| It begins, "Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember" |
<i>Don Quixote</i> |
200 |
August 9, 2021 |
| Seen here is an engraving for the 12th & final segment of the Edmund Spenser work known as "The Shepheardes" this |
Calendar |
400 |
August 9, 2021 |
| In an S.E. Hinton novel, Motorcycle Boy tries to free the aquarium dwellers he calls these, the book's title |
<i>Rumble Fish</i> |
600 |
August 9, 2021 |
| The title domicile of this Hawthorne novel is halfway down Pyncheon Street |
<i>The House of the Seven Gables</i> |
800 |
August 9, 2021 |
| Hilary Mantel's trilogy about Tudor royals is named for this residence |
Wolf Hall |
1000 |
August 9, 2021 |
| Former NFL tight end Roberta Muldoon is a character in this John Irving novel |
<i>The World According to Garp</i> |
200 |
January 28, 2021 |
| Griffin, the main character in this Wells novel, describes himself as "almost an albino", if he could have been seen |
<i>The Invisible Man</i> |
400 |
January 28, 2021 |
| Perhaps the devil made him do it, but Part II of this dramatic Goethe work wasn't published until 1832, 24 years after Part I |
<i>Faust</i> |
600 |
January 28, 2021 |
| The title of this 14th century work may have been modeled on Hexameron |
<i>The Decameron</i> |
1000 |
January 28, 2021 |
| An unfinished sequel to "The 3 Musketeers", Dumas' "The Red Sphinx" continues the story of this real-life cardinal |
Richelieu |
|
January 28, 2021 |
| In this Steinbeck work, George kills his friend Lennie to spare him from a lynch mob |
<i>Of Mice and Men</i> |
200 |
December 23, 2019 |
| In this novel, after learning there are no grownups, Jack says, "We'll have to look after ourselves" |
the <i>Lord of the Flies</i> |
400 |
December 23, 2019 |
| This beloved novel whose first word is "Christmas" has been adapted for a Christmas 2019 movie, with Meryl Streep as Aunt March |
<i>Little Women</i> |
600 |
December 23, 2019 |
| Lila & Elena are pals in this first book of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet |
<i>My Brilliant Friend</i> |
800 |
December 23, 2019 |
| In 2019 his "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction" first came out as an e-book |
J.D. Salinger |
1000 |
December 23, 2019 |
| In 1850 he pitched his publisher a romance based on legends from southern sperm whale fisheries |
(Herman) Melville |
200 |
July 10, 2019 |
| George Orwell based Room 101 in "1984" on a real boardroom at this broadcast network where he spent many a long meeting |
the BBC |
400 |
July 10, 2019 |
| The name of this Moliere character was based on a word for "truffle" |
Tartuffe |
600 |
July 10, 2019 |
| Stephen Crane's "War Memories" were not about the Civil War but this later war, including the taking of Guantanamo Bay |
the Spanish-American War |
800 |
July 10, 2019 |
| Mentor Ezra Pound convinced this poet to cut half of "The Waste Land" |
(T.S.) Eliot |
1000 |
July 10, 2019 |
| Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" is subtitled "A Story of" this street of finance |
Wall Street |
200 |
June 3, 2019 |
| In a 1923 book by Kahlil Gibran, Almustafa is this mystical title character |
The Prophet |
400 |
June 3, 2019 |
| In "Charlotte's Web", Templeton is this creature |
a rat |
600 |
June 3, 2019 |
| In a novel Simone de Beauvoir depicted herself as Anne & this author of "The Stranger" as Henri |
(Albert) Camus |
800 |
June 3, 2019 |
| The title peak of this Thomas Mann novel is home to a Swiss sanatorium |
<i>Magic Mountain</i> |
|
June 3, 2019 |
| George & Lennie have dreams of living off the fat of the land in this Steinbeck tale |
<i>Of Mice and Men</i> |
200 |
May 5, 2017 |
| In "Les Miserables" he's imprisoned for 19 years after stealing a loaf of bread |
(Jean) Valjean |
400 |
