The protagonist of this novel beats one of his wives during the Week of Peace, resulting in a fine.After accidentally killing Ikemefuna, the protagonist of this novel is banished from (*) Umuofia forseven years. This novel's protagonist, Okonkwo, commits suicide by hanging to avoid being tried by theBritish colonists. For 10 points, name this Chinua Achebe novel about pre-colonial Nigerian life.
The main characters of one of this author's books live in the government-run camp of Weedpatch.In another of this man's books, Curley’s wife is killed by a character who wants to "live off the fatta thelan". One book by this author sees the (*) Joad family move to California. George and Lennie were createdby, for 10 points, what American author who wrote Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath?
Time-traveling bandits who steal these objects are the subject of a fictional book in the Diary of aWimpy Kid series that was banned in Greg's school. A superhero named for these objects was createdby using a 3-D Hypno Ring on the school principal Mr. (*) Krupp and goes on adventures with George andHarold. For 10 points, Dav Pilkey created a superhero named the "Captain" of what clothing?
This author wrote a legendarily unreadable stream-of-consciousness novel which begins with thefinal word of the final sentence, "riverrun". A novel by this author ends with a lengthy soliloquy whichends when Molly declares "yes I said yes I will yes". This author of Finnegans Wake depicted StephenDaedalus and Leopold (*) Bloom in another book. For 10 points, what Irish author wrote Ulysses?
Poems from this country include the Acmeist "Requiem" and one in which the title character duelsLensky for the love of Tatyana. In addition to Eugene Onegin, another work from this country starsIvan, Alyosha, and Dmitri, the title Brothers (*) Karamazov. Raskolnikov commits murder in Crime andPunishment, a work from, for 10 points, what country, where it is set in St. Petersburg?
One poem by this author calls its title entity "fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action". In hismost famous poem, this man calls his home city "Tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads,and City of the Big Shoulders". The line "The (*) fog comes in on little cat feet" was written by, for 10points, what American poet of “Grass” and “Chicago”?
In one novel by this author, Humpty Dumpty celebrates his "unbirthday" before his untimely fall.The line "Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / did gyre and gimble in the wabe" opens this author'snonsense poem (*) "Jabberwocky." Through the Looking-Glass is the sequel to this man's most well-knownwork. For 10 points, identify this author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Note to players: description acceptable. Juliek (YOO-lee-eck) and Moshe the Beadle appear in a novelthat takes place in these locations. An author who died in one of these locations wrote the line "Inspite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart" in the (*) diary she kept inAmsterdam. Elie Wiesel's Night is set in and Anne Frank died in one of, for 10 points, what places whichincluded Auschwitz (ow-shvitz)?
One character in this play is repeatedly called the "Prince of Cats" by his frequent enemy. Thefemale protagonist of this work receives a sleeping potion from a (*) friar, although her lover believes herto be dead and commits suicide out of grief. The Montague and Capulet families are at odds in, for 10 points,what Shakespeare tragedy about two "star-cross’d lovers"?
This author depicted Green Town, Illinois in his short story collection Dandelion Wine. Anotherstory collection by this author begins with "Rocket Summer" and follows the human settlement ofMars in the mid 21st century. This man wrote a novel in which the (*) fireman Guy Montag saves booksinstead of burning them. For 10 points, name this author of the Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.
Andrew Marcus brews a potion to give himself freckles in one book by this author. A series by thisauthor features the turtle Dribble and chronicles Peter Hatcher's annoyance with his younger brother.The title character gets her first (*) period at the end of Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, a novel by, for10 points, what author of Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing who created "Fudge" Hatcher?
In this novel, a marriage proposal from St. John (sin-jin) Rivers is rejected. In this book, GracePoole cares for the insane Bertha Mason in Thornfield Hall, which Bertha burns down. The titlecharacter declares "Reader, I (*) married him" at the beginning of the final chapter of this novel. Mr.Rochester marries the title character of, for 10 points, what Charlotte Brontë novel?
