Literary Trivia #2
Century of Milton's "Paradise Lost"
17th
"Tropic of Cancer" is an autobiographical look at Henry Miller's life in Paris during this decade
1930s
Stephen King's first published book
Carrie
"Centennial" by James Michener was set in this state
Colorado
In Stephen Vincent Benet's story "The Devil and" him, Mr. Scratch has come to collect a debt
Daniel Webster
One minute, this 1890 title guy is young & handsome; the next, his old corpse is only I.D.'d by his rings
Dorian Gray
Her 1929 story "Big Blonde" is about an aging party girl named Hazel Morse
Dorothy Parker
The "idiot"! He got mixed up with the Petrashevsky Circle of socialists & did 8 months in 1849
Dostoyevsky
In 2013 this author of the memoir "Eat Pray Love" turned to historical fiction with "The Signature of all Things"
Elizabeth Gilbert
Her book "My Story" suggests that her Mormon faith helped her through her 9-month kidnap ordeal
Elizabeth Smart
Her poem No. 288 asks, "I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you--Nobody--too?"
Emily Dickinson
In a letter to a friend in 1845: "I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year"
Emily Dickinson
This American's earliest poem, "Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine", dates to Valentine week 1850
Emily Dickinson
This Austen girl: "Dear Mrs Weston, do not take to match-making... Jane Fairfax mistress of the Abbey!--Oh! no, no"
Emma
This title woman gets Harriet to reject a farmer's marriage proposal, but that turns out badly
Emma
Her 1883 "1492" celebrates "A virgin world where doors of sunset part, / Saying, 'Ho, all who weary, enter here!'"
Emma Lazarus
Spoiler alert! Jane Austen had George become the Knightley in shining armor for this woman
Emma Woodhouse
A stand-in for Ibsen himself, truth-telling medical inspector Thomas Stockmann becomes this "of the people"
Enemy
Before her first novel, "Fear of Flying", she published a poetry collection about some bawdy "Fruits & Vegetables"
Erica Jong
To F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925: "We are going in to Pamplona tomorrow. Been trout fishing here"
Ernest Hemingway
This Edith Wharton title man, "throwing back his worn bearskin, made room for me in the sleigh at his side"
Ethan Frome
This Romanian-born French playwright also wrote for children, the series "Stories 1, 2, 3, 4" that he himself called "silly"
Eugene Ionesco
A character named Berenger appears in plays by this Romanian-born man, including "The Killer" & "Rhinoceros"
Eugene Ionescu
By Leon Uris, it opens in 1946
Exodus
Here is Amantine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, known by this pen name; she loved Chopin in more ways than one
George Sand
"Dark Places", by this author of "Gone Girl"
Gillian Flynn
This monster in "Beowulf" was said to be descended from Cain
Grendel
In 1915 his reasons for naturalization included "having lived and worked in England for the best part of forty years"
Henry James
This author's 1936 novel "Black Spring", a bawdy tale of Paris, came between 2 more famous books
Henry Miller
He narrates "The Catcher in the Rye"
Holden Caulfield
His novel "Atonement" was turned into a 2007 movie with Keira Knightley
Ian McEwan
"Noble six hundred!" ends this poem
The Charge of the Light Brigade
In this 1678 British work, you'll find mention of a stately palace, "the name of which was beautiful"
The Pilgrim's Progress
The 1684 second part of this allegory features the compassionate Mr. Great-Heart
The Pilgrim's Progress
This Poe story tells of a prisoner's torture during the Spanish Inquisition
The Pit and the Pendulum
Published in 1513, it was dedicated "to the magnificent Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici"
The Prince
When he was just 24, Stephen Crane published this novel about Union soldier Henry Fleming
The Red Badge of Courage
T.S. Eliot divulged in a letter that a difficult marriage "brought the state of mind out of which came" this poem in 1922
The Waste Land
"A Novel Without a Hero" is the subtitle of this Thackeray work
Vanity Fair
She is credited with writing Beauty and the Beast
Villeneuve
"Pale Fire", a reference to moonlight in "Timon of Athens", is the title of a 1962 novel by this Russian-born man
Vladimir Nabokov
In the Bastille in 1717, this philosopher wrote his epic poem "La Henriade"
Voltaire
This Brit's works included many political poems, including "Spain 1937" about the Spanish Civil War
W.H. Auden
"Baby, if you've ever wondered, wondered whatever became of me", I became a DJ here
WKRP in Cincinnati
From July 4, 1845 to Sept. 6, 1847, Thoreau made his home on the shore of this
Walden Pond
1940: Richard Llewellyn's "How Green Was My Valley" dug into the lives & loves of coal miners in this country
Wales
A Herman Wouk sequel, later a miniseries
War and Remembrance
Full of greed, ego & backstabbing, this is the town covered in Mark Leibovich's "This Town"
Washington D.C.
Budd Schulberg's Hollywood novel about Sammy Glick
What Makes Sammy Run?
His experience teaching unruly boys helped inspire his book "Lord of the Flies"
William Golding
This "lord of the" British novelists was knighted in 1988
William Golding
This politician was the subject of Vachel Lindsay's 1919 poem "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"
William Jennings Bryan
Early in "1984" this character writes, "Down with Big Brother" over & over again in his diary
Winston Smith
Just in time for the centennial of this comes Robert Olen Butler's latest, "The Star of Istanbul", set during it
World War I
Earth is a scary place in this recent Max Brooks novel subtitled "An Oral History of the Zombie War"
World War Z
Camden College is the setting for "The Rules of Attraction" by this 3-named chronicler of amoral youth
Bret Easton Ellis
In 2010, the 25th anniversary of his "Less Than Zero", he published a sequel called "Imperial Bedrooms"
Bret Easton Ellis
"The Women of" this location in the 1982 novel by Gloria Naylor include Etta Mae & Kiswana
Brewster Place
This 1945 Evelyn Waugh novel is subtitled "The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder"
Brideshead Revisited
Drug-fueled debauchery in New York City takes up much of this Jay McInerney debut novel
Bright Lights, Big City
This utopian farm in West Roxbury, Mass. counted among its members Nathaniel Hawthorne
Brook Farm
Jack London wrote that he "was neither house-dog nor kennel-dog. the whole realm was his"
Buck
Beatrix Potter's stories of dressed, talking animals influenced some "chronicles" by this author, 32 years younger
C.S. Lewis
The neurotic Captain Queeg faces a mutiny aboard this ship
Caine
The logo seen here belongs to this University Press, founded in 1534, and claiming the title of the world's oldest publisher
Cambridge
This character "piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage & hate felt by his whole race"
Captain Ahab
He "went content to the crocodile"; instead of "Bad form", his last words should have been "Here's seconds!"
Captain Hook
This 1870 sci-fi captain claimed the South Pole with an appropriate flag
Captain Nemo
The modest home at 4646 N. Hermitage in the Ravenswood area of Chicago is where he wrote his famous poem about the city
Carl Sandburg
"History of My Life" by this 18th century Italian adventurer relates his (many) conquests as a lover
Casanova
In 1906 Grantland Rice wrote "Casey's Revenge", a reply to this baseball classic
Casey at the Bat
This 1955 play by Tennessee Williams won a Pulitzer Prize
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Vonnegut volume about a possibly world-ending form of water called ice-nine
Cat's Cradle
In a trilogy, it's the book that comes between "The Hunger Games" & "Mockingjay"
Catching Fire
Washington Irving admitted that when he wrote Rip Van Winkle, he'd never been to these mountains, the tale's setting
Catskills
This ancient Roman wrote poems in praise of the lady he called Lesbia & on the death of her sparrow
Catullus
"The Zoo Story": a Sunday afternoon in summer in this park
Central Park
In Ariosto's chivalric romance "Orlando Furioso", Orlando is this great king's nephew
Charlemagne
Irving Stone's 1980 historical novel "The Origin" focuses on this scientist & his 1831-36 voyage
Charles Darwin
1999: A. Scott Berg won a Pulitzer writing about this pilot; 1954: the same pilot won a Pulitzer writing about himself
Charles Lindbergh
Melanie Benjamin's "The Aviator's Wife" fictionalized the life & marriage of Anne Morrow & this man
Charles Lindbergh
During the Hundred Years' War, this famous author was taken prisoner near Reims, France & held for ransom
Chaucer
Fittingly, this last name of "Girl With A Pearl Earring" historical novelist Tracy means "Knight"
Chavalier
In 2010 this city gave landmark status to the homes of Lorraine Hansberry, Gwendolyn Brooks & Richard Wright
Chicago
Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" depicted the gory world of this city's meatpacking industry
Chicago
In Isabel Allende's coming of age story "Maya's Notebook", Maya's grandparents are emigres from this country
Chile
Byron based "The Prisoner of" here on Francois Bonivard, a Genevan patriot who was jailed for his beliefs
Chillon
In "Empire of the Sun", J.G. Ballard drew upon his own experiences as a boy in this country during wartime
China
Evil is alive & inhabiting a 1958 Plymouth Fury in this Stephen King tale
Christine
Shift the ape convinces a donkey to don a lion's skin so as to be Aslan in "The Last Battle" of this series
Chronicles of Narnia
"Resistance to Civil Government" was an early title of this essay printed a year after "The Communist Manifesto"
Civil Disobedience
This 1980 novel by Jean Auel is a saga of the dawn of modern humans
Clan of the Cave Bear
In 1882, she wrote "An Official History of the Red Cross"
Clara Barton
This is the first name of the title character in "Mrs. Dalloway"
Clarissa
Last name of mother & daughter Mary Higgins & Carol Higgins, who collaborate in the Christmas suspense genre
Clark
Hugo wrote that this Archdeacon of Notre Dame "had been destined from infancy... for the ecclesiastical state"
Claude Frollo
This debut novel by Charles Frazier was a take on Homer's "Odyssey" set during the Civil War
Cold Mountain
"The Cat" by this single-named Frenchwoman is about a Russian blue who's devoted to her master--but not to his fiancee
Colette
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in this country in 1928
Colombia
Like "The Shining", "Misery" deals with a writer stuck in this U.S. state during winter
Colorado
Louis L'Amour wrote many of his western novels in room 222 of the Strater hotel in Durango in this state
Colorado
"I can't count the reasons I should stay, one by one they all just fade away" (it should be the Greendale fight song)
Community
When "A Week on" this "and the Merrimack Rivers" sold only 220 copies, publishers dumped the last 700 on Thoreau's door
Concord
This Pulitzer winner changed his first name to that of an Irish king, avoiding associations with a famous ventriloquist's dummy
Cormac McCarthy
This prolific social critic & author of "Race Matters" was my co-author on the 1996 book "The Future of the Race"
Cornel West
The first part of "Les Miserables" is called "Fantine"; the second part is named for her
Cosette
1980 nonfiction book by Carl Sagan
Cosmos
Imprisoned, Raskolnikov has a long wait until he can again be with his beloved Sonia at the end of this novel
Crime and Punishment
Inspector Porfiry Petrovich is on the case in this 1866 novel
Crime and Punishment
This 1897 work includes the line "a great nose indicates a great man"
Cyrano de Bergerac
David Herbert were the given names of this author whose 1915 "The Rainbow" was banned as obscene
D.H. Lawrence
This Henry James heroine is shunned after she befriends an Italian man
Daisy Miller
This personality first won friends & influenced people while teaching public speaking at the YMCA
Dale Carnegie
Robert Langdon feels the burn dealing with a riddle involving Dante's "Inferno" in an offering from this author
Dan Brown
This 1957 Ray Bradbury novel is named for a potent potable made from a lawn weed
Dandelion Wine
The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County was named after this New Hampshire orator & statesman
Daniel Webster
This poet had mooned over Beatrice Portinari for 9 years before she even spoke to him in 1283
Dante Aligheiri
A veteran of both world wars, this creator of Sam Spade was buried in Arlington in 1961
Dashiell Hammett
By Dickens: "Wickfield and Heep" is a chapter in this novel
David Copperfield
This Dickens character is mentioned in the first line of "The Catcher in the Rye"
David Copperfield
This character is Charles Dickens' most autobiographical; his initials are the reverse of the author's
David Copperfield
Name the playwright: "The Glengarry Highland's leads, you're sending Roma out, fine. He's a good man"
David Mamet
St. Francis Cathedral is one of the many structures built by Jean-Baptiste Lamy, the first archbishop of Santa Fe & the model for the quiet, pious title character in this Willa Cather novel
Death Comes for the Archbishop
This 1949 drama that ends with a requiem asks, "Why did you do it? I search & search & I search, & I can't understand it"
Death of a Salesman
The murder in this mystery takes place aboard the Karnak, a small river steamboat
Death on the Nile
"The Painted Girls" is a novel of 2 sisters in Paris, one of whom models for a dancer sculpture by this artist
Degas
Y'all might be shaken up by this James Dickey book about a canoeing trip that turns into a struggle for survival
Deliverance
Alice begins & ends "Through the Looking Glass" by talking with Kitty, the offspring of this old cat
Dinah
Clive Cussler's "Atlantis Found" finds this protagonist in Antarctica
Dirk Pitt
Chapter 15 of this novel reports that one day Lara "went out and did not come back. She... probably died somewhere"
Doctor Zhivago
This Russian physician is married to Tonya but falls in love with Lara while working in a military hospital
Doctor Zhivago
"His madness being stronger than any other faculty", he "resolved to have himself dubbed a knight by the first person he met"
Don Quixote
This "tasty" author bakes her novels a while: 1992's "The Secret History" was her 1st, & "The Goldfinch" from 2013 is her 3rd
Donna Tartt
Lord Henry tells him, "What an exquisite life you have had!... It has not marred you. You are still the same"
Dorian Gray
In "Nocturne", this woman known for her table talk wrote, "Cover with ashes our love's cold crater"; always so cheery!
