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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.

Which 1966 postcolonial parallel novel by Jean Rhys acts as a prequel to Charlotte Bronte’s 1847 novel Jane Eyre?

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Wide Sargasso Sea It was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels since 1923

In literature, what type of novel is a ‘roman a clef’?

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A novel describing real-life events behind a facade of fiction

To which gentleman’s club did Jules Vern’s fictional character Phileas Fogg belong?

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The Reform

Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels?

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Jonathon Swift 64

Who penned the airport lounge best seller titled Airport?

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Arthur Hailey.

Whose autobiography is entitled The Wheel of Fortune?

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The answer is not Vanna White, who was only eight years old when the book was published in 1965. Its author was French singer Edith Piaf.

Which Roman writer was famous for his Satires and Ars Poetica?

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Horace.

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.?

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Stendhal, who is best known for his novels The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma. For his plagiarized work, The Lives of Haydn, Mozart, and Metastasio, he lifted from two biographies and a eulogy.

What nationality was Hans Christian Andersen?

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Danish

Pine Eyes is the literal translation of which characters name?

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Pinocchio
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