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| Heathcliff is the bitter protagonist of this 19th-century novel, narrated by the visitor Mr. Lockwood, as he is told the story of the family who lived on the title estate by Nelly Dean. | Wuthering Heights |
| Wuthering Heights was written by this English novelist who wrote under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. | Emily Brontë |
| Identify this man who marries Isabella Linton to gain control of her brother Edgar’s estate, Thrushcross Grange, despite still being in love with Catherine Earnshaw. | Heathcliff |
| This author of The Sorrows of Young Werther wrote a number of novels about Wilhelm Meister and told of a sick boy being attacked by the title monster in his creepy poem “Der Erlkonig.” | Goethe |
| In the first part of this most famous Goethe play, Mephistopheles helps the title scholar seduce the beautiful Gretchen. | Faust |
| Identify this novel, in which Tyrone Slothrop is able to predict the location of German V-2 rocket strike | Gravity’s Rainbow |
| This American author of Gravity’s Rainbow wrote about the title surveyors in Mason & Dixon. He also penned such novels as Vineland, Inherent Vice, and V, and Meatball Mulligan throws a party in this author’s short story “Entropy.” | Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. |
| Pynchon also wrote this post-modern novel, in which Oedipa Maas finds out about the secret postal organization Trystero, unraveling the mystery behind the company’s conflict with Thurn und Taxis | The Crying of Lot 49 |
| Identify this novel, in which Prince Myshkin and Rogozhin vie for the love of Nastasya Filoppovna. | The Idiot |
| The Idiot was written by this Russian author of The Brothers Karamazov and Notes From the Undergound. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| Dostoyevsky is perhaps most famous for this novel, in which Raskolnikov convinces himself it is morally justified to kill the pawnbroker Alyona Ivanova. He also kills her half-sister Lizaveta | Crime and Punishment |
| Name this German philosopher who proposed the idea of the Übermensch in Thus Spoke Zarathustra and declared “God is dead” in The Gay Science. | Frederich Nietzsche |
| The protagonist of this work meets Mrs. Moore outside a mosque. For ten points each: | A Passage to India |
| A Passage to India is a work by this British author, who wrote “only connect” as the epigraph to Howard’s End. He also penned The Celestial Omnibus and Where Angels Fear to Tread. | Edward Morgan Forster |
| In this Forster novel, Lucy Honeychurch breaks off her engagement to Cecil Vyse and elopes with George Emerson. | A Room with a View |
| The protagonist of this novel attends school with Peter Keating. For ten points each: | The Fountainhead |
| The Fountainhead is a work by this founder of Objectivism, who wrote about Kira Argouvna in her first novel, We the Living. | Ayn Rand |
| Rand is perhaps best known for this work, in which Dagny Taggert buys Rearden metal to build her railroads. The government nationalizes just about everything, so she hides in a community created by John Galt | Atlas Shrugged |
| The grandmother in this story would like to go to Tennessee, but the family goes to Florida instead. For ten points each: | “A Good Man is Hard to Find” |
| This Southern Gothic author wrote “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” and The Violent Bear it Away in addition to “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” | Flannery O’Connor |
| This first O’Connor novel tells the story of Hazel Motes and his friend Enoch Emery, the proponent of the title concept. | Wise Blood |
| Bonus: Mosca convinces Corvino to sacrfice his wife, Celia, to satisfy the title character’s desires. For ten points each: | Volpone |
| Volpone is a work by this English dramatist and contemporary of Shakespeare. He also wrote about Clement judging all characters on a basis of their past grievances in Every Man in His Humour. | Benjamin “Ben” Jonson |
| Ben Jonson also wrote this play in which Subtle, a man who turns metals into gold, is aided by Dol Common. Other characters in the play include Lovewit, who escapes into the country, and Jeremy the Butler. | The Alchemist |
| Bonus: The protagonist of this work learns that he has slept through the Revolutionary War! For ten points each: | “Rip Van Winkle” |
| Rip Van Winkle” was included in this collection along with stories like “The Spectre Bridegroom” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” It was published under the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon | The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. |
| This author of The Sketch Book attributed many of its stories to the fictional Dutch historian Diedrich Knickerbocker. | Washington Irving |
