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Ernest Hemingway 19 Don Quixote 18 Anna Karenina 17 William Faulkner 17 Little Women 16 1984 16 Rudyard Kipling 16 Sherlock Holmes 15 Robinson Crusoe 15 Madame Bovary 15 Jane Eyre 15 Pride and Prejudice 14 Moby-Dick 14 David Copperfield 14 Hester Prynne 13 Gulliver's Travels 13 F. Scott Fitzgerald 13 Charles Dickens 13 Captain Ahab 13 War and Peace 12 The Sun Also Rises 12 The Scarlet Letter 12 Mark Twain 12 Huckleberry Finn 12 Frankenstein 12 The Count of Monte Cristo 12 Wuthering Heights 11 Uncle Tom's Cabin 11 Sir Walter Scott 11 Sinclair Lewis 11 On the Road 11 Catch-22 11 Willa Cather 11 Edgar Allan Poe 11 The Pilgrim's Progress 11 A Passage to India 11 Ulysses 10 The Three Musketeers 10 Oliver Twist 10 Lord of the Flies 10 Gulliver 10 Fahrenheit 451 10 Dorian Gray 10 Brave New World 10 Count Dracula 10 Jack London 10 Jean-Paul Sartre 10 Treasure Island 9 The Brothers Karamazov 9 Peter Pan 9 Ivanhoe 9 Great Expectations 9 Gone With the Wind 9 Dante 9 Beowulf 9 Beatrix Potter 9 Thomas Hardy 9 Joseph Conrad 9 Tom Sawyer 8 Tom Jones 8 The Old Man and the Sea 8 The Grapes of Wrath 8 The Good Earth 8 The Canterbury Tales 8 Rhett Butler 8 Paradise Lost 8 Jean Valjean 8 Henry James 8 Heart of Darkness 8 Crime and Punishment 8 Candide 8 A Tale of Two Cities 8 William Butler Yeats 8 The Color Purple 8 Professor Moriarty 8 James Joyce 8 Nathaniel Hawthorne 8 Peter Rabbit 8

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Don Quixote 18x $367 avg J:6 DJ:9 FJ:3

J $100 1997 Some say Cervantes wrote a portion of this 1605 novel in jail

J $600 2014 This man, "seeing that Sancho was mocking him, became so... angry that he raised his lance and struck him twice"

FJ 2022 Dostoyevsky wrote that this title man in an earlier European novel is "beautiful only because he is ridiculous"

Anna Karenina 17x 26.7% stumper $733 avg J:7 DJ:8 FJ:2

J $200 2020 Anna Oblonsky is the maiden name of this title character

J $600 2026 From the 19th century: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"

J $1,000 DD 2005 Kitty & Levin's marriage is great, she thought. My guy stinks. With that, she pushed Hubby under the train. Whoomp!

Madame Bovary 15x 7.1% stumper $714 avg J:3 DJ:11 FJ:1

J $200 2013 The title character of this novel is the former Emma Rouault

DJ $600 1998 This Flaubert title character commits suicide because of mounting debt & lies told to her husband Charles

J $1,000 DD 2004 In 1856 Revue de Paris readers followed this tale of the miserable wife of a boring doctor

Moby-Dick 14x $300 avg J:7 DJ:5 FJ:2

J $100 2001 1851:A white whale

J $600 2015 I boarded the good ship Rachel. Then I heard my captain's voice behind me! "I killed it. Killed it dead. & it was totally worth it"

FJ 1991 2 characters in this American classic were named for a king of Israel & the oldest son of Abraham

War and Peace 12x $367 avg J:3 DJ:9

J $200 2008 Our copy of this 1865-69 Tolstoy work is 1,444 pages long

J $600 2006 (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.) Novel in which Moscow was without its inhabitants & the soldiers were sucked into her, radiating from the Kremlin

DJ $200 1995 In Russian this epic novel is called "Voyna i Mir"

Frankenstein 12x 11.1% stumper $733 avg J:3 DJ:6 FJ:3

J $200 2016 "I beheld the wretch--the miserable monster whom I had created"

DJ $600 2001 1818:"The Modern Prometheus"

DJ $1,200 2017 "You, my creator, abhor me"; how does it make you feel to hear those painful words?

Sir Walter Scott 11x 70.0% stumper $900 avg J:3 DJ:7 FJ:1

J $100 1991 This Scottish novelist created a guy named Guy Mannering

J $600 2008 (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from New York's Central Park.) Central Park's Literary Walk features Robert Burns&this great novelist &countryman, both sculpted by John Steell of Aberdeen

DJ $1,000 1995 His "Waverley" novels, including "Rob Roy", were originally published anonymously

Sinclair Lewis 11x 18.2% stumper $818 avg J:2 DJ:9

DJ $200 1991 His 1949 novel about a missionary, "The God-Seeker", is set in Minn.; so is his "Main Street"

DJ $500 DD 1990 The Reader's Encyclopedia said, "He loved the... main streets of America even as he deplored them"

DJ $1,200 2008 A fascist named Berzelius Windrip becomes president of the U.S. in this "Dodsworth" author's novel "It Can't Happen Here"

Catch-22 11x $960 avg J:5 DJ:5 FJ:1

J $200 2022 Bureaucracy is almost as bad as war in this Joseph Heller novel

J $600 2008 Absurdist novel about a bombardier

DJ $1,200 2009 In "Closing Time", the sequel to this novel, Yossarian lives in Manhattan, not far from Milo Minderbinder

The Pilgrim's Progress 11x $645 avg J:1 DJ:10

DJ $400 2008 Christian has a wife named Christiana in this John Bunyan allegory

J $500 1998 This John Bunyan work inspired the one-act opera "The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains"

DJ $1,200 2022 In this 17th century religious allegory, Christian & Hopeful are imprisoned for a time at Doubting Castle

A Passage to India 11x 36.4% stumper $755 avg J:3 DJ:8

J $400 1991 In this E.M. Forster novel, Adela claims she was attacked in the Marabar Caves

DJ $600 1988 In this E.M. Forster work, Adela Quested wrongly accuses Dr. Aziz of assaulting her

DJ $1,600 2009 "Except for the Marabar Caves ...the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary"

The Three Musketeers 10x 20.0% stumper $430 avg J:2 DJ:8

DJ $100 DD 2002 Chapter VI of this 1844 novel is called "His Majesty King Louis XIII"

DJ $800 1987 In this book's final chapter, Aramis says, "Our last adventures have quite disgusted me"

DJ $1,000 1989 The sequels to this Dumas classic were "Twenty Years After" & "The Viscount of Bragelonne"

Lord of the Flies 10x $844 avg J:3 DJ:6 FJ:1

J $200 2020 In this 1954 novel, identical twins Sam & Eric are eventually just called Samneric by the other castaways

DJ $600 1995 William Golding novel described as a "nightmarish adventure story in the Robinson Crusoe tradition"

J $4,200 DD 2003 1954 novel that contains the lines "This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grown-ups come to fetch us we'll have fun"

Gulliver 10x $620 avg J:4 DJ:6

J $200 2015 A 1726 classic:"____'s Travels"

J $600 2009 This explorer from a 1726 novel discovers a race of little people quarreling over which end of the eggs to crack

J $1,000 2014 "By conversing with the Houyhnhnms" this guy "fell to imitate their gait and gesture"

Jean-Paul Sartre 10x 10.0% stumper $780 avg J:1 DJ:9

DJ $400 2013 1964:An existentialist

DJ $800 1991 In 1943 this philosopher wrote of "L'Etre et le Neant", "Being and Nothingness"

DJ $1,000 1991 Antoine Roquentin learns life has no meaning in "Nausea", this existentialist's 1st novel

The Brothers Karamazov 9x 11.1% stumper $522 avg J:4 DJ:5

J $200 2002 The last words spoken in this novel are "Hurrah for Karamazov!"

DJ $500 DD 1990 In the Dostoevsky novel, one was a writer, one a student at a monastery & one didn't work at all

J $1,600 DD 2014 By first names, this title group is Alyosha, Ivan, Dmitri & Smerdyakov

Ivanhoe 9x 11.1% stumper $878 avg J:3 DJ:6

J $100 1987 When Rebecca, a nice Jewish girl, was accused of witchcraft, this Sir Walter Scott hero championed her

DJ $600 1998 The first name of this Sir Walter Scott title character is Wilfred

DJ $1,200 2007 This title Sir Walter Scott character is torn between Rebecca & the Saxon Rowena

Beatrix Potter 9x 12.5% stumper $662 avg J:5 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $200 2016 She wrote & illustrated "The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher", about a frog with more fashion sense than common sense

DJ $600 1991 She bought Hilltop Farm near Surrey in 1905; it appears in her illustrations for "Tom Kitten"

DJ $1,200 2014 Emma Thompson was tapped to write the first authorized sequel to this author's "Peter Rabbit" stories

Tom Jones 8x 37.5% stumper $625 avg J:4 DJ:4

J $200 2004 Welsh singer Thomas John Woodward became this after his boss compared him to a Henry Fielding character

J $600 2017 This Henry Fielding hero, "one of the hand somest young fellows in the world", shares the name of a sex symbol singer

DJ $1,200 2022 This Henry Fielding hero is adopted by the benevolent & benevolent-sounding Squire Allworthy

The Good Earth 8x 25.0% stumper $825 avg J:3 DJ:5

DJ $200 1996 Lotus Blossom is the concubine of Wang Lung in this Pearl Buck novel

J $600 2010 The first line of this novel says, "It was Wang Lung's marriage day"

J $1,000 2010 With the help of his wife O-Lan, Wang Lung goes from peasant to rich landowner in China in this novel

Jean Valjean 8x 12.5% stumper $625 avg J:4 DJ:4

J $200 2020 This hero: "I swear to you before God, Monsieur... that I am not Cosette's father"

DJ $600 1995 In "Les Miserables", this hero, an ex-convict, uses the alias Monsieur Madeleine

DJ $1,200 2006 This bread-stealing criminal & fugitive from justice is the hero of Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables"

Henry James 8x 42.9% stumper $1,000 avg J:1 DJ:6 FJ:1

DJ $400 1991 He published "The American" the year after settling permanently in Britain

J $600 2019 He wrote such classics as "The Bostonians", "The Portrait of a Lady" & "The Wings of the Dove"

DJ $1,600 2009 He received international fame in 1878 for his story about Daisy Miller, an American flirt in Europe

Heart of Darkness 8x 25.0% stumper $1,038 avg J:2 DJ:6

J $200 2019 "The horror! The horror!" are Mr. Kurtz' dying words in this novella

DJ $800 1985 The long film "Apocalypse Now" was adapted from this short Joseph Conrad novel

DJ $1,200 2025 A seaman travels into the African interior in search of an ivory trader in this work exposing colonialist evils

Crime and Punishment 8x 12.5% stumper $525 avg J:2 DJ:6

DJ $200 1996 Dostoyevsky's 1866 tale of murder & its consequences

J $600 2017 Dostoyevsky drew on his own experience in prison to write this 1866 masterpiece

DJ $1,200 2006 In this Dostoyevsky novel, it was Raskolnikov, in the apartment, with a hatchet

Candide 8x 12.5% stumper $862 avg J:2 DJ:6

J $400 2001 1759:Dr. Pangloss' naive student

J $500 1996 This Voltaire title character is thrown out of the baron's castle with several kicks to his backside

DJ $1,600 2004 In this 1759 Voltaire novel, the title character moves briefly to an ideal country in South America called El Dorado

Peter Rabbit 8x $538 avg J:4 DJ:4

J $300 1990 In John Updike's novels, it's the nickname of salesman Harry Angstrom

DJ $800 1994 Nickname of Harry Angstrom, whose trials & tribulations are featured in 4 John Updike novels

DJ $1,600 2006 Updike described his "white face, the pallor of his blue irises, and a nervous flutter under his brief nose"

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The Red Badge of Courage 7x $1,386 avg J:2 DJ:5

J $100 2000 Many are ready to demonstrate their bravery at the start of this 1895 Stephen Crane novel

J $1,000 DD 2024 Colorful in so many ways; Civil War is hell; Henry, don't be a hero

DJ $200 1996 This Stephen Crane novel is set during the Battle of Chancellorsville

The Hunchback of Notre Dame 7x 20.0% stumper $1,560 avg J:2 DJ:3 FJ:2

J $200 2008 Quasimodo gets plastic surgery & really rings Esmeralda's bell

DJ $800 2015 Claude Frollo &Esmeralda

J $1,000 2006 Some early reviewers objected to the realistic depiction of Archdeacon Frollo's death in this classic

Tarzan 7x 14.3% stumper $500 avg J:3 DJ:4

J $100 1999 Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote that he "lived on in his wild, jungle existence with little change for several years"

DJ $800 2021 In a classic tale about this title guy, "John, Lord Greystoke... vanished from the eyes and from the knowledge of men"

J $1,400 DD 2016 Per his creator "he could spring twenty feet across space at the dizzy heights of the forest top"

Quasimodo 7x $443 avg J:4 DJ:3

J $100 1992 In a Victor Hugo novel, Parisians choose him the "Prince of Fools"

DJ $800 1998 Archdeacon Claude Frollo was this hunchback's master

DJ $1,200 2018 "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"

