;;This figure is described as "cajoling, scolding, screaming, cleverest of them all" in a poem which declares "all over Europe stood the horrible nurses / waiting to boil their children" written by W. H. Auden.  In one of his works, the protagonist becomes a popular vaudeville singer but is forced to seek help from his old school roommate when his father goes bankrupt, and in another, Ithuriel sends the title character to Persepolis to determine whether the Persians deserve destruction.  In addition to Jeannot and Colin and Babouc, in one of his plays, Zopire is murdered and revealed to be the father of the betrothed couple Palmire and Seide, and in another, Zamore is pardoned by Gusman and allowed to marry the titular Aztec princess.  In addition to Mahomet and Alzire, he wrote a novel following a Babylonian who serves King Moabdar and eventually marries Queen Astarte.  FTP, name this French author of Zadig.;;Voltaire
Literature;;One character in this work believes his home to be "the contempt center of the U.S.A.", and another character goes into a seizure when the protagonist declares he loves her.  The protagonist is unable to interview a man accused of raping and murdering a housewife, Spofford Mitchell, and when he writes a series of politically charged articles for Harper's, he draws the ire of his superior Alec Witt.  The protagonist gets help from his childhood friend Dewey Spangler in circumventing the colonel's limitations on hospital visits to his mother-in-law, and he is publicly denounced by his nephew Mason and cousin Max during controversy surrounding a trial of a black man accused of murdering a student of the Chicago university where the protagonist works.  FTP, Valeria's deathbed in Bucharest is attended by Minna and Albert Corde in what novel by Saul Bellow?.;;(The) Dean's December
Literature;;In one poem, this man compares a pagan fixation on incense to the taste of blood which he describes as filling him and irritating him, and in another, he declares that his childhood returns in the form of the titular phenomenon, causing him to drink seven glasses of water in vain.  In addition to Obsession and Hiccups, another of his poems asserts that "the days themselves have taken the shape of African masks", Position.  The opening poem of one of his collections asks "How many of ME ME ME have diedsince they came that night when the tom tom rolled from rhythm to rhythm", and another of his collections opens with the line "Never will the white man be a black man".  The author of the poetry collections Black Label and Pigments, FTP, name this author who helped found Negritude along with Aime Cesaire and Leopold Senghor.;;(Leon) Damas
Literature;;One character in this play recites a prose poem about the Edelweiss, and that character is given great attention at a later poetry reading when the gathered characters are attempting to cover up the comparison one character makes between his wife and Balaam's ass.  Another character in this work crushes a flower after the woman who gives it to him states that it was meant for his former self as she remembered him giving a reading at her school.  Another character torments her husband by suggesting that they both commit suicide but insisting that he shoot himself first because she is afraid he will cheat.  Later, Ryumin shoots himself in the shoulder in a botched suicide attempt, and Dvoetochie agrees to take in Vlass, who wishes to leave Maria Lvovna.  FTP, name this Maxim Gorky play in which Suslov, Varvara, and Bassov are members of the titular group of people.;;Summerfolk|Dachniki
Literature;;The protagonist of this work is described as sometimes speaking through her long nose such soothing phrases as "Yes, my dear" and "No, my dear".  One character in this work uses a mug of tea to toast the protagonist's health and regrets that she has no porter.  The protagonist blushes when she is asked if she has come to buy wedding-cake while purchasing a slice of plumcake which she later forgets because she is distracted by a red-faced gentleman on the tram.  No one points out the mistake the protagonist makes when she sings the first verse twice of the aria I Dreamt that I Dwelt, the performance of which brings Joe to tears.  FTP, name this short story in which Maria plays a game in which she wears a blindfold and touches the titular substance in a saucer, a work of James Joyce.;;Clay
Literature;;In this play, one character answers another's question "Can you make no use of your discontent?" with the reply "I make all use of it, for I use it only".  That character asks "What is he for a fool that betroths himself to unquietness?" upon learning of the engagement of two characters.  Another character in this play demands that the audience "remember that I am an ass" and tells another "thou villain, thou art full of piety".  Marriage is scoffed at by another character who declares "he that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him".  "Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever" is sung by Balthasar, a musician of the household of Leonato.  At the bidding of the villainous Don John, Borachio has sex with Margaret by a window where they are witnessed by Don Pedro and Claudio, causing the latter to accuse Hero of unfaithfulness on their wedding day.  FTP, name this Shakespearean comedy featuring Beatrice and Benedick.;;Much Ado about Nothing
Literature;;Two characters in this work play a game which suggests the exchange rate of "one Armenian genocide equaled the Ninth Symphony plus three Great Pyramids" and the goal is to retain the most human achievements.  Those characters play another game in which a defender is given clues and tries to quickly identify the described animal which was wiped out within the last fifty years, and one of the characters adopts his nickname from that game.  Those games, Blood and Roses and Extinctathon, are played by characters who surf the Internet for videos of live beheadings and the child pornography site HottTotts, where they discover one of the title characters.  Another title character attends Watson-Crick Institute and is hired by RejoovenEsense, where he creates the bubble dome of Paradice and develops technology designed to develop the perfect race known as his namesake Children.  FTP, name this novel in which Jimmy takes the name Snowman after a cataclysmic event, a dystopian work of Margaret Atwood.;;Oryx and Crake