| This American short story author allegedly got his pen name from a prison guard. He wrote such stories as “The Gift of the Magi,” “The Ransom of Red Chief,” and “The Cop and the Anthem.” | O. Henry (or William Sydney Porter) |
| This man wrote The Enormous Room, a novel based on his experiences in a French prison during World War I. His unconventional poetry is distinguished by its general lack of capitalization and punctuation. | edward estlin cummings |
| The line “stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage” appears in this Englishman’s To Althea, from Prison. | Richard Lovelace |
| One character in this work does not finish his The Key to All Mythologies. Name this work in which Dorothea Brooke marries Will Ladislaw after Edward Casaubon’s death | Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life |
| Middlemarch was written by this English feminine novelist that also wrote Daniel Deronda and Silas Marner. | George Eliot (Accept Mary Ann Evans) |
| This Eliot work sees Stephen Guest and Philip Wakem involved in the protagonist’s love triangle, and details the lives of Maggie and Tom Tulliver. | The Mill on the Floss |
| Bonus: This work sees Prince Bolkonsky wounded at the Battle of Austerlitz and later killed at Borodino. For ten points each: | War and Peace (or Voyna I Mir) |
| This author of War and Peace wrote about Pozdnyshev’s murder of his wife in The Kreutzer Sonata and the title character’s love for Vronsky in Anna Karenina. | Lev (Leo) Nikolayevich Tolstoy |
| [10] In this Tolstoy novella, the title character becomes ill after a fall, but is comforted by the servant Gerasim. | The Death of Ivan Ilyich |
| Name this Anglo-Saxon work in which the main character becomes King of the Geats, an epic poem set in Scandinavia. | Beowulf |
| This main antagonist of Beowulf is feared by everyone but Beowulf himself. This descendant of Cain is killed when Beowulf rips off his arm in a cave. | Grendel |
| Bonus: It asks “what immortal hand or eye / could frame thy fearful symmetry?” For ten points each: | “The Tyger” |
| The Tyger” is found in this collection which also includes “The Clod and the Pebble” and “The Poison Tree.” This collection’s counterpart contains “The Lamb.” | Songs of Experience |
| This author of “The Tyger” and “The Lamb” also wrote of a boy crying “weep! weep! weep!” in “The Chimney Sweeper.” | William Blake |
| Identify this poem, in which the title character “kindly stopped for me” in a carriage that “held but Ourselves / and Immortality.” | “Because I could not stop for Death” |
| “Because I could not stop for Death” is the most famous poem by this author, who also wrote “I taste a liquor never brewed” and “I heard a fly buzz when I died.” | Emily Elizabeth Dickinson |
| This Dickinson poem asks the title question before claiming “Then there’s a pair of us! Don’t Tell!” and noting “How dreary to be somebody!” | “I’m Nobody! Who are You?” |
| Bonus: The title character gives birth to a child named “Sorrow” after being raped. For ten points each: | Tess of the D’Urbervilles |
| This author of Jude the Obscure and The Mayor of Casterbridge wrote Tess of the D’Urbervilles. He also wrote The Return of the Native, and his poems include “Channel Firing” and “The Convergence of the Twain.” | Thomas Hardy |
| Hardy also wrote this novel, in which Gabriel Oak finally ends up with Bathsheba Everdene, despite her brief affairs with Farmer Boldwood and Sergeant Troy. It’s title comes from a line in a Thomas Gray poem | Far From the Madding Crowd |
| He develops an infection after an apple thrown by his father becomes lodged in his back. For ten points each: | Gregor Samsa |
| Gregor Samsa is the protagonist of this German novella, which sees him frighten off his family’s guests after turning into a cockroach. | The Metamorphosis (or Die Verwandlung) |
| The Metamorphosis was written by this author The Castle and the unfinished Amerika. He also wrote about Joseph K.’s execution in The Trial. | Franz Kafka |
| [10] Name this work in which the unnamed narrator tells the story of the New York protagonist Holly Golightly, who associates with a variety of men, like Sally and O.J. Berman. | Breakfast at Tiffany’s |
| This author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s created a “non-fiction novel” in which Perry Smith and Dick Hickock are executed, In Cold Blood. | Truman Capote |
| [10] Name this play in which Willy Loman kills himself in a car accident for the benefit of his sons Biff and Happy. | Death of a Salesman |
| ] This American playwright of Death of a Salesman wrote about Abagail Williams and John Proctor’s involvement in the Salem Witch Trials in The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
| In this Miller play, Joe Keller kills himself after it is revealed that he and his partner, Steve Deever, sold faulty airplane cylinders that led to the deaths of 21 World War II pilots. | All My Sons |
