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Fathers and Sons

One of the two protagonists dies of typhus and leaves his parents in a ceaseless state of grief, while the object of his affection, Anna Odintsov, ends up marrying a lawyer. The other protagonist watches his father Nikolai marry Fenitchka, while he himself marries Katya and embraces life, shedding the influence of his college friend's nihilism. For 10 points, such are the fates of Bazarov and Arkady Kirsanov in what novel by Ivan Turgenev?

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

In one poem in this collection, the speaker proposes to "see how many stars are smashed in the pool" and concludes "why touch her now, why make her sad." In addition to "Almost Out of the Sky," it includes a poem in which the speaker recollects that "the rain takes off her clothes" and resolves "to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees." That speaker conjures up "the happy hour of assault and the kiss" in a poem that repeatedly addresses a woman as "like the sea, like time," as a "lost discoverer," and recalls that "in you everything sank!" Written by the author of Spain in our Hearts and Canto General, this is, For 10 points, what poetry collection by Pablo Neruda?

Oedipus

In one work titled after this character, only Thesus sees his grave. That character seeks shelter in the sacred grove of the Furies and refusing to bless his son Polynices. This character entrusts his children to Creon after blinding himself and solved the Sphinx's riddle to save Thebes. For ten points, name this man who fathered Antigone, killed his father Laius, and married his mother Jocasta, the namesake of a trilogy by Sophocles.

The Raven

In the "Theory of Composition," this poem's author explains why this poem's "Prophet" seems like "a demon that is dreaming" but can only say one word. The speaker asks the title creature to return to "Night's Plutonian shore," but it stays on the "pallid bust of (*) Pallas" in his room. This poem's speaker laments the loss of "dear Lenore" while the title bird repeats "nevermore" in, for 10 points, what poem by Edgar Allan Poe?

Sancho Panza

Nowadays synonymous with being a sidekick, this character offers interpolated narratives into the work he is a part of. Originally a servant on his master's estate his devotion to his master leads to his becoming a squire to the errant knight. As the novel progresses, they start to take on each other's characteristics, although he does realize that there is no real Dulcinea. For ten points name this assistant to Don Quixote.

O Captain, My Captain

At the end of each of the three stanzas of this poem, the narrator states that the title figure is "fallen cold and dead". This is established further in the last stanza, as he does not answer, nor does he feel the narrator's arm. The trip is over, and the prize was won, but at the end, the narrator walks the deck mournfully. For 10 points, name this poem, one of several poems dedicated to Abraham Lincoln by Walt Whitman.

Mark Twain

This author co-wrote a work in which Laura Hawkins kills Colonel Selby and Senator Dilworthy is disgraced. Theodor, Niklaus, and Seppi are three Austrian boys visited by Satan in another of his works. The title character of another of this man's works deduces that Roxy has switched Chambers and Tom Driscoll at a young age by using (*) fingerprints. This author of The Gilded Age, The Mysterious Stranger, and Pudd'nhead Wilson also wrote about a jumping frog named Dan'l Webster. For 10 points, name this author of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In one of his novels, he compares double displacement reactions to human life. In that work, Eduard and Charlotte invite Ottilie to their house as an experiment. This author of Elective Affinities chronicled a man's (*) journeyman and apprenticeship and wrote about a man that falls for a woman engaged to Albert and eventually shoots himself over grief. This author also wrote about Wilhelm Meister and a man who makes a deal with Mephistopheles. For 10 points, name this German author of The Sorrows of Young Werther and Faust.

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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

A plot in this novel hinges on the discovery of a miniature portrait of Caroline. A character in this novel is wounded by a gunshot after rescuing a young girl from drowning in a stream. Later, that character makes a promise to flee to South America if his request is granted. The protagonist is wrongly accused of the murder upon returning from the Orkney Islands, but is soon acquitted. The antagonist of this novel spends part of the story living near the (*) DeLacey family while becoming educated. A nanny, Justine, is unjustly hanged for the murder of the protagonist's younger brother, William. The entire story is recounted to Captain Walton on a ship in the North Pole in, for 10 points, what novel by Mary Shelley?

Henry James

A story by this man about a London telegraphist is "In the Cage." In a novel by this author, Maggie Verver ultimately purchases the titular ornate object. In addition to The Golden Bowl, this man wrote about a woman who reject's Lord Warburton's advances to marry Gilbert Osmond, as well as a similar socialite who is sought after by Winterbourne before dying of malaria in Rome. For 10 points, name this author who wrote about Isabel Archer in The Portrait of a Lady and also wrote Daisy Miller.

yellow

August Wilson's play The Piano Lesson mentions ghosts of a dog of this type. An old pair of this type considers dinner "a casual affair" in Gwendolyn Brooks' "The Bean Eaters." This color describes a house owned by Henry Wimbush in an Aldous Huxley novel, while it also describes a town which Jack Potter brings his "bride" to in a Stephen Crane story. For 10 points, name this color, which also appears on wallpaper that drives a woman insane in a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Leo Tolstoy

One character created by this author almost kills Dolokhov in a duel, while another falls in love with the maid Maryanka. In a novel by this author, Dmitri Nekhludoff falls in love with Maslova, who is sent to a prison in Siberia for supposed murder. In addition to The Cossacks and Resurrection, he wrote a novel in which the title character hurts his side and questions the quality of his life, The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Pierre marries Natasha at the end of one of his novels, and in another, the title character throws herself in the path of a train. For 10 points name this Russian author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace.

Oedipus

Jean Cocteau depicts this character as the victim of the "infernal machine" of divine fate. In Euripides's The Phoenician Women, he appears in the final scene to protest his imprisonment and curse his sons Eteocles and Polynices. His burial place is known only to Theseus after he dies at Colonnus in anothr play, which takes place years after he blinds himself with a pin upon learning the cause of a plague. For 10 points, name this victor over the Sphinx who, in a play by Sophocles, learns that he has married his mother Jocasta.

Haiku

Richard Wright spent his final years writing over four thousand works in this form. Many works in this form were created by Bosun and Issa, and one particular work in this form depicts a frog jumping into an ancient pond. This form is most associated with the author of Records of a Travel-Worn Satchel and Narrow Road to the Deep North, Matsuo Basho. For 10 points, name this poetic form consisting of seventeen sound units broken into three lines of five, seven, and five syllables.

Robert Burns

This poet wrote of "My loved, my honored, much respected friend" in "The Cotter's Saturday Night", and the title character asks to be made an example of great and ample grace in his "Holy Willie's Prayer". He described one animal as an "ugly, creeping, blasted wonder" and another as a "small, sleek, cowering, timorous beast"; those lines appear in "To A Louse" and "To A Mouse". In another work, this poet wrote that his love is like "A Red, Red Rose". Name this poet best known for his adaptation of the Scottish folk song celebrating the end of the year, "Auld Lang Syne".

One Hundred Years of Solitude (accept Cien años de soledad)

One character in this work is constantly followed around by butterflies and another was tied to a chestnut tree in a backyard. Other interesting events include a rain of yellow flowers and a child born with a pig tail. That child was the result of a dalliance between Amaranta Ursula and Aureliano. Beginning with a character in front of a firing squad recalling the day his father took him to see ice for the first time, it ends with the destruction of the town of Macondo. For ten points, name this history of the Buendias, the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Wuthering Heights

Servants at this house include the religious fanatic Joseph and the housekeeper Zillah. The housekeeper Nelly Dean tells the story of this house to Lockwood. This house is four miles away from Thrushcross Grange, which is owned by Edgar Linton. This house is inherited by the cruel Hindley Earnshaw, whose abuse of an orphan motivates the action of the novel it appears in. For 10 points, name this home of Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, the setting of Emily Bronte's only novel.

Brave New World

Early in this work, babies are given an electrical shock to condition them to dislike books and nature, part of the Bokanovsky Process. People in the work actively take Soma, a drug that provides instant gratification, and is integral to a solidarity service that worships Henry Ford attended by Bernard. This novel also features a man who reads the Complete Works of Shakespeare and the voice of Mustapha Mond. John the Savage is a prime example of modern man in, for 10 points, what 1932 dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley?

Henry James

The decadent artist Gloriani appears in two of this author's novels: the first is about a sculptor who falls for Christina Light, the second about the spiritual awakening of Lambert Strether. This author of Roderick Hudson created a character who is romantically pursued by Caspar Goodwood, but tricked by Madame Merle into marrying Gilbert Osmond. Another character created by this author of The Ambassadors tries to convince Mrs. Grose that she has seen the ghost of Peter Quint. For 10 points, name this American author who wrote about Isabel Archer in Portrait of a Lady and the haunting of children in the Governess' charge in The Turn of the Screw.

Ethan Frome

The main character, a New England farmer, falls for his wife's young cousin, Mattie Silver, but they are never fully able to express their emotions for each other because of the domineering and wife Zenobia. For ten points, what is this symbolism-filled 1911 novel by Edith Wharton, written just before her divorce in 1913 and her subsequent move to France?

To His Coy Mistress

The poet implores his lover to "Let us roll all our strength and all / Our sweetness up into one ball." He appears exasperated with her, declaring that he would love her ten years before the Flood and she would refuse him till the conversion of the Jews, thereby seizing on the carpe diem theme common among metaphysical poets. For 10 points—"Had we but world enough, and time" begins what Andrew Marvell poem?

Great Expectations

The protagonist of this work is often disciplined by "The Tickler" of Mrs. Joe Gargery. This novel's protagonist is nicknamed "Handel" by a character who marries Clara Barley, Herbert Pocket. One character in this novel lives in Satis House and has not changed out of her wedding dress since being abandoned on her wedding day. That character from this novel is Miss Havisham. Abel Magwitch is the anonymous benefactor of this novel's main character, who is in love with Estella. For 10 points, name this novel by Charles Dickens about Pip.

John Berryman

This man wrote a series of poems with three stanzas of six lines, each which was followed up by His Toy, His Dream, His Rest. That work of this man featured an unnamed character in blackface and the alter-egos "Henry" and "Mr. Bones" and inspired many other Confessional poets. He also wrote a long monologue in which he imagined himself the lover of an early American poet who wrote "To My Dear And Loving Husband." For 10 points, name this poet of "Homage to Mistress Bradstreet" and the 77 Dream Songs.

Jack Kerouac

US Literature The title of one of his novels supposedly comes from Adam Moorad and describes people who are intelligent without being corny. It is about the relationship between Leo Percepied and Mardou Fox. Another work is about Raymond Smith, who learns from the Buddhist poet Japhy Ryder. His best-known work portrays Ed Dunkel, Carlo Marx, Sal Paradise, and Dean Moriarty, people who often travel across the country. Many of his characters were fictional versions of poets he knew such as Allen Ginsberg. Name this author of The Subterraneans, The Dharma Bums, and On The Road.

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

The title character of this novel studies the works of Cornelius Agrippa and Albertus Magnus. The oriental languages scholar and friend Henry Clerval nurses him back to health in Ingolstadt. We hear about this from the letters of the ship's captain Robert Walton to Margaret Saville about meeting that title character in the Arctic. The central creation admires Felix and Agatha and saves a girl from drowning but kills William in revenge for his own eight-foot height and hideous appearance. For 10 points, name this Gothic novel subtitled "The Modern Prometheus" by its author Mary Shelley.

The Satanic Verses

The two main characters meet the widow Rosa Diamond, and while one character becomes the gaucho Martin de la Cruz in order to serve her, the other is taken to an illegal immigrant detention center and finds his friend Jumpy Joshi. Opening with those characters embracing each other and performing "geminate cartwheels" as they fall from an Air India jet that has been blown up by Sikh terrorists, it follows the transformation of Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha. For 10 points, name this novel whose alternative take on the Quran and the life of Mohammed earned a fatwa from Ayatollah Khomeini for its author, Salman Rushdie.

"Ozymandias"

This work, which was written for a competition with Horace Smith, ends by describing the "lone and level sands" that "stretch far away." A visage in this poem conveys the frown, wrinkled lip, and "sneer of cold command" of the title figure, who is also described as "the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed." This poem relates the story of a traveler met in an "antique land" who tells of "two vast and trunkless legs of stone" in the desert. A pedestal described in this poem reads "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" For 10 points, name this sonnet about a titular "king of kings," written by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

apostrophe

George Bernard Shaw referred to these things as "uncouth bacilli" and led a campaign to limit their use. This term is also used to refer to a rhetorical trope found in Edgar Allan Poe's "To Science" in which a speaker "turns away" to address a personification or abstract concept which is not physically present. For 10 points, name this figure of speech which shares its name with a punctuation mark used to indicate the possessive case and to create contractions.

Homer

George Chapman translated this author's two main works into English. This author used the epithets "wine-dark" to describe the sea and "grey-eyed" to describe Athena. One of this author's title characters is attacked by the Laestrygonians, and calls himself "No-Man" to escape from the Cyclops Polyphemus. An epic poem by this author begins by depicting the wrath of Achilles, and ends with a victorious army hiding inside the Trojan Horse. For 10 points, name this ancient Greek poet of The Iliad and The Odyssey.

Jorge Luis Borges

In one of this author's stories, Vincent Moon is marked with a crescent scar after selling out an Irish revolutionary. In another of his stories, a wizard dreams up a son, but later realizes he is a dream himself. This author of "The Form of the Sword" and "The Circular Ruins" also created a character outraged that his landlords, Zunino and Zungri, will tear down his house. In that story, the narrator concludes that the "true" title object lies in a pillar at a (*) mosque at Cairo and is bored by the recitation of the poem "The Earth" by Carlos Argentino Daneri. This author wrote about a point containing all other points in "The Aleph." For 10 points, name this blind Argentine writer of The Garden of Forking Paths.

James Joyce

One of this author's protagonists reads from Byron's "On the Death of a Young Lady" to his wife, but is ignored in favor of his child. This author wrote about a meeting between Gallaher and Little Chandler in "A Little Cloud." He described snow falling across the world at the end of a story in which news of Michael Furey's death is given by Gretta to her husband Gabriel Conroy. This author of "The Dead" reused his character Stephen Dedalus in a novel that ends its account of 24 hours on June 16 with a stream of consciousness from Molly Bloom. For 10 points, name this Irish author of the short story collection Dubliners, who put many Odyssey references in his novel Ulysses.

George Bernard Shaw

This author accompanied one of his plays with "The Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion," which was supposedly written by John Tanner. That play includes John Tanner having a dream of "Don Juan in (*) Hell." Another play by this author features a bet with colonel Pickering that a linguist could make a cockney flower girl speak so well that she could pass off as a duchess. He authored a play about Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins. For 10 points, name this author of Man and Superman and Pygmalion.

Dover Beach

Sophocles is reminded of human misery in the second stanza of this poem when he hears the eternal note of sadness on the Aegean. The world hath neither joy nor love nor light for the speaker even though the sea is calm tonight. The speaker and his love are on a darkling plain where ignorant armies clash by night in, for 10 points, what poem which takes place on the cliffs of England, overlooking the French coast, a poem by Matthew Arnold.

Katherine Mansfield

In one of this author's stories, The Boss tortures an insect with an ink blotter after recalling his son's death in World War I, and in another, Bertha Young cannot maintain the title emotion. In addition to "The Fly" and "Bliss," this former cellist who broke into writing with In a German Pension wrote "Marriage a la Mode," "At the Bay," and a story about Laura Sheridan's struggle with class distinctions. For 10 points, name this New Zealand-based author of The Garden Party.

Kingdom of Spain (accept Reino de España)

In one play written in this country, The Bride runs off with Leonardo before he and The Groom kill each other. Blood Wedding was written in this country, where drama earlier flourished during the (*) Habsburg-era "Golden Century." In a Hemingway novel, Lady Brett Ashley romances Jake Barnes and Romero in this country‟s city of Pamplona, where they watch the Running of the Bulls. For 10 points, name this European country home to Federico Garcia Lorca.

Aristophanes

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

Sancho Panza

This character indignantly ends a story about goats crossing a river when he is interrupted during a count of the individual goats. His wife Teresa is sometimes called "Mari Gutierrez," and he meets up with Ricote after fleeing from Barataria. This character is wrapped in a bedsheet and tossed upwards at an inn which he frequently returns to. This frequent user of garbled proverbs is promised governorship of an insula, or island, by his master, for whom he gets information on Dulcinea by riding a dapple-grey donkey. For 10 points, name this fat peasant who acts as a squire to Don Quixote.

China

This country's earliest known poetry is collected in its Book of Songs, one of its "Five Classics." This country's medieval poetry includes many lu shi written by Tu Fu. A classic novel from this country describes how the Monkey King helps a monk travel to India to retrieve some scriptures, and is titled Journey to the West. For 10 points, name this country whose classic novels were written during its Ming Dynasty.

The Shawshank Redemption [accept "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" before "played by"]

When Tommy Williams swears that he is telling the truth and can testify on behalf of the protagonist's innocence, Warden Samuel Norton has him shot by Captain Hadley. After being forced to leave his friends and set his crow free, Brooks Hatlen hangs himself. For 10 points—Ellis Boyd Redding and Andy Dufresne are played by Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins in what 1994 Frank Darabont film?

Matsuo Basho

On his deathbed, this man imagined that his dream wandered over a field of dry grass after falling sick from a journey. One of this author's characters says "butterflies in a burweed," while another pictures a monument to a highwayman and a pine sundered by wind. Because the first cold showers pour, this author that wrote about a sack of charcoal also depicted a monkey desiring a coat made of straw. This man that described how enjoyable it was to view a mountain not in foggy rain detailed how his mind points to his native place after ten autumns in a work about a weather - exposed skeleton. His travelogues include Records of a Travel Worn Satche,l and he described the sound of a frog jumping into a pond. For ten points, name this author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North that who is best known for his haiku.

Japan [accept Nippon-koku; or Nihon-koku]

One author from this country describes a man who sells his family's land to The Emperor in The Silent Cry. In addition to Oe, a poet from this country wrote about the sea at Sado and a frog jumping into a pond. In addition to the author of Narrow Road to the Deep North, another author from this country described Lady Aoi's relationship with the title prince in The Tale of Genji. For 10 points, name this homeland of Basho and Lady Murasaki.

A Doll's House

One character in this work calls his wife a songbird who must sing no false notes. A key scene occurs when one character practices a tarantella to prevent another character from opening his mail. A note marked with a black cross arrives announcing the death of Doctor Rank, and a widowed childhood friend of the protagonist, Christine Linde, reengages a relationship with a man who knows that the protagonist forged her father's signature, Nils Krogstad. Krogstad blackmails the protagonist over money used to fund a trip to Italy so her husband could recover from illness. For 10 points, Torvald Helmer is abandoned by his wife Nora in what play by Henrik Ibsen?

Werther [or Young Werther]

This character tries to defend a captured servant who, after being fired by the widow with whom he was in love, murdered his successor. A poem by William Thackeray about this character alludes to a scene in which he first sees his love interest, who is wearing a pink ribbon and cutting a loaf of bread for her eight younger siblings. After playing a party game where guests have their ears boxed for making counting mistakes, this character bursts out crying when a woman says "Klopstock!" This character reads a lengthy excerpt from his translation of Ossian during a visit to Wahlheim. He shoots himself with a pistol lent to him by Albert, who had married his beloved Lotte. For 10 points, name this youth whose "sorrows" are the subject of a novel by Goethe.

Walt Whitman

This poet described a "flood-tide below me," and also wrote about a ship that has "weather'd every rack" and whose voyage is "closed and done." This poet of "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" addressed (*) "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" to Abraham Lincoln, who has "fallen cold and dead" in "O Captain! My Captain!" For 10 points, name the author of the line "I celebrate myself and sing myself," the American poet of Leaves of Grass.

"A Visit from St. Nicholas"

In 2000, Don Foster's book Author Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymous claimed that this poem was actually written by U.S. Army Major Henry Livingston, Jr. First published in the Troy Sentinel in 1823, it is usually attributed to a professor seeking to amuse his daughters Margaret and Charity. For 10 points—name this poem, possibly not by Clement C. Moore, which begins, "'Twas the Night Before Christmas."

"The Nose"

In 2002 a 220-pound statue of the title character of this short story was stolen in St. Petersburg. That character is first found in a roll by a barber named Ivan, whose wife thinks he has harmed someone to get it. Eventually the reader learns it left of its own accord from a man named Kovalev, who observes it in the fancy dress of a civil servant before it returns to him. For 10 points name this Nikolai Gogol short story about a missing item from Kovalev's face.

Octavius (Caesar)

Give this character's name as it is in Shakespeare's plays. Like Falstaff, he appears in two of them. In Antony and Cleopatra, he wins a big sea battle, and much of the conflict in the play revolves around Antony's marriage to his sister. In another play, he says, "Upon the right hand I; keep thou the left." Name this leader who joins with Marc Antony and Lepidus to form a Triumvirate.

Anna Karenina

One character in this novel visits a famous French psychic named Landau under the advice of the Countess Lydia Ivanovna. Another of its characters fatally injures his horse Frou-Frou during a race. This novel opens in the aftermath of Dolly's discovery that her husband Oblonsky has had an affair. This novel chronicles the title character's fall from society after her affair with Count Vronsky. For 10 points, name this Leo Tolstoy novel whose title character throws herself under a train.

Naghib Mafouz

His first novel, Mockery of the Fates, was written in 1939 when he was first working at the Ministry of Islamic Affairs. The Children of Gebelawi has been banned throughout most of the Arab world, and the book may have inspired the man who stabbed him in the neck. For 10 points—name this writer of Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street, the Cairo Trilogy.

Shirley Jackson

In a short story by this author, John Philip Johnson performs good deeds while his wife wreaks havoc. The Blackwood family stays in the title location after arsenic is mixed with fruit in a novel by this author of "One Ordinary Day with Peanuts." Another novel sees Eleanor Vance crash her car after trying to leave the title location. This author of We Have Always Lived in the Castle and The Haunting of Hill House wrote about Tess Hutchinson being stoned to death by the town on the day of the title event. For 10 points name this author of "The Lottery".

The Queen of Spades

One character in this story has the "profile of Napoleon and the soul of Mephistopheles," while another character wants to read novels that feature no people drowning. In the final chapter, the protagonist asserts the time is "five minutes to a seven," and imagines the number seven as a gothic arch. Earlier, the main character imagines a corpse in a chest winking at him, as does the title object in the end before he ends up in Room 17 of Obuhovsky Asylum. Earlier, he had killed an 87-year old countess by scaring her to death with a gun, whose apparition later reveals the way to get rich by faro. Tchekalinsky loses his money on the first two days, but wins against Hermann, in for ten points, what Alexander Pushkin work that was made into a Tchaikovsky opera named for a card?

The Queen of Spades [Pikovaya dama]

A good Man is Hard to Find

One character in this story wears a yellow shirt with parrots on it, and another owns a gray monkey tied to a chinaberry tree. A character in this story suddenly remembers the location of a house with a secret panel as being in Tennessee, not Georgia. Some characters in this story eat lunch at "The Tower", a (*) barbecue joint owned by Red Sammy, before getting in an accident when the cat Pitty Sing jumps on Bailey's face. A character in this story proclaims that Jesus disrupted the balance of the universe by raising the dead after Hiram and Bobby Lee kill John Wesley and June Star. This story ends with the Misfit shooting the grandmother. For 10 points, name this short story by Flannery O'Connor.

The Handmaid's Tale

One character in this work contracts scurvy in order to escape the Red Center, which is led by Aunt Lydia. The protagonist of this work visits the Wall, where bodies are often hung, and an epilogue to this work sees Professor Pieixoto deliver a lecture. The protagonist has an affair with the chauffeur (*) Nick in this book and illegally engages in intellectual pursuits like Scrabble. This novel's protagonist lives in the Republic of Gilead and is employed by the Commander in the title baby making position. For 10 points, Offred lives in an anti-feminist dystopia in what book by Margaret Atwood?

A Passage to India

One character in this work disagrees with her friend's use of the word "mystery," arguing "muddle" is more appropriate. Two characters in this novel avoid seeing the play Cousin Kate, but are accosted by Mr. Turton, while letters from brothel owners and a pair of broken glasses are used as evidence against one character. This novel begins with two women arriving in hopes of the younger marrying the magistrate Ronny Heaslop, while the latter, Mrs. Moore befriends the protagonist at a Chandrapore mosque. For 10 points, name this novel where an encounter at the Marabar Caves causes Adela Quested to accuse Dr. Aziz of rape, by E.M. Forster.

King Lear

One character in this work disguises himself as Caius, though he is the Earl of Kent. At this work's end, Kent turns down an offer to rule alongside Albany, whose wife lusts after Edmund, who dies at (*) Edgar's hands after betraying their father, the Duke of Gloucester. This play ends with the death of a woman who told her father she loves him as a daughter should, despite the flattery of sisters Regan and Cordelia. For 10 points, name this play about Cordelia and her sisters, daughters of the title monarch in this work by William Shakespeare.

A Farewell to Arms

One character in this work foresees her own death in a rainfall. In this work, the protagonist's friend refers to his lover as a "cool goddess"; that protagonist is later scolded by Helen Ferguson. Count Greffi shoots billiards with the main character as he evades the authorities at Stresa, and that man's friend Rinaldi introduces him to a woman who gives (*) birth to a stillborn child near Montreux. The protagonist pursues the nurse Catherine Barkley in, for 10 points, what novel focusing on Frederic Henry's disillusionment with World War I by Ernest Hemingway?

Frankenstein

One character in this work gives scarlet fever to Caroline Beaufort, the main character's mother. The frame story of this novel consists of letters to Margaret Saville from her brother, Robert Walton, who is on a ship headed to the North Pole. This work's main character studied under Waldman and Krempe at Ingolstadt, where he abandons alchemy in favor of the natural sciences, only to use a mysterious spark to (*) animate a new creature. For 10 points, name this novel by Mary Shelley about Victor and his monstrous creation.

Paradise Lost

One character in this work has her bowels torn at by dogs begotten with her son, and another character takes the form of a toad after deceiving the Regent of the Sun, Uriel. After describing the work of the architect Mulciber, proposals from Belial and Mammon are heard in a council held in Pandemonium before Beelzebub's proposal is accepted, and Sin and Death are made ambassadors on Earth after two other characters consume fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. Depicting the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, For 10 points, name this epic poem by John Milton.

The Old Man and the Sea

One character in this work is called salao, but fondly remembers his first fishing trip with a five-year-old helper. That protagonist dreams of lions on a beach, and he remains confident in the Yankees and the "great DiMaggio." (*) Manolin is forbidden to go with the title character in this novella, who goes for 84 days without a fish before finally catching a marlin, only to have it get eaten by sharks. For 10 points, identify this novella about Santiago, a work by Ernest Hemingway.

Death of a Salesman

One character in this work is disappointed in his refrigerator, as his Hastings breaks down more often than his neighbor's General Electric. Another character is referred to as "quarterback with the New York Giants" and commits a faux pas by stealing a fountain pen. The protagonist claims to have "averaged a hundred and seventy dollars a week" the year that Al Smith was nominated, and whose son's football career is ended when he flunks math. For 10 points, name this play that features characters such as Uncle Ben, Happy, Biff, and Willy Loman, written by Arthur Miller.

The Tempest

One character in this work is forced to gather pig nuts and carry wood after one mishap and later believes a butler and jester come from the moon. Stephano and Trinculo suffer disaster after the wedding of Claribel to the King of Tunis in this work, and the witch Sycorax is the mother of the deformed Caliban. After being freed from a tree, the spirit Ariel serves one character in this work, which sees the marriage of Ferdinand and Miranda. For 10 points, name this Shakespeare play about the rightful Duke of Milan and sorcerer Prospero who creates the titular storm.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame [accept Notre-Dame de Paris]

One character in this work is kidnapped and taken to a thieves' den, where miscreants threaten to hang him if no woman there will marry him. The title character of this work is decked in robes after a crowd at the Palace of Justice forgets a morality play and crowns him Prince of (*) Fools. A poet named Gringoire features in this work, which sees Captain Phoebus stabbed during a rendezvous with the gypsy Esmeralda. For 10 points, name this novel in which Claude Frollo is thrown off of the title structure by the misshapen Quasimodo, a work of Victor Hugo.

he Hunchback of Notre Dame [accept Notre-Dame de Paris]

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

One character in this work laments, "O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason" in a speech which also declares "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones." In this play, a statue with a hundred wounds spouting blood is dreamt by Calpurnia. A character claiming, "The fault is in our stars, not ourselves" persuades another to murder the title character, who is warned by a soothsayer to beware the Ides of March. For 10 points, name this play in which Cassius and Brutus plot the assassination of the title ruler, a tragedy by William Shakespeare.

Death of a Salesman

One character in this work mentions that he would like to plant a garden in his yard after hearing about the "Florida idea," after which he is reminded of an appointment at Frank's Chop House later that evening. Bernard recounts the story of a character in this play burning sneakers with the University of Virginia's logo on them, which took place after a visit in Boston led to the discovery of an (*) affair. That character is fired by Howard Wagner during this play, which sees a hallucination of the fortune-seeking Ben addressed by his brother, the titular figure. A car crash ends the life of that husband of Linda and father of Biff and Happy in, for 10 points, what play about the demise of Willy Loman, written by Arthur Miller?

Death of a Salesman

One character in this work plays a recording of his son reciting all the state capitals to the main character. The main character in this work has a flashback in the bathroom of Frank's Chop House until he is shaken by the waiter, Stanley. In this play, the protagonist's son struggles to focus on his math class, which he eventually flunks. That son, who later steals a fountain pen from a former employer after failing to promote Happy's "Florida idea", is Biff. This play's protagonist gets fired from the title job, and he commits suicide by crashing his car. Name this Arthur Miller play about Willy Loman.

No Exit [accept Huis Clos]

One character in this work sees Gomez in a press room. Another sees a couple in a ballroom discussing how she dropped her baby in a Swiss lake; that character previously failed to find a mirror in her purse. At this play's climax, that character, Estelle, stabs the sadistic lesbian Inez with a paper-knife, but neither can die, leading Garcin to declare that "Hell is - other people!" For 10 points, name this French play set in an indefinitely-locked Second Empire-style room, by Jean-Paul Sartre.

Death of a Salesman

One character in this work steals a fountain pen after meeting with a past employer. That football player, son of the title character is distressed to find his father with "The Woman" in Boston. The title character's wife, (*) Linda, repeatedly says, "Attention must be paid," to her two sons, Happy and Biff, referring to her husband's failing mental health. For 10 points, name this Arthur Miller play that ends with Willy Loman's suicide.

The Decay of the Angel

One character in this work who works on a high platform built on top of a strawberry farmer's water tank, and is later told a parable about suicide and authority by Furusawa before getting Furusawa fired from his position as that character's literature teacher. He would later wear a medallion with the letter "N" around his neck after having an affair with a woman named Nagisa, before breaking off his engagement with Momoko over a letter she sends to Nagisa. At the end of this work, he attempts to commit suicide by drinking methanol after Keiko tells him that if he does not die in 1975, Honda will know he is not a reincarnation of Kiyoaki. For 10 points—name this final novel of the Sea of Fertility tetralogy, a novel by Yukio Mishima.

War and Peace

One character of this novel converts to Freemasonry and frees his serfs after meeting Bazdeev in a train station. The protagonist of this novel is tricked into marrying the shallow socialite, Helene Kuragina. After the death of Prince Andrey Bolkonsky, the protagonist of this work, a count's illegitimate son, marries his love Natasha Rostova. In this novel, Pierre Bezhukov believes he is destined to kill Napoleon after seeing the Battle of Borodino. For 10 points, name this long novel by Leo Tolstoy.

Doctor Faustus

One depiction of this figure is largely believed to have been inspired by Jacob Bindermann's Cenodoxus and the title character of Byron's Manfred was based on this man. Gertrude Stein wrote how this man "Lights the Lights" and Dorian Gray has been compared to this man in regard to his relationship with Lord Henry. A novel named for this name concerns the protagonist Serenus Zeitblom and his study of a composer who gave up love for artistic success, Adrian Leverkuhn. In another appearance, this man is a scholar from Wittenberg who with the help of his servant Wagner, learns black magic from Valdes and Cornelius, taking place in a work by Christopher Marlowe. For 10 points, identify this Doktor of a Thomas Mann work who in a work by Goethe encounters the devil as Mephistopheles.

Heart of Darkness

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

Emile Zola

One family created by this author has Adelaïde Fouque as progenitor; that family includes, distantly, Jacques Lantier, an engine driver who is the title "human beast" of one of his novels. This author described his aim as "naturalist," to contrast with Balzac, in constructing a twenty-novel cycle about the title family, Les (*) Rougon-MacQuart (lay rou-ZHOHN muh-CAR). For 10 points, name this author who published a letter condemning the French government for the Dreyfus affair titled "J'accuse."

The Brothers Karamazov

One figure confesses that, although he is an atheist, he believes in God, but cannot accept God's world, and another is able to feign an epileptic fit in order to hide what he did. Monks in this novel argue that due to the rapid decomposition of his body, Zossima's teachings were wrong, and as a result of not finding Grushenka, Grigory is attacked with a pestle. In the events surrounding trial that serves as the climax of this novel, Katerina got her revenge, and Smerdyakov hanged himself after revealing that he committed the crime for which Dmitri is convicted. For 10 points, identify the novel about the three sons of Fyodor by by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

The Arabian Nights' Entertainments [or The Thousand and One Arabian Nights; or Alf layla wa-layla]

One figure described in this work is unable to rise from his throne because his lower half is made of marble. In addition to the King of the Black Isles, this work describes a man who is lowered into a valley of diamonds by a huge roc bird. The frame story of this work describes King Shahryar's (SHAH-ree-yarz) plot to marry a new woman every night and execute the bride in the morning, which Scheherazade (sheh-HERR-uh-zahd) thwarts by telling a large number of stories. For 10 points, identify this collection, including the stories of Sinbad, Aladdin, and Ali Baba, that was originally written in Arabic.

Endymion

One is an allegorical play in which Tellus and her rival represent Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth and was written in 1591 by John Lyly. The other includes lyrics such as the roundelay "O sorrow" in Book Four and the "Hymn to Pan" in Book One. It intermingles the legends of Arethusa and Glaucus and Scylla with the title character, who is lured through "cloudy phantasms" and is the "brain-sick . . . prince" of Mt. Latmos. For 10 points, name this title character of a four-book poem by Keats, the shepherd loved by the moon goddess Selene.

The Ambassadors

One lawyer in this novel has a "sacred rage," while another character responds to all nonsensical things with "Oh, oh, oh!" In the ninth book, the protagonist imagines himself in a sunken boat, and he had failed [?] Gloriani's test to see if he blends into society. The protagonist confides in Bilham and meets an associate of Mamie at the Notre Dame Cathedral, which gives him the resolve to ignore a telegram telling him to return home, prompting Sarah Pocock to come to Europe. The protagonist travels with Mr. Waymarsh to serve in the title occupation for his beloved. For ten points, name this Henry James novel which sees Madame de Vionnet supposedly poisoning the culture of Chad Newsome, which prompts a rescue by Lewis Lambert Strether.

Things Fall Apart

One legend from this novel tells the story of why tortoises do not have soft shells, and one character in this work is assaulted by her husband for having her hair braided. Another character in this work frequently remarks that he wishes his daughter Ezinma would have been born a boy. The gun of the protagonist of this work explodes at a funeral, killing a son of the man being buried, so the protagonist is exiled for seven years. The town in this novel, which is visited by Christian missionaries, is Umuofia. Name this novel in which Ikemefuna is killed by Okonkwo, a work by Chinua Achebe.

Things Fall Apart

Australia

One novel by an author from this nation tells of Steve Hart and Joe Byrne fighting the police with the title outlaw. Those novels by an author from this country are Illywhacker and The True History of Kelly Gang. Other novels written in this country include one in which the title explorer has imaginary communications with Laura Trevelyan, and a novel in which Oscar Schindler saves Polish Jews during the Holocaust. For 10 points, name the home country of Thomas Keneally, Peter Carey, and Patrick White, who often set novels in the Outback.

Samuel Butler

One novel by this author begins with the narrator describing his memories of an old man who had been an artist, farmer, and carpenter in addition to building one organ for the church and one for his house. That narrator is Edward Overton, a friend of the old man's son George and fellow resident of Paleham. This author also wrote about a pro- tagonist who becomes worshiped as the sunchild and falls in love with one of Nosibor's daughters after being aban- doned by Chowbok. That protagonist discovers a world where machines are banned, criminals are treated well, and sick people are put in prison. Identify this author who wrote about Ernest Pontifex in The Way of All Flesh and Higgs in Erewhon.

China

One novel from this modern country centers on a "ghost caught in Individualism's blind alley", a peasant nicknamed "Camel" who moves to the capital to work. An author from this country presented a dilemma involving sleepers in an iron house in the preface to his Call to Arms, which includes a Gogol-inspired story that ends with the line "Save the children" and is called "A Madman's Diary". A rider of Red Hare joins two other men to swear the Peach Garden Oath in one of this nation's Four Great (*) Classical Novels; that novel also features the Battle of Red Cliffs, a clash between the armies of Wei, Wu, and Shu. For 10 points, name the origin of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a country whose native authors include Lao She, Lu Xun, and the Nobel-winning Gao Xingjian.

roman à clef

One novel of this type by Nathaniel Hawthorne tells of the voyage of Miles Coverdale where he is introduced to characters such as Zenobia in a utopic agrarian community. In addition to The Blithedale Romance, another novel of this type was written by Somerset Maugham and tells of Charles Strickland's abandonment of his wife and children to become an artist in Tahiti. Other than The Moon and Sixpence, other works in this genre include On the Road and The Devil Wears Prada. For 10 points, name this type of novel in which the characters and plot are thinly disguised references to actual events, whose name is French for "novel with a key."

Li Po (accept Li Bai, Li Pai, or Rihaku) (prompt either half of name)

One of his best-known quotes is, "The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older." One of his best-known poems is titled "Three—With the Moon and His Shadow". He lived in the 8th Century, and over one thousand of his works have been collected. His fame in the West grew in the early 20th Century when Ezra Pound included a large number of his poems in the collection Cathay. Name this Chinese poet.

Joseph Conrad

One of his books recounts the romance of Flora de Barral with a sketchy suitor. Another novel focuses on the tragedy that befalls the idealistic Razumov, and Captain MacWhirr navigates the Nan-Shan through a titular storm in his Typhoon. His first work deals with a structure that should have never been built, Almayer's Folly, and his other characters include a Chief Mate on the Patna and Mr. Verloc, who is The Secret Agent. For 10 points, name this author of Lord Jim who wrote about Marlow and Kurtz in Heart of Darkness.

Bertolt Brecht

One of his plays features the murder trial of Toby Higgins as well the fugitives Leocadia Begbick, Trinity Moses, and Fatty the Bookkeeper, who found the title locale. In another of his plays, the baby Michel is placed in the middle of a tug of war between the governor's wife and Grusche by the judge Azdak. For 10 points, identify this author of The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahogany and The Caucasian Chalk Circle who wrote a work that saw the deaths of Eilif, Kattrin, and Swiss Cheese in the Thirty Years War and another work featuring Tiger Brown and Mack the Knife, Mother Courage and her Children and The Threepenny Opera.

Jean-Paul Sartre

One of his plays involves a Communist who takes the name codename Raskolnikov and eventually dies for love rather than the party, Dirty Hands, while a foray into novels including Troubled Sleep and The Reprieve ended after three of a proposed four-work series, Les Chemins de la Liberté [LAY sheh-MIHN deh lah lee-bair-TAY]. He also drew parallels between Aegistheus' reign and Vichy France while demoting Zeus to an ironic figure in a reworking of Aeschylus and the Orestes story. For 10 points, name this French philosopher playwright, who refused the Legion of Honor and the 1964 Nobel and penned Nausea, The Flies and No Exit.

Mark Twain (or Samuel Clemens)

One of his short stories sees cranberry farmer Sandy McWilliams explain heaven to Capt. Elias Stormfield, while in one of his novels the orphan Laura is adopted by the Hawkins family before killing Col. Selby. In another of his works, the title character proves that Chambers and Tom Driscoll were switched at birth. In addition to co-authoring The Gilded Age and writing Pudd'nhead Wilson, in one of his novels Miles Hendon helps Edward take his rightful position from Tom Canty. For 10 points, name this author of The Prince and Pauper who also created Huckleberry Finn.

Bram Stoker

One of his works centers on Adam Salton's trip to Mercia and meeting with the sinister Lady March, while his first book was a collection of fairy tales, Under the Sunset. His The Lair of the White Worm and The Jewel of the 7 Stars turn on supernatural encounters, much like his most popular work, which features the use of a crucifix to draw a circle in the snow. For 10 points identify this author who created the characters Arthur Holmwood, Lucy Westenra, Mina Harker, and Van Helsing in the novel Dracula.

Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens]

One of his works is about an old man with "white hair descending/in a frothy cataract" who gives a speech to conscripts about the horrors they were praying to inflict on their enemy entitled The War Prayer, while he explains his problems learning "The Awful German language" in an epilogue to one of his more famous works. He wrote a work about Joan of Arc dictating memoirs to Sieur Louis and a collaboration with Charles Dudley Warner which gave its name to (*) The Gilded Age. More famous works are The Tramp Abroad and some that follow a boy who meets Injun Joe in a cemetary and another vagrant son of a drunk who runs away on a raft with the slave Jim. For 10 points name this author of the books about St. Petersburg, Missouri, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

The Sound and the Fury

One of the narrators of this novel finds himself in trouble after attempting to help a little Italian girl, and another of the narrators works at Earl's farm supply store. Those characters' sister has a child, most likely with Dalton Ames, and names her after her brother whose college roommate is Shreve, Quentin. This novel concludes with Dilsey at an Easter church service, and another of its four narrators is the cynical Jason. Jason's sister Caddy runs off, devastating the mentally handicapped Benjy. For 10 points name this novel by William Faulkner about the Compson family which takes its title from a line in Macbeth.

ghosts [accept equivalents such as spectres, phantoms, and apparitions

One of these entities helps Virginia Otis understand why Love is greater than Death and Life in a short story set in the Canterville Chase by Oscar Wilde. Helene Alving realizes that her son Oswald is infected with syphilis in a Henrik Ibsen play named after them. Miles dies in the arm of the governess after attempting to see one of these entities. In addition to their appearance in The (*) Turn of the Screw, they help convert the cold-hearted Ebenezer Scrooge to a loving man who respects Christmas. For ten points, name these spirits which are named Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet-to-Come in A Christmas Carol.

concentration camps [or death camps; or extermination camps; or Konzentrationslager; accept Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Buchenwald; prompt on just "camps"]

One of these locations inspired the recurring line "black milk of daybreak" in a "Fugue" poem by Paul Celan ("suh-LAHN"). In a novel, the Brooklyn novelist Stingo is told about one of these places by Nathan's lover. Another novel set in one of these locations includes a paragraph where each sentence begins (*) "Never shall I forget." One of these places was the setting of The Truce and If This Is a Man by Primo Levi. A description of one of these places occupies the second part of Art Spiegelman's Maus, as well as the bulk of William Styron's Sophie's Choice. For 10 points, Elie Wiesel's Night is set at what kind of location in Auschwitz?

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh

One of this author's characters carries a large teddy bear named Aloysius with him around Oxford. In another of this man's works, the protagonist's wife has an affair with John Beaver, while the protagonist himself dreams of restoring Hetton Abbey. The protagonist of that novel is forced to read (*) Dickens's novels when he is captured by a native in South America, while the former novel sees Rex Mottram's wife Julia fall in love with the narrator, Charles Ryder, who recounts his visits to the estate of the Marchmains. For 10 points, identify this author of A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited.

Saul Bellow

One of this author's characters has a custody battle with Madeleine over their daughter June. That character created by this author writes unsent letters to such people as President Eisenhower. This author of Humboldt's Gift and Herzog wrote a book in which Eugene visits the Wariri tribe and leaves Africa with a lion cub. Another of this author's books is a picaresque tale of a Chicago Jew who is the brother of Simon and Georgie and serves in World War II. For 10 points, name this author of Henderson the Rain King and The Adventures of Augie March.

Chinua Achebe

One of this author's characters receives the nickname "Samsonite" for his habit of stapling his enemies' hands with a Samsonite stapler; that man appears in a work about a newspaper editor and a dissident named Chris Onkoh, who both live in Kangan. Another work by this man repeatedly quotes the proverb "when a man says yes, his chi says yes also" and sees the protagonist dishonored by his outburst of (*) violence during the Week of Peace. The protagonist of that work by this man fears being lazy like his father Unoka and accidentally shoots a man at a funeral, leading to his exile from Umuofia. For 10 points, name this author of Anthills of the Savannah who wrote about Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart.

Henry Graham Greene

One of this author's characters sends a letter containing his true feelings to the widow Mrs. Rolt but is blackmailed when the letter ends up in the hands of a Syrian named Yusef, leading that protagonist to overdose on evipan. In another novel by this author, Coral Fellows hides the father of Brigida, who is also aided by Brigida's mother, Maria. This creator of Major Henry (*) Scobie ended the latter work with Padre José's refusal to hear the final confession of its protagonist, a nameless "whiskey priest." The Heart of the Matter and The Power and the Glory are works by, for 10 points, what Catholic British author who also wrote Our Man in Havana and The End of the Affair?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One of this author's last works deals with the relationship between his countrymen and the Jews, Two-Hundred Years Together. In one novel by this author, the minor government official Rusanov is annoyed by Kostoglotov, who writes a letter to Vera Gangart after leaving the title establishment. In addition to (*) Cancer Ward, this author also wrote a novel in which the title member of the 104th Work Squad lays brick and manages an extra bread ration. For 10 points, name this Soviet author of The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

Ovid [Publius Ovidius]

One of this author's major poems includes a four hundred line speech by Pythagoras which criticizes eating the meat of animals. This author lamented being punished for "carmen et error" in his poem Tristia, and described the progress of his affair with Corinna in his (*) Amores. This poet's satirical guide for the best ways to commit adultery may have caused Augustus to exile him from Rome. Another of this author's poems describes Daphne turning into a laurel tree, among numerous other transformations. For 10 points, name this Roman poet of The Art of Love and Metamorphoses.

Salman Rushdie

One of this author's novels is set in the fictional country of Q and is narrated by Omar Khayyam Shakhil; that novel is Shame. One of his protagonists, Moraes Zogoiby, is descended from the last sultan of Granada, Boadbil, in The Moor's Last Sigh. The protagonist of another of his novels was switched with Shiva at his birth, which occurred at the moment of Indian independence; he is named Saleem Sinai. His novel about Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha earned him a fatwa from Ayatollah Khomeini. For 10 points, name this Indian author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses.

Aristophanes

One of this author's plays begins when a farmer rides a dung beetle into heaven, and another play by this author has a protagonist who is a sausage seller. One work by this author contains a workshop called the "Thinkery," while another work of this author follows Dionysus on a journey to the underworld and has a chorus that repeats "Brekekekex-koax-koax." In yet another work of this author, the title woman plots to end the Peloponnesian War by getting the women of Athens to withhold sex. For 10 points, identify this author of The Clouds, The Frogs, and Lysistrata, the foremost ancient Athenian comic playwright.

Lord Byron

One of this author's poems declares that "the soul wears out the breast" and that "the night was made for loving", and another of his works relates the thoughts of Francois Bonivard. This author of "So We'll Go No More A-Roving" and "The Prisoner of Chillon" wrote of a figure who is(*) "all that's best of dark and bright" and "whose love is innocent", as well as a satire in which the title character is seduced by women like Julia, Lady Adeline, Gulbayez, and Queen Catherine II. For 10 points, name this author of "She Walks in Beauty" and Don Juan [JEW-an].

Hermann Hesse

One of this author's protagonists becomes a blacksmith's apprentice after his friend Heilner is expelled from the Maulbronn seminary, then later gets drunk and drowns in a river. Another of his protagonists plans to commit suicide at age fifty, but is delayed by a chance visit to the Black Eagle Tavern, where he learns to dance and meets his future lover Maria. The pressures of academia crush (*) Hans Giebenrath in one of this man's novels, while in another, a jazz saxophonist named Pablo takes the protagonist to a hall of mirrors inside the Magic Theater. The title character of another of his novels abandons his friend Govinda and falls in love with the beautiful Kamala. For 10 points, name this German author who created Harry Haller in Steppenwolf and wrote Siddhartha.

Hermann Hesse

One of this author's protagonists dies when following his student Tito on a swim after leaving Castalia. The protagonist of another novel by this author learns the ways of wealth from Kamaswami and the ways of love from (*) Kamala, who dies when she is bitten by a snake. In another novel by this author, the saxophonist Pablo shows The Magic Theatre to the protagonist. This author of The Glass Bead Game wrote about a character who finds peace with a ferryman in Siddhartha. For 10 points, name this German author of Steppenwolf.

Tennessee Williams

One of this author's protagonists refers to her brother-in-law's children as "no-neck monsters". One of this author's characters attempts to lobotomize Catherine to prevent her from telling the circumstances of Sebastian's death. This author created a character who complains of "mendacity" when he finds out his family has lied about his spastic colon being cancerous. Besides writing Suddenly Last Summer and creating Big Daddy Pollit, this author created a character who dreams of being carried off by Shep Huntleigh, before being assaulted by Stella's husband, Stanley Kowalski. For 10 points, name this American playwright of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar Named Desire.

Jean-Paul Sartre

One of this author's protagonists tells his Nationalist captors that Ramon Gris is in a cemetery to protect his real hideout, not knowing Ramon has since moved to that cemetery. In a play by this man, a character with no eyelids works for his uncle as a Valet. This writer of "The Wall" retold the Orestes myth in a play whose title creatures represent the Furies. This author is best known for a play set in a "Second Empire" room inhabited by the lesbian clerk Inez and Joseph Garcin, who proclaims that "Hell is other people." For 10 points, name this French Existentialist author of The Flies and No Exit.

George Orwell

One of this author's protagonists, George Bowling, tires of his associations with the classically oriented Old Porteus. He also wrote an essay in which the title action is performed by a police officer in Burma. In addition to writing Coming Up For Air and "Shooting an Elephant," he wrote a novel that includes the state of Oceania, whose residents include Winston Smith and that is ruled by the regime of Big Brother. For 10 points, name this British author of Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Frost

One of this author's works describes the title objects as "girls on hands and knees that throw their hair" and created a character who "has nothing to look backward to with pride" and "nothing to look forward to with hope." This author of "Birches" wrote a poem that claims "for destruction" the two title entities "would suffice" in "Fire and Ice," and wrote about Silas in "The Death of the Hired Man." The speaker of his most famous poem has "promises to keep / And miles to go before [he] sleep[s]." For 10 points, name this poet of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."

John Steinbeck

One of this author's works sees a scorpion bite Coyotito, the son of two pearl fishers, and in another novel, the knowledge that Cathy Ames was a prostitute drives her son, Aron Trask, to death. Besides many novels set in Salinas Valley, California, this author of The Pearl and Cannery Row wrote about how Muley Graves stays in Oklahoma while Jim Casey and (*) Rose of Sharon run from the dust bowl with the Joad family. Name this American author of Great Depression-era novels like East of Eden and The Grapes of Wrath.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One of this man's characters marries Helen of Troy in the second part of a two-part play after seducing Gretchen in the first part. This man wrote a semi-autobiographical novel about a young man with unrequited love for Charlotte, which spawned a rash of copycat suicides across Napoleonic Europe. This man's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship is considered the prototype of the bildungsroman (BILL-doongs-roe-MAHN). For 10 points, name this German romantic who wrote Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther.

Vladimir Nabokov

One of this man's novels concerns Adam Krug, who refuses to go along with the totalitarian doctrine of Ekwilism promoted by the pathetic leader Paduk. Another of his novels is narrated by a man who believes himself to be the exiled king of Zembla, and tells of that narrator's misinterpretations of a 999-line poem written by John Shade. Besides Bend Sinister and Pale Fire, he is better known for a work where Charlotte Haze dies in a car accident after learning of the narrator's desire for nymphets. For 10 points, name this author who created the character of Humbert Humbert in his novel Lolita.

Mario Vargas Llosa [or Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa; prompt on partial answers]

One of this man's novels features a section about a group of assassins lying in wait for a car and opens with a section in which Urania Cabral recounts her childhood in Santo Domingo. An unlucky dice roll results in Cava attempting to steal a chemistry answer sheet in another novel by this author. He depicted the death of Rafael Trujillo in The Feast of the Goat and wrote of the Slave's death at the hands of Jaguar in a novel set in the (*) Leoncio Prado Military Academy. In another of his novels, the Genaros, who employ the protagonist, stop buying scripts from Cuba and instead hire the novela writer Pedro Camacho. For 10 points, name this author of The Time of the Hero and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, a Peruvian Nobel Laureate.

John Irving

One of this man's novels involves a murder mystery surrounding a serial killer who draws elephants on his victims stomachs. In addition to A Son of the Circus, this author wrote a novel about Patrick Wallingford, a reporter for the "disaster network" who lost his hand to a circus lion, The Fourth Hand. The son of the feminist Jenny Fields is the title character of another novels, and Dr. Wilbur Larch runs St. Cloud's orphanage in another of his works. For 10 points, name this author of <The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules.

John Updike

One of this man's novels is about WWII veteran and former football player George Caldwell. In addition to The Centaur, this author wrote a novel in which Janice drowns her baby Rebecca June. This man also wrote a novel about three witches from a titular Rhode Island town, The Witches of Eastwick. A short story by this man details Sammy's obsession with three girls who enter the titular store to buy herring snacks. In addition to A&P, he wrote five novels discussing the adventures of titular former high school basketball star Harry Angstrom. For 10 points name this American author of the Rabbit novels.

Stephen Crane

One of this man's poems advises "Do not weep maiden, for war is kind", and he wrote a short story in which none of the characters knew the color of the sky and which sees the death of Billie Higgins, the oiler. In addition to The Open Boat, one of his novels set in The Bowery opens with Jimmie getting into a fight, and ends with the (*) drunken Mary forgiving her dead daughter. Another of this man's novels sees the death of Jim Conklin and Henry Fleming's disgraceful flight from the battlefield. For ten points, name this American author of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and The Red Badge of Courage.

Kenzaburo Oe

One of this man's works centers on Kizu as he becomes a teacher in America and discovers a religious cult run by a Guru with two identities, Patron and Guide. He wrote about Takashi and Mitsusaburo going to a forest in Shikoku and about Li and 14 other teenagers being left in a plague-stricken village. This author of Somersault, and The (*) Silent Cry also wrote a semi- autobiographical work about Bird and his son's brain hernia. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids and A Personal Matter.

Kenzaburo Oe [accept either name; accept inverted name]

Simón (José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad) Bolívar (y Palacios Ponte y Blanco) BONUS: He collaborated with Anna Schwartz on A Monetary History of the United States.

One of this man's works, written after an earthquake, detailed his opposition to the Council of Regency. This author of the Cartagena Manifesto won the Battle of Los Horcones during his Admirable Campaign, in which he also issued the Decree of War to the Death. This man met with Jose de San Martin at the Guayaquil Conference, and his lieutenant, Jose de Sucre, won the Battle of Ayacucho, after this man won the Battle of Carabobo. For 10 points, name this president of Gran Columbia, South America's "Liberator."

