her hair is all white. The protagonist of this novel sees Louis Philippe's throne tossed out the window during the 1848 revolution. The protagonist of this novel plans to replace a broken parasol for the woman he desires, and he eventually succeeds in making Rosanette his mistress. In this novel, the journal L'Art comes under the control of Hussonnet, and the protagonist's friend Deslauriers offers a stake in the business. For 10 points, Madame Arnoux is the object of Frederic Moreau's love in what novel by Gustave Flaubert?

Sentimental Education

One character in this novel sucks on a cut on their palm, while another returns money to Hetty Chilson. The engineer of the tugboat Mollie Able uses a photograph as incriminating evidence upon arriving in Lemoyne, Mississippi. That man, Frank, alleges miscegenation between a married couple, who are rebuked by their friend Ellie Chipley and husband "Schultzy". The accused couple is Steve Baker and Julie Dozier. Later on, another character flees to New York after her forther, Captain Andy Hawks drowns, Magnolia. At the end of this novel, Magnolia inherits a fortune from her mother, Parthy, is abandoned by her gambling husband Gaylord Ravenal, and her daughter Kim becomes a famous Broadway actress. FTP, name this novel which follows a Mississippi floating theater, the Cotton Blossom, written by Edna Ferber and adapted as a musical by Oscar Hammerstein.

Show Boat

Another character in this work learned to read while in prison for shooting Marshall Logan, and Kinsey Keene prosecutes the prominent banker Thomas Rhodes. This work that includes the aforementioned section about Jack McGuire also includes a poem about a character who "got a job in the canning works" after he "found religion", Butch Weldy. 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." In addition, this work discusses Lucinda Matlock, Voltaire Johnson, and Daisy Frasier. It includes a description of Abraham Lincoln's boyhood love Ann Rutledge, as well as 243 other posthumous monologues. For 10 points, name this collection of epigrams about dead residents of the title city by Edgar Lee Masters.

Spoon River Anthology

One character in the novel learns the protagonist's language while maintaining his Muslim faith, Doctor "Stinky" Mahmoud, while another character defines God as the "one who groks". While working as a circus magician, the protagonist befriends tattooed lady and the 'eternally saved' Patricia Paiwonski, before 'discorporating' Digby. One character in this novel is a reporter who negotiates the protagonist's freedom, while another becomes the protagonist's "water brother" while working as a nurse. Those characters are Ben Caxton and Gillian Boardman. Along with Jubal Harshaw, the protagonist of this work founds "Church of All Worlds" in response to the "Church of All Worlds". FTP, name this novel about the Martian Valentine Michael Smith, a novel by Robert A. Heinlein.

Stranger in a Strange Land

One of this character's lies is exposed after his half-brother points out the color of the thread in his collar. He exonerates a man who did not kill Dr. Robinson, a drunkard named Muff Potter. The protagonist and a friend hunt for treasure when they find a man disguised as a deaf and dumb Spaniard. He states that the first two disciples were David and Goliath, after receiving a prize Bible at Sunday school. This character attends his own funeral with Joe Harper and is briefly "engaged" to Amy Lawrence; he also gets lost in McDougal's Cave, where he finds Injun Joe's dead, with Becky Thatcher. For 10 points, name this boy who tricks his friends into whitewashing a fence for him, a Mark Twain character who befriends Huckleberry Finn.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

In this novel, a French tutor whom the protagonist fails to recognize on a trip to Boston is revealed to be the secretary who had earlier helped a female character. A scene from The Shaughraun in which a man silently kisses his lover's ribbon occurs to the protagonist of this novel when he sees a woman on a pier but does not greet her. A character in this novel uses a treatment mandated by Dr. Bencomb as an excuse not to attend a party hosted by the unfashionable Professor Emerson Sillerton. In the opening scene of this novel, Christine Nilsson is performing in Gounod's Faust. In this novel, the van der Luydens are offended that a woman visits the house of Lucius Beaufort after he is caught in a banking scandal, the same scandal which causes Mrs. Manson Mingott to have a stroke. In this novel's last chapter, the protagonist is with his son Dallas in Paris twenty-six years later and watches the light in his love interest's room without going inside. The protagonist of this novel marries May Welland but loves Countess Ellen Olenska. For 10 points, name this novel about Newland Archer by Edith Wharton.