This character discovers that an old man he killed was actually King Laius. This character solves theriddle of the Sphinx, defeating it and becoming king of Thebes. This man stabs his eyes out with pinsafter realizing that his wife, Jocasta, is actually his (*) mother. For 10 points, what Theban king depicted ina trilogy of Sophocles plays was prophesied to marry his mother and kill his father?
Seymour commits suicide at the end of this author's short story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish". TheGlass family appears in many stories by this author, whose most famous work centers on a PenceyPrep (*) dropout who visits his sister Phoebe while in New York City. For 10 points, the "phony"-hatingHolden Caulfield is the protagonist of what author's novel The Catcher in the Rye?
This author created Fanny Price, who is sent by her poor family to live at the title estate in hernovel Mansfield Park. This author wrote a book whose main character is lifelong friends with Mr.Knightley called Emma. Elizabeth (*) Bennett, one of five daughters, is the main character of another of thiswoman's novels. For 10 points, name this author of Pride and Prejudice.
This novel and Native Son were criticized by James Baldwin in his essay "Everybody's Protest Novel."Abraham Lincoln called the author of this novel "the little lady who started this great war" because ofits perceived effect on the (*) abolition movement. A long-suffering slave dutifully serves his masternonetheless in, for 10 points, what novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The narrator of this book ends it by declaring "I am haunted by humans". In this novel, Rudypretends to be Jesse Owens by covering himself in charcoal and running a hundred meters. Thisnovel's protagonist is the sole (*) survivor of her neighborhood's destruction in an Allied bomb raid. Deathis the narrator of, for 10 points, what Markus Zusak book about a girl who steals literary works?
An extended simile in one of this man's poems proclaims that its subject is "more lovely and moretemperate." One poem by this author proclaims that a woman's eyes are "nothing like the sun." Thisman's most famous poem begins (*) "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" Many sonnets were writtenby, for 10 points, what British poet and playwright who also wrote Macbeth?
In this play, one character answers "No. Saints and poets maybe" in response to a question. Thehymn Blessed Be the Ties that Bind is sung once each act in this play. Near the end of this play, Emily (*)Webb relives her twelfth birthday after dying during childbirth. The fourth-wall-breaking Stage Managernarrates, for 10 points, what Thornton Wilder play set in Grover's Corners?
A theme in this novel centers on the repeated disappearance of the donkey Dapple. One characterin this novel declares himself to be "the Knight of the White Moon." This novel's title character longsfor (*) Dulcinea, rides the horse Rocinante, and has a companion named Sancho Panza. For 10 points, namethis novel about an eccentric Spanish man who tilts at windmills, by Miguel de Cervantes.
In one book by this author, Henry commits treason to help the king of the rats, but falls off a cliffand dies when his bat, Ares, fails to save him. This author of Gregor the Overlander also wrote a novelin which the protagonist chooses to shoot Elizabeth (*) Coin rather than Coriolanus Snow at a publicexecution. Katniss Everdeen was created by, for 10 points, what author of The Hunger Games?
A sonnet written by this man begins "When I Consider How My Light Is Spent" and discusses hisblindness. This man sought to “justify the ways of God to man” in a Biblically-inspired epic poempartially set in the city of (*) Pandemonium which describes the story of Adam and Eve and the fall ofLucifer. For 10 points, name this English poet who wrote the epic Paradise Lost.
This author recalled his experience serving in the air force in World War II in his memoir Going Solo.A book by this author ends when the title character boards the "Great Glass Elevator." In a novel by thisauthor, Miss Honey adopts a schoolgirl who scares away Miss (*) Trunchbull with her telekinetic powers.For 10 points, name this author of Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
In one book in this language, the protagonist decides to stop growing at the age of three when hereceives a tin drum. Another book in this language depicts Hans Castorp's stay in a Swiss sanitorium.Novels like Steppenwolf were written in this language by Hermann (*) Hesse. Thomas Mann and GünterGrass wrote in, for 10 points, what language in which the memoir Mein Kampf was written by Adolf Hitler?
