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| This author began his career with a novel detailing Dr. Ferguson’s trip to Africa, whose focus is to find the source of the Nile and meet with the other explorers. This author also wrote a work in which the protagonist reads a note by Saknussemm and travels to a land of giant mushrooms and mastodons. He penned a novel which sees Aouda rescued with the help of Passepartout and (*) Phileas Fogg, while in another work, Ned Land, Conseil, and Professor Aronnax travel with Captain Nemo aboard the Nautilus. For ten points, name this French author of A Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days, and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. | Jules Gabriel Verne |
| In one of this author’s works, he describes his experiences in the POUM during the Spanish Civil War, and in another, wrote about the Brooker family, coal miners, and the problems with English socialism. This author of Homage to Catalonia and The Road to Wigan Pier, wrote an essay recounting how, as a (*) Burmese police officer, he was forced to shoot an elephant. This author wrote a novel in which a character will “work harder” but is taken to a glue factory instead of a veterinarian. That work sees Napoleon act more human after Snowball is chased away, and in another of his works, O’Brien betrays Julia and Winston Smith to Big Brother’s totalitarian regime. For ten points, name this author of Animal Farm and 1984. | George Orwell (accept Eric Blair) |
| This author wrote a work in which Pollo Phoibe and Celstina fall in love after discussing the construction of the El Escorial, and wrote another work in which Felipe Montero dreams of eloping with Consuelo’s 109-year-old niece. In addition to Terra Nostra and Aura, this author wrote a more recognized work that describes (*) Harriet Winslow, the General, and the title character in love triangle. In his most famous work, a corrupt politician has an affair with Laura and desires to inherit Don Gamaliel's fortune, while the title event occurs after his traveling to Hermosillo. For ten points, name this Mexican author who fictionalized the last days of Ambrose Bierce in The Old Gringo and wrote The Death of Artemio Cruz. | Carlos Fuentes |
| One character in this work, David Gamut, tries to teach beavers to sing psalms. Two characters in this work are escorted to Fort William Henry from Fort Edward, and another scene shows Heyward admit his love for Alice and receive permission from a Colonel to court her. Invited to a parley by the French General Montcalm, the (*) Munro sisters are saved by Hawkeye after they are captured by the Magua. The title characters of this work are Uncas and his father Chingachook. For ten points, name this novel about Natty Bumppo, the second work of the Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper. | The Last of the Mohicans |
| This author was inspired by Mozart’s Don Giovanni to write a work included in his The Little Tragedies collection, and another work sees Parasha die in a flood of the river Neva and Evgenii killed by a statue of Peter the Great. This author of The Stone Guest and The (*) Bronze Horseman also wrote a work in which the protagonist dances with Olga at a ball. That character is not stopped by Zaretsky from dueling and killing Vladmir Lensky after he flirts with and later spurns the love of Tatiana Larina. For ten points, name this Russian author of Eugene Onegin. | Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin |
| One character in this work tours Pemberley while residing in the Gardiner’s residence, and later, Lady Catherine attempts to dissuade that character from marrying her nephew. Charlotte Lucas marries the ostentatious Mr. Collins after he is previously rejected by the protagonist of this novel, while another character marries a disappointed Mr. (*) Wickham. That character is a sister of the protagonist, Lydia, while another sister, Jane, finally receives a marriage proposal from Mr. Bingley. For ten points, name this novel in which Fitzwilliam Darcy finally marries Elizabeth Bennet, the most famous work of Jane Austen. | Pride and Prejudice |