Lolita 7x 14.3% stumper $943 avg J:1 DJ:6

DJ $200 1995 Humbert Humbert murders Clare Quilty in this Vladimir Nabokov work

J $600 2003 Nabokov's nymphet (6)

DJ $1,200 2014 Dolores Haze was the real name of this 12-year-old nymphet who stood "four feet ten in one sock"

Lady Chatterley's Lover 7x $629 avg J:3 DJ:4

J $200 2016 "L.C.L."by D.H. Lawrence

DJ $1,600 2022 Gamekeeper Oliver Mellors is this title character & by book's end, also a soon-to-be baby daddy

J $200 2013 Estate Gamekeeper Oliver Mellors is the title paramour in this D.H. Lawrence novel

Jules Verne 7x $567 avg DJ:6 FJ:1

DJ $400 2025 One of his "Voyages Extraordinaires" is called "Around the Moon"

DJ $600 1988 For 35 years straight, he published a new novel each year, including "From the Earth to the Moon"

FJ 2018 Passepartout, whose name means "go everywhere", is the fittingly named aide in an 1873 tale by this author

James Bond 7x $640 avg J:1 DJ:4 FJ:2

J $200 2014 This character first ordered his martini to be shaken in 1953's "Casino Royale"

DJ $2,000 DD 2025 Using unpublished material by the original author, dead for 50+ years, 2015's "Trigger Mortis" is a tale of this spy

FJ 2015 The first story in which he appeared began, "The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at 3 in the morning"

Ichabod Crane 7x $686 avg DJ:7

DJ $400 2006 Brom Bones freaks this man out by telling him the tale of the headless horseman

DJ $800 2008 Washington Irving based this character on his friend Jesse Merwin, a schoolteacher

DJ $1,600 2021 He's the scrawny schoolteacher who gets frightened by the headless horseman

Elmer Gantry 7x 42.9% stumper $1,429 avg DJ:7

DJ $400 2004 This Sinclair Lewis character is a brazen ex-football player who enters the ministry

DJ $600 1994 He's the ex-football player turned evangelist in a 1927 novel by Sinclair Lewis

DJ $1,600 2014 Famed evangelist Billy Sunday reportedly called Sinclair Lewis "Satan's Cohort" for writing this 1927 novel

Australia 7x 14.3% stumper $471 avg J:3 DJ:4

DJ $200 1994 "Kangaroo", a novel by D.H. Lawrence, was based on a visit he made to this country

J $500 2000 "Timeless Land","The Tree of Man","Walkabout"

DJ $1,200 2007 "Walkabout"(1959)

All Quiet on the Western Front 7x $657 avg J:1 DJ:6

DJ $400 2004 An antiwar novel:"Im Westen nichts Neues"

J $600 2008 In an Erich Maria Remarque novel, "the army report confined itself to a single sentence"--this, the book's title

DJ $600 1992 By the end of this Erich Maria Remarque novel, Muller, Kat & Paul are all killed in WWI

Anton Chekhov 7x $1,000 avg DJ:6 FJ:1

DJ $800 1996 Written in 1900, "In the Ravine" is one of this Russian playwright's finest stories

DJ $1,000 1998 This Russian published more than 300 short stories before he wrote his play "The Seagull"

FJ 2010 A 1919 Shaw play subtitled "A Fantasia in the Russian Manner..." is an homage to this playwright who died in 1904

Tolstoy 6x $800 avg J:4 DJ:2

DJ $400 2000 Karenina's creator(7)

J $600 2017 His "Sevastopol Sketches" were based on the defense of Sevastopol in the Crimean War, in which he served

J $1,000 2010 He wrote, "All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"

Thomas Wolfe 6x 16.7% stumper $933 avg J:1 DJ:5

DJ $400 1992 His novel "You Can't Go Home Again" was published after his death

DJ $800 2000 The home he described in "You Can't Go Home Again" is actually on 11th, not 12th St., as he wrote in the book

DJ $1,200 2008 "Of Time and the River" was his sequel to "Look Homeward, Angel"

Thomas Mann 6x 33.3% stumper $1,267 avg DJ:6

DJ $1,000 1996 "Buddenbrooks" was the first important novel by this 20th century German author

DJ $1,000 1989 His famous story "Death in Venice" opens in Munich, not in Italy

DJ $1,200 2020 This author based the novel "The Magic Mountain" on a trip to Davos, Switzerland to treat his wife's bronchitis

The Fountainhead 6x 20.0% stumper $640 avg J:2 DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $400 2016 To research this bestseller, Ayn Rand worked in the office of architect Ely Kahn

DJ $800 2014 This Ayn Rand novel begins, "Howard Roark laughed"

FJ 2014 A maxim of Ayn Rand was "Man's ego is" this "of human progress"

Somerset Maugham 6x 16.7% stumper $767 avg DJ:6

DJ $400 1988 His best-known novel, "Of Human Bondage", has been called a thinly-disguised autobiography

DJ $600 1986 Though he learned to speak French first, he wrote his novel such as "Of Human Bondage" in English

DJ $1,000 1994 In 1930 this British novelist published a satire of literary life called "Cakes and Ale"

Shangri-La 6x $1,060 avg J:1 DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $600 2001 This term for an idyllic place can be checked out in the James Hilton work "Lost Horizon"

DJ $1,500 DD 1989 The name of the Lamaist monastery in James Hilton's "Lost Horizon"

FJ 1998 Zhongdian & Deqin, China both claim to be the inspiration for this imaginary place

Rip Van Winkle 6x 16.7% stumper $400 avg J:4 DJ:2

J $100 2001 Wolf, this Washington Irving character's dog, fails to recognize his master after a 20-year absence

J $600 2020 Washington Irving's story about this nap-happy fella was first published in "The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent."

J $100 1998 "Rip-Rip" is a comic opera about this sleepy head who killed time in the Catskills

Rebecca 6x 33.3% stumper $900 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $400 2012 This title gal's Manderley, which had an "iron gate leading to the drive"

DJ $600 1998 "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again"

DJ $2,000 2018 The first line of this Daphne du Maurier novel is "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again"

Pearl Buck 6x 33.3% stumper $1,533 avg J:1 DJ:5

J $800 2006 This author of "The Good Earth" based the heroine of her 1938 novel "This Proud Heart" on herself

DJ $1,200 2018 Shepenned "Fighting Angel," a biography of her father, Absalom Sydenstricker, a missionary in China

DJ $1,600 2020 Her 1948 novel "Peony" told the story of a Jewish family living in China in the 1800s

Merlin 6x 16.7% stumper $800 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $100 2000 Mary Stewart worked magic in "The Crystal Cave", the first book in her trilogy about this Arthurian wizard

DJ $1,000 DD 2001 In "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", his character puts Hank Morgan to sleep for 1,300 years

J $100 1999 Visiting Cornwall? You'll find this wizard's cave near Tintagel Castle, the legendary site of King Arthur's birth

Little Lord Fauntleroy 6x 50.0% stumper $1,233 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $600 2010 This "Little Lord" in an 1886 book had long curls just like the author's son Vivian

J $1,000 2019 Young Cedric charms his grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, in this novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett

DJ $600 1988 Little boys once wore little velvet suits inspired by this Frances Hodgson Burnett book

Doctor Zhivago 6x $800 avg J:3 DJ:3

DJ $200 1989 Boris Pasternak, who turned out this novel about a Russian physician, had to turn down a Nobel Prize

J $600 2002 This 1957 Pasternak novel was finally published in the USSR in 1987

J $1,000 2024 (To himself) "Farewell, Lara, until we meet in the next world, farewell, my love"

D.H. Lawrence 6x 16.7% stumper $667 avg J:2 DJ:4

DJ $400 1996 In his 1913 novel "Sons And Lovers", Miriam is based on his close friend Jessie Chambers

J $600 2012 His "Women in Love" was a sequel to "The Rainbow"

DJ $1,000 1988 Miriam in "Sons & Lovers", was reportedly based on his friend Jessie, a farmer's daughter

Captain Nemo 6x $667 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $200 1997 This commander of the Nautilus was actually an Indian prince named Dakkar

DJ $800 2014 The Nautilus is this mad captain's submarine

DJ $1,600 2014 This1870 sci-fi captain claimed the South Pole with an appropriateflag

A Clockwork Orange 6x $700 avg J:5 DJ:1

J $400 2000 This dystopian Anthony Burgess novel was brought to the big screen by Kubrick in 1971

J $600 2025 "Amid very gromky laughter by a lot of malchicks... these malchicks broke up the shop and then set fire to it" in this book

DJ $1,200 2015 A state-sponsored program conditions Alex to abhor violence in this satire of British life

The Day of the Locust 6x 50.0% stumper $1,117 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $500 1986 Set in Hollywood, this Nathanael West novel ends with a riot at a movie premiere

DJ $2,000 2020 A 1939 Hollywood tale:"Locust"

DJ $800 2002 Homer Simpson (not that one) is a character in this Hollywood novel by Nathanael West

James Michener 6x $933 avg J:1 DJ:5

J $200 1996 Once a naval historian in the south Pacific, he won a Pulitzer Prize for "Tales of the South Pacific"

DJ $1,600 2020 Centennial, a suburb of Denver, is named for the title town in this man's 1974 novel "Centennial"

DJ $1,600 2017 This "Tales of the South Pacific" author's novel "The Source" is a tale of Israel from ancient times up to the 20th century

George Babbitt 6x 16.7% stumper $833 avg J:1 DJ:5

DJ $400 1996 This Sinclair Lewis real estate broker is a man of "zip and zowie"

J $800 2017 This Sinclair Lewis title became a word for someone narrow-minded who conforms readily to middle class values

DJ $1,000 1995 A liberal lawyer named Seneca Doane runs for mayor of Zenith in this Sinclair Lewis novel

Alexandre Dumas 6x 33.3% stumper $767 avg DJ:6

DJ $400 2003 Auguste Maquet helped him write "The Three Musketeers"; how much he contributed is in dispute

DJ $1,200 2020 Thisauthor's last finished work wasn't an adventure story, but the "Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine" published after his 1870 death

DJ $2,000 2022 This 19th c. writer of historical novels, Pere, went goth in "The Pale Lady", a tale of a Polish woman & 2 adoring brothers

Watership Down 5x $780 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $500 1993 Hazel's heroics got him appointed chief rabbit in this bunny tale by Richard Adams

J $1,000 2013 Richard Adams conceived of this story about Hazel, Fiver & others while on a long car journey with his 2 daughters

J $800 2024 While writing this 1972 novel, Richard Adams consulted R.M. Lockley's natural history study "The Private Life of the Rabbit"

Washington Irving 5x 20.0% stumper $360 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 1988 The "History of New York... by Diedrich Knickerbocker" was actually written by him

DJ $800 1996 "Rip Van Winkle" & other stories appeared in his "Sketch Book" published under the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon

J $200 1987 He adapted "Rip Van Winkle" & "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" from German folk tales

Walter Mitty 5x $760 avg J:2 DJ:3

DJ $200 1989 In a 1947 film Danny Kaye portrayed this James Thurber character who had a "Secret Life"

J $600 2017 (Hi, I'm Mike Davis from 10TV.) I'm at the Columbus, Ohio house of James Thurber, who went on to write "The Secret Life of" this daydreamer

J $1,000 2014 Because his own life is so boring, this title character in a 1939 story lives a "Secret Life" in his imagination

Vanity Fair 5x $640 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 1997 This 1848 Thackeray work is subtitled “A Novel Without A Hero”

J $800 2020 This William Makepeace Thackeray novel deals with the interwoven fortunes of 2 women: the passive Amelia & the scheming Becky

DJ $400 1993 Becky Sharp's husband Rawdon Crawley becomes the governor of Coventry Island in this Thackeray novel

Uncle Tom 5x $360 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $200 1996 Aunt Chloe is the wife of this Harriet Beecher Stowe title character

DJ $400 2015 This H.B. Stowe character was partially based on josiah Henson, a slave who escaped the south to Canada

J $400 1997 Aunt Chloe is his wife & Arthur Shelby is his master in Kentucky

The Moonstone 5x 25.0% stumper $1,000 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $800 1987 This title gem of a Wilkie Collins novel is actually an exquisite diamond

J $1,000 2023 In a Wilkie Collins novel, one of Alex' favorites, Colonel Herncastle foolishly steals this title gem from the head of a Hindu idol

FJ 2006 In an 1868 novel, this mysterious title object is believed to sparkle or dim depending on lunar phases

The Decameron 5x 50.0% stumper $2,050 avg J:2 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $1,000 2021 The title of this 14th century work may have been modeled on Hexameron

FJ 2025 This work has 10 main narrators, 7 of them women, including Fiammetta & Lauretta

J $1,000 DD 2016 On the "fifth day", as recounted in this 14th century collection by Boccaccio, the storytellers must tell tales of love

Simone de Beauvoir 5x 20.0% stumper $840 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $400 2005 She & her tres cher ami Jean-Paul Sartre collaborated on the political & literary journal Modern Times

DJ $600 1990 2 of her novels contain barely fictionalized portraits of her lover, Jean-Paul Sartre

DJ $1,200 2014 In "The Second Sex", this French female existentialist deconstructed the myth of the feminine

Roots 5x $320 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $200 2024 This 1976 Alex Haley book is subtitled "The Saga of an American Family"

J $200 2007 "Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure... a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte"

J $400 2020 A 1970s special Pulitzer winner: "The Saga of an American Family"

Ragtime 5x 40.0% stumper $1,240 avg DJ:5

DJ $600 1997 This 1975 E.L. Doctorow novel relates the story of Coalhouse Walker Jr., who's harassed by local firemen

DJ $1,200 2019 The epigraph to this E.L. Doctorow novel is a quote by Scott Joplin

DJ $800 2015 This 1975 E.L. Doctorow novel captured the spirit of the U.S. from the turn of the 20th century to World War I

Perry Mason 5x 20.0% stumper $460 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $200 2009 Deee-fense! This Erle Stanley Gardner lawyer has been in over 80 novels & has never been objectionable

J $600 2021 Secretary Della Street is introduced in the 1933 first novel of this defense attorney who almost never loses a case

DJ $1,000 1989 His very 1st case was "The Case of the Velvet Claws"

Paris 5x $500 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $100 2001 En Francais, the title of an 1831 work is "Notre-Dame de" zis city

J $600 2013 Life in this city where the 2 met fills much of Gertrude Stein's "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas"

DJ $1,000 1992 Madeline is one of "twelve little girls in two straight lines" who attend a school in this city

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 5x $640 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 2016 The title of this Ken Kesey novel completes the rhyme "One flew east, one flew west..."