Literature;;In one work by this author, one character sends a love letter to another after hearing her play Chopin and Liszt on the piano while living on his father's coffee plantation.  In addition to that novel including Hilario Guanipa and Don Jaime, another of this man's novels sees the protagonist insist on planting wheat instead of cane in the belief that cereal-producing countries are the most civilized and be discouraged from traveling to Spain by the lawyer Antonio Menendez.  This author of La Trepadora and Reinaldo Solar also wrote a novel in which Don Balbino is blamed for murdering the Wizard after stealing valuable heron plumes and the title character leaves the Barquero ranch to her daughter Marisela out of love for Santos Luzardo.  FTP, name this author of Dona Barbara.;;(Romulo) Gallegos
Literature;;One character in this work has an affair with Gonzague Maris, whom she leaves after being discovered together by her husband.  Another character in this work uses a catapult which causes a landslide driving back an attacking force, and that character is later executed for deserting and setting fire to buildings as he escaped.  Another character in this work is killed by an enemy scout while visiting his son's grave.  After one character learns that officials went through his village collecting passports, a meeting is held where Pastor Nokhudian accepts exile, Ter Haigasun is elected leader of the resistance, and Stephan, Juliette, and Gabriel help fortify the titular mountain.  FTP, name this novel following the Bagradian family set during the Armenian genocide written by Franz Werfel.;;(The) Forty Days of Musa Dagh|Die Vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh
Literature;;The address in the third stanza of this poem alludes to the song to Sabrina from Milton 's Comus, as it directly quotes the term "glassy wave" and echoes it in its description of a figure "disporting on thy margent green".  The third and fourth stanzas of this poem makes allusions to the poet's translation of a passage of the Thebaid dealing with the hero Crenaeus, who "scorns the power of fate" in the same way that this poem's "bold adventurers disdain / The limits of their little reign" and whose protection by Ismenis is futile as the protection of this poem's "sprightly race" by "Father Thames".  The last stanza of this poem claims that "sorrow never comes too late" and asserts that "where ignorance is bliss / 'Tis folly to by wise".  FTP, name this poem which laments the fate of innocent schoolboys, a work of Thomas Gray.;;Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
Literature;;One character in this play sings a song featuring the lyrics "And so we have met again / The blood on this earth did not have time to dry".  Another character in this play repairs another's heating pad while another character cooks potato pancakes for breakfast.  One character demands ten thousand dollars in cash after discovering twenty-three thousand dollars in another's briefcase and criminally linking him to Gotter.  Count Teck de Brancovis is murdered for threatening to inform on Kurt Muller to the Nazis, and the play ends with Kurt leaving for Germany from his mother-in-law Fanny Farrelly's household.  FTP, name this play by Lillian Hellman.;;Watch on the Rhine
Literature;;This novel is dictated to the author by the protagonist after the author meets him the first chapter.  The protagonist of this work tricks a dwarf into eating cooked yams instead of raw ones and assures him that his gun only contains water before shooting him to death.  Attempting to reach the summit of Mount Langbodo, the protagonist must force a tiger back into its cage.  After battling with Agbako, the protagonist is saved by the spirit Iranlowo, with whom he falls in love.  Following the Fearless Hunter Akara-Ogun, this novel was first translated into English by Wole Soyinka while he was incarcerated.  FTP, name this first novel written in Yoruban, a work of Daniel O. Fagunwa.;;(The) Forest of a Thousand Demons|(Ogboju) (Ode) (Ninu) (Igbo) (Irunmale)
Literature;;Early in this work, it is stated that one character composed a song entitled Cruel Fate which she plays on her lute while in captivity much later.  Opening with the line "A hundred years - in this lifespan on earth / talent and destiny are apt to feud", this work features the ghost of a courtesan whose abandoned grave inspires the protagonist to write a quatrain, Dam Tien.  The protagonist steals a silver gong and golden bell from Miss Hoan and has a stormy relationship with a man whom she lives with while his father is away, Thuc.  In the end, the protagonist continues to live as a nun even though she is reunited with her lover Kim Trong.  Early in the work, the protagonist is forced to sell herself as a concubine to Scholar Ma after the arrest of her father Vuong on spurious charges.  FTP, name this work written in luc bat meter by Nguyen Du, a national epic of Vietnam.;;(The) Tale of Kieu|Truyen Kieu|Kim Van Kieu
Literature;;In this work, the protagonist's brother gives up a chance at being a concert violinist in favor of involving himself in the shipping industry.  Near the end of this work, the protagonist's son becomes romantically involved with another illegitimate child, Bagga Snebiorg.  As the parish priest in Borg, the protagonist accuses his own father of impregnating Pall a Seyru's daughter and marrying his son to her to cover it up.  Although this kills Orlygur, it does not do so before the truth arises that the protagonist is the true father of Runa's child, driving his wife mad and causing him to be disowned by his brother Ormarr.  FTP, name this novel in which Ketill Orlygsson acquires the titular nickname by freeloading off of farmers and losing a body part saving a child from a burning farm, a work of Gunnar Gunnarsson.;;Guest the One(-)Eyed|Borgslaegtens Historie
Literature;;This poem uses the image of pink "with varnished flowers of paradise", and the narrator wishes of his judgment, conscience, memory, words, and actions "that their shine may fill / My ways with glory".  The ordinances of this poem's addressee are compared to "fulling mills", and this poem states that the Holy Spirit will "wind quills".  The narrator of this poem uses the analogy of his affections as "swift flyers" and his soul as a "holy spool", and this poem begins with the line "Make me, O Lord, thy spinning wheel complete".  Written by the author of Preparatory Meditations and God's Determinations, FTP, name this brief poem by American metaphysical poet Edward Taylor.;;Huswifery