The speaker of this poem notes that, "knowing how way leads on to way", he may never return to itssetting. This poem's speaker "shall be telling this with a sigh / somewhere ages and ages hence", andnotes that its central action "has made all the (*) difference". "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" in, for10 points, what Robert Frost poem whose narrator "took the path less traveled by"?
In one scene in this novel, its main character is visited by the chained ghost of his former businesspartner. This novel's protagonist is visited by a series of ghosts representing the past, (*) present, andfuture of the title holiday, after which he abandons his miserly ways. For 10 points, name this Charles Dickensnovel about Ebenezer Scrooge's dreams on December 25th.
Ambrose Bierce is killed by Tomas Arroyo after becoming involved in a revolution in this country inone novel. A poem from this country called "Sunstone" contains 584 lines, an homage to its native (*)Aztec calendar. Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street depicts an immigrant to Chicago from, for 10points, what southern neighbor of the United States?
In one story by this author, the homeless Soapy unsuccessfully tries to get himself arrested to avoidthe cold. This author of "The Cop and the Anthem" also wrote about two men's kidnapping of EbenezerDorset, which fails when they have to pay his (*) father to take his son back. "The Ransom of Red Chief" isby, for 10 points, what American author of short stories such as "The Gift of the Magi"?
In this novel, one character is allowed to join an Owsla after being given a Mark. GeneralWoundwort is defeated at the title location of this novel after its protagonists unleash a watchdog.This novel begins with (*) Fiver receiving a vision of his home being destroyed, causing him and his friendsto search for a new warren. For 10 points, name this Richard Adams adventure novel about rabbits.
One poem about this war opens by asking "what passing-bells for those who die as cattle?". Inanother poem about this war, a man "plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning" as he dies during a(*) gas attack. "Anthem for Doomed Youth" and "Dulce et Decorum Est" were written by Wilfred Owen during,for 10 points, what 1910s "Great War"?
One poet from this country wrote that "each man kills the thing he loves" after being jailed forhomosexuality. Another poet from this non-African country wrote "things fall apart; the centre cannothold" in "The Second Coming". Jonathan Swift suggested this country's residents sell babies for (*)food in the satire A Modest Proposal. For 10 points, what country produced W. B. Yeats and Seán O’Casey?
This character owns a sword named Anaklusmos, which transforms from a pen when uncapped.This character, whose mother always makes him blue-colored food, is taken by his best friend (*)Grover Underwood to Camp Half-Blood. The Lightning Thief is the first book about, for 10 points, what son ofPoseidon created by Rick Riordan?
In one novel set in this country, the geisha Komako falls in love with a ballet expert in a remote hotspring town. Snow Country is set in this country, in which the poet Matsuo Basho mastered a poeticform consisting of three lines of (*) 5, 7, and 5 syllables. Haiku originate from, for 10 points, what homelandof Yasunari Kawabata and Yukio Mishima, whose cities include Osaka and Tokyo?
The Battle of Red Cliffs is fought in a novel from this country. In another novel from this country,Sandy, Pigsy, and the Monkey King accompany a Buddhist monk to Vulture Peak. Romance of the ThreeKingdoms and (*) Journey to the West are two of the Four Great Classics written in, for 10 points, whatcountry home to the poet Li Bai that was formerly ruled by the Ming Dynasty?
The speaker of this poem asks its subject "is there - is there balm in Gilead?" before ordering it"back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore". The title animal of this poem is perched on a"pallid bust of (*) Pallas just above my chamber door". "Once upon a midnight dreary" is the opening of, for10 points, what poem by Edgar Allan Poe in which the title bird declares "nevermore"?
At the end of this novel, the main character is devastated when 511 children "balloon" from hisresidence. In this novel, a rodent named Templeton refuses to help other characters unless he isoffered food. One character in this novel (*) weaves words such as "SOME PIG!" and "TERRIFIC" into thetitle object. For 10 points, name this novel by E. B. White about a certain spider and the pig Wilbur.
[10] Describe this event which one poem predicted would occur "not with a bang but a whimper". Another poet wrote that "some say [this event will occur] in fire / some say in ice".