Catch-22

One of this novel's characters stuffs crabapples in his cheeks because they are "better than horse chestnuts;" another character sits in a tree naked at Snowden's funeral. In this novel, whose sequel is Closing Time, M&M Enterprises buys the entire world's crop of Egyptian [*] cotton, while the protagonist escapes to Sweden in a lifeboat. Characters in this novel, set on the isle of Pianosa, include Colonel Cathcart and Major Major Major Major. For 10 points, name this novel about Yossarian, who struggles against the illogical title ordinance requiring sane World War II bombers to keep flying, written by Joseph Heller.

"Hedda Gabler"

One of this play's main characters loses his prized manuscript while walking home drunk, and it is found by his rival, Jurgen. Jurgen's wife, the title character, secretly destroys the manuscript, then pressures Eilert to attempt suicide by giving him a gun and telling him to "die beautifully." The title character is informed of Eilert's death by Judge Brack, and kills herself with one of her father's pistols to avoid scandal. For 10 points, name this Henrik Ibsen play about the cold and manipulative daughter of a general.

Allen Ginsberg

One of this poet's collections contains a poem inspired by a sunflower in a railyard and another poem describing himself as nearsighted and psychopathic addressed to America. Another one of his poems begins "Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes" and was composed in memory of his mother. Another poem by this man sees Garcia Lorca "down by the watermelons" and Whitman "eyeing the grocery boys". Penning that poem, "A Supermarket in California", as well as the line "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness...", identify this man who wrote, among other things, the poems "Kaddish" and "Howl".

Irwin Allen Ginsberg

Eugène Ionesco [or Eugen Ionescu]

One of this writer's characters takes salt each night to forget her husband's stories. That work, involving an invisible Emperor and an actual Orator, centers around the characters Old Man and Old Woman. Another work by this writer is about the Smiths and the Martins, who are eventually joined by the fire chief. Another play by this man includes an argument between Dudard and Botard at the newspaper office where Daisy and Berenger [bair-en-zhair] work. In that work, several people turn into the title animal. Name this Romanian-French absurdist playwright who wrote The Chairs, The Bald Soprano, and Rhinoceros.

Lord Byron

One of this writer's poems answers the question, "How should I greet thee?" with the response, "With silence and tears." A narrative poem by this man involves the luckless tutor Pedrillo who is cannibalized on a boat going from Spain to Greece. In addition to writing such poems as "So we'll go no more a roving", this man played a major role in the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire. Penning such poems as "When We Two Parted" and "She Walks in Beauty", identify this man, a pioneer of the British Romanticism movement who also wrote the narrative poems Don Juan (JOO-uhn) and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.

e. e. cummings

One of this writer's works ends with the line "how do you like your blue eyed boy / Mister Death?" This poet of "Buffalo Bill" also wrote that "nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands" in another poem. Another poem by this poet of "somewhere i have (*) never travelled, gladly beyond" and "i sing of olaf glad and big" features the repetition of "sun moon stars rain" and states that "he sang his didn't he danced his did." For 10 points, identify this American poet of "anyone lived in a pretty how town" who used parentheses, lowercase, and other abnormal syntax and did not capitalize his name.

Hesiod

One of this writer's works, which begins with a hymn to the muses of Helicon, explains how Zeus overthrew the Titans and how each god and goddess came into being. Another work has a calendar of lucky days and tells the story of Pandora. It gives a brief description of navigation after a long description of farming. Name this Greek poet who followed soon after Homer and wrote Theogony and Works and Days.

A Shropshire Lad

One part of this collection assures that "there'll be enough time to sleep" and is titled "Reveille". Another notes that the title flower "has not long to stay/ and dies on Easter day". In addition to "The Lent Lily", this collection of poems has a character who is criticized for "the rate at which you drink your beer" and told "this is stupid stuff". Another poem advises, "give crowns and pounds and guineas/ but not your heart away". Its most famous part elegizes a successful runner who "won your town the race". "When I was one- and-twenty" and "To an Athlete Dying Young" are part of, for ten points, what collection of poems by A.E. Housman?

Essay on Man

One part of this poem describes how Indians see God in clouds and the sky, and another section describes how, with sense true, a nice bee can derive honey from poison herbs. Before this poem notes "One truth is clear, whatever is, is right", it asks if a lamb would skip and play were it endowed with the knowledge of its impending doom. The fourth and last epistle concludes by informing the reader that "all our knowledge is—Ourselves to know", while the first epistle of this poem begins with an invocation to St. John and the announcement that this work will "vindicate the ways of God to man", before noting that "Hope springs eternal in the breast of man". For 10 points, name this poem which pronounces the "proper study of mankind", a work of Alexander Pope about people.

Sophocles

One play by this author opens as a character sits upon a stone and is ordered by villagers to leave, as he trespasses on lands sacred to the Furies. In another play, the chorus proclaims that punishment brings wisdom after the suicides of Eurydice (you-RID-uh-see) and Haemon (HIGH-mahn). That play is about Ismene's (is-MEH-nay) sister, who buries one of her brothers. This author wrote about the self-induced blindness of the title character in another play, who defeats the Sphinx, kills his father, and marries his mother. For 10 points, identify this playwright of Antigone and Oedipus Rex.

Luigi Pirandello

One play by this author sees a character dress up as an abbot's attendant only to be mistaken for Peter Damian. He also wrote a play in which a child drowns in a fountain and a boy shoots himself. That play begins at a rehearsal which is swiftly interrupted, to the (*) Manager's consternation, by the title figures, of whom only Madame Pace is named. For 10 points, name this Fascist-supporting Italian author of Enrico IV and Six Characters in Search of an Author.

Alexandria, Egypt

One poem by a longtime resident of this city describes a group that "gets bored with eloquence and orations" and noted "how solemn the faces have become." That poem, written in this city, asks "Why do the Senators sit and pass no laws?" as "the emperor waits to receive their (*) chief" and concludes "those people were some kind of solution." In addition to being the city where "Waiting for the Barbarians" was written, this home for most of the life of Constantine Cavafy is also the namesake for a series including Justine and Balthazar. For 10 points, name this city which titles a Lawrence Durrell "Quartet," and which housed many ancient texts in its namesake library.

Walt Whitman

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

Pablo Neruda

One poem by this author says of the title object "you are not tomb, sepulcher, grave, tumulus mausoleum, but guard and keeper, hidden fire." That Ode to the Dictionary is collected with odes to Tuna and Criticism. One poem by this author begins "The memory of you emerges from the night around me" and follows poems entitled "I like you to be still" and "Tonight I can write the saddest lines." Another collection by this author contains cantos titled The Earth's Name is Juan and The Heights of Macchu Picchu. For 10 points, name this Chilean poet of Canto General and Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.

"Ozymandias"

One poem by this name described how a "powerful but unrecorded race / Once dwelt in that annihilated place." That poem by Horace Smith was likely part of a competition with the better known poem of this name, in which a traveler describes seeing a "sneer of cold command" on a "shatter'd visage." This poem is named for a monument reduced to "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone," whose inscription reads, "Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!" For 10 points, name this Percy Shelley sonnet about a statue of an ancient king.

Abraham Lincoln

One poem describes a woman "beloved in life of" this man. That poem mentioning this man is about Anne Rutledge and is found in Spoon River Anthology. One elegy for this man laments the "great star" in the "western sky in the night." Another elegy for him proclaims "the ship is (*) anchor'd safe" and that for this person "they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning." For 10 points, name this President, whose death was lamented in Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!"

Sonnets from the Portuguese

One poem in this collection recalls how the addressee "stole betwixt" the speaker "and the dreadful outer brink" and begins "The face of all the world is changed, I think." In its first poem, the speaker describes being drawn "backward by the hair" by a "mystic Shape" misidentified as Death. This collection's title refers to the (*) pet name of the author, who was nicknamed for her dark complexion. Its first poem begins "I thought once how Theocritus had sung," and its title refers to the author's poem "Catarina to Camoens." The forty-third and penultimate begins "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." For 10 points, name this collection by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Greece

One poet from this country wrote a poem in which ends with the line "they were, those people, a kind of solution" in reference to the title group. One author from this country wrote "a modern sequel" to an epic poem from this country in which the protagonist journeys through Africa to the South Pole where he is killed by an iceberg. That author also wrote a work in which the title character is a Creten coal miner named Zorba. This country is the setting of an epic poem in which Penelope waits in Ithaca for her husband to return from war. For 10 points, name this European country home to Nikos Kazantzakis and is the setting of the Odyssey.

Chile

One poet from this country wrote the collections Ternura, Desolación, and Sonetos de la Muerte. She received the Nobel Prize in 1945. Other writers include Marjorie Agosín, Gonzalo Rojas, and Vicente Huidobro. Another of its poets wrote odes to salt, tomatoes, and an artichoke, and also wrote a poem that begins, "The memory of you emerges from the night around me." That work appears at the end of a famous collection following twenty love poems. Name this South American country that produced Nobel laureates Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

One priest in this work is able to levitate after taking a sip of hot chocolate, and a photograph of one character's mistress Petra Cotes almost causes his wife Fernanda to abandon him. After starting to speak Latin, one character in this work is tied to a chestnut tree, and this work concludes with the translation of a text by the gypsy Melquiades predicting the history of Macondo. Following many characters named Jose Arcadio and Aureliano, For 10 points, name this novel about the Buendia family by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

One Hundred Years of Solitude [accept Cien Anos de Soledad]

Henrik Ibsen

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

One short story by this author sees the title character halt a procession led by Edmund Andros, and in another, a small orange lizard distorts itself to death. This author of "The Gray Champion" wrote about four old men who travel to Florida in search of the Fountain of Youth in "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment". He also wrote a short story in which Goodman finds his wife Faith at a witches' Sabbath. In his most famous novel, Arthur Dimmesdale fathers Pearl with Hester Prynne. For 10 points, name this American author of The Scarlet Letter.

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy

One short story by this author tells of how the Devil helped Pahom (pah-HOME) acquire lots of real estate, while another story tells of Trukhashevsky's (TROO-kah-SHEV-skee's) affair with Pozdnishef's ("PAUSED"-nee-shev's) wife. Those stories are "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" and "The Kreutzer (KROYT-zer) Sonata." This author recounted the last days of a dying judge in The Death of Ivan Ilyich (ILL-ee-itch). For 10 points, name this author of Anna Karenina (kah-REN-inn-uh) and War and Peace.

China

One short story from this country is about a man remembering his grandfather after seeing a fishing rod, and a novel by the same author is about a tourist who thought he had cancer who is referred to in alternating chapters as "I" and "You". In another novel from this country, 105 men and three women are heroes who oppose a high-ranking adviser to an Emperor. Another work from this country is tied together by a stone that was abandoned when a goddess abandoned the heavens. Those works are Soul Mountain, Water Margin, and Dream of the Red Chamber. Name this country whose literature portrays the Buddhist monk Xuanzang (shoo- wen-zahng) in Journey to the West.

Jorge Luis Borges

One story by this author uses the example of a pencil found by someone who had lost one to describe the concept hronir. Another story by this author describes how the speaker visits the house of Beatriz Viterbo on her birthday every year after her death, and in that same work the speaker lies on his back in their basement in order to observe the title point in the (*) universe containing all other points. This author of "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" and "El Aleph" also wrote a collection containing a story featuring Richard Madden, who is pursuing a German agent named Yu Tsun. For 10 points, name this Argentine author who included "The Garden of Forking Paths" in Ficciones.

Franz Kafka

One story by this writer is about a performer who limps and whose performances are nothing out of the ordinary, but, "Anyone who has not heard her does not know the power of song." Another story by this writer is about a person who needs to travel ten miles through a storm even though his horse died the night before. Those works are "Josephine the Singer, or The Mouse Folk" and "A Country Doctor". Another story by this writer is about a machine that carves prisoners' sins into their backs, and the protagonist of another work by this writer is a traveling salesman who wants to help his sister Grete attend a conservatory but cannot because he becomes a bug. Identify this author of "In the Penal Colony" and "Metamorphosis" who also wrote the novels The Castle and The Trial.

The Color Purple

One story in this novel concerns Samuel and Corrine, missionaries that take in two characters later revealed to be the children of an incestuous relationship between the main character and her father. The main character threatens to serve her father-in-law another woman's urine after he insults Shug (*) Avery, an entertainer the main character eventually leaves for Tennessee with. For 10 points, name this novel consisting mostly of letters written to God and Nettie by Celie, the best-known work of Alice Walker.

Alexander Pushkin

One story told by this poet supposedly comes from a cat chained to a green oak tree, who tells the story of a prince rescuing his bride from a wizard. Another work by this poet is about a man who falls asleep during a flood, waking up in front of a famous statue which later becomes alive. Another work by this poet begins with the title character hoping his uncle will die so he can get the inheritance; that character meets the Larina (lah- REE-nah) sisters after befriending the young poet Vladimir Lensky. Name this poet who often wrote about St. Petersburg, the author of Ruslan and Ludmila, The Bronze Horseman, and Eugene Onegin (o-NAY-gin).

George Orwell [or Eric Blair]

One work by this author has a speech near its beginning stating that life is miserable, laborious, and short. That speech is made after another character is described as too drunk to remember to shut the popholes. In another work, the protagonist—who has a varicose ulcer above his right ankle—lives near an enormous pyramidal structure of white concrete. That character receives a copy of The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein from O'Brien and a note saying, "I love you" from Julia. This author wrote "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." Name this author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Sophocles

One work by this author sees Hyllus harshly attacking Deianeira. This author of The Women of Trachis and the fragmentary play The Tracking Satyrs also wrote about [*] Ismene, who refuses to help her sister give Polynices a proper burial due to Creon's decree. Known for introducing the 'third actor', in another of his works, the foster-son of Polybus and Merope denies Tiresias's accusations, but later blinds himself for having slept with Jocasta. For 10 points, name the Greek tragedian who wrote Antigone as part of his Oedipus cycle.

Eugene O'Neill

One work by this author sees a strait-laced architect put on the mask of his dead friend Dion Anthony, and in another work by this author, Dr. Ned Darrell impregnates Nina Leeds. This author of The Great God Brown and Strange Interlude wrote expressionistic plays about Yank Smith and Brutus Jones, as well as a play about the arrival of Theodore Hickman to Harry Hope's Bar. For 10 points, name this playwright of The Hairy Ape and The Iceman Cometh, the first American playwright to win the Nobel Prize.

William Wordsworth

One work by this poet asks "Who is he that every man in arms should wish to be?" In addition to "The Character of the Happy Warrior", he wrote a sonnet that ends with him saying he would rather be a Pagan seeing Proteus or hearing Triton. In another work, he speaks of steep woods and lofty cliffs that are more dear after being away from them for five years. In that poem he is traveling with his sister Dorothy, who has not been on the same location on the Wye River before. He wrote about a man who lost his daughter in his Matthew poems and about a girl who was lost in his Lucy poems. Name this early Romantic poet of "The World Is Too Much with Us", "Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey", and "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud".

Argentina

One work from this country written by José Hernández, Martín Fierro, is an example of its gaucho literature. Molina and Valentín are imprisoned in another work from this country, Kiss of the Spider Woman. One prolific author from this country wrote a story containing a point in space where one can see everything and another story about a library that contains every possible work of a fixed length. Those stories are "The Aleph" and "The Library of Babel." For 20 points, name this South American country, home to Jorge Luis Borges.

Nigeria

One work from this country, subtitled A Novel In Rotten English, was written by an activist who was later hanged. A young novelist from there wrote a novel concerning a strict and abusive father nicknamed Papa titled Purple Hibiscus. A Nobel Laureate from this country wrote about a greedy preacher in The Trials of Brother Jero and also wrote The Lion and the Jewel. One of its novelists wrote No Longer At Ease, Anthills of the Savannah, and a work about a wrestling champion named Okonkwo titled Things Fall Apart. Name this populous African nation that produced Ken Saro-Wiwa, Wole Soyinka, and Chinua Achebe.

"To His Coy Mistress"

One work inspired by this poem mentions the "always coming on / The always rising of the night." This poem's narrator would not mind two hundred years "to adore each breast" and thirty thousand years "for the rest," before noting that "the grave's a fine and private place." This poem's speaker's (*) "vegetable love" would "grow vaster than Empires" if it weren't for the coming "deserts of vast eternity" and "time's winged chariot hurrying near." For ten points, identify this metaphysical poem beginning "Had we but world enough, and time," in which Andrew Marvell tries to get a reluctant woman to sleep with him.

Nigeria

One writer from this country envisioned his poem "Siren" as the end result of a productive sleep, while another wrote about an "abiku" who frequents the bar Azaro in The Famished Road. A work set in this country focuses on the rivalry between Lakunle and Baroka over Sidi, while another work written by an author from this country concerns a character who beats his wife during the Week of Peace, and accidentally kills Ikemefuna's son when his gun explodes. For 10 points, name this country, the setting of Things Fall Apart, and the home of Chinua Achebe.

Mexico

One writer from this country intersperses the story of Tita's love for Pedro with recipes from this nation's cuisine, in her novel Like Water for Chocolate. Another author from this nation modeled the title character on Ambrose Bierce in his The Old Gringo, but is more famous for a work about the title tycoon, The Death of Artemio Cruz. A third author from this nation reflected on his countrymen's history in essays like "Sons of La Malinche" in the collection The Labyrinth of Solitude. For 10 points, name this home country of Laura Esquivel, Carlos Fuentes, and Octavio Paz.

Eugene Onegin

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

The Wasps [or Sphekes]

Opening with the servant Xanthias describing a dream in which an eagle seizes a shield, this play has two primary characters that are named for their attitude toward the demagogue Cleon: Bdely[DELI]-cleon despises him while his father Philocleon adores his policies. Its trial of the dog Labes for stealing a piece of cheese serves as a critical parody of the Athenian court system. For 10 points, name this Aristophanes play in which a chorus of old men signify the buzzing of the titular insects.

Les Miserables [accept The Miserable Ones, accept either name of Jean Valjean]

Petit Gervais runs away after the protagonist of this novel does not give back his coin. Enjolras leads a group in this novel called The Friends of the ABC and leads the June 5 revolt with a man who is saved from death by Eponine Thenardier. That man, Marius, loves Cosette, the daughter of Fantine and adopted child of the protagonist, who is constantly pursued by Inspector Javert. For 10 points, name this novel about Jean Valjean, written by Victor Hugo.

Haiku

Reginald Blyth's History of this was published in two volumes starting in 1963, and "The Cuckoo" was a leading periodical for the publication of it. Shiki Masaoka wrote a famous zatsudan lampooning those that had come before him in writing in this style. Koi Nagata is among this form's greatest modern practitioners, though its older writers, including Buson Yosa and Kyoski Takahama, are better known. For 10 points, name the form of poem that evolved from the tonka during the Tokugawa period, defined as "A work in three lines/Of seventeen syllables/Common in Japan."

library [prompt on Kenwood House before "Procurators"; accept biblioteca]

Robert Adam borrowed from Andrea Palladio in his work on one of these in London, and the Procurators of San Marco hired Jacopo Sansovino to create one of these in Venice. Bartolomeo Ammanati assisted in the construction of the staircase in one of these in the Basilica di San Lorenzo. Joshua Prince-Ramus and Rem Koolhaas designed an 11-story glass and steel one of these in Seattle. (*) I.M. Pei designed a museum doubling as one of these for John F. Kennedy, and another notable one is the aforementioned Laurentian one. For 10 points, identify this kind of building whose version in Boston has a reading room.

Pindar

Robert Duncan wrote a poem that begins by quoting this author's line "The light foot hears you, and the brightness begins." Thomas Gray used a poetic form named for this author to write "The Progress of Poesy." This author wrote a poem praising Athens as "violet-crowned" and the "bulwark of Greece." This author of a hymn to the god Ammon called mankind "the dream of a shadow" a poem collected in his four books of epinikia. This author celebrated the triumph of Hippocleas in the earliest of his Pythian Odes. For 10 points, name this Greek lyric poet of victory odes for athletes in contests such as the Olympic games.

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

Several short stories by this author are narrated by Mr Mulliner, while a character known as the Oldest Member narrates most of his stories about golf. The pig-obsessed Lord Emsworth is featured in many of his stories set at Blandings Castle, and many of his characters are members of the (*) Drones Club, including Bingo Little and a man with aunts named Agatha and Dahlia, Bertie Wooster. For 10 points, name this British comic author who created Wooster and his resourceful butler, Jeeves.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

She was inspired by Sir Walter Scott to write the unpopular novel The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck. A forced sojourn in Scotland inspired her Mathilda, and she wrote about the "Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca" in the novel Valperga. She created a portrait of her deceased husband in a novel in which a plague kills all but one person on Earth, The Last Man, but she is best known for a novel whose story is told to Robert Walton by the title character. For 10 points, name this English author, the wife of the poet Percy and the author of Frankenstein.

Kate Chopin

She wrote about a character's relationship with Madame Valmonde and his attempted burning of his child's cradle and all of her belongings because the protagonist thought his son was biracial. This author who wrote about Armand Aubigny in "Desiree's Baby" included many of her stories in (*) Bayou Folk. In another of her works, Mrs. Mallard dies of heart problems after seeing her husband. In her most famous work, Robert Lebrun has a relationship with the protagonist in Grand Isle, Louisiana. For 10 points, name this American author of "Story of an Hour" who wrote about Edna Pontellier in The Awakening.

Things Fall Apart

Some missionaries in this novel warn against abandoning twins in the Evil Forest and see their church torn down by a mob. The central figure of this novel worships a "chi" and owns two barns of yams. During the Week of Peace, the protagonist of this novel is fined for beating one of his three wives. Obereika chides that central character for participating in the murder of Ikemefuna (ICK-ay-muh-FOO-nuh). This novel ends with the suicide of the Ibo tribesman Okonkwo. No Longer at Ease was the sequel to, for 10 points, what novel about colonial Nigeria by Chinua Achebe?

Water Margin

Some of the characters in this work include one nicknamed the "Iron Whistle" for his excellent singing, and a man who has a red beard leading to his nickname of The Life-Summoning Judge from Hell. It also features a doctor who can cure four hundred horse diseases and a man who uses magic talismans to travel 25,000 meters in a short period of time. A lumberjack in the penultimate chapter of this novel raises a namesake rebellion, while another character in this work kills his sister-in-law, Pan, after she has an affair with Ximen in Kaifeng. This work begins with a description of Gau Qiu, and much of it is set on Mt. Wutai. The emperor offers amnesty the "heavenly spirits" and "earthly fiends," both of which comprise the 108 "Stars of Destiny." For ten points, name this novel set in the Song Dynasty with a title referring to a wet region of China.

"Jabberwocky"

Some potential sources of inspiration for this poem are a German ballad titled "The Shepherd of the Giant Mountains" and the large twisting tree at Christ Church, Oxford where the author was a mathematician. Its structure is the same as classic English poetry with quatrain verses and rhymed iambic pentameter despite the fact that many of the words in it were made up by the author. Telling the story of a hero seeking a monster who beheads it with his vorpal sword at brilling is, For 10 points, this poem by Lewis Carroll.

Italian

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

The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come

The Enormous Room is structured after this novel. It begins with the author's recounting of a dream in which the protagonist cries and wonders how to save himself and his family from destruction. The protagonist is told to journey to Wicket-gate by Evangeline, and on his trip he meets Mr. Legality and Mr. Worldly-Wiseman. For 10 points—identify this tale of Christian's trip from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City, written by John Bunyan.

The Comedy of Errors

The action of this play revolves around events that took place in Epidamnum, and after being spotted with a gold chain he did not pay for, the goldsmith Angelo demanded that one character be arrested. Solinus gave one character an extra day in order to raise one thousand marks or face death, and the abbess who appears at the end turns out to be Aemilia. Set in Ephesus, one central character was arrested for refusing to pay for a gold chain, and on his way to jail was accosted by a courtesan who demanded a ring, but in the end he pays Aegeon's ransom, and the confusion that abounds is laid to rest. For 10 points, identify this Shakespeare play about the Antipholus and Dromio twins.

Thanatopsis

The author juxtaposes the "Barcan desert" of Libya with "the continuous woods/ where rolls the Oregon" to give the poem a sense of universality. The last stanza, in which the author orders the reader to "go not like the quarry slave at night" but instead to go ahead "sustain'd and sooth'd/ by an unfaltering trust," was added seven years after the poet first completed the work at age seventeen. It opens with a comment that Nature "speaks in various languages" and contains the lines "All that tread/ The globe are but a handful to the tribes/ that slumber beneath in its bosom." For 10 points name this poem about death written by William Cullen Bryant.

Madame Bovary

The author of this work remarked on one character in it "she is me!" A letter arrives at the bottom of a basket of apricots in this novel, while one character in it meets another at a performance of Lucia di Lammermoor. One character initially marries Heloise Dubuc and an operation on Hippolyte's (*) clubfoot is botched in this book. Monsieur Lheureux loans the title character large amounts of money as that character conducts an affair under the pretense of piano lessons in this novel. Earlier, that character in this novel had had an affair with Rodolphe, and later Leon. Charles's wife Emma titles, for 10 points, what book by Gustave Flaubert?

Mario Vargas Llosa

The autobiographical novel The Green House, with its commentary on race and class in Latin America, won this author international prizes. His work The Feast of the Goat deals with the Dominican Republican under Cold War dictator Rafael Trujillo. For 10 points, name this Peruvian who took an active role in politics as a presidential candidate, only to lose in a runoff to Alberto Fujimori.

Beowulf

The best-known critical work concerning this book begins with the allegory of the tower and attacks W. P. Ker's statement that this book's hero has "nothing else to do." That critical work, J. R. R. Tolkien's The Monsters and the Critics, contends that Fafnir and this work's third antagonist are the only prominent dragons in Northern European epic poetry. Tolkien also accepts that this epic was written "during the age of Bede," and that it is not an actual depiction of "historic Denmark or Sweden about A.D. 500." For 10 points, name this Old English poem about a hero who defeats the monster Grendel.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

The daughter of a rich preacher in this play starts peeling labels off liquor bottles once it's revealed that she only married after having a false pregnancy. This play begins with a character quoting the Bette Davis film line, "What a dump!" A character in this play constantly complains about genetic engineering to a genetics professor. A character in this play tells a story about a boy who dies in a car crash, swerving to avoid a porcupine, before revealing that the boy is his imaginary son. In Act II of this play, "Walpurgisnacht", Nick and Honey get to play "Get the Guests." For 10 points, name this play about terrible party hosts George and Martha, written by Edward Albee.

Things Fall Apart

The eating of locusts in this novel symbolizes an ignorance of the danger brought by Mr. Smith's group, while the python illustrates cultural differences. The plot turns on Enoch's unmasking of an earth deity, and we hear Ezinma's father wish that she were a boy. The murder of Ikemefuna turns Nwoye away from the son of Unoka, who attempts to maintain the traditions of the Igbo people. For 10 points, name this book continued in the sequel No Longer at Ease, a novel centering on Okonkwo and written by Chinua Achebe.

The Metamorphosis [or Die Verwandlung]

The father of this work's protagonist gets a job as a bank guard, and the central family moves to a smaller apartment after three bearded boarders leave. The main character's sister aspires to be a violinist, and the protagonist of this work catches the five AM train every morning to work as a salesman to pay off his (*) father's debt. The protagonist eventually dies after an apple thrown by his father becomes lodged in his back. For 10 points, name this novella in which Gregor Samsa is changed into a bug, a work of Franz Kafka.

The Metamorphosis [or Die Verwandlung]

The final sentence of this story points out the attractiveness and marriageability of the protagonist's sister. That protagonist shuns milk and bread and hides under the sofa at one point during this story. An apple thrown by the protagonist's father lodges into his back, leading to an infection. Several boarders in this story threaten the central family with a lawsuit, which causes the violin-playing Grete to realize that her family must get rid of the central character. For 10 points, name this Kafka story about the transformation of Gregor Samsa into an insect.

T.S. Eliot [or Thomas Stearns Eliot; accept "Journey of the Magi" until "this man" is read]

The line "A cold coming we had of it" opens a poem by this man in which the speaker asks "were we led this way for/ Birth or Death?" That poem's line "no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation" inspired the title of a Chinua Achebe novel. "Three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree" in a poem by this man that begins with the statement "Because I do not hope to (*) turn again". This poet of "Journey of the MAgi" wrote "this is the dead land/ this is the cactus land" in a poem that ends by claiming "this is the way the world ends/ not with a bang but with a whimper." For 10 points, name this American-born poet who defended his conversion to Anglicanism in "Ash Wednesday" and wrote "The Hollow Men"

Emily Dickinson

The majority of this poet's works, some of which can be sung to the tune of the Gilligan's Island theme song, were published posthumously. This poet's sister Lavinia found hundreds of them, most of them untitled, and began their publication. She is known for a frank, concise style and such poems as I'm Nobody, Who are You? and I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died. For 10 points name this American poet known as the "Belle of Amherst," the author of Because I Could Not Stop for Death.

Dostoyevsky

The narrator of one of his works tells the story "Apropos of the Wet Snow" and obsesses with the thought of revenge against an officer who shoved him, before attending a farewell party of Zverkov. That title character created by this author talks about his liver problems in (*) Notes from the Underground. This member of Petrashevsky Circle, who was once nearly executed, also wrote about Zamyotov, a young detective who visits a St. Petersburg student concerning the murder of two sisters. For 10 points each, what Russian author wrote of Raskolnikov's suffering in Crime and Punishment?

Walt Whitman

The narrator of one poem by this author has "heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and end" and discusses the "procreant urge of the world." Another work by this poet ends "Great or small, you furnish your parts towards the soul." That poem begins "Flood tide below me! I watch you face to face." The narrator of this man's most famous poem sounds his "barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world," and begins "I celebrate myself, and sing myself." For 10 points, name this American free-verse poet who included "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" and "Song of Myself" in his Leaves of Grass.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The narrator of this novel believes the place where he lives runs a fog machine and calls society's means of keeping people in line "The Combine". And later reveals he is not really deaf by voting to watch the World Series in a group meeting. One character in this novel has a neurotic obsession with cleanliness, George Sorenson. And other characters include the articulate, closeted homosexual, Harding, and the stuttering, mother-dominated Billy Bibbit. Chief Bromden narrates the tale of patients of the psychiatric ward in, For 10 points, what novel in which con man Randle McMurphy fights the tyrannical rule of Nurse Ratched by Ken Kesey?

"Mending Wall"

The narrator of this poem yells "Stay where you are until our backs are turned!" after discussing a "spell to make them balance." After commenting "Spring is the mischief in me," the narrator contemplates asking if elves necessitate the title action because "there are no cows." The poem juxtaposes an area of "all pine" with an "apple orchard," and the narrator meets once a year to perform the title action in order to maintain the divide between the farms. For 10 points, name this poem which includes the line "Good fences make good neighbors," written by Robert Frost.

Foucault's Pendulum

The narrator of this work and his girlfriend invent the term "discovering archetypes" as a euphemism for having sex and refer to their child as "The Thing". Another character, the co-founder of the School of Comparative Irrelevance, creates as an alter ego an amalgam of Conrad characters called Seven Seas Jim, and claims that you can differentiate lunatics from cretins, fools, and morons "by the fact that sooner or later [they] bring up the Templars". The Plan is set in motion by Colonel Ardenti, who shows a supposed Templar manuscript to Diotallevi, Belbo, and Casaubon. For 10 points, name this Umberto Eco novel which begins near the titular scientific device.

Gwendolyn Brooks

The only novel she wrote was Maud Martha. One of her poetry collections ends with a group of twelve sonnets titled "Gay Chaps at the Bar"—the full collection is titled A Street in Bronzeville. Another collection, The Bean Eaters, contains the poem We Real Cool. Name this African American who wrote Annie Allen.

A Clockwork Orange

The parents of the protagonist of this novel are called Pee and Em. At the beginning of this work, the designs on the characters' clothes include a spider on the narrator, a hand on Pete, a flower on Georgie, and a clown's face on Dim. Much later, the narrator jumps out the window upon hearing a symphony composed by Otto Skadelig, a result of him undergoing the Ludovico Technique. The narrator of this novel talks in a teenage slang combining English and Russian that is called nadsat. Name this work in which Alex and his violent gang hang out in Korova Milkbar, a dystopian novel by Anthony Burgess.

The Castle of Otranto

The preface to this work states that the plot is based off of an actual event that occurred in the 12th century. After a wedding is canceled due to a freak accident, the bride flees to a church next to the titular location. Friar Jerome decides to help the bride, and saves a peasant trapped under a giant helmet. After that peasant is revealed to be Theodore, the heir to the throne, the current prince decides to kill Isabella to prevent the succession of power. Manfred tries in vain to marry Isabella in For 10 points what novel by Horace Walpole considered by many to be the first Gothic novel.

Nikos Kazantzakis

The protagonist of a work by this author is killed by an iceberg in Antarctica after traveling south along the Nile and meeting people named "Don Quixote" and "Jesus". One of this man's narrators is left behind by a friend who goes to fight Russian persecution in the Caucasus and has an affair with the Widow, who is then stoned to death, inspiring Pavli's suicide by drowning. In a historical novel by this man, (*) Jesus considers escaping the crucifixion. A lignite mine foreman created by this man uses his skills on the cimbalom to seduce an ex-prostitute he nicknames "Bouboulina", a hotel proprietor named Madame Hortense. For 10 points, name this author of The Last Temptation of Christ and Zorba the Greek.

Wuthering Heights

The protagonist of this novel attacks his childhood bully with applesauce and dreams that a ghostly hand breaks his window and reaches into his bedroom. The housekeeper Zillah shows kindness to the two narrators of this novel, Lockwood and Nelly Dean, who recount how that protagonist gets revenge by acquiring his bully's estate, (*) Thrushcross Grange. Meanwhile, that bully, Edgar Linton, marries the protagonist's beloved Catherine Earnshaw. Name this Emily Bronte novel about Heathcliff.

An American Tragedy

The protagonist of this novel buys Hortense a fur coat instead of spending the money to support his pregnant sister, and soon afterward he is involved in a hit and run car accident. After meeting his uncle Samuel in Chicago while working for the Union League Club, he travels to Lycurgus in New York where he is scorned by his cousin Gilbert. At the end of this novel, the protagonist is electrocuted for his crime, which was motivated by his desire to marry Sondra Finchley and move himself into upper class society, as well as the need to hide Roberta Alden's pregnancy. For 10 points, name this Theodore Dreiser novel in which Clyde Griffiths murders his lover on a lake.

The Bell Jar

The protagonist of this novel goes on a date with a UN interpreter named Constantin. One character in this work named Philomena Guinea pays for the protagonist to be treated by Dr. Nolan following her attempted suicide with sleeping pills. The protagonist of this work, set on the backdrop of the execution of the Rosenbergs, is a college student from Massachusetts who interns for a month at a New York City magazine. For 10 points, name this work centering on Esther Greenwood, the only novel by Sylvia Plath.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

The protagonist of this novel resorts to shooting nine angry challengers with his revolver after his rival strips him of his lasso. The protagonist of this novel repaires a well to cause water to flow again into the Valley of Holiness. The novel's hero's nostalgia for a telephone operator leads him to name his child Hello-Central, and he gets called "The Boss" after using explosives to cause a rival (*) magician's tower to crumble. Five hundred warriors on bicycles are dispatched by Clarence to save this novel's hero after he goes undercover as a commoner with the King. Its protagonist successfully predicts an eclipse after he wakes up in the custody of Sir Kay. For 10 points, name this Mark Twain novel in which Hank Morgan travels back in time to Camelot.

The Stranger (or The Outsider or L'Étranger)

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

Catch-22

The protagonist of this novel tears up the number of a woman in Rome who calls him a pig but sleeps with him anyway, Luciana. One character's incessant nightly howling is prompted by the cat of his roommate Huple and brings comfort to a character deathly afraid of having his throat slit. The protagonist is traumatized by Snowden's death and sleeps in a tent with the belongings of a dead man. The crafty Milo Minderbender serves as mess hall officer in this novel, whose title concept is explained by Doc Daneeka to Yossarian, who is stuck flying bombing missions. For 10 points, name this Joseph Heller novel.

A Christmas Carol

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

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The protagonist of this poem wears a "necktie rich and modest," "asserted by a simple pin." This poem's epigraph is from The Divine Comedy, when Guido confesses his sins thinking Dante will never return to write of them. Its narrator descends the stairs with a "bald spot in [his] hair." The narrator has lived a boring life, measured out "with coffee spoons," mostly because, since he is "not (*) Prince Hamlet, nor meant to be," he does not dare "disturb the Universe." Women in this poem "come and go, talking of Michelangelo." For ten points, identify this poem beginning "Let us go then, you and I", written by T.S. Eliot.

Doctor Zhivago

The protagonist of this work includes the poems "Bad Roads in Spring" and "Fairy Tales" in a seasonally themed collection opening with "Hamlet", and his father's suicide by jumping from a train is related by Misha Gordon. As a student, the protagonist lives in Professor Gromeko's household, and later the nickname Strelnikov, or "the shooter", is applied to his friend Pasha. Eventually, the protagonist relies on the seducer Komarovsky to provide protection for his lover Lara Antipov. For 10 points, name this novel following the title character Yurii, a work of Boris Pasternak.

The Jungle Book

The protagonist of this work is mistaken for Nathoo and adopted by Messua and her husband. This work and its same-named "Second" version were written while the author lived in Vermont. Each episode in this collection is followed by a poem or song, such as "Darzee's Chant" and "The Law for the Wolves." In order to save a boy named Teddy, a character in this collection kills Nag and Nagaina, two cobras. "Toomai of the Elephants" and "Kaa's Hunting" are two stories in this collection. For 10 points, name this collection of stories also including "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" and several tales about Mowgli, written by Rudyard Kipling.

The Jungle

The protagonist of this work is thrown in jail once for attacking Connor, the foreman who raped that man's wife, and again later for assaulting a man who cheats him out of a hundred dollar bill. Stanislovas, Dede Antanas and Marija work in horrible conditions in Chicago factories in this work. Ona loses her house and dies in childbirth. Her husband is Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus, who labors in a fertilizer plant and a steel mill. This novel led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act. For ten points, name this socialist expose of meatpacking industry by Upton Sinclair.

Odyssey

The protagonist of this work proves his identity to his father by mentioning a fruit tree from his childhood. A ship turns into a stone and sinks to the bottom of the ocean in this work, and the protagonist forbids his wife from moving their bridal bed made from an olive tree. A man named Elpenor falls off a roof and dies in this work, and a maid recognizes her master's scar, which he received on a boar hunt. The dog Argos greets his master in this work, and the protagonists' followers are killed for eating the sacred cows of Helios. For 10 points, name this work about the father of Telemachus returning from the Trojan War, a work of Homer.

The Sun Also Rises

The protagonist plays three-handed bridge with an Englishman named Harris and billiards with the successful Count Mippipopolous. In this novel, we meet Bill Gorton on a fishing trip, while Mike Campbell goes on ahead to the hotel with his new girlfriend. A key moment occurs during Montoya's discussion with the main character, about the cautionary tale of Algabeno, in order to discourage his former lover's romance with Pedro Romero. For 10 points, the line "Robert Cohn was once middle-weight champion of Princeton" begins what 1926 work that revolves around the affair between Lady Brett Ashley and the impotent Jake Barnes, a novel by Hemingway?

Our Town

The second act of this play is titled "Love and Marriage"; the title of the third act is left open to the audience. One character in this play laments, "Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?", and when asked which day of her life she wants to relive, she goes back to see her twelfth birthday. A chorus led by Simon Stimson sings "Blessed Be The Tie That Binds" at a wedding finishing this play's second act. The conversations of the Webb and Gibbs families are intertwined in this play, set on a stage without scenery in Grover's Corners, New Hampshire. For 10 points, name this play about George and Emily, narrated by the Stage Manager, and written by Thornton Wilder.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

The speaker in one of this author's works "shall not live in vain" if they can "ease one Life the Aching / Or cool one Pain". This poet claimed that "Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed" and describes a narrator who is distracted by an "uncertain stumbling buzz" and who "could not see to see". She wrote about a carriage that "held but just Ourselves -- / And Immortality". For 10 points, name this "Belle of Amherst" who wrote "I heard a Fly buzz -- when I died --" and "Because I could not stop for Death --".

Tintern Abbey

The speaker in this work mentions his "dear, dear Sister!", noting that it is her privilege to "lead from joy to joy". This had lead to a feminist reading of the work, connecting the author's identification of nature as female to his deaf sister. The speaker notes "let the moon shine on thee in thy solitary walk" in this work, which mentions "steep woods and lofty cliffs, and this green pastoral landscape" towards its end. Inspired after the author went on a trip of Southern England with his friend William Culvert, this work opens with the lines "Five years have past; five summers, with the length of five long winters". For 10 points, identify this poem composed a few miles above a ruined religious structure on the River Wye, a work by William Wordsworth.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The speaker of one of this author's poems rambles about an "intellectual breeze" to his "pensive Sara." The speaker of another of his poems tells of the "symphony and song" of an "Abyssinian maid", who is "singing of Mount Abora" as the "damsel with a dulcimer". In one poem, this writer of "The Aeolian Harp" described a dice game between Life-in-Death and Death. He opened another work by describing the title figure decreeing a "stately-pleasure dome" in Xanadu. This man described a sailor who is cursed after his crew shoots down a large albatross. For 10 points, name this Romantic poet of "Kubla Khan" and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

"Kubla Khan"

The speaker of this poem compares its setting to a "savage place" haunted by a "woman wailing for her demon-lover," and it analogizes some huge flying rock fragments to "chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail." This poem's speaker imagines himself with "flashing eyes" and "floating hair" as a consequence of his eating honeydew and drinking "the (*) milk of Paradise." This poem's final section describes its speaker's vision of an Abyssinian maid playing on a dulcimer and singing of Mount Abora, and it begins with a description of a site where "Alph, the sacred river ran, through caverns measureless to man." A "stately-pleasure dome" is decreed in Xanadu in, for 10 points, what poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge named for a Mongol ruler?

"Chicago"

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

"Musee des Beaux-Arts"

The speaker of this poem tells of the executioner's innocent horse that scratches its behind on a tree, and this poem describes "some untidy spot" where "dogs go on with their doggy life." This work details "white legs" that the sun shone on, "as it had to," and its end sees a "delicate ship" that "had somewhere to get to" and "sailed calmly on." This poem describes "Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky," and claims that "About suffering" the Old Masters were "never wrong." Named for the gallery in which Landscape with the Fall of Icarus is housed, for 10 points, name this W.H. Auden poem.

The Death of a Salesman

The stage directions for this play call for soft flute music to be played at the entrance of the protagonist, a motif meant to evoke his father, a flute maker. He expresses optimism about his sons' desire to get involved in the sales of sporting goods, a scheme dubbed the "Florida idea." Through flashbacks we learn that the protagonist mocked his neighbor's son, Bernard, for studying so much and not being "well liked," though now Bernard is a successful lawyer, and one of only a few who attend the protagonist's funeral after his suicide. Showcasing the frustrated life of Willy Loman, for 10 points, name this play by Arthur Miller.

O. Henry

The title character of one of this author's short stories annoys his captors Bill Driscoll and Sam Howard, who eventually return him to Ebenezer Dorset. In addition to "The Ransom of Red Chief," this author wrote a short story in his collection The Four Million in which Della looks at herself in a pierglass. That story sees her buy a fob after selling her hair, and Jim selling his watch to buy her a comb. For 10 points, name this author of "The Gift of the Magi."

Honoré de Balzac

The title character of one of this man's novels falls for her cousin Charles, but must marry Cruchot des Bonfons to pay off his debts. This author of Eugenie Grandet wrote of Raphael de Valentin's discovery of a wish-granting piece of shagreen in The Wild Ass' Skin. The scientist David Sechard is the best friend of Lucien Chardon, a poet who loses his idealism in another novel by this author. In another of his novels, Eugene de Rastignac pursues Delphine de Nucingen, one of the two selfish daughters of the title all-sacrificing father. For 10 points, name this French author who included Lost Illusions and Le Pere Goriot in his Human Comedy.

Bertolt Brecht

The title character of one of this man's works conducts business disguised as Shui Ta, and another of his plays features a play-within-the-play in which Michael is protected by Grusche. In addition to The Good Woman of Setzuan and The Caucasian Chalk Circle, this man wrote a work in which Polly Peachum marries the criminal Mac the Knife and another about Eilif, Swiss Cheese, and Kattrin, the children of Anna Fierling, set during the Thirty Years War. For 10 points, name this German author of The Threepenny Opera and Mother Courage and her Children.

Lord Jim

The title character of this novel has a wife named Jewel and a servant named Tamb'Itam. The title character meets his downfall when he makes a deal with Gentleman Brown, leading to the death of Dain Warris and the wrath of Doramin, the leader of a group of Patusan natives. The protagonist is on Patusan attempting to gain redemption for his earlier cowardice in abandoning a group of Muslim pilgrims on the Patna. For 10 points name this work by Joseph Conrad.

Jennie Gerhardt

The title character of this novel is often called a "wayfarer" and lives in the residences of 13th Street and 1314 Lorrie Street in different cities. One character grows obese and plays roulette late in life after losing it all in a real estate deal prompted by his brother's maneuvering of a carriage corporation. To absolve Sebastian of any punishment for stealing coal, his sister agrees to sleep with Senator Brander. The protagonist dons the name Mrs. Stover and adopts two orphans after losing her daughter Vesta to typhoid fever. On his deathbed, the primary male character explains that he should never have left the title character for Letty Pace. The German Lutheran parents of the title character correctly suspect that her relationship with Lester Kane is illicit. For 10 points, identify this novel by Theodore Dreiser.

The Tale of Genji

The title character of this novel performs the "Wave of the Blue Sea" dance in one scene, and the blank chapter entitled "Vanished into the Clouds" represents the death of the title character in this novel. The protagonist of this work is the son of Kiritsubo and his concubine. The title character of this work is married to Aoi, but has affairs with Lady Fujistubo and Utsusemi and eventually marries his stepmother's neice, who is named Murasaki. For 10 points name this work written during the Heian period, by Lady Murasaki Shikibu.

"My Last Duchess"

The title character of this poem rides a "white mule" which "would draw from herapproving speech" in the same way as a "bough of cherries" from "some officious fool". The narrator of this poem asks "Who'd stoop to blame / This sort of trifling?" just after lamenting that the gift of his "nine-hundred-years-old name" is given no more weight than any other gift. The title person of this poem "had a hearttoo soon made glad" and appears in a painting by Frá Pandolf, "looking as if she were alive". Name this poem about the Duke of Ferrara and his previous wife, by Robert Browning.

Silas Marner

The title character of this work goes to an inn called The Rainbow to because he suspects Jem Rodney of stealing his money, though it is actually stolen by Dunstan, who injures the prized horse Wildfire. One character is the illegitimate child of Godfrey and Molly, and towards the end of this work, that girl, who is adopted by the title character, marries Aaron Winthrop. The title character cares for Eppie in, for 10 points, which novel about the titular weaver of Raveloe, a work by George Eliot?

Committing Suicide [or obvious equivalents like "killing oneself" or "self-termination", accept "jumping in front of a train" or equivalents before "Taliban" and prompt on it afterwards, prompt on "drowning", do not accept or prompt on "murder"]

The title character performs this action after reading a Pittsburgh newspaper in Willa Cather's short story "Paul's Case." A character who shot Assef with a slingshot tries to perform this action because of missing paperwork; that boy, Sohrab, appears in The Kite Runner. Another character who travels to Grand Isle and performs this action does so following the departure of(*) Robert Lebrun and is Edna Pontellier; she appears in Kate Chopin's The Awakening. The title characters use poison to perform, for 10 points, what action in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

Le Morte D'Arthur [or The Death of Arthur]

The title of this book was originally intended only for its final chapter, and may have come from a misunderstanding on the part of William Caxton. The historical source for the stories collected in this book may have been a Celtic military leader. This collection was based partially on the work of Chretien de Troyes. This work was based on English and French myths about the title character, who is the son of Uther Pendragon and employs Lancelot. For 10 points, name this collection of Arthurian tales written by Thomas Malory.

Sylvia Plath

The title poem of one of this author's collections begins "Stasis in darkness/then the substanceless blue." That collection contains a poem where the speaker begins "I have done it again/one year in every ten." In a novel by this author, Buddy Willard admits he slept with a waitress and Dr. Gordon prescribes (*) electric-shock therapy for the protagonist. In addition to that novel about Esther Greenwood, the speaker of one of this author's poems tells the title figure "there's a stake through your black heart," before declaring "I'm through." For 10 points, name this author who included "Lady Lazarus" and "Daddy" in her collection Ariel in addition to writing The Bell Jar.

Hermann Hesse

Thea Kronborg becomes and opera singer in this author's novel, Song of the Lark. In one of this writer's novels, Lena Lingard becomes a dressmaker and has a brief affair with Jim Burden, a childhood friend of the title girl from Black Hawk. She wrote another novel where Carl Linstrum returns to Nebraska after living in Alaska and eventually decides to marry Alexandra Bergson. For 10 points, name this author of My Ántonia and O Pioneers!

Willa Cather

the witches from Macbeth [or the Weird Sisters]

These characters are admonished that "security is mortals' chiefest enemy." One of these characters notes that "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes" just before the entrance of the title figure of the play in which they appear. In their best-known scene, they add (*) "scale of dragon, tooth of wolf," "eye of newt and toe of frog," among other ingredients, to a boiling cauldron. For 10 points, name these prophetesses who chant, "Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble" in Act IV, Scene I of Macbeth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

This author added the essay "An Attempt at Self-Criticism" to his first book. In another work, he notes that "when you gaze into an abyss, the abyss gazes into you." This philosopher, who contrasted Dionysian and Apollonian conceptions of reality in (*) The Birth of Tragedy, wrote Beyond Good and Evil to expand on an earlier work that described the Ubermensch. For 10 points, name this German philosopher of Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

Jules Gabriel Verne

This author began his career with a novel detailing Dr. Ferguson's trip to Africa, whose focus is to find the source of the Nile and meet with the other explorers. This author also wrote a work in which the protagonist reads a note by Saknussemm and travels to a land of giant mushrooms and mastodons. He penned a novel which sees Aouda rescued with the help of Passepartout and (*) Phileas Fogg, while in another work, Ned Land, Conseil, and Professor Aronnax travel with Captain Nemo aboard the Nautilus. For ten points, name this French author of A Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days, and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

Herman Melville

This author coined the phrase "the shock of recognition" in his essay "Hawthorne and His Mosses." The protagonist of one of this author's novels pledges to worship a malign god through defiance in a chapter titled "The Candles." This author portrayed Amasa Delano's discovery of a slave rebellion led by Babu aboard the San Dominick in Benito Cereno, and wrote a novel about a monomaniacal Quaker who employs Starbuck, Queequeg, and Ishmael. For 10 points, name this American author of a novel about Captain Ahab's hunt for a white whale, Moby-Dick.

Marcel Proust

This author created Charles Morel, a violinist who is patronized by Baron de Charlus. This man also created the composer Vinteuil (VIN-toy), who is favored by Gilberte's (JEEL-bairt) mother Odette de Crecy. Those characters appear in a novel with sections such as "Sodom and Gomorrah," "The Sweet Cheat Gone," and "The Guermantes (GAIR-mant's) Way." That novel by this man consists of the memories of the narrator as sparked by the sight of a tea-soaked madeleine cake. For 10 points, name this French author of Remembrance of Things Past.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

This author created a character who imagines a "phantom salutation of the dead" as he stands "in the middle of the road / Like Roland's ghost winding a silent horn". Another of this man's characters "dreams of Thebes and Camelot / And Priam's neighbors" in a poem that describes how he "mourned Romance, now on the town / And Art, a vagrant". A man climbs a hill to drink from a jug and talk to himself in his poem "Mr. (*) Flood's Party", which like many of his short lyrics was set in the fictional Tilbury Town. A "gentleman from sole to crown" who "glittered when he walked" chooses a calm summer night to inexplicably "put a bullet through his head" in this man's most famous poem. For 10 points, name this American poet of "Miniver Cheevy" and "Richard Cory".

Carlos Fuentes

This author created a couple planning to give birth on Columbus's 500th anniversary in Christopher Unborn. He wrote about Norma's death in a fire locked in a room when her husband tries to steal her jewelry, and he created Felipe Montero, who realizes a beautiful girl is the projected image of an old widow. In addition to Aura and Where the Air is Clear, he wrote about a man who loves Harriet Winslow and is shot by General Tomas Arroyo. For 10 points, name this Mexican author who fictionalized Ambrose Bierce in The Old Gringo and wrote The Death of Artemio Cruz.

Salman Rushdie

This author created the Zogoiby family, who are Jews that trace their ancestry back to King Boabdil of Grenada, in his novel The Moor's Last Sigh. He wrote about Parvati the Witch, who is killed during a raid by Indira Gandhi in a work that centers on the eventually-castrated Saleem Sinai. That character, who attempts to convene everyone born on the night of India's independence, appears in his Midnight's Children. He gained notoriety for a novel about two survivors of a fall from a hijacked plane. For 10 points, name this author of The Satanic Verses, for which he received a fatwa.

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo

This author describes some fictional works of Herbert Quain and an almost-identical version of Don Quixote written by Pierre Menard. This author collected those stories with one about the German spy Yu Tsun, who uncovers clues about an enimga left by Ts'ui Pen, "The Garden of the Forking Paths." This author also wrote about an object which reveals the entire universe when viewed, "The Aleph," and about an unending hexagonal structure containing all 410 page books in every character combination conceivable, "The Library of Babel." For 10 points, name this Argentine author who collected those stories in Ficciones.

George Orwell

This author discussed the dirtiness of snow in one column of his series for the Tribune, entitled "As I Please." This man also wrote a two-part work split between a sociological study of Northern England and an autobiography, called The Road to Wigan Pier. A later book opens with U Po Kyin's plot to taint the standing of Dr. [*] Veraswami, and is called Burmese Days. He detailed his time in the Spanish Civil War in Homage to Catalonia, and his most famous work involves a protagonist who works at Minitru, Winston Smith. For 10 points, name this British author of Animal Farm, who described Big Brother in his 1984.

Geoffrey Chaucer

This author dreams of a ritual surrounding the Valentine‟s Day mating of the birds in one work. In a poem by this author, three brothers attempt to kill Death, and an old woman teaches a knight what women want in marriage. A group of travelers gather in the (*) Tabard Inn to hear stories from the Pardoner and the Wife of Bath in one of this man's works. For 10 points, name this English author of The Parliament of Fowls and The Canterbury Tales.

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

This author experimented with characters speaking their inner thoughts aloud in a play about Nina Leeds, Strange Interlude. In another of his plays, Theodore Hickman attempts to convince people in Harry Hope's bar to give up their "pipe dreams." This author wrote about his morphine-addicted mother and depicted himself as Edmund in his play about the Tyrone family. For 10 points, name this American playwright of The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey Into Night.