DJ $600 1995 This book about the patients of a psychiatric ward was Ken Kesey's first novel

DJ $1,600 DD 2019 Nurse Ratched rules the asylum with an iron fist in this novel

Natty Bumppo 5x $1,380 avg DJ:5

DJ $600 1999 In James Fenimore Cooper's "The Pioneers" Oliver Edwards is this frontiersman's companion

DJ $1,600 2018 Daniel Boone was a basis for this character in the "Leatherstocking Tales" by James Fenimore Cooper

DJ $600 1995 This James Fenimore Cooper character is known as "The Trapper" in the 1827 novel "The Prairie"

Manderley 5x $640 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 2018 "Rebecca" begins, "Last night I dreamt I went to" this home "again"

J $600 2007 Du Maurier:"Last night I dreamed I went to ____ again."

DJ $1,000 1998 Rebecca resided there(9)

Lost Horizon 5x 20.0% stumper $1,400 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 1987 James Hilton tale in which the high lama reveals himself to be 250-yr.-old founder of Shangri-La

DJ $700 DD 1991 The novel in which the high lama seeks to pass his position on to a visitor to Shangri-La

DJ $5,000 DD 2021 After a plane crash in the Himalayas, 4 people end up in Shangri-La in this 1933 novel

Les Miserables 5x $760 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $200 2010 Jean Valjean's flight through Paris' sewers is one of the most famous scenes in this novel

DJ $1,200 2017 In this 1862 work, Victor Hugo wrote, "No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child"

DJ $400 1997 At one point in this 1862 novel, Jean Valjean owns a factory

Ishmael 5x $760 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 2019 In the epilogue to "Moby-Dick", this rescued narrator quotes from the book of Job: "and I only am escaped alone to tell thee"

DJ $600 1996 At the end of "Moby Dick", this narrator is rescued by another whaling ship, the Rachel

DJ $2,000 DD 2018 In "Moby Dick" a man named Elijah warns this character not to sail on Ahab's boat

George Bernard Shaw 5x 20.0% stumper $640 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $200 1991 In the preface to "Major Barbara" he wrote, "The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty

J $600 2017 In "Arms and the Man", by him, a fugitive soldier exposes some villagers' romantic ideas about war

DJ $1,600 2022 This Dublin-born playwright got the nod in 1925 for works marked by idealism, humanity & stimulating satire

Gargantua 5x 60.0% stumper $760 avg DJ:5

DJ $400 1991 A word from the name of this Rabelais giant has come to describe anything huge

DJ $600 1990 The son of Grandgousier & Gargamelle, he was a medieval folk hero before Rabelais wrote about him

DJ $1,000 1996 When this affable Rabelais prince is 524 years old, he sires Pantagruel

D'Artagnan 5x $900 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $400 2024 A 2023 movie was titled "The Three Musketeers--Part I:" this newcomer to Paris in the original 1844 novel

DJ $1,200 2008 Sometimes 3's not enough of a crowd! Here's hoping for that promotion for this 1844 guy from Gascony!

FJ 2003 The first person mentioned by name in "The Man in the Iron Mask" is this hero of a previous book by the same author

Breakfast at Tiffany's 5x $520 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $400 2016 Holly Golightly says, "I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have" this title phrase

DJ $600 1994 This Truman Capote novel is narrated by Holly Golightly's neighbor, a writer she calls Fred

DJ $400 2009 Perhaps Mr. Capote feasted on French toast while writing this 1958 tale of Miss Golightly

All the King's Men 5x 40.0% stumper $2,200 avg DJ:5

DJ $200 1991 A R.P. Warren Pulitzer-winning work, or some of those who "couldn't put Humpty together again"

DJ $600 1995 This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of 1947 told of the rise & fall of Willie Stark

DJ $1,600 2017 Governor Willie Stark

Aesop 5x $400 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $200 1990 Herodotus said this fabulist lived as a slave on Samos in the 6th century B.C.

J $1,000 2016 In fables of this ancient Greek, frogs blow themselves up, get eaten by storks & are crushed by bulls

DJ $200 1990 Collier's Ency. calls him the "semihistorical semimythical author of moralizing beast fables"

Winnie-the-Pooh 4x $725 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $200 1988 1st book in Latin to make U.S. best seller lists was a translation of this A.A. Milne classic

DJ $2,000 DD 2013 This character who debuted in 1926 is also called Edward Bear

J $300 1984 Milne's "bear of very little brain"

Willie Stark 4x 75.0% stumper $1,750 avg DJ:4

DJ $1,000 1991 In "All the King's Men", this gov. is killed in the capitol by Adam Stanton, the son of a former governor

DJ $2,000 2010 This Louisiana governor & "boss" rose to ruthless demagogue, assassinated, by Adam Stanton

DJ $2,000 2006 This governor of a Southern state asks his aide to dig up dirt on Judge Irwin, a man of integrity

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 4x 25.0% stumper $825 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 2009 The Nautilus plumbs the depths in this 1870 Verne work

DJ $800 2010 Aronnax rethinks his decision to leave the ship in "Finding Nemo!", our sequel to this 1870 Jules Verne novel

DJ $2,000 DD 2004 A really "deep" book:"Vingt mille lieues sous les mers"

The Stranger 4x $1,450 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1995 This Albert Camus novel was published in England under the title "The Outsider"

DJ $1,600 2019 In this novel by Camus, Meursault kills an Arab on a beach; he's not entirely sure why

DJ $1,600 2006 The chilling "Killing An Arab" by The Cure was inspired by this Albert Camus work

The Prince 4x $733 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $200 2002 1881: "...and the Pauper"

DJ $800 1995 Some have described this Machiavelli novel as a manual for tyrants

DJ $1,200 2011 While Machiavelli was writing this, he was working on another book on how to preserve republics

the moon 4x 25.0% stumper $450 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $400 2022 In a prophetic adventure tale, Jules Verne took us on a journey "From the Earth to" this locale

DJ $600 1999 1919:"... and Sixpence"

DJ $400 2018 In Robert Heinlein's sci-fi novel about a penal colony there, this "Is a Harsh Mistress"

the Magic Mountain 4x 50.0% stumper $900 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $800 2002 Thomas Mann's thrill ride... er... read: "Der Zauberberg"

J $1,000 DD 2019 The title peak of this Thomas Mann novel is home to a Swiss sanatorium

DJ $800 1991 Thomas Mann's novel titled "Der Zauberberg" translates to "The Magic" this

Sweden 4x 25.0% stumper $750 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 2019 A series by Vilhelm Moberg opens with "The Emigrants", who are headed for Minnesota, departing from Småland in this country

DJ $2,000 2006 Marbacka, the estate of Nobel Prize-winner Selma Lagerlof, is a tourist attraction in this country

DJ $400 2025 Nelly Sachsaccepted her 1966 prize in this country, her home since she had taken refuge from Nazi Germany in 1940

Svengali 4x 25.0% stumper $1,150 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $400 1999 George Du Maurier introduced this evil hypnotist in his 1894 novel "Trilby"

DJ $600 DD 1995 In an 1894 novel, Trilby leaves her fiance, Little Billee Bagot, & falls under the spell of this musician

DJ $1,600 2019 In "Trilby", a young singer falls under the trance of this man whose name became a synonym for a hypnotic controller

Siddhartha 4x $1,400 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $600 2017 This 1922 Hermann Hesse novel about a young Brahmin in India parallels the life of Buddha

DJ $1,000 1996 This 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse is based on the early life of Buddha

DJ $2,000 2012 This 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse parallels the life of Buddha

Scheherazade 4x 25.0% stumper $675 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $300 1992 In "The Thousand and One Nights" she is the new bride of Shahriar

DJ $600 1995 Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic suite based on "The Arabian Nights" is named for this storyteller

DJ $1,000 1997 Each movement in this 1888 suite by Rimsky-Korsakov is based on a tale spun to enthrall a sultan

Sancho Panza 4x $500 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 1992 Don Quixote promises him governorship of an island to become his squire

DJ $600 1993 Before he dies, Don Quixote begs this squire's forgiveness for drawing him into delusions

J $400 1997 This simple peasant became Don Quixote's squire after being promised an island to rule

Rosemary's Baby 4x 50.0% stumper $750 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 2020 A pregnant Mrs. Woodhouse attends a strange New Year's Eve party in this devilish book by Ira Levin

DJ $800 2018 Satan might be the father of the title woman's child in this novel by Ira Levin

DJ $1,000 DD 1992 Ira Levin said of this 1967 novel, "I don't think any pregnant woman should read it"

Rochester 4x $900 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $400 2004 "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys is the story of the mad wife of this "Jane Eyre" character

DJ $800 2018 This employer of Jane Eyre owns Thornfield Hall

DJ $2,000 2009 Seeking governess for ward Adele at Thornfield; must not snoop in the attic

Remembrance of Things Past 4x $900 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1985 English title of 7-part novel "A la recherche du temps perdu" by Proust

DJ $1,000 1989 Marcel Proust published "Swann's Way", the 1st part of this lengthy novel, at his own expense

DJ $800 1988 English title of the epic novel whose literal translation is "In Search of Time Lost"

Peyton Place 4x $1,000 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1996 This 1956 Grace Metalious novel was originally titled "The Tree and the Blossom"

DJ $2,000 2019 A community that is a hotbed of sex & drama, like the title town in a novel, film & TV soap opera of the 1950s & '60s

DJ $600 1995 Author Grace Metalious "returned" to this town for a 1959 sequel

P.G. Wodehouse 4x 25.0% stumper $425 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $300 1999 This author of "The Man With Two Left Feet" & "My Man Jeeves" was a prisoner of the Germans during WWII

J $500 2000 He wrote his stories about Bertie Wooster & his manservant Jeeves over a period of about 50 years

DJ $400 1996 "Much Obliged, Jeeves", this author's last collection of Bertie-&-Jeeves stories, was published in 1971

O. Henry 4x $650 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 1994 His short story collection "The Four Million" includes "The Gift of the Magi"

J $600 2015 "Of all who give gifts these two were the wisest", says "The Gift of the Magi" by this author

DJ $800 2020 No twist necessary in the short stories that since 1919 win the prize named for this short story author

Mexico 4x 25.0% stumper $525 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $100 1991 Lew Wallace's historical novel "The Fair God" is set in this country; the fair god is Quetzalcoatl

DJ $1,200 2020 Laura Esquivel's bestseller "Like Water for Chocolate" takes place in this country around the turn of the 20th century

DJ $400 2021 A short 1840s war with this country cost the U.S. an estimated $71 million, or around $3 billion today

Metamorphosis 4x $1,250 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $800 1998 Transformation, for Kafka(13)

J $1,000 2008 Gregor Samsa awakes one day transformed into a gigantic insect; family sprays him with industrial-sized can of Raid

DJ $1,600 2016 Gregor Samsa is the human transformed into a giant pest in this 1915 novella

Little House on the Prairie 4x $600 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 2017 Later a TV series, this 1935 book told of a family's journey to a new life as pioneers in the Midwest

J $600 2011 Actually the third book in the series, this kids' classic recounts the Ingalls family's move to Kansas

DJ $1,200 2006 In this 1935 novel Laura & her family leave the big woods & go west in a covered wagon

Kafka 4x $750 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 2024 A bad start for Joseph K. in "The Trial" by this man: "One morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested"

DJ $800 2023 As in "The Trial", this author uses a protagonist named K. in "The Castle"; a dark city with odd locals keeps K, busy

DJ $1,200 2017 Only a few of the works of this Czech author of "The Castle" were published while he was alive

Jo 4x 25.0% stumper $650 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $400 2021 The tomboy of Alcott's March sisters, she wants to be a writer

DJ $600 1993 Of the 4 "Little Women", she's the tomboy

DJ $800 2013 "Little Women" begins with this character grumbling about a lack of Christmas presents

James Hilton 4x 50.0% stumper $700 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1992 This novelist invented the kingdom of Shangri-La, & it became a synonym for utopia

DJ $600 1987 He wrote "Goodbye Mr. Chips" in just 4 days

DJ $800 1999 The father of this "Good-Bye, Mr. Chips" author was a schoolteacher, not a hotelier

Isabel Allende 4x 25.0% stumper $1,350 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1999 "Aphrodite: A Memoir Of The Senses" is a 1998 novel from this "House Of The Spirits" author

DJ $1,000 1997 In "Paula" this niece of a former Chilean president told of her life while attending her dying daughter

DJ $800 2007 Her 2003 memoir was titled "My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile"

Humbert Humbert 4x 25.0% stumper $2,100 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $600 2020 Creepy! In order to get closer to Lolita, this man with a double-talk name marries her mother Charlotte Haze

DJ $1,200 2009 Seeking nymphet to be light of my life, fire of my loins. Must answer to "Lolita"

DJ $1,600 2016 While mailing letters exposing this man, Lolita's mother Charlotte Haze is struck by a car

Fyodor Dostoevsky 4x 50.0% stumper $950 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 1998 Revolutionary Sergey Nechayev was the model for Peter Verkhovensky in his novel "The Possessed"

DJ $800 2013 Tolstoy thought the masterpiece of this fellow countryman was the 1860s work "The House of the Dead"

DJ $1,000 1989 This novelist's "The House of the Dead" was a fictional account of his 4 years in a Siberian prison

Friday 4x 25.0% stumper $375 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $100 1997 Robinson Crusoe had 24 years of solitude prior to rescuing this cannibal & teaching him English

J $800 2024 "O master! O master! ... O yonder there, one, two, three canoes; one, two, three!"

