Literature

Jean-Paul (Charles Aymard) Sartre

In a play by this author, a town is shocked when a woman dances in a white dress on top of a cave during a ceremony for the dead. In that play by this author, only an "Idiot Boy" will talk to the main character, who refuses to repent to Zeus. In another play by this man, a woman offers to act as a mirror, and that woman is angered by a man's twitching mouth. In that play by this man, characters are escorted to the main setting by a (*) Valet, and a character reveals that she killed her baby by dropping it off a balcony. That play by this man stars Joseph, Estelle, and Inès, and contains the quote "Hell is other people." For 10 points, name this French author of The Flies and No Exit.

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In a poem about these objects, the speaker declares "Earth's the right place for love" after earlier describing a boy "too far away from town to learn baseball." William Blake compared wrath to one of these objects, that his foe is "outstretched" beneath. Joyce Kilmer wrote that, "I think I shall never see / A poem as lovely as [one of these(*) objects]." A poem about these objects ends by saying "one could do worse" than swinging on them. For 10 points, name these objects described in Robert Frost's "Birches."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

In a story by this man, a dark figure welcomes converts to "the communion of [their] race" at a meeting where the protagonist sees the "teacher of the catechism" Goody Cloyse before chasing after the pink ribbon of his wife Faith. The Reverend Hooper refuses to remove the title (*) garment in one of his stories, and in another Beatrice is raised on poisonous plants by Rappaccini. This man wrote "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Minister's Black Veil," as well as a book in which the protagonist has Arthur Dimmesdale's child Pearl. For 10 points, name this American who described the ostracization of Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter.

The Grapes of Wrath

In one chapter of this book, a vignette of a turtle crossing the road is told. In this novel, Ivy and Sairy Wilson offer their tent to the protagonist's Grandfather, who soon passes away. A service station attendant buries a dog in this novel, at the request of the pregnant wife, (*) Rose of Sharon. That character is later abandoned by her husband Connie. The protagonist of this work kills a man with an axe and becomes a fugitive after witnessing the death of the preacher Jim Casey. For 10 points, name this novel about the Joad family's journey to California during the Dust Bowl, written by John Steinbeck.

John Steinbeck

In one novel by this author, a pirate followed by five dogs saves 1,000 quarters to buy a golden candlestick. That character is in a group of "paisanos" who burn down a house after their leader Danny's death. Another novel by this author sees Kino, Juana, and(*) Coyotito suffer many misfortunes while in possession of the title object. This author of Tortilla Flat and The Pearl wrote about Jim Casy's death during a strike, while attempting to flee the Dust Bowl. For 10 points, name this author, who wrote about the Joad family in The Grapes of Wrath.

James Joyce

In one novel by this author, the protagonist teaches a history class on Pyrrhus which is attended by the ugly student Cyril Sargent. In this author's first novel, that same main character is pushed into a cesspool by the bully Wells and an argument later erupts about Charles (*) Parnell between his governess Dante and Mr. Casey. A fire and brimstone sermon by Father Arnall inspires Catholic zeal in one of this author's characters, who is rescued from a brothel by Leopold Bloom in a stream-of-consciousness novel set in Dublin. For 10 points, name this Irish author of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses.

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In one of these works, a character complains that the Washington Monument "doesn't even look that much like Washington." A person in another one thinks "Better set my iPod to the 'Kill Bill' fight theme, just in case" as he imagines a fight scene in a post office. Another one of these comics imagines several other speeches William (*) Safire would have given had the moon landing gone wrong. while a physicist is run over by a truck while contemplating a problem held by a man in a black hat in "Nerd Sniping." This webcomic frequently revisits the theme of velociraptors. For ten points, name this webcomic "of romance, sarcasm, math, and language," written by Randall Munroe.

John Donne

In one poem this author claimed "Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still Litigious men...though she and I do love." In another poem by this author, some sad friends say "Now his breath goes," and some say, "No." as "Virtuous men pass mildly away." This author of "The (*) Canonization" addressed a poem to a figure who is "a slave to Fate, chance, kings, and desperate men" and also coined the phrases "For whom the bell tolls" and "No man is an island." For 10 points, name this author of "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," who wrote "Death be not Proud" in his Holy Sonnets.

Birds

In one poem, the speaker claims to have seen "nine and fifty" of these animals in "the nineteenth autumn." One short story by Daphne du Maurier titled after these animals sees them launching suicide attacks with the coming of the tide. In one play titled for these animals, (*) Pisthetaerus and Euelpides leave Athens in search of Tereus, a great Hoopoe and reputed king of them. In that play, these creatures build a city in the sky they call Cloud-Cuckoo-Land to stop sacrifices from reaching the gods. For 10 points, identify these beaked avian creatures ranging from larks to hawks.

Alexander

In one poem, this author declares that he used to live in the North, but the winds were damaging to his health. A poem by this writer admires the Admiralty Needle and depicts Parasha's lover on a pair of marble lions after a flood. Another of this man's poems alternates masculine and feminine (*) rhymes and features a man who tells a girl to "learn self control" after she sends him a love letter. In that work by this author, a duel over Olga Larin ends with the death of Lenski, and the title St. Petersburg dandy is rejected by Tatyana. For 10 points, name this Russian poet of The Bronze Horseman and Eugene Onegin.

Matthew Arnold

In one poem, this author stated "In the sea of life" "we mortal millions live alone," and notes "How changed is here each spot man makes or fills!" in an elegy for Arthur Clough. This poet of "To Marguerite" and "Thyrsis" described an "eternal note of sadness" that (*) "Sophocles long ago" "heard on the Aegean," in a poem that begins "The sea is calm tonight." For 10 points, name this British poet, who described a place where "ignorant armies clash by night," in "Dover Beach."

William Cullen Bryant

In one poem, this poet finds comfort that a creature is "lone wandering, but not lost" after asking "Whither...dost thou pursue thy solitary way?" In another of this man's poems, he urges his reader to "Go forth under the open sky, and list to Nature's teachings." That poem concludes with the exhortation to joyfully join "the innumerable (*) caravan" and act "like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams" when meeting death. This author of "To a Waterfowl" wrote a poem addressed "to him who in the love of nature holds communion with her visible forms" when he was just 17. For 10 points, name this American poet, who wrote "Thanatopsis."

The Last of the Mohicans

In one scene in this novel, a character masquerades himself as a bear using a stolen costume originally used for religious rites. The antagonist of this novel is also known by the alias "Le Renard Subtil." That character blames his demotion and the departure of his wife on (*) Colonel Munro, whose daughters Alice and Cora are abducted by Magua. This novel, which opens at Fort William Henry, uses the trope of the noble savage through the characters of Uncas and Chingachgook. For 10 points, name this second novel of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

In one work by this author, Lady Waldermar wants the title character to convince Marian Erle and Romney to break up. This poet wrote the verse novel Aurora Leigh, and began one collection with the line "I thought once how Theocritus had sung." The thirty-third poem in that collection by this author begins, "Yes, call me by my(*) pet name!" For 10 points, name this poet who asked "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways" in her collection Sonnets from the Portuguese.

Ernest Hemingway

In one work by this author, an old deaf man keeps ordering more and more brandy, much to the chagrin of a waiter who wants to get home to his family. An older waiter then reminds the youngun that maybe the old deaf man just needs "a (*) clean, well-lighted place". In another work by this author, a character goes on with his wife Margaret; after a buffalo charges at him, Margaret accidentally kills that title character, Francis Macomber. In a different work by this author, a group of people go to Pamplona, where Lady Brett Ashley has a complicated relationship with the impotent Jake Barnes. For 10 points, name this author of The Sun Also Rises.

Willa Cather

In one work, this author's spiritual crisis is fictionalized in Myra Henshawe, who realizes that human love is inadequate. In a different work by this author, Marie Shabata has an affair with Emil, whose sister becomes a successful farmer even though she's a woman; that character is (*) Alexandra Bergson. In yet another work by this author, after marrying Cuzak, the title character became the mother of a large family on a Nebraska farm. For 10 points, name this author of O Pioneers! and My Antonia.

"The Second Coming"

In this poem, the narrator claims that "the darkness drops again" before the title event. This poem also claims that "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." A creature "with lion body and the (*) head of a man" in this poem is seen in "a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi." This poem opens with "Turning and turning in the widening gyre" and contains the line "Things fall apart." At the end of this poem, the narrator asks what rough beast "Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born." For 10 points, name this William Butler Yeats poem, whose title alludes to the return of Christ.

The Importance of Being Earnest

One character in this play believes it is impolite to listen to bad piano playing, and another character eats cucumber sandwiches meant for his aunt. One character in this play has his true identity revealed by an inscription on a cigarette case before being accused of being a(*) "Bunburyist" That character finds out he was left in a handbag at Victoria Station as an infant in this play, which sees Cecily Cardew and Gwendolyn Fairfax become engaged to the same nonexistent man. For 10 points, name this play about Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, written by Oscar Wilde.

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11. An Australian show set in one of these places follows Bea Smith's rise to power and is titled Wentworth. The protagonist of another show set in one of these places creates a pain-relieving back ointment from chili peppers and cocoa butter. The cancer-ridden Rosa runs over Vee with a van after departing from one of these places. One of these places is the main setting of the third season of The (*) Walking Dead. In a show set in one of these places, the transgender Sophia Burset is a hairdresser and Crazy Eyes becomes obsessed with Piper Chapman. For 10 points, identify these places, one of which is the setting of Orange is the New Black.

Salman Rushdie

12. A novel by this author centers on Moraes Zogoiby and is named for an apocryphal story about the surrender of Granada. Another novel by this author of The Moor's Last Sigh features the accordion player Wee Willie Winkie, whose son is switched at birth by Mary Periera and is able to fight with his knees. This author created a character whose giant, perpetually dripping (*) nose appears to be the source of his telepathic powers, and like Parvati-the-witch, was born at the time of Pakistan's partition from India. For 10 points, name this author of Midnight's Children.

Australia

12. An author from this country used Catchprice Motors as the setting for his novel The Tax Inspector. Another author from this country set many of his stories from The Burnt Ones in Sarsparilla and wrote a novel in which Mr. Judd and Laura Trevelyan are the only survivors of the title explorer's party. That author of The Vivisector set (*) Voss in this country. Poldek Pfefferberg convinced an author from this country to write about a man who saves Jews from Amon Goeth in the novel Schindler's Ark. For 10 points, name this country home to authors like Patrick White and Thomas Keneally, the latter of which has written several books about Aborigines.

Aldous Leonard Huxley

13. A novel by this author ends with forces from Rendang invading the title Island while Will Farnaby hears a bird shouting "Attention." Walter Bidlake impregnates his secretary in a novel by this author, who detailed his first mescaline trip in The Doors of Perception. A character created by this author of Point Counter Point secludes himself in a lighthouse, where he whips himself until (*) Lenina Crowne comes to visit him. In that novel by this author, the consumption of soma is used by World Controllers like Mustapha Mond to keep the World State placated. For 10 points, name this author of the dystopian novel Brave New World.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

13. Jon Clinch wrote a book featuring a character from this novel, who gives a speech that begins, "Call this a guvmint!" Pap's son impersonates his friend when visiting the Phelps farm in this novel. In this novel, the melodramatic poet Emmeline Grangerford is a member of a family that feuds with the (*) Shepherdsons. Two con men in this novel who put on a play entitled "The Royal Nonesuch" call themselves the Duke and Dauphin. Miss Polly's death in this novel results in Jim's freedom. For 10 points, name this Mark Twain novel in which Tom Sawyer and the title character travel the Mississippi.

Catch-22

13. The death of a friend causes the protagonist of this novel to conclude that "The spirit gone, the rest is garbage." That friend dies under a parachute because he says he is cold. The hero of this novel moves a piece of string in order to cancel a mission. Colonel Cathcart offers the protagonist a deal before the latter is stabbed by (*) Nately's *****. Major deCoverly's first name in this novel is always replaced with dashes, and that character is the executive assistant of Major Major Major Major. The title of this Pianosa-set work refers to a situation in which one's claim of insanity paradoxically proves one's sanity. For 10 points, name this Joseph Heller novel about fighter pilot John Yossarian.

Pablo Neruda

13. This poet described a speaker's love as more "obscure" than "an arrow of carnations, propagating fire" in one of his one hundred love sonnets. This poet wrote that "the night is starry/ and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance" in the poem "Tonight I can write." Another of this man's poems repeatedly intones "In you everything sank!" This poet included the sections "The Sand Betrayed" and "The (*) Heights of Macchu Picchu" in his collection Canto General. For 10 points, name this poet of the collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.

Dylan Marlais Thomas

14. In one of this author's poems, the speaker is "honoured among the foxes and pheasants by the gay house" and "young and carefree, famous among the barns." In another of this man's poems, certain figures "be mad and dead as nails" under the title condition. One of his poems ends with "Time held me green and dying" and begins "I was (*) young and easy under apple boughs." This man's most famous poem describes figures whose "blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay" and whose "frail deeds might have danced in the green bay." For 10 points, name this poet of "Fern Hill" and the villanelle "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night."

Edward Morgan Forster

15. A sci-fi story by this author, which opens by asking the reader to imagine the honeycomb-cell-like room in which Vashti lives, is titled "The Machine Stops". In another novel by this author, John Ruskin is regularly referenced as a tastemaker, such as in one scene when the protagonist encounters a love interest while looking at some Giotto frescoes. A trip to the (*) Marabar caves prompts a sexual assault trial in one of this author's novels. George Emerson and Lucy are the central couple of a novel by this author, and Adela Quested accuses Dr. Aziz of rape in another. For 10 points, name this author of A Room with a View and A Passage to India.

The Tragedie of King Lear

16. A character's final line in this play is "And I'll go to bed at noon." The world "howl" is repeated four times before a character declares that "you are men of stones" in the fifth act of this play. In an earlier scene in this play, a character says "I have heard more since" before declaring "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods." A character disguised as Tom O'Bedlam pretends to lead the blinded (*) Gloucester off a cliff in this play. This play opens with Regan and Goneril flattering the title character in order to gain shares of his land. For 10 points, name this Shakespeare play about a king who exiles his only honest daughter, Cordelia.

Pride and Prejudice

18. In this novel, the housekeeper Mrs. Reynolds shows a boyhood portrait of an estate's owner to the Gardiners and their niece. This novel's protagonist refuses to make a promise not to get engaged to the master of that estate by Lady Catherine de Bourgh. In this novel, Charlotte Lucas marries the clergyman (*) Mr. Collins, and Lydia runs away from Longbourn with the militia officer George Wickham. In this novel, the owner of Netherfield, Charles Bingley, marries Jane. For 10 points, name this novel where Elizabeth Bennett falls in love with Mr. Darcy, by Jane Austen.

Leo Tolstoy

One of this author's main characters confesses to murder after a conversation in a train car turns to love. This man's final work was a novella about a Turkic soldier who betrays the Chechen man Shamil. This author of Hadji Murat wrote a novella in which Pozdnyshev kills his wife after she meets with the (*) violinist Troukhaᐧtchevsky to play the title piece. One of his novels begins in 1805 with a huge party hosted by Anna Scherer. In that novel by this author of The Kreutzer Sonata, a plan to kill Napoleon is hatched by Pierre Bezukhov after the Battle of Borodino. For 10 points, name this Russian author of War and Peace.

James Joyce

3. A book by this author includes a scene that begins with the protagonist's memory of being thrown in a cesspool and which uses Ecclesiastes to pontificate on the horrors of Hell. Much of that book by this author is set at Clongowes, and was originally titled Stephen Hero. Another novel by this author includes a chapter structured as a "catechism" called "Ithaca" and ends with a chapter from (*) Molly's perspective called "Penelope." That book by this author is structured around a single day in the life of Leopold Bloom. For 10 points, name this Irish author of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses.

George Orwell

A character in one work by this author is frustrated that there are only twelve rhymes for the word "rod" while its protagonist lies about having razors. This person admonishes the overuse of foreign phrases and cliché metaphors in one essay and in another, he describes how he brought a (*) Winchester rifle to carry out the title action and "avoid looking a fool". The protagonist of his most famous novel learns that Charrington is part of the Thought Police and is tortured with rats by O'Brien in Room 101. For 10 points, name this English author of "Shooting an Elephant" and the dystopian novel 1984.

Midnight's Children

A character in this novel referred to as Reverend Mother develops a habit of referring to things as "whatsitsname". That character, Naseem, marries the tuberculosis-ridden Aadam Aziz, years after they had first met through a perforated bed sheet. The main character of this novel was switched at birth with (*) Shiva by the nurse Mary Pereira. After a failed affair with Shiva, Parvati the Witch marries the protagonist Saleem Sinai, who attributes his telepathy and excellent sense of smell to the fact that he was born on August 15, 1947. For ten points, name this novel whose title characters were all born within the hour of India's independence, by Salman Rushdie.

The Cherry Orchard (or Vishnevyi sad)

A character in this play admits a sin of prodigally spending on sweets before popping one in his mouth. In Act Three of this play, a character claims he and Anya are "above love," to which the main character responds she must be "beneath love." Characters in this play include Trofimov, Gayev, Varya, and a merchant from the lower social classes, (*) Lopakhin. At the end of this play, Firs lies down on a couch after being locked in an empty house as the sound of axes is heard. Madame Ravensky returns to her family estate in this play as it's auctioned off and the title plot is chopped down. For 10 points, name this play by Anton Chekhov.

The Merchant of Venice

A character in this work demands a ring as payment after disguising herself as a lawyer sent by Doctor Bellario. Nerissa and Gratiano fall in love at Belmont in this play. One character in this play asks, "If you prick us, do we not bleed?" while another claims that "the quality of (*) mercy...droppeth like a gentle rain from heaven." During one scene in this play, a lead casket is selected, revealing a portrait of Portia, allowing Bassanio to marry her. For 10 points, name this Shakespeare play in which the Jewish moneylender Shylock sues Antonio, who is of the title profession, for a pound of his flesh.

Aliens living with a family

A character of this kind was originally shown to be living in a dream of Richie's, but a later edit added a scene of that character erasing minds and moving to Boulder, Colorado for a spin-off. Another character of this kind is constantly referred to by an acronym rather than his given name of Gordon Shumway. A character of this kind was permitted to stay by(*) Stan Smith as a thank-you for saving him from exploding grenades via a laundry chute at Area 51. For 10 points, name these people on Happy Days, ALF, and American Dad, who are extraterrestrials living with a human family.

James (Arthur) Baldwin

A novel by this author features communal singing of songs like "This May Be My Last Time," "Standing in the Need of Prayer," and "Somebody Needs You, Lord." In that novel by this author, after Roy is stabbed, he's beaten with a belt for telling his father Gabriel not to slap his mother. A "Letter to my Nephew" by this author inspired Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. One of his protagonists speaks in tongues on the "Threshing Floor" of the Temple of Fire Baptized Church on his fourteenth birthday, and is named John (*) Grimes. For 10 points, name this black American author of The Fire Next Time and Go Tell it On the Mountain.

Death

A poet describes this entity as arriving "among all that sound/ like a shoe with no foot in it." In another poem, this entity takes the form of a gentleman caller of whom the narrator says, "We slowly drove - (*) he knew no haste / And I had put away / My labor and my leisure too." In a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, this entity is the title character who holds fate in his hands as the speaker lifts "Life's red wine / to drink deep of the mystic shining cup." For 10 points, name this subject of many poems by Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson.

Thomas Stern Eliot

A waiter delivers oranges, banana figs, and hothouse grapes in a poem by this man that describes an "Apeneck" character with "zebra stripes along his jaw". Another poem includes a "yellow fog" and "yellow smoke" that rub against the window-panes, as well as character who measures out his life with coffee spoons. That character wonders if he (*) dares to eat a peach or disturb the universe in a poem that includes women who "come and go / talking of Michelangelo". That poem begins, "Let us go then, you and I". For ten points, name this author of "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" and "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock", who claimed "April is the cruelest month" in The Waste Land.

salesman

After crashing his car, a literary character with this profession finds a farm where an old woman repeats to him three times that "Sonny ain't here." That death of that character, R.J. Bowman, is described in a novel by Eudora Welty. Another character with this profession is fired by Howard (*) Wagner and sees the neighbor's son Bernard tell him that his own son will fail his math class in one of his flashbacks. That character eventually crashes his car in the play in which he appears to give life insurance money to Linda, Happy, and Biff. For ten points, name this profession held by Willy Loman, whose death is described in a play by Arthur Miller.

plagues

An ebony clock startles the guests of a party that is interrupted by one of these events, which kills Prince Prospero. A journal account of one of these events that struck London in 1665 includes weekly mortality bills and was written by (*) Daniel Defoe. "The Masque of the Red Death" is about one of these events whose "Avatar" is blood. In one novel, an infestation of rats in the town of Oran foreshadows one of these titular events, victims of which are treated by Dr. Rieux and quarantined. For 10 points, name these deadly and infectious events that title a novel by Albert Camus.

Ray Bradbury

One story by this author sees a group of travelers driven to suicide by the sound of the rain; that story appears in a collection titled The Illustrated Man. This man quoted a Clara Teasdale poem in "There Will Come Soft Rains," about a computer-controlled house after a nuclear war. A novel by this man, which has sections including (*) "The Sieve and the Sand" and "The Hearth and the Salamander," sees the protagonist destroying the Mechanical Hound with a flamethrower. For 10 points, name this author of The Martian Chronicles who wrote about the fireman Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451.

The Decameron

One woman in this work pretends to throw herself into a well to trick her husband Tofano to come outside, allowing her to lock him out. At the beginning of this work, Cepparello lies to a friar and becomes a saint after dying. One character in this collection tells a story about the Marquis of (*) Saluzzo pretending to murder his children to test the loyalty of his peasant wife Griselda. With the exception of Diono, the brigata of characters like Pampiana and Fiammetta tell stories based on a chosen theme each day while fleeing the plague in Florence. For 10 points, name this hundred-story collection by Giovanni Boccaccio.

Euripides

One work by this man features the mysterious land of Tauris, where the title character ritually executes those who land on its shores. That title character survived an ordeal in another work by this author where she is sacrificed at Aulis. This author wrote about that character, (*) Iphigenia, discovering that two recent visitors were in fact her brother Orestes and his friend Pylades and about her escaping the island with them. Other famous plays by this man include Medea, The Bacchae, and The Trojan Women. For 10 points, name this last of the three great tragedians of Ancient Greece.

death

One work on this topic describes how "matron and maid / The speechless babe, and the gray-headed man" all gather. A work about this topic opens as the speaker walks "on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village." Home is defined as the place "where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in" in a poem whose title figure travels home to experience this phenomenon. Another poem about this topic invokes a figure "who in the love of (*) Nature holds / Communion with her visible forms." One poem named for this event sees Mary and Warren discuss Silas. Allen Ginsberg wrote Kaddish after this event happened to his mother. For ten points, Thanatopsis is a meditation on what event, which occurs to a Hired man in a Robert Frost poem?

The Beat Generation

One writer in this movement wrote Guilty of Everything and is named Herbert Huncke. Another writer in this movement wrote a book narrated by drug addict William Lee, Naked Lunch. In addition to William S. Burroughs, this movement included the founder of bookstore (*) City Lights. Works in this movement include one addressed to the writer's mother, Naomi. That author of "Kaddish" was a member of this movement and also wrote a poem with repeats, "I'm with you in Rockland," and opens, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness." For 10 points, identify this American literary movement featuring works like Allen Ginsberg's "Howl."

Thomas Mann

The German writer Goethe reunites with his lover Charlotte Kestner in this author's book Lotte in Weimar. In one of his novels, Thomas and Gerda give birth to Hanno, who eventually dies of typhoid, ending the family dynasty. That work, subtitled "The Decline of a Family", is set in (*) Lubeck. The protagonist of a novella by this author constantly smells a disinfectant in the air, but is later informed that it is a warning for an incoming sirocco. That character, Gustav von Aschenbach, becomes captivated by the beautiful Polish boy Tadzio, and eventually dies on the beach after eating over-ripe strawberries. For ten points, identify this German, the author of Buddenbrooks and Death in Venice.

Grendel

The Shaper tells this character a story about Scyld Scefing in a John Gardner novel written from his perspective. In his original appearance, which is part of the Nowell Codex, this character's arm is ripped off and hung from the rafters of Heorot, a (*) mead-hall that this character attacks every night. This character's mother retaliates against the Danes for his death. Both this character and his mother are monstrous descendants of Cain who are killed by a hero with the strength of 30 men. For 10 points, name this marsh monster that is Beowulf's first enemy.

Pygmalion

The author of this play rejected an alternate ending written by Herbert Tree, and one character receives a fortune from Ezra Wannafeller after he is praised for being England's "most original moralist." The heroine of this play throws her slippers at a man who had previously passed off her comments as "the new small talk." This play centers on a(*) phonetics professor's bet with Colonel Pickering that he can pass a Cockney flower girl off as a duchess. For 10 points, name this play about Eliza Doolittle and her teacher Henry Higgins, written by George Bernard Shaw.

Candide

The author of this story commended his own discretion for referring to a fictional pope rather than a historical one. In this story, an Italian eunuch laments his lack of testicles after he is unable to rape that pope's illegitimate daughter. That Old Woman, who once ate one of her (*) buttocks during a siege, meets the protagonist in the aftermath of an earthquake. That character and his servant, Cacambo, leave El Dorado with one hundred red sheep to track down Lady Cunégonde in this story. For ten points, name this novella that follows the title Leibnizian optimist turned garden cultivator, the magnum opus of Voltaire.

Vergil

The last book of a poem by this author sees Aristeus travel to the underworld to restore his bee colonies. Another poem by this author is written as a dialogue between the shepherds Tityrus and Meliboeus, and is the first of a set of 10 bucolic poems. One part of a work by this man describes funeral games on Sicily. This author of the (*) Georgics and the Eclogues described the Ilioupersis in his most famous work. In that poem, the protagonist kills Turnus after remembering the death of his friend Pallas. For 10 points, name this Roman poet who described Aeneas' journey after fleeing Troy in his epic poem, the Aeneid.

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

The protagonist of this story whistles as he passes a lightning-struck tulip tree due to its connection with the death of Major Andre. This story's protagonist rides the stubborn old horse Gunpowder, lent to him by Hans van Ripper. After the main character of this story disappears, Brom(*) Bones marries the beautiful Katrina van Tassel. A schoolteacher's hat and a smashed pumpkin are found near a bridge at this story's climax. For 10 points, name this short story about Ichabod Crane's encounter with the Headless Horseman, written by Washington Irving.

" To His Coy Mistress "

The soul of this poem's addressee "transpires at every pore with instant fires." Its speaker imagines sitting by the Humber while his love finds rubies by the Ganges. The speaker of this poem notes that "yonder all before us lie deserts of vast eternity," and wants to "tear our (*) pleasures with rough strife through the iron gates of life." The speaker of this poem declares "Let us roll all of our strength and all our sweetness up into one ball"; he hears "time's wingèd chariot hurrying near," and begins by imagining "world enough and time." For 10 points, name this poem by Andrew Marvell.

Langston Hughes Packet 10 -

This author begins a poem with "It was a long time ago / I have almost forgotten my dream," and loses the dream because "the wall rose / rose slowly / slowly / between me and my dream." This author of "Mother to Son" often talks about dreams, saying in the poem (*) "Dreams" that "if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird / that cannot fly." This author's poem "Harlem" is also known as "Dream Deferred" because of its opening line, "What happens to a dream deferred?" For 10 points, name this leader of the Harlem Renaissance, the author of "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "The Weary Blues."

Alice

This character is mistaken for Mary Ann after she becomes trapped in a house. In another episode, this character is awarded a thimble by a Dodo bird. Famously illustrated by John Tenniel, this character is asked why a raven is like a writing desk. This girl reads a poem about a "creature that came whiffling through the tulgey wood" and is told to "shun the (*) frumious Bandersnatch." After following a "very late!" rabbit, this character encounters a caterpillar smoking on a mushroom and an animal that disappears except for its smile, the Cheshire Cat. For 10 points, identify this girl who goes Through the Looking Glass and adventures in Wonderland in novels by Lewis Carroll.

David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery

This character is targeted by a man whose assistant is the one-legged Tungay, Mr. Creakle. Early in this character's life, he is sent to stay with Mrs. Gummidge in an upturned boat. While working for Doctor Strong, this character learns shorthand, aided by Traddles. This character sometimes known as "Trot" is sent to Salem House for biting Edward (*) Murdstone, where he befriends Steerforth. A landlord of this character is named Micawber. This character's first wife dies after a miscarriage and is named Dora Spenlow, but then he marries Wickfield's daughter, Agnes, who was pursued by Uriah Heep. For 10 points, name this title character of a semi-autobiographical novel by Charles Dickens.

Madame Bovary

This work's protagonist finds a velvet-lined cigar case on the street after a party at the Vicomte's house and later feigns taking piano lessons from Mademoiselle Lempereur. At the end of this novel, the town chemist receives the Legion of Honour, while the protagonist's daughter is sent to work in a cotton mill. The title character's husband causes a gangrenous infection after attempting to cure (*) Hippolyte's case of clubfoot. The protagonist of this novel is ultimately driven into debt by the merchant Lheureux and eats arsenic. For 10 points, what Gustave Flaubert novel focuses on the wife of Charles and her affairs with Rodolphe and Léon?

John Greenleaf Whittier

17. One of this man's poems describes a "drink of the gods" that allows one to "breathe through the hearts of desire." This author of "The Brewing of the Soma" wrote a poem that opens with a description of the sun rising "cheerless over hills of gray." The title character of one of his poems says that "It might have been" about becoming the judges bride. One of this man's poems takes place in Fredericktown and contains the proclamation (*) "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, but spare your country's flag!" For 10 points, name this author of "Snow-Bound," "Maud Muller," and "Barbara Frietchie."

The Master and Margarita

At a party in this novel, Johann Strauss conducts an orchestra comprised only of "world celebrities". Bosoi allows the main character of this novel to live in the vacated Apartment No. 50, which one of the title characters flies up to on Walpurgis Night after applying Azazello's magic cream. After a show at the Variety Theater, the cat (*) Behemoth aids in transporting Styopa, Berlioz's roommate, to Yalta. When one of the two title characters tries to burn the writings of Yeshua he is told that "manuscripts don't burn". This novel alternates between the settings of Pontius Pilate and Professor Woland. For ten points, name this novel in which a disguised Satan visits Moscow, by Mikhail Bulgakov.

Peter Pan

In this character's first appearance, he is only a week old in the novel The Little White Bird. In a subsequent play, this title character wears clothes made of autumn leaves and cobwebs. He visits Bloomsbury and loses his (*) shadow. This character invites a young girl to be the mother of his gang, children who were lost in Kensington Gardens when they fell out of their prams. In another scene, this character returns to Bloomsbury to bring Jane to Neverland. For 10 points, name this character created by J.M. Barrie, a young boy who refuses to grow up.

The Canterbury Tales

Near its beginning, this book describes "small fowls" that "make melody" and sleep with one eye open. This book's characters "wend" to seek a person that helped them "when that they were sick." In one part of this book, watching a woman pick flowers causes two men imprisoned in a tower to fall in love with her. This book includes the most famous version of the legend of the (*) fox and the rooster Chanticleer. This book begins when the "drought of March" has been "pierced to the root" by the "sweet showers" of April. A pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas à Becket is made by the Nun's Priest and the Knight in—for 10 points—what poetic collection of stories by Geoffrey Chaucer?

Sylvia Plath

2. This author described the title people of a poem as "Orange lollies on silver sacks." That poem by this author, which refers to the title city as a "morgue between Paris and Rome," is titled "The Munich Mannequins." A poem by this author ends a stanza with "Ach, du" and calls the title figure, a man in black with a (*) Meinkampf look" before exclaiming, "You bastard, I'm through." This wife of Ted Hughes committed suicide shortly after publishing a novel centering on Esther Greenwood. For 10 points, name this author of the poem "Daddy" and the novel The Bell Jar.

Rabindranath Tagore

In one play by this author, the illiterate child Amal dreams of getting a letter from the king. This author described a revolt against a mining company in Yakshapuri in one work named for a type of vibrant flower, and also wrote a novel about the love triangle between Nikhil, Sandip, and Bimala. This author of The Post Office, Red Oleanders, and The (*) Home and the World also wrote the poem "The Golden Boat" and was the first Nobel laureate from his continent. Two national anthems are by this author, including Jana Gana Mana, and he wrote a collection of poetry with a title translated as Song Offerings. For 10 points, name this "Bard of Bengal" who wrote Gitanjali.

Weasley family

One member of this family is the 107-year-old Aunt Muriel, who refuses to come home for Christmas after being pranked. A character with this last name is repeatedly called "Weatherby" by his boss, and another of these characters' greatest ambition is to find out how airplanes stay up. This family has a pet rat named(*) Scabbers and a flying car that is destroyed by a tree. This family is characterized as having "red hair, freckles, and more children than they can afford." For 10 points, name this family from the Harry Potter series, that includes Harry's best friend Ron and the twins Fred and George.

Saul Bellow

19. This author wrote about a man who is trapped in a lard investment scheme by Doctor Tamkin and is refused financial support by his father Dr. Adler. Another of this author's characters is forced to kill the horse Bizcocho and has numerous love affairs with Thea, Stella, and Sophie. This man wrote about the plight of Tommy Wilhelm in the novel (*) Seize the Day. The title character of one of his novels mentally writes many letters that he never sends. His most famous novel opens with the declaration that "I am an American, Chicago born." For 10 points, name this author of Herzog and The Adventures of Augie March.

Herbert George Wells

In a book by this man, a group of people are killed after approaching an object with a white flag, and that group includes the astronomer Ogilvy. Ten "masses of flaming gas" are associated with ten hollow cylinders in that novel by this author, which was adapted as a radio play that supposedly caused mass panic. This author wrote a story in which a character accidentally creates a forest fire that kills (*) Weena, even though the fire was only meant to distract the Morlocks, who, along with the Eloi, are the main humanoid species the narrator encounters in the year 802,701. For ten points, name this British author of The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine.

E. M. Forster

In a novel by this author, a woman steals an umbrella from a struggling insurance clerk at a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. In that novel by this author, Leonard Bast dies of a heart attack after being shoved into a bookcase by Charles Wilcox. In another novel by this author, Lucy break off her engagement with Cecil(*) Vyse to be with George Emerson. This author of Howard's End and A Room with a View wrote a novel about Dr. Aziz being accused of sexual assault in the Marabar Caves. For 10 points, name this British author of A Passage to India.

George Eliot

In one novel by this author, Gwendolen pawns her turquoise necklace after losing all her money while gambling. In another novel by this author of Daniel Deronda, the protagonist has a relationship with Philip Wakem, whose father bought the title location on the (*) Floss river, where the Tulliver siblings drown. This author wrote a novel in which Dunstan Cass steals gold from the title weaver of Raveloe and another in which the death of Casaubon allows Will Ladislaw to marry Dorothea Brooke. For 10 points, name this English author of the novels Silas Marner and Middlemarch.

Gunter Grass

In one novel by this author, Konny shoots a character that spit three times on a memorial to Wilhelm Gustoff. This author included the woman Tulla both in that novel, and another, in which the main character puts S.A. uniforms on scarecrows. In another novel by this author, the (*) Iron Cross of a U-Boat captain is stolen by "The Great" Mahlke. This author of Crabwalk wrote a work in which the protagonist has a voice that can shatter glass and receives the title object on his third birthday. The works Dog Years and Cat and Mouse make up the Danzig Trilogy of, for 10 points, what author of The Tin Drum?

Milan Kundera

In one novel by this author, a character has a dream in which her husband turns into a rabbit after being shot by officials. This author considers whether dogs are better than men in a novel where one woman wears her ancestor's (*) bowler hat during intercourse. The conversations of four Frenchmen are the center of this man's 2014 novel A Festival of Insignificance, while his most famous novel contains an adulterous affair between Tomas and Sabina. For 10 points, name this Czech-born French author who wrote about the 1968 Prague Spring in The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Herman Melville

In one story by this author, an unnamed narrator argues with a salesman about how to stay safe in a thunderstorm. The title character of another of this author's short stories lives at the Dead Letter Office, where he works with Turkey and Nippers and repeats the phrase "I would prefer(*) not to." This author included "The Lightning-Rod Man" and "Bartleby the Scrivener" in his collection The Piazza Tales, and the narrator of his most famous novel asks the reader to "Call [him] Ishmael." For 10 points, name this American author who wrote about Captain Ahab's hunt of the title whale in Moby-Dick.

Italo Calvino

In one work by this author, a character's death takes place in a hot air balloon, after which his body is never recovered. That character assumes the title guise by climbing a tree after refusing to eat a dinner of snails prepared by his sister. Another story of this author of (*) The Baron in the Trees includes a fraudulent translator named Ermes Marana, who causes books such as the one the protagonist is reading to be published unfinished. That story ends with one character marrying Ludmilla, and that character is You. For 10 points, name this author of If on a Winter's Night a Traveler.

Edgar Allan Poe

In one work by this author, the corpse of a student of the philosophers Fichte and Schelling disappears after her daughter is given the name Morella. In another of his stories, Jupiter helps Legrand find Captain Kidd's treasure. This author of "The Gold-Bug" also wrote about Minister D—, the thief of the title (*) "Purloined Letter," in a work featuring the recurring character detective C. Auguste Dupin. Another story by this author features the family motto "Nemo me impune lacessit" and the murder of Fortunato by Montresor. For 10 points, name this author of short stories like "The Cask of Amontillado" in addition to poems like "The Raven."

A Study of Provincial Life

In this novel, Mr. Wrench loses a job as a family doctor after failing to recognize typhoid fever, and a frog-eyed man named Mr. Rigg appears at Featherstone's funeral. Fred marries Mary Garth in this novel, which also features the marriage of Lydgate and Rosamund. In one episode in this novel, John Raffles reveals the truth of (*) Bulstrode's past. One character in this novel works on the project The Key to All Mythologies but writes a will that strips his widow of her inheritance if she marries Will Ladislaw. That character is Casaubon. For 10 points, identify this novel about Dorothea Brooke's life in the title town, a work of George Eliot.

Pygmalion Tiebreaker

In this play, a millionaire is convinced that a man is the "most original moralist" of England and pays him to give lectures on morality. Clara is impressed with the "new small talk" of a girl who hurls slippers at another character in this play. That girl marries (*) Freddy Eynsford Hill. This play has been adapted as the musical and film My Fair Lady. Professor Higgins tries to teach Eliza Doolittle to speak like a duchess in, for 10 points, what George Bernard Shaw play named after a mythical character that fell in love with one of his sculptures?

The Devil

Theodor, Nikolaus, and Seppi encounter this charmer who says that "man begins as dirt and departs as stench" in a novel by Mark Twain. In one work, this man puts on a show at the Variety Theater where Behemoth decapitates a man, later putting it back on due to audience demands. After journeying the Valley of Humiliation, the protagonist of (*) A Pilgrim's Progress fights this character. This tempter finds himself on a boiling lake of lava in another epic where later on he turns into a serpent. For 10 points, name this antagonist of Paradise Lost who attempted to overthrow God.

The Stranger (accept L'Étranger or The Outsider)

A question posed to the main character of this novel asks "Do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" The main character of this novel is enlisted to help his friend seduce and then spit into the face of his girlfriend after that friend, Raymond Sintes, suspects her of cheating. The protagonist of this novel shoots (*) an Arab five times after being threatened with a knife. In this novel, the protagonist doesn't cry at his mother's funeral, preferring to drink coffee and smoke instead. For ten points, name this novel about the indifferent French Algerian Meursault and written by Albert Camus.

Sinbad the Sailor

This character once lit a fire that woke up an animal which he had previously thought to be an island. After this character was captured by dwarves on a different adventure, a one-eyed giant ate members of his crew. This man's ship was destroyed by (*) rocs throwing rocks. In that same voyage, this character's fifth, he met and killed the old man of the sea. On this man's seventh and final voyage, he is given enough ivory to keep him rich forever. For ten points, name this character who appears in One Thousand and One Nights, a merchant from the city of Baghdad.

Alfred Edward Housman

1. An essay titled after this author's "De Amicitia" details his infatuation with Moses Jackson. One of this man's poems twice mentions how the title character was carried "shoulder-high," and proclaims that he will not join the ranks of "runners whom renown outran." The speaker in one of his poems ignores a wise man's advice to "Give crowns and pounds and guineas/ But not your heart away." This author of "When I was One and Twenty" warns that "you eat your victuals fast enough" in his poem (*) "Terence, this is stupid stuff." For 10 points, name this British poet who included "To An Athlete Dying Young" in his collection A Shropshire Lad.

Sinclair Lewis

16. A novel by this author ends with a mob coming to evict Neil Kingsblood for his black ancestry. Another novel by this author ends with the title character congratulating his son Ted for eloping with Eunice. Senator Trowbridge opposes Buzz Windrip's fascist regime in a novel by this author titled It Can't Happen Here. A character created by this author eventually gives up his relations with Seneca Doane and his affair with Tanis Judique before joining the (*) Good Citizen's League. In that novel by this author, Paul Riesling is arrested for shooting his wife Zilla. For 10 points, name this author of Babbitt.

To His Coy Mistress

A line from this poem titles a Robert Penn Warren novel surrounding the murder trial of Kentucky lawyer Jeremiah Beaumont. The speaker of this poem imagines walking by the river Humber before declaring that his love should grow "vaster than empires, and more slow". This poem urges the addressee to roll (*) "our sweetness up into one ball". This work's narrator praises a woman's beauty by saying that "A hundred years should go to praise" and "Two hundred to adore each breast", but encourages her to stop being such a tease because he hears "Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near." For 10 points, name this carpe diem poem addressed to the title lady by Andrew Marvell.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

A satire of this work published in Blackwood's Magazine writes how a character is a "tippsye manne / the red-nosed waggonere." A character in this poem is called a "gray-bearded loon" after stopping another character. That character described how "slimy things did crawl with legs / upon the slimy sea," and he later sees Death and (*) Life-in-Death playing a game of dice. In the beginning of this poem, a character stops another on his way to a wedding. The title character notes that there is "water, water, everywhere / nor any drop to drink," in, For ten points, what Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem about a sailor who shoots an albatross?

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

A short story by this author is interrupted by sounds like a car crash, a twenty-one gun salute, and "somebody hitting a milk bottle with a ball peen hammer." The protagonist of that short story by this author selects a ballerina to be his "empress," and is shot by Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, in an effort to make everyone equal. In a novel by this author of (*) "Harrison Bergeron," the protagonist is mated with Montana Wildhack by Tralfamadorian aliens. In that novel of his, Billy Pilgrim becomes "unstuck in time" during World War Two and survives the firebombing of Dresden. For 10 points, name this author of Slaughterhouse-Five.

The War of the Worlds

Following the climax of this work, the narrator is stopped by the "The Man on Putney Hill" who insists there isn't enough food for both of them in his land. The narrator of this book attacks the curate after he gives away their position with loud screaming. The use of mass weapons called "Black Smoke" and (*) "Heat-Ray" follow the landing of an apparent meteor in this work that signals the arrival of tripodal ships. The central antagonists of this book are defeated after it's revealed their immune system isn't prepared for terrestrial bacteria. For 10 points, name this H.G. Wells book describing a Martian invasion of London.

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Near the end of this play, three male characters unconsciously raise their glasses at the same time. Characters in this play covers up their family members' drinking by adding water to a decanter of whiskey. The patriarch of a family in this play is an actor famous for only one role, whose wife showed promise as a pianist and once lived in a Catholic convent. That character from this play believes her son purposefully infected (*) Eugene with measles. In this play, Edmund is diagnosed with tuberculosis, and his mother Mary is addicted to morphine. For 10 points, name this play about the Tyrone family, a late work by Eugene O'Neill.

Ethan Frome Tiebreaker

The narrator of this novel is an engineer who was brought to its setting because of a carpenter's strike. One character in this novel is utterly distraught after another character breaks a pickle dish, which can be understood symbolically as the breaking of (*) Zeena's marriage with the title character. That title character is first seen by the narrator limping around in the town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The narrator later finds out that the limp was from a sledding "accident." For 10 points, identify this Edith Wharton novel about the title man who cheated on his wife with Mattie Silver.

Cry, the Beloved Country

The protagonist of this novel goes to the employer of Sibeko's daughter during his search for her. A character in this novel donates milk to a village after reading his son's articles about racial equality. A different character in this novel is defended "pro deo" in court by Mr. Carmichael, and the protagonist receives a letter from(*) Theophilus Msimangu ["Missi-mangu"] about his sister Gertrude's illness. That protagonist of this novel hears about the killing of Arthur Jarvis on his visit to Johannesburg. For 10 points, name this novel about Stephen Kumalo, written by Alan Paton.

Langston Hughes

A poem by this author includes a title figure telling another that she has been to "places with no carpet on the floor" "where there ain't no light." The narrator of one of this man's poems "will be at the table/when company comes" and claims that people will "be ashamed that I, too, am, America." In another poem, this poet wonders what will happen to the title object, and considers that it may "dry up like a (*) raisin in the sun." This poet ends another work by stating "my soul has grown deep like the rivers." For 10 points, name this poet of the Harlem Renaissance poet who wrote "Mother to Son" and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

In this novel, one character explains to the main character "Clock time is nothing where art is concerned" when asked why he wakes up so early. A Jehovah's Witness in this novel threatens to castrate himself to prove that he did not rape a girl, and a writer who was hired by Genaro eventually kills all of his characters in a fire. This novel's odd chapters take place in (*) Radio Panamericana, while the even chapters follow the fictional characters created by Pedro Comacho. For ten points, name this novel about Mario Varguitas and his romance with the title relative, written by Mario Vargas Llosa.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

In this novel, the Chief Surgeon attempts to convince the main character to sign an agreement renouncing his previous beliefs. In another scene, the corpse of one adulterous Professor in this novel is moved to a tombstone marked "A return after long wanderings." A painter in this novel declares "war on kitsch" (*) before being photographed while wearing nothing but a bowler hat. Another character claims that his erotic adventures do not change his love towards his wife Sabina. For 10 points, name this Czech novel about four intellectuals including Tomas set during and after the Prague Spring, written by Milan Kundera.

Macondo

In this town, Isabel and her father are opposed by their neighbors in their attempt to bury a doctor. A colonel living in this city makes golden fish as a hobby, while another citizen from here, who refuses to wear clothes and later rises into the sky, is Remedios (*) the Beauty. An orphan who carries her parents' bones in a bag arrives in this city, and a banana company here brutally guns down striking employees. The founder of this city buys ice from the gypsy Melquiades, believing it to be a diamond, and is the patriarch of the Buendia family. For 10 points, named this fictional town created by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the setting of 100 Years of Solitude.

"The Road Not Taken"

According to an essay by David Orr, "Everyone Loves" this poem but "Everyone Gets [it] Wrong." A friendship with Edward Thomas inspired this poem, which is written in four stanzas of iambic tetrameter. The narrator of this poem, the first in Mountain Interval, "doubted if [he] should ever come back" because he knows "how (*) way leads on to way." Later, that narrator of this poem says he will be explaining his decision "with a sigh / Somewhere ages and ages hence" though he was "sorry [he] could not travel both" of the "two roads diverged in a yellow wood." For 10 points, identify this poem in which the narrator "took the one less traveled by," a work of Robert Frost.

Bertolt Brecht

In a work by this writer, one character dodges being arrested because of his colonial war connections. That character is eventually caught because of Jeremiah Peachum's influence as the boss of London beggars. In another work by this writer, a character dies after beating a drum to save a village. In that work, the title character states that (*) Eilif will die for his bravery, Swiss Cheese for his honesty, and Kattrin for her kindness. For ten points, name this German playwright of a work about the exploits of Macheath, The Threepenny Opera, and a work set during the 30 Years' War about a washerwoman, Mother Courage and her Children.

Hercule Poirot

In one appearance, this character's fixation on a piece of lead piping causes the narrator to think that this character has grown too old. One collection featuring this character plays on his first name with such titles as "The Capture of Cerberus", in which this character goes to a nightclub with Countess Vera Rossakoff. This character is puzzled by a scarlet kimono in his most famous appearance, in which he aids Monsieur Bouc. While Captain (*) Hastings usually accompanies this character, Dr. Sheppard acts as an unreliable narrator in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Murder on the Orient Express features, for 10 points, what mustached Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie?

London, England

In one work set in this place, Comstock works in a small bookshop and works to write a magnum opus called this place's "pleasures." Comstock's only published work, a collection of poetry entitled Mice, is completely neglected. Another work set in this place includes a convict who is given a reprieve by "pleading her belly" to get out of (*) Newgate Prison. This place was fled by a character who brutally murders his lover Nancy and works under Fagin. One address in this place first appears in A Study in Scarlet, that address is 221 Baker Street. For ten points, name this city paired with Paris in A Tale of Two Cities.

Luigi Pirandello

One character in a work by this author reacts angrily after mistaking a man for the monk Peter Damian. The family of that character changes his home into a palace at Goslar in order to humor him, because he believes himself to be a king after falling off of a horse. That play centers around the title people rehearsing (*) The Rules of the Game, another work by this author. It begins with The Director disbelieving The Father about his family's status. For ten points, name this playwright of Henry IV and Six Characters in Search of an Author.