| This philosopher noted that no one who jumps out of a burning building is accused of committing suicide in a version of his most famous work, and included descriptions of the sights of Paris in his semi-autobiographical Reveries of a Solitary Walker. This man contrasted amour de soi with amour propre in a work which also compares people who are born stronger with people who fence in plots of land. This author of Discourse on Inequality described how he would raise and educate the imaginary title savage in his treatise on (*) education titled Emile, and also popularized the concept of the general will. For ten points, which Swiss-French philosopher observed that “man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains” in On the Social Contract? | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| In one part of this work, a fisherman is allowed to select the manner of his death after opening a jar with the seal of Solomon on it, and in another part, Morgiana stitches back together the body of Cassim. In another story from this work, a mariner finds an island of rocs on one of his (*) seven voyages. The frame narrative for this collection revolves around Shahryar’s marriage to his vizier’s wife Scheherazade, which will end with her execution when she stops telling stories. For ten points, what is this collection of Arabic folk tales, including “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves” and “Sinbad the Sailor?” | One Thousand and One Nights (or Arabian Nights or One Thousand and One Arabian Nights) |
| After this novel’s protagonist returns from a horse race with the Meyerses, he comforts his love interest who claims that “rain is very hard on loving.” In one scene, the protagonist of this work jumps into a river to escape interrogation by the battle police while another sees the protagonist’s convalescence leave revoked after Miss Van Campen confiscates his alcohol. After arriving at a (*) hospital in Milan, the protagonist has his knee operated on by Dr. Valentini and is able to pursue a relationship with nurse Catherine Barkley, who later dies after giving birth to a stillborn child. For ten points, name this novel detailing Lieutenant Frederic Henry’s life during WWI as an ambulance driver, a work by Ernest Hemingway. | A Farewell to Arms |
| In a sequel to this work, Clara Okeke becomes pregnant, causing Obi to accept bribes to help pay for an abortion. The protagonist of this novel beats his wife Ojiugo during the Week of Peace and strikes the fatal blow on his adopted son (*) Ikemefuna. That protagonist is exiled for seven years after his gun accidentally goes off, and he hangs himself after killing a white messenger. The prequel to No Longer at Ease is, for ten points, what novel about Okonkwo’s struggles in colonial Nigeria, the most famous work of Chinua Achebe? | Things Fall Apart |
| In a shack labeled “home”, the protagonist of this work discovers a manuscript which shares its title with this novel, and he listens to music by Otto Skadelig before leaping out a window. He frequently drinks liquid laced with drugs such as Synthemesc, Vellocet and Drencrom at the (*) Korova milkbar with Dim, Pete, and George. The protagonist also enjoys classical music in this work, particularly fond of “Lovely Ludwig Van,” and he fantasizes about ultra-violence, which leads him to flee to F. Alexander after undergoing treatment by the Ludovico Technique. For ten points, name this dystopian novel about the Nadsat-speaking Alex and his “droogs”, a work of Anthony Burgess. | A Clockwork Orange |
| The protagonist of this novel is accompanied by Dave and Sol-leks while working for a pair of Canadian mail carriers on a trip to Dawson. After being starved by Mercedes and Charles, the main character gets rescued before his comrades fall into a lake. Later on, he helps John Thornton win a bet by pulling a 1000 pound (*) sled out of the ice, but retreats from civilization after his master is killed by a group of Yeehat Indians. The protagonist kills Spitz to gain control of the sled team in, for ten points, what novel about the dog Buck and his adventures in Alaska during the Yukon Gold Rush, a work of Jack London? | The Call of the Wild |
| A scholar in this work is awarded a sheep after demonstrating that its wool was red by A plus B, minus C, divided by Z. This work sees Don Issachar thrown on a dung pile after he is killed by the title character, who escapes the cannibalistic Biglugs with his valet, Cacambo. One character in this work, a daughter of Pope Urban X, had a buttock cut off to feed some starving men, while another character is hanged after an (*) earthquake in Lisbon. The title character of this work is banished from the castle of the Baron Thunder-ten-Tronckh after he kisses Cunégonde, and his mentor believes that the current world is the “best of all possible worlds.” For ten points, name this satirical novel whose characters include the optimistic Pangloss, written by Voltaire. | Candide, |
