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Memorize these and you could recognize 7.7% of all Literature clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ernest Hemingway | 19 | Francis Macomber had a "Short, Happy Life" in a short story by this author |
| 2 | Don Quixote | 18 | A sweetheart is sometimes called a "Dulcinea" after a character in this novel |
| 3 | Anna Karenina | 17 | Although married to Alexei, she falls in love with the handsome Count Vronsky |
| 4 | William Faulkner | 17 | During WWI he served in the RAF, then went on to create such works as "The Sound and the Fury" |
| 5 | Little Women | 16 | When writing it Louisa May Alcott said, "I don't enjoy this... never liked girls or knew many, except my sisters" |
| 6 | 1984 | 16 | Scotland's remote island of Jura is famous for 2 things: a whisky distillery & the farmhouse where George Orwell wrote this classic |
| 7 | Sherlock Holmes | 15 | In separate stories in "The Adventures of" him, this civilian detective describes officers Jones & Lestrade as imbeciles |
| 8 | Robinson Crusoe | 15 | The only relics he took from the island were his umbrella, goat-skin cap, & parrot |
| 9 | Madame Bovary | 15 | Classic novel about Emma, her husband, Charles, & her lovers, Rodolphe & Leon |
| 10 | Jane Eyre | 15 | C. Bronte dedicated 2nd edition of this to Thackeray who like Rochester, had an insane wife |
| 11 | Pride and Prejudice | 14 | In this Jane Austen novel, Mrs. Bennet tries to find a husband for each of her 5 daughters |
| 12 | Moby-Dick | 14 | Classic American novel which begins "Call me Ishmael" |
| 13 | David Copperfield | 14 | Characters in this Dickens' novel include Uriah Heep & Mr. Micawber |
| 14 | Hester Prynne | 13 | The "A" on her gown was cut from fine red cloth & surrounded with embroidery & gold thread |
| 15 | Gulliver's Travels | 13 | While exploring, Daniel Boone & his companions sometimes read this Jonathan Swift classic to one another |
| 16 | Rudyard Kipling | 13 | While living in VT., he wrote "The 7 Seas", "Captains Courageous", & the 2 "Jungle Books" |
| 17 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 13 | Nicole is a patient of psychiatrist Dick Diver in this author's "Tender is the Night" |
| 18 | Charles Dickens | 13 | Since this author died before completing it, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" remains a mystery |
| 19 | War and Peace | 12 | Tolstoy novel set against the Napoleonic invasion of Russia |
| 20 | The Sun Also Rises | 12 | Lady Brett Ashley elopes with a bullfighter in this Hemingway novel |
| 21 | The Scarlet Letter | 12 | In a Hawthorne novel, Arthur Dimmesdale reveals that he bears this title insignia on his chest, too |
| 22 | Mark Twain | 12 | Humorist whose "Cannibalism in the Cars" told of a congressman who chews up his constituents |
| 23 | Huckleberry Finn | 12 | He said, "The widow Douglas, she took me for her son" |
| 24 | Frankenstein | 12 | Horror classic subtitled "The Modern Prometheus" |
| 25 | Wuthering Heights | 11 | Catherine marries Edgar even though she loves Heathcliff, who spends his days brooding in this titular manor house |
| 26 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | 11 | The phrase "grown like Topsy" refers to an impish little girl in this 19th c. novel |
| 27 | Sir Walter Scott | 11 | He published "The Bride of Lammermoor", "A Legend of Montrose" & "Ivanhoe" all in 1819 |
| 28 | Sinclair Lewis | 11 | This author's "Main Street" has setting similar to one he grew up in, in Sauk Centre |
| 29 | On the Road | 11 | Sal Paradise & Dean Moriarity travel around the county in this Jack Kerouac work |
| 30 | Catch-22 | 11 | "Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy," said Doc Daneeka of this title rule |
| 31 | Edgar Allan Poe | 11 | The author who wrote, "and now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death" |
| 32 | The Pilgrim's Progress | 11 | John Bunyon allegory whose complete title includes "From This World to That Which Is to Come" |
| 33 | A Passage to India | 11 | In this E.M. Forster work, Adela Quested wrongly accuses Dr. Aziz of assaulting her |
| 34 | Ulysses | 10 | In reviewing this novel, Carl Jung said it took place in one single & senseless day "on which, in all truth, nothing happens" |
| 35 | The Three Musketeers | 10 | Their motto was "all for one, one for all" |
| 36 | Oliver Twist | 10 | In this novel, Bill Sikes kills Nancy |
| 37 | Lord of the Flies | 10 | You might want to keep a swatter handy while reading this 1st novel published by William Golding |
| 38 | Gulliver | 10 | Glumdalclitch was a friendly 9-year-old who took care of him in Brobdingnag |
| 39 | Fahrenheit 451 | 10 | In this Ray Bradbury work, Granger leads a secret group of intellectuals who've memorized great books |
| 40 | Dorian Gray | 10 | In the novel, the strange "portrait" of this man was painted by Basil Hallward |
| 41 | Brave New World | 10 | Huxley book in which audiences went to the "feelies" & babies were produced in bottles |
| 42 | Jack London | 10 | His study of slum life in England was published the same year as his "The Call of the Wild" |
| 43 | Captain Ahab | 10 | This captain offers gold to whomever "raises me a white-headed whale with a wrinkled brow" |
| 44 | Treasure Island | 9 | To explain an imaginary map he drew for his stepson, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote this book |
| 45 | The Count of Monte Cristo | 9 | Revenge is served cold--courtesy of an ex-prison inmate--in "The Dinner", chapter 63 of this Dumas classic |
| 46 | The Brothers Karamazov | 9 | In the Dostoevsky novel, one was a writer, one a student at a monastery & one didn't work at all |
| 47 | Peter Pan | 9 | This hero first appeared in J.M. Barrie's "The Little White Bird" |
| 48 | Ivanhoe | 9 | When Rebecca, a nice Jewish girl, was accused of witchcraft, this Sir Walter Scott hero championed her |
| 49 | Great Expectations | 9 | In this novel, Miss Havisham dies after the faded wedding dress she wears catches fire |
| 50 | Gone With the Wind | 9 | Sadly, by the time Scarlett chooses him over Ashley Wilkes in this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Rhett Butler just doesn't give a damn |