May 5, 2017 |
| Dostoyevsky drew on his own experience in prison to write this 1866 masterpiece |
<i>Crime and Punishment</i> |
600 |
May 5, 2017 |
| This character says, "I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye" |
(Holden) Caulfield |
800 |
May 5, 2017 |
| This novel is about Ignatius J. Reilly, the Don Quixote of the French Quarter |
<i>A Confederacy of Dunces</i> |
1000 |
May 5, 2017 |
| Upton Sinclair refers to the Chicago stockyards as "Packingtown" in this 1906 novel |
<i>The Jungle</i> |
200 |
April 21, 2017 |
| She won a Pulitzer Prize not for "My Antonia" but for another Nebraska novel, "One of Ours" |
Willa Cather |
400 |
April 21, 2017 |
| His "Sevastopol Sketches" were based on the defense of Sevastopol in the Crimean War, in which he served |
Tolstoy |
600 |
April 21, 2017 |
| The movie "Simon Birch" was adapted from John Irving's novel "A Prayer for" him |
Owen Meany |
800 |
April 21, 2017 |
| At age 25 in 1774, young Goethe had a bestseller with "The Sorrows of" this young man |
Werther |
1000 |
April 21, 2017 |
| Kobayashi Issa mastered this form; Robert Hass translated one as "Don't worry, spiders / I keep house / casually" |
haiku |
200 |
January 27, 2017 |
| "Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause", the title of a 1961 novel |
<i>Catch-22</i> |
400 |
January 27, 2017 |
| This 1922 Hermann Hesse novel about a young Brahmin in India parallels the life of Buddha |
<i>Siddhartha</i> |
600 |
January 27, 2017 |
| In this Huxley novel, a major character is said to have "been the first to reveal the appalling dangers of family life" |
<i>Brave New World</i> |
800 |
January 27, 2017 |
| In 1904 James Joyce wrote "The Sisters" for the Irish homestead newspaper; the story later became part of this work |
<i>the Dubliners</i> |
1000 |
January 27, 2017 |
| In "Oliver Twist" Fagin teaches his young followers this type of theft |
pickpocketing |
200 |
January 19, 2016 |
| In Michel Faber's sci-fi novel "Under the Skin", these are captured & then fatted up for consumption |
people (or humans) |
400 |
January 19, 2016 |
| Her poem "I heard a Fly buzz--when I died" was suggested by a chapter in a Hawthorne novel |
Emily Dickinson |
600 |
January 19, 2016 |
| Born in Bombay in 1865, in 1907 he became the first British writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature |
Rudyard Kipling |
800 |
January 19, 2016 |
| On the "fifth day", as recounted in this 14th century collection by Boccaccio, the storytellers must tell tales of love |
<i>The Decameron</i> |
|
January 19, 2016 |
| Published in 1826, the second of the "Leatherstocking Tales" is "The Last of" these people |
the Mohicans |
200 |
December 7, 2015 |
| In 1964 this French author & existential philosopher turned down the Nobel Prize for Literature |
Sartre |
400 |
December 7, 2015 |
| "Of all who give gifts these two were the wisest", says "The Gift of the Magi" by this author |
O. Henry |
600 |
December 7, 2015 |
| Works like the novel "Dead Souls" made him one of the founders of Russian realism |
Gogol |
1000 |
December 7, 2015 |
| Rudyard's father J. Lockwood Kipling illustrated this 1901 novel with a very short title |
<i>Kim</i> |
|
December 7, 2015 |
| This Brit's own poor childhood inspired him to write books like "David Copperfield" |
Charles Dickens |
200 |
May 14, 2015 |
| Her books like "Sense and Sensibility" have a lot to do with love & marriage, but she never married |
Jane Austen |
400 |
May 14, 2015 |
| The first book in Stieg Larsson's trilogy about computer hacker Lisbeth Salander is "The Girl with" this |
<i>the Dragon Tattoo</i> |
600 |
May 14, 2015 |
| James Fenimore Cooper depicted the changing frontier in "The Last of" them |
<i>the Mohicans</i> |
800 |
