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Literature 2026-02-26 (Season 42)

LITERARY ORIGINS

As a child, Christopher Robin Milne loved feeding a London Zoo animal whose former owner hailed from this city

Literature 2025-12-10 (Season 42)

RUSSIAN LITERARY WORKS

The son of a former serf buys this title area for 90,000 rubles above the mortgage

Literature 2025-11-04 (Season 42)

LITERARY CHARACTERS

"'Assure me that I yet may change these shadows you have shown me, by an altered life!"', says this man

Literature 2025-07-08 (Season 41)

1950s LITERATURE

At the start of this tale, the title character is reminded he went turtling off the Mosquito Coast

Literature 2025-06-25 (Season 41)

LITERARY ALLUSIONS

One of the first chatbots was named for this language-learning character from a 1913 play & 1956 musical

Literature 2025-05-09 (Season 41)

LITERARY NARRATORS

This work has 10 main narrators, 7 of them women, including Fiammetta & Lauretta

Literature 2024-11-12 (Season 41)

LITERARY MONUMENTS

A 112-foot-tall monument in a Madrid plaza depicts a writer seated above bronze statues of these 2 characters

Literature 2024-10-04 (Season 41)

LITERARY CHARACTERS

A fragment from a nautical tool found on a Chilean island in 2005 was likely left by the Scot who partly inspired this character

Literature 2024-07-17 (Season 40)

LITERARY CHARACTERS

In a 1980 National Book Award winner, we learn this title character gets his name from the rank of his late dad--technical sergeant

Literature 2024-07-09 (Season 40)

LITERATURE

In one story he is enslaved by the Old Man of the Sea & uses apes to pick fruit so he can afford his fare back to Baghdad

Literature 2024-06-26 (Season 40)

LITERATURE

The British Library says of this 19th c. man, "One of his most famous poems... is a warning about the arrogance of great leaders"

Literature 2024-05-24 (Season 40)

LITERATURE

Preserved in a single manuscript called Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, this epic begins with the word "Hwæt", often translated as listen

Literature 2023-05-30 (Season 39)

LITERARY GROUPS

Windermere, Thirlmere & Grasmere are 3 of the sites that helped give a 19th century literary group this name

Literature 2023-03-13 (Season 39)

LITERATURE

A 2006 book was titled "The Poem That Changed America:" this "Fifty Years Later"

Literature 2023-02-01 (Season 39)

LITERATURE

Published in 2011, P.D. James' final novel, "Death Comes to Pemberley", was a sequel to this novel from 200 years earlier

Literature 2022-09-23 (Season 39)

LITERARY CHARACTERS

In a later part of the epic named for him, this character becomes king after his cousin Heardred dies in battle

Literature 2022-07-07 (Season 38)

LITERARY CHARACTERS ON SCREEN

Per Guinness, this character who debuted in 1887 is the most portrayed human literary character in film & television

Literature 2022-05-17 (Season 38)

LITERATURE

A contemporary review of a novel by this man said he "commands attention as a kind of literary James Dean"

Literature 2022-03-04 (Season 38)

LITERARY CHARACTERS

Dostoyevsky wrote that this title man in an earlier European novel is "beautiful only because he is ridiculous"

Literature 2021-10-27 (Season 38)

LITERARY MOVIE ROLES

Among the actresses who have portrayed her are Greta Garbo twice, Vivien Leigh, Tatiana Samoilova & Keira Knightley

Literature 2021-10-15 (Season 38)

LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN

These stories got their collective title because little Josephine Kipling insisted they be told exactly the same way each time

Literature 2021-07-23 (Season 37)

LITERARY CHARACTERS

This owner of a large estate in Derbyshire is described as "proud" at least half a dozen times

Literature 2021-03-25 (Season 37)

LITERARY INSPIRATIONS

The now-debunked theories of Luigi Galvani influenced the science in this 1818 novel

Literature 2021-03-10 (Season 37)

LITERARY THRILLERS

The only Ian Fleming James Bond novel not told in the third person, it's narrated by one of 007's paramours

Literature 2020-11-17 (Season 37)

FRENCH LITERATURE

An 1862 novel says this character "would have arrested his own father... and would have denounced his mother"

Literature 2020-10-19 (Season 37)