Dorothy Parker
This author's crime? Discussing banned books in the Petrashevsky Circle group in 1849; punishment? 4 years in Siberia
Dostoyevsky
Matthew Arnold mixed pessimism & hope for love in his poem titled this "beach" in southeast England
Dover Beach
The first edition of his "Diet Revolution" was a bestseller back in 1972
Dr. Atkins
Chee-Chee was an organ grinder's monkey rescued by this doctor
Dr. Dolittle
Joe McGinniss' controversial books include "Fatal Vision", about this doctor & convicted murderer
Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald
Magazine stories about this young doctor spawned several movies & a TV series starring Richard Chamberlain
Dr. Kildare
Shipwrecked in the South Seas, Edward Prendick stumbles on the island of this doctor who's creating human-animal hybrids
Dr. Moreau
In 1937 his sister said he had "hats of every description" which he would use as a "foundation of his next book"
Dr. Seuss
This 1897 novel was influenced by "Carmilla", an 1872 novella about a female vampire
Dracula
Sturm Brightblade is a knight of Solamnia in this series named for a weapon that sounds like it could kill Smaug
Dragonlance
With hundreds of performers in an evening, Victorian pantomime peaked at the theater named for this lane
Drury Lane
"The Boarding House" & "The Sisters" are 2 of the 15 stories appearing in this 1914 James Joyce collection
Dubliners
Born in Swansea, Wales, he went somewhat gentle into that good night in 1953
Dylan Thomas
This Welsh poet wrote the play "Under Milk Wood"
Dylan Thomas
Mrs. Honeychurch in his "A Room with a View" was based on his grandmother
E.M. Forster
Chapter 1 of this 1952 book ends, "This is about the way the Salinas valley was when my grandfather... settled in the foothills"
East of Eden
Lying sick in bed, Adam gives his son Caleb his blessing by saying the Hebrew word "timshel" at the end of this novel
East of Eden
Retells a biblical story: "First Aron prayed silently for Cal"
East of Eden
Fittingly, Luca Spaghetti is one of the people Elizabeth Gilbert meets in the first section of this 3-word book
Eat, Pray, Love
This bestseller by Lynne Truss has been described as "a book for people who love punctuation"
Eats, Shoots and Leaves
In 1995 Richard Preston had a No. 1 bestseller with "The Hot Zone", about a scary outbreak of this virus from Africa
Ebola
Name the poet: "Lenore 'hath gone before', with hope, that flew beside, leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride"
Edgar Allan Poe
His "Murders in the Rue Morgue" in 1841 is considered the first detective story in English
Edgar Allen Poe
In 1936 he published an autobiography titled "Across Spoon River"
Edgar Lee Masters
This author's ashes were buried under a large walnut tree in front of his office on Ventura Blvd. in Tarzana, California
Edgar Rice Burroughs
He dedicated "The Faerie Queene" to Queen Elizabeth; she rewarded him with a pension
Edmund Spenser
Some of this Maine-born poet's finest verse appears in her 1931 collection "Fatal Interview", a group of love sonnets
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Name the poet: "There was an old man in a tree, who was horribly bored by a bee"
Edward Lear
This writer "helped make the memory of the Holocaust eternal by preserving the story of 6 million Jews in his works"
Elie Wiesel
This flower girl tells Henry Higgins, "Every girl has a right to be loved"
Eliza Doolittle
She spent the last 14 years of her life with her husband at Casa Guidi in Italy
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The 44 sonnets in an 1850 volume by her are largely in iambic pentameter
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Clapp Library at Wellesley College has the love letters exchanged by these 2 English poets in 1845 & 1846
Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Robert Browning
At the time of his death, Charlie Chaplin was married to this playwright's daughter, Oona
Eugene O'Neil
This U.S. playwright won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936
Eugene O'Neill
In this Longfellow poem, the little village of Grand-Pre lay "in the Acadian land on the shores of the Basin of Minas"
Evangeline
In a Tennyson poem, Bedevere is asked to make a run with this & fling it "into the middle mere"
Excalibur
This is a historical novel by Leon Uris about the founding of Israel
Exodus
This Imagist became immersed in Fascist politics while living in Italy
Ezra Pound
"The Post-American World" gave us the analysis of this end-of-the-alphabet pundit born in India
Fareed Zakaria
Subtitled "The Dark Side of the All-American Meal", this expose was made into a 2006 film
Fast Food Nation
Turgenev novel with Nikolai Kirsanov & his kid
Fathers and Sons
Punning on a word for a soccer field, Nick Hornsby gave a book this 2-word title referring to intensity
Fever Pitch
You do not talk about how Chuck Palahniuk drafted his first novel in 3 months
Fight Club
This author of "Madame Bovary" campaigned for the Legion of Honor, which he received in 1866
Flaubert
This Hemingway novel takes place over 3 days near Segovia, Spain in 1937
For Whom the Bell Tolls
"Parade's End", a series of novels by this redundantly named Brit, became an HBO miniseries
Ford Madox Ford
In 1986 he was the subject of Kitty Kelley's "His Way"
Frank Sinatra
"What do school teachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?" is one question asked in this "crazy" 2005 book
Freakonomics
From 1845, the "Narrative of the Life of" this man is a firsthand account of the life of an American slave
Frederick Douglass
"The Last of the Mohicans" is set in this war
French and Indian War
Perfect beach reading in 1951 was this James Jones novel set in Hawaii just before Pearl Harbor
From Here to Eternity
Born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in Vicuna, Chile, she was the first Latin American woman to win a Nobel Prize in literature
Gabriela Mistral
This Joyce Carol Oates work shares its title with a Hieronymus Bosch depiction of paradise & more
Garden of Earthly Delights
John Irving wrote, "But in the world according to" him, "we are all terminal cases"
Garp
F. Scott Fitzgerald probably drew upon Max Gerlach, a bootlegger & a Long Island neighbor, for this title character
Gatsby
"(About 1340-1400). Called the father of the English language and the Morning Star of Song"
Geoffrey Chaucer
The real first name of Lord Byron
George
Name the playwright: "By George, Eliza, the streets will be strewn with the bodies of men shooting themselves for your sake"
George Bernard Shaw
She & Harriet Beecher Stowe corresponded by letter, discussing such things as her portrayal of Jews in "Daniel Deronda"
George Eliot
The Dorlcote Mill is "The Mill on the Floss" in a book written by this woman
George Eliot
"The American Tolkien" was what Time magazine called this author with the same 2 middle initials as Tolkien
George R.R. Martin
Drogon, Viserion & Rhaegal are 3 dragons with a mother; their true "father" is this author
George R.R. Martin
This author of a fantasy series set in the land of Westeros was a conscientious objector during Vietnam
George R.R. Martin
Some say this title guy who 2 tramps are set to meet in a play represents a distant & unresponsive deity
Godot
From 1791 to 1817 this poet & playwright served as director of the Weimar court theater
Goethe
His "The Inspector General" made fun of authorities, & it took a special order from the Czar to let it be performed
Gogol
This 1959 Philip Roth novella begins, "the first time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her glasses"
Goodbye, Columbus
In this 1934 novel, the title character teaches at Brookfield, an all-boys school in England
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Aspects of his 1958 novel "Our Man in Havana" seemed to predict the Cuban Missile Crisis
Graham Greene
"The Ant and" this leaping insect are in a fable by Aesop
Grasshopper
In an ode, Keats called this object an "unravish'd bride of quietness," a "foster child of silence"
Grecian urn
This Kafka guy awakes to find he has an armor-plated back, a domelike brown belly & numerous legs
Gregor Samsa
We never learn her name, but the mother of this monster seeks her revenge against Beowulf
Grendel
1933: Allan Nevins won a Pulitzer writing about this pres. (hint: Nevins won in non-consecutive years, for 1937's "Hamilton Fish")
Grover Cleveland
Don Pedro de Mendez rescues this title character after he's left the country of the Houyhnhnms
Gulliver
Take a large swallow, as you may do with some of Mary Roach's digestive tract descriptions in her book of this title
Gulp
In 1880 this French novelist sometimes accused of immoral writing stated, "What is beautiful is moral"
Gustave Flaubert
In 1893 this British man published his "initial" book, a "text-book of biology"; many sci-fi novels followed
H.G. Wells
Erik Larson's "The Devil in the White City" tells the story of this serial killer
H.H. Holmes
Miskatonic University makes its "initial" appearance in this author's 1922 serial "Herbert West--Reanimator"
H.P. Lovecraft
Thomas Harris revealed that this character was inspired by a murderous Mexican surgeon, elegant & insane
Hannibal Lecter
Her indignation over the Fugitive Slave Act led to the writing of her most famous novel, published in 1852
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The 1853 dedication of "12 Years a Slave" was to this woman author "whose name... is identified with the Great Reform"
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Cho Chang & Fleur Delacour are 2 of the many witches in this book series
Harry Potter
The mysterious Kurtz is the object of Marlow's quest in this Joseph Conrad tale
Heart of Darkness
Since he can't have Cathy, he marries Isabella Linton
Heathcliff
Neurosurgeon Eben Alexander recounts his near-death experience during a coma in "Proof of" this
Heaven
This 7-year-old orphan is kidnapped from the Swiss Alps & taken to Frankfurt
Heidi
F. Scott Fitzgerald said this author's "inclination is toward megalomania and mine toward melancholy"
Hemingway
This American's "Death in the Afternoon" says, "If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it"
Hemingway
A year after he retired to Walden Pond, he headed for the backwoods of Maine & wrote 3 essays about his trip there
Henry David Thoreau
On his death in 1862 a Massachusetts paper said, "No man ever lived closer to nature, and reported her secrets more eloquently"
Henry David Thoreau
Squire Allworthy is a character in a 1749 novel by this man
Henry Fielding
In 1930 this Michigan businessman wrote a book, "Edison as I Know Him"
Henry Ford
In Peter Roach's phonetics glossary, this alliterative guy is "the best-known fictional phonetician"
Henry Higgins
The strange men playing 9-pins in Rip Van Winkle were said to be this British captain & his crew, who would visit the area every 20 years
Henry Hudson
To Anais Nin: "I think I have discovered a title for the book. How do you like... 'Tropic of Cancer' or 'I Sing the Equator'"
Henry Miller
Tired of whaling, he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in July 1842 & lived there for a month
Herman Melville
At age 97 in 2012, quite a few years after his bestseller "The Caine Mutiny", he came out with "The Lawgiver"
Herman Wouk
Self-help author & guru Stephen Covey, who penned the highly successful "7 habits of" this group of folks
Highly Effective People
In "Treasure Island", Long John Silver & his crew attempt a mutiny on this island-named ship
Hispaniola
The life & death dates for this poet in Britannica simply say, "flourished 9th or 8th century BCE?, Ionia? (now in Turkey)"
Homer
In "The House Without a Key" readers said aloha to Charlie Chan, a detective on this island city's police force
Honolulu
Harris Wittels' book was titled this oxymoron: "The Art of False Modesty"
Humblebrag
When Alice first meets this character, he's sitting on top of a high wall "with his legs crossed, like a Turk"
Humpty Dumpty
Stevenson: "all human beings...are commingled out of good and evil: and" this man "alone... was pure evil"
Hyde
This "Sleepy Hollow" teacher had "huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose"
Ichabod Crane
"Force 10 from Navarone" is a sequel to this book
The Guns of Navarone
This 1985 Margaret Atwood novel was challenged in N.C. as "sexually explicit, violently graphic and morally corrupt"
The Handmaid's Tale
You're going on an adventure with dwarves & dragons if you're reading this book subtitled "There And Back Again"
The Hobbit
This New England title establishment is located in Derry; would you like turndown service?
The Hotel New Hampshire
"They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral" is from this Arthur Conan Doyle work
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The peat bogs of Dartmoor, England inspired the fictional home of the beastly title character in this 1902 tale
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The title of this Edith Wharton novel is taken from Ecclesiastes
The House of Mirth
Hawthorne based this novel about a cursed home in Salem on an old family legend
The House of the Seven Gables
New England's oldest surviving wooden mansion, the home seen here in Salem, inspired this 1851 novel
The House of the Seven Gables
A chapter heading in this 19th century work calls the title character "one-eyed, lame", another calls him "deaf"
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Set in the 15th century, but written in the 19th: "A Bird's Eye View of Paris" is a chapter in this novel
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Captain First Rank Marko Ramius ordered a sub to go (defect) in this Tom Clancy novel
The Hunt for Red October
The women in this Amy Tan title group share dim sum, mah jong & immigrant angst
The Joy Luck club
This 1882 story by Frank Stockton leaves its title question unanswered
The Lady, or the Tiger?
The villain of this novel is a cunning & vengeful Huron named Magua
The Last of the Mohicans
This collective title of James Fenimore Cooper's 5 novels about frontier life includes a kind of legwear
The Leatherstocking Tales
Her grandmother told her that when she was 15, she could rise out of the sea & sit on the rocks in the moonlight
The Little Mermaid
This James Herriot book completes a series that began with "All Creatures Great & Small", & its title completes the rhyme
The Lord God Made Them All
Professor Challenger finds dinosaurs & adventure in the Amazon jungle in this Conan Doyle tale
The Lost World
"Persuader" by Lee Child featured the return of this ex-military cop, 6'5", 250 in the book series & not 6'5", 250 onscreen
Jack Reacher
Richard Wright wrote "Native Son"; this African-American writer put out "Notes Of A Native Son"
James Baldwin
6'3'' from Fairfax High, this author of crime books like "L.A. Confidential"
James Ellroy
His L.A. novels include "The Black Dahlia"
James Ellroy
All things were bright & beautiful for veterinarian Alfred Wight when he wrote under this name
James Herriot
He based "stately, plump Buck Mulligan" in "Ulysses" on his friend Oliver Gogarty
James Joyce
In 1905 this Dubliner & his future wife Nora moved to Trieste, where he taught English
James Joyce
1980: His newest epic was "The Covenant", spanning the settlement of South Africa
James Michener
Whenever life gets too mundane, this author's Walter Mitty creates his own fantasy
James Thurber
This "Poet of the Common People" wrote "When the Frost is on the Punkin"
James Whitcomb Riley
"Persuasion", her last completed novel, was published only months after her death in 1817
Jane Austen
In 2011 Oxford's Bodleian Library acquired her handwritten draft for "The Watsons", a novel begun around 1804
Jane Austen
She described her work as "Human nature in the Midland Counties" & involving "three or four families in a country village"
Jane Austen
Adele Varens is the pupil to whom this title Bronte character is a governess
Jane Eyre
On the day of her wedding, she learns that her groom-to-be, Mr. Rochester, already has a wife
Jane Eyre
This character says, "I have told you, reader, that I had learnt to love Mr. Rochester; I could not unlove him now"
Jane Eyre
Ruth Benedict's "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword" is a classic 1946 study of this country's culture
Japan
This Robert Ludlum mystery man first appears floating in the Mediterranean & suffering from amnesia
Jason Bourne
For stealing a loaf of bread during the French Revolution, he ended up serving 19 years
Jean Valjean
This existentialist won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964, but refused to accept the award
Jean-Paul Sartre
P.G. Wodehouse introduced this valet in a Saturday Evening Post story, "Extricating Young Gussie"
Jeeves
This character created by P.G. Wodehouse has been called the "most gentlemanly of gentlemen's gentlemen"
Jeeves
Andersen's "The Nightingale" was a tribute to this Swedish soprano who never returned his love
Jenny Lind
It's the full name of the town visited by vampires in "'Salem's Lot"
Jerusalem's Lot
"The Lowland" is the second novel by this acclaimed author of "Interpreter of Maladies"
Jhumpa Lahiri
"Crash Diet" is a brilliant collection of stories by this Southern author; her novels include "Carolina Moon" & "Tending to Virginia"
Jill McCorkle
About this George Bernard Shaw title character, the executioner says, "Her heart would not burn, my lord"
Joan of Arc
This English poet, writer, and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack", was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1972 until his death in 1984
John Betjemen
An 1859 plea by Thoreau for this radical abolitionist asks, "When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?"
John Brown
Tony Horwitz' "Midnight Rising" dealt with this man "and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War"
John Brown
This man's "peerage", dating back to 1826, is a guide to the noble families of the United Kingdom
John Burke
Wapshot chronicler who published his first short story at age 18
John Cheever
"I am a lawyer, and I am in prison. It's a long story" is the opening line of "The Racketeer" by this novelist
John Grisham
"Sweetest Fanny...I love you ever and ever and without reserve", this poet wrote in 1820
John Keats
His headstone in Rome reads in part: "This grave contains all that was mortal, of a young English poet"
John Keats
This Brit's poem "La Belle Dame sans Merci" says, "She looked at me as she did love, And made sweet moan"
John Keats
Name the poet: "So glistered the dire snake, and into fraud / Led Eve our credulous mother, to the tree / Of prohibition, root of all our woe"
John Milton
His ashes were buried in his mother's family plot in Salinas, California
John Steinbeck
In 1938 he published "The Long Valley", a collection including "The Red Pony"
John Steinbeck
He's the most recent winner of 2 Pulitzer prizes for fiction, winning in 1982 & 1991 for books in the same series
John Updike
This author's early novels, including one about Harry Angstrom, were set in his native Pennsylvania
John Updike
"Carsick" is this cult film director's tale of hitchhiking from Baltimore to California
John Waters
I spied "A Delicate Truth", a 2013 thriller by this British octogenarian
John le Carre
In 1943 kids were enjoying Esther Forbes' novel about this title Johnny & the Revolutionary War
Johnny Tremaine
Visit Brobdingnag with Hugh Laurie as your guide in an abridged version of a book by this author
Jonathan Swift
The "winner" of the title event of this Shirley Jackson story is stoned to death
The Lottery
He was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, known for presenting subversive perspectives on historical events
Jose Saramago
E.M. Forster called this "Lord Jim" author "misty in the middle as well as at the edges"
Joseph Conrad
In an 1890 letter, he called himself "a Polish nobleman, cased in British tar"
Joseph Conrad
Published posthumously in 2003, a novel by this Brooklyn guy was titled "Catch as Catch Can"
Joseph Heller
In 2014 she celebrated her 50th year as a novelist with the release of "Carthage"
Joyce Carol Oates
Sadly, there are no trees near this poet's plot in an American military cemetery in Picardie, France
Joyce Kilmer
This self-described "fool" wrote, "a tree that looks at God all day / and lifts her leafy arms to pray"
Joyce Kilmer
Hey, this Thomas Hardy character "opened the book... which Mr. Phillotson had bestowed on him as a parting gift"
Jude
Criticism of this gloomy novel & its loser title hero put Thomas Hardy off writing novels forever
Jude the Obscure
His "Lighthouse at the End of the World" was published in Paris shortly after his death in 1905
Jules Verne
In 1863 he put out a book originally titled "Voyage au Centre de la Terre"
Jules Verne
In 1865 this French author wrote about a space flight launched from Florida that later splashes down in the Pacific
Jules Verne
This writer's tomb in Amiens, France was featured on the masthead of Amazing Stories magazine for many years
Jules Verne
William S. Burroughs' first published book
Junkie
The prologue of this novel is called "The Bite of the Raptor"
Jurassic Park
This Roman satirist whose name sounds like a word meaning "childish" asked, "But who is to guard the guards?"
Juvenal
It refers specifically to an author who died in 1924, or broadly to senseless, menacing complexity
Kafkaesque
The Wizard tells Dorothy that he's from this state, "Born and bred in the heart of the Western wilderness"
Kansas
Fittingly, this character is named for a plant also known as arrowhead that belongs to the genus Sagittaria
Katniss Everdeen
In "The Hunger Games" books, Primrose is her younger sister
Katniss Everdeen
1964: Walter Jackson Bate won a Pulitzer writing about this "Endymion" poet
Keats
His 1898 story "The Reluctant Dragon" was reissued in 1953 to coincide with a "Wind in the Willows" reissue
Kenneth Grahame
"Born Free" is set in this country
Kenya
Of Irish descent but raised in India, this Kipling title youngster joins the English Secret Service
Kim
In this "royal" H. Rider Haggard adventure novel, a character uses his knowledge of a solar eclipse to fool tribesmen
King Solomon's Mines
Shh! It's the title of Anthony Bourdain's "Adventures In The Culinary Underbelly"
Kitchen Confidential
This novel set over a hot summer holiday weekend became a movie starring Kate Winslet & Josh Brolin
Labor Day
This woman mentioned in the title of a controversial novel is the former Constance Reid
Lady Chatterley
Estate Gamekeeper Oliver Mellors is the title paramour in this D.H. Lawrence novel
Lady Chatterley's Lover
His poem about a "dream deferred" ends, "maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?"
Langston Hughes
Inspiring the film "Rescue Dawn" was Dieter Dengler's "Escape from" this Indochinese nation
Laos
This Wichita Falls author took us to the "Streets of Laredo" 8 years after creating Texas Ranger Woodrow Call
Larry McMurtry
This iconic canine made her bow wow in a 1938 Saturday Evening Post story
Lassie
On April 6, 1348, 21 years to the day after Petrarch first saw her, she died in Avignon, possibly of the plague
Laura
Her first publications were accounts of the travels of her & husband Almanzo in the De Smet News in South Dakota
Laura Ingalls Wilder
On February 7, 1867 she was born in a little house in the big woods in Lake Pepin, Wisconsin
Laura Ingalls Wilder
2-word bestselling title (& advice) from Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg
Lean In
In "The Pioneers", one of these "Tales", James Fenimore Cooper wrote that a buck "darted like a meteor"
Leatherstocking Tales
This auto executive wrote the bestselling hardcover nonfiction book of 1984 & 1985
Lee Iacocca
A series of 16 best-selling religious fiction novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, dealing with Christian dispensationalist End Times
Left Behind
At last count there were 16 books in this apocalyptic series that began with "A Novel of the Earth's Last Days"
Left Behind
A plaque on Burritt St. in San Francisco marks the spot where in this novel, "Miles Archer, partner of Sam Spade, was done in"
The Maltese Falcon
In 1876 Edward Everett Hale wrote a novelette, "Philip Nolan's Friends", to complement this 1863 short story
The Man Without a Country
Captain Rouget de Lisle wrote this one work that is remembered; it begins, "Allons, enfants de la patrie"
The Marseillaise
In this Edgar Allan Poe story, a fatal & hideous pestilence causes scarlet stains upon the body & "face of the victim"
The Masque of the Red Death
The title & theme of this Ibsen play about an ambitious architect reflect a folktale
The Master Builder
Carson McCullers told this tale of a 12-year-old taking an overly active role in her older brother's pending nuptials
The Member of the Wedding
A line in this short story is "Slowly, awkwardly trying out his feelers, which he now first learned to appreciate..."
The Metamorphosis
King Arthur's half-sister Morgaine is the main character in this Marion Zimmer Bradley book
The Mists of Avalon
The nonfiction book about these title men tells how art historians & museum curators saved art from Nazi looting
The Monuments Men
In 1981, Paul Theroux got the itch to publish this novel set in the jungles of Central America
The Mosquito Coast
This Agatha Christie play that features Detective Sergeant Trotter is something most cats would love to have
The Mousetrap
The violent killings of an old woman & her daughter are the title crimes of this Poe detective story
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
A 2012 Bicentennial exhibition featured the manuscript of this unfinished Dickens mystery
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
It's Dickens' only true mystery; the end of the work & the solution are a mystery that went to the grave with the author
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
2 siblings create a sinister, unreal world of their own in Cocteau's tale of these "enfants"
Les Enfants Terribles
A novel by Anne Rice begins, "I am the vampire" him. "I'm immortal. More or less"
Lestat
Anne Rice's first sequel to "Interview with the Vampire" was "The Vampire" him
Lestat
Shhhh! The U.S. Poet Laureate works on the third floor of this institution's Jefferson building
Library of Congress
This 2013 novel by Kate Atkinson wonders, what if you could live again & again, until you got it right?