Victor Hugo

This author first gained fame for his early poetry: his first collection Odes et poésies diverses, which was followed by Odes et Ballades. His plays were often adapted into operas including Le Roi s'amuse, which was adapted into Rigoletto, and Hernani, which became an opera of the same name. One novel by this author follows an ex-convict who is convinced by Bishop Myriel to change his life, Jean Valjean. While in another novel, Captain Phoebus, Archdeacon Frollo, and Quasimodo all vie for the beautiful gypsy girl, Esmerelda. For 10 points, who is this author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

John Dryden

This author invented the proscription in English against preposition stranding while objecting to a sentence written by Ben Jonson. In a play by this author, Rodophil and his wife Doralice are having affairs with, respectively, Melantha and her fiancé Palamede; meanwhile, Leonidas overthrows the usurper Polydamas and marries the princess Palmyra. Nahum Tate likely completed the second part of a poem by this author in which the two (*) Biblical title characters represent the Duke of Monmouth and the Earl of Shaftesbury. This author of Marriage a la Mode was heavily influenced by Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra in the production of his heroic drama All for Love. For ten points, name this Restoration-era Poet Laureate who wrote Mac Flecknoe and Absalom and Achitophel.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

This author mused "I have walked into Perigord, I have seen the torch-flames, high-leaping" in a poem about Narbonne, Excideuil and Rochecoart, "Provincia Deserta". Bertrans de Born cries "May God dam* for ever all who cry 'Peace!'" in another poem by this author, who wrote of a man who seeks to "resuscitate the dead art of poetry" in his (*) Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. This author of "Sestina: Altaforte" described "the apparition of these faces in the crowd" as "petals on a wet, black bough" in "In a Station of the Metro". Sections like "Rock Drill" make up his longest poetic work, which uses Chinese characters and expresses approval of fascism in its "Italian" and "Pisan" sections. For 10 points, name this Imagist poet of The Cantos.

Samuel Johnson

This author noted that "when a man is tired of London he is tired of life." He included fifty-two critical biographies in his Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. This man described one of his trips in The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. This man's life was the subject of an influential biography by James Boswell. This writer created a work which pioneered giving quotes as context for definitions. For 10 points, name this lexicographer and critic who authored A Dictionary of the English Language.

Stendhal

This author of the novels Lamiel and Lucien Leuwen wrote about Clelia Conti, who helps Gina Pietranera plan the escape of her nephew from the Farnese Tower, in a novel about Fabrizio del Dongo. The protagonist of another of his novels studies under Abbe Pirard at the Bescanon seminary before a letter by Madame de Renal ruins his chance to marry Mathilde de la Mole. For 10 points, name this author of The Charterhouse of Parma who wrote about Julien Sorel in The Red and the Black.

Petrarch

This author placed himself in a work in which he is chastised for his attachment to worldly possessions by St. Augustine. This author also wrote a travel guide to the Holy Land, and two of his letters entitled "The Ascent of Mount Ventoux" and "The Letter to Posterity" are often published along with his most famous work. This poet wrote an unfinished epic about Scipio's defeat of Carthage, along with a collection generally divided into works written before the death of the dedicatee, whom the poet encountered in Avignon on Good Friday. For 10 points, name this Italian poet, the namesake of a type of sonnet, who dedicated poems to Laura in his Il Canzoniere.

Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck

This author plagiarized Eugene Marais to write his own The Life of the Ant, and was also accused of ripping off Robert Browning for his play Monna Vanna. The second title character of one of his works loses her wedding ring in a fountain and is later wounded when Yniold discovers her cheating on her husband Golaud. Interior and The Death of Tintagiles are among this man's plays for (*) marionettes. Vists to the Land of Memory, the Palace of Night, and the Kingdom of the Future feature in this man's most famous play, in which the fairy Berylune helps Mytyl and Tyltyl search for happiness in the form of the title animal. For 10 points, name this Belgian Symbolist who wrote Pelleas and Melisande and The Blue Bird.

Leo Tolstoy

This author promotes non-violence while citing the commandment "Thou shalt not murder" in "The Kingdom of God is Within You." He wrote one novella in which Pozdnyshev's wife plays a certain Beethoven work, and one in which the title character becomes ill after hitting his side while hanging up curtains. This author of The Kreutzer Sonata and The (*) Death of Ivan Illyich wrote about some aristocratic families during Napoleon's invasion of Russia and about the lover of Count Vronsky who jumps in front of a train. Identify this author of the super long War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

Johnathan Swift

This author remarked that "satire is a sort of glass" in the preface to his satire depicting Modern books losing a fight to superior Ancient ones. The Ancients are also defended against the Moderns in this author's account of the island of Glubbdubdrib. A book by this author allegorizes England's tyranny over Ireland in its depiction of the flying island of Laputa, and portrays humanity as ugly Yahoos in contrast to intelligent horses called Houyhnhnms (WHUY - nimms). For 10 points, name this Irish author who wrote about voyages to Brobdingnag and Lilliput in Gulliver's Travels.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

This author supported the existence of the Cottingley fairies in The Coming of the Fairies, and wrote about Alleyne Edricson during the Hundred Years' War in The White Company. This author created the adventurer Lord John Roxton and Professor Challenger in his series The Lost World. In his work The Valley of Fear, his most famous characters receive a letter from a member of Professor Moriarty's criminal gang. That duo also appears in his A Study in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles. For 10 points, name this creator of Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes.

Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffman

This author used the frame narrative of the friends Ottmar, Cyprian, and Sylvester telling and analyzing stories in a work that collected many of his miscellaneous writings and which shares its name with a Soviet literary group. He wrote about a student named Anselmus who falls in love with Serpentina while working for the Archivist after he was cursed by an evil apple monger. This author of "The Golden Pot" created the fictional alter-ego Johannes Kreisler and wrote a story in which Nathanael goes mad after learning that Olympia is an automaton. He wrote another story about Clara joining the title character to defeat the Mouse King. For 10 points, name this German author of the fantastical stories "The Sand Man" and "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King."

Desiderius Erasmus

This author was so disgusted upon seeing Pope Julius II commanding an army that he wrote a satirical dialogue about that Pope being kept outside the gates of heaven after death, Julius Exclusus. In his day, he achieved popularity for his collection of proverbs, Adagia, and for his instruction on simplifying Catholicism, The (*) Handbook of the Christian Knight. The personified daughter of Wealth and Youth narrates another of his satires, which advocates for Christian humanism. For 10 points, name this Dutch author of The Praise of Folly.

Sophocles

This author writes of a character whose foot is bitten by a sacred snake and possesses a magical bow bequeathed by Heracles. In addition to describing Philoctetes, this author depicts a shepherd on Mount Cithaeron giving a baby to Polybus. In a different work of his, a character disowns Ismene for refusing to properly bury Polyneices. Another of his characters stabs his own eyes with gold pins taken from his mother Jocasta's dead figure. That title character realizes that Tiresias's prophecy is true, for he has killed his father and married his mother. For 10 points, name this ancient Greek tragedian whose Theban trilogy includes Antigone and Oedipus Rex.

edward estlin cummings

This author wrote a morality play in which Death and Santa Claus impersonate each other and wrote a poem asserting that "kisses are a better fate than wisdom" and that "life's not a paragraph." This author of "since feeling is first" asked "how do you like your blueeyed boy / Mister Death" in "Buffalo Bill's defunct." One of his poems tells of a "conscientious object-or" who is tortured for refusing to kiss a flag, while the title location of another of his poems has (*) "up so floating many bells down." This poet of "i sing of Olaf glad and big" related his experiences as a POW in The Enormous Room. For 10 points, name this American poet whose "anyone lived in a pretty how town" features his characteristic lack of punctuation.

Joseph Conrad

This author wrote a novel about a pirate at Escampobar, Peyrol, and another novel in which the title character marries Captain Lingard's Malay daughter only for her to leave with Dain. This author of The Rover and Almayer's Folly set a novel in Costaguana, where Señor Gould entrusts his gold to the title character Gianbattista Fidanza. In addition to Nostromo, he wrote about Marlow's trip down the Congo in a novel in which Kurtz's last words are "The horror! The horror!" For 10 points, name this author of Heart of Darkness.

Willa Sibert Cather

This author wrote a novel in which Dr. Archi takes care of Thea, who later falls in love with Fred Ottenberg. In another work by this author, Joseph Valliant and Jean Latour travel from Ohio to New Mexico. In addition to The Song of the Lark and (*) Death Comes for the Archbishop, this author wrote a work in which the Nebraskan Jim Burden falls in love and has an affair with the title character, and another work in which Frank Shabata murders Mary and Carl Lindstrum marries Alexandra Bergson. For ten points, name this author of My Antonia and O Pioneers!

José Saramago

This author wrote a novel in which Tertuliano discovers an actor who is his exact physical duplicate. He also wrote a love story set against the backdrop of the construction of the Convent of Mafra, Baltasar and Blimunda. He wrote a novel in which the Iberian Peninsula breaks off of Europe, The Stone Raft, which is written using no quotation marks, like his novel in which the doctor's wife is not afflicted by the title epidemic. For 10 points, name this recently deceased Portuguese author of Blindness.

Thomas Pynchon

This author wrote a novel in which about Praire who tries to find her mother Frenesi Gates in the title California town. One novel by this man includes a fake revenge play called The Courier's Tragedy. In addition to writing Vineland, this author wrote a book in which Herbert Stencil searches for the title woman who recurs throughout history. In another novel Oedipa Maas uncovers an ancient mail conspiracy involving the Trystero organization. This author of V might be best known for writing a novel in which the protagonist uses his sexual history to search for V-2 rockets. For 10 points, identify this author of The Crying of Lot 49, who wrote about Tyrone Slothrop in Gravity's Rainbow.

Sinclair Lewis

This author wrote a novel in which the United States is ruled by the tyrannical Buzz Windrip. In another novel by this author of It Can't Happen Here, the shooting of Zilla by her husband Paul Riesling causes Myra's husband to resent his middle-class lifestyle. This man created the fictional city of Zenith, Winnemac, the home of the minister Elmer Gantry. In another of his novels, Erik Valborg has an affair with Carol Kennicott, who grows dissatisfied with Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. For 10 points, name this author of Main Street and Babbitt.

Edward Morgan Forster

This author wrote a novel in which the hypnotist Lasker Jones offers advice about same-sex marriage to the protagonist after he spends a night with Alec Scudder. In another work by this author, Charles is sentenced to three years in jail after a falling bookcase kills Leonard Bast. In a third novel by this man, Mrs. Moore is unable to continue exploring the (*) Marabar Caves after receiving an invitation from Fielding's tea party. In that work, Ronny Heaslop decides not to marry Adela Quested after she drops her charges of sexual assault against Dr. Aziz. For ten points, identify this English author of Maurice, Howard's End and A Passage to India.

Hermann Hesse

This author wrote a novel in which the protagonist befriends an older boy named Alfons Beck and another about the man who replaces Thomas von der Trave. Another novel by this author, which contains the phrase "for Madmen Only", is about an intellectual who is suicidal until he meets a woman he decides to obey who is named Hermine. In another work by this author, the title character seeks to emulate the Illustrious One before becoming a ferryman and joining the Samanas. Identify this author who wrote about Emil Sinclair in Demian, Magister Ludi in The Glass Bead Game, Harry Haller in Steppenwolf, and Govinda's friend Gotama in Siddhartha.

Edgar Allan Poe

This author wrote a novel in which the title character stows away aboard the Grampus before disguising himself as a ghost to scare away mutineers. In addition to writing The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, this author wrote a story in which a mother and daughter are murdered on the title street by an orangutan. The detective C. Auguste Dupin appears in several works by this man. This author wrote about the murder of an old man whose title organ is stored under the floorboards. For 10 points, name this author of "The Tell- Tale Heart" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez [prompt on "Gabo"]

This author wrote a novella in which the protagonist asks Ulises to kill her grandmother, who prostituted the title character to pay off a house she burned down. Besides Innocent Erendira, this author also wrote a work in which Bayardo San Roman chooses not to marry Angela Vicario after she is deflowered by (*) Santiago Nasar. Another work ends with a character understanding Melquiades' prophecy. The protagonist of that work by this author of Chronicle of a Death Foretold has seventeen children named Aureliano and is the founder of the town of Macondo. For ten points, name this author who wrote about Jose Arcadio Buendia in One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Tom Stoppard

This author wrote a one-act play in which Moon and Birdboot are drawn into play set in Muldoon Manor. In another play, several scholars discuss a possible duel involving Lord Byron while in the past Thomasina Coverly discusses the nature of entropy with her tutor Septimus Hodge. This author's most famous work includes the question game and a section where one character flips a coin which lands on heads every time. That play focuses on a group of Tragedians and two minor characters from Hamlet. For 10 points, name this British playwright of The Real Inspector Hound, Arcadia, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

Harold Pinter

This author wrote a play with scenes in reverse chronology about Emma's affair with Jerry titled Betrayal and one that climaxes when a Buddha statue breaks before Davies is forced out of an apartment by Aston and Mick. In another play, the phrases "put the kettle on" and "light the kettle" are debated while two hitmen sit in a basement, until Ben realizes he was hired to kill Gus. This author wrote another play ending when Goldberg and McCann take away Stanley Webber. For 10 points, name this British dramatist of The Dumb Waiter and The Birthday Party.

Edgar Allen Poe

This author wrote a poem in which the speaker describes "The skies" as "ashen and sober," and another poem depicted a ruler that has "won usurpingly...the same heritage hath giv'n/Rome to the Caesar." In addition to Ulalame and Tamerlane, he wrote a short story narrated by a man who reads The Mad Tryst to (*) Roderick shortly before the title event occurs. The most famous work of this writer of The Fall of the House of Usher asks if there is "balm in Gilead" and laments the loss of Lenore. For ten points, name this American poet who wrote The Raven.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

This author wrote a series of Napoleonic tales centering on Brigadier Gerard, while the adventures of a company of Saxon bowmen in the Hundred Years War is the subject of his novel "The White Company". Also known for the fantasy "The Lost World" and a "History of Spiritualism", he is best-known for a character created to pay for an unsuccessful medical practice and based on his former medical instructor Dr. Joseph Bell. For 10 points, who is this author of The Valley of Fear, The Sign of Four, and The Hound of the Baskervilles?

Johnathan Swift

This author wrote a series of witty letters to his friend Esther Johnson titled A Journal to Stella. He also wrote a critique of Christianity through the journeys of Peter, Martin, and Jack titled A Tale of a Tub. Another work by this author uses the testimony of George Psalmanazar to support his central argument, which led some to accuse him of (*) cannibalism. That work is a short essay in which he humorously suggested that small children be eaten. For 10 points, name this Irish author of A Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels.

Rudyard Kipling

This author wrote a short story about the title character who tries to negotiate for a first-class rail ticket eventually being arrested, Lieutenant Golightly. A picture of Bessie is what the near-blind Dick Heldar wants in a novel by this author that wrote about "We're Here" impressing a kid who fell off a cruise ship into their crew. In addition to writing The Light That Failed and writing about Harvey in Captains Courageous, Peachey Carnahan and Daniel Dravot become cargo cult figures in a story about Kafiristan by this author that also created an orphan that is in The Great Game after meeting a Tibetan monk while shuttling letters from Lahore. For ten points, identify this author of "The Man Who Would Be King" and "Kim."

Richard Wright

This author wrote a short story in which David Glover buys a gun with which he accidentally kills the mule Jenny. This author of "The Man Who was Almost a Man" opened a novel of his with the protagonist killing a rat with a skillet and sabotaging his gang's plan to rob a (*) white-owned business; that protagonist is unsuccessfully defended by Boris Max. This author of Uncle Tom's Children wrote about that protagonist's murder of Mary Dalton and Bessie in his magnum opus. For 10 points, identify this African-American author who wrote about Bigger Thomas in Native Son.

Kate Chopin

This author wrote a short story in which Mrs. Sommers pays a dollar and ninety-eight cents for an eight-and-a-half sized item. In addition writing "A Pair of Silk Stockings," this author wrote a story in which Louise repeats the word "free" after Josephine tells her that Brently Mallard died from a railroad accident. The protagonist from this author's most famous novel bursts into tears at (*) Mademoiselle Reisz's piano recital before returning to Grand Isle, where she had met Robert Lebrun, and drowning herself in the Gulf of Mexico. For ten points, identify this American author of "The Story of an Hour" who wrote about Edna Pontellier in The Awakening.

Isak Dinesen [accept Karen von Blixen-Finecke or Pierre Andrezel]

This author wrote a short story in which characters like Calypso and Miss Malin atop a hayloft tell stories during the title "Deluge at Noderney." Her short stories adapted into films include one where a chef who spends a lottery prize preparing the title gourmet meal in "Babette's Feast." This author of Seven Gothic Tales wrote an autobiographical account of leaving Rungstedlund to marry her second cousin and work on a coffee plantation in Kenya. For 10 points, name this Danish author of Out of Africa.

Emile Zola

This author wrote a short story in which the title character sees himself being buried alive, only to escape and find his wife remarried a few weeks later, "The Death of Olivier Becaille." This author wrote novels about a woman who drives Georges Hugon to suicide and about Etienne Lantier, who survives the collapse of a mine. His novel Nana is part of his cycle of twenty-one novels called Les Rougon- Macquart. For 10 points, name this French author and founder of naturalism, the author of Germinal and a letter protesting the Dreyfus affair, J'Accuse!

D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence

This author wrote a short story where a young boy wins five thousand pounds for his spendthrift mother after riding the title conveyance to figure out the results of a race. This author of "The Rocking-Horse Winner" wrote a novel in which Baxter Dawes threatens the main character for having an affair with his wife (*) Clara. In that novel by this author, an intentional overdose of morphine is given to a cancer-ridden woman by her aspiring artist son, the protagonist Paul Morel. In another novel by this author, the wife of Clifford has an affair with a gardener named Oliver Mellors. For 10 points, name this English novelist of Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Jorge Luis Borges

This author wrote a story in which a woodsman kills a king to steal the title one-sided object, "The Disc," and in another story by this writer, the detective Erik Lonnrot is led into a trap by three kabbalistic murders. This author of "Death and the Compass" wrote about a single point that contains (*) all of the universe in the story "The Aleph" and he described Dr. Albert's murder by the German spy Yu Tsun in another story. In another story, the title location contains hexagonal rooms and every possible 410 page book. For 10 points, what Argentinian writer's collection Ficciones contains the stories "The Garden of Forking Paths" and "The Library of Babel"?

Akutagawa Ryunosuke

This author wrote a story which tells of a robber named Kandata who loses his chance at salvation when he forbids other residents of hell from climbing to heaven with him, "The Spider Thread." Like Gogol, this author wrote a story called "The Nose," as well as another story about the mad painter (*) Yoshihide watching his daughter burn in a carriage. He wrote a story told from multiple perspectives about the rape of a woman and the murder of her husband, but is probably best known for a story about a lowly servant who steals the clothes of a woman near the titular structure. For 10 points, name this author of "Hell Screen," "In a Grove," and "Rashomon."

Émile François Zola

This author wrote a work in which George Hugon shouts praise to the title dancer at a performance of The Blond Venus, while in another of his works, Laurent and the title character kill Camille. This author also wrote a work in which Etienne is interested in Chaval's relationship with Catherine; he included that work along with (*) Nana and Therese Raquin in his Rougon- Macquart series. This author of Germinal accused the French government of anti-Semitism in an open letter. For ten points, name this author who defended Alfred Dreyfus in J'Accuse!.

Carlos Fuentes Macías

This author wrote a work in which Pollo Phoibe and Celstina fall in love after discussing the construction of the El Escorial, and wrote another work in which Felipe Montero dreams of eloping with Consuelo's 109-year-old niece. In addition to Terra Nostra and Aura, this author wrote a more recognized work that describes (*) Harriet Winslow, the General, and the title character in love triangle. In his most famous work, a corrupt politician has an affair with Laura and desires to inherit Don Gamaliel's fortune, while the title event occurs after his traveling to Hermosillo. For ten points, name this Mexican author who fictionalized the last days of Ambrose Bierce in The Old Gringo and wrote The Death of Artemio Cruz.

Robert Browning [prompt on Browning]

This author wrote a work in which a character states "God's in his Heaven / All's right with the world!" This author of Pippa Passes wrote a poem in which the title figure sends Lucrezia to her "Cousin", while in another, a character from The Tempest tries to infer what his god must be like. This author of "Caliban upon Setebos" and "Andrea del Sarto" wrote about a man who strangles his lover with her long yellow hair, while his most famous work ends with the speaker showing his guests a sculpture of Neptune taming a seahorse. For 10 points, name this poet of the dramatic monologues "Porphyria's Lover" and "My Last Duchess".

Toni Morrison

This author wrote about Florens and Lina, slaves in colonial America, in her most recent novel, A Mercy. She created a character who is raped by her father Cholly, Pecola Breedlove. Another of her characters is nicknamed "Milkman" because he was breastfed for a long time, and is named Macon Dead. This author of The (*) Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon created Sethe, who kills her daughter to save her from slavery. For 10 points, name this author of Beloved.

John Irving

This author wrote about Hannes Graff and Siggy Javotni in his first novel, Setting Free the Bears. Another work by this author contains the novella The Pension Grillparzer. That work has a title character married to Helen Holm and is called The World According to Garp. This author of The Cider House Rules also wrote a work in which a midget befriends John Wheelwright and saves children from a grenade attack. For 10 points, name this American author of A Prayer for Owen Meany.

Nadine Gordimer

This author wrote about Ludi Kroch, Helen Shaw's first love interest, in The Lying Days, and about Izak and Jacobus trying to find work at the Indian Store instead of working for the title character Mehring in The Conservationist. In another novel by this author, Bernard Chabalier has an affair with Baasie's childhood friend, the title character Rosa. Her most famous work sees the title black servant help Maureen Smale's family after they are forced to leave Johannesburg. For 10 points, name this South African author of Burger's Daughter and July's People.

Euripides

This author wrote about a group of girls trapped in Thebes on their way from Syria to Delphi in The Phoenician Women. This author used Stesichorus's idea that Helen went to Egypt instead of Troy as the basis for another play. In another play by this man, Pentheus refuses to believe that Dionysus is the son of Zeus and is torn apart by a group of wild women including his own mother. This author also wrote about a woman who sends a poisoned dress to Glauce and then kills her own children before departing in a dragon-drawn chariot. For 10 points, name this ancient Greek author of The Bacchae and Medea.

Cormac McCarthy

This author wrote about a gun inscribed with the phrase "Et in Arcadia ego," owned by a man who incites a mob to murder a preacher accused of child rape at a revivalist meeting. In one of his novels, a gang collects $100 per scalp and a huge albino man dances naked after killing "the kid." He also wrote of Carla Jean and Llewellyn Moss, who are murdered by a man who wields a cattle gun. This author of Blood Meridian described a boy and his father dodging cannibals as they travel through a post-apocalyptic wasteland in The Road. For 10 points, name this man whose Western-inspired Border Trilogy includes All the Pretty Horses, the author of No Country for Old Men.

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr.

This author wrote about a party held by Meatball Mulligan in a short story about a dying bird observed by Callisto and the alien Aubude. He wrote a novel in which the ninja DL Chastain and Prairie Wheeler search for Frenesi Gates, and a novel narrated by the Reverend Wicks Cherrycoke. In addition to Vineland and Mason & Dixon, this author wrote a novel about Roger Mexico's discovery that Tyrone Slothrop can predict where V-2 rockets will land. For 10 points, name this American author of The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow.

John Steinbeck

This author wrote about his cross country trip in a camper named Rocinante with his poodle in Travels With Charley. In another work by this author Coyotito is shot and the titular object is thrown into the sea by Kino. In addition to The Pearl, this author wrote a novella about the migrant workers George and Lennie and another work in which the Joad family leaves Oklahoma. For 10 points, name this author of Of Mice and Men and The Grapes Of Wrath.

Willa Sibert Cather

This author wrote about the brilliant Hamilton student Tom Outland, who dies in combat and leaves Professor Godfrey St. Peter to reminisce in The Professor's House. In another work, the title figure sees the Indians of Acoma rebel, and replaces the corrupt Gallegos with [*] Joseph Vaillant; that man, Jean Marie Latour, builds a Catholic Church in Santa Fe. A performance of Wagner's "The Valkyrie" leads Thea Kronborg to success in this author's The Song of the Lark, and Jim Burden narrates about the Shimerdas' daughter in another novel. For 10 points, name this Nebraska writer of O Pioneers! and My Antonia.

Thomas Keneally

This author wrote about the negotiations between Matthias Erzberger and Ferdinand Foch at Versailles in one novel, while another of his works sees Anthony Piers investigate the strangulation of Victor Henneker on an Antarctic expedition. In addition to Gossip from the Forest and A Victim of the Aurora, he wrote a novel in which Usaph Bumpass and Decatur Cate serve in the forces of Stonewall Jackson, [?] Confederates. He described the "Improbable Birth of" his home country in A Commonwealth of Thieves, while one of his novels about that country sees the titular half-Aborigine flip out and kill two families after being cheated out of money. For 10 points, identify this Australian author of The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith who won the 1982 Booker Prize for a novel in which a dude saves a bunch of Jews, Schindler's Ark.

Luigi Pirandello

This author wrote about the policeman Centuri in his work featuring Fronza and Signora Frola. Another work of this author contains a character who wears scissors on her chain and another character who finds a little girl in a fountain. This author of Right You Are, (If You Think You Are!) and Mixing It Up used the latter play in his work that features Madame Pace, The Mother, The Father, The Stepdaughter, and The Son. For 10 points, name this Italian author who wrote Six Characters in Search of an Author.

Robert Browning

This author wrote of a god who "dwelleth i' the cold o' the moon" in a satire of Calvinism subtitled "Natural Theology in the Island." The speaker of another of his poems considers the "twenty-nine distinct damnations" he'll use to trap a hated colleague. The speaker of one of his poems has "a sudden thought of one so pale" upon looking into the eyes of his paramour. This author of (*) "Caliban upon Setebos" described the speaker's hatred of Brother Lawrence in his "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" and described Fra Pandolf's painting of a woman whose heart was "too soon made glad" in his best-known work. For 10 points, identify this author of the dramatic monologues "Porphyria's Lover" and "My Last Duchess."

Jorge Luis Borges

This author wrote of a language which lacks nouns, with sentences such as "The moon rose above the water" being translated as "Upward behind the onstreaming it mooned," in Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius. In another story, he wrote of a wizard who creates a young man with his dreams. This author of The Circular Ruins wrote of an almost infinite series of hexagonal rooms containing books of all possible information. For 10 points, name this author who wrote of a point that contains the universe in El Aleph, in addition to including stories such as The Garden of Forking Paths and The Library of Babel in his collection Ficciones.

Eugene Ionesco [or Eugen Ionescu]

This author wrote of a man who lures his victims to a pool of water by promising to show them a picture of the colonel. In that play, Dany's murder leads the protagonist to leave the radiant city. In another play by this man, the Doctor and Marie attempt to console the 400-year-old protagonist on his impending death. This author of The Killer and (*) Exit the King also wrote a play in which the protagonist shouts "I'm not capitulating!" rather than follow Dudard and Daisy in a certain transformation. In another of his plays, the Martins and the Smiths begin speaking in non-sequiturs after the Fire Chief mentions the title singer. For 10 points, name this creator of Berenger, the Romanian author of Rhinoceros and The Bald Soprano.

Rudyard Kipling

This author wrote of a place "Where the flying fishes play, and the dawn comes up like thunder out of China 'cross the bay." Another poem notes that the qualifications for manhood include to "dream -and not make dreams your master" and to "talk with crowds and keep [one's] virtue." The ending of another poems tells the "finest man" the narrator knew that, "You're a better man than I am." For 10 points, name this author of "Mandalay," "If," and "Gunga Din," who created the characters of Akela, Bagheera, and Mowgli in The Jungle Book.

Stendhal [or Henri Beyle]

This author wrote one story about Pietro Missirilli, who is disguised as Clementina and held captive by the father of Vanina Vanini. A novel by this author begins in Milan in 1796; in that work Aunt Gina and Count Mosca try to free the main character from the Farnese (fahr-NAY-say) Tower. In another novel by this author, the protagonist is given a lock of hair when he leaves town. The maid Elisa tries to marry that protagonist and later tries to expose him to Valenod when he has an affair with Madame de Rênal. Name this author who wrote about Fabrice del Dongo in The Charterhouse of Parma and Julien Sorel in The Red and the Black.

Phyllis Wheatley

This author wrote poems such as "Niobe in Distress" and "Goliath of Gath" and addressed another poem to Mnemoysene noting, "Thy pow'r the long-forgotten calls from night." In addition to "On Recollection," this author wished the dedicatee of another poem "A crown, a mansion, and a throat that shine" and remarked that her "benighted soul" learned about "the God, and the savior too" after "mercy brought me from my Pagan land." For 10 points, identify this early American poet who wrote "To His Excellency, George Washington," and "On Being Brought From Africa to America."

Goethe

This author wrote the "Venetian Epigrams" and the "Roman Elegies" and in two novels, described the "Journeyman Years" and "Apprenticeship" of Wilhelm Meister. In one work by this author, the title resident of Wahlheim falls for a woman engaged to the much older Albert, whose two pistols he later borrows to kill himself. In another novel by this author, a sleeping potion dispatches Gretchen's mother and a poodle transforms into a character who makes the title character sign a contract with a drop of blood. For 10 points, name this German author of The Sorrows of Young Werther, who wrote about Mephistopheles's manipulation of Faust.

George Orwell

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

George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans]

This author's final novel controversially tackled the subject of Zionism, an unusual topic in the Victorian Age, and was titled Daniel Deronda. Others more mainstream novels follow the Tulliver siblings who own the title building by the title river, and one about a resident of Hayslope, Hetty Sorrel, who is seduced by the title squire. In addition to those novels, The Mill on the Floss and Adam Bede, she also wrote a novel subtitled ―A Study of Provincial Life‖, which examines the lives of the many inhabitants of a fictional Midlands town during 1830's. For 10 points, this is what author of Middlemarch.

Joseph Conrad

This author's first novel, Almayer, centered around a Dutch trader in the jungles of Borneo and his relationship with his daughter Nina. F. Scott Fitzgerald stated that he would have written one of this man's novels more than any other novel. That novel is set in the fictitious South American country, Costaguana. A man attempts to blow up Greenwich Observatory in this man's other novel, The Secret Agent. This author's most well-known novel revolves around Kurtz and Marlow traveling down the Congo River. For 10 points, name this Polish-born author of Nostromo and Heart of Darkness.

Upton Sinclair

This author's most famous work features a socialist philosopher named Nicholas Schliemann. This author wrote the novel The Presidential Agent, which, like his earlier novel Dragon's Teeth, features the character Lanny Budd. His novel Oil! formed the basis for the film There Will Be Blood. He is best known for a novel about Jurgis Rudkus which was an indictment of the Chicago meat packing industry. For 10 points, name this author of The Jungle.

O. Henry [or William Sydney Porter]

This author's time in Honduras after fleeing an embezzlement conviction provided material for his collection Cabbages and Kings, and Ward McAllister's assertion that there were only four hundred people in New York City who were worth noticing prompted this man to write the collection The Four Million. This man wrote about Della Young's selling of her hair to buy a watch chain for her husband and James Young's selling his watch to buy combs for his wife. For 10 points, name this short story writer of "The Gift of the Magi."

The Golden Bough

This book describes a king who dies because he could not be operated on with a lancet, since steel was not allowed to touch his skin. The beginning of this work talks about a figure called "The King of the Wood" inhabiting a grove near Lake Nemi, who must kill his predecessor to become priest of Diana. This work argues that society naturally progresses from belief in religion to belief in science. This work is subtitled "A Study in Magic and Religion." For 10 points, name this book titled for an object that the Sibyl gives to Aeneas, written by James Frazer.

The Tale of Genji or Genji Monogatari

This book with a cast of some 400 characters consists of 54 chapters, but ends in mid-sentence, leading many to believe that it is incomplete. It focuses on the love affairs of a handsome prince of the Minamoto clan who is the son of an emperor and a lowly concubine. Written in the early 11th century, it is considered by many the worlds' first novel. For 10 points, name this book by Murasaki Shikibu set during the Heian period in Japan which is named for its "shining" protagonist.

Pip [or Philip Pirrip]

This character attends theatrical performances featuring a former clergyman who used to recite Mark Antony's funeral speech. That character, Mr. Wopsle, attends the Christmas dinner from which this character steals a pie. This character is tutored, like Startop and Bentley Drummle, by Matthew Pocket, though earlier he had lived with Joe Gargery. He discovers that his anonymous benefactor is the reformed criminal Abel Magwitch, rather than the mother of Estella who sits all day in her wedding gown, Miss Havisham. For 10 points, name this protagonist of Dickens's Great Expectations.

Holden Caulfiel

This character buys the record "Little Shirley Beans" for his sister, before breaking it after leaving the Wicker Bar at the Seton Hotel. This character had a conversation with two nuns about Romeo and Juliet, and earlier had a conversation with a cab driver about where the ducks in Central Park go during the winter. After getting beat up by a pimp named Maurice after only paying a prostitute $5, this character meets up with Sally Hayes, Mr. Antolini and his sister Phoebe. For ten points, identify this character expelled from Pencey Prep, the protagonist of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.

Jane Eyre

This character creates a painting depicting an icy landscape dominated by a white head with a single eye and a pale halo. She is traumatized as a child by a visit from her uncle's ghost while she is locked in the Red Room. She identifies a man who disguises himself as a gypsy to tell Blanche Ingram's fortune while she is tutoring the illegitimate child of the opera singer Adele (*) Varens. After her friend Helen Burns dies of typhoid fever, she exposes the negligence of Mr. Brocklehurst, headmaster of Lowood School. She rejects her cousin John's marriage proposal before returning to the ruins of Thornfield Grange, which was burned by the owner's crazy first wife Bertha Mason. For 10 points, name this character who marries Mr. Rochester in a Charlotte Bronte novel.

Elizabeth (Bennett) (prompt Bennett)

This character criticizes her older sister for always being surprised by compliments and for liking people in general. One of her younger sisters, Mary, is described as the only plain one in the family, and her youngest sisters are Kitty and Lydia. This character turns down her first marriage proposal, from a priest named William Collins, and also refuses a proposal from the owner of Pemberley, Fitzwilliam Darcy. Name this protagonist of Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice.

Tom Sawyer [accept either name]

This character erroneously claims that the first two disciples were David and Goliath. In one novel titled after this character, the irksome character Jubiter disappears while his twin Jake Dunlap steals some diamonds and blames this character's Uncle Silas. This character is lost at McDougal's cave with a love interest who had earlier been annoyed by his "engagement" to Amy Lawrence. Shunned by Becky Sharp, this character becomes a pirate with Joe Harper after witnessing a murder committed by Injun Joe. For 10 points, name this compatriot of Huckleberry Finn, created by Mark Twain.

Cunegonde

This character has an arrangement to visit Don Issachar three days a week and the Grand Inquisitor four days. This character suggestively drops her handkerchief after seeing Paquette having sex behind some bushes. Her brother is a commandant who claims to have been brought back to life by the Jesuits. She becomes the mistress to two Portuguese men before having a relationship with the governor of Buenos Aires. This character is freed from slavery in Constantinople after Cacambo helps her lover locate her and ultimately agrees to work in a garden. This character is the daughter of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh, who employs the tutor Dr. Pangloss. For 10 points, name this long-suffering love interest of Candide.

Stella Dubois Kowalski

This character has to explain that rhinestone is "next door to glass" after she is confronted about the marital provisions of the Napoleonic Code. After catching a butcher's package that is thrown to her, this character goes to watch the bowling game between two friends from the 241st Engineers. On her wedding night, this woman is "sort of thrilled" when her husband uses a slipper to (*) smash all the light bulbs in her house. This character gives birth to a son on the night her husband rapes her sister, who loses the Belle Reve plantation. This character runs away to her neighbor Eunice to escape her violent husband Stanley, who stands in the street bellowing her name. For 10 points, name this sister of Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire.

Don Quixote

This character is convinced that he is flying through the air when he is blindfolded and put on a wooden horse stuffed with firecrackers. This character encounters a man who had cut out his friend's heart during a vision he has while hanging from a rope in Montesinos's Cave. After attempting to free some galley slaves, this character meets a wild man driven mad by Luscinda's marriage, Cardenio. This character's library is (*) burned by a barber and the priest Dr. Perez. He fights Samson Carrasco in the guises of the Knight of the Wood and the Knight of the White Moon, and he searches for his idealized love Dulcinea. For 10 points, name this "ingenious gentleman" who tilts at windmills and adventures with Sancho Panza in a Miguel de Cervantes novel.

Tess Durbeyfield [accept Tess of the D'Urbervilles]

This character is forced to take a job as a poultry maid because her father is too proud to work after discovering he has rich relatives. This woman's husband wanted to marry her because she would be able to help him farm, though he later abandons her and moves to Brazil after discovering she had a child, Sorrow, out of wedlock. This character stabs her cousin Alec, who had previously raped her, when her husband, Angel Clare, returns. For 10 points, name this work about the titular "Pure Woman Faithfully Presented" by Thomas Hardy.

Felix Krull (accept either) (Yeah, this tossup is way too hard-TG)

This character is influenced by a scientific theory asserting mankind was created from slime in a series of three spontaneous generations put forth by the Professor of Natural History Dom Antonio José Kuckuck. He looks for a peculiar store called "Ladder to Heaven Street" to sell some of the jewels he stole while going through customs from Madame Houpfle, and he left his sister Olympia after his champagne making father Engelbert committed suicide. This character is inspired by watching the actor [?] Muller Rose take off his makeup and while he was working as a waiter at the Hotel Saint James and Albany in Paris he uses the name Armand. Assuming the identity of the Marquis de Venosta, the subtitle of this character's titular novel is "Confidence Man." For 10 points, name this character whose "Confessions" were written by Thomas Mann in a 1954 novel.

Kimball "Kim" O'Hara [accept any of the three underlined portions]

This character is initiated into the "The Sons of Charm" after spending several years at St. Xavier's School and studying with a trader who teaches him to play the "jewel game". He has a recurring dream of a red bull in a green field. He first appears in front of a museum, sitting atop a huge cannon. This character is dubbed "Friend of All the World" before he steals luggage containing incriminating letters from a group of (*) Russians. Colonel Creighton recruits this character to be one of the "chain men" under Hurree Babu, who allows him to continue his journey with a Tibetan lama while also working as a British agent. For 10 points, name this Irish orphan who becomes involved in the Great Game in a namesake novel by Rudyard Kipling.

Kimball \"Kim\" O\'Hara [accept any of the three underlined portions]

David Copperfield

This character is told that if one has twenty pounds of income, then spending just under twenty pounds will yield happiness while spending just over that sum will yield misery. This character's housekeeper and mother are both named Clara, so, to prevent confusion, the housekeeper goes by (*) Peegotty. After running away from his stepfather Edward Murdstone, this character goes to live with his aunt Betsey Trotwood. After Dora Spenlow dies due to a miscarriage, this man re-marries to Agnes Wickfield and helps unmask the misdeeds of Uriah Heep. For 10 points, identify this title character of a Charles Dickens novel.

Ebenezer Scrooge [or Ebenezer]

This character looks upon a woman who has stolen the curtains and shirt from a dead man's room. He then sees Ignorance and Want emerge from a cloak. Earlier, he sees a door-knocker transform into a human figure, which drags a belt made of chains and locks. He recalls his relationship with Belle and a party hosted by Fezziwig after seeing the ghost of (*) Jacob Marley, then orders a large turkey to be sent to the Cratchit family. For 10 points, name this character who is visited by some time-specific ghosts in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.

Ebenezer Scrooge

This character looks upon a woman who has stolen the curtains and shirt from a dead man's room. He then sees Ignorance and Want emerge from a cloak. Earlier, he sees a door-knocker transform into a human figure, which drags a belt made of chains and locks. He recalls his relationship with Belle and a party hosted by Fezziwig after seeing the ghost of Jacob Marley, then orders a large turkey to be sent to the Cratchit family. For 10 points, name this character who is visited by some time-specific ghosts in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.

Dante Alighieri

This character meets his mentor on his travels, though arguments have been made as to if such an encounter was in fact sympathetic or condemning. That encounter occurs as this man makes his way through a desert and he is not able to stay as long as he would like. Earlier, this man sees groups of people fruitlessly joust against each other while his companion notes, "...all the gold that is beneath the moon/ Or ever was" could not assuage their greed. This man is guided by the author of the Georgics and passes through a gate that reads, "...eternal I endure/ All hope abandon ye who enter here." For ten points, name this author and main character of a journey through hell, the Inferno.

Sherlock Holmes (accept either underlined part)

This character met his brother at the Diogenes [die-O-jeh-nees] Room, where he offered to help Mr. Melas. Earlier, this character claimed that his brother Mycroft was greater than he was but averse to interruptions. This character lured Chicago crook Abe Slaney out of hiding by using drawings of dancing men. He caught John Clay breaking into a vault after Clay had created a fictional league as part of the scheme. Name this fictional detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Othello

This character notes how "on horror's head horrors accumulate." His mother received a piece of cloth engraved with strawberries by an Egyptian sorceress. This man uses his clown to send away some pesky musicians, and he is married to Brabanzio's daughter. This character is warned about (*) "jealousy, a green eyed monster" before he smothers his wife with a pillow. For 10 points, name this commander of Cassio and husband of Desdemona who suffers at the behest of Iago and is the title Moor of a Shakespeare play.

Scout Finch [prompt on "Finch" before "Atticus Finch"]

This character participates in a pageant entitled Ad Astra Per Aspera in which she mentions Agnes Boone making "a lovely butterbean." In that pageant, this character dresses up as a piece of ham. She observes Mrs. Dubose die of a morphine addiction and leaves presents outside a neighbour's house with [*] Dill Harris. At the end of the novel in which this character appears, she is saved by Boo Radley, and this character opens her novel by saying that her brother Jem broke his elbow. For 10 points, name this daughter of Atticus Finch, the narrator of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.

Santiago [prompt on "the old man" until mentioned]

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

Dr. Pangloss

This character responds to the drowning of a religious man by stating that the bay was formed "expressly for [him] to drown in." In his penultimate appearance, this character is revived upon being cut open by a surgeon, having been saved by an inept executioner's poorly-made noose. This character loses an eye and an ear to syphilis, which he contracts by engaging in "experimental physics" with (*) Paquette. Martin acts as a foil to this expert in metaphysico-theologo-cosmolo-nigology, who travels with the novel's protagonist to the earthquake-damaged city of Lisbon. This character is a parody of Gottfried Leibniz. For 10 points, name this optimistic tutor from Candide who insists that we live in the "best of all possible worlds."

Romeo Montague

This character scorns those who would "jest at scars" despite never having "felt a wound." This master of Balthasar declares, "I am fortune's fool!" after stabbing another character's cousin. This one-time lover of Rosaline hears the "Queen Mab" speech from one of his friends while walking to a dance. At that dance, this cousin of Benvolio meets the woman to whom he is married by Friar Lawrence. For 10 points, name this Shakespearean character who loves Tybalt's cousin Juliet.

(The) Miller

This character tells a story about Nicholas, a student infatuated with Alison. Unfortunately, Alison is also pursued by Absolon and is married to John, a carpenter and landlord. Nicholas gets John out of the way by predicting that a second Noah's flood is coming, requiring him to sleep in a tub suspended from the ceiling. Before he tells this tale, this character is criticized by the Host and the Reeve. Name this drunken character who tells the second Canterbury Tale.

Leaves of Grass

This collection was greeted at its publication by nearly universal censure for its perceived obscenity, and its author was fired from his job at the Department of the Interior. The work's first section is titled Inscriptions, and one poem in that section begins with the lines ―I celebrate myself, and sing myself‖. Other sections include Autumn Rivulets, Drum-Taps, and Memories of President Lincoln, which contains the poem "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" . For 10 points, ― Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking", "I Sing the Body Electric", and ― Song of Myself" are poems in what collection by Walt Whitman.

Robinson Crusoe

This figure is left in China by his nephew in this character's Farther Adventures, and he regrets selling a boy named Xury after being rescued from slavery in Salee. This man lives for twenty-eight years near the mouth of the Orinoco River, and he is rescued by (*) pirates along with his native servant after being shipwrecked on a desert island. For 10 points, Daniel Defoe wrote The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of this man from York, a companion to Friday

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

This is the title poem of a collection which also includes "The Boston Evening Transcript" and "Portrait of a Lady". The title speaker of this poem has a "necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin", and has "measured out [his] life with coffee-spoons". Near the end of the poem, the speaker laments that the mermaids "will not sing to me," and earlier asks "Do I dare to eat a peach?" For 10 points, name this poem in which "the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo," by T. S. Eliot.

Jay Gatsby (accept Jay Gatz or The Great Gatsby)

This literary character wrote a schedule for self-improvement at his home in Minnesota. Owl Eyes and his father both attend his funeral, which symbolizes the end of both his and the American dream. An associate of Meyer Wolfsheim, he calls everyone "old sport" and attempts to woo Daisy Buchanan before the husband of Myrtle Wilson shoots him in his swimming pool. For ten points, name this next-door neighbor of Nick Carraway, the title character of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel.

Jean-Baptiste Racine

This man adapted Aristophanes' The Wasps into a modern three-act comedy. His last play, Athalie (ah-tah-LEE), a Biblical tragedy, was written just after his appointment as official historiographer by (*) Louis XIV. This Jansenist once quit the theater in disgust over his perceived failure despite the early success of plays like Berenice and Andromaque (awn-dro-MAYK). For 10 points, identify this tragedian, whose masterpiece is Phedre (FED-r).

Henry V

This man and Edward Poins pretend to ditch their friend on the way to robbing some travelers on a highway so they can stage a fake robbery. Later on, this character goes to battle at Shrewsbury against Hotspur and saves his father's life in the process. As a young man he is depicted as unbridled and immature, and he hangs out at the Boar's Head Tavern with rowdy friends including John Falstaff. As a mature king, he speaks the line "we few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother" in his Saint Crispin's day speech. Name this character, depicted in several similarly-named historical plays by Shakespeare.

Thomas Hobbes

This man described imagination as "nothing but decaying sense" while passions are "interior beginnings of voluntary notions" in a work that claimed covenants formed with God are meaningless. This man's best known work expands on concepts first proposed in his On the Citizen, and uses his ideas of imagination, or the "decaying sense," to analyze human motivation. This thinker described the (*) "Kingdom of Darkness" as a "Confederacy of Deceivers" and described chaos as the war of all against all. He also claimed that life in the state of nature is"solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." For ten points, name this English social contract theorist and author of Leviathan.

John Keats

This man discussed language chained by "dull rhymes" and "bound with garlands of her own" in his poem "On the Sonnet." This man also wrote a poem about a superstition in which young maidens "supperless to bed ... must retire." In that poem, Angela allows Porphyro to visit Madeline on the title night, the Eve of St. Agnes. In one of his poems, the title object has the ability to "tease us out of thought," and that poem concludes that (*) "Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty." For 10 points, name this British poet of "Ode on a Grecian Urn."

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

This man introduced the writings of theologian Hermann Samuel Reimarus (rye- mah-roos) to the world as the "Wolfenbüttel fragments," which separated Jesus, the first-century Jew, from the Jesus of Christian understanding, son of God. He co-edited a journal of criticism with Nicolai and Moses Menhelssohn, and wrote the first tragedy that focused on middle- class Germans, "Miss Sara Sampson." For 10 points, name this German author of "Minna von Barnhelm," "Nathan the Wise," and "Laokoon."

Arthur Rimbaud [or Jean-Nicolas-Arthur Rimbaud]

This man portrayed bodies hanging from a gallows as dancers accompanied by "Sir Beelzebub" and his fiddle in his "Ballade of the Hanged". He wrote a letter to Paul Demeny describing the process by which a poet disorders all his senses in order to become a seer. One of his works contains sections titled "Bad Blood" and "The Impossible" and begins "Once, if my memory serves me well". The central figure of another of his poems sees "nets where a whole Leviathan was rotting" after "gaudy Redskins" murder its (*) crew; that figure later laments its freedom and wishes to sink. He gave up poetry for gun-running and travel at age 20 after a stormy affair with Paul Verlaine. For 10 points, name this French poet of A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat.

Edgar Allan Poe

This man writes about a "tintinnabulation that so musically wells" in his poem "The Bells." A man walls his companion Fortunato into a niche with bricks in a work by this man. In addition to "The Cask of Amontillado", this man wrote about the title girl laid in a "sepulchre there by the sea." For 10 points, name this author of "Annabel Lee" who writes about the title creature saying, "Nevermore," in "The Raven."

Philip Roth

This man wrote a collection that includes short stories like "Defender of the Faith" and "Eli the Fanatic." This author of Goodbye, Columbus wrote a novel in which Charles Lindbergh is elected president of the United States. This writer of The Plot Against America wrote a novel in which Coleman Silk turns out to be [*] black, not white, and another novel in which the title character calls women names like "The Pilgrim" and "The Monkey." For 10 points, name this Jewish-American creator of Nathan Zuckerman and author of The Human Stain and Portnoy's Complaint.

Wole Soyinka

This man wrote a novel featuring five young intellectuals discussing the future of their home country. In addition to The Interpreters, this man wrote a play which Eman volunteers to be sacrificed as a "carrier" known as The Strong Breed. He also wrote a work that features Joseph and (*) Sergeant Amusa, while in another, Alaito is scolded for mistreating her husband Baroka. That work also includes Sidi and Lakunle. For ten points, name this Nigerian author of The Lion and the Jewel and a novel in which Elesin Oba fails to commit suicide, Death and the King's Horseman.

Arthur Miller

This man wrote a play in which Joe Keller knowingly ships defective parts to the military during WWII. That play is All My Sons. In another play by this author Rebecca Nurse is accused of a crime and Tituba is a servant whose confession launches the inquest. This author wrote a play that has a contrast between Uncle Ben's success in the diamond minds and the life of his brother Willy Loman. Willy is the titular figure who kills himself in that play. For 10 points, name this author of The Crucible and Death of a Salesman.

Luigi Pirandello

This man wrote a play where Lamberto Laudisi stays aloof as the others investigate a scandal involving Mr. Ponza and Mrs. Frola. He wrote a novel where the title character fakes his death twice. This author of Right You Are (If You Think You Are) and The Late Mattia Pascal wrote about a man who feigns madness after falling off a horse in Enrico IV. In his most famous play, Madame Pace runs a brothel where the Stepdaughter works, while the Son commits suicide after the Child drowns. For 10 points, name this Italian playwright of Six Characters in Search of an Author.

Octavio Paz

This man wrote a short story in which a short man desires to hack out the narrator's eyes to make a bouquet of blue eyeballs for his girlfriend. In addition to that story, "Blue Bouquet," found in his Eagle or Sun?, he also wrote the collection The Bow and the Lyre. One of his poems is divided like an Aztec calendar, and he wrote about his country's traditions of "siesta" and "machismo" in a critical essay. For 10 points, name this author who wrote "Sun Stone" and The Labyrinth of Solitude, a Mexican poet.

H. G. Wells

This man wrote a story in which George Fotheringay accidentally sends Constable Winch to Hades. This author of "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" and The Outline of History wrote of George Ponderevo's attempts to market his uncle Edward's miracle cure in another novel. One of his novels opens at the Coach and Horses Inn and sees the protagonist launch a "reign of terror" from the apartment of Dr. Kemp. This author of (*) Tono-Bungay created a man who restocks his supply of matches in a ruined museum and rescues Weena from drowning. One of his novels features the societies of the Eloi and the Morlocks, while in another of his novels, Griffin changes his refractive index. For 10 points, name this author of The Time Machine and The Invisible Man.

HG Wells

Washington Irving

This man wrote a story in which one character becomes a loan shark in hope of gaining Captain Kidd's treasure from a swamp, and in one of his stories two characters vie for the hand of Katrina Van Tassel. Many of this man's stories are collected in The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, and he wrote one story about a man who plays nine-pins with ghosts in the Catskills before falling asleep for twenty years. The author of a story in which Brom Bones impersonates a dead Hessian to scare schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, for 10 points, name this author of "Rip van Winkle" who wrote about the "headless horseman" in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Truman Capote

This man wrote about Mrs. Miller's drifting into schizophrenia in his story "Miriam." CBS president Bill Paley led a group of New York socialites in ostracizing this author over unflattering depictions in his unfinished novel Answered Prayers. The character of Idabel Thompkins in this author's (*) Other Voices, Other Rooms was based on this author's childhood friend Harper Lee. Murderers Perry Smith and Dick Hickock appear in another of his works. For 10 points, name this author of In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Aristophanes

This man wrote about a conflict between Cleon and a sausage seller in his play The Knights. In another play by this writer two characters try to build Cloud-cuckoo-land. This man wrote a play featuring a school headed by Socrates, The Thinkery, and the title character of another play convinces her fellow women to abstain from sex until their men stop fighting. For 10 points, identify this creator of Lysistrata, The Birds, and The Clouds, a comedic Athenian playwright.

Ezra Pound

This man wrote about a hedonist who tried to "resuscitate the dead art/Of poetry" in Hugh Selwyn Mauberly. His other works include the collection Cathay and the two-line poem "In A Station of the Metro." He translated a poem by a Chinese poet who allegedly drowned while trying to embrace the moon. For 10 points, name this expatriate poet who translated Li Po's "The River Merchant's Wife" and never finished his long poem The Cantos.

Sinclair Lewis

This man wrote about a man whose college friend is Frank Shallard and who preaches for a time with Sharon Falconer, Elmer Gantry. This man also wrote about an automobile designer in Dodsworth and describes an idealist doctor in Arrowsmith. This man describes the election of a Fascist U.S. president in one novel and Carol and Will Kennicott live in Gopher Prairie in another. One of this man's title characters is dissatisfied with his comfortable but boring life and is a realtor from Zenith. For 10 points name this American Nobel Prize-winning author of It Can't Happen Here, Main Street, and Babbit.

Dante degli Alighieri

This man wrote about creatures who blow trumpets with their butts. He coined the term "sweet new style" to describe an artistic movement he le co-led, and reimagined a waterspout as the cause of Ulysses's death. This man is moved to fainting upon hearing how two lovers read each other knightly romances. This exile from his native city wrote of Paolo and Francesca in a terza rima poetic cycle starting "halfway along our life's path" in which he sees ice encasing a three-headed Devil. For 10 points, name this poet in love with Beatrice Portinari, who lets Virgil guide him through the afterlife in his own Divine Comedy, starting with the Inferno.

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie

This man wrote about his time in Nicaragua in The Jaguar Smile and about Flapping Eagle's 777 years on Earth in Grimus. Iff, a "water genie", controls the title character's imagination in another of his works. In addition to writing Haroun and the Sea of Stories, he wrote of Omar Khayyam Shakil in his novel Shame, and Saleem Sinai narrates his novel about the titular people born on the day of the partition of India. For 10 points, name this author of Midnight's Children, who created Saladin Chamcha and Gibreel Farishta in The Satanic Verses.

