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 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.?
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)?
Which world leader wrote The Garden Party and Largo Desolato?
Sometimes considered the most important and the most translated Greek writer and philosopher of the 20th century, whose books include Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ?
WILLIAM OF BASKERVILLE IS THE MAIN CHARACTER OF WHICH FAMOUS NOVEL, LATER FILMED?
WHAT ‘R’ WROTE GARGANTUA?
Which novel features the central character… Jean Valjean
The novel Ulysses takes place in Dublin on one day – june 16, 1904. What significance did that day have for writer James Joyce?
What novel contains the longest sentence in literature?
Who wrote Ivanhoe?
In Jules Verne’s 1865 book From Earth to the Moon, three men are blasted to the moon by cannon. Their speed of departure has proven to be the earth’s escape velocity. What is it?
What happened one night to the central character of Kafka’s Metamorphosis?
What nationality is the novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
WHOSE NOVELS INCLUDE THE AUNT’S STORY AND THE TREE OF MAN?
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