| In this novel, the protagonist is sent to Mr. Creakle’s Salem House where he meets a boy who likes drawing skeletons, Tommy Traddles, and James Steerforth, who later runs off with Peggotty’s niece Little Em’ly. The protagonist of this novel is sent to London by (*) Murdstone, where he lives with Mr. Micawber, but runs away to live with his aunt Betsy Trotwood. This novel’s title character first marries Dora Spenlow and, after she dies, helps thwart the plotting of the “umble” red-haired Uriah Heep, securing a marriage to Agnes Wickfield. For ten points, identify this novel by Charles Dickens. | David Copperfield |
| This poet wrote about a contest between “fire, air, earth and water” to see “which was the strongest, noblest and the best”. Another of this author’s works ends by telling the reader, “The World no longer let me love/ the world and treasure lies above” and the title event occurs “In a silent night when rest I took”. In addition to “The Four Elements” and (*) “Verses Upon the Burning of our House” this poet wrote “thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain” and that “If ever two were one, then surely we” in a larger poetry collection. For ten points, name this seventeenth-century American female poet who included her poems “To My Dear and Loving Husband” and “The Author to her Book” in her collection, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America. | Anne Bradstreet |
| One rarely-included chapter in a novel about this man details his fight with wolves while transporting his wealth through the Pyrenees. This man was captured by Moorish pirates but escapes with the boy Xury, finding his way to Brazil where he owns a plantation. This man labels a land close to the Orinoco River as “The Island of Despair” before meeting a group of (*) cannibals that eat other humans for strength. This man’s story was based on that of Alexander Selkirk, and he teaches one of the cannibals, Friday, how to speak English. For ten points, name this fictional castaway described in a Daniel Defoe novel | Robinson Crusoe (accept either underlined portion) |
| One character of this work, Peter, describes how Chrysostom fell in love with Marcela. The protagonist of this work attempts to end Master Pedro’s puppet show by tossing rocks and also discovers that the helmet of Mambrino was in the hands of a barber before trying to retrieve it. That character encounters Samson Carrasco dressed as the (*) Knight of the White Moon, and also falls in love with Dulcinea. The title character of this work travels with the horse Rocinante, mistakes windmills for ferocious giants, and is accompanied by his “squire” Sancho Panza. For ten points, name this novel written by Miguel de Cervantes. | Don Quixote of La Mancha |
| In this novel, one character’s legs wash up on the beach after being killed by McWatt, and another character wears an eye patch after a lecherous old man threw a flower at his eye. Besides Kid Sampson and Major de Coverley, characters in this novel include the atheistic Dunbar, who is “disappeared” by army officials, and Nurse Duckett. (*) Doc Daneeka’s wife receives insurance benefits after her husband’s supposed death, and the black-market Syndicate is created by Milo Minderbinder. The protagonist goes naked in front of Colonel Cathcart after he is unable to save Snowden in, for ten points, what World War II novel featuring the bombardier Yossarian, a work by Joseph Heller? | Catch-22 |
| One character in this work refuses to eat a grape offered to him. Jacopo offers to help the protagonist after he fakes an injury, but he declines so that he may search for the treasure of the Spada family. The title character prevents Maximilien from committing suicide, just he had done with Maximilien’s father (*) Morrel, before vanishing with Haydee. Fernand Mondego marries Mercedes and Danglars becomes a successful banker after falsely accusing the title character of treason. For ten points, identify this novel in which Edmond Dantes gets his revenge, a work of Alexandre Dumas. | The Count of Monte Cristo |
| In one of this author’s works, a man kills McEachern with a chair after he calls Bobbie a harlot, while in another work, the title character murders Homer Barron with arsenic and then sleeps next to his corpse. This author of “A (*) Rose for Emily” also wrote a novel in which a character looking for Lucas Burch meets Byron Bunch, and that work about Lena Grove sees Joanna Burden murdered, possibly by Joe Christmas. Another of his works tells the tale of Quentin and Benjy Compson and is set in Yoknapatawpha County. For ten points, name this American author of Light in August and The Sound and the Fury. | William Cuthbert Faulkner |
