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| Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov are novels by |
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| Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) Crime and Punishment is about a poor student who kills an old pawnbroker. Brothers Karamazov involves a dead father and the evidence implicating his four sons. |
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| Who wrote a play called Caesar and Cleopatra? (based on a work of Plutarch) |
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| English Romantic poet who wrote I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud? |
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| Who created the characters of Molly Bloom and Stephen Dedalus? (In Portrait of a Young Artist and Ulysses) |
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| A poet associated with Irish Nationalism and Celtic myth who wrote Sailing to Byzantium |
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| The opening lines of Paradise Lost by John Milton |
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| Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit / Of that forbidden tree |
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| What character is the hero of Great Expectations? (which Dickens considered his best work) |
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| Who was Jorge Luis Borges? |
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| An Argentine short-story writer. He wrote a collection called Labyrinths in 1962. |
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| What did Samuel Taylor Coleridge write? |
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| The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) and Kubla Kahn (1797) |
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| Marcel Proust is famous for... |
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| writing Remembrance of Things Past, a 7-part novel about memory and time |
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| Who wrote The Once and Future King? |
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| Who wrote Le Morte d'Arthur? |
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| Who wrote the novel Malone Dies? |
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| Who wrote Metamorphosis, about Gregor Samsa turning into a cockroach? |
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| the Scottish poet Robert Burns |
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| Lord Jim, about a man who abandons ship in his youth and spends the rest of his life trying to regain his honor |
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| Athol Fugard is from which country? |
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| South Africa (he wrote Blood Knot) |
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| Theory that you should shock the audience and force them to react? |
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| Artaud's Theater of Cruelty |
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| Theory that you should involve the audience intellectually rather than emotionally? |
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| Epic Theater, by Bertolt Brecht |
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| Theory that you should convey the meaningless of existence through illogical dialogue? |
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| Who wrote Madame Bovary (1856)? |
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| Gustave Flaubert. It's the story of the life of a bourgeois woman and the despair that drives her to suicide |
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| Who wrote Lady Chatterly's Lover (censored in England until 1960)? |
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| D. H. Lawrence, the son of a miner |
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| Who wrote Jude the Obscure and The Return of the Native? |
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| Who wrote Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda? |
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| George Eliot (whose real name was Mary Ann Evans) |
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| Who wrote Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain? |
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| Thomas Mann (He was exiled from Germany by Hitler in 1933) |
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| Henry Fielding's best-known character is...? |
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| Tom Jones, a foundling who meets many adventures before claiming his birthright |
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| Tolstoy's War and Peace is set during? |
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| Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is about? |
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| British novelist who experimented with stream of consciousness and interior monologue? |
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