Literature;;In one work by this author, a marriage ceremony is held with the groom absent and represented by a dagger.  That work also sees Mbok relate how her unborn child was killed when she was kicked by a foreman and the title character marry the aristocratic Bendoro.  This author of the memoir The Mute's Soliloquy and the aforementioned The Girl from the Coast also wrote a novel in which social and legal challenges destroy the interracial marriage between the mixed-blood daughter of a concubine, Annelies, and her native husband Minke.  His most famous series consists of House of Glass, Footsteps, Child of All Nations, and This Earth of Mankind.  FTP, name this author of the Buru Quartet, a novelist from Indonesia.;;(Pramoedya) (Ananta) Toer
Literature;;In one poem in this collection, the poet states that he will gladly read the tracing of branches like "an alphabet of the absolute" and states that "Time has ripened in mePower which must pour itself out", and in another poem in this collection, the title group is pulled by "a force more ruthless than life".  In addition to Almost a Fantasy and The Dead, another poem in this collection describes a boat of salvation arriving in the sultry noon and states "life in sudden waves / comes to this remote garden corner", and the poet mentions poor boys hunting for food in half-dried puddles in a poem declaring that while most famous poets prefer walking among strangely named flora, he prefers the more modest title plants.  In addition to Chrysalis and The Lemon Trees, this poetry collection concludes with the poem Seacoasts and includes The Mediterranean.  FTP, name this poetry collection whose title entities are washed ashore by the waves written by Eugenio Montale.;;Cuttlefish Bones|(The) Bones of Cuttlefish|Ossi di Seppia
Literature;;One work in this series was based on its author's play The Noble Jilt, and another work in this series, the American Isabel Boncassen is pursued by Silverbridge after he and the poor Frank Tregear are rejected by Mabel Grex.  In another work in this series, the protagonist marries Mr. Emilius after the maid Patience Crabstick conspires to steal the titular items.  In addition to that novel about Lizzie Greystock, another novel in this series sees the title character marry Mary Flood Jones and lose his job in parliament when the Irish Reform Bill abolishes his burrough.  Linked together by Lady Glencora and Plantagenet, FTP, name this series of novels including Can You Forgive Her?, The Duke's Children, The Eustace Diamonds, and Phineas Finn, written by Anthony Trollope.;;(The) Palliser (Novels)
Literature;;One character in this collection recalls how he accepted his sudden paralysis and uses his eyes to ask whether anyone is in his store, and another character in this collection orders a listener to despise him after relating the story of how he got the crescent-shaped scar on his face.  One story in this collection ends as a drop of water rolls down the face of the protagonist before he is killed by a volley from a firing squad, and another describes a character that borrows a Latin dictionary and effortlessly reads the Historia Naturalis after falling from his horse and becoming a cripple.  One character in this collection walks into a wall of fire to discover that he cannot burn, and another character in this collection is driven by the approach of Captain Madden to shoot and kill the sinologist Stephen Albert.  FTP, name this short story collection including The Form of the Sword, The Circular Ruins, and The Garden of Forking Paths, a work of Jorge Luis Borges.;;Ficciones|Fictions
Literature;;The narrator of this poem feels "disdainunlike Solomon Grundy" which he expresses by telling the poem's addressee "I piss on your head, indeed".  This poem's addressee carries a cross because of "salvation being always at hand" for him and makes "an authentic pilgrim's progresson an undeserted island".  The narrator of this poem accuses its addressee of having racist tendencies, asserting "It's not just pidgin talk, but words".  Beginning with the line "Up your arse, Robinson Crusoe", this poem is written as a brief dramatic monologue delivered by Man Friday.  FTP, name this poem with a title suggesting a retort to the theory that Caribbean natives eat each other, a work of Cyril Dabydeen.;;Post(-)Cannibalism
Literature;;When one character in this play is asked what he is whispering in another's ear, he replies, "I've just been telling him about the life of bees".  One character in this play puts on a puppet show depicting Adam and Eve which ends with a gunshot and the lights going out, and that character is later forced to button his fly.  When one character is sent with a revolver into his bedroom to kill the character committing adultery with his wife, the character that sent him enters a few minutes later to find all of them playing cards.  Early in this play, the household grandmother is forced to lie down on a catafalque where she later dies.  Eventually, Eugene returns to the side of Stomil and the formal wedding between Ala and Arthur never materializes.  FTP, name this play which ends with Eugene and the murderer Eddie dancing to La Cumparsita, a work of Slawomir Mrozek.;;Tango
Literature;;One character in this poem is described as oozing "the lethal sweat of crude self-satisfaction".  This poem comments that great men who lack the capacity for suffering call women derogatory names in order to sound tougher and clever men can always get a response from women.  This poem describes a "hard-boiled" man who upsets his wife by ridiculing Cyrano de Bergerac, and the poet later states that Cyrano's chivalry lives on.  Stating that we go about "discarding hearts as though they're last year's fashions", FTP, name this poem that asks that "God grant us grace that we may know the pain of fruitless longing", a work of Yevgeny Yevtushenko.;;Unrequited Love
Literature;;One character in this play delivers a soliloquy in which he states that "banquets, ease, and laughter can make great men, as greatness goes by clay" and "age, as in gold, in lust is covetous", and another character in this play accuses a "blazing star" of committing treason.  One character in this play is outraged when his mother Gratiana encourages his sister Castiza to give in to another's wooing, and that character spends most of the play disguised as the pander Piato.  Ambitioso, Supervacuo, and Spurio kill each other after discovering the already slain Lussurioso, and the Duke is poisoned when he kisses the skull of Gloriana, the murdered lover of Vindici.  FTP, name this play written by either Thomas Middleton or Cyril Tourneur.;;(The) Revenger's Tragedy
