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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.
In literature, what type of novel is a ‘roman a clef’?
To which gentleman’s club did Jules Vern’s fictional character Phileas Fogg belong?
Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels?
Whose autobiography is entitled The Wheel of Fortune?
Who penned the airport lounge best seller titled Airport?
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?
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 happens to Pinocchio every time he tells a lie?
WHAT ‘H’ WAS A BLIND EPIC POET?
Quo Vadis – Who was portrayed by Peter Ustinov in the film version of the novel?
Who wrote The Jungle Book?
All told, how many novels did the Bronte sisters – Anne, Charlotte and Emily-write?
In the book Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, who kills a person at the end of the book?
To which gentleman’s club did Jules Vern´s fictional character Phileas Fogg belong?
What French writer used Alcofribas Nasier – an anagram of his real name – as a pseudonym?
French novelist – nearly 100 books all La Comedie Humaine?
Which classic Middle Eastern story of star-crossed lovers is based on the real story of a young man called Qays ibn al-Mullawah and has achieved legendary status in the Islamic world?
WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE HEROIC BOY IN “THE NEVER ENDING STORY?
Who wrote the novel Les Miserables?
The Irish dramatist Samuel Beckett settled in which city?
Whose fan did Oscar Wilde write of?
Tis is the title of the sequel to which biographical 1996 book that is mainly about growing up poor in Ireland?
Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels?
Who wrote the novel Cry, the Beloved Country about South Africa?
Which Norwegian fairy tale is about three goats who want to cross a bridge under which lurks a fearsome troll?
BISCUTER’ IS THE INSEPARABLE PARTNER OF WHICH FICTIONAL DETECTIVE?
Who created the literary character Count Dracula?
In fairy tales – who had to be home from the ball before midnight?
In the three little pigs the second pig built his house out of what?
Casanova ate fifty each morning to increase is potency, he ate 50 what?
The author who wrote The Book of Revelation (the Apocalypse) identified himself by only one name, what was it?
What title did Russian author Leo Tolstoy originally give to the novel we know as War and Peace?
What famous writer had several butterflies named after him?
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.?
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