May 14, 2015 |
| This Jazz Age author epitomized his time with works like "Tender is the Night" |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
1000 |
May 14, 2015 |
| This Tolstoy tome centers on the 1812 invasion of Russia & the ensuing Russian resistance |
<i>War & Peace</i> |
200 |
June 13, 2014 |
| This novel by Ken Kesey is set at a mental hospital |
<i>One Flew Over the Cuckoo\'s Nest</i> |
400 |
June 13, 2014 |
| Sal Paradise & Dean Moriarty decide to "beat" it across America in this modern classic |
<i>On The Road</i> |
600 |
June 13, 2014 |
| In a Thomas Mann tale, Gustav Von Aschenbach has a date with "death in" this city |
Venice |
800 |
June 13, 2014 |
| 12th century England is the setting of Ken Follett's historical novel these "of the Earth" |
Pillars |
1000 |
June 13, 2014 |
| Estate Gamekeeper Oliver Mellors is the title paramour in this D.H. Lawrence novel |
<i>Lady Chatterley\'s Lover</i> |
200 |
December 20, 2013 |
| Inspector Porfiry Petrovich is on the case in this 1866 novel |
<i>Crime & Punishment</i> |
400 |
December 20, 2013 |
| The line "no country for old men" comes from this Irishman's poem "Sailing To Byzantium" |
(William Butler) Yeats |
600 |
December 20, 2013 |
| Richard Wright wrote "Native Son"; this African-American writer put out "Notes Of A Native Son" |
James Baldwin |
800 |
December 20, 2013 |
| He wrote that "naked lunch" means "a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on... every fork" |
(William S.) Burroughs |
1000 |
December 20, 2013 |
| Our copy of this 1865-69 Tolstoy work is 1,444 pages long |
<i>War and Peace</i> |
200 |
June 30, 2008 |
| Many say that Tu Fu was this country's greatest poet |
China |
400 |
June 30, 2008 |
| (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from New York's Central Park.) Central Park's Literary Walk features Robert Burns & this great novelist & countryman, both sculpted by John Steell of Aberdeen |
Sir Walter Scott |
600 |
June 30, 2008 |
| In Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" , this bawdy wife tells of her 5 husbands & her desire for a sixth |
the Wife of Bath |
800 |
June 30, 2008 |
| Flaubert led this movement in French literature also called naturalism |
realism |
1000 |
June 30, 2008 |
| In a Defoe novel, this companion is described as "a comely handsome fellow" |
Friday |
200 |
May 7, 2008 |
| "Jo's Boys" was the second sequel to this 19th century novel |
<i>Little Women</i> |
400 |
May 7, 2008 |
| Richard Middlemas gets crushed by an elephant in "The Surgeon's Daughter", an 1827 tale by this Edinburgher |
Sir Walter Scott |
800 |
May 7, 2008 |
| The NYC murder of Mary Rogers inspired Poe, who changed the setting to Paris & created "The Mystery of" her |
Marie Roget |
1000 |
May 7, 2008 |
| Chapter 48 of this English novel deals with "The Flight of Sikes"--Bill Sikes |
<i>Oliver Twist</i> |
|
May 7, 2008 |
| Of Pastism, Presentism or Futurism, the literary movement that began around 1909 |
Futurism |
200 |
November 20, 2006 |
| (Jon of the Clue Crew stands next to a statue in the harbor of Copenhagen, Denmark.) This author once said that "The Little Mermaid" was the only one of his stories he felt moved by when he wrote it |
Hans Christian Andersen |
400 |
November 20, 2006 |
| "The Miller's Tale" is one of the naughtiest of these famous Chaucer stories |
<i>The Canterbury Tales</i> |
600 |
November 20, 2006 |
| The prep school classic "A Separate Peace" takes place during this war |
the Second World War |
800 |
November 20, 2006 |
| This scary Edgar Allan Poe story takes place at a spooky masked ball given by a prince |
<i>The Masque of the Red Death</i> |
1000 |
November 20, 2006 |
| Chapter 13 of this classic novel is called "Another View of Hester" |
<i>The Scarlet Letter</i> |
200 |
March 29, 2006 |
| He published the first 4 of his fairy tales in an 1835 pamphlet; "The Tinder Box" was among them |
Hans Christian Andersen |
400 |
March 29, 2006 |
| Nicodemus Frapp is a narrow-minded evangelist in "Tono-Bungay", a 1909 novel by this author of "The Time Machine" |
H.G. Wells |
600 |
March 29, 2006 |
| This author of "The Good Earth" based the heroine of her 1938 novel "This Proud Heart" on herself |
Pearl Buck |
800 |
March 29, 2006 |
| In Wonderland, Alice comes across a large one of these with a snooty caterpillar atop it |
a mushroom |
1000 |
March 29, 2006 |
| "Child of the Morning" is the story of Hatshepsut, a woman who ruled this country as a pharaoh |
Egypt |
200 |
October 19, 2004 |
| This Danish fairy tale author wrote an autobiography called "The Fairy Tale of My Life" |
Hans Christian Andersen |
400 |
October 19, 2004 |
| His first "Jungle Book" was so popular that he published his "Second Jungle Book" in 1895 |
Rudyard Kipling |
600 |
October 19, 2004 |
| This author said that he was acting in a play with his kids when he came up with the idea for "A Tale of Two Cities" |
Charles Dickens |
1000 |
October 19, 2004 |
| Chapter 25 of this book is called "The First Wedding" & it described Meg's marriage to John Brooke |
<i>Little Women</i> |
|
October 19, 2004 |
| The cheery first "Masterpiece Theatre" season included "Jude the Obscure" & this Russian's "The Possessed" |
Dostoevsky |
200 |
March 15, 2004 |
| "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys is the story of the mad wife of this "Jane Eyre" character |
Rochester |
400 |
March 15, 2004 |
| A fling with the valet is one of the escapades of this Strindberg title "Miss" |
<i>Miss Julie</i> |
800 |
March 15, 2004 |
| "I Married a Communist", "The Human Stain" & "American Pastoral" make up a recent trilogy by this novelist |
Philip Roth |
1000 |
March 15, 2004 |
| In 1856 Revue de Paris readers followed this tale of the miserable wife of a boring doctor |
<i>Madame Bovary</i> |
|
March 15, 2004 |
| Walt Whitman's 52-section "Song Of Myself" is the longest work in this collection first published in 1855 |
"Leaves of Grass" |
100 |
March 23, 2001 |
| In this Steinbeck novel, Lennie has nightmarish visions of his dead aunt Clara & of a gigantic rabbit |
"Of Mice and Men" |
200 |
March 23, 2001 |
| In this novel, Javert says, "There is a brigand, there is a convict called Jean Valjean, and I have got him!" |
"Les Miserables" |
300 |
March 23, 2001 |
| This James M. Cain novel, which has been filmed "twice", was written under the title "Bar-B-Q" |
"The Postman Always Rings Twice" |
400 |
March 23, 2001 |
| This Muriel Spark novel is set at the Marcia Blaine School For Girls in Edinburgh |
"The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" |
500 |
March 23, 2001 |
| This title French schoolgirl created by Ludwig Bemelmans is often found at the end of the line |
Madeline |
100 |
May 1, 2000 |
| In the title of a 14th century work, Sir Gawain is paired with this "knight" |
the Green Knight |
200 |
May 1, 2000 |
| A rundown Mexican hotel is the setting for "The Night of the Iguana", a play by this writer |
Tennessee Williams |
300 |
May 1, 2000 |
| This 1942 French novel begins, "Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure." |
<i>The Stranger</i> (<i>L\'Etranger</i>) |
400 |
May 1, 2000 |
| Despite its title, this 1848 Charles Dickens novel is ultimately about a father & his daughter, not his son |
<i>Dombey and Son</i> |
500 |
May 1, 2000 |
| William Faulkner's novel "Mosquitoes" satirizes the literary life in this Louisiana city |
New Orleans |
100 |
April 10, 2000 |
| Ford Madox Ford's 4-novel series "Parade's End" is set during & after this war in which Ford himself was shell-shocked |