Literature;;One of his poems states "You take me, set me on fire, and then leave me / in the vain path of the air" after asking "Where are you taking me my love, where?"  Another poem declares "I prepare my portrait for my woman to hang on a wall when I die" and asks "Can I reach the summit of this rugged mountain?"  In addition to The Pigeons Fly and Neighing at the Slope, this man asks "Oh watchmen! Are you not weary / Of lying in wait for the light in our salt" in a poem which states that during the titular condition, "time becomes space / Transfixed in its eternity" and "space becomes time / That has missed its yesterday and its tomorrow".  Another poem proclaims "I walked this land before the swords / Turned its living body into a laden table".  This man asserts "I do not hate people / Nor do I encroach / But if I become hungry / The usurper's flesh will be my food" in a poem which repeats the phrase "Write down!"  FTP, Under Siege, I Come From There, and Identity Card are all works of what noted poet from Palestine?.;;(Mahmoud) Darwish
Literature;;One character in this work is discovered in the ruins of a Dutch tile factory, sleeps in a child-sized coffin, and states that she is the only true proletarian in her company because she refused to be born until Lenin took power.  Kozlov and Safronov are murdered when they are sent to a village where the peasants liquidate the kulaks by launching them down the river on a raft.  After taking back his coat, the party activist is killed by a single blow from Chiklin, and other character in this work include the sadistic cripple Zhachev, the former factory worker Voshchev, and the engineer Prushevsky.  FTP, name this novel in which a collectivized village is enlisted to help dig the titular structure, a work of Andrei Platonov.;;(The) Foundation Pit|Kotlovan
Literature;;One of this character's friends is hit by a military lorry while standing on the roadside after fighting in a war for a whole year unscathed.  In one scene, this character's sexual intercourse is interrupted when the woman's husband Takpo bangs on the door and demands to kill her, and that woman is later shot when returning to her village after fleeing the Ajegunle ghetto.  In a park, this character and Keme discover the desecrated corpse of a young girl which soon disappears, and this friend of Okoro and lover of Ifeyiwa is told by Doctor Okocha that it is a duty to manifest good visions, a lesson he learns after the prompt censorship of his realist painting Scumscape.  FTP, name this Nigerian painter who features in the novels Dangerous Love and The Landscapes Within created by Ben Okri.;;Omovo
Literature;;Dramas by this man include one in which Eckermann is the insignificant assistant of the titular poet, one following a street singer who fakes blindness to increase his donations, Jorg Graf, one in which Asti backs down on his threats to kill his father.  This playwright of In Goethe's Hand, Pig's Game, and Children's Game wrote a novel in which the protagonist cannot bring himself to send the titular document to his rival working under Arthur Thiele.  That novel features this author's recurring character Franz Horn.  This author's other novels include one in which Kaltammer demolishes the title structure after it is lost by real estate agent Gottlieb Zurn and one in which Klaus Buch is inadvertently thrown into the sea during a stormy boating trip by Helmut Halm.  FTP, name this German novelist of Letter to Lord Liszt, The Swan Villa, and Runaway Horse.;;(Martin) Walser
Literature;;One character in this work issues a lawsuit over his wife's inability to fulfill her "marital responsibilities" after a plane crash, and that character is later revealed to have been injured in the war when one of his own companions threw a fragmentation grenade under his bed.  Another character in this work is ridiculed for the apparent loss of his thumbs because compensation payments are only made for the loss of whole hands.  The protagonist is outraged when she discovers that the flowers sent to her friend in the hospital were arranged as a cross, and the protagonist's brother is killed in a plane crash over South Africa along with Senator Teakell.  Controversy arises from a typhus outbreak when people drink the bottled water from the Pee Dee River, where Wayne Fickert was drowned while being baptized by Reverend Ude.  After being fatally struck on the head, the protagonist is unable to answer a phone call from McCandless.  FTP, name this third novel by William Gaddis.;;Carpenter's Gothic
Literature;;One writer from this country wrote a poem addressing the title entity as the "cradle of my tears" and describes a free bird which will cry when imprisoned.  Another writer from this country wrote a poem consisting of three hundred ninety-nine quatrains in which one of the title characters is rescued from beasts in a jungle by the Moor Aladin.  In addition to the author of the patriotic poem My Country who used the pseudonyms Huseng Katuwa and Huseng Batute and the author of The Story of Florante and Laura in the Kingdom of Albania, another author from this country wrote a novel in which Maria Clara is barred from marrying her lover Ibarra because she is the daughter of a Spanish friar.  FTP, name this country which produced Jose Corazon de Jesus and Francisco Balagtas in addition to the author of El Filibusterismo and Noli Me Tangere, Jose Rizal.;;(The) Philippines
Literature;;One character in this work concocts liquors and tries to sell one called the "currantina" and is outraged when another character declares he is leaving town.  In addition to the Polish pharmacist Marowsko, near the beginning of this work, a group of characters go on a fishing trip where one character tries to out-row the character manning the other side of the boat.  That character eventually leaves to become a ship's doctor on the Lorraine.  An offhand comment from a barmaid begins the psychological torment of the protagonist, and while on a shrimping trip, another character becomes engaged to Mademoiselle Rosemilly just as the protagonist suggests to his mother that all men are cuckolds.  FTP, name this novel in which Monsieur Marechal's inheritance reveals the infidelity of Madame Roland, a work of Guy de Maupassant.;;Pierre and Jean|Pierre et Jean