John Donne

This man wrote an elegy in which he asks a woman to "show/The hairy diadem which on you doth grow," entitled "To His Mistress Going to Bed." In another work, he invites the reader to "let us melt, and make no noise." One of this man's poems describes an entity "slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men," and he is known for quotations such as "never send to know for whom the bell tolls" and "[n]o man is an island." For 10 points, name this author of "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," an English metaphysical poet who wrote that "Death be not proud, though some have called thee" in one of his Holy Sonnets.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This man wrote of a girl who meets a supernatural being named Geraldine in his poem Christabel, while he wrote that his genial spirits fail/and what can these avail in his Dejection: An Ode. In another poem, he wrote of Alph, the sacred river and of an Abyssinian maid with a dulcimer singing of Mount Abora. In addition to that poem which includes a stately pleasure dome, this man wrote a poem in which the speaker addresses a wedding guest and tells him that there was water, water everywhere,/nor any drop to drink after he shot an albatross. For 10 points, name this poet of Kubla Khan and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

This man wrote of a woman who "hath no loyal knight, and true" as well as a poem in which he chronicles the deeds of King Arthur's knights. In addition to "The Lady of Shalott" and "The Idylls of the King," this poet wrote that it is "far better to have loved and lost/than never to have loved at all" in his "In Memoriam" and also wrote the lines "Half a league onward/All in the Valley of Death/Rode the six hundred." For 10 points, name this British poet of "The Charge of the Light Brigade."

Andrew Marvell

This man's "The Last Instructions to a Painter" is a verse satire on the Dutch War, and he wrote extended conceits in such lyric poems as "A Dialogue between Body and Soul." Another poem by this author imagines finding rubies by the Ganges, and claims that the speaker's "vegetable love" will grow "vaster than empires, and more slow." That poem by this author states that "I always hear time's winged chariot drawing near" in urging a woman to consummate her love. For 10 points, which metaphysical poet wished for "world enough and time" in his poem "To His Coy Mistress?"

The Grapes of Wrath

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

White Fang

This novel begins with Bill and Henry transporting the body of Lord Alfred. After firing his only three bullets, Bill is killed. This novel ends on a happier note in California after a much later rescue by Weedon Scott. The title character, the son of Kiche and One Eye, is often tormented by Lip-lip and owned by Beauty Smith. Identify this novel about an animal that is three-quarters wolf and one-quarter dog, the companion novel to The Call of the Wild written by Jack London.

Catch-22

This novel includes one character who takes apart a stove and puts it together piece by piece, as well as another character who is Mayor of Cairo and buys all Egyptian cotton in existence, much to the chagrin of his Syndicate, M & M Enterprises. When he strikes a deal with the Germans, that man, Milo Minderbinder, bombs his own men at Pianosa for profit. This novel's sequel, Closing Time, describes the protagonist decades after he has escaped Colonel Cathcart's endless bombing missions. For 10 points, name this novel by Joseph Heller featuring Major Major Major Major and Yossarian.

For Whom the Bell Tolls

This novel relates a story of prisoners beaten with flails before being thrown off a cliff by their captor. The protagonist of this novel is enamored of the abstract philosophy of the Russian journalist Karkov and is horrified to discover that the underground leader El Sordo has been beheaded. The main character receives his orders from General Golz and is encouraged by (*) Pilar to begin a relationship with Maria. Towards the end of this novel the elderly Anselmo is killed in an operation that is nearly ruined when the guerrilla leader Pablo steals the detonators being used to blow up a bridge. For 10 points, name this novel about Robert Jordan fighting in the Spanish Civil War, written by Ernest Hemingway.

Gulliver's Travels (or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships)

This novel sees Tramecksan and Slamecksan, two political parties, square off in a country that also sees conflict between the Big-Endians and Little-Endians over the proper way to crack an egg. The protagonist of this novel leaves the floating island of Laputa to (*) sail home from Japan before traveling to a land in which peaceful horses govern the brutish Yahoos. Name this novel, in which the titular protagonist is sold to the gigantic queen of Brobdingnag after leaving Lilliput, a satire by Jonathan Swift.

The Red Badge of Courage

This novel tells the story of a 19-year-old who deserts during his first battle. He meets a group of injured men in the forest, among them the "Wounded Soldier" and Jim Conklin, only to return due to guilt and become one of his unit's best fighters. For 10 points name this anti-war novel set during the American Civil War by Stephen Crane about Henry Fleming.

Jane Eyre

This novel's protagonist clashes with Blanche Ingram, and lives at Ferndean after refusing the opportunity to go to India with her cousin, St. John [sin-jin] Rivers. The title figure of this novel witnesses the death of (*) Helen Burns at a badly managed girls' school, and at Thornfield Manor, Grace Poole is employed to care for the insane Bertha Mason. The title woman marries Mr. Rochester in, for 10 points, what novel by Charlotte Brontë?

Babbitt

This novel's title character is best friends with Paul Riesling, who is also dissatisfied with his comfortable but boring life. Paul eventually shoots his wife, making the title character more open to rebellion. He then finds the materialization of his "fairy girl" in Tanis Judique and begins an affair with her. Eventually he returns to his wife Myra and his job as a real estate agent but warns his son Ted to rebel while he has time. For 10 points name this novel by Sinclair Lewis which takes place in Zenith.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

This novelist portrayed the archer Sam Aylward, who befriends Alleyne Edricson before they join the title mercenary company led by Sir Nigel Loring, in The White Company. This author described John Openshaw's persecution by the (*) Ku Klux Klan in one work and depicts James Mortimer and Sir Henry's fear of an ancient family curse in the form of a giant black dog in another. For 10 points, name this author of "The Five Orange Pips" and the Hound of the Baskervilles who created John H. Watson to narrate the tales of Sherlock Holmes.

Dr. Henry Jekyll [or Harry Jekyll; do NOT accept "Mr. Edward Hyde" at any point]

This person realizes that a salt was effective because it was impure, and he slams his window closed during a conversation with two friends. A cane gifted to this man is broken during a crime, and Richard Enfield notes that this man's signature appears on a 90 pound check given to the family of a trampled girl. That payment was owed by another man who engenders a sense of "unexpressed deformity." This character asks his lawyer, Mr. Utterson, to secure the rights of his heir, even though that heir murdered Sir Danvers Carew. For 10 points, name this physician created by Robert Louis Stevenson, who uses a potion to turn into his vicious alter-ego Mr. Hyde.

Samuel Beckett

This person wrote a play where one character offers another a choice between a radish and a turnip. A woman is buried in a mound in the play Happy Days by this person while another of his plays sees a man eat bananas and contemplate his 69th birthday; that play is (*) Krapp's Last Tape. The parents of Hamm, who cannot stand, live in trashcans in this person's Endgame, while this playwright's most famous work has a setting of a lone tree on a hill and includes the characters Pozzo and Lucky. For 10 points, Vladimir and Estragon eternally wait for Godot in a play by which member of the Theatre of the Absurd?

No Exit [Accept Huis Clos]

This play begins with a valet whom one character notices does not blink, and one character offers to be another's mirror when that vain character cannot find one. However, that character, who had murdered her baby, becomes frightened and thinks frequently of Roger. The other female character had killed herself and her lesbian lover, while the male character mistreated his wife and was killed fleeing war. The two women are Estelle and Inez. Set in a Second Empire style room, For 10 points name this play by Jean-Paul Sartre in which Joseph Garcin states that "hell is other people."

The Tempest

This play formed the basis for W.H. Auden's The Sea and the Mirror. One character in this work states, "too light winning [may] make the prize light," and another claims, "We are such stuff as dreams are made on." The opening of this play occurs after Claribel is married to the King of Tunis. The drunkards Stephano and Trinculo attempt to rebel in this work, and they ally with the son of (*) Sycorax, but their plots ultimately fail, and this play sees King Alfonso of Naples try to find his son, Ferdinand. Caliban and Ariel appear in, for ten points, what Shakespearean play about the magician Prospero?

Twelfth Night (or What You Will)

This play is referenced in the final lines of Shakespeare in Love, and the movie's heroine shares her name with the heroine of the play. Additionally, both women disguise themselves as men, though the lady in the play is a page to the Duke Orsino rather than an actor. For 10 points, identify this Shakespearean comedy, named for a holiday, in which confusion ensues between Viola and her twin brother Sebastian.

Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats

This poem asks, "Shall that alone which knows be as a sword consumed before the sheath by sightless lightning?" This poem's speaker recognizes the "Lost Angel of a ruined Paradise." Four stanzas in this poem are spoken by Urania, who questions a Stranger with a brow "which was like Cain's or Christ's." The speaker of this poem instructs, "Go thou to Rome, at once the Paradise, the grave, the city, and the wilderness," and earlier declares, "Peace, peace! He is not dead, he doth not sleep, he hath awakened from the dream of life." This poem concludes with the speaker watching the soul of the title character burning like a star "through the inmost veil of Heaven." For 10 points, name this pastoral elegy written for John Keats by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

The Rape of the Lock

This poem compares a vanity table to an altar, and ends with Clarissa advising valuing good humor rather than looks. A Gnome empties a bag of spleen over the head of the heroine of this work, whose lapdog, Shock, and other possessions are usually protected by a troop of Sylphs. This poem begins "What dire offence from amorous causes springs." During a round of the card-game ombre, the Baron carries out this poem's title action on Belinda, who is surrounded by spirits like Ariel and Umbriel. For 10 points, this is what mock-epic poem about a stolen strand of hair by Alexander Pope?

"Howl"

This poem describes a group "who broke down crying in white gymnasiums naked and trembling." It contains a footnote that repeatedly calls out "Holy!" and was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Bookstore. This poem describes people "dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry (*) fix," was dedicated to Carl Solomon, and contains the frequent themes of Moloch and the line "I am with you in Rockland." This poem that underwent an obscenity trial opens "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked." For 10 points, name this poem by the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg.

Howl

"The Charge of the Light Brigade"

This poem describes how "All the world wonder‟d" at the bravery and horrible consequences of the action described, after which "They that had fought so well / Came thro‟ the Jaws of Death / Back from the mouth of hell". Though the titular group knew that "Some one had blunder‟d", they are described as doing their duty unquestioningly, for "Theirs not to reason why / Theirs but to do and die". For 10 points, "Into the valley of death / Rode the six hundred" in what poem commemorating the title group‟s defeat at the Battle of Balaclava by Alfred Lord Tennyson?

"To a Skylark"

This poem describes the "sound of vernal showers / On the twinkling grass" as something "joyous and clear and fresh." The speaker of this poem claims that the "sincerest laughter / With some pain is fraught" when trying to understand the "flow [of] a crystal stream." The addressee of this poem is compared to a "glow-worm golden / In a dell of dew." That (*) creature is asked to "teach me half the gladness / That thy brain must know" as it pours its "full heart / In profuse strains of unpremeditated art." For 10 points, name this poem that begins "hail to thee, blithe spirit!", a Percy Bysshe Shelley work that addresses a certain type of bird.

To a Skylark

This poem that imagines "Our sincerest laughter, with some pain is fraught, Our sweetest song are those that tell of saddest thought" also imagines the "sound of vernal showers, on the twinkling grass." It asks "What objects are the fountains of thy happy strain?" and the addressee is "like a star of heaven in the broad daylight, thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight" and it is "like a poet hidden, in the light of thought," in addition to being "like a high-born maiden in a palace tower." Also saying "how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream?" this poem ends with an image of "harmonious madness" and saying the world should listen as the speaker is now. Beginning "Hail to thee, blithe spirit," for ten points identify this poem addressed to a bird written by Percy Shelley.

Paradise Lost

This poem's antagonist is found "squat like a toad" whispering words of discontent in a woman's ear before being dispersed by Ithuriel's spear. At the beginning of this poem, that antagonist claims "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven" and orders the creation of Pandemonium. This epic poem attempts to "justify the ways of God to man," and ends with the first humans being expelled from the Garden of Eden. For 10 points, name this epic poem about Satan's temptation of Eve, written by John Milton.

"The Raven"

This poem's narrator asks "is there balm in Gilead?" before telling the title entity to "get thee back into the tempest and night's Plutonian shore!" That narrator's "quaint and curious volumes" "surcease" him of sorrow for "the rare and radiant maiden" (*) Lenore. This poem's title creature sat "upon a pallid bust of Pallas just above" the chamber door it had earlier gently rapped and tapped upon. Beginning "Once upon a midnight dreary" while the narrator "pondered weak and weary," for ten points, identify this Edgar Allan Poe poem whose title bird keeps repeating "Nevermore."

The Raven

William Ernest Henley

This poet chronicled time in a hospital, where the nurses "handsome, ugly, all are women," and where "laughs the happy April morn / thro' my grimy, little window" in "Anterotica." Another poem by this author concludes that "I am the Will of God: I am the Sword," and was dedicated to Rudyard Kipling. In his most famous poem, he writes his "head is bloody, but unbowed," and declares "I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul." For 10 points, identify this British poet of "Invictus."

Robert Browning

This poet created a character who seeks the title structure by following a crippled guide to a pair of hills "crouched like two bulls locked horn in horn," in "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came." In another poem, this author exclaims how God said not a word as the title figure strangles a woman by her hair. In addition to (*) "Porphyria's Lover," this poet describes a woman who "looks as if she were alive" in a portrait by Fra Pandolf. For 10 points, name this English poet who wrote about the Duke of Ferrera's wife in "My Last Duchess," the husband of fellow poet Elizabeth Barret.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

This poet de-romanticized Arthurian legend in his narrative poem Merlin. The speaker of one of this man's poems proclaims "Out of a grave I come to tell you this" and asserts "if you listen she will call" after describing how "the vines cling crimson on the wall". Another of his poems describes "Romance, now on the town, and Art, a vagrant" and tells of a character who "loved the (*) Medici, albeit he had never seen one". In addition to writing a poem whose title character is told "Go to the western gate" and a poem about a "child of scorn", this man penned a poem about a man who, despite being "richer than a king", went home one summer night and shot himself. For 10 points, name this poet of "Luke Havergal", "Miniver Cheevy", and "Richard Cory".

Robert Frost

This poet described a "singer" who questions "what to make of a diminished thing" in "The Oven Bird." This poet wrote that "The deed of gift was many deeds of war" in a poem asserting "the land was ours before we were the land's," "The Gift Outright," which he read at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy. In one of his poems, the speaker's neighbor repeats "Good fences make good neighbors." Another poem by this author ends with the repetition of "and miles before I go to sleep," and is called "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening." For 10 points, name this American poet who wrote "The Road Not Taken."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson [or Alfred Tennyson]

This poet described himself being carried "from out our bourne of Time and Place" in a poem that describes waters "Too full for sound and foam." In that poem, this author noted that after "Twilight and evening bell" comes "the dark," and hoped that "there be no sadness of farewell" after his death. This poet penned the lines "Sunset and evening star, and one clear call for me!" in a poem that describes seeing "my (*) Pilot face to face" at his death. "All the world wondered" at the subjects of a poem by this man that begins "Half a league, half a league, half a league onward" and describes six hundred soldiers riding "into the valley of Death." For 10 points, name this British poet of "Crossing the Bar" and "The Charge of the Light Brigade."

Walt Whitman

This poet described the title instruments scattering congregations and accompanying bugles in his "Beat! Beat! Drums!" In one of this author's poems, the speaker becomes "tired and sick" and looks "up in the perfect silence of the stars" after hearing "the learned astronomer." This author of "A Noiseless Patient Spider" celebrated the human body in "I Sing the Body Electric," and described a ship that "has weather'd every rack" in a tribute poem about Lincoln's death. For 10 points, name this poet of "O Captain, My Captain!" and Leaves of Grass.

Carl Sandburg

This poet once wrote, "I am the grass. Let me work." One of his poems points out that Edvard Grieg does not care about his critics now that he is dead. His only novel, over one thousand pages and published when he was seventy, was Remembrance Rock. A collector of folk songs and writer of chil- dren's stories, some of his poetry collections were titled Slabs of the Sunburnt West, Cornhuskers, and Smoke and Steel. Name this writer from Galesburg, Illinois who wrote the poems "Gypsy", "Fog", and "Chicago".

Pablo Neruda [or Neftali Ricardo Reyes y Basoalto]

This poet writes that he is "sick of being a man" in a poem in which the speaker wanders in a rage, "Walking Around." In one section of a long poem by this author, he wrote "Nobody knows where the assassins / buried these bodies." In addition to writing the section "The Sands Betrayed," this author asks the addressee of another poem to "Rise up and be born with me," and another of his poems claims "Tonight I can write the saddest lines." This poet included poems dedicated to salt and a fresh tuna in the market in his Elemental Odes. For 10 points, name this author who wrote Canto General and Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, a Chilean poet.

e. e. cummings

This poet wrote about a "conscientious object-or" who is tortured and thrown in a dungeon by a "trig westpointer." This author of The Enormous Room and "I sing of Olaf glad and big" also wrote a poem about a couple named "anyone" and "noone" that implies the passage of time by the phrase "stars rain sun moon." For 10 points, name this American poet of "anyone lived in a pretty how town," best known for his disdain for conventional typesetting, capitalization, and punctuation.

Pablo Neruda

This poet wrote of "Dark river-beds where the eternal thirst flows/ and weariness follows, and the infinite ache" and addressed a "white bee" that "[buzzes] in my soul, drunk with honey." Another work by this man includes sections like "Let the Woodcutter Awaken" and "The Flower of Punitaqui." W.S. Merwin translated a collection by this author that includes the poem "Ah Vastness of Pines". The final section of one of his poems begins (*) "Arise to birth with me, my brother", while the final poem of another of his collections opens by stating "Tonight I can write the saddest lines." For 10 points, name this Chilean who included "Heights of Macchu Picchu" in his Canto General and wrote Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.

Thomas Gray

This poet wrote that "My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine" in a sonnet written after the death of his friend Richard West. The warning "'Tis folly to be wise" ends a poem about a boarding school he attended with Horace Walpole, whose pet cat's death was the subject of another work. This author of "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" wrote a poem about the residents of a (*) graveyard which is the source of the title of Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd. For 10 points, name this English poet of "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."

Robert Lee Frost

This poet wrote that in his dream "Magnified apples appear and disappear" in one work, and that "for destruction ice / Is also great / And would suffice" in another. One work in the poetry collection Mountain Interval states that the titular entity has "better claim, / Because it was grassy and wanted wear," and another work in the collection North of Boston claims that "Something there is that doesn't love a wall." For 10 points, identify this poet who wrote "I took the one less traveled by" and "Good fences make good neighbors" in "The Road Not Taken" and "Mending Wall."

Gwendolyn Brooks

This poet wrote, "I have eased my dim dears at the breasts they could never suck" in a poem that ends, "Believe me, I knew you, though faintly, and I loved, I loved you all." The speaker of another poem asserts the "casket stand . . . can't hold her, / That stuff and satin aiming to enfold her." The declaration, "Abortions will not let you forget" begins her poem titled "The Mother." This author of "The Rites of Cousin Vit" wrote about a "rented back room that is full of beads and dolls and cloths" in a poem about "Two who are Mostly Good" that are described as "[an] old yellow pair." She also wrote a poem about people who "Lurk late", "Thin gin", "Jazz June" and "Die soon." For 10 points, name this African-American poet who wrote "The Bean-Eaters" and "We Real Cool".

John Greenleaf Whittier

This poet's "The Song of the Vermonters, 1779" was originally attributed to Ethan Allen. One of his poems describes the sadness of the words "It might have been!" Another of his poems describes an incident in which the title character exhorts "Shoot if you must this old grey head, but spare your country's flag." This author of "Maud Muller" and "Barbara Frietchie" also wrote a poem in which a family tells stories while they are trapped in their house by a snowstorm. For 10 points, name this Quaker poet who wrote "Snow-Bound."

Sestina

This poetic form is sometimes attributed to Arnaut Daniel, a troubadour who lived during the 12th Century. Charles Swinburne wrote one that concludes by saying "Sing while he may, man hath no long delight," while Ezra Pound wrote that "there's no wine like the blood's crimson" and that "There's no sound like to swords swords opposing" in a poem of this form titled using the word "Altaforte." In general, in concludes with a tercet and contains a total of 39 lines. For 10 points, name this poetic form so named because the other 36 lines comprise six stanzas of six lines each.

"The Lady or the Tiger" [do not accept "The Lady and the Tiger"]

This story describes a "barleycorn" of a king whose "florid", "untrammeled" ideas had only been sharpened by progressive Latin neighbors. The author of this story also wrote "The Griffin and the Minor Canon." At its conclusion, one character in this story silently signals to the right. One title character experiences sleepless nights after she discovers the secrets of the doors, debating what to tell her death-sentenced lover. This story's last line is, "And so I leave it with all of you. Which came out of the opened door?" then the title phrase. For 10 points, name this short story by Frank R. Stockton about a choice between a ferocious feline and a beautiful woman.

"The Story of an Hour"

This story follows Louisa, who finds, in the wake of grief over her husband's death, that her husband has oppressed her even as he loved her. With this comes the realization that she is finally free. For 10 points—name this story by Kate Chopin which ends with Brently Mallard coming home alive and Louisa Mallard dying of a heart attack.

(The) Awakening

This story states, "The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude." Much of it takes place at Grand Isle. One of the characters, Robert Lebrun, almost has an affair with the protagonist, Edna Pontellier. Pontellier leaves her husband and eventually leaves New Orleans. Name this 1899 short novel written by Kate Chopin.

Lady Macbeth

This woman's most familiar incarnation is a composite of two wives who appear in Holinshed's Chronicles. A. C. Bradley claims she is is "denied the dignity of verse" in the last appearance she makes before her unexpected death, which prompts a line saying "she should have died hereafter." Had the old man in the first act not looked so much like her father, she claims she would have (*) killed him herself. Her failure to do so does not stop her from believing that all the perfumes of Arabia could not remove the "damned spot" that torments her as she sleepwalks. For 10 points, identify this Shakespearean character, the wife of a certain Scottish murderer.

Fear and Trembling [accept Frygt og Bæven]

This work analyzes Agnes and The Merman, Amor and Psyche, and Agamemnon at Aulus to establish the outer world of aesthetics and ethics. The author admits that he cannot understand the central character, who chooses to embrace absurdity. In contrast to Socrates, who strives asymptotically as a Knight of Infinity, that character is portrayed as a Knight of Faith. The author answers the first of its three problemata by concluding that the religious sphere is beyond the ethical. For 10 points, name this work that analyzes the "teleological suspension of the ethical" during Abraham's near-sacrifice of Isaac, written by Johannes de silento, a pseudonym of Søren Kierkegaard.

Paradise Lost

This work begins by invoking a "Heav'nly Muse" from "the secret top of Oreb or of Sinai." Its antagonist works with Mammon and Beelzebub to build Pandemonium, and claims it is "better to (*) reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." Written to "justify the ways of God to men," this work details "man's first disobedience," caused by a fallen angel, Lucifer. For 10 points, name this work about the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, an epic poem by John Milton.

A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court

This work features a lasso that apparently belongs to an undersea demon and is spent after 8 uses. The protagonist of this novel spends 3 pennies on breakfast, and learns from Hugo that he killed a deer, which occurs after the main character purchases a bunch of hogs and lets them go free. This work sees The Valley of Holiness's spring go dry, and a traveling companion geting rid of a dirk purchased while traveling incognito. The protagonist and his wife Sandy move to France to have a daughter near the end of this novel that sees the prediction of a solar eclipse, the use of a handgun and electric fences to cause some destruction, and Merlin putting the protagonist asleep for 1300 years. For ten points, name this novel in which Hank Morgan time travels to mess up Camelot, written by Mark Twain.

The Apology of Socrates

This work includes a section where one man is asked about the care of horses and about flute-playing. A section of this work addresses three men who represent the "poets," "craftsmen," and the "rhetoricians" respectively. Its subject is justified in Xenophon's prose work of the exact same title. In one story from this work, Chaerephon asked the Oracle at Delphi if the central figure was wiser than all men. In this work, the speaker refers to himself as the "gadfly of the state", and his death sentence is based mainly on "corrupting the youth." For 10 points, name this speech of Socrates defending himself at his trial, written by Plato.

Othello

This work is based on a story in Cinthi's Hecatommithi, but the playwright added an additional character, Roderigo, who pursues the protagonist's wife and is killed while trying to murder the captain. The plot endgame turns around a dropped handkerchief, which causes the title character to murder his wife. For 10 points, name this play concerning Cassio, Iago, Desdemona, and the title character: the Moor of Venice.

The Elements of Style

This work quotes Robert Louis Stevenson in asking the reader to aim for "one moment of felicity." One edition of this text was illustrated in 2005 by Maira Kalman. Gregory Pullum has derided this work as "the book that ate America's brain" due to its prescriptivist commands to "omit needless words" and avoid the passive voice. For 10 points, name this slim volume of advice on grammar and form, edited by E.B. White and first written by William Strunk.

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

This work starts out with an unsuccessful attempt to put on a mystery play by the playwright Pierre Gringoire. A group of vagabonds in this novel led by Clopin are mistaken for enemies by the title character, who single-handedly kills much of that group. One character in this work falls in love with the captain of the King's Archers, Phoebus, and rebuffs the advances of the priest Claude (*) Frollo. For 10 points, name this novel in which the gypsy girl Esmeralda is unsuccessfully protected by the deformed, bell-ringing title character, Quasimodo.

The Prince [accept Il Principe]

This work suggests that it is better to give citizens weapons freely rather than forcibly confiscate them. It asserts that it is better for one to have barons than servants, and mercenaries are declared to be both useless and disloyal in this work. This book warns against flatterers, and it personifies fortune as a woman that must be controlled. It praises Cesare Borgia and also advises rulers to be both a fox and a lion. This work declares that it is better to be feared than loved. For 10 points, name this political treatise written for one of the Medicis by Niccolo Machiavelli.

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

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

The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come

This work's protagonist is saved from drowning in a deep river by his companion, who finds it shallow. This allows them to meet two shining men, who welcome them through the Wicket Gate. This work's narrative is framed as a series of the author's dreams, including one where the protagonist is asked "Whence came you, and whither are you bound?" by Apollyon in the Valley of Humiliation. Vanity Fair is one of many locations passed through by the title everyman. For 10 points, name this work detailing Christian's journey to the Celestial City from the City of Destruction, a religious allegory by John Bunyan.

Bertolt Brecht

This writer advocated for gestus and the alienation effect in a theoretical work. This author of numerous "learning-plays" and A Short Organum for the Theater wrote a play in which the Grand Duke is saved by Azdak. In that play, Azdak is appointed a judge and declares Michael's mother to be Grusha. In another of his plays, the title character's cart becomes lighter as the play progresses. After drawing slips of paper marked with crosses, Eilif, Kattrin, and Swiss Cheese are all killed in that play, which centers on Anna Fierling. For 10 points, name this proponent of epic theater who wrote The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Mother Courage and Her Children.

Albert Camus

This writer compared the canals of Amsterdam to the circles of Hell in a novel about the Parisian defense lawyer Clamence. Besides writing The Fall, this author also wrote of Bernard Rieux working in the quarantined city of Oran during an epidemic. In another work by this author, Raymond is wounded with a knife, leading Mersault to shoot an Arab. For 10 points, name this French existentialist author of The Plague and The Stranger.

Thomas Hardy

This writer depicted Giles Winterborne's love for Edgar Fitzpier's wife Grace Medbury in the novel entitled The Woodlanders. Richard marries Sue Bridehead twice while Arabella Donn tricks the titular protagonist into marriage twice in one work by this writer. In another work by this writer, Donald Farfrae marries Elizabeth-Jane who is related to Susan and Michael Henchard. In another work by this writer, Sorrow is born as a result of the fornication between Alec and the titular protagonist who is married to Angel Clare. For 10 points, name this English writer who wrote Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Tess of the D'Urbervilles.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

This writer depicts a widowed mother raising. boy named Georgie in the novella entitled The Steppe. Nadyezhda Fyodorovna is the mistress of Ivan Laevsky in this writer's short story entitled "The Duel." Constantine Treplieff commits suicide due to emotional neglect on the part of Irinia Arkadina in one of this writer's plays. He depicts Irina, Olga, Masha, Natasha, and Audrey in one play while a remnant of the old order of society named Madame Ranevskaya is depicted in another play where a titular estate is cut down. For 10 points, name this Russian writer who wrote The Seagull, The Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard.

Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf

This writer fictionalized the romance between Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning from the perspective of the couple's dog. She created the imaginary figure "Judith Shakespeare" in a work about the conditions necessary for a woman's success as a writer. In a novel by this author of Flush, the psychiatrist William Bradshaw is unable to prevent Septimus Warren Smith from committing suicide. The title character of that novel, Clarissa, is unsatisfied with her dinner party. For 10 points, "A Room of One's Own" is an essay by what member of the Bloomsbury Group who wrote Mrs. Dalloway?

Virginia Woolf

Elite Wiesel

This writer turned his conversations with Francois Mitterand into the book Memoir in Two Voices. His autobiographical work, which begins in the town of Sighet, appeared unabridged as And the World Remained Silent. Near the beginning of the abridged work, his teacher Moshe the Beadle leaves town and then returns with horrifying stories. This man and his family are then taken away from their town in Hungary and separated, though he stays with his father. They witness several mass executions in Auschwitz. Name this author of Night.

The Marriage of Figaro (NOT "The Barber of Seville," the first play in the series)

Though most people remember this play -- the second in its series -- as a collection of slapstick jokes, its powerful message resonated throughout Europe. Largely a product of Enlightenment thought, its hero is a man of the world, much like his creator, who was a spy, a royal music teacher, and an abettor of revolution. For 10 points \-- name this Figaro play by Beaumarchais.

"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"

To the speaker of this poem and "to darkness" is left the world by a ploughman who "homeward plods his weary way." The speaker of this poem muses about "hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, or waked to ecstasy the living lyre." The denizens of the title location of this poem were "forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne," meaning one of them may be "some (*) Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood." This poem concerns those who lived "far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife," and it begins as "the curfew tolls the knell of parting day." For 10 points, name this poem by Thomas Gray.

Elizabeth Bennet (accept Lizzy or Elizabeth, prompt on Bennet)

Towards the end of the novel in which this character appears, this character states that another "knows enough of her frankness to believe me capable of that." That is said to another character who had earlier called this character, "tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me." This character stays with the Gardiners and moves into (*) Pemberley at the end of the novel in which she appears. This best friend of Charlotte Lucas feuds with Lady Catherine de Bourgh and admires Wickham until she learns of his infidelity. This sister of Jane and Lydia rejects a proposal from Mr. Collins and ends up marrying Mr. Darcy. For 10 points, identify this protagonist of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

Madame Bovary

Towards the end of this novel, black liquid pours from one character's mouth like vomit, and a Blind Beggar with a horrible skin disease sings while that character dies in agony. Berthe is left a poor orphan in this novel, and the town apothecary is awarded a Legion of Honor. The title character attends a [*] performance of Lucia de Lammermoor in Rouen, where she re-meets the law student Leon. She earlier has an affair with Rodolphe after being disillusioned by her husband Charles. Emma's boredom with her life in Yonville leads to her eventual ruin in, for 10 points, what realist novel of Gustave Flaubert?

Yasunari Kawabata [accept "The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket" before "this man's"]

Twenty children join a hunt for an insect, which a boy hands over to a girl in this man's short story "The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket." Eguchi sleeps next to the title figures for seven nights in his "The House of the Sleeping Beauties," and this man also wrote a work about a match between Otake and Shūsai. Author of The Master of Go, he wrote a novel opening with a tea ceremony, and another in which Shimamura has an affair with the geisha Komako in a hot spring town. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of Thousand Cranes and Snow Country.

Hero

Twenty-two traits of this figure are outlined in a book by Lord Raglan. One of those traits is that an attempt is made on his life shortly after his birth. In Vladimir Propp's analysis of fairy tales, this figure typically marries a princess. Joseph Campbell wrote about one "with a thousand faces" in a book discussing the monomyth of this figure. The subtitle of Vanity Fair characterizes it as a novel without one of these. For 10 points, name this type of figure, examples of which include Achilles and Heracles.

Lord of the Flies

Two characters in this work claim they have found a beast when they come upon the body of a downed pilot. A silent conversation in this work seems to take place between Simon and an animal head on a pole. Two groups form early on in this novel, one of which is originally made up only of (*) choir boys. One rule created in it gives the right of speech to the holder of a conch shell. A boulder in this novel kills Piggy, who sides with Ralph against Jack. For 10 points, name this novel about a group of boys stranded on an island, by William Golding.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Two characters in this work, Quimbo and Sambo, repent after viciously beating the protagonist. Earlier in this novel, Augustine St. Clare's daughter Eva is saved from drowning by the title character. Tom Loker is reformed after spending time at a Quaker settlement in this work, which popularized the phrase "sold down the river." This work, subtitled "Life Among the Lowly," includes the vicious plantation owner Simon Legree. For 10 points, name this anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

The Sleeping Beauty [or Spashchaya Krasavitsa; or La Belle au bois dormant]

Two earlier versions of this work were composed by Ferdinand Herold, and Marius Petipa was this work's librettist. Late in this work, Bluebird, Princess Florine, the White Cat, and Puss in Boots all arrive with the intention to party. Carabosse hides a needle in a bouquet of flowers, but the Lilac Fairy causes the title character not to die, and she is eventually saved by Florimund. Based on a Charles Perrault fairy tale, for 10 points, name this Peter Tchaikovsky ballet about Aurora, a dormant princess.

volcanoes [or places of volcanic activity; or Under the Volcano; prompt on "mountains"]

Two of these objects sit near the town of Quauhnahuac, where a British consul lives in Mexico, in a breakout novel of Malcolm Lowry set Under them. A maar can form near one of these objects, whose distinctive types include the tuya. Pliny the Elder died while attempting to return from one of these structures. In 2009, money spent to watch these objects was criticized by Bobby Jindal's State of the Union response. Asteroid B-612 has three of these structures, which the Little Prince cleans each day. These structures can produce pahoehoe and 'a'a. For 10 points, name these geologic structures whose shield and cinder cone types can produce lava.

Absalom, Absalom!

US Literature The last child of this novel's main character is born to a fifteen-year-old mother named Milly and does not live long. This work begins with Rosa Coldfield, who had at one point been engaged to the main character after her sister Ellen's death. The main character's children include Henry, Judith, Clytemnestra, and Charles Bon, the last of whom was born in Haiti. Much of the book takes place on Sutpen's Hundred, which is near Jefferson, Mississippi. Name this Faulkner novel whose title is taken from an exclamation by David in the Second Book of Samuel.

Ivanhoe

Waldemar Fitzurse carries out a failed ambush in this novel, which also includes a tournament at Ashby-de-la-Zouche. In one scene, the crone Ulrica burned down a castle which had earlier been stormed by Locksley and the Black Knight. Cedric of Rotherwood intends to reawaken the (*) Saxon royal line by marrying his ward to Athelstane, but the King wants that ward, Rowena, to marry de Bracy instead. The Jew Rebecca falls in love with the protagonist, who wins a trial by combat against the Knights Templar after Bois-Guilbert dies of internal conflicts. For 10 points, name this Sir Walter Scott novel about a titular disinherited son.

Sorrows of Young Werther (VER - ter)

We learn about his failures in managing the family estate and in the court of an ambassador through descriptions in letters to his friend Wilhelm. A fan of Ossian's poetry he is in love with the fiance of the more bourgeois Albert, and after a night of misunderstanding, the novel features him throwing himself on Lotte in a hopeless passion and, finally, shooting himself in the face. For 10 points, name the title character of this first success by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. (GER - ta)

(The) Great Gatsby (do not accept Gatsby)

When the narrator of this novel arranges a meeting for the title character, the title character offers to have the narrator's lawn mowed and find him some better work. Despite some rain, the meeting goes well and involves some piano playing by Klipspringer. The narrator is originally from Minnesota and tries to sell bonds for a living in New York City. The title character is very wealthy and likes to throw big parties at his mansion in West Egg. Name this novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Tom Sawyer

When this character got the measles, Jim Hollis called it a blessing and a warning, and after a relapse he saw Hollis conducting a trial for a cat. This person also mistimed quitting the Cadets of Temperance, doing so just before Judge Frazier died. He believes that holding somebody for ransom involves keeping them until they die, and he also said that the first two disciples were David and Goliath. His testimony at a trial absolved Muff Potter, causing Injun Joe to flee. Name this character cared for by his Aunt Polly, a close friend of Joe Harper and Huckleberry Finn.

canon

When this word follows "Pali," it refers to a collection of scriptures in Theravada Buddhism. In religion, it also refers to the books of the Bible officially recognized by the church. Harold Bloom wrote a book about the "Western" one which includes a list of major literary works. It is also represented in the Great Books of the Western World series. For 10 points, name this word which refers to a representative set of literary works.

Mansfield Park

While Sir Thomas is visiting his plantations in Antigua in this work, Yates persuades his household to stage a romantic play. That results in some scandal, but not nearly so much as when he elopes with Julia. The return of the Crawfords only makes matters worse, as Mary is to keep Edmund from joining the clergy and Henry only wants to trick Fanny into loving him. For ten points, name this Jane Austen novel centering on the turmoil of Fanny Pri

Huckleberry Finn

While disguised, this character claims to be named Sarah Williams and Mary Williams to the same person. This character intervenes in the feud between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons and also tries to thwart a plot to con the family of Peter Wilks out of that man's estate. He originally lives in a house shared by Miss Watson and Widow Douglas, but is kidnapped by Pap, his drunkard father, and ends up fleeing with a runaway slave named Jim on a raft down the river. For 10 points, identify this title character of a Mark Twain novel who is friends with Tom Sawyer.

(The) Caine Mutiny

While in New York, the protagonist in this novel rooms with an algebra teacher named Edwin Keggs and has an affair with May Wynn, whose real name turns out to be Mary Minotti. He then goes out to Hawaii and works with Tom Keefer under William De Vriess. This protagonist, Willie Keith, eventually rebels against Captain Queeg. Name this navy tale written by Herman Wouk.

To Althea, from Prison

While the title figure "whispers at the grates", the narrator lies "tangled in her hair and fettered to her eye". The narrator also sings "the sweetness, mercy, and majesty and glories of his king" all while not enjoying freedom. The narrator believes that "stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage" in, For 10 points, what poem by Richard Lovelace?

Washington Irving

Works by this author include one in which Gottfried Wolfgang sleeps with a guillotine victim and another in which the protagonist finds a heart and liver in his wife's apron and bargains for Captain Kidd's treasure from Old Scratch. This author of The Devil and Tom Walker wrote a work in which Hendrick Hudson playing ninepins is associated with thunder in the Catskills, where the title character sleeps for twenty years, and also created Ichabod Crane. For 10 points, name this American author of The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, which contains Rip van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Clue

"Men should be like Kleenex -- soft, strong, and disposable." "I'm a butler, sir. . . . I buttle." A prostitute, a war profiteer, an adulterous doctor, a high-ranking gay Pentagon official, a black widow, the wife of a corrupt Senator, and their blackmailer \-- for 10 points -- all gather in a New England mansion, in what murder‑mystery movie spoof, based on a Parker Brothers board game?

Italy

A Nobel Laureate from this country wrote of Madame Pace, whose brothel employs The Mother and The Stepdaughter; that play ends with a complaint by The Manager. A Henry James work set in this country sees Giovanelli court the title girl. In addition to Six Characters in Search of an Author and Daisy Miller, this country sees the (*) frame story surrounding the one hundred tales in The Decameron. Name this European country, the homeland of Luigi Pirandello and Giovanni Boccaccio.

France

A Romantic poet from this country asked, "Am I Amor or Phoebus? Lusignan or Byron?" in his sonnet "El Desdichado." Another poet from this country wrote the pun, "It rains in my heart, as it rains on the town" and wrote about "the long sighs / of the violins" in "Autumn Song," one of his Saturnine Poems. Another poet from this country wrote that a certain object "will never abolish chance" in "A Throw of the Dice" and wrote "The (*) Afternoon of a Faun." This country is also home to the poet of "The Drunken Boat," who was shot by Paul Verlaine. For 10 points, name this home of Gerard de Nerval, Stephane Mallarmé, and Arthur Rimbaud.

Moby-Dick

A Sub-Sub Librarian and a Late Consumptive Usher supply an Etymology and a series of Extracts which preface this work. One character in it declares that a ship was his "Yale College" and his "Harvard." Another character in this work discovers he can no longer enjoy a pipe and casts it overboard. While other characters in this novel include the harpooners Daggoo, Tashtego, and the cannibal, Queequeg, and the first mate, Starbuck. For 10 points, name this novel, which begins "Call Me Ishmael," and was written by Herman Melville.

Cry, The Beloved Country

A bishop in this work suggests that the main character be relocated near the end of this novel, and the protagonist walks several miles a day in the city as part of a protest of the bus fare. The protagonist stays with Msimangu, who informs the central character of this novel his sister has been working as a prostitute. That protagonist's son Absalom, along with the protagonist's nephew, is wanted for the murder of Arthur Jarvis, a crime for which he is executed. For 10 points, name this novel about the preacher Stephen Kumalo, a work by Alan Paton.

Nikolai Gogol

A character created by this author reads a letter written to Fidel by Meggy and concludes that the dogs are carrying on an affair. A novel by this author ends mid-sentence during a Prince's speech lambasting corruption. Major Kovalyov is outraged when the title character of one of this author's stories becomes a State Councilor. At the end of another, the protagonist's ghost assaults a "very important person" and steals his coat. Khlestakov pretends to be a government employee in this author's play The Inspector General. Chichikov comes up with a scheme to buy the rights to serfs in a novel by this author. For 10 points, name this Russian author of "The Nose" and Dead Souls.

War and Peace [or Voyna i Mir]

A character in this novel wins 43,000 rubles playing faro; the loser is unable to marry his cousin Sonya, and instead must save his fiancée Marya from an uprising of serfs. The lucky gambler, Nikolay Rostov, also hits on Helene and survives the resultant duel with this novel's protagonist, Pierre Bezhukov. Pierre seeks glory by joining the fight against Napoleon in, for 20 points, what sprawling novel about the defense of Russia by Leo Tolstoy?

The Wild Duck

A character in this play us invited to be the thirteenth guest at a dinner party, which dismays the protagonist's father because he had previously ruined that guest's family. Gina Hansen is a former maid in this play, whose daughter is going blind. Dr. Relling is the protagonist's roommate, who knows his reputation for meddling. The title animal of this play was shot by the protagonist's father; instead of Ekdal shooting it at the end, Hedvig commits suicide. For 10 points, name this play featuring Gregers Werle, by (*) Henrik Ibsen.

Cats

A character of this type insults Mavis Pellington after Cornelius Appin shows him off at a dinner party in Saki's story "Tobermory." One of these characters is the only living thing that doesn't sneeze at the Duchess' peppery soup. The line "Nor all that glisters gold" comes from a poem by Thomas Gray about the death of one named Salima. The "Napoleon of crime" is one named Macavity, according a book owned by Old Possum about "practical ones." One of these animals "may look on a king", even though its smile disappears mysteriously. For 10 points, name these animals whose "Cheshire" variety lives in Wonderland.

Book of Psalms (accept Tehillim)

A collection of some of these works, recited on holidays, is called Hallel, and its fifty-first section is known as the "Miserere" [mee-seh-reh-ray]. One passage of this book laments "I have so many enemies" as its author flees his son (*) Absalom. Another portion reads, "Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good." For 10 points, name this Biblical book, written primarily by David, whose twenty-third section begins, "The Lord is my shepherd."

Russia [accept The Twelve Chairs before mentioned]

A con man surnamed Bender searches for hidden diamonds in a novel written by authors from this country in The Twelve Chairs. This country was the birthplace of the poets of The Twelve and Babi Yar, and the home of the Acmeist literary movement. Another author from this country wrote a dystopian novel where (*) D-503 rebels against the One State. In a novel set in this country, Komarovsky rapes Lara, the lover of an idealistic doctor. For 10 points, name this country home to Yevgeny Zamiatin and the author of Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak.

Midnight's Children

A critical event in this work occurs when a bike crash causes the protagonist's large forehead to match up with Sonny's forcep-hollows. One character in this novel glimpses his wife through a perforated sheet; their daughter forces herself to love her husband part-by-part, and their daughter in turn sings through another perforated sheet for modesty. Aadam is the son of Parvati-the-witch and the antagonist of this novel, who was switched with the telepathic protagonist at birth, thus fulfilling a prophecy of "knees and a nose". For 10 points, name this novel featuring Shiva, Saleem Sinai, and others born with magical powers during the partition of India, written by Salman Rushdie.

Mario Vargas Llosa

A fight between The Gimp and Justo takes place in this author's short story "The Challenge." A novel by this author sees Bonifacia take up prostitution to support Josefino, while Don Anselmo builds the title jungle brothel. In another of his novels, a dogcatcher named Ambrosio and a journalist named Santiago discuss at length the rule of Manuel Odria. In one of his best known novels, one of the characters works at Radio Panamerica and the even numbered chapters consist of soap operas written by Pedro Camacho. The author of Conversation in the Cathedral and The War at the End of the World, for 10 points, name this novelist behind Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, a Nobel-winning author from Peru.

Paul Revere's Ride

A figure in this poem travels along the Mystic River and sees "a phantom ship with each mast and spar / across the moon like a prison bar." The title man travels through Middlesex, starting with Medford, waking men who "that day would be lying dead / pierced by a (*) British musket ball" at the start of the Revolution. For 10 points, name this poem by Longfellow, which demands, "Listen my children, and you shall hear / of the midnight ride of" the title character.

"Anthem for Doomed Youth"

A friend of the poet suggested the use of the phrase "patient minds" in the second to last line of this poem as a correction. The poet says, "The pallor of girls' brows shall be" the pall of the title group whose demise shall be met with "shrill, demented choirs" not prayers or bells. Edited to be titled as a hymn of praise and loyalty by Seigfried Sassoon --for 10 points-- name this poem that was written in a Scottish military hospital in 1917 by Wilfred Owen.

The Charge of the Light Brigade

A later work that is based on this poem notes that the titular group "asked for a little money to keep the wolf from the door", in a work by Rudyard Kipling. Opening with "Half a league, half league" the speaker states " Their's not to make reply" in noting the ignorance among the group in focus that "Someone had blunder'd". Asking "When can their glory fade?" in the final stanza, the reader learns that the titular action broke the line of "Cossack and Russian," but surrounding cannons would ultimately seal their doom. Detailing an event from the Battle of Balaclava, For 10 points, a failed cavalry action occurring during the Crimean War is the focus of what Tennyson poem?

the Compson family

A member of this family buys a little Italian girl some bread and is briefly arrested for kidnapping her. One member of this family is often referred to by another as smelling of trees after a scene in which she climbs a tree to look in on a funeral, revealing her "muddy drawers". That one later marries Herbert Head. Another member of this family, which employs (*) Dilsey Gibson, enjoys watching golfers at a nearby golf course because it reminds him of his sister, Caddy. Members of this family include alcoholic patriarch Jason, the mentally disabled Benjy, and the suicidal Quentin, who narrates most of Absalom, Absalom!. For 10 points, name this family created by William Faulkner, who also appear in The Sound and the Fury.

Cry, the Beloved Country

A narrator of this novel praises Ernest Oppenheimer for proposing that mines be built after gold is discovered at Odendaalsrust. The main character of this novel laughs until he is sore after children in a tiny village are given gifts of milk by a farm owner. This novel ends after the protagonist prays on a hilltop at dawn as he waits for his son to be executed. In this book, a trial that ends with the acquittal of the two accomplices (*) Matthew and Johannes Paffuri is taken up pro deo by Mr. Carmichael. At the opening of this novel, Theophilus Msimangu sends his fellow priest Stephen a letter asking him to come to Johannesburg. For 10 points, name this novel in which Absalom Kumalo is sentenced to death for killing Arthur Jarvis, written by Alan Paton.

Cannery Row

A painter in this work is inspired by a man roller-skating on top of a flagpole in front of Holman's Department Store, and this book ends with another character reading Sanskrit poetry to himself while surrounded by cages of rattlesnakes and rats. This work sees Darling devour a huge cake baked for a man who discovers a dead woman in a tide pool, thus spoiling the efforts of Eddie, a resident of the Palace (*) Flophouse. Dora Flood's brothel features in this novel, which sees a party thrown by the bum Mack to appease the marine biologist Doc. Lee Chong's grocery store is located on the titular sardine-producing street in, for 10 points, what novel by John Steinbeck?

William Thackeray

A pair of historical novels by this author follows first the titular colonel of the English army in the time of Queen Anne and later his two grandsons George and Henry Warrington, who take opposite sides in the American Revolution, The History of Henry Esmond and The Virginians. And he wrote about a picaresque about an Irishman named Redmond Barry, who tries to wile his way into the English Aristocracy in The Luck of Barry Lyndon. But his most popular work is a "Novel Without A Hero", whose protagonist include the virtuous Amanda Sedley and the manipulative Becky Sharp. For 10 points, this is what English novelist of Vanity Fair?

Six Characters in Search of an Author

A performance of Mixing It Up is about to begin when it is interrupted by a certain number of people. They interact with the actors of the company, claiming to have been brought to life by someone who is no longer capable of committing their inherent drama to paper, and beg help finding such a person. For 10 points, identify the play in which those events occur, written by Luigi Pirandello.

Guy de Maupassant

A piece of property with a spring on it is discovered by Father Oriol and then sold to William Andermatt in a novel by this author. Another novel sees Gerome Roland' sons squabbling over Leon Marechal's inheritance and he described Georges Duroy climbing the social ladder. In addition to writing Pierre et Jean and Bel Ami, the unnamed narrator of another story feels like he is strangled in his sleep by the title Brazilian Vampire in this author's "The Horla." The protagonist of another story attends an event hosted by George Ramponneau from The Ministry of Education. That event causes Madame Forestier to reveal the title object was made of paste at the end of this author's story about Mathilde Loisel. For ten points, name this author of "The Necklace."

King Lear

A plain-spoken character in this play mocks courtly dialect by describing the "wreath of radiant fire/on flickering Phoebus' front." This play's title character gives an enraged speech beginning "O, reason not the need!" upon being stripped of his hundred (+) retainers. That title character of this work strips naked in a storm, accompanied by a Fool and Edgar, who is feigning madness. At the beginning of this play, one character laments that she cannot "heave [her] heart into [her] mouth," leading the title character to leave all his lands to (*) Regan and Goneril. For 10 points, name this tragedy by William Shakespeare.

Archibald MacLeish

A play by this author ends with the protagonist's wife Sarah urging him to "blow on the coal of the heart." In a poem by this author, the speaker describes darkness rising over Ecbatan, Kermanshah, Baghdad, and Palmyra, and imagines lying "face downward in the sun" and feeling "how swift how secretly / the shadow of the night comes on." Another of this author's poems recommends that a work of art be "wordless as the flight of birds" and "palpable and mute / as a globed fruit." This author wrote a play in which Nickles and Mr. Zuss put on the masks of Satan and God and watch the title character react to calamities originally visited upon Job. For 10 points, name this author of "You, Andrew Marvell" and J. B., an American poet who wrote "a poem should not mean but be" in "Ars Poetica."

The Bluest Eye

A popular character in this novel is mocked with the appellation "Six-finger-dog-tooth-meringue-pie" by a pair of characters who are themselves targeted by Rosemary Villanucci. Its fifth chapter opens by describing a type of woman who only feels affection for her cat, as exemplified by Geraldine. One character in this novel was interrupted while having sex with Darlene by two white men, who laugh and force him to continue. Another of its characters is tricked into poisoning a dog owned by the (*) pedophile Soaphead Church. The narrator and her sister Frieda plant marigolds which fail to bloom, mirroring the death of a child created when the drunken Cholly rapes his daughter. For 10 points, Claudia MacTeer narrates which Toni Morrison novel, in which Pecola Breedlove obsesses about wanting to have white skin and the title facial feature?

Margaret Eleanor Atwood

A very short poem by this author notes that "you fit into me / like a hook into an eye." In addition to "Occasional Poem," this author wrote such novels as one where Marian gets an eating disorder and bakes a female-shaped cake. This writer of The Edible Woman wrote about sci-fi author Alex Thomas and Iris Chase in The Blind Assassin. In another work, the protagonist enjoys Scrabble and befriends Moira. For 10 points, name this author who wrote about "Offred" in her dystopian feminist novel The Handmaid's Tale.

The Count of Monte Cristo

Abbé Faria was imprisoned for proposing a unified Italy and dies of catalepsy in this work, whose protagonist once disguises himself as a clerk from Thomson and French in Rome to save Morrel. Noitier reveals a plot to murder Valentine to Villefort, and the protagonist's manipulation of the bond market wipes out Danglars's fortunes. Seeing the protagonist completing his revenge for imprisonment in the Chateau d'If and the loss of Mercedes, for 10 points, identify this novel by Alexandre Dumas.

The Little Prince or Le Petit Prince

According to a fox in this novella, the sole interest of men is to raise chickens. According to the narrator, the planet Earth contains 462,511 streetlamp lighters, two of whom only have to work twice a year—those on the North and South poles. Upon landing on Earth, the main character finds out from a snake that he has landed in an African desert. Later on, he meets the narrator whose plane has crashed in the Sahara and asks the narrator to draw him a sheep. For 10 points, name this novella whose title character lives on the asteroid B612, written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Quo Vadis

Acte helps one character in this novel escape when she is blamed for bewitching a royal daughter who died under mysterious circumstances. A character given the title "arbiter of elegance" cuts his wrist with Eunice at the end of this novel. The Greek Chilo Chilonides betrays the protagonist by revealing the location of a hidden religious colony. In one scene from this novel the giant Ursus strangles a charging bull to rescue a girl tied to its back. After falling in love with the slave Lygia, the protagonist of this novel converts to Christianity and escapes Nero's persecution. Titled for Jesus' apocryphal quote to Peter while he is fleeing Rome, for 10 points, name this novel about Marcus Vinicius by Henryk Sienkiewicz.

The Idiot

After disproving an accusation claiming he deprived an illegitimate son of his rightful inheritance, the title character of this novel is maligned when he kindly gives money to the poor imposter. Its title character claims to have suddenly received an inheritance in a rejected marriage proposal to a woman, who had an affair with General Epanchin's devious secretary Ganya, who wants to marry the General's daughter Aglaya for her inheritance. This novel ends when Roghozin murders Nastasya hours before she can marry the epileptic title character, who is first seen on a train returning from a Swiss Sanatorium. For 10 points, name this Dostoyevsky novel about Prince Myshkin.

robots [or Rossum's Universal Robots; or R.U.R.]

After examining one of these characters by stabbing him in the hand, a doctor explains to the protagonist that a new species of flowers is sterile. A man is electrocuted on a fence while trying to buy these characters off with half a billion dollars. One of these characters is named Sulla because a man "thought Marius and Sulla were lovers." A representative of the League of Humanity arrives on an island to advocate for these characters. A year (*) after these characters kill Dr. Gall and Harry Domin, Alquist dubs two of them the new Adam and Eve. These beings seek the formula for their creation after they revolt and destroy humanity. For 10 points, name these beings made by Rossum's Universal in a Karel Čapek play, which coined the name for these artificial automatons.