World War I |
200 |
April 10, 2000 |
| "For men may come and men may go, but I go on forever", this "Lord" of poetry babbled in "The Brook" |
Alfred Lord Tennyson |
300 |
April 10, 2000 |
| The title of this Willa Cather novel refers to a certain Ms. Shimerda |
"My Antonia" |
500 |
April 10, 2000 |
| This 1871 sequel is subtitled "Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys" |
"Little Men" |
|
April 10, 2000 |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote that he "lived on in his wild, jungle existence with little change for several years" |
Tarzan |
100 |
December 13, 1999 |
| His 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises" has been published in England as "Fiesta" |
Ernest Hemingway |
200 |
December 13, 1999 |
| "The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies" was a follow-up to her stories of Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny |
Beatrix Potter |
300 |
December 13, 1999 |
| She made Tom Sawyer whitewash her fence |
Aunt Polly |
400 |
December 13, 1999 |
| This title home of a Hawthorne tale has "an elm-tree of wide circumference, rooted before the door" |
"The House of the Seven Gables" |
500 |
December 13, 1999 |
| In "A Study in Scarlet", he told Holmes, "I have all the facts in my journal, and the public shall know them" |
Watson |
100 |
October 1, 1999 |
| In 1823 James Fenimore Cooper wrote "The Pioneers", the first in the series of these "tales" |
Leatherstocking Tales |
200 |
October 1, 1999 |
| "I must go, Cathy", said Heathcliff, seeking to extricate himself from his companion's arms in this novel |
"Wuthering Heights" |
300 |
October 1, 1999 |
| George Du Maurier introduced this evil hypnotist in his 1894 novel "Trilby" |
Svengali |
400 |
October 1, 1999 |
| Wilkins is the first name of this "David Copperfield" character who's always waiting "in case anything turned up" |
Mr. Micawber |
500 |
October 1, 1999 |
| Chapter 7 of this Louisa May Alcott novel is entitled "Amy's Valley of Humiliation" |
"Little Women" |
100 |
May 1, 1998 |
| His "Jungle Book" prose begins, "It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee Hills..." |
Rudyard Kipling |
200 |
May 1, 1998 |
| "I believe you think me a fiend!" says Heathcliff "with his dismal laugh" in this novel |
"Wuthering Heights" |
300 |
May 1, 1998 |
| In this novel, Sancho Panza is described as a poor, honest man "without much salt in his brain-pan" |
"Don Quixote" |
400 |
May 1, 1998 |
| This Tolstoy epic of Russian society between 1805 & 1815 contains more than 500 characters |
"War and Peace" |
500 |
May 1, 1998 |
| In the Andersen tale, at age 15 she swims to the ocean's surface & views the world above for the first time |
The Little Mermaid |
100 |
December 5, 1997 |
| In this H.G. Wells novel, the first Martian spaceship lands near the town of Woking |
<i>War of the Worlds</i> |
200 |
December 5, 1997 |
| Tom Canty, born in a slum called Offal Court, & Edward Tudor are the title characters in this Twain novel |
<i>The Prince and the Pauper</i> |
300 |
December 5, 1997 |
| Leora, the wife of this Sinclair Lewis doctor, dies of bubonic plague on the island of St. Hubert |
Arrowsmith |
500 |
December 5, 1997 |
| In this novel, Mr. Charrington, who runs an antique shop, is actually a member of the Thought Police |
"1984" |
|
December 5, 1997 |
| This English lord dedicated an 1880 volume of poetry to his grandson, who was also named Alfred |
Alfred Lord Tennyson |
100 |
May 16, 1997 |
| His famous story "The Tell-Tale Heart" tells us, "It was not the old man who vexed me, but his evil eye" |
Edgar Allan Poe |
200 |
May 16, 1997 |
| 18-year-old Carrie Meeber leaves her Wisconsin home & moves to Chicago in this Theodore Dreiser novel |