Aldous Huxley

One of this author's works is about a group of people, led by Mrs. Aldwinkle, which discusses the glories of the Renaissance. This author of Those Barren Leaves wrote a novel about a house party located at Mr. Wimbush's title estate, as viewed through the eyes of Denis Stone. Drugs commonly appear in this author's works, such as in his personal experience detailed in The Doors of Perception and as the ubiquitous (*) soma in another work. That work includes a man named John the Savage who debates the Resident World Controller Mustapha Mond. For ten points name this author of Eyeless in Gaza, Crome Yellow, and Brave New World.

The Master and Margarita

One wicked character in this novel claims to have teleported to Yalta, but fails to convince three characters of it despite providing his signature as proof. Another character in this novel stages a magic show in which women receive clothing and accessories that later disappear, leaving them naked. That character has a gigantic cat named (*) Behemoth and predicts the decapitation of Berlioz, an editor at MASSOLIT. The title writer of this novel is told "manuscripts don't burn", referring to a book he had written about Pontius Pilate. The devil Woland and his retinue visit the Soviet Union in, for ten points, what novel by Mikhail Bulgakov?

Krishna

This figure is sometimes identified as one with a book which introduced the rasa lila dance. This figure is the main speaker in a 700-verse work often published in English as [that text] As It Is which compares rotten, bitter, and sweet fruit to three gunas. Oppenheimer quoted this figure after the Trinity Test when he said, "Now I am become (*) death, destroyer of worlds." A mantra devoted to this figure prefaces his name with "Hare" [HAH-ray]. In a Vyasa poem, this charioteer convinces Arjuna that it is okay to kill his Kaur·a·va enemies. For 10 points, name this speaker of the Bha·ga·vad Gita, the eighth avatar of Vishnu.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

This work contains a reference to J.K. Huysmans' "Against Nature" that the protagonist says "poisoned him." One character in this work is called "Prince Charming" by another character, an actress named Sybil Vane. The central object of this novel disappoints its creator because it shows too much (*) feeling for the subject. The subject of that object eventually kills the creator, Basil Hallward, after he sees the now hideous titular object. For ten points, name this novel about a cursed artwork that bears the burden of age and ruin while the subject stays young and beautiful, a novel by Oscar Wilde.

Dover (Beach)

A father who believes he is at this place is told, "Ten masts at each make not the altitude / Which thou hast perpendicularly fell." A girl identified with the name of this location is brought "a bottle of Nuit d'Amour" and is treated as "a sort of mournful cosmic last resort" in an Anthony Hecht poem. A man here reflects that the world "hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light" after hearing a "melancholy, long, withdrawing (*) roar." This location reminds the speaker of Sophocles being sad by the Aegean in the most famous poem about it. Edgar brings Gloucester to the plains near this place, where he falls off what he thinks are its cliffs. A poem titled for this place reflects on the "Sea of Faith." For 10 points, name this setting of Matthew Arnold's best known poem.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms (accept San Guo Yan Yi)

A general in this novel slaughters six enemy generals to cross five mountain passes. A military tactic used in this novel misleads an opposing army into thinking that an empty city is full of traps, while another uses a "self-torture ruse" to carry out Zhou Yu's fire attack. In this novel, a character's first two attempts to recruit the (*) "Sleeping Dragon" end in failure. That same character swears the "Oath of the Peach Garden" with Zhang Fei and Guan Yu. For 10 points, name novel by Luo Guanzhong about the feud between the states Wei, Shu, and Wu, set during the Han dynasty.

A Clockwork Orange

A group of characters in this novel confiscate a textbook on snowflakes for being obscene, though the protagonist is later assaulted by a group of old men in a library in retribution. The protagonist of this novel is beaten by Dim and Billyboy after they become cops and is often visited by (*) P.R. Deltoid. That protagonist attempts suicide after hearing a piece by Skadelig, and he realizes he was being manipulated by a group that includes F. Alexander. The protagonist of this work is disgusted by Beethoven's Ninth Symphony after undergoing the Ludovico technique, A group of Droogs and their ultraviolent leader Alex appear in, for ten points, what novel by Anthony Burgess?

Waiting for Godot

A kidney illness causes one character in this play to "stink of garlic" and prevents him from telling a joke about a drunk Englishman. In another scene of this play, a character who forgot how to dance the farandole, the fling, and the jig decides to act like he's caught in a net. The second act of this play features a song about a dog being beaten to death with a (*) ladle and ends with one of the protagonists attempting to hang himself to pass time. A slave named Lucky is introduced in this play by a man who can only speak when a bowler hat is placed on his head. For 10 points, name this absurdist play about Vladimir and Estragon, written by Samuel Beckett.

William Shakespeare

A poem by this author ends with a "threnos" that ask those "true or fair" "For these dead birds sigh a prayer." This author of "The Phoenix and the Turtle" dedicated a collection to Mr W.H. that opens "From fairest creatures we desire increase." One of his poem's subjects is "a star to every wandering bark"; that poem ends with a declaration that if he is wrong, "I never (*) writ, nor no man ever loved." This author wrote a parody of a blazon that compares its subject's hair to "black wires" and complains "Coral is far more red, than her lips' red." For 10 points, name this author of "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun," one hundred and fifty three other sonnets, and Hamlet.

homosexuality (accept close equivalents like gay, lesbian, or queer)

A work predating Bram Stoker's Dracula by 26 years describes a vampire who has this trait, Carmilla. A character who displays this trait clings to a picture of a European knight, who turns out to be Joan of Arc. This trait is exhibited by Randolph and Joel in Other Voices, Other Rooms. The poem (*) "Phainetai Moi" describes this trait in its poet, who was known as "the tenth muse." De Profundis was written as a philosophical work for Lord Alfred Douglass during time one possessor of this trait spent in Reading Gaol. For ten points, name this trait exhibited by Yukio Mishima, Truman Capote, Sappho, and Oscar Wilde.

Humbert Humbert

At the Hotel Mirana, this man meets his first love who later dies of typhoid. Years later, this man's first wife leaves him for a Russian taxi driver, Maximovich. After this, he moves to Paris, where he has a brief romance with the prostitute (*) Monique. This character later travels to Camp Q to pick up his companion. At the end of the novel he is featured in, this character kills Clare Quilty. This man lives in a house with Charlotte and Dolores before he is evicted. For ten point, name this character obsessed with "nymphets" in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita.

Herman Melville

At the end of a work by this author, a man's head is described as a "hive of subtlety" and is placed on a pole while the rest of his body is burned. In that work, a figurehead with the words "follow your leaders" is on a ship on which the slave Babo leads a mutiny. In another work by this author, a grub-man is told to look after the title character, who was a coworker of (*) Nippers and Turkey before eventually responding to every request by saying "I would prefer not to." For 10 points, name this American author, who, in addition to Bartleby the Scrivener wrote about Ishmael's narration of Captain Ahab's hunt for a white whale in Moby Dick.

Dylan Thomas

Captain Cat watches the inhabitants of the Welsh town, Llareggub, in one work written by this man. Another work of his admits that it is dumb to tell the "crooked rose" and dumb to tell the "lover's tomb." This man wrote "Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again," (*) in a poem that both ends and begins "And death shall have no dominion." The lines "I was young and easy under the apple boughs" and "Time held me green and dying / Though I sang in my chains like the sea" appear in his "Fern Hill." For 10 points, name this British poet who wrote, "Rage, Rage against the dying of the light," in "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night."

Derek Walcott

In a play by this man, a vision inspires an elderly hermit named Makak to journey to Africa. This author notes that "the violence of beast on beast is read as natural law" in a work that declares "the gorilla wrestled with the Superman". This man laments that "the classics can console. But not enough" in the poem (*) Sea Grapes. Besides exploring his mixed ancestral heritage in A Far Cry From Africa, this author retold Homer's Iliad in a poem that features fishermen like Achille and Hector. For 10 points, name this Caribbean writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Omeros.

Edward Albee III

In a play by this man, an architect named Martin Gray falls in love with a goat named Sylvia. Another play by this man centers around an aging couple who has a conversation with Leslie and Sarah, two human sized lizards, about their children, evolution, and fidelity. In this playwright's first play, a wealthy publishing executive is interrogated by another man. In that play, Jerry (*) impales himself with the knife he pulled on Peter. In this playwright's most famous play, George and Martha play "get the guest" and talk about their imaginary son. For ten points, name this playwright of Seascape, The Zoo Story, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

the Holocaust

In a poem about this historical event titled Todesfuge, the poet compares the "Golden haired Margareta" with the "ashen haired Shulamith" and describes Death as a "gang-boss aus Deutschland." That poem's poet, Paul Celan, used inverted syntax and vocabulary. The first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize is a postmodern, (*) anthropomorphic rendering of its author's father's experiences during this event; that graphic novel is Maus. A 1990 children's book about this event takes its title from Psalms 147:4; that book is Number the Stars. For ten points, name this event that is detailed in Elie Wiesel's "deposition" Night.

doctor

In a poem addressed to a member of this profession, Atticus and Sporus are ridiculed as the narrator yells "Shut, shut the door, good John!" to avoid being swamped by admirers. A character in this profession is inspired to write the poem "Bad Roads in Spring" after he is kidnapped by the Forest Brotherhood. A pair of glasses recovered from the Marabar Caves (*) is used to falsely accuse one of these people of raping Adela Quested. Another person with this occupation accidentally infects Hippolyte's club foot and is frequently cuckolded by his dissatisfied wife in Madame Bovary. A friend of Gabriel Utterson who tramples a young girl also has this profession. For 10 points, name this job held by characters such as Yuri Zhivago and the alter ego of Mr. Hyde.

Christmas

In a short story by Heinrich Boll, this is celebrated every day of the year in order to keep Aunt Milla from screaming hysterically. In a Joyce work set on this day, money is shoved into the hands of the maid Lily by Gabriel Conroy during a party for this holiday. That story is (*) "The Dead." In a Hans Christian Andersen story, this day is the happiest day of a character's life, because it is decorated with a golden star and candles. That character is the story's namesake "Fir-Tree". For ten points, name this holiday that features three ghosts who haunt Ebeneezer Scrooge in a Charles Dickens work and is celebrated on December 25th.

Thomas Pynchon Jr

In a short story by this author, Callisto thinks about the increasing disorder of the American consumerist society, equating it to the title concept "Entropy." Another short story by this author is about two English spies named Porpentine and Goodfellow. Both of these stories appear in this author's collection Slow Learner. In a novel by this author, a (*) muted post horn continually follows the protagonist, Oedipa Maas. Another novel by this author begins with "A screaming comes across the sky" and is possibly titled for the trajectory of a V-2 rocket. For ten points, name this author of The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow.

Kenzaburo Oe

In a short story by this author, a narrator feels a gentle hand on his shoulder after seeing a pack of dogs and panicking. That story is about a man who goes mad after his son with a brain hernia dies. In one novel by this man, 15 boys are trapped, and so are a korean boy named Li and a girl who dies of (*) plague after being bitten by a dog. The title sound of a novel by this author is made when a cucumber is shoved up the anus of Mitsusaburo's friend. For ten points, name this author who wrote The Silent Cry and wrote about his autistic son Hikari in A Personal Matter.

Franz Kafka

In a work by this author, a father sentences his son to "death by drowning." That work is "The Judgement." In a short story by this author, an officer attempts to have the words "Be Just" written on him, but is instead stabbed to death. In one of this author's novels, the final words of the central character are "Like a dog!" That character, (*) Josef K., is executed without knowing his crime. This author's most notable work is about a man who wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. For ten points, name this author of "In the Penal Colony," The Trial, and The Metamorphosis.

Italo Calvino

In a work by this author, an assistant meteorologist buys rope for the seashell-drawing Miss Zwida. Priscilla is rescued from bears by the knight Agilulf in this man's The Nonexistent Knight, while another work sees Baron Cosimo decide to live in a tree. This writer included cities like Diomira in a novel based on the travels of (*) Marco Polo. In another work by this man, the fake translator Ermes Marana is sought by Professor Uzzi-Tuzzi and the reader, and that novel's odd-numbered chapters are narrated in second-person. For 10 points, name this Italian author of If On a Winter's Night a Traveler.

Christopher Marlowe

In a work by this writer, one character tricks another into killing her by telling him that she has an ointment that can protect a person from getting wounded when stabbed. In that work, the title character burns down the city where his love died. The prologue of another work by this writer is narrated by a caricature of Machiavelli. In that work, the title character kills his daughter (*) Abigail after she converts to Christianity. The title character of that work ends up being betrayed by his slave Ithamore and dies in a cauldron. For ten points, name this Elizabethan playwright of Tamburlaine the Great, The Jew of Malta, and Doctor Faustus.

Theodore (Herman Albert) Dreiser

In one book by this author, Frank Cowperwood loses his reputation after the Great Chicago fire of 1871 and becomes a scapegoat for some powerful Republicans. Besides The Financier, this author wrote of a salesman who encourages a Wisconsin girl to move out of her sister's apartment but is reluctant to let her act in a production of "Under the Gaslight." (*) In that novel, the title character is fooled into marrying Hurstwood after he escaped with her to Canada. In another of his works, a farm girl named Roberta Aiden is murdered by the father of her child, the troubled Clyde Griffith. For 10 points, name this American author of Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy.

New Orleans (prompt on "Louisiana")

In one novel set in this place, a character is attacked by a parrot after going into a strip club looking for the refined lady reading Boethius. That character's name is Ignatius Reilly. This place is the setting of Scarlett O'Hara's honeymoon in Gone with the Wind. In another novel set here, the protagonist falls in love with (*) Robert Lebrun. A play set in this city features a widowed southern belle who goes to live with her sister and her sister's husband after losing the family home. For ten points, name this city, the setting of A Confederacy of Dunces, The Awakening, and A Streetcar Named Desire.

World War One

In one novel, a soldier named Winterbourne commits suicide during this war after finding he can no longer relate to his wife. After his wife leaves for China, the farmer Claude Wheeler enlists to fight in this war in Willa Cather's novel One of Ours. A character who deserts this war rows all night to escape to (*) Switzerland and had earlier shot a cowardly sergeant for refusing to help lift Aymo's car out of the mud. A soldier in this war guiltily decides to send money to the family of the printer Gerard Duval, whom he had just stabbed to death, and that protagonist inherits Kemmerich's boots after the death of Müller. For 10 points, name this global conflict, the setting of All Quiet on the Western Front.

Arthur Miller

In one of this author's works, Frank prohesizes that a missing character will return since he was lost on "his favorable day." In that play, a storm destroys an apple tree planted for that missing character, whose father blames a neighbor for the sale of cracked engine cylinder heads. In another play by this author, a character refuses to sign a confession and defile his (*) name for he "cannot have another in his life." In that play, one character exclaims "More weight!" as stones are placed on him to extract a confession of witchcraft. For 10 points, name this playwright who wrote about Joe Keller in All My Sons and who allegorized the McCarthy trials as the Salem Witch Trials in The Crucible.

David Herbert Lawrence

In one of this author's works, a character has an affair with Miss Inger before entering a failed relationship with the soldier Anton Skrebensky; that character later sees the "living fabric of Truth" in the titular object. In another work by this author, Gertrude's first son dies in London, so she begins to romantically pursue her other son, (*) Paul Morel. Apart from The Rainbow, this author detailed an affair between the titular gamekeeper and Constance Reid, whose husband is partially paralyzed after his service in World War I. For 10 points, name this English author famous for explicit works such as Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Catullus

In one of this man's poems, he states, "the devoted poet should stand erect in his values, but not necessarily in his little poems, which are truly witty and charming." After noting that "once our brief light sets, we must sleep an eternal night" he hastily commands his lover to give him (*) "a thousand kisses, then a hundred". He tells of speaking "in vain to silent actions" after bidding his brother "Hail and Farewell" in "Ave Atque Vale". He laments that "Now thanks to you, my girlfriend's little swollen eyes are red with weeping," in his eulogy of a pet sparrow. For 10 points, name this Latin poet who addressed numerous poems to Lesbia.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

In one part of this poem, the title character bites his arm and sucks out blood in order to make clear that an object is approaching. Another character dooms souls based on her own preferences and contrasts Death, who appropriately sends souls to Heaven or Hell. This poem ends with the title character saying "He prayeth best, who loveth best" (*) and vanishing to leave the wedding guest alone. Due to the fog, the title character of this poem accidently shoots an albatross and is forced to wear the dead bird on his neck as punishment. For 10 points, name this long narrative poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about the cautionary tale of an old sailor.

The Song of Roland

In one scene of this work, "lively devils" take a character to hell after Bramimonde wails that the emir of Babylon had been defeated; shortly afterwards, the corpse of the main character is taken back to the capitol. A central dilemma of this work concerns whether one character committed revenge or treason, and that character is torn apart by horses after (*) Pinabel dies. Oliver and the archbishop Turpin are killed alongside the titular figure, who wields the sword Durendal and blows the horn oliphant so hard that his temples burst. For 10 points, name this epic poem that sees Ganelon betray the title character during a battle with Charlemagne at Roncevaux Pass.

Jerome David Salinger

In one short story by this author, Ginnie Maddox finds herself unable to discard a chicken sandwich, drawing a parallel between it and an Easter chick. In another work by this author of "Just Before the War with Eskimos," an army veteran is chastised by a child for sitting next to Sharon Lipschutz. That short story (*), A Perfect Day For Bananafish, is part of a series he wrote about the Glass family. The narrator of his only novel is the former manager of his school's fencing team and hangs around his sister Phoebe after being kicked out of Pencey Prep. For 10 points, name this author who wrote about Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in The Rye.

Anton Chekhov

In one story by this man, the postmaster Mikhail and a cook are the only people to attend the funeral of a stroke victim. In another work by this author, a confusing play that represents the devil's eyes as two red dots is praised by Dr. Dorn; later in that work, Nina presents a medallion to (*) Trigorin. This author described Dmitri's attempt to find Anna at a performance of The Geisha and how Serebryakov moves away with Yelena. Apart from Lady with a Dog, he ended another work with the sounds of axes and described Lopakhin's purchase of Lyubov Ranevskaya's estate. For 10 points, name this Russian playwright of Uncle Vanya and The Cherry Orchard.

Athol Fugard

In one work by this author, a homeless couple meets another person named Outa and one of the characters counts her bruises. In another work by this author, two men shovel sand endlessly at each other. In that work, the two main characters practice Antigone as a play within a play. This author of Boseman and Lena and The Island also wrote about a woman named (*) Ethel Lange who comes to visit a pen pal in Port Elizabeth. That play follows the brothers Zachariah and Morris and their struggles with being black and looking white. For ten points, name this author of Blood Knot who also wrote Master Harold and the Boys.

A Doll's House

In the final scene of this play, the protagonist says that she has survived by "performing tricks" all her life. Another character in this play, Mrs. Linde, explains that she had to care for her sick mother and brothers. The protagonist of this play (*) borrowed money from a man called "morally sick" by Dr. Rank, Krogstad, in order to finance a trip to Italy, and is blackmailed by Krogstad so he can keep his job at the bank where the protagonist's husband, Torvald, works. For ten points, name this play that ends with Nora Helmer slamming the door behind her, written by Henrik Ibsen.

Ethan Frome

In this novel, a character goes to Bettsbridge to see a new doctor. The climactic event of this novel is inspired by an anecdote about Ned Hale and Ruth Varnum. A girl in this novel with a cherry-colored scarf refuses the offer of a ride from a young man named Denis Eady. In this novel, a cat shatters (*) Zenobia's favorite pickle dish, but the main character manages to piece it back together. This novel's story within a story ends with the title character and his lover attempting suicide by running a sled into an elm tree. For ten points, name this novel about the title character's affair with Mattie Silver, by Edith Wharton.

Cry, the Beloved Country

In this novel, a liquor seller living on Hyacinth Street is called a "queen." While in a courtroom, a character in this novel states that he fired at a tree with his revolver and claims that another character carried a "blessed" iron bar. A character in this novel fails to find Sibeko's daughter at (*) Barbara Smith's house, and another dies while writing a manuscript titled "The Truth about Native Crime." In this novel, Matthew and Johannes Parfuri help commit a murder, and Msimangu asks Stephen to come to Johannesburg. For 10 points, name this novel about the killing of Arthur Jarvis by Absalom Kumalo, written by Alan Paton.

Their Eyes were Watching God

In this novel, after the protagonist talks back to her husband for the first time, she is ignored and asked for a checkerboard. Before a hurricane in this novel, Native Americans leave the Everglades for Palm Beach. In this novel, the protagonist's grandmother says that people like the protagonists are "the mules of the world." After the death of her (*) second husband, the protagonist rips off her head-rag, freeing her imprisoned hair after the death of Joe Starks. At the end of this novel, the protagonist shoots her lover Tea Cake after he gets rabies. For ten points, name this novel about Janie Crawford, written by Zora Neale Hurston.

Czech

One book written in this language sees the Party-supporting Ludvik attempt to seduce the married Helena. Another book in this language is interrupted by a mock-academic account of the "Sex Lives" of the titular creatures, which were discovered on an island in the vicinity of Sumatra. This language (*) was used to write a work in which one character believes that Marius and Sulla were lovers and Rossum disastrously attempts to create robots. Used by the author of R.U.R, for 10 points, name this language of Karel Capek [CHA-peck] and playwright Vaclav Havel, the latter of whom became the first president of a country with the capital Prague.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

One character in the novel introduces himself as William Thompson from Ohio, a person stopping on his way to visit his uncle. In this novel, two families who detest each other attend church together and hold their rifles between their knees as the minister preaches about brotherly love. Those families are the (*) Shepherdsons and the Grangerfords. The protagonist of this novel fakes his death by killing a pig in order to escape his father, Pap. In this novel the Royal Nonesuch is performed by the Duke and the Dauphin. For ten points, name this Mark Twain novel about the title character's journey down the Mississippi river with a slave named Jim.

The Great Gatsby

One character in this novel supports a dubious story by showing the narrator a medal from his military service in Montenegro. A golfer in this novel has an incurable habit of dishonesty, a trait the narrator finds attractive. After his wife is run over, a garage owner (*) in this novel hunts the title character and eventually shoots him in a pool. That character earlier hosts a party in which he invites much of West Egg, including his love interest, Daisy Buchanan. For 10 points, name this F. Scott Fitzgerald novel narrated by Nick Carraway that details the exploits of his neighbor in West Egg.

Anna Karenina

One character in this novel writes an unsuccessful book, so he joins the pan-Slav movement. Another character breaks his horse Frou-Frou's back in a race against Gladiator. A major character in this story consults a French clairvoyant named Landau, who told him not to file fir divorce. Princess (*) Kitty Scherbatsky eventually marries Constantin Levin in this novel that depicts Stiva Oblonsky's cheating on his wife Dolly. This novel begins "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." For ten points, name this Leo Tolstoy novel about the title woman who kills herself by jumping in front of a train.

King Lear

One character in this play commands "Out, vile jelly," in reference to a character that says, "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods." In this play, one character calls himself "Tom O'Bedlam" after being robbed of his birthright. The King of France (*) marries a character in this play despite her being disinherited. Another character in this play tries to commit suicide, but his son Edgar saves him by leading him off an imaginary cliff. For ten points, name this Shakespearean play about the titular king who divided his kingdom between two thankless daughters, Goneril and Regan, and cast out his youngest daughter Cordelia.

Waiting for Godot

One character in this work says that the second pipe is never as sweet as the first one, and another turns down a black radish. This work begins with a character struggling with his boots and eventually forgetting them at the end of Act One. In this play, one character is commanded to dance and then to (*) think. That character is the slave Lucky, who is being driven by Pozzo. The two protagonists of this play discuss hanging themselves from the solitary tree, but then decide to wait for the word of a man who never appears. For ten points name this play about Vladimir and Estragon by Samuel Beckett.

Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life

One character in this work warns another of "professional jealousy" after the character is to be named superintendent of Fever Hospital. Another character in this work dies with his two wills intact, eventually leaving his money to Joshua Rigg. In this novel, John Raffles blackmails a wealthy man with a secret about the man's fortune. One character in this novel is writing (*) The Key to all Mythologies and rebuffs his wife's attempts to help him, and this novel covers the career of Lydgate and the courtship of Mary Garth. For ten points, name this novel about Dorothea Brooke, a "study of provincial life" by George Eliot.

doctor

One character with this occupation discusses another character's sleepwalking, and is surprised when that character sleepwalks towards him with a candle in hand. A character with this profession marries Heloise Dubuc, but marries another woman upon Heloise's death. Another character with this profession compares himself to Jesus in a poem titled "Hamlet." That character's (*) father kills himself by jumping in front of a train and loves a woman married to Pasha Antipov. Some famous authors who practiced this profession include W. Somerset Maugham, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Anton Chekhov. For ten points, name this profession practiced by those with an MD.

Wole Soyinka

One novel by this author centers around five high school friends, including Sekoni the engineer turned sculptor, Sagoe the journalist, and Kola the artist. That novel is titled The Interpreters. In a more famous work by this author, one character wears clothes that are far too small and insults the female protagonist by saying her brain is small. That character is named Lakunle and he is the antithesis of (*) Baroka. In another work by this author, Simon Pilkings prevents Elesin from committing ritual suicide. For ten points, name this Nigerian author of The Lion and the Jewel who also wrote Death and the King's Horseman.

Émile Zola

One of this author's works begins in the town Plassans with the matriarch of the title family, Adelaide Fouque. The youngest branch of the family is the Mourets, the middle class people and the children of Ursule Macquart. The high born branch of the family is the Rougons, who are the focus of his first and last books of the series, La Fortune des Rougon and Le Docteur Pascal. This practitioner of (*) naturalism also wrote a newspaper article criticizing the French government's handling of treason accusations against Jewish artillery officer Alfred Dreyfus. For ten points, name this author of J'accuse.

John Dryden

One play by this author features two lovers who can't marry each other after Hermogenes and Leonidas lie to them about their royal heritage. A poem by this author focuses on the rebellion of David's son, which ultimately ends with his death after catching his hair in a tree branch; that poem is Absalom and Achitophel. (*) Though not Shakespeare, this author wrote a play that details the last hours of the lives of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, All for Love. For 10 points, name this first poet laureate of England who wrote Marriage-a-la-mode and Mac Flecknoe and who was nicknamed "Glorious John" by Walter Scott.

Edgar Allan Poe

One poem by this author asks the title object, "Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart?" Another poem by this author is about the inevitability of death, shown in a play performed by "mimes, in the form of god on high." That poem is called "The Conqueror Worm" and the short story is called "Ligeia." Another short story by this author includes a tarn that glows. That story begins with a (*) crack in the title residence, which eventually breaks open and kills the two residents of the house. For ten points, name this poet and author of "Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Raven."

T. S. Eliot

One poem by this man notes, "O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark". This man proclaimed "old men ought to be explorers" and that "the end is my beginning" in a poetry collection which opens, "Time present and time past." This author criticized Shakespeare in the essay Hamlet and His Problems and emphasized the importance of impersonal poetry in (*) Tradition and the Individual Talent. In a more famous poem, he asks, "Do I dare to eat a peach?" before concluding that "I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach." Another of his works ends by repeating "shantih" and declares, "April is the cruelest month." For 10 points, name this British poet who wrote The Wasteland and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

Wallace Stevens

One poem by this poet states, "One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs." That poem is "The Snow Man." This poet once said that the title object of another poem "was gray and bare," and after he had placed that object in Tennessee, this poet said that "It took (*) dominion everywhere." Another poem by this man states that "It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing." For ten points, name this poet who wrote "The Anecdote of the Jar" and "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."

Nikolai Gogol

One short story by this author centers around a character finding a fern that blooms on Kupala Night. That character is eventually carried off by the devil. In another short story by this author, a man follows the wife of a tinsmith home, and a different man follows a (*) prostitute accidentally, then kills himself out of heartbreak. In yet another work by this author, a body part that had been found by a barber in a loaf of bread is thrown into the Neva River. Akaky Akakievitch appears in a work by, for ten points, what Ukrainian author of "St. John's Eve," "Nevsky Prospekt," "The Nose," and "The Overcoat"?

Dante Alighieri

The narrator of a Nicolo Kazantzakis work carries around a book by this author and refers to it as his "traveling companion." This author blended prose and verse in one work that examines the restrictions of courtly love. Apart from writing La Vita Nuova, this author details a gruesome account of(*) Judas Iscariot's gnawed head and describes the well-fortified city of Dis. The narrator of that work is guided through the circles of hell by the author of the Aeneid and his lifelong lover, Beatrice. For 10 points, name this Italian author of the Divine Comedy.

Pygmalion

The protagonist of this play explains that she she was turned out by her sixth stepmother before exclaiming "I'm a good girl, I am." The mother of one character shouts "Men! Men! Men!" after her son acts rudely to another character. That other character has a signature cry of (*) "Ah-ah-ah-ow-ow-oo" and falls for Freddy Hill, who loves her creation of "a new small talk". A chimney-sweep named Alfred in this play agrees to sell his daughter for 50 pounds, prompting a Sanskrit scholar to inquire, "Have you no morals, man?" Colonel Pickering and Henry Higgins endeavour to make a lady out of Eliza Doolittle in, for 10 points, what play by George Bernard Shaw?

Ray Bradbury

The title of a short story by this author comes from a phrase appearing on the edges of maps in the "viking age." In that story, people venture to a paradise-like planet but report it empty. Another story by this author describes the burned shadows of people who died in a nuclear explosion; that story is "There Will Come Soft Rains." That story appears in this author's anthology (*) The Martian Chronicles. Another novel by this author includes a protagonist who memorizes parts of Ecclesiastes after his copy of the Bible was burned. For ten points, name this author of Something Wicked this Way Comes, Dandelion Wine, and Fahrenheit 451.

Herman Melville

The title poem in a collection by this author is about a man who is exiled until war breaks out, when he returns to fight. That poem is called "Timoleon." A novel written by this man describes life on the island of Nuku Hiva, and is titled (*) Typee. A short story by this man includes a character who works very hard, but then refuses to do so again, repeatedly saying "I would prefer not to." That story appears in this author's collection The Piazza Tales. For ten points, name this author of works such as "Bartleby the Scrivener," Billy Budd, and a story about a great white whale titled Moby Dick.

John Keats

This author describes the smell of "The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine" in one work and asks the titular object of another "What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape." Percy Bysshe Shelley commemorated this man's death in a poem that begins "I weep for Adonais" (*), and a work by this poet that describes a "Sylvan historian" and a "foster child of silence and slow time" proclaims "heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter." His most famous work tells the title creature "thou wast not born for death." For 10 points, name this British poet best known for works such as Ode On a Grecian Urn and Ode to a Nightingale.

Emily Dickinson

This author sent a set of three mysterious letters to a unknown man whom she simply referred to as "Master." She wrote "A Service, like a Drum- / Kept beating - beating - till I thought / My Mind was going numb-" in another work. (*) In that poem, "I felt a Funeral, in My Brain", she recalls how "then a Plank in Reason, broke." She noted passing the "Field of Grazing Grain" and the "Setting Sun" before pausing at "a House that seemed / A Swelling of the ground." For 10 points, name this author of "Because I could not stop for death" and "I heard a fly buzzed when I died," known as the Belle of Amherst.

C.S. Lewis

This author traced a tradition starting from troubadours and especially focusing on the Romance of the Rose in The Allegory of Love. This thinker contrasted storge [STORE-gay], philia [FEEL-ee-a], eros, and the "Godly" agape [UH-gah-PAY] in another book about love. The possibility that a certain figure could have been lying, insane, or God is the subject of this man's namesake "trilemma." He was led toward (*) Anglicanism by a Catholic fantasy writer with whom he formed the Inklings. The BBC invited this man to deliver a series of radio talks which became his most famous theological work. For 10 points, name this author of Mere Christianity and The Chronicles of Narnia.

Publius Ovidius Naso

This author wrote many poems about love including "Makeup for a Woman's Face". This author was exiled to Tomi, a town along the Black Sea, for reasons he described as a "poem and a mistake," most likely one of those in his Ars Amatoria. He's not Homer, but (*) Penelope begs Odysseus to come home to Ithaca in a work by this author, and in another Sappho speaks to her lover Phaon. Those works are found in the collection "The Heroides." Another collection by this author focuses on the changes of mythological characters. For ten points, name this author of The Metamorphoses.

Rudyard Kipling

This author wrote that "the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth" in his poem "The Female of the Species." In a short story by this author, Taffimai Metallumi delivers a picture message to her mother. This author wrote of a "lazarushian-leather" man serving (*) water to English soldiers in Gunga Din, and in this man's most famous work, the speaker recounts a hypothetical game of pitch-and-toss and ends by saying "you'll be a man my son!" For ten points, name this author of Just So Stories, The Jungle Book, and If.

Bigger Thomas (prompt on partial answer)

This character knows that the statement "If You Break the Law, You Can't Win!" is false because a man can afford to pay off the prosecutors. This character kills a rat with a skillet after it appears in the house this character shares with Vera and Buddy. After a character goes missing, this character writes a ransom note signed (*) "Red" and demands $10,000. This character decapitates a corpse in order to stuff it into the furnace. That body was that of Mary Dalton, who this character had accidentally smothered with a pillow. For ten points, name this character, the protagonist of Richard Wright's Native Son.

Atticus Finch (accept Atticus, prompt on "Finch")

This character says that a certain group of people's members are "still in their childhood." In another work, this character says that he doesn't know how to build a snowman. This character stays outside of a jail all night in order to protect another character. He also makes his children read to (*) Mrs. Dubose until she comes off a morphine addiction. This lawyer fights on behalf of Tom Robinson against Bob Ewell, pointing out that the prosecution has produced no medical evidence of the crime. For ten points, name this character who appears in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, the father of Scout Finch.

Sherlock Holmes

This character travels through Chicago, Buffalo, and Ireland in pursuit of a German spy, Von Bork. In another work, this man learns the story of agent Birdy Edwards and how he brought the Vermissa Valley gang to justice. In another story, this man tracks down ex-KKK members (*) and accuses the crew of the Lone Star of murder. That story, the "Five Orange Pips," can be found along with others in the book titled for the adventures of this man. Another story in that collection, "A Scandal in Bohemia," sees this character meet a possible romantic interest, Irene Adler. For 10 points, name detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Portuguese

This language was used to write the magnum opus of a writer who adopted pseudonyms called "heteronyms", which he often used to express radical views. Another novel written in this language is subtitled "Epitaph of a Small Winner", considering it a victory the fact that the protagonist did not father children who would have to suffer in life. In another novel in this language, a peninsula (*) breaks off from Europe to form the namesake Stone Raft. It's not Greek, but a nobel prize winning author used this language to write The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and Blindness. Machado de Assis, Fernando Pessoa, and José Saramago write in, for 10 points, what Iberian language spoken in countries such as Brazil.

Eugene O'Neill

This man wrote a work in which an unfaithful wife commits infanticide after being impregnated by her own son-in-law. He wrote a play in which Christine becomes Adam Brant's mistress and poisons her husband, Ezra Mannon; that play is a retelling of the Oresteia. In another play by this man, a former anarchist causes Don Parritt to jump off a fire escape and is nicknamed the (*) "foolosopher." In that play, Hickey decries the "pipe dreams" of the customers in Harry Hope's bar. In the most famous of his plays, this man depicted Mary's relapse into morphine addiction. For 10 points, name this playwright who wrote about the Tyrone family in Long Day's Journey into Night.

Pablo Neruda

This man wrote about a pet who was "full of the voltage of the sea's movement" in a poem about burying a dead dog. In one work, he demands "Give me the struggle, the iron, the volcanoes", while in another he bemoans that he is "deserted like the wharves (*) at dawn." A series of works addressed to objects such as an artichoke and a sock makeup this man's collection Elemental Odes, and he opens another collection by noting "Tonight I can write the saddest lines". For 10 points, name this Chilean Nobel prize winning poet who wrote Twenty-One Love Poems and a Song of Despair.

Pablo Neruda

This poet states, "Still it would be marvelous / to terrify a law clerk with a cut lily, / or kill a nun with a blow on the ear" in a poem titled "Walking Around." In another poem by this poet, he addresses the title entity as "the only / true / machine / of the sea: unflawed, / undefiled." That poem is part of this poet's (*) Elemental Odes. Another poem by this author states that "it is the hour of departure." That poem appears in a collection containing the lines, "In you everything sank" and "Tonight I can write the saddest lines." For ten points, name this Chilean poet of Canto General and Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This thinker discussed the homologous nature of plant organs in one work and human color perception in another. Those two works are Metamorphosis of Plants and Theory of Colors. This author wrote a novel about Eduard and Charlotte and their friends the Captain and Ottilie that emulates a double displacement reaction. This author also wrote about a man who (*) takes his own life after realizing he can never love Charlotte. This author's most notable work centers on the title character's deal with Mephistopheles to gain the ability to perform magic. For ten points, name this German author of Elective Affinities, The Sorrows of Young Werther, and Faust.

Jorge (Francisco Isidoro) Luis Borges (Acevedo)

Characters in one collection by this author include "The Masked Dyer of Merv", an Islamic prophet who secretly has leprosy. In one story by this man, a search for missing pages in the Anglo-American Cyclopaedia leads to the discovery of a world whose language contains no nouns. In addition to writing A Universal History of Iniquity, this author created Tlön (*) and described a spot in Carlos Daneri's cellar that shows every point in the universe. In another story by this man, Captain Richard Madden pursues a descendent of Ts'ui Pen who ultimately murders Dr. Albert. For 10 points, name this Argentinian author of 'fictions', including "The Aleph" and "The Garden of Forking Paths".

the death of Federico Garcia Lorca (accept murder in place of death, as well as any other similar answer giving the author's name and suggesting execution)

Description acceptable. Harold Norse wrote a poem about this event in response to an account of it by Irish biographer Ian Gibson. Pablo Neruda wrote a lengthy ode in response to this event, and Allen Ginsberg's "A Supermarket in California" discusses seeing the central figure in this event (*) "down by the watermelons." The subject of this August 1936 event had written works like the poem Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter and the plays Blood Wedding and The House of Bernarda Alba. For 10 points, describe this event in which a Spanish member of the Generation of '27 suffered an ill fate at the hands of Spanish Nationalists.

the pilgrims from The Canterbury Tales (accept lenient equivalents for pilgrims like travellers; accept storytellers and equivalents; prompt on things like "the characters in The Canterbury Tales;" reverse-prompt

Description acceptable. These characters are fond of "quiting" [rhymes with "fighting"] each other, such as when one mentions how his rival shares a profession with a jerk named Symkyn. One of these characters is told his efforts are "not worth a turd," and is a representation of the (*) author himself. Jankyn is the most recent of the five husbands of one of these people. These people meet at the Tabard Inn, where the Host offers to judge a storytelling contest between them. For 10 points, name these people such as the Reeve, Miller, and Wife of Bath, who travel to Canterbury in a collection by Geoffrey Chaucer.

China (or Zhongguo)

In 2015, Harvard professor Stephen Owen published a translation of the complete works of a poet from this country, which include a poem about the complaints of a conscripted soldier entitled "Song of the Wagons." Another poet from this country wrote at the end of "Quiet Night Thought" of seeing a (*) moon at the window and how "I lower my head and think of my hometown." Ezra Pound translated poetry from this country to write "The River Merchant's Wife," and its most famous poet allegedly drowned after drunkenly trying to embrace the moon. For 10 points, name this home country of poets like Du Fu ["doo foo"] and Li Bai ["lee bye"].

ghosts (accept Gengangere after "Oswald;" prompt on "spirits" or "revenants")

These creatures are split into types like "tree-trimming" and "sitting" in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, which is subtitled for a "Girlhood Among [them]." Oswald Althing asks to be shot at the end of a Henrik Ibsen play (*) named for them, and one of these beings kills the boy Miles in Henry James' The Turn of the Screw. In a book divided into "staves" and ending with dinner at the Cratchit home, Jacob Marley warns his business partner about being visited by three of these creatures. For 10 points, name these supernatural creatures that haunt Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

Petrarch

This author acknowledges the Lady Truth in the preface of a secret dialogue between himself and St. Augustine. This author delivered the "Coronation Oration" when he became poet laureate and his two collections of letters, which included the "Letter to Posterity", were inspired by the (*) Cicero letters he discovered in 1345. The first poem of a 366-poem collection by this man addresses a woman who "[hears] the sound in scattered rhymes". For 10 points, name this Italian Humanist who wrote about his love for Laura in the poetry collection Il Canzoniere and is the namesake of a type of sonnet.

Gargantua and Pantagruel (accept names in either order; prompt on only one name; accept The Life of Gargantua and Pantagruel)

Two answers required. These two characters travel to East Asia to purchase exotic animals in a satire of the Catholic Church. Six pilgrims nearly die while one of these characters is eating a salad, and the younger of these characters journeys to the Oracle of the Holy Bottle with the prankster (*) Panurge. These characters befriend Friar John and the Abbey of Thélème, whose motto is "Do What Thou Wilt," and the older of these characters drowns the city of Paris by urinating on it. For 10 points, name this giant and his son whose trials and travails are detailed in a satirical series of books by François Rabelais.

the conch from The Lord of the Flies (or the shell)

When this object first appears, one character reminisces about a similar object, remembering how it was placed on a "garden wall" and how his auntie "mooed like a cow." One character lays this thing "with great care in the grass" after receiving no assent from a group and declaring he won't (*) play anymore. This object is crushed by a boulder that also kills the wearer of a similarly thematic pair of glasses. The holder of this object is permitted to speak, and it's first used shortly after an airplane crash to call a meeting of schoolboys by Ralph and Piggy. For 10 points, name this beach object that symbolizes order in William Golding's The Lord of the Flies.

Venice

While in this city, a protagonist dreams of people dressed in pelts who howl long "U"s for the "stranger god." In this city, the author of The Abject imagines himself as Socrates lecturing at Phaedrus. That man gets the urge to travel to this city after seeing a red-haired man in a doorway. That man's bags are sent to Como and not this city, where he smells carbolic acid (*) disinfectant in the air. That man ignores warnings of a cholera epidemic in this city, instead going to the beach to eat overripe strawberries and watch the Polish boy Tadzio. Thomas Mann wrote a novella about Gustav von Aschenbach's "Death in"—for 10 points—what Italian city?

Snoopy

While on guard duty, this character decides to marry Genevieve on the same night he meets her. Hospital-bound Lila sends a letter asking for this character, voiced by Bill Melendez, to keep her company. Bill Hinnant plays this character in a musical where he is later shot down by the (*) Red Baron. Born on the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm, his siblings include Belle, Olaf, and Spike, a resident of Needles, California. As scoutmaster, this dog leads around a troupe of yellow birds that includes Harriet and Woodstock. Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strip features, for 10 points, what pet beagle owned by Charlie Brown?

W(illiam) Somerset Maugham

. A line from one of this author's short stories refers to a man who was "born under far bluer skies". That story, which is set on a passenger liner, is Mr. Know-All. In one novel by this man, the coal baron Lord George runs off to America with Mrs. Driffield. That fact is discovered while this author's character William Ashenden seeks to write a biography of an author many believe to be modeled on (*) Thomas Hardy. Ashenden is the protagonist of Cakes and Ale. This writer's most famous work tells the tale of the club-footed Philip Carey's upbringing. For 10 points, name this English author of the short story Rain and the novel Of Human Bondage.

Aristophanes

2. This author wrote a play in which a youth learns how to talk his way out of a debt from a philosopher who lives suspended in a basket. Another play by this author features a beautiful woman named Reconciliation and a chorus unusually divided between old men and old women. In that play by him, a group that includes Myrrhine and the title character withhold (*) sex from their husbands to force peace accords with Sparta. In another play by this author, the chorus chants "brekekex koax koax." For 10 points, name this Greek Old Comedy playwright who authored The Clouds, Lysistrata, and The Frogs.

"The Most Dangerous Game" Packet 3 -

A man in this work argues that jaguars have no feelings. That same man attempts to retrieve his pipe when it falls into the ocean, instead falling in along with it and finding himself marooned on (*) Ship-Trap Island. The Cossack Ivan is killed by a knife strapped to a sapling in this work while chasing the main character. For 10 points, name this story by Richard Connell in which General Zaroff hunts Sanger Rainsford for sport.

Toni Morrison

With her son Slade, this author wrote several children's books such as Peeny Butter Fudge. This author wrote a novel in which Guitar shoots Pilate and attempts to kill the protagonist over hidden gold. Chapters titled after Dick and Jane appear in another novel by this author narrated by Claudia MacTeer, which is titled for a body part that (*) Pecola Breedlove wishes she had. This author of Song of Solomon and The Bluest Eye wrote a novel in which Baby Suggs dies after Halle's son runs away, and Denver grows jealous of Paul D after he arrives at 124 Bluestone Road. In that work, Sethe is haunted by the ghost of the daughter she killed to save from slavery. For ten points, name this author of Beloved.

Inferno

18. This book features an enemy of the author who treacherously cut off the hand of a standard-bearer, and who refuses to reveal that his name is Bocca. In this poem, a man is tricked by Malacoda into heading towards a bridge that does not exist. In a section of this book, the protagonists encounter Nessus before having to ride on Geryon's back to descend a cliff. This book opens when the author is attacked by a (*) lion, a leopard, and a she-wolf "halfway along our life's path." This book ends with the protagonists encountering Brutus, Cassius, and Judas Iscariot in the three mouths of Satan. For 10 points, name this section of Dante's Divine Comedy set in Hell.

The princesses are, in order, the "Turnip Princess," the "Frog Princess," the "Twelve Dancing Princesses," the "Princess and the Pea," and Sleeping Beauty)

A story titled after one of these people was published in 2012 under the name Franz Xaver von Schönwerth and depicts a nail found inside a turnip. A Russian story titled for one of them depicts Vasilisa the Wise, and in one story, twelve of these people are discovered secretly (*) dancing. A test involving several mattresses is applied to one of these people, and one of them named Briar Rose disastrously pricks her finger. Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm collected several of a certain type of story centering on these people. For 10 points, name these frequent fairy tale characters, such as Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella.

Death of a Salesman

After walking in on an affair, one character in this play fails summer school. One character in this play recounts how he "walked into the jungle" and walked out rich; that is Uncle Ben. Bernard's success as a lawyer causes jealousy in the main character of this play. After failing to get a job at an interview, a (*) fountain pen is stolen by Biff. This play ends with the suicide of the main character in order to use the insurance money for Happy. For 10 points, name this play by Arthur Miller that tells of the demise of Willy Loman.

swimming pools

Before heading to one of these locations, a genius boy prophesies to Nicholson that he will be killed there, in J.D. Salinger's story "Teddy." An air mattress is dragged out to one of these locations by a man who had just been told "They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together." The protagonist of a short story jokingly names these locations after his wife Lucinda after leaving a drunken party at the (*) Westerhazys'. Neddy Merrill traverses suburbia via these locations in a story by John Cheever. George Wilson avenges his wife Myrtle at one of these locations. For 10 points, where is Jay Gatsby's body found?

Jay Gatsby

Ella Kaye received money that was almost this character's inheritance, and this character puts in a song request for Tostoff's Jazz History of the World. In one scene, this character makes a woman cry by throwing shirts. This St. Olaf's drop-out "can't really call [himself] an "Oxford man" but is described as a "regular Belasco" by (*) Owl Eyes at one of his parties. This man owns a yellow Rolls Royce, frequently calls people "old sport," and often stares at a green light across the water in East Egg, thinking of Daisy Buchanan. For 10 points, name this character, Nick Carraway's neighbor and the title character of a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Jane the Virgin

On this TV show, an elderly woman unwittingly asks out a priest she meets during physical therapy, and that woman is an illegal immigrant from Venezuela. That woman's daughter had the title character when she was sixteen with her later husband, the telenovela star of (*) The Passions of Santos, Rogelio de la Vega. During season three, a part of the title of this CW series is crossed out after the title character marries her detective boyfriend, Michael Cordero, Jr. For 10 points, name this show on which the title character is accidentally artificially inseminated.

A Duty-Dance with Death

One character in this novel dies of gangrene because he is forced to wear wooden clogs. As a child, the protagonist of this book wets his pants looking at the grand canyon and is thrown into the deep end of a Y.M.C.A. pool by his father. This novel ends with a bird saying (*) "Poo-tee-weet" and everytime someone dies, the phrase "so it goes" is used. The soldier Roland Weary is captured by Germans with the protagonist, who is later kidnapped and placed in a zoo on the alien planet Tralfamadore. Billy Pilgrim becomes "unstuck in time" amidst the firebombing of Dresden in, for 10 points, what anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut?

Herman Hesse

One of this man's works features a protagonist who wanders aimlessly through an unspecified German city. That character is an autobiographical representation of the author and his feelings of alienations with society at large. (*) In addition to writing about Harry Haller, this author wrote of a protagonist who becomes rich under the businessman Kamaswami and learns to lust after the courtesan Kamala. That protagonist attempts to find his own path to enlightenment after meeting the Buddha with his friend Govinda. For 10 points, name this German author who wrote Steppenwolf and Siddhartha.

O. Henry

One of this man's works features a reformed criminal who falls in love with Annabel Adams. In that work, detective Ben Price pretends not to recognize Jimmy Valentine as he leaves the bank. Another one of his stories features a desperate protagonist with only (*) one dollar and eighty-seven cents on hand. In that work, by this man, Jim sells his watch in order to buy Della a comb she is unable to use, as she sold her hair to buy a watch-chain for Jim. For 10 points, name this American short-story writer of A Retrieved Reformation and The Gift of the Magi, famous for his twist endings.