Life After Life
In a letter to the author, President Obama called this "a lovely book--an elegant proof of God, and the power of storytelling"
Life of Pi
Pancho Villa's revolutionary deeds influence the lives of the characters in this Laura Esquivel bestseller
Like Water for Chocolate
A biography of Michael Ventris is titled "The Man Who Deciphered" this ancient Cretan script
Linear B
Thomas Berger died in 2014, the 50th anniversary of this novel of his about a 111-year-old survivor of Custer's army
Little Big Man
Amy is the real name of this Dickens title character who was born in the Marshalsea debtor's prison
Little Dorrit
The second in Ian Fleming's series, it features James Bond battling Soviet spies & voodoo
Live and Let Die
Dolores Haze was the real name of this 12-year-old nymphet who stood "four feet ten in one sock"
Lolita
In a Nabokov novel, it precedes "light of my life, fire of my loins"
Lolita
I like that "It was raining" is the first line of a story about "Life" in this city where Henry James mainly lived from 1876 on
London
This O'Neill drama: Act I begins at 8:30 a.m.: Act IV is set about 15 hours later
Long Day's Journey into Night
He began a poem, "Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere"
Longfellow
Eugene Gant in this novel & its sequel "Of Time and the River" was based on the author, Thomas Wolfe
Look Homeward, Angel
This coming-of-age story is set in the fictional town and state of Altamont, Catawba, a fictionalization of the author's home town, Asheville, North Carolina.
Look Homeward, Angel
In this Judith Rossner novel, Theresa Dunn is murdered by a man she'd picked up in the title singles spot
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
In 1816 this Lord left England for good; in 1818 he praised Italy in his poem "Beppo"
Lord Byron
In an 1869 Atlantic shocker, Harriet Beecher Stowe exposed this "noble" romantic poet's affair with his half-sister
Lord Byron
This Joseph Conrad character receives the title of lord from natives on the remote island of Patusan
Lord Jim
"Perhaps there aren't any grownups anywhere", says Ralph at the start of this 1954 novel
Lord of the Flies
In the title of a 1967 work, Desmond Morris called humans this type of ape
The Naked Ape
Stephen King borrowed the name of his fictional town Castle Rock from this 1950s novel that greatly influenced him
Lord of the Flies
Between 1872 & 1882 she wrote 6 volumes of "Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag"
Louisa May Alcott
Boy meets girl, boy loses girl in this tearjerker about Oliver & Jenny
Love Story
Where do I begin to tell the tale of this tearjerker that topped The New York Times bestseller list for most of 1970
Love Story
In this Garcia Marquez book with "Love" in the title, Fermina will wed Florentino if he never makes her eat eggplant
Love in the Time of Cholera
In "Through the Looking Glass", the original illustrations depict the messengers Haigha & Hatta as this tea party pair from the first book
Mad Hatter & March Hare
Sinclair Lewis' first critical & commercial success, this 1920 novel satirized small-town small-mindedness
Main Street
I like the novel "What" this little girl "Knew", & the 2013 movie based on it too
Maisie
The "10,000 Rule"--10,000 hours of practice to become expert at any competition--was popularized in his book "Outliers"
Malcolm Gladwell
This 1903 play presented Shaw's theory of an evolutionary "life force"
Man and Superman
It's a day in the "park" & the price is right--the price being Fanny--in dealing with the Bertram family in this novel
Mansfield Park
A 1936 N.Y. Times review called the debut novel by this author "in all probability, the biggest book of the year: 1,037 pages"
Margaret Mitchell
The story of a young divorcee pursuing a Ph.D., the feminist classic "The Women's Room" is by her
Marilyn French
To Marlon Brando: "I wrote a book called 'The Godfather'... and I think you're the only actor who can play the part"
Mario Puzo
This Peruvian writer and politician won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature
Mario Vargas Llosa
The monument for his grave in Elmira, New York is 2 fathoms tall
Mark Twain
Vachel Lindsay's poem "The Raft" said this author "in white stands gleaming like a pillar of the night"
Mark Twain
This John Grogan bestseller is subtitled "Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog"
Marley & Me
"120 Days of Sodom" by this man was published in 1904, nearly 100 years after his death
Marquis de Sade
While jailed in the Bastille, he wrote an early version of his most famous work, "Justine; or, The Misfortunes of Virtue"
Marquis de Sade
Jen Lancaster channeled this domestic queen for her humorous 2013 memoir "The Tao of Martha"
Martha Stewart
"The Dovekeepers" blends together stories centered on the siege at this Judean desert stronghold 2,000 years ago
Masada
Captain Jack Aubrey & surgeon Stephen Maturin first set sail in 1969 in this Patrick O'Brian novel
Master and Commander
He once said, "It is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things"
Maurice Sendek
Name the poet: "A bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage"
Maya Angelou
This Emma Lazarus poem is engraved in bronze at the base of the Statue of Liberty's pedastal
The New Colossus
Argos is the faithful dog who recognizes his long-lost master in this ancient Greek work
The Odyssey
Some men can be real pigs, especially after Circe gets done with them in this epic poem
The Odyssey
The wanderer sails for the South Pole in Nikos Kazantzakis' 33,333-line sequel to this ancient poem
The Odyssey
The title of this essay collection by David Sedaris refers to his attempt to learn to speak French
Me Talk Pretty One Day
After this book was released in 1997, Mineko Iwasaki, on whom it was based, sued for defamation
Memoirs of a Geisha
In Homer's works, these men with rhyming names are a trusted advisor & a guy with a voice as strong as 50 men
Mentor & Stentor
This messenger of the gods "and the Woodman" is a fable by Aesop
Mercury
Bracton College in "That Hideous Strength" by C.S. Lewis is home to the tomb of this magician
Merlin
After Noah Webster's death, the company named for these brothers bought the rights to his dictionary
Merriam Brothers
Book 1 of this epic narrative by Ovid begins with a story of the creation of the world
Metamorphoses
Detective Harry Bosch looks back 20 years at a killing during the 1992 L.A. riots in "The Black Box" by this novelist
Michael Connelly
6'9'' from Harvard, this man who wrote thrillers under the name John Lange (Lange is "tall" in German)
Michael Crichton
In 1999 this novelist found the time to pick up a Pulitzer Prize for "The Hours"
Michael Cunningham
Born in Ceylon, this bestselling author of "The English Patient" emigrated to Montreal in the 1960s
Michael Ondaatje
He wrote "I, the Jury" in less than 3 weeks & introduced us all to Mike Hammer
Mickey Spillane
The title of this short novel by Nathanael West refers to an advice column for the lovelorn
Miss Lonelyhearts
Agatha Christie's collection "Thirteen for Luck" includes 3 stories about this spinster
Miss Marple
"The Help" was set in this state
Mississippi
This misbehaving Defoe title woman is eventually deported to America, where she reforms
Moll Flanders
Leopold Bloom is her husband
Molly Bloom
Clary Fray crosses paths with the demon-killing Shadowhunters in "City of Bones", the first book in this series
Mortal Instruments
George S. Kaufman was no rolling stone, as he gathered this partner to write "The Man Who Came to Dinner"
Moss Hart
This Kipling character first appeared as an adult in the story "In the Rukh", then as a boy in "The Jungle Book"
Mowgli
What, were you raised by wolves? Actually, yes, this Indian boy was, in 1895's "The Jungle Book"
Mowgli
Called "South Africa's grande dame of literature", she passed away at age 90 in 2014
Nadine Gordimer
Bill Sikes is this character's boyfriend
Nancy
Jadis of Charn is the evil White Witch laying chilly havoc to this C.S. Lewis land
Narnia
In 1830 he had 5 tales & sketches published in the Salem Gazette
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bigger Thomas kills a woman in a moment of panic in this novel by Richard Wright
Native Son
His play "The Prisoner of Second Avenue" tells the sad but funny tale of a fired exec having a nervous breakdown
Neil Simon
The Nautilus is this mad captain's submarine
Nemo
Gibson: "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel"
Neuromancer
Death Comes for the Archbishop concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in this former U.S. Territory
New Mexico
"A Streetcar Named Desire": spring, summer & early fall in this city
New Orleans
"Washington Square" was set in this state
New York
The title of O. Henry's short story collection "The Four Million" refers to the population of this city
New York City
This Dickens novel features Wackford Squeers, the villainous proprietor of Dotheboys Hall
Nicholas Nickleby
This coin phrase is the punning title of Barbara Ehrenreich's chronicle of making ends meet on $7 an hour
Nickel and Dimed
"The Man Died" by Wole Soyinka was inspired by his years in prison in this West African country
Nigeria
This Cormac McCarthy novel with the cattle gun-wielding Chigurh
No Country for Old Men
Best known for a different work, in 1833 he produced a "Common Version" of the Holy Bible "with Amendments of the Language"
Noah Webster
In preparation for a work he published in 1828 that was over 20 years in the making, he learned 26 languages
Noah Webster
In 1938 Dashell Hammett created this amateur detective & husband in "The Thin Man"
Nora & Nick Charles
The 1879 play "A Doll's House" was a sensation as this female character challenged the traditional roles of wife & mother
Nora Helmer
In 1991 this Brooklyn guy penned "Harlot's Ghost", focusing on the CIA
Norman Mailer
Nicholas Sparks has set many novels, including "Safe Haven" & "Nights in Rodanthe", in this, his home state
North Carolina
Before "Downton Abbey", there was this, the shortest of Jane Austen's 6 major novels
Northanger Abbey
This novel with a monastic title was sold to a publisher in 1803 but didn't appear until after Jane Austen died in 1817
Northanger Abbey
Name the 3 warring superstates in 1984
Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia
The last name of this Mexican poet, a Nobel prize winner in 1990, means peace
Octavio Paz
Lennie & George talk rabbits in this Depression-set Steinbeck tale
Of Mice and Men
14-year-old Mary catches the eye of Henry VIII, but her sister Anne is soon favored by him in this novel by Philippa Gregory
The Other Boleyn Girl
"Hand in hand, on the edge of the sand," these 2 title animals of an Edward Lear poem "danced by the light of the moon"
The Owl and the Pussycat
The 2012 book "Portrait of a Novel" is about "Henry James & the Making of" this "American masterpiece"
The Portrait of a Lady
This Henry James novel concerns a young American women who inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates
The Portrait of a Lady
1961 Muriel Spark novel about an Edinburgh educator in her "Prime"
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Born in Lebanon, Khalil Gibran titled books in English "The Madman", "The Forerunner" & this foreteller
The Prophet
In this 1845 story, the stolen title object has been hidden in plain sight
The Purloined Letter
Stephen Crane based this story on the experience of a soldier at the battle of Chancellorsville
The Red Badge of Courage
This 1830 Stendhal work paints a colorful portrait of post-Napoleon France
The Red and the Black
This is the second book in the Hitchhiker Guide series
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Tom Wolfe worked for six years on this bestseller about the early space program
The Right Stuff
In this poem, Coleridge wrote, "and a good south wind sprung up behind; the albatross did follow"
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Seen here is the symbol of Simon Templar, also known as this modern-day Robin Hood
The Saint
After publishing this book in 1988, Salman Rushdie was forced into hiding
The Satanic Verses
In 1989 Ayatollah Khomeini called this book blasphemous & condemned Salman Rushdie, its author, to death
The Satanic Verses
The manuscript of a novel called "Bombyx Mori" is at the heart of this second mystery by Robert Galbraith
The Silkworm
Ann Brashares' "The Second Summer of the Sisterhood" was a follow-up to this novel
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
1929 William Faulkner title pair
The Sound and the Fury
Over 1,000 pages long, this Stephen King novel sees 108-year-old Abagail face off against "the dark man"
The Stand
In John Campbell's novella "Who Goes There?", filmed with this title, an alien ship is found in Antarctica
The Thing
This Kurt Weill musical drama was produced in German as "Die Dreigroschenoper" in 1928
The Threepenny Opera
Arriving naked is one problem of this guy whose "wife" was the subject of Audrey Niffenegger's novel
The Time Traveller
These spirits of dead miners who try to warn the living of cave-ins may have inspired King's 1987 novel of the same name
The Tommyknockers
It's never clear why Joseph K. is arrested in this Kafka novel, but he's executed anyway
The Trial
In this story "The great swans swam round the newcomer; and stroked his neck with their beaks"
The Ugly Duckling
Lewis Carroll poem about a pinniped & a woodworker
The Walrus and the Carpenter
April is the cruelest month, at least according to this T.S. Eliot poem
The Waste Land
Made into a successful TV miniseries, this Philippa Gregory novel dramatized the life of the wife of Edward IV
The White Queen
Jane, Alexandra & Sukie are the 3 title uninhibited magical mavens in this Updike novel
The Witches of Eastwick
Daniel Radcliffe starred in a big screen version of this Susan Hill horror novel about a ghost haunting a town
The Woman in Black
In 1859 Wilkie Collins published this mystery novel based on an actual criminal case
The Woman in White
Jody's companion is a fawn named Flag in this novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Yearling
Name the poet: "If called by a panther / don't anther"
Ogden Nash
You can find a book of the Pentateuch in the name of this T.S. Eliot cat who has "buried nine wives"
Old Deuteronomy
Before writing "The Vicar of Wakefield", this 18th century author studied medicine in Leyden
Oliver Goldsmith
"Don't send me back to the wretched place I came from. Have mercy", begs this title orphan to Mr. Brownlow
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens Novel subtitled "The Parish Boy's Progress"
Oliver Twist
He wrote about the USS Constitution, "The meteor of the ocean air shall sweep the clouds no more"
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Jack Kerouac claimed he banged out the first draft of this novel in 3 weeks in April 1951
On the Road
This novel's Chief Bromden says he's telling the story about "The hospital, and her, and the guys--and about McMurphy"
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
When Alexander the Great razed Thebes in 335 B.C., he spared the home of this lyric poet
Pindar
This Robert Browning title girl "passes" the time on her day off from a silk mill
Pippa
This Astrid Lindgren character is described as having "hair the color of a carrot"
Pippi Longstocking
This Swedish girl's "hair, the color of a carrot, was braided in two tight braids that stuck straight out"
Pippi Longstocking
Michael Chabon: "The Mysteries of ____"
Pittsburgh
In 1907 the performance of this John Millington Synge play set off riots in Dublin
Playboy of the Western World
The "lives" of Aristides & Cato the Elder were among those this biographer covered
Plutarch
In the 1950s Charles Bukowski worked sorting mail in one of these, the title of his 1971 novel
Post Office
Alice's wonderland croquet game ends early as this character keeps ordering "off with" the heads of other players
Queen of Hearts
In 1922, 4 years before his death, this German-language poet produced the 55 "Sonnets to Orpheus"
Rainer Maria Rilke
In a 1952 novel he wrote, "I am invisible... simply because people refuse to see me"
Ralph Ellison
"The transcendent simplicity and energy of the highest law" is mentioned in his essay "The Over-Soul"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The 2 great Sanskrit epic poems are the Mahabharata & this tale of an avatar of Vishnu
Ramayana
In "Farewell My Lovely", he wrote one woman was "a blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window"
Raymond Chandler
This hard-boiled writer took the big sleep for real on March 26, 1959
Raymond Chandler
Thomas Paine's opponents bashed "The Age of" this as an "atheist's bible", but the work does talk about a creator
Reason
Daphne du Maurier remembered her original idea for this book as "A beautiful home... a first wife... jealousy..."