| This author wrote a poem in which he tells Leerie to “see a little child and nod to him to-night!” That poem, “The Lamplighter,” was published as part of this author’s collection A Child’s Garden of Verses. This man wrote about Dick Shelton’s desire to rescue his love Joanna with help from the title fellowship in The Black Arrow. In another of his novels, Ransome and Captain Hoseason take (*) David Balfour aboard the Covenant. This author is better known for a work in which Gabriel Utterson investigates the title physician’s transformation into his evil self and a novel detailing the travels of Captain Smollett, Jim Hawkins, and Long John Silver in their search for the title locale. For ten points, name this Scottish author of Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Treasure Island. | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| One of this author’s works tells his child that is “cradled by my side” that he “shalt wander like a breeze” and that “all seasons shall be sweet to thee.” Another of his works exclaims “Joy, Lady! is the spirit and the power” after he is unable to “see, not feel how beautiful they are.” This author of “Frost at Midnight” and “Dejection: An Ode” wrote a more famous work which mentions (*) “Alph, the sacred river” flowing “Through caverns measureless to man.” That work begins with an order for “A Stately Pleasure-Dome”, while another work by this poet cries “Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink,” after the speaker kills an albatross. For ten points, name this English poet of “Kubla Khan” and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| One character in this novel dies insisting that “beauty will not bear a man sons.” This work’s protagonist marries a woman whose servant is Cuckoo, but stops loving the concubine Lotus after she insults his mentally retarded daughter. While in the city, protagonist gains great wealth by looting a wealthy man’s house, enabling him to escape from life as a (*) rickshaw-puller and buy land from the House of Hwang, which had formerly employed his wife. Ending with the protagonist’s sons’ decision to split up his land is, for ten points, what novel about Chinese farmer Wang Lang and his dutiful wife O-Lan, a work of Pearl Buck? | The Good Earth |
| This author wrote a novel in which Albert Corde accompanies his wife Minna to Romania and finds out about her mother’s death. Another of his works was based on this author’s relationship with Delmore Schwartz and tells the tale of aspiring writer Charlie Citrine. In addition to The Dean’s December and (*) Humboldt’s Gift, this author wrote a novel in which the title character divorces Madeleine after she has an affair with Valentine Gersbach but wants to regain custory of Junie, and another novel about the title character who is “an American, Chicago born.” For ten points, name this Jewish-American author of The Adventures of Augie March and Herzog. | Saul Bellow |
| This author wrote a novel in which the title character delivers some Russian maps to Mookherjee before going to find the River of the Arrow with the Dalai Lama. In one of this man’s poems, the speaker notes that “Of all them blackfaced crew / The finest man I knew / Was our regimental bhisti,” the title character. In addition to writing (*) Kim and claiming “You’re a better man than I” in “Gunga Din” this man is most famous for a collection which includes stories like “Toomai of the Elephants” and “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.” For ten points, identify this British author who wrote about Mowgli in The Jungle Book. | Joseph Rudyard Kipling |
| One character in this work sees a painting of a blindfolded woman holding a torch, which a brick-maker says was painted by this novel’s antagonist. The protagonist finds a note left in a pile of firewood, which a wandering Russian claims he left there. That Russian as well as native tribes in the area come to worship one character, whom they believe to be a god. Later in the work, the protagonist picks up and reads a pamphlet from the antagonist, which states, (*) “Exterminate all the brutes!” “The Horror! The Horror!” are the last words of the Congo ivory collector Kurtz in, for ten points, what novel about Charles Marlow by Joseph Conrad? | Heart of Darkness |