Winston Smith [accept either]

After snatching some chocolate from his sister's hands, this character runs away and never sees his mother or sister again. This character is surprised to learn how tiny a coral polyp is when his paperweight is shattered. Late in the book he appears in, this character is told "the word you are trying to think of is solipsism" after being informed "we control the past." This character's wife, a member of the (*) Anti-Sex League, leaves him when their union proves childless. This character, who hides out in Mr. Charrington's shop, predicts that Syme will become an unperson. This character falls in love with Julia but breaks when taken to the Ministry of Love. For 10 points, name this character who O'Brien tortures into loving Big Brother in the novel 1984.

Don Quixote de la Mancha

After the protagonist of this work refuses to pay his bill at an inn, one of his friends is tossed in a blanket as punishment. The protagonists flee to the mountains after deciding to free a group of galley slaves, and one of them is only able to spend a week governing his promised island. The student Samson Carrasco, after assuming the persona of the Knight of the White Moon, defeats the title character, who idealizes the peasant-girl Dulcinea and enlists Sancho Panza as his squire. For 10 points, name this novel about a delusional old man obsessed with chivalric romances written by Miguel de Cervantes.

Joseph Conrad [accept Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski]

Alfred Hitchcock based his film The Sabotage on this man's The Secret Agent. One of his works was set in the fictional South American Republic "Costanagua", Nostromo. In this author's most famous work, one of the characters lies to another character's wife, saying the last word he pronounced was - your name. In reality, that character, Kurtz, said, the horror, the horror! For 10 points, identify this Polish born author who detailed Marlowe's travel up the Congo in Heart of Darkness.

"The Luck of Roaring Camp"

All residents of the central locale of this story agree that the "fellows of Red Dog" are not to be trusted. One character repeatedly notes that the title character "rastled with" his finger and refers to him as "the d—d little cuss." The title character is referred to as "Stumpy's boy" or "The Cayote" until (*) Oakhurst suggests a new name. The North Folk River engulfs the title location overnight in this short story, which ends with Kentuck dying with the already-dead title character in his arms. For 10 points, name this short story that opens with Cherokee Sal giving birth to the title character in a camp located in a valley written by Bret Harte.

Henry

All the world like a woolen lover once did seem on this man's side. Then came a departure. Thereafter nothing fell out as it might or ought. He is a poet with a penchant for wearing black face, and his companion calls him Sir Bones. His father was going to swim out with him, but he decided to shoot himself instead. For 10 points, name this huffy, unappeasable, hero of John Berryman's Dream Songs.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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

The Red and the Black

An argument in a cafe leads the protagonist of this novel to break his arm in a duel with a nobleman named Beauvosis. In this novel, the protagonist's only friend, Fouque, offers him a job in the lumber business, but he instead develops a fascination with Voltaire and later earns the respect of Abbe Pirard. In this novel, the protagonist becomes a secretary and falls in love with the ancestor of Boniface de la Mole. Though the protagonist of this novel marries Mathilde, his rise is ruined with the return of his first lover, Mademoiselle de Renal. For 10 points, name this French novel following Julien Sorel, written by Stendahl and named after two colors.

Castor

An authority on war, he instructed Heracles in fencing and the military arts. Once betrothed to Electra, he was involved in the abduction of Aethra. Having a name meaning "beaver", he was a savior of shipwrecked sailors, and he was killed during a quarrel with Idas and Lynceus. His brother was a prized boxer, and this man was a great horse-tamer. Together with that brother, he formed the Dioscuri or Gemini. For 10 points, name this twin of Polydeuces.

Matsuo Basho [or Matsuo Munefusa]

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

Samuel Butler

An early essay by this writer anticipated the technophobia of his later characters, like Nosnibor; it concerned artificial intelligence and was entitled "Darwin Among the Machines". In this author's first novel, Nosnibor is recovering from the illness of being a criminal when he meets Higgs, the work's protagonist. His last novel has a protagonist who marries his parents' polygamist servant Ellen and is narrated by Overton; it follows the life and family of Ernest Pontifex. Name this author of The Way of All Flesh and the anagrammatically titled Erewhon.

Natty Bumppo [accept either; or Hawkeye; or La Longue Carabine; or Pathfinder; or Deerslayer; accept Leatherstocking before mentioned]

An essay about this character points out the absurdity of his ability to determine the frayedness of a hole from 100 yards away and proposes that this character should appear in the "Broken Twig Series". This character, his friend, and his friend's son lead three contingents of the Delaware on a raid. In a novel in which he appears, this character's enemy (*) Magua leads Cora and Alice, Colonel Munro's daughters, into an ambush on their way to Fort William Henry, though they are eventually rescued with the help of Uncas. This character and his friend Chingachgook attempt to ease the conflict between the Huron and the Mohicans. For 10 points, name this hero of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales.

Ode to a Nightingale

An interpretation of this work discusses its use of Old Testament references in the mentioning of "the sad heart of Ruth". In one stanza, the speaker is "In Love with easeful death", declaring that it is best to die with the title figure "pouring out thy soul abroad." Before that he declares that he will "fly to thee" on "the wingless views of poesy." Opening with the lines "a drowsy numbness pains/my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk", it ends with the speaker listening to "thy plaintive emblem fade" and asking "Do I wake or sleep". Another stanza opens with the lines "Thou wast not born for death, Immortal bird/ Nor hungry generations tread thee down". For 10 points, name this Keats poem about a kind of bird.

The Sorrows of Young Werther [accept Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers]

An old man's desire to arrange flowers into nosegays delights this work's protagonist, and earlier, several men are slapped during a parlor game as they attempt to count to one thousand. The protagonist does a dramatic reading of the Irish poet Ossian, [*] who he claims is superior to Homer, after resigning a post secured for him by Wilhelm, and returning to Wahlheim. There, he finds that Albert has married his love, Charlotte, and borrows a pistol to shoot himself in the head. For 10 points, name this epistolary Sturm und Drang novel about a melancholic young artist, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Don Quixote

Anselmo tests the fidelity of his wife Camilla in an interpolated novella appearing in this novel "The Man Who Was Recklessly Curious". And minor episodes in this novel include the love triangle between Ferdinand and Cardenio, for the hand of Lucinda. The protagonist wears a wash-basin that he stole from a barber, believing it to be the helmet of Mambrino. More famous episodes from this novel involve the protagonist mistaking a flock of sheep for an army and a windmill for a giant. For 10 points, the title character dreams of Dulcinea and is accompanied on his adventures by Sancho Panza in what novel by Miguel de Cervantes?

Roy Hobbs

As a teenager, this person was shot by Harriet Bird but survived. He was first discovered by Sam Simpson, but Sam died on the way to this man's first tryout. Red Blow does his best to steer him out of trouble, but both Judge Banner and Gus Sands attempt to bribe him to throw the final game that would give the Knights the pennant. For 10 points, name this famous fictional baseball player, the main character in Bernard Malamud's The Natural.

The Time Machine

At a dinner party in this novel, the protagonist produces two flowers he obtained while walking towards the Palace of Green Porcelain. Earlier, the protagonist believes that the title object is hidden in a statue of a sphinx by a race of ape-like creatures that live underground. Those creatures, the (*) Morlocks, are contrasted with Weena and the rest of the Eloi in this novel, which begins with a discussion of the fourth dimension. For 10 points, name this novel by H.G. Wells, in which the protagonist travels to the future.

Germinal

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

Siddhartha

At one point in this novel, the protagonist defies his father by standing up with his arms crossed throughout an entire night. The protagonist of this novel learns business from Kamaswami and takes up a lover named Kamala whose son steals all the money from his house. The protagonist spends time with the Samanas before he goes to study with the teacher Gotama. The title character of this novel replaces Vasudeva as ferryman before he is reunited with his best friend Govinda. For 10 points, identify this novel about the spiritual quests of the title Brahmin's son, written by Herman Hesse.

John Maxwell Coetzee

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

"The Most Dangerous Game"

At the end of this story, the protagonist decides, "He had never slept in a better bed." The protagonist of this story drops his pipe into the sea, then falls in himself when he attempts to retrieve it; afterward, he ends up on Ship Trap Island. In this story, a trap composed of a knife attached to a young sapling kills the giant Cossack, Ivan. Rainsford, this story's protagonist, meets a hunter yearning for more exciting (*) quarry than jaguars and buffalo. For 10 points, name this short story by Richard Connell, in which General Zaroff hunts man.

As I Lay Dying

At the end of this work, one character obtains a record player and a new set of teeth. Another character seeking medicine for an abortion is taken advantage of by McGowan. One character in this novel is the illegitimate son of Reverend Whitfield, and a carpenter in this novel has cement poured on his broken leg after a disastrous attempt to ford a river. Gillespie's barn is set afire by one character, and another character claims that his mother is a fish. Cash builds a coffin for his mother in this work. For 10 points, name this novel largely narrated by Darl following the Bundren family, a work by William Faulkner.

Eugene O'Neill

At the opening of one of his works, the curtain rises on "a corner in lower Manhattan," and at the conclusion of another, Robert Mayo, sick with tuberculosis, drug himself up to the hilltop. A silver bullet was cast by the title character as a good luck charm in his play The Emperor Jones, and most of the action revolves around a saloon owned by Harry Hope in The Iceman Cometh, while a semi-autobiographical play by this author contains a morphine- addicted mother, an overly stingy father, and an alcoholic eldest son. The author of Anna Christie and Strange Interlude, For 10 points, identify this four-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Long Day's Journey into Night.

The House of Bernarda Alba [accept La Casa de Bernarda Alba]

At the opening of the play, the housekeeper reports that Magdalena has fainted at her father's funeral, later another character orders an eight year mourning period for that father. In one scene, an elderly character usually locked in her room breaks free and declares her intent to marry, and in another, one character refuses to replace her green dress with the black of mourning. Pepe el Romano intends to marry Angustias for her money, but in the climax of the novel her mother shoots him and Adela hangs herself. For 10 points, name this play by Garcia Lorca concerning the household of the titular woman, which along with Blood Wedding and Yerma forms his Rural Trilogy.

"The Fall of the House of Usher"

At this story's end, the narrator attempts to calm down his friend by reading a story about a knight named Ethelred who kills a dragon to obtain a large amount of gold called The Mad Trist. Earlier, one character in this work sings about "evil things, in robes of sorrow" which "assailed the monarch's high estate" in a poem titled "The Haunted Palace." The end of this work sees the death of (*) Madeleine and the narrator's friend Roderick. For 10 points, name this Edgar Allan Poe short story which ends with the collapse of the title estate.

A Farewell to Arms

Autumn, when "the trees were all bare and the roads were muddy," is the setting for a meeting between the protagonist and a friend who angrily suspects he has syphilis. Sex as a theme is revisited when a group of characters discusses opera singers and then heads to a brothel in Gorizia, and when the protagonist tells his lover that he has gonorrhea. After his leg heals, a mutinous retreat at Caporetto drives the protagonist to desert the army and escape to Switzerland with his pregnant lover, who dies giving birth to a stillborn child. For 10 points, name this novel about the love between Frederic Henry and the nurse Catherine Barkley in Italy during World War I, a work by Ernest Hemingway.

The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice

Based on part of Cinthio's Hecatommithi, a man is deserted in this work by his lover Bianca after he is found with another woman's personal effects. Another character fights off allegations of witchcraft before the Venetian senate after a spurned suitor of his wife reports her secret marriage to her father. One character suspects Emilia of infidelity with a figure who is demoted after a fight with Rodrigo, Cassio. The efforts of the title figure's wife to get him reinstated lead to her being suspected and ultimately killed for adultery in, for 10 points, this Shakespeare play featuring Iago, Desdemona, and the titular Moorish general.

White Fang

Beauty Smith is one owner of this literary character, whose early life is spent with Gray Beaver. This character saves Judge Scott's life after being adopted by the Judge's son, Weedon. This character is the son of One Eye and (*) Kiche, and is terrorized by Lip-Lip in his early years as he adjusts to life as a domestic dog. Created by Jack London, for 10 points, name this dog, whose namesake novel contrasts with The Call of the Wild.

Kenzaburo Oe

Born in the mountain village of Shikoku in 1935, he often featured it in his work. Early accolades came from The Catch, and Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994, his later works include Dojidai gemu and An Echo of Heaven. For ten points, name this author who's greatest work is generally considered Man'en gannen no futtoboru, known in English as The Silent Cry.

One Thousand and One Arabian Nights

Characters in this work include one who is cursed with marble legs and another who possesses an artificial apple whose odor has healing powers. In this work, a group of men hidden in oil jars are killed by the servant Morgiana, and another character is punished for breaking a roc's egg. One character's brother Cassim is killed after making use of the password "Open, Sesame". Related by the wife of Emperor Shahriar, For 10 points, name this collection of tales narrated by Scheherezade which includes the stories of Sinbad the Sailor and Aladdin.

Concentration Camp

Chinua Achebe's poem "Vultures" describes a man coming home from one of these places to buy his daughter chocolate. Odilo Unverdorben worked at one of these places in Time's Arrow. A character in one of these places narrates, "Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God himself. Never.". That book ends with the narrator staring into a mirror and seeing a corpse staring back. Presumably, Dr. Dussel and Peter van Daan die at one of these locales. Moishe the Beadles warns the denizens of Sighet about these places in Elie Wiesel's Night. For 10 points, name these places which caused the death of Anne Frank during the Holocaust.

Mishima Yukio

Claude Mauriac's influence is seen in this man's novel Thirst for Love. He detailed the exploits of the young fisherman Shinji in The Sound of Waves and expressed his ideas about physical beauty in The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. He also wrote a novel in which Mizoguchi burns down the title structure and a series about a recurring character who takes the forms of Isao Iinuma and Matsugae Kiyoaki. For 10 points, name this author of The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and the Sea of Fertility tetralogy.

Omeros

Comic characters in this poem include Maljo, an aspiring politician who is known as "Professor Static" because of his broken syntax during campaign speeches. In the final book of this poem, the title character renews the narrator's faith after guiding him to the Pool of Speculation. The second book of this poem describes how Afolabe is renamed because of his bravery at the Battle of the Saints. Throughout this poem, a character who drives a van called the Comet and a character who owns a boat with the misspelled motto "In God We Troust" fight for an arrogant maid who serves the Plunkett household. In the sixth book of this poem, Ma Kilman heals the wound of Philoctete, and Hector's death is mourned by Achille and Helen. For 10 points, name this epic poem which adapts the Iliad to the island of St. Lucia, written by Derek Walcott.

The Handmaid's Tale

During illegal meetings in this novel, two characters read Vogue and play Scrabble, while The central theme is based on Genesis 30:3, where Rachel commands Jacob to sleep with Bilhah, and it was promulgated by televangelist Serena Joy. During a "particicution" in this novel, Ofglen kicks an alleged rapist unconscious, and in the end, Nick arranges for his lover to be arrested by people who are really aiding in her escape. Set in Gilead, the story is narrated by Offred, whose only function is to have children. For 10 points, name this dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood.

Ulysses

Each chapter of this novel is associated with a symbol, color, and time of day in a chart its author made for his friend Stuart Gilbert. In this novel, a concert manager has an affair with a woman whose husband conducts his own affair under the pseudonym "Henry Flower". That husband in this novel fantasizes about Gerty McDowell on a beach in a scene that climaxes as (*) fireworks explode in the background. This novel ends with Blazes Boylan's lover reminiscing about wearing a rose "like the Andalusian girls" and being kissed "under the Moorish Wall" before she declares "yes I said yes I will Yes." This novel takes place entirely on June 16, 1904, and follows a journey through Dublin taken by Leopold Bloom. For 10 points, name this novel by James Joyce.

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Early in this play, two characters display their characteristic humors by insultingly calling a man "Mephistophilus" and "a Banbury cheese". Upon being denied a loan, one character in this play delivers the line "Why, then, the world's mine oyster". In two comic scenes, this play's central character hides in a basket of dirty laundry and is tricked into dressing as (*) Herne the Hunter. In its climactic scene, Caius and Slender are fooled into abducting boys, while Fenton marries Anne. This play was supposedly written in two weeks at the whim of Queen Elizabeth, who wanted to see its central character "in love". For 10 points, name this Shakespeare play in which Falstaff fails to carry out affairs with the title characters, Mistresses Page and Ford.

Marcel Proust

Early works of this author include the short story collection Pleasures and Days and the autobiographical novel Jean Santeuil. His essay "Contre Sainte-Beuve" attacked contemporary French literary philosophy and in 1909 he experienced a revival of childhood memories through the taste of tea and a biscuit that sparked the writing of his literary masterpiece. "Cities of the Plain", "Within a Budding Grove", and "Swann's Way" are among the works that comprise, for 10 points, what author's Remembrance of Things Past?

Leo Tolstoy

Ensign Alanin dies at the end of the title action in this man's short story "The Raid."Mitritch impels Nikita to go to Akoulina's wedding in his drama The Power of Darkness, and one of his novels sees Vasyla Pozdnishef murder his wife. In addition to The Kreutzer Sonata, he wrote of Olyenin's time in the Caucasus in The Cossacks as well as a short story in which Gerasim comforts Ivan Ilyich in his last hours. Ending one novel with the title heroine throwing herself in front of a train, for 10 points, name this Russian author of Anna Karénina and War and Peace.

Gertrude Stein

Ernest Hemingway, in A Moveable Feast, describes his difficulty in reading the manuscript of this author's novel about the progress of the Hersland family, The Making of Americans. After studying under William James at Radcliffe, this author moved to Paris where she collected paintings with her brother, Leo. Her interest in automatic writing is on display in Tender Buttons, and it was she who called Hemingway and other writers of his time a "lost generation." Known for her literary salon, for 10 points who is this author who wrote as her lover in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas?

Tom Stoppard

For the BBC, he wrote the radio plays Albert's Bridge and Where Are They Now? and the serial A Student's Diary: An Arab in London. For the stage, he's written The Invention of Love, The Real Thing, and Arcadia. For 10 points—name this author of a modern take on minor Hamlet characters called Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

Christopher Marlowe

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

David Herbert Lawrence

He created portraits of himself and his wife in the characters Richard and Harriet Somers in the hastily written novel Kangaroo, and he wrote tales such as "The Fox," "The Captain's Doll," and "The Virgin and the Gipsy." He explored the theme of "bullying" shortly thereafter in a novel about Aaron Sisson entitled Aaron's Rod, and he explored the eroticism of the cult of Quetzacoatl in The Plumed Serpent, but better known are his novels about the Brangwen family. For 10 points, name this author of The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Sons and Lovers.

Rudyard Kipling

He described the life of a painter going blind, Dick Heldar, in "The Light That Failed". Mulvaney, Ortheris and Learoyd, his "Soldiers Three", were introduced in "The Three Musketeers", a short story from his collection "Plain Tales from the Hills". Another work centers on the adventures of Harvey Cheyne and Dan Troop aboard the We're Here, the bildungsroman "Captains Courageous." Teshoo Lama is aided in his search for the River of the Arrow by Kimball O'Hara in his novel "Kim", while Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnahan travel to Kafiristan in "The Man Who Would Be King". The first English-language winner of the Nobel Prize, For 10 points, name this Anglo-Indian author of "The White Man's Burden" and "The Jungle Book."

Octavio Paz

He expounded on his theory of poetry in The Bow and the Lyre, and compares a girl to a "pale branch in a patio in winter" in a poem dedicated to Andre Breton and Benjamin Peret. In an essay collection, he argued that rejection of the false divinities of the modern world would get rid of the chaos and sterility brought about by totalitarian regimes. He wrote that the title locale is a sacred city and boyhood residence of Krishna in Vrindaban, and he wrote Return after resigning as ambassador to India. The author of Convergences, the speaker describes his love as a rain goddess in his Sun Stone, whose title is a reference to the Aztec calendar. For 10 points, identify the author of Labyrinth of Solitude, a Mexican poet.

The Hired Man [accept Silas before it is read, accept "The Death of the Hired Man"]

He is compared to "a hound that came a stranger ... out of the woods," and his brother, a "somebody," lives "thirteen little miles" down the road. He could never convince his partner, the well-educated Harold Wilson, that "he could find water with a hazel prong." Found "huddled against the barn door fast asleep," he is given tea and tobacco by Mary, while Warren reminisces about his hay-stacking ability and resents his presence, stating that "home is the place where, when you have to go there,/They have to take you in." For 10 points, Silas is the name of what laborer whose death occurs in a Robert Frost poem?

Sherwood Anderson

He shared an apartment with William Faulkner in New Orleans, and later in life, he wrote about labor conditions during the Great Depression in collections like The Buck Fever Papers. His novel Dark Laughter tells of a man trying to understand the mind of Mark Twain, and his works about Midwestern villages include Marching Men and Windy McPherson's Son. But he may be best known for a work about the reporter George Willard. For 10 points, name this author of Winesburg, Ohio.

William Butler Yeats

He wrote a fifty-six line poem in which he included "There struts Hamlet, there is Lear, /That's Ophelia, that Cordelia." Another poem by this man begins "I have met them at the close of day/coming with vivid faces" and describes how "a terrible beauty is born." This author of "Lapis Lazuli" and "(*) Easter, 1916" asserted that "this is no country for old men" in one poem and included the lines "things fall apart" and "the falcon cannot hear the falconer" in another. For 10 points, name this Irish poet of "Sailing to Byzantium" and "The Second Coming."

Jean-Paul Satre

He wrote a series of novels about the professor Mathieu Delarue whose first volume is The Age of Reason, the Roads to Freedom. However, he is better-known for his first play, a retelling of the Orestia, along with a novel featuring Ogier P, the Self-Taught Man, and another play that includes Estelle, Inez, and Garcen, who are notably trapped in a room in Second Empire style. For 10 points, name this existentialist author who declined the Nobel Prize in Literature and wrote The Flies, Nausea, and No Exit.

Washington Irving

He wrote about Gottfried Wolfgang, who studies at the Sorbonne during the Reign of Terror, in "Adventure of the German Student." Old Scratch meets a miser, who he tries to make a bargain with to reveal the place of Captain Kidd's treasure in his "The Devil and Tom Walker." For 10 points, name this author of Tales of the Alhambra who wrote about Brom Bones trying to scare off a teacher who loves Katrina von Tassel named Ichabod Crane in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Vladimir Nabokov

He wrote about an immigrant to America who teaches Russian at Waindell College in Pnin. Wordsmith College in New Wye, Appalachia, is the setting for another of his works, which opens with "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain" and mostly consists of Charles (*) Kinbote's unreliable commentary on the titular 999-line poem. For 10 points, name this author of Pale Fire who depicted the "nymphet" Dolores Haze and Humbert Humbert in Lolita.

Naguib Mahfouz

He's not John Bunyan, but this author wrote about a man who seeks a mountain symbolizing perfection but is waylaid in Haira and Aman. In addition to The Journey of Ibn Fattouma, he wrote a novel in which members of the titular street compete for the hand of Hamida, and another in which the prostitute Nur loves Said Mahran. In a fourth novel, the offspring of the titular patriarch represent the Abrahamic religions. In this author's most favorite work, al-Sayyid Ahmad attempts to dominate his children, including Yasin, Khadija, and Kamal. For 10 points, name this author of Midaq Alley, The Thief and the Dogs, The Children of Gebalawi, and The Cairo Trilogy.

The Odyssey

Helen gives one character in this work a potion to inspire good dreams, and another character uses the herb moly to rescue his companions. That character in this work is given shelter by the swineherd Eumaeus and is earlier found by (*) Nausicaa after spending seven years with the nymph Calypso. In this work, dangers encountered include the Laestrygones, Scylla, and the Sirens. The protagonist of this work commits an impressive feat of archery before killing the suitors of his wife Penelope. For 10 points, name this epic about the namesake king of Argos told by Homer.

Jane Eyre

Her husband, blinded in a fire, had sight in one eye by the time their child was born, and she returned to him after dreaming that she called his name. Under the assumed last name of Elliot, she is take in by her cousins, and St. John Rivers asks her to accompany him to India. Her wedding was initially impeded by Mr. Mason, as he was the brother of the maniac Bertha. One of the few who did not die from the epidemic that struck Lowood, she was later given a position at Thornfield Hall, which was owned by Mr. Edward Rochester.. For 10 points, what governess is the protagonist of a novel by Charlotte Brontë?

the sea [exact word required; accept The Lady from the Sea before "Maurya" is read]

Hilda Wangel is the title character of an Ibsen play titled "The Lady from" this location, while Maurya and her children find out Michael has perished in a John Millington Synge work about "Riders to" this place. "The Alph" runs down to a "sunless" one in "Kubla Khan." Maud Brewster and Humphrey van Weyden are main characters in a novel about this type of "wolf." The favorite hangout of Manolin and a DiMaggio fan, Santiago, for 10 points, name this entity, paired with an "Old Man" in a book by Ernest Hemingway.

Sinclair Lewis

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

Salman Rushdie

His 2004 essay "The East is Blue" examines the effect of pornography on the Muslim world. His second novel, centering on a narrator who was born at the instant of the creation of Pakistan, not only won the Booker (*) Prize but was also called the Booker of Bookers. After 1989, he spent some years underground and rarely appearing publicly due to Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa calling for his assassination. For 10 points, identify this British-Indian author who wrote Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses.

Kurt Vonnegut

His daughter Edie was at one time married to Geraldo Rivera. In his short story ―All the King's Horses‖ an army colonel must play a deadly game of human chess against the evil Chinese Pi Ying. In the story that shares its name with the collection, mandatory birth control pills make people feel like root beer, and people are urged to commit ethical suicide. More famous for novels that feature crude drawings and are populated by his alter ego Kilgore Trout, For 10 points name this late author of the aforementioned story collection Welcome to the Monkey House and novels like Breakfast of Champions and Slaughterhouse Five.

Samuel Richardson

His friendship with Arthur Onslow, the Speaker of the House of Commons, helped his printing house secure lucrative contracts for the Journals of the House. Harriet Byron's relationship with the titular baronet is the subject of his Charles Grandison, while nonfiction works include The Apprentice's Vade Mecum and Familiar Letters. Scandalized by the morality of young women, he was inspired to write a story about a maidservant whose virtue is eventually rewarded with marriage. For 10 points, name this writer of the epistolary novels Clarissa and Pamela.

Huxley

His interest in Indian thought is explored in The Perennial Philosophy and was hinted at in the novel Eyeless in Gaza. His nonfiction includes The Devils of Loudun and the autobiographical The Doors of Perception.His social satire is seen in Crome Yellow and Point Counter Point, but he is likely more known for scifi-tinged works such as After Many a Summer Dies the Swan and a novel exploring Bernard Marx's decision to reject soma in the year 632 After Ford. For 10 points, name this author of Brave New World.

(Francois) Rabelais

His most famous collection appeared as four books—there is also a fifth book whose authorship is questioned that is about the arrival of the main characters at the Temple of the Holy Bottle. He began his career as a priest but later became a successful doctor. His first two books were published under the anagram pseudonym Alcofribas Nasier and were popular, beginning with a Prologue addressing the collection to drinkers. Name this 16th Century Frenchman who wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel.

Piggy

His mother and father are dead, so he has been living with his auntie who runs a candy store. Suffering from asthma, he is overweight and is known throughout the novel in which he appears by a nickname he hates. Although he recognizes the usefulness of the conch and his glasses are necessary both for him to be able to see and for maintaining the fire, he is unable to survive alone. For 10 points, name this intellectual boy from William Golding's Lord of the Flies.

Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov

His name literally means split, which reflects his internal struggles. His small apartment has a low ceiling and faded yellow wallpaper which is torn where there is a hollow in his wall. He spends much time sleeping on his couch, and is frequently interrupted by Natasya, the landlady's servant. He does not want Luzhin to marry his sister, who ends up marrying his friend Razumihin instead. When his alcoholic friend Marmelatov is run over and killed (*) in the street, he gives his last copecks to Sonia. For 10 points, name this ubermensche who kills a pawnbroker and is sent to Siberia in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment.

Venerable Bede

His pupil Egbert founded a school in York, and as a youth he was cared for by Benedict Biscop. The reckoning of Easter was the subject of this man's "Of Times" and "On the Reckoning of Time," and he wrote on the life of St. Cuthbert. His most noted work traced the history of a certain polity to the arrival of St. Augustine in Kent, and he originated the practice of dating events from the time of Christ's birth. For 10 points, name this Anglo-Saxon author of the Ecclesiastical History of the English People.

the Venerable Bede

Parables

Ignacy Krasicki wrote a number of fables in addition to writing this type of story. One story of this type tells about a man who loses one of his one hundred sheep, and that story appears before one about a lost coin. Another one is about the Friend at Night, and yet another is about the Good Samaritan. They are distinguished from fables in that they typically feature human characters. Plato's Republic contains one about a cave. For 10 points, name these stories, examples of which include one about the Prodigal Son.

epics [or epic poems; or epic poetry; or clear-knowledge equivalents]

In Greek and Roman literature, this genre was predominantly associated with dactylic hexameter and began "in medias res." European examples of this genre include Orlando Furioso, The Faerie Queene, and The Song of Roland. This type of poem often describes important events in the history of a nation, such as the founding of Rome by Aeneas in the Aeneid. For 10 points, name this genre of long, narrative poetry that traditionally describes heroic deeds.

English language

In a Derek Walcott poem, the speaker questions how to choose between Africa and this entity "that I love." In his work Decolonizing the Mind, Ngugi (in GOO gee) wa Thiong'o explained his abandonment of this system, which he had used in the novel A Grain of Wheat to describe the independence movement in his native Kenya. George Orwell formulated six rules to avoid euphemism, ugliness, and inaccuracy in this language in an essay about "politics" and it. Used to write Gordimer's July's People, for 10 points, name this language used by Shakespeare.

The Red Badge of Courage

In a flashback in this work, the protagonist's mother advises him to never do anything he would feel ashamed to tell her. The Tattered Soldier asks the protagonist where he is wounded, and Wilson gives the protagonist a yellow envelope to deliver to his family in case he dies in battle. Jim Conklin dies after receiving wounds in the first battle, and the protagonist becomes the flag bearer the next day, becoming the bravest fighter of the regiment. For 10 points, identify this work about Henry Fleming, a Civil War novel by Stephen Crane.

Daniel Defoe

In a novel by this author, a woman "pleads her belly" to avoid going to prison until the birth of her daughter, whose first memory is traveling with a band of gypsies. Another character created by this man is surprised when the wooden stakes he uses to keep up his bower end up sprouting. That character created by this writer builds a canoe out of a cedar tree but cannot bring it to sea. At the end of a novel by this author, the title character goes to a plantation with Jemy and sees her son Humphrey, who was conceived with her halfbrother. Another of his title characters becomes enslaved in Sallee before owning a plantation in Brazil and befriending a cannibal he names Friday. For 10 points, name this author of Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe.

Vladimir Nabokov

In a novel by this author, the aspiring actress Margot takes advantage of her former lover Albinus' blindness by stealing his money, torturing him, and eventually murdering him. Another novel by this author chronicles the namesake professor as he attempts to adjust to American life after escaping from 1950's communist Russia. These novels are Laughter in the Dark and Pnin. Another work by this author is presented as a poem consisting of 999 lines, written by the fictional John Shade, with comments by Charles Kinbote. For 10 points, name this creator of Humbert Humbert, the author of Pale Fire and Lolita.

Truman Capote [or Truman Streckfus Persons]

In a novel by this man, the transvestite Randolph helps Idabel's friend Joel recover from pneumonia contracted after Joel ran away from Skully's Lading, the home of his quadriplegic father Edward. In one of his books, an affair with Jose Ybarra-Jaegar leads to a pregnancy that ends in a miscarriage due to a horseback ride through Central Park. A character created by this author of (*) Other Voices, Other Rooms has to wake up Mr. Yunioshi in order to get back into her apartment and visits Sally Tomato in Sing Sing. He also wrote a book in which Dick Hickock and Perry Smith kill a Kansas family. For 10 points, name this author of the nonfiction novel In Cold Blood, who created Holly Golightly in his novella Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Cat

In a novel narrated by one of these creatures, it spies upon the Goldfields and observes such characters as Avalon Coldmoon and Waverhouse. Owned by Mr. Sneaze, it is the title figure of a Natsume Soseki work. Another of these characters wreaks havoc in a department store with Korovyev; he is Behemoth in The Master and Margarita. A poem about one of these animals by Thomas Gray, which ends with the saying "Nor all, that glisters, gold" is an "Ode on the Death of a Favorite [one named Selima], Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes." For 10 points, name this pet written about in "Old Possum's Book of Practical [them]" by T.S. Eliot, later adapted into a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Night

In a novel of this title, the narrator Eliezer tells of watching Nazis burn truckloads of babies. In a novel whose title features this word, Nicole asks for a divorce from Dick Diver. In addition to that work whose title refers to a "tender" one of these, Dylan Thomas advised to "rage against the dying of the light" in a poem whose title urges the reader to not go into this time of day. Puck restores the love between Hermia and Lysander in a work whose title features this word. For 10 points, name this time period during which a midsumer's dream occurs in a Shakespeare play.

Tom Stoppard

In a play by this author, a character drifts offstage, presumably dead, with the line, "Now you see me, now you --", and often ends the phrase "give us this day our daily-" with words like "week" and "mask". In one of this man's plays, a 13-year-old savant trying to prove Fermat's Theorem to her tutor Septimus Hodge is named Thomasina Coverly. The Rape of the Sabine Women, or, rather, woman, or, rather, Alfred, is announced by the Player in his best- known play. That work begins with a coin landing heads up ninety times in a row and features two characters from Hamlet. For 10 points, name this playwright of Arcadia and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

Theodore Roethke

In a poem by this author, the speaker declares "I hate my epidermal dress" and wishes to "sleep immodestly" as "a most incarnadine and carnal ghost." This poet wrote "I measure time by how a body sways" in a poem whose first line describes the title character as "lovely in her bones." This author of "Epidermal Macabre" and "I Knew a Woman" used four-line stanzas and lines of three iambs to mimic the title dance of a poem beginning "the whiskey on your breath / Could make a small boy dizzy." This poet wrote "I feel my fate in what I cannot fear / I learn by going where I have to go" in a villanelle which begins with the line "I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow." For 10 points, name this poet from Michigan who wrote "My Papa's Waltz" and "The Waking."

The Prince and the Pauper

In a subplot of this novel, Miles Hendon attempts to claim the hand of Edith but finds that his brother Hugh has already married her. In the chapter "In Prison," two Baptists are burned at the stake. One title character grew up in Offal Court, and the other is taken to Southwark to join Hugo and his gang of thieves. That character proves his identity by revealing the royal seal to the Lord Protector. For 10 points, the beggar Tom Canty and Edward, the heir to the throne, reverse roles in what Mark Twain novel?

labyrinths [or laberintos]

In a work named after one of these constructs, the narrator meets Alvaro de Luna and can see only two out of three wheels of Fortune. In addition to titling the magnum opus of Juan de Mena, another of these structures is home to Asterion. The pachuco, an expression of mimetisimo, fails to escape one of them in a work that includes the sections "The Sons of La Malinche", "Day of the Dead", and "Mexican Masks". The King of Babylonia dies in one of sand and Ts'ui Pen constructs a temporal one. These structures title a work about the solitude of Mexico written by Octavio Paz and a collection of short stories by Jorge Luis Borges. For 10 points, name these lonely mazes.

Diary of Anne Frank (Accept Diary of a Young Girl)

In addition to dreaming about Hennoli, the protagonist of this work shares a room in the annex with a dentist Dr. Dussel, and kisses and regularly confides in Peter van Daan. The protagonist, who headed entries to "Kitty" instead of "Dear Diary," believes that "in spite of everything", (*) "people are really good at heart." Years later, Otto found this account of his daughter's life before her death at Bergen Belsen. Name this manuscript about a Jewish girl's experience hiding during World War II.

Carson McCullers

In her early short story "Wunderkind," a young piano prodigy realizes she has lost her talent, and runs from her lesson in tears. Partly autobiographical, it describes the end of the author's own aspirations of being a concert pianist. Her husband, an alcoholic who committed suicide was the model for many of her addicts and outcasts. For 10 points—name this Georgia-born author of The Square Root of Wonderful and The Ballad of the Sad Café.

Flannery O'Connor

In her writings about her own fiction, this author identified the key moments in many of her stories as the point when her characters found ―grace‖, an idea influenced by her strong Catholic faith. She also chastised the critical establishment for overstressing the element of ―grotesque‖ in her genre of fiction, which was known as Southern Gothic. Her later short stories are collected in Everything Which Rises Must Converge and she wrote only one novel, Wise Blood. The title short story of her most famous collection describes the bloodshed that follows when the grandmother of a family on a road trip recognizes an escaped convict known as the Misfit. For 10 points, who is this Georgia native and author of the short story collection, A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories?

Ishmael

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

Saul Bellow [or Solomon Bellows]

In of this man's novels, Charlie Citrine profits from writing about Von Trenck, who is based on his mentor. In addition to Humboldt's Gift, another of his novels includes many letters from its title character that are never sent and sometimes written to people he has never met, Herzog. In another work a man named Eugene goes to Africa to answer a voice calling "I want, I want, I want," Henderson the Rain King. Another of his novels sees the fatherless protagonist grow up in Chicago with his two brothers and increasingly blind mother. For 10 points, name this American author of The Adventures of Augie March.

Max Weber

In one book, this thinker described "legality", the "gift of grace", and the "authority of the eternal yesterday" as the three sources of legitimation and noted that while the optimism of Shakespeare's Sonnet 102 would be nice, it is not "summer's bloom" that lies ahead of us, but a "polar night of icy darkness and hardness". In that same book, he described the state as an entity which, within its boundaries, "claims the (*) monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force". In his most famous book, which was first translated into English by Talcott Parsons, he lamented how the "cloak" of care for external goods had become an "iron cage" of rationality and analyzed the economic effects of Calvinism. For 10 points, name this German sociologist who wrote Politics as a Vocation and The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

Ulysses

In one chapter of this work, a main character considers the idea that Shakespeare wrote Hamlet based on Anne Hathaway's adultery; that same character is lectured by Garrett Deasy earlier in the novel when he picks up his paycheck. After visiting Mrs. Dingham, the protagonist catches a glimpse of Gertie McDowell's legs before saving Stephen Dedalus from Bella Cohen's brothel. For 10 points, name this novel centered on Leopold Bloom and his adulterous wife Molly and has chapter titles derived from the Odyssey, by James Joyce. 2009 HFT/HS/Literature

Nadine Gordimer

In one novel by this author, Boaz comes to the central city to study music and an affair between Gideon and Ann is observed by the troubled Jessica Stilwell. In addition to Occasion for Loving, this author wrote a novel in which the title character visits Katya Bagnelli in France and runs into Baasie before being arrested and one in which a dead man is found on the farm belonging to Terry's father and Antonia's lover Mehring. This author of Burger's Daughter and The Conversationist also wrote a novel in which the title character aids Bam and Maureen Smales. For 10 points, name this South African author of July's People.

Flannery O'Connor

In one novel by this author, Enoch Emery briefly joins the "Church Without Christ," run by Hazel Motes. This author of Everything that Rises Must Converge wrote a story about a family that dines at Red Sammy's on a road trip. That road trip in a work by this author is diverted when The Grandmother gives faulty directions and the car rolls into the ditch. For 10 points, name this Southern gothic author who created the serial killer The Misfit in "A Good Man is Hard to Find."

Carlos Fuentes

In one novel by this author, a historian hired to write General Llorente's memoirs seduces his employer's niece, only for her to turn into the old widow Consuelo. In another novel by this author, Ixca Cienfuegos searches for human sacrifices to appease his mother Teodula Moctezuma. One of this author's title characters is comforted by Padilla playing tapes of his former transactions. That character appears in a novel in which he marries Catalina after his true love Regina is killed by Pancho Villa, and becomes a tycoon after the Mexican Revolution. For 10 points, name this Mexican author of Aura, Where the Air is Clear, and The Death of Artemio Cruz.

Herbert George Wells

In one novel by this author, the protagonist stole dark glasses, sideburns, and clothes from a theatrical shop in Iping. In another novel, this author wrote of a group of cannibals that tried to trap the protagonist inside the pedestal of a white sphinx. He wrote of Griffin experimenting with making his cells transparent. He also wrote of a man who encountered the Morlocks and Eloi and travelled to 802,701 AD. Name this author of The Invisible Man and The Time Machine.

Mishima Yukio

In one novel by this author, the protagonist travels to the Ajanta Caves, where he remembers a promise to see a figure beneath the falls. That figure bears three moles on his torso and dies after failing to see Satoko. This author wrote about a failed capitalist plot in Runaway Horses, whose protagonist believes Toru and Ying Chan to be reincarnations of his friend Kiyoaki. This author wrote those novels about lawyer Shigekuni Honda. For 10 points, name this (*) Japanese author of The Sea of Fertility, who committed seppuku on television.

Japan

In one novel from this country, Mr. Sneaze is mocked by the narrator, an extremely formal house cat. The protagonist of another novel from this country claims that his index finger remembers a woman who is learning to play the shamisen despite living with a paralyzed music teacher. In a third novel from this country, a journalist narrates the "sealed moves" in the retirement game of Shusai, who lays down white stones on a board. For 10 points, name this country whose hot springs are a setting for Snow Country, in which I Am a Cat and The Master of Go were written by Natsume Soseki and Yasunari Kawabata.

Spain

In one novel from this nation, the protagonist visits the author and learns that he can't die because he is a literary character. The author of that work wrote The Agony of Christianity and invented niovla, exemplified in Mist. Other works from this nation include a continuation of Orlando Furioso, The Beauty of Angelica, and one in which Clotaldo tries to convince Polish prince Segismundo that "Life is a Dream." In addition to Miguel de Unamuno and the playwrights Lope de Vega and Juan Calderón de la Barca, another author wrote the pastoral romance La Galatea. For 10 points, name this home of Sancho Panza and Don Quixote, as well as their creator, Miguel Cervantes.

Spain or España

WWII

In one novel set during this war, a soldier conditioned as an infant by Dr. Laszlo Jamf (LASS-low YAWMF) encounters the sadistic Captain Blicero. That novel, which is set during this war, begins with the line "A screaming comes across the sky," and focuses on the adventures of Tyrone Slothrop. In another novel set during this war, the death of Snowden causes a lieutenant to attempt to get himself declared insane in order to avoid Colonel Cathcart's bombing missions. For 10 points, name this war which is the backdrop for Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow and Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22.

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr.

In one novel, this author wrote about Pugnax, a dog who reads a book about anarchism and is a member of the Chums of Chance. In addition to Against the Day, this author's other works include one where George Washington smokes marijuana with the title surveyors and a work where the protagonist meets a man named Metzger, a former child actor who went by the name "Baby Igor." That protagonist is (*) Oedipa Maas, who is tasked with executing Pierce Inverarity's will. In another work, this author of Mason & Dixon wrote about Tyrone Slothrop's search for a V-2 rocket. For 10 points name this reclusive American author of The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow.

Odysseus

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

Karel Capek

In one of his plays, the opera singer Emilia Marty procures a formula that allows her to live for three hundred years. Another of his works depicts the destruction of much of Earth's landmass to create more shoreline and the creation of the Salamander Syndicate by the title amphibians. In addition to Makropulous Affiar and War with the Newts, this man authored a play in which Dr. Gall is convinced by Helena to give the title beings souls. For 10 points, name this author who coined the term robot with his R.U.R.

August Wilson

In one of his works Citizen Barlow goes on a journey to find "The City of Bones," and later Caesar shoots Solly Two Kings, while in another work Harold Loomis searches for his wife Martha after he is released from the title character's chain gang. In addition to Gem of the Ocean and Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Sturdyvant's withdrawal of a contract offer leads to Levee stabbing Toledo at the end of one play, while in another of his works Alberta dies giving birth to the illegitimate child Raynell, who Rose agrees to raise despite the infidelity of her husband Troy Maxson. For ten points, name this playwright who wrote Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson, and Fences.

short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

In one of these works by this author, Charlie Wales fails in his effort to regain custody of his daughter Honoria when his drunken friends Lorraine and Duncan show up at his sister-in-law's house. In another, Dexter Green's title aspirations are dashed when he discovers that his youthful love Judy Jones has become a common housewife. In yet another, the title character, having undergone the title action, cuts off her cousin Marjorie's pigtails before leaving to catch a train. For 10 points what are these brief works that include "Babylon Revisited," "Winter Dreams," and "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," written by the preeminent American chronicler of the Jazz Age?

John Steinbeck

In one of this author's novels, a non-functioning vacuum is given to Sweets Ramirez by Danny, the friend of Pilon. Another of his characters is based on marine biologist Ed Ricketts, and that novel sees Lee Chong, Dora Flood, and Mack help throw a party for Doc. In addition to Tortilla Flat and (*) Cannery Row, this author wrote a novel in which Curley's wife is accidentally killed by the giant, dimwitted Lennie, and in another of his works, the Joads travel west due to the Dust Bowl. For ten points, name this American author of Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath.

Milan Kundera

In one of this author's novels, a postcard sent to Marketa with the message "Long Live Trotsky" gets Ludvik Jahn in trouble with his country's authorities. A dog named Karenin dies of a tumor in another of this author's novels, which begins by rejecting Nietzsche's concept of eternal recurrence. In his best-known novel, the university professor Franz has an affair with Sabina, the mistress of Tomas, after (*) Prague Spring. For 10 points, name this Czech author of The Joke and The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Haruki Murakami [or Murakami Haruki]

In one of this author's novels, the Factory employs Semiotecs, which oppose the System's Calcutecs. In this author's most recent novel, a protagonist's decision to use an emergency escape to avoid a traffic jam alters the nature of reality. This author Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and 1Q84 [One-Q-Eighty-Four] wrote about a Beethoven-obsessed trucker who befriends Nakata, who can talk to cats. A runaway cat sets into motion the plot of another of his novels, in which Toru Okada pursues his wife, Kumiko. For 10 points, name this contemporary Japanese author of Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

In one of this author's novels, the narrator V. discovers that Nina Lecerf must have had a love affair with his half-brother. This author of The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, also wrote a novel in which the narrator replaces a professor at Waindell University after Dr. Hagen departs for a more prestigious college. Another of his works includes a 999-line poem by (*) John Shade. This author of Pnin wrote about a character who participates in a play called The Enchanted Hunters, which is directed by Clare Quilty. In that novel, Humbert Humbert is obsessed with nymphets like Dolores Haze. For ten points, name this author of Pale Fire and Lolita.

Paul Thomas Mann

In one of this author's novels, the protagonist accidentally dances during the wrong part after being distracted by his love-interest Ingeborg Holm. This author also wrote a novel about a character who falls in love with Clavdia Chauchat and meets his tuberculosis-infected cousin, Joachim (*) Ziemssen, in the "flatlands." In another one of his works, the protagonist develops passionate feelings for the Polish boy Tadzio in a cholera-infected city. For ten points, identify this author of Tonio Kroger who wrote about Hans Castorp in The Magic Mountain and Gustav von Aschenbach in Death in Venice.

Aeschylus

In one of this author's plays, a group of women asks a man to hang them by their girdles from holy statues in order to protect them from the sons of Aegyptus. In another, a woman suckles a snake at her breast. In one of this author's most famous plays, a man clinging to a statue of Athena is defended by Apollo against the Furies. This author wrote of the battle of Eteocles and Polynices in The Seven Against Thebes, and wrote about the murder of a Greek hero and his vengeful daughter Electra. For 10 points, name this author of The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, and Agamemnon, the parts of The Oresteia.

Ernest Miller Hemingway

In one of this author's short stories, "the American" tries to convince Jig to get an abortion. This author of "Hills Like White Elephants" wrote about Harry, who is dying from a thorn wound, in "The Snows(*) of Kilimanjaro," and about Jake Barnes, who joins a group of expatriates on their travels to watch the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. In one of his works, Robert Jordan plans to blow up a bridge while living with with Pablo and Pilar. For 10 points, identify this author of The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and The Sea and For Whom The Bell Tolls.

Vladimir Nabokov

In one of this author's short stories, the first letters of the words in the final paragraph reveal that the narrator is being influenced by the ghosts of Sybil and Cynthia Vane. Fyodor writes a book about Chernyshevski in this author's novel The Gift, and Cincinnatus C. is sentenced to death for the crime of agnostical turpitude in his Invitation to a Beheading. This author also wrote a novel consisting of Charles Kinbote's commentary on a 999-line poem by John Shade, and a novel about the daughter of Charlotte Haze, who is driven across America by Humbert Humbert. For 10 points, name this author of Pale Fire and Lolita.

Emile Zola

In one of this author's works Gervaise and Coupeau are happily married before sliding into alcoholism, and in another the title character and Laurent kill Camille to marry but later commit suicide. In addition to L'Assommoir and Therese Raquin, he wrote about the title female who stars in La Blonde Venus and destroys men who pursue her in one novel, and in another of his works Etienne Lantier becomes the leader of a miners' strike. One of his letters was published in newspaper L'Aurore and attacked Felix Faure. For 10 points, name this French writer who included "Nana" and "Germinal" in his Rougon-Macquart Cycle and who defended Dreyfus in J'Accuse.

Herman Melville

In one of this author's works, subtitled a "Story of Wall Street," the title character often "would prefer not to." This author's Piazza Tales includes that short story, Bartleby the Scrivener. In another work, Claggart is accidentally murdered and Captain Vere must hang the titular foretopman in Billy Budd, Sailor. His most famous work sees the Rachel rescue the only surviving crewmember of the (*) Pequod, while Starbuck, Queequeg, and Captain Ahab perish chasing the titular white whale. Identify this American author of Moby Dick.

Norman Mailer

In one of this author's works, the main character flees to Russia after discovering that his friend, Hugh Montague, died after finding his wife, Kettridge, associating with another man. In addition to writing about Harry Hubbard in Harlot's Ghost, this author who wrote about the March on Pentagon in The Armies of the Night also wrote a work in which Gary Gilmore does not want his death sentence repealed. This author wrote about the invasion of the (*) Japanese island Anopopei in another novel, which sees an argument between Lieutenant Hearn and General Cummings. For ten points, name this author of The Executioner's Song and The Naked and the Dead.

Jose Saramago

In one of this author's works, the records of an unknown woman cause a low-level clerk to stop collecting the title objects. In addition to The Double and All the Names, he wrote a novel in which a proofreader inserts the word "not" into a book about the siege of a certain city and one work about a man who uses the byname Ricardo Reis. Along with The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, one of his works begins when the Iberian Peninsula breaks off, and in another novel the Doctor's wife leads a group of refugees because she is not stricken with the titular malady. For 10 points, name this author of The Stone Raft and Blindness, the most famous author of Portugal.

Evelyn Waugh

In one of this man's novels, Brenda marries Jock Grant-Menzies after her husband Tony is declared dead and her affair with John Beaver proves unsuccessful. In addition to A Handful of Dust, this man wrote a novel in which Mr. Prendergrast accidentally shoots Lord Tangent and Margot is engaged to Paul Pennyfeather. In another of this man's novels, Julia marries Rex Mottram and Charles Ryder befriends Sebastian Marchmain, whose family owns the title estate. For 10 points, name this British author of Decline and Fall and Brideshead Revisited.

George Orwell

In one of this man's novels, Ravelston publishes much of the work of the protagonist, who finally convinces his wife to buy the title plant. In addition to writing about Gordon Comstock in Keep the Aspidistra Flying, this man drew on his experiences as a police officer to write Burmese Days and (*) Shooting an Elephant. In one of his more famous novels, a successful coup of Mr. Jones results in Snowball and Napoleon taking the reins of power, and Winston Smith attempts to resist Big Brother in another of his novels. For ten points, who is this author of Animal Farm and 1984?

Bertolt Brecht [or Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht]

In one of this man's plays, a Chicago gangster seizes power from the Cauliflower Trust, while in another, the corrupt Pierpont Mauler is overthrown by the Black Straw Hats. This author advocated making characters' choices explicit by verbalizing the "Not/But" element in "A Short Organum for the Theater", which also urged use of the "distancing effect". This author of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and (*) Saint Joan of the Stockyards described a barmaid's fantasy of a ship destroying a town in the song "Pirate Jenny", which appears in a play in which Polly Peachum's father tries to get Mack the Knife executed. For 10 points, name this German playwright who adapted John Gay's The Beggar's Opera into his The Threepenny Opera.

Langston Hughes

In one of this man's poems, he claims, "We, the people, must redeem/The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers", while in another, he wonders, "will you stand up like a man/At home and take your stand/For Democracy?" before asking "Will V-Day Be Me-Day Too?" In another poem by this man, the speaker is instructed to "Go home and write a page tonight." This poet of "Let America Be America Again" and "Theme for English B" wrote a poem where the speaker notes that he "heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans" before claiming "I've known rivers." For ten points, name this Harlem Renaissance poet of "I, Too Sing America" and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers".

Robert Frost

In one of this man's poems, he writes that "Spring is the mischief in me"; later in that poem by this author, the speaker contemplates how "I could say "Elves" to him, / But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather / He said it for himself." This poet observed that "Earth's the right place for love" and that "one could do worse than be a swinger of (*) birches," in addition to penning the line "from what I've tasted of desire" in a poem comparing the merits of fire and ice. This poet also wrote of how, "knowing how way leads onto way," he took a path less travelled by. For 10 points, identify this New England poet who wrote "The Road Not Taken."

Alfred Edward Housman

In one of this man's poems, he wrote that "the tree of man was never quiet then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I." In a poem about a figure jailed "for the colour of his hair," a reference to homosexuality, this man asked "Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?" This man's poetry was influenced by his unrequited love for Oxford classmate Moses Jackson. This poet wrote that (*) "malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man" in a poem about a character who "eats his victuals fast enough." That poem by him appears in a collection with "When I was one-and-twenty" and "To An Athlete Dying Young." For 10 points, identify this English poet, the author of the collection A Shropshire Lad.

John Milton

In one of this man's poems, the speaker asks to go "to arched walks of twilight groves" "when the Sun begins to fling his flaring beams," and justifies Vesta's incestuous relationship with Saturn after hailing their daughter, "divinest Melancholy o'er laid with black." That poem contrasts with another of his works whose speaker asks to live with Mirth, L'Allegro. In his most famous work, a character tells the Sun "how I hate thy beams" after crying "Hail horrors, hail, infernal world," having been accosted by Beelzebub in Hell. For 10 points, name this seventeenth-century English poet of Il Penseroso who depicted Satan and Eden in Paradise Lost.

Edward Morgan Forster

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

Jorge Luis Borges

In one of this man's stories, police investigator Erik Lönnrot finds that the victim at a murder site he predicted by using the Tetragrammaton will be himself. That story, Death and the Compass, joins a story about an attempt to dream a human into being, The Circular Ruins, as well as one involving a number of hexagonal rooms full of books, The Library of Babel, and another about a translation of Don Quixote, Pierre Menard, in the collection Ficciones. For 10 points, name this author of The Aleph, who used the labyrinth in The Garden of Forking Paths, an Argentinean.