William Carlos Williams (prompt on WCW)

One poem by this man claims "it is difficult / to get the news out of poems," and he wrote that "they enter the world naked" when describing bushes "By the road to the contagious hospital" in his collection Spring and All. This author of (*) "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" and an epic poem about Paterson, New Jersey wrote about stealing some food "you were probably / saving / for breakfast" that was "so sweet / and so cold." The title object of another of his poems is "glazed with rain" and "so much depends / upon" it. For 10 points, name this American poet of "This Is Just to Say" and "The Red Wheelbarrow."

John Keats

One poem by this man describes a bleak landscape where the "sedge has withered from the lake," and describes a figure who is lulled into an "Elfin grot" by a figure who's also seduced "pale kings and princes too." The speaker asks (*) "what can ail thee, knight-at-arms?" to open this man's poem "La Belle Dame Sans Merci." In one of this man's poems, the speaker contemplates a "foster-child of silence and slow time," viewing the painted figures on its "Attic shape" and arguing that "beauty is truth, truth beauty." For 10 points, name this Romantic poet, the author of several odes such as "Ode on a Grecian Urn."

Thomas Hardy

One poem from this man's Satires of Circumstance describes "the Immanent Will that stirs and urges everything" and describes how "as the ship grew" the "iceberg grew too." In a novel by this author of "The Convergence of the Twain," Gabriel Oak marries the farmer Bathsheba Everdene. That novel by this author takes its title from a Thomas(*) Gray poem. In another novel by this author, the title character stabs Alec, the father of her illegitimate child Sorrow. For 10 points, name this author of Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess of the D'urᐧberᐧvilles.

Spoon River Anthology

One poem in this collection describes how the attorney Benjamin Pantier was driven "[t]o live with his dog in a dingy room" by his own wife. The "Epilogue" to this work includes a conversation between Yogarindra, Beelzebub, and Loki. Lucinda Matlock ends a poem in this collection by asserting, (*) "It takes life to love Life," and it opens with a poem asking for "Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley" before declaring, "All, all are sleeping on the hill." Most of the speakers in this collection are buried in Oak Hill Cemetery. For 10 points, name this poetry collection by Edgar Lee Masters narrated by dead, former residents of the title Illinois town.

Luigi Pirandello

One work by this author ends with a character saying "You have the truth! But are you satisfied?" In that play, Mr. Ponza tries to convince Lady Frola that Guilia is her daughter. In another work by this author of Right you are (if you think so!), one character accidentally thinks he is supposed to be in the 15th century, and it is explained that another character believes himself to be king after falling off a horse. This author of (*) Henry IV wrote a play which sees the Boy commit suicide and the Little Girl drown. At the beginning of that play, the Director is angry when his rehearsal of the play "Mixing it Up" is interrupted. For ten points, name this Italian playwright who wrote Six Characters in Search of an Author.

The Decameron

Saladin asks a character from this work to decide which Abrahamic religion provides true wisdom, but that man deflects the question with a story about a merchant's precious ring. In another tale from work, a visitor to the Bridge of Geese is inspired to deal with his unruly wife after witnessing a herder beat his mule (*), and Federigo wins the affections of a lady by cooking his pet falcon for her. Apart from Fiammetta narrative, Dioneo's story of Griselda in this work served as an inspiration for the Clerk's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer. For 10 points, name this 14th-century collection in which a brigado of Florentines tell stories while fleeing the Black Death, written by Giovanni Boccaccio.

Robinson Crusoe

This character attributes the unexpected growth of barley to mere luck, and later has a dream in which a man descends in a "great black cloud" and angrily urges him to repent his sins. This character travels with Xury before being rescued by a Portuguese captain. He is based on the real-life Alexander(*) Selkirk, and is shocked to see footprints in the sand, which he initially believes belong to the devil. For 10 points, name this sailor who finds his companion Friday on a deserted island, the title character of a novel by Daniel Defoe.

the Tenth Muse (prompt on just Muse; prompt on any of the names "Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz," "Anne Bradstreet," or "Sappho" by asking "We need their nickname.")

This figure's name doesn't reference any countries, but one candidate for this figure asks who is "to blame" for the sins of men in the poem "You Men." Anne Carson's collection If Not, Winter translates the work of one figure of this title who wrote a poem pining for a man who "seems to me, equal to the gods." The Mexican nun (*) Sor Juana de la Cruz is often given this title. This figure is "Lately Sprung Up in America" in the title of Anne Bradstreet's first collection, and this title is often applied to Sappho. For 10 points, give this term referring to a potential additional member of a mythological group including Terpsichore and Calliope.

Apocalypse Now

This film opens with a dream sequence edited over top of a hotel ceiling fan. A redux version of this movie features an extended sequence at a rubber plantation where a child recites "The Albatross". The climax of this film is intercut with shots of a (*) cow getting butchered. One scene has the playmate of the year dance to Suzie Q to entertain soldiers. In this film, Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore, played by Robert Duvall, exclaims "I love the smell of Napalm in the morning." For ten points, name this Francis Ford Coppola war epic, an adaptation of Heart of Darkness, set in Vietnam

Robert Lowell

This poet is the dedicatee of an Elizabeth Bishop work, The Armadillo. This poet returned the dedication with a poem whose central object is "propped by a plank" and "sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat". That poem begins "The old South Boston Aquarium stands in a Sahara of snow now". (*) Another work by this poet laments "we've lost our summer millionaire, who seemed to leap from an L. L. Bean catalogue. The titular character "jabs her wedge head in a cup of sour cream" and "will not scare" in this poet's most famous work. For the Union Dead and Skunk Hour were written by, for ten points, this confessional poet.

John Milton

This poet memorialized a friend who was "nursed upon the self-same hill" and "fed the same flock" and who died when the "remorseless deep...closed over his head." He wrote a pair of contrasting poems that begin "Hence vain deluding joys" and "Hence, loathèd melancholy." This poet described a spirit that (*) "Dove-like sat brooding on the vast abyss, and made it pregnant." His medium-length poems include "L'Allegro," "Il Penseroso," and "Lycidas." A long poem by this man promises to tell "of man's first disobedience" and includes speeches by a hopelessly charismatic Satan. For 10 points, name this 17th-century English poet of Paradise Lost.

William Butler Yeats

This poet reflected on "old iron, old bones, old rags" in his "The Circus Animals' Desertion." This poet asked "Did she put on his knowledge with his power / Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?" in a work that represents Zeus as "a feathered glory." In order to "please a companion / Around the fire at the club," one of this man's narrators shares "polite, meaningless words" before lamenting (*) "a terrible beauty is born." In addition to "Leda and the Swan", this man wrote a poem that states "the falcon cannot hear the falconer" and tells of a "rough beast" that "slouches towards Bethlehem to be born." For 10 points, name this poet of "Easter, 1916" and "The Second Coming".

Emily (Elizabeth) Dickinson

This poet usually alternated between iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter ["TRIH-muh-tur"], writing quatrains in so-called "common" meter. This poet, whose works were heavily edited by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, described an "unmoved" figure who closes "the valves of her attention." This poet wrote that "Centuries...[feel] shorter than" a day when "The Dews drew quivering and chill." This poet lived almost (*) her whole life in Amherst, Massachusetts, and she used ungrammatical dashes to write "The Soul selects her own Society" and a poem about a Carriage that held "but just Ourselves - And Immortality." For 10 points, name this poet of "Because I could not stop for death."

the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

This work urges the reader, "Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life," and it provided the title for a play about Richard Miller's life in New London by Eugene O'Neill. This work features the question, "Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?" One part of this work describes a character "whistling in the darkness," while another commands, "Awake!" Five translations of it were completed by (*) Edward FitzGerald. A passage from this work reads, "The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ, / Moves on," while another describes "A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread -- and Thou." For 10 points, identify this collection by Omar Khayyam.

Yasunari Kawabata

. A short story by this man opens and closes with, "The wind is rustling / It blows in autumn," and describes a girl who steals silverberries instead of persimmons. A building where men take sleeping pills to lie with naked, drugged women attracts Eguchi in one work by this author, and in another work by him, a months-long "retirement game" is decided by Move 121. This author of the (*) Palm-of-the-Hand Stories and The House of the Sleeping Beauties also wrote a work about a romance in a hot springs town, and one in which Shingo hears the title noise, The Sound of the Mountain. For 10 points, identify this Japanese author of Snow Country.

The House of the Seven Gables

. The 20th chapter of this work, The Flower of Eden, opens by revealing the Judge's death with two pictures of him before and after death. In this work, the Judge dies while sitting in the same chair that his ancestor did 30 years ago. Matthew Maule hypnotized Alice before the events of this work, eventually leading to her death. The taker of the aforementioned pictures, the daguerreotypist (*) Holgrave, falls in love with Phoebe. This books ends with the discovery of a deed to some land in Maine behind the Colonel's portrait. For 10 points, name this novel focusing on the Pyncheon family and set in the title structure, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

"Richard Cory" Packet 13 -

. This poem refers to its narrator as a "[person] on the pavement." It describes the title character as "richer than a king / and admirably schooled in every grace" and "clean favored, and (*) imperially slim." The narrator thinks that the title character "is everything" and wishes that he was "in his place." For 10 points, name this poem titled for a "gentleman from sole to crown" who later "[puts] a bullet through his head," a work by Edwin Arlington Robinson.

The Grapes of Wrath

.In this work, the minimum wage being lowered from thirty cents an hour to twenty-five cents an hour infuriates Mr. Thomas. A Jehova woman enters a tent of a dying woman in this work, wanting to create a prayer circle around her, and a woman's knuckles are later shot off by a policeman when he attempts to shoot Floyd Knowles. One section of this work describes a (*) turtle crossing a road, and in this work, Connie Rivers abandons his wife who later breastfeeds a starving man and is named Rose of Sharon. In this novel, a pickaxe-wielding man kills former preacher Jim Casy. For 10 points, name this novel that follows the Joads on their way to California, a work of John Steinbeck.

love (accept agape, eros, or philia; accept word forms of love)

1 Thessalonians 3:12 wishes that this quality will increase for "each other and everyone else." C. S. Lewis wrote a book about the four types of this quality, and "anyone who does not know [this quality] does not know God" according to 1 John 4. Paul compares someone without this attribute to a (*) "noisy gong" or a "clanging cymbal", and that along with "faith" and "hope," this attribute will remain. The most common translation of 1 Corinthians 13 states that this attribute is "patient" and is "kind," leading to the passage's frequent use in wedding ceremonies. For 10 points, name this "unconditional" attribute of God.

The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha

1. After a fight with a mule driver whom this novel's protagonist refers to as an "enchanted Moor," the main characters attempt to use the balm of Fierabras to heal their wounds. A group of Galicians beat the protagonist of this novel after he tries to defend his horse, whose name means "nag of nags." The title character of this novel is defeated by the (*) Knight of the White Moon, who attempts to prevent him from seeing Dulcinea. The protagonist of this novel uses the promise of an island governorship to gain his squire Sancho Panza. For 10 points, name this Miguel Cervantes novel about a windmill-tilting knight.

Candide

1. An old woman in this story who tells of how she had her buttock cut off and eaten is allegedly the illegitimate daughter of Pope Urban X. The protagonist of this story and his Manichaean servant Martin encounter the syphilis-ridden Paquette, long after they are expelled from the castle of (*) Thunder-ten-Tronckh. This book ends with the insistence that "we must cultivate our garden" in contrast to another character's conviction that "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds." For 10 points, name this novella about Cunegonde, the optimist Pangloss, and the title character, written by Voltaire.

Oedipus Rex

1. The title character of this play takes it upon himself to "drive pollution from this land" after a scene in which a procession of citizens offers wool-wrapped sticks to stop a plague. This play is followed by one in which the title character dies "at Colonus." An oracle in this play reveals that a plague will only stop once the murderer of (*) Laius is banished. This play ends with Creon offering the title character shelter after Jocasta hangs herself, causing the protagonist to use the pins from her dress to put out his own eyes. For 10 points, name this Sophocles tragedy, in which the title character kills his father and marries his mother.

doctor

10. In a story named for a person with this profession, three men who compete for the attention of the widow Wycherly. That work ends with the title character's friends going to Florida to look for the fountain of youth. Another person with this job writes poems like "Fairy Tales" and "Hamlet" and is captured by Liberius and his Forest Brotherhood. That character's love ends up marrying a man nicknamed "the Shooter," Pasha Antipov. A series of vivisected monsters are created by a man with this profession on his namesake "island." A man with this profession pursues (*) Lara. For 10 points, name this profession of Yuri Zhivago in a Boris Pasternak novel.

The American Civil War

10. One poem about this conflict was analyzed in the essay "Narcissus as Narcissus." That poem includes many images of leaves flying and plunging. Another poem about this war includes a latin epigraph which means "They gave up all to serve the republic." That poem includes a description of a Saint-Gaudens monument as a "fishbone in the city's throat." The most famous poem about this war opens (*) "Row after row with strict impunity/ The headstones yield their names to the element." For 10 points, name this war that was written about by Robert Lowell and Allen Tate in the poems "For the Union Dead" and "Ode to the Confederate Dead."

Jesus Christ

11. Gally is heavily implied to be this person in Jim Crace's novel Quarantine. Hazel Motes forms an organization "without" this figure in Flannery O'Connor's novel Wise Blood. In the Brothers Karamazov, this person is sentenced to death in Ivan's parable of the Grand Inquisitor. The Shepherd attempts to convince this person to have sex with a sheep in a Jose Saramago novel titled after The (*) Gospel According to this person. This person is most famous for appearing in several texts in which he raises a dead man and exorcises the demon Legion. For 10 points, name this person, whose crucifixion is described in the New Testament.

The Three Musketeers

12. A character in this novel is scheduled to meet at the Carmelite convent in Bethune with John Felton. In this novel, a man from Meung, later revealed to be the Comte de Rochefort, insults the protagonist's horse. The epilogue of this book begins by revealing the result of the siege of La Rochelle. A tattoo of a fleur de lis reveals (*) that the wife of one of the title characters of this novel was an ex-felon. That woman, Milady de Winter, is involved in a blackmail plot by Cardinal Richelieu, who is one of this novel's protagonists. For 10 points, name this novel in which D'Artagnan joins Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, which was written by Alexandre Dumas.

Franz Kafka

13. In one of this man's novels, a character spends several hours studying the conjugation of Italian verbs. One of this man's novellas ends with three people taking an electric train to the countryside and discussing the prospect of sending a daughter to a conservatory. A character in one of this man's novels is told the 'Parable of the Law' and sees a figure with outstretched arms before he dies "like a (*) dog" by being stabbed to death. In this man's most famous work, the protagonist gets apples lodged in his back and dies after being transformed into a giant vermin. For 10 points, name this German author of The Trial and The Metamorphosis.

committing suicide

13. One character completes this action after a lengthy talk with Rezia, and decides that it this action "their type of tragedy and not his." Before another character completes this action she exclaims "Now that you are the one cock in the basket..." and immediately afterward another character exclaims "Good God! People don't do such things!" After a frenzy of whipping turns into a massive (*) orgy, another character completes this action that is only described by feet turning like a compass. For 10 points, Hedda Gabler and John the Savage complete what action, which Anna Karenina completes by jumping in front of a train?

Canada

14. A physician from this country wrote a poem whose third stanza urges the reader to "Take up our quarrel with the foe." Marian's roommate Ainsley announces that she wants to have a baby without getting married in The Edible Woman, which was written by an author from this country who also detailed a woman's illegal (*) scrabble games with the Commander. This country was home to the author of "In Flanders Fields," John McCrae, as well as to an author who wrote about Gilead's oppression of Offred. For 10 points, name this North American country home to the author of The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood.

Haruki Murakami

17. In a novel by this author, the Dowager causes the death of the Leader, who fathered a dyslexic girl who wrote the manuscript Air Chrysalis. Another novel by this author features the sisters Malta and Creta Kano, one of whom describes herself as a "mind prostitute." A long flashback in that book by this author involves a captain being flayed alive in (*) Manchukuo. That book by this author, which includes the morbid girl May Kasahara, begins with Toru Okada searching for his lost cat. For 10 points, name this modern Japanese author of 1Q84 and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.

the devil

17. This character is referred to as "lamp of the inventor" in a poem that repeatedly asks this person to "take pity on my long misery." A cat named Behemoth accompanies this person as he visits Moscow under the name of Professor Woland in The Master and Margarita. A poem in The Flowers of Evil is titled after the "Litanies" of this character. This character causes the (*) "first disobedience," afterwards claiming that it is "better to reign in hell than serve in heaven" in Milton's Paradise Lost. For 10 points, name this person who makes a deal with Faust in a Goethe play.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

18. This poet described Charles Lamb's joy at leaving the city while he despairs at being left in nature in "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison." This man wrote about Life-in-Death and Death playing a dice game for the souls of men stranded in the Doldrums, a place where there is (*) "Water Water everywhere, / And all the boards did shrink; / Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink." In that poem by this man, a wedding-guest is accosted by a man who shot an albatross. For 10 points, name this poet of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Philadelphia

2. In a show set in this city, the murders of Lila Stangard and Sam Keating are investigated by Middleton University professor Annalise Keating. A man from this city tells his son that he has "the HIV" at a carnival while under the alias of Dr. Mantis Toboggan, M.D. A show set in this city features the milk-loving McPoyles, the homeless priest Rickety Cricket, and an illiterate, (*) glue-huffing man who constantly pursues The Waitress. In that show set in this city, Charlie, Dennis, Mac, Dee, and Frank run Paddy's Pub. For 10 points, name this setting of How to Get Away with Murder, a city that is, according to one show, always sunny.

No Exit

20. A character in this play used to work in an office described as a "black hole." After one character loses her mirror, another character in this play offers to "be her glass." This play ends with the line "Ah, then let's continue..." This play is set in a Second Empire-style room with a non-functioning bell that is tended to by a valet lacking (*) eyelids. This play features a woman who killed her child from an illicit affair and a man who eventually declares, "Hell is other people." For ten points, identify this play about Estelle, Inez, and Garcin, the most famous work of Jean-Paul Sartre.

Rudyard Kipling

20. In one of this man's poems, a soldier asks why bugles are blowing in response to the title character's execution. That poem is a dialogue between the The Colour Sergeant and Files-on-Parade. Another of this man's poems says to "hold on when there is nothing except will." The reader is told to forego "the lightly proffered laurel" and to "bind your sons in exile, to serve your (*) captives' needs" in a poem advocating imperialism. This author of "Danny Deever" and "The White Man's Burden" ended a poem with "you'll be a man, my son" and included Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and Mowgli in a short story collection. For 10 points, name this author of "If..." and The Jungle Book.

Anne Bradstreet

20. This author wrote a poem in which the speaker apologizes to the subject by saying that "in better dress to trim thee was my mind." That poem by this author begins by referring to the subject as an "ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain." This author of "To My Dear and Loving Husband" wrote a poem that ends by concluding that since "the world no longer let me love, my (*) hope and treasure lies above." For 10 points, name this early female American poet of "Verses Upon the Burning of Our House", who published the collection The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America.

Thomas Hardy

3. Dick Dewy and Francis Day fall in love in this author's novel Under the Greenwood Tree. The reappearance of the furmity-woman triggers the final downfall of the protagonist of one of this author's novels. Angel Clare meets the protagonist at a May Dance in a novel by this author, who opened another book with Michael Henchard selling his (*) wife and daughter for five guineas. In a novel by this author, the title character is executed after she kills her rapist Alec. For 10 points, name this author of The Mayor of Casterbridge and Tess of the D'Urbervilles.

Kenzaburo Oe

3. In one novel by this man, a father and his son have their ages altered by 20 years in what is referred to as a switch-over. This author of The Pinch Runner Memorandum wrote a novel in which the love interest of the narrator is bitten by a dog, after which she dies. In that novel by this author, the villagers return and kill the Korean army deserter Li, who had helped the reformatory school boys survive after the villagers abandoned them. In a different novel by this author, the teacher (*) Bird struggles with his son's brain hernia. For 10 points, name this Japanese author, whose autistic son Hikari inspired many of his works, such as A Personal Matter.

Alexander Pope

4. The title object of one of this man's poems becomes "a sudden star" as it is "shot through liquid air." One of his poems asks "if greater Want of Skill, Appear in Writing or in Judging ill." That poem by this author contains the lines "Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring" and "To err is human, to forgive is divine," and is titled (*) An Essay on Criticism. In this author's most famous work, the Baron steal the title object from Belinda. For ten points, identify this satirist and author of The Dunciad, and The Rape of the Lock.

"Howl"

5. A section of this poem describes a group of people who "fell on their knees in hopeless cathedrals." A figure whose "mind is pure machinery" and whose "fingers are ten armies" is described in the second section of this poem, which gives several descriptions of a figure named Moloch. This poem describes "angelheaded hipsters" who "threw potato salad at CCNY lecturers on Dadaism." The third section of this poem addresses the dedicatee by repeating "I'm with you in (*) Rockland."This poem opens by saying "I saw the best mind of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked." For 10 points, name this poem by Allen Ginsburg.

Ireland

5. An author from this country wrote about Mary and Martin Doul, who realize that they are disgusted by each other when their blindness is cured in his work The Well of the Saints. That author wrote a work in which Old Mahon is revealed to still be alive, causing Pegeen to lose her respect for Christy. Another author from this country opened a poem with "turning and turning in the widening (*) gyre" and ended that poem by asking "what rough beast [...] slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" For 10 points, name this home country of The Playboy of the Western World, John Synge, W. B. Yeats, and the author of The Plough and the Stars, Sean O'Casey.

Luigi Pirandello

5. In one of this author's plays, a character is angered when he believes a character disguised as a monk is Peter Damian. One of this author's characters adopted his pseudonym after hearing two men on a train argue about Hadrian. That character has a streak of luck in Monte Carlo after which he decides to fake his death. Count de Nolli helps facilitate his uncle's belief that he is a Holy Roman emperor in one of this man's plays. This author of The (*) Late Mattia Pascal included Madame Pace, Father, Mother, and Director in his most famous play. For 10 points, name this author of Henry IV and Six Characters in Search of an Author.

Cry, the Beloved Country

6. Near the end of this book, the protagonist remembers that "He has heard that they could eat what they wished on a morning like this" after climbing a mountain to watch the sunrise. Many people in this novel refer to the protagonist as "umfundisi," and that protagonist often uses "Tixo" as an exclamation. This book begins with Theophilus Msimangu's letter asking the protagonist to come care for his sister (*) Gertrude. James contributes to the development of Ndotsheni in this novel, even though his son Arthur Jarvis was killed by a man from there. For 10 points, name this Alan Paton novel in which Stephen Kumalo looks for his son Absalom.

China

7. An author from this country wrote about a childhood in the "Slaughterhouse Village" in his novel Pow! A novel from this country includes an agreement that ends, "may heaven and the people of the earth both strike us dead." In a novel from this country, "I" travels to the country after a false cancer diagnosis and meets "You," who is looking for the title Soul Mountain. Sandy and (*) Pigsy travel with Sun Wukong in a novel from this country, which is one of this country's Four Great Classical Novels. For 10 points, name this country, the home of the authors of Journey to the West and Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Kate Chopin

7. In a story by this author, the title event prompts Calixta to invite her former lover Alcée into the house. This author wrote another story in which Mrs. Mallard celebrates her freedom before finding out that her husband is not actually dead. In a novel by this author of "The Storm," a dichotomy is drawn between the advice that the pianist Mademoiselle Reisz and (*) Adele Ratignolle each give the protagonist. Robert LeBrun leaves a note declaring his love for the protagonist of that book by this author. For 10 points, name this female author,who wrote about the suicide of Edna Pontellier in The Awakening.

Hermann Hesse

7. One of this author's novels contains the section "Three Lives" in which the main character imagines himself living in different eras. In that novel Plinio Designori compares an ivory tower to the setting of Castalia, and the main character becomes the Magister of Ludi. A sign that reads "FOR MADMEN ONLY" is outside the (*) Magic Theatre in one of this author's novels, while in another the Samanas, Kamaswami, and Govinda attempt to guide the title character to enlightenment. This author of The Glass Bead Game and Siddhartha included the saxophone player Pablo and Harry Haller in his most famous novel. For 10 points, name this author of Steppenwolf.

John Hoyer Updike

7. One of this author's poems asks how many "perfect ends of August" he will witness. In a novel by this author of the poem "61 and ⅔," a character saves his granddaughter June from drowning to atone for the drowning of his daughter Rebecca. That character created by this author plays golf with his priest (*) Jack Eccles and visits his old coach Marty Tothero. This author created a character who sells MagiPeelers and reminisces about his days as a basketball star. For 10 points, name this author who wrote about Harry Angstrom in novels like Rabbit, Run.

Toni Morrison

7. This author's only short story opens with the phrase "My mother danced all night," explaining why Twyla was placed in St. Bonny's home for girls with Roberta. This author of "Recitatif" wrote a novel in which the title character accidentally swings Chicken Little into a river. In another novel by this author, a woman names her daughter after her midwife Amy Denver. That novel by this author features Paul D, who shows up at (*) 124 Bluestone Road unannounced. Baby Suggs is the mother-in-law of Sethe in that novel by this author. For 10 points, name this female African-American author of novels like Beloved.

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

8. A novel by this author details the relationship between Stepan Verkhovensky and Varvara Petrovna Stavrogina and was given a controversial title by the translator Constance Garnett. Another of this man's novels includes a dream about a group of peasants bashing a mare to death. The title character is last seen traveling to a sanatorium after (*) Rogozhin kills his love Natassya in a novel by this man. This author's most famous novel features the detective Porfiry Petrovich and an innocent pawnbroker murdered by Raskolnikov. For 10 points, name this Russian author of The Possessed, The Idiot, and Crime and Punishment.

Francois Rabelais

8. An essay titled partially after this author that analyzes the dichotomy between the grotesque and carnivalesque in literature was written by Mikhail Bakhtin. After Friar John and one of this author's characters defeat Lord Picrochole, the former establishes an institution whose motto is "Do What Thou Wilt," called The Abbey of (*) Theleme. In this author's most famous novel, a character who knows 63 ways of making money and 214 ways of spending it, named Panurge, accompanies the two title giants. For 10 points, name this French author of Gargantua and Pantagruel.

Virginia Woolf

9. A novel by this author features a very short section titled "Time Passes," which follows a section in which Charles Tansley is repeatedly mentioned to be an atheist. Another novel by this author opens with the title character going to Bond Street to buy flowers, after which Peter Walsh visits and triggers stream-of-consciousness memories. (*) Septimus Smith throws himself out of a window in the climax of that novel by this author. In another novel by this author, the painter Lily Briscoe lives with the Ramsay family. For 10 points, name this author of To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway.

Mexico

9. An author from this country wrote a poem which repeats a section beginning with "willow of crystal, a poplar of water." Another author from this country wrote about Pollo Phoibee's meeting with Celestina in the novel Terra Nostra. An author from this country included sections such as "The Sons of (*) La Malinche" and "The Day of the Dead" in The Labyrinth of Solitude. This country is also the home of the author who wrote of Ambrose Bierce's disappearance in The Old Gringo. For 10 points, name this country that was the home of Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes.

Chinua Achebe

9. In a story by this author, Michael insists on fencing off the title "Dead Men's Path" to appease the Government Education Officer. In his essay "An Image of Africa," this author claimed that Joseph Conrad did not understand the racism on which imperialism "sharpened its iron tooth." In this author's most famous novel, the protagonist accidentally kills (*) Ezeudu's son at a funeral, prompting his family's exile from Umuofia. In that novel by this author, the protagonist's son Nwoye adopts the name Isaac. For 10 points, name this author who wrote about the Okwonko family in the novel Things Fall Apart.

George Eliot

9. In one of this author's novels, the invalid John Raffles attempts to blackmail the town priest. Arthur Donnithorne leaves Hayslope for militia duty in this author's novel about the title carpenter, who marries Dinah Morris. One of this author's characters studies The Imitation of Christ and begins a relationship with Philip Wakem. The (*) Key to All Mythologies is written by Edward Casaubon, the husband of Dorothea Brooke, in this author's most famous novel. For 10 points, name this author of Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, and a "study of provincial life" titled Middlemarch.

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

A "warrior-poet" from this modern-day country wrote about falconry in his book Baz Nama and was named Khushal Kattak. Rumi was born in the area of this modern-day country, and much of the literature in this country is written in its official languages of Dari and (*) Pashto. One book partially set in this country centers on the relationship between Amir and Hassan, was written by Khaled Hosseini, and was inspired by news that the Taliban had banned flying the title toys. For 10 points, name this setting of The Kite Runner, which describes violence in its capital of Kabul.

"Jabberwocky" (do not accept or prompt on "THE Jabberwocky")

A Douglas Hofstadter essay noted the complications in translating this poem, and it opens at "four o'clock in the afternoon" according to one explanation. It's been hypothesized this poem was inspired by the legend of the Lambton Worm. The poem The Hunting of the Snark was based on this poem and a beast with (*) "eyes of flame" is mentioned in this poem along with the "jubjub bird." Humpty Dumpty explains the meanings of words like "frumious" and "outgrabe" that appear in this poem, which is told to Alice in Through the Looking Glass. For 10 points, name this poem by Lewis Carroll in which a man uses a "vorpal sword" to slay the title beast.

universities (or schools; or campuses; accept campus novel; accept any specific school)

A Midwestern one of these places is the setting of Jane Smiley's novel Moo. After speaking about the "Merrie England," the title character begins an epic rant in one of these places in Kingsley Amis's book Lucky Jim, and before moving to his sister's farm, David Lurie works at one of these places in (*) J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace. In Death of a Salesman, Biff Loman is unable to enter one of these institutions despite the help of Bernard, and a "Writers' Workshop" is located in Iowa at one of these institutions. For 10 points, name these institutions, one of which is the Great Gatsby's supposed alma mater "Oggsford."

universities (or schools; or colleges; or campuses; accept campus novel; accept any specific school)

A Midwestern one of these places is the setting of Jane Smiley's novel Moo. After speaking about the "Merrie England," the title character begins an epic rant in one of these places in Kingsley Amis's book Lucky Jim, and before moving to his sister's farm, David Lurie works at one of these places in (*) J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace. In Death of a Salesman, Biff Loman is unable to enter one of these institutions despite the help of Bernard, and a "Writers' Workshop" is located in Iowa at one of these institutions. For 10 points, name these institutions, one of which is the Great Gatsby's supposed alma mater "Oggsford."

dragons (prompt on things like reptiles or serpents or worms or wyverns, but outright accept worm after "Lair" is read)

A Ray Bradbury story titled after one of these creatures reveals that it's just a steam engine. A monk plays a joke by erecting a sign saying one of these creatures will appear in a story titled after one of these creatures and "A Potter's Tale" that was written by Akutagawa. The Lair of a (*) "White" one of these creatures is described in a Bram Stoker book, and the third act of Beowulf depicts his ultimate death while battling one. The discovery of the Arkenstone follows an encounter with one in the Lonely Mountain by Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit. For 10 points, name these fictitious creatures exemplified by Smaug, who just love to hoard treasure.

the Moon

A boy "looks and looks" at this object, which is told to "run" in a "Ballad" that repeats its name twice. This object "drops anchor" in the eleventh of Neruda's Twenty Love Poems, and it names the first of Lorca's Gypsy Ballads. After moving his head to see this object, the speaker of an 8th-century, four-line poem lowers his head and gets homesick. An effect of this object is mistaken for (*) frost in a poem often translated as "Quiet Night Thought." This object is invited by a "raised cup" that begins "among flowers." Li Po wrote about drinking alone by the light of—for 10 points, what celestial body?

elementary schools

A building of this kind is briefly invaded by cows and has trouble with dead rats, which sometimes appear in raincoats. At one point, residents of that building lose their voices to a man with a third nostril, though that man's nose is eventually sneezed off and served in spaghetti sauce. One edifice of this type has no (*) nineteenth floor, which is not home to Miss Zarves. That building's top floor was once populated by Mrs. Gorf, who turned children into apples by wiggling her ears and sticking out her tongue. For 10 points, identify this type of building exemplified by Louis Sachar's Wayside, which has one classroom on each of its thirty floors.

Albert Camus

A character created by this author, hears the laughter of Vanessa and Jubi after deciding he will stop painting in "Jonas or the Artist at Work." A novel by this author focuses on "the will to happiness" and is titled A Happy Death. In another work by this author, Philippe Othon's bedside is visited by Father Paneloux. One of this author's protagonists is trapped in (*) Oran, and another frequents Celeste's restaurant. This author of Exile and the Kingdom also wrote a work in which the emotionally detached protagonist relates, "Maman died today," and shoots an Arab on a beach. For 10 points, name this French-Algerian author of The Fall, The Plague, and The Stranger.

knights

A character disguised as a man with this profession reveals his identity as the bachelor Sampson Carrasco at an inn. An Aristophanes ["Air-is-tof-oh-nees"] play titled for characters with this profession features a sausage seller named Agoracritus and the slave Creon. In a different work, a character of this profession searches for what women most(*) desire. Another section of that same work sees two men of this profession, named Arcite and Palamon, fight for the hand of Emily. Don Quixote is challenged by one "of the White Moon." For 10 points, name this occupation of Lancelot and other members of the Round Table.

"The Raven"

A character from this poem was partially inspired by a similar character, Grip, from Dickens' Barnaby Rudge. This work's narrator hears "Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floors" after the "air grew perfumed from an unseen cancer". The title character of this work, described as a "prophet" (*) and "a thing of evil", is asked, "Is there balm in Gilead?" That title figure of this work enters a room "with many flirt and flutter" before perching upon a bust of Pallas and proceeding to repeat "nevermore" to all questions asked of it. For 10 points, name this Edgar Allen Poe poem about an eponymous bird.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A character in a novel by this author is threatened for cheating on his fiancée with Angela, but he misses the warning from Cristo Bedoya because he is at his fiancée's house. In that novel, the Vicario brothers visit a butcher and a milk shop before killing Santiago Nasar. In another novel by this author, a character who crafts golden fish fathers (*) 17 illegitimate sons, who are all assassinated and marked with a cross. That work is set in Macondo and follows the Buendia family. For ten points, name this Colombian author of Chronicle of a Death Foretold and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Haruki Murakami

A character in one of this man's novels reads about an Ainu youth who led a group of farmers to found the town of Junitaki. That character travels to that town under the orders of a man with a blood cyst in his brain. In another of this author's works, the same character seeks out the three (*) flipper spaceship machine. Both of those works are part of the Trilogy of the Rat. In a novel by this man, three people commit suicide, including the protagonist's friend Kizuki and his girlfriend Naoko, who lives in a sanatorium. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of A Wild Sheep Chase and Norwegian Wood.

Tom Stoppard

A character in one of this man's plays correctly assumes the meaning of a "carnal embrace", and another performs research on the population of nearby birds. That character, Valentine, contemplates that Lord Byron killed Ezra Chater with Hannah, Bernard, and his sister Chloe while helping Thomasina (*) Coverly. This author wrote a play in which two characters meet The Player, who leads the Tragedians in their performances of "The Rape of the Sabine Women" and "The Murder of Gonzago". That play famously opens with a coin flip game in which one of the two title characters lands on heads ninety-two times. For ten points, name this author of plays such as Arcadia and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

Thomas (Ruggles) Pynchon

A character in this man's first novel finds the remains of a Jesuit's attempts to convert rats to Catholicism while hunting alligators. That first novel by this man is about eternal Schlemil Benny Profane, who works for Yoyodyne. In a novella by this man the Peter Pinguid Society is part of the W.A.S.T.E postal network, which is found out actually to be part of Pierce Inverarity's (*) "Tristero" conspiracy by Oedipa Maas. His most famous novel depicts the search for a Schwarzgerat V2 rocket and the effects of Imipolex G on Tyrone Slothrop, and begins "A screaming came across the sky." For 10 points, name this reclusive author of V., The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow.

My Fair Lady

A character in this musical named Zoltan Karpathy concludes that another character is a Hungarian princess after dancing with her. In this musical, one character tells another that he can go to "Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire." In this musical, the line "Tell me no dreams, filled with desire" is sung to Freddy in the song "Show Me." Julie (*) Andrews created the protagonist of this musical, who sings "I Could Have Danced All Night" and repeats phrases like "The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain" to suppress her Cockney accent. For 10 points, name this Lerner and Loewe musical about Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.

Things Fall Apart

A character in this novel calls some men women because he "knows how to kill a man's spirit." A character in this book dies after running toward his father and crying, "They have killed me!", and another in it tells the story of a tortoise attending a feast of the birds. The protagonist of this novel despises his flute-playing (*) father and beats his wife during the Week of Peace. The protagonist of this book begins a seven-year exile after killing his adopted son Ikemefuna, and ultimately hangs himself after the introduction of Christianity to Umuofia. For 10 points, name this novel about Okonkwo, written by Chinua Achebe.

An Autobiography

A character in this novel disguises himself as a woman named Mother Bunches and tells his future wife her fortune. The protagonist of this novel befriends a classmate who was reading Samuel Johnson's book Rasselas. In this novel, Miss Temple protects students from the wrath of a man whose negligence leads the protagonist's best friend to (*) die of typhus. A Jamaican woman in this novel gave the title to the book The Madwoman in the Attic. In this novel, Grace Poole is blamed for strange occurrences at Thornfield Hall that were actually done by Bertha Mason, the first wife of Edward Rochester. For 10 points, name this novel about a governess, by Charlotte Brontë.

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms

A character in this novel falls ill and dies after encountering the ghost of a magician he executed. To trick another character into returning to the province, one character in this novel promises marriage to his sister Lady Sun. This novel's antagonist attempts to assassinate the warlord (*) Dong Zhuo and dies at the end of this novel due to a brain tumor. Liu Bei helps Sun Quan defeat Cao Cao at the Battle of Red Cliffs in this novel and earlier swears allegiance to the Han Empire in the Oath of the Peach Garden. For 10 points, name this historical Chinese classic by Luo Guanzhong about the conflict between the states of Shu, Wei, and Wu.

Native Son

A character in this novel hits a police officer named Jerry with his handgun, but is arrested after a fire hose knocks him off of a water tower. In this novel, that man is then questioned about Miss Ashton and Mrs. Clinton's sister by Buckley. A man in this novel who donates ping pong tables to the South Side Boys Club disapproves of his daughter's relationship with (*) Jan Erlone. In this novel, that daughter's bones are later discovered in a furnace in the Dalton's house. For 10 points, name this novel in which the murder of Bessie Mears and Mary Dalton leads to the arrest of Bigger Thomas, written by Richard Wright.

The Stranger

A character in this novel is silenced by a police officer when he asks if it's legal to call a man a pimp, and that character is released with a warning for beating his girlfriend after the protagonist testifies for him in court. Other characters in this work include Thomas Perez, an elderly man from The Home for Aged Persons who passes out from heatstroke at a (*) funeral and a man that beats his dog, but becomes miserable when he runs away, Salamano. The main character in this work doesn't cry after his mother dies, and after leaving Raymond Sintes's house, shoots an Arab on the beach. For ten points, name this novel by Albert Camus about Meursault.

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

A character in this novel learns French by listening to Felix De Lacey read the book Ruins of Empires. The books The Sorrows of Werter and Paradise Lost influence one character in this novel, and lead him to resent his "accursed Creator." This novel's title character studies Agrippa and Paracelsus at(*) Ingolstadt, and sees his brother William and his friend Henry Clerval murdered by his creation. For 10 points, name this novel about Victor and the monster he makes from human body parts, written by Mary Shelley.

The Three Musketeers

A character in this novel prevents all ships from leaving England in order to facilitate the delivery of some diamond studs. Those studs are retrieved by Planchet's master, a man who owns a yellow nag and nearly skewers the Comte de Rochefort due to his Gascon pride. In this novel, John Felton is fooled by a woman branded with a (*) fleur de lis; that wife of the Comte de Fere makes him murder the Duke of Buckingham. In this novel, Cardinal Richelieu's servant, Milady de Winter, is foiled by a group of men who declare, "All for one, one for all!" For 10 points, identify this work in which Athos, Porthos, and Aramis are joined by D'Artagnan, an Alexandre Dumas novel.

Snow Country

A character in this novel records every book and short story she has ever read in a diary, and describes it as a "complete waste of time." Another character in this novel stares at the reflection of a woman traveling with a sick man on a train window. That character in this work considers himself to be an expert in (*) ballet, despite having never seen one. At the end of this work, the protagonist feels the Milky Way flow inside him after Yoko dies during a cocoon-warehouse fire. For ten points, name this novel about the affair between Komako and Shimamura, set in the title locale, written by Yasunari Kawabata.

The Crucible

A character in this play believes that the cows wandering the highroads are to blame for the sorrow of one character, who later discovers a needle in Mary Warren's poppet doll while serving as clerk of the court; that character is Ezekiel Cheever. After accusing Thomas Putnam of trying to take his land during the trial of his daughter Martha, (*) Giles Corey is pressed to death. In this play's beginning, John Hale is sent to the house of Reverend Parris when he finds his daughter Betty unconscious after she had went dancing in the woods with the slave Tituba. For ten points, name this play written by Arthur Miller about the Salem Witch Trials.

A Raisin in the Sun

A character in this play describes seeing a kid's face "split open" and marvels at "what one person can do for another, fix him up - sew up the problem." Another character sings a song about how "All God's Children got wings" before giving his mother a new set of gardening tools. A son asks for (*) fifty cents at the beginning of this play, while his father attempts to pitch his business idea of owning a liquor store. Joseph Asagai proposes to Beneatha at the end of this play, and Walter Lee decides to move his family into Mama's new house in Clybourne Park. For 10 points, name this play about the Younger family by Lorraine Hansberry.

A Raisin in the Sun

A character in this play is described as having "murder in her eyes" after seeing her husband give her son fifty cents. Act 2 of this play begins with some Nigerian music being played by a woman who then shows off her new Afro. Lena's husband dies before the start of this play, but over half of his estate is scammed away by Willy. George Murchison and Joseph (*) Asagai court Beneatha in this play, in which Karl Lindner tries to get Ruth and Walter not to spend an insurance check on a house in a white neighborhood of Chicago. A line from "A Dream Deferred" titles—for 10 points—what 1959 play about the Younger family, by Lorraine Hansberry?

The Glass Menagerie

A character in this play performed in The Pirates of Penzance and was romantically involved with Emily Meisenbach. Another character is nauseated by her class at Rubicam's Business College and skips class to visit the penguins at the zoo. The protagonist's brother in this work is frustrated with his job at a shoe warehouse and goes to the (*) movies nearly every night, infuriating his mother. That mother, Amanda, boasts of a Sunday in Blue Mountain when she received seventeen gentlemen callers. For 10 points, name this play in which the crippled Laura shows the title collection to her high school love, Jim O' Connor, by Tennessee Williams.

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

A character in this poem states that his job is "to swell a progress, start a scene or two" before declaring that he is "at times, the Fool." The speaker of this poem worries about people reacting to a bald spot in his hair, and describes being afraid after seeing "the eternal Footman hold my coat." This poem mentions a (*) "yellow fog" that rubs on the window-panes. The title character exclaims "No! I am not Prince Hamlet" and wonders "Do I dare disturb the universe?" A room where "The women come and go talking of Michelangelo" appears in, for 10 points, what poem by T.S. Eliot?

Wuthering Heights

A character in this work prepares to kill a man he has locked out of a house, but that man enters through a window and beats the first one. Another character in this work escapes from her husband and moves to London; that character is Isabella. The title (*) setting of this work is about four miles from Thrushcross Grange. Near the beginning of this work, Mr. Lockwood has a nightmare in which he sees the ghost of Catherine trying to enter the house, and the next day learns the history of that house from Nelly Dean. For ten points, name this book about Heathcliff, written by Emily Bronte.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

A character in this work recalls how the Cotton Carnival Queen was spat at in the face by a drunk man. This play opens with a character complaining that she was hit by a hot, buttered biscuit, and just the night before, that character's husband had broken his ankle while jumping hurdles at his old high school (*) track. Another character from this play is compelled to drink until he hears a "click", and that character attributes his drinking to the world's "mendacity". After the title character becomes pregnant, Gooper and Mae's plans to inherit the money of the dying Big Daddy Pollitt are ruined. For ten points, name this play about a Southern family's gathering at their estate by Tennessee Williams.

Cairo

A character who lives in this city asks his mother why "marriage [is] the fate of every living creature" as a child and later angers his father by publishing an article about Darwin. A tambourine reveals the late-night indiscretions of a grocery-store-owning patriarch who lives in this city, and it contains Midaq Alley. Amina is hit by a car while walking from a (*) mosque in this city. Three generations of the al-Jawad family live in this city, and Yasin, Fahmy, and Kamal live in it in the novel Palace Walk, which appears in a trilogy of novels titled for this city and written by Naguib Mahfouz. For 10 points, give this capital of Egypt.

Daisy

A character with this first name visits the Chillon Chateau with a man, to Mrs. Costello's dismay. Another character with this first name has a daughter named Pammy and states that her lover "looks like the advertisement of a man." A woman with this name dies of Roman fever after a visit to the Colosseum with Giovanelli, devastating (*) Winterbourne. This first name also belongs to a woman whose maiden name is Fay and whose voice is "full of money." That character weeps over a stack of shirts, has a green light at the end of her dock, and runs down Myrtle Wilson. For 10 points, identify this first name of Tom Buchanan's wife and Jay Gatsby's lover in The Great Gatsby.

A Streetcar Named Desire

A character's despairing shout in this play is accompanied by a low-tone clarinet. A character in this play describes the possibly fictional affections lavished onto her by Shep Huntleigh. A radio in this play is thrown out the window after playing rumba music, and the title conveyance is ridden by another character in this play to get to Eunice and Stella in (*) Elysian Fields. In this play's penultimate scene, Stanley Kowalski rapes the protagonist, who feebly declares "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers". For 10 points, name this play about the aging Blanche DuBois, written by Tennessee Williams.

Things Fall Apart

A complaint filed by one character in this novel is heard by figures like the Evil Forest. The protagonist of this novel is famous for defeating "the cat," and in this novel, Mr. Brown builds a hospital and discusses religion with Akunna. Some characters are held for a ransom of two hundred cowries in this novel with a sequel entitled (*) No Longer at Ease. In this novel, Ezeudu's son dies when a gun explodes at a funeral, and the protagonist is a wrestler who kills his adoptive son Ikemefuna and beats his wife, violating the Week of Peace in Umuofia. For 10 points, identify this novel about Okonkwo, a work by Chinua Achebe.

islands (accept isles; accept specific examples; prompt on jungle and synonyms by saying "a jungle where?")

A discussion about how jaguars have "the fear of pain and the fear of death" takes place as Rainsford travels to one of these locales. General Zaroff discusses former experiences hunting while in one of these geographic areas in a Richard Connell story set in one of them. (*) "Beast-People" created by a scientist through vivisection take control of one of these locales at the end of a book titled for one of them. General Jim Hawkins meets Long John Silver while sailing to one of these locations to find Captain Flint's treasure. For 10 points, give these geological locales, which include one of "Dr. Moreau" in a book by H.G. Wells and one of "Treasure" in a book by Robert Louis Stevenson.

The House of the Spirits

A dog named Barrabas dies during an engagement party in this novel. The King of the Pressure Cookers is a suitor in this novel, in which he is disliked because of his Jewish appearance. This novel sees a suffragette and mother of fifteen children die by being decapitated in a car crash. (*) That woman is Nivea del Valle, the mother of a character who is engaged to Esteban Trueba before she dies by accidental poisoning. For 10 points, name this Spanish language novel about the Trueba family, written by Isabel Allende.

German

A famous short poem in this language begins "Above all summits is calm" and ends "just wait, soon you till will rest." Another short poem in this language claims that the title object "still burns like a streetlamp dimmed." This language of "Wanderer's Nightsong II" was used for a poem that compares the eyes of the title object to apples ripening and ends "You (*) ​must change your life." This language, used to write "Archaic Torso of Apollo," was also used in a collection that begins "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the Angels' Orders?," the Duino Elegies. For 10 points, name this language of Rainer Maria Rilke and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Cats

A giant one of these entities is a member of the Devil's Entourage and has a love of pickled mushrooms; that character is Behemoth. Another of these is called Church after Winston Churchill and is killed after being (*) hit by a truck in a Stephen King novel. One of these creatures is kept by Holly Golightly in Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. For 10 points, name the title "practical" animals of a T.S. Eliot collection written under the alias of "Old Possum," the namesakes of an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.

The Rape of the Lock

A gnome in this work visits a location ruled by a queen, who has handmaids named Ill-Nature and Affection. In this poem, a bag that contains "sighs" and "sobs" and a vial containing "melting griefs" and "flowing tears" are found in the Cave of Spleen. This poem begins by observing "what mighty contests rise from (*) trivial things." During a game of ombre, sylphs led by Ariel fail to prevent the Baron from performing the title action. For 10 points, name this mock epic about Belinda's hair, written by Alexander Pope.

"The Lady of Shalott"

A knight in this poem has a "helmet and the helmet-feather / [that] burn'd like one burning flame together" as he rides past a "silent isle." In this poem, after seeing a funeral from the "many-tower'd" city and "two young lovers lately wed," the title character exclaims (*) "I am half sick of shadows." After hearing the knight sing "Tirra lirra," the title character of this poem breaks from her loom and exclaims "The curse is come upon me" because she has looked toward Camelot. For 10 points, name this Alfred Tennyson poem about the woman from Arthurian legend who dies while drifting down the river.