<i>Sister Carrie</i> |
300 |
May 16, 1997 |
| In this Orwell novel, the Ministry of Peace, also known as Minipax, concerns itself with war |
<i>1984</i> |
400 |
May 16, 1997 |
| In the last years of his life, he devoted many of his working hours to "Finnegans Wake" |
James Joyce |
500 |
May 16, 1997 |
| 2 old Quakers, Captain Peleg & Captain Bildad, are part-owners of the Pequod in this 1851 novel |
<i>Moby-Dick</i> |
100 |
April 16, 1997 |
| In this novel, d'Artagnan, a native of Gascony, is described as "Don Quixote at 18" |
<i>The Three Musketeers</i> |
200 |
April 16, 1997 |
| In "Good Wives", the second part of this novel, Aunt March dies & leaves her home, Plumfield, to Jo |
<i>Little Women</i> |
300 |
April 16, 1997 |
| In a Thomas Hardy novel, grain merchant Michael Henchard serves in this title political office |
<i>The Mayor of Casterbridge</i> |
500 |
April 16, 1997 |
| William Makepeace Thackeray wrote that "Some of the love passages" of this Charlotte Bronte work "made me cry" |
<i>Jane Eyre</i> |
|
April 16, 1997 |
| This Dickens novel about a foundling is subtitled "The Parish Boy's Progress" |
<i>Oliver Twist</i> |
100 |
April 11, 1997 |
| His "Anna Karenina" was originally published in installments between 1875 & 1877 |
Leo Tolstoy |
200 |
April 11, 1997 |
| It's the English title of Isabel Allende's novel "La Casa de los Espiritus" |
<i>The House of the Spirits</i> |
300 |
April 11, 1997 |
| William Dean Howells wrote of Silas Lapham & she wrote of "Silas Marner" |
George Eliot |
400 |
April 11, 1997 |
| In this 1979 book Norman Mailer told the story of convicted killer Gary Gilmore |
<i>The Executioner\'s Song</i> |
500 |
April 11, 1997 |
| Alex Haley's first major work was "The Autobiography Of" this black militant leader |
Malcolm X |
100 |
March 27, 1997 |
| Many of the Dublin locales he personally frequented are featured in his book "Ulysses" |
James Joyce |
200 |
March 27, 1997 |
| In its original language, this Jules Verne novel is known as "Vingt mille lieues sous les mers" |
<i>Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea</i> |
300 |
March 27, 1997 |
| "Buffalo Girls" & "The Evening Star" are among this "Lonesome Dove" author's recent novels |
Larry McMurtry |
400 |
March 27, 1997 |
| In 1914, 146 of this late American's poems were published by her niece under the title "The Single Hound" |
Emily Dickinson |
500 |
March 27, 1997 |
| 17-year-old Holden Caulfield is the narrator of this acclaimed 1951 novel |
<i>The Catcher in the Rye</i> |
100 |
February 3, 1997 |
| "Kholstomer" by this "War And Peace" author is a satire on human beings from a horse's point of view |
Leo Tolstoy |
200 |
February 3, 1997 |
| "Mercedes of Castile" is a lesser-known novel by this author of "The Leather-Stocking Tales" |
James Fenimore Cooper |
300 |
February 3, 1997 |
| His third published novel, "Sartoris", was the first he set in Yoknapatawpha County |
William Faulkner |
400 |
February 3, 1997 |
| The Man of Law's Tale in this Chaucer work tells the story of Constance, an emperor's daughter |
<i>The Canterbury Tales</i> |
500 |
February 3, 1997 |
| Some say Cervantes wrote a portion of this 1605 novel in jail |
<i>Don Quixote</i> |
100 |
January 30, 1997 |
| This commander of the Nautilus was actually an Indian prince named Dakkar |
Captain Nemo |
200 |
January 30, 1997 |
| In an Edward Lear poem, the owl & the pussycat go to sea in a boat of this color |
pea green |
300 |
January 30, 1997 |
| Aunt Chloe is his wife & Arthur Shelby is his master in Kentucky |
Uncle Tom |
400 |
January 30, 1997 |
| Harry Haller is the title character of this Herman Hesse novel |
Steppenwolf |
500 |
January 30, 1997 |