Literature;;In Portnoy's Complaint, Alex recites this poem to The Monkey as they sit in his car, and she responds by having him feel the moist spot on her pants resulting from it.  This poem mentions "The broken wall, the burning roof and tower / And Agamemnon dead" before asking if "she put on his knowledge with his power".  This poem references a "strange heart beating where it lies" and "terrified vague fingers" of a figure who is "mastered by the brute blood" and held "helpless breast uponbreast".  FTP, name this poem about a girl whose thighs are "caressed / By the dark webs" and has sex with a "feathered glory", a work of William Butler Yeats.;;Leda and the Swan
Literature;;One character in this work is not recognized as the legitimate son of his father because he is a drunkard and is killed by his mother so that he cannot have a tribal mark removed from his skin.  In this work, the Spanish agent Dick Chorley appears and begins arming and inciting rebellion among the natives, who include the aforementioned Occonestoga and Matiwan.  In one scene, the dog Dugdale and the slave Hector save Gabriel Harrison after he tries to rescue the parson's daughter Bess Matthews, whom he later marries.  A battle at the Salkehatchie River sees the final death of Sanutee and the final defeat of the titular tribe.  Subtitled "A Romance of Carolina", FTP, name this novel by William Gilmore Simms.;;(The) Yemassee
Literature;;One character in this novel writes a work in which the protagonists discover their author's grave while crossing the Mojave Desert.  This work begins with screenwriter Bob Briggs describing his financial troubles, and one group of characters in this work wear patches on their genitals bearing the word "NO".  Early in this work, the narrator watches a truck loaded with unwanted scripts carry them off to the incinerator, and he retrieves one script falls from the truck which was written by William Tallis.  When New Zealand sends a group of scientists to rediscover America, a society is uncovered where Hots are the only class of society permitted to have sexual intercourse year round, and deformed babies are sacrificed by the dominant castrated priests on Belial Eve, where the gravedigger Loola attracts the botanist Alfred Poole.  FTP, name this novel by Aldous Huxley.;;Ape and Essence
Literature;;This poem references the hot summer when tempests kill the earth's peace and "winds shriek through the clouds mad, opposing".  Describing "standards gold, vair, purple, opposing", this poem's narrator declares "Better one hour's stour than a year's peace" and "there's no wine like the blood's crimson".  Urging his minstrel Papiols to play music, the narrator begins by complaining of how the South stinks and cries "There's no sound like to swords swords opposingsMay God damn forever all who cry 'Peace!'".  Named for the castle of Bertrans de Born, FTP, name this poem by Ezra Pound.;;Sestina(:) Altaforte
Literature;;The protagonist of this story initially refuses a glass of rum after having his fur coat taken from him by a girl who believes he is dazed by the heat.  Near the beginning of this story, the narrator comments that there was a blizzard overnight and his horse had died.  After kicking open a pigsty, he discovers a groom who demands to rape his servant Rose in exchange for the use of two giant horses.  Once he is stripped of his clothes, the narrator lays on a bed beside a boy who has a worm-infested wound in his side, only minutes after he determined that the boy was only faking illness.  Earlier, a school choir sings a song suggesting that they will kill the narrator if he does not heal them.  FTP, name this short story by Franz Kafka.;;(A) Country Doctor|(The) Country Doctor|Ein Landarzt
Literature;;One of this man's poems lists "life lived until death", "the freedom of the present", and "your battles without medals" as things having the titular quality, and one of his prose poems describes a man whose poem Time and the Bell eventually appears in English under the title Burnt Norton attributed to T. S. Eliot.  In addition to What is Useful and Translations, this man states "there are prayers, there are petals, there are rivers / there is tenderness like a damp wind" in his poem Only in the Meantime.  Another poem states "that hope that fit into a thimble / evidently doesn't fit in this envelope / with dirty papers from so many dirty hands".  That poem, Salary, was included in his collection Office Poems.  He described a soccer player who takes a bribe to throw a game but cannot resist the temptation to score a goal in his short story Left Wing, and Laura has an affair with an aging bureaucrat searching for happiness in his novel about Martin Santome.  FTP, name this author of The Truce and member of the Generation of '45 who wrote the short story collection Montevideans, a native of Uruguay.;;(Mario) Benedetti
Literature;;One character in this play relates how another character was angered by someone whistling the opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony in six/eight time, and another character points out that his special marmalade is being stolen when another accuses him of acting like a man stranded on an island refusing to admit he ate the last coconut.  One character in this play carves a sugar sculpture of a blind girl the central characters knew in Paris and who killed herself by jumping out of a window, Sophie.  The repeated phrase "Ah, there you are" is played repeatedly on a tape recorder as the two central characters accuse each other of murder.  In the end, it is revealed that the title character died while attempting to swat a fly, and neither Beauchamp nor Martello is responsible for killing Donner.  FTP, name this radio play by Tom Stoppard named for a work of Marcel Duchamp.;;Artist Descending a Staircase
Literature;;The protagonist of this novel enjoys a day off walking on the beach when a younger worker volunteers to substitute for him as traffic control clerk for the railway.  The protagonist is sexually repelled by his wife's scar from a Caesarian section and listens to a long and depressing monologue delivered by Teacher.  His wife and her mother are used to secretly buy a boat for a government official who escapes from the military police with the protagonist covered in excrement.  As Joseph Koomson leaves the country, the protagonist finally gains the respect of his wife Oyo.  Following the creatively named The Man, FTP, name this novel by Ayi Kwei Armah whose title suggests that people in the future may be more attractive.;;(The) Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Literature;;One character in this play sits in a hotel room building a house of cards and claims that he has set aside the best room in it for his rival.  Lady Kathrin is seen as a perfect object to be molded into an ideal woman by La Feu, one of the companions of a character who eventually reunites with Jenny Caroline, Wild, and a Moorish cabin boy is the object of desire of Captain Boyet.  At the beginning of this play, one of the central families is sent into exile when their mansion is burned to the ground, but they unite peacefully when the other family's patriarch proves his innocence in the matter.  Set during the American Revolution and centered on the rivalry between the Bushys and Berkleys, FTP, name this play by Friedrich von Klinger which lent its name to a literary movement advocated by Schiller and Goethe.;;Sturm und Drang|Storm and Stress|Storm and Pressure|Der Wirrwarr|(The) Chaos