Rebecca
Its first chapter recalls "the little scallop-shell of pastry, so richly sensual under its severe, religious folds"
Remembrance of Things Past
Frank & April Wheeler start out as a model 1950s couple in this Richard Yates novel made into a 2008 film
Revolutionary Road
In the "Nun's Priest's Tale", Chaucer used some of the French material about this fox of medieval French fable
Reynard
One of this man's "most priceless memories" is of "a delicately nurtured Southern belle with her Irish up"
Rhett Butler
The German epic "Nibelungenlied" sees an evil family bury their magic gold in this body of water
Rhine
Susan Orlean wrote a biography of this movie star dog
Rin Tin Tin
After drinking the liquor supplied by odd-looking fellows, he "fell into a deep sleep"
Rip Van Winkle
6'6'' from the Repton School in Derbyshire, this children's author seen with wife Patricia Neal
Roald Dahl
Taste testing chocolate bars for Mr. Cadbury inspired his most famous kids' novel
Roald Dahl
"Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" were written by him
Robert Burns
Busy guy; this poet wrote love poems to a "Jean", a "Bonnie Lesley" & a "Highland Mary"
Robert Burns
The Nancy in this Scot's "A Fond Kiss" was Agnes McLehose
Robert Burns
Beryl Bainbridge's "Birthday Boys" fetes this explorer's fatal 1912 expedition to the South Pole
Robert Falcon Scott
Pseudonym of J.K. Rowling
Robert Galbraith
"A Memory of Light" was the long-awaited 14th & final book in this late fantasy author's "Wheel of Time" series
Robert Jordan
Known for his "Wheel of Time" series, he is also one of several writers to write books featuring Conan the Barbarian
Robert Jordan
After his death in Samoa, this Scotsman's body was taken to a plot atop Mount Vaea
Robert Louis Stevenson
In 1879 this young Scot documented his adventures in France in "Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes"
Robert Louis Stevenson
In 1990 his "Bourne Ultimatum" was a bestseller
Robert Ludlum
Unfinished at his death, his "Silent Night: A Spenser Holiday Novel" was completed by his agent & published in 2013
Robert Parker
Daniel Defoe was about 60 when he wrote of the "Adventures of" him & also of his "Further Adventures"
Robinson Crusoe
This literary character was based on Alexander Selkirk, a sailor marooned on a South Pacific island for 4 years
Robinson Crusoe
Gary Wolf's book questioned, "Who Censored" this character; in the movie he was "framed"
Roger Rabbit
Among his siblings are Charlie, Percy, Fred, George & Ginny
Ron Weasley
This 18th century Frenchman's "Confessions" set the template for modern autobiographies
Rousseau
A college called Salomon's House in Sir Francis Bacon's "New Atlantis" may have inspired the 1660 founding of this society
Royal Society
"The female of the species is more deadly than the male", wrote this Bombay-born British poet
Rudyard Kipling
Sadly, the daughter for whom he wrote the "Just So Stories" died at age 6
Rudyard Kipling
This trio sang, "Today's Tom Sawyer, he gets high on you, & the space he invades, he gets by on you"
Rush
In 1972 her first book was called "Mmmmm"; after stints at Gourmet & the New York Times, her first novel is "Delicious"
Ruth Reichl
Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" of this village leaves his wife, Faith, to a attend a witches' Sabbath
Salem
In "The Thirteenth Sacrifice", witches have returned to this city & Boston cop Samantha Ryan is hunting them
Salem
"Tell me more", said puss about the Paul Torday love story with the odd title this "in the Yemen"
Salmon Fishing
In the late 1920s Dashiell Hammett lived in an apt. at 891 Post St. in San Francisco, also this detective's address
Sam Spade
For his work with the French Resistance during WWII, this Irish playwright was awarded the Croix de Guerre
Samuel Beckett
1944: Carleton Mabee won a Pulitzer writing about this "American Leonardo", master of the dot & dash
Samuel Morse
Not quite Rocinante, the mount used by this character is a brown donkey
Sancho Panza
This poetess of Lesbos was known as the "tenth muse"
Sappho
Mr. Rhett Butler returns to Tara & once again finds himself in the arms of his beloved in this 1992 novel
Scarlett
Annie Fitzgerald Stephens, who survived the burning of Atlanta, was a model for this Southern belle
Scarlett O'Hara
Robert Heinlein's "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" mentions a cat named Pixel, a reference to this physicist's cat
Schrodinger
"Innocent", a legal thriller published in 2010, is a sequel to his bestselling debut novel, "Presumed Innocent"
Scott Turow
1960: The Senate does not "Advise and Consent" when a Commie-coddler is nominated as this Cabinet secretary
Secretary of State
Featured in a 1933 novel, this fictional location may have been inspired by the 1920s Tibetan travel writings of explorer Joseph Rock
Shangri-La
Elinor Wylie's "The Orphan Angel" imagines this poet not drowning & coming to America
Shelley
Chief among the tigers in Kipling's "The Jungle Book" is this beast whose name means "tiger"
Shere Khan
He was the less than legal lawman trying to keep the peace around Sherwood Forest
Sheriff of Nottingham
Readers' letters to this author about her 1948 short story asked where the title event was held & if they could go & watch
Shirley Jackson
This Yiddish author wrote "Rabchik, a Jewish Dog", or as we like to call it, "Piddler on the Rug"
Sholem Aleichem
Characters in this Edna Ferber novel set in the Mississippi include Captain Hawks & Gaylord Ravenal, a handsome gambler
Show Boat
This 1922 novel's first chapter is titled "The Son of the Brahman"
Siddharta
This medieval German hero killed a dragon & bathed in its blood to gain invulnerability
Siegfried
"A Long Way Gone" is Ishmael Beah's memoir of being a boy soldier during the 1990s civil war in this African nation
Sierra Leone
Chapters in this 1962 classic include "Earth's Green Mantle", "Needless Havoc", "Rivers of Death" & "And No Birds Sing"
Silent Spring
In "Uncle Tom's Cabin", he's "that brutal man, familiar with every form of cruelty"
Simon Legree
He said his novel "Main Street" was his first "to rouse the embattled peasantry"
Sinclair Lewis
Kurt Vonnegut begins this 1969 novel by writing, "All this happened, more or less"
Slaughterhouse-Five
This collection of essays by Joan Didion is a portrait of 1960s California
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"My teeth are swords, my claws spears... and my breath death!" claims this dragon in "The Hobbit"
Smaug
Aristophanes' "The Clouds" satirizes this philosopher as the representative of Atheism
Socrates
The longest poem in "Leaves of Grass", called this since 1881, consists of 52 sections
Song of Myself
This title of an 1850 collection doesn't refer to a language but to a nickname the poet's husband gave her
Sonnets from the Portuguese
"At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?" is a query from this 1979 novel
Sophie's Choice
Name the playwright: "Show to all in Thebes his father's murderer"
Sophocles (Oedipus Rex)
Owned by black sharecroppers, this title dog was named for his bark
Sounder
"The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition": "____"
South
"Cry, the Beloved Country" is set in this country
South Africa
Dostoyevsky's short story "White Nights" is a romance set in this capital under the czars
St. Petersburg
In a bestselling tale about high school, Bel Kaufman took us "Up the Down" this
Staircase
Lady Penelope Rich was the "star" of Sir Philip Sidney's sonnet cycle "Astrophel and" her, published in 1591
Stella
Janet Evanovich is best known for creating this character, a lingerie buyer turned bounty hunter
Stephanie Plum
This "Red Badge of Courage" author covered the war in Cuba as a reporter for Pulitzer's New York World newspaper
Stephen Crane
This horror master didn't sugarcoat it: "(J.K.) Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn"
Stephen King
This vampire romance novelist whose books have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide is a Mormon
Stephenie Meyer
Hermann Hesse's tale of Harry Haller
Steppenwolf
This Robert Frost poem says, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep"
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
This poem's title has 7 words, like its last line "and miles to go before I sleep"
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
"Kinsey and Me" is a collection of short stories & autobiographical sketches by this author of the alphabet mysteries
Sue Grafton
The "Art of War" by this man says, "He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared"
Sun Tzu
In W.H. Auden's "Funeral Blues": "He was... My working week and my ____ rest"
Sunday
The novel "Trilby" is mostly remembered for this character who hypnotizes & controls the title singer
Svengali
19th century pastor Johann David Wyss & his son wrote this children's book about a shipwrecked clan
Swiss Family Robinson
Fabled weapon precariously suspended over a leader in Greek literature
Sword of Damocles
Anne Sexton's elegy for this fellow doomed poet recalls the time "we downed three extra dry martinis in Boston"
Sylvia Plath
She used the pseudonym Victoria Lucas for her most famous novel
Sylvia Plath
Though dead almost 20 years, she won a 1982 Pulitzer for her "Collected Poems"
Sylvia Plath
Funds provided by his widow were used to set up a literary charity called Old Possum's Practical Trust
T.S. Eliot
He explained, "The naming of cats is a difficult matter, it isn't just one of your holiday games"
T.S. Eliot
Anton Chekhov, a man of letters, was felled by this 2-letter disease
TB
In Maugham's "The Moon and Sixpence", Charles leaves his wife & eventually goes to this Pacific island to paint
Tahiti
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was on of the stories in this "musical" F. Scott Fitzgerald collection"
Tales of the Jazz Age
"The Coral Sea" & "Mutiny" were 2 of the stories in this 1947 James Michener work
Tales of the South Pacific
In the books not Cheetah the chimp but Nikma the monkey was the companion of this man
Tarzan
This lord of the jungle books swung into print in October 1912
Tarzan
Given name Edward, he became poet laureate in 1984
Ted Hughes
Sylvia Plath was married to this writer
Ted Hughes
After hearing this children's rhyme in an Agatha Christie play, William Blore dies from a bashed head
Ten Little Indians
Name the playwright: "Whoever you are--I have always depended on the kindness of strangers"
Tennessee Williams
Queen Victoria dubbed him baron of Aldworth & Freshwater
Tennyson
"The Last Picture Show" was set in Anarene in this state
Texas
With Jim set free, the protagonist is headed for Indian territory because Aunt Sally wants to adopt him at the end of this novel
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The "Gossip Girl" series of books was inspired by this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel also set in New York City but 120 years earlier
The Age of Innocence
Thomas Paine wrote "The Age of Reason"; Edith Wharton wrote this 1920 satire of social life in 1870s New York City
The Age of Innocence
Kitty's ears perk up when she hears the title of this Daphne du Maurier tale of fierce finches & robins
The Birds
It's the rhyming title of the book about "how a gang of fame-obsessed teens ripped off Hollywood"
The Bling Ring
"The Devil's Candy" chronicled the disastrous film production of this Tom Wolfe bestseller
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe wrote about the fall of Wall Street master of the universe Sherman McCoy in this, his first novel
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Henry James dealt with radical feminism in this novel whose title tells you it's set in Massachusetts
The Bostonians
2000: This John Grisham novel concerns 3 disgraced judges who hatch another scam while in jail
The Brethren
"Until I'm one with you my heart shall not pass through"--a reference to the U.S./Mexico border?