"The Library of Babel" (or "La biblioteca de Babel")

A language in this story is described as a Samoyed-Lithuanian dialect of Guarani. This story's epigraph is from Anatomy of Melancholy, and a footnote mentions Letizia Alvarez de Toledo's belief the central entity is "pointless." "Purifiers" in this story search for a central (*) "Crimson" location, and it describes a messianic figure alleged to have found the index to the title entity. This story appears in the collection Ficciones, and its title location consists of hexagonal rooms with walls of every possible 410-page book. For 10 points, name this story by Jorge Luis Borges about an apparently infinitely large library.

Great Expectations

A lawyer in this novel washes his hands obsessively to keep his hands clean from criminal activity, making him smell like soap. In the revised ending of this novel, the protagonist holds hands with a widow in a garden. That garden in this novel is located in the ruins of Satis House, which contained many clocks all stopped at the exact same time. At the beginning of this novel, the protagonist helps (*) free a man who later fights Compeyson after having relocated to Australia. The protagonist of this novel loves Miss Havisham's ward Estella. Abel Magwitch becomes the benefactor of Pip in—for 10 points—what novel by Charles Dickens?

Alexander Pushkin

A line literally translated as "I remember a wonderful moment" opens a love poem this man wrote to Anna Petrovna Kern. This author wrote fairy tales about a "Golden Cockerel," a "Tsar Sultan," and the lovers Ruslan and Ludmilla. In one of his poems, Parasha dies in a (*) flood of the Neva, leading her lover Evgenii to go insane and wander Saint Petersburg before cursing the title statue. One of this author's books was written in a namesake "stanza" and describes the title character reluctantly killing Lensky in a duel. For 10 points, name this Russian poet, the author of "The Bronze Horseman" and the verse novel Eugene Onegin.

San Francisco, California

A literary "Renaissance" in this city included poets like Jack Spicer and Kenneth Rexroth. It was the site of a 1955 poetry reading at Gallery Six. While living in this city, a poet wrote "I Am Waiting," "In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see," and the other poems in A Coney Island of the Mind. This city is home to the City (*) Lights Bookstore founded by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. It was the site of the first performance of a poem including lines like "Moloch," "I'm with you in Rockland," and "I saw the best minds of my generation..." Allen Ginsberg wrote "Howl" in this city. For 10 points, name this center of the Beat Generation and likely setting of "A Supermarket In California."

Mary (accept Maria; accept specific people such as Mary Magdalene, Mary of Bethany, the Virgin Mary, Mary of Clopas, etc.)

A man commends one person with this name as having "chosen what is better" in comparison to her sister. A woman with this name had seven demons exorcised out of her, and a woman with this name resided with her sister Martha in (*) Bethany. A woman of this name who performs the Anointing of Jesus is notably said to have "lived a sinful life," and a woman of this name received the Annunciation before later giving birth to a child in a manger in Bethlehem. For 10 points, give this name of multiple women who followed Jesus, including his mother.

(British) India

A man from this modern country is told to "put some juldee in it" or he'll be "marrowed" by a group of soldiers. That man from this modern country is called "Lazaruthian leather" and then says "I 'ope you liked your drink" before being shot. A poem contrasts this modern country with safe quarter where "you may talk o' gin and beer." The speaker of that poem says "by the living Gawd that made you, you're a (*) better man than I am!" to the title water-carrier from this modern country. This country is the setting of Rudyard Kipling's "Gunga Din" and a novel in which Adela Quested is supposedly raped by Dr. Aziz. For 10 points, E.M. Forster wrote about a Passage to which modern country?

Doctor

A man of this profession was the title character of Sax Rohmer's novels and is known for his famous mustache. In another work, Esther Summerson marries an individual with this job. A bespectacled man with this occupation stares over the (*) Valley of Ashes. The alter-ego of a title character with this job beats to death Sir Danvers Carew after taking a serum that allows the protagonist to fulfill his dark dreams. For 10 points, name this profession, the job of characters such as Daneeka, Abraham Van Helsing, and Zhivago.

Mayor of Casterbridge (accept The Mayor of Casterbridge if people can somehow pronounce italics; prompt on just mayor)

A man who formerly held this title leaves a will requesting "that no man remember me." The minor character Mrs. Cuxsom encourages the "skimmity-ride" that kills Lucretta, the love interest of two men with this title. The Scottish merchant Donald Farfrae obtains this title, and (*) Susan leaves a letter informing a man with this position that Elizabeth-Jane is not his daughter, but the sailor Richard Newsome's. A man who later obtains this position opens the book by getting extremely drunk and selling his wife and child for five guineas. For 10 points, give this position held by Michael Henchard that titles a Thomas Hardy novel.

Les Fleurs du mal (accept The Flowers of Evil before read)

A mother complains that she'd rather have "spawned a whole knot of vipers" rather than the poet in this collection's poem "Benediction" A poem in it compares the poet to a "prince of cloud and sky" that's mocked as "comic and ugly" after being placed "on the deck." This collection contains (*) "The Albatross," and the foreword to this collection complains about a state of ennui and addresses the "reader" as a hypocrite. Sections in this Symbolist poetry collection include "Revolt," "Wine," and "Spleen and Ideal." For 10 points, name this poetry collection written by Charles Baudelaire with a title in French translated as The Flowers of Evil.

chains

A musical artist who gained fame under a stage moniker named after these objects claimed in one song that he, "had a sit down with Farrakhan" and "Turned the White House to the Terror Dome." Della sells her hair to buy Jim one of these objects for his watch in The Gift of the Magi, and in calculus, a rule named after these objects states that the derivative of (*) f of g of x is f prime of g of x times g prime of x. The Communist Manifesto claims that the Proletarians have nothing to lose but these objects, and The Social Contract begins, "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in" these objects. Fenrir was bound in, for ten points, what metal objects composed of several connected links.

Commonwealth of Australia

A novel from this country illustrates several snapshots of the life of an artist who is sold into a wealthy family, becomes the step-brother of the hunchbacked Rhoda, and falls in love with a musician named Kathy Volkov. That novel from this country about the painter Hurtle Duffield is The Vivisector. A mixed-race man marries a white woman and kills the Healy and (*) Newby families in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, a work by one of this country's most prominent novelists. That man wrote another novel based on the true story of a factory owner who employs several Polish jews, saving them from the Holocaust. Patrick White and the author of Schindler's List, Thomas Keneally, both originate from, for ten points, what Oceanic country?

Canada

A novel from this country includes the story of a thief who became useful to the Allies during World War II after stealing documents for them. An author from this country named a certain animal after a sailor from Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym; that tiger is named Richard Parker. A book from this country includes a bomb remover named Kip and the titular character Almasy. (*) A more famous novel splits women into social tiers, one of which includes older women and those of the title rank. Those titular figures bear children for the wives. For 10 points, name this country whose literature includes The Life of Pi, The English Patient, and The Handmaid's Tale.

Chicago, Illinois

A novel set in this city concerns Curtis Jadwin, whose obsession with the title place causes him to hear the word "wheat" repeatedly in his head. This is the setting of Frank Norris' The Pit, and a resident of this city is defended by Boris Max after using a pillow to accidentally (*) smother Mary Dalton. In addition to Bigger Thomas, Esperanza Cordero is a resident of this city who moves from Loomis Street to the title location. This city is the setting of The House on Mango Street and Native Son, and one poet called it "City of the Big Shoulders" and "Hog Butcher to the World." For 10 points, name this city, the addressee of a Carl Sandburg poem.

Prague, Czech Republic

A novel titled for the phrase "Himmler's brain is called Heydrich" is set in this city and won the 2010 Prix ["pree"] Goncourt. HHhH is set in this city, and along with Cambridge, Stoppard's play Rock 'n' Roll takes place in this city. Simone Simonini forges The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in an (*) Umberto Eco book titled for a "Cemetery" in this city. Ludvik makes the disastrous "Joke" in this city, and Sabina has an affair with Tereza's womanizing husband Tomas in this city, the longtime residence of Milan Kundera. For 10 points, what European city is the setting of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, in which it's undergoing a "Spring?"

"The Hollow Men"

A passage in this poem paraphrases from Julius Caesar and describes "Between the idea / And the reality." It borrows from the Lord's Prayer for the stuttering "For Thine is / Life is / For Thine is the," and images in this poem of (*) "Shape without form, shade without colour" and "Eyes I dare not meet in dreams" come from The Inferno. Phrases in it like "A Penny for the Old Guy" and "headpiece filled with straw" reference Guy Fawkes Day. This poem heavily references Heart of Darkness, as in the epigraph "Mistah Kurtz--he dead." For 10 points, name this T.S. Eliot poem concluding, "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper."

Salvation Army

A poem about the founder of this organization says that he "led boldly with the big bass drum" and repeats the line "are you washed in the blood of the lamb?" In addition to that poem by Vachel Lindsay about its founder entering into Heaven, another work about a member of this organization sees her mother Lady Britomart reconnect with her estranged husband, the munitions manufacturer Andrew (*) Undershaft, who then tries to "buy" this organization by giving a large donation. For 10 points, name this organization to which General William Booth and Major Barbara belonged, a religious group with ranks like the military.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A poem by this author addresses his son Hartley by saying "Dear Babe, that sleepest cradled by my side" and hopes that "all seasons shall be sweet to thee," including during the "secret ministry of frost." In another of this author's poems, "the lovely lady" walks into the (*) woods at midnight to meet a woman who claims she had been carried away by five warriors. The completion of this author's fifty-four line poem was interrupted by a person from Porlock and discusses Xanadu. For 10 points, name the author who penned the lines, "Water, water everywhere!" in his famous poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."

Wallace Stevens

A poem by this author asks several questions to Ramon Fernandez and begins, "She sang beyond the genius of the sea." A collection that contains his "The Idea of Order at Key West" also includes a poem that describes a "gray and bare" object "upon a hill" in Tennessee. This poet who included "Anecdote of the (*) Jar" in his collection Harmonium, asks "O thin men of Haddam, / Why do you imagine golden birds?" in a poem that claims the eye of one of the title animals was the "only moving thing" among "twenty snowy mountains". For ten points, name this poet who wrote "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird".

Wallace Stevens

A poem by this author describes the speaker voyaging from Bordeaux to Yucatán to North Carolina, and another mentions an "old sailor" who "catches tigers in red weather" while drunk and asleep. In one of this poems, this author described a "muscular" man who whips (*) "concupiscent curds" in preparation for a funeral wake. The poems "Comedian as the Letter C," "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock," and "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" are among those in this writer's collection Harmonium, which also contains a haiku-inspired poem. For 10 points, name this American Modernist who wrote "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."

(James Mercer) Langston Hughes

A poem by this author mentions the "silver liquid drops" of the title phenomenon before declaring that the speaker "loves" that phenomenon. This poet of "April Rain Song" and the collection Fine Clothes to the Jew described hearing "down on Lenox Avenue" a "drowsy syncopated tune" in the poem (*) "The Weary Blues." In a poem by this man, the speaker states that, despite being sent "to eat in the kitchen / when company comes," "I, too, am America." A poem by this man references building a hut near the Congo and looking upon the Nile. For 10 points, name this author of "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," a poet of the Harlem Renaissance.

(Jean Nicolas) Arthur Rimbaud

A poem by this author opens declaring that "no one's serious at seventeen" and repeats the phrase "you're in love"; that poem by this man is "Novel." The poems "After the Flood," "Flowers," "To Reason," and "Winter Feast" all appear in his collection Illuminations. An extended prose poem by this author begins, "A while back, if I remember right, my life was one long party" and includes two "Deliriums," and he wrote a long poem about the (*) drifting and sinking of a boat lost at sea. This man wrote the poems "A Season in Hell" and "The Drunken Boat." For 10 points, name this French Symbolist who was only a teenager when he began a stormy relationship with fellow poet Paul Verlaine.

edward estlin cummings

A poem by this man describes a character that used to "break onetwothreefourfive pigeons just like that", and the title figure of that poem "used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion" Another of his poems discusses a character whose rectum was egged by officers and was "more brave than me: more blond than you" and "whose warmest heart recoiled at war." This author of (*) "Buffalo Bill's defunct" described a character who "sang his didn't" and "danced his did" throughout the seasons in a place "with up so floating many bells down." For ten points name this American poet who wrote "i sing of Olaf glad and big" and "anyone lived in a pretty how town", known for his unusual use of punctuation and capitalization.

Pablo Neruda

A poem by this man describes how the title object's "petals throb against the world / your submarine crops tremble." Another poem by this man talks about a person who looks "like a world, lying in surrender"and describes "white hills, white thighs". This author of "Body of a Woman" described objects that are "soft as rabbits" and "made of wool in winter" in his "Ode to My Socks". A poem by this author has a narrator who climbs the (*) "ladder of the earth" in order to reach the title location. For ten points, name this author who included "The Heights of Macchu Picchu" in his Canto General and lamented that "Tonight I can write the saddest lines" in his Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.

New York City

A poem describes waking up in this title city by the lines "I, an alarm, awake as a / rumor of war" while "children sleep, / exchanging dreams with seraphim." A poem describing visiting part of this city begins with "Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!" The author of that work wrote a poem about a famous street in this city. (*) Claude McKay's poem describes dawn in this place, a time when "Almost the mighty city is asleep, / no pushing crowd, no tramping, tramping feet." For 10 points, name this city that was home to Harlem Renaissance poets like Langston Hughes.

the Beat​ Generation

A poem from this movement repeatedly calls for a "rebirth of wonder." Another poem from this movement begins "Let's go, come on, let's go, empty our pockets and disappear." A poet from this movement collected "I Am Waiting" and "Junkman's Obbligato" in ​A Coney Island of the Mind, published by his City (*) ​Lights Bookstore. A poem from this movement declares "I'm with you in Rockland," endlessly describes "Moloch," was dedicated to Carl Solomon, and was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. For 10 points, name this literary movement of the 1950s, including a poet who "saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness,"Allen Ginsberg.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

A poem in this book describes "micturations" and rending "thee in the gobberwarts," and it opens with the protagonist attempting to prevent his house from being destroyed. Digressions in this book describe a character who becomes obsessed with finding lost ballpoint pens and one who thinks (*) "Oh no, not again." President Zaphod travels with Ford Prefect and this book's protagonist to "Magrathea" using the Improbability Drive, and the title entity of this book urges Arthur Dent "Don't Panic." For 10 points, name this work of comic science-fiction by Douglas Adams suggesting the "answer to life, the universe, and everything" is the number 42.

horses

A poem titled after two of these animals says that they "after mutual salutes/Not only discours'd, but fell to salutes", that poem is titled "A Dialogue Between Two [of these animals]", and was written by Andrew Marvell. The protagonist of another work about one of these animals dies after shouting the name "Malabar!" and winning 70,000 pounds in a bet. In another work, the motto of one of these animals is (*) "I will work harder" as well as "Napoleon is always right", that animal is named Boxer. A D.H. Lawrence novel describes a "rocking" one of these animals. For ten points, name these animals which ride in the Kentucky Derby and neigh.

Russian

A poet in this language described spending seventeen months in prison and wrote "They led you away before sunrise" in a ten-poem cycle that includes the poem "Instead of a Preface." That 1943 work, "Requiem" is part of this language's Silver Age. In a poem in this language, the title character sermonizes that he would get bored of marriage to a girl who wrote him a love letter. In that poem in this language, which uses sonnets alternating (*) masculine and feminine rhymes, the title "superfluous man" dances with the wrong girl at a name-day celebration ball, and dies in a duel with Lensky. For 10 points, name this language of Anna Akhmatova and Alexander Pushkin.

French

A poet who wrote in this language, known for his Notebooks, began a twenty-year "silence" in 1898, and wrote "The wind rises...We must try to live!" in his "The Cemetery By the Sea." A poem in this language claims "Nature is a temple where each living column, at times, gives forth vague words" where "Man passes...through forests of symbols." Edgar Allan Poe first became known in Europe through translations into this language. An (*) 1857 poetry collection in this language, including "Correspondences," "The Albatross," and three poems named "Spleen," kicked off Symbolism. For 10 points, name this language of Paul Valéry and Charles Baudelaire, who wrote Les Fleurs du Mal.

Great Expectations

A powerful lawyer in this novel incessantly washes his hands to prevent criminal corruption from tainting him. The protagonist of this novel is nicknamed Handel by his friend, Herbert Pocket, because of his former experience as a blacksmith. That protagonist's wealthy and mysterious benefactor is revealed to be the escaped (*) convict Abel Magwitch. In this work, the eccentric Miss Havisham inhabits a room full of stopped clocks and raises her adopted daughter Estella to break the hearts of men. For 10 points, name this novel that follows the development of the orphan Pip, by Charles Dickens.

Dover Beach

A satire of this poem describes how one character "had in mind / the notion of what his whiskers would feel like / on the back of her neck". The speaker of that poem notes how he "sometimes brings her a bottle of Nuit d'Amour." This poem's speaker notes how the world "seems / to lie before us like a land of dreams," but really has "neither joy, nor love, nor light." This poem begins by describing how "The (*) sea is calm tonight / the tide is full, the moon lies fair," and later claims that "Sophocles long ago" heard "the eternal note of sadness" on the Aegean sea. For ten points, name this poem, set in a location where "ignorant armies clash by night," written by Matthew Arnold.

Arabic

A scholar of literature in this language wrote The Tree of Misery as well as the autobiography The Days. In one story written in this language, the murder of a woman found mutilated in a box was caused by Rayhan stealing one of the title "Three Apples." Originally, the ghazal ("GUZZ-el") was a form used in this language, and in one story written in it, (*) Morgiana helps a man who knows the secret code "open sesame." That story about forty thieves is in a collection in this language with a frame story about Shahryar and Scheherazade, One Thousand and One Nights. For 10 points, identify this language in which the Qu'ran is often written.

"The Tell-Tale Heart"

A sound in this story is described as that which "arises from the bottom of the soul when overcharged with awe," and at this story's end, one character yells, "Villains! Dissemble no more!" This story's narrator practices inching quietly closer and closer to his (*) victim over a week, whom he had begun to hate due to an "eye of a vulture" that's pale blue. The narrator of this story murders an old man, only to confess to the police as the title object drives him insane. For 10 points, name this story by Edgar Allen Poe in which the narrator hears the title organ beating under the floorboards.

being dead

A speaker with this characteristic asks his friend, "Is my team ploughing," in an A.E. Housman poem. A woman who rails against "degenerate sons and daughters" possesses this characteristic, as do "the weak of will, the strong of arm, [and] the clown." Those narrators of (*) The Spoon River Anthology share this trait with the taxable property purchased by a man who is mistaken for Captain Kopeikin. Unlike Chichikov's serfs in a Gogol novel, Madeline does not possess this characteristic when she is locked in the crypt by her brother, Roderick Usher. For 10 points, identify this state of being for everyone in Prince Prospero's castle at the end of Poe's The Masque of the Red Death.

author (accept equivalents such as writer, and specific types of authors such as novelist or playwright)

A story about a character with this profession notes the importance of the phrase, "Everyone believed that the chess players had met accidentally." Hermann Sörgel possesses the memory of a man with this profession, and one of these people attempts to identically emulate the work of a Spanish forebear. This is the profession of Adolfo Bioy Casares and (*) Pierre Menard. It's not a spy or anything government-related, but in one story, Doctor Tsun is the descendant of Ts'ui Pen, a man who engaged in this profession by creating the title labyrinth of the "garden of forking paths." For 10 points, give this profession of Jorge Luis Borges and Shakespeare.

Nikolai Gogol

A story by this author notes how "everything went topsy-turvy" after a character surprisingly clothed in a "gold-braided uniform" steps out of a carriage. One of this writer's characters notes the "canine nature" of a letter, and claims to be the King of Spain in his (*) diary. Major Kovalyov awakens to find his face missing one of its features in one of this man's stories, and in another by him, a "person of consequence" flings the title garment away after being visited by the ghost of the former government official Akaki Akakievich. For 10 points, name this satirical Russian short story writer of "The Nose" and "The Overcoat."

Persian

A story from the "Manners of Kings" chapter of a novel in this language contains the lines "Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul." In addition to The Rose Garden, one poem written in this language states that "this being human is a guest house." A national epic in this language includes the story of (*) Rostam and Sohrab, and a collection of quatrains in this language states "The Moving Finger writes and, having Writ, moves on." For 10 points, Rumi wrote his Spiritual Couplets in what language also used by Omar Khayyam in the Rubaiyat?

Vertigo

A theory that this film is a loose adaptation of Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is supported by the title of Samuel Taylor's first draft of its screenplay. The poster and opening titles of this film feature a spiral motif, which is supposed to emphasize the film's "psychological vortex." This film uses the dolly zoom to simulate its title (*) condition, often in staircases. Kim Novak plays both Madeleine and Judy in this film, alongside James Stewart as retired detective Scottie Ferguson. For 10 points, name this Alfred Hitchcock thriller, about a San Francisco detective who suffers from dizziness and fear of heights.

The Aeneid

A war breaks out in this work after the title character's son kills a deer, and the antagonist's sister Juturna disguises herself as Camers to convince an army to break a treaty. A character in this poem loses a footrace after slipping in sacrificial blood, and another character is killed for wearing the belt of Pallas, who he had previously slain. This poem begins with(*) Juno destroying the protagonist's fleet and opens with the phrase "I sing of arms and the man." For 10 points, name this epic poem by Virgil, in which Dido commits suicide after being left by the title son of Venus and Anchises.

"The Gift of the Magi"

A woman in this story imagines her husband calling her a "Coney Island chorus girl," before wondering what she can do with a dollar and eighty-seven cents. Prized possessions in this short story would make the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon envious. A trip to Madame(*) Sofronie's in this story renders the purchase of hair combs useless. For 10 points, name this ironic short story about Jim and Della exchanging Christmas presents like wise men, written by O. Henry.

Catherine

A woman with this first name is displeased when her sister-in-law, Lady Susan Vernon, visits her in a short epistolary novel. In another novel by the same author, the protagonist with this first name loves Gothic novels like (*) Castle of Wolfenbach and Mysterious Warnings and is "in training [to become] a heroine." That character visits Bath with the Allens and marries Henry Tilney. For 10 points, give the given first name of Elizabeth Bennet's younger sister, Kitty, from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

John Milton

A work by this author begins with a Euripides quote on the meaning of "True Liberty." That poem describes the uses and harms of the Licensing Order of 1643, and notes that "he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself." In another poem, this author asks "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" in a poem about his title (*) condition that begins, "When I consider how my light is spent". This author of Areopagitica and On His Blindness wrote another poem meant to "justify God's ways to man," and that poem describes a character who says that it is "Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in heaven." For ten points, name this poet who described Adam and Eve's expulsion from heaven in Paradise Lost.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

After a dispute regarding Diaochan in this work, Dong Zhuo is killed by his foster son, Lu Bu. In this novel, the "Ten Attendants" are a group of eunuchs who kill He Jin, a man that earlier helped to suppress the Yellow Turban Rebellion. In this novel, three characters pledge their loyalty to the(*) Han dynasty in the "Oath of the Peach Garden." Sun Quan helps Liu Bei defeat Cao Cao at the Battle of Red Cliffs in, for 10 points, what classical Chinese novel by Luo Guanzhong about conflict between the states of Wei, Shu, and Wu?

Fitzwilliam Darcy (accept either or both underlined portions; or Mr. Darcy)

After being told he "hate[s] everybody," this character accuses another of wilfully "misunderstand[ing] them." This character's love interest gains a "more gentle sensation" towards him while gazing at his portrait after Mrs. Reynolds shows her around his house at (*) Pemberley. His sister Georgiana is seduced by the dissolute soldier Wickham. This character first appears with his friend Bingley at a ball, and he proposes marriage at the end of a novel that starts, "it is a truth universally acknowledged [...]" For 10 points, name this main love interest of Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

The Crucible

After complaining about a man who "preach nothin' but golden candlesticks," a character in this play struggles to remember the Ten Commandments. A girl in this play pretends to be frightened by a yellow bird while in court, and Mary Warren gifts a (*) poppet to Elizabeth later found to have a needle in it. Giles Corey dies in this play crying for "more weight!" as he is crushed with rocks. Abigail Williams instigates the main events of this play after accusing the slave Tituba of helping her and others to cavort with the Devil. For 10 points, name this Arthur Miller play in which John Proctor fights against the Salem Witch Hunt.

Brave New World

Although some believe that this novel may have been inspired by We by Yevgany Zamyatin, the author of this novel claims he had never heard of that work before he wrote it. In this novel, people are in one of five castes from Alpha to Epsilon; additionally, they get high on (*) soma. In this novel, the word "Ford" is used in place of the word "Lord" in many of the same contexts, which explains why the events of this book take place in the year 632 After Ford. For 10 points, name this novel in which John the Savage participates in an Indian religious ritual, a novel by Aldous Huxley.

Classical Persian

Although they do not know this language, Daniel Ladinsky and Coleman Barks are best-known as "interpreters" of its poetry. Poetry in this language inspired Goethe's last major collection. A poem in this language claims that "all thy tears" cannot "wash out a word" of what "the Moving Finger writes." A quatrain in this language ends "Oh, (*) wilderness were paradise enough!" A poetry collection in this language was translated by Edward FitzGerald and includes the line "A jug of wine, a loaf of bread—and thou." Poets in this language included Hafez and Rumi. For 10 points, name this language used by Omar Khayyam to write theRubaiyyat.

Beowulf

An epitaph in the end of this work is frequently debated as to the exact meaning of the seemingly superficial description "eager for fame." The only character to not abandon the protagonist during a battle in the barrow Earnanæs ["EARN-uh-ness"] in this work is the young Wiglaf. In the third major (*) battle of this work, the protagonist is killed by a dragon, but had earlier managed to rip off a foe's arm and kill that foe's mother with the sword Hrunting. The title character of this work defends the banquet hall Heorot from the monstrous Grendel. For 10 points, name this Old English epic about a warrior-hero.

"Dover Beach"

An iconoclastic response to this poem by Anthony Hecht mocks "that bitter allusion to the sea." This poem references a metaphor that describes the sea "like the folds of a bright girdle furled" and its "long, withdrawing roar." Mention is made in this poem to (*) Sophocles who heard the "turbid ebb and flow of human misery" on the Aegean. Concluding with the line that the title location is where "ignorant armies clash by night," for 10 points, name this poem by Matthew Arnold describing the cliffs of England.

Lord of the Flies

An unnamed character in this novel who has a "mulberry-marked face" disappears following a forest fire. After one character is killed in this novel, his body is surrounded by glowing fish, while in another scene, Johnny and Percival have their sandcastles destroyed by Roger and Maurice. The discovery that the(*) beast in this novel is actually a dead parachutist is made by the innocent boy Simon. The conch is used to call votes in, for 10 points, what novel by William Golding, where Ralph and Jack struggle for power on a deserted island?

Dublin, Ireland (accept Dubliners)

At a Halloween party set in this city, a character plays a blindfolded game and selects the title object, which symbolizes death. A boy living in this city fails to buy a gift at the title (*) bazaar, and in this setting of "Clay" and "Araby," Gabriel Conroy's wife has memories of Michael Furey. A novel ending "yes i said yes i will yes" is set in this city, and it titles a short story collection including "The Dead." This city is home to the residents Blazes Boylan, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly and Leopold Bloom. For 10 points, name this city, the setting of the novel Ulysses by James Joyce.

E.M. Forster

At the beginning of a novel by this author, the reverend Mr. Beebe convinces Charlotte Barnett that it is okay to switch rooms to be closer to the Arno river. A character flees to Germany to hide her pregnancy after having an affair with Leonard Bast in another novel by this author. In addition to describing the love life of Lucy (*) Honeychurch, this author also wrote about Mrs. Wilcox leaving the titular estate to Margaret Schlegel. At the Marabar Caves, Adel is allegedly raped by Dr. Aziz in another work by this author of A Room With a View. For 10 points, name this author of Howards End and A Passage to India.

Jane Eyre

At the beginning of one novel, this character reads Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds and is sent to the red room by Aunt Reed. Mr. Brocklewood calls this character a liar after she drops a slate, and this character befriends Helen Burns, who later dies of consumption. After leaving the (*) Lowood School, this character saves a man from a mysterious fire that is blamed on the nurse Grace Poole. Later, this character's wedding veil is torn apart by Bertha Mason. For 10 points, name this governess of Thornfield Hall who marries Edward Rochester, the title character of a novel by Charlotte Bronte.

Don Quixote de la Mancha

At the beginning of this book, some traders on their way to buy silk at Murcia beat up the title character and leave him for dead. Although he does not die, the books belonging to the title character of this work are burned by a barber and a priest, because the ideas that he had learned from those books caused him to think of (*) Dulcinea as his love and affection. The title character of this work mistakenly intends to do battle with "thirty or forty hulking giants" when really he's only looking at windmills. For 10 points, Sancho Panza is the squire of the title character of what work by Miguel Cervantes?

committing suicide

At the end of a 1703 play, this action is performed at a tree trunk that is growing both a pine and a palm, by Ohatsu and Tokubei. This action is performed at Amijima and at Sonezaki in two bunraku plays by Chikamatsu. In Act I of another play, the main character shows his willingness to perform this action with a song about the "Not-I" bird, after being pressured by the (*) Praise Singer. Olunde performs this action in place of his father after Simon Pilkings tries to prevent Elesin from doing it. For 10 points, name this action that must be performed by the king's horseman after the king dies, in a play by Wole Soyinka.

Ben Jonson

At the end of a play by this author, a character advances to the front of the stage and asks the audience's forgiveness by saying, "I put myself on you that are my country." Several plays by this author start with an "Argument," or an acrostic poem giving the play's title. In a play by this author, the gullible gambler Dapper and tobacconist Drugger are conned. In another play by this man, an aging nobleman (*) fakes an illness in order to receive lavish gifts from characters like Corbaccio and Corvino; that play's title character, a Venetian nobleman, attempts to rape Celia, and is assisted by the servant Mosca. For 10 points, name this 17th-century English author of The Alchemist and Volpone.

Wole Soyinka

At the end of one work by this author, the title character is presented with the head of Danlola instead of the ceremonial yam he expected to receive. Another play by this author of Kongi's Harvest sees one character refuse to marry another because he won't pay the dowry, and a play by him begins with a character talking to the (*) Praise-Singer in the market. One of his plays ends with Lakunle being upset because Sidi is going to marry Baroka, and another work by this author sees Simon Pilking stop a ritual. For ten points, name this author of The Lion and the Jewel, who described the interruption of a ritual suicide by Elesin in Death and the King's Horsemen.

All the King's Men

At the end of this novel, a character writes a biography on Cass Mastern, whose research he had once used in an unfinished dissertation on American history. Sibyl Frey is impregnated in this novel, and another character is murdered after having an affair (*) with Anne Stanton, whom the protagonist of this novel also loves and eventually marries. The protagonist Jack Burden discovers that Judge Irwin accepted a bribe and committed suicide in, for 10 points, what novel featuring Willie Stark and written by Robert Penn Warren?

Les Miserables (Accept The Miserables , The Wretched , The Miserable Ones , The Wretched Ones , or The Poor Ones ; do not prompt on "Les Mis", as tempting as it may be)

Azelma is the name of the younger daughter of a family in this novel that abuses an orphan. In the beginning of this novel, the Bishop of Digne lives in a hospital instead of the episcopal palace he is entitled to. Earlier in this novel, the Thenardiers get free labor from a girl that is sent to them by her mother (*) Fantine; that girl ends up falling in love with and later marrying Marius. That girl, Cosette, is raised by a man with the pseudonym of Father Madeleine, who himself is pursued by Javert when he is found to be the ex-convict Jean Valjean. For 10 points, name this novel, which was written by Victor Hugo.

Madame Bovary

Binet ("BEEN-ay") advises one character in this work to take up carpentry, and Homais' ("oh-MAY'S") career takes off at the end of this book. Earlier in this book, a letter complete with fake tear stains arrives in a basket of apricots. Although one man in this novel initially moves to Tostes with Heloise Dubuc, he and the protagonist spend much of the text living in (*) Yonville. That protagonist pretends to attend weekly piano lessons in order to carry out an affair with Léon after losing Rodolphe's affections, despite her marriage to the doctor Charles, and at the end of this novel, she kills herself using arsenic. For 10 points, name this novel about Emma, the most famous work of Gustave Flaubert.

Animal Farm

Characters in this work sing a song featuring the line "Hearken to my joyful tiding." Mr. Whymper starts out buying paraffin wax in this work but then switches to alcohol, and in this work, it is almost revealed that the words "with sheets" were clandestinely added to a wall. In this work which takes place between Pinchfield and Foxwood, one character is sent to a (*) glue factory, and another tells stories about a place with seven Sundays a week, "Sugarcandy Mountain." "I will work harder" becomes the mantra of Boxer in this work which features the pigs Napoleon and Snowball. For 10 points, name this novella, an allegory for Stalin's Russia by George Orwell.

The Seagull (or Chayka)

Christopher Hampton translated this play for its 2008 Broadway run directed by Ian Rickson. A speech regarding a "universal soul" is given during an avant-garde play-within-this-play that is lambasted by the playwright's mother Arkadina. Stanislavski's first success with the (*) Moscow Art Theatre was an 1898 staging of this play, and the line "If you ever need my life, come and take it" is inscribed on a medallion Nina gives in this play to her beloved, the novelist Trigorin. Konstantin shoots himself at the end of this play, and he had earlier shot the title animal as a gift. For 10 points, name this play by Anton Chekhov titled after an aquatic bird.

Pygmalion

Contrary to an ending devised by Herbert Tree, the author's postscript to this play insists that two characters become greengrocers after marrying, though they briefly continue to live in Wimpole Street. The mother of another character in this play shelters a girl who hurls slippers at her son; that girl impresses Clara with her "new small talk," which consists of phrases like "they done her in." In this play, a character howls (*) "ah ah ow ow o" when she mistakes a transcribing man for a Covent Garden policeman, though that friend of Colonel Pickering is actually a professor of phonetics. For 10 points, name this George Bernard Shaw play about Henry Higgins' education of flower girl Eliza Doolittle.

the daughters of King Lear (accept children in place of "daughters"; accept, collectively, Cordelia, Regan, and Goneril until their names are read; anti-prompt

Description acceptable. One member of this group tells the others, "I know you what you are," and warns that "Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides." One man tells a member of this group that "Nothing will come from nothing," and that man raves wildly in a (*) storm after being incensed by members of this group. Two members of this group are married to the Duke of Cornwall and of Albany, and after the youngest of this group refuses to say how much she loves her father, the other two begin a civil war. This group consists of Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia. For 10 points, name this trio of children to the title royal in a Shakespeare play.

Anne Bradstreet's husband

Description acceptable. This man "lived so long" and will "listen while you read a Song" in an "Homage" by John Berryman. In another poem, this man is prized "more than whole mines of gold, or all the riches that the East doth hold," and is told to "persevere," so that "when we live no more we may live ever." This man owned a house that prompted the line "my (*) hope and treasure lies above." A poet declared of this man that "if ever two were one, then surely we." His house burning down is described a poem from The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America. For 10 points, name this "dear and loving" man who was the husband of an early American poet.

the island from The Tempest (accept any answer that mentions "Tempest" and an island, basically; prompt on partial answer; accept synonyms for island like isle)

Description acceptable. Upon arriving at this location, one man imagines building a utopia here, prompting another to joke "Long live Gonzalo!" One character threatens to have "peopled" this place with himself; that character later says this place is "full of noises, sounds, and sweet airs," describing how he (*) "cried to dream again." The witch Sycorax formerly lived in this location, leaving behind the monstrous Caliban and the spirit Ariel. Several Italian nobles including Alonso and Ferdinand arrive at this place after Prospero uses his magic to cause a shipwreck. For 10 points, describe this unnamed water-isolated location, the setting for a Shakespeare play titled after a vicious storm.

birthdays

During one of these events, Rachel Verinder acquires a cursed diamond in a Wilkie Collins novel. Tom Buchanan offers an unopened bottle of whiskey as Nick realizes he had forgotten one of these events. Meg gives one character a (*) toy drum during one of these events, which he later smashes during a game of Blind Man's Bluff while attempting to rape Lulu. In Our Town, Emily returns from death to relive her twelfth one of these events. For 10 points, identify this day of celebration, for which Stanley receives a titular party in a Harold Pinter play.

Lady Chatterley's Lover

During one scene in this novel, the officer Tommy Dukes argues that individuality is overdeveloped, describing Arnold Hammond's wife as "luggage." A fake marriage between John Thomas and Lady Jane occurs in this novel, whose protagonist travels to Venice to see the artist (*) Duncan Forbes and secure a divorce. An affair with the playwright Michaelis happens early in this novel, before the title character is seen looking at the Wragby estate by the nurse Mrs. Bolton. Constance cheats on her husband Clifford with the gamekeeper Oliver Mellors in, for 10 points, what novel by D.H. Lawrence?

spy (accept synonyms like intelligence officer or secret agent or espionage agent; prompt on things like government agent)

Erskine Childers's book The Riddle of the Sands established the modern form of a genre named for this profession. The Karla Trilogy centered on a member of this profession named George Smiley, and James Wormold lies about sketches of (*) vacuum parts while working this profession in a Havana-set novel written by Graham Greene. John le Carré wrote novels titled after these people with a "Tinker Tailor [and] Soldier" and "[Coming] In From the Cold." The most famous member of this profession appeared in the books Casino Royale and Goldfinger. For 10 points, give this profession of Ian Fleming creation James Bond.

World War I

Ford Madox Ford described this historical event in his tetralogy Parade's End. The Wine Press, written by Alfred Noyes, opposed this event, and Siegfried Sassoon wrote of it in Counter-Attack. The poem "Strange Meeting" describes this event, as does one which describes "an (*) ecstasy of fumbling." A novel about this event was followed by The Road Back and features Katczinsky, Kemmerich, and Müller, along with the protagonist Paul Bäumer. That novel is by Erich Maria Remarque. For 10 points, name this war, the subject of Wilfred Owen's Dulce et Decorum Est and of All Quiet on the Western Front, which began in 1914.

mental hospitals (or psychiatric institutions; or psychiatric hospitals; or insane asylums; or lunatic asylums; accept Ten Days in a Mad-House; prompt on hospitals; prompt on institutions; do not accept or prompt on "prison")

Franklin Pierce's first presidential veto was of a bill funding these places promoted by a woman inspired by the work of the Tuke family in Britain. The Kirkbride Plan governed the architecture of these places, one of which housed Rosemary Kennedy for most of her life. The field of investigational journalism was launched by an exposé titled (*) Ten Days in one of them and written by a woman after going undercover in one. Reforms in these places were prompted by Nellie Bly and Dorothea Dix, and common procedures done in them included electroshock therapy and lobotomies. For 10 points, name this type of institution where schizophrenia may be treated.

golden

In Book X of the Aeneid, Lausus is described as wearing a tunic of this kind when Aeneas kills him; in Book XII, Juno watches the fighting from a cloud of this kind. In the Odyssey, the Phaecian king Alcinous has this kind of palace door. A book usually titled for this adjective is our only source for the Cupid and Psyche myth. The only complete surviving Ancient Roman (*) novel is a work by Apuleius titled for this kind of Ass. An early anthropological Study in Magic and Religion was titled for how Aeneas accessed the Underworld with a "bough" of this kind. Jason and the Argonauts sailed to Colchis to retrieve a fleece of—for 10 points—what precious metal?

Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa

In a 2016 work by this author, Rolando Garro attempts to use tabloid journalism to destroy the lives of others. That novel, Five Corners, is titled for the troubled parts of his home country's capital. In one of his novels, a member of "The Circle" named Boa molests children, chickens, and his own dog Skimpy. In that work, a boy raised by his aunt Adelina and nicknamed "The Slave" is murdered by Jaguar after Porfirio Cava steals a (*) chemistry exam from the Leoncio Prado Military Academy. This author of The Time of the Hero wrote a novel in which Radio Panamericana hires Pedro Camacho to write soap operas. For 10 points, name this Peruvian Nobel Laureate who wrote Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter.

John Brown

In a John Greenleaf Whittier poem, this figure is "led [...] out to die" and stops to kiss a child before the speaker declares "Perish with him the folly that seeks through evil good!" Russell Banks's 1998 novel Cloudsplitter follows the life of this man's son Owen. Henry David Thoreau wrote an essay which he titled "A Plea for [this Captain]," calling this figure highly moral and humane, and an (*) epic poem titled for this figure's "Body" was written by Stephen Vincent Benet. For 10 points, name this radical abolitionist who perpetrated the Pottawatomie Massacre and led a raid on Harper's Ferry.

Arabs

In a Kafka short story, the protagonist is given some rusty scissors to kill these people by a group of jackals. An Investigation into a murderer of these people was written by Kamel Daoud. One of these people pawns two bracelets to buy lottery tickets, despite being "kept" with 1000 francs a month. A protagonist writes a "real stinker" of a letter to one of these people as part of a plan to get her into bed and spit in her face. While on the (*) beach, one of these people holds a knife whose glint causes the protagonist to shoot him with Raymond Sintès's revolver. For 10 points, what kind of person does Meursault kill in Camus's The Stranger?

Hermann Hesse

In a book by this author, a chess player calls schizomania a "separation of the unity of the personality" after the protagonist and Gustav shoot at cars from a tree house. One of this writer's characters learns about the god Abraxas from Demian, and he wrote a book whose protagonist meets the ferryman (*) Vasudeva and experiences the holy word "Om." One of this writer's protagonists is led through a door marked "FOR MADMEN ONLY" by the jazz saxophonist Pablo, who hands him the title mystical treatise. For 10 points, name this German author of the novels Siddhartha and Steppenwolf.

James (Augustine Aloysius) Joyce

In a book by this writer, Mina Purefoy gives birth as the prose style rapidly shifts among different periods of the English language. One of this man's protagonists is lashed by a teacher for breaking his glasses, and that protagonist writes a villanelle for his crush E.C. A novel by this man begins by describing a "moocow" and a (*) "baby tuckoo." This writer created his alter-ego Stephen Dedalus, who appears in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and a stream-of-consciousness laden book by this author that follows Leopold Bloom over a 24-hour period in Dublin. For 10 points, name this Irish author who wrote Ulysses.

Sophocles

In a more obscure play by this author, the title character is furious that Achilles's armor is given to Odysseus, but instead of doing anything about it, that title character, Ajax, kills himself. In another play by this author, (*) Creon is given a warning to bury Polyneices immediately; the entire plotline of that play revolves around the fact that the title character is forbidden to bury him under penalty of death. In a different tragedy, the title character kills his father Laius and marries his mother Jocasta. For 10 points, name this author of Antigone and Oedipus Rex.

Kurt Vonnegut

In a novel by this author, Circe Berman asks Rabo Karabekian to tell her how his parents died, and he forbids her to enter his potato barn. This author's first novel ends with the members of the Ghost Shirt society surrendering to the military in a post-World War III world where (*) automated systems replace manual labor. In another novel by this author, John or Jonah visits the island of San Lorenzo and lusts after Mona, finally performing boko-maru with her. In his most famous work, this author wrote of Tralfamadorians and Billy Pilgrim. For 10 points, name this American author of novels such as Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five.

Nadine Gordimer

In a novel by this author, Conrad allows the title character to stay in his home, where he provides her with psychotherapy. The main character of that work falls in love with Bernard Chabalier after moving to Paris, where she reunites with the black boy "Baasie", who scolds her for not remembering his real name. That work opens with the death of the protagonist's communist father, (*) Lionel. In another novel by this author, the title character drives a bakkie to get supplies for her village, and that work ends with Maureen chasing an unknown helicopter. In that novel, the Smales family is forced to leave their home city due to violence from apartheid, and moves to the village of their servant, the title character. For ten points, name this South African author of Burger's Daughter and July's People.

Ray Bradbury

In a novel by this author, Jim and Will meet Mr. Cooger and Mr. Dark at a mysterious carnival. The protagonist of a novel by this author aids Professor Faber by memorizing a portion of the Book of Ecclesiastes ["Ek-leez-ee-as-teez"]. In a short story by this author, the death of a prehistoric butterfly causes Deutscher to be elected president instead of Keith. This author of "A Sound of(*) Thunder" and Something Wicked This Way Comes wrote about Douglas Spaulding making the title drink with his grandfather in Dandelion Wine. For 10 points, name this author who wrote about the book-burning Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451.

Isabel Allende

In a novel by this author, Riad Halabi's cousin Kamal departs after sleeping with Zulema. Another work by this author who created Rolf Carlé describes Eliza Sommers' journey to California in search of Joaquin Andieta. This author wrote a memoir addressed to a daughter in a coma, (*) Paula, and followed Daughter of Fortune with a book about Aurora. In another work by this author of Portrait in Sepia, Transito Soto helps save Alba, Rosa the Beautiful has green hair, and Clara del Valle moves away from Tres Marías after having her teeth knocked out by Esteban Trueba. For 10 points, identify this Chilean author of The House of the Spirits.

Kate Chopin

In a novel by this author, a love triangle emerges between Fanny, David Hosmer, and the protagonist, and that novel, At Fault, centers on landowner Therese Lafirme. Alcee and Calixta have a love affair while Bibi and Bobinot are away in one of this author's short stories while in another, Armand (*) Aubigny burns all of the title character's possessions after she births a mixed child with him. This author of The Storm and Desiree's Baby is most notable for a novel in which Alcee Arobin and Robert Lebrun develop relationships with the protagonist who, at the end of the novel, commits suicide by walking into the Gulf of Mexico. For ten points name this author who wrote about Edna Pontellier in The Awakening.

Thomas Hardy

In a novel by this author, the wife of a furze-cutter drowns in Shadwater Weir despite a rescue attempt by a man whose skin is stained red from his work as a reddleman. This author of Under the Greenwood Tree depicted a boy who hangs himself because he and his siblings "are too menny;" that boy, Little (*) Father Time, is the adopted son of Sue Bridehead. The title heroine of one of his Wessex novels is executed at Stonehenge after she kills Alec and is rejected by Angel Clare. For 10 points, name this author of Jude the Obscure and Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

Richard Brinsley (Butler) Sheridan

In a play by this author, Don Whiskerandos appears in a play-within-a-play called The Spanish Armada, written by Mr. Puff. In another play by this author, a character constantly uses mild swears like "Odds whips and wheels," while a woman describes a man as "the very pine-apple of politeness." Sir Oliver disguises himself as Mr. Premium in a play by this author that centers around the brothers Charles and Joseph (*) Surface. The word "malapropism" comes from Mrs. Malaprop, a character created by this author in a play that details Jack's relationship with Lydia Languish. For 10 points, name this 18th-century author of The Critic, The School for Scandal, and The Rivals.

Edward Albee

In a play by this author, Grandma is taken by an angel of death after being abandoned in a sandbox. In another play by this author, a character owns two cats and two parrots, and another character later reveals that he tried to kill his landlady's dog with rat poison. That play by this author ends with (*) Jerry killing himself in front of Peter. In an act this author titled "The Exorcism," one of his characters kills his imaginary son with a car accident. In that play by this man, the couple Nick and Honey play games like "Get the Guests" and "Bringing up Baby" with George and Martha. For 10 points, name this author of The Zoo Story and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Victor Marie Hugo

In a play by this author, Ruy Gomez commits suicide after failing an incestuous marriage with Doña Sol and causing his nephew to drink poison. The central female character in one of his novels marries the poet Pierre Gringoire and is saved from the gallows by the Captain of the King's Archers, (*) Phoebus. After his love interest is executed, the protagonist of that work kills his guardian, Claude Frollo. Another character created by this author becomes mayor under the alias Father Madeleine and saves Fauchelevent, after which Javert identifies him to be the bread thief Jean Valjean. For ten points, name this French author of Hernani, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables.

Nikolai Gogol

In a play by this author, a case of mistaken identity causes one person to pretend to be an important government official; he almost sends the mayor to Siberia, but the real title character of a play by this author eventually arrives to set everything straight. In a different work by this author, a baker finds the title body part in a piece of (*) bread; Major Kovalyov wakes up only to find himself missing that same title body part. In another work by this author, Petrovich tells Akaky Bashmachkin that he needs to buy a replacement for the title object. For 10 points, name this author of The Inspector General, The Nose, and The Overcoat.

Sophocles

In a play by this man, Theseus is the sole witness of the death of a king in a grove, refusing to reveal that king's burial location in exchange for the security of Athens. In the sequel to that play, Haemon kills himself after the title character is forbidden from burying her brother Polyneices. A shepherd's (*) revelation in one of this man's plays that the king was exiled at birth by Laius prompts that king to blind himself with Jocasta's breeches. This writer's most famous character unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother after solving the riddle of the Sphinx. For 10 points, name this ancient Greek author whose Theban plays include Antigone and Oedipus Rex.

Henrik (Johan) Ibsen

In a play by this man, the main character tells his mother about a botched reindeer hunt and is later told to "Go Roundabout" by the Boyg. The Daily Telegraph called one of this man's plays "A dirty act done publicly," partly due to its frank depiction of morphine-induced euthanasia in the final scene. That play by this man features a botched love affair between Regina and the syphilis-stricken (*) Oswald Alving. In this man's most famous play, a woman is blackmailed over forging her father's signature by Krogstad, and Helmer tries in vain to stop his wife Nora from leaving him. For 10 points, name this Norwegian author of Peer Gynt, Ghosts, and A Doll House.