| This author wrote a work in which Mr. Medbourne, Mr. Gascoigne, and Colonel Killigrew all desire to turn younger in order to woo Widow Wycherly. He also wrote a work in which Aylmer desires to remove Georgiana’s hand-shaped stain, and another work in which Elizabeth asks Reverend Hopper to take off the title item of clothing. This author of “The (*) Birthmark” and “The Minister’s Black Veil” also wrote a work in which Roger Chillingworth finds out about Arthur Dimmesdale’s affair with Hester Prynne, who is forced to wear a red A. For ten points, name this American author of The Scarlet Letter. | Nathanael Hawthorne |
| In one novel by this man, a dispute between Reverend Colley and Captain Anderson is resolved by the narrator Edmund Talbot. That novel is part of his To the Ends of the Earth trilogy and is entitled Rites of Passage. This man is more famous for a novel in which Sam and Eric discover a downed fighter pilot whom they mistake for a (*) Beast, and that novel sees Simon and Piggy killed by the fighting between Jack and Ralph’s tribes. For ten points, identify this author who wrote about some marooned English schoolboys in Lord of the Flies. | Sir William Gerald Golding |
| One scene from this work sees the main characters stop in front of a burning mountain, which can only be put out by a fan made from banana leaves. After eating sacred baby fruits, one character fights a skeletal demon and is later banished by his master. This work begins with the main character emerging out of a rock, who soon gains the ability to shift into 72 different forms and obtains a golden rod capable of changing size at will. Later on, that character tries to overthrow the (*) Jade Emperor and pees in the Buddha’s hand, only to be crushed under a mountain and rescued by Xuanzang. Accompanied by Friar Sand, Pig, and the Monkey King, for ten points, identify this Wu Cheng’en work about a monk making the title pilgrimage to retrieve Buddhist scriptures, one of China’s Four Great Classics. | Journey to the West |
| This man is said to have cursed his sons when they served him with a silver table and golden goblet belonging to his great-great grandfather. This figure was rescued from Mount Cithaeron by Polybus of Corinth, and in his old age, this man came under the protection of Theseus and the Erinyes. This man’s son Polyneices was killed by his brother in a duel for the throne, and he himself killed a king at the Phocis (*) crossroads. As a reward for causing the sphinx to commit suicide after he correctly answered her riddle, this man replaced King Laius as the husband of Jocasta. For ten points, name this Theban king, who, as Tiresias predicted, married his mother and killed his father. | Oedipus |
| In this work, one character becomes angry after seeing Three Weeks in a Helicopter, a film which reminds him of his mother’s various affairs with Pope. That mother, Linda, was abandoned in a site in New Mexico after having a child with the Director of Hatcheries, and later dies after being returned. In this novel, one character sends (*) Helmholtz Watson to the Falkland Islands where he can freely express himself after being “corrupted” by the sciences and arts. Another character, Bernard Marx, is also exiled by Mustapha Mond after associating with a character that begs for the right to be unhappy, John the Savage. Set in the year of Our Ford 632, for ten points, name this dystopian novel written by Aldous Huxley. | Brave New World |
| This man described imagination as “nothing but decaying sense” while passions are “interior beginnings of voluntary notions” in a work that claimed covenants formed with God are meaningless. This man’s best known work expands on concepts first proposed in his On the Citizen, and uses his ideas of imagination, or the “decaying sense,” to analyze human motivation. This thinker described the (*) “Kingdom of Darkness” as a “Confederacy of Deceivers” and described chaos as the war of all against all. He also claimed that life in the state of nature is“solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” For ten points, name this English social contract theorist and author of Leviatha | Thomas Hobbes |
| The protagonist of this novel swims with Lee and Kropp across a waterway to meet three French women, and earlier in this work, the protagonist becomes friends with a bedwetter named Tjaden. The protagonist of this work obtains the boots of Kemmerich after the death of Muller, and he later stabs (*) Gerard Duval to death. He is encouraged to join the army by his schoolmaster Kantorek, and the protagonist of this novel is led by the mean Corporal Himmelstoss. For ten points, name this novel that details the experiences of Paul Baumer in World War I, a work by Erich Maria Remarque. | All Quiet on the Western Front (or Im Westen nichts Neues) |
