Literary Works Trivia Questions
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Which author wrote 'The Martian Chronicles' where Earth's colonization of Mars begins in 1999?
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ray bradbury
Which author wrote the first-person story 'The Tell-Tale Heart'?
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edgar allan poe
Who published the tale of 'A Christmas Carol' when he was 31?
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charles dickens
What is the name of Alice Walker's third novel?
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color purple
Which author created the character Frederic Henry, who is wounded by a shell while eating cheese and macaroni in the book 'A Farewell to Arms'?
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ernest hemingway
In which Chaucer classic does the knight narrate the first story?
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canterbury tales
Which book has best selling versions titled 'The Living', 'The New English', and 'The Revised Standard'?
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bible
Which Bram Stoker novel begins with the first four chapters written as Jonathan Harker's journal entries?
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dracula
Which British author published 'East, West' in 1995, his first book of adult fiction since 'The Satanic Verses'?
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salman rushdie
What is the title of the Hemingway story in which thugs visit Henry's diner to kill a prizefighter?
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killers
Which author, known for 'The Other Side of Midnight,' wrote the 1995 bestseller 'Morning, Noon & Night'?
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sidney sheldon
Which girl's diary served as the basis for the play that won Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett the Pulitzer Prize in 1956?
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anne frank
Which author's novel 'You Can't Go Home Again' was published posthumously?
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thomas wolfe
Which playwright, known for 'Our Town', wrote the novel 'The Woman of Andros' inspired by an ancient Roman comedy?
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thornton wilder
What does John Donne's 'Song' instruct you to go and catch in its opening lines?
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star
Who wrote the 1926 novel 'The Sun Also Rises,' which is known as 'Fiesta' in England?
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ernest hemingway
Which author's British edition of 'The Martian Chronicles' was titled 'The Silver Locusts'?
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ray bradbury
What is the title of the Thoreau work that is sub-titled 'Life in the Woods'?
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walden
What is the subject of Bobby Jones' 1960 autobiography titled 'This Is My Game'?
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golf
What is the title of Alex Haley's bestseller that had the working title 'Before This Anger'?
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roots
In which Chaucer collection does the Nun's Priest tell the story of the Cock & the Fox?
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canterbury tales
What are the opening words of the rhyme written by Jane Taylor about a scintillating heavenly body?
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twinkle, twinkle, little star
In which country is 'The Tale of Genji' by Murasaki Shikibu considered one of the greatest works of fiction?
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japan
Who is the poet that wrote about 'Ships that pass in the night' in 'Tales of a Wayside Inn'?
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henry wadsworth longfellow
What is the 1977 Colleen McCullough novel that depicts the romantic saga of sheep-rearing Australians?
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thorn birds
Which author wrote the early story collections 'Flappers and Philosophers' and 'Tales of the Jazz Age'?
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f. scott fitzgerald
What is the only novel written by Boris Pasternak that was rejected by Soviet publishers for its critical approach to communism?
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doctor zhivago
What is the title of the '90s bestseller that includes the advice 'Don't call him and rarely return his calls' as one of its guidelines?
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rules
Which author, known for 'Satanic Verses', released the children's book 'Haroun & the Sea of Stories' in 1990?
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salman rushdie
Which play by Tennessee Williams is based on his short story 'Portrait of a Girl in Glass'?
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glass menagerie
Which author of 'An American Tragedy' also wrote a lesser-known editorial titled 'Tragic America'?
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theodore dreiser
What is the title of Melville's last prose work, a novella about a young sailor on a warship that wasn't published until 1924?
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billy budd
Which author wrote the novel 'The Bell Jar,' featuring characters such as Doreen and a New York disk jockey named Lenny Shepherd?
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sylvia plath
In the second part of which novel, titled 'Good Wives', does Aunt March die and leave her home, Plumfield, to Jo?
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little women
Which author, known for writing 'American Psycho,' explores the world of supermodels in his novel 'Glamorama'?
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bret easton ellis
Who is the author of 'Under the Greenwood Tree', the first of his novels set in what he would later call Wessex?
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thomas hardy
Which author wrote the novel 'The Mayor of Casterbridge,' subtitled 'A Story of a Man with Character'?
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thomas hardy
Which satirist wrote the 1734 work 'Lettres Anglaises' that praises England and critiques France?
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voltaire
Which Canadian author wrote the feminist novels 'Bodily Harm' and 'The Handmaid's Tale'?
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margaret atwood
Who is the author of the novel where Joseph K. is arrested at the beginning of 'The Trial'?
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franz kafka
Who is the author whose stories and short novels were compiled in the collection 'The Big Knockover,' edited by Lillian Hellman?
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dashiell hammett
Which marine biologist wrote the essay 'Undersea' in 1937, which later expanded into her first book, 'Under the Sea-Wind'?
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rachel carson
Who is the African-American poet who wrote the 1970 autobiography 'I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings'?
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maya angelou
Who is the author of the autobiography 'Little Wilson and Big God,' which also wrote 'A Clockwork Orange'?
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anthony burgess
Which author began one of his trilogies with 'The 42nd Parallel' and another with 'Adventures of A Young Man'?
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john dos passos
Which actress wrote the autobiography 'On The Other Hand,' starting with an open letter to King Kong?
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fay wray
In which 1667 literary work does the setting include a place called Pandemonium?
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paradise lost
Which Sitwell sibling authored the book of poetry titled 'Clowns' Houses'?
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edith sitwell
Which poem did Longfellow describe as 'a tale of love in Acadie, home of the happy'?
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evangeline
Who wrote the science fiction short story 'Nightfall' in 1941 at the age of 21?
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isaac asimov
What Kafka novel contains a portion published separately under the title 'Before the Law'?
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trial
In which Somerset Maugham book does the unattractive and self-seeking Mildred Rogers enslave Philip Carey?
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of human bondage
What dystopian novel features the region of Oceania and was published in 1949?
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1984
Which author wrote the stage adaptation of his own novel 'The Deer Park,' starring Rip Torn and Marsha Mason?
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norman mailer
Which American author wrote the 1913 novel 'O Pioneers!', which tells the story of Swedish settlers in Nebraska?
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willa cather
What is the title of Herman Melville's 1846 narrative about life with a tribe of cannibals, which was followed by the sequel 'Omoo'?
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typee
When it was first published, what book by Mark Twain detailing his travels to Europe was predominantly sold by door-to-door salesmen?
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innocents abroad
Who is the author of both 'Song of the Broad-Axe' and the well-known 'Song of Myself'?
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walt whitman
What is the title of the diary written by an anonymous author that was inspired by the Jefferson Airplane song 'White Rabbit'?
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go ask alice
What is the title of the 4-volume magnum opus by Lawrence Durrell that he suggested should ideally be read simultaneously?
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alexandria quartet
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