The Bridge
Novel in which Robert Kincaid says to Francesca, "this kind of certainty comes only once"
The Bridges of Madison County
By first names, this title group is Alyosha, Ivan, Dmitri & Smerdyakov
The Brothers Karamazov
Partly set in the Klondike: "The Sounding of the Call" is a chapter in this novel
The Call of the Wild
Printing in England was still a novelty in the 1470s when William Caxton printed this work about 30 pilgrims
The Canterbury Tales
The title of this 1951 novel comes from the hero's fantasy of rescuing children falling from a cliff
The Catcher in the Rye
This 1904 Russian play ends with the sound of an axe striking a tree
The Cherry Orchard
This Chekhov play: Madame Ranevsky's estate in the full bloom of May
The Cherry Orchard
Son, want to know what this South Carolina military college was like 50 years ago? Read Pat Conroy's "The Boo"
The Citadel
From 1982: "Dear God, he beat me today because he say I winked at a boy in church"
The Color Purple
In this play set in the 1600s, John Proctor tells Rev. Hale, "though you be ordained in God's own tears, you are a coward"
The Crucible
"The Wizard and Glass" is one entry in this series
The Dark Tower
King: "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed"
The Dark Tower
After a stint as an assistant at Vogue, Lauren Weisberger wrote this 2003 novel about an assistant at a fashion mag
The Devil Wears Prada
In one story they consisted of trousers, a coat & a cloak that were "light as a cobweb"
The Emperor's New Clothes
This book written by Norman Mailer focused on condemned killer Gary Gilmore
The Executioner's Song
This Edmund Spenser work is named for Gloriana, who had several knights in her service
The Faerie Queen
In this Edgar Allan Poe tale, Roderick confesses that his not-dead-yet twin sister Madeline has been laid in the family tomb
The Fall of the House of Usher
This novel is dedicated to Esther Earl, who died of thyroid cancer at 16 & never got to read it
The Fault In Our Stars
The first of 3: "The Breaking of the Fellowship" is a chapter in this novel
The Fellowship of the Ring
The chorus in this play by Aristophanes takes the form of amphibians, hence the title
The Frogs
Not knowing when to hold 'em or when to fold 'em, a big-in-debt Dostoevsky began & ended this novel in October 1866
The Gambler
Roald Dahl's James says, "I know what this is! I've come to the stone in the middle of" this
The Giant Peach
The boy in this Shel Silverstein classic tale never even says thanks for the branches, the apples...anything!
The Giving Tree
I like the symbolism in this Henry James novel, such as the shattering of the title object
The Golden Bowl
A little birdie told us Donna Tartt won a 2014 Pulitzer prize for this novel that deals with a small, mysterious painting
The Goldfinch
"Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there" is a line from this Steinbeck classic
The Grapes of Wrath
In 1940 House Representative from Oklahoma Lyle Boren denounced it as a "dirty, lying, filthy manuscript"
The Grapes of Wrath
Published in 1925, it still sells 500,000 copies a year & was on the bestseller lists in 2013
The Great Gatsby
Much of this 1976 novel is based on author Pat Conroy's family, especially his dad, a fighter pilot
The Great Santini
For some reason faking one's own death is a Russian literary motif, as in "The Living Corpse" by this count
Tolstoy
Sofya Andreyevna, wife of this great Russian novelist, is a narrator of "The Last Station", about his final year
Tolstoy
Henry Fielding's title foundling
Tom Jones
This Howard grad won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993
Toni Morrison
This woman is truly "Beloved", winning a Pulitzer in 1988 & a Nobel in 1993
Toni Morrison
Published in 1935, it's named for a district once near Monterey
Tortilla Flat
The Hispaniola reaches Bristol & Captain Smollett retires at the end of this novel
Treasure Island
In "Paradise Lost" it stood in the Garden of Eden "high eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit"
Tree of Life
Set in the 1850s in Paris, it features the stories of two English artists and a Scottish artist, but one of the most memorable characters is Svengali, a Jewish rogue, masterful musician and hypnotist
Trilby
A big-time case of writer's block (& maybe a lot of partying) delayed "Answered Prayers" by this "non-fiction novelist"
Truman Capote
This writer famously said of Jack Kerouac's output, "it isn't writing at all--it's typing"
Truman Capote
In "Through the Looking-Glass", these "fat little men only looked at each other and grinned", not good for much else
Tweedledee & Tweedledum
The first of a "Saga": "Blood Type" is a chapter in this novel
Twilight
She cries out, "You cursed brat! Look what you've done! I'm melting! Melting!"
Wicked Witch of the West
This Chaucer gal tells soon-to-be hubby No. 5 she'd marry him if she were a widow
Wife of Bath
Dickens met this "Moonstone" author & writing partner through a man named Augustus Egg
Wilkie Collins
One of his "Songs of Innocence" says, "we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love"
William Blake
The line "no country for old men" comes from this Irishman's poem "Sailing To Byzantium"
William Butler Yeats
This doctor-poet was the son of William George Williams; his mother was Raquel from Puerto Rico
William Carlos Williams
His 1942 story "The Bear" relates the story of Ike McCaslin & his companions as they hunt a bear named Old Ben
William Faulkner
In the early 1920s he briefly served as a scoutmaster for an Oxford, Mississippi Boy Scout troop
William Faulkner
He wrote that "naked lunch" means "a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on... every fork"
William S. Burroughs
This New York Times "On Language" columnist: "We're becoming a short-take society... our food for thought is junk food"
William Safire
Research for his novel "Sophie's Choice" included a reading of the memoirs of the commandant of Auschwitz
William Styron
This former UK prime minister won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953
Winston Churchill
This D.H. Lawrence novel continued the stories of sisters Ursula & Gudrun Brangwen, who 1st appeared in "The Rainbow"
Women in Love
Name the playwright: "I'm not like you. At the end of 'Casablanca' when you lost Ingrid Bergman, weren't you crushed?"
Woody Allen (Play It Again, Sam)
A poem by him ends, "and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils"
Wordsworth
Coleridge & this Romantic published "Lyrical Ballads" together but failed to finish "The Wanderings of Cain"
Wordsworth
This lake poet's "Ecclesiastical Sonnets" is a history of the church in England
Wordsworth
Unlike some other Romantics, this "Tintern Abbey" poet did not die young
Wordsworth
These Comedy Central cubicle guys insist, "You gotta, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta be fresh"
Workaholics
"Heartbreak House" is set in the Sussex home of Captain Shotover on the eve of this war
World War I
Antiwar poet Wilfred Owen was killed in action one week before the end of this war
World War I
Cathy marries Edgar, so Heathcliff marries Edgar's sis for revenge in this novel
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte said it was "the name of Mr. Heathcliff's dwelling"
Wuthering Heights
Subtitled "The Last Man", Brian Vaughan's 2002 apocalyptic epic bears this chromosomal letter as its title
Y
The movie "Life of Pi" was based on a novel by this author
Yann Martel
Aldous Huxley's first novel, a social satire of British literati, is called "Crome" this color
Yellow
1920: "The Man of the Forest" created by this "Purple Sage" author prefers the company of bears to people
Zane Grey
"Z" by Therese Anne Fowler is a novel about this real literary wife
Zelda Fitzgerald
Last name of the life-loving Alexis, "the Greek" in a novel by Nikos Kazantzakis
Zorba
Looking like a giant lying down, Cave Hill near Belfast inspired this man in the 1720s
Jonathan Swift
Eric Knight touched hearts with the 1940 novel imploring this dog to "Come Home"
Lassie
It's Tarzan's noble title
Lord Greystroke
"A Raisin in the Sun" was this woman's first produced play
Lorraine Hansberry
Thomas Paine was elected to France's Natl. Convention in 1792 but was imprisoned in 1793 after opposing this king's execution
Louis XVI
007's boss
M
His 1909 will named his daughter Clara & biographer Albert Bigelow Paine to help manage his literary estate
Mark Twain
His "The Unbearable Lightness Of Being" was banned in his native Czechoslovakia until 1989
Milan Kundera
Winston Smith works at for this agency in the novel 1984
Ministry of Truth
Longfellow called her the "handsomest of all the women in the land of the Dacotahs"
Minnehaha
She wrote "Heartburn", based on her breakup with husband Carl Bernstein
Nora Ephron
This author of "The Bone Bed" once worked as a computer analyst at the chief medical examiner's office in Richmond
Patricia Cornwell
She's Hester Prynne's daughter
Pearl
This daughter of missionaries won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938
Pearl Buck
In 1341 this Italian sonneteer was crowned poet laureate, with real laurel
Petrarch
Dame Judi Dench wrote the foreword to this expose on the role of the Catholic church in forced adoptions
Philomena
In "The Grapes of Wrath", Jim Casy is called this, similar to a minister
Preacher
This is the second book in the Chronicles of Narnia series
Prince Caspian
His "spinal column was curved"... the "head was between the shoulder-blades and... one leg was shorter than the other"
Quasimodo
"Gorillas in the Mist" is set in this country
Rwanda
Will Eisner created this jungle queen of the pulps in the 1930s
Sheena, Queen of the Jungle
This 19th century character talks about his own writings about tattoo marks & on the tracing of footsteps
Sherlock Holmes
In a C.S. Forester novel, Charlie Allnutt pilots this title craft on the Ulanga River
The African Queen
It's the English title of Brazilian author Paulo Coelho's "O Alquimista"
The Alchemist
It is over 1,100 pages in modern editions and gives an account of Balkan history and ethnography from the author's six week trip to Yugoslavia in 1937
Black Lamb and Gray Falcon
The title of this Dickens novel refers to a residence near St. Albans
Bleak House
This 1985 Cormac McCarthy novel has the alternate title "The Evening Redness in the West"
Blood Meridien
He works for Scrooge & is Tiny Tim's father
Bob Crachit
He published "Up from Slavery" in 1901 & "Tuskegee and Its People" in 1905
Booker T. Washington
Dennis Lehane is a trustee of this city public library, which beats NYC as the USA's biggest in number of volumes held
Boston
In 1834 Charles Dickens began using this pseudonym, a joking nickname for his youngest brother
Boz
This Irish-born writer's most famous novel is partly narrated by Jonathan Harker in the form of a journal
Bram Stoker
The young girl in this 1958 Truman Capote work is described as having "a face beyond childhood"
Breakfast at Tiffany's
This Sinclair Lewis title character is a real estate salesman who lives in the suburbs of the city of Zenith
(George) Babbitt
In a Goethe novel "The Sorrows of" this man include the fact that Lotte is engaged
(Young) Werther
Name the Song of Ice and Fire books in order
1. A Game of Thrones 2. A Clash of Kings 3. A Storm of Swords 4. A Feast for Crows 5. A Dance with Dragons 6. The Winds of Winter 7. A Dream of Spring
Name the Harry Potter books in order
1. The Sorcerer's Stone 2. Chamber of Secrets 3. Prisoner of Azkaban 4. Goblet of Fire 5. Order of the Phoenix 6. Half-Blood Prince 7. Deathly Hollows
Conan Doyle introduced Sherlock Holmes in this decade
1880s
George Orwell completed the manuscript for "1984" in this year
1948
This novel by Arthur C. Clarke is subtitled "Odyssey Two"
2010
Anastasia Steele falls for a troubled man in this first book in an erotic trilogy
50 Shades of Grey
The second line in a haiku typically has this many syllables
7
This Neil Sheehan book focuses on Lt. Col. John Paul Vann to illuminate America's failures & disillusionment in Vietnam
A Bright Shining Lie
Title of a 1970s bestseller complaining about Americans' bad English--keep it "in your head"
A Civil Tongue
Chapter 1 of this 1889 novel begins "'Camelot--Camelot...I don't seem to remember hearing of it before.'"