Sinclair Lewis

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

Eugene O'Neill

In one of this man's works, the wife of Sam Evans has an affair with scientist Ned Darrell. That play about Nina Leeds is entitled Strange Interlude. In another of his plays, General Ezra Mannon is killed by his wife in a modern day updating of The (*) Oresteia. This author also created the actor James and his morphine-addicted wife Mary, both members of the Tyrone family. For 10 points, name this playwright who penned Mourning Becomes Electra and Long Day's Journey Into Night .

Aristophanes

In one of this man's works, three unattractive, old women fight over who gets to have sex with one character first, while Chremes excitedly supports the new female dictator of the state, Praxagora. In addition to Ecclesiazusae, one of his works features Trygaeus using a dung beetle as a steed to meet Zeus. In another of his works, the slave Xanthias is forced to walk around the River Acheron even though his master Dionysus is ferried across to meet the playwright Euripides, all while croaking can be heard from the titular animals. For 10 points, name this Greek playwright of The Peace and The Frogs who wrote of the title character spearheading a sex strike in Lysistrata.

Tolstoy

In one of this writer's plays, wolf cubs are born as a result of the death of the titular horse, Kholstomer. The leader of the Fifth Company, Captain Butler, and the ascetic Muslim, Shamil, come in conflict in this writer's novel Hadji Murad. The orphan girl Marina, the stepdaughter Akoulina, and Anisya are seduced by Nikita in this writer's play The Power of Darkness. Alexey Kirilich Vronsky has an affair with a titular character of one of his novels while another novel depicts the shallow Helene Kuragina in contrast with the compassionate Natasha Rostova. For 10 points, name this Russian writer of Anna Karenina and War and Peace.

Moliere [or Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]

In one play by this writer, a man pretends to be a Turkish prince in order to marry Lucille, the daughter of the titular character, Jourdain. In another play by this writer, the revelation that Anselme is actually Don Thomas convinces Harpagon to allow Cleante and Elise to marry their lovers. This writer of The Bourgeois Gentleman and The Miser also created a character who criticizes Oronte's love sonnet and would rather retreat into solitude than stay with his beloved Celimene. He also created a character who lusts after Elmire and fools Orgon into thinking he is deeply religious. For 10 points, name this French playwright of The Misanthrope and Tartuffe.

Anne Bradstreet

In one poem by this author, the narrator determines to "Raise up thy thoughts above the sky that dunghill mists away may fly" and concludes by stating "The world no longer let me love, my hope and treasure lies above". That poem also contains the lines "Adieu, adieu, all's vanity" and "My pleasant things in ashes lie". Another poem by this author claims "My love is such that rivers cannot quench" and begins "If ever two were one, then surely we". The author of "Verses Upon the Burning of Our House" and "To My Dear and Loving Husband", For 10 points, name this colonial American poet.

Sappho

In one poem by this author, the speaker claims that she cannot finish her weaving because a goddess has "almost killed me with love for that boy." Another work by this poet claims that "enticing laughter makes my own heart beat fast" and begins "He is more than a hero/He is a god in my eyes." This poet, whose works are collected in If Not, Winter, asks a woman if (*) she is crying due to her lost maidenhead in one poem. The only completely extant work by this woman survives due to its full quotation by Dionysius of Halicarnassus. That poem is a "prayer to a lady of Paphos" and is usually titled "Hymn to Aphrodite". For 10 points, name this Greek "tenth muse", a poet from Lesbos.

Robert Frost

In one poem by this writer, a "big boy doing a man's work" is called to supper by his sister, which results in a meeting between the boy's hand and the buzz saw he's using. In another piece by this poet, the narrator describes living near a man who "is all pine" while the narrator has an apple orchard. That poem includes the narrator considering saying that elves are behind the disrepair of the title (*) structure. For 10 points, name this American poet who wrote the poem "Out, Out-" and included the idea that "good fences make good neighbors" in the poem "Mending Wall."

Langston Hughes

In one poem by this writer, a speaker tells the title figure that "ten bucks" is "more'n I'll pay you till you fix this house up new." That piece by this poet is "The Ballad of the Landlord." This poet wrote "tomorrow, I'll be at the table when company comes" in "I, Too, Sing America." Another poem by this man mentions how the speaker heard a man "down on Lenox Avenue the other night ... droning a drowsy syncopated tune." For 10 points, name this African-American poet of such poems as "Theme for English B," "Harlem," and "The Weary Blues."

William Wordsworth

In one poem by this writer, the speaker states that "getting and spending, we lay waste our powers" and that he "would rather be / A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn." This poet of "The World Is Too Much With Us." also penned the line "She dwelt among the untrodden ways," and this writer of a number of (*) Lucy poems also wrote of dancing with daffodils in a poem that begins with the line "I wandered lonely as a cloud." Another poem by this writer begins by exclaiming that "five years have past!" since he visited the banks of the Wye river. For 10 points, identify this Romantic poet who collaborated with Coleridge on Lyrical Ballads and wrote "Tintern Abbey."

edward estlin cummings

In one poem, this author wrote "i carry your heart with me" and "i am never without it." In another work, this poet described characters who "went down to the beach (to play one day)" before remarking that "it's always ourselves we find in the sea." An autobiographical novel by this man focuses on his imprisonment in La Ferté-Macé during the First World War. This poet of (*) "Maggie and Molly and Millie and May" wrote about a character "whose warmest heart recoiled at war" and about a place "with up so floating many bells down." For ten points, identify this author of The Enormous Room, "i sing of Olaf, glad and big" and "anyone lived in a pretty how town."

Wallace Stevens

In one poem, this author wrote that the title figure is "not a person" but is "a feeling, a man seen / As if the eye was an emotion". In another poem, he asks "Shall our blood fail? Or shall it come to be / The blood of paradise? And shall the earth / Seem all of paradise that we shall know?". This author of "Examination of the Hero in a Time of War" wrote that he did not know whether to prefer "the beauty of inflections" or "the beauty of innuendoes" in another poem. One poem by him claims that "Death is the mother of beauty" and describes "Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair," while another says that when the title avian "flew out of sight, / It marked the edge / Of one of many circles." For 10 points, name this author of "Sunday Morning" and "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."

John Donne

In one poem, this man wrote that he was "betrothed unto your enemy," and would never "be chaste, except you ravish me." This poet of "Batter my heart, three person'd God" wrote that he and his lover were two "as two stiff compasses are two" in another work. He also wrote a poem about a creature, which "pamper'd swells with one (*) blood made of two." For 10 points, name this Metaphysical poet of the Holy Sonnets, "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," and "The Flea."

dulce et decorum est pro patria mori [accept rough translations like \"it is sweet and dignified to die for your country\"]

In one poem, this phrase appears after the musings of a tyrant's wife and daughter that one shouldn't "provoke the lion whom a desire for blood" will send "raging so swiftly through the core of destruction." That poem suggests that "steed and spear" make youths "the Parthians' dread". The speaker of a poem with this title saw a man drowning "as under a green sea" while participating in an (*) "ecstasy of fumbling" for his gas mask. That poem, which opens by describing people "bent double, like old beggars under sacks," says one would not say this phrase "with such high zest" to "children ardent for some desperate glory." For 10 points, identify this Latin phrase that precedes "pro patria mori" in poems by Horace and Wilfred Owen.

King Lear

In one scene in this play, one character gives a mission to a knight to go to Dover and give a ring to another character. Another character in this work disguises himself as Caius and is known as Kent. One character's eyes are gouged out by the Duke of Cornwall, and the protagonist becomes stuck in a storm with his (*) Fool. The Earl of Gloucester's son, Edmund, betrays his family and Edgar. The protagonist asks three people to tell him which loves him the most, and the responses of Regan and Goneril make him happy, while Cordelia's does not. For 10 points, name this Shakespearean play about a ruler.

Journey to the West [or Xi You Ji]

In one scene in this work two characters change into a boy and a girl to appease the King of Miracles with human sacrifice. One character in this work was born from a stone egg, and he learned seventy-two types of transformations as well as the "cloud trapeze." One character in this work has a stick that can grow or shrink to any size and accompanies the protagonist along with Sandy and Pigsy. Centering on a Tripitaka's trip to India, for 10 points, identify this sixteenth-century novel by Wu Cheng'en in which a monk is escorted on his travels by the monkey king Sun Wukong.

The Redcrosse Knight

In one scene of the work in which this character appears, he wanders around a forest during a storm cataloging the different kinds of trees. This man is described as a knight "too solemne sad" which is demonstrated when he almost commits suicide because of the monologue of Despair. He was tricked by Archimago into thinking that his traveling companion, (*) Una, was not being chaste and then starts guarding Duessa. When at the House of Holiness he is revealed by Contemplation to be St. George. For 10 points, name this knight who was sent by Gloriana to kill a dragon, the protagonist of the first book of Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene.

Hamlet

In one scene of this work, a gravedigger unearths the skull of Yorick. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were sent along with the titular character to England, who met Prince Fortinbras as his army marches toward Poland. Ophelia drowns to death and Laertes, urged on by Claudius, swears to avenge her death in a fencing match, only to see the plan fall apart as Gertrude mistakenly drinks the poisoned wine and everyone dies in the end. For 10 points, identify this Shakespearean play in which the titular character gives the "To Be, or Not To Be" monologue.

Mahabharata [accept Bhagavad-Gita outright before "endless" and prompt on it after]

In one section of this literary work, the main character is advised that "the immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same." In this work, an endless dress prevents a princess from being disrobed following a dice game; that princess was won in a contest in which her husband shot a mechanical fish in the eye by seeing only its reflection. This work opens with the birth of Bhishma and tells of the death of Karna at the hands of Arjuna, who chooses to employ Krishna as his charioteer. Much of this work focuses on the rivalry between the Kauravas and the Pandavas. For 10 points, name this Indian epic which contains the Bhagavad-Gita.

The Prophet

In one section of this work that criticizes the importance given to houses, the narrator notes that the lust for comfort "murders the passion of the soul". This poem written by a man who also wrote Sand and Foam includes a section where the speaker calls his listeners "the seeds of the tenacious plant" in a section that follows "On Death". That section features the parting words of Almitra the seeress before the protagonist of this work embarks from Orphalese. That man provides advice on issues including "eating and drinking" and "reason and passion". For ten points, name this long book of poetry narrated by Almustafa, a work by Kahlil Gibran.

The Cherry Orchard

In one section of this work, Pischik returns money to the protagonist after learning that Englishmen have discovered clay on his land. The events of this work are prompted by one character's return from Paris following her son Grisha's death. Characters in this play include one who is offered a job at a bank but eats sweets and plays billiards, Gayev, and in this play Varya fears that Trofimov and Anya have fallen in love. At the end of Act Three, Lopakhin reveals that he has bought the estate where he and Madame Ranevsky grew up. For 10 points, name this Anton Chekhov play whose title entity is eventually cut down.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

In one section of this work, the speaker "sent [his] soul through the Invisible," which returned and told him "I myself am Heav'n and Hell." One notable stanza of this poem describes how the "Moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on." The speaker of this work recalls how his (*) "computations...reduced the year to better reckoning," referring to his career as a mathematician. Another stanza of this work describes the "Eternal Saki" pouring bubbles from a bowl. In the famous Edward Fitzgerald translation, one part of this work describes the speaker with "A jug of wine, a loaf of bread—and thou." For 10 points, name this collection of quatrains by Omar Khayyam.

Saki [or Hector Hugh Munro]

In one short story by this author, a "secretary" pretends he is planning the execution of twenty-six Jews to give the Huddle siblings the title "Unrest Cure". In another story by this author, a fifteen-year old describes her aunt's "great tragedy". This creator of Clovis Sangrail also created a character who lives near a Houdan hen and is praised by Conradin for slaying the disagreeable Mrs. De Ropp; that character is a (*) pole-cat ferret named Sredni Vashtar. This author wrote a short story in which Framton Nuttel is duped into believing that Mrs. Sappleton's husband perished, leading to his astonishment upon seeing that same husband returning home through the title opening. For 10 points, name this British author of "The Open Window".

John Updike

In one story by this author, "Queenie" and two other girls in swimsuits walk into a store, later causing teenage clerk Sammy to quit his job. He also wrote a novel about depressed schoolteacher George Caldwell and his son in Pennsylvania. In addition to writing "A&P" and The Centaur, this author wrote of Darryl Van Horne seducing the title women before fleeing Rhode Island in The (*) Witches of Eastwick. He wrote about an ex-basketball player married to Janice in a series of books in which the title character "run"s and "is rich". For 10 points, identify this American author who created Harry Angstrom in his Rabbit novels.

Leo Tolstoy [or Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy]

In one story by this author, Brekhunov sacrifices his life while covering his servant Nikita during a snow storm. Another story by this author of "Master and Man" takes place on a train ride in which Pozdnyshev (POZ ni chef) confesses to killing his wife and her lover Trukhashevsky (TRUE ka SHEV ski), who play a violin work by Beethoven. In addition to The Kreutzer (KROIT zer) Sonata this man wrote a novel in which Prince Andrey is mortally wounded at the Battle of Borodino. For 10 points, name this Russian author who wrote about Pierre Bezhukov (beh ZOO koff) in War and Peace.

Washington Irving

In one story by this writer, the main character borrows the horse Gunpowder from Hans Van Ripper and is heard to become "a justice of the Ten Pound Court." That character failed in his attempt for the hand of Katrina Van Tassel. In another story by this author, the title character heads out with his dog Wolf into the Kaatskills and falls asleep for twenty years. For 10 points, name this American author of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, which includes his stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle."

The Odessa Tales

In one story from this collection, Sasha Borovoi claims that there was "no use at all" for the dead title character after his futile visit to Vladislav Simen, a Cheka officer. Another centers on the decline of an institution founded by a merchant named Kofman that originally had made money by renting a coffin for use in funerals. In addition to "Froim Grach" and "The End of the Almshouse," one story from this collection tells of the robbery of Tartakovsky and how the chief perpetrator paid for the burial of a clerk who was shot during the crime. It is perhaps best known for a story in which a police station is set ablaze so the cops cannot disturb the marriage of the sister of "The King," the (*) gangster Benya Krik. For 10 points, name this short story collection by Isaac Babel set in the Moldavanka of the titular Ukrainian port.

Henrik Ibsen

In one work by this author, Bernick confesses to the townspeople that Johan did not steal his mother's fortune. This author of The Pillars of Society wrote a work in which an avalanche buries the sculptor Arnold Rubek, as well as a work in which Dr. Stockmann discovers that there is contaminated water in the town baths. This author of When We Dead Awaken and An Enemy of the People created a character who tells Eilert Lovborg to commit suicide, as well as a character that walks out on her children and her husband Torvald. For 10 points, names this Norwegian playwright who created Nora Helmer and wrote Hedda Gabler and A Doll's House.

Hermann Hesse

In one work by this author, Leo abandons the members of the League, who include Paul Klee and Plato; that work is Journey to the East. Pistorius teaches Emil Sinclair in this author's Demian, while a work set in Castalia sees Joseph Knect occupy the position of (*) Magister Ludi. Along with The Glass Bead Game, he wrote a work about a friend of Govinda who learns enlightenment from a ferryman and in another a visit to the Magic Theater follows Harry Haller's identification with the title man-beast. What German author, for 10 points, wrote the self-discovery themed works Siddhartha and Steppenwolf?

Oliver Goldsmith

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

William Gerald Golding

In one work by this author, Tanakil and Liku become close before Liku is sacrificed, and Lok witnesses the death of most of his tribe at the hands of a more evolved species. Another work by this author opens with the destruction of The Wildebeest and ends with Mr. Campbell and Mr. Davidson noticing that the title character, who hallucinated being (*) stranded on Rockall, failed to kick off his seaboots. This author of The Inheritors and Pincher Martin wrote about the characters Samneric [Sam 'n Eric] and a conch shell used as a symbol of power in his most famous work. For 10 points, name this author who described the struggle between Jack and Ralph after a group of boys are stranded on an island in Lord of the Flies.

Oscar Wilde

In one work by this author, a character states that "it is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist" and later that character reveals that he hates tea-cake. In another play by this man, Margaret discovers her husband's secret bank book just after rebuffing (*) Lord Darlington for complimenting her too much, and later in that work, Tuppy questions Arthur about his relationship with Mrs. Erlynne. Sibyl Vane drinks prussic acid and Basil Hallward is murdered in another work by, for 10 points, what Irish author of Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest, who wrote about a man who wishes to remain beautiful forever in The Picture of Dorian Grey.

Haruki Murakami [accept names in either order]

In one work by this author, a character who never recovered his wits after being rendered unconscious by a flash of light attempts to foil the plans of the cat-murdering Johnnie Walker. Another of his works involves the mental prostitute Creta Kano and Kumiko's soulless politician brother, (*) Noboru Wataya. May Kasahara exchanges letters with the protagonist in that novel, which opens with the protagonist, Toru, cooking spaghetti while thinking about his lost cat and is named for a mechanical toy animal. For 10 points, name this author of Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.

Tennessee Williams

In one work by this author, a trucker named Alvaro acquires the title item to woo a widowed Sicilian woman named Serafina. In another work by this author, the suicide of Skipper leads to alcoholism for Brick, who reveals Big Daddy Pollitt's terminal cancer diagnosis. One character in a better known play by this author works at a St. Louis shoe factory with Jim O'Connor, whom he invites to dinner as a potential suitor for his shy, crippled sister, Laura Wingfield. For 10 points, name this American playwright of The Rose Tattoo, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and The Glass Menagerie.

Laurence Sterne

In one work by this author, the father of the protagonist has a habit of winding up a clock at the beginning of every month. That protagonist has his nose flattened at childbirth by Dr. Slop. One work by this author satirizes Tobias Smollett as Smelfungus, was written largely as a response to Smollett's Travels Through France and Italy, and sees the protagonist obtain a passport after he convinces an official that he is the court (*) jester from Hamlet. This author wrote another work featuring a man named Yorick, a parson who appears alongside the title character and Uncle Toby. For 10 points, name this author of A Sentimental Journey and Tristram Shandy.

Naguib Mahfouz

In one work by this author, the radio has replaced recitations of classic poetry in a central gathering place. One character in a novel by this author is thrown out of her home after being hit by a car. The sequel to that novel by this author begins five years after the death of Fahmy, and sees Kamal study to become a teacher. Both of those novels are part of a series by this author about the family of Al-Sayyid Ahmad. For 10 points, name this Egyptian Nobel laureate, the writer of Midaq Alley that included Sugar Street and Palace of Desire in his Cairo Trilogy.

Herman Hesse

In one work by this author, the title character recounts a radical interpretation of the Cain and Abel story to the protagonist, who later finds a connection with the theologian Pistorius over the god Abraxas. In another novel by this author, the title character abandons his lover Kamala to visit the ferryman Vasudeva, who tells him to study the river to gain enlightenment. In this man's most famous work, Mozart plays a piece of Handel on the gramophone and compares the sounds to the protagonist's life. That protagonist enters the Magic Theatre where he finds Hermine in the arms of Pablo and kills her. For 10 points, name this German author of Demian, Siddharta, and Steppenwolf.

Hermann Hesse

Thorton Wilder

In one work by this man, Clodia disrupts a festival, and in another work, the protagonist hold several jobs after his car breaks down in 1926 Newport, Rhode Island. In addition to writing The Ides of March and Theophilus North, he wrote a work which has characters such as Judge Moses and the poet Homer. Another play, set in Grover's Corner, sees George Gibbs and Emily Webb getting married. For 10 points, name this American playwright and author of The Skin of Our Teeth and Our Town.

Jean-Paul Sartre

In one work by this man, a senator and his son work to convince the title character to sign a false affidavit so that an innocent black man will go to jail. In a novel by this author of The Respectful Prostitute, the protagonist spends many days at the library with the Self-Taught Man and abandons his biography of the Marquis de Rollebon in order to write a novel and perhaps cure the title feeling. This author of Nausea also wrote a play in which a man learns that one of his companions drowned her child and the other was killed by her lesbian lover. His time with Inez and Estelle leads one of this author's characters to say, "hell is other people." For 10 points, name this author of No Exit.

Moliere

In one work by this man, the slow Thomas is promised the title character's daughter because of his dad's profession. In that work by this man, Béline is tricked by the servant Toinette and Cléante is allowed to marry Angélique by Argan. In another work by this man, the title character becomes engaged to Mariane and gains the deed to the house of Orgon through trickery, but is recognized at the end by the king. For 10 points, name this French playwright who wrote the dramas The Imaginary Invalid and Tartuffe.

Harold Pinter

In one work by this writer, Albert Stokes briefly gets away from his mother, and in another work Max meets his daughter-in-law Ruth six years after she marries his son Teddy. In addition to A Night Out and The Homecoming, he wrote a play in which Lulu delivers a package that contains a toy drum for Stanley, who lives with Meg and Petey Boles and is tormented by Goldberg and McCann. Another work involves an envelope with twelve matches and takes place in Birmingham, England. That work has two characters, and when it opens one is tying his shoes while the other reads the newspaper. Those two characters are hit men who occasionally get food orders. Name this playwright of The Birthday Party and The Dumb Waiter.

Frederick Douglass

In one work, this author describes the brutality of Mr. Severe and Mr. Gore, who work on the plantation of Colonel Lloyd. This author attacked the hypocrisy of Americans who celebrate the Declaration of Independence while ignoring slavery in "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" He described how a fight with Edward Covey inspired him to escape from William Freeland in the first of his three autobiographies, which include My Bondage and My Freedom. For 10 points, name this abolitionist who wrote a "narrative" of his life and founded The North Star.

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

In one work, this author wrote about President von Walter's plot to separate the couples Ferdinand and Luise Miller. This author of Intrigue and Love wrote about the life of Joan of Arc in The Maid of Orleans, and he wrote about Karl von Moor, who forms the title group after being banished. One work by this author of The Robbers addresses the title concept as a "beautiful spark of the gods," while another work features a Swiss hero who has to shoot an apple off of the head of his son. For 10 points, name this German author of William Tell and "Ode to Joy."

bringing rain [or bringing storms; or bringing lightning or thunder; or bringing a flood; or ending a drought before mention; or rain dancing; or same-knowledge equivalents]

In order to do this, Incans tied black dogs up outside and starved them. In a Mayan tradition to do this, children lined up at the points of a compass and pretended to be frogs to appease Chaac. In Native American myth, an animal that did this battled with a whale and lived atop a mountain. Native Americans drove sticks into turtles' shells in order to do this. This was the most important function of a multi-colored serpent central to Australian aboriginal mythology. Aztecs prayed to Tlaloc in order for this to happen, and invented a stick filled with pebbles to promote it. For 10 points, name this object of "dances" by Southwestern Native Americans, in order to end droughts.

the Devil (Accept Satan, Lucifer, Mephistopheles, or other reasonable equivalents)

In poodle form, this figure supplies jewelry for one character to win the heart of Gretchen, and in another work, this figure signs a contract with Jabez Stone. A Puritan discovers that his wife Faith has been dancing in the woods with this figure in a Hawthorne short story. The antagonist of Goethe (GER-tuh) and Marlowe's versions of the (*) Faustus legends, Ambrose Bierce's The Cynic's Word Book is widely known as this figure's Dictionary. The subject of a debate with Daniel Webster, name this literary purchaser of souls.

Native Son

In the beginning of this novel the protagonist kills a rat with a skillet. After attacking a member of his gang to avoid having to rob a white man's store, he takes a job as a chauffeur for his landlord's family. While driving the landlord's daughter and her communist boyfriend, all three get drunk. The protagonist is forced to help the landlord's daughter, Mary, reach her room and accidentally smothers her while trying to keep her from revealing his presence to her blind mother. His girlfriend Bessie, whom he later kills, encourages him in his plan to frame Mary's boyfriend, Jan. For 10 points, name this work in which the legal help Jan provides Bigger Thomas helps him finally feel equal to whites, a novel by Richard Wright.

Desdemona

In the first scene of the play she appears in, this character is compared to a "white ewe" by a man who tells her father that "the devil will make a grandsire of" him. Her tears are described as creating crocodiles from the earth in a scene in which she is defended by Lodovico after being struck. Her mother's maid Barbary had a "song of 'willow'", which this character sings to her own attendant. This character offers a man with a headache a handkerchief, which is picked up by Emilia, then used to frame Cassio. For 10 points, identify this daughter of Brabantio who gets smothered by a pillow by the title character of the play she appears in, Shakespeare's Othello.

"The Rape of the Lock"

In the first section of this poem, Crispissa is entrusted with guarding the title object. In one part, two men named Florio and Damon vie for the same woman. The central character of this poem owns a dog named Shock and travels down the Thames River in the second section. Characters in this poem include the Queen of Spleen and Thalestris, who urges Sir Plume to defend this poem's victim. Lord Petre appears in this poem, as do Belinda, Ariel and Umbriel. The beginning of this poem asks "what mighty contests rise from trivial things?". For ten points, name this mock epic by Alexander Pope about a dispute over the cutting of hair.

The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel

In the fourth section of this work, Xenomanes describes the dim-witted monster Quaresmeprenant. In another section, the first title character fails to learn from his instructor, Holofernes, but has more success with the humanist Ponocrates. One character in this series founds an abbey whose motto is "Do what thou wilt," the Abbey of Thélème. In one book in this series, Picrochole wages war with King (*) Grandgousier. The second title character has an entire country living inside his mouth, and also has a multilingual companion named Panurge. For 10 points, name this series of novels about a pair of giants written by François Rabelais.

Six Characters in Search of an Author [or Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore]

In the preface of this work, its author wrote that Nature is personified by a veiled character wearing a mask with wax tears. That character's husband hangs up coats and hats to summon Madame Pace ("PAH-chay"), in whose brothel he nearly had an incestuous affair. During the reenactment of that brothel scene, one character tells her mother to "Scream as you screamed then!". This play ends with the Son shooting himself and the Child drowning in a fountain. Stiff masks are worn by the central figures, who interrupt the Stage- Director's rehearsal. For 10 points, name this play written by Luigi Pirandello.

William Faulkner

In this author's last novel, Ned bribes Lightning to win a race with a fish, and Boon Hogganbeck marries the prostitute Miss Corrie. This author wrote a short story ending with the image of a "long strand of iron-gray hair" in a bed next to a man killed with arsenic marked "For Rats," Homer Barron. Besides writing The (*) Reivers and "A Rose for Emily," this author wrote a book partly narrated by the mentally retarded Benjy and the suicidal Quentin Compson. For 10 points each, name this author from Mississippi who used Yoknapatowpha County as the setting of his novels As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury.

To Kill a Mockingbird

In this book, Walter's face shows the signs of hookworm, and Randolph drinks Coca-Cola from a bottle in a brown bag. Despite the protagonists' care, the bedridden Mrs. Dubose dies from her addiction to [*] morphine. A mysterious figure wraps a blanket around the narrator as Miss Maudie's house catches fire; that same figure leaves gifts in a tree for the protagonists. Bob Ewell convinces a jury that Tom Robinson raped his daughter, despite the defense of Atticus Finch. For 10 points, name this book about the growth of Dill, Jem and Scout, the only novel by Harper Lee.

Book of Genesis

In this book, a woman gives birth to two boys, one who "came out red all over like a hairy garment" and another who grasped the first one by the heel. This occurs after the mother is told that "two nations are in thy womb." This book is the first to mention Shem, Japheth, and Ham, the sons of a man who is brought an olive branch by a dove. The first verse of this book's first chapter states that "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" before describing Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. For 10 points, name this first book of the Old Testament.

The Tin Drum [or Die Blechtrommel]

In this novel Herbert falls in love with the figurehead of a ship at a Maritime Museum, and impales himself while trying to make love to it. The main character helps Jan Bronski steal a necklace from a jewelry store with one of his special skills. In one scene from this novel, the protagonist's mother witnesses eels being pulled from the head of a dead horse and dies after confining herself to a diet of fish. The protagonist of this novel is accused of killing Sister Dorothea. The protagonist of this novel has a scream that can shatter glass and decides to stop growing at the age of three. The first novel of the Danzig Trilogy, for 10 points, identify this novel about Oskar Matzerath, written by Gunter Grass.

The Prince and the Pauper

In this novel, Blake Andrews visits one character in prison, revealing that that character's brother Hugh has married Lady Edith. A character in this novel uses an object that he finds in an ornamental suit of armor to crack open nuts. Miles Hendon meets a character at the gates of the Guildhall and is later made an earl in this novel, and another character who lives on Offal Court was taught Latin by Father Andrew. At the end of this novel, the first title character returns the Great Seal to verify his identity at the second title character's coronation. For 10 points, name this novel by Mark Twain, detailing the adventures of Tom Canty and Edward Tudor after they switch places.

A Tale of Tow

In this novel, Jerry Cruncher works as a resurrection man by unearthing Roger Cly's body. Barsad visits a wine shop where one character knits a secret message, and another character spends his time in a garret making shoes. The Marquis Evremonde runs over a child with his carriage without remorse, and after he is murdered by "Jacques" it is eventually revealed that he imprisoned Manette to keep secret his rape and murder of a sister and brother of madame Defarge. In the climax of this novel, Sydney Carton drugs Charles Darnay and takes his place at the guillotine. For 10 points, name this novel by Charles Dickens that takes place in London and Paris.

Ivanhoe

In this novel, Maurice de Bracy captures Cedric of Rotherwood and his ward, and Brian de Bois-Guilbert dies of his "contending passions" when he must fight a man defending the daughter of Isaac of York. The Black Knight reveals that he is King (*) Richard at the end of this novel, and Rebecca visits Lady Rowena after her marriage to the title Saxon, Wilfred. For 10 points, name this novel about a title knight written by Sir Walter Scott.

Anna Karenina

In this novel, Princess Shcherbatskaya [sher-BAT-skee] has trouble deciding which of two men would be the better suitor, and another scene shows Makhotin's horse, Gladiator, defeating Frou-Frou in a race. Dolly is devastated by the infidelity of (*) Stiva in this work, which begins with the line, "Happy families are all alike." Konstantin Levin confesses his love for Kitty in this novel, and the title character has a long affair with Count Vronsky. For ten points, identify this work whose title female character commits suicide by throwing herself under a train, a novel by Leo Tolstoy.

Dracula

In this novel, Quincy Morris and Dr. Seward are among Lucy Westenra's suitors. Lucy is ultimately killed by her fiance, Lord Godalming. The title character of this work cannot cross a threshold without being invited and must sleep on soil from his own land. That title character is ultimately killed by a group of hunters led by Jonathan Harker and Abraham Van Helsing. For 10 points, name Bram Stoker novel about a vampire.

Brideshead Revisited

In this novel, a book about Ned, who died in WWI, is given as a loyalty test. The effete Anthony Blanche interrupts the protagonist's art show featuring his latest series of paintings of Latin American ruins. This novel's first book is called "Et in Arcadia Ego" and the second book begins when the protagonist leaves his sick wife Celia to sleep in their room during a stormy cruise so he can begin an affair with Rex Mottram's wife, which only ends when the deathbed conversion of Lord Marchmain convinces Julia Flyte to end it. For 10 points, name this novel about Charles Ryder's reminiscences about titular Catholic estate, written by Evelyn Waugh.

One Hundred Years Of Solitude or Cien Años de Soledad

In this novel, a promise by Mr. Brown to resume festivities after the rain ends causes the rainfall to continue incessantly for over four years. Another character is able to break crockery at the slightest touch, and that character and sixteen others by the same name are killed on Ash Wednesday. Other characters include Remedios, who levitates to heaven, and Ursula, the matriarch, who sees the rise and fall of various members of the Buendia family, who live in Macondo. For 10 points, identify this work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

The Grapes of Wrath

In this novel, a waitress discounts candy to a penny and receives a large tip from a pair of truckers for her kindness. In a different scene, the Wilsons lend their tent to help make a death more comfortable and get their car fixed in gratitude. A riot at a dance is preempted in a government camp, but trouble emerges as the men work as strike-breakers picking peaches. A former preacher is killed after becoming a union organizer and while the protagonist avenges him, he is forced to leave his family. For 10 points, name this novel featuring Jim Casy and Tom that is about the Joad Family's journey to California after the Dust Bowl, a depiction of the Great Depression written by John Steinbeck.

Things Fall Apart

In this novel, a woman tells her daughter the story of why the tortoise's shell is not smooth. The protagonist's gun misfires at a ritual funeral ceremony and accidentally kills a boy in this novel, leading to the protagonist and his family being exiled for seven years. That same protagonist beats his wife during the Week of Peace, and hangs himself after the failed revolt against the Christian missionaries at this novel's end. For 10 points, name this work by Chinua Achebe following the life of the powerful Igbo man Okonkwo.

Madame Bovary

In this novel, one of the few honorable characters constructs napkin rings, dines at the Lion d'Or, and collects local taxes. The main couple of this novel moves to Yonville to prepare for the birth of their child, though they soon give that child over to a wet nurse. After delivering the child to the nurse, the main character is introduced to the law clerk (*) Leon Dupuis. Later, Rodolphe brings his farm hand to the husband of the title character in order for bloodletting to be performed. The protagonist of this work has an affair with Rodolphe which ends with her taking arsenic and dying. For 10 points name this novel about the unfaithful wife of a doctor by Gustave Flaubert.

The House by the Medlar Tree (accept: I Malavogliabefore *)

In this novel, the character Goosefoot is asked to collect a loan given out for a load of beans and Don Michele is a coast guard commander who is stabbed by a member of the titular family whose patriarch relies on local wisdom. Another member of the family, Bastianazzo, dies in a shipwreck after which his wife signs over to Uncle Crucifix her rights to the titular location. For 10 points-- name this verismo novel centering on the home (*) to the Malavoglia family, by Giovanni Verga.

As I Lay Dying

In this novel, the mother of a poor family dies shortly after two of her children, Darl and Jewel, leave to make a delivery for a neighbor, Vernon Tull. Another of her children, Cash, had been expecting her death, and prepared by building her coffin outside of her bedroom window. Another child, Vardaman, is so disturbed by her death, that he drills holes in her coffin, accidentally piercing her face. Much of the novel occurs on a trip to Jefferson, where her husband Anse has promised she will be buried. For 10 points, identify this work about Addie Bundren that takes its title from a line in Homer's The Odyssey, a work by William Faulkner.

The Crying of Lot 49

In this novel, the protagonist encounters Arnold Snarb, who wears a pin proclaiming that he is "Lookin' For A Good Time!" One character is prescribed LSD by a doctor who used to induce psychological illnesses at Buchenwald. This novel's protagonist investigates the history of Pierce Inverarity. A chapter of this novel is spent investigating a play titled The Courier's Tragedy, a work detailing a feud between two historical companies, Thurn und Taxis and Tristero. Centering on an investigation of a mail company signified by a muted horn, for 10 points, name this novel about Oedipa Maas written by Thomas Pynchon.

The Cherry Orchard [or Vishnevyi sad]

In this play, a man imagines that humans actually have a hundred senses, ninety-five of which keep working after we die. A governess performs card tricks and ventriloquism at a party in this play during which an idealistic character storms out and falls down the stairs. In this play, a man who often shouts out billiards terms begins crying after he notices that a bookcase is a hundred years old. Minor characters in this play include a clerk who is (*) nicknamed "two-and-twenty troubles" and a shabby "eternal student." This play ends with an elderly servant lying down as if dead after being locked inside an empty house. In this play, Lopakhin purchases Madame Ranevsky's estate at an auction. For 10 points, name this Anton Chekhov play named for the trees on that estate.

The Flies

In this play, a princess is forced to act as a servant and bring out the garbage, but instead dumps it at the foot of a blood-smeared wooden statue of the God of Death. The protagonist of this play is targeted because he feels no remorse for his crimes and knows he is free, making him immune to the power of the Gods. Every year, the central city of this play celebrates a false festival in which the dead are said to be (*) released from a mountain cavern for a day. The protagonist of this work is accompanied by his Tutor into Argos, where he meets Zeus posing as an old man, who later orders the Furies to haunt him. For 10 points, name this existentialist interpretation of the Orestes myth, written by Jean-Paul Sartre.

"Miniver Cheevy"

In this poem from The Town down the River, the title character finally "coughed, and called it fate,/and kept on drinking." Unaware of his shortcomings, he laments that he is "Born too late," "loved the days of old," and "sighed for what is not." As a "child of scorn," "he wept that he was ever born." For 10 points—name this poem about a resident of Tilbury Town, by Edward Arlington Robinson.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

In this poem, an instruction to "see how graciously [the moon] looketh down on" the ocean is given by the "Second Voice" in dialogue with the "First Voice", and the protagonist claims that "A spring of love gushed from my heart" as he blessed some snakes. Earlier, the protagonist is won by "The Nightmare Life-in-Death" in a dice game against Death, who claims his two hundred companions. The central tale is related to the Wedding-Guest by the title character, who is cursed for shooting an albatross. For 10 points, name this long poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

The Thousand and One Nights (accept The Arabian Nights)

In this work's frame story, Shahryar [SHAH-ree-ahr] kills one wife a day to prevent them from cheating on him, and Dunyazad [DOON-yah-zahd] asks her sister to tell one last tale. Stories in this work include one about a tailor's son who releases djins ["jeans"] from a ring and a (*) lamp and another about a man who discovers the password "Open Sesame!" Including "Aladdin" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," for 10 points, name this collection of tales told by Scheherazade [sheh-HAYR-ah-zahd].

1984

In this work, Ampleforth explains that the word "God" in a Kipling poem is the best of only twelve words that rhyme with "rod". Another man is revising the 11th edition of a dictionary, though his work will only see full use in 2050. The claim is made that the Middle just wants to switch with the High and that only the Low seek equal rights in a book called The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein. That book also shows the sameness of Neo-Bolshevism, Death-Worship, and Ingsoc. While reading said book, Mr. Charrington goes up to his attic and captures the protagonist and his lover Julia, after which rats are unleashed in Room 101. There, O'Brien is the torturer of Winston Smith in, For 10 points, what dystopian novel by George Orwell?

Oliver Twist

In this work, Mr. Bumble and Edward Leeford agree to throw a locket and a ring in a river, while another scene shows Mr. Sowerberry and Noah Claypole fighting the protagonist. After wrongfully being accused of stealing a handkerchief, the protagonist of this work stays with (*) Mr. Brownlow and meets a girl named Nancy, who is later murdered by her boyfriend Bill Sikes. The Artful Dodger and the title character pickpocket in a group led by Fagin, who is hanged in the end of the novel. For ten points, name this Charles Dickens work about an orphan who asks, "Please, sir, I want some more."

The Awakening

In this work, Victor annoys the protagonist by singing a song the protagonist had heard while crossing to the Cheniere, "Ah! Si tu savais." This work opens with a parrot speaking English and French over a mockingbird's incessant chattering. The Farival twins perform a piano duet on a night when the protagonist is moved to tears by Madamoiselle Reisz's piano playing. This novel's protagonist carries on affairs with Alcee Arobin and Robert Lebrun, before committing suicide by drowning in the Gulf of Mexico. For 10 points, name this novel about Edna Pontellier by Kate Chopin.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

In this work, a Belgian named Gaston spends his last three years waiting for a hydroplane to arrive. A creature called the Wandering Jew is scapegoated to stop a heat wave. A patriarch mistakes a block of ice for a giant diamond. One man fathers seventeen sons that all share his name and have ash markings on their foreheads. Many men have children by a *hore who reads the future through cards, Pilar Ternera. A dead gypsy, Melquíades, brings a cure for the insomnia plague. It rains for almost five years after three thousand workers are massacred by the banana company. Úrsula, many José Arcadios, and many Aurelianos appear in, For 10 points, what novel chronicling the Buendía family in Macondo, by Gabriel García Márquez?

The Comedy of Errors

In this work, a character wrongly considered insane is subjected to the exorcism of Doctor Pinch. One subplot in this play sees a courtesan demand the gold chain promised her, which the blacksmith Angelo gave to the wrong man. One character in this play must pay one thousand pounds or be executed for entering the city of Duke Solinus. At the end of this play, the Abbess is revealed to be Emilia, the former wife of (*) Egeon, and two servants named Dromio reunite. For 10 points, name this Shakespeare play about twins who are confused for one another.

Gargantua and Pantagruel

In this work, a group of prisoners are acquitted by the Court of Condemnation Island because one of them correctly answers "weevil" to the riddle posed by Gripe-men-all, the Duke of the Furred Law-cats. One character in this work constructs the Theleme Abbey whose only rule is "Do what you will" as a gift for Friar John of the Funnels. At the end of this novel the priest Bacbuc is amazed when the word "trinc" comes out of the Oracle of the Holy Bottle, while this novel opens when the one title character is born from his mother's ear. For 10 points, name this novel in which Panurge joins the adventures of the two titular giants by Francois Rabelais.

Pride and Prejudice

In this work, a trip to Brighton is precipitated by Colonel Miller's regiment relocating from Meryton, and after Christmas, one character stays with the Gardiners in London. Earlier, the protagonist is criticized for getting mud on her clothes while walking three miles to visit her sick sister. The protagonist disapproves of the marriage between the officer Wickham and her younger sister Lydia, and after being confronted by Catherine Bingley, the protagonist becomes engaged to Mr. Darcy. For 10 points, name this novel about Jane and Elizabeth Bennet written by Jane Austen.

King Lear

In this work, a woman poisons her sister due to her love for the bastard son of a duke, who lets himself be turned against his loving son. A loving daughter ends up hanged, and her father spends time in a fierce storm on a heath. For 10 points—name this play, in which Regan, Goneril, and Cordelia are the daughters of the title monarch.

Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero

In this work, one character bankrupts the servant Briggs and the landlord Raggles, and that character earlier plays charades as the character of Clytemnestra. Another character in this work flees to India after leaving his godson to a woman who graduated from Miss Pinkerton's Academy. The protagonist pursues relationships with the Marquis of Steyne and Jos after a failed marriage with (*) Rawdon Crawley in this work, whose title is inspired from a line in The Pilgrim's Progress. Dobbin eventually marries the friend of Becky Sharp, Amelia Sedley, in, for ten points, what "novel without a hero" written by William Makepeace Thackeray?

The Handmaid's Tale

In this work, one criminal being persecuted at the Wall wears a bag with blood seeping through that resembles a red smile. Two characters in this novel learn that Janine's child was a "shredder" while attending a "Prayvaganza." Professor Pieixoto describes how this novel's story was presented in the form of thirty cassette tapes. After playing a game of (*) Scrabble, the protagonist of this work learns the phrase, "Don't let the bastards grind you down." That character sleeps with Nick, who tells her to trust the Eyes in the Mayday resistance, and serves Serena Joy and a Commander. For ten points, name this novel concerning Offred, written by Margaret Atwood.

The Tartuffe, or the Impostor [or Le Tartuffe, ou L'Imposteur]

In this work, the central family is told by Monsiuer Loyal that they must move out of their home. One of the central characters in this work fears prosecution for treason due to incriminating papers from his friend Argus that are being used as blackmail. Elmire's illness is ignored by her husband in this play. Cleante warns of the title character's machinations throughout this work. Valere and Mariane are married in this work. In this play, Orgon hides under a table and learns about the true nature of the title character. For 10 points, name this work about the title religious hypocrite written by Moliere.

"The Lottery"

In this work, the population of the central town is described as "likely to keep on growing". "Don't you have a grown boy to do it for you?" is a question asked to Mrs. Dunbar, although all the characters already know the answer. "Corn be heavy soon" after the events of this story, for which Mr. Summers brings out a three-legged stool. In this story, Old Man Warner laments, "People ain't the way they used to be". Chips of wood were once used, but have been replaced by pieces of paper in the black box. "It isn't fair. It isn't right" are the final words of Tessie Hutchinson as she is stoned to death in, for 10 points, what short story by Shirley Jackson?

The Necklace

In this work, the protagonist dances until four in the morning while her husband and his friends are asleep by midnight. At its opening, this work states that women have no caste or class after describing the protagonist's marriage to a clerk in the Ministry of Education. The protagonist of this work rejects a Venetian cross after buying a dress worth four hundred francs. Instead, the protagonist chooses the title object to borrow from Madame Forestier, but loses it at a fancy ball. For 10 points, name this short story in which Mathilde replaces the title piece of jewelry only to find that it was an imitation, written by Guy de Maupassant.

"Howl"

In this work, the speaker discusses the "starry-spangled shock of mercy" and describes people who "threw potato salad" at "lecturers on Dadaism." This work inquires about a "sphinx of cement and aluminum" and calls the soul a "catatonic piano". Its second section repeats the word (*) "Moloch" while a "footnote" to this poem begins saying the word "Holy!" fifteen times. Dedicated to Carl Solomon, it begins "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by darkness." For 10 points, name this poem by Allen Ginsberg.

Harrison Bergeron

In this work, the year 2081 sees passage of the 211th, 212th, and 213th amendments, and they are enforced by the State Handicapper General, Diana Moon Glampers. After the title character declares himself Emperor, Glampers walks in with a double-barrel 10-gauge shotgun and shoots him and his Empress while they're kissing near the ceiling. For 10 points, in what work by Kurt Vonnegut is everyone finally equal?

August Strindberg

In work by this author, the protagonist recalls a dream where she is atop a pillar and while too scared to jump down, will only be at peace once she is aground. A man named Kurt is dragged into the unhappy marriage of Edgar and Alice in another work by this author. In another work, Agnes, the daughter of Indra, descends down to Earth to witness the struggles of humans. This author of A Dream Play wrote a work which includes the unseen Count as well as the cook Christina, whose husband Jean eventually hands a razor to the title character. For 10 points, name this Swedish author of Miss Julie.

Spoon River Anthology (accept just Spoon River if buzzed before "commercial success", prompt if after)

It contains 212 characters in all, including Andy the Nightwatch, the African American townsman Shack Dye, A.D. Blood, and the Unknown. It achieved commercial success upon its publication in 1915, and it became even more popular when it inspired a radio show called Epitaphs. One character, Anne Rutledge, was inspired by a woman whom local legend states was a love interest of young Abraham Lincoln. For ten points, name this poetry collection about a small Illinois town written by Edgar Lee Masters.

(An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of The) Wealth of Nations

It is acceptable to give the common title of this book rather than the full title. Its first part uses pin-making to illustrate the division of labor. Its last section looks at the relationship between war and debt and concludes that surpluses should not be used to prepare for war and that countries should not defend provinces that do not contribute financially. Name this work, whose full title begins with the words 'An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of', published in 1776 by Scottish economist Adam Smith.

A Tale of Two Cities

It's not The Cat in the Hat, but this work has some characters named One, Two, and Three, with the Third being especially bloodthirsty. One character in this work has a job with Tellson's bank, and another character looks for mourners while armed with a pistol. That last character has a "shadow" known as "The Vengeance." One particularly important plot point involves two men looking almost identical; those men are Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay. Set during the French Revolution, this is, for 10 points, what Charles Dickens work which begins "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"?

Howl

Its "Footnote" begins by repeating the word "Holy!" fifteen times. Its third and final section expresses solidarity with the person to whom it is dedicated by repeatedly stating "I'm with you in Rockland". Its second section begins with asking about a "sphinx of cement", and from there most of the lines begin with an invocation of Moloch. Like the rest of it, the first part of this poem features increasingly long lines about the exploits of (*) "angelheaded hipsters". The dedication is to a mental patient, Carl Solomon. For 10 points name this poem first published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 1956 that begins, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, hysterical naked", a landmark beat poem by Allen Ginsberg.

The Feminine Mystique

Its author offers a feminist reworking of important themes in social criticism, including the notion of a faltering masculine identity. In "The Problem That Has No Name," the author describes the malaise of "housewife culture," in which motherhood becomes a status symbol. For 10 points—name this 1963 book by Betty Friedan.

Slaughterhouse-Five

Its subtitle is The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death. Characters that make appearances from the author's other works include Eliot Rosewater from God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater and Howard W. Campbell, Jr. from Mother Night. Throughout the novel, the main character hops back and forth in time including the time of his own death, as he sits in the makeshift prison in Dresden. For 10 points what is this novel about Billy Pilgrim by Kurt Vonnegut?

Charles Dickens

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

Thebes

John Lydgate wrote an addition to The Canterbury Tales titled for the siege of this city. A play about a former king of this place formed the basis for T. S. Eliot's last play, The Elder Statesman. A long poem named for this place describes the first Nemean games and describes a hero who gnaws the head of his enemy Melanippus. The maxim that no man should be considered happy until he is dead concludes a play set in this city, which titles an epic poem by Statius. In that play set in this city, a servant narrates how the offstage protagonist took down his wife's hanging corpse and used the gold pins from her dress to blind himself after learning that his wife Jocasta was also his mother. For 10 points, name this city, the setting of Sophocles's Oedipus Rex.

Satire

John Wilmot wrote one of these works "against reason and mankind." One form of this genre is named after Menippus of Gadara. One work in this genre is sometimes titled Sermones and was written by Horace. Juvenal wrote sixteen poems in this genre, and Erasmus's The Praise of Folly is an example of this genre. Its Horatian form is evident in works such as Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. For 10 points, name this type of work which uses ridicule as a form of social criticism.

sonnet

Jorge Luis Borges's "Alexander Selkirk" is in this form, as is Gwendolyn Brooks' "the rites for Cousin Vit." Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate is written as 690 of these, in the form Pushkin created for them in Eugene Onegin. A noted one describes objects that are "nothing like the sun," while others begin "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes" and "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" For 10 points, name this poetic form that might be Petrarchan or Shakespearean and, in an Elizabeth Barret Browning volume, was "from the Portuguese."

The Plague or La Peste

Joseph Grand aspires to be a writer but cannot get past a single sentence. Cottard, a criminal, takes advantage of the situation to escape from the authorities. Raymond Rambert is a French journalist who is accidentally stuck in the city. Father Paneloux is a zealous jesuit. All of them are thrown together when, on one April morning in Oran, Dr. Bernard Rieux, while thinking about his sick wife's imminent departure to a sanatorium, discovers a dead rat. For 10 points, identify this novel, which describes the life in a city quarantined due to an epidemic, the masterpiece of Albert Camus.

Madame or Marquise de Sevigne

LaRochefocauld was a close friend of hers, as was Fouquet, to whom she was faithful to the very end. Her birth would have assured her a place close to the Louis XIV, but her position was somewhat compromised by her cousin Rabutin, who was imprisoned in the Bastille, and later exiled. However, at one point the King himself courted her daughter Francoise, who eventually married the Marquis de Grignan. Name this woman, born Marie Rabutin, who was left a young widow at the death of her husband in a duel, and is best known for her epistolary accounts of life in the 15th century, descibing royal interviews, fashionable society, country landscapes, and the suicide of a cook because of his wounded pride.

"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street"

Late in this story, the narrator is asked if he knew the forger Monroe Edwards. Its narrator owns a plaster bust of Cicero and opens this story by describing himself as "an elderly man", recently promoted to Master of the Chancery. Its narrator returns from church one day to find that his key no longer works, which sparks a series of events ending in the title character being sent to the (*) Tombs for vagrancy and sleeping "with kings and counselors". The title character, a former employee of the Dead Letter Office, is hired to supplement the work done by Nippers and Turkey, but eventually stops working entirely. For 10 points, identify this entry from the Piazza Tales, a story by Herman Melville about a clerk whose mantra is "I would prefer not to".

A Doll's House

Lee Breuer's 2004 experimental production of this play featured the female characters all played by tall statuesque actresses, and the male characters all played by midgets, as well as scenery depicting the title object populated by puppets. The play had to be premiered in Germany instead of the playwright's home country, because the female protagonist's actions in the play ran so counter to the Victorian morality of the day, but they since have been taken as a rallying cry for women's rights. Nils Krogstad threatens blackmail, and Nora rises up against her husband Torvald, in, For 10 points, what play by Henrik Ibsen?

Ming Dynasty

Literature written during this dynasty included the play the Peony Pavilion and Travel Diaries by Xu Xiake. This dynasty pretended to restore the Tran dynasty but occupied Vietnam instead. It ended when Li Zicheng mutinied and Nurhaci led an invasion force. It began when Zhu Yuanzhang, the White Lotus, and the Red Turbans captured Dadu, Nanjing, and defeated the Yuan Dynasty. For 10 points, name this dynasty, known for its pottery.

Evelyn Waugh

Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, and Unconditional Surrender make up this author's Sword of Honour trilogy. He wrote about Paul Pennyfeather in Decline and Fall, and Tony is held hostage in Brazil at the end of his novel, A (*) Handful of Dust. He satirized sensationalist journalism in Scoop, and he wrote a novel about the Catholic Marchmain family's estate which is narrated by Charles Ryder. For 10 points, name this author of Brideshead Revisited.

Outlaws of the Marsh [accept Water Margin, All Men Are Brothers, The Marshes of Mount Liang, or Shuihu Zhuan]

Minor characters in this work include the three Ruan brothers, who helped Chao Gai and Wu Yong defeat He Tao, and later defeat and capture Huang An. One episode in this work sees the Hairy Priest Wu Song kills a tiger with his bare hands. After crushing the Liao Tartars, nearly two-thirds of the title characters die while ending the rebellion of Fang La, allowing Gao Qui to kill the rest one-by-one. Chao Gai founded the title group, which includes 36 Heavenly Spirits and 72 Earthly Fiends. For 10 points, identify this work attributed both Shi Naian and Luo Guanzhong, a novel about Song Jiang's titular band of 108 bandit-heroes.

Flannery O'Connor

Mr. Head disowns his grandson Nelson when he runs into a black woman's grocery bag in one short story by this author. In another work, the Bible salesman Manley Pointer steals the prosthetic leg of Hulga Hopewell. In addition to "Good Country People," this writer described the return to Taulkinham and the eventual death in a ditch of Hazel Motes in Wise Blood. A road sign provides the title in "The Life You Save May Be Your Own." John Wesley and June Star are killed by the Misfit in a short story by, for 10 points, what Southern Gothic author of "A Good Man is Hard to Find"?

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Nacho Zamora ends up in a knife duel like his father in the town of Oquedal in this work's chapter "Around an Empty Grave". The protagonist of this work tears innumerable suits off of his love interest's sister in the country of Ataguitania, where he goes to pursue the counterfeiter (*) Ermes Marana. Settings in this novel include the town of Malbork and the country of Cimmeria, about which Professor Uzzi-Tuzi is an expert. The narrator of this novel is vexed by Lotaria, whose machine displays a book's most common words. The protagonist of this work meets his lover, Ludmilla, in a bookstore, and that protagonist is said to be "you, the reader." For 10 points, name this novel by Italo Calvino.

George Bernard Shaw

Novels by this author include one in which Lydia Carew falls in love with a prizefighter and another where the wealthy Marian Lind marries the inventor of the electro-motor, Edward Conolly. In addition to Cashel Byron's Profession and The Irrational Knot, this author wrote a work in which Frank Gardner is the love interest of the titular character, who is forced into prostitution by economic hardships. Another work by this author starts with a Serbian soldier entering the bedroom of Raina, the wife of a Bulgarian solider. In addition to Mrs. Warren's Profession and Arms and the Man, other works by this author concern a disillusioned Officer in the Salvation Army in one work and Henry Higgins' attempts to train Eliza Doolite in another. For 10 points, identify this author of Major Barbara and Pygmalion.