DJ $200 1992 You can refer to a devoted aide as a man this on any day of the week as Crusoe could have told you

Fagin 4x 25.0% stumper $900 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $600 1995 In "Oliver Twist", he leads a gang consisting of the Artful Dodger, Bill Sikes & others

J $1,000 2020 This criminal leader: "We are very glad to see you, Oliver,--very"

DJ $800 1995 Someone who teaches crimes to others is called this, after the twisted old gang leader in "Oliver Twist"

Evelyn Waugh 4x 25.0% stumper $1,225 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1997 This novelist's brother Alec Waugh wrote the novel "The Loom of Youth" at the youthful age of 17

J $1,000 2019 In this author's "Brideshead Revisited", a father says of his son's univ. degree, "No use to me. Not much use to you either"

DJ $1,200 2007 Alec Waugh's first novel was "The Loom of Youth" in 1917; this brother's was "Decline and Fall" in 1928

Disraeli 4x $750 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $600 1992 This prime minister may have based the title character in his novel "Vivian Grey" on himself

J $1,000 2019 Set in the 12th c. Middle East, "The Wondrous Tale of Alroy" is a novel about a Jewish conqueror by this author/politician

DJ $600 1991 This future British P.M. subtitled his 1844 novel "Coningsby" "A New Generation"

Cyrano de Bergerac 4x 50.0% stumper $1,950 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1988 Steve Martin's 1987 film "Roxanne" was based on this 1897 play by Edmond Rostand

J $800 2024 A species of fish with a long snout is named for this character with a big ol' nose from an 1897 play

DJ $6,000 DD 2006 After Christian's death in an 1897 drama, this title character still acts as a platonic friend to the widow

Ben-Hur 4x 25.0% stumper $700 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 1991 "A Tale of the Christ" is the subtitle of this Lew Wallace novel

DJ $2,000 2025 This title guy in "A Tale of the Christ" is wrongly accused of a crime by his former pal Messala & is enslaved

DJ $200 1990 Lew Wallace novel subtitled "A Tale of the Christ"

Atlas Shrugged 4x 25.0% stumper $750 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 2008 1957 novel about a strong female executive

DJ $800 2010 In this novel John Galt leaves the Twentieth Century Motor Company when it goes Socialist

DJ $1,600 2002 1957: "Who is John Galt?"

Arrowsmith 4x 25.0% stumper $700 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $500 1997 Leora, the wife of this Sinclair Lewis doctor, dies of bubonic plague on the island of St. Hubert

J $1,000 2010 Dr. Paul de Kruif, author of "Microbe Hunters", was a consultant for this Sinclair Lewis novel

J $500 DD 1995 At the end of a Sinclair Lewis novel, this physician retires to a Vermont farm to make serum

Anne Rice 4x 25.0% stumper $625 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $100 2001 On "You Made Me a Bloodsucking Monster!", vampires Lestat & Louis confront their creator, this author

DJ $800 2000 Her book "Taltos: Lives of the Mayfair Witches" would be perfect to read during "The Witching Hour"

DJ $1,200 2022 In 2021, the mayor of New Orleans paid tribute to this author of vampire tales, saying, "We have lost an icon"

Albert Camus 4x 25.0% stumper $1,000 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1998 An Algerian named Mersault is the narrator of his 1942 novel "L' Etranger"

DJ $1,000 DD 2001 He was no "Stranger" to the Nobel Prize for Literature, winning in 1957

DJ $1,200 2008 1957:This Frenchman who wrote "The First Man" & "The Plague"

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Sherlock Holmes 15x $517 avg J:1 DJ:11 FJ:3

J $200 2010 He spoke his final line in 1927: "It is nearly midnight, Watson, and I think we may make our way back to our humble abode"

DJ $600 1985 Other than Watson, the only character to narrate a Sherlock Holmes story

DJ $1,000 1993 Mrs. Hudson was this detective's landlady

Edgar Allan Poe 11x 9.1% stumper $736 avg J:5 DJ:6

J $200 2006 Critics are "raven" about "Nevermore", a new musical that re-imagines this author's life

DJ $600 1996 First published in 1835, "Berenice" has been called "his most horrifying tale"

DJ $1,500 DD 1991 Only 11 first editions survive of this author's first book, "Tamerlane and Other Poems"

Ulysses 10x 10.0% stumper $850 avg J:5 DJ:5

DJ $400 2008 A Joyce epic:"Odysseus"

J $500 2000 "Yes I said yes I will yes"

J $1,000 2015 "...and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes". Then again no maybe not I don't think so I said no

Fahrenheit 451 10x $722 avg J:3 DJ:6 FJ:1

J $200 2022 In this novel Guy Montag reads aloud from a book to his wife's shocked friends

DJ $600 1995 In this Ray Bradbury work, Granger leads a secret group of intellectuals who've memorized great books

DJ $1,500 DD 1995 This Ray Bradbury work begins, "It was a pleasure to burn"

Gone With the Wind 9x 12.5% stumper $750 avg J:4 DJ:4 FJ:1

J $200 2013 "The Wind Done Gone" parodies this classic published 65 years earlier

DJ $4,000 DD 2016 Suellen & Carreen O’Hara are a flighty pair of sisters in this novel

FJ 2004 In early drafts, the heroine of this novel was named Pansy & her family home was called Fontenoy Hall

Dante 9x $456 avg J:4 DJ:5

J $100 1998 This poet cast himself as the protagonist of the "Divine Comedy"

J $800 2021 An idealized object of love, Beatrice was this poet's object of love & guide through paradise in "The Divine Comedy"

DJ $400 2022 A biography of this medieval poet by Alessandro Barbero was a recent bestseller in Italy

Beowulf 9x $580 avg J:2 DJ:3 FJ:4

DJ $200 2001 After slaying Grendel, the title character of this epic poem becomes king of the Geats & rules for 50 years

DJ $1,600 2020 Roughly 1,100 years after it was written, this Old English poem was first published in 1815--in Denmark

FJ 2024 Preserved in a single manuscript called Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, this epic begins with the word "Hwæt", often translated as listen

Joseph Conrad 9x 22.2% stumper $944 avg J:3 DJ:6

DJ $400 1997 Marlow, an adventurer, appears in several works by this author, including "Lord Jim"

DJ $600 1995 F. Scott Fitzgerald called this author's "Lord Jim" "a great book--the first third at least..."

DJ $2,000 2020 One of the largest book festivals in Europe is held in Poland & named for this author of "Heart of Darkness"

Paradise Lost 8x $562 avg J:3 DJ:5

J $300 2001 Adam & Eve confront the big man himself & discuss this 1667 Milton poem on "I Can't Believe You Evicted Me!"

J $1,000 DD 2018 In this 17th c. work God says the fallen angels are subject to free will & therefore the authors of their own fate

J $400 2022 In this work Satan disguises himself as a cherub to sneak past an archangel to get to earth to corrupt Adam

William Butler Yeats 8x 50.0% stumper $962 avg J:3 DJ:5

DJ $200 2001 He was born in Dublin, the son of noted Irish painter John Butler Yeats

J $500 1986 This Irish poet founded the Irish National Theater & in 1923, won the Nobel Prize for Literature

J $1,000 2017 'Tis this 3-named Irish poet & Nobel laureate seen here

James Joyce 8x $850 avg J:2 DJ:6

J $200 1997 Many of the Dublin locales he personally frequented are featured in his book "Ulysses"

DJ $600 1990 "Dubliners" is a collection of short stories by this Irish author

DJ $2,800 DD 2006 You can follow in the footsteps of this novelist on Dublin walking tours led by his nephew, Ken Monaghan

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Virgil 7x 14.3% stumper $829 avg DJ:7

DJ $400 2025 In "The Divine Comedy", this Roman poet serves as an informative guide through purgatory & hell

DJ $600 1989 His epic poem on the founding of Rome starred Aeneas & Dido as lovers

DJ $1,400 DD 1994 In "The Divine Comedy", Dante is led through the Inferno & purgatory by the spirit of this poet

Grendel 7x $1,067 avg J:2 DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $600 1991 Beowulf not only killed this monster, he also killed its mother

J $1,000 DD 2012 Beowulf's monster(7)

FJ 2018 This "creature of evil, grim and fierce, was quickly ready, savage and cruel, and seized from their rest thirty thanes"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning 7x 14.3% stumper $686 avg J:1 DJ:6

DJ $200 1998 In the 1850s this British female poet wrote a blank verse novel called "Aurora Leigh"

DJ $600 1990 This poetess was in her 40s when she gave birth to her only child, Robert, in Florence in 1849

DJ $1,000 1996 In 1820 this sonnet writer's father privately published a book of her poems, "The Battle of Marathon"

Victor Hugo 6x $417 avg J:1 DJ:5

DJ $200 2000 "Les chatiments" is a group of satirical poems attacking Napoleon III by this creator of Quasimodo

DJ $1,000 DD 1991 Poet A. Vacquerie said of this author, "The towers of Notre Dame formed the H of his name"

DJ $200 1991 He fled Louis Napoleon's France & wrote most of "Les Miserables" on the Channel Islands

The Odyssey 6x 16.7% stumper $700 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $200 1991 The expression "lotus-eater", referring to an indolent daydreamer, comes from this epic by Homer

J $600 2010 Homer's 24-book sequel:"Tell Penny I'll Be Right Back"

DJ $2,000 2014 The wanderer sails for the South Pole in Nikos Kazantzakis' 33,333-line sequel to this ancient poem

San Francisco 6x 16.7% stumper $1,050 avg DJ:6

DJ $200 1993 Theodore Kirchhoff's lyric poems about this city made him "The Poet of the Golden Gate"

DJ $600 1999 Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon" plays out darkly in this California city

DJ $1,500 DD 1999 In a poem about this city, Bret Harte wrote, "Wrap her, o fog, in gown and hood of her Franciscan brotherhood"

Robert Frost 6x 33.3% stumper $433 avg DJ:6

DJ $200 2001 This quintessential New Englander published his first book of poems, "A Boy's Will", while living in England in 1913

DJ $600 2000 He used his poem "The Road Not Taken" as the opening poem in his collection "Mountain Interval"

DJ $200 1993 In 1892 this poet & his future wife were co-valedictorians of their Lawrence, Mass. high school class

Mary Shelley 6x $767 avg J:1 DJ:5

DJ $200 1995 She dedicated "Frankenstein" to her father, William Godwin

DJ $1,000 1990 Her father, William Godwin, was a prominent social philosopher & anarchist

J $300 1990 Her mother, feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft, died 11 days after her birth

Lewis Carroll 6x $417 avg J:5 DJ:1

J $100 2000 Concerning his "Alice in Wonderland" books, he said, "I meant nothing but nonsense"

J $500 1996 This author called expressions he invented, like slithy & frumious, portmanteau words

J $200 1991 Thackeray used the phrase "mad as a hatter" before this author popularized it

The Divine Comedy 5x 40.0% stumper $500 avg J:2 DJ:3

DJ $200 1998 In this Dante work, the poet is given a tour through hell, purgatory & paradise

J $700 DD 1998 Franz Liszt's symphony based on this work includes the movements "Inferno" & "Purgatorio"

DJ $400 1999 This 14th century work is divided into 3 sections: "Inferno", "Purgatorio" & "Paradiso"

Poetry 5x 25.0% stumper $750 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $200 1986 Literary hobby of Dr. Zhivago, whose writing got better, not "verse"

J $800 2016 Well-named "Magazine of Verse" dating from 1912(6)

DJ $1,600 2017 Awarded by Yale, the Bollingen Prize is given for achievement in this literary form

Oscar Wilde 5x 25.0% stumper $650 avg DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $400 2009 This wit penned the line "I can resist everything except temptation"

DJ $800 1996 This "Salome" author's mother wrote poetry under the pen name Speranza

DJ $1,000 DD 1991 Important locations in his life include 34 Tite Street, the Old Bailey, & Reading Gaol

Lord Byron 5x 60.0% stumper $1,080 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 2005 This libidinous lord's Venetian exploits included an 1818 swim from the Lido "right to the end of the Grand Canal"

DJ $600 1997 Donizetti wrote an opera based on this British lord's poem "Parisina"

DJ $1,000 1985 This British lord wrote of the Spaniard, Don Juan, to satirize English life & customs

Longfellow 5x 80.0% stumper $500 avg J:4 DJ:1

DJ $200 1995 Coleridge-Taylor's cantata "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast" is based on a poem by this author

J $500 1991 The phrase "Ships that pass in the night" is from his "Tales of a Wayside Inn"

J $1,000 DD 2009 "Wayside Inn" tale spinner(10)

Homer 5x $500 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $100 1986 Expression "out of sight, out of mind" is from his "Odyssey"

DJ $800 2015 A translation of this ancient poet made Keats "like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken"

DJ $400 2012 This Ancient Greek wrote, "Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, so you would state home to your own land at once?"