The Age of Innocence

The protagonist of this novel notes one man's affection for both Jeanne and her mother. That protagonist also befriends Londoner Maria Gostrey and confides in Little Bilham. After the protagonist's disappearance, his fiancee from Woollett, Massachusetts, tasks her sister Sarah Pocock to discover another missing person. The protagonist of this novel abandons his mission after encountering Chad Newsome and Marie de Vionnet at a rural inn. FTP, name this novel about Lambert Strether's trip to Europe, by Henry James.

The Ambassadors

In this novel, Joan Gilling hangs herself after the protagonist starts hemorrhaging after sleeping with a Harvard professor named Irwin. The protagonist has a failed romance with Constantin and flees rape by Marco. The protagonist befriends Betsy and Doreen, and is informed by her mother that she has been rejected from a writing seminar. The protagonist of this novel contemplates suicide after a botched session of electrotherapy by Doctor Gordon, instead visiting Doctor Nolan. Its protagonist interns at the Ladies' Day magazine in New York City during the summer of the Rosenbergs. For 10 points, Buddy Willard is treated for tuberculosis, and Philomena Guinea pays for Esther Greenwood's treatment in this American novel by Sylvia Plath.

The Bell Jar

The protagonist of this work feels he is capable of "drawing a magic circle" around his wife "which no evil might intrude." The narrator of this story notes that the chuckling of a man described as having a "smoky aspect" and "indescribable earthiness" represents the triumph of earth over immortality. One character discovers a crystal globe containing a golden poison that has the power to apportion the life of any person in the world. In one incident from this story a character sneaks into a furnace room after her husband caught her crying while reading his folio. One character in this work is entertained by optical illusions but horrified by a failed attempt at a (*) photograph and a quick-dying flower. In this work, the assistant Aminadab laughs at the failure of a concoction that had been tested on a plant. For 10 points, name this short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne in which Aylmer kills Georgiana in his attempt to remove the titular blemish.

The Birthmark

t's not by Akutagawa, but a character in this novel tells a story about a woman who unsuccessfully grabs an onion to climb out of hell. In a "poem in prose" from this novel, Satan tells Jesus that humans never should have been given free will; in response, Christ kisses him. This novel's protagonist befriends Kolya and is upset when the corpse of his mentor, Father Zossima, starts decomposing. The parable of "The Grand Inquisitor" is told in this novel. The epileptic son of Stinking Lizaveta murders Fyodor, but Smerdyakov escapes punishment when Mitya is arrested. For 10 points, name this novel about siblings Dmitri, Ivan, and Alexey, written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

The Brothers Karamazov

A character in this book is about to be executed, but a birthmark that resembles a bloody arrow under his shoulder reveals him to be the son of a priest. This novel's preface ends with a poem that claims "For sure thy smiles are Fame" and is addressed to Lady Mary Coke. In its first chapter, a peasant is put underneath the casque of a court without food after being accused a necromancer. At one point, a portrait of the protagonist's grandfather gives out a long sigh, and at another point the Knight of the Gigantic Sabre arrives at the titular place. Central to the plot is how Alfonso the Good was poisoned years earlier, when he was ruler of the titular Italian polity. This novel was inspired by its author's estate Strawberry Hill. In the climactic scene of this novel, the protagonist grabs a dagger to punish the lover of Theodore, but unwittingly kills his own daughter Isabella instead. Early on in this novel, Isabella's sickly brother Conrad is crushed by a gigantic falling helmet. For 10 points, name this novel about the villainous lord Manfred, a work of Horace Walpole often considered the first Gothic novel.

The Castle of Otranto

One version of this work was published as "Clawed Back into a Civilized Language Once More by Patient, Unremunerated Toil," after its author translated a French version back to English word for word. This work ends after the narrator cuts off a man who starts talking about a "yeller one-eyed cow that didn't have no tail". The protagonist of this story is described as the type of person who "would bet you how long it would take" a straddle-bug "to get wherever he was going". One character in this story judged Parson Walker to be "the best exhorter" and owned a dog known for its vise-grip tactics named Andrew Jackson. The narrator goes to Angel's Camp looking for information for an article about a Reverend Leonidas, but instead, Simon Wheeler tells him about how a stranger used quail shot to win forty dollars off of Jim Smiley. For 10 points, name this short story in which the title creature named Daniel Webster loses a bet for its owner because it can't leap, a work by Mark Twain.

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

At the beginning of this work, a man praises a hundred-year old bookcase, and another character claims that a guitar is a mandolin. That character, Yepikhodov, is scolded by a woman who also accosts Pishchik for drinking. In the third act of this play, one character must perform a series of magic tricks, including a ventriloquist feat, after which another character professes his love for her. Another character in this play is a senile manservant nicknamed "Twenty-Two Calamities." That character's real name is Firs. This drama includes a woman who returns from several years of living in Paris to the estate where her son Gayev had drowned. A character in this play exclaims "Light of my being! My springtime!" as he says goodbye to Anya, and he is called an "eternal student" in the second act. Another character is infatuated with Yasha. Those characters are Trofimov and Yasha. In this play, Varya is in love with Lopahkin, who eventually buys the title estate from Madame Ranevsky in a debt auction. For 10 points, name this Anton Chekhov play that concludes with the sound of axes offstage.

The Cherry Orchard

The narrator of this story is critical of women, noting that a "thick ankle" is enough to make him indifferent towards them; fortunately, he encounters a girl perfect but for her lettuce poisoning. A character in this story considers ordering "sulphuric acid shampoo" for his slaves and sends his men to kill an escaped Italian teacher. One character reads a proclamation by Nathan Bedford Forrest to capture his slaves. That character, Fitz-Norman Culpepper Washington, is the grandfather of Percy Washington. Jasmine escapes with the protagonist after Kismine warns of his imminent execution. This story is set in a never-before surveyed area in the Montana Rockies. John T. Unger is awed to discover that the Washington family estate is situated atop a giant gem in, for 10 points, what F. Scott Fitzgerald story?

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

This poem is theorized to depict a wake in Key West. In this poem, "three glass knobs" are missing from a drawer, and the narrator notes that boys that should "bring flowers" in "last month's newspapers" and "wenches [that] dawdle" in typical dresses. This work asks for guests who have come to see the "cold" and "dumb" woman who once "embroidered fantails" on the sheet that now covers her face but neglects to hide "her [protruding] horny feet." Calling for the title figure to "whip / In kitchen cups concupiscent curds," for 10 points, identify this poem in which the narrator calls for the "roller of big cigars," and declares, "Let be be finale of seem," written by Wallace Stevens.

The Emperor of Ice-Cream

The narrator of this novel receives an erroneous letter asserting his son has died at sea. The narrator of this novel was interned in La Ferte-Mace with William Slater Brown, referred to in the novel as B. FTP, name this autobiographical work about a poet's imprisonment in France, known for his innovative use of typography.

The Enormous Room

This novel's protagonist recalls always doffing his hat to a blind man after helping him across the street. In another scene, the main character confronts a stalled motorcyclist, only to be told by another man it is abhorrent to strike someone "who had a motorcycle between his legs." A later part describes a man named Du Guesclin whom the narrator had fought alongside with during the Spanish Civil War. The protagonist of this novel obtains a stolen panel from the Ghent Altarpiece called The Just Judges. This book is narrated by a man sitting in an Amsterdam bar called Mexico City who undergoes a spiritual crisis after doing nothing to stop a woman jumping off the Pont Royal Bridge. For 10 points, name this Albert Camus novel which consists of a series of monologues by a "judge-penitent" named Jean-Baptiste Clamence.

The Fall

In this novel Mr. Bentley is arrested for selling the Monadnock Valley Resort at two hundred percent interest after earlier refusing to buy advertising for it. The Stoddard Temple is ironically converted into the Stoddard Home for Subnormal Children. After this novel's protagonist is expelled for refusing to follow the standard practices in his field, he goes to New York City to work for Henry Cameron. His best friend joins a major New York firm, and he falls in love with the niece of a Socialist leader. In this novel Steven Mallory's controversial nude statue of the human spirit is sent as a gift to the owner of The New York Banner, which employs the vicious critic Ellsworth Toohey. After the protagonist returns from a yachting trip with the newspaper magnate Gail Wynand, he decides to dynamite the Cortlandt housing project with the help of future wife Dominique Francon because his rival Peter Keating has changed his design. For 10 points, name this novel about the architect Howard Roark, written by Ayn Rand.