[10] This American poet wrote "Fire and Ice". In another poem, he wrote that "I have promises to keep / and miles to go before I sleep / and miles to go before I sleep".
[10] This other poet wrote "this is the way the world ends / this is the way the world ends / this is the way the world ends / not with a bang but a whimper" in The Hollow Men. He also opened his poem The Waste Land by declaring that "April is the cruelest month".
[10] Name this poet who is best known for his collection Gitanjali. He also wrote the lyrics to the song “Jana Gana Mana”.
[10] Tagore is from this country, where he was born in Kolkata and wrote in Bengali. Many novelists from this country write in either English or Hindi.
[10] “Jana Gana Mana” is used as one of these songs in India. Other examples of these songs include “La Marseillaise” (mar-say-EZ) and “God Save the Queen”.
[10] Identify this British author of novels and short stories such as "The Final Problem", in which the protagonist plunges to his death off the Reichenbach Falls along with his mortal enemy, Professor Moriarty.
[10] Arthur Conan Doyle created this brilliant detective, the companion of Dr. Watson and enemy of Moriarty. He was played by Benedict Cumberbatch in a recent television adaptation of some of Doyle's stories.
[10] Public outcry after Holmes's apparent death in "The Final Problem" prompted Doyle to bring him back for this novel, in which Holmes and Watson investigate murders supposedly committed by a demonic animal in Dartmoor.
[10] Name this first novel in which Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which transport Meg, Calvin and Charles through Space-Time, a novel by Madeleine L'Engle.
[10] In A Wrinkle In Time, the characters land on the planet Camazotz where they meet this main antagonist of the novel, who kidnaps Charles Wallace.
[10] Meg and Calvin's parents in A Wrinkle in Time both have this general occupation also held by Marie Curie and Rosalind Franklin.
[10] Identify this title character of a Shakespeare play who attempts to expose King Claudius's treachery.
[10] This lover of Hamlet and daughter of Polonius drowns herself in the play's 4th act. She too gives her own soliloquy after Hamlet rejects her in a fit of madness.
[10] Hamlet is an example of a Shakespearean tragedy, a genre of play contrasted with this other genre. This genre describes plays and other works intended to cause laughter or amusement, and modern performers like John Mulaney practice its "stand-up" variety.
[10] Name this short story in which the protagonist confesses to murdering his landlord after hearing the title object beating under his floorboards.
[10] This American author penned "The Tell-Tale Heart." He is also known for poems such as "Annabel Lee" and "The Bells."
[10] This other story by Poe takes place at a masquerade ball hosted by Prince Prospero in order to hide from the title plague. A mysterious figure dressed as a victim of the disease arrives at the ball and kills the guests in this story.
[10] Name this poet of Canto General who recounted raping a maid in his memoirs. He also abandoned his only child due to her severe birth defects, leaving her to die in the Netherlands with his estranged wife.
[10] Neruda also may have participated in the first assassination plot of Leon Trotsky. Trotsky lost a power struggle to Josef Stalin after the death of this first leader of the Soviet Union.
[10] Neruda also allegedly plagiarized part of a collection partially named for 20 poems about this emotion. An Elizabeth Barrett Browning poem declares, "Let me count the ways" in which she feels this emotion.
[10] Name this author of Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son, in addition to a book in which Jonas gains the ability to see colors over the course of the novel.
[10] Lowry wrote this novel, in which Jonas is selected as the Receiver of Memory. Its sequels include the aforementioned Gathering Blue.
[10] Lowry also wrote this historical fiction novel about Annemarie and her Jewish friend Ellen living in Nazi-era Denmark.
[10] Name this American playwright of The Crucible and Death of a Salesman, the latter of which depicts Willy Loman's relationship with his family.
[10] Near the end of Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman dies in this manner. The authors Ernest Hemingway and Hunter S. Thompson both died in this manner after shooting themselves in the head.
[10] Joe Keller, the protagonist of this other Arthur Miller play, kills himself out of guilt after allowing defective parts to be shipped, resulting in the death of 21 pilots.