Atlas Shrugged

On a train ride, the protagonist of this work determines that a symphony she had never heard before was composed by Richard Halley. One character in this novel sets oil wells to fire after the government passes laws that hamper his business. Francisco d'Anconia sacrifices his love in order to join a group opposing the looters, an organization including the protagonist's brother James, who suffers a mental breakdown at the novel's end. By the end, Hank Rearden and Dagny Taggart join a strike lead by John Galt. Conveying its writer's philosophy of objectivism, for 10 points, name this Ayn Rand novel named after a Titan.

Argentina

One author from this country wrote "The Pursuer" and a work in which a Table of Instructions guides the leader through the multi-layered novel titled Hopscotch. Another author from this country described Toto's obsession with Hollywood films in his Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, and the relationship of the prisoners Molina and Valentin in Kiss of the Spider Woman. For 10 points, name the home country of the authors Julio Cortazar and Manuel Puig, as well as the author of "El Aleph" and Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges.

China

One author from this country wrote a novel in which the unnamed protagonist, who is misdiagnosed with lung cancer, dreams about finding the "Wild Man" and the titular locale, and Ezra Pound's "The River Merchant's Wife" is a loose translation of a work of a poet from this nation. An epic from this home of the author of Soul Mountain contains a pig and a river demon who accompany the Monkey King on his titular trip. For 10 points, name this nation whose literature is epitomized by the Five Classics, one of which is Journey to the West, and the works of Li Po and Gao Xingjian.

Italy

One author from this country wrote a novel involving a priest who is forbidden to perform a wedding by a local baron; it is titled The Betrothed. This country has produced a historical novel titled The Leopard and a Holocaust memoir titled If This Is A Man. A playwright from this country makes a reference to his own work Mixing It Up in a play involving several arguments with The Director; that work, in which the Father and the Step-Daughter offer to be subjects of the play, is Six Characters in Search of an Author. Name this modern-day nation whose writers include Alessandro Manzoni, Giuseppe (juh-SEP-pay) di Lampedusa, Primo Levi (PREE-moe LEH-vee), and Luigi Piran- dello, located where Dante (DAHN-tay) lived.

Argentina

One author from this country wrote a novella in which Dalmacio Ombrellieri leads The Fugitive to a two-sunned island home to Faustine and The Invention of Morel. That author, Bioy Casares, shows an encyclopedia article to another author from this country in the short story "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbus Tertius.". That author wrote a short story in which Richard Madden pursues the (*) German spy Yu Tsun and included in his collection Ficciones, "The Garden of Forking Paths." For ten points, name this country home to Jorge Luis Borges, the setting of Manuel Puig's The Buenos Aires Affair.

Chile

One author from this country wrote a poem praying for Romelio Ureta to be allowed in the presence of God. That poem is from the collection Desolacion. Another poet from this country wrote a poem celebrating a gift from Maru Mori, "Ode to My Socks." That man from this country wrote the epic poem (*) Canto General. Esteban Trueba's estate is the central location of the novel House of Spirits, a work from this country. For 10 points, name this South American country, the home of Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, and Isabel Allende.

Japan

One author from this country wrote a short story in which a man steals the robe of an old woman, claiming he needed to do so in order to survive. Another author from this country wrote a novel in which a group of boys are abandoned in a plague-stricken village. Yet another author from this country wrote the Sea of Fertility tetralogy and described the burning of the Temple of the Golden Pavilion in another novel. For 10 points, name this Asian country, the home of the authors Kenzaburo Oe and Yukio Mishima.

Federative Republic of Brazil

One author from this country wrote about Martim, who meets Vitoria and Ermelinda in a farm in Apples in the Dark. In addition to Clarice Lispector, another author from this country wrote a novel whose title narrator is buried in a grave, The Posthumous Memories of Bras Cubas. Yet another author described the Bahia region of this country in works like Dona Flor's Two Husbands and Gabriela, Cinnamon, and Clove. For 10 points, identify this South American country, home to Joaquim Machado de Assis and Jorge Amado, who wrote in Portuguese.

India

One author from this nation wrote about a king that numbers his subjects and forces them to mine gold while he himself lives behind an iron curtain. That author also wrote the lines "all I had achieved was carried off on the golden boat -- only I was left behind," as well as a collection of poems that begins "Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure." Other works from this nation feature a prince's philosophical discussion with his divine charioteer and a king who defeats the demon king who abducted his wife with the help of a monkey god. For 10 points, name this home country of Rabindranath Tagore and Sanskrit epics such as the Mahabharata and the Ramayana.

Palestine

One author from this polity wrote the poetry collections Leaves of Olives, The Butterfly's Burden, and Unfortunately, It Was Paradise, along with an extended poem about the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, Memory for Forgetfulness. In addition to Mahmoud Darvish, other authors from this area include the author of Beginnings: Intention and Method. That author also wrote a work in which he explains the ""scope of"" and the ""structures and restructures"" of the title concept, which England, France, and the United States have used to subjugate Muslims, a work entitled Orientalism. For 10 points, name this territory home to Edward Said, along with a bunch of Hamas pamphleteers.

Wolfe [accept "Thomas Wolfe" before the words "Charlie Croker" are read]

One author with this last name wrote his play The Mountains as a one-act and in three acts with prologue; he also wrote Of Time and the River, his sequel to a work set in Catawba featuring Eugene Gant. Another author of this name wrote about Charlie Croker, an Atlanta realtor, in A Man in Full, and [*] described the Merry Pranksters' bus in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. In another of that author's books, two black men get a tire thrown at them by Wall Street trader Sherman McCoy. For 10 points, give the last name of the author of Look Homeward, Angel, and the author of Bonfire of the Vanities - Thomas and Tom.

Japan [or Nippon-koku; or Nihon-koku]

One book from this nation includes characters nicknamed "Cicada Shell" and "The Minister of the Left." A collaborative poetic form from this country, usually written by at least three people, was adapted by the author of The Seashell Game and the travel diary Narrow Road to the Interior to make a new form. This home country of the renga is the setting for the court gossip of the Pillow Book and a blank chapter entitled "Vanished Into the Clouds." Lady Aoi dies bearing the child of the title womanizing prince in a text from here often called the first novel. For 10 points, name this home country of Basho, Lady Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji, and haikus.

Republic of South Africa

One book set during a riot in this country is A Ride on the Whirlwind. A recent play to come out of this country is about Roelf, whose train hit a woman carrying a baby, and an earlier play by the same writer from this country, about the half-brothers Morris and Zachariah, is Blood Knot. A novelist from this country wrote about a hare lipped gardener who travels a long way with his mother's ashes, and another novelist wrote about Maureen and Bamford Smales fleeing to the hometown of their servant. In another work from this country, Arthur Jarvis is murdered by the son of Stephen Kumalo. This country is the setting of Life & Times of Michael K; July's People; and Cry, the Beloved Country; and it is the home of Athol Fugard, J. M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, and Alan Paton. Name this setting of Kaffir Boy, a book about growing up under Apartheid.

Don Quixote

One character associated with this man kisses the feet of a man dressed in all green, while this character accuses the owner of a prophesizing ape, Master Peter, of being associated with the devil and asks that ape about an experience in a cave which features a heart being given to Bellerma. This man is informed that his brain is melting as evidenced by milk curds. This man is nearly arrested by a man of the Holy Brotherhood, and had earlier mistaken a wash basin, as equipment for Mambrino. This man is beaten by the White Moon Knight, and then goes home as ordered by Carrasco. This figure that is carried by Rocinante mistakes Aldonza for Dulcinea. For ten points, name this character that tilts at windmills, assisted by Sancho Panza.

Isabel Allende Llona

One character created by this author journeys to the Amazon, meets the People of the Mist, and goes on safari to Kenya before meeting a bunch of pygmies in the forest. This creator of Alexander Cold wrote a novel in which the title character is conceived when a war journalist sleeps with a gardener dying from a snakebite. This writer's best known novel sees one character fall in love with a green-haired girl and alienate his granddaughter and her lover. Those characters, Alba and Miguel, appear in this author's most famous work which also features Clara and Esteban of the Trueba family. For 10 points, name this Chilean-American author of Eva Luna and The House of the Spirits.

Great Expectations

One character in this book drives his accomplice Arthur into madness and convinces his fiancee to buy a brewery; that character is Compeyson. This novel sees one character write the letter T on a slate after she is attacked with a hammer by Orlick, who works under the blacksmith (*) Joe Gargery. This novel contains a woman who urges her adopted daughter to break the heart of the protagonist, as well as the lawyer Jaggers. This novel opens with the protagonist aiding an escaped convict, who turns out to be his benefactor Abel Magwitch. For 10 points, name this novel about Pip written by Charles Dickens.

Les Miserables

One character in this book is estranged from his grandfather, M. Gillenormand, and spends his spare time in the Luxembourg Gardens. One incident in this work sees the peasant Fauchelevent rescued from underneath an overturned cart. One character in this work is mistreated by the horrible Thénardiers, and that character, Cosette, is eventually rescued by the main character. Marius Pontmercy is in love with Cosette and survives a student revolution, while the main character of this work is ceaselessly pursued by Inspector Javert. For 10 points, name this book about Jean Valjean, a work of Victor Hugo.

One Hundred Years of Solitude (accept Cien años de soledad)

One character in this novel ascends to heaven when she goes outside to hang sheets. Another character is affected by pica and enters her new family carrying her parents' bones in a bag. In addition to Rebeca and Remedios, another character has an affair with his aunt Amaranta and is shot by a conservative captain. A massacre in this novel kills all striking workers except a man who studies Melquiades named José Arcadio Segundo. The central family in this novel is led by Úrsula Iguarán and its third generation sees seventeen men named Aureliano Buendía. For ten points, name this novel by Gabriel García Márquez.

Catch-22

One character in this novel carries rubber balls in his hands to explain away the crab apples he keeps in his cheeks. The protagonist of this work has a constantly high body temperature, allowing him to get out of his job whenever he feels like it, but is later hounded by a prostitute who tries to kill him. Earlier he had started a C.I.D. investigation by signing letters with the name "Washington Irving". Milo Minderbinder corners the market on Egyptian cotton and another character was promoted by a computer with a sense of humor, Major Major Major Major. For 10 points, this is what novel in which Yossarian battles the namesake paradoxical rule that keeps pilots flying missions, by Joseph Heller?

Wuthering Heights

One character in this novel discovers a boy kept hidden from her on the way to Penistone Crags, whom she denies kinship to until she learns that one can have multiple cousins. Servants in this novel include Joseph and Zillah, and this novel's frame story is about Lockwood, a visitor to (*) Thrushcross Grange, who is told a story by Nelly Dean. This novel's antagonist, found on the streets of Liverpool, marries Isabella as revenge for her brother, Edgar Linton, marrying his actual love interest. For ten points, identify this novel about the love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, the only published novel of Emily Bronte.

Crime and Punishment [or Prestupleniye i Nakazaniye]

One character in this novel dreams that mice are crawling all over him, and another is read the biblical story of Lazarus. That character receives a cross near the end of this work, and debates Lebezyatnikov. In this novel, the dastardly Pyotr Luzhin becomes engaged to the protagonist's sister. The central character is questioned by Porfiry Petrovich, and is befriended by Razumikhin, as well as the former prostitute Sonya. For 10 points, name this novel beginning with a murder committed by Raskolnikov, written by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

The Red and the Black [accept Scarlet and Black; accept Le rouge et le Noir]

One character in this novel faints after seeing the protagonist decorate the cathedral. The protagonist declines Fouque's offer of going into the lumber business, and an anonymous letter from Valenod reveals the protagonist's first affair. Abbe Pirard hires the protagonist as his secretary after leaving the seminary, and the protagonist impregnates Mathilde de La Mole. Their marriage is stopped by a letter from Madame de Renal, which reveals the protagonists' previous affairs. The protagonist is guillotined at the end of this novel and given a funeral ceremony in a cave. For 10 points, name this novel about Julien Sorel, written by Stendhal.

The Awakening

One character in this novel is a talented pianist named Mademoiselle Reisz, a solitary woman who is contrasted with the character of Adele. Alcée Arobin courts this novel's protagonist after her other love interest moves to Mexico. That love interest, Robert Lebrun, is contrasted with the stern Léonce, the husband of this novel's protagonist. Ultimately, this novel's protagonist drowns herself in the Gulf of Mexico. For 10 points, name this novel about Edna Pontellier, written by Kate Chopin.

Light in August

One character in this novel is forced to ask God's forgiveness after claiming that she used butter money to buy a suit. As a five-year-old, the main character of this novel tries to hide in a dietician's office but is discovered because he eats too much toothpaste and vomits. A reverend in this novel gives up his job after his wife falls off a hotel balcony in Memphis. In this novel, Lena Grove tries to locate the father of her baby, who turns out to be Joe Brown. The main character is at times given the last name McEachern, though he is better known as Joe Christmas. Name this novel by William Faulkner.

The Scarlet Letter

One character in this novel is referred to by the governor as a demon-child and later notes on a walk that the sunshine seems to avoid her mother because of the titular object. That mother is married to Roger Chillingworth, though the daughter is the product of an affair with Arthur Dimmesdale and is named Pearl. For 10 points, name this novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne in which Hester Prynne is branded with a red emblem.

Mansfield Park

One character in this novel keeps slaves on his estate in Antigua, and the protagonist's brother is a sailor named William who is given a promotion by Henry Crawford in an attempt to ingratiate himself to the protagonist before eloping with Maria. Maria's parents are Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, the protagonist's uncle and aunt, whose son Edmund she marries at the end of this work. For 10 points, name this Jane Austen novel about Fanny Price's time living at the title estate.

Catch-22

One character in this novel makes a list of "feathers in his cap" and "black eyes" every night. Kid Sampson is killed by the propeller of a low- flying plane, and a character who claims to be a photographer for Life magazine is named Hungry Joe. Michaela is raped and murdered by Aarfy in this novel, and the world's entire supply of Egyptian cotton is bought by the M&M Enterprises. The protagonist is deeply affected by the death of Snowden, and a glitch in the IBM machine results in the promotion of Major Major Major Major. For 10 points, name this novel featuring a World War II bombardier named Yossarian, a work by Joseph Heller.

Sense and Sensibility

One character in this novel marries his true love after being disinherited for his earlier relationship with Lucy Steele. Another character in this novel, Fanny, refuses to allow her brother to love her sister-in-law, driving the latter to depart for the cottage of John Middleton. One of this novel's protagonists enters into a whirlwind romance with John Willoughby, who soon abandons her. This novel resolves with Colonel Brandon and Edward Ferrars respectively marrying Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. For 10 points, name this Jane Austen novel which contrasts Elinor's good judgment with Marianne's impulsiveness.

Lord of the Flies

One character in this novel muses about how much of life is spent watching one's feet. Another character in this novel kicks sand at a young child and later helps the antagonist move to Castle Rock. While trying to tell others about the(*) dead parachutist he found after talking to a rotting pig's head, Simon is killed in a frenzy. A conch shell represents order in this book, in which Roger smashes a boulder into Piggy. For 10 points, name this book in which Jack and Ralph compete for leadership of a group of schoolboys stranded on an island, written by William Golding.

Les Miserables

One character in this novel must choose to defend the father of a woman he loves or the protagonist of this work; another of its characters, Little Gavroche, is killed during a political riot. The protagonist of this work is required to carry a yellow passport to note that he is a (*) felon. The Bishop of Digne saves the main character's life by claiming he has given a candlestick as a gift. This novel's protagonist gives away Cosette when she marries Marius. For 10 points, name this Victor Hugo novel in which a loaf of bread is stolen by Jean Valjean.

Darkness at Noon

One character in this novel reminisces about a man who is given a position working on the Belgian docks by the ex-wrestler Paul. That man, Little Loewy, hangs himself when the protagonist demands he remove restrictions preventing the transportation of weapons to Italy. This novel's protagonist is horrified by a man he calls Hare-Lip, who he later learns is the son of Professor Kieffer. The protagonist develops a "quadratic alphabet" to communicate by (*) tapping on the wall with a man revealed to be Mikhail Bogrov, and he is coerced by his interrogator Gletkin to sign a confession stating that he attempted to assassinate the Party dictator, Number 1. For 10 points, name this novel in which former Commissar of the People Nicholas Rubashov is imprisoned in Cell 404, written by Arthur Koestler.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

One character in this novel repeats phrases like "the flag is America" and "Mexico is the walnut" while reading off his own hand. Another of its characters has hallucinations in which he imagines his companions being placed on meat hooks. That character offers this novel's protagonist some Juicy Fruit, revealing that he can speak. After being found in bed with the prostitute Candy following a fishing trip in this novel, (*) Billy Bibbit commits suicide. Its narrator refers to forces of authority as "the Combine" and, at its end, throws a control panel through a window in order to escape the control of Nurse Ratched, who had lobotomized Randle McMurphy. For 10 points, name this 1962 novel set in a mental hospital and written by Ken Kesey.

The Trial (Der Prozess)

One character in this novel, Montag, moves in with Burnster in an act that the protagonist feels suspicious about. Another character in this work has been stagnantly patient for 5 years; that man, Block, is working with Huld. In the next to last chapter of this book, a priest relates a parable of a man who waits outside a (*) door to gain entrance to the law. The protagonist of this work fools around with Leni and purchases three paintings, all of the same thing, from Titorelli. That protagonist is murdered "like a dog" at the end of this novel. For 10 points, name this novel by Franz Kafka about a man who is arrested one day, Josef K.

Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death

One character in this novel, who invites people to visit him in Wyoming, is Wild Bob. After returning from war, this novel's protagonist finishes optometry school before having two children, one of which becomes a Green Beret [buh-RAY]. After a plane crash in Vermont, the protagonist of this novel loses his wife before having brain surgery. The protagonist of this novel describes his travels through time, including time spent in a zoo on Tralfamadore [tral-FA-muh-dor]. Name this novel set against the backdrop of the firebombing of Dresden, written by Kurt Vonnegut.

The Robbers

One character in this play asks "What crotchet has that swaggering booby got in his numbskull?," referring to a traitor whose cronies include Razmann and Schufterle. The villain of this play meets with Pastor Moser before killing himself to avoid facing punishment. The protagonist of this play gives a speech about striking a "generation of vipers to the quick" and is later betrayed by Spielgelberg. Near the end of this play, the protagonist slays his beloved Amelia and turns himself into the law. This occurs shortly after the death of his father, who was tricked into rejecting the protagonist by his other son, Franz. For 10 points, name this play about the tragic Karl Moor, who becomes the captain of the title band of thieves, a work by Friedrich Schiller.

Our Town

One character in this play believes that the "mind of God" contains the vastness of the universe, and several others sing "Blessed Be the Tie that Binds." That choir is led by Simon Stimson, a character who hangs himself in his attic. At the beginning of this play, a time capsule is placed in a bank. Wally and Mrs. Soames are among two dead souls whose voices are heard in its last act, "Death." This play is narrated by the Stage Manager and is set in Grover's Corners. For 10 points, name this play in which Emily Webb and George Gibbs marry and die, written by Thornton Wilder.

The Master Builder

One character in this play describes being tormented by demonic "servants and helpers" who he believes punish him because he refused to fix his chimney. Another character first appears wearing a hiking outfit and claims to have met a man's wife at a mountain lodge a year earlier. A mother accidentally poisons her two sons when she breast-feeds them while she has a fever. In this play's first act a girl mysteriously shows up trying to claim "the kingdom" she says the protagonist promised her years earlier. The main character hopes that Kaja Fosli will convince Ragnar Brovik to keep working as his draftsman. At the end of this play Hilda Wangel convinces the title character to dangerously climb a ladder, from which he falls to his death. For 10 points, name this Ibsen play about Halvard Solness, an architect.

A Raisin in the Sun

One character in this play experiments with acting and horseback riding but grows bored with the wealthy George Murchison. That character is inspired to her most consistent dream by a sledding accident that injured Rufus. Another character considers an abortion, and her husband frequently escapes to the Green Hat. Later Karl Lindner arrives as the "welcoming committee," resisting Lena's dream of a house in Clybourne Park, and Beneatha considers going to Nigeria with Asagai. For 10 points, name this Lorraine Hansberry play about the Younger family.

The Weavers [or Die Weber]

One character in this play fires the tutor Weinhold for disagreeing with him and plays a game of whist with Pastor Kittelhaus. Another character is forced to kill his pet dog for food but it unable to keep it down, having not eaten meat for two years. A policeman warns against the singing of a song taught to the central characters of this play by the soldier Moritz Jaeger. This play is subtitled "a drama of the forties" and ends as the elderly Hilse is killed by a stray bullet. The industrialist Dreissiger barely escapes with his family after Becker is freed from police custody and leads an angry mob against his house. For 10 points, name this dramatization of a Silesian wage riot of the title workers, a work of Gerhardt Hauptmann.

Irwin Allen Ginsberg

One character in this play has a pet name, "Blue Roses," and expresses fear that she'll become an "old maid" after no gentleman callers appear. Another character tries to escape his mother and sister by going to the movies, and calls his mother Amanda an "ugly witch" during a tirade in which he hurls his coat across the room, breaking the title objects. One of those objects, a (*) unicorn, is accidentally broken by Jim while dancing with Laura. For 10 points, name this Tennessee Williams play about the Wingfield family, titled after a fragile group of animal statues.

Henry IV

One character in this play postulates that, since we begin to die at birth, those born earliest are furthest from death, making Adam the youngest of all mankind, while another insists that only by making things look like the truth can they be kept from being made into jokes. At its start, Fino arrives to replace the dead Tito, but is mocked by Lolo and Franco for misunderstanding his instructions and dressing as a fifteenth-century Frenchman. Another Tito, (*) Belcredi, is stabbed at its close when trying to convince its title character not to consider the marchesa's daughter Frida as the embodiment of a painting purchased at the request of Dr. Genoi, the latest of a twenty-year succession of men who try to propel the title character from a delusion he finds more pleasant than twentieth-century life. For 10 points, name this play about an actor whose riding accident causes him to dress as the arch-rival of Pope Gregory VII, by Luigi Pirandello.

The Iceman Cometh

One character in this play recalls an argument he had with Mose Porter about the difference between Anarchists and Socialists. Another character, nicknamed the "old Foolosopher," notes that the play's setting is the "Bedrock Bar, The End of the Line Cafe...the last harbor." Joe Mott and Larry Slade are among those gathered for drinks at Harry Hope's saloon, waiting for Theodore Hickman, nicknamed "Hickey," to show up. For 10 points, name this Eugene O'Neill play about disillusioned drunks holding on to their "pipe dreams."

Hedda Gabler

One character in this play relates how she pretended to want to live in a villa to make small talk with her awkward husband before he ironically enlisted the help of his Aunt Juliana to purchase that house. The protagonist is annoyed to learn that Thea Elvsted is assisting the construction of a work about the domestic handicrafts of the Brabantians whose manuscript she later burns. The title character is pressured by Judge Brack at the end of this play when he reveals that he knows she provoked Eilert Lovborg's suicide using one of her father's pistols. For 10 points, identify this Ibsen play about the manipulative wife of George Tesman.

Waiting for Godot [or En Attendant Godot]

One character in this play repeats another's earlier observation that man is born "astride of a grave" before lamenting, "of me too someone is saying, he is sleeping, he knows nothing." Act Two of this play opens with a pair of boots front and center, whose owner spent the previous night in a ditch and later begs his friend for a carrot. After two characters leave the stage in this play, one contentedly observes "that (*) passed the time" before his partner counters, "it would have passed in any case." Characters in this play swap hats and consider hanging themselves with a belt from the lone tree on stage. Despite the attentions of Vladimir and Estragon, the title character of this play never shows up. For 10 points, name this play by Samuel Beckett.

Waiting for Godot

One character in this play wants to hear a joke about a brothel, which is interrupted when another needs to urinate. One character offers a radish to another, but it is returned because it is black. This play ends with the main characters(*) agreeing to meet the next day, but neither leaves the stage. One character in this play who has a rope around his neck and gives a nonsense monologue is Lucky, and this play features a scene of frantic hat swapping. For 10 points, name this play featuring Vladimir and Estragon but not the title character, written by Samuel Beckett.

The School for Scandal

One character in this play writes an extemporaneous quartet about Betty Curricle's ponies and fancies himself a "wit and a poet." Another character disguises himself as Mr. Premium and buys his family's portraits from his unknowing nephew. In addition to Benjamin Backbite and Sir Oliver, this play's characters include Verjuice and Lady (*) Sneerwell, the leader of the title group. In this play, Peter Teazle's wife is linked romantically to Charles Surface but is actually having an affair with Charles's brother Joseph. For 10 points, name this play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in which Lady Teazle associates with the title group of rumor-mongerers.

"The Necklace" [or "La Parure"]

One character in this story expresses his delight at a casserole and fails to notice that a tablecloth has been in use for three days. After a party, the main character is unable to find a cab until she reaches the Seine. Although they assure Madame Forestier that the title object is being repaired, the central characters must purchase a new one which takes a decade to pay off, although the original is a fake. For 10 points, name this short story about Matilde, who loses the title piece of jewelry at a ball, written by Guy de Maupassant.

Heart of Darkness

A woman in this novel wears her hair in the shape of a helmet and continues to stand on the shore despite rifle shots. A painting of a blindfolded woman holding a torch factors into this novel, in which a "universal genius" pens a report on the suppression of local customs which ends with the post-script "Exterminate all the brutes!" A hut surrounded by staked rebel heads in this novel is home to an ivory trader whose final words were not his fiancee's name, but rather "The horror! The horror!" For 10 points, name this novel in which Kurtz is visited by Marlow on a trip up a river into the Congo jungle, by Joseph Conrad.

Don Quixote

At one point, this character drinks the balm of Fierabras (FIE-UR-uh-brass). He tells a story about his descent into the cave of Montesinos. This character's story is supposedly chronicled by Cide Hamete Benengeli. Characters encountered by him include the Knight of the Mirrors, who is the squire of Sanson Carrasco. He rides the horse (*) Rocinante, and is accompanied by Sancho Panza on his quest to find Dulcinea. For 10 points, name this title character of a novel by Miguel de Cervantes.

Silas Marner

At the beginning of this novel, William Dane falsely accuses the title character of theft, causing him to flee Lantern Yard. The title character's daughter eventually marries Aaron Winthrop, but not before (*) Godfrey Cass and Nancy Lammeter attempt to adopt her. This book sees Dunstan steal gold from the protagonist's house in Raveloe and Molly Farren give birth to Eppie. For ten points, name this novel about the title weaver, a work of George Eliot.

The Stranger

At the end of this novel, the narrator reflects on the "little robot lady" and Celeste's café after fighting the chaplain. Thomas Pérez was the so-called "fiancée" of the mother of the narrator, who has a neighbor named Salamano who beats his dog. Masson invites people to his beach house, Raymond Sintés has the narrator write a letter to his cheating girlfriend, and Marie is the narrator's girlfriend in this book which begins, "Maman died today." Name this work about the murder of an Arab on a sunny Algerian beach by Merseult, a work by Albert Camus.

Babbitt

His affair with the seemingly Bohemian Tanis Judique turns out to be unfulfilling. Although he had previously campaigned against the radical lawyer Seneca Doane, later he temporarily supports a strike, although he is coerced into doing other than he wanted and returning to conformity. For 10 points—name this real estate agent, a resident of Zenith and title character of a Sinclair Lewis novel.

A Doll's House

In this work, the nanny Anne-Marie works in a household where macaroons have been banned. After the protagonist of this work returns from dancing a tarantella at a costume ball, her gravely ill husband, a patient of Dr. Rank, furiously berates the protagonist for forging her father's signature to finance a trip they took to Italy for his recovery. As a result, they are blackmailed by (*) Krogstad. For 10 points, name this Henrik Ibsen play that ends with Torvald's wife, Nora Helmer, slamming the door as she walks out on him.

Arthur Dimmesdale

Knowing that he has sinned but afraid to confess, this character began to punish himself, physically and mentally. While the mother of his child accepted her punishment and began a life of good works, this man descended into ill health, made worse by the attentions of his lover's husband, Roger Chillingworth. For ten points, identify this creation of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the father of Pearl in The Scarlet Letter.

Love in the Time of Cholera

Long sections of this novel focus on Juvenal Urbino, his disillusionment about the quality of medical care of his home country upon returning from study abroad and his affair with a patient. His marriage to Fermina lasts fifty years and through a civil war, but he does not survive a fall as he attempts to catch a runaway pet. For 10 points—name this novel which also discusses the delayed love between Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza, written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

As I Lay Dying

One character in this novel is actually a child of Minister Whitfield, and he bought a horse by sneaking out at night and working for a neighbor. Vernon Tull is a helpful character in this work, and a side plot focuses on Dewey Dell's efforts to escape her pregnancy. Another character in this novel burns down Gillespie's barn and is eventually taken to a mental institution. Darl is the son of Anse, who desires to buy a new set of false teeth, and the brother of Jewel, Varadman, and Cash, who builds a coffin for his mother Addie at the beginning of this work. For 10 points, name this novel about the journey of the dysfunctional Bundren family to bury their mother, written by William Faulkner.

Jane Eyre

One character in this novel serves seedcake to the protagonist and a friend who later dies during a typhus outbreak, Helen Burns. That character, Miss Temple, works with the sadistic Miss Scatcherd at an institution that the protagonist attends and later teaches at, [*] Lowood School. The protagonist later becomes a private tutor for Adele Varens, but bizarre events attributed to Grace Poole eventually lead to the blinding of her lover and the burning of Thornfield. For 10 points, name this novel, in which the insane Bertha Mason is kept in an attic by Mr. Rochester, written by Charlotte Bronte.

The Importance of Being Earnest

One scene in this play sees the butler Merriman instructed to tell a dogcart to return a week later. One man in this play has a servant named Lane who tells guests that there are no available cucumbers in the market that day. Two friends in this play accuse each other of [*] "Bunburying," as one character pretends he has an invalid friend in the country, and another pretends he has an unscrupulous brother in the city. One character in this play pretends to be Jack Worthing's brother while visiting Cecily Cardew, and Jack wishes to marry Gwendolen Fairfax. For 10 points, name this play in which Gwendolen and Cecily express their liking of a certain name, a play by Oscar Wilde.

Stephen Crane

One short story by this author begins with a man that has to deal with a drunk Scratchy Wilson, who puts down his gun when learning that Potter is recently married. In another story by this author, one of the characters keeps repeating the phrase "funny they don't see us." This author of "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" and "The (*) Open Boat" also wrote a work in which the title character is left to a life of prostitution by Pete. In one novel by this author, the tattered soldier bugs Henry Fleming about the title wound. For 10 points, name this author of Maggie, A Girl of the Streets and The Red Badge of Courage.

Paris

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

Long Day's Journey Into Night

The main female character in this play grew up wanting to become a nun or a pianist. She is the mother of two grown men and has trouble accepting the fact that her younger son has tuberculosis. While the men in her family struggle with alcoholism, she is addicted to morphine. The family consists of James, Jamie, Edmund, and Mary Tyrone. It was not published until the playwright died because it contained a lot of uncomfortable truths about his family. Name this work by Eugene O'Neill.

The Remains of the Day

The protagonist of this novel makes several awkward attempts to get the adult Reginald Cardinal alone to explain the birds and the bees to him. In this novel, the kindly Dr. Carlisle helps the narrator with car trouble in the same town in which Harry Smith speaks about the dignity of the common man. At a conference in this novel, the French Dupont and the rest of the assembly reject the scheming American Lewis. The narrator of this novel struggles to learn to banter like (*) Mr. Faraday. By the end of this novel, the elderly narrator accepts that he has long been in love with Miss Kenton and that he worked for a Nazi sympathizer, Lord Darlington. For 10 points, name this Ishiguro novel about the butler Stevens.

The Communist Manifesto

This work's second section offers ten measures to be implemented, including confiscating property of immigrants and rebels, and taking control of communication, transportation, and credit. This work's first chapter argues that "all of history is the history of class struggles," and its opening words claim that "a spectre is haunting Europe" It concludes by imploring "Proletarians of all countries, unite!" For 10 points, name this 1848 pamphlet that laid out the beliefs of the namesake movement, written by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx.

"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"

"A belt of straw and ivy buds", "Fair lined slippers for the cold", "A gown made of the finest wool", "A cap of flowers and a kirtle", as well as "beds of roses". For 10 points, these are the enticements offered by a rustic fellow to the object of his affections in what poem by Christopher Marlowe?

Banquo

"Seeds of time," "instruments of darkness," "husbandry in heaven," and "strange garments," are all mentioned by this character, one of Shakespeare's many ghosts. He tells the title character, "thou hast it now," with an air of suspicion. When his distrust gets reciprocated and amplified, he returns to the play as a ghost with noticeably "gory locks." For ten points, name this character, who was a good friend of his murderer, Macbeth.

Greece

A modern poet from this country wrote the poem "It is Worthy." One author from this country wrote a novel whose narrator ventures to Madame Hortense's hotel. This country's earliest works include a poem that divides human existence into a Golden Age, a Silver Age, a Bronze Age, a Heroic Age, and an Iron Age, (*) Works and Days. The author of The Last Temptation of Christ is from this country, which was also the birthplace of the playwright of Antigone and Oedipus Rex. For 10 points, name this modern-day country whose ancient authors include Sophocles and Homer.

Macbeth

After this man learns of his wife's death, he laments, "She should have died hereafter; there would have been a time for such a word." This character is informed of Fleance's escape immediately prior to a banquet where he sees the ghost of Fleance's father. This character's wife calls upon spirits to "come, unsex me here," and this character is told not to fear any man "till Birnam wood do come to Dunsinane." For 10 points, name this Shakespeare character whose fortune is prophesied by the Witches and who kills Duncan before he is killed by Macduff.

Tennessee Williams

Alvaro falls in love with Serafina in this one of this man's plays, while in another a charismatic musician struggles in a repressive town. In addition to The Rose Tattoo and Orpheus Descending, he created a family living near Eunice and Steve Hubbell, who can always be heard. The play sees the male protagonist declare that "every man's a king," and Mitch tries to date a woman from Belle Reve. He also created Jim O'Connor, who kisses Laura Wingfield. For 10 points, identify this playwright of Night of the Iguana, The Glass Menagerie, and A Streetcar Named Desire.

Marcel Proust

Among this author's characters are Charles Morel, a talented violinist; a landscape artist named Elstir; and Vinteuil (VAN-tuy), a composer who writes a successful sonata. He also described the marriage between Madame Verdurin and the Prince of Guermantes (GER-mont). Those characters all appear in a series of works whose first entry is about (*) Odette de Crecy (CRESS-ee) and Charles Swann; that first entry is named Swann's Way. For 10 points, name this French author of the seven-volume Remembrance of Things Past.

Sense and Sensibility

At a party in this novel, a pregnant woman socializes with the guests while her husband hides behind a newspaper. A letter rejecting a woman in this novel is accompanied by a lock of the woman's hair that the sender had cut and kissed. A couple in this novel meet when the man helps the woman up after she slips and falls in the rain. A man in this novel is disinherited by his aunt for seducing the fifteen-year old (*) Eliza Williams. In this novel, Robert, the brother of the proprietress of the Norland estate, marries the gold-digger Lucy Steele. A woman in this novel ends up with the older Colonel Brandon instead of the charming John Willoughby. For 10 points, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood personify the two title traits of what novel by Jane Austen?

My Antonia

At one point in this novel, the central town is given a concert by a blind pianist, Samson d'Arnault. One character is aided by her sister Yulka in caring for her child. She had been engaged to Larry Donovan, but he left her just before their wedding. As a girl, she worked as housekeeper for the Harling family, who were neighbors of the narrator. While in Lincoln, the narrator has a romantic affair with Lena Lingard, an old acquaintance from Black Hawk. Years later, the title character marries a fellow Bohemian named Cuzak. For 10 points, Jim Burden discusses the Shimerda family in what novel by Willa Cather?

Hamlet

At the end of this play, one character attempts to kill himself by drinking poisoned wine, but is stopped by the title character, who states that he must live to tell the story. Another character in this play is called a "wretched, rash, intruding fool" after being mistakenly killed while hiding behind a tapestry. That character, Polonius, is the father of the title character's love interest, Ophelia. The title character of this play is attempting to avenge the death of his father at the hands of Claudius, who had later married his mother Gertrude. For 10 points, identify this Shakespeare play about the title Prince of Denmark that contains the famous "to be or not to be" soliloquy.

Walt Whitman

Born in Maryland in 1819, this poet held a job as editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle before being fired for his abolitionist sentiments and liberal political views. Though he was not a transcendentalist, his poems share the individualism and spirituality of Emerson and Thoreau. His main works were condemned for their overt sexuality, and he was suspected of affairs with several prominent male authors. Noted for his collection of poems including "I Sing the Body Electric," "Song of Myself," and "O Captain My Captain," For 10 points, name this author of Leaves of Grass.

Maria von Trapp

Born into the Kutschera family in 1905, she was raised a socialist and atheist, and was cynical towards all religions until she met a Jesuit priest in college. In 1942, she started a music camp on a 660-acre farm in Stowe, Vermont, a location she thought resembled the hills of her native Austria. Unlike her portrayal in a movie, she was governess to only one child (*) of naval captain Georg von Trapp, a daughter who was bedridden with rheumatic fever. For 10 points, name this woman whose books about her family's escape from the Nazis after the Anschluss were used as the basis for The Sound of Music.

Richard Lovelace

British Literature One of his poems, addressed to an insect that sleeps in an acorn bed, is "The Grasshopper". Another work asks a woman to shake her head so that her hair can fly unconfined. He also wrote a poem explaining to his love that he is going off to fight, ending, "I could not love thee, Dear, so much, Loved I not Honour more." His best known work claims that in his soul he is free. Name this 17th Century poet who wrote "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars" and "To Althea, from Prison".

(Reginald) Jeeves

British Literature The only story narrated by this character involves a stop at a girls school run by Miss Tomlinson and explains why another character has a fear of public speaking. His first appearance is in the story Extricating Young Gussie, which appears in the collection The Man With Two Left Feet. At one point he works for Chuffy, though most of the works he appears in are narrated by his primary employer, Bertie Wooster. His first name is Reginald, and he appeared in works by PG Wodehouse. Name this valet.

The Water Margin (or Outlaws of the Marsh; or All Men are Brothers; or The Marshes of Mount Liang; or Shuihu Zhuan)

Characters in this novel include a man possessing twin axes, who mercilessly killed a four-year old, a man nicknamed "Timely Rain," and a guy who is seven feet tall and possesses a blue birthmark. The beginning of this novel sees the rise of a football-playing street orphan who later becomes its primary antagonist. This scene is followed by a story of the "flowery monk," who is one of thirty-six heavenly spirits paired with the seventy-two earthly friends. Translated by Pearl Buck, this is, For 10 points, what novel by Luo Guanzhong about a group of 108 outlaws?

Gulliver's Travels

Despite being away from his wife for many years, the protagonist of this novel is unable to embrace her upon returning, finding her odor noxious. His adventures include talking with Alexander the Great, entertaining the queen of Brobdingnag, capturing the fleet of Blefuscu, being mistaken for a Yahoo by the Houyhnhnms, and fleeing Lilliput for its rival kingdom after learning of a plot to kill him. For 10 points name this work by Jonathan Swift about Lemuel's journeys.

The Fountainhead

Ellsworth Toohey, New York City's alleged expert on architecture, promotes the career of Peter Keating, the valedictorian of his class at Stanton Institute of Technology. Despite all Toohey's power, he is unable to defeat Howard Roark, Keating's former roommate, who was expelled from college after his junior year. For 10 points, name this 1943 novel that helped put Ayn Rand's "objectivism" onto the world stage.

Grass

Hamlin Hannibal Garland wrote the line "O to dream of the plain" in a poem titled "In" this entity." Another poem titled after this substance urges the reader to "shovel them under" and ponders whether in two or ten years, passengers will ask the conductor "What place is this? / Where are we now?," unaware that they are at Gettysburg, Ypres, Verdun, Austerlitz, or Waterloo. For 10 points, name this plant that "covers all" in a work by Carl Sandburg, and which "is singing" in a novel by Doris Lessing.

Luigi Pirandello

He discussed the communal power of myth in the plays The New Colony and The Mountain Giants. His mature works began with the story of a man who falls off a horse and imagines that he is Henry IV, and his other meditations on the fluid nature of identity include the plays Tonight We Improvise and Right You Are, If You Think You Are. For 10 points, identify this author who wrote of a family that bursts into a play rehearsal demanding to be written about in Six Characters in Search of an Author.

Hunter S. Thompson

He enlisted in the Air Force after serving thirty days in juvenile detention before his high school graduation, but he did not like the military rules or electronics school. After the sports editor of the base's newspaper the Command Courier was arrested, he found his calling filling the shoes, and he eventually hung around the Hell's Angels to write a chronicle and inspired the character of Uncle Duke in Doonesvbury. For 10 points—name this "gonzo journalist" of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

John Cage

He moved to Europe as a young man but returned to the U.S. after being inspired by reading Whitman's "Leaves of Grass." He was a favorite student of Arnold Schoenberg and studied under him for several years. For ten points, who is this composer that one does not need years with a tutor to perform some of his pieces, such as Four Minutes, Thirty Three Seconds, which merely consists of several minutes of silence.

John Irving

He was a product of the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, studying alongside Kurt Vonnegut. He was sexually abused at the age of 11 by an older woman, which may have accounted for May-December relationships in his novels Until I Find You and (*) A Widow for One Year. He won an Academy Award for adapting his novel Cider House Rules into a screenplay. For 10 points, name this author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and The World According to Garp.

Sophocles

He was famous for a ball-juggling act that he performed in the play Nausicaa but his relatively weak voice caused him to leave acting and concentrate on writing. Among his characters are Deianira, the wife of Heracles in The Women of Trachis and the loyal slave Tecmessa in Ajax. _FOR 10 POINTS—_name this Greek playwright who capped off a trilogy with Antigone.

John Dos Passos

His experience in World War I was used in his works One Man's Initiation: 1917 and Three Soldiers. In another of his works, Ellen Thatcher has a pattern of marriage and divorce after her mother dies, titled Manhattan Transfer. He describes the historical events surrounding the United States' entrance into World War I in Mr. Wilson's War. In one of his series, he recounts twelve separate people's stories, with these characters occasionally meeting. Throughout the novels Woodrow Wilson is negatively depicted, while the characters are sympathetic towards the IWW. For 10 points, name this author of The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money, his USA trilogy.

Mario Vargas Llosa

In one book by this author, Boa and Cava meet at a "windowless latrine." Another of his books features secret police managed by Cayo Bermúdez, who works for Odría, and a dog pound where the chauffeur Ambrosio finds the newspaperman Zavalita. The Circle is a gang created by this writer, whose leader, Jaguar, steals a chemistry exam. In a novel by this author of Conversation in the Cathedral, a cadet is shot at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy, and in another, soap operas are broadcast by Radio Panamericana, which employs Mario and Pedro Camacho. For 10 points, name this Nobel-winning author of The Time of the Hero and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, a Peruvian.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

In one early scene of this novel, Sam and Andy excite the horses to delay a pursuit for their friend. Another character in this novel distributes locks of her hair as she dies, inspiring compassion in Ophelia. The protagonist becomes separated with his wife Aunt Chloe, but his fate turns when he saves Eva from drowning, impressing her father Augustine St. Clare. Eventually, that title character is beaten to death by Simon Legree. For 10 points, name this best selling anti-slavery novel of the 19th century, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Australia

In one novel from this country, Mrs. Ruth Godbold and her children watch the destruction of Xanadu, a house previously owned by Miss Hare. That novel is Riders in the Chariot. One author from this country described the murder of the Healy and Newby families in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith. One author from this country wrote about Laura Trevelyan and the title German explorer's attempt to cross an entire continent in Voss, and another author from this country wrote about a bet centered on transporting a glass cathedral in Oscar and Lucinda. For 10 points, name this country home to Thomas Keneally, Patrick White, and Peter Carey.

Joseph Conrad

In one novel, he wrote about the captain of the Sephora who is tricked out of finding Leggatt, and in another, Senór Gould gives away a Costaguana gold mine. Chinua Achebe called this author of The Secret Sharer a racist, and Jewel falls in love with the chief mate of the Patna who moves to Patusan. In one novella, Charlie Marlowe travels through the (*) Belgian Congo to meet an ivory trader whose last words were "The horror, the horror!" Name this Polish-born author of Nostromo, Lord Jim, and Heart of Darkness.

Margaret Eleanor Atwood

In one of this author's books, Elaine Risley and her brother Stephen travelled with their father, who was a field entomologist. This author wrote about a woman who is married to Luke and has an affair with Nick at Serena's prompting. Nick tells that character that the Eyes are part of Mayday, a resistance group opposed to the Republic of Gilead, who are coming to rescue Offred from her work as a reproductive slave for the Commander. For 10 points, name this Canadian author who wrote Cat's Eye and the dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale.

Edward Albee

In one of this author's works, Bernie's friend Jack tries to get the title character into a hospital for white people only, and in another Leslie and Sarah as two lizards dissatisfied with their life. He wrote of women named A, B, C, who are the same person. This author also wrote a play where games like humiliate the hosts and bringing up baby are played George and Martha. For ten points, name this author of The Death of Bessie Smith, Seascape, Three Tall Women, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Henry James

In one of this author's works, a character learns about the mysterious deaths of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel from Mrs. Grose. This author of The Golden Bowl wrote about Austin and Catherine Sloper, residents of Washington Square, and in a longer novel he wrote about the rejection of Caspar Goodwood and Florentine courtship of Gilbert Osmond by Isabel Archer. The Ambassadors and The Portrait of a Lady were written by this author, who wrote a short ghost story about Miles and Flora. For 10 points, name this author of The Turn of the Screw.

Geoffrey Chaucer

In one of this author's works, a knight who serves Love tells the poet how he lost his queen in a game of chess against Fortuna. In addition to that poem, which begins by retelling Ovid's story about Ceyx and Alcyone, this author wrote a poem in which Scipio Africanus guides the narrator to Venus's temple. This author of The Book of the Duchess and "The (*) Parlement of Foules" wrote a more famous work which features the story of Arcite and Palamon, as told by a knight, set against the frame narrative of a pilgrimage to the grave of Thomas Becket. For ten points, name this author who included tales from people like the Nun's Priest and the Wife of Bath in his collection, The Canterbury Tales.

Langston Hughes

In one of this man's poems, the speaker asks "and who are you that draws your veil across the stars?" In addition to "Let America Be America Again," this poet wrote about a woman who complains that she "ain't got nobody to share [her] bed" in the poem "50-50." Another one of this man's works begins with an instructor's directions to "Go home and write a page tonight" and yet another features a "drowsy syncopated tune." For 10 points, name this poet of "Theme for English B" and "The Weary Blues," a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance.

The Canterbury Tales [accept "The Pardoner's Tale" before "another section"]

In one part of this work, three men set off to kill Death, but they are distracted when they find a large amount of money. At the end of another section of this work, a knight gives up his choice of having either a young and unfaithful wife or an old and faithful one. The plot of this work is set in motion when a group sets out together from the Tabard Inn in Southwark. For 10 points, name this collection of stories told by pilgrims such as the Pardoner and the Wife of Bath, which was written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer.

Alexander Pushkin

In one short story by this author, an engineer named Hermann tries to learn a gambling secret from the Count of St. Germain. He wrote a poem about a statue which muses about striking terror into the Swedes and he wrote a drama about a ruler whose reign saw the end of the Time of Troubles. In addition to "The Bronze Horseman" and Boris (*) Godunov, this author wrote a work in which the title character dances with Olga and later kills his friend Vladimir Lensky in a duel. For 10 points, name this Russian author of Eugene Onegin.

Washington Irving

In one story by this author, Kidd the Pirate's buried treasure tempts the title character into making a deal with Old Scratch. This author also worked on a biography of Christopher Columbus and told stories about a Moorish palace. In addition to The Devil and Tom Walker and Tales From the Alhambra, this author wrote a story in which the protagonist encounters the ghosts of Hendrik Hudson's crew, and in another told of a man who loved Katrina Von Tassel and was tormented by Brom Bones. For 10 points, name this author who told of Ichabod Crane and a man who sleeps for twenty years in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle.

Eudora Welty

In one work by this author, a man named R.J. Bowman who works for a shoe company stays at a rural home after crashing his car into a ravine. In another of her works, a woman named Phoenix Jackson travels into town to pick up medicine for her grandson. In addition to "A (*) Worn Path", this author wrote a story in which arguments involving a pink kimono and the child of Stella Rondo lead to the narrator living at the title establishment. This author also wrote a novel in which Laurel Hand returns to New Orleans after her father Judge McKelva has retina surgery. For 10 points, name this author of "Why I Live at the P.O." and The Optimist's Daughter.

Washington Irving

In one work by this writer, he tells episodic tales about the residents and guests of Bracebridge Hall such as Ready Money Jack and a Student from Salamanca. This man's position as ambassador to Spain fueled his collection of stories, Tales of the Alhambra. In a 'sketchbook' under the pen name of Geoffrey Crayon, this author wrote about a miser making a deal with a devil called Old Scratch and a man who wakes up after a twenty year nap. An early 19th century American writer, for 10 points, identify this author of The Devil and Tom Walker, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and Rip Van Winkle.

The Mayor of Casterbridge

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

Middlemarch

In this novel, John Raffles works as an investigator for Nicholas Bulstrode, who bails out Rosamond Vincy and her husband from debt. Lydgate hopes to locate the building block of life and Edward Casaubon wants to write the "Key to All Mythologies." All of this is irrelevant to the main character, of course, as she remains true to her heart and ditches Casaubon for his young cousin Will Ladislaw. For 10 points, name this novel centering on young Dorothea Brooke, the masterpiece of George Eliot.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

In this novel, one character is painted blue and is called the "Sick Arab". In another scene, the brothers of the deceased Peter Wilks are impersonated by two boys who hold a play called "The Royal Nonesuch" and claim to be a duke and dauphin. The title character of this novel is frightened by a feud between the (*) Grangerfords and Shepherdsons, and later teams up with Sid to rescue a slave in Phelps' plantation. That title character, the son of the drunkard Pap, befriends Miss Watson's slave, Jim. For ten points, name this work written by Mark Twain, a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

The Count of Monte Cristo [or Le Comte de Monte Cristo]

In this novel, the false news of an uprising in Spain led by Don Carlos causes one character to lose a million francs, and that character loses the rest of his wealth when he is kidnapped by Italian bandits. The title character saves his former employer, Pierre Morrel, from disgrace and suicide with the sudden reappearance of the Pharaon and a note signed "Sinbad the Sailor." The title character buys his way into the Italian aristocracy with the lost treasure of Cardinal Caesar Spada, which he gained with the help of Abbé Faria. For 10 points, name this novel by Alexandre Dumas in which Edmond Dantès takes his revenge on those who had him imprisoned in the Château d'If.

One Hundred Years of Solitude [or Cien años de soledad]

In this novel, the great-great-grandmother of one character gave up walking in public after sitting on a lighted stove during an attack by Francis Drake. A character in this novel refers to a magnet as the eighth wonder of the learned alchemists of Macedonia. Another person in this novel is isolated due to a disease that causes insomnia and a complete loss of memory. This novel describes seven generations, most of whom are survived by Úrsula Iguarán, who originally left Riohacha with her husband José Arcadio Buendía and helped him start the town of Macondo. Name this novel by Gabriel Garcia Márquez.

Catch-22

In this novel, the protagonist is sent to consult with the psychiatrist Sanderson after sexually assaulting Nurse Duckett. Another character in this novel is promoted by an IBM machine with a sense of humor such that his rank is the same as his name. The title of this novel, set on the island of Pianosa, refers to the fact that anyone seeking to get out of a (*) mission must be sane, and thus fit to go out on another mission. For 10 points, Yossarian is the protagonist of what novel about a World War Two bombing squadron written by Joseph Heller?

East of Eden

It centers on the interpretation of the Hebrew word "timshel" found in the book of Genesis, which some characters conclude should mean "thou mayest rule over sin." The Chinese servant Lee serves as a mouthpiece for the author's own philosophical and religious beliefs, while Samuel Hamilton looks after a barren wasteland of a farm. The evil woman Cathy Ames causes Adam to abandon his two sons, the religious Aron and the impulsive Caleb, and the latter indirectly kills the former by revealing that their mother is in fact alive. For 10 points, name this novel set in Salinas, California that focuses on the Trask family, a treatment of the Cain and Abel story by John Steinbeck.

The Devil's Dictionary

It defines artillery as "an instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries," and marriage as "the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two." For ten points, identify this work that offers a satirical look at the English language, written by Ambrose Bierce.

To Kill a Mockingbird

Items that two characters in this book discover in a knot in a tree include figurines carved in soap and mint gum. One character is convicted of rape despite the fact that a withered arm proves he could not have committed the crime, and that man, Tom, is defended by the protagonist's father. The book's title action is declared to be a sin by that man, Atticus. For 10 points, name this book about Scout Finch, a novel by Harper Lee.

Swan Lake [or Lebedinoe ozero]

Minor characters include the protagonist's tutor Wolfgang and friend Benno. Matthew Bourne's production used an entirely male cast, while many contemporary productions eliminate a portion written specifically for Pierina Legnani, namely the thirty-two fouettes danced by the female villain. That villain schemes with Baron Rothbart to separate the central prince and a denizen of the title location. For 10 points, Odette and Siegfried sink into the water at the end of what ballet by Tchaikovsky?

Jane Eyre

One character in this novel has a gravestone reading "Resurgam." The protagonist of this novel rescinds a commitment to go to India after hearing the voice of her beloved in the air. That character first meets the protagonist after his horse slips on ice. During the main character's stay at Lowood, she befriends (*) Helen Burns, and while working as a governess for Adele, she is rudely awakened by the sight of her wedding veil being torn. One character in this novel is married to a "madwoman in the attic", Bertha Mason. The title character of this novel befriends the missionary St. John Rivers, and ends up marrying Mr. Rochester. For 10 points, name this novel by Charlotte Bronte.

Wuthering Heights

One character in this novel opens the side of his dead beloved's coffin and wills that one side of his coffin be opened facing her so their bodies can mingle. In this novel, one character marries Isabella to get revenge on her brother Edgar. This novel is narrated by Nelly Dean and Mr. Lockwood, who begins this novel by renting Thrushcross Grange. Set in the moors of north England, this novel focuses on the love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff. For 10 points, name this only novel by Emily Bronte.

Endgame

One character in this play chants "You cried for night; it falls: now cry in darkness." That character relates how he used to go to an asylum to visit an insane painter who would look at a beautiful landscape and see nothing but ashes. The main characters repeat the phrase "Me to play" throughout this work, which ends with a character who is unable to sit looking out a window and seeing a boy, then leaving. This play includes an old couple living in garbage bins named Nagg and Nell, and is set in a circular room with an old man in a wheelchair in the center. For 10 points, name this work about Hamm and Clov, a play about death by Samuel Beckett.