The Fountainheads

One character in this play claims to see the succubus Empusa, and the protagonist is supposedly recovering from the Battle of Arginusae. One conversation in this work gives rise to the poetic term lekythion, or oil-drop, in reference to one character's repetition of "lost his little flask of oil", while another character repeats "oh, what a stroke, won't you come to the rescue?" from the play Myrmidons. Later in this play, those characters enter into the house of Persephone, whereupon Xanthias learns of the central conflict through Aeacus. The reward of a seat next to Pluto is given to Sophocles, for 10 points, name this Greek play where Dionysus chooses Aeschylus over Euripides, a comedy by Aristophanes in which the titular amphibians chant brekeke-koax-koax.

The Frogs

A character in this play sarcastically claims to be a "tsar of the underworld" in a speech in which he calls another character a "babbling old witch." This play features two scenes in which a woman sells subscriptions to The Companion over the phone. It is revealed that a character in this play has been visiting the penguins at the zoo instead of going to Rubicam's Business College. In the last scene, this play's protagonist is told to "blow the candles out" after being left by a man who attended Soldan High School. In this play, Amanda is unsuccessful in finding a "gentleman caller" for her daughter, who was given the nickname "Blue Roses" after a bout of pleurosis. That daughter, Laura, breaks the horn off of a unicorn while dancing with Jim O'Connor, exclaiming it looks "just like all the other horses" in the titular collection of animals. For 10 points, name this 1945 play about Tom and Laura Wingfield, written by Tennessee Williams.

The Glass Menangerie

The author based this novel on his experiences following his mock execution for the Petrashevsky Circle. The protagonist soliloquizes "Man is a creature who can get used to anything, and I believe that is the very best way of defining him", before his Bible is taken away. Later on, the protagonist meets Akim Akimovich and Gazin. FTP, name this novel about Alexander Petrovich Goryanchikov's time in a Siberian prison camp, based on the author Fyodor Dostoevsky's time in a prison camp.

The House of the Dead

One character in this work summons three spirits, one of whom starts to cough blood after the other two spirits hold their hands over his mouth. Those spirits are summoned after the young girl Alice is hypnotized with the consent of her father, Gervayse, but that hypnosis ends with Alice getting pneumonia and dying. Rather than make her first sale, a nearsighted character in this novel gives a free gingerbread Jim Crow to an urchin, who immediately demands her other cookie. This novel was inspired by a mansion belonging to Susanna Ingersoll. One character in this novel framed his cousin for a murder, earning that cousin thirty years in jail; that character is a judge who dies from apoplexy while sitting upright in a chair, like the title location's ancestral founder. That character is Jaffrey. A deed to a large plot of land in Maine is lost in this novel as part of a curse that was started generations ago by Matthew Maule when he was hanged by the Colonel. At the end of this novel, Holgrave and Phoebe declare their love for each other, and they join Clifford and Hepzibah in leaving the title estate. For 10 points, name this novel about the Pyncheon family by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

The House of the Seven Gables

The preface of this novel describes the author's discovery of the Greek word ANARKH inscribed on a stone wall in the title location. In one scene in this novel, a deaf judge orders a deaf man to be pilloried after a farcical interrogation. A trip to the Court of Miracles in this novel results in hasty marriage for the author of a boring mystery play. One character in this novel teaches their goat, Djali, to spell her lover's name. Torterue and Charmolue extract a false confession from one character in this novel, who is later assisted by the poet Gringoire. A red-haired character is described as beautiful as he carries Gudule's daughter into the title structure. This novel ends with the image of the protagonist's bones falling to dust as guards attempt to separate two skeletons. The Captain of the King's Archers, Phoebus, falls in love with a character in this work who is almost kidnapped by a man who only leaves during the Festival of Fools and rings church bells to show his devotion to the main antagonist Archdeacon Claude Frollo kills Esmeralda in, for ten points, what Victor Hugo work whose English title references a deformed and ugly Parisian?