| This author wrote a work in which Ainsley attempts to seduce Len so that she may bear a child and Marian tests Duncan by offering him a cake in the shape of a woman. In another work by this author of The Edible Woman, a novel attributed to Laura is revealed to have been based on Alex Thomas’ affair with Iris Chase. In addition to The (*) Blind Assassin, this author wrote a novel in which Snowman leads the Crakers as one of the last humans on Earth. In her most famous work, The Commander owns a woman in the Republic of Gilead named Offred. For ten points, identify this Canadian author of Oryx and Crake and The Handmaid’s Tale. | Margaret Atwood |
| This author wrote that “Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children” in one poem, while another describes skin “bright as a Nazi lampshade.” In addition to writing “The Munich Mannequins” this author also wrote a poem in which the title character tells her father, “I’m through”. This author of (*) “Lady Lazarus” and “Daddy” wrote a novel in which the main character undergoes shock therapy under the suggestions of Dr. Nolan after multiple attempts at suicide because she feels trapped under the title object. For ten points, name this author who wrote about Esther Greenwood in The Bell Jar. | Sylvia Plath |
| An angel in this work etches the letter “P” into the narrator’s head, and in another section, those who die bravely for Christianity are sent to Mars. Beginning with the line, "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita”, this work sees Caselia play music as others enter and another scene shows a character grind Ruggeiri’s head. The narrator of this work meets Count Ugolino and Montefeltro, and describes the fate of Francesca. Seeing an icy area named (*) Cocytus, this work includes the line, "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." The narrator is guided through Heaven by his love Beatrice and led through Purgatory and Hell by Vergil in, for ten points, what epic by Dante Alighieri? | The Divine Comedy |
| This author wrote a novel in which Dr. Archi takes care of Thea, who later falls in love with Fred Ottenberg. In another work by this author, Joseph Valliant and Jean Latour travel from Ohio to New Mexico. In addition to The Song of the Lark and (*) Death Comes for the Archbishop, this author wrote a work in which the Nebraskan Jim Burden falls in love and has an affair with the title character, and another work in which Frank Shabata murders Mary and Carl Lindstrum marries Alexandra Bergson. For ten points, name this author of My Antonia and O Pioneers! | Willa Sibert Cather |
| In one of this author’s novels, the ironclad HMS Thunder Child is destroyed after providing a safe passage from Essex, while in another, the Ape Man leads the protagonist through a jungle where they find half-animal and half-human creatures. This author who wrote about Edward Prendick in The (*) Island of Doctor Moreau wrote a work in which the protagonist encounters the child-like Eloi and the savage Morlock and begins by discussing the fourth dimension, and he authored another work in which Martians invade London. For ten points, name this this English author of The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, and The War of the Worlds. | Herbert George "H.G." Wells |
| This author wrote a play in which Dorante secretly shares his high views of an aristocratic life with Mr. Jourdain. He wrote another work in which Valere is falsely accused of being a thief by the cook Master Jacques, and both Harpagon and Cleante love Mariane. Another of his works details the pompous Acaste and the gossiping Clitandre, who fight for the affection of Celimene with the protagonist, Alceste, who eventually gives up his love to become a hermit. This author of The (*) Bourgeois Gentleman is perhaps most famous for a work in which the title hypocrite becomes arrested after seducing Damis’ mother Elmire in Orgon’s estate. For ten points, name this French author of The Miser, The Misanthrope, and Tartuffe. | Molière |
| In this book, the narrator concedes that she met a white guy from South Dakota who passes her “test.” That narrator’s first daughter found out that it would not be fun to do something until she was good at it after being forced to practice violin three hours a day. One character, (*) Jed, is a Jewish professor of law at Yale, and the narrator’s second daughter Lulu easily “flies into a rage.” The mother calls her children garbage at a dinner party and tries to get away with it by calling it a “Chinese immigrant thing.” For ten points, name this book by Amy Chua about Asian parenting. | Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother |
| One short story by this man sees the title character killed on a safari by his wife Margot. One novel by this man features the prostitute Georgette Leblanc, and in that novel, the protagonist meets the boxing champion Robert Cohn. That novel by this author of “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” sees Lady Brett Ashely unable to become intimate with the impotent protagonist (*) Jake Barnes. The DiMaggio-loving protagonist dreams about lions in another work by this author, and that character had not caught a single fish for 84 days until a huge marlin comes up to his ship. For ten points, name this author of The Old Man and the Sea and The Sun Also Rises. | Ernest Hemingway |
| This author wrote “You may trod me in the very dirt/ But still, like dust, I’ll rise” in one poem, and wrote of men who “liked my smile, my wit, my hips” in another. That poem, “They Went Home” is the first poem found in this author’s collection Just Give me a Cool drink of water 'fore i diiie. This author also wrote a work that commands the reader to say, “very simply, with hope, Good Morning”. That work was read at (*) Bill Clinton’s inauguration, and was entitled, “On the Pulse of Morning”. Her most famous work describes the title creature that “leaps/ on the back of the wind/ and floats downstream”. For ten points, name this American author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. | Maya Angelou |
| This play formed the basis for W.H. Auden’s The Sea and the Mirror. One character in this work states, “too light winning [may] make the prize light,” and another claims, “We are such stuff as dreams are made on.” The opening of this play occurs after Claribel is married to the King of Tunis. The drunkards Stephano and Trinculo attempt to rebel in this work, and they ally with the son of (*) Sycorax, but their plots ultimately fail, and this play sees King Alfonso of Naples try to find his son, Ferdinand. Caliban and Ariel appear in, for ten points, what Shakespearean play about the magician Prospero? | The Tempest |
| In one of this author’s works, a young landowner named Dimitry Sanin falls in love while visiting Frankfurt, while another of his works includes the characters Fedya, Kostya, and Pavlusha. This author of Torrents of Spring included Bezhin Lea in his collection Sportsman’s Sketches. In his most famous work, (*) Anna Odinstova confesses her love for the protagonist before kissing him on his deathbed, and the protagonist fights with Pavel after flirting with Fenechka earlier in the work. For ten points, name this author who wrote about Arkady Kirsanov and his nihilist friend Bazarov in Fathers and Sons. | Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev |
| This author dispels the “vain deluding joys” before describing the “pleasures Melancholy give”, which the author “choose[s] to live” with in one work. In another work, the title character admits to God that he does not own his power, and lost it with a wanting for Dalila. This author demands “the liberty ... to argue freely according to conscience” in a work that argues against (*) censorship. This author of Il Penseroso, Samson Agonistes, and Areopagitica is most famous for a work in which Mulciber is directed to build the Pandemonium, and the main character states, “Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.” For ten points, name this blind British author of Paradise Lost. | John Milton |
| In one work by this author, Northeastern America faces extinction due to an advancing wall of ice, while in another work, a Franciscan monk witnesses the collapse of the title structure created by the Incans. This author who wrote about the Antrobus family in The (*) Skin of Our Teeth is perhaps most famous for writing a play which is narrated by the Stage Manager and takes place in Grover’s Corners. For ten points, name this American author who wrote about Brother Juniper in The Bridge of San Luis Ray and about George Gibbs and Emily Webb in Our Town. | Thornton Niven Wilder |
| This man described world-flying mysticism as one of the three ideal types of religious activity in Economy and Society, and included wealth, prestige, and power in his three-component theory of stratification. This thinker claimed that political authority could be legitimized by law, tradition, or charisma and also defined the “state” as a (*) “monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force.” This author of Politics as a Vocation described the “iron cage of rationality” and criticized the excessive power of the bureaucracy in the social order. He also argued that Calvinism influenced the development of market economies. For ten points, name this German sociologist who wrote The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit of Capitalism? | Maximilian Carl Emil Weber |