France

In a play from this country, a character dies with the words, "the Gods have robbed me of a guiltless life," the nurse Oenone throws herself to the waves, and Hippolyte harbors a love for Aricia. The title character of a play from this country is described as a "poor man" and is seen professing his love for Elmire while Damis (*) hides in a closet. A playwright from this country died while playing the hypochondriac Argan in his play The Imaginary Invalid, and the title "hypocrite" is exposed and arrested by the King at the end of a play from this country. For 10 points, name this origin of Tartuffe and its author, Molière.

French

In a play in this language, one character remarks that "like virtue, crime has its degrees," and famously describes the title character as "daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë." Another play in this language sparked a literary war by violating the three "Classical unities." The title character of a comedy in this language is arrested at the very end by an officer he brought to arrest (*) Cléante's brother-in-law. In that play in this language, Elmire reveals the title pious fraud to her husband Orgon. For 10 points, name this language used to write plays like Racine's Phèdre, Corneille's (" kor-NAY 's") Le Cid ("le seed "), and Molière's Tartuffe.

Aleksandr Pushkin

In a poem by this author, Paresha is the love interest of Evgenni, who eventually becomes a madman after he finds her house burned down. Evgenni later sits on marble lions which overlook the title object of that poem. A different play by this author is the basis of a Mussorgsky opera; that play is (*) Boris Godunov. In this author's most famous novel, Tatyana Larina cannot elope with the title character because she is married; this happens years after that character rejected Tatyana's youthful profession of love. For 10 points, name this author of The Bronze Horseman and Eugene Onegin.

Walt Whitman​

In a preface, this poet claimed that "your very flesh shall be a great poem" if you "love the earth and the sun and the animals." He compared his soul standing "in measureless oceans of space" to a creature that "launch'd forth filament, filament, filament out of itself." This poet mourned "with ever-returning spring" a "great (*) star" that "early drooped." He wrote that "our fearful trip is done" and mourned a man "fallen cold and dead" in a memorial for Abraham Lincoln. For 10 points, name this American poet who collected "A Noiseless Patient Spider," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," and "O Captain! My Captain!" in Leaves of Grass.

W. Somerset Maugham

In a short story by this author, the missionary Davidson kills himself on Pago Pago after realizing that he hasn't reformed the prostitute Sadie Thompson. One of this author's characters moves to Heidelberg in Germany to follow the example of the liberal headmaster Mr. Perkins. This author of "Rain" also wrote an autobiographical novel in which the protagonist is raised by the stingy (*) vicar William, marries Sally Athelny, and has a catastrophic affair with the waitress Mildred Rogers. For 10 points, name this English novelist who wrote about the club-footed man Philip Carey in Of Human Bondage.

Argentina

In a short story from this country, an Irishman explains the story of how he got a crescent-shaped scar, and in another work, two cellmates bond over discussion of film plots. Later in that play, it is found out that Molina is a spy sent to retrieve intelligence on Valentin's organization. Other works from this country that produced The Form of the Sword and (*) Kiss of the Spider Woman include a collection titled for a story about a point in space containing all other points as well as a collection featuring "The Library of Babel" and "The Garden of Forking Paths". For ten points, name this South American country home to Manuel Puig, and the blind author of the collections The Aleph and Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In a story by this author, Ilya's greed for timber results in the death of a character after he tears down the title edifice. Lev Rubin and Gleb Nerzhin are among many occupants of a sharashka who choose to stop working in a work by this author, and Asya advises the (*) amputation of Dyomka's leg to Oleg Kostoglotov in another novel by this author. This author wrote about Tiurin, Tzesar, and Alyosha the Baptist in his most famous work, which describes the daily routine of the main character in a Soviet labor camp. For ten points, name this Russian author of works such as Matryona's House, In the First Circle, Cancer Ward, and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

Kazuo Ishiguro

In a story by this author, a cellist falls in love with his older American tutor, only to find that rather than being a virtuoso, she can't even play the cello. This man wrote a book in which Masuji Ono comes to terms with his role in making propaganda for Imperial Japan, and he wrote both the collection Nocturnes and the book (*) An Artist of the Floating World. This author wrote a novel in which the narrator takes his employer's car on a "motoring trip" to see Mrs. Benn, and one in which Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth are revealed as clones created for organ donation. For 10 points, name this British author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go.

Guy de Maupassant

In a story by this author, a character is accused of stealing a wallet, and later dies repeating that he only took the title object; that story is "The Piece of String". Another work by this man describes how a character shares the contents of a picnic basket with other passengers before their carriage is detained, and how that character is forced to sleep with a (*) Prussian officer. In another story by this author, a character is informed that an object she had lost ten years earlier was a fake by Madame Forestier, and wasn't worth more than 500 francs. For ten points, name this author of "Ball of Fat" who described Madame Loisel's loss of the title piece of jewelry in "The Necklace."

J.D. Salinger

In a story by this author, a man characterizes God as "the Fat Lady" during a phone call from Buddy's old room. That character and his sister both appeared on a radio show called "It's a Wise Child," as did a man who sits next to Sharon Lipschutz, provoking Sybil's jealousy. Another character created by this author resents Stradlater's date with (*) Jane and watches his sister ride a carousel. That former fencing team manager recalls a poem-covered baseball glove that belonged to his deceased brother, Allie, and he accuses the world of "phoniness" after leaving Pencey Prep. For 10 points, identify this author of the Glass family stories and The Catcher in the Rye.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

In a story by this author, a sickly character allows the woman he loves and rescued to marry Walcott. In another novel by this author, a monk is thrown off of Traitor's Leap by the title character who is said to resemble the Faun of Praxiteles. This author of (*) Fanshawe and The Marble Faun also wrote a story in which Reverend Hooper refuses to remove the title garment. Arthur Dimmesdale and Pearl appear in a work written by, for 10 points, what American author of "The Minister's Black Veil" and The Scarlet Letter?

John Griffith "Jack" London

In a story by this author, a starving man is abandoned by his partner Bill before discovering the Bedford whaling ship. This author of "Love of Life" imagined the use of germ warfare against China in "The Unparalleled Invasion," and one of his characters ignores the advice of "the old man of Sulphur Creek" and is eventually abandoned by (*) his dog. A man freezes to death after failing to do the title task in this author's story "To Build a Fire." In one of his novels, Judge Miller's pet is stolen before eventually joining a pack of wolves; that pet is the dog Buck. For 10 points, name this author of several nature stories and novels, like The Call of the Wild.

James

In a story by this author, two boys meet a creepy man who says that they should be whipped for lying about sweethearts. One of his characters hears "The Lass of Aughrim," at the Misses Morkans' dance. The narrator of a short story by this author fails to get a gift for Mangan's sister at an oriental bazaar. Another of his characters learns about Gretta's love for Michael (*) Furey. One of this author's characters calls himself "baby tuckoo" and sees a "moocow" on the road. This author followed Stephen Dedalus' alienation from the Catholic Church and wrote about Gabriel Conroy in "The Dead." For 10 points, name this Irish author of Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Ovid

In a story from a larger work by this man, an old couple tires themselves out while chasing a goose to serve to their guests for dinner. This author wrote a collection of poems in which several paired letters are sent between lovers such as Penelope and Odysseus and Briseis and Achilles. He claimed that "As Chiron was to Achilles, so I am to Cupid" in another group of works that is primarily about (*) relationship skills and etiquette. Along with Heroides and Ars Amatoria, this man included the story of Baucis and Philemon in a narrative poem in fifteen books that chronicles the history of man, from creation to the murder of Julius Caesar, and relates its stories to the theme of transformation. For ten points, name this Roman poet, the author of Metamorphoses.

The Decameron

In a story from this work, a woman's lover hides in a barrel that's then sold by the woman's husband for five ducats, and in another story, Monna unknowingly eats the falcon she was sent to retrieve for her sick son. The Jew Melchizedek responds with a parable to a question by Saladin in a story from this work, and (*) Dioneo tells many of the wittiest stories from it. The "Tale of the Three Rings" and that of Patient Griselda are included in this collection. In the frame narrative, this group of one hundred stories is told by ten people seeking shelter from the Black Death. For 10 points, name this collection of stories written by Giovanni Boccaccio.

roses

In a story titled for one of these objects, the title character is made tax-exempt by Colonel Sartoris, and her house is sprinkled with lime to hide a rotting-corpse smell. One of these objects titles a major source for the ideals of Courtly Love, which was written by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun. One of these objects titles a Faulkner story about the (*) necrophiliac woman Emily Grierson. This object arbitrarily titles a novel in which the pages of Aristotle's lost treatise on comedy are poisoned by Jorge of Burgos. Some monastery murders are investigated by William of Baskerville in an Umberto Eco novel titled The Name of—for 10 points—what flower?

Edward Morgan Forster

In a work by this author, a character accidentally kills the baby she had kidnapped when a carriage turns over. That work includes a scene in which Gino attacks Philip because Philip had come to Italy with Harriet. This author of Where Angels Fear to Tread also wrote a work which sees an engagement with Cecil Vyse broken off so George Emerson can marry Lucy Honeychurch. In another of his novels set in (*) Chandrapore, Ronny Heaslop decides not to marry Adela Quested, who accuses another character of assaulting her in the Marabar caves. For ten points, name this author of A Room with a View, who described the trial of Dr. Aziz in A Passage to India.

ghosts

In a work named for this type of figure, the Old Man says, "In silence, you cannot hide anything." That Old Man befriends Mr. Arkenholz and is named Jacob Hummel. In another work named for these figures, Regina Engstrand is Oswald's half-sister and Helene Alving builds an orphanage. One of these figures sits in a chair at a dinner party, causing the protagonist to command, (*) "Quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee!" Marley is one of these figures, and examples of them show a man scenes of Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim on Christmas. Including one which was once Banquo and ones which appear to Scrooge, for 10 points, name these supernatural beings thought to represent the dead.

John (Hoyer) Updike

In addition to writing about George Caldwell in The Centaur, this author created a Jewish alter ego named Henry Bech. This author who set many works in Pennsylvania wrote a book in which Daryl Van Horne creates problems for a Rhode Island coven. In another work by him, "Queenie" and her friends come wearing only swimsuits to the title (*) "A&P." In addition to The Witches of Eastwick, this author wrote about a man who sells MagiPeels and whose wife Janice accidentally drowns his daughter, Rebecca June, in a bathtub. That man loves to reminisce about being a high school basketball star and is named Harry Angstrom. For 10 points, identify this author of the Rabbit series.

A Doll's House

In an alternate ending to this play, a character is led to her children, after which she collapses, and the curtain falls down. In this play's first scene, a character is called "Miss Sweet Tooth" by her husband for eating forbidden sweets. In this play, a tarantella-dancing character shocks (*) Kristine Linde because she knows of Dr. Rank's inherited syphilis. Throughout this play, the protagonist is blackmailed by Krogstad for having once committed a forgery. For 10 points, name this Henrik Ibsen play in which Nora Helmer leaves her husband, Torvald.

Japan (or Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku)

In an early work from this country's literature, the author lists houses and men's eyes among "Things That Should Be Large," then discusses lists like "Things That Give an Unclean Feeling" while also describing court life. The epithet "shining" is applied to the philandering protagonist of a book from this country that is also the origin of (*) The Pillow Book. The title nobleman of one book from this country dies in a blank chapter titled "Vanished Into the Clouds"; that book was potentially the first modern novel and was written by Lady Murasaki. For 10 points, The Tale of Genji is a book from the Heian period of what Asian country?

The Brothers Karamazov

In its chapter "The Injured Foot," the name of this novel's setting is revealed to be "Skotoᐧprigoᐧnyevsk." A woman in this novel tells a story about a guardian angel trying to pull a sinner out of a lake using an onion. Characters in this novel dream about the steppes and the Devil before a lengthy trial near its end. In this novel, many peasants are shocked when a local monastery elder's (*) body begins to rot and stink after his death. One title character of kisses another on the lips in imitation of Christ after the end of this novel's chapter "The Grand Inquisitor." Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha, are the title siblings of—for 10 points—what novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky?

Midnight's Children

In one chapter of this work titled "Alpha and Omega", the gym teacher Mr. Zagallo rips out the protagonist's hair and cats overrun the Methwold Estate after a water supply is destroyed. After the central character of this novel injures his finger, (*) Amina and Ahmed discover their child was switched at birth by the nurse Mary. This novel's titular characters possess telepathic powers because they were born during the hour of India's independence and include Shiva and Parvati the Witch. For 10 points, name this novel about Saleem Sinai by Salman Rushdie.

William Faulkner

In one n ovel by this author, two characters get into a duel against two carpetbaggers on Election Day. One of those characters, Drusilla, disappears towards the end of the novel she appears in, but not before giving another character two pistols to defend the family honor against Ben Redmond. That novel is the prequel to another work by this author, in which (*) Bayard becomes a reckless driver and marries Narcissa Benbow. In another work, this autho r of The Unv anquished and Sartoris also wrote about the thirty-year fall of the Compson family. For 10 points, name this author of The Sound and the Fury.

Willa Cather

In one novel by this author, the abused wife Magdalena saves the protagonist from her husband Buck Scales. Another work by this author chronicles the journey of Thea Kronborg as she becomes an opera singer. A third novel by this author focuses on a family of Swedish-American (*) immigrants in the town of Hanover. This author's novel, The Song of the Lark is part of her "Prairie Trilogy." This author also wrote a novel in which the title Bohemian women eventually marries Anton Cuzak after moving back to Nebraska, and is friends with Jim Burden. For 10 points, name this author of O Pioneers! and My Ántonia.

James Joyce

In one novel by this author, the governess Dante will not allow the protagonist to marry Eileen Vance, due to her Protestantism. In another novel by this author, a character describes her love affair with Hugh Boylan in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy ending "yes I said yes I will Yes." In that novel by this author, Leopold(*) Bloom meets Stephen Daedalus while wandering Dublin on June 16th, 1904. For 10 points, name this Irish author of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses.

Naguib Mahfouz

In one novel by this author, the heroes each battle against a different futuwwa who controls their alley. One character, Arafa, accidentally leads to the death of an old man by trying to find out his secrets. In another novel by this author, Nur and Tarzan help Said overcome the betrayal of his wife. Those two novels are The (*) Children of Gebelawi and The Thief and the Dogs. This author's most famous works are about a family with an activist son named Fahmy and a philanderer son named Yasin, the al-Jawad family. For ten points, name this Egyptian author of Palace Walk, which appears in his Cairo Trilogy.

Toni Morrison

In one novel by this author, the title character returns to her town "accompanied by a plague of robins" after being gone for ten years, and later has a relationship with Ajax. In that novel by this author, the one-legged mother Eva lights her son on fire. Another novel by this woman has its titles derived from a (*) "Dick and Jane" story. In that novel by her, marigold seeds fail to bloom, mirroring the premature death of Pecola's baby. In addition to Sula, she also wrote about Sethe and Denver living at 124 Bluestone Road, which is haunted by the title character's ghost. For 10 points, name this author of The Bluest Eye and Beloved.

Mario Vargas Llosa

In one novel by this author, the title location is burned down after Anselmo abducts Antonia as his wife, who dies in childbirth. Another novel by this author of The Green House opens with a meeting at a dog pound, before Zavala and the chauffeur Ambrosio go to the title bar. Jaguar leads a gang called (*) "The Circle" in another novel by this author set at Leoncio Prado Military Academy. This author of Conversation in the Cathedral wrote a novel in which Pedro Camacho writes soap operas for Radio Pan Americana. For 10 points, name this Peruvian author of The Time of the Hero and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter.

Mississippi

In one novel set in this state, Judge McKelva is taken here to be buried by his daughter Laura. In addition to being the setting for The Optimist's Daughter and the home of Eudora Welty, Thomas Sutpen travels to this state to become a family patriarch and earn wealth. Two more novels set in this state focus on the lives of (*) Joe Christmas and the Compson family, respectively. Both Light in August and The Sound and the Fury take place in this state, the birthplace of William Faulkner. For 10 points, name this state, whose namesake river is the setting for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Czech language

In one novel written in this language, a colonel on a walk recognizes a dog that was previously stolen from him. In a play written in this language, Helena Glory marries Domin and burns the formula created by Rossum. That play, R.U.R., saw the first recorded instance of the word (*) "robot." In another work written in this language, Sabina learns that Tereza and Tomas died in a car crash; that book is The Unbearable Lightness of Being. For 10 points, name this language used by Jaroslav Hasek, Karel Capek, and Milan Kundera, who wrote about the Prague Spring.

Natty Bumppo

In one novel, this character helps Captain Duncan Middleton rescue his wife Inez. This character uses chess pieces as ransom for the illegitimate daughters of Thomas Hutter. In another novel he appears in, Alice and Cora, the Munro daughters, are kidnapped on the way to Fort William Henry, and later rescued by this character with the help of(*) Uncas. This character and Chingachgook attempt to ease tensions between Hurons and Mohicans. For 10 points, name this hero of The Leatherstocking Tales, created by James Fenimore Cooper.

Pablo Neruda

In one of his best-known works, this poet repeated the line "it is the hour of departure" and remarked "The memory of you emerges from the night around me." In another poem, this man wrote "she loved me, (*) sometimes I loved her too." He concludes by saying "my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her," wrapping up his famous opening: "tonight I can write the saddest lines." For 10 points, name Chilean poet who wrote Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.

odes

In one of these poems, the title object builds a little cupola after getting "dressed like a warrior," but Maria sticks it in her basket, submerges it in a pot, and "undresses" it scale by scale. Another of these poems declares that "beauty is twice beautiful, and goodness twice good, when it concerns" the title objects, which make "two wool fish" of his feet. Poems of this kind about an artichoke, socks, and other (*) "Elemental" things were written by Pablo Neruda. The speaker of a poem of this kind has "been half in love with easeful Death," declares "Thou wast not born for death!" and wonders "Do I wake or do I sleep?" For 10 points, Keats wrote what kind of poem "to a Nightingale?"

(Jorge) Mario (Pedro) Vargas Llosa (prompt on partial answer)

In one of this author's novels the Donald Duck comic-reading policeman Jaime Concha apparently dies in a fire before later drowning in a shipwreck as well. Urania Cabral's life is juxtaposed with events on the day of Rafael Trujillo's assassination in his (*) The Feast of the Goat, and a group attempts to steal a chemistry exam at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy in this man's first novel. The most famous novel by this author centers on an affair between Mario and the first title character, and includes several of Pedro Camacho's radio serials. For 10 points, name this Peruvian author of The Time of the Hero and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter.

Joseph Rudyard Kipling

In one of this author's novels, Hurree Chunder Mookherjee is the superior of the title character. In one of this author's poems, this author eloquently describes the title Indian man variously as a "limpin lump o' brick dust", "Lazarushian-leather", and "a better man than I"; that poem is (*) "Gunga Din". This author's most famous collection includes short stories like "Kaa's Hunting",and "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", and features tiger Shere Khan, who hunts the main character. For 10 points, name this author, who wrote the novel Kim and who wrote about the adventures of Mowgli in The Jungle Book.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

In one of this author's novels, Patient 23 visits a world of water demons who wear saucers on their head. This student of Natsume Soseki wrote a story in which Zenchi Naigu's disciple stomps on him to shrink a certain appendage. In another of his stories, a thief takes the robes of an old woman who steals (*) corpse hair near the title gate. In another story, the sinner Kandata fails to climb out of hell by climbing on a spider's thread. This author of Kappa wrote about seven different accounts of a samurai's death in a bamboo thicket. For 10 points, name this "Father of the Japanese short story" who wrote "The Nose", "Rashomon," and "In a Grove."

Yukio Mishima

In one of this author's novels, an old man decides to adopt the orphan boy Toru after seeing moles through his undershirt, and that man reappears in a novel in which he reunites with Kiyoaki Matsugae. This author, who created Shigekuni Honda, included a character who uses his clubfeet to attract women, (*) Kashiwagi, a student at Otani University, in another work. In that novel by this author of The Decay of an Angel and Spring Snow, Mizoguchi remembers "When you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha" before he burns down the title structure. For ten points, name this man who committed seppuku on live television, the author of the Sea of Fertility tetralogy and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion.

Oscar Wilde

In one of this author's plays, Dumby asserts that "getting what one wants" is the worse of two tragedies and Cecil Graham asks "What is a cynic?" In that play by this author, the protagonist nearly elopes with Lord Darlington, leading (*) her mother Mrs Erlynne to falsely claim to have left the title item. One of this author's plays describes an imaginary cousin named "Bunbury," as well as a character discovered as a baby in a handbag at Victoria Station. In that play by this author, Jack and Algernon both pretend to have the title name. For 10 points, name this playwright of Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest.

George Bernard Shaw

In one of this author's plays, a character declares, "you will only be everybody's servant instead of somebody's servant" to Nicola, who dreams of opening a shop in Sofia. In that play by this author, Raina elopes with her "Chocolate Cream Soldier," Captain Bluntschli. In his most famous play, Clara declares, "I find the new small (*)​ talk delightful and quite innocent," and another character attempts to call a cab near Covent Garden. That play is about the attempts of phonetics professor Henry Higgins to change the cockney accent of Eliza Doolittle. For 10 points, name this British author of Arms and the Man and Pygmalion.

Henrik Ibsen

In one of this author's plays, a character who didn't fix a chimney is tortured by "helpers and servants" and closes his doors to "younger people." A 2017 Broadway play by Lucas Hnath was a sequel to one of this man's plays whose protagonist has the first "serious conversation" in eight years. One of this writer's characters dances the tarantella to prevent her husband from finding a letter from (*) Krogstad. This man wrote the play The Master Builder, and Dr. Rank declares his love for one of his characters who chooses to leave her husband Torvald. For 10 points, name this Norwegian playwright who created Nora Helmer in A Doll's House.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

In one of this author's stories, Doctor Cacophodel is one of eight adventurers in search of "The Great Carbuncle." In another of his works, Beatrice's garden work has made her poisonous. In addition to "Rappaccini's Daughter," this man wrote a novel in which land stolen from Matthew Maule is home to a house occupied by the (*) Pyncheon family. In perhaps the most famous work by this man, characters watch a meteor shower from atop a scaffold after Roger Chillingworth leaves his wife because she has committed adultery with Arthur Dimmesdale. For 10 points, name this author who wrote about Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter.

Jerome David Salinger

In one of this author's stories, a character feels "ecstatically...sleepy" after receiving a wristwatch. Sergeant X meets the young girl Esmé before being sent off to Germany in one of his stories, and one of his characters kiss a girl's wet foot after describing animals that eat up to 78 of a certain (*) fruit in a story included in the collection Nine Stories. Seymour Glass abruptly shoots himself in this writer's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," and in his most famous book, the protagonist leaves Pencey Prep and visits a merry-go-round with his sister Phoebe. For 10 points, name this writer who created Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye.

Franz Kafka

In one of this author's stories, the main character has difficulty drinking a bottle of Schnapps and describes his former life as an ape. This author wrote about a man who is replaced by a panther after starving to death in a cage in "A Hunger Artist." In a novella by this author, the protagonist hears his sister play the violin, and has an(*) apple thrown at his back by his father, after awakening to find himself transformed into a giant bug. For 10 points, name this author, who wrote about Gregor Samsa in The Metamorphosis.

Alan Paton

In one of this man's works, a former soccer star is driven to Australia after running for public office on a platform of equality. In another work, the disfigured narrator Sophie details how her nephew deceives his wife and sleeps with Stephanie; that nephew, a secretive police lieutenant, is then punished for breaking the Immorality Act. In addition to writing about Pieter Van Vlaanderen in Too (*) Late the Phalarope, he set one work in Ndotsheni which describes the trial of Johannes Pafuri and two accomplices; in that novel, Mr. Carmichael agrees to defend the Reverend's son Absalom Kumalo. For 10 points, name this South African author of Cry, the Beloved Country.

August Strindberg

In one play by this author, a character goes to see the opera "The Valkyrie" in order to meet a love interest known as "The Girl." After a plan to open a hotel on Lake Como is discovered in another of his plays, a pet bird is decapitated on a chopping block. This playwright wrote about the journalist Arvid Falk in his only novel, The (*) Red Room. The Student is able to talk to the ghost of a milkmaid at the beginning of one play by him, while at the end of another, Jean gives the title character a razor blade. For 10 points, name this Swedish playwright of The Ghost Sonata and Miss Julie.

Tennessee Williams

In one play by this author, a character uses swimming from Puerto Barrio Mexico to China as a euphemism for suicide and is fought over by Hannah and hotel owner Maxine Faulk. In that play, defrocked priest Reverend Shannon releases the title creature. In another play by this author of Night of the(*) Iguana, a character claims she has "always depended on the kindness of strangers." Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski are creations of, for 10 points, what author of A Streetcar Named Desire?

Lorraine Hansberry

In one play by this author, a writer from New York is coerced into supporting Wally O'Hara's political candidacy. In another play by this author of The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, Willy Harris steals money that was going to be invested in a liquor store. In that play by this author, Joseph(*) Asagai wins the hand of Beneatha over George Murchison, and the Younger family moves to an all-white neighborhood. For 10 points, name this author of A Raisin in the Sun.

Wole Soyinka

In one play by this author, the arrival of a photographer is shown through the "Dance of the Lost Traveller." Eman is exiled from his village as part of the egungun tradition in this author's play The Strong Breed. In another play, the title character tells a story about the (*) "Not-I" bird to the Praise Singer. In addition to writing about Simon Pilkings trying to prevent Elesin from sacrificing himself, this author also wrote a play in which Sidi marries Chief Baroka instead of the teacher, Lakunle. For 10 points, name this Nigerian playwright of Death and the King's Horseman and The Lion and the Jewel.

Oscar Wilde

In one play by this man, Lord Augustus becomes enamored with the mysterious mother of the title character, who runs away to Lord Darlington's house after suspecting that her husband is having an affair with Mrs. Erlynne. In another of this author's plays, two bunburying characters charm (*) Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew by pretending to have the title name. This author of "Lady Windermere's Fan" wrote a book in which Basil Hallward paints a picture that ages in place of its subject. For 10 points, name this author of The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Grey.

Wole Soyinka

In one play by this man, a photographer uses his "one eyed box" to take pictures of one character after his motorcycle breaks down. In that play by this author, Laᐧkunᐧle refuses to pay a bride price, resulting in Sidi's marriage to the village chief,(*) Baroka. In another play by this man, British officer Simon Pilkings prevents Elesin from committing ritual suicide, causing Olunde to take his place. For 10 points, name this Nigerian playwright of Death and the King's Horseman and The Lion and the Jewel.

(Harold) Athol (Lannigan) Fugard

In one play by this writer, John and Winston share a prison cell, reminisce about times spent on the beach after being beaten, and perform a two-person version of Antigone. This author of The Island wrote a play in which a girl who's a pen-pal writes saying she's coming to visit, causing tensions between two brothers who have differing (*) skin-tones. This man wrote the play Blood Knot, and his most famous play contains scenes concerning ballroom dancing and kite flying and centers on the relationship between Hally and his servants Sam and Willy. For 10 points, name this South African playwright who wrote Master Harold...and the Boys.

Karel Čapek

In one play by this writer, the Marshal's decision to kill Dr. Galen leads the entirety of Europe into being subsumed by a form of leprosy. This author of The White Disease wrote a novel in which a sea captain's discovery of some beings exploited for pearl farming near the island of Sumatra leads to the title (*) War with the Newts. This author wrote a play in which Helena learns Sulla is not human and a revolt by the title beings brings an end to humanity, and that play coined a common term for a humanlike machine. For 10 points, name this Czech author who wrote the play R.U.R., or Rossum's Universal Robots.

(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling

In one poem by this author, the narrator expresses his desire to be shipped "somewheres east of Suez, where there aren't No Ten Commandments". That poem was inspired by a beautiful woman the author met in the title city. An Irish soldier who spies for the British is depicted in one of this author's works that popularized the term (*) "The Great Game". A poem by this author tells the reader to "send forth the best ye breed". In his most famous work, a boy raised by wolves confronts the tiger Shere Khan. For 10 points, name this author of "Mandalay", "The White Man's Burden", and The Jungle Book.

Allen Ginsberg

In one poem by this author, the speaker asks the addressee, "how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?" before declaring "Sacco & Vanzetti must not die" and "I am the Scottsboro boys." A poem by this author asks, "How many flies buzzed round you innocent of your grime?" and repeats the word "locomotive" eleven times. This poet of (*) "Sunflower Sutra," "America," and "Kaddish" wrote a poem that's dedicated to his contemporary Carl Solomon and begins "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked." For 10 points, name this Beat poet who wrote "Howl."

Langston Hughes

In one poem by this author, the speaker shouts "Police! Police! Come and get this man!" In another poem by this author of "Ballad of the Landlord", the speaker wants "Bessie, bop or Bach" records, and describes his instructor telling him to "Go home and write a page tonight." This poet described a man "droning a drowsy(*) syncopated tune" and another poem repeats that "my soul has grown deep" like the title water feature. For 10 points, name this Harlem Renaissance poet of "Theme for English B", "The Weary Blues," and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet

In one poem by this writer, Oswald Wycliffe holds the title Lord Rokeby prisoner. In one of his novels, Julia is involved with Vanbeest Brown, and Ellangowan is inherited by Harry Bertram. In another novel by this author, Desdichado competes in a tournament attended by Athelstane and (*) Locksley. This author's Guy Mannering, The Bride of Lammermoor, and Rob Roy are included in his Waverley Novels. Another work by this writer features Cedric of Rotherwood, who is the protector of Lady Rowena, a woman who eventually marries the title knight. For 10 points, name this Scottish historical fiction author behind Ivanhoe.

Sonnets from the Portuguese

In one poem in this collection, the speaker asks to be reminded of "those who are now examinate" and then to "gather the north flowers to complete the south." The first of these poems remembers how a (*) Greek poet "had sung / Of the sweet years," and they were disguised as translations of Bosnian poetry. The speaker of one poem in this collection asserts she will do an action "to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach," while in another poem she asks the addressee to "call me by my pet-name!" For 10 points, name this collection of poems that includes "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways," by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In one poem, this author described "A light in sound, a sound-like power in light." That poem asked to "Tell us of silence" and was addressed to "My pensive Sara!" Another poem by this author describes "four times fifty living men" who "dropped down one by one" after a (*) dice game between Death and Life-in-Death. In that poem by this author of the "Eolian Harp", the title man shoots an albatross before seeing "water, water, every where." For 10 points, name this author who described the "stately pleasure-dome" of Xanadu in "Kubla Khan" and wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

July's People

In one scene in this novel, the title character kills a chicken, but his wife scolds him when she finds eggs inside of it. A character in this novel is shocked when she sees a picture of herself and her friend Lydia in a Life coffee-table book. The title character is accused by that woman of stealing a (*) gun and a "bakkie," and at the end of this novel that character runs away from her family to an approaching helicopter. In this novel, the Smales family is forced to flee Johannesburg during a civil war to overturn apartheid. For 10 points, name this novel by South African author Nadine Gordimer.

the Odyssey

In one scene in this work, a beggar challenges the protagonist to a boxing match, but the protagonist wipes the floor with him. The protagonist of this work begins crying after listening to a blind singer tell his tale, which prompts the protagonist to relate stories about eating the cattle of the sun and meeting the king of the (*) winds. In one episode, the protagonist clings to the bellies of sheep and pretends his name is "Nobody" to escape the cyclops Polyphemos. The title character of this work takes a decade to return to his wife Penelope and his home Ithaca. For 10 points, name this epic poem by Homer.

The Rape of the Lock

In one section of this work, a special note is made to the protection of a petticoat meant to guard the protagonist. A court battle in this work sees Chloe kill Sir Plume with a frown and revive him with a smile. The title object is transformed into a constellation at the end of this poem, and in the third (*) Canto, a Baron successfully completes the titular action during a game of ombre, after Clarissa hands him a pair of scissors. Several sylphs, such as Ariel, are unable to protect Belinda from losing a piece of hair in, for 10 points, what mock epic poem by Alexander Pope.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

In one section of this work, the speaker mentions "that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, / Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die." The first section of this work states "Wake! For the Sun, who scattered into flight." A dialogue between two "loquacious vessels" of clay which debate (*) "who is the potter and who is the pot" is also found in this work. A notable stanza in this work states "The Moving Finger writes, and, having writ, Moves on." For ten points, name these quatrains, most famously translated by Edward Fitzgerald, that describe "A jug of wine, a loaf of bread - and thou," and were written by Omar Khayyam.

Octavio Paz Lozano

In one speech, this author lamented, "We pursue modernity in her incessant metamorphoses." In addition to "In Search of the Present," this man wrote a book which takes place in Galta and was inspired by Hanuman. This author used Heraclitus' metaphor about two instruments to title his essay on the theory of poetry, "The (*) Bow and the Lyre." "The Conquest and Colonialism" and "The Day of the Dead" appear in one collection by him, and one of his poems opens, "willow of crystal, a poplar of water," has 584 lines, and is based on the Aztec calendar. For 10 points, name this Mexican Nobel Laureate whose works include The Labyrinth of Solitude and "Sunstone."

Li Bai (or Li Po or Li Bo)

In one story about this writer, he meets an old woman trying to grind a large iron rod into a needle. The speaker meditates that "Life in the world is but a big dream" at the beginning of one of his poems, while in another the speaker (*) "dips [his] head" and thinks of his hometown. This man wrote "Waking from Drunkenness on a Spring Day" and "Quiet Night Thoughts," and his "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter" was translated by Ezra Pound. This poet apocryphally drowned after trying to reach the moon's reflection in the water, and he wrote the poem "Drinking Alone by Moonlight." For 10 points, name this Tang Dynasty Chinese poet.

Jorge (Francisco Isidoro) Luis Borges (Acevedo)

In one story by this author, the message "The first letter of the name has been uttered" helps solve three murders at points of an equilateral triangle, but Scharlach still kills the detective Lönnrot. This author who described his discovery of the world Tlön in one story also wrote "Death and the Compass." In another story by this author, Richard Madden pursues the spy (*) Yu Tsun, while another describes a point which contains all other points. Yet another short story by this writer describes an infinite expanse of hexagonal rooms. Those stories by this author are "The Aleph" and "The Library of Babel." For 10 points, name this Argentine short story author who wrote The Garden of Forking Paths.

Isaac Asimov

In one story by this man, Gloria is nearly killed in a factory before being rescued by the title "Robbie". Speedy repeatedly runs around a selenium pool for no apparent reason in one story by this man that appears in a collection narrated by Dr. Susan Calvin, and Hari Seldon invents the science of psychohistory in this man's (*) Foundation trilogy. One book by this man includes requirements for certain things "to protect its own existence" and "not to injure a human being." For 10 points, name this science-fiction author who put forth the Three Laws of Robotics in his short-story collection I, Robot.

Flannery (Mary) O'Connor

In one story by this writer, Powell Boyd and other teenagers set fire to the woods around Mrs. Cope's house despite her feeding them; that story by this author is "A Circle in the Fire." This author created the fraudulent Bible salesman Manley Pointer, who steals Joy's (*) prosthetic leg in the story "Good Country People." In a story by this author, the cat Patty Sing causes Bailey's family to get in an accident during a road trip to Florida, ultimately leading to the Misfit shooting the Grandmother in the heart. For 10 points, name this Southern Gothic writer, the author of "A Good Man is Hard to Find."

One Thousand and One Nights (or The Arabian Nights' Entertainment; or One Thousand and One Arabian Nights; or Alf layla wa-layla)

In one story in this collection, two men each claim responsibility for murdering a woman found in a chest, after which the protagonist discovers Rayhan stole one of the title fruit. This collection includes "The Three Apples" and a story in which a tailor stitches the dead Cassim's body at the command of the (*) slave-girl Morgiana. This collection was translated by Richard Burton, and in its frame story Dunyazad helps the narrator forestall king Shahryar. The stories in this collection end on a cliffhanger at the end of each night. For 10 points, name this collection of stories told by Scheherazade featuring characters like Sinbad and Ali Baba.

Arthur Miller

In one tragedy by this playwright set near the Brooklyn Bridge, Eddie has an improper affection for his niece Catherine; that tragedy dramatizes mob control and is titled A View from the Bridge. In another work by this playwright, Reverend John (*) Hale is brought in to investigate suspicious events; that work satirized McCarthyism with an allegory to the Salem Witch Trials. In another work by this playwright, one story arc features football player Biff. That story chronicles the adventures of Willy Loman. For 10 points, name this American playwright of The Crucible and Death of a Salesman.

Hans Christian Andersen

In one work by this author, Karen attends a party instead of staying beside her sick foster mother; as a punishment, Karen's amputated feet continually dance in demonic red shoes. This author transmuted his love for Jenny Lind into a story about a nightingale, and he created a character who meets the robber girl as she travels through Lapland to extract a mirror fragment from Kai's heart. That character, Gerda, uses the Lord's Prayer to fend off the (*) Snow Queen. In another story by this author, a girl who feels like she is walking on knives will turn into sea foam unless she marries a human prince. For 10 points, identify this Danish author of fairytales like "The Little Mermaid."

Leo Tolstoy

In one work by this author, Masha marries Sergey Mikhaylych before their marriage suffers because of her love of society; that work is titled Family Happiness. In the beginning of another of this man's works, a woman debates with an old man about marriage, and then calls him a Domostroi after he leaves the train. In that work, (*) Pozdnyshev kills his wife after catching her with the violinist, Troukhatchevsky. This author of The Kreutzer Sonata wrote a novella about a magistrate who dies of a wound he receives while hanging curtains, The Death of Ivan Ilyich. For 10 points, name this author of War and Peace.

Thomas Hardy

In one work by this author, Michael Henchard and his antithesis, Donald Farfrae, successively hold the title position. In a different work by this author, Gabriel Oak falls in love with Bathsheba Everdene; that novel's title comes from a line in Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, in which Gray describes the titular group's (*) "ignoble strife". In another work by this author, the title character murders her lover Alec; she is therefore not "A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented", not even if this author says so. For 10 points, name this author of Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Tess of the D'Urbervilles.

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh

In one work by this author, Paul Pennyfeather is expelled from Oxford when he runs across campus without pants on. Another work by this author is based on this author's experience with the Daily Mail and features protagonist William Boot. In another work by this author, Tony Last is held captive and forced to read the complete collection of novels by Charles Dickens in perpetuity. In a more famous work by this author, (*) Charles Ryder has an affair with Julia, who is the sister of Sebastian Flyte. For 10 points, name this author of Decline and Fall, Scoop, A Handful of Dust, and Brideshead Revisited.

Stendhal

In one work by this author, a character with a diamond studded coat fights alongside Marshal Ney before being shot in the leg and leaving for seminary school in Naples. Under the guidance of Prince Korasoff, a social-climber created by this man wins the affection of an aristocratic woman who, despite carrying his child, marries a rich heir to a duchy. One of this author's characters (*) shoots a praying woman at mass in Verrieres, and Mathilde de la Mole repeatedly kisses the severed head of that man, Julien Sorel. Fabrice del Dongo appears in a work by, for 10 points, what author of The Charterhouse of Parma and The Red and the Black?

Herman Hesse

In one work by this author, one character becomes an abbot while the other becomes a free-wandering artist; those two characters are Narcissus and Goldmund respectively. In a different work by this author, protagonist Harry Haller receives an advertisement entitled "Treatise on the (*) Steppenwolf". In another work by this author, the citizens of Castalia practically all play the rather difficult-to-understand Glass Bead Game. Another novel by this author features a man who lived during of the time of the Buddha and had the same first name as him, but who sought enlightenment through his own individual experience, rejecting Buddhist philosophy. For 10 point s, name this author of Siddhartha.

Charles Dickens

In one work by this author, one character suckers another character's grandfather into gambling away the little money he had. That character, Daniel Quilp, repossesses the title establishment. In another work by this author, one character takes the place of his doppelganger on the guillotine; that work begins with the line "It was the (*) best of times; it was the worst of times". In a different work by this author, Marley's Ghost warns that the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future will visit Ebenezer Scrooge. For 10 p oints, name this autho r of The Old Curiosity Shop, A Tale of Two Cities and A Christmas Carol.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In one work by this author, the equation "AB plus CD yields AD plus BC" is used to explain what happens when Ottilie and the Captain stay with Eduard and Charlotte. One of his works opens with the line, "Who rides, so late, through night and wind?" In addition to Elective Affinities and The (*) Erlking, this author described a man who travels with actors before committing himself to the Tower Society, Wilhelm Meister. One work by this man caused a series of copycat suicides because its protagonist shot himself due to unrequited love for the wife of Albert, Lotte. For 10 points, name this member of the Sturm und Drang movement, the German author of Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther.

Jorge

In one work by this author, the narrator claims that "fourteen" means "infinite;" later in that story, Theseus says, "Would you believe it Ariadne? The Minotaur scarcely defended itself." Another of this author's characters refuses to show compassion to poet David Jerusalem at Tarnowitz. Besides writing "Deutsches Requiem," this author penned a story in which Stephen (*) Albert notes that another character may come as a friend or as an enemy before he is shot to reveal the location of an artillery park. His killer is the descendant of Tsui Pen, a Chinese magistrate who combined a novel and a labyrinth. For 10 points, identify this Argentine author of "The Garden of Forking Paths."

Thomas Hardy

In one work by this author, the protagonist gets drunk and sells his wife to Captain Newson. In another novel by this author, a suicide note reading "Done because we are too menny" is left by Little Father Time, who kills Sue Bridehead's children. In addition to a novel about (*) Gabriel Oak's attempts to marry Bathsheba, this author wrote a novel in which the title character is arrested at Stonehenge after killing Alec and running away with Angel Clare. For 10 points, name this author of Far from the Madding Crowd, and Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

William (Cuthbert) Faulkner

In one work by this author, the title character has her taxes waived by the mayor of the town, Colonel Sartoris, to assuage the pain of her father's death. This author documented the downfall of Flem Snopes in "The Hamlet", "The Town", and "The Mansion." Another work by this author is narrated by 15 different characters, including one who steals money in order to buy new (*) teeth. This author documents the thirty year history of the Compson family from the viewpoints of three brothers, including Benjy and Quentin. For 10 points, name this Mississippi author of A Rose for Emily, As I Lay Dying, and The Sound and the Fury.

Carlos Fuentes

In one work by this man, Felipe Montero stumbles upon the title character expressionlessly beheading a goat in the kitchen. In that same work, Montero falls asleep for an indeterminate amount of time and when he wakes, makes love to the title character. In addition to (*) Aura, this author wrote a novel that is told through the flashbacks of an unnamed female character, who is presumed to be Harriet Winslow. For 10 points, name this creator of General Tomas Arroyo and Señora Consuelo, the author of The Old Gringo and The Death of Artemio Cruz.

Anton (Pavlovich) Chekhov

In one work by this man, Nyukhin gives a talk on the harmful effects of tobacco. In another story, Dmitiri Gurov falls in love with Anna, who he meets during his vacation to Yalta. This man wrote a play in which one character gives her lover a medallion with the inscription "if you ever need my life, come take it;" in that play, Nina causes the main character to shoot himself after revealing that she loves (*) Trigorin. In addition to the Lady with a Dog, this man wrote about how the servant Firs dies on a sofa while locked up in the title estate, which Lopakhin buys from Madame Ranevskaya. For 10 points, name this Russian playwright of The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard.

Yasunari Kawabata

In one work by this man, the former schoolteacher Gimpei Momoi requests a cure for an unnamed foot condition from the student Hisako. In another of this man's works, Oki Toshio impregnates fifteen year old Otoko Ueno and promptly abandons her; that work is (*) Beauty and Sadness. This man wrote the short stories "The Dancing Girl of Izu" and "One Arm." In his most famous work, he wrote of Shimamura having an affair with the geisha Komako in the remote hot spring town of Yuzawa. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of The Master of Go, Thousand Cranes, and Snow Country.

Federico García Lorca (prompt on partial answer)

In one work by this writer, the Moon says that at the end of the night, blood will be spilled. In one poem by this writer, the refrain "at five in the afternoon" is repeated between sections written in different poetic meter. In a different work, this author describes eighteen romances with subjects such as the night, death, and the sky. In this author's most well-known work, the (*) five daughters of the title character fight over Pepe "el Romano" during an imposed eight-year mourning period. For ten points, name this author of Gypsy Ballads, Blood Wedding, and The House of Bernarda Alba.

The Pittsburgh Cycle

In one work in this series, a man that is accused of stealing a bucket of nails drowns in order to avoid confessing to a crime he didn't commit. In another work in this series, a man wants to buy Sutter's land from the funds that the family would get from selling the title object, while his sister (*) Berenice Charles wants to keep the title object because of the carved faces of their family. In a work in this series, a man becomes the first black garbage truck driver in town. That play is about Troy Maxson. For ten points, name this series of works by August Wilson that all take place in the title Pennsylvanian city.

boats

In one work, one of these objects is described "Lingering onward" on a July evening. In another poem, one of these objects is said to at times have "seen what man thought he saw." Lewis Carroll wrote about one of these objects "Beneath a Sunny Sky," and another poem describes one that "no longer felt guided by haulers." In addition to that poem by (*) Rimbaud about a "Drunken" one, a short story sees one of these things inhabited by a Cook, Oiler, Correspondent, and Captain who try to reach land. Stephen Crane wrote about an "Open" one of, for 10 points, what vessels that sail on water?

Li Bo

In one work, this author wrote of the "Spring wind telling the mango-bird" if the day had been "wet or fine." In another poem, he claimed to "Lower [his] head and pine for home" after seeing "Moonlight before [his] bed / Perhaps frost on the ground." In addition to "A Quiet Night Thought," this writer of several poems translated by (*) Ezra Pound, including one about a time "When [the speaker's] hair was still cut straight," opened one work with the image of "A cup of wine, under the flowering trees." Those works are "The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter" and "Drinking Alone by Moonlight." For 10 points, name this Tang dynasty poet, a friend of Du Fu.

Odysseus

In one work, this character meets Motherth and Captain Sole and is eventually killed by an iceberg in Antarctica. This character laments having to "mete and dole / Unequal laws unto a savage race" in one poem. In another work, this character is discovered by a princess washing clothes at the seashore, (*) Nausicaa. This character's dog dies after recognizing him and is named Argos, and after passing between Scylla and Charybdis, he eventually returns to his wife Penelope and son Telemachus. For 10 points, name this Greek hero, the namesake of an epic poem by Homer.

Phillis Wheatley

In one work, this poet asks, "Does not your soul possess the sacred flame?" In addition to "To Mæcenas," ("may-see-ness") this poet penned a work which wonders, "If there's no heav'n . . . whither wilt thou go / Make thy Ilysium in the shades below?" This author of "An Address to the Atheist" proclaimed, "Behold the prophet in his tow'ring flight!" in a poem about the death of George (*) Whitefield. This author of Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral claims, "'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land" in another of her works. For 10 points, name this writer of "On Being Brought from Africa to America," an African-American poet of the colonial period.

William Wordsworth

In one work, this poet laments, "We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!" This writer of "The World Is Too Much With Us" described flowers "Continuous as the stars that shine / And twinkle on the milky way" in another work. This poet included "Strange fits of passion I have known" in his (*) Lucy poems, which may be inspired by his sister, Dorothy. In another work, this poet explains, "Five years have past" since he last walked by "steep and lofty cliffs" in the title location. This poet also wrote about "golden daffodils" in "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, collaborated on Lyrical Ballads. For 10 points, name this British poet of Tintern Abbey.

W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats

In one work, this writer urges, "Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." Another of his works describes trees "in their autumn beauty" and birds who "paddle in the cold." This writer of two poems about swans asked sages to "gather [him] / Into the artifice of eternity" in one work. "The bee-loud glade" is the place to which this author "will (*) arise and go now" in "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," and in another of his works, "things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" and he asks "what rough beast . . . Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?" For 10 points, name this Irish poet of Sailing to Byzantium and The Second Coming.

Jerome David Salinger

In story in a collection by this author, Eloise sleeps on the edge of her bed to make room for her imaginary friend Mickey Mickeranno. Another imaginary friend in that story, Jimmy Jimmereeno, is killed in a car crash. Other stories in that collection include "For Esme - WIth Love and Squalor" and a story featuring Sharon Lipschutz, Sybil Carpenter, and the (*) Glass family. In addition to Nine Stories, this author wrote a novel whose protagonist wonders where the ducks go in the winter and feels uncomfortable when his English teacher, Mr. Antolini, strokes his head. That character, who spends more time with his sister Phoebe after he is expelled from Pencey Prep, is Holden Caulfield. For ten points name this author of Catcher in the Rye.

Siddhartha

In the beginning scenes of this novel, one character defies his father by standing below his window through the night. The protagonist has a dream in which he finds his lover's songbird dead in a cage, and the son he later has with that lover steals a raft and sails away. A ferryman in this novel, (*) Vasudeva, instructs the title character to "listen to the river" after he does not find satisfaction with the wandering Samanas and parts ways with his best friend, Govinda. For ten points, name this novel that follows a man's journey to enlightenment by Herman Hesse.