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Twain satirized the customs & institutions of the feudal world in this 1889 novel
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Frederic Henry, the protagonist of this Hemingway novel, is in the Italian ambulance service during WWI
A Farewell to Arms
"In the lighted windows, his books arranged three by three kept watch like angels" is from this Proust work
A Remembrance of Things Past
A Katy, Texas school district didn't have a Jane Smiley face after complaints about this numerically titled book
A Thousand Acres
The title of this 1943 bestseller refers to an Ailanthus
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
This book begins, "serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York, especially in the summer of 1912"
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
His books include "The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" & "A Short History of Nearly Everything"
Bill Bryson
In an Anna Sewell novel, Duchess was the mother of this title horse
Black Beauty
Prolific short story writer Frank O'Connor once served in the I.R.A. & on the board of directors of this playhouse
Abbey Playhouse
Pete Seeger's picture book about this giant was inspired by a South African folktale
Abiyoyo
In this story of a Trojan hero, Virgil wrote that "fortune favors the brave"
Aeneid
Of the 90 plays written by this ancient Greek, only 7 have survived intact, including the "Oresteia"
Aeschylus
This "Oresteia" man was the first to use 2 actors in a tragedy to create dialogue, instead of having one just play to the chorus
Aeschylus
Khaled Hosseini's "A Thousand Splendid Suns" explores the last 30 years in this Asian nation
Afghanistan
Set on a coffee plantation: "Out of ____"
Africa
A collection of short stories, her "Miss Marple's Final Cases" was published in 1979
Agatha Christie
The Pharmaceutical Journal praised her 1920 first novel, saying it dealt "with poisons in a knowledgeable way"
Agatha Christie
We find out a surprise about the narrator at the end of her 1926 mystery "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"
Agatha Christie
The title character in Anne Rice's "Queen of the Damned", she's a really old vampire
Akasha
"Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" is by this funnyman-turned-Minnesota senator
Al Franken
In 1956 he published "La Chute", or "The Fall"; the next year he won the Nobel Prize for Literature
Albert Camus
This French writer was just 44 when he got the Nobel Prize for Literature for works like "The Myth of Sisyphus"
Albert Camus
In "Queen", published in 1993, he told of his grandmother, the daughter of a slave & a white slave owner
Alex Haley
In 1845 this pere continued the story of a certain trio in "Twenty Years After"
Alexander Dumas
Oscar Wilde said, "there are two ways of disliking poetry...to dislike it (&) to read" this author of "An Essay on Man"
Alexander Pope
In 1824 this great poet was exiled to his mother's estate, where he wrote the historical drama "Boris Godunov"
Alexander Pushkin
French author Albert Camus set several works in this country of his birth
Algeria
"Open sesame!" cried this man, & the hidden cave of the 40 thieves opened to him
Ali Baba
"Dance of the Happy Shades" is the title story of the first book by this Canadian woman who won a 2013 Nobel Prize
Alice Munro
The Kristen Wiig movie "Hateship Loveship" is based on a story with 2 more "ships" in the title by this Canadian woman
Alice Munro
Set in Georgia, her first novel was 1970's "The Third Life of Grange Copeland"
Alice Walker
She was the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Alice Walker
This play details President Lyndon B. Johnson's efforts to maneuver members of Congress to enact, and civil rights leaders including Martin Luther King, Jr. to support, the Civil Rights Act of 1964
All the Way
This "Devil's Dictionary" wit went down Mexico way in 1913 & vanished without an adios
Ambrose Bierce
This dictionary, still around, was spun off from a magazine of U.S. history that stopped printing in 2012
American Heritage
"Rise to Rebellion" by Jeff Shaara is about this war
American Revolution
This youngest sister in "Little Women" was based on the author's sister May--note the anagram
Amy
This Al Gore book is subtitled "The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It"
An Inconvenient Truth
"At liftoff, Matt Eversmann said a Hail Mary", begins this Somalia-set nonfiction book
Black Hawk Down
Maybe the 2012 bio of Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman & this political movement has randomly numbered pages & no cover
Anarchy
The lover's plea "To His Coy Mistress" is this 17th century poet's best-remembered work
Andrew Marvell
Frank McCourt won a 1997 Pulitzer for this poignant account of his growing up poor in New York & Ireland
Angela's Ashes
This title woman takes a pregnant pause after having an affair with Count Vronsky
Anna Karenina
"In her sepulchre there by the sea, in her tomb by the sounding sea" ends this poem
Annabel Lee
She was the first female poet to be published from either America or England, and her work met with a positive reception in both the Old World and the New World
Anne Bradstreet
When she received her diary in 1942, she named it "Kitty"
Anne Frank
AKA Akasha, the Queen of the Damned was a title character from this author
Anne Rice
Most of her main characters, including those in "The Accidental Tourist", have lived in Baltimore, like she does
Anne Tyler
"Anne of Windy Poplars" is a sequel to this 1908 classic
Anne of Green Gables
Loosely modeled on 12-step programs is James Franco's debut novel titled "Actors" this
Anonymous
We'll be cruel & ask for the first word in the first line of "The Waste Land"
April
If a Judy Blume title were one word longer, it might include Simon, the last name of this 12-year-old girl
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
This ancient playwright's "Lysistrata" contains the line "can't live with them, or without them!"
Aristophanes
"Greek Fire" tells of the lives & love affair of singer Maria Callas & this shipping tycoon
Aristotle Onassis
This author's "Tales of the City" center on the denizens of an apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane in San Francisco
Armistead Maupin
"Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours" is the French title of this 1873 book
Around the World in 80 Days
His 1973 "Rendezvous with Rama", about an encounter with an alien spaceship, won both nebula & Hugo awards
Arthur C. Clarke
The author of more than 50 books, he won 6 Hugo awards & was nominated for a 1968 Oscar
Arthur C. Clarke
On occasion he humorously signed autographs "Dr. John Watson"
Arthur Conan Doyle
As William Faulkner sat writing, it took him six weeks to come up with this 1930 classic
As I Lay Dying
Cash builds a coffin for his mother in this Faulkner novel
As I Lay Dying
He's the character in "Gone with the Wind" whose world is truly gone with the wind: "winnowed out", as Rhett says
Ashley Wilkes
A Swedish award for adolescent & children's literature is named for this "Pippi Longstocking" author
Astrid Lindgren
In 1960 she delivered a campus lecture titled "Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World"
Ayn Rand
The "Love" part of the memoir "Eat, Pray, Love" is set on this balmy Indonesian island
Bali
Jim Bouton, on Nov. 15, 1968 in this book: "I signed my contract today to play for the Seattle Pilots at a salary of $22,000"
Ball Four
Bukowski wrote the screenplay for this boozy 1987 film starring Mickey Rourke as Bukowski's alter ego
Barfly
1982 Hubbard tale: "____ Earth"
Battlefield
Tom Wolfe's "From" this "to Our House" cleverly rhymes a Gropius creation
Bauhaus
Poet Gregory Corso & novelist William S. Burroughs were part of this hip midcentury movement
Beat Movement
The writer who named this U.S. movement said the term referred to supreme blessedness, not exhaustion
Beat Movement
William S. Burroughs & Jack Kerouac of this movement co-wrote a 1944 novel, unpublished until 2008
Beat Movement
In a Whitman poem, this 3-word title precedes "Blow! Bugles! Blow!"
Beat! Beat! Drums!
Emma Thompson was tapped to write the first authorized sequel to this author's "Peter Rabbit" stories
Beatrix Potter
In "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", she is described as "a lovely little blue-eyed creature with yellow hair"
Becky Thatcher
She's a recently relocated & torn-between-2-creatures Forks High School student
Bella Swan
This "Volpone" author admired his contemporary Shakespeare but did find the Bard sometimes "full of wind"
Ben Jonson
In this novel subtitled "A Tale of the Christ", the title man's mom & sis are converted & cured of leprosy
Ben-Hur
In an epic poem written around the 700s, this title guy is fatally wounded by a fire-breathing dragon
Beowulf
In a much lighter vein than "Gone Girl", there's "Where'd You Go," this French-sounding first name
Bernadette
In 1974 he sued & stopped the sale of a book of his "Complete Uncollected Short Stories"
J.D. Sallinger
He created Tinker Bell
J.M. Barrie
In a preface to "Through the Looking Glass", Lewis Carroll gives the pronunciation of some new words found in this poem
Jabberwocky
He spent 30 days in jail for vagrancy in 1894 before heading to the Klondike, the setting for some of his best stories
Jack London
This author's 1909 title character Martin Eden is a sailor turned writer in San Francisco--reminds me of someone
Jack London
This 1955 drama: In & around the Hillsboro Courthouse in July
Inherit the Wind
A North Carolina county board made this 1952 Ralph Ellison classic disappear, saying it didn't have "any literary value"
Invisible Man
"The Shahnama" of 1000 A.D. is an epic from this current country
Iran
Celebrated in April, National Robotics Week honors this man who coined the word "robotics" in a 1941 story
Isaac Asimov
In the short story "Nightfall" by this prolific sci-fi writer, a planet with 6 suns goes dark
Isaac Asimov
This Yiddish writer's short story "Gimpel the Fool" was translated into English in 1953
Isaac Bashevis Singer
I'd have liked to meet this "lady" that an 1881 Henry James novel is "the portrait" of
Isabel Archer
She was talking about West Kenya when she began a book, "I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills"
Isak Dinesen
In Chapter 2 of "Moby Dick", he tucked his carpetbag under his arm & "started for Cape Horn and the Pacific"
Ishmael
In "From Russia with Love", Bond & babe board a famous westbound train in this Eastern city
Istanbul
These 7 words penned by Edward Buller-Lytton have inspired an annual contest dedicated to bad opening lines
It was a dark and stormy night
After the Trojan War, Odysseus wandered for 10 years before returning home to here
Ithaca
A tale of the Soviet labor camps tells of "one day in the life" of him, patronymic Denisovich, last name Shukhov
Ivan
Tolstoy's "Death of" this title character initially deals with others' reactions to his passing
Ivan Illytch
This "Father of Angling" was a well-known writer of biographies, his first being a short account of John Donne
Izaak Walton
Piper Kerman played on a cliche about fashion trends for this title of her memoir of her time in jail
Orange is the New Black
"De Profundis" tells the story of his affair with Alfred Douglas & its aftermath
Oscar Wilde
1989: Richard Ellmann won a Pulitzer writing about this "earnest" Irish wit
Oscar Wilde
In "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", he wrote that "each man kills the thing he loves"; "the brave man with a sword"
Oscar Wilde
In May 1895 this author was sentenced to 2 years at hard labor, mostly served at Reading Gaol
Oscar Wilde
"Written in My Own Heart's Blood" is Diana Gabaldon's eighth novel in this series about Claire Randall in the 18th century
Outlander
In 1920 H.G. Wells turned to nonfiction & published one of these "of History"
Outline
A crowning event in Mark Twain's life was receiving an honorary degree from this British university in 1907
Oxford
The creator of this title place said its name came from the letters labeling the last drawer of his file cabinet
Oz
Born Helen Lyndon Goff in Australia, she wrote 1934's "Mary Poppins" & several sequels
P.L. Travers
Roddy Doyle's bestseller about a young Irish lad growing up in the '60s is called this boy "Ha Ha Ha"
Paddy Clarke
A thriller by Le Carre: "The Tailor of ____"
Panama
Riotous capital of Hell in Milton's "Paradise Lost"
Pandemonium
Milton begins this work with Satan in hell, plotting against Adam & Eve
Paradise Lost
This poem about "man's first disobedience" appeared in 1667
Paradise Lost
This minister wrote anecdotal bios of Ben Franklin & William Penn as well as the one about George Washington
Parson Weems
Like many of her works, this author's 1946 novel "Pavilion of Women" 'takes place in China
Pearl Buck
Selecting her for 1938, the Nobel committee cited her "rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China"
Pearl Buck
He met Mary Godwin in 1812, but they didn't wed until 1816 because he was still married to his first wife, Harriet
Percy Shelley
Marjane Satrapi's heroine in this graphic novel has to deal with the overthrow of the shah
Persepolis
Church, the cat in this Stephen King novel, is killed one day, then pops up the next day like nothing happened--typical cat
Pet Sematary
This naughty little guy disobeyed his mother & "first ate some lettuces and some French beans; and then he ate some radishes"
Peter Rabbit
Rip was a descendant of the Van Winkles who served under this one-legged governor of New Netherland
Peter Stuyvesant
On Easter Sunday 1341, this Italian was crowned poet laureate, the first to be named in Rome since antiquity
Petrarch
This sonnet form is named for the 14th century poet who perfected it
Petrarch
In "The Big Sleep" he describes himself as being "Neat, clean, shaved and sober"
Philip Marlowe
Born in Senegal around 1753, she wrote "Poems on Various Subjects: Religious and Moral" after coming to America
Phillis Wheatley
It's the Martin Sixsmith biography of a 1950s Irish woman forced to give up her baby for adoption
Philomena