| The title character’s valet Osip persuades him to return to St. Petersburg. For ten points each: | The Inspector General |
| This Russian author of The Inspector General wrote of Chichikov buying the title entities to appear wealthy in his unfinished Dead Souls. | Nikolai Gogol |
| In this Gogol short story, Akaky Akakievich saves up enough money to buy the title garment only to have it stolen by some thugs on his way home from a party | The Overcoat” |
| Identify this novel, in which the protagonist befriends the consumptive Helen Burns at Lowood before going to Thornfield Hall and falling in love with Edward Rochester. | Jane Eyre |
| An exciting plot twist occurs when it is discovered that Rochester is actually married to this crazy lady, whom he keeps locked up in his attic. She later dies after setting fire to Thornfield. | Bertha Mason (prompt on Mason) |
| Jane Eyre is the most famous work of this author, who wrote under the pseudonym Currer Bell. | Charlotte Brontë (prompt on just Brontë) |
| Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against this work’s author for its blasphemy. For ten points each: | The Satanic Verses |
| The Satanic Verses was written by this Indian author, who wrote about people like Saleem Sinai, who were born at the moment of the partition of Pakistan, in Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie |
| This comrade of Gibreel is transformed into the devil by the explosion, and seeks revenge for having been abandoned after the crash. | Saladin Chamcha (accept either) |
| Between acts II and III of this play, Konstantin tries shooting himself, but only grazes his head. For ten points each: | The Seagull (or Chayka) |
| The Seagull is one of many plays by this Russian author of Uncle Vanya and The Three Sisters. His namesake “gun” is a type of foreshadowing. | Anton Pavlovich Chekhov |
| This Chekhov play sees Lopakhin buy Madame Ranevskaya’s estate and chop down the title feature. | The Cherry Orchard |
| Though the author did not fight himself, it is thought he based this novel’s events off of Chancellorsville. For ten points each: | The Red Badge of Courage |
| The Red Badge of Courage is the most famous novel of this author, who also wrote Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. | Stephen Crane |
| Identify this work about the title figure in the imperial court, who has an affair with Lady Fujitsubo. One chapter of this work is left blank, implying the protagonist’s death. It is often considered the first novel | Tale of Genji |
| This Heian period Japanese author wrote The Tale of Genji, as well as writing of her time as a lady-in-waiting of the Japanese court in her diary. | Lady Murasaki |
| Mursaki was not a huge fan of Sei Shonagon, who is best known for this collection of observations of court life, part of which was accidentally revealed to the court before completion. | The Pillow Book |
| Name this satirical “novel without a hero” in which Rawden Crawley marries Becky Sharp and William Dobbin leaves Amelia Sedley after courting her for years. | Vanity Fair |
| This British novelist of Vanity Fair also wrote about the Latin-failing Redmond Barry in The Luck of Barry Lyndon. | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| This Vanity Fair character marries Amelia Sedley before William Dobbin, but he provides little money for Amelia and flirts with Becky. He later dies in the Battle of Waterloo. | George Osborne (accept either) |
| The main character of this novel dresses up as a ham for a Halloween pageant. For ten points each: | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| This American author of To Kill a Mockingbird was awarded the 2007 United States Presidential Medal of Freedom for her literary contributions. She was also good friends with Truman Capote. | Harper Lee |
| It takes place during the Morkan sisters’ annual dance. For ten points each: | “The Dead” |
| “The Dead” is found in this short story collection, which also includes “Araby,” “Eveline,” and “Ivy Day in the Committee Room.” | Dubliners |
| Dubliners was written by this British author, who wrote about Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. | James Joyce |
| Identify this novel in which Emma has affairs with Rodolphe Boulanger and Leon Depuis and then commits suicide when she cannot pay off her debts. | Madame Bovary |
| Madame Bovary is the most famous work of this French author, whose Three Tales include “Saint Julian,” “Herodias.” He also wrote a historical novel about the title Carthaginian princess in Salammbo. | Gustave Flaubert |
| The protagonist of this story is killed by her “heart trouble” when Brently returns alive. For ten points each: | The Story of an Hour” |
| In this novel written by the author of “The Story of an Hour”, Edna Pontellier drowns herself in the Gulf of Mexico after brief flings with Alcee Arobin and Robert Lebrun. | The Awakening |