Antigone

In the fifth scene of this play. a character declares, "a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride." A king in this play is warned that he will lose "a son of his own loins." Later in this play, the king's son, (*) Haemon, stabs himself. The title character of this play is forbidden from sprinkling earth on her brother and is the sister of Eteocles and Ismene. It follows Oedipus at Colonus as the third Theban Play. This play revolves around Creon's refusal to allow Polyneices to be buried. For 10 points, name this play about a daughter of Oedipus, which was written by Sophocles.

writers

In the first part of the novel 2666 ["26-66"], four academics search for one of these people named Benno von Archimboldi. Bloch introduces the narrator of Swann's Way to La Berma and one of these people named Bergotte. The narrator begins work as this kind of person at the end of Time Regained. One of these people follows the title girl of a novel to Beardsley School, and names The (*) Enchanted Hunters after the hotel where he met the protagonist. John Shade is one of these people in Pale Fire. In Lolita, Humbert Humbert is shadowed by one of these people named Clare Quilty. For 10 points, Roberto Bolaño, Marcel Proust, and Vladimir Nabokov had what kind of vocation?

urns

In the first stanza of "Ode on Indolence," one of these objects being "shifted round" is compared to the three figures seen by the speaker. This object titles a poem describing a "heifer lowing at the skies," led by a "mysterious priest" to a "green altar." This object, which can "express a flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme," is described as a (*) "Sylvan historian," and prompts the line "heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter." This object is called "Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness" and seems to say "Beauty is truth, truth beauty." For 10 points, John Keats wrote an "Ode on a Grecian" example of what ceramic receptacle?

German

In the last act of a realist 1892 play in this language, the home of an industrialist is sacked by a mob of workers that features no real main character. In Act 1 of another play in this language, a man takes to the Bohemian Forest after being disinherited due to slander by his brother. That play in this language ends after Amalia is murdered by Karl Moor. It was used to write The (*) Weavers, as well as many works from a literary movement whose name in this language means "Storm and Stress." This language was used to write The Robbers and other Sturm und Drang works. For 10 points, name this language of playwrights like Gerhart Hauptmann and Friedrich Schiller.

(Ahmed) Salman Rushdie

In the most recent work by this author, Nero Golden moves with his three eccentric sons to "the Gardens," a community in Greenwich Village. This author of The Golden House wrote a book in which three sisters all pretend to give birth to the protagonist. One book by this author of Shame depicts an airplane explosion leading Gibreel and Saladin to take on the roles of (*) angel and devil and led to a fatwa. This author's most famous book features Saleem Sinai, who gains special powers from being born at the moment of India's independence. For 10 points, name this British-Indian author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children.

Moby-Dick (accept The Whale before "white whale"; prompt after)

In the opening of this book, Father Mapple provides a sermon about Jonah; that sermon is attended by one of the harpooners, whose coffin ironically ends up saving another character's life. The main human character of this book offers a gold doubloon to whoever finds the title character first. One character in this book, named (*) Queequeg, is one of the many people on the crew of the Pequod. This novel's first words, "Call me Ishmael", reveal the name of the only person on that crew to survive the book. For 10 points, name this Herman Melville novel about Captain Ahab's unsuccessful fight with a titular white whale.

Death of a Salesman

In the opening scene of this play, the protagonist asks his wife why she bought American cheese when he prefers Swiss. In another scene, the protagonist fruitlessly tries to plant seeds in the garden at night. Act II's Requiem ends with a monologue in which a character repeats the line, "we're free," several times. That character asks for a new pair of (*) stockings, which the protagonist gives to The Woman in Boston, prompting Biff's anger towards his father. The protagonist's family receives his life insurance money after his fatal car accident in, for 10 points, what Arthur Miller play about the tragic downfall of Willy Loman?

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

In the penultimate stanza of this poem, the author claims that "blind eyes could blaze like meteors". An early line in this poem states that "old age should burn and rave of close of day", while a later line in this poem explains how "wise men at their end know dark is (*) right". The author of this poem published it as part of the collection In Country Sleep, and Other Poems. For 10 points, "Rage, rage against the dying of the light" is a refrain repeated four times in what nineteen-line villanelle written for the author's dying father, a work by Dylan Thomas?

Classical Persian

In the prologue of one work written in this language, the speaker describes an object that moves "men and women to tears." "The Song of the Reed-Flute" was written in this language, and serves as the prologue for the poetry collection Spiritual Couplets. Another poetry collection written in this language describes how "the moving finger writes," and consists of 51(*) quatrains. In an Edward Fitzgerald translation of a poetry collection in this language, the speaker wishes for "a jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and Thou beside [him]." For 10 points, name this language used by Omar Khayyam to write the Rubaiyat.

A Streetcar Named Desire

In the prologue to this play's first act, a blue piano "expresses the spirit of the life which goes on here." In one scene in this play, a character repeats "poker should not be played in a house with women" after another exclaims "My baby doll's left me!" After one character in this play claims to have given magic to people by telling lies, a blind (*) Mexican flower vendor abruptly stumbles into the scene. The protagonist is rejected by Mitch at the end of, for 10 points, what Tennessee Williams play about Stanley and Stella Kowalski that concludes after Blanche DuBois declares "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers"?

Tennessee Williams

In the stage directions of a play by this author, a main character is described as having the "power and pride of a richly feathered male bird among hens." Another play by this man starts with a former track star injuring his ankle; that character created by this author drinks until he hears a "click." Later in that play by this author, "Mendacity" is discussed by (*) Big Daddy and Brick. A character in another play by this man is involved with the poker player Mitch and loses the estate Belle Rêve. In that play by this man, Stella and Stanley Kowalski are visited by Blanche Dubois. For 10 points, name this American author of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar Named Desire.

Henrik Ibsen

In this author's last play, a character claims to have killed all her lovers after posing for the sculpture "Resurrection." In that play by this author, Irena dies in an avalanche with Arnold Rubek. In another play by this author of When We Dead Awaken, a wife is haunted by her husband who passed on syphilis to his son Oswald. This author of(*) Ghosts wrote a play in which the title character encourages Lovborg to kill himself after burning his manuscript, and another that sees Nora Helmer end her marriage to Torvald. For 10 points, name this Norwegian playwright of Hedda Gabler and A Doll's House.

(Sir) Tom Stoppard (or Tomáš Straussler)

In this author's latest play, Spike prepares Hilary for an interview at the Krohl Institute for Brain Science by asking questions on morality and consciousness. This author of The Hard Problem wrote a play in which Albert wears a skirt for a performance of The Rape of the Sabine Women given by the (*) Tragedians, who later hide "impossibly" on a ship with the title characters fleeing Denmark. This author's most famous play opens with the title characters flipping a coin heads ninety-two times in a row and centers on two minor characters from Hamlet. For 10 points, name this Czech-British playwright, the author of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

Cormac McCarthy

In this author's second play, Black saves White from killing himself on the title train. One character created by this author is born during the Leonids meteor shower and joins a gang that includes Toadvine and is led by John (*) Glanton; that character by this author is killed by an entirely hairless man and is called "the kid." One of this author's characters stumbles upon a basement full of bodies eaten by cannibals, and tells his son they are the "good guys" while walking towards the sea on the title structure in a post-apocalyptic society. For 10 points, name this author of the novels Blood Meridian and The Road.

If on a winter's night a traveler (anti-prompt

In this book, Nacho goes to Oquedal and stands over an open grave, and the words "Zeno of Elea" are whispered at a train station in it. One character in this book plans a "feminist revolution" requiring a Cimbrian novel that Professor Uzzi-Tuzii asserts is from Cimmeria. The author Silas (*) Flannery writes a diary in this book containing chapters titled In a network of lines that enlace and Outside the town of malbork. Ludmilla assists You, the Reader, after you only ever manage to read the first chapter of the various fictional books that form every other chapter of this novel. For 10 points, name this book by Italian writer Italo Calvino.

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)

In this book, a proto-computer called the Engine is built by the Projectors, who also scheme to turn ice into gunpowder. This novel's main character is given as a pet to a girl named Glumdalclitch and asks to be excused from the custom of stepping on a cross while in (*) Japan. This book's title character is called a "Yahoo" by a species of super-intelligent horses. This novel describes a war over the best way to crack an egg among the Endians, and its title character towers over a race of six-inch tall people in Lilliput. For 10 points, name this novel in which a man named Lemuel travels to strange lands, written by Jonathan Swift.

Spoon River Anthology

In this collection, Reuben Pantier is described by his former schoolteacher as "The boy I loved best of all in the school." In his section, Reuben addresses Emily Sparks by saying that "I owe whatever I was in life/ To your hope that would not give me up." The village poetess in this work, Minerva Jones, wants to have her works published. (*) Blind Jack, one of the few not unhappy characters in this collection, listens to Homer describe how Troy fell. Abraham Lincoln's rumored boyhood love, Ann Rutledge, is mentioned in, for 10 points, what Edgar Lee Masters collection of epigrams about the residents of the title town?

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

In this film, a character gets change by shooting a vending machine. A phone call in this film includes the lines, "Well, it's good that you're fine, and I'm fine. I agree with you. It's great to be fine!" It ends with the song "We'll Meet Again." Near its end, one character becomes worried about a possible "mineshaft gap." A character in this film is worried about his (*) "precious bodily fluids"; another shouts "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!" Near its end, Slim Pickens' character falls to earth atop an atom bomb. For 10 points, name this Stanley Kubrick film in which Peter Sellers plays a British officer, the President, and the title scientist, who can't stop making the Nazi salute.

Notre-Dame de Paris

In this location, a character rants that he is both the spider and the fly caught in its web during a meeting with an alchemist. The historical reasons why this location will be defeated by the printed book are explained in the chapter "This will kill that." A novel titled for this location begins with a bad play by Pierre Gringoire, after which the protagonist is crowned Pope of (*) Fools. The law of Sanctuary is invoked when Phoebus's gypsy lover is carried into this location. Claude Frollo is thrown from this building while watching the execution of Esmeralda. For 10 points, name this Paris cathedral whose bells are rung by Quasimodo, its "hunchback."

Hell

In this location, three Furies threaten to call up the Medusa and block the entrance to a walled city with a three-letter name. The narrator claims that Ulysses died by trying to sail beyond the edges of known world when he meets Diomedes and Ulysses in this place. Before meeting people like (*) Ugolino, Paolo, and Francesca in this place, the narrator of a poem meets a lion, a leopard, and a she-wolf in a dark wood when he is "midway along our life's journey." The entrance to this place is emblazoned "Relinquish all hope, ye who enter here." Virgil is the guide through the nine circles of —for 10 points—what setting of the first part of Dante's Divine Comedy?

Frankenstein

In this novel, a Christian Arab woman is taken in by a poor French family after leaving Islamic Turkey. Another character in this novel promises to travel to South America with his lover after making a deal with the title character, who is later imprisoned for murdering (*) Clerval. The protagonist chases the murderer of his wife, Elizabeth, all the way to the Arctic, where he meets Captain Walton. Victor ultimately dies before catching his creation in, for 10 points, what novel about a scientist who builds a monster out of body parts, a work by Mary Shelley?

Lady Chatterley's Lover

In this novel, a character is described as belonging to "the coal, the iron, the clay," because his father was a coal-miner, and another character suggests to that character that he should burn the picture of his wife. The protagonist of this work also carries out an affair with Duncan while visiting Venice, and this work was famously the subject of an (*) obscenity trial because of its crude language and content. In this work, the nurse Mrs. Bolton takes care of Clifford because he is paralyzed from the waist down while the protagonist has an affair with the gamekeeper Oliver Mellors. For ten points, name this D.H. Lawrence novel about Constance's various affairs.

As I Lay Dying

In this novel, a dead character realizes that for "people to whom sin is just a matter of words...salvation is just words too" while praying with Cora. A character in this novel repeats the line "He could do so much for me if he just would," and one man in it lists thirteen reasons why he made a coffin "on the (*) bevel." A chapter in this novel consists only of the line, "My mother is a fish." Darl is sent to an insane asylum for burning down Gillespie's barn during the journey in this book made by the the Bundren family to bring Addie's coffin to Jefferson in Yoknapatawpha County. For 10 points, name this novel by William Faulkner.

Don Quixote

In this novel, a duke and duchess offer the fake island of Barataria to one character, who becomes convinced by two other characters to whip himself 3,300 times. The main character of this work believes he is fighting a giant while asleep, and the title character of this novel thinks that the (*) Balsam of Fierabras has healing powers. The main character of this work is defeated by the Knight of the White Moon, and he is deeply in love with the peasant girl Dulcinea. For ten points, name this book about a Spanish knight who goes on adventures with his squire Sancho Panza, by Miguel de Cervantes.

The House of the Spirits

In this novel, a senate candidate for the Conservative Party adopts the motto "those who have always won will win again." A character in this novel is forced to marry the Count de Satigny after her relationship with a farmhand is exposed, but after his lewd activities with the servants are revealed, she leaves him and returns to the hacienda Las (*) Tres Marías with her daughter Alba. In this novel, Esteban works in a mine to earn enough money to be worthy of Rosa the Beautiful, but she is killed before they can be married. Clara del Valle predicts the future of the Trueba family in—for 10 points—what magical realist novel by Chilean author Isabel Allende?

Madame Bovary

In this novel, a series of editorials leads a blind man to be thrown in an asylum; later, the title character dies just as that blind beggar's song ends. A tax collector in this novel makes napkin rings as a hobby. In this novel, two children are given a factory tour by their Legion of Honor-inductee father, who's a (*) pharmacist. This is the most famous novel by an author who tried to find "le mot juste" ["luh moh ZHEWST"]. After moving to Yonville, its main character has affairs with Rodolphe Boulanger and Léon Dupuis. At the end of this novel, the title wife of the doctor Charles takes arsenic to kill herself. Emma is the title woman of—for 10 points—what novel by Gustave Flaubert ["floh-BER"]?

Catch-22

In this novel, a thief with a sweet tooth is convinced to steal a bedsheet in exchange for some dates. A doctor who shares a tent with Chief White Halfoat is declared dead after his name is found on McWatt's flight register. An Anabaptist in this work is interrogated as to whether he signed (*) "Washington Irving" to documents. At the end of this novel, the protagonist is given the idea to escape to Sweden by his tent-mate Orr. For 10 points, name this work set in Pianosa in which Yossarian attempts to get out of flying more missions, written by Joseph Heller.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

In this novel, a woman's passionate letters to her indifferent daughter Clara are so well-written that they are taught in schools after the woman's death. That woman's companion and maid to the Marquesas was raised at the (*) Convent of Santa Maria Rosa de la Rosas, where the protagonist of part three of this novel was abandoned with his twin, Manuel. In this novel, that twin falls in love with Camila Perichole. Her son and valet fall to their death with Pepita, Esteban, and the Marquesa de Montemayor in, for 10 points, what Thornton Wilder novel in which the namesake Peruvian structure collapses?

A Farewell to Arms

In this novel, bottles of kummel lead Miss van Campen to suspect the protagonist's jaundice was caused by his alcoholism. This novel's protagonist plays billiards with Count Greffi and is introduced to his lover by the surgeon Rinaldi. This novel's protagonist flees to(*) Switzerland after the Battle of Caporetto, and falls in love with a British nurse named Catherine Barkley. For 10 points, name this World War I novel about the soldier Frederick Henry, written by Ernest Hemingway.

Midnight's Children

In this novel, one character has the habit of punctuating her speech with "whatsitsname." Joseph D'Costa's ghost in this novel causes the midwife Mary Pereira ["puh-rye-ruh"] to confess to a crime she committed on the Methwold Estate. In this novel, the protagonist is switched at birth with(*) Shiva-of-the-Knees, and his moment of birth lines up with the partition of India, which gives him special telepathic powers. For 10 points, name this novel about Saleem Sinai, written by Salman Rushdie.

To Kill a Mockingbird

In this novel, the main character and her brother are taken to First Purchase Church by Calpurnia, who is treated rudely when Aunt Alexandra decides to stay at the main character's house for a while. The main character's father shoots a bad dog; that event occurs after that father controversially takes the case of (*) Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Go Set a Watchman is the sequel to this novel, often considered a bildungsroman about the daughter of Atticus Finch. For 10 points, name this novel about Scout, written by Harper Lee.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (or Odin den Ivana Denisovicha )

In this novel, the protagonist's wife writes a letter suggesting that he take up carpet-dyeing. The protagonist of this novel owns a spoon with the phrase "Ust-Izhma" engraved on it. Toward the beginning of this novel, the protagonist (*) sews a piece of bread into his mattress. Alyoshka the Baptist is part of a work group with the protagonist of this novel; that group is Gang 104.The protagonist of this novel is threatened with three days of solitary confinement for sleeping in. For 10 points, Shukhov is the last name of the protagonist of what Alexander Solzhenitsyn novel set in a prison camp?

Madame Bovary

In this novel, the title character and her husband attend a ball organized by the Marquis d'Andervilliers, where the title character realizes that her husband is dull. Earlier in this novel, the title character has affairs with (*) Leon Dupuis and Rodolphe Boulanger. After these affairs, she indebts herself and her husband to Lheureux. Much later in this novel, Justin gives the title character rat poison, but she ends up using it to commit suicide instead. In the beginning of this novel, Charles, a small-town doctor, marries the title character and settles with her in Yonville. For 10 points, name this novel written by Gustave Flaubert.

Our Town

In this play's first act, one character gushes about an amazing speech she gave about the Louisiana Purchase and admires the heliotropes planted by her future mother-in-law. In this play, an actor playing the role of a "belligerent man" stands among the (*) audience and asks questions. In its final act, dead residents of the title location gather in a cemetery, such as the alcoholic organist Simon Stimson or a girl who revisits the day of her twelfth birthday. George and Emily Webb are married in this play, which is narrated by the Stage Manager. For 10 points, name this play set in Grover's Corners, written by Thornton Wilder.

The Importance of Being Earnest

In this play, a character criticized for calmly eating muffins responds by saying eating them agitatedly would get butter all over his cuffs. Another character in this play creates a fake relationship and proposal through letters she wrote herself. In one scene of this play, two characters eat a plate of (*) cucumber sandwiches meant for Aunt Augusta. In the climax, Miss Prism reveals she is, in fact, the woman that left a baby in a handbag at Victoria station. Two characters once discuss bunburying, a way to avoid social obligations in this play. For 10 points, name this Oscar Wilde play in which Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing pretend to have the titular name.

The Taming of the Shrew

In this play, a character's father is impersonated by a random Pedant from the street, leading to a near-arrest. Two men in this play disguise themselves as a music teacher and a Latin instructor in order to compete for time alone with a girl. At the end of this play, the title character starts a speech with the line "Fie, fie, unknit that threatening unkind brow", and calls her (*) husband "thy lord, thy life, thy keeper." Gremio and Lucentio are suitors in this play, and its plot is spurred by Baptista requiring his eldest daughter to be married before his youngest daughter Bianca. For 10 points, name this Shakespeare play about Petruchio's subduing of the title strong woman, Katherina.

Our Town

In this play, one character imagines the plays of William Shakespeare and the Sentinel newspaper being placed beneath a new bank. A choir in this play repeatedly sings "Blessed Be The Ties That Bind." The organist Simon Stimson commits suicide in Act 3 of this play, which also sees a woman revisit her(*) twelfth birthday. Emily Webb dies in childbirth in this play, after her marriage to George Gibbs. For 10 points, name this play that is narrated by the Stage Manager and set in Grover's Corners, written by Thornton Wilder.

The Frogs

In this play, one character interrupts the prologues of another by repeating the phrase, "lost his little flask of oil." In this play, a slave who has to walk around a lake instead of taking a ferry changes clothes with his master, who is dressed like Heracles. A scale is used to measure the (*) "weightiest lines" in another scene in this play, and the slave Xanthias argues over which jokes should open the play at the beginning. The chant "brekekekex koax koax" is heard by the title creatures as Dionysus travels to the underworld to judge a contest between Aeschylus and Euripides in, for 10 points, what comedy by Aristophanes?

Castles

In this title site of an unfinished novel, a supposed land surveyor investigates a mysterious bureaucracy working in it. At the end of a different novel, an army officer returns to one of these locations, which he first visited with an alcoholic obsessed with his (*) teddy bear, Aloysius. A character is determined to marry Isabella, his deceased son's wife, to prevent this site from leaving the family's possession in the first Gothic novel by Horace Walpole. For 10 points, name this architectural structure which has served as the home of characters such as Count Dracula, King Arthur, and the White Witch.

Fathers and Sons

In this work, a character plays a prank by pretending not to know that Friday is a day of the week; that character is Matvei Ilyich. An estate in this work is named Maryino in honor of one character's deceased wife, and another character is described as an "advanced woman" by Sitnikov. After seeing one character kiss Fenichka, Pavel (*) Petrovich is shot in the leg during a duel. That character in this work dies after he cuts his finger and contracts typhus while performing an autopsy, and he calls Anna Odintsova to his deathbed. For ten points, name this novel about Arkady Kirsanov and his friend Bazarov, written by Ivan Turgenev.

Tartuffe

In this work, a maid mocks Monsieur Loyal's false loyalty. That maid, Dorine, despises Laurent [Loh-rahn]'s employer. The title character of this work takes a box of incriminating letters that were left by Argas ["Ar-gah"]. After Damis ["Dah-mee"] catches the title character of this work trying to seduce (*) Elmire, that title character claims to be a guilty man. At the end of this play, Orgon and his family are saved from eviction after Louis XIV orders the title character's arrest. For 10 points, name this work about the title religious hypocrite, a play by Moliere.

"Beowulf"

In this work, a thief leads twelve men into a barrow after they catch him stealing from it. Aeschere is abducted in this work while asleep, and he is soon after decapitated. John Gardner wrote a retelling of this work, named after one of the antagonists. The first word in this work is (*) "Hwæt," meaning "Listen" or "Lo," which Seamus Heaney translates as "So." Wiglaf becomes the new ruler of the Danes in this work after the title character is slain by a dragon. For 10 points, name this Old English poem about a Viking that slays the monster Grendel.

Gustave Flaubert

James Wood's book How Fiction Works discusses the notable "impersonality" of this writer, and George Sand was addressed "Master" in this author's many letters to her. The excessively generous servant girl Felicité's death is met by the vision of her hovering pet (*) parrot in this author's story "A Simple Heart," and he wrote about the growth of Frédéric Moreau in his novel A Sentimental Education. In this author's most famous novel, the title character falls deeply in debt to Monsieur Lheureux and has affairs with Rodolphe and Leon, leaving her husband Charles heartbroken. For 10 points, name this French author of Madame Bovary.

three (accept Parable of the Three Rings, Three Tall Women, Three Jolly Pigeons, Three Sisters, or The Three Musketeers)

Melchizedek tells a parable about these many rings in a Decameron story. An Edward Albee play with this number in its title uses letters of the alphabet to name this many "Tall Women." The alehouse in She Stoops to Conquer is titled after this many (*) pigeons, and Oskar Matzerath decides to stop growing at this age. There are this many daughters of the Prozorov family in a Chekhov play about this many "Sisters." The Cardinal Richelieu opposes a title group of this number as well as d'Artagnan in a French historical novel. For 10 points, give this number that appears in the title of an Alexandre Dumas novel about some musketeers.

Doctor Zhivago

On the way to a Christmas party, the protagonist of this work sees a light in a window and mutters the phrase "a candle burned." In one scene in this novel, Pamphil goes insane and murders his family with an axe before abandoning Liberius and the Forest Brotherhood. The protagonist's father is witnessed dying by (*) Misha Gordon after being pushed out of a train. The title character of this novel first sees his love interest Yara after she attempts to shoot the lawyer Komarovsky. For 10 points, name this novel about the life of the title physician Yuri during the Russian Revolution, written by Boris Pasternak.

Portugal

One author from this country whose works include the "factless autobiography" The Book of Disquiet and the symbolist collection Message wrote under many different heteronyms. The national epic of this country sees its protagonist become the lover of the Titan Tethys in its tenth Canto. One author from this country wrote about it (*) breaking off into the Atlantic Ocean in The Stone Raft and about the girl with the dark glasses and the doctor's wife in Blindness. For 10 points, name this home country of Fernando Pessoa and José Saramago whose history is detailed in The Lusiads by Vasco Da Gama.

France (or the French Republic)

One book from this modern day country has a title translated as Against Nature and was written by Joris-Karl Huysmans. Unusually structured typography was used for the poem "A throw of the dice will never abolish chance" from this country also home to the 19-year old poet of (*) "A Season in Hell." Edgar Allen Poe's work inspired the Symbolist movement in this country, which included poets like Stephane Mallarme, Paul Verlaine, and Arthur Rimbaud. A poet from this country included sections like "Revolt" and "Spleen and Ideal" in his poetry collection The Flowers of Evil. For 10 points, name this home country of poet Charles Baudelaire.

Caulfield (accept Allie, Phoebe, D.B., or Holden Caulfield)

One boy with this surname notes that another character with the same surname has "hardly any behind" before pinching her on the butt. One character with this surname is criticized for working in Hollywood as a screenwriter, and another used (*) green ink to write poems on his baseball glove. One character with this surname rides a carousel while being watched by her brother, who starts the novel by getting expelled from Pencey Prep and railing against "phonies." For 10 points, give this surname of Allie, D.B., Phoebe, and Holden in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.

Leo Tolstoy

One character created by this author has a recurring dream of being shoved by an unknown force into a large black sack, and dies after screaming the letter "O" for three consecutive days. That character created by this author uses his servant as a footstool before dying due to a fall while hanging curtains. This author of The (*) Death of Ivan Ilyich wrote a book in which a tragic affair with Count Vronsky prompts the title character to throw herself in front of a train, as well as one set during the Napoleonic invasion of Russia. For 10 points, name this Russian novelist, the author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace.

The Old Man and the Sea

One character in this book expresses his gratitude that he does not have to kill the sun, moon, or stars. Its protagonist is visited by a warbler shortly before experiencing painful cramps in his left hand. This book ends with its protagonist dreaming of (*) lions on a beach, and its beginning mentions how the title fan of "the great DiMaggio" had gone 84 days without succeeding at his profession. After being followed by sharks, this novel's main character only manages to bring home the skeleton of a great marlin. For 10 points, name this Ernest Hemingway novella about Santiago the fisherman.

Vanity Fair

One character in this book gave another character a note asking her to elope. The character that received that note instead married another man. A different character's father threatened to disown him after he chose to marry a poor girl; that character's name is (*) George Osborne. Later in this book, William Dobbin courts Amelia Sedley, George's widow; however, Amelia refuses to marry him until she sees proof that George gave the aforementioned note to Becky Sharp. For 10 points, what "novel without a hero" was written by William Makepeace Thackeray?

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

One character in this book sets off four differently colored fires and repeats four nonsense words before repairing a leak in a well. A baby in this book is named "Hello-Central" by the protagonist's wife Sandy, and this book's protagonist uses a lightning rod to (*) blow up a rival's tower. The protagonist of this book becomes known as "the Boss" and early in the book escapes execution by predicting a solar eclipse. After receiving a crowbar blow to the head in this book, Hank Morgan wakes up in 6th century England. For 10 points, name this satirical Mark Twain novel in which an American time-travels back to medieval Camelot.

Tom Sawyer (prompt on partial answer)

One character in this novel answers "DAVID AND GOLIATH!" when asked who the first two disciples of Jesus were. That embarrassing event occurs after the title character of this novel acquires 1000 tickets to win a newly bound Bible through (*) illicit means, most of which involved trading various knick-knacks. That title character witnesses the graveyard murder of Muff Potter by Injun Joe and later attends his own funeral after he, Joe Harper, and Huckleberry Finn run away to an island. For 10 points, name this novel written by Mark Twain.

A Study of Provincial Life

One character in this novel asserts that people that want "what is perfectly good" are "widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower." A character in this book first meets her lover in an art gallery in Rome, and a doctor in it is accused of conspiring with Nicholas Bulstrode and clashes with his wife over her extravagant lifestyle. A man writing the (*) "Key to All Mythologies" dies in this novel that includes the couple Rosamond Vincy and Tertius Lydgate, and it ends with Will Ladislaw marrying Dorothea Brooke. For 10 points, name this novel about the title town, a "study of provincial life" by George Eliot.

Sense and Sensibility

One character in this novel becomes engaged to Miss Grey for financial security and had scandalously impregnated Eliza Williams. After another character in this novel is disowned by his mother, Lucy Steele leaves him for his brother Robert. One of the protagonists of this novel twists her(*) ankle while running down a hill at Barton Park, and later rejects John Willoughby. Edward Ferrars and Colonel Brandon marry Elinor and Marianne at the end of, for 10 points, what Jane Austen novel about the Dashwood sisters?

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

One character in this novel drowns in a pool after nothing is done about cigarette rations. In this novel, that character is the first person to vote with the protagonist to watch the World Series. After being caught having sex with the prostitute (*) Candy, another character in this novel defends himself for the first time without stuttering. That character, Billy Bibbit, commits suicide, prompting Randle McMurphy to attack the antagonist, which leads to his lobotomy. For 10 points, name this novel by Ken Kesey that is set in a mental institution run by Nurse Ratched.

The Bluest Eye

One character in this novel has a "dog tooth" and stumps on her hands where her sixth fingers were removed. One character in this book sleeps naked and is married to a woman with a foot deformed from stepping on a nail. Maureen Peel and the protagonist's mother Polly appear in this book. The pedophile (*) Soaphead Church tricks this book's protagonist into poisoning a dog in exchange for fulfilling a wish to be more like Shirley Temple. After being raped by her father Cholly Breedlove in this book, Pecola goes insane hoping for the title symbol of white beauty. For 10 points, name this novel by Toni Morrison.

Catch-22

One character in this novel has his internal organs spill after he's mortally wounded. That experience causes the main character of this novel to stop wearing his uniform in protest. In this novel, one character only sees people in his office when he is not there, and was promoted by "an IBM machine with a sense of humor almost as keen as his father's". That character received a promotion to the rank of (*) Major. A different character attempts to gain a military promotion by making his men fly more and more army missions. For 10 points, name this novel featuring the pilot Yossarian, a novel by Joseph Heller.

A Novel Without A Hero

One character in this novel has his name crossed out of the family bible after he marries a woman behind his father's back. That female character is sent a small piano sold at an estate auction. The protagonist of this novel entertains Lord Steyne at a charade party by performing (*) Clytemnestra, after which her husband Rawdon Crawley is arrested. The protagonist of this novel throws a dictionary out of a carriage after graduating from Miss Pinkerton's Academy with Amelia Sedley, who marries George Osborne. For 10 points, name this novel about Becky Sharp, written by William Thackeray.

Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly

One character in this novel is given a ten-dollar bill by Senator Byrd, shortly after taking her to the home of John Van Trompe. In this novel, Topsy steals a necklace from a character who later gives away locks of her own hair. Near the conclusion of this novel, George and Eliza arrive in Canada after escaping the (*) Shelby plantation. This novel, subtitled "Life Among the Lowly," includes Eva St. Claire being saved from drowning and the title character's death at the hands of Simon Legree. For 10 points, name this novel about the title slave, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Things Fall Apart

One character in this novel is nearly shot by her husband after she takes some banana leaves and criticizes his skill with a gun. That woman names one of her dead infants "May it not happen again" and worries about a daughter whose spirit pebble has been unearthed. Another character in this novel is embarrassed by his (*) flute-playing father, who died of abdominal "swelling" and never had enough cowries. That character, who drinks palm wine from a severed head, breaks the Week of Peace by killing Ezuelo's son, for which he is banished from Umuofia, the Ibo village where he farms yams. For 10 points, identify this novel about Okonkwo by Chinua Achebe.

Beloved

One character in this novel is sent to a chain gang in Alfred, Georgia after he tried to kill Brandywine. That man follows flowers northward to meet a woman who lost her milk during an attack by schoolteacher's nephews. Years after she was ferried by Stamp Paid, another character in this novel experiences "re-memories" and lives at a "spiteful" edifice "full of a baby's (*) venom," 124 Bluestone Road. In this novel, Paul D. helps Denver's mother come to terms with the disappearance of a ghostly girl who shares her name with a tombstone inscription. For 10 points, identify this novel about Sethe and the baby she killed when faced with slavers, written by Toni Morrison.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

One character in this novel is shot because he is thought to be a chicken thief, and some others are identified by Ash Wednesday crosses on their foreheads. An Italian music teacher in this novel kills himself after losing the love of both Rebeca and her adoptive sister and is named Pietro Crespi. Presumably as a result of (*) incest, one character in this novel is born with a pig's tail. One man in this novel dreams of a city of mirrors, and a band of gypsies arrives annually in this novel, including Melquíades. For 10 points, name this novel about seven generations of the Buendía family living in Macondo, a work of Gabriel Garcia Márquez.

A Study of Provincial Life

One character in this novel is vociferously booed at the White Hart for his speech about parliamentary reform. Another character in this novel refuses to tear up Mr. Featherstone's will, forcing her sweetheart to take a loan from her father, Caleb Garth. The protagonist of this novel marries a man who believes that Christianity is The Key to All (*) Mythologies. In this novel, Rosamund Vincy ruins doctor Tertius Lydgate with her extravagance. The protagonist of this novel rejects the tenets of Casaubon's will to marry Will Ladislaw. For 10 points, name this novel about Dorothea Brooke by George Eliot.

Catch-22

One character in this novel repeatedly says "I'm cold" before dying, and the protagonist appears in a tree at that man's funeral. Another character flees to Sweden at the end of this novel, in which M&M Enterprises buys the entire world's supply of Egyptian cotton. An(*) IBM machine in this novel promotes Major Major Major to Major, and Colonel Cathcart continues to raise the number of missions the 256th Air Force Squadron must fly. For 10 points, name this novel about Yossarian, who is caught in a paradoxical situation, written by Joseph Heller.

David Copperfield

One character in this novel shelters two orphans and the widow of his former business partner, Mrs. Gummidge, in his boathouse. The fiance of Ham runs off with James Steerforth in this novel, and both of those characters end up drowning in a storm at Yarmouth. The protagonist of this novel is sent to (*) Salem House after biting the hand of his stepfather, Mr. Murdstone, and later walks from London to Dover to live with his aunt Betsey Trotwood after staying with the Micawbers as a factory worker. The title character marries Agnes Wickfield after helping expose the villainous Uriah Heep in, for 10 points, what novel by Charles Dickens?

The Count of Monte Cristo

One character in this novel spends his time in prison writing a Treatise on the Prospects for a General Monarchy in Italy. During the Roman Carnival, the protagonist buys the freedom of the shepherd Peppino for the bandit Luigi Vampa. The truth of Ali Pasha being betrayed to the Turks causes (*) Fernand to kill himself and his son Albert to challenge the protagonist to a duel. Under the alias "Sinbad the Sailor", the protagonist gives a diamond to Monsieur Morrel, the owner of the ship Pharaon. After meeting Abbe Faria while imprisoned for fourteen years, Edmond Dantes seeks revenge in, for 10 points, what novel by Alexandre Dumas?

A Midsummer Night's Dream

One character in this play claims "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet / are of imagination all compact." A group of "rude mechanicals" in this play are assigned roles such as a wall and moonlight when performing Pyramus and Thisbe ["Peer-ah-mus and Thiz-bee"]. A queen in this play becomes infatuated with a(*) donkey-headed character, who was originally the snob actor Nick Bottom before meeting Puck. For 10 points, name this Shakespeare play that ends with Helena marrying Demetrius, and Lysander marrying Hermia.

Hedda Gabler

One character in this play insults a hat placed on a chair, unaware that it belongs to her husband's aunt Julie. Its protagonist incorrectly guesses that one character shot himself in the temple in the belief he has "ivy leaves in his hair." A central object in this play describes the (*) "domestic industries of Brabant," and leads to its author's suicide using pistols given by the protagonist. Judge Brack blackmails this play's title character, who had misguidedly burned Eilert Lovborg's manuscript to help her husband George Tesman. For 10 points, name this play about the title woman by Henrik Ibsen.

Six Characters in Search of an Author

One character in this play is told to "represent the shell of the eggs" after complaining about wearing a chef's hat. A prostitute for a woman in this play appears when coats and hats are hung up and is named Madame Pace ["pa-chay"]. This play's climax sees the(*) Child drown in a fountain and the Boy shoot himself in the head. At the end of this play, the Manager regrets wasting a whole day on the title group, which includes the Father and the Step-Daughter. For 10 points, name this absurdist play by Luigi Pirandello.

The Importance of Being Earnest, a Trivial Comedy for Serious People

One character in this play proclaims, "The very essence of romance is uncertainty." Another character in this play studies with Miss Prism and gave a cigarette case to her so-called uncle, and its inscription confuses a character who invents a fictional invalid friend. In this play, Lady Bracknell opposes a marriage because the prospective groom was (*) abandoned in a handbag at Victoria Station. Another character in this play ends up with Cecily Cardew, while Gwendolen Fairfax promises eternal love to Jack Worthing, though she knows him by another name, which is also at times assumed by Algernon Moncrieff. For 10 points, identify this play with many false identities by Oscar Wilde.

The Crucible

One character in this play says with frustration, "I have fought here three long years to bend these stiff-necked people to me." Mercy Lewis may have stolen one character's life savings in this play, and at the end of this play, that character's wife notably declares that he has "found his goodness." Mary Warren is almost beaten in this play due to the gift of a (*) "poppet." In this play, which features Giles Corey, a crowd gathers outside Reverend Parris' house after suspicions arise over the actions of Tituba, and Elizabeth accuses Abigail of having an affair with John Proctor. For 10 points, name this Arthur Miller play about the Salem Witch trials.

The Glass Menagerie

One character in this play shouts, "Go then! Go to the moon -- you selfish dreamer!" after earlier remembering a past obsession with jonquils. Another character in this play explains, "Nowadays the world is lit by lightning!" and works at a shoe warehouse but is nicknamed "Shakespeare." Yet another character in this play skips (*) typing classes to wander through the zoo. That character in this play, who used to be called "Blue Roses," is heartbroken when her high school crush Jim admits he is engaged after breaking a miniature unicorn, one of the title collection of figurines. For 10 points, name this play about Tom, Amanda, and Laura Wingfield, a work by Tennessee Williams.

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

One character in this story tells the tale of a man with a blue beard named Doffue Martling. Another character in this story passes a tulip tree in which Major André is rumored to live. In this story, Brom Bones may pose as a (*) Hessian soldier hurt in "some nameless battle," and this story was originally published in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. The protagonist of this story, a schoolmaster, hopes to marry Katrina van Tassel, but vanishes from town after encountering a headless horseman. For 10 points, identify this short story about Ichabod Crane, a work of Washington Irving.

The Waste Land

One character in this work "awaited the young man carbuncular" who assaults her with "exploring hands" that "encounter no defense." Another character "had a bad cold," but was nevertheless "known to be the wisest woman in Europe." That character, (*) Madame Sosostris, warns of death by drowning, a fate later suffered by Phlebas the Phoenician. In its concluding section, reference is made to the Upanishads as the Thunder says: "Datta," "Dayadhvam," "Damyata." "Shantih, Shantih, Shantih" is the last line of, for 10 points, what modernist poem by T.S Eliot that begins "April is the cruelest month"?

The Song of Roland

One character in this work dreams that he is attacked in a chapel by a leopard and a bear. An apple that represents "the crown of every earthly king" is given to the king by the protagonist, who gives his glove to God right before he dies. Ludovico Ariosto wrote a poem based on characters from this work. After (*) Thierry defeats Pinabel in this poem, the traitor Ganelon is pulled apart by horses. The title character of this poem calls for help by blowing the oliphaunt so hard that his temple bursts and he dies at Roncevaux Pass. For 10 points, name this French epic about the title hero in Charlemagne's army.

"A Good Man is Hard to Find"

One character in this work feeds apricots to a baby and later puts a dime into a jukebox to play "Tennessee Waltz" at a barbecue restaurant called "The Tower", whose owner has a pet monkey. This story ends with a character saying "It's no real pleasure in life" to his criminal accomplice (*) Bobby Lee after picking up the cat Pitty Sing. John Wesley and June Star throw a tantrum before a car crash in this story and are later shot along with their father Bailey. The Grandmother cries for Jesus while pleading with the Misfit in, for 10 points, what short story by Flannery O'Connor?

The Cherry Orchard

One character in this work is called "little cucumber" by her lover, and another character in this work accosts her adopted mother for giving a homeless tramp gold. In this work, the governess Charlotta performs magic tricks and ventriloquy at a party, and the sight of a man called an "eternal student" causes a woman to begin crying. This work ends with the elderly servant (*) Firs lying down, and the sound of axes in the distance. In this play, Varya has a mysterious relationship with Lopakhin, who eventually buys the land of Madame Ranevskaya at an auction. For 10 points, name this play about the title estate, a work of Anton Chekhov.

The Metamorphosis

One character in this work is given a "bowl of sweetened milk" with floating pieces of bread. This work ends with a trolley ride in the countryside, and one character in this work learns that a debt to his employer could have been paid with family savings. That character in this work tries to keep a picture of a woman wearing furs in his room, and his sister has an ardent desire to attend a (*) conservatory for violin and is named Grete. The protagonist of this novella is paralyzed after his father strikes a sensitive spot on his back with an apple. For 10 points, name this novella about the Samsa family and Gregor's title transformation into a cockroach, by Franz Kafka.

Great Expectations

One character in this work is punished with "The Tickler." The person who cared for that character is eventually severely brain damaged. A house in this work has all of the clocks stopped at the time its owner was left at the altar; that is Satis House. The protagonist of this work is scared into (*) stealing food and a metal file for a convict he meets. That convict ends up being the benefactor of the protagonist of this novel, who eventually goes abroad to be a merchant. For ten points, name this novel by Charles Dickens about an English orphan who lives with Mrs. Havisham and becomes a gentleman, Pip.

Prince Galeotto

One character in this work is told not to look in a mirror because it grieves her to see ugly people, and another character in this work tells a woman he is the angel Gabriel then jumps out her window. One character in this collection cooks his falcon and gives it to a sick boy's mother. The central characters of this collection are known as the(*) Brigata, and they flee to the Santa Maria Novella. Seven women and three men in this work tell stories for ten nights while escaping the plague in Florence. For 10 points, name this story collection by Giovanni Boccaccio.

Medea

One character in this work recalls "the voice of my brother's blood" in a lament for her home and promises fertility drugs to a king of Athens. In this work, a woman reminds another character that she saved him from the "bulls of fiery breath," though that character later compares her to "a tigress or Scylla." A character in this play bemoans her lot as a barbarian bride and notes that she (*) wreaked havoc upon Pelias' house in Iolcos. That woman leaves Corinth in a dragon-pulled chariot after she poisons Glauce and Creon with a magic robe. For 10 points, name this play in which the title character slays her children as revenge for Jason's abandonment, a Greek tragedy by Euripides.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

One character in this work refers to her son as a "poor lamb" as her husband chants the Kyrie Eleison and Die Irae. A novel within this play tells the story of a boy who claims to have accidentally killed his parents, and was written by a biologist and later announces his second novel, which reveals another character's (*) "hysterical pregnancy." In Act II of this play, Walpurgisnacht, the main characters play some horrific games like "Get the Guests" and "Hump the Hostess." For ten points, name this play in which Martha responds to the title question with, "I am!", by Edward Albee.

As I Lay Dying

One character in this work sees a sign saying "New Hope 3 miles", and soon afterwards claims that she believes in God. That character's father is eager to buy new teeth after his wife dies, and in one chapter of this work, Cash gives thirteen reasons for why he made a (*) coffin "on the bevel". In this novel, Darl is arrested and sent to Jackson, Mississippi for burning down Gillespie's barn, and this book ends with Cash, Jewel, Vardaman, and Dewey Dell meeting their father's new wife. For ten points, name this novel about the Bundren family's journey to Jefferson to bury Addie's coffin, written by William Faulkner.

The Turn of the Screw

One character in this work sneaks onto the lawn at midnight and proclaims, "When I'm bad, I AM bad!" Edmund Wilson highlighted the "ambiguity" of this work, which features a character who "said things" to those he liked, resulting in his expulsion from school. The narrator of this novel sees a hatless red-headed man on the tower; that man was "much too (*) free with everyone," according to the housekeeper. Mrs. Grose takes a girl back to her uncle after the narrator catches her at the lake, meeting "a horror," her predecessor at Bly. For 10 points, identify this novella in which the governess fails to save little Miles from Peter Quint, a ghost story by Henry James.

The Frogs

One character in this work tells Aeacus that he should stuff acid up a god's nose, and that god wonders why he doesn't sneeze after being whipped. That character from this play intends to visit dancing virgin girls and have cutlets but instead is told by his master to stop acting like Heracles and help carry in traps. The main character of this play wants to master the phrase (*) "Brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax" in order to silence the title figures, and that man, Dionysus, chooses to bring Aeschylus over Euripides from the underworld after a "verse" contest. The title creatures serve as the chorus in, for ten points, what Aristophanes play named after a certain amphibious animal.

Othello

One character in this work warns that the protagonist is "making the beast with two backs" to discredit his position among the senators. That same villain starts a drunken brawl by getting Cassio drunk. In this play, the title character mishears a discussion about a planted (*) handkerchief and becomes convinced his wife Desdemona is unfaithful. This is part of Iago's elaborate plan to destroy the title protagonist, although his motivations are never really clarified. For 10 points name this Shakespearean tragedy featuring a Moorish admiral of Venice.

Beowulf

One character in this works tells the story of the defeat of Finn, and one character's beheading of Aeschere ["Ash-hair"] leads to their death at the hands of the son of Ecgtheow ["EDGE-thow"]. This poem's title character tells of his victory in a swimming race against (*) Breca and is aided by Wiglaf in a fatal fight against a dragon. The protagonist of this poem rips off the arm of a monster, which is displayed in King Hrothgar's Heorot hall. For 10 points, name this Old English epic poem in which the title hero slays Grendel.

Drowning

One character is driven to commit suicide in this fashion after being manipulated by Edmund Hooper for years. Another character who attempts to kill herself in this way begins to visit the female prisoners at Millbank prison to help her overcome her depression in the novel (*) Affinity. Another character who dies in this way leaves a brief suicide note that reads: "I didn't mean it"; that character is Ilse Lubin. Clyde Griffiths utilizes this method to murder Roberta Alden in Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, and Ophelia uses it to kill herself in Shakespeare's Hamlet. For 10 points, name this water-based method of death.

Venice

One character is inspired to visit this city after having a vision of a jungle in a stonemasons' yard. A character transporting another to this city only says, "You must pay" and refuses to go to a steamer landing. Several characters in this city claim a sirocco is responsible for the (*) disinfectant smell in it, and a prominent visitor to this city wears a sailor outfit and is accompanied by his Polish sisters. One character eats overripe strawberries in this city and eventually dies of cholera after falling in love with the boy Tadzio. For 10 points, name this city in which Gustave von Aschenbach undergoes a title "Death" in a Thomas Mann novel.

doctors

One character of this profession asks his maid Rosa to look for a horse after his dies. In The Bald Soprano, Mr. Smith complains that a character of this profession did not die because "the captain of a ship goes down with his ship" and calls people of this profession (*) quacks. Another one of these people accidentally kills Sir Danvers Carew after drinking a serum that transforms him into an evil counterpart. In a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel, Juvenal Urbino has this profession and is committed to eradicating cholera. For 10 points, name this medical profession of characters like Henry Jekyll.

Finch

One character of this surname must disguise a snowman because it bears an uncanny resemblance to one of his neighbors. One character of this surname remarks that "one does not love breathing" after a teacher bans her from reading. Another character of this surname conceals that he can play the Jew's harp, and shocks his children by (*) shooting a rabid dog. That character urges his children to stop tormenting their neighbor, Boo Radley, and defends Tom Robinson by proving Bob Ewell's left-handedness. For 10 points, name this surname of Jem, Scout, and Atticus in Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

cars

One character of this type yells "Respect the classics man, it's Hendrix" as an American flag is raised. Another character of this type uses the alias Frances Beltline at an event that takes place at Thunder Hollow. An old woman character of this type, Lizzie, cherishes a statue of her husband, (*) Stanley, the founder of a town off Route 66. Another one of these objects mistakes wasabi for pistachio ice cream, and often goes tractor tipping. Doc Hudson mentored one of these objects, who had won four Piston Cups before participating in a world prix. For 10 points, Mater and Lightning McQueen are what type of object.

Jim (accept Jim Burden or Jim Casy; prompt on James)

One character with this FIRST name believes that the human spirit and the Holy Spirit are one and the same, and a character with this first name dedicates his high school commencement speech to his friend's father who had committed suicide. A preacher with this first name dies while leading a migrant (*) strike, and it's the first name of a man with the surname Burden in My Antonia and one with the surname Casy in The Grapes of Wrath. The title character and Tom Sawyer help rescue a character known only by this name at the end of a Mark Twain book. For 10 points, give this classic American first name, the name of a slave who travels on a raft with Huck Finn.

prince

One character with this title proclaims, "Yourself, sir, should be as old as I am, if like a crab / you could go backward." The Decameron is subtitled for a person with this title named Galehaut. A man with this title repudiates Aglaya's accusations of Natasya and was in Switzerland for four years undergoing treatment for epilepsy. A character with this title bears (*) uncanny resemblance to Tom Canty, with whom he accidentally switches places. Another character with this title is from a place commonly referred to as asteroid B-612. For 10 points, identify this title of Myshkin, Hamlet, and a "little" one described by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

One line in this work compares wives and children to clothing and brothers to limbs. In this work, one group lets its opponent fire arrows at empty boats in order to collect them. One character in this work murders his foster father and rides the horse Red Hare. Young Phoenix works for one man in this work, and that man and two others take an (*) oath of fraternity in a peach garden. In this work, the Battle of Red Cliffs is lost by Cao Cao, and this work begins during the Yellow Turban Rebellion near the end of the Han dynasty. For 10 points, name this classical Chinese novel by Luo Guanzhong about the conflict between Wei, Shu, and Wu.