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

In the preface to this play, the author noted that its last word, read by a gendarme, must electrify everyone on the stage. In the first act of this work, one character relates having dreamed of gigantic rats, after which he berates another character for accepting puppies as bribes. Meyerhold's 1926 production of this play replaced all of its characters with mannequins for its final stage direction, which requires its characters to stay frozen in place for ninety seconds. In its final scene, one of its characters shakes his fist at the audience and exclaims "What are you laughing at? You're laughing at yourselves!" The protagonist of this play shamelessly flirts with Anna and her daughter Marya after being discovered by Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky. One character in this play lies to the main character about never playing cards, a statement contradicted by Luka. Osip counsels for the protagonist to leave town, while those who fawn on the main character include the judge Lyapkin-Tyapkin and two similarly names squires. Though the main character proposes to the daughter of the mayor Anton Antonovich, in the final act of this play the Postmaster discovers a letter from that character to his friend mocking the townspeople. For 10 points, name this work by Nikolai Gogol, in which Khlestakov is mistaken for the title official.

The Inspector General

This novel's protagonist yells at Teddy Henfrey and forces Thomas Marvel to be his assistant. After Marvel escapes to the town of Burdock, the title character is shot and finds his old colleague Dr. Kemp, who soon finds out about his experiments with changing the refractive index of objects. The title character, whose name is Griffin, is an albino who wraps himself up with bandages in order to conceal his most notable attribute. For 10 points, name this 1897 novel by H. G. Wells whose protagonist cannot be seen.

The Invisible Man

In this novel, Captain Jacobi of "La Paloma" delivers the title object just before he dies of gunshot wounds. It can be traced back to a Russian general, who at the end of the novel turns out to have made a fake and kept the original for himself. That character is General Kemidov. Miles Archer is murdered in this novel, where Dixie Monahan is falsely suspected for the killing, and the protagonist has an affair Archer's his wife, Ida. Effie Perine announces the arrival of a customer who reports that her younger sister Corinne is missing and that she may be with Floyd Thursby. Thursby and Cairo turn out to be hired by Gutman to retrieve the title object along with Miss Wonderly, who is actually Brigid O'Shaughnessy. For 10 points, name this novel about the detective Sam Spade, written by Dashiell Hammett.

The Maltese Falcon

This novel's preface identifies its ideal reader as an "unseen brother of the soul." This novel's penultimate chapter takes place during a wild carnival, where one of its characters encounters two former friends disguised as a peasant and a contadina. A Puritan in this novel feels so guilty that she runs into a cathedral and confesses to a priest. In its fourth chapter, another of its characters becomes lost in catacombs and encounters a sinister monk, who is later murdered by being thrown off the Tarpeian Rock, the Capuchin Antonio. Published in England as Transformation, and subtitled "The Romance of Monte Beni," it ends with the marriage of Hilda and Kenyon. This novel follows a group of American artists in Italy, including the painter Miriam, whose sexuality fascinates Donatello. For 10 points, identify this 1860 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne whose name comes from Donatello's resemblance to a Praxiteles sculpture.

The Marble Faun

One character in this story remarks that a man is sometimes "afraid to be alone with himself", shortly after Squire Saunders forgets to invite someone to his table for Sunday supper. The author of this story appended a note at its end claiming that it was based on a Joseph Moody from Maine, who as a youth had killed his friend. The main character attends the installation of Governor Belcher, influencing the legislature to be pious. The protagonist of this story is frightened by his own reflection in a wine glass, and drops it during a wedding, shortly before he is abandoned by his fiancée Elizabeth. Declaring "Why do you tremble at me alone?", this story's protagonist dies after proclaiming that he sees the title object "on every visage", and began the story by frightening his parishioners by delivering a sermon on "secret sin". For 10 points, name this Nathaniel Hawthorne short story about a dark cloth worn by Reverend Hooper.

The Minister's Black Veil

At one point in this poem, its speaker sees Dame Justice and Dame Patience sitting on a mound of sand holding open a curtain door. Three suitors in this poem argue about whose love is most valid, with one claiming his love is the deepest, one arguing he has loved the longest, and the third asserting he will love until his death. The speaker of this poem encounters a gate with two inscriptions, one written in gold saying men will find peace through the doors and the other written in black claiming men will find sorrow. After falling asleep while reading Cicero's Somnium Scipionis, its speaker is guided to the Temple of Venus by Scipio Africanus. This poem is written in rhyme royal, and sees Nature preside over a debate about who should marry the "formel eagle." Set on St. Valentine's Day, for 10 points, name this poem about the title meeting in which the birds argue over their mates, written by Geoffrey Chaucer.