Literature;;Martin Larson declared this poem's presentation of the central event as "vengeful Justice bore for our excess" to be proof that the poet had "no conception of original sin" and was "untouched by the Puritan philosophy during his youth".  John Shawcross interpreted as a sign of faith the chiasmus of two lines near the center of this poem asking "O more exceeding love or law more just?"  This poem asks the reader to "Burn in your sighs, and borrow / Seas wept from our deep sorrow" because a figure who entered the world "with all Heav'ns heraldrynow bleeds to give us ease".  FTP, name this John Milton poem referring to "that great Cov'nant which we still transgress" performed on Jesus during the bris.;;Upon the Circumcision
Literature;;In one of this author's novels, the drunken Knopf urinates on the titular object which is owned by the firm of Heinrich Kroll which also employs the protagonist who falls in love with a schizophrenic girl who calls herself Isabelle.  In addition to that novel about Ludwig Bodmer, he wrote a novel in which the paralyzed Joan Madou is given a fatal injection by her lover Ravic.  This author of The Black Obelisk and Arch of Triumph wrote of a man who gives away his passports which his wife Helen and he had planned to use to escape to the United States in his novel about Josef Schwarz, The Night in Lisbon.  In another work, the protagonist spends a night pinned down by the body of a French soldier he stabs and beats Corporal Himmelstoss.  FTP, name this author of The Road Back who described Kemmerich, Muller, and Paul Baumer in All Quiet on the Western Front.;;(Erich) (Maria) Remarque
Literature;;One poem by this man asks "Where is the Christopher Columbus to whom is owed the / forgetting of a continent" and declares "We are going farther without ever advancing", and another of his poem's states "The Octoroons sing songs of dying / To their chestnut colored wives" and begins "The yellow fades from red to green".  In a novella, this author described the rise to fame and subsequent murder by a mob of Croniamantal.  The author of Always, Windows, and The Poet Assassinated also wrote a poem which states "The most modern European is you Pope Pius X" and begins "You are tired at last of this old world / O shepherd Eiffel Tower the flock of bridges bleats at the morning", Zone.  In one play by this author, the title character's husband gives birth to 40,000 children in one afternoon after she abandons him and becomes a general.  FTP, name this French author of the poetry collections Calligrammes and Alcools as well as the play The Breasts of Tiresias.;;(Guillaume) Apollinaire
Literature;;The narration of this work is triggered by the bar proprietor Bell's report that a Japanese photographer discovered a wooden replica of the protagonist's face in an African village.  The protagonist hints that she may be bisexual when she suggests she would sleep with Greta Garbo, and she suffers a miscarriage from rough horseback riding.  The protagonist's rich friend Rusty Trawler marries her roommate, the model Mag Wildwood, and O. J. Berman hires her lawyer following her arrest for delivering secret messages from O'Shaughnessy to the gangster Sally Tomato in Sing Sing.  The narrator helps her escape to follow her lover Jose Yberra-Jaeger to Brazil, after which he never sees her again.  FTP, Holly Golightly is the protagonist of what Truman Capote novella?.;;Breakfast at Tiffany's
Literature;;In one work by this man, Darry Berrill swaps jobs with his wife and is joined in trashing the household by Barry Derrill, and in another, Jerry attempts to help his drunken coworker Sammy sign a postal order for the titular amount of money.  The prostitute Jannice dies making the sign of the cross and is pursued by The Dreamer in another of his works.  This author of the one-act plays The End of the Beginning and A Pound on Demand and the morality play Within the Gates wrote a play which ends with Cyril Poges climbing to the roof of his flooding house and another play in which Minnie Powell dies hiding bombs and Donal Davoren pretends to be the titular figure.  His other plays include one in which Teddy Foran is blinded and Barney is caught removing the dress of Jessie Taite, the one-time girlfriend of soccer star Harry Heegan and one in which Johnny is killed for informing on Robbie Tancred and Jack Boyle is abandoned by his wife.  FTP, name this playwright of Purple Dust, The Shadow of a Gunman, The Silver Tassie, and Juno and the Paycock.;;(Sean) O'Casey
Literature;;After attending a ball, one character in this work is subject to rumors that he is planning to elope with the governor's daughter, and the revelation that the protagonist is not missing any arms or legs discredits the theory that he is Captain Kopeykin.  One bearlike character owns furniture which resembles himself and eats a massive portion of sturgeon, and another character outrages the protagonist by cheating at checkers before he is arrested for beating Maximov while drunk.  In addition to Sobakevitch and Nozdryov, the protagonist exchanges an unending stream of polite conversation with Manilov before purchasing the titular entities to be mortgaged.  Concluding with the image of a rampant troika, FTP, name this novel by Nikolai Gogol.;;Dead Souls|Myortvye Dushi
Literature;;The opening scene of this work describes a fifteen or twenty foot high smooth mass of granite after the narrator describes the national significance of Lovell's Flight.  After being brought to safety, the protagonist is too sick to speak, and several days pass, making it too late for him to tell the others where his wounded friend is.  After marrying that friend's daughter Dorcas, the protagonist takes over that friend's farm but cannot focus properly due to his overwhelming guilt and is forced to sell it.  While traveling in the wilderness, Cyrus is accidentally shot by his father Reuben Bourne on the exact spot where the title character died.  FTP, name this short story in which the title character is never properly put to rest, a work of Nathaniel Hawthorne.;;Roger Malvin's Burial
Literature;;One poem by this author states "How dare anyone object / Tell me I had better not exist" and declares that gold chains are found in "mines in South Africa / Where our brothers sweat their lives underground".  In one work of this author, wealthy Paul H. and his family are murdered by the poor yard worker Christopher, and another follows a character who owns a string of hotels in San Francisco used as sanctuaries for runaway slaves and plans to join John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry.  In addition to that novel about Annie and Mary Ellen Pleasant, one of this author's characters reminisces about her parents Boy and Kitty through flashbacks while on a truck with guerrillas before they are ambushed.  FTP, name this author of Free Enterprise who wrote about Clare Savage in Abeng and No Telephone to Heaven.;;(Michelle) Cliff
Literature;;The narrator of this poem states "I regret / That I should ape the ways of pride" of those "who climb to wealth" and "forget / The friends in darker fortunes tried".  Despite having "Yet slight thy form, and low thy seat", the addressee of this poem whose "parent sunbade thee view / Pale skies" is described as having "Oftstayed my walk" with its "early smile".  Beginning "When beechen buds begin to swell / And woods the blue-bird's warble know", this poem's subject has a "modest bell" which "Peeps from the last year's leaves below".  Addressing "the modest flower / That made the woods of April bright", FTP, name this poem by William Cullen Bryant.;;(The) Yellow Violet
Literature;;One character in this work discourages a group of lumberjacks from drinking to their friend's death in an attempt to hide that he already drank the entire barrel of brandy, and when that character is refused brandy by Mjurk, he causes a riot in the Night Cloud cafe by singing a dirty song.  After one character in this work claims he cannot seduce his fiancee due to her innocence, another character approves of his decision and promptly seduces her, leading to her drowning herself in a river.  In addition to Johanna Reiher, the protagonist abandons his lover Sophie Barger and stabs his friend Eckart in a barfight.  FTP, name this play following the titular womanizing poet, a work of Bertolt Brecht.;;Baal
Literature;;This man declares "Speed is violence / Power is violence / Weight is violence" in his poem Butterfly, and another instructs the addressee to "take carelest you become / a dancer disinherited in mid-dance".  A schoolmaster controversially fences off a footpath in one of this man's short stories, and Jonathan preserves his bicycle by burying it in his yard in another.  Those two stories, "Dead Men's Path" and "Civil Peace", were published in his collection Girls at War.  In one of his novels, Ikem is assassinated by his dictator-friend Sam, and in another, Oduche converts to Christianity, angering his father Ezeulu.  FTP, name this man who wrote about Obi's arrest for bribery and the exile and suicide of Okonkwo in No Longer at Ease and Things Fall Apart.;;(Chinua) Achebe
Literature;;One character created by this author meets a schoolboy who hides his journal in a tree trunk and the schoolboy's teacher, Miss McGeeney, while taking a tour of the interior of the Trojan horse.  The protagonist is inspired by Shagpole Whipple and meets Mr. Mape, who inherited the titular sum, in his novel about "The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin".  This author of The Dream Life of Balso Snell and A Cool Million also wrote a work in which one character stomps on Adore Loomis after being hit by a rock and is emotionally disturbed when Faye Greener sleeps with Miguel and leaves him.  In another of his works, the title character is sexually aroused by Mary Shrike and is shot by the cripple Peter Doyle.  FTP, name this novelist who wrote about Homer Simpson and Tod Hackett in The Day of the Locust and the titular newspaper columnist in Miss Lonelyhearts.;;(Nathanael) West|(Nathan) Weinstein
Literature;;One character in this work travels to a village fair to sell cakes shaped like Gothic ornaments, and another character journeys in the rain to meet his old love when his wife refuses to contact her.  As a boy, the protagonist works in the bakery of his great grandaunt Drusilla and admires his schoolmaster who sends him texts while studying for a degree in Christminster, Richard Phillotson.  Two of the protagonist's children are hanged by his son by his first wife, Little Father Time, after a harsh remark is made by his pregnant wife Sue Bridehead, and the protagonist takes to drinking after twice being tricked into marriage by Arabella Donn.  FTP, name this work about the stonemason Fawley, the final novel of Thomas Hardy.;;Jude the Obscure
Literature;;In one work by this author, rocks from the titular location are converted to earth and a writer is the only character who can hear the native creatures, and in another, the title character is drowned in a bathtub by the maid and discusses the possibility of making war on the ants.  In addition to Poet on the Moon and The Fate of a Cockroach, the title character is executed by dictators who attempt to take the apple of peace from him in his play Angels' Prayer.  In another play, the Detective believes that Bihana's body was used to nourish an orange tree after she was killed by her husband Bahadir.  His other plays include one following the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus and one in which a Mamluk ruler is revealed to legally be a slave.  FTP, name this playwright of The Tree Climber, The People of the Cave, and The Sultan's Dilemma.;;(Tawfiq) al(-)Hakim
Literature;;When one character in this work asserts that he has lost his wedding ring in another character's vagina, she responds by encouraging him to look for it.  During the protagonist's childhood, the protagonist's father works for the newspaper Hoy and the protagonist is ordered every morning to wake a prostitute living in the same building.  The protagonist's lovers include the ballerina Honey Hawthorne and a one-breasted actress with whom he has an affair.  The protagonist eventually works for the newspaper Carteles as a film critic due to his love of the cinema for the sexual fantasies it enables in him.  After losing his virginity to Juliet Estevez, the protagonist later refuses to move to Caracas with Margarita del Campo.  FTP, name this novel by Guillermo Cabrera Infante.;;Infante's Inferno|La Habana para un Infante Difunto
Literature;;One character in this work is attacked by a hostile group of people who strike him with broken bottles and bury him up to his neck, and that character is able to transform into a canoe to earn money ferrying people across a river.  A strange creature disguised as a man kidnaps one character's daughter and gradually discards body parts until he is nothing but a skull.  One character gives birth from her thumb to a child who is drawn away by a trio of characters, one of whom later reappears as the Red-Lady.  The narrator hires the Invisible Pawn after becoming rich using the magic seeds he obtained on Wraith-Island.  The narrator travels to Deads' Town after he is abandoned by his friends in order to find the tapster of the titular drink in, FTP, what novel by Amos Tutuola?.;;(The) Palm(-)Wine Drinkard
Literature;;This author's works include a series of nine religious newspaper letters written while suffering from tuberculosis in a monastery published under the title From My Cell, and he describes the objective nature of poetry and distinguishes between the emotional inspiration and rational composition of poems in his Letters to an Unknown Woman.  One poem by this man compares desire to pursuing shadows of a dream and states "To awaken is to die".  In another poem, this man responds to a lover's question "What is poetry?" by asserting that she is, and in another poem, he compares its subject's tears to drops of dew on a violet.  His major works include the short story collection Leyendas and the poetry collection Rimas.  FTP, name this Spanish poet associated with Romanticism.;;(Gustavo) (Adolfo) Becquer
Literature;;One poem of this name includes a man "In raiment of camel's hair" who is asked if he "Shattered the vessel of clay / In the Valley of Slaughter".  That character asks "Ye scribes, why come ye hither?" and declares that "the wicked shall wail and weep / And be blown like a smoke away" and repeats the line "Repent! repent! repent!".  In addition to that poem written as a conversation between a Priest and John the Baptist, another poem of this name describes the sacking of New Troy and murder of Simon Sudbury.  That poem followed its author's Mirour de l'Omme and allegorically described the Peasant's Revolt of 1381.  FTP, name this Latin title of a brief Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem and a ten thousand line work of John Gower.;;Vox Clamantis
Literature;;In one story by this author, the film The Hoodlum Priest is viewed by the narrator and the girl Catherine, who reads works of the titular author in order to impress Philip, and in another, the construction workers Stanley and Tom repeatedly fail to get the attention of a sunbather.  Another short story by this author sees Sophie Traub replace the family mother Susan Rawlings, who finds solitude in Fred's Hotel.  This author of Homage for Isaac Babel, A Woman on a Roof, and To Room Nineteen wrote a work in which the radical Joss and Solly Cohen are befriended by Martha Quest and one in which the IRA is blamed for an attack perpetrated by the CCU due to a phone call from Alice Mellings.  In another novel, the relationship between Ella and Paul Tanner is explored in a novel written by the protagonist Anna Wulf.  FTP, name this author of Children of Violence, The Good Terrorist, and The Golden Notebook.;;(Doris) Lessing
Literature;;In one play by this author, the refusal of the actors to play their roles leads to the postponement of the play being rehearsed through a message sent by the king, and one character created by this author is happy to discover that he has been speaking prose his whole life after appointing various tutors to teach him such subjects as dancing, fencing, and philosophy.  In one work of this author, La Grange and Du Croisy are rejected by Magdalon and Cathos, outraging Magdalon's father Gorgibus.  In another, one character disguises himself as the son of the Grand Turk in order to wed Lucile, the daughter of the title character Jourdain.  In one play by this author, Lucinde fakes loss of speech and Martine sends Geronte's men to punish Sganarelle, and in another play, Cleante is the lover of Angelique, the daughter the title character Argan, who constantly believes himself to be sick.  FTP, name this French playwright of The Affected Young Ladies, The Bourgeois Gentleman, The Doctor in Spite of Himself, and The Imaginary Invalid.;;Moliere|(Jean(-)Baptiste) Poquelin
Literature;;Epigrams opening the chapters in this work include one which states "My angel, you write me four-page-long letters faster than I can read them" and another which reads "It appears that the gentleman is decidedly in favor of servant girls" with the reply "What would you have me do, Madam?  They are fresher."  One character copies a love letter word for word from a German novel, and that character is inspired by a story involving Count St-Germain and Chaplitsky related at a party by Tomsky.  The protagonist arranges a meeting with his lover late at night in order to meet with her mistress, whom he accidentally kills by threatening her with a pistol.  The protagonist goes mad after losing a three-day standoff with Chekalinsky which concludes when he envisions the old Countess in the titular object.  FTP, name this short story following Hermann's brief run with gambling, a work of Alexander Pushkin.;;(The) Queen of Spades|Pikavaya Dama
Literature;;One character in this work is instructed to drive around the block and come back in order to restart their meeting, but is then rebuffed for trying to do so and has to pretend to honk her car horn three times.  This work is set in a house which has walls decorated by mirror and pieces of glass and which has a burn mark on one of the windows.  One character lights many candles throughout the room as one character explains her spiritual development following the death of her husband to another character that is concerned by her withdrawal from the church and wishes to put her in a nursing home.  That elderly character comforts another when she admits to having an abortion and keeps an elaborate cement sculpture garden containing depictions of camels and Wise Men facing east.  FTP, name this play featuring Marius Byleveld, Elsa Barlow, and Miss Helen, a work of Athