In this 1897 work the title character enters an inn with his face almost entirely covered in bandages
Realizing he couldn't draw horses, the man behind this 1963 book drew the title characters purely from his imagination
In 1974 Allison Maher Stern posed horizontally on stools & pretended to swim for a cover of this book
This 12-year-old began his first book saying, "Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood"
First published in 1812, this anthology included "The Water Nymph" & "The Booted Tom Cat"
In 1958 a review of this book now considered a classic called it repulsive, disgusting & "highbrow pornography"
The title of this 2001 book, also a 2003 film, forms a partial border between Boston, Chelsea, Medford & Everett
Featured in a 2020 film, she gets her name from a 16th c. Italian stock character who often wore diamond-patterned outfits
In 1930 this author wrote "Murder at Full Moon", a horror-mystery novel set in a fictional town in Central California
The original 1900 printing of this book was in a pale green dust jacket stamped in a vivid jewel tone of green
This 2007 bestselling novel takes its title from a line in the poem "Kabul" by the 17th century Persian poet Saib
The name of this author dead since 2013 now appears on books written by a former U.S. marshal & a former Apache helicopter pilot
Its title character is told "By the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off... your eyes drop out & you get... shabby"
A book by her says, "It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'... but then I am not a rabbit"
Trying to emulate the title character, he fails & is told "You lack a set of spinnerets, & you lack know-how"
Emily Dickinson made frequent use of a work by this family friend & said that for several years, it was "my only companion"
The last book Dr. Seuss published in his lifetime, it climbs bestseller lists every spring
In books by him, the Kingdom of Noland, ruled by an orphan named Bud, borders a country called Ix, where Queen Zixi reigns
This 1969 book was first printed in Japan because no U.S. company would then make a book with so many holes in the pages
A 1964 essay coined this 2-word term for "artistically serious" comic books & endorsed it over "illustories" & "picto-fiction"
This book was published in Latin as "Virent Ova! Viret Perna!!"
This title of a 1962 novel & 1975 film refers to the direction the last of 3 geese took in an old nursery rhyme
The original title of this 1900 classic included a gem; another working title mentioned a Plains state
During his years with the Justice League of America, this superhero sometimes used the secret identity "C. King"
This 1883 classic ends with the words "A well-be have d little boy!"
The title of this Old Testament book is from the Greek for "song sung to a harp"
"Son of a Witch” & “A Lion Among Men” are sequels to the book that inspired this musical
In 1946, MLJ Mags. changed its name to this "Comics", incorporating the first name of its popular teenage hero
This manual resulted from a military engineer's attendance at an unruly 1860s church meeting
For this series of picture books that started in 1987, each crowd scene takes about 8 weeks to illustrate
His first novel, from 1920, incorporated some of his pieces from The Nassau, a Princeton literary magazine
A Pulitzer winner in 1947 & Best Picture Oscar winner in 1949, its title is also a line from Lewis Carroll
The name of this character who lives in a forest is a shortening of an Italian word for a newborn
Mussolini considered this book written during the Renaissance "the statesman's supreme guide"
A 2008 review of this novel, later filmed, compared it to "Battle Royale" & said it's "a future we can fear"
The 1853 dedication of "12 Years a Slave" was to this woman author "whose name... is identified with the Great Reform"
The impetus for these books came from a vision the author had "of a faun carrying an umbrella & parcels in a snowy wood"
A. cavaticus, the scientific name of the barn spider, inspired the middle initial & last name of a character in this book
The first time we meet this man in a 1981 novel, he's in his cell holding "Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine"
The 2003 bestseller "The Meaning of Everything" is subtitled "The Story of" this reference classic
From 1966 to 1968 this role was played by 2 different actresses in a TV series; it was also the title role in a 2004 film
When they began in 1879, the creators of this thought they'd finish in 10 years; 5 years later, they reached "ant"
Stefan Kanfer's 2008 biography of this star is titled "Somebody", a nod to one of his most famous lines
It "had been built... for pigs about to be butchered. Now it was going to serve as a home... for 100 American P.O.W.s"
"American Vertigo" by philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy retraced a trip 175 years before by this man, his countryman
Chap. 1: "Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans--in fact, few Kansans--had ever heard of Holcomb"
"I am the rose of Sharon" & "When you know your name, you should hang on to it" are from 2 different books titled this
This book says, "Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner...that's our official slogan"
F. Paul Pacult's "American Still Life" is the history of this over 200-year-old Kentucky company
When it was completed in 1928, Britain's P.M. said, "Our histories, our novels, our poems... are all in this one book"