12th century England is the setting of Ken Follett's historical novel these "of the Earth"
Pillars
"1Q84" by Haruki Murakami is set in 1984 in this city
Tokyo
The first Greek mime is said to have been Telestes, a dancer in "Seven Against" this city
Thebes
Real name of Dr. Seuss
Theodor Geisel
"The Bully Pulpit" is about the golden age of journalism & the relationship of these 2 presidents
Theodore Roosevelt & William Howard Taft
"The Wizard of Oz" ends with this 5-word phrase
There's no place like home
Igbo proverbs are found throughout this 1958 Chinua Achebe novel
Things Fall Apart
"Memoirs of a Cavalier" was a fictional account of this decades-long war of 17th century continental Europe
Thirty Years' War
The only known moving picture ever taken of Mark Twain is in a silent film produced by this man's studio in 1909
Thomas Edison
The success of "Far From the Madding Crowd" enabled him to give up architecture for writing
Thomas Hardy
"Hannibal" is this author's sequel to "The Silence of the Lambs"
Thomas Harris
Climb up "The Magic Mountain", a novel by this German
Thomas Mann
There was crying of a lot of 49-year-old fans of this author over Jeannie Berlin's reading of his "Bleeding Edge"
Thomas Pynchon
You may falter under the weight of "Gravity's Rainbow", by him
Thomas Pynchon
"A Winter Walk" & "Slavery in Massachusetts" are essays by this 19th century American
Thoreau
In the novel "1984", these cops are the enforcers of mental & political correctness
Thought Police
Middle-class pretensions! Despair! You want 'em, you got 'em in this Chekhov play that debuted in 1901
Three Sisters
"Come and knock on our door, we've been waiting for you"--Jack & the girls, that is
Three's Company
When war broke out between Athens & Sparta in 431 B.C., he began writing an 8-book history of the war
Thucydides
The Wicked Witch of the East maliciously enchants his axe over his love for a munchkin maiden
Tin Man
Wordsworth wrote lines composed a few miles above this place
Tintern Abbey
When Mrs. Cratchit asked her husband Bob how this son behaved in church, he replied, "as good as gold"
Tiny Tim
Dill in this novel is based on the author's childhood friend Truman Capote
To Kill a Mockingbird
1959 novel where you'll find inner city London secondary school teacher Mr. Braithwaite
To Sir, with Love
In 1987 Erskine Caldwell, who created this impoverished title road, died of lung cancer
Tobacco Road
In this novel, Molly Bloom thinks back on her husband's proposal: "then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower"
Ulysses
Virginia Woolf said this 1922 Joyce novel was by "a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples"
Ulysses
This Italian literary critic wrote the 1988 novel "Foucault's Pendulum"
Umberto Eco
Louis Zamperini, Olympic hero & WWII POW whose story of survival is told in this Laura Hillenbrand book, died at 97
Unbroken
This author whose early 20th century novels argued for social reform ran unsuccessfully for Californla governor
Upton Sinclair
In 1516 Sir Thomas More broke away from his dry histories of kings like Richard III to produce this "what-if" work
Utopia
In 1973 Mammoth thought it cheaper to hire David Lee Roth as a singer than rent his P.A. system; Mammoth became this in '74
Van Halen
This Dutch physician is knowledgeable in vampire lore & leads the group that destroys Dracula
Van Helsing
This man's discovery of a sea route to India is the subject of the Portuguese epic poem "The Lusiads"
Vasco de Gama
Mary McCarthy wrote "The Group", which follows the lives of friends who went to this women's college
Vassar
The romantic balcony seen here is one of the most popular tourist attractions in this Italian city
Verona
The letters of Walton, an English explorer in the Arctic, tell the story of this Swiss student of natural sciences
Victor Frankenstein
This 1818 novel character is a Swiss student of natural sciences who starts doing some peculiar experiments
Victor Frankenstein
Also a novelist, he began an 1839 poem, "The church is vast: its towering pride. Its steeples loom on high"
Victor Hugo
We have a "hunch" you'll know in 1852, this author wrote "Napoleon le Petit", an indictment of Napoleon III
Victor Hugo
"Fields of Fire" & "Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder" are set in this war
Vietnam War
He's the subject of the novel & movie "Lust for Life"
Vincent van Gogh
In the Alex Cross series, James Patterson immediately followed "Roses Are Red" with this title
Violets are Blue
In a 1930 letter she wrote, "As an experience madness is terrific... & in its lava I... find most of the things I write about"
Virginia Woolf
This British author's 1922 novel "Jacob's Room" is said to be a fictional biography of her brother Thoby
Virginia Woolf
The heroic tales in the collection called Mabinogion are an important part of this U.K. country's literary heritage
Wales
Because his own life is so boring, this title character in a 1939 story lives a "Secret Life" in his imagination
Walter Mitty
The daydreams of this James Thurber character include being a surgeon & the world's greatest pistol shot
Walter Mitty
It was 200 years ago that he published the first of his "Waverley" novels
Walter Scott
Kurt Vonnegut also wrote plays, like his 1970 offering "Happy Birthday" this person
Wanda June
Make a dent in this 1,400-page Tolstoy novel, issued in complete form in 1869
War and Peace
This Tolstoy tome centers on the 1812 invasion of Russia & the ensuing Russian resistance
War and Peace
"Le Morte d'Arthur" author Sir Thomas Malory was jailed often, the last time for favoring the Lancastrians in these wars
War of the Roses
In 1842, after an endorsement from Secretary of State Daniel Webster, President John Tyler appointed him as Minister to Spain
Washington Irving
Set in the Great Depression, this 2006 novel has an epigraph from "Horton Hatches the Egg"
Water for Elephants
Richard Adams conceived of this story about Hazel, Fiver & others while on a long car journey with his 2 daughters
Watership Down
In 1923 Henry Ford bought this Sudbury, Mass. inn popularized by Longfellow to make it a museum of American history
Wayside Inn
In 2012 the classic "Manual for Job Hunters" that asks this title question came out with its 40th edition
What Color Is Your Parachute?
Completes the title of a Joyce Carol Oates story inspired by a serial killer: "Where Are You Going..."
Where Have You Been?
This 1906 novel was partly inspired by an article in the San Francisco Chronicle called "The Call of the Tame"
White Fang
A National Book Award winner, this Don DeLillo novel covers a year in the life of a Midwestern college professor
White Noise
Alice overheard him say, "Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!"
White Rabbit
In 1972 disfigured Justin McLeod was "The Man Without a Face"; in 1863 exiled Philip Nolan was "The Man Without" this
a Country
This book's name may be from the Arabic for "camel rest stop" & once it gave the positions of the stars & planets
almanac
The Greek speirein, to scatter or sow, is related to this synonym for "irregularly" that also starts with "sp"
sporadically
Harold Evans covers 200 years of science history in "They Made America: From" this "Engine to" this "Engine"
steam engine to search engine
The first known one of these self-reflective chronicles in English is Thomas Whythorne's from circa 1576
autobiography
As a result of his 20-year slumber, Rip discovered that this "had grown a foot long!"
beard
This word for a person without certain abilities has made it from the realm of fantasy to the OED
muggle
It can be a branch of library science dealing with the history of books as well as a list of sources used
bibliography
In a novel by Jose Saramago, a whole society falls prey to this affliction, which they call the white evil
blindness
Sister Carrie lives in "a moderately well-furnished" this type of "house", not to be confused with a bawdy house
boarding house
Shakespeare used this 3-word phrase in "The Tempest" 320 years before Aldous Huxley used it as a title
brave new world
In "Lucifer's Hammer", the title object is not a tool but one of these that threatens earth
comet
The narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" hears a low, dull sound--"such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in" this
cotton
It answers the question posed by the Lion, "What makes a king out of a slave?"
courage
Holden Caulfield said, "you never saw so many" of these insincere people
phonies
1421: According to the title of a Gavin Menzies book, the Chinese do this, 7 decades before it was supposedly done
discover America
It was Giovanni Boccaccio who added this adjective to another Italian author's work
divine
The evil Roger Chillingworth practices this profession making use of herbs & roots
doctor
It was coined by George Orwell & means the capacity to accept 2 contradictory ideas at the same time
doublethink
Lowercase poet of "i carry your heart with me"
e.e. cummings
A genre of prose fiction that depicts the adventures of a roguish hero/heroine of low social class who lives by his or her wits in a corrupt society
picaresque
Literary genre of Piers Anthony & Robert Jordan
fantasy
In Chaucer's "Nun's Priest's Tale", a proud & foolish rooster escapes one of these predators by the skin of his beak
fox
A.A. Milne moved to London to make his living as this type of independent writer, though he did eventually join the staff of Punch magazine
freelance
Hemingway used Gertrude Stein's "You are all a lost" this word in the epigraph to "The Sun Also Rises"
generation
In a Christopher Marlowe poem, a "passionate" man with this job says, "Come live with me and be my love"
shepherd
Hunter S. Thompson described his writing as this kind of crazy journalism
gonzo
In "American Born Chinese", the first of these nominated for a national book award, Gene Luen Yang "drew" on his own heritage
graphic novel
Walt Whitman put this word in a book title & said it grows "among black folks as among white"
grass
From 1978's "Women": "A man gets paranoid when he has 300" of these after-drinking episodes "a year"
hangovers
God knows Thoreau wrote that this "is under our feet as well as over our heads"
heaven
This character in Rip Van Winkle is said to be "as much henpecked as his master"
his dog
Isaac Asimov's first law of robotics says that a robot may not allow one of these to come to harm
humans
This literary genre matter-of-factly includes mythical elements in the narrative, as seen in the work of Isabel Allende
magical realism
It's the job of the fictional Athos
musketeer
In "Paul Revere's Ride", these 9 words precede "and I on the opposite shore will be"
one if by land, and two if by sea
Thomas De Quincey's 1821 "Confessions of an English" eater or user of this drug is a classic of addiction lit
opium
Tom Joad was told, "They's a grove of" these--& "a guy with a gun that got the right to kill you if you touch one"
oranges
Jenny Joseph's "warning": "When I am an old woman I shall wear" this color "with a red hat"
purple
Bukowski's first published work was the 1944 story "Aftermath of a Lengthy" this kind of "slip"--he'd gotten his share
rejection
"Remembrance of Things Past" is a classic example of the type of series called a roman-fleuve, literally novel-this
river
It's the potent potable mentioned in a ditty in "Treasure Island"
rum
Cervantes wrote in "Don Quixote" that "Every man was not born with" one of these "in his mouth"
silver spoon
In Chapter 2 of "The Virginian", this 5-letter word follows "when you call me that..."
smile
In "Ballad of the Ladies of Yore", Francois Villon asked, "Where are" these "of yesteryear?"
snows
In a Le Carre title it's the job after tailor & before spy
soldier
"Dickory Cronke" was Defoe's tale of a philosopher born without this ability; that would be tough for a game show host
speech
This metaphor used by Shakespeare & Coleridge to denote an ending is based on a legend that never really happens in nature
swan song
A 1772 Thomas Paine work proposed a raise for excise officers, basically collectors of these--Paine's own job at the time
taxes
"My Posse Don't Do Homework" is LouAnne Johnson's memoir of her time in this profession
teacher
One of the Arabian Nights begins with a proud king who's not so proud when this heavenly being appears to him
the Angel of Death
This pickpocket befriends Oliver Twist & brings him to Fagin's house
the Artful Dodger
Glass Town is an imaginary place in the early collaborations of this famous trio of sisters
the Brontes
Beloved Aussie Banjo Paterson called one poem "A Singer of" this, another term for the Outback
the Bush
Twain took "a journey around the world" in his fifth & last travel book, "Following" this imaginary line
the Equator
A real disaster inspired Longfellow's ballad about "The Wreck Of" this schooner
the Hesperus
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "Tales of" this age, basically synonymous with the Roaring Twenties
the Jazz Age
This code name of a spy completes Ken Follett's title "Eye of..."
the Needle
Proverbs 9:1 & the title of T.E. Lawrence's memoir mention 7 of these
the pillars of wisdom
"A Journal of" this medical calamity "Year" was Defoe's story of 1665 London
the plague
In a famous poem, the narrator mistakes the presence of this title creature for the wind & later calls it prophet
the raven
Thomas Paine noted, "when authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the" this
the ridiculous
"Everyone wants a piece of land. It's the only sure investment", writes Sam Shepard in his play "Curse of" this group
the starving class
According to Longfellow, children love to see his "flaming forge, and hear the bellows roar"
the village blacksmith
Sadly or happily, modern versions of this oxymoronic literary genre include Pinter's "The Dumb Waiter"
tragicomedy
"All Creatures Great and Small" launched a series on James Herriot's many years in this profession
veterinarian
In 1962 Marshall McLuhan wrote "Electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global" this
village
Written about the U.S. occupation of the Philippines, a Kipling poem said, "take up" this now-controversial phrase
white man's burden