The Parliament of Fowls

Obesity hypoventilation syndrome is sometimes named after this novel because a character named Joe suffers from it. In this novel, the misanthropic sexton Gabriel Grub is kidnapped by goblins, who teach him to be a better person. A character in this novel is first seen polishing eleven and a half pairs of shoes, the half pair being for a man with a "vooden leg," at the White Hart Inn. The lawyers Dodgson and Fogg argue against the title character, sued by his landlady Mrs. Bardell and subsequently incarcerated in Fleet Prison. that protagonist later helps Augustus Snodgrass marry Emily Wardle. One character is mistaken for Tracy Tupman by Dr. Slammer. In this novel, Arabella Allen elopes with Nathaniel Winkle, and Rachael Wardle tries to elope with Alfred Jingle. This novel's most popular character frequently quotes proverbs, appending them with the tag "as the x said to the y." That character, Sam Weller, works as the protagonist's valet. For 10 points, name this Charles Dickens novel about the members of the title club.

The Pickwick Papers

In this novel, a hermit claimed that he would have been pope had the monasteries not been abolished, and a subplot in this work involves Hugh tricking his brother Miles Hendon in order to marry Edith. One of the title characters used the royal seal to crack nuts, and that character is a native of the slum Offal Court. For 10 points, name this novel by Mark Twain, detailing the adventures of Tom Canty and Edward Tudor after they switch places.

The Prince and the Pauper

One man in this novel convinces Master Brackett to enter a cell near a rosebush, and townspeople speculate his involvement with the Overbury Affair. The narrator of this novel describes it as being commissioned by William Shirley and written by Jonathon Pue, and begins with "The Custom-House". In this novel, the protagonist has an encounter with John Wilson while delivering a pair of gloves. Governor Bellingham is distressed when a child fails to name God as her creator; that same child refuses to let her father kiss her when they meet by a brook. A red comet is seen by three people on a scaffold, being the protagonist, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Pearl. Dimmesdale dies after a sermon, tormented under the influence of 'the leech', Roger Chillingworth. For 10 points, name this novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne in which Hester Prynne is branded with a red emblem.

The Scarlet Letter

A key scene in this work takes place at a bar called "Fishermen's Rest" and recalls another character's unsuccessful wooing of Angele. Its numerous sequels include I Will Repay and The Laughing Cavalier, and describe a namesake "league" created by Philip Glynde and Richard Galveston. It closes on the ship Day Dream, while minor characters include Tony Dewhurst and Andrew Foulkes. De Comte is able to come along for the ride after Chauvelin is thwarted and Armand St. Just is rescued, and Marguerite discovers that her husband, Percy Blakeney, is secretly rescuing victims of the French Revolution in, for 10 points, what colorfully-titled novel by Baroness Emma Orczy?

The Scarlet Pimpernel

In this play, the doctor Yevgeny Dorn offers advice on how to write to the main character, as does Pyotr Sorin, who suggested that main character write a story called "The Man Who Wished." This play was based on a real-life incident involving the author's friend Ilya Levitan. In this play, the deeply in debt schoolteacher Simon Medviedenko is married to Masha, who is in love with the protagonist. Masha is the daughter of Paulina and Ilya Shamraef, who is the manager of the estate where this play is set. The actress Irina Arkadina is the object of Trigorin's affection, and the main character kills himself after failing to gain the affection of Nina Zaretchyn. For 10 points name this play in which Konstantin Treplev kills the titular bird, a work of Anton Chekhov.

The Seagull

One character in this work uses the handwriting analysis skills of his clerk named Mr. Guest. In this novel, a man named Lanyon is so traumatized by a drug-induced scene that he dies. It begins when Mr. Enfield sees a doorway, where a man had previously run over a small child. Enfield's walking companion, the lawyer Utterson, attempts to solve some mysteries in this story, such as the servant Poole's frantic search for an unknown chemical and the murder of Danvers Carew. One title character kills himself when is in unable to transform back in, for 10 points, what Robert Louis Stevenson novel about a physician who unleashes his evil side?

