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Atlas Shrugged. Written by Ayn Rand (1905-1982), also the author of the novels The Fountainhead, Anthem, and We The Living.
| This author won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1962. Who is this author of Cup of Gold, The Wayward Bus, and The Winter of Our Discontent? | Hard Lit Quiz-For TRUE readers.
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John Steinbeck. Steinbeck (1902-1968),best known for his work The Grapes of Wrath which was also made into an award winning movie directed by John Ford.
| The author Amandine A.L. Dupin Dudevant was said to have had an affair with a person who died in 1849. By what name is Dudevant best known as? | Hard Lit Quiz-For TRUE readers.
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George Sand. The man was the famous Polish composer Frederic Chopin, composer of Fantasie-Impromptu and the Minute Waltz, who lived from 1810-1849.
| Seven books total make up these series of books, with the first three winning a Hugo for best all-time series in 1966. What is the original name of the first novel? | Hard Lit Quiz-For TRUE readers.
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Foundation. By the prolific Isaac Asimov (1920-1992). The books in order of publication are {Foundation-1951;} Foundation and {Empire-1952;Second} {Foundation-1953;} Foundation's {Edge-1982;Foundation} and {Earth-1986;Prelude} to {Foundation-1988;} and Forward the Foundation-1993, published after his death.
| Characters in this novel include Zossimov, Lebeziatnikov, Nikodim Fomitch, Zametov, Alyona, Pulcheria, and Marfa Petrovna, just to name a few. What is this novel? | Hard Lit Quiz-For TRUE readers.
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Crime and Punishment. By Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881). The Brothers Karamazov is considered his masterpiece however.
| 'On a frosty morning with a little February sun, Clifford and Connie went for a walk across the park to the wood,' begins chapter five of what novel? | Hard Lit Quiz-For TRUE readers.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover. By D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), first published in 1928, this novel was banned in many countries due to the explicit nature of parts of the book. Daring for its time.
Go Tell It on the Mountain. James Baldwin (1924- ), a black author lived and wrote in France for many years where he considered there to be less racial intolerance.
The Dragons of Eden. The writer Isaac Asimov openly admitted only two people who he considered more intelligent than himself,one of them being Carl Sagan.(the other I cant remember, probably not too famous). If you really want to know, get the two volumes of Isaac Asimov's autobiography, In Memory Yet Green and In Joy Still Felt. Two big books of autobiography.
Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut(1922- )famous author of novels Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, The Sirens of Titan, Player Piano, Mother Night, and others.
| A Nobel Prize winning author, this author had his citizenship taken away and then restored. Who is this author of The Gulag Archipelago and The First Circle? | Hard Lit Quiz-For TRUE readers.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Alexander or Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918- )was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970. He spent eight years in labor camps and three years in exile. His labor camp experience is related to in the novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) and also wrote the novels Cancer Ward(1966) and August 1914 (1971).
| At the time of his death in 1870, a novel remained to be finished. Name this unfinished novel by the author of Sketches by Boz? | Hard Lit Quiz-For TRUE readers.
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood. This author is Charles Dickens (1812-1870), known for primarily for his works A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations.
| The 1940 Oscar winner for Best Picture, Rebecca was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. However the movie was made from the novel by which author? | Hard Lit Quiz-For TRUE readers.
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Daphne Du Maurier. English writer Du Maurier(1907-1989)most famous for her novel Rebecca(1938). Also wrote Jamaica Inn and My Cousin Rachel among others.Hitchcock however is known for his many movies such as North By Northwest, Vertigo, Suspicion, Psycho, Spellbound and numerous others with famous actors and actresses such as James Stewart, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Joan Fontaine, and Ingrid Bergman.
Holden Caulfield. The character goes mad in the end.
Stephen King . Stephen KIng wrote it under his pseudonym.
Divine Comedy. 'The Divine Comedy' was written in {1307;} 'The Canterbury Tales' in 1387.
Robinson Crusoe. 'Robinson Crusoe' was written in {1719;} 'Gulliver's Travels' in 1726.
Voltaire. 'Candide' was written in 1759.
Emily. It was in 1847. There is no Jane Bronte, by the way.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It was written in 1858.
A Room with a View. 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles' {(1891);} 'The Waste Land' {(1922);} and 'Ulysses' (1922).
1800s. The fairy tales were written between 1835-1872.
| SCANDALS in Literature do happen. Sometimes they look quite ridiculous to later generations. Which Irish play caused a riot because there was a reference in it to a woman's shift (chemise)? | Events,Facts,Concepts..from Worldliterature
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Playboy of the Western World -Synge. Synge's play dates back to 1907. - Yeats' Cathleen to 1902, On Baile's Strand to 1905.- O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock to 1924. -Near the end of Act III there are the lines spoken by the Playboy:'It's Pegeen I'm seeking only, and what would I care if you brought me a drift of chosen females, standing in their shifts itself, maybe , from this place to the eastern world.' The scandal is discussed in an introduction by T.R. Henn to the Methuen edition of 1961. SBN 416 62990 3
3 lines of a. 5 b.7 c.5 syllables. The original name of the haiku is hokku.
William Wordsworth. Features in his "Lyrical Ballads" anthology. This also features the famous poem "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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