| Mowgli's song "Against People" appears in this author's "Second Jungle Book" |
Rudyard Kipling |
100 |
February 2, 1996 |
| In chapter 2 of this Tolstoy novel, Princess Bolkonsky says, "Tell me what this war is about" |
"War And Peace" |
200 |
February 2, 1996 |
| This Edgar Allan Poe story concerns "a masked ball of the most unusual magnificence" |
"Masque of the Red Death" |
300 |
February 2, 1996 |
| This "Babbitt" author published his 1st novel, "Hike And The Aeroplane", under the pseudonym Tom Graham |
Sinclair Lewis |
400 |
February 2, 1996 |
| This "Brave New World" author's 1921 novel "Crome Yellow" abounds with eccentric characters |
Aldous Huxley |
500 |
February 2, 1996 |
| This historic figure is the subject of Joel Barlow's epic 1807 poem "The Columbiad" |
Christopher Columbus |
100 |
October 31, 1995 |
| This "Our Town" playwright's novel "The Woman of Andros" was inspired by an ancient Roman comedy |
(Thornton) Wilder |
200 |
October 31, 1995 |
| Boxer is a noble cart horse in this George Orwell novel |
<i>Animal Farm</i> |
300 |
October 31, 1995 |
| His first volume of verse, "Prufrock and Other Observations", was published in 1917 |
(T.S.) Eliot |
400 |
October 31, 1995 |
| In 1941 he published "The Ill-Made Knight", the 3rd part of his literary work "The Once and Future King" |
(T.H.) White |
500 |
October 31, 1995 |
| In this novel the slogan "Big Brother Is Watching You" appears on large posters |
<i>1984</i> |
100 |
May 30, 1995 |
| In "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea", the name of this captain of the Nautilus means "nobody" |
Captain Nemo |
200 |
May 30, 1995 |
| The last Erle Stanley Gardner novel to feature this attorney was 1973's "The Case of the Postponed Murder" |
Perry Mason |
300 |
May 30, 1995 |
| In 1932 this Pearl Buck novel was dramatized by Owen & Donald Davis |
<i>The Good Earth</i> |
400 |
May 30, 1995 |
| At the end of a Sinclair Lewis novel, this physician retires to a Vermont farm to make serum |
Arrowsmith |
|
May 30, 1995 |
| This "Red Badge of Courage" author wrote his shipwreck story "The Open Boat" after surviving a shipwreck |
Stephen Crane |
100 |
May 4, 1994 |
| Thomas Wolfe told this author, "'Tender is the Nigh' had in it the best work you have ever done" |
(F. Scott) Fitzgerald |
200 |
May 4, 1994 |
| This Daniel Defoe character may have been inspired by the notorious thief Moll King |
Moll Flanders |
300 |
May 4, 1994 |
| Chapter I of this George Eliot novel is entitled "Outside Dorlcote Mill" |
<i>The Mill on the Floss</i> |
400 |
May 4, 1994 |
| Virgil based the last 6 books of this epic on the "Iliad" |
<i>Aeneid</i> |
500 |
May 4, 1994 |
| His stories include "The Man Who Was" and "The Man Who Would Be King" |
Rudyard Kipling |
100 |
December 14, 1992 |
| John Galsworthy's 1906 work "The Man of Property" was the first in this series of novels |
The Forsyte Saga |
200 |
December 14, 1992 |
| This 1852 work was subtitled "Life Among the Lowly" |
<i>Uncle Tom\'s Cabin</i> |
300 |
December 14, 1992 |
| In this Ernest Hemingway story, an author awaits death while on an African safari |
<i>The Snows of Kilimanjaro</i> |
400 |
December 14, 1992 |
| This 1837 Nathaniel Hawthorne collection contained 39 of his stories |
<i>The Twice-Told Tales</i> |
|
December 14, 1992 |
| In a Victor Hugo novel, Parisians choose him the "Prince of Fools" |
Quasimodo |
100 |
November 25, 1992 |
| Chapter 1 of this Mark Twain book is entitled "Camelot" |
<i>A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur\'s Court</i> |
200 |
November 25, 1992 |
| The 1855 autobiography of this Dane is "The Fairy Tale of My Life" |
Hans Christian Andersen |
300 |
November 25, 1992 |
| In this Sir Walter Scott novel, a 12th century Saxon knight is in love with Rowena |
<i>Ivanhoe</i> |