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

One character in this work who claims to work at a warehouse refuses to discard a cigarette while being questioned by a policeman after beating his mistress. The protagonist of this work is bothered by the heat during his mother's funeral and later states that he does not believe in God when shown a small silver crucifix. This work's protagonist visits the Home for Aged Persons in Marengo and is fond of having lunch at Céleste's restaurant, where he occasionally sees his neighbor Salamano out walking his dog. At the end of this work, the pimp Raymond Sintès testifies in court for this work's protagonist, who is romantically involved with Marie Cardona. For 10 points, name this work in which Meursault is executed for murdering an Arab on the beach in Algiers, a work by Albert Camus.

The Stranger

The narrator of this story notes that "I pitied him, although I chuckled at heart" after describing a certain feeling. This work's narrator commands his guests to "tear up the planks" when they fail to notice the crime scene around them. The narrator claims that his nervous "disease" has sharpened his senses, and he visits his sleeping victim for a week before smothering him with his bed. A sound like a watch in cotton drives the narrator to tell three policemen that he has killed and dismembered his vulture-eyed landlord in, for 10 points, this short story by Poe.

The Tell-Tale Heart

One character in this work sneaks onto the lawn at midnight and proclaims, "When I'm bad, I AM bad!" Edmund Wilson highlighted the "ambiguity" of this work, which features a character who "said things" to those he liked, resulting in his expulsion from school. The narrator of this novel sees a hatless red-headed man on the tower; that man was "much too free with everyone," according to the housekeeper. The plot of this novella is narrated by Douglas at a house party, and in this work, a strange apparition is seen in the tower and later through the dining-room window. One character does not attend church after one of her charges proposes to reenter school, and that character is instructed to not contact her employer. Mrs. Grose takes a girl back to her uncle after the narrator catches her at the lake, meeting "a horror," her predecessor at Bly. The ghosts of Miss Jessel and Peter Quint haunt Miles and Flora in, For 10 points, what novella by Henry James?

The Turn of the Screw

In this play, when one character is called a chameleon, he replies that he has more mind to feed on the name caller's blood than live in his air. Sir Eglamour helps a woman avoid marriage with that character, Thurio. That woman is later attacked by a group of outlaws, and the head of the outlaws and the man who initially rescues her turn out to be close friends, though she soon needs to be rescued from the man who supposedly saved her. Eventually, the Duke of Milan says that Silvia can marry Valentine. Identify this Shakespeare play in which the title characters are Valentine and Proteus.

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

This novel opens by asserting that dream-bearing ships sail forever on the horizon for men. This novel's protagonist decides to find a "bee for her bloom" after experiencing a moment of ecstasy under a pear tree. A mistake in cutting a plug of tobacco earns the protagonist a blow from her husband, the mayor of Eatonville. protagonist's mother Leafy gets pregnant after being raped by a teacher, and runs away, leaving the protagonist with Nanny. Caught in the Everglades during a hurricane, the protagonist is forced to shoot her husband after he is bitten by a rabid dog. The protagonist of this novel tells Phoebe about her marriages to Logan Killicks, Joe Starks, and Tea Cake. For 10 points, name this novel about Janie Crawford by Zora Neale Hurston.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

The protagonist of this novel uses the phrases "The Big Man" and "Slicker" to distinguish between various kinds of worldly people. The main character tries to build up a reputation in school by playing football, but he soon gets injured. In this novel's final chapter, Mr. Ferrenby gives the protagonist a ride, but disagrees with his newfound socialist views. One character in this novel is mentioned in a different book as the author of the poem "Then Wear the Gold Hat." In one chapter, the protagonist leaves a party where he has a vision of the devil in a drunken delirium and sees the face of a friend who had died in a car crash, Dick Humbird. This novel ends with the protagonist declaring "I know myself, but that is all". The protagonist of this novel has his first kiss with Isabella Borge and falls in love with Eleanor Savage, who nearly dies when she rides a horse off a cliff. The protagonist becomes an alcoholic after being dumped by Rosalind Connage, but he does befriend the poet Thomas Parke D'Invilliers while at Princeton. Monsignor Darcy introduces the protagonist to his third cousin Clara Page, with whom he falls in love. For 10 points, name this novel about Amory Blaine, the first novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