The Tempest

One character in this play claims "our little life is rounded with a sleep" after noting that "we are such stuff as dreams are made on." Another of its characters expresses shock at the "brave new world, that has such people in't!" A subplot in this play involves the drunken butler Stephano, who plots with Trinculo and Sycorax's son Caliban to overthrow Prospero, a sorcerer who has been exiled with his daughter Miranda. For 10 points, name this Shakespeare play in which Prospero has been blown to an island by the title storm.

Anna Christie

One character in this play sings the opening refrain of the song "My Josephine" when he gets drunk, and it opens in Johnny-the-Priest's bar when that character talks to his mistress Marthy Owen. Act two is set aboard the Simeon Winthrop during a rescue attempt, and in the final act the title character agrees to marry Mat Burke even though Burke is leaving on a voyage to Africa the next day. For 10 points, name this play about the daughter of Chris Christopherson, who gives up a life of prostitution at the end, written by Eugene O'Neill.

Of Mice and Men

One character in this work once gave his workers a gallon of whiskey as a gift for Christmas. A letter by Bill Tenner, published in a pulp magazine, is a subject of discussion after it is shown to Slim. This work also sees one character's dog euthanized by Carlson. The pistol used in that action is later stolen by one of the main characters who uses it to shoot his best friend. Taking its name from a Robert Burns poem, for 10 points, name this novella by John Steinbeck about two migrant farm workers, George and Lennie.

The Lord of the Flies

One character with an odd birthmark goes missing after a forest fire in this novel, and a boy in this novel constantly repeats his name and address. Another character has blood smeared on his face and kicks sand in a small child's eyes. Although that character, Maurice, later feels bad, his friend Roger shows no regrets. Many characters in this novel venture to "The Scar" to build a fire with one character's glasses. A dreamy character in this novel named Simon is killed when other boys mistake him for "the Beast." For 10 points, Jack and Ralph square off for leadership of a lost group of boys and Piggy is killed by a boulder in this novel by William Golding.

Salman Rushdie

One novel by this author involves an affair between American diplomat Max Ophuls and Hindu dancer Boonyi Kaul. In that novel, Noman Sher Noman, a native of Kashmir, gets a job as Ophuls' chauffeur to get his revenge. Another novel by this author is about a man who ages twice as fast as most people, Moraes Zogoiby. In addition to Shalimar the Clown and The Moor's Last Sigh, this author wrote a novel in which the narrator speaks to Padma and has a rivalry with Shiva. Another work by this author is about Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha and led to the issuance of a fatwa against this author. Name this author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

One of the protagonist's only friends in childhood is the gamekeeper Black George, and he is tutored by the constantly arguing pair of Mr. Square and Mr. Thwackum. The protagonist of this novel has an affair with Mrs. Waters, who used to be the servant Jenny Jones, and was paid off by Bridgit Blifil, the title character's true mother. Through his good deeds, the protagonist secures the love of Sophia Western and becomes the heir of his foster father Squire Allworthy, who had discovered him as a foundling. For 10 points, name this novel by Henry Fielding.

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry

One of this author's plays is set in the fictional African country of Zatembe, where the brothers Abioseh and Tshembe fight on different sides of a rebellion against European colonization, while another concerns a Jewish intellectual living in Greenwich Village who becomes disillusioned with society. Along with Les Blancs and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, this author is best known for a work in which Karl Lindner tries to bribe a family to prevent them from moving into a white neighborhood. For 10 points, name this American playwright who wrote about the Younger family in A Raisin in the Sun.

Langston Hughes

One of this author's poems asks "Can you love an eagle/ Wild or tame?" and ends with an instruction to kill the title figure "and let his soul run wild." This poet wrote that he likes Bach, bop, and Bessie in "Theme for English B." Another of his works features a "Negro" with "ebony hands" playing a "drowsy syncopated tune," and is called "The Weary Blues." In another poem, this author wonders whether the title concept would "stink like rotten meat" or "dry up like a raisin in the sun." For 10 points, name this poet of the Harlem Renaissance who wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "A Dream Deferred."

Sylvia Plath

One of this poet's poems repeats "I think I made you up inside my head" in parentheses. In addition to "Mad Girl's Love Song," this poet wrote that "I rise with my red hair / And I eat men like air" in "Lady Lazarus", which appears in her collection Ariel. One poem by this author calls the title man "a bag full of God," states that "every woman adores a Fascist" and begins with "you do not do / any more, black shoe." In another work by this writer of "Daddy", the protagonist is a student at Smith College dating Buddy Willard before attempting suicide. For 10 points, name this female American poet who created Esther Greenwood in The Bell Jar.

Robert Frost

One poem by this author talks about hunters who "would have the rabbit out of hiding / To please the yelping dogs" and describes a man who "moves in darkness as it seems to me." Another of his poems says "Eden sank to grief" and (*) "nothing gold can stay," while his collection North of Boston contains a poem with the line "good fences make good neighbors. In the most famous work of this author of "Mending Wall," he describes "leaves no step had trodden black" on a path that "bent in the undergrowth." For 10 points, name this author who wrote that "two roads diverged in a yellow wood" in "The Road Not Taken."

Beowulf

One section of this work is comprised of a song that tells of the death of a Frisian king named Finn. An account of the life of Scyld Scefing opens this work, which sees its protagonist mocked for losing a swimming contest to Breca by Unferth, who later presents the protagonist with the sword Hrunting. With the help of Wiglaf, the protagonist kills a dragon after having defeated a beast that attacked Heorot, a great hall belonging to Danish King Hrothgar. For 10 points, identify this Old English epic poem about a Geat hero who slays Grendel.

Toni Morrison

One work by this author sees the protagonist get accused of killing a young boy's cat, and that protagonist is later raped twice by her father. The protagonist of another novel by this author marries Halle, with whom she has her sons Howard and Buglar, and Schoolteacher thwarts Paul D's plans of escaping in that novel. This author created Pecola Breedlove in The Bluest Eye, and wrote about the ex-slave Sethe, who is haunted by the spirit of her daughter who she killed. For 10 points, name this African American author of Beloved.

Don Quixote

Part two of this novel, released ten years after the first and a year after a fake sequel was produced, includes references to an imposter and ends with the title character's death after he is vanquished by the Knight of the White Moon. During the novel's first half, the protagonist frees galley slaves, attacks monks, fights a group of merchants who insult Dulcinea del Toboso, and tilts at windmills. For ten points, name this novel about a knight-errant, written by Cervantes.

Irwin Allen Ginsberg

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

Homeric similes [or epic similes]

Scholar Helene Foley has described the way that these passages get reversed to show the interdependence of men and women, and a reversed one of them describes the joy of a few survivors of a shipwreck who finally reach land. In the first use of this device, the swarming of bees immediately precedes the appearance of personified Rumor. In another example of this device, a lion and a wild boar fight over water before the son of Menoetius is killed by the oldest son of (*) Hecuba and Priam. The deaths of Sarpedon and Patroclus are both accompanied by passages that employ this device, which in its "epic" or "Homeric" form is often an extended comparison between the ordinary and extraordinary. For 10 points, name this kind of metaphor that uses "like" or "as."

Rhinoceros

Serving as an allegory for the rise of fascism before World War II, this play includes characters like the Logician, whose attempts to prove things usually collapse, and Dudard, who vies for the attention of the young typist Daisy. The businesslike Jean attempts to rid the main character of his aimlessness, but eventually a climax is reached when the protagonist picks up a rifle and declares repeatedly that he will not surrender to the titular animals. For 10 points, name this absurdist drama by Eugene Ionesco.

Howl

Some figures in this work "build harpsichords in their loft" and "throw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of time" Those figures in this poem are described as journeying to, dying in, and watching over Denver. The second section describes a figure "whose breast is a cannibal dynamo" and "whose blood is running money". That figure appears in a section before the speaker declares he is with Carl in Rockland, and that figure is named Moloch. Beginning with the line "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness", for 10 points, name this Beat Generation hippie anthem, the most famous work of Allen Ginsberg.

Herodotus

Suidas claims that this person played a major role in overthrowing Lygdamis after returning home from Samos, and this person's visit to Egypt can be dated because of his description of skulls shortly after the attempted rebellion by Inaros. His description of gold-digging ants has been controversial, and his primary work is now arranged into nine sections, each named after a muse. That work, which begins with the rapes of Io, Europa, Medea and Helen, describes the lives of four Persian kings. Name this world traveler born in Halicarnassus, known as the "Father of History".

metaphysical poets

T.S. Eliot, in his essay of this name, claimed that this group was "in the direct current of English poetry." One member of this group is best known for shaped "concrete poems" such as "Easter Wings" from his collection The Temple. This group named by John Dryden employed elaborate metaphors known as "conceits," such as the comparison of two lovers to the arms of a compass in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning." For 10 points, name this loose group of 17th-century English poets which includes George Herbert, Andrew Marvell and John Donne.

Fathers and Sons

The central character of this novel declares "we want to smash other people" and calls a chemist "twenty times as useful as any poet." The protagonist of this work falls in love with a widow, Madame Odintsov (OH-deent-sohv), who finally kisses him on his deathbed before marrying a lawyer. The protagonist's protege, (*) Arkady Kirsanov (AHR-kah-dee KEER-sah-nohv), abandons revolution in this work to become a magistrate. For 10 points, name this novel, centering on the nihilist (NYE-uh-list) Bazarov (BAH-zah-rohv), and written by Ivan Turgenev (tur-GAIN-ev).

The Great Gatsby

The central character of this novel names a bra marketed as a "swing top" by Elaine for J. Peterman in a Seinfeld episode. In an episode of South Park, Timmy is diagnosed with ADD after being read this novel and failing to remember what type of car the title character drives. Its most notable film adaptation from 1974 was narrated by Sam Waterston and stars Robert Redford opposite Mia Farrow playing his love interest Daisy. Narrated by Nick Carraway, For 10 points, name this novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Borges

The death of Beatriz Viterbo opens one work by this man, while another work concerns a German spy during World War One named Dr. Yu Tsun who murders a man named Dr. Albert to convey the location of British artillery. This writer of the story "The Garden of Forking Paths" also wrote a work that partially takes place in the house of the poet Carlos Danieri and concerns a (*) point in space that contains all other points. For 10 points, name this Argentine author known for writing such works as "The Library of Babel" and "The Aleph".

Arabian Nights [also accept One Thousand and One Nights before "1001" is mentioned]

The first French translation of this work was by Antoine Galland, and an uncensored Victorian English version was produced by Richard Burton. One character in this work eats from a giant bird hatchling after his crew breaks its egg and then sees its mother destroy his ships, and another story in it features a cave used by forty thieves. Told to King Shahryar by Scheherezade to delay her execution, this is, for 10 points, what set of 1001 tales featuring characters like Ali Baba and Aladdin?

the Meditations

The first of its twelve books describes how the author learned steadiness of purpose from Apollonius, self-government from Maximus, and good morals and the government of his temper from his grandfather Verus. Book Eleven quotes frequently from Epictetus, although the author of this treatise never labels himself a Stoic. For 10 points, what book, probably written during its author's military campaigns in central Europe during the 170s, elaborates the philosophy of Emperor Marcus Aurelius?

Oresteia

The first play in this trilogy details the murder of the title character and his slave Cassandra by his treacherous wife and her lover Aegisthus. The second play shows the vengeance wrought by Agamemmnon's son against Clytemnestra. The son is promptly chased to Athens by the title characters of the third play, where he is absolved by Athena and the Areopagus. For 10 points—Agamemmnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides make up what trilogy by Aeschylus?

Dover Beach

The first stanza exhorts the reader to listen to "the grating.../ of pebbles which the waves draw back," which "bring/ the eternal note of sadness in." In the next stanza, the speaker says that he hears the "melancholy, long, withdrawing roar" (*) of the "sea of faith," and mentions that "Sophocles long ago/ heard it on the Aegean". In the third and final stanza, the speaker compares the world to a "darkling plain/ Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight/ Where ignorant armies clash by night." Named for a location on the coast of England, For 10 points, name this poem by Matthew Arnold.

"Howl"

The footnote of this poetic work features a repetitive Holy! mantra where the author asserts all is holy. Part III of this work repeats the mantra, I'm with you in Rockland. Considered one of the seminal works of the Beat generation, it details many of the hippies during the 50's starving hysterical naked. I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness is a line from, for 10 points, what poem by Allen Ginsberg that shares its name with a sound a wolf makes?

The Grapes of Wrath

The narrator of this novel wishes he could get a hundred jalopies and says that customers should be told that the car up on the platform just sold. One of the characters, who performs charitable acts ever since his refusal to get a doctor for his wife led to her death, is Uncle John. One of the protagonists served four years at McAlester State Penitentiary; his sister marries a man who wants to take correspondence courses and work in the radio business, Connie Rivers. Their family is helped by Ivy and Sairy Wilson as they travel Highway 66 towards California to escape the Dust Bowl. Name this novel about the Joad family, by John Steinbeck.

Candide

The love interest of the title character of this work may be modeled after Émilie du Châtelet, a French physicist. The main character's teacher is a professor of "metaphysico-theologico-cosmolonigology" who is very optimistic about life, even though he is nearly killed by the Inquisition and then sold into slavery. The story begins with the title character being kicked out of the castle of the Baron Thunder-ten-trokh and forced to travel, where he experiences such misfortunes as being involved in the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 and getting his El Dorado red sheep stolen. For 10 points, name this Voltaire work in which the title character is in love with the Lady Cunegonde

The Trial

The main character of this novel is scolded by his uncle Karl for flirting with Leni, a woman with webbed fingers. In this novel, Frau Grubach is the main character's landlady and cannot help his plight. At one point in this work, the main character observes Franz and Willem being whipped. Franz and Willem had earlier arrested the main character of this work. For 10 points, name this work about Joseph K.'s condemnation by the title judicial proceeding, a work by Franz Kafka.

Gravity's Rainbow

The protagonist of this novel falls in love with Katje, whom he saves from an octopus attack. The protagonist of this novel is sent to the Hermann Goering Casino, where he learns about an object with a serial number consisting of five zeroes. In this novel, which begins with the sentence "A screaming comes across the sky," a V-2 (*) rocket hit follows shortly after each of Tyrone Slothrop's sexual encounters. For 10 points, name this magnum opus of Thomas Pynchon.

"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"

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

The BFG

The sandals worn by the title character are replicas of those worn by the author. This book features such objects as frobscottle, a beverage which causes whizpoppers, and a snozzcumber, which enables one character to avoid the Bloodbottler. Illustrated by Quentin Blake, its title character captures dreams in bottles, and also snatches the young orphan Sophie from her bed so she can help him save England's children from eight man-eating giants. For 10 points, name this children's book about a large and kind creature, written by Roald Dahl

Robert Browning [accept "Two in the Campagna" before "this author" is read]

The speaker discerns "Infinite passion, and the pain / Of finite hearts that yearn" in this author's poem "Two in the Campagna." That poem appears in a collection of this author's poetry beginning with "Love Among the Ruins," Men and Women. A jealous monk describes his hatred for Brother Lawrence in this author's poem "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister," and his dramatic monologues include "Fra Lippo Lippi" and "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came." For 10 points, name this British poet of The Ring and the Book and "My Last Duchess."

Poems [or poetry; accept any other word forms]

The speaker of Ezra Pound's Hugh Selwyn Mauberley mentions how he "strove to resuscitate the dead art" of this practice for three years. Archibald MacLeish wrote that these entities "should be palpable and mute," and "should not mean, but be." Persian (*) ghazals by Hafiz and Rumi were one type of this work, and examples of other Arabic ones include quatrains. Horace wrote about the "art of this," and the "epic" variety of this form was practiced by Homer. For ten points, identify these literary works which come in forms like the villanelle and the sonnet, and may or may not rhyme.

Leo Tolstoy

The title character in one of this author's works discovers that Gerasim is his only true friend. A novel by this author sees Helene Kuragina marry Pierre Bezhukov, and in another of his novels, Kitty rejects (*) Levin for Count Vronsky, but is spurned in return. This author of The Death of Ivan Ilyich explored the impact of the Napoleonic Wars in an enormous novel. For 10 points, name the Russian author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The title character of an unfinished poem by this man encounters Geraldine, who claims to have been abducted. Another poem by this man ends with an image of "silent icicles / quietly shining to the quiet moon," and describes how the titular phenomenon "performs its secret ministry." In addition to "Frost at Midnight," this author wrote a poem which features a "damsel with a dulcimer" and earlier describes the River Alph running down to a sunless sea. The title emperor of that poem lives in Xanadu and decrees a "stately pleasure dome." For 10 points, name this poet of "Kubla Khan" who also wrote about the slaying of an albatross in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

For Whom the Bell Tolls

The title comes from Meditation XVII from Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions. The main character is led to a camp of people who will help him accomplish his task by Anselmo. In the camp are the brothers Andres and Eladio, the gutter mouthed Agustin, and the elderly Primitivo. Also in the camp is the leader Pablo, his woman, Pilar, and Maria, who falls in love with the main character, Robert Jordan. For 10 points, what is this novel by Ernest Hemingway?

Robert Herrick

This author alleviated his boredom with rural life by teaching a pig to drink alcohol, and he praised the wearing of lawn linen in several works. This poet described a recurring figure who engages in several dialogues between pursuits of Juliana, Damon, and urged "Get up, sweet slug-a-bed" in another poem. This creator of the sexually graphic Julia poems penned "Delight in Disorder" and (*) "Corinna's Going A-Maying," and noted in a better-known poem that "for having lost but once your prime, you may for ever tarry" and that "this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying." The author of the collection Hesperides, for 10 points, name this Cavalier poet who wrote that as "old time is still a-flying," one should "gather ye rosebuds while ye may" in "To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time."

Sappho

This author titles books by Alphonse Daudet and Franz Grillparzer. This author wrote "I want to die / honestly / rather than be abandoned / tearfully" in one poem, and also penned an ode to Anactoria. Another of this author's poems asks "Let not my spirit be harnessed by this anguish / and affliction / But come here, by me as you did once before" and is addressed to the Goddess Aphrodite. Sometimes called the tenth muse, for 10 points, name this author who lived on Lesbos, a female Greek poet.

Sinclair Lewis

This author wrote a novel in which the title character aborts her child, whom she would have named Pride, entitled Ann Vickers. Another novel by him sees America become a fascist state under President Buzz Windrip. In addition to (*) It Can't Happen Here, he wrote a novel about Carol Kennicott and other denizens of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, Main Street. This author's title characters include a womanizing evangelist, Elmer Gantry, and a real-estate worker from Zenith. For 10 points, name this author of Babbitt.

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks

This author wrote about a reporter from the Defender who compared the people at Jesus' crucifixion to people in Little Rock. She wrote of a woman who gave up dreams of living in New York to marry a man who coveted entry into the Foxy Cats Club, Paul Phillips. One of her poems described seven pool players at the Golden Shovel who "sing sin" and "thin gin." Name this author of the poetry collection Annie Allen and the poem "We Real Cool."

Jean-Paul Sartre

This author wrote one work whose protagonist travels to Bouville to research the life of Marquis de Rollebon but ends up getting sick of the research. That character, Roquentin ["row-ken-teen"], makes a failed attempt at getting back with his lover Anny. The three central characters of this author's most famous work force themselves to admit the real reason they have been sent to a windowless room after death. That play by this man features Inez, Estelle, and Garcin, who proclaims that "Hell is other people." For 10 points, name this French existentialist author of Nausea and No Exit.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám [accept similar answers that include Rubaiyat]

This collection claims that one certainty is that "This life flies" and that "the rest is lies". One verse wishes to remold "this sorry Scheme of Things" to be "nearer to the Hearts's Desire!". A phrase originating in this work is "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, / Moves on." The twelfth section of this work makes a comparison between paradise and "A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and Thou". This work was first translated by Edward FitzGerald. Name this collection of 11th- and 12th-century quatrains written in Persian by Omar Khayyam.

Mexico

This country is home to the French-born journalist and author Elena Poniatowska. Another author from this country wrote a novel about Juan Preciado's return to Comala entitled Pedro Páramo. This country is the setting of Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate. One writer from this country wrote a novel about the death of Ambrose (*) Bierce and another about the death of Artemio Cruz. For 10 point, name this country which is home to Carlos Fuentes and Octavio Paz.

Jack London

This man collaborated with Arthur George on a satirical essay that recommends the removal of some 300 words such as knave, starvation, and strike from the English language in his work on the "Simplified Language of Socialism." He discussed the use of the opening line (+) "Dear Comrade" and the closing line "Yours for the Revolution" is his essay "Revolution," which looks at the unparalleled global nature of the socialist movement. He was unsuccessful, however, in his two bids for mayor of Oakland on the (*) Socialist Party ticket. For 10 points, name this man better known as the author of The Call of the Wild.

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen

This man wrote a poem in which the narrator meets "the enemy you killed. . . you jabbed and killed". This poet claims that "Not in the hands of boys but in their eyes / shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes." One of his poems describes a man who failed to put on his gas mask in time and thus plunges at the narrator "guttering, choking, drowning". That poem take its title from a Horace phrase described as "the old Lie". A sonnet by this poet of "Strange Meeting" opens "What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?" Name this poet of "Dulce Et Decorum Est" [DULL-kay et day-KOR-um est] and "Anthem for Doomed Youth".

Thomas Stearns Eliot

This man wrote a poem which opens with the lines "I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river / Is a strong brown god." This man included "The Dry Salvages" in his Four Quartets, and he described an evening "spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table" in another poem. He contemplated that the world ends "not with a bang but a whimper" in one work, and repeatedly stated that "Women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo" in another. His most famous works begins with the line "April is the cruelest month." For 10 points, name this author of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and The Waste Land.

Petrarch

This man wrote about three imaginary dialogues between himself and St. Augustine in his My Secret Book. The brother of a Carthusian monk, he also wrote two books of biographies on Roman and Biblical leaders and an unfinished biography of Scipio Africanus. This author of On Illustrious Men and Africa is best known for Il Canzoniere, a collection of 366 poems dedicated to his lifelong love, who died from the plague in 1348. For 10 points, name this 14th-century Italian poet who wrote to a mysterious Laura.

Invisible Man

This novel's protagonist empties a spittoon on a man whom he confuses for a person that gives him false letters of recommendation after being expelled from a college. After listening to Homer Barbee, he is mistaken for Rinehart and ends up fighting with Lucius Brockway. Ending with a riot in Harlem because of Tod Clifton's death, this novel contains a "Battle Royal" scene. For 10 points, name this book that features Brother Jack of the Brotherhood, written by Ralph Ellison.

O'Neill

This playwright wrote a trilogy based on the Oresteia in which Ezra Mannon's death portends the downfall of Orin and Lavinia. This author of Desire Under the Elms and Mourning Becomes Electra wrote a play that is set in Harry Hope's bar, whose denizens renew their "pipe dreams" after "Hickey" Hickman kills his wife. For 10 points, name this American playwright of The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey into Night.

Lord Byron

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

Silent Spring

This work refers to the death of robins due to a program to stop the spread of Dutch Elm disease as "chains of devastation." The opening chapter of this work describes "a strange blight" that crept over "a town in the heart of America" causing everything to change, and is titled "A Fable for Tomorrow." The American Council on Science and Health has challenged this work's claim that eggshell thinning was a result of the application of a certain pesticide. For 10 points, identify this 1962 work which led to the banning of DDT in the United States, written by Rachel Carson.

Mishima Yukio

This writer used a Rococo-style stageset in his play centered on the Night of the Long Knives, My Friend Hitler. A boy kills his mother's lover in this author's The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. The stammering protagonist of another work by this man is traumatized when his friend Tsurukawa commits suicide. In addition to Mizoguchi, this writer created a character that is reincarnated in books like Runaway Horses and Spring Snow, part of this man's The Sea of Fertility tetralogy. For 10 points, what seppuku-committing author wrote The Temple of Golden Pavilion?

Gertrude Stein

Works by this author, like The Making of Americans: The Hersland Family and Brewsie and Willie, are largely unknown. The lives of Anna Federner, Melanctha Herbert, and Lena Mainz are described in Three Lives, written by this author, who also wrote the libretto for Four Saints in Three Acts. The time she spent before and after World War I is described in her The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. For 10 points, name this member of the Paris social circle which included Matisse and Picasso and who is best remembered for saying, ""A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose."

Peer Gynt

he Sphinx is a muta persona while the Memnon-statue sings in this play, whose characters include Master Cotton, Monsieur Ballon, and Herren von Eberkopf. Solveig and Little Helga are the daughters of newcomers, Ase is a peasant's widow, and the title character her son. For 10 points -- name the Henrik Ibsen play whose incidental music was written by Edvard Grieg.

Anne Bradstreet

his poet wrote about a contest between "fire, air, earth and water" to see "which was the strongest, noblest and the best". Another of this author's works ends by telling the reader, "The World no longer let me love/ the world and treasure lies above" and the title event occurs "In a silent night when rest I took". In addition to "The Four Elements" and (*) "Verses Upon the Burning of our House" this poet wrote "thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain" and that "If ever two were one, then surely we" in a larger poetry collection. For ten points, name this seventeenth-century American female poet who included her poems "To My Dear and Loving Husband" and "The Author to her Book" in her collection, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America.

Francis Petrarch [accept "Francesco Petrarca"]

A pseudonymous "Socrates" was the dedicatee of this man's letters, Epistolae Familiares, though he withheld nineteen from publication because they blasted the Avignon papacy; he later assembled them into the "Book without a Name." Four Roman kings and twelve biblical figures are included in this writer's On Illustrious Men, and his Coronation Speech followed this man's nomination as Poet Laureate for his epic poem about Scipio, Africa. "It was on that day when the Sun's ray was darkened in pity for its Maker" when he met the subject of his Il Canzoniere. For 10 points, name this writer of eponymous sonnets, who on Good Friday met his love Laura.

The Tin Drum

At one point in this novel, the protagonist plays jazz at the club Onion Cellar. Earlier, the protagonist of this work claims that he is Jesus and leads the Dusters in stealing government supplies from offices. In this work, Agnes dies from eating fish obsessively and Alfred dies by swallowing a Nazi party pin. Like the clown Bebra, the protagonist of this work refuses to grow past age three remains a dwarf. For 10 points, Oskar Matzerath constantly holds the title instrument in what first work of the Danzig Trilogy, written by Günter Grass?

Ethan Frome

At one point in this novel, the title character is infuriated when his wife gives a quack doctor twenty dollars for a therapeutic battery. The protagonist is briefly enthralled by an advertisement reading "Trips to the West: Reduced Rates" but ultimately is seen transporting an engineer to his home in Starkfield. The arrival of Mattie Silver causes a rift with the hypochondriac Zenobia in, for 10 points, what Edith Wharton novel that climaxes with the crash of a sled into a tree?

"Rappacini's Daughter"

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

Cry, the Beloved Country

At the end of this novel, Napoleon Leitsiti teaches the villagers farming techniques. While away from his village of Ixopo, this novel's protagonist stays with Mrs. Lithebe. The protagonist of this novel learns that his sister Gertrude is ill in a letter from Theophilus Msimangu, and later in this work the protagonist's son kills Arthur Jarvis. For 10 points, name this novel in which Absalom dies despite Stephen Kumalo's efforts, a work by South African author Alan Paton.

William Thackeray

Early in his writing career he penned the Snob Papers, which led to the widespread use of the word snob. He had some success with the Paris Sketch Book and later the Irish Sketch Book, but his greatest success came in 1847 with a work that takes its title from John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress. For 10 points, identify this author who wrote and , whose most famous work, featuring Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, is entitled Vanity Fair?

Gregor Samsa

He is a traveling salesman whose only concern at first is getting to work. However, his situation makes this impossible, and he quickly becomes a burden to his family. His father throws apples at him and his sister, Grete, plays the violin, though she won't play it for him. When he realizes that nobody in his family wants him around, he returns to his room and dies. All of this occurs after he awoke one morning to find he had become a giant insect. For 10 points, name this main character of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis.

Washington Irving [accept Geoffrey Crayon before it is read]

He published a series of character sketches called Bracebridge Hall under a pen name, and he used that pen name for Tales of a Traveler, which contains a short story in which a man agrees to become a loan shark working for the devil. In addition to "The Devil and Tom Walker," he credited Geoffrey Crayon as the author of his Tales of the Alhambra, but he is better known for a tale wherein a man who plays ninepins with some strange people in the Catskills. For 10 points, identify this author who wrote about a man who sleeps for twenty years, Rip van Winkle.

Langston Hughes

He was accused of anti-Semitism for a poetry collection which was titled after pawnbrokers, Fine Clothes to the Jew. One poem describes the title music as a "raggy tune" and a "drowsy syncopated tune" and in another poem the narrator's "soul has grown deep" after he "bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young." In perhaps his most famous poem he asks if the title object "dries up, like a raisin in the sun." For 10 points name this poet who asked what happened to a "Dream Deferred," a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.

Albert Camus

He wrote a play about the Roman Emperor Caligula and his essay collections include Nuptials and Two Sides of the Coin. He adapted Dostoevsky's The Possessed, and Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun for the theater, and his short stories The Growing Stone and The Guest are collected in Exile and the Kingdom. In another work, Jean Baptists Clemance lets a woman drown, while other works by this man feature Dr. Rieux and Mersault, who kills an Arab. For 10 points, identify this author of The Fall, The Plague and The Stranger.

Heathcliff

Hindley originally treats this person like a servant but, after this he leaves and becomes wealthy, Hindley invites him back to ease his money troubles. Originally an orphan on the streets of Liverpool, he is taken in by Mr. Earnshaw and falls in love with Catherine, but he begins plotting revenge when she marries Edgar Linton. For 10 points, identify this vengeful character in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.

Dr. Pangloss

In Constantinople, he returns a dropped flower to a young woman's bosom "with the most respectful attentions," but her male companion has him arrested, so he is whipped and sent to the galleys. At an auto-da-fe, he is hanged but survives and wakes up when a surgeon starts cutting him open. He convinces another character to let Jacques the Anabaptist drown, and he teaches the art of "metaphysico-theologo-cosmonigology" at Castle Thunder-ten-tronckh. For 10 points, name this professor, who preaches that this is the "best of all possible worlds" to Voltaire's Candide.

John Dewey

In How We Think, this philosopher, who died at age 92, wrote that play "apart from work is foolishness", "may stifle educational growth", "may be demoralizing", and "may lead to irresponsible behavior." For 10 points -- name this American philosopher, profoundly influenced by Hegel's idealism, the author of Experience and Education, an exponent of pragmatism.

Isabel Allende Llona

In a short story by this author, Elena is rejected by Jose Bernal after spying on her mother. This author of "Wicked Girl" wrote a series of stories dedicated to the author's unconscious child in Paula. She wrote about the granddaughter of Eliza Sommers in Portrait in Sepia, and about a title character that falls in love with Rolf Carle. In another of her works, Clara prophesies that she will marry Esteban when she is nineteen years old. This author of Eva Luna created the Trueba family in another novel. For 10 points, names this Chilean author of The House of the Spirits.

Winter

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

The Handmaid's Tale

In one flashback in this novel, the protagonist's mother describes carrying a banner at a "Take Back the Night" march. Its protagonist rubs butter into her hands because she cannot obtain lotion and observes another character's blood-smeared face at the end of a Particicution. At Jezebel's, the protagonist finds her old friend Moira, a lesbian who donned the garb of an Aunt to escape from the (*) Red Center. The protagonist sleeps with Nick, a chauffeur who reveals that some of the Eyes are members of the revolutionary Mayday. The title figure of this novel serves Serena Joy and her husband, a Commander. For 10 points, name this dystopian novel set in Gilead, a work about Offred written by Margaret Atwood.

Herman Melville

In one novel by this author, Kory-Kory serves Toby and Tommo after they flee ship on the island of Nukuheva. In another one of his stories, Amasa Delano is surprised to see the skeleton of Alexandro Aranda and believes that Babo is a slave. That novella, which appears in The Piazza Tales, is Benito Cereno. This author also wrote about a man who when asked to proofread a document stated "I would prefer not to". In his best known novel, Peleg and Bildad own the Pequod, a ship commanded by Captain Ahab. Name this author of Typee, "Bartleby the Scrivener", and Moby-Dick.

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

In one of his novels, an impoverished government clerk named Makar spends what money he has on gifts for a girl who lives across the street. In another work, Yakov Petrovich freaks out when he thinks a man with the exact same physical appearance is trying to take his job. In addition to Poor Folk and The Double, he wrote about Prince Myshkin breaking down and being sent to a Swiss sanatorium in The Idiot. For 10 points name this author of The Brothers Karamazov and a novel about Raskolnikov committing murder, Crime and Punishment.

Voltaire [or Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire]

In one of his plays, Polyphonte is a tyrant who wishes to marry the title widow of Cresphontes. In addition to Merope, this man created Cador, who helps queen Astarte of Babylon escape with her lover, the Prime Minister. In another of his works, Paquette gives a venereal disease to the teacher of a man who is separated from his servant Cacambo after being expelled from Thunder ten Tronck. For 10 points, name this creator of Zadig as well as a novel about Dr. Pangloss entitled Candide.

Athol Harold Lannigan Fugard

In one of this author's plays, set in New Bethesda, pastor Marius Byleveld attempts to put Miss Helen in an elderly home, while another features the troubles of Willie Seopolo. In addition to The Road to Mecca and No-Good Friday, his only novel is about a gang leader who kidnaps a baby, Tsotsi. One of his plays is set in the St. George's Park Tea Room owned by the father of Hally, where Sam and Willie work. Another play features two men who wish to buy a farm while living in a shack in Port Elizabeth, joined by the titular entity, half-brothers Zach and Morris. For 10 points, name this South African playwright of Blood Knot and "MASTER HAROLD" . . . and the Boys.

Mark Twain [or Samuel Langhorne Clemens]

In one of this author's short stories, Mr. and Mrs. Richards claim to have told a gambler "You are far from being a bad man--go, and reform," in order to gain a $40,000 sack of gold. This author of "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" also wrote a novel about a boy who encounters the Duke and the Dauphin while traveling down the Mississippi with the slave Jim. In another novel, this man created the villainous Injun Joe. For 10 points, name this author who created Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer.

Lord Byron

In one of this man's poems, the title character interacts with seven spirits and a chamois hunter, while another poem calls the title character "the first to welcome/ foremost to defend" and laments its death. In addition to "Epitaph to a Dog" and "Manfred", this author wrote a travelogue in four cantos describing his own travels while narrated by the title character. He also wrote a mock epic about a womanizing Spaniard. For 10 points, name this poet of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan (pronounced Don Ju-won).

Octavio Paz

In one poem by this author the title entity separates the speaker from his "swaddling clothes" and "animal sleep" as a river "goes curving / advances and retreats, goes roundabout / arriving forever". A work by this author describes the title simian contemplating the Garden of Ravana, while he described his countrymen as sons of an "Indian mother" and a "conquering Spanish father" in another work. He was inspired by the Aztec calendar to write "Sun Stone." For 10 points, name this author of The Monkey Grammarian and The Labyrinth of Solitude, a Nobel Prize winner from Mexico.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In this man's third novel, he expounded on the theory of AB plus CD yields AD plus BC and applied laws of chemistry to human relationships; that novel was titled Elective Affinities. In another one of his works, Gretchen is saved by God while her lover, the titular character, made a deal with Mephistopheles, and in another work, the title character's love for Lotte, who marries Albert, turns into tragedy as he commits suicide in the end. For 10 points, identify this German author of Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

In one story by this author, the paranoid Garamov is housed in a mental institution run by Dr. Ragin. In another story, this author wrote of Dmitry Gurov and Anna von Diederitz's love affair. This author of "Ward Number Six" and "The Lady with the Dog," wrote about Andrey Prozorov's attempts to marry off Masha, Olga, and Irina in one work and about Konstantin Treplev committing suicide after killing the title character in another. Lopakhin purchases the Ranevskaya's estate in a work by, for 10 points, what author of The Three Sisters, The Seagull, and The Cherry Orchard?

Gunther Grass

In one work by this author, he describes the murder of Wilhelm Gustloff by David Frankfurter. In addition to Crabwalk he wrote another book in which he writes about every year from 1900-1999, My Century. In another work he describes the life of Joachim Mahlke through Pilenz. In the novel preceeding that work, the main character joins a gang after a lover, the little Roswitha, dies in Normandy, and he may have fathered a son named Kurt. That character's constant companions are a shriek that can be used as a weapon and a musical instrument he has had since his third birthday. For 10 points, name this German author of _Cat and Mouse_ and _The Tin Drum_, a both works his Danzig Trilogy.

Carlos Fuentes

In one work by this author, the death of Norma Laragoiti in a house fire is interpreted as a sacrifice by the mother of Ixca Cienfuegos and the financial empire of Federico Robles collapses. This author's other works include one in which the protagonist burns documents from the Miranda estate before being shot by General Arroyo and claimed by Harriet Winslow and one in which a business mogul recalls his marriage to Catalina and rise to power in flashbacks from his deathbed. For 10 points, name this Mexican novelist, the author of The Old Gringo and The Death of Artemio Cruz.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

In this novel Tom Loker is healed by Quakers after being shot by George. Ophelia educates Topsy in this novel. The protagonist is sold by Arthur Shelby, and later saves Eva St. Clare from a fall in the river. After Casey and Emmeline escape, the title character is eventually killed by the overseers of the plantation owner Simon Legree. For 10 points, name this anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

In this novel, one character hides behind a curtain when Mrs. Honour arrives at the protagonist's house. The protagonist breaks his arm after being thrown off a raging horse and steals ducks to help his double-crossing friend Black George. (*) Arabella Hunt desires to marry the protagonist of this work, who is taught by Reverend Thwackum. The title character, who was raised by Squire Allsworthy, stabs Mr. Fitzpatrick and competes with Master Bilfil for the hand of Sophia Western. For 10 points, name this work about a "foundling," a massive novel by Henry Fielding.

Frankenstein

In this novel, the servant Justine has the alibi of sleeping in a deserted hut in her defense against the accusation she killed the main character's brother William. The title character travels to the Orkneys and dies on ship stuck in ice. The main character in this novel is nursed from a brain fever by Henry Clerval, and that character narrates the death of his wife Elizabeth at the hands of one of his animated creations. For 10 points, identify this novel in which the title character creates a monster, a work by Mary Shelley.

Dracula

In this novel, the ship Demeter runs aground near Whitby. One character in this novel is described by children as a "bloofer lady" and is engaged to a man who later becomes Lord Godalming. The Texan, Quincy, is killed while (*) stabbing the antagonist in the heart. That antagonist had earlier bit both Lucy and the protagonist's wife, Mina. For 10 points, name this novel in which Jonathan Harker and Van Helsing hunt the titular vampire

Pygmalion

In this play, Ezra Wannafeller pays a character whom he is told is Britain's most "original moralist" to give lectures on morality. In its first act, a notetaker in Convent Garden is accused of being a policeman. Mrs. Pearce dresses this play's main female character in a blue kimono, while that character's father, Alfred, asks for money downstairs. Freddy Hill is taken with the main character's way of speaking and eventually marries her. In this play's second act, Colonel Pickering, a "student of Indian dialects," makes a wager with a phonetics professor about a Cockney flower girl. For 10 points, name this play where Henry Higgins attempts to reform Eliza Doolittle, by George Bernard Shaw.

Inferno [accept Divine Comedy until "Virgil", prompt from there until "part"]

In this work, the narrator discusses the fates of various countrymen with a man known as the "hog," and that narrator is later assisted by Geryon. This work sees discussion of the deaths of Ugolino and his sons, and Minos assigns punishment by wrapping his tail around himself. This work also featuring the lovers Paolo and Francesa opens in a dark wood on Good Friday, and the narrator is guided by Virgil, who is sent by Beatrice. For 10 points, name this first part of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.

"Piggies"

Life is getting worse for all of the little ones, the bigger ones are in their starched white shirts and in their eyes there's something lacking, and what they need is to be struck, apparently. The cannibalism in the song could be a reference to how the upper class, that is, the bigger one, survives off of the lower class, the little ones, thus their using forks and knives to eat their bacon. For 10 points, identify this song from the White Album about animals.

Wuthering Heights

One character in this novel has a pistol with a double-edged spring knife attached to the barrel. When a woman in this novel dies shortly after childbirth, one of the characters gets revenge on her husband by raising the son as a field worker. That mother is Frances, her son is Hareton, and her husband is Hindley. One character in this novel falls in love with his adoptive father's daughter Catherine but eventually marries Isabella Linton. Much of the action in this novel takes place at Thrushcross Grange and the title farmhouse. Name this novel about Earnshaw's adopted son Heathcliff, written by Emily Brontë.

Madame Bovary

One character in this novel is a tax-collector who accidentally splashes everyone in the eyes while demonstrating the correct way to open a cider bottle, Binet. The protagonist of this novel becomes ill after reading a letter that was delivered at the bottom of a basket of apricots. A club-footed character in this novel has to have his foot amputated after another character botches an operation performed at the urging of Homais. The title character meets her husband when he visits her father's farm to set his broken leg, and she later conducts affairs with the young student Léon and the landlord Rodolphe. For ten points, name this novel by Gustave Flaubert about Charles' dissatisfied wife, Emma.

The Red and the Black [accept Le Rouge et Le Noir]

One character in this novel speaks with Conte Altamira and Don Diego Bustos after discussing how to woo a woman with Prince Korsakoff, and in another episode from this novel a character memorizes a message for the duke of Angouleme. Characters from this novel include Chénal, who arranges for its protagonist to tutor the mayor of Verrieres' children, and Elisa, the chambermaid who exposes its protagonist's affair. Its protagonist is attracted to Mathilde de la Mole, and near the end of this work travels to his hometown to shoot Madame de Renal. For 10 points, Julian Sorel is the protagonist of what novel by Stendhal?

Anna Karenina

One character in this novel takes a scythe and works in the field before inventing a new cooperative enterprise system, and that character's brother Sergei is a famous novelist. At the end of this novel, one of the main characters goes to fight in Serbia against the Turks. That character had earlier raced his mare Frou-Frou too hard, breaking her back. The main character of this novel tries to prevent the divorce of her brother Stepan and his wife Dolly, but she ends up deserting her son Seryozha and her husband's offer of divorce to tour Europe with her lover before jumping in front of a train. For 10 points, name this novel about Kitty, Levin, Vronsky, and the titular socialite by Leo Tolstoy.

The Glass Menagerie

A Streetcar Named Desire

One character in this play is kicked out of the Flamingo Hotel due to her immoral behavior. A former English teacher in this work is fired because of an affair with a 17-year-old student, and a character who resides in Elysian Fields Avenue throws a radio out of a window during (*) Mitch's poker game in this work. When the protagonist is taken to an asylum in the last scene of this play, she tells another character that she "always depended on the kindness of strangers." Stanley rapes the sister of Stella Kowalski in, for ten points, what play by Tennessee Williams about a Southern Belle named Blanche Dubois?

Cry, the Beloved Country

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

Verdi

One of his arias is "God, you could have lashed at me" and he set Count Moor in Saxony in his opera The Bandits. After his first opera Oberto, he completed requiems for Manzoni and his compatriot Gioacchino Rossini. This composer of The Force of Destiny and The Sicilian Vespers created Sparafucile and Gilda. Beyond composing Don Carlos, he depicted Radames and the titular princess being buried alive. For ten points, name this Italian composer of Don Carlos, Falstaff, Rigoletto, and Aida.

Leo Tolstoy

One of his novellas discusses the love between Mashechka and Sergey and is titled Family Happiness. Maryanka rejects the love of Olenin in another novella titled after a group of steppe people. In addition to The Kreutzer Sonata and The Cossacks, he wrote about a civil official whose death is sparked after he falls while installing curtains in his apartments. More famous characters created by this author include Anatole Kuragin, Pierre Bezukhov, and a lover of Count Vronsky who commits suicide by throwing herself on train tracks. For 10 points, name this author of The Death of Ivan Ilyich, War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

Victor Marie Hugo

One of this author's plays centers on the victim of a scheme of Don Sallusto who falls in love with the queen. Another focuses on a bandit who loves Dona Sol and caused a notable demonstration upon its premiere. In addition to Ruy Blas and Hernani, he wrote a novel that features the characters of Bishop Myriel, Fantine, and Cosette. For 10 points, name this French author who wrote about a transparent antagonism between Inspector Javert and Jean Valjean in Les Miserables.

Eudora Welty

One of this author's short stories tells of a woman named Phoenix Jackson who takes the title route despite being threatened by a hunter with a gun. That story is collected in this author's A Curtain of Green and is titled "A Worn Path." This author wrote of Jamie Lockhart kidnapping and falling in love with Rosamund in The Robber Bridegroom and wrote about Laura McKelva returning to New Orleans to take care of the Judge in The Optimist's Daughter. For 10 points, name this female author of Delta Wedding and "Why I Live at the P.O."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One of this author's title characters sells the Caribbean Sea to the United States, sires five thousand children despite having an enormous, painfully swollen testicle, and calls himself the General of the Universe. Another of his novels begins with the murder of Santiago Nasar by Pablo and Pedro Vicario. In addition to The Autumn of the Patriarch and Chronicle of a Death Foretold, this author wrote about the gypsy Melquiades and the family of Aureliano Buendia in a novel set in Macondo. For 10 points, name this Colombian author of One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Alan Paton

One of this author's works is divided into six sections, including "The Cleft Stick," "Death of a Traitor," and "Into the Golden Age;" another of his works opens with the line "Perhaps I could have saved him, with only a word," is narrated by Sophie, and involves Pieter van Vlaanderen's guilt y love for [*] black women. In addition to Ah, But Your Land is Beautiful and Too Late the Phalarope, he wrote about Mr. Jarvis, whose son Arthur has been killed by Absalom. For ten points, name this anti-apartheid South African author who wrote about the priest Stephen Kumalo in Cry, the Beloved Country.

Allen Ginsberg

One poem by this author asks Garcia Lorca "what were you doing down by the watermelons?" This poet coined the phrase "Hydrogen Jukebox," which became the title of a Philip Glass opera with lyrics taken from this man's poetry. One poem by this man begins "Strange now to think of you, gone" and is dedicated to Naomi. This man's best known poem asks "What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?" and answers "Moloch." That poem opens with "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness." For 10 points, name this American beat poet of the poem "Howl."

My Antonia

One protagonist of this novel meets the hired hands Otto Fuchs and Jake Marpole, shortly before the title character's father commits suicide. That protagonist listens to a story about the title character's engagement to Larry Donovan while employed by Wick Cutter, and lives next door to the Harlings. A character in this novel then takes a suggestion from Lena Lingard to visit the protagonist, who marries Anton Cuzak and is the only Shimerda to know any English. For 10 points, name the novel narrated by Jim Burden and set in Nebraska, written by Willa Cather novel.

Kenzaburo Oe

The development of a nuclear bomb under the control of the Patron is opposed by Mori and his father in one novel by this author, while another work follows a group of boys who are barricaded inside a plague-ridden village. This author of The Pinch Runner Memorandum wrote of Bird's reluctance to care for his mentally handicapped son in one work, while another work features the selling of a kura-yashiki to the Emperor, a wealthy Korean man living in Mitsusaburo and Takashi's village. For 10 points, identify this Japanese author of A Personal Matter and The Silent Cry.

The Life of Gargantua and Pantagruel

The first words of one title figure of this collection as a baby were "Drink, Drink, Drink." Because Brother John helps one against attacks by Picrochole, the father founds the Abbey of Thélème, which is a monastery where indulgence, marriage, and wealth are allowed. Later the other, with his friend Panurge, goes on an epic quest to find the Divine Bottle from which to drink to gain knowledge. For 10 points, name this collection about the son and grandson of Grandgousier, a medieval satire by Francois Rabelais.

The Tell Tale Heart

The main character of this story denies that he is a madman but, for eight nights in a row, checks on his elderly companion and is terrified by his "evil eye." Finally, the protagonist kills the old man and hides the body under the floorboards but becomes unnerved when the police arive. For 10 points—name this 1843 Edgar Allan Poe short story in which the murderer confesses after hearing the titular organ.

Our Town

The milkman, Howie Newsome, reappears in every morning scene in this work, and after a church choir practice, Mrs. Soames gossips about the drunkard who plays the church organ. Generally performed with minimal props or scenery, proud residents of a place with an equal death and birth rate sing "Blessed be the Tie that Binds" once every act. The (*) Stage Manager introduces this play set in Grover's Corners, New Hampshire. Featuring George Gibb and Emily Webb, name this play by Thornton Wilder.

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Anna Karenina

The protagonist of this novel meets characters like Sappho Sholtz and Madame Stahl, who never leaves her bed in fear of showing her legs. One character in this novel is injured when his horse Frou- Frou trips while racing Gladiator. The protagonist of this novel has a son named Seryozha and a brother named Stepan Oblansky. A subplot in this novel concerns the sister of the title character, Kitty, who marries Konstantin Levin. For 10 points, name this novel about a woman who shacks up with Count Vronsky and throws herself in front of a train, written by Leo Tolstoy.

Pride and Prejudice

The protagonist of this novel rejects a proposal after returning from a stay in London with the Gardiners. The rejected proposer then writes a letter exposing Georgiana's plans to elope. Other marital drama in this novel includes Charlotte Lucas's decision to marry a preacher named Collins and Jane's romance with Bingley. Beginning, "a (*) single man in possession of a good fortune...must be in want of a wife," name this Jane Austen novel about the courtship of Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett.

All Quiet on the Western Front

The squadron featured in this novel gets its revenge on Himmelstoss, first by beating him up before being sent to the front and later when he proves a coward himself. Among the few things surviving by the end of the story are a pair of boots passed down from Kemmerich to Müller to the narrator, all classmates who left school to fight for Germany in World War I. The tale ends when Paul Baumer is finally killed while reaching for a butterfly - the newspaper report for that day providing the novel's title. For 10 points, name this novel by Erich Maria Remarque.

Don Quixote of La Mancha [or Don Quijote de La Mancha; prompt on The Man of La Mancha]

This character wanted to pummel the traitor Galalon and greatly admired Reynaldo of Montalvan. He makes a farmer swear an oath against harming a boy, and he is defeated by the Knight of the White Moon. This person believes that he drinks the Balsam of Fierbras and wears Mambrino's helmet. He names his horse Rocinante (roh-see-NAHN-tay), and when this man meets Aldonza Lorenzo, he falls in love with her and calls her Dulcinea del Toboso. His sidekick, who rides a mule named Dapple, is Sancho Panza. Name this character from La Mancha created by Miguel Cervantes.

Oedipus

This character was once abandoned at Cithaeron, and in one play this character tries to torture a shepherd for information. He was adopted by Merope and Polybus, and is later asked to become king of Corinth. Creon returns from Delphi to tell this character how to end a plague, and Tiresias later refuses to tell him the murderer of King Laius. At the end of one work in which he appears, he realizes that he has committed incest with his mother Jocasta. For 10 points, name this character from Greek tragedy who appears in plays by Sophocles at Colonus and as the King.

Captain Ahab

This character's name is called prophetic by Tistig, and he is described as a "grand, ungodly, god-like man" by a Quaker. This character has a scar running down his body that is compared to a lightning strike on a tree and sympathizes with the traumatized Pip. He tramples his quadrant because it will not lead him to his quarry and earlier tosses his pipe into the sea. This man known for nailing a gold coin to his mast has a prosthetic originally made from the jaw of a sperm whale. For 10 points, name this peg-legged captain of the Pequod who disappears while attached to Herman Melville's Moby Dick.

Gawain

This man kneels and prays to the Virgin Mary so that he might find a church in which he could attend Christmas Mass. This man is given deer, a boar, and the hide of a fox from one host, with whom this figure remains until a New Year's day incident. He rides the horse Gringolet and wears the star of Solomon on his shield, and is given a green girdle by Lady (*) Bertilak which will protect him from his primary antagonist, who had earlier picked up his severed head after being decapitated by this character in front of the court of Camelot. For 10 points, identify this Arthurian knight who, in a work of the Pearl Poet, faces off against the Green Knight.

Pablo Neruda (or Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto; accept ―Reyes‖ or ―Basoalto‖)

This man was once a Communist candidate for President, a member of his country's senate, and an ambassador to France. He was however more famous for the role he played in the development of Modernismo. He wrote Odes to his socks, an onion, and a cat in his collection Elemental Odes, and, while in hiding after expulsion from the Senate, he wrote an epic that praised Joseph Stalin and covered the sweep of Latin American history, Canto General, the second canto of which is ―The Heights of Machu Piccu.‖ For 10 points, name this Chilean poet of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.

The Vicar of Wakefield

This novel contains its author's "Edwin and Angelina. A Ballad" in one of its chapters, and one character in this work accepts a commission to join a regiment in the West Indies after he is falsely accused of killing the servant Baxter. One character fancies city life as a companion to Ms. Carolina Skeggs, and that character is saved from drowning by a man who poses as Mr. (*) Burchell. The title character ends up in debtor's prison after his house burns down, but he recovers his wealth and sees the marriage of his daughter Sophia to William Thornhill and of his son George to Arabella Wilmot. For 10 points, identify this novel about the tribulations of the Primrose family, by Oliver Goldsmith.

Our Town

This play's last act depicts the dead as "matter-of-fact, without sentimentality, and, above all, without lugubriousness" and warns one of the newly dead not to relive a past memory. A choir repeatedly sings "Blessed Be the Tie That Binds" as directed by the alcoholic and suicidal Simon Stimson in this play, which is traditionally performed without a set or props. After being reassured that everything will be fine, George Gibbs and Emily Webb are married in its second act. This play is narrated by the omniscient Stage Manager. For 10 points, name this play set in Grover's Corners, New Hampshire and written by Thornton Wilder.

Dylan Thomas

This poet asked "What is the metre of the dictionary?/ The size of genesis?" in the last of a sequence of four sonnets entitled "Altarwise by Owl-Light." This author wrote a radio play about Organ Morgan, Captain Cat, and the other residents of Llareggub, entitled (*) Under Milk Wood. One of his poems observes characters "crying how bright/ Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay" and is addressed to "you, my father, there on the sad height." For 10 points, name this poet who urged his father to "rage, rage against the dying of the light" in his villanelle "Do not go gentle into that good night."

Candide: or Optimism

This work's protagonist meets Count Pococurante, an art and book collector who hates art and literature, and he receives a hundred red sheep when he leaves El Dorado. The main character is forced to leave the castle of Baron (*) Thunder-ten-Tronckh when he kisses Cunegonde, and Dr. Pangloss believes "all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds" in, for 10 points, this novella by Voltaire.

Lord of the Flies

Two characters in this novel are members of the "bigguns" and are collectively known as "Samneric." One character in this novel dies after struck by a boulder thrown by Roger. Only the person holding a conch shell is allowed to speak at the assembly in this novel, in which Ralph assumes command and leads in the construction of huts but is later challenged by Jack. For 10 points, name this William Golding novel about English school boys stranded on an island who offer up a pig's head to a mysterious "beast."

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