Hermann Hesse 5x 40.0% stumper $1,060 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 2000 A trip to India inspired his 1922 novel "Siddhartha"

J $500 1987 "Steppenwolf"s central figure, Harry Haller, shares the same initials with this man, the author

DJ $1,600 2009 "Demian" is a Bildungsroman by this German novelist & poet

Goethe 5x $1,200 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $800 2015 He was original in extolling "The Sorrows of Young Werther", a novel in the form of letters, in 1774

J $1,000 2016 He was the giant of Sturm und Drang with works like "Gotz von Berlichingen"

DJ $1,000 1996 This German was in his 80's when he finished writing "Faust" a few months before his death in 1832

George Eliot 5x 20.0% stumper $940 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $400 1997 William Dean Howells wrote of Silas Lapham & she wrote of "Silas Marner"

DJ $800 2007 A trip to Spain inspired this "Silas Marner" novelist to write the poem "The Spanish Gypsy"

DJ $1,500 DD 1993 "Romola" was this "Adam Bede" author's only historical novel

Chaucer 5x 20.0% stumper $480 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 2019 Better known for his "Tales", in the 1390s he wrote a "Treatise on the Astrolabe"

DJ $1,200 2024 His greatest work is about a 60-or-so-mile trek to Canterbury, but him: "A European Life" sees him in France, Italy & Spain

DJ $200 1996 For "The Canterbury Tales", he developed an accented 10-syllable line with regular end rhyme

Walt Whitman 4x 25.0% stumper $525 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1985 American poet who spent his life adding to, not cutting his "Leaves of Grass"

J $500 1998 He wrote "Song of The Broad-Axe" as well as the much more famous "Song Of Myself"

DJ $1,000 1985 19th century poet who "heard America singing" in Brooklyn

The Iliad 4x $333 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $200 2017 The action-packed Book 7 of this ancient poem features the duel of Hector & Ajax

FJ 2007 Maris, Lycon, Laogonus, Erymas, Sarpedon, Erylaus & Patroclus die in Book 16 of this work

DJ $400 2019 2018's "The Silence of the Girls" tells this classic story from the perspective of Briseis, Achilles' concubine

Stephen Crane 4x 25.0% stumper $700 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 2000 Scratchy Wilson is a drunken cowpoke in "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" by this "Red Badge of Courage" author

DJ $600 1991 In 1895 he published "The Black Riders", a book of poems, & the novel "The Red Badge of Courage"

DJ $1,200 2011 4 years after "The Red Badge of Courage", he wrote "The Blue Hotel", considered one of his finest short stories

Robert Louis Stevenson 4x 25.0% stumper $875 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 1992 He continued the story of "Kidnapped" in his 1893 book "Catriona"

J $500 2000 A St. Helena, California museum displays the toy soldiers he wrote about in "A Child's Garden of Verses"

DJ $1,000 1997 This Scotsman's 19th century novel "The Master Of Ballantrae" is subtitled "A Winter's Tale"

Robert Burns 4x $400 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $300 2000 This poet's birthplace in Alloway, Scotland is adjacent to a museum devoted to him

DJ $600 1985 "My heart's in the highlands a-chasing the deer," wrote this national poet of Scotland

J $300 1999 The poems of Scotland's Robert Fergusson, who died insane at age 24, influenced this "Tam O'Shanter" poet

Pablo Neruda 4x 50.0% stumper $1,050 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 1999 Chilean poet to whom Massimo Troisi delivered mail as "The Postman"

DJ $1,000 2001 Great Chilean poet known for his "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair"

DJ $1,200 2007 Born Neftali Reyes, this Nobel-winning Chilean poet penned "Elementary Odes" in 1954

Evangeline 4x $850 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $600 1989 In the Longfellow poem, she & her lover, Gabriel, find each other again just before his death

J $1,000 2021 Longfellow's narrative poem named for this woman is "A Tale of Acadie"

DJ $800 2009 First name of the Longfellow character Ms. Bellefontaine

Emily Dickinson 4x $575 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $400 2000 Helen Hunt Jackson's novel "Mercy Philbrick's Choice" may be a fictional portrait of this reclusive poet, her friend

J $500 1997 In 1914, 146 of this late American's poems were published by her niece under the title "The Single Hound"

J $600 2016 Her poem "I heard a Fly buzz--when I died" was suggested by a chapter in a Hawthorne novel

Dylan Thomas 4x 25.0% stumper $625 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 2000 NYC's White Horse Tavern is the spot where this Welsh poet imbibed his last before his untimely death in 1953

DJ $2,000 2024 Mrs. Organ Morgan runs a grocery shop in a seaside village in Wales in his play "Under Milk Wood"

J $100 1999 "Do not go gentle into" Vesuvio, a favorite watering hole of the Beat generation & of this Welsh poet

China 4x $575 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $100 1989 Pearl Buck's parents were missionaries in this country where she grew up

DJ $1,600 2013 In "Empire of the Sun", J.G. Ballard drew upon his own experiences as a boy in this country during wartime

DJ $200 1993 The 3 novels in Pearl Buck's trilogy "House of Earth" are set in this country

Alfred Lord Tennyson 4x $575 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1987 F. Tennyson & C. Tennyson Turner wrote "Poems by 2 Brothers" with this more famous brother

DJ $800 1999 In a poem dedicated to this lord, Longfellow wrote, "Poet! I come to touch thy lance with mine"

DJ $1,000 1987 Author of "Idylls of the King", he was a favorite of Queen Victoria

William Wordsworth 4x 50.0% stumper $850 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1998 Fans of this Lake poet flock to Dove Cottage, his home near Grasmere in the Lake District

DJ $1,000 2000 This Lake poet's autobiographical poem "The Prelude, or, Growth of A Poet's Mind" was published in 1850, after his death

DJ $800 2023 Perhaps wandering lonely as a cloud, this poet was inspired to pen "Daffodils" about the flowers he saw at Lake Ullswater

Worth Knowing (29)

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 3 The Mill on the Floss 3 the Aeneid 3 Sylvia Plath 3 Stephen Vincent Benet 3 Silas Marner 3 Saul Bellow 3 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 3 Salman Rushdie 3 Romanticism 3 Robert Browning 3 Pushkin 3 prose 3 Poet Laureate 3 Percy Shelley 3 Milton 3 King Arthur 3 John Keats 3 Gilgamesh 3 Free verse 3 Edward Lear 3 Edgar Lee Masters 3 Dr. Zhivago 3 Christopher Marlowe 3 an ode 3 A Farewell to Arms 3 (Kurt) Vonnegut 3 "The Pit and the Pendulum" 3 "The Cask of Amontillado" 3

British Literature

48 answers | 335 clues

Must-Know (17)

1984 16x 20.0% stumper $727 avg J:10 DJ:5 FJ:1

J $100 1995 In this novel the slogan "Big Brother Is Watching You" appears on large posters

J $500 1996 Doublethink, the acceptance of 2 contradictory ideas, comes from this George Orwell novel

J $1,000 DD 2016 O'Brien is the totalitarian torturer in this novel

Rudyard Kipling 16x 6.2% stumper $631 avg J:7 DJ:9

J $100 1996 Mowgli's song "Against People" appears in this author's "Second Jungle Book"

J $800 2016 Born in Bombay in 1865, in 1907 he became the first British writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature

DJ $1,000 1992 His story "The Man Who Would Be King" was first published in his collection "The Phantom Rickshaw"

Robinson Crusoe 15x $300 avg J:5 DJ:9 FJ:1

J $100 2000 Novel in which you'd find the line "I made him know his name should be Friday, which was the day I saved his life"

FJ 2024 A fragment from a nautical tool found on a Chilean island in 2005 was likely left by the Scot who partly inspired this character

DJ $200 1997 On his third voyage this title character of a 1719 Defoe book is shipwrecked

Jane Eyre 15x 13.3% stumper $793 avg J:4 DJ:11

J $200 2010 The last chapter of this Charlotte Bronte novel begins, "Reader, I married him"

DJ $600 1999 The last chapter of this Charlotte Bronte novel begins with the words "Reader, I married him"

DJ $1,000 DD 1991 She is brought to Thornfield Manor as governess to Adele Varens, Rochester's ward

Pride and Prejudice 14x $546 avg J:7 DJ:6 FJ:1

J $100 2001 Flirtatious 15-year-old Lydia Bennet elopes with Mr. Wickham in this Jane Austen classic

J $600 2018 "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a... fortune, must be in want of a wife"

J $1,000 2007 "I've had a change of heart, Elizabeth," said Darcy. "I'm marrying Catherine. Ta"

David Copperfield 14x 42.9% stumper $800 avg J:2 DJ:12

DJ $200 1990 Dickens' title character who wed Agnes Wickfield

DJ $600 2001 A dog named Jip chews up the cookbook belonging to this Dickens title character's wife Dora

J $1,000 2003 Emma vows in this novel, "I never will desert Mr. Micawber"

Gulliver's Travels 13x 7.7% stumper $515 avg J:7 DJ:6

J $100 1987 Better-known title of "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver"

J $600 2005 Enraged, Lemuel tore the ropes from his body. His captors were "not six inches high"! His boot rose ominously.

J $1,000 2010 1726:"Where in the World Is Lemuel?"

The Count of Monte Cristo 12x $655 avg J:6 DJ:5 FJ:1

J $200 2022 In a Dumas novel, this hero plots his revenge on the men who put him in prison for a crime he did not commit

J $500 2001 Don't "count" on missing "You Stole My Life, I'm Paying You Back!" featuring this 1844-45 Dumas classic

DJ $1,500 DD 1996 Abbe Faria is a fellow prisoner of this man on the Chateau d'if, a fortress off the coast of Marseilles

Wuthering Heights 11x 9.1% stumper $618 avg J:4 DJ:7

DJ $200 1991 Kindly Mr. Earnshaw owns this storm-beaten house on the moors in an Emily Bronte novel

J $600 2012 Title place where Hindley hates Heathcliff

J $1,000 2011 Both Nelly Dean & Mr. Lockwood provide narration about Heathcliff & the denizens of his manor in this 1847 novel

Oliver Twist 10x $530 avg J:3 DJ:7

J $100 1997 This Dickens novel about a foundling is subtitled "The Parish Boy's Progress"

DJ $800 2012 Though innocent, this 19th century title tot gets popped for pickpocketing Mr. Brownlow

J $1,200 DD 2020 "Or, the Parish Boy's Progress", which included picking a pocket or 2

Dorian Gray 10x $667 avg J:4 DJ:5 FJ:1

J $200 2021 "Upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him... lying on the floor was a dead man... withered"

DJ $600 1994 In an Oscar Wilde novel, Lord Henry Wotton leads this young man into a dissolute, licentious life

J $1,000 DD 2020 This title character says, "I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose?"

Treasure Island 9x $578 avg J:4 DJ:5

J $200 2005 (1883)"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest--yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum"

J $600 2025 This Robert Louis Stevenson book began as a game invented for the author's stepson, then became a serial called "The Sea-Cook"

J $1,000 2009 The Hispaniola is found in this Stevenson high seas quest

Great Expectations 9x $989 avg J:3 DJ:6

J $200 2002 In this Dickens classic, Miss Havisham, jilted on her wedding day, rears her ward Estella to hate men

J $500 1987 Book in which Joe Gargery reflects, "On the rampage, Pip, & off the rampage, Pip; such is life!"