| This author wrote a work in which Valere Marneffe works with the title character to torment Adeline’s husband Baron Hector Hulot, and also another work in which Felix refuses to repair his worn-down house and des Grassins desires his son Adolphe to marry the title character. In addition to Cousin Bette and (*) Eugenie Grandet, this author wrote a story in which Raphael Volentin owns the title object which shrinks whenever it grants him a wish. He also authored a story in which Eugene de Rastignac becomes friends with the title character. For ten points, name this French author who included The Wild Ass’s Skin and Pere Goriot in his collection, The Human Comedy. | Honoré de Balzac |
| In one of this author’s works, a black worker named Jacobus tells Mehring of a dead black man on his farm. In another work, one character exclaims “I’m not your Bassie” after being frustrated that Lionel’s daughter Rosa does not know his real name. The most famous work by this author of The (*) Conservationist sees the title character and Daniel ride a bakkie and a character kill two warthogs. In that work of hers, Maureen and Bam Smales grant freedom to the title character after a Black Revolution. For ten points, name this South African author of Burger’s Daughter and July’s People. | Nadine Gordimer |
| This poet wrote how the “scenes/ and seasons” were “changeless since the day” his wife died in one of his poems, while another of this man’s works details the title character with “His hair...crisp, and black, and long” and how he is “toiling,--rejoicing,--sorrowing” as life continues. In addition to “The Cross of Snow” and “The (*) Village Blacksmith”, this author also wrote a work in which John Alden gets married with Prisca Mullins despite the title Puritan’s broken heart. This author of The Courtship of Miles Standish also wrote about Minehaha’s love for the title character on the shores of Gitche Gumee. For ten points, name this author of “Paul Revere’s Ride” and “The Song of Hiawatha”. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| One of this author’s works includes the chapters “The Holy Church of Zion” and “The Defiance Campaign.” Another of this author’s novels begins “Perhaps I could have saved him, with only a word...but I never spoke” and is about police officer Peter van Vlaanderen. This author of Ah, But Your Land is Beautiful and (*) Too Late, the Phalarope wrote a novel in which a letter from Theophilus Msimangu informs the protagonist that Gertrude is ill. When the protagonist arrives, he learns of the murder of Arthur Jarvis by his son Abaslom. For ten points, identify this South African author most famous for a novel about Stephen Kumalo, Cry, the Beloved Country. | Alan Paton |
| In one work by this author, Octave de Malivert dies of sorrow in Greece after he is rejected by Zohiloff; that work is Armance. In a more famous work, the protagonist gets imprisoned in the Farnese Tower after murdering a manager, but is rescued by Aunt Gina, who later marries Count Mosca. That protagonist himself comes to love Clelia Conti, who dies a few months after their child passes away. In his most famous work, the protagonist shoots Madame de (*) Renal after she exposes his previous affair, which leads Marquis to cancel his marriage with his lover, Mathilde de la Mole. For ten points, name this author who wrote about Fabrizio del Dongo in The Charterhouse of Parma and about Julien Sorel in The Red and the Black. | Stendhal (or Marie-Henri Beyle) |
| In this work, Magnon receives money from Gillenormand and is falsely accused of taking part in the Gorbeau Robbery. The protagonist of this work does not return a coin given to him by Petit Gervais, and this work sees Mabeauf join the Friends of the ABC. Eponine saves a character by sacrificing her own life, and Gavroche Thenardier dies when he attempts to retrieve cartridges in this novel. Marius falls in love with (*) Fantine’s daughter Cosette, and the antagonist of this work drowns himself in the Seine River after spending many years chasing a man who had stolen a loaf of bread. For ten points, name this novel about Inspector Javert and Jean Valjean, a work of Victor Hugo. | Les Miserables |
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