As a child, Christopher Robin Milne loved feeding a London Zoo animal whose former owner hailed from this city
The son of a former serf buys this title area for 90,000 rubles above the mortgage
"'Assure me that I yet may change these shadows you have shown me, by an altered life!"', says this man
At the start of this tale, the title character is reminded he went turtling off the Mosquito Coast
One of the first chatbots was named for this language-learning character from a 1913 play & 1956 musical
This work has 10 main narrators, 7 of them women, including Fiammetta & Lauretta
A 112-foot-tall monument in a Madrid plaza depicts a writer seated above bronze statues of these 2 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
In a 1980 National Book Award winner, we learn this title character gets his name from the rank of his late dad--technical sergeant
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
The British Library says of this 19th c. man, "One of his most famous poems... is a warning about the arrogance of great leaders"
Preserved in a single manuscript called Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, this epic begins with the word "Hwæt", often translated as listen
Windermere, Thirlmere & Grasmere are 3 of the sites that helped give a 19th century literary group this name
A 2006 book was titled "The Poem That Changed America:" this "Fifty Years Later"
Published in 2011, P.D. James' final novel, "Death Comes to Pemberley", was a sequel to this novel from 200 years earlier
In a later part of the epic named for him, this character becomes king after his cousin Heardred dies in battle
Per Guinness, this character who debuted in 1887 is the most portrayed human literary character in film & television
A contemporary review of a novel by this man said he "commands attention as a kind of literary James Dean"
Dostoyevsky wrote that this title man in an earlier European novel is "beautiful only because he is ridiculous"
Among the actresses who have portrayed her are Greta Garbo twice, Vivien Leigh, Tatiana Samoilova & Keira Knightley
These stories got their collective title because little Josephine Kipling insisted they be told exactly the same way each time
This owner of a large estate in Derbyshire is described as "proud" at least half a dozen times
The now-debunked theories of Luigi Galvani influenced the science in this 1818 novel
The only Ian Fleming James Bond novel not told in the third person, it's narrated by one of 007's paramours
An 1862 novel says this character "would have arrested his own father... and would have denounced his mother"
This 2-word phrase in "The Arabian Nights" may have come from an herb bearing seed pods that burst when ripe
Thanks to a horror film, this novel returned to the bestseller lists in 2017, some 30 years after reaching No. 1
In medieval times it was a long tale of a hero like Gisli or Njall; today it means any story of epic length
There are reminiscences of branding cattle & lassoing steers in “Martín Fierro”, the national poem of this Western Hemisphere country
An insider described the scene there: "Just...loudmouths showing off, saving their gags for days, waiting to spring them"
The director of the 2018 TV version of this 1953 classic said, yes, books were harmed in the making of this motion picture
This "creature of evil, grim and fierce, was quickly ready, savage and cruel, and seized from their rest thirty thanes"
Ashdown Forest in Sussex inspired this fictional setting for a 1926 collection of stories for children
Passepartout, whose name means "go everywhere", is the fittingly named aide in an 1873 tale by this author
The "very name embodies the idea of flight", says one analysis of a 20th century novel in describing this main character
This character first appeared in "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter", an 1893 story in London's Strand Magazine
A 2016 biography of a children's author is titled "In the Great Green Room", a line from this classic book
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
When we first meet her in the novel, she's wearing a green dress with 12 yards of fabric & matching slippers from Atlanta
Seen here, the White City built for Chicago's 1893 Columbian Exposition is said to have inspired this author who then lived near it
In 2009 Amazon remotely deleted unauthorized copies of this 1949 novel from some customers' Kindles
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
In 1929 London's Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital was given all rights to this character created 27 years earlier
More than once this 1897 novel quotes from Deuteronomy, "The blood is the life"
His creator sometimes found him a "detestable, bombastic, tiresome little creature"
In Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth", explorers enter an Icelandic volcano & emerge on this island off Sicily
After her death in 1943, the farmland & cottages of this author & animal lover were bequeathed to the National Trust
This name made famous in a 17th century novel is derived from the Spanish for "sweet"
Interestingly, at the start of this novel, Prince Oblonsky, the title character's brother, has been unfaithful
Vivian Darkbloom, a minor character in a 1955 novel by this foreign-born author, is an anagram of his name