World Literature

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

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

The Reform

Jonathon Swift 64

Arthur Hailey.

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.

Horace.

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.

Danish

Pinocchio

Schindler’s Ark

Karl Marx

Danish

The brothers Grimm.

Rabindranath Tagoe.

Papillion — The Butterfly

Aunt Gertrude.

Though he boasted about seducing thousands, the great lover named only 116.

Ngaio.

His nose grows longer.

JULES VERNE

Victor Hugo

Isak Dinesen/ Karen Blixen Her best known book Out of Africa begins “I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.”

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

Zorro

Monte-Cristo, after his famous novel The Count of Monte Cristo

Diary

Ibsen

Karen Blixen

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

Monstro

Marshal Philippe Petain, whose 1945 death sentence for collaboration during WWII was commuted by de Gaulle to life imprisonment

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The brothers Grimm

The English Patient

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

Ngaio

Raskolnikov

HOMER

Nero

Rudyard Kipling

Seven. Emily wrote one, Wuthering Heights; Anne wrote two, Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; and Charlotte wrote four, Jane Eyre, The Professor, Villette, and Shirley

Humbert Humbert

The Reform

Francois Rabelais. He used the pseudonym for his satirical works

Honor’e de Balzac

Layla and Majnun There were two Arabic versions of the story at the time.In one version, he spent his youth together with Layla tending their flocks. In the other version, upon seeing Layla he fell in a most passionate love with her. In both versions, however, he went mad when her father prevented him from marrying her; for that reason he came to be called Majnun Layla, which means “Driven mad by Layla”. To him were attributed a variety of incredibly passionate romantic Arabic poems

ATREYU

Victor Hugo

Paris