World Literature
The world is full of stories, and this category contains multitudes. If you know your Hesse from your Hosseini and your Adichie from your Allende, these World Literature questions are the ones for you.
Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels?
Which 1966 postcolonial parallel novel by Jean Rhys acts as a prequel to Charlotte Bronte’s 1847 novel Jane Eyre?
In literature, what type of novel is a ‘roman a clef’?
Who penned the airport lounge best seller titled Airport?
Whose autobiography is entitled The Wheel of Fortune?
What famous nineteenth-century French novelist published a plagiarized nonfiction work under the pseudonym Bombet and when the plagiarism was discovered, defended the nonexistent Bombet in letters signed by an equally nonexistent Bombet Jr.?
What nationality was Hans Christian Andersen?
Pine Eyes is the literal translation of which characters name?
Thomas Keneally wrote which book (Oscar winning film)?
Who wrote that ‘The workers have nothing to lose but their chain'”?
What nationality was Hans Christian Andersen?
Which pair of German brothers collected such stories as ‘Hansel and Gretel’?
Which Indian poet and philosopher was the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Henri Charrier is better known by what nickname?
What was the name of Joe and Frank Hardy’s maiden aunt and detective Fenton Hardy’s sister – in the popular book series for boys?
Which Roman writer was famous for his Satires and Ars Poetica?
What happens to Pinocchio every time he tells a lie?
How many lovers are named in Casanova’s memoirs, Story of My Life, first published in their complete form in the early 1960s?
What was the first name of New Zealand novelist Ms Marsh?
WHAT ‘S’ WAS THE AUTHOR OF THE RED AND THE BLACK?
Who wrote the novel Anna Karenina?
Who was supposed to have told the Arabian Nights tales?
In which Gilbert and Sullivan operetta was Oscar Wilde’s dandyism parodied?
What is the name of the imaginary city built in the air in The Birds, the comedy written by the Greek playwright Aristophanes in 414B.C.?
What model appeared topless on the self-penned 1993 novel Pirate?
Who wrote Journey to the Center of the Earth?
How was the great lover and adventurer Casanova earning his livelihood when he died?
WHAT ‘UD’ GREW UP TO BE A SWAN?
Which novel by Michael Ondaatjee was adapted into a 1990s Oscar winning film?
Who wrote ‘The Importance Of Being Earnest’?
Who wrote Schindler’s Ark?
In literature, what type of novel is a ‘roman Ă clef’?
Which Japanese author and playwright known for nihilistic writings commited ritual suicide by seppuku in 1970?
Which philosopher wrote Eros and Civilization and One Dimensional Man?
What writer originated the phrase “Do not count your chickens before they are hatched” in a story about a farmer’s daughter?
WHICH FICTIONAL CZECH BANK MANAGER WAS ARRESTED BUT NEVER CHARGED FOR A CRIME AFTER “SOMEONE MUST HAVE BEEN TELLING LIES?
What is the surname of the Russian author, who has a park named after him in Moscow?
In which fairy tale do two children find a cottage made of gingerbread?
Rhodopis original Egyptian Cinderella had what job?
Which 18th century writer was Dean of St Patrick’s, Dublin?
Dr Alice Chase, who wrote numerous books including “Nutrition for health” died of what?
What were the names of the brothers Karamozov in the novel by Feodor Dostoevsky?
In 1917, which Joseph endowed an annual literary prize?
WHAT WAS THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF NON-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA CALLED?
Which novel features the central character… Anne Shirley
What was the first name of the fictional sleuth Maigret?
Who wrote the novel Evening Class?
Which fictional hero, created by Baroness Orczy, takes his name from the small red flower with which he signs his messages?
Which 20th century genre of fiction that is in stark contrast to reality was said to have began with Jorge Borges’s Historia universal de la infamia (1935)?
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