This Side of Paradise

This work gives a Noel Coward play about Charles Condomine and his dead wife Elvira its title. The speaker of this poem compares the title creature to a "high-born maiden in a palace tower" and a "glow-worm golden in a dell of dew." This poem's speaker states "The world should listen then " as I am listening now" after declaring that if the title figure would teach him "half the gladness / That thy brain must know, / Such harmonious madness / From my lips would flow." The speaker describes the subject of this poem as having produced "hymns unbidden" like that of a "poet hidden / in the light of thought" and as a creator of "profuse strains of unpremeditated art". This poem begins with its speaker exclaiming, "Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!" For 10 points, name this poem addressing a bird, by Percy Shelley.

To a Sklylark

The protagonist of this novel hears a revealing conversation while hidden in an apple barrel, and knows a man run down by a carriage, Blind Pew. The antagonist owns the Spy-Glass Tavern, is the rival of George Merry, and takes a page out of a Bible to create a Black Spot. One character in this novel is the captain of the Walrus, while another kills Job Anderson to save the protagonist's life. Those characters are Captain Flynn and Abraham Gray. Israel Hands helps the protagonist navigate the Hispaniola to safety in this novel, which sees a castaway given Parmesan cheese. That castaway, Ben Gunn, assists a man who distrusts Squire Trelawney's crew, Captain Smollett. Opening with Billy Bones in hiding at the Admiral Benbow Inn, this novel ends with the surrender of Long John Silver to Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins. For 10 points, identify this novel about pirates, written by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Treasure Island

The narrator of this poem acknowledges that "we are not now that strength which in the old days moved earth and heaven." That narrator of this poem also hopes to "touch the Happy Isles," because he is tired of meting and doling "unequal laws unto a savage race." In the third stanza, he refers to his son, saying, "He works his work, I mine." In the second stanza, the narrator talks about himself, saying that he has enjoyed and suffered greatly and that, "I am a part of all that I have met." This poem ends with a pledge made by "heroic hearts, made weak by time and fate" to "strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." For 10 points, name this Tennyson poem about the aging King of Ithaca, which is titled after the Latin name of its speaker, Odysseus.

Ulysses

Gemiatics convinces one man in this novel to disguise himself as a peasant after rescuing a girl from a burning house, where he meets the uncaring Platon. A character in this novel wins 43,000 rubles playing faro; the loser is unable to marry his cousin Sonya, and instead must save his fiancee Marya from an uprising of serfs, Nikolay. In this novel, a character who may be having an affair with her brother dies of an overdose of abortion medication. The protagonist joins the Freemasons after a duel with Dolokhov over that character, Elena Kuragin, and Andrei Bolkonsky dies after the Battle of Borodino. One character planning to elope with Anatole, Natasha Rostova, who eventually marries a man who believes it is his duty to kill Napoleon, Pierre Bezukov. For 10 points, name this long novel set during Napoleon's invasion of Russia by Leo Tolstoy.

War and Peace

The protagonists of this work attempt to recruit Hyzenthlay after Holly is wounded in a diplomatic mission. One character in this work is told "silflay hraka u embleer rah", after being attacked by Kehaar. That character, General Woundwort, led Efrafa and faces down an ex-Owsla officer during an attack on the title location. The protagonist is visited by El-ahrairah, and in the after life, "running easily down through the wood, where the first primroses were beginning to bloom." In this novel, Blueberry pioneers the use of buoyant wood to cross water after escaping the destruction of Sandleford Warren prophesied by Fiver. For 10 points, name this novel by Richard Adams, about the epic journey of some rabbits.

Watership Down

Ancestors of this work's protagonist include a man who set fire to a village using a pitch-pine knot and a constable who once whipped a Quaker woman in public. One character chides its protagonist for being late, noting that the Old South clock had struck 15 minutes ago. Another character in this work is given a serpentine staff which seems to come to life. This story's protagonist is horrified to find a (*) pink ribbon in a tree branch, after which he flies with the help of a maple stick. The title character meets Deacon Gookin and Goody Cloyse while walking with a mysterious figure into the forest, where he discovers the townspeople, including his wife Faith, participating in a Satanic ritual. For 10 points, name this short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Young Goodman Brown