| This author of “The Story of an Hour” and The Awakening wrote about Armand discovering he is half-black after sending away his wife in the short story “Desiree’s Baby.” | Kate Chopin |
| Identify this poem in which “Into the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred,” inspired by a suicidal offensive maneuver in the Battle of Balaclava. | “The Charge of the Light Brigade” |
| This British poet of “The Charge of the Light Brigade” wrote about “Nature, red in tooth and claw” and claimed that “‘Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all” in his In Memoriam A.H.H. | Lord Tennyson |
| Dexter Green dumps Irenet Scherer for Judy Jones in this man’s short story “Winter Dreams.” For ten points each: | Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald |
| Fitzgerald is best known for this Jazz Age novel, narrated by Nick Carraway, which sees Jay get shot by Wilson after Daisy runs over Myrtle Wilson. | The Great Gatsby |
| Identify this novel in which Basil Hallward paints the title object, a portrait which grows old and ugly with each sin the title character commits. | The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only novel written by this British author, who also wrote the plays The Importance of Being Earnest and Salome. | Oscar Wilde |
| In this poem, the title character addresses a man who “went into far Ku-to-en, by the river of swirling eddies.” For ten points each: | “The River Merchant’s Wife” |
| This Tang-dynasty poet of “Thinking on a Still Night” and “Drinking Alone Under the Moon” wrote “The River Merchant’s Wife” | Li Bai (accept Li Po, Li Bo |
| Name this 1922 work in which the title Indian character finally realizes enlightenment, and helps his traveling companion, Govinda, reach the same state | Siddhartha |
| Siddhartha was written by this German-Swiss author who also wrote about Pablo guiding Harry Haller to the Magic Theatre in Steppenwolf. | Herman Hesse |
| Julius Beaufort pursues one character until his business fails. For ten points each: | The Age of Innocence |
| The Age of Innocence is a novel by this author. She also wrote about Undine Spragg in The Custom of the Country and Lily Bart in The House of Mirth. | Edith Wharton |
| The title character of this Wharton novel tries to commit suicide in a sled with Mattie, but fails and has to be taken care of by his wife Zeena. | Ethan Frome |
| Identify this play in which Vladimir and Estragon meet Lucky and Pozzo while indefinitely anticipating the arrival of the title character. | Waiting for Godot (or En Attendant Godot) |
| Waiting for Godot is a play by this Irish author, who wrote about Hamm who cannot stand up and Clov who cannot sit down in Endgame. | Samuel Beckett |
| He has been obsessed with “nymphets” since the death of Annabel Leigh during his childhood. For ten points each: | Humbert Humbert |
| Humbert Humbert is the protagonist of this man’s novel Lolita, which was written after he immigrated to the United States from Russia. He also wrote about Cincinnatus C.’s “gnostical turpitude” in Invitation to a Beheading. | Vladimir Nabokov |
| In this play, the Three Witches warn the title character that Banquo’s descendents will overtake his position as King of Scotland. In the end, Macduff beheads the title character and Malcolm inherits the throne | Macbeth |
| In this play, the “bastard prince” Don John attempts to undermine the marriage between Claudio and Hero, but his plans are foiled when he is caught by Dogberry. It ends with the marriage of Beatrice and Benedick | Much Ado About Nothing |
| Shakespeare’s first tragedy, this violent play sees the title Roman general bake the corpses of Chiron and Demetrius into a pie, which he then feeds to Queen Tamora in revenge for the rape of Lavinia. | Titus Andronicus |
| This poets collections The End of Satan and Dieu were published posthumously, but he is better known for writing about Esmerelda and Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre-Dame | Victor Hugo |
| This symbolist poet wrote “A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance” and inspired a Debussy work with his “The Afternoon of a Faun.” | Stéphane Mallarmé |
| This empiricist used the missing shade of blue to show that the mind can generate an idea without having the sensory experience. He also wrote A Treatise of Human Nature and An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. | David Hume |
| This empiricist coined the phrase “to be is to be perceived” and advocated for medicinal tar water. He also wrote Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous and A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge | George Berkeley |
| This English empiricist described his ideal college, “Salomon’s House,” in an utopian novel titled New Atlantis and advocated for using the scientific method in his Novum Organum. | Sir Francis Bacon |