DJ $1,600 2010 This Dickens novel starts with a boy visiting his parents' graves, where he's surprised by an escaped convict

Thomas Hardy 9x $967 avg J:1 DJ:8

J $800 2025 This author provides an exciting scene & fascinating info on hayrick combustion in Chapter 6 of "Far From the Madding Crowd"

DJ $1,200 2022 He created a heroine named Tess, who bears a child named Sorrow & later kills the man who seduced her

DJ $800 2025 Like many of his novels, "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" is set in the fictional Wessex

The Canterbury Tales 8x 12.5% stumper $662 avg J:4 DJ:4

J $200 2014 "A Knight's Tale", starring Heath Ledger, was inspired by this Chaucer classic

DJ $800 2014 Printing in England was still a novelty in the 1470s when William Caxton printed this work about 30 pilgrims

J $1,000 2022 Chaucer had planned to write more than 100 stories for this work, but only got around to 24

Rhett Butler 8x $429 avg J:2 DJ:5 FJ:1

J $200 2017 (Hi, I'm Rob Fowler of News 2.) This literary character from Charleston tells Scarlett he may go back to his hometown because he misses "the calm dignity life can have when it's lived by gentle folks"

DJ $800 2019 He utters the parting words "My dear, I don't give a damn"

FJ 2011 His "remarks about the Confederacy... made Atlanta look at him first in bewilderment, then coolly and then with hot rage"

A Tale of Two Cities 8x 14.3% stumper $586 avg J:4 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $300 2000 "It is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known"

J $600 2003 Near the end of this novel, Madame Defarge is killed with her own gun during a struggle with Miss Pross

J $1,000 2004 Dickens novel that ends, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done..."

Should-Know (22)

The Time Machine 7x 16.7% stumper $483 avg J:2 DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $200 1997 The protagonist of this H.G. Wells novel is known only as the Time Traveller

J $500 1992 Most of this H.G. Wells novel takes place in England in the year 802,701 A.D.

FJ 1999 The original title of this 1895 novel was "The Chronic Argonauts"

Scarlett O'Hara 7x $333 avg J:2 DJ:4 FJ:1

J $200 2009 "I won't think of it now... I'll go home to Tara tomorrow"

FJ 2017 When we first meet her in the novel, she's wearing a green dress with 12 yards of fabric & matching slippers from Atlanta

DJ $200 1993 Her first husband is Charles Hamilton, Melanie's brother; Rhett Butler is her third

William Makepeace Thackeray 7x 33.3% stumper $733 avg J:2 DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $200 1994 This "Vanity Fair" author's daughter Anne wrote novels that influenced her step-niece Virginia Woolf

DJ $600 1993 Harriet, this "Vanity Fair" author's daughter, was the 1st wife of V. Woolf's father, Sir Leslie Stephen

J $1,000 2016 Yet to "make peace" with his name, this "Barry Lyndon" author used pen names in his "Miscellanies"

the Bridge of San Luis Rey 6x $1,080 avg DJ:5 FJ:1

DJ $600 1992 In a Thornton Wilder novel, brother Juniper witnesses the collapse of this title structure

DJ $1,200 2009 "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714 , the finest bridge in all Peru broke"

FJ 2012 The collapse of this title structure causes the death of Esteban, Uncle Pio, Don Jaime, Pepita & a marquesa

Long John Silver 6x 16.7% stumper $567 avg J:2 DJ:4

DJ $200 1991 This Robert Louis Stevenson pirate has a parrot named Captain Flint

DJ $600 1991 In "Treasure Island", this Bristol innkeeper is hired as the cook on the Hispanola

J $1,000 2018 Arrr! He's the leader of the pirates in Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island"

Jude the Obscure 6x $750 avg J:1 DJ:5

DJ $400 2023 Thomas Hardy gave up writing fiction after this gloomy novel about Jude Fawley

J $500 2001 1895:Jude Fawley

DJ $1,200 2019 The title character of this Thomas Hardy novel has the last name Fawley & works as a stonemason

Emma 6x $700 avg J:2 DJ:4

DJ $400 2013 This Austen title character "had lived nearly 21 years in the world with very little to distress or vex her"

J $600 2012 This Jane Austen protagonist eventually falls in love with George Knightley, brother of her sister's husband

DJ $1,000 DD 1997 The last name of this Jane Austen title character is Woodhouse

Virginia Woolf 5x 20.0% stumper $1,360 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $600 1997 Born Adeline Virginia Stephen, this "To The Lighthouse" author was a leader of the Bloomsbury Group

J $1,000 2019 Mr. Ramsay in her 1927 novel "To the Lighthouse" is a portrait of her father Leslie Stephen

DJ $1,600 2020 Hermione Lee, later this woman's biographer, picked up her novel "The Waves" at age 8 & thought, "This is my language"

The Picture of Dorian Gray 5x 40.0% stumper $540 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $300 1987 Oscar Wilde's only full length novel, it's the portrait of an artist's subject as an eternally young man

DJ $800 1994 Published in 1890, it was Oscar Wilde's only novel

J $400 2024 Y'know, I think that portrait's crooked; man, you look great! What's your secret?; what's Wilde is that it's Oscar's only novel

Tess 5x $560 avg DJ:5

DJ $200 1993 Thomas Hardy partly based this heroine "of the d'Urbervilles" on his own grandmother

DJ $800 2011 Alec D'Urberville seduces her(4)

DJ $1,200 2007 "Our names are worn away to Durbeyfield; but we have several proofs that we are d'Urbervilles"

Sense and Sensibility 5x $920 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $200 2002 Before "Titanic", Kate Winslet was Marianne in the film of this "sense"-itive Austen novel

DJ $800 2018 Featuring sisters Elinor & Marianne, it was Jane Austen's first published novel

DJ $1,200 2022 Fitting its title well, Elinor, the oldest Dashwood girl in this Austen novel, has a good head on her shoulders

Moll Flanders 5x 20.0% stumper $1,040 avg J:3 DJ:2

DJ $600 1988 Daniel Defoe title character who was a tart, a wife, a thief, a convict, then grew rich & lived honest

J $1,000 2007 (Kelly of the Clue Crew is with some blooms in Bloomsbury, London.) In Defoe's tale about this plucky title lass, she visits her secret lover's Bloomsbury home after learning of his illness

J $800 2002 This lusty lady, the heroine of a 1722 Defoe novel, was married 5 times (including once to her own brother)

Kidnapped 5x 40.0% stumper $1,320 avg DJ:5

DJ $800 2022 This Robert Louis Stevenson novel recounts the adventures of Scottish orphan David Balfour

DJ $1,200 2020 Published in 1893, "Catriona", also known as "David Balfour", was Robert Louis Stevenson's sequel to this novel

DJ $800 1995 At the end of this Robert Louis Stevenson work, David Balfour claims his rightful inheritance

"The Man Who Would Be King" 5x 60.0% stumper $1,160 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $800 1999 A pair of comic adventurers become the godlike leaders of an Afghan tribe in this Kipling story

J $1,000 2021 In this Kipling tale Daniel Dravot tricks natives of a region of Afghanistan into crowning him king

DJ $1,000 1997 In this Kipling short story, Daniel Dravot becomes the godlike monarch of an Afghani tribe

Tolkien 4x $300 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 2017 Goldberry Baggins

DJ $200 2001 J.R.R.(7)

DJ $400 2020 C.S. Lewis nominated this friend & fellow fantasy writer for a Nobel

The Lord of the Rings 4x $250 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 1999 "The Fellowship of the Ring" is volume 1 of this Tolkien trilogy

DJ $200 1994 This trilogy made hobbit a household word

DJ $200 1991 J.R.R. Tolkien continued his tale of Middle Earth in this trilogy, the sequel to "The Hobbit"

Pip 4x $1,200 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $600 1996 Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" is narrated by this orphan

J $1,000 2025 In "Great Expectations", this narrator's "hair had been caught by the fire, but not my head or face"

DJ $1,600 2022 In "Great Expectations" , the escaped convict Abel Magwitch is revealed to be this character's benefactor

Nicholas Nickleby 4x 66.7% stumper $800 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

DJ $200 1998 Sir Mulberry Hawk is a vicious crony of Ralph Nickleby in this Dickens novel

J $1,000 2020 This alliterative title Dickens character works for the wealthy Cheeryble twins & his sister Kate marries their nephew

FJ 2003 Fanny Squeers called him Knuckleboy

Lilliput 4x $500 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 2009 In "Gulliver's Travels", the sizes in this land are reduced to 1/12

DJ $1,000 DD 2015 The metropolis of Mildendo in this land in "Gulliver's Travels" was a square, each side "being five hundred feet long"

DJ $400 1996 Part I of "Gulliver's Travels" is titled "A Voyage to" this land of 6-inch people

Kim 4x $1,333 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

DJ $1,000 1996 This Kipling orphan's father was a sergeant in an Irish regiment in the Punjab

FJ 2000 This 1901 novel named for its hero opens at the Lahore Museum

DJ $1,000 1994 In this Rudyard Kipling novel, a beggar boy from Lahore becomes the disciple of a Tibetan lama

Julius Caesar 4x 25.0% stumper $475 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $100 1992 Thornton Wilder's 1948 novel, "The Ides of March", was a fictional account of the life of this Roman

DJ $1,200 2012 This general's "Commentaries" were reports to the Romans about his campaigns in Gaul & the Civil War

DJ $200 1989 Thornton Wilder's "The Ides of March" ends with this man's assassination

Animal Farm 4x $1,150 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $300 1995 Boxer is a noble cart horse in this George Orwell novel

DJ $3,500 DD 2014 In this 1946 novel, Old Major says that "Man is the only creature that consumes without producing"

DJ $400 2020 Mollie the mare is a minor character in this George Orwell novel

Worth Knowing (9)

the Mayor of Casterbridge 3 The Jungle Book 3 Tess of the d'Urbervilles 3 Mrs. Dalloway 3 Mowgli 3 H.G. Wells 3 Dr. Jekyll 3 Bleak House 3 Wildfell Hall 2

American Literature

37 answers | 254 clues

Must-Know (11)

Little Women 16x 6.2% stumper $331 avg J:8 DJ:8

J $200 2003 Chapter 9 of this novel is entitled "Meg Goes to Vanity Fair"

J $600 2019 This beloved novel whose first word is "Christmas" has been adapted for a Christmas 2019movie, with Meryl Streep as Aunt March

J $200 2000 "Oh, my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this!"

Hester Prynne 13x 23.1% stumper $877 avg J:5 DJ:8

J $200 2024 "As for the scarlet letter, I wear it for the sake of its gold-thread"

DJ $600 1998 The final chapter of "The Scarlet Letter" says that her tombstone bore the letter "A"

J $1,000 2009 In "The Scarlet Letter" her daughter is Pearl, quite the little gem

F. Scott Fitzgerald 13x $877 avg J:1 DJ:12

DJ $400 2000 His emotionally unstable wife Zelda inspired the character of Nicole Diver in his book "Tender Is The Night"

DJ $600 1993 A psychiatrist cures a rich patient by marrying her in this author's "Tender is the Night"

DJ $1,600 2021 Rosemary Hoyt, a young actress vacationing on the Riviera, tempts the hero of this author's "Tender is the Night"

Captain Ahab 13x $546 avg J:8 DJ:5

DJ $400 2022 He's the captain of the whaling ship Pequod in "Moby Dick"

DJ $800 2019 In this man's "Wife", Una marries the title whaling captain

DJ $1,600 2016 In an 1851 novel:"Thus, I give up the spear!"

The Sun Also Rises 12x 41.7% stumper $1,400 avg J:2 DJ:10

DJ $400 1993 Hemingway took this title from Ecclesiastes 1:5, but he changed "ariseth" to "rises"

J $800 2016 "T.S.A.R."by Ernest Hemingway

DJ $1,000 1996 "Fiesta" is the British title of this Hemingway novel

The Scarlet Letter 12x $683 avg J:5 DJ:7

J $200 2010 Roger Chillingworth is Hester's wronged husband in this 1850 novel

DJ $800 2008 A puritanical tale:"A Note From Miss Johansson"

DJ $1,200 2012 1850:"Minister & married woman exposed after conceiving illegitimate daughter"

Mark Twain 12x 9.1% stumper $527 avg J:3 DJ:8 FJ:1

DJ $200 1995 In an 1883 work he called the basin of the Mississippi River "the body of the nation"

J $600 2016 He gained early fame for a tale about a celebrated jumping frog in California

DJ $1,000 DD 1990 "Always do right." he wrote; "This will gratify some people and astonish the rest"

Huckleberry Finn 12x 8.3% stumper $508 avg J:3 DJ:9

J $100 2000 "...Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before..."

J $600 2009 "Tom... that Injun devil wouldn't make any more of drownding us than a couple of cats"

DJ $2,000 2019 The musical "Big River" was inspired by this novel first published in the U.S. in 1885

Willa Cather 11x 9.1% stumper $800 avg J:2 DJ:9

J $400 2017 She won a Pulitzer Prize not for "My Antonia" but for another Nebraska novel, "One of Ours"

DJ $600 1993 Reader's Ency. says her favorite of her own novels was "The Song of the Lark", not "O Pioneers!"

DJ $1,600 2004 A plaque on 5 Bank Street in New York City notes that she wrote "My Antonia" there

The Grapes of Wrath 8x $550 avg J:4 DJ:4

J $100 1998 This 1939 Steinbeck novel about a family of migrant workers won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction

DJ $800 2007 (Hi, I'm Kathryn Erbe of Law & Order Criminal Intent.) In 1990 I appeared on Broadway in a Tony-winning play based on this Pulitzer-prize winning novel by John Steinbeck

DJ $2,000 DD 2010 "To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently"

Nathaniel Hawthorne 8x 25.0% stumper $1,188 avg J:4 DJ:4

DJ $200 1994 This author of "The Scarlet Letter" died before he could finish writing "The Dolliver Romance"

J $800 2020 Arthur Dimmesdale, (Young) Goodman Brown

DJ $4,300 DD 1992 "Tanglewood Tales" was his 1853 sequel to "A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys"

Should-Know (19)

The Prince and the Pauper 7x 14.3% stumper $1,100 avg J:2 DJ:5

DJ $200 1989 Mark Twain story about look-alikes Edward Tudor & Tom Canty

DJ $800 DD 1988 Twain tale w/the line "Thou hast the same hair, the same eyes, the same voice & manner...that I bear"

DJ $1,000 DD 1996 It begins, "In the ancient city of London... a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty..."