Holy Grail

One man looking for this item learns of its meaning during a stay with Trevrizent ["Trev-ree-zent"]. Titurel and Frimutel had bequeathed this item, called the lapsit exillis, to the wounded Anfortas, who is kept alive by this item. In another story about this item, it was brought to the island of Sarras by three knights, though only(*) Bors would end up returning home. Parsifal saw this item without knowing what it was, and while Lancelot searched in vain for this item, his son Galahad was able to see it. For 10 points, name this vessel from which Jesus Christ supposedly drank at the Last Supper.

blindness (accept word forms and phrases and synonyms like not seeing; prompt on the white sickness before read)

One man with this condition notices it while observing a mixed-painting including The Hay Wain and The Last Supper, and a dead group of people with this condition are discovered in a basement storeroom. A "girl with dark glasses" has this condition, and a man with this condition is stabbed in the throat with a (*) pair of scissors. People with this condition are quarantined in a group of wards, and the doctor's wife inexplicably escapes this condition. This condition is described as a "white sickness" that causes the collapse of society before magically disappearing. For 10 points, name this infirmity that titles Jose Saramago's most famous novel.

being buried alive (accept premature burial; accept anything describing being trapped somewhere but actually being alive; ironically, prompt on death and word forms)

One narrator describes this fate's occurrence to Victorine Lafourcade and thinks it's occurred to him but realizes he's only in the berth of a boat. The narrator unknowingly inflicts this fate upon a hated cat in "The Black Cat," and Roderick's sister suffers this fate before both die in (*) "The Fall of the House of Usher." Angry over an unknown insult, Montresor inflicts this fate upon the jester Fortunato in "The Cask of Amontillado" by tricking him into an underground wine cellar then trapping him there. For 10 points, name this common theme in Edgar Allen Poe stories, in which a person might be placed in a tomb despite having a beating heart.

John Maxwell "J.M." Coetzee

One novel by this author describes a woman who had wrote a book, The House on Eccles Street, retelling James Joyce's Ulysses from the perspective of Molly Bloom. In another novel by this author, Susan Barton is stranded on the same island as Robinson Crusoe. In addition to writing about Elizabeth (*) Costello, this author also described a professor who moves to his daughter Lucy's farm after being fired for sleeping with a student. Another novel by this author of Foe sees the title character bring his mother's ashes from Cape Town to Prince Albert. For 10 points, name this author of Disgrace and Life and times of Michael K.

Aldous Huxley

One novel by this man describes a dystopian society in which nuclear weapons have destroyed everything except New Zealand. That work is Apes and Essence. In another novel, a character based on Baudelaire is shot by the Brotherhood of British Freemen as Beethoven's String Quartet No. 15 plays. A character in that work, Walter (*) Bidlake, falls in love with Lucy Tantamount. His most prominent novel includes a society whose religious rituals include flagellation. That work begins with a tour of the Hatchery and describes John the Savage's induction into the World State. For 10 points, name this author of Point Counter Point and Brave New World.

Argentina

One novel from this country follows people looking for free will after the fall of their dictator, that novel is On Heroes and Tombs. It's not Italy, but another novel by an author from this country has instructions on how to read the novel in the beginning because of its "expendable chapters." In this home nation of Ernesto Sabato, Cat People, Paris Underground, and I Walked with a Zombie are some of the films that (*) Molina talks to Valentin about. Another author from this country talks about "the Purifiers" in a short story about endless rooms. For ten points, name this Latin American country home to Julio Cortázar, Manuel Puig, and Jorge Luis Borges.

Japan

One of the title characters of a novel from this country enjoys traditional dance, sells dresses and dolls that she makes, and causes a scandal by eloping with a man "below" her class. A novelist from this country is known for his obsessions with train stations, old jazz records, and talking to (*) cats. After landing in Hamburg, the protagonist of a novel from this country remembers a conversation about a "field well" after hearing a cover of the title song. The novels Norwegian Wood and The Makioka Sisters are both from this country. For 10 points, name this home country of Junichiro Tanizaki and Haruki Murakami.

Rosencrantz AND Guildenstern

One of these characters declares, "Good God! We're out of our depth here" after unsuccessfully diagnosing another character's ailment as "moroseness." These characters parody the Lord's Prayer in lines like "Give us this day our daily mask," and they meet a Player who orders around the boy Alfred. One of these characters screams, "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?" during a game in which they are only allowed to (*) ask "Questions." These characters investigate a title character's apparent insanity at the behest of Claudius, but are killed upon arrival because of a forged letter. For 10 points, name these two estranged friends of Hamlet who are "dead" in a play by Tom Stoppard.

the Bennet Sisters

One of these characters remarks that "loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable," one of her many vain musings. One of these characters remarks "What are men to mountains and rocks?" after learning about a proposed vacation to the Lake District. At a dinner scene in (*) Netherfield Hall, one of these characters is told to "give the other girls a chance" after ostentatiously playing the piano-forte. One of these characters catches a cold while travelling in the rain to meet her future husband. For ten points, name these characters who marry Mr. Bingley, Mr. Wickham, and Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

Party

One of these events takes place at Apartment 50 on Walpurgis Night where a character is lured by the offer of becoming a witch. A newly crowned character arrives at another one of these events and shakes the (*) Red Queen before placing the Red King into checkmate and waking up. A Katherine Mansfield story is titled (**) "A Garden" variety of this event that is overshadowed by the death of the Sheridans' working-class neighbor. For 10 points, name this title event of Harold Pinter's story about a birthday celebration for Stanley.

concentration camp​s

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?

Shinto shrines (prompt on just temple or shrine or synonyms without religion being given; accept jinja; or shinsha; or gongen; or gongu; or jingu; or mori; or myojin; or myosha; or taisha; or ubusuna; or yashiro; or any answer about a Shinto place of worship until end)

One of these places contains a spring that visitors use to wash their money in the hopes it will multiply. Visitors to them may rinse their mouths and pour water over their hands into a basin with a ladle as part of a purification ritual. Ema are wooden plaques with (*) wishes on them that are hung near these places, and they typically contain a central building called a honden. These places are often guarded by komainu, or stone lion-dogs. Gates known as torii stand outside these places, and spirits called kami are worshipped at them. For 10 points each, name these places of worship for practitioners of the main animistic religion of Japan.

a bell

One of these things incorporated a ladle that was used to kill a workman and was created by Bannadonna in a short story by Herman Melville. A poem named for these objects describes people in the steeple who are "Ghouls." That poem describes objects that appeal "to the mercy of the fire" and are reminiscent of a "sort of Runic rhyme" as they keep "time (*) time time." These objects compel a "world of solemn thought" with their monody and foretell "a world of merriment" with a "tintinnabulation that so musically wells," according to Edgar Allan Poe. For 10 points, identify this object which "tolls for thee," in a John Donne poem that also titles a Hemingway novel.

Daniel Defoe

One of this author's characters becomes a born-again Christian after surviving an earthquake and finding a Bible where his tobacco was supposed to be. A 1719 book by this man is widely considered to be the first English novel. One of his protagonists escapes some pirates with the boy Xury and runs out of ink keeping a (*) daily journal. Another of his title characters moves to colonial Virginia and marries the criminal Jemmy, her half-brother, and three other men. Another of his characters teaches English to a man whose footprint he saw on the beach. For 10 points, name this author of Moll Flanders who wrote about the native Friday in Robinson Crusoe.

Kenzaburo Oe

One of this author's characters believes that he will be killed by his village, but instead kills himself after writing "I told the truth." In another novel, this author described a group of reformatory school boys who are trapped in a plague infected village. (*) Himiko suggests to the protagonist that Bird kill his mentally disabled son and travel to Africa in another novel by this author of Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids. A Personal Matter is by, for 10 points, what Japanese author who wrote about the brothers Mitsu and Takashi in The Silent Cry?

Aristophanes

One of this author's characters switches clothes with his slave three times; earlier that man took a boat across a river while making that slave walk around it. Another play by this author features a stolen prophecy proclaiming that a sausage-seller will become ruler. A play by this man features a female personification of Peace, and, in that play, a group of (*) women hole themselves up in a treasury building. Another of his plays features the poetry of two competing playwrights being "weighed" on scales. One of his title characters aims to end the Peloponnesian war through a sex boycott. For 10 points, name this Greek comedian who wrote The Knights, The Frogs, and Lysistrata.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

One of this author's novels details the relationship between Barney Snaith and Valancy Stirling; that novel is The Blue Castle. In this author's most famous novel, the main character accidentally gets her friend, Diana Barry, drunk on raspberry cordial. Other novels in that series include the title character of (*) Ingleside, on the Island, and of Avonlea, referring to a location on Prince Edward Island. For 10 points, name this Canadian author who wrote about the Cuthbert household in Anne of Green Gables.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

One of this author's poems describes a "blameless" character who is "decent not to fail in offices of tenderness" and "centered in the sphere of common duties." The speaker of that poem by this author is "part of all that I have met," has "become a name," and will "drink life to the lees"; that speaker promises "to (*) strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield," and leaves his "sceptre and isle" to his son Telemachus. In another of this author's poems, there was no choice "but to do or die" for the "six hundred" who rode "into the valley of Death." For 10 points, name this nineteenth-century English poet, who wrote "Ulysses" and "The Charge of the Light Brigade."

Graham Greene

One of this author's protagonists tries to buy illegal wine in Carmen, but a yellow-toothed man insists on guiding him. In that novel by this author, the protagonist is hidden by Coral Fellows in a barn, and is met at a wharf by the dentist Mr. Tench. That novel by this author ends after its protagonist attempts to give the last (*) rites to a dying man and is executed by the Lieutenant. This Catholic wrote a novel in which a vacuum cleaner salesman sends misinformation to MI6 and another novel in which a "whiskey priest" is betrayed by the mestizo. For 10 points, name this 20th-century English author of Our Man in Havana and The Power and the Glory.

Hermann

One of this author's protagonists writes poems like "But Secretly We Thirst" and three alternate "Lives," like "The Indian Life." That protagonist created by this author meets Father Jacobus while visiting the big organ at Mariafels. This author created a man who debates the worldly outsider Plinio Designori, studies many subjects at Waldzell in (*) Castalia, and synthesizes them as Magister Ludi. He wrote a trippy novel in which the protagonist meets Mozart in Pablo's Magic Theater. In another of his novels, the title character hooks up with Kamala while his friend Govinda studies with the Buddha. For 10 points, name this author of The Glass Bead Game, Steppenwolf, and Siddhartha.

Gabriel García Márquez

One of this author's stories begins with a bunch of crab corpses being thrown out to heal a baby's fever. One of this author's title characters is dressed in a piece of sail by the women of a cliffside village, who name him Estebán. This author of "A Very (*) Old Man with Enormous Wings" and "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" also described the mysterious parchments of the gypsy Melquíades in a 1967 novel. That novel by this author features seventeen men named Aureliano, who are all grandsons of José Arcadio Buendía, the founder of Macondo. For 10 points, name this Colombian author of One Hundred Years of Solitude.

August Wilson (or Frederick August Kittel, Jr.)

One of this man's plays centers on an unlicensed cab station run by Jim Becker and is titled Jitney. One play by this writer includes a character who suffered a head injury in war and believes he is the Archangel Gabriel, and that play ends with Cory visiting his father's funeral despite his father having prevented him from pursuing a (*) football scholarship. Plays like Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and The Piano Lesson appear in a series of plays by this writer that follow the experience of African-Americans over the 20th century in the title city. For 10 points, name this playwright who wrote The Pittsburgh Cycle, which also includes his play Fences.

Samuel (Barclay) Beckett

One of this writer's plays repeats itself, centers on a "chorus" of three people and funeral urns, and was literally titled Play. One of this writer's characters relishes in the word "spool" while eating a lot of bananas and listening to himself at (*) ages 39 and 20, and he wrote a play which Hamm's parents spend living in a trashcan. This playwright wrote Krapp's Last Tape and Endgame, and in one of his plays the protagonists encounter Pozzo leading Lucky on a leash. In his most famous play, Vladimir and Estragon spend two days hoping the title character will show up, though he never does. For 10 points, name this Irish author of Waiting for Godot.

Howl

One part of this poem was inspired by the author's vision of a hotel facade while he was under the influence of the cactus peyote. People dance barefoot on broken glass and smash German jazz records in one part of this poem, and in the next part, "the incomprehensible prison" is compared with (*) Moloch. The third and final part of this poem features the refrain "I'm with you in Rockland", while the first line of the footnote to this poem consists solely of the word "Holy!" For ten points, name this poem that begins with the phrase "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness", by Allen Ginsberg.

Aeschylus

One play by this author of The Net-Draggers describes "A wretched piteous dove, in quest of food," and in another fifty sisters run away from Egypt to avoid arranged marriages. Another of his plays is set in Susa and features a dream sequence narrated by Atossa, and in yet another, one character steps onto a purple carpet. This author of (*) Proteus and The Suppliants also described two brothers killing each other at a certain seventh gate, Eteocles and Polynices. In one play by this author, a king is stabbed in a bathtub, and that play is included with The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides in a trilogy about the House of Atreus. For 10 points, identify this Greek tragedian behind the Oresteia.

Abraham "Abe" Lincoln

One poem about this figure opens the collection The Town Down the River, was written by E.A. Robinson, and terms this figure "The Master." Because "kings must murder still," this figure cannot "sleep upon his hill" in a Vachel Lindsay poem in which this figure "Walks At (*) Midnight." The "western orb sailing the heaven" is compared to this man in a poem observing when "the great star early droop'd in the western sky" that's titled "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." A poem declares "our fearful trip is done," though this man is "fallen cold and dead." For 10 points, Walt Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!" laments the death of what president?

Matthew Arnold

One poem by this author describes Oxford with the lines "And that sweet city with her dreaming spires / She needs not June for beauty's heightening" and commemorates the speaker's friend Arthur Hugh Clough. This man wrote a poem based on a Joseph Glanvill story, and he wrote the poems "Thyrsis" and (*) "The Scholar Gipsy." This author's most famous poem describes the speaker hearing the same "eternal node of sadness" that "Sophocles long ago [heard on] the Aegean" while looking over the title location, where "ignorant armies" clash and the "sea is calm tonight." For 10 points, name this author of "Dover Beach."

Pablo Neruda

One poem by this author describes how a slab of wood can be made into "a road, a bell, a machine, a kiss [or] a book," and commands the reader to "Clutch it. / Tie it." The title object of another one of this author's poems is "a solitary man of war / among these frail (*) vegetables". This poet described an object given to the speaker by Maru Mori as knitted with "threads of twilight and goatskin". Poems often addressed to ordinary things like "A Large Tuna in the Market" and "My Socks" were collected in, for 10 points, what Chilean poet's Elemental Odes?

John Donne

One poem by this author ends, "[S]he's dead; when thou know'st this, / Thou know'st how lame a cripple this world is." This writer of "An Anatomy of the World" wrote a work which describes what happens "As virtuous men pass mildly away" and is addressed to someone who "makes [him] end where [he] begun." Yet another describes an (*) insect which "sucked me first, and now sucks thee." Those poems are "The Flea" and "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning." Another work by this author ends by informing a character that "thou shalt die" because it is "slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men." For 10 points, identify this poet who included "Death, be not proud" in his Holy Sonnets.

The United States of America

One poem calls this country a "cultured hell," while in another, the speaker asks, "When will we end the human war?" This country has "sharp names that never get fat" according to one work, and one poet described "the varied carols" of this country in a poem which claimed he heard it singing. This country's (*) "alabaster cities gleam" in a Katharine Lee Bates poem which urges God to "crown thy good with Brotherhood / From sea to shining sea!" For 10 points, identify this country with "purple mountain majesties" and "amber waves of grain," as well as a capital at Washington D.C.

Ireland

One poem from this country claims that "Between my finger and my thumb, the squat pen rests" and that the narrator will undergo the title action with it. Death of a Naturalist is a poetry collection from this country that includes the poem "Digging." (*) One line in a poem from this country claims that a beast "Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born," and that poem is The Second Coming. For 10 points, name this country, home to poets such as Seamus Heaney and William Butler Yeats.

Portuguese

One poet in this language wrote a symbolist epic about King Sebastian under the heteronym Alexander Search, titled Message. In a novel in this language, the title character's last words are "Men, forgive Him, for He knows not what He has done." In another novel in this language, the King of Ward 3 is stabbed by the (*) Doctor's Wife, who is the only one without the title condition. A national epic in this language of Fernando Pessoa celebrates the discovery of a sea route to India by Vasco da Gama. For 10 points, name this language of the novels The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and Blindness by José Saramago.

Arabic

One poet who wrote in this language said "You have stolen the orchards of my ancestors" in his poem "Identity Card." One person writing in this language wrote "The Desert" as well as the three-volume "Kitab" and is named Adunis. One author who wrote in this language wrote Cities of Salt, about the discovery of an oil reserve. A trilogy written in this language which includes the novels (*) Sugar Street, Palace Walk, and Palace of Desire follows the family of el-Sayyed Ahmed Abdel Gawad. For 10 points, name this native language of Abdelrahman Munif, Mahmoud Darwish, and Naguib Mahfouz, who wrote The Cairo Trilogy.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One section of a work by this author is written by an inmate named Georg (GAY-org) Tenno. That work, by this man, philosophizes that "Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble, and his conscience devoured him... Without evildoers there would have been no (*) Archipelago." This author of "Apricot Jam and Other Stories" also wrote about a man accused of being a spy being sentenced to ten years in a Soviet labor camp under Tiurin, the foreman of the 104th labor team. For 10 points, name this Russian author of The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

Petrarch (or Francesco Petrarca)

One work by this writer groups visions he had in a dream into the six title Triumphs, or Trionfi. This poet wrote a work asserting he was the first since ancient times to climb a mountain just for the view. This poet of The Ascent of Mount Ventoux and the epic work (*) Africa wrote a collection of 366 poems about a woman who may be the wife of the Count Hugues de Sade and that has a title translated as Songbook. This poet's collection Il Canzoniere contains many examples of the fourteen-line sonnet form named after him. For 10 points, name this Italian humanist who wrote many poems about his love Laura.

A Room with a View

Phaeton misleads the protagonist of this novel after kissing a woman he claimed to be his sister. Miss Lavish publishes a book that includes a scene with a romanticized version of the female protagonist's kiss with a man in a field of (*) violets in this novel. That woman's fiancée, a "superior" Londoner, shows true remorse for his pompousness after the protagonist leaves him for a man who rescued her after witnessing a murder in Italy. That man, George Emerson, marries Lucy Honeychurch in, for 10 points, what E.M. Forster novel about the title accommodation overlooking the Arno?

Commonwealth of Australia

Richard Lovat Somers narrates one book set in this country and written by D. H. Lawrence. The Man Who Loved Children is by an author from this country, Christina Stead. One novel set in this country focuses on transporting a glass church, while another is about a German explorer named (*) Voss. In addition to being the home of Banjo Paterson and the setting of Oscar and Lucinda, this country inspired the bush ballad "Waltzing Matilda." An author from this country wrote about a German saving 1,200 Jews from concentration camps. The home of Patrick White, Peter Carey, and Thomas Keneally, for 10 points, identify this country where outback literature is set.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Section 42 of a poem by this writer says "His voice in all her music, from the moan" and says that the soul of the title figure "beacons from the abode where the Eternal are." Another poem by this writer says to the title figure, "Teach me half the gladness / That thy brain must know," and (*) "Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!" This poet also wrote that "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Stand in the desert" in a poem whose title figure says to "Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!" For ten points, name this poet of Adonaïs, "To a Skylark," and "Ozymandias."

Dante's hell (accept The Inferno; accept obvious synonyms like the underworld, but do not accept or prompt on "purgatory"; prompt on the afterlife and synonyms; anti-prompt

Several rivers in this location collect from a statue of the Old Man of Crete that leaks tears from its cracks, and this place contains a series of ditches connected by rock bridges known as the Malebolge. A fiery citadel forming the city of (*) Dis appears in this place. The lowest point in this place is a frozen lake, and it contains the Wood of Suicides. The gate to this location is inscribed "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here," and usurers, heretics, and frauds are among those imprisoned in the nine circles that make up this location. For 10 points, give this setting of the first work in Dante's Divine Comedy.

Eugene Ionesco

Since 1957, the Théâtre de la Huchette has been continuously running one of this writer's plays that ends with the Maid bringing the Professor a new Pupil. In one of this writer's plays, an old man and woman set up the title objects for an (*) absent audience, and he wrote a play set at a dinner full of non-sequiturs between the Smiths and the Martins. This playwright's most famous work was an allegory of Nazism in which everyone but Berenger turns into the title thick-skinned animal. For 10 points, name this Romanian member of the Theatre of the Absurd who wrote plays like, The Chairs, The Bald Soprano, and Rhinoceros.

Spanish

Solitudes and The Fable of Polyphemus and Galatea were written in this language by an author who names a style in opposition to "conceptism." That style named for a writer in this language is Gongorism. Plays written in this language include The Dog in the Manger and Life is a Dream, and a play with the name of this language in the title was written by Thomas Kyd. The author of (*) Exemplary Novels was part of a Golden Age of literature in this language and wrote in it about a man who believes a washbasin to be the Helmet of Mambrino, rides the horse Rocinante, and is accompanied by Sancho Panza. For 10 points, identify this language in which Miguel de Cervantes wrote Don Quixote.

Puppets

Some performers that use this item employ a "swazzle," and are assisted by a bottler. Vietnamese works that use this item in a performance often feature Chú Tễu appearing in a waist-high pool of water. Afghan works in a genre that uses this item are known as Buz-baz, and involve a lute tied to a goat. Performers in a genre that uses this item are always dressed in black to symbolize that they are "invisible" to the audience. Karagöz and Hacivat are traditional characters in Ottoman works that use the (*)"shadow" one of this item. For 10 points, name this item, which is used in a form of theater that involves characters manipulated by sticks or by performers hands, as in the Japanese Bunraku.

Plato

Stephanus pagination is generally used to organize the works of this man. One work by this man proposes banning the works of Homer; that work is Ion. A "neo" version of a philosophy named for this man was founded by Plotinus. Laws is this man's last and longest work, and a dialogue on the nature of love by this man is called (*) Symposium. A more famous dialogue by him is called the Apology and chronicles the downfall of his teacher. This man founded the Academy. For 10 points, name this Ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Socrates and the author of The Republic.

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

Surprised by her romantic feelings, one character in this work asks, "Even so quickly may one catch the plague?" An inn in this work is known as The Elephant, and this play also features a character who believes "cakes and ale" are necessities, as well as one named Andrew (*) Aguecheek ("AG-you-cheek"), the accomplice of Toby Belch. One person in this play loves a man who commands, "If music be the food of love, play on." Malvolio is the steward of Olivia in this play, and at its end, after learning she has been disguised as a man, Sebastian is reunited with Duke Orsino's new bride, Viola. For 10 points, identify this Shakespeare play about the events following a shipwreck in Illyria.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

The 32nd chapter of this novel closes with the narrator comparing an imperfect taxonomic system he creates to the unfinished Cathedral of Cologne. Early in this book, the narrator listens to a sermon given by Father Mapple. The narrator of this book observes a man shave with a (*) harpoon, and is eventually saved by clinging to a coffin built for that latter man. The protagonist of this book serves with characters like Starbuck, the tattooed cannibal Queequeg, and the maniacal Captain Ahab. For 10 points, name this novel in which the Pequod is destroyed by a giant white whale, a novel by Herman Melville.

The Glass Menagerie

The author of this play wrote about how it changed his career in the essay The Catastrophe o f Success. A picture of a young man in a "doughboy's World War I cap" hangs on a wall throughout this play. At the beginning of this play, a solitary man declares, "I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion" and calls himself "the opposite of a stage magician." At its end, (*) Tom asks his sister to blow out the candles. The second act of this play centers on the appearance of the "gentleman caller" Jim O'Connor, who breaks a unicorn that is part of the title collection. For 10 points, name this play about the dysfunctional Wingfield family, written by Tennessee Williams.

"The Road Not Taken " (Do not accept or prompt on "The Road Less Traveled". Laugh at anyone who gives this answer.)

The author of this work later stated that it was meant to be a joke and is heavily misinterpreted, but his best friend Edward Thomas decided to enlist in World War I because of this poem. The author of this poem has stated that it is supposed to be a mockery of (*) indecision. This misunderstanding primarily results from a misreading of the lines "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I / I took the one less traveled by / And that has made all the diff'rence." For 10 points, name this Robert Frost poem that, contrary to popular belief, is NOT titled "The Road Less Traveled".

Mother Courage (prompt on partial; accept Mother Courage and Her Children; accept either or both underline parts of Anna Fierling before read)

The author wrote a commentary "Model Book" titled after this character, and Helene Weigel originally performed this role. This character states, "I must get back into business" at the end of the play, and she hears the prostitute Yvette sing the (*) "Song of Fraternization." This character's mute daughter is killed after playing a drum to warn of a Catholic sneak attack. This character's true name is Anna Fierling, and her children Eilif, Kattrin, and Swiss Cheese all die while she's operating a canteen wagon over the course of the Thirty Years War. For 10 points, name this character who, with "Her Children," titles a Bertolt Brecht play.

War and Peace

The beginning of the first epilogue of this work describes the movements of the "sea of European history" after "seven years had passed" since the main events in the book. After a duel, a character in this work joins the Freemasons, and that duel with Dolokhov resulted from rumors about an affair that man's wife, Helene, was having. After recovering from an injury obtained during the Battle of (*) Austerlitz, Andrei Bolkonsky's engagement is broken off by one character in this book. That character, Natasha Rostova, eventually marries this book's protagonist, Pierre Bezhukov. For ten points, name this notoriously long work about Russian life during Napoleon's invasion of Russia, written by Leo Tolstoy.

Emma Bovary

The carriage-driver Hivert explains that this character's dog, Djali, ran away. This character skips out on the third act of Lagardy's performance of Lucia di Lammermoor while in Rouen. This is the title character of a novel that ends with the Cross of the Legion of Honor being given to the bad pharmacist (*) Homais. During an all-day carriage ride that ends with her tearing up a letter and tossing it, this character probably consummates her affair with Léon. This character's husband, Charles, is so boring that she piles on debt and takes arsenic to commit suicide. For 10 points, name this title character of a Gustave Flaubert novel.

Mississippi

The current poet laureate of this state wrote the collection Thrall and the poem "Elegy for the Native Guards" and is named Natasha Trethewey. Works set in this state include one in which Phoenix Jackson walks the title road to get medicine for her grandson. That work is "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty. Another work which opens in this state begins with the section (*) "Southern Night" and is a semi-autobiographical work by Richard Wright. Yet another work set in this state focuses on the Compson family. The home of the author of The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner, for 10 points, name this state, the setting of books like Kathryn Stockett's The Help, which examines society in Jackson.

"Jabberwocky"

The first section of this work was published in Mischmasch, and this part of a larger work was famously illustrated by John Tenniel. This work's protagonist "stood a while and thought" before making a motion to the rhythm "One, two! One, two!" with a (*) "vorpal sword." That protagonist spends some time by the Tumtum tree. This work, which introduced the word "chortle" to the English language, describes a "manxome foe" even worse than "the frumious Bandersnatch" and opens with the words, "'Twas brillig." For 10 points, name this nonsense poem which appears in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There and was also written by Lewis Carroll.

To Kill a Mockingbird

The garbage collector of the central town in this novel is Zeebo, who is the only one that can read at the First Purchase church. When a first grader pours an excessive amount of molasses on his dinner while at the central family's house, the narrator of this novel mocks him. Carved soap figurines, old coins, and a pocket watch are among items found in a (*) tree hole by the central characters, who later find those objects to be gifts of Boo. When it is discovered that one character has a limp left hand, the rape accusations of Mayella Ewell fall flat; however, Tom Robinson is still found guilty despite the efforts of his lawyer Atticus. For ten points, name this novel narrated by Scout Finch about prejudice in the town of Maycomb, Alabama by Harper Lee.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The main character in this novel is scared that his servant Victor will look at the title object, causing him to call for Mr. Hubbard. The protagonist of this work receives a "little yellow book", which he buys a dozen copies of. An acquaintance of the protagonist of this work implores him to never marry a woman with (*) straw-colored hair, and after this, the protagonist reveals he is in love with an actress. That friend, Henry Wotton, also must inform the protagonist of the actress Sibyl Vane's death. The artist Basil Hallward creates the title object, which ages cruelly and horribly, while the protagonist maintains his youth. For ten points, name this only novel by Oscar Wilde.

Dr. Seuss

The majority of this man's books were written in anapestic tetrameter. A character created by this author pays 15 cents, a nail, and a snail shell to hear a story about the title character. Another of his characters becomes known as "King of the Mud" (*) after being offended by the moon. Another book by this man describes creatures that have "a little star" and "a little car." This man used fewer than 250 words in a book that begins "The sun did not shine." This man's characters include an environmentalist who protests against "thneeds," as well as "Thing 1" and "Thing 2." For 10 points, name this author of The Lorax and The Cat in the Hat.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The male protagonist of this novel tries to discover the "one-millionth part" of each woman that makes her unique, which he claims only comes out in bed. The protagonists of this novel get together through six "fortuities," which makes the husband wonder if his wife is part of his "it must be," an idea derived from Beethoven. This novel attacks the notion of "totalitarian kitsch" via the painter (*) Sabina, who poses wearing nothing but a bowler hat. This novel challenges Nietzsche's idea of "eternal return" through the story of the Czech dissidents Tereza and Tomas. For 10 points, name this novel by Milan Kundera that examines the possibility of life without "weight."

magical realism

The name of this style originally referred to a style of painting known as Neue Sachlichkeit. One author who wrote in this style described the framing of General Canales for a murder committed by Zany the Beggar. Another author in this genre wrote about Carlos, Sophia and Esteban in the novel (*) Explosion in a Cathedral. One of the most famous writers in this genre wrote about the Clairvoyant Clara and Rosa the Beautiful, as well as other members of the Trueba family. For ten points name this literary genre used by Miguel Asturias, Alejo Carpentier, Isabel Allende, and Gabriel García Márquez, characterized by fantastical events in the real world.

The Canterbury Tales

The narrator and "host" of this book, Harry Bailey, offers a free meal to the best storyteller among his group of travelers in the beginning of this work. One character in this book tells a story about "what women want most". It is generally accepted that the first two stories in this collection are told by the (*) Knight and the Miller, but the order of the rest of the 22 stories in this collection is a point of scholarly debate. Loosely based on the Decameron by Boccaccio, for 10 points, name work in which the aforementioned pilgrims travel to the shrine of Thomas Becket in the title location, a work by Geoffrey Chaucer.

the Underground Man (accept the protagonist or narrator from Notes from the Underground)

The narrator of Knut Hamsun's book Hunger is often compared to this character. This character arrives half an hour early to a dinner party at which he impulsively says he'll pay for his own meal, despite later asking Simonov for money to attend a brothel. This character repeatedly rails against the "Crystal Palace" and utopian philosophy of the author's contemporary (*) Chernyshevsky. In the section "Apropos of the Wet Snow," this man finds kinship with the prostitute Liza, and he declares, "I am a sick man," to open the book he appears in. For 10 points, name this protagonist of an early existentialist book by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling

The narrator of one of this author's poems calls the title figure "squidgy-nosed" and "Lazarushian-leather." Another of his poems describes having "all men count with you, but none too much," and meeting with the "two imposters" (*) "Triumph and Disaster." After the narrator of one his poems is saved by an Indian bhisti, or water-bearer, he calls him a "better man," and he advised a certain group of people to "send forth the best ye breed" in an overtly imperialist poem. For 10 points, name this British author of poems like "Gunga Din, "The White Man's Burden," and "If--".

Yasunari Kawabata (accept names in either order)

The narrator of one of this author's stories hears a superstition about a monster hiding in a stomach stealing food and helps his ailing grandfather urinate. The story "The Diary of My Sixteenth Year" appears among this author's (*) Palm-of-the-Hand stories, and in one of his novels, Kikuko is lusted after by her father-in-law Shingo. One of this man's novels ends during a fire in a silk warehouse; that novel's protagonist is an expert in Western ballet named Shimamura who travels to the title location and meets the geisha Komako. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of The Sound of the Mountain and Snow Country.

Ayn Rand

The narrator of one of this author's works uses only plural pronouns before discovering the word "I" in a book. That character, Equality, runs away with Liberty after discovering electricity, eventually finding that the "Unspeakable Word" is Ego. Other than writing (*) Anthem, she also developed the philosophy of objectivism. In her magnum opus, she creates the character of John Galt, who organizes a strike against the government, and Dagny Taggart, the vice president of a railroad company. For 10 points, name this author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

The Handmaid's Tale

The narrator of this book remembers an instance in which a woman spoke to an invisible customer at a restaurant after learning Janine's child was born deformed at a Prayvaganza ceremony. This novel's main story is transcribed from cassette tapes discovered by Professor (*) Pieixoto, who studies a society in which African-Americans are referred to as "Sons of Ham." This novel's protagonist is aided by the Mayday resistance member Nick, and she plays Scrabble with Serena Joy's husband, "the Commander." This novel is set in the misogynistic Republic of Gilead. For 10 points, name this novel about Offred by Margaret Atwood.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

The narrator of this novel spends a chapter explaining why a certain color inspires "vague, nameless horror" in him. In this novel, a speech beginning "Your woraciousness, fellow-critters, I don't blame ye so much for" is given by the cook Fleece. Its narrator watches his roommate's strange, twenty-four-hour "Ramadan" with a small, black idol named Yojo. Sermons in this novel are given on the book of (*) Jonah and to the sharks. Its narrator signs up with a ship owned by Captains Bildad and Peleg in Nantucket. In this novel set on the Pequod, Queequeg serves with a man who says, "Call me Ishmael." For 10 points, name this Herman Melville novel about Captain Ahab's search for the title white whale.

1984

The narrator of this work becomes obsessed with a piece of coral embedded in glass during a trip to an antiques store. The narrator of this book reads about "Oligarchical Collectivism" and the creation of the "three great super-states" in a book procured from a coworker who initiated him into the secret (*) "Brotherhood." O'Brien turns on the narrator in this book and tortures him with rats in "Room 101," causing him to renounce his lover Julia In the final scene in this work the narrator realizes he finally "loves Big Brother." For 10 points, name this George Orwell novel about Winston Smith's rebellion in dystopian England.

The Divine Comedy

The narrator of this work notes that though it is sunset in Jerusalem, it is midnight on the Ganges River. One section of this work describes positioning three mirrors, and the tears of some characters in this work freeze before leaving their eye sockets in Cocytus. This work, which was written in (*) terza rima, opens with the presence of a lion, a leopard, and a she-wolf in a dark wood. In the last section of this work, an ideal woman named Beatrice guides the narrator, but he is earlier led through a gate marked "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" by Virgil. For 10 points, name this work made up of Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, a poem by Dante Alighieri.

Modern Italian (or italiano; accept word forms)

The novels The Story of a New Name and My Brilliant Friend were written in this language by an author as of 2016 still only known by the pseudonym Elena Ferrante. A collection of short stories named after the elements from The Periodic Table and the Holocaust account (*) If This Is a Man were written in this language by Primo Levi. One book in this language consists of poems narrated to Kublai Khan about Invisible Cities, and a book written in this language using the second person consists of first chapters to books that the Reader never manages to finish. For 10 points, give this language used to write If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino.

the first work mentioned is Lazarillo de Tormes; the two feuding poets are Francisco de Quevedo and Luis de Góngora; the play is Fuenteovejuna; the last work mentioned is Don Quixote)

The protagonist of a work in this language tricks a blind man by telling him to jump over a nonexistent ditch, leading that man to smash his head against a pillar. A poet used this language to satirize the "superlative nose" of his rival, whose "cultaranism" contrasted with his "conceptism." The residents of the town of (*) "Sheep Well" murder the Commander in a play written in its Golden Age. The protagonist of a work in this language is defeated by the Knight of the White Moon, champions Dulcinea, rides the horse Rocinante, and tilts at windmills. For 10 points, name this language, whose authors included Calderón de la Barca and Miguel Cervantes.

Daniel Defoe

The protagonist of one novel by this author is stolen from his family and raised by Gypsies before crossing Africa and living as a pirate in the Arabian Sea; that novel by this man is Captain Singleton. In one of his novels, the protagonist's mother escapes execution by "pleading her belly," and the protagonist marries her half-brother while living as a (*) conwoman in colonial America. In the most famous novel by this author of Moll Flanders, a man stranded on a desert island meets a companion that he christens Friday. For 10 points, name this founder of the English novel and author of Robinson Crusoe.

Things Fall Apart

The protagonist of this book shoots at his wife but misses when she makes a remark about his poor hunting ability. This novel describes how special glasses are responsible for the survival of some characters in the Evil Forest. The protagonist of this novel gained his fame by defeating Amalinze the Cat in a wrestling match, and he later kills his adopted son, (*) Ikemefuna. When the protagonist of this book accidentally kills Ezeudu's son at Ezeudu's funeral, he cannot return to his home for seven years, and after he comes back, he finds that Christianity has been introduced and grown in his homeland of Umuofia. For ten points, name this book about Okonkwo, written by Chinua Achebe.

The Magic Mountain

The protagonist of this novel has a vision of an idyllic seaside and then two witches ripping up kids while he is propped up against a cabin during a snowstorm. In its chapter "Walpurgis Night," the protagonist hooks up with Clavdia Chauchat. This novel contains debates over medieval philosophy between Naphta and the encyclopedist (*) Settembrini. Throughout this novel, characters die of tuberculosis, including the protagonist's cousin Joachim Ziemssen. For 10 points, Hans Castorp stays at a sanatorium on the title Swiss location in what novel by Thomas Mann?

The Tin Drum

The protagonist of this novel is forced to pose with the title object while working as a nude model in an art school. Its protagonist buys a deli for his stepmother after going on a world tour organized by Bebra. A woman in this novel owns five "potato-colored" skirts, which she wears four at a time and uses to hide the protagonist's grandfather. Its protagonist is convicted of murder after finding a (*) finger belonging to Sister Dorothea. This novel is written in an asylum by that protagonist, who can "singshatter" glass and decides to stop growing at age three. For 10 points, name this novel by Günter Grass, in which Oskar Matzerath plays the title toy instrument.

Song of Roland (or La Chanson de Roland)

The protagonist of this work fears death upon seeing men dressed "as black as ink from head to foot" before a battle. This work is one of the first records of the battle cry "Montjoie!" Thierry defeats Pinabel in a trial by combat in this work, proving the Twelve Peers had been betrayed by the treacherous (*) Ganelon, who's then torn apart by horses. The title character of this poem warns of an attack by the Saracens at the Battle of Roncevaux ["rahns-voh"] pass by blowing an oliphant so hard his temples burst. For 10 points, name this epic medieval French poem about the title paladin who fights in Charlemagne's army.

A Novel Without a Hero

The protagonists of this book are compared to puppets in its introduction "Before the Curtain." Jos buys a carriage at an over-inflated price in this book while trying to flee the Napoleonic Wars. This novel begins at Miss Pinkerton's (*) "academy for young ladies," and throughout the course of this book the deuteragonist courts George Osborne and Rawdon Crowley. This book is titled for a location from Pilgrim's Progress, and it contrasts the lives of the naive Amelia Sedley and the manipulative and ambitious Becky Sharp. For 10 points, name this "novel without a hero" written by William Makepeace Thackeray.

English (the first two operas mentioned are Powder Her Face and Peter Grimes)

The score of a 1995 opera in this language calls for a slide whistle and a fishing reel and controversially followed the exploits of the "Dirty Duchess." An aria in this language includes the line "Remember me, but ah! Forget my fate" and is sung prior to the singer killing herself. One opera in this language concerns a sea captain defending himself in the (*) drowning death of his apprentice, and an opera in this language ends with the Trojan fleet leaving Carthage and a final scene between the two title characters, Dido and Aeneas. For 10 points, name this language used by opera composers such as Thomas Adés, Henry Purcell and Benjamin Britten.

Carl Sandburg

The speaker of one of this man's poems sees "a bronze memorial of a famous general," and "[wants] to smash the whole thing into a pile of junk." This author of "Ready to Kill" wrote about Potato Face Blind Man in a story collection he wrote for his children, called Rootabaga Stories. The title entity of a poem by this author asks to "shovel them under and let me work" in reference to bodies "at(*) Austerlitz and Waterloo." Another poem by this author addresses a "City of Big Shoulders" and "Hog Butcher for the World." For 10 points, name this American poet of "Grass" and "Chicago."

Sylvia Plath

The speaker of one poem by this author states, "I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead." Another poem by this author begins "you do not do, you do not do." One author included this poet as the subject of his Birthday Letters. In another poem this poet claims, "Out of the (*) ash I rise" and "eat men like air," and also calls dying a theatrical art. This author of "Mad Girl's Love Song" compares her title relative to "a man in black with a Meinkampf look" in another poem. For 10 points, name this author of "Lady Lazarus," and "Daddy."

"The Waste Land"

The speaker of this poem asks, "Who is the third who walks beside you?" and in the first section Marie is told to "hold on tight" while sledding. An Evelyn Waugh ["wah"] novel was titled after this poem's line "I will show you fear in a handful of dust." The words(*) "Shantih shantih shantih" appear in the last section of this poem, "What the Thunder Said." For 10 points, name this Modernist poem that begins "April is the cruelest month," written by T.S. Eliot.

"My Last Duchess"

The speaker of this poem claims he "gave commands then all smiles stopped" after describing his choice "never to stoop." This poem ends with a description of a bronze statue by Claus of Innsbruck, depicting Neptune riding a seahorse. The narrator of this poem disapproves of the title character's(*) joy from gifts of a "white mule" and a "bough of cherries." In this poem, the subject of a portrait by Fra Pandolf has a heart "too soon made glad." For 10 points, name this poem, narrated by the Duke of Ferrara, written by Robert Browning.

My Last Duchess

The speaker of this poem complains that he does not have the "skill in speech...to make [his] will quite clear to such a one." Its speaker laments that the title character did not appreciate his "favour at her breast" or his "gift of a nine-hundred- years-old name" any more than "the dropping of the daylight in the West" or a "bough of cherries." The title character of this poem had a (*)​ "heart...too soon made glad" and called up a "spot of joy" while being painted by Fra Pandolf. Its speaker describes the title character "looking as if she were alive" in a painting, but insinuates that he had her murdered. For 10 points, name this dramatic monologue by Robert Browning.

"Daddy"

The speaker of this poem notes that "snows of Tyrol" and "clear beer of Vienna" are "not very pure or true." The title character of this poem is described as a "bag full of God," with a toe "as big as a Frisco seal." This poem's speaker has always been scared of "[the](*) Luftwaffe, [the] gobbledygoo" of the title character, who is described as "a man in black with a Meinkampf look." The speaker of this poem insists that "every woman adores a fascist." For 10 points, name this poem by Sylvia Plath, addressed to her father.

V.S. Naipaul

The speaker says "I must avoid infection / or else I'll be as dead as [this man]'s fiction]" in "The Mongoose," which Derek Walcott wrote as part of an ongoing feud with this man. In one of this man's novels, two latin mottos are explained by Father Huismans, who is killed before the Big Man takes power. One of his title characters ignores a warning to keep away from water, which causes his father to (*) drown trying to save a calf. That title character created by this author paints signs at Hanuman House for the Tulsi family, whose daughter Shama he marries. A Bend in the River and A House for Mr. Biswas were written by—for 10 points—what Trinidadian author?

fishermen

The stories of the "ensorcelled Prince" and of the Vizier and the sage Duban are embedded in a story about one of these people. In a Kalidasa play, one of these people retrieves Dushyanta's ring, thus triggering the title Recognition of Shakuntala. In the 1001 Nights, one of these people wonders out loud how a djinn could have fit in such a small pot, thus tricking it into returning. Another man with this profession dreams of (*) lions on the beach and often talks about the "Great DiMaggio." A man with this profession discusses his 84-day unlucky streak with the boy Manolin. For 10 points, name this profession of Santiago in Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea.

Samuel Beckett

The title character of one of this author's novels is tracked down by the detective Jacques Moran, and that novel is in a trilogy with Malone Dies and The Unnamable. In one of his plays, Nagg and Nell live in trashcans and that play also includes Hamm, who is unable to stand, and Clov, who is unable to sit. In his best known play, one character dances "The Net" after kicking another in the (*) shin, and that work is set around a tree. In that play, Lucky and Pozzo alternate roles between slave and master, and despite reassurance from the boy to Vladimir and Estragon, the title character never arrives. For ten points, name this Irish playwright who wrote Endgame and Waiting for Godot.

Aeschylus

The title character of one work by this man refuses to tell Hermes the identity of a man who could overthrow Zeus, and another work by him describes how Atossa summons a dead man who criticizes his son for a defeat which had happened earlier in the play; that son is Xerxes. This author of Prometheus Bound and The (*) Persians wrote another play which describes Athena's vote for acquittal in a trial with a 6-6 jury tie, and an earlier work by this man sees one character's wife roll out a purple carpet in preparation for her husband, and Cassandra is later killed along with the husband by that wife. For ten points, name this playwright who included Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides in his Oresteia Trilogy.

Ethan Frome

The title character of this novel looks through a window of a church to see a dancing girl in a red scarf, who is later dismissed by the protagonist's wife for breaking the wife's favorite pickle dish. Andrew Hale refuses to loan fifty dollars to this novel's protagonist, who drives the narrator during a snowstorm in(*) Starkfield, Massachusetts. Zeena is the wife of this novel's title character and has to take care of him and his lover after a "tragic accident." The title character and Mattie Silver crash a sled into an elm tree in, for 10 points, what novel by Edith Wharton?

Mexico

The title creature of a poem by an author from this country "rests upon hot coals" and "carves herself in the flame." An author from this country wrote "Salamander," and described "the turning course of the river" and "a willow of crystal, a poplar of water" in a poem that consists of 584 lines, corresponding to the days of an ancient culture's calendar. This country's culture was analyzed in the essays "The Sons of La Malinche" ["Mal-in-chay"] and "The Day of the(*) Dead." This is the home country of the author of "Sunstone" and The Labyrinth of Solitude. For 10 points, name this country, whose native son Octavio Paz was inspired by its ancient Aztec culture.

birds

These animals cry "What I do is me: for that I came" by catching fire, in a poem that compares them to dragonflies drawing flame. The speaker's "heart in hiding" stirred for one of these animals in a poem that begins "I caught this morning morning's minion." One of these animals is compared to a "poet hidden in the light of thought." (*) Gerard Manley Hopkins called one of them "dapple-dawn-drawn." Another of these animals pours its full heart in "profuse strains of unpremeditated art," and is asked to "Teach me half the gladness that thy brain must know." For 10 points, name this kind of animal that Percy Shelley hailed as a "blithe Spirit" in "To a Skylark."

calligraphy

This art form was used to commemorate the Orchid Pavilion Gathering in the Lan·ting·ji Xu ["shew"] by Wang Xizhi ["see jee"]. In Islamic lands, this art form passed through styles like naskh and kufic. Eight rules for making art of this kind are mnemonically derived from the word "Yong" in a variety of this art form called shu·fa ["SHOO fah"]. In the Islamic world, this art form's most common motif is the (*) basmala. In China, this art form follows strict rules concerning stroke order. In the West, this art was often combined with miniature painting to make large "initials." This is the premiere visual art in Islam, since depictions of humans are forbidden. For 10 points, name this art of fancy penmanship.

Octavio Paz

This author co-wrote a book with Eliot Weinberger examining nineteen translations of a poem by Wang Wei. Another work by this author discusses the divine nature of language from the perspective of the title character Hanuman. A poem by this man opens with the line (*) "willow of crystal, a poplar of water" and takes its number of lines from the Aztec calendar. This author of The Monkey Grammarian describes his country's natives as sons of an "Indian mother" and a "conquering Spanish father" in a book-length essay. For 10 points, name this Mexican author who wrote "Sunstone" and The Labyrinth of Solitude.

fun fact: Christie once disappeared for 10 days. To this day, no one but her knows what happened. #strangerthanfiction)

This author created Mrs. Oliver, an author who frequently relies on her "feminine intuition." This author's first novel was The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which introduced a character who often worked with Japp. One of this author's works is narrated by Dr. James Sheppard, the (*) killer of Roger Ackroyd, and this author created an elderly amateur detective named Miss Marple. In one of this author's novels, the residents of Soldier Island are killed one by one, and in another Hercule Poirot deduces that everyone on the title transport is complicit. For 10 points, name this author of And Then There Were None and Murder On the Orient Express.

H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells

This author described a draper who married his cousin, Miriam Larkins, in The History of Mr Polly. In another novel by this non-Orwell author, Ogilvy is killed while holding a white flag. Yet another of his novels features a man who uses Thomas Marvel as an assistant and schemes to kill Dr. Kemp. Edward Prendrick is the narrator of his novel about the title character's vivisections, The (*) Island of Doctor Moreau. This creator of Griffin also wrote about relations between Eloi and Morlocks, as well as a Martian invasion and a man who tampers with his refractive index. For 10 points, name this author of science fiction works The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, and The Time Machine.