[10] Name these beings. In his short story "Runaround", sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov devised a set of "Three Laws" governing these beings.
[10] This author depicted Marvin the Paranoid Android alongside Zaphod Beeblebrox and Ford Prefect in his comedic sci-fi series The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
[10] In the Hitchhiker’s Guide series, a group of alien robots attack Earth during the Ashes, a match between Australia and England in this sport. Teams compete to score the most runs in this non-baseball sport popular in the Commonwealth.
[10] Name this Scott O'Dell book about Karana, a girl left alone in the title place off the California coast after the rest of her tribe sank in a boat while travelling to the mainland.
[10] Karana is a member of this general ethnic group, members of whom often live on reservations in the United States. Subsets of them include the Cherokee and Lakota.
[10] Sherman Alexie, another Native American author, set The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Reservation Blues on this state’s Spokane Reservation.
[10] Name this novel in which Sydney Carton takes the place of Charles Darnay.
[10] This British author wrote A Tale of Two Cities. His other characters include Pip Pirrup and Oliver Twist.
[10] Pip is the protagonist of this rags-to-riches Dickens novel, in which he is given a large sum of money by the convict Abel Magwitch.
[10] Identify this John Green novel about Hazel Lancaster and Augustus Waters, who fly to Amsterdam to meet the author Peter Van Houten.
[10] Hazel and Augustus meet at a support group for sufferers of this disease, from which Augustus dies at the end of the book. An Eleanor Coerr book describes Sadako Sasaki folding a thousand paper cranes while undergoing treatment for leukemia, one kind of this disease.
[10] Augustus also has this physical condition as a result of his bone cancer, which ended his basketball career. In Wendelin Van Draanen's The Running Dream, Jessica acquires this physical condition in a car accident.
[10] This Frenchman included "The Albatross" and "To the Reader" in his most famous collection, Les Fleurs du Mal.
[10] This man wrote the poem "To a Skylark," in addition to his more famous "Ozymandias." His wife Mary, who shares his surname, wrote Frankenstein.
[10] This man wrote of leaving the world "unseen" in his "Ode to a Nightingale". This author also penned "Ode on a Grecian Urn”.
[10] Name this English Romantic poet known for "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and the unfinished "Kubla Khan".
[10] Coleridge claimed to have composed "Kubla Khan" in a dream while high on this drug. Britain fought two wars with China over this drug, which is produced from poppies.
[10] "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" follows a frame narrative in which the story is told to a guest at one of these events. Federico Garcíia Lorca wrote about a "Blood" one of these events in which the Groom and the Bride's lover kill each other.
[10] Name this Roman poet who is best known for his narrative poem Metamorphoses.
[10] Another Roman poet, Horace, wrote many of these poems. Friedrich Schiller wrote one of these poems "to Joy" which was set to music by Beethoven.
[10] Ovid and Horace wrote in this language which was spoken in the Roman Empire. This language's phrase "carpe diem" roughly translates as "seize the day”.
[10] This poet asked "what happens to a dream deferred?" in his poem "Harlem." In another poem, he wrote “my soul has grown deep like the rivers”.
[10] This poet read her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at Bill Clinton's inauguration. She wrote an autobiography titled I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
[10] This African-American poet of "The Bean Eaters" also wrote "We / Jazz June. We / Die soon." in her poem "We Real Cool."
[10] Name this British author who has been criticized recently for transphobic comments she made on Twitter. She used a pseudonym to write about the detective Cormoran Strike.
[10] Rowling is best known for writing this series, whose title character goes to the magic school Hogwarts and fights the evil Voldemort.
[10] Rowling has also been criticized for her use of anti-Semitic stereotypes in Harry Potter to depict the goblin employees of one of these businesses which is revealed to be the location of the Cup of Hufflepuff.
[10] This headmaster of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter series had an affair with Gellert Grindelwald. He was murdered by Severus Snape in the sixth Harry Potter novel.
[10] In the Percy Jackson series, Nico di Angelo, a son of this Greek god, is forced by Cupid to come out as gay. This member of the Big Three put Nico and his sister Bianca in the Lotus Hotel.
[10] This author wrote Two Boys Kissing and Boy Meets Boy, two books featuring gay characters. This author also cowrote Will Grayson, Will Grayson with John Green, a book that centers around the fact that a straight boy and a gay boy both share the title name.
[10] Name this book set in Maycomb, Alabama in which Tom Robinson is falsely convicted of raping Mayella Ewell despite the defenses of the lawyer Atticus Finch.
[10] This American author who died in 2016 wrote To Kill a Mockingbird.
[10] Lee's friendship with Truman Capote inspired this character in To Kill a Mockingbird. This character visits Maycomb every summer from Meridian and quickly becomes friends with Scout and Jem.
[10] Name this collection in which pilgrims tell stories on a pilgrimage to the tomb of Thomas Becket.
[10] This British author wrote The Canterbury Tales and was a contemporary of Giovanni Bocaccio.
[10] This character in The Canterbury Tales tells a tale about Arcite and Palamon, who both fall in love with Emily upon seeing her. This character's tale follows the work's general prologue.
[10] Name this dystopian novel by George Orwell about Winston Smith's life under the repressive regime of Big Brother, named for the year in which it takes place.
[10] In 1984, Winston has a secret affair with a woman with this name. Mario Vargas Llosa (YO-sa) wrote a novel partially titled for a character with this first name "and the Scriptwriter".
[10] Early in the novel, Winston's suspicions that Julia is a member of a resistance group are confirmed when she hands him a note containing this three-word confession.
[10] Name this play about the increasing mistreatment of two black servants by their master's teenage son, the magnum opus of Athol Fugard.
[10] Fugard was from this country, where authors like Nadine Gordimer and Alan Paton wrote about apartheid.
[10] Alan Paton wrote this novel about the elderly Zulu priest Stephen Kumalo who travels to Johannesburg and deals with his son Absalom's murder of Arthur Jarvis.
[10] There is only one known surviving photograph of this Massachusetts poet who spent much of her adult life in isolation. Her poems include "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" and "I heard a Fly buzz— when I died”.
[10] This postmodernist author of The Crying of Lot 49 has managed to stay out of the public eye for six decades. He wrote about Tyrone Slothrop and the V-2 rocket in Gravity's Rainbow.
[10] Novels by the reclusive Cormac McCarthy include Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses, two examples of this literary genre. Actor John Wayne is also associated with this broad genre of fiction which frequently involves cowboys, sheriffs, and outlaws.
[10] Name this British poet of "Crossing the Bar". Another of his poems is set during the Crimean War and describes a cavalry unit at the Battle of Balaclava.
[10] This Tennyson poem opens "Half a league, half a league / half a league onward”. Its final stanza asks "When can their glory fade? / O the wild charge they made!".
[10] “The Charge of the Light Brigade” describes the cavalry riding into the “valley of” this concept. An Emily Dickinson poem begins “Because I could not stop for [this concept] -- / He kindly stopped for me”.
[10] Name this novel in which Billy Pilgrim is "unstuck in time."
[10] Slaughterhouse-Five was written by this American author who depicted an apocalypse caused by ice-nine in his novel Cat's Cradle.
[10] Vonnegut also wrote about car dealer Dwayne Hoover and science fiction author Kilgore Trout in a novel titled for “[this meal] of Champions”, inspired by the slogan for Wheaties, a cereal often eaten at this meal.
[10] Opal Buloni moves to Naomi, Florida, to live with her preacher father in this children's book, named after the dog she finds there.
[10] Because of Winn-Dixie was written by this American author of The Tale of Despereaux.
[10] The title character of The Tale of Despereaux is one of these cheese-loving rodents, as is E. B. White's Stuart Little.
[10] Name this philosopher from a 1757 Voltaire novel who repeatedly claims that he is living in "the best of all possible worlds."
[10] Pangloss appears in this novel by Voltaire subtitled "Optimism". Its title character rejects Pangloss's optimism in the face of numerous hardships.
[10] Voltaire was an author and philosopher from this country during the Enlightenment period. His remains are contained in the Panthéon, a monument in its capital, along with Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas, two other authors from this country.
[10] Name this literary "generation" that included Jack Kerouac and the author of the poem "Howl," Allen Ginsberg.
[10] Ginsberg's "A Supermarket in California" mentions seeing this poet "eyeing the grocery boys." This poet wrote "I Sing the Body Electric", "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry", and "O Captain! My Captain!".
[10] Whitman’s “O Captain! My Captain!” was an elegy to this president who led the U.S. through the Civil War.
[10] Name this Irish author who also wrote And Another Thing..., a sequel to Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. He is best known for a sci-fi/fantasy series whose title character discovers a race of technologically-advanced fairies.
[10] This supergenius is the title character of that Eoin Colfer series. He is assisted by his bodyguard, Butler, and in the first book of the series he kidnaps the elf policewoman Holly Short in an attempt to extract a ransom of gold.
[10] In Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident, Artemis rescues his father, who was held captive by an organized crime group in this country’s far-northern port city of Murmansk, one of the few major cities on the northern coast of this massive country which contains the sparsely populated region of Siberia.
[10] Identify this character who is killed when Roger drops a boulder on him. His glasses are stolen by Jack to establish his group's power.
[10] Piggy is a character in this novel by William Golding in which a group of schoolboys are stranded on a deserted island.
[10] Piggy's glasses are stolen because they are the only object on the island capable of this task. After Jack's tribe is unexpectedly successful at using the glasses for this task, a passing ship sees the resulting smoke and rescues the children.
[10] Name this American author who wrote about the child Pearl and Hester Prynne.
[10] This other American author said that Hawthorne "shoots his strong New England roots into the deep soil of my Southern soul" in one of several thinly-veiled love letters. He is better known for writing Moby-Dick.
[10] Moby-Dick depicts the crew of the Pequod hunting a massive white one of these animals.
[10] Name this Central European country home to authors such as Jaroslav Hašek ( YAR-oh-sloff HAH-sheck) and Milan Kundera, who wrote The Unbearable Lightness of Being, depicting life under communist rule in this country.
[10] In The Good Soldier Švejk , the title character sells these animals. The title character of Jack London's White Fang is one of these animals.
[10] Czech author Vaclav Havel (VAHTS-loff HAH-vel) wrote a play titled for one of these events in a garden. Harold Pinter wrote an absurdist play titled for a "birthday" one of these events.
[10] Name this author who also wrote The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
[10] Tolstoy was a native of this country, which Napoleon famously attempted to invade in the winter. Other authors from this country include Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Alexander Pushkin.
[10] The title character of this Tolstoy novel commits suicide by train. It begins by declaring "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way".
[10] Name this novel set in a futuristic dystopia engineered to ensure constant happiness, with five social classes ranging from Alpha to Epsilon. Its protagonist Bernard Marx is exiled at the end of the book.
[10] This English author wrote Brave New World. Some of his other works include The Doors of Perception and Point Counterpoint.
[10] This real-life American industrialist is worshipped by the society of Brave New World, whose calendar counts the number of years since this man's automobile company produced its first Model T car off the assembly line.
[10] Name this Jean Craighead George book where Sam Gribley leaves the city to live self-sufficiently in a treehouse in the forest.
[10] Sam tames a peregrine bird of this type, which he names Frightful, to hunt for him.
[10] Sam leaves this state's largest city for its village of Delhi in its Catskill Mountains. F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby takes place on this state's Long Island.
[10] Name this American author who also wrote about Edna Pontellier drowning herself in The Awakening.
[10] Chopin’s stories are often set in this southern U.S. state and frequently feature creole characters. Her story collection Bayou Folk is named for this state’s bayous.
[10] Chopin’s novel At Fault takes place in this largest city in Louisiana, known for its colorful Mardi Gras celebrations.