Memorize these and you could recognize 23.4% of all World Literature clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Don Quixote | 4 | In a famous novel, Alonso Quijano, a gaunt country gentleman, changes his name to this |
| 2 | War and Peace | 3 | Anatole Kuragin is a scandalous rake in this extremely long Tolstoy work |
| 3 | Voltaire | 3 | Shortly after his "Candide" was published in Geneva, it was condemned by the city council |
| 4 | Thomas Mann | 3 | "Joseph & His Brothers", a group of novels based on a Bible story, is this German author's longest work |
| 5 | The Brothers Karamazov | 3 | In this novel, Dostoevski's last, a son is falsely accused of murdering his father |
| 6 | Sanskrit | 3 | The epic poem "Raghuvamsa", which traces the lineage of Rama, was written in this classical language |
| 7 | Goethe | 3 | For 10 years this greatest of German poets practically ran the duchy of Saxe-Weimar |
| 8 | Crime and Punishment | 3 | Dostoevski novel in which Raskolnikov, a young student, kills an old woman pawnbroker |
| 9 | China | 3 | Li Po, who lived over 1,000 years ago, was one of this country's greatest poets |
| 10 | The Prince | 3 | The rises to power of Cesare Borgia & Francesco Sforza, among others, are related in this 1513 work |
| 11 | Leo Tolstoy | 3 | His 1st published story, "Childhood", appeared in 1852 while he was in the Russian army |
| 12 | Zorba | 2 | Nikos Kazantzakis wrote "The Greek Passion" & the tale of him, "The Greek" |
| 13 | The Tin Drum | 2 | The 1st novel in the "Danzig Trilogy" by Gunter Grass |
| 14 | the Divine Comedy | 2 | Dante's "Inferno" is the 1st section of this "trilogy" |
| 15 | the Count of Monte Cristo | 2 | In this Alexandre Dumas novel, a sailor is falsely imprisoned in the Chateau d'If near Marseilles |
| 16 | South Africa | 2 | It's the beloved country in Alan Paton's "Cry the Beloved Country" |
| 17 | Sir Walter Scott | 2 | His "The Lady of the Lake" wasn't about the life of King Arthur but life in the Scottish Highlands |
| 18 | Siddhartha | 2 | India, where his father & grandfather were missionaries, inspired this 1922 Hermann Hesse novel |
| 19 | Quo Vadis | 2 | The title of this Henryk Sienkiewicz novel could be translated as "Where are you going?" |
| 20 | Pride and Prejudice | 2 | In this early 19th c. novel, Elizabeth Bennet 1st rejects Darcy but finally marries him |
| 21 | New Zealand | 2 | Eileen Duggan, who was born on South Island in 1894, was one of this country's most famous poets |
| 22 | Japan | 2 | Lady Sei Shonagon wrote "Pillow Book", gossipy stories considered a classic in this country |
| 23 | James Joyce | 2 | His last novel was "Finnegans Wake" |
| 24 | French | 2 | Irish-born Samuel Beckett & Romanian-born Eugene Ionesco both wrote absurdist plays in this language |
| 25 | Daniel Defoe | 2 | After offending both sides in a religious dispute, this "Moll Flanders" author was sentenced to the pillory |
| 26 | Chaucer | 2 | Some of his "Canterbury Tales" were inspired by the works of Boccaccio & Petrarch |
| 27 | Cervantes | 2 | This Spaniard finished writing "The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda" just 3 days before his death in 1616 |
| 28 | Argentina | 2 | Manuel Puig left this, his native country, after his 1973 novel "The Buenos Aires Affair" was banned |
| 29 | William Faulkner | 2 | His 1930 novel "As I Lay Dying" is divided into 59 short monologues |
| 30 | The Turn of the Screw | 2 | In this Henry James tale, a governess is in charge of 2 children who are controlled by evil ghosts |
| 31 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | 2 | A Paris crowd selects this character as King of Fools for the Epiphany celebrations of 1482 |
| 32 | Madame Bovary | 2 | Scandalous antics of this Flaubert heroine include reading trashy novels & getting frisky in a moving carriage |
| 33 | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 2 | His "The Brothers Karamazov" was translated into English in 1912, 32 years after it was 1st published |
| 34 | Arthur Conan Doyle | 2 | Though he also wrote historical romances, he's best known for stories of 221B Baker Street |
| 35 | Albert Camus | 2 | Tant pis, the crucial expansion of existential thought by this French author was cut all too short |