400 |
November 25, 1992 |
| This author's third novel about Harry Angstrom won him a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1982 |
(John) Updike |
|
November 25, 1992 |
| He turned from horror to fantasy for his 1987 novel "The Eyes of the Dragon" |
Stephen King |
100 |
May 24, 1991 |
| This translator of the Rubaiyat was known to Thackeray & Tennyson as "Old Fitz" |
Edward FitzGerald |
200 |
May 24, 1991 |
| 2 centuries before Shakespeare, this medieval English poet tackled "Troilus and Criseyde" |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
300 |
May 24, 1991 |
| T.S. Eliot, not an aged marsupial, wrote "Old Possum's Book of" these "Practical" creatures |
Cats |
100 |
May 22, 1989 |
| Aldous Huxley got its title from "The Tempest" & set it in the year 632 AF (after Ford) |
<i>Brave New World |
200 |
May 22, 1989 |
| Of S.C. Foster, E. M. Forster or C.S. Forester, the one who wrote "The African Queen" |
C.S. Forester |
300 |
May 22, 1989 |
| "Across Spoon River" was the title of his 1936 autobiography |
Edgar Lee Masters |
400 |
May 22, 1989 |
| This heroine of "Vanity Fair" is a scheming social climber, unlike her more virtuous friend Amelia |
Becky Sharp |
500 |
May 22, 1989 |
| In "A Christmas Carol", Scrooge 1st says "Humbug" when his nephew Fred does this |
wishing him a "Merry Christmas!" |
100 |
October 13, 1988 |
| A classic 1826 novel by Sir Walter Scott, or a classic 1969 rock concert in upstate New York |
<i>Woodstock</i> |
200 |
October 13, 1988 |
| This pivotal animal from "Alice in Wonderland" became the title of a classic 1967 acid rock hit |
White Rabbit |
300 |
October 13, 1988 |
| "Cannery Row"'s California community |
Monterey |
400 |
October 13, 1988 |
| In "The Prince & the Pauper", the prince is the son of this English king |
Henry VIII |
500 |
October 13, 1988 |
| Since 1918, the "O. Henry Awards" have been given to outstanding examples of this form |
a short story |
100 |
January 12, 1988 |
| The "History of New York... by Diedrich Knickerbocker" was actually written by him |
Washington Irving |
200 |
January 12, 1988 |
| The title of this famous Anita Loos work states that they "Prefer Blondes" |
gentlemen |
300 |
January 12, 1988 |
| Thomas Mann's "Magic Mountain" is set in a Swiss sanatorium for this disease |
tuberculosis |
400 |
January 12, 1988 |
| Peter Quint & Miss Jessel are the ghosts in this Henry James ghost story |
<i>The Turn of the Screw</i> |
500 |
January 12, 1988 |
| In "Of Mice & Men", George was going to let him take care of the rabbits |
Lennie |
100 |
October 13, 1987 |
| He adapted "Rip Van Winkle" & "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" from German folk tales |
Washington Irving |
200 |
October 13, 1987 |
| Oscar Wilde's only full length novel, it's the portrait of an artist's subject as an eternally young man |
<i>The Picture of Dorian Gray</i> |
300 |
October 13, 1987 |
| The "Memories" this Italian lover penned between 1826-38 were written in French & filled 12 volumes |
Casanova |
400 |
October 13, 1987 |
| "Steppenwolf"s central figure, Harry Haller, shares the same initials with this man, the author |
Hermann Hesse |
500 |
October 13, 1987 |
| "The Scarlet Letter" was this letter of the alphabet |
A |
100 |
March 18, 1986 |
| Tolstoy novel set against the Napoleonic invasion of Russia |
<i>War and Peace</i> |
200 |
March 18, 1986 |
| While living in VT., he wrote "The 7 Seas", "Captains Courageous", & the 2 "Jungle Books" |
Rudyard Kipling |
300 |
March 18, 1986 |
| Middle name of "Quaker poet" John Whittier |
Greenleaf |
400 |
March 18, 1986 |
| Praised for his use of English, this Polish-born author of "Typhoon" knew no English before age 20 |
Joseph Conrad |
500 |
March 18, 1986 |