The House of the Seven Gables 7x 42.9% stumper $971 avg J:1 DJ:6

DJ $200 1987 For centuries, the Pyncheon family lived in this unhappy Hawthorne home

J $800 2021 The title domicile of this Hawthorne novel is halfway down Pyncheon Street

DJ $1,000 1998 Hawthorne novel containing the line, "Old Matthew Maule, in a word, was executed for the crime of witchcraft"

Holden Caulfield 7x 14.3% stumper $629 avg J:3 DJ:4

J $400 2023 "I didn't exactly flunk out... one of the biggest reasons I left Elkton Hills was because I was surrounded by phonies"

DJ $600 2001 He tells his 10-year-old sister Phoebe that he wants to be a "catcher in the rye"

DJ $1,600 2010 This troubled teen had a brother named Allie who died; "You'd have liked him"

Herman Melville 7x 28.6% stumper $343 avg J:1 DJ:6

DJ $200 1995 This author's 1841 whaling voyage inspired his 1847 adventure novel "Omoo"

DJ $600 2001 Taji & Jarl are deserters from a whaling ship in his 1849 novel "Mardi"

DJ $200 1994 In his 1852 novel "Pierre, or The Ambiguities", Pierre Glendinning is a young writer, not a whale

East of Eden 7x $1,033 avg J:1 DJ:5 FJ:1

DJ $400 2015 This 1952 Steinbeck novel tells the stories of 3 generations of the Trask & Hamilton families

DJ $800 2005 This Steinbeck masterpiece tells the story of the Trasks & the Hamiltons

J $1,000 DD 2001 Thinking home is no "paradise", Cathy fakes her own death & runs away in this classic Steinbeck novel

The Great Gatsby 6x $700 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $300 2001 1925:Self-made millionaire James Gatz

J $800 2009 East Egg & West Egg are Long Island locales in this 1925 novel

DJ $2,000 DD 2010 Long Island society mourns his loss. Murdered, in West Egg, by George Wilson

Of Mice and Men 6x $367 avg J:4 DJ:2

J $200 2024 In this novella John Steinbeck wrote that "Curley was flopping like a fish on a line"

DJ $800 1995 Steinbeck novel in which Lennie Small wants to "live off the fatta the lan', an' have rabbits"

J $200 2019 In this Steinbeck work, George kills his friend Lennie to spare him from a lynch mob

Jane Austen 6x 33.3% stumper $867 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $400 2010 6 Californians read & discuss "Persuasion", "Emma" & 4 other novels in Karen Joy Fowler's novel her "Book Club"

DJ $600 1997 Her "Northanger Abbey" centers on Catherine Morland, a country parson's daughter

J $1,000 2004 In Bath, England, tours devoted to her feature places she wrote about in "Persuasion" & "Northanger Abbey"

Billy Budd 6x 16.7% stumper $1,133 avg DJ:6

DJ $400 1996 This Herman Melville title character, an English sailor, is hanged for killing master-at-arms Claggart

DJ $800 2008 "God bless Captain Vere!" are the last words this Melville foretopman speaks before being hanged

DJ $2,000 2024 John Claggart is the mean old master-at-arms aboard the Indomitable in this Herman Melville tale

To Kill a Mockingbird 5x $760 avg DJ:5

DJ $400 2021 Inspired by the author's hometown of Monroeville, Maycomb, Alabama is the setting for this 1960 classic

DJ $800 2009 Lee:"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow"

DJ $1,000 1996 In this 1960 novel, Jean Louise Finch, daughter of attorney Atticus Finch, is nicknamed Scout

The Catcher in the Rye 5x $720 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $400 2026 A Bildungsroman is a work about the education & formative years of the protagonist, like this novel by J.D. Salinger

DJ $800 1988 Phoebe Caulfield is a prominent character in this popular modern novel

DJ $1,600 2008 This1951 novel has been celebrated & vilified

Heathcliff 5x $640 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $200 2001 As a teen, this brooding Bronte hero displays "An almost idiotic excess of unsociable moroseness"

DJ $800 2026 Emily Brontë's Cathy Earnshaw says of him, "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same"

DJ $1,600 2018 Catherine Earnshaw, Edgar Linton, him

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 5x $1,920 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $200 1992 Chapter 1 of this Mark Twain book is entitled "Camelot"

DJ $800 2006 1889: By Mark Twain

DJ $1,600 2007 Chapter 1 of it begins, "'Camelot--Camelot,' said I to myself. 'I don't seem to remember hearing of it before'"

White Fang 4x $1,275 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $300 2000 This 1906 tale tells the story of a wolf-dog gradually domesticated by his kindly new owner

J $800 2025 "The She-Wolf" & "The Grey Cub" are chapters in this colorful classic by Jack London

DJ $2,000 2022 This title wolf dog in a 1906 novel has a father named One Eye & a mother named Kiche

Toni Morrison 4x $1,200 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 2000 Macon Dead III, also known as Milkman, is the protagonist of her novel "Song of Solomon"

DJ $800 2006 (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from outside of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL.) A vision of little scraps of Sunday dresses in this author's "Song of Solomon" refers to the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church

DJ $1,600 2013 1993:A Howard grad

Louisa May Alcott 4x $175 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 2000 "Eight Cousins" is a later work by this author who wrote about four "Little Women"

J $100 1999 Professor Bhaer in her book "Little Women" was partly based on Ralph Waldo Emerson

DJ $200 2000 Jill, the tomboyish heroine of her story "Jack And Jill", has been compared to her famous character Jo March

Lennie 4x $575 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $100 1987 In "Of Mice & Men", George was going to let him take care of the rabbits

DJ $800 1995 Ironically, Small is the last name of this "Of Mice and Men" character known for his strength

J $1,000 2021 "'For the rabbits', (he) shouted... George raised the gun and steadied it... the crash of the shot rolled up the hills"

John Bunyan 4x $850 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1989 Mark Twain wrote "The New Pilgrim's Progress", but he wrote the original

DJ $1,000 1992 Apollyon is called a "foul fiend" in this author's "The Pilgrim's Progress"

DJ $800 1997 In 1680 this "Pilgrims Progress" author published "The Life And Death of Mr. Badman"

Aunt Polly 4x 25.0% stumper $450 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1999 This guardian of Tom Sawyer was based on Mark Twain's mother

DJ $800 2015 The first word in "Tom Sawyer" is uttered by this woman, his aunt & guardian

J $400 1999 She made Tom Sawyer whitewash her fence

Worth Knowing (7)

Tom Joad 3 The Sound and the Fury 3 the Scarlet Pimpernel 3 Spain 3 Gatsby 3 For Whom The Bell Tolls 3 California 3

Children's Literature

40 answers | 213 clues

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Uncle Tom's Cabin 11x 9.1% stumper $518 avg J:4 DJ:7

J $200 2014 Simon Legree is a brutal slave driver in this 19th century work

DJ $800 2019 Simon Legree is murderous slave owner in this 19th century bestseller

DJ $1,200 2022 George & Eliza make it safely to Canada after escaping the Shelby plantation in this 1852 novel

On the Road 11x $460 avg J:6 DJ:4 FJ:1

J $100 2001 In this novel, Jack Kerouac depicted himself as Sal Paradise, tagging along after the charismatic Dean Moriarty

J $600 2014 Sal Paradise & Dean Moriarty decide to "beat" it across America in this modern classic

FJ 2009 In 2007 this novel celebrated its 50th anniversary as its manuscript, a 120-foot-long scroll, toured the U.S.

Count Dracula 10x 22.2% stumper $956 avg J:5 DJ:4 FJ:1

J $400 2009 "We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways"

J $600 2007 Beheaded by Harker & his heart Bowie-knifed by Morris. No funeral arrangements pending

J $1,000 DD 2014 "Further and further back he cowered, as we, lifting our crucifixes, advanced"

Jack London 10x 10.0% stumper $1,180 avg DJ:10

DJ $400 2015 Next time you're in this city, stop by Duke's Bar, where the martinis inspired Ian Fleming to make them 007's drink

DJ $800 2006 Jack's "capital" surname(6)

DJ $1,600 2012 "It was the wild, the savage, frozen-hearted northland wild", he wrote in "White Fang"

Peter Pan 9x $400 avg J:4 DJ:4 FJ:1

J $200 2024 "His hand was still messy with the fairy dust" as this character asked, "Tink, where are you?"

J $600 2009 The Jolly Roger sails the seas in this J.M. Barrie romp

FJ 2016 In 1929 London's Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital was given all rights to this character created 27 years earlier

Tom Sawyer 8x $262 avg J:4 DJ:4

J $100 1986 In the 2nd sequel, Mark Twain wrote about him as a detective

J $600 2002 Clara Blandick played Auntie Em in "The Wizard of Oz" & Aunt Polly in a film based on this novel

J $200 2014 "He had had a nice, good, idle time all the while... and the fence had three coats of whitewash on it!"

The Color Purple 8x 28.6% stumper $1,657 avg J:4 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $200 2019 Turned into a movie & a Broadway musical:"The Color ____"

J $600 2016 A Pulitzer Prize-winning book: "You better not never tell nobody but God"

DJ $1,600 2015 Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery

Should-Know (23)

The Little Prince 7x $2,286 avg J:1 DJ:6

DJ $400 1985 Space-traveling royal youngster whom Antoine de Saint-Exupery met in the desert

J $600 2017 Before the euro, this royal children's book character appeared on the French 50-francnote

DJ $1,200 2015 Antoine de Saint-Exupery, who perished in a WWII plane crash, is today best known for this children's tale

L. Frank Baum 7x 16.7% stumper $900 avg J:1 DJ:5 FJ:1

DJ $400 2017 (I'm M.J. Acosta from NBC 7 San Diego.) This man resided at the Hotel Del Coronado for months at a time & wrote parts of several books here including "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz"

J $1,000 DD 2010 In 1920 he published "Glinda of Oz", a story about the impending war between the Flatheads & the Skeeters

FJ 2016 Seen here, the White City built for Chicago's 1893 Columbian Exposition is said to have inspired this author who then lived near it

Wilbur 6x $683 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $300 2001 In "Charlotte's Web", Charlotte helps keep this pig from becoming Christmas dinner

J $600 2017 That's "some pig", this character in "Charlotte's Web"

DJ $1,000 1993 In "Charlotte's Web", a grey spider keeps this pig from being slaughtered

The Trial 6x 16.7% stumper $1,400 avg DJ:6

DJ $1,000 1995 A portion of this Kafka novel was published separately under the title "Before the Law"

DJ $1,000 DD 1994 In English Kafka's unfinished novel "Der Prozess" is called this

DJ $1,600 2019 "Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested"

the Brothers Grimm 6x 16.7% stumper $600 avg J:1 DJ:5

J $200 2005 These brothers first published their "Fairy Tales" in 1812 as "Kinderund Hausmarchen"

DJ $800 2015 The first volume of a work by these brothers contained 86 stories, including "The Frog King" & "Sleeping Beauty"

DJ $1,000 DD 2000 The German dictionary this pair of brothers began in 1854 was finished by others in 1954

Oz 6x $400 avg J:1 DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $200 1988 Everything is edible in the town of Bunbury, located in this land created by L. Frank Baum

J $600 2021 L. Frank Baum said he got the name for this after looking at his file cabinet

FJ 2013 The creator of this title place said its name came from the letters labeling the last drawer of his file cabinet

Jonathan Swift 6x 16.7% stumper $633 avg J:2 DJ:4

DJ $200 1997 Edgar Stillman Kelley's symphony "Gulliver" was inspired by a novel by this satirist

DJ $600 1996 In 1726, he received 200 pounds for his tale of Lemuel Gulliver, the only time he was paid for his writing

J $1,000 DD 2016 This Anglo-Irish author went by the nickname "Dr. Presto", Presto being the Italian equivalent of his last name

the White Rabbit 5x 20.0% stumper $540 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $100 1993 This was the first Wonderland resident that Alice saw

DJ $2,000 2012 This character "actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket"

J $200 2024 In "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", this bunny's first words were "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!"