Thomas Hardy

This author divided his books into categories like "novels of ingenuity" or "novels of character and environment," which includes his book The Woodlanders. In one of his novels, the protagonist's partner abandons him for Philotson while he's attempting to become a scholar Christminister. In that novel by this author, the note (*) "Done because we are too menny" is left before Little Father Time hangs himself. In another of this author's novels, the protagonist is arrested at Stonehenge after stabbing Alec and leaving Angel Clare. For 10 points, name this author of Wessex novels like Jude the Obscure and Tess of the D'Urbervilles.

Thomas Paine

This author inspired Henry George with his idea of a "citizen's dividend," a form of universal basic income. He claimed that only "blood and ashes" come from government by "crowned ruffians" in his most famous work. This author of Agrarian Justice helped popularize deism with his The Age of Reason. This author defended the French Revolution from (*) Edmund Burke's Reflections in his book Rights of Man. He described "the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot" who shrink from " the times that try men's souls" in "The American Crisis." This man argued that a small island can't rule a continent in a 1776 pamphlet. For 10 points, name this author of Common Sense.

James Arthur Baldwin

This author pleas for greater understanding and compassion from a specific ethnic group after recounting a dinner he once ate with Elijah Muhammad in the essay "Down at the Cross," and he wrote a novel that ends with David imagining scenes of a man's execution after David's fiance Hella discovers his homosexuality. In a novel by this author of Giovanni's Room and (*) The Fire Next Time, John Grimes bears witness to the violence of his step-father Gabriel, who is a zealous minister at the Harlem-located Temple of the Fire Baptized. For 10 points, name this author and civil and gay rights activist who wrote Go Tell it on the Mountain.

Eugène Ionesco

This author preceded The Future is in Eggs with a work about Roberta II's marriage to Jack. In another of his works, a man drowns people after offering to show them "a picture of the colonel," and in yet another, Jean declares, "Humanism is dead." A character in that play refuses to "capitulate" and also appears in this author's Exit the King and The (*) Killer. This creator of Berenger wrote The Chairs and a work about a husband and wife both named Bobby Watson, which describes the Smiths and Martins. In another of his plays, Daisy is the last person to turn into one of the title animals. For 10 points, name this Romanian-French absurdist playwright of Rhinoceros and The Bald Soprano.

Rudyard Kipling

This author spoke to the "Lord of our far-flung battle line" in a poem that repeats, "Lest we forget--lest we forget!" Another of this author's poems advises the reader to "fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run" in a poem that ends "you'll be a(*) man my son!" This poet of "Recessional" wrote about a water-bearer that the speaker claims is "a better man than I am." For 10 points, name this British poet of "Gunga Din" and "If--", who wrote about Mowgli in The Jungle Book.

Edmund Spenser

This author wrote "My verse your virtues rare shall eternize, / And in the heavens write your glorious name" in his sonnet collection, dedicated to his wife Elizabeth Boyle. This poet used the refrain "Sweet Thames run softly until I end my song" in his poem "Prothalamion." This author emulated Virgil's Eclogues ["ec-lo-gues"] in his poem The Shepheardes (*) Calendar. The character Gloriana represents Elizabeth I in this poet's most famous work, in which Una marries the Redcrosse Knight. For 10 points, name this author of The Faerie Queene.

Molière

This author wrote a comic Critique of one of his own plays to defend his ethics. William Wycherley drew heavily on that play by this author, in which Horace is able to meet and marry Agnes, despite the main character's attempts to hide her away from the world. In another of his plays, Damis is disinherited in favor of the title character, who steals a strongbox of incriminating documents, and is eventually (*) arrested by an officer of the king. The protagonist of that play by this author is hidden under a table while Elmire tries to expose the title "impostor." For 10 points, name this French comic playwright, who wrote The School for Wives and Tartuffe.

Rabindranath Tagore (or Rabindranath Thakur)

This author wrote a novel detailing fierce debates between the liberal Binoy and the staunchly religious patriot Gora. In one novel by this author, Bimala is drawn away from her educated, pacifist husband to the flamboyant nationalist Sandip. Besides The Home and the World, a collection by this poet includes a poem beginning (*) "Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure." This poet wrote a collection with a notable introduction by W.B. Yeats that led to this man becoming the first non-European to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature. For 10 points, name this Indian author of the Song-Offerings, or Gitanjali.

Eugene O'Neill

This author wrote about Eben Cabot, who goes to jail with his father's wife Abbie Putnam after she kills their baby in Desire Under the Elms. In another work by this author, the daughter of a steel tycoon, Mildred Douglas, calls the coal stoker Yank a "dirty beast." This man set another one of his plays in (*) Harry Hope's Saloon, where the "Great Salesman" Hickey tells his friends to give up on their pipe dreams. This author of The Hairy Ape wrote about the mother of the Tyrone family, Mary, who suffers from morphine addiction. For 10 points, name this American playwright of The Iceman Cometh and A Long Day's Journey into Night.

Thomas Pynchon

This author wrote about re-reading his old books in the introduction to his short story collection Slow Learner. In one of this author's stories, Callisto tries to nurse a bird to health and Meatball Mulligan holds a massive party. This author of (*) "Entropy" described John Nefastis supposedly inventing Maxwell's Demon in a book in which a conspiracy involving the sign of a muted horn and a postal organization named Trystero is uncovered by Oedipa Maas. In one of this writer's books, Tyrone Slothrop tries to locate a German V-2 rocket. For 10 points, name this author of The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow.

Guy de Maupassant

This author wrote about two men getting executed by a firing squad after going fishing, in his story "Two Friends." The title character of another of this author's short stories hides in a bell tower after stabbing a man in the neck with a cheese knife. In another story by this author, a carriage to Le Havre ["Le-arve"] is detained until Elisabeth Rousset sleeps with a (*) Prussian officer. This author of "Mademoiselle Fifi" also wrote a story about how Mathilde Loisel and her husband struggle to replace a fake piece of jewelry, which belongs to Madame Forestier. For 10 points, name this French author of "Ball of Fat" and "The Necklace."

Virginia Woolf

This author wrote an extended essay in which she states that women must be lifted out of poverty in order to write good fiction. In a different novel by this author, a character commits suicide after being involuntarily admitted to a psychiatric institution; the title character hears of the suicide of that character, (*) Septimus Smith, at a party she was hosting. In that work by this author, Richard is the "simple" husband of the title character, who is a London high society lady. This author's affair with Vita Sackville-West inspired one work by this author that is both a love letter and a satire; that w ork is Orlando. For 10 points, name this author o f Mrs. Dalloway.

Margaret Atwood

This author wrote six different variations of a story about John and Mary's death in "Happy Endings." This author, who retold the Odyssey from a female perspective in the Penelopiad, created a protagonist who steals butter to use as lotion and is resented by(*) Serena Joy. In that novel by this author, the protagonist plays Scrabble with the Commander, which is forbidden in the Republic of Gilead. For 10 points, name this Canadian author who wrote about Offred ["of-fred"] in The Handmaid's Tale.

Samuel Beckett

This author's fifteen-minute play A Piece of Monologue focuses on an old man speaking about death, and another of his plays sees the title character repeat the word "spool" while reflecting on his youth. In a play by this author, an old couple named Nagg and Nell live in ash bins, and the servant(*) Clov takes orders from their son Hamm. This author of Krapp's Last Tape and Endgame wrote about Vladimir and Estragon contemplating the hanging of themselves, as they perform the title action. For 10 points, name this absurdist playwright of Waiting for Godot.

Hermann Hesse

This author's last book contains poems about "Stages" and "Soap Bubbles" and ends with a story about Dasa killing his half-brother as one of a collected "Three Lives." In one of this author's books, the title character briefly works for the businessman (*) Kamaswami and falls in love with the courtesan Kamala before meeting the ferryman Vasudeva. In another of his books, Pablo brings Harry Haller to the Magic Theatre after Harry reads the title treatise about an animalistic man. For 10 points, name this German author of the books The Glass Bead Game, Siddhartha, and Steppenwolf.

Carlos Fuentes

This author's last novel centers on the conductor Gabriel Atlan-Ferrara's performance of The Damnation of Faust and his love for the title Inez. A character conceived nine months before the 500th anniversary of Columbus's journey narrates this author's Christopher Unborn. One of this author's novels is narrated by a (*) former tutor for the Miranda family, Harriet Winslow, who recalls the death of a character who is presumably Ambrose Bierce, while another of his novels is narrated from the deathbed by a Mexican tycoon. For 10 points, name this author of The Old Gringo and The Death of Artemio Cruz.

Rudyard Kipling Tiebreaker

This author's poem "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" was included in T.S. Eliot's namesake collection of this author's poems. This author's poem about Victorian-era manliness was addressed to his son, John, and begins with (*) "If you can keep your head when all about you." This author's poem about an English soldier in India who regrets the death of the title character, a bhisti, ends with the famous line, "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!" For 10 points, name this British author of "The White Man's Burden" and "Mandalay," also known for his novel, The Jungle Book.

Jack London

This author's short story collection, South Sea Tales, includes a tale about a pearl buyer named Charley who shares a boat with Otoo on the Pacific. This author's dystopian novel, told through two perspectives, begins with the scholarly narrator explaining that (*) Avis will be executed during the Second Revolt. Grey Beaver takes in Kiche and her half-wolf cub, the title protagonist of this author's novel, who kills Lip-Lip. For 10 points, name this American novelist who was a member of "The Crowd" and is known for stories like "To Build a Fire" and the novel The Call of the Wild.

Gospel of John

This book features the "other disciple"; that disciple is unnamed and is traditionally believed to be the title author of this biblical book. This Biblical book contains seven signs, culminating in (*) Lazarus rising from the dead. At one point in this book, Nicodemus inquires as to how a man can be born again; Jesus then proclaims, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son". That world-famous line is part of chapter three, verse sixteen of this book. For 10 points, name this non-synoptic Gospel, the fourth book found in the New Testament.

All Quiet on the Western Front (or Im Westen nichts Neues or anything similar to No News in the West)

This book opens with a note that it "is to be neither an accusation nor a confession," and Arthur Wesley Wheen originally translated it into English. This book is narrated in the first person until its end, which notes a day "so quiet and still" a report contains a single sentence. The protagonist of this book agonizes over (*) killing the Frenchman Gerard Duval, and receives Kemmerich's unused boots. One chapter after his friend Kat dies in his arms, the protagonist Paul Bäumer ["boy-mer"] is reported dead as well. For 10 points, name this notably unheroic novel by Erich Maria Remarque about the experiences of German soldiers in World War One.

Konstantin Levin

This character finds solace in plowing fields, where a bailiff tells him silently, "as God wills," and he is skeptical about the Slavic attempt to free themselves from Turkish rule. This man is initially rejected by his future wife (*) for a dashing military officer who has an affair with the title character of the novel in which he appears. A Russian landowner who becomes engaged to Kitty at a dinner party at the Oblonsky household, is for 10 points, what co-protagonist of the Leo Tolstoy novel Anna Karenina?

Peter Pan (accept just Peter, I guess)

This character first appeared in a group of short stories in which he hangs out with Maimie Mannering at some gardens. In an official sequel written by Geraldine McCaughrean, this character meets the circus master Ravello, who encourages this character to wear a scarlet coat. This character first appeared in (*) The Little White Bird, and the rights to him and the works he appeared in were left to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. This character created by J.M. Barrie is the leader of the Lost Boys, and he kidnaps Wendy out of her bedroom. For 10 points, name this boy who refuses to grow up, a resident of Neverland.

Lemuel Gulliver

This character is proud when he is allowed to kiss the tip of a certain royal woman's finger. This former student at the University of Leiden and former apprentice of James Bates is convicted of treason when he extinguishes a fire in a government building by urinating, and he discusses European society after fighting (*) giant wasps. During one section of the book in which this character appears, characters divide over how to crack eggs and split into the factions the Big- and Little-Endians. Those characters are under half a foot tall and hail from the island Lilliput. For 10 points, name this voyager, the title character of an adventure novel about some Travels by Jonathan Swift.

Dr. Lemuel Gulliver

This character learns from Lord Munodi about the disastrous effects of the Academy of Projectors, and later discovers that Alexander the Great died of alcoholism. This character is convicted of treason for urinating on a fire in a royal palace. He helps settle a conflict about(*) eggs between the Little and Big Endians before fleeing to Blefescu. This character returns home after spending time with the horse-like Houyhnhnms ["HWIN-ums"]. For 10 points, name this character who encounters tiny people in Lilliput and giants in Brobdingnag in a novel by Jonathan Swift.

Dr. John H. Watson

This character marries a woman whose father had conspired with Sholto and Small over a stolen treasure, and in his first appearance this character is introduced by Stamford to a man working on hemoglobin experiments. This man proposes to (*) Mary Morstan at the end of The Sign of the Four, and he resolves to start keeping journals after noting that Lestrade and Gregson were given credit at the end of A Study in Scarlet. This character was injured in the Second Afghan War before returning to Britain and sharing an apartment at 221B Baker Street. For 10 points, name this frequent companion to the detective Sherlock Holmes.

Lady Macbeth

This character observes that a man "resembled my father as he slept," and asks "good peers" to think of another character's reaction to an empty "stool" as "but as a thing of custom" that "spoils the pleasure of the time." After fearing that one character's nature is "too full o' the milk of human kindness," this character advises, "Screw your (*) courage to the sticking place." She tells the spirits, "Unsex me here," and claims that she would be willing to dash out a baby's brains, but she later sleepwalks, howling, "Out, out, damned spot" as she tries to wash the blood off her hands. For 10 points, identify woman who plots King Duncan's murder in a Shakespeare play titled for her Scottish husband.

Jean Valjean

This character saves a sailor trapped high in the rigging of a ship but then falls into the sea and is presumed dead. He is described as a "beggar who gives alms" before being smuggled into a convent in a coffin. This character demonstrates suspicious strength by saving Fauchelevent from being crushed under a wagon. He helps Enjolras during a (*) revolution, but is forced to escape through the sewers. He steals Monseigneur Myriel's silverware after being imprisoned for twenty years for stealing a loaf of bread. After becoming mayor of Montreuil-sur-Mer, he adopts Fantine's daughter, Cosette. For 10 points, name this character dogged by Javert, the protagonist of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables.

Mr. Darcy

This character states that he knows fewer than half a dozen truly accomplished women while ensconced in his best friend's library with Caroline and Mrs. Hurst. Mrs. Younge helps a militia officer seduce his younger sister, though this character foils Georgiana's elopement in time. This man irritates his love interest during a (*) ball at Netherfield by calling her "tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me," a snobbish gesture that offsets his "ten thousand pounds a year." After his first proposal is refused, he rescues Lydia from Wickham, earning Lizzy's gratitude. For 10 points, identify this master of Pemberley who marries Elizabeth Bennett in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

Oedipus (accept Oedipus Rex; accept Oedipus at Colonus)

This character's daughters are abducted by his brother-in-law after he fails to abduct this man, who will bring fortune to the city he is buried in. This character enters a grove sacred to the Furies despite being prophesied to die there. This man eventually dies at (*) Colonus, and he sends Creon to investigate a plague upon his city. A shepherd reveals receiving this man as a baby after he was left to die on Mt. Cithaeron. This father to Antigone killed Laius at a crossroads, despite Laius being his father, and he blinds himself after discovering he's slept with his mother. For 10 points, name this Greek figure, the title king of a play by Sophocles.

copies of Infinite Jest (accept "the Entertainment" or "samizdat" before mention)

This entity first appears in a package labeled "Happy anniversary" sent to a Saudi medical attache. Joelle van Dyne, the deformed Mario, and a man who later committed suicide with a microwave were instrumental in its creation. It was created by James (*) Incandenza, and this entity also called the "samizdat" is pursued by a group of "wheelchair assassins" agitating for Quebec separatism. This entity is so entertaining anyone who watches it wants nothing else, and its name comes from a Hamlet speech addressing Yoric. For 10 points, name this fictional film giving its title to David Foster Wallace's magnum opus.

Easter

This event titles a George Herbert poem that uses varying line lengths to look like the title "wings." A poem titled for this event claims "Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart" and describes people coming "from counter or desk among grey eighteenth-century houses" with "vivid faces." The speaker of that poem titled for this event recalls sharing "polite (*) meaningless words" with "MacDonagh and MacBride and Connolly and Pearse," and concludes: "all [is] changed, changed utterly: a terrible beauty is born." For 10 points, what Christian holiday titles a W.B. Yeats poem commemorating a failed Irish uprising in 1916?

Guinevere

This figure is struck by her sister in one of the Three Harmful Blows of Welsh mythology. After Meleagant's abduction of this person, a Sword Bridge was crossed by the Knight of the Cart to save her, and Gaheris perishes during the rescue of this woman from a burning stake, indirectly causing the Battle of (*) Camlann. Elaine of Corbenic disguises herself as this woman to get pregnant with Galahad. Her father, King Leondegrance, donated a Round Table upon her marriage to a man who pulled a sword from a stone. For 10 points, identify this Queen of Camelot and lover of Sir Lancelot, King Arthur's unfaithful wife.

Sesame Street

This location came into being with the help of research conducted by Harvard professor Gerald Lesser and the "CTW model." An episode poignantly discussed the death of this location's resident storekeeper Mr. Hooper, and a character from this location warns against finishing the "terrifying" book (*) The Monster at the End of This Book. To encourage children to report sexual abuse, this location's resident Mr. Snuffleupagus was proven as real. Shows set in this location are sponsored by numbers and letters of the alphabet. For 10 points, name this fictional location, the residence of Grover, Oscar the Grouch, and Big Bird.

Ezra (Weston Loomis) Pound

This man made the most recent complete English translation of the Book of Odes, a.k.a. the Classic of Poetry. Throughout his life, this poet translated works by Guido Cavalcanti and Confucius. In a "translation" by him, the speaker married "My Lord you" at fourteen, when her hair was "still cut straight across [her] forehead." This "translator" of "The River (*) Merchant's Wife" described the desire to "resuscitate the dead art of poetry" in "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley." He exhorted "Make it new!" and described "petals on a wet black bough" in a two-line Imagist poem. For 10 points, name this Fascist American poet who wrote "In a Station of the Metro" and The Cantos.

Yukio Mishima

This man purportedly played Hitler in one production of his play My Friend Hitler. This writer's namesake award was first given to Genichiro Takahashi's Japanese Baseball: Elegant and Sentimental. One of his essays describes how he realized his body was made of flesh while traveling on a ship, leading to his obsession with (*) bodybuilding. The protagonist attempts to fall in love with Sonoko but is tormented by his homosexual urges in another novel by this author, who tried to commit seppuku after a failed coup. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of The Temple of the Golden Pavilion.

Neil Gaiman

This man wrote a book about Tristran Thorn, who meets a fallen star that turns out to be the girl Yvaine. The first novel by this author of Stardust was a collaboration with Terry Pratchett about the Antichrist titled Good Omens. This man won the Newbery award for a book about a boy threatened by "the man Jack" and raised by supernatural spirits. A 2001 novel by this author of (*) The Graveyard Book centers on Shadow, who learns the conman Mr. Wednesday is the god Odin, and this man authored a comic series about the manifestation of Dream. For 10 points, name this English author of American Gods and the Sandman comic series.

(Sir) William Golding

This man wrote a novel ending with a man sealing his journal to hide details he's observed while a passenger on a converted man-of-war, as well as one ending with the reveal that the title character didn't actually survive the opening shipwreck. The most famous novel by this author of Rites of Passage and Pincher Martin ends with a naval officer arriving amidst what he believes are some (*) children's "fun and games." Symbols from that book by this man include a conch shell, a pig's head on a stick, and Piggy's broken glasses. For 10 points, name this British author who described a group of schoolboys disastrously interacting on an island in The Lord of the Flies.

Herman Melville

This man wrote a novel in which the protagonist is harassed by a corporal per the master-at-arms' request. In that work, the protagonist was originally a sailor on the Rights-of-Man, but then transfers to the HMS Bellipotent, where he is executed by Captain Vere after killing John Claggart. A more notable novel by this author contains the Zoroastrian prophet (*) Fedallah, who makes three predictions of a character's death. That work features the characters Starbuck and Queequeg aboard the Pequod, and begins with the phrase, "Call me Ishmael." For ten points, name this American author of Billy Budd, who wrote about Captain Ahab's persistent search for a whale in Moby Dick.

(Eugen) Bertolt (Friedrich) Brecht

This man wrote the libretto for a ballet chanté about Anna I and Anna II, The Seven Deadly Sins. He's not Turgenev, but Arkadi narrates one play by this author in which Azdak's ruling lets Grusha keep Michael because she refuses to pull him out of the title Caucasian Chalk Circle. Tiger Brown is forced to arrest the protagonist of another of his plays, who marries Polly Peachum in Act I and is introduced by the song (*) "Mack the Knife." One of his plays is set during the Thirty Years' War and is titled for Kattrin, Eilif, and Swiss Cheese, along with their matriarch. For 10 points, identify this German playwright of The Threepenny Opera and Mother Courage and Her Children.

Wole Soyinka

This man's 2006 memoir is titled You Must Set Forth at Dawn, and he used toilet paper to write his prison memoir The Man Died. This writer warned against interpreting his most famous play as a "clash of cultures," and that play opens with a man telling the story of the Not-I bird to the Praise Singer. (*) Baroka clashes with the school teacher Lakunle over the beautiful Sidi in his The Lion and the Jewel, and in this man's most famous play, Olunde kills himself in the place of his father Elesin after the British officer Simon Pilkings prevents a ritual suicide. For 10 points, name this Nigerian playwright of Death and the King's Horseman.

Around the World in Eighty Days

This novel begins with the firing of James Forster and the hiring of a servant whose watch is four minutes too slow. Near the end of this novel, the main character buys a boat to Liverpool, which he rips apart to fuel the boat. In this novel, a Parsee woman named Aouda is saved from being burnt to death in a Sati. (*) Detective Fix pursues this novel's protagonist throughout his journey to win a bet, which is won because of a miscalculation of the date. For ten points, name this Jules Verne novel about Passepartout and Phileas Fogg's journey to circumnavigate the globe.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

This novel is compared to Little Women for its virtuous sentimentality in an essay by James Baldwin concerning his distaste for it, Everybody's Protest Novel. A minor character in this novel, Prue, experienced the death of her child after she stopped producing breast milk, and another character does not believe she was ever born. That character, who is taught Christianity by Ophelia, is (*) Topsy. In this novel, Eva, the daughter of Evangeline St. Claire, meets the main character on a steamboat to New Orleans after he is sold by Arthur Shelby. After the protagonist refuses to disclose where Cassy and Emmeline have gone to Simon Legree, he is flogged to death. For ten points, name this novel about slavery, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Candide

This novel opens in the country of Westphalia but soon sees the protagonist banished for his triste with the baron's daughter. That baron's daughter is later saved from her captors by the daughter of Pope Urban X, an old woman with one buttock. In this novel, the protagonist and his (*) tutor experience an earthquake in Lisbon, after that tutor is executed and the protagonist flogged. This work sees the main characters die a number of times, but the end sees the four on a farm together. For 10 points, name this work in which Dr. Pangloss parodies Leibniz and metaphysicists, and the title character finds Eldorado, a work by Voltaire.

Wuthering Heights

This novel sees Zillah and Joseph serve in the home of the gloomy and morose protagonist, who is often called a gypsy because of his dark skin. In this novel, that protagonist returns with mysteriously acquired wealth and digs up his true love's grave so that he can see her one last time. (*) This novel, narrated by Nelly Dean and Mr. Lockwood, sees the protagonist marry Isabella to inherit Thrushcross Grange. For 10 points, name this novel which talks about Heathcliff's relationship with Catherine Earnshaw, the only novel by Emily Brontë.

Invisible Man

This novel's protagonist fulfils a drunk woman's fantasy by using lipstick to write "Sybil, you were raped by Santa Claus: Surprise" on her stomach. This novel's protagonist hears a speech about the "vision" of a college's Founder from Reverend Barbee, who turns out to be blind. Its protagonist mixes in ten black drops to make the purest "Optic (*) White." This novel's protagonist meets the Sambo-Doll seller Brother Clifton and works for Liberty Paints. This novel ends after Ras the Destroyer sparks a race riot, and it begins with its narrator forced into a "Battle Royale." For 10 points, name this novel by Ralph Ellison.

A Farewell to Arms

This novel's protagonist is challenged to a drink "by the corpse of Bacchus." This novel's protagonist leaves his lover's dead body, which was "like saying goodbye to a statue," and walks back to the hotel in the rain in its ending, which was rewritten 47 times. This novel's main female character is accused of having no shame by her former friend Helen Ferguson, who works with Lieutenant (*) Rinaldi. Its main female character dies in Switzerland after its protagonist flees the Battle of Caporetto. The Italian Campaign of World War I is the setting of—for 10 points—what novel about the nurse Catherine Barkley and ambulance driver Frederic Henry by Ernest Hemingway?

Lolita

This novel's protagonist likens "great thunderstorms" to an Aztec Red Convertible driver named detective Trapp. A Packard motor car hits Charlotte after reading the diary of this novel's protagonist, who is devastated when his childhood love Annabel(*) Leigh dies of typhus. The protagonist of this novel shoots the playwright of The Enchanted Hunters, Claire Quilty. For 10 points, name this novel about Humbert Humbert's obsession with the "nymphet" Dolores Haze, written by Vladimir Nabokov.

The Great Gatsby

This novel's title character has a library of books that are mostly uncut, signaling that they haven't been read. Towards the end of this novel, Meyer Wolfsheim refuses to attend the funeral for the title character. Earlier in this work, the eyes of Dr. (*) T.J. Eckleburg are painted on a billboard near the auto repair shop of George Wilson, whose wife is killed by a car crash involving the title character. That wife, Myrtle, was having an affair with Tom Buchanan, which angered his wife Daisy; however, she herself was having an affair with the title character. Nick Carraway is the narrator of - for 10 points - what novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald?

radio

This object titles a Hemingway short story about Mr. Frazer along with "the gambler" and "the nun." It's not a room, but an "enormous" ruins Irene's marriage in a story by John Cheever. Mrs. Organ Morgan and Captain Cat appear in a play which won the 1954 Prix Italia for its use of this device; that play is Dylan Thomas' (*) Under Milk Wood. This device is also used to distribute Panamericana's novelas, which are written by Pedro Comacho. Aunt Julia has a relationship with that scriptwriter for this medium. For 10 points, identify this medium which frightened audiences with an alien invasion when it broadcast Orson Welles' dramatization of The War of the Worlds.

Desiderius Erasmus

This person is credited with the phrase "Pandora's Box" after a mistranslating Hesiod's Pandora. This thinker wrote Manual of a Christian Knight urging people to look beyond the rites of religion and penned Education of a Christian Prince as advice for Emperor Charles V. This man assessed the need for church reform in his Sileni Alcibiadis, though he condemned Martin Luther in his (*) De Libero Arbitrio. This man's most famous work satirizes Catholic doctrine and superstition through support for the titular being who is nursed by "Inebriation and Ignorance". For ten points, name this early Dutch Humanist and author of In Praise of Folly.

Ithaca

This place is often described by the adjective chthamale or "low-lying." A story about a king of this place is compared to the Abraham and Isaac story in the first chapter of Erich Auerbach's book Mimesis. A bed in this place can't be moved since it's made of a living olive tree. A dog dies of excitement after seeing a king of this place, whose (*) identity is given away by a scar. A queen of this place daily unweaves a burial shroud to stave off a pack of suitors. It was ruled by a son of Laertes who returns to it in a namesake Homeric epic. For 10 points, name this island home of Penelope and Odysseus.

New York, New York

This place names the 24-volume collected works edition that Henry James put out from 1907 to 1909. In this city, the fall of Julius Beaufort induces a stroke in the obese matron Mrs. Manson Mingott. Morris Townsend backs out of marriage in this city when he finds out that Catherine Sloper would renounce her inheritance for him. This city's society is exemplified by May Welland, in contrast to the (*) Polish Countess Ellen Olenska, who is loved by Newland Archer. This city is the setting of Henry James's Washington Square and Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence. For 10 points, name this city where Bartleby the scrivener works on Wall Street.

Pygmalion

This play derives its name from a mythological character who sculpted his idealization of Galatea. The Eynsford-Hills feature in this play, in which two linguists make a (*) bet regarding whether the main character can learn to speak like a duchess. Professor Higgins therefore begins his endeavor to tutor that main character in proper speech, while Colonel Pickering agrees to pay Higgins's costs if he is successful. For 10 points, name this play in which Higgins successfully tutors cockney-speaking Eliza Doolittle, a play by George Bernard Shaw.

"Ode on a Grecian Urn"

This poem addresses a subject "That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloyed" because of its "All breathing human passion far above." One section of this poem asks "What men or gods are these?" and "What maidens loth?" to a (*) "Sylvan historian." The narrator of this poem claims that "soft pipes, play on" because "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter." This poem describes the title object as a "foster-child of silence and slow time," whose "silent form" reminds man that "Beauty is truth, truth beauty." For 10 points, name this poem about a title piece of ancient pottery by John Keats.

"Tintern Abbey"

This poem claims that there is "ample power / to chasten and subdue" in "the still, sad music of humanity." This poem's speaker claims "the sounding cataract / haunted me like a passion" as he tries to describe his younger days, with all their "aching joys" and "dizzy raptures." The final section of this poem is addressed to "my dearest Friend, / my dear, dear Friend," who is the poet's (*) sister Dorothy. This poem calls a river "thou wanderer thro' the woods," and its speaker recounts "five summers, with the length of five long winters!" since seeing the "Sylvan Wye." Lyrical Ballads ends with—for 10 points—what poem about a ruined monastery, by William Wordsworth?

"Dulce et Decorum est"

This poem describes a man's "hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin," and was originally written in the Craiglockhart hospital, like many others by its author. The speaker of this poem sees "an ecstasy of fumbling" by men who were (*) "bent double, like old beggars under sacks/knock-kneed, coughing like hags," and later pictures a man with "blood/come gargling from froth-corrupted lungs." This poem, which tells its reader not to "tell with such high zest" the title "Old Lie" gets its title from a work by Horace. For ten points, name this poem by Wilfred Owen, whose title means "it is sweet and honorable."

"Howl"

This poem describes people "surrounded by orange crates of theology" who "cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time." This poem was published by the City Lights Bookstore, and sees a figures throw "potato salad at CCNY lecturers on Dadaism." An "ancient heavenly connection" in this poem is yearned for by those (*) "angelheaded hipsters." The narrator of this poem repeatedly tells Carl Solomon that he's with him in Rockland. For 10 points, name this poem that begins, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness," which was written by Allen Ginsberg.

"Do not go gentle into that good night"

This poem was first published in Botteghe Oscure alongside the author's other poem "Lament," which the author remarked formed "a contrast" with it. This poem was published in the author's collection In Country Sleep, and Other Poems, and it variously describes "wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight," (*) old men whose words "had forked no lightning," and "grave men" near death. This villanelle was potentially addressed to the author's dying father, and it urges the addressee to "burn and rave at close of day" and to "rage, rage against the dying of the light." For 10 points, name this most famous poem by Dylan Thomas.

"Annabel Lee"

This poem was written about the author's young wife, Virginia Clemm, and says that the title character was born away by her "highborn kinsmen" and died because "The angels, not half so happy in Heaven/ Went envying her and me." (*) The title character of this poem is described by the speaker as "My life and my bride" and is said to have "lived with no other thought / than to love and be loved" by the speaker, who describes her as being laid to rest in a "tomb by the sounding sea." For 10 points, name this posthumously published poem by Edgar Allan Poe.

"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"

This poem's author added (exactly) three notes describing borrowing of phrases from Dante and Petrarch. This poem's original ending describes a "silent Tenour of thy Doom" instead of a "Youth to Fortune and Fame unknown" written in an "Epitaph" for the speaker himself. This poem's second section imagines a (*) "hoary-headed swain" guiding a "kindred spirit" to the speaker's grave. Numerous quotable lines from this poem include "Far from the madding crowd," "The paths of glory lead but to the grave," and "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day." For 10 points, name this poem set in a cemetery, an "elegy" by Thomas Gray.

"Song of Myself"

This poem's speaker is "now thirty-seven years old in perfect health" and notes "You shall possess the good of the earth and the sun." This poem's speaker asks "what is the grass?" before noticing a woman become the twenty ninth bather in a pool of twenty-eight male bathers. This poem's second stanza opens "I loafe and invite my soul" and its speaker sounds his(*) "barbaric yawp over the roof of the world." The speaker of this poem claims "every atom belonging to me as good as belongs to you," and that he "contains multitudes" For 10 points, name this poem, which opens "I celebrate myself," by Walt Whitman.

Petrarch

This poet begins one collection with a call to the reader, who hears "the sound. In scattered rhymes." This author dedicated his Epistolae Familiares ["Ay-pis-tow-lay Fa-mil-ee-ah-rays"] to Socrates, in which he described climbing Mont Ventoux ["Ven-too"]. This author wrote about Hannibal's invasion of(*) Italy in his epic poem Africa. This poet devised a poetic form consisting of an octave followed by a sestet. For 10 points name this Italian poet whose collection Il Canzoniere ["Can-zon-ee-ay-ray"] contains many sonnets to Laura.

Anne Bradstreet

This poet begins the Prologue to one poetry collection with "To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings." In another poem, this poet stated, "The world no longer let me love, / My hope and treasure lies above." In that poem, the narrator "blest His name that gave and took" after seeing "The (*) flame consume my dwelling place." She also wrote that "If ever two were one, then surely we" in another poem. For 10 points, name this female colonial poet who wrote "Verses Upon the Burning of Our House" and "To My Dear and Loving Husband" in her collection, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America.

John Donne

This poet compared exploring his lover's body to the exploration of America in "To His Mistress Going to Bed." One poem by this man describes "virtuous men [who] pass mildly away" and asserts, "Thy (*) firmness makes my circle just." This poet denied that a title entity was "mighty and dreadful," and he noted how the "two bloods" of him and his lover mingle after being "suck'd" by the title insect. One of this poet's Meditations contains the phrase "no man is an island." For 10 points, name this Metaphysical poet of "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Flea," and the Holy Sonnet "Death be not proud."

Sylvia Plath

This poet described how the stars "go waltzing out in blue and red" in a poem punctuated with the parenthetical phrase "(I think I made you up inside my head)." In a poem by this writer, "The peanut-crunching crowd / Shoves in to see / them unwrap me hand and foot." This person wrote a poem in which the speaker claims to (*) "eat men like air" and metaphorically rises from the dead. This author of "Mad Girl's Love Song" and "Lady Lazarus" calls the title figure a "bastard" in a poem in which she declares "I'm through." For 10 points, name this author of the poem "Daddy" and the novel The Bell Jar.

Anne Bradstreet

This poet described summer as the season where "first Sol doth in crabbed Cancer shine" in one of her four quaternions. In one poem, this poet "wakened was with thundering noise and piteous shrieks of dreadful voice" and in another she calls her work "thou ill formed offspring of my feeble brain." This author of (*) "The Author to Her Book" described her marriage by saying "if ever two were one, then surely we" in "To My Dear and Loving Husband." For 10 points, name this colonial Puritan poet who wrote "Verses Upon the Burning of Our House" and The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America.

e.e. cummings

This poet described the moon rattling "like a fragment of angry candy" in a poem about "the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls." This poet compares spring to a "perhaps hand," and another poem by him ends "it's always ourselves we find in the sea." This author created "a conscientious(*) objector" who was "more blond than you" and "more brave than me." "Sun moon stars rain" is the refrain of a poem by this author, which includes the parenthetical "with up so floating many bells down." For 10 points, name this poet of "i sing of Olaf glad and big" and "anyone lived in a pretty how town."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

This poet describes a "soul more white / never through fire of martyrdom was led / to its repose" in a sonnet he wrote after his wife's death. An epic poem by this author is named after an Acadian woman and begins "This is the forest primeval." This author of "The(*) Cross of Snow" and Evangeline wrote about a character who grows up "by the shores of Gitchee Gumee" and marries Minniehaha. For 10 points, name this American poet of The Song of Hiawatha and "Paul Revere's Ride."

Sylvia Plath

This poet ended the title poem of one collection by describing "the drive / Into the red / Eye, the cauldron of morning." In another poem, this writer said, "Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children" before noting the "domesticity of these windows." This poet penned a work which includes the line (*) "Ich, ich, ich, ich" in addition to "The Munich Mannequins," and in that poem, this writer describes the addressee as "A man in black with a Meinkampf look." In that poem, this writer tells the addressee, "I have had to kill you," before declaring, "you bastard, I'm through." That addressee is "Daddy." For 10 points, name this writer who wrote about Esther Greenwood in The Bell Jar.

William Cullen Bryant

This poet wrote a political satire about the "Curse of our nation, source of countless woes" in his poem "The Embargo." The speaker of another poem by this author notes that "the abyss of heaven hath swallowed up thy form" and asks the title creature "dost thou pursue Thy (*) solitary way." This man wrote another poem to a subject who "holds communion with [Nature's] visible forms". That poem exhorts the listener to "join the innumerable caravan" and approach death as one who "lies down to pleasant dreams." For 10 points, name this early American poet of "To a Waterfowl" and "Thanatopsis."

California

This state is the setting of a book whose last chapter begins by describing a "deep green pool" where the "periscope head" of a water snake twists from side to side. In this state, a man has a vision of his Aunt Clara, and his friend is comforted by Slim. A man who always wears a glove full of vaseline runs a farm in this state where (*) Carlson shoots Candy's dog. Two men entertain dreams of tending rabbits and "livin' off the fatta the land" while working in this state. After Curley's wife is killed in this state, George is forced to shoot the mentally handicapped man Lennie. For 10 points, name this state that's the setting of Of Mice and Men and other books by John Steinbeck.

the parable of the Grand Inquisitor (accept basically anything that mentions "Grand Inquisitor")

This story is preceded by the description of another in which the Virgin Mary visits hell. A "banner of earthly bread" and a refusal to perform a miracle are described in this story. One figure in this story is berated for giving people freedom by denying the three (*) temptations in the desert, and it ends with that figure kissing the title character on the lips after being condemned to burn as a heretic. This story describes the imprisonment of Jesus by the title Spanish religious official, and it is told by Ivan to his younger brother Alyosha in Book 5, Chapter 5. For 10 points, name this "parable" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky that appears within his larger novel The Brothers Karamazov.

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

This story opens with a quotation from the poem "Castle of Indolence." A tulip-tree in this story is named after Major Andre, and it contains a horse named Gunpowder. A character in this story attempts to cross a bridge to make another (*) vanish in "flash and fire," and Brom Bones competes with another character in this story for Katrina Van Tassel. The schoolteacher Ichabod Crane flees the title glen of this short story after an apparent encounter with the ghost of a Hessian soldier that leaves behind a shattered pumpkin. For 10 points, name this Washington Irving short story about the Headless Horseman.

The Iliad

This work was translated in 1990 by Robert Fagles and in 2011 by Stephen Mitchell. The image of an attacking lion is used in several similes in this work, and it describes the Cosmos and a warring city in a nine-part ekphrasis on a shield. This work notably ends with the pyre-burial of a (*) slain enemy, and its Catalogue of Ships describes the origins of several troops. This work opens in medias res with the line "Rage--Goddess, sing the rage of [...] Achilles," subsequently describing Achilles's killing of Hector. This work is usually paired with one in which Odysseus struggles to venture home. For 10 points, name this epic written by Homer about the Trojan War.

Ovid (or Publius Ovidius Naso)

This writer complained about the theft of a poetic foot preventing his writing a heroic epic, instead writing about his affair with Corinna. A collection of letters titled Tristia or "Lamentations" were written by this man after a "poem and error" caused his (*) exile to the Black Sea. This man wrote several letters from spurned heroines in his Heroidae. One of this writer's works has the Latin title Ars Amatoria and teaches skills in seduction, and another contains several mythological tales centering on transformations. For 10 points, name this Roman writer, the author of The Art of Love and The Metamorphoses.

e. e. cummings (or E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings)

This writer gave six "nonlectures" at Harvard. This poet fought to include an ampersand in the title of his first collection Tulips and Chimneys, which includes his poems "Thy fingers make early flowers of" and one about a "handsome man" who rode a "watersmooth-silver / stallion" and shot five (*) pigeons "justlikethat." This poet asked "how do you like your blue-eyed boy / Mister Death" in "Buffalo Bill's." This poet wrote about a "conscientious object-or" in "i sing of Olaf glad and big," and he wrote the poem "anyone live in a pretty how town." For 10 points, name this American poet who used irregular capitalization and punctuation.

Louisa May Alcott

This writer wrote a children's book in which a dog steals cake from Bab and Betty's tea party. This author of Under the Lilacs wrote a book featuring an unconventional school where all children have their own gardens and pets and is called Plumfield; that book by this woman was a sequel to a novel in which a character marries (*) Professor Bhaer after earlier declining a marriage proposal from her friend Laurie. In this author's most famous book, Beth contracts scarlet fever, eventually dying under the care of her sister Jo. For 10 points, name this author of a book about the March sisters titled Little Women.

Siddhartha

Two bananas are placed in front of this character after he finishes searching for his son. A woman steps on this character's foot as a mating gesture, but is denied. Before that exchange, this character has a dream where his friend turns into a woman and he nurses from the woman's breasts. This character silently stands in the (*) rain, in thorn bushes, and under the sun in order to achieve his goal of becoming empty. In addition to being taught by the Samanas, this character also learns to listen to the flow of the river from the ferryman Vasudeva. For 10 points, name this title character of a Herman Hesse novel set in ancient India.

Anna Karenina

Two characters in this novel discuss the differences between grassy and starchy cow feeds. One character in this novel befriends Varenka but becomes disillusioned after learning Madame Stahl's illness is fake at a spa in Germany. In this novel, one character is improperly upset after an accident at a horse race, and Stepan, also known as Stiva, is unfaithful to (*) Dolly. Levin eventually marries Kitty in this novel, though she earlier loved Vronsky. The title character of this novel throws herself in front of a train. For 10 points, name this novel named for a Russian woman, a work of Leo Tolstoy.

Glengarry Glen Ross

Two characters in this play racistly discuss the difficulty of dealing with "Patels." One character in this play pretends to be the American-Express executive Ray Morton and is crushed to learn the Nyborgs are deadbeats. Moss conceives a plan to sell some items in this play to Jerry (*) Graff, and James Lingk cancels a contract in it with a man who wins a contest to receive a new Cadillac. This play opens in a Chinese restaurant with Shelly "The Machine" Levine requesting access to the best "leads," which he later steals to avoid being fired. For 10 points, name this play by David Mamet about real estate salesmen.

Things Fall Apart

Villagers in this novel are shocked when the main character beats his wife during the Week of Peace. This beating occurs after Ojiugo, that wife, is accused of negligence. The main character of this novel kills (*) Ikemefuna after he is attacked by other men with machetes; this fulfills a prophecy made by One character in this novel is lazy and likes music to a fault. That character, Unoka, has a son who is his antithesis in terms of masculinity. That character is Okonkwo, the protagonist of this novel. No Longer At Ease is the sequel to, for 10 points, what novel by Chinua Achebe?

being headless

Warning: description acceptable. The second title character is given this trait in the most famous poem from the manuscript Cotton Nero A.x, which also includes the poems Patience and Purity. A character named for this trait is described by Brom Bones near Tarrytown in a story "written" by Diedrich (*) Knickerbocker and included in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. After proposing to Katrina Van Tassel, Ichabod Crane sees a Hessian trooper who was put in this state by a stray cannonball. This state is averted by Lady Bertilak's girdle after Gawain puts the Green Knight in this state. For 10 points, name this bodily state of a ghostly horseman in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

politics (accept The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, "Politics and the English Language," "Politics as a Vocation," or just Politics)

Water's stopping power is used to explain why Britain never conquered Continental Europe in a book about the "Tragedy" of this thing by John Mearsheimer. This is the first word in the title of a work that considers "dying metaphors" and "meaningless words," as well as in the title of one arguing the state has a monopoly on (*) physical violence. This work appears "as a Vocation" in the title of a Max Weber essay, and it's paired with "the English language" in a George Orwell essay. A work with this title describes the operations of the Greek city-state, or polis, and was written by Aristotle. For 10 points, give this term for the study of power and governance.

Eliza Doolittle

When this character is offered chocolates, she responds, "How do I know what might be in them?" A ring which once belonged to this character is hurled into a fireplace. After another character tells her to leave a note about him wanting tea instead of coffee for Mrs. Pearce, this character throws her (*) slippers at him. In Act One of the play in which she appears, this character worries a man is a police officer and takes a taxi secured by Freddy Eynsford-Hill. That scene takes place in Covent Garden and features Colonel Pickering, who bets against Higgins' ability to pass this character for a duchess. For 10 points, name this heavily accented flower girl created by George Bernard Shaw in Pygmalion.

Arabic

In a novel written in this language, a man whose first three wives commit suicide tries to forget about his past in Europe. This language of Season of Migration to the North was also used to write a novel in which Arafa is blackmailed into helping the Chief Strongman. In another novel in this language, a law student is killed by a soldier during a protest. In that novel, Amina breaks her collarbone in a car accident, (*) leading her husband to punish her for leaving the house without permission. Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street form a trilogy of novels written in this language. For 10 points, name this language of Naguib Mahfouz, the author of the Cairo Trilogy.

Chinua Achebe

In a novel by this man, John Goodcountry takes advantage of a famine to convert a village to Christianity, while another of his works features the corrupt Minister of Culture, Chief Nanga. This author's A Man of the People ends with the assassination of Sam, the dictator of Kangan, and this author labelled (*) Joseph Conrad a "bloody racist" in his essay An Image of Africa. Ikemefuna is killed by his adoptive father in the first book of this man's African Trilogy, which is set in the Igbo village of Umuofia. For 10 points, name this Nigerian author who wrote about Okonkwo fighting the loss of his culture in the novel Things Fall Apart.

Henrik (Johan) Ibsen

In one work by this author, a sculptor and his former model rekindle their relationship but die before their planned mountaintop marriage. In another of this man's works, the title character declares that "the majority is never right" in a town meeting after he is unable to fix the (*) public baths. This author of When We Dead Awaken and An Enemy of the People wrote about a doctor who contracts syphilis and sends letters with black crosses to the macaroon-eating protagonist. In that play, Krogstad blackmails the title character over a forged signature, and Torvald's possessiveness of Nora causes her to leave her family life behind. For 10 points, name this author of A Doll's House.

Guy de Maupassant

In one work by this author, an empty glass of water signals to the protagonist that his house is haunted. In another work by this author, the title character weeps as the strict Democrat Cornudet whistles the Marseillaise. In that same work, a group of travellers are detained at the village of Tôtes, where a (*) Prussian officer demands to sleep with a prostitute in exchange for the passage of the travellers. This author of "The Horla" and "Boule de Suif" is best known for a work which sees Mathilde Loisel work away youth to replace Madame Forestier's fake title accessory. For 10 points, name this author of "The Necklace."

(Socialist Republic of) Vietnam

It's not the United States, but an unnamed protagonist of a novel that takes place in this country flees to Los Angeles with "The General" and writes letters to the "Man". In this country, the setting of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer, the death of Curt Lemon causes Rat Kiley to repeatedly shoot a water buffalo. In this setting of "How to Tell a True War Story", Ted (*) Lavender dies while Lieutenant Jimmy Cross thinks of his lover Martha. Both of those works are found in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, which features American soldiers fighting in this country. For 10 points, name this Southeast Asian country that reunified after the 1975 Fall of Saigon.

red

One work with this word in the title is about a Yaksha town administered by a governor and his police, who symbolically stand for the Leviathan State machinery. In another work with this word in the title, each chapter is narrated by a different object or person, including a coin, a corpse, Satan, and this thing. That work is set during the reign of Sultan Murat III in winter 1591. This thing represents the (*) secular professions in a novel in which Julien Sorel has an affair with Madame de Renal. For ten points, name this color that describes the title flower of a Robert Burns poem.

The Handmaid's Tale

The main character of this work takes a daffodil, and places it under her pillow. During an execution, one character bashes the head of an accused in with a rock in order to give him a quicker death. One character tries to flee across the border, but is caught and tortured by The Eyes. That character goes to work as a prostitute at Jezebel's after escaping the Red Center and is named (*) Moira. The title of this novel refers to the position of the main character, a sort of concubine that exists only to reproduce. For ten points, name this novel set in the republic of Gilead about Offred, written by Margaret Atwood.

Yoknapatawpha County

The name of this place comes from two words meaning "split land." In the north of this place, the Tallahatchie river runs east to west. This place is the setting of a work about a woman who falls in love with a northern laborer and keeps his decaying body in her bed after his death. A map of this place appears in a novel narrated by (*) Rosa Coldfield. A character from this place commits suicide after his sister Caddy becomes pregnant. That character is Quentin Compson. For ten points, name this place based on Lafayette County, Mississippi that is the primary setting for all but four novels by William Faulkner.

Genji Monogatari

While traveling the countryside, the main character of this work meets a 10 year old girl and kidnaps her in order to turn her into the "ideal lady." In an earlier chapter of this book, a fortune-teller relays to the father of a main character that his country would descend into chaos if his son takes the throne, causing the son's removal from the line of succession. (*) After the title character's affair with his brother's concubine is revealed, he is exiled to Suma. One of this book's chapters is entirely blank to imply the death of the main character, who is assumed to have "vanished into the clouds." For 10 points, name this novel written by Murasaki Shikibu.