PHRASES FROM LITERATURE

This 2-word phrase in "The Arabian Nights" may have come from an herb bearing seed pods that burst when ripe

Literature 2020-10-13 (Season 37)

LITERARY PRONOUNS

Thanks to a horror film, this novel returned to the bestseller lists in 2017, some 30 years after reaching No. 1

Literature 2020-10-01 (Season 37)

LITERARY TERMS

In medieval times it was a long tale of a hero like Gisli or Njall; today it means any story of epic length

Literature 2020-02-13 (Season 36)

INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE

There are reminiscences of branding cattle & lassoing steers in “Martín Fierro”, the national poem of this Western Hemisphere country

Literature 2019-12-03 (Season 36)

LITERARY NEW YORK CITY

An insider described the scene there: "Just...loudmouths showing off, saving their gags for days, waiting to spring them"

Literature 2019-04-12 (Season 35)

LITERARY ADAPTATIONS

The director of the 2018 TV version of this 1953 classic said, yes, books were harmed in the making of this motion picture

Literature 2018-10-23 (Season 35)

OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE

This "creature of evil, grim and fierce, was quickly ready, savage and cruel, and seized from their rest thirty thanes"

Literature 2018-06-08 (Season 34)

LITERARY SETTINGS

Ashdown Forest in Sussex inspired this fictional setting for a 1926 collection of stories for children

Literature 2018-05-04 (Season 34)

LITERARY HELPERS

Passepartout, whose name means "go everywhere", is the fittingly named aide in an 1873 tale by this author

Literature 2018-01-30 (Season 34)

LITERATURE & MYTHOLOGY

The "very name embodies the idea of flight", says one analysis of a 20th century novel in describing this main character

Literature 2018-01-23 (Season 34)

LITERARY BROTHERS

This character first appeared in "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter", an 1893 story in London's Strand Magazine

Literature 2017-07-04 (Season 33)

CLASSIC CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

A 2016 biography of a children's author is titled "In the Great Green Room", a line from this classic book

Literature 2017-06-27 (Season 33)

LITERARY REFERENCES

An homage to a 1953 novel, this number appears as an error code when a user tries to access a web page with censored content

Literature 2017-02-10 (Season 33)

LITERARY CHARACTERS

When we first meet her in the novel, she's wearing a green dress with 12 yards of fabric & matching slippers from Atlanta

Literature 2016-12-22 (Season 33)

LITERARY INSPIRATIONS

Seen here, the White City built for Chicago's 1893 Columbian Exposition is said to have inspired this author who then lived near it

Literature 2016-11-29 (Season 33)

LITERATURE

In 2009 Amazon remotely deleted unauthorized copies of this 1949 novel from some customers' Kindles

Literature 2016-07-07 (Season 32)

BRITISH LITERARY CHARACTERS

In an 1887 novel this narrator's old wartime injury is in his shoulder; in an 1890 novel by the same author, it's in his leg

Literature 2016-04-29 (Season 32)

LITERARY CHARACTERS

In 1929 London's Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital was given all rights to this character created 27 years earlier

Literature 2016-04-26 (Season 32)

LITERARY QUOTES

More than once this 1897 novel quotes from Deuteronomy, "The blood is the life"

Literature 2016-03-18 (Season 32)

LITERARY DETECTIVES

His creator sometimes found him a "detestable, bombastic, tiresome little creature"

Literature 2016-01-14 (Season 32)

ADVENTURE LITERATURE

In Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth", explorers enter an Icelandic volcano & emerge on this island off Sicily

Literature 2015-12-10 (Season 32)

LITERARY BRITAIN

After her death in 1943, the farmland & cottages of this author & animal lover were bequeathed to the National Trust

Literature 2015-06-08 (Season 31)

LITERARY CHARACTERS

This name made famous in a 17th century novel is derived from the Spanish for "sweet"

Literature 2015-05-05 (Season 31)

LITERATURE

Interestingly, at the start of this novel, Prince Oblonsky, the title character's brother, has been unfaithful

Literature 2015-03-19 (Season 31)

LITERARY ANAGRAMS

Vivian Darkbloom, a minor character in a 1955 novel by this foreign-born author, is an anagram of his name