Slaughterhouse-Five 5x 20.0% stumper $800 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 2023 In a 1969 novel Germans tell POWs that their residence is Schlachthof-Funf, this title place

DJ $600 1995 This Kurt Vonnegut novel about Billy Pilgrim is subtitled "Or, the Children's Crusade"

DJ $2,000 2013 Kurt Vonnegut begins this 1969 novel by writing, "All this happened, more or less"

Pinocchio 5x $460 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $200 2016 This classic is subtitled "The Tale of a Puppet"

J $500 1988 In 1883, Carlo Lorenzini used the pen name "Collodi" to write this fairy tale

DJ $400 2018 Carlo Lorenzini used the pen name Collodi to write this beloved tale about a puppet

Harriet Beecher Stowe 5x $280 avg DJ:5

DJ $200 2000 Abe Lincoln is a character in "Norwood", the only novel by her brother Henry Ward Beecher

DJ $200 1994 On June 5, 1851 a serialization of her "Uncle Tom's Cabin" began in the National Era newspaper

DJ $200 1986 In Hartford, Conn., Mark Twain lived next to this author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

Charlotte's Web 5x $560 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 2017 "Some pig" is one of the lifesaving slogans woven by a spider in this work

DJ $800 2019 "'Where's Papa going with that ax?' said Fern to her mother"

DJ $1,200 DD 2006 1952:On a farm in Maine, 2 animals with a total of 12 legs strike up an unusual friendship

Captain Hook 5x $1,280 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 2015 This villain said a crocodile has followed him "from sea to sea... licking its lips for the rest of me"

DJ $800 2025 A reimagining of "Peter Pan", "Lost Boy" is an alternate take on this character's backstory including how he lost his hand

DJ $4,000 DD 2014 He "went content to the crocodile"; instead of "Bad form", his last words should have been "Here's seconds!"

C.S. Lewis 5x 20.0% stumper $800 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 2008 He completed a sci-fi trilogy in 1945, a few years before taking us to Narnia

DJ $600 1997 1938's "Out Of The Silent Planet" was the first sci-fi novel by this Narnia creator

DJ $1,000 1986 Aslan is the wondrous great lion in his 7 Chronicles of Narnia

Alice 5x $400 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $200 2024 The chapter "Down the Rabbit-Hole" opens with her "beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank"

J $1,000 2023 "Still"____Walker

J $200 1994 Her curiosity at seeing a rabbit with a waistcoat & pocket watch leads her down the rabbit hole

The Wizard of Oz 4x $867 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $200 2007 The girl clicked her heels. Nada. She wasn't going home! What a practical joke! Oh, how Glinda loved to laugh!

DJ $2,000 DD 2013 A children's classic: "I'm so glad to be at home again!"

FJ 1997 Chapter 8 of this book first published in 1900 is titled "The Deadly Poppy Field"

The Cat in the Hat 4x $500 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $400 2022 This Dr. Seuss character shows up one boring rainy day when "our mother was out of the house"

DJ $800 2017 (I'm Juliana Mazza with 22News.) Leaping from the pages of the Dr. Seuss memorial sculpture are Thing 1 & Thing 2, agents of mayhem from this 1957 classic

DJ $400 2012 You could charge this Seuss feline with breaking & entering, willful destruction of property & animal (fish) cruelty

Shirley Jackson 4x $950 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $600 1997 Her story "The Lottery" was first published in The New Yorker in 1948

J $1,000 2024 In her creepy tale "The Lottery", a New England town chooses an annual stoning victim to ensure a good harvest

DJ $600 1988 She wrote "Witchcraft of Salem Village" for children & "The Haunting of Hill House" for adults

Little Red Riding Hood 4x $350 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 2010 In a classic story this little girl is sent to bring food & drink to her grandmother, but a wolf has gotten there first

DJ $800 2021 Charles Perrault is remembered for his fairy tales like "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge", this title in English

J $200 1996 Perrault's story about her ends with the vwolf eating her after she admires his big teeth

Heidi 4x $925 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $300 1994 She is taken by her Aunt Dete to live with her grandfather on a peak named the Alm

DJ $800 2003 The title character of this children's classic is taken to Frankfurt but pines for the Alps

J $1,000 2007 Little Swan, Little Bear & Greenfinch are some of the goats of this Johanna Spyri lass

Hans Christian Andersen 4x 25.0% stumper $525 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $200 1993 Once upon a time this Dane described life as "a fairy tale"

DJ $1,200 2020 He wrote of the Little Match Girl who had "frozen to death on the last evening of the old year"

J $300 1992 The 1855 autobiography of this Dane is "The Fairy Tale of My Life"

Edgar Rice Burroughs 4x 25.0% stumper $400 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1990 He wrote "As the body rolled to the ground, Tarzan... voiced the wild & terrible cry of his people"

DJ $600 1994 In 1927 he published a book for children called "The Tarzan Twins"

DJ $400 2012 In 1947 this author's own publishing company released "Tarzan and the Foreign Legion", his last in the series

Babar 4x $575 avg J:4

J $400 2021 In kids' books, Pom, Flora & Alexander are the triplet offspring of this pachyderm king

J $500 2001 Jean de Brunhoff wrote & illustrated the first stories about this urbane king of the elephants

J $600 2003 Celesteville is the capital of this elephant king's realm in classic children's stories

Worth Knowing (10)

Tom Thumb 3 Through the Looking-Glass 3 the White Witch 3 the Little Mermaid 3 Snow White 3 Italy 3 Horton 3 Dr. Seuss 3 Bambi 3 A Modest Proposal 3

Mystery / Thriller

21 answers | 110 clues

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William Faulkner 17x 11.8% stumper $994 avg J:2 DJ:15

DJ $400 1993 His 1929 novel "Sartoris" was the first of several set around Jefferson, Mississippi

DJ $600 1991 The detective stories in his book "Knight's Gambit" concern the citizens of Yoknapatawpha County

J $1,000 2006 Perhaps you'll draft your Nobel Prize acceptance speech at NYC's Algonquin Hotel, as this Mississippi man did in 1950

Charles Dickens 13x 7.7% stumper $469 avg J:1 DJ:12

DJ $200 1998 Add a new twist to your London vacation & visit the home at 48 Doughty St. where he wrote "Oliver Twist"

DJ $600 1986 Since this author died before completing it, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" remains a mystery

DJ $1,000 1994 He wrote his 1848 novel "Dombey and Son" while living in Switzerland

Professor Moriarty 8x $975 avg J:1 DJ:7

DJ $400 2019 Sherlock Holmes describes this foe as the "Napoleon of crime"

DJ $800 2015 Sherlock Holmes called him "a genius" & "the organizer of half that is evil" in London

DJ $4,000 DD 2019 This nemesis perishes when he plunges off Switzerland's Reichenbach Falls with the hero

Should-Know (9)

Death in Venice 7x $900 avg J:3 DJ:4

J $400 2006 Agatha Christie:"Death On The Nile"; Thomas Mann:"Death In" this city

J $500 2001 An author succumbs to cholera, leading to his "Death in" this Italian city

DJ $1,000 1991 Gustav von Aschenbach, the hero of this Thomas Mann novelette, dies of the plague in Italy

Jaws 6x 16.7% stumper $467 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $400 2023 Seaside police chief Martin Brody fights a corrupt politician & a ferocious predator in this Peter Benchley bestseller

J $800 2009 You're gonna need a bigger boat than the Orca in this Peter Benchley thriller

DJ $400 2019 A 1970s bestseller:"The great fish moved silently through the night water"

Gothic 6x 16.7% stumper $833 avg DJ:6

DJ $400 2006 The name of this creepy style of novel originally referred to the books' Medieval settings

DJ $600 1991 "The Monk" by Matthew Gregory Lewis has been called one of the best novels of this "architectural" genre

DJ $2,000 2018 Ellen Glasgow coined the term "Southern" this to describe works by writers like William Faulkner

The Maltese Falcon 5x $640 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $400 2026 "Samuel Spade's jaw was long & bony, his chin a jutting V under the more flexible V of his mouth"

DJ $800 2006 1930:Bird is the word for Dashiell Hammett in this mystery

DJ $1,200 2014 A plaque on Burritt St. marks the spot where in this novel, "Miles Archer, partner of Sam Spade, was done in"

The Hound of the Baskervilles 5x $225 avg J:2 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $100 1985 Sherlock Holmes novel about a devilish dog

FJ 2014 The peat bogs of Dartmoor, England inspired the fictional home of the beastly title character in this 1902 tale

J $200 2007 This title beast of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is actually the pet of Mr. Jack Stapleton

The Name of the Rose 4x $600 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 2024 "El nombre de la rosa"

DJ $600 1996 Adso of Melk assists William of Baskerville in this 1980 Umberto Eco murder mystery

DJ $1,200 2017 A lost work by Aristotle turns out to be the key to this 1980 medieval monastery murder mystery

Stephen King 4x 25.0% stumper $975 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $100 1991 He turned from horror to fantasy for his 1987 novel "The Eyes of the Dragon"

DJ $800 2009 Because he was "drinking a case of 16-ounce tallboys a night", he said, he barely remembers writing "Cujo"

J $1,000 2010 Randall Flagg, a character created by this man, is aka Nyarlathotep, Walter Padick & Walter O'Dim

Scott Turow 4x 50.0% stumper $950 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 2017 In this author's novel "Presumed Innocent", a man acquitted of a brutal murder learns his wife really did it

DJ $600 2000 A lady from "The Burden of Proof" returns as a judge in his "Laws of Our Fathers"

DJ $2,000 DD 2017 This Windy City lawyer sets books like "The Burden of Proof" in Kindle County, a stand-in for the Chicago area

Philip Marlowe 4x 25.0% stumper $1,450 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 2001 "The Big Sleep"

DJ $1,200 2007 L.A. P.I., OK? Chandler's champ, slept big & his goodbye was long

DJ $400 1988 The 1st appearance in print of this hard-boiled detective was in 1939 in "The Big Sleep"

Worth Knowing (9)

The Thin Man 3 The Big Sleep 3 Sam Spade 3 Raymond Chandler 3 New Orleans 3 Nero Wolfe 3 Green 3 Father Brown 3 Dr. Watson 3

Shakespeare

14 answers | 88 clues

Must-Know (3)

Ernest Hemingway 19x 5.6% stumper $528 avg J:5 DJ:13 FJ:1

DJ $200 1990 His novel, "Islands in the Stream" was published posthumously in 1970

DJ $600 1996 A collection of his "Nick Adams Stories" was published in 1972, 11 years after his death

DJ $1,600 2018 "The Paris Wife" is a fictional account of Hadley Richardson, first wife of this novelist

Brave New World 10x $610 avg J:4 DJ:6

J $100 1990 In this futuristic Aldous Huxley novel, people attend feelies instead of movies

DJ $600 1992 In this Huxley novel, former physicist Mustapha Mond is one of 10 world controllers

J $1,000 2019 John the Savage is a central character in this classic novel set in the year 632 AF (After Ford)

The Old Man and the Sea 8x 14.3% stumper $857 avg J:2 DJ:5 FJ:1

J $200 1998 An angler named Santiago is the main character in this Hemingway tale

DJ $1,200 2005 In this Hemingway story, Santiago promises to show a marlin "what a man can do and what a man endures"

FJ 2025 At the start of this tale, the title character is reminded he went turtling off the Mosquito Coast

Should-Know (7)

The Wind in the Willows 7x $514 avg J:4 DJ:3

J $400 2024 In chapter 1 of this book, Mole sees a river for the first time & "sat on the bank, while" it "chattered on to him"

J $600 2024 "Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears" is a chapter of this book in which Mr. Toad gets some bad news

J $400 2016 In this 1908 novel Mr. Toad lives in a big house called Toad Hall & drives a fancy car

Cervantes 7x $457 avg J:1 DJ:6

DJ $200 1998 The literary prize named for this creator of "Don Quixote" is awarded to authors who write in Spanish

J $600 2021 This author originated "tilting at windmills", meaning fighting imaginary foes

DJ $200 1991 He worked provisioning the Spanish Armada long before writing "Don Quixote"

a sonnet 7x $1,143 avg J:1 DJ:6

DJ $400 2022 Some of the earliest known examples of these 14-line poems are by Giacomo da Lentini, who wrote in the 1200s

J $600 2002 In the Petrarchan type of these, an octave is followed by a stanza of 6 lines

DJ $1,000 1987 When Romeo & Juliet meet at a ball, the 1st 14 lines they speak are in this specific poetic form

The Tempest 5x $880 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 2002 The first novel in the Salterton Trilogy concerns an amateur production of this "stormy" Shakespeare play

DJ $1,000 1989 The only one of Shakespeare's plays that does not take place in any known city or country

DJ $200 2001 The Bermoothes, where Prospero's brother was shipwrecked in this play, might have been named for Bermuda

Plutarch 5x $840 avg DJ:5

DJ $200 DD 2013 The "lives" of Aristides & Cato the Elder were among those this biographer covered

DJ $800 1991 Cicero's and Demosthenes' were among the lives this Greek biographer reviewed

DJ $1,600 2012 Shakespeare used Sir Thomas North's translation of this Greek's "Lives" for some material in his plays

William Shakespeare 4x 50.0% stumper $325 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $100 DD 1996 Bowdlerize comes from the name of an editor best known for purging his works of "indecent" passages

DJ $800 2003 (Cheryl of the Clue Crew) "Cursed be he that moves my bones" is a chilling last line of the inscription over this man's grave

J $200 2000 Theatre fans know the home seen here is this playwright's birthplace:(in Stratford-upon-Avon)

Macbeth 4x 25.0% stumper $700 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 1991 Shakespeare wrote this tragedy to appeal to James I's fascination with witchcraft

DJ $800 2021 At a dinner party in Shakespeare, Banquo's ghost shows up to torment this title character

DJ $800 2007 The third witch in a 1606 play chants, "A drum, a drum" this title king "doth come"

Worth Knowing (4)

Puck 3 Prospero 3 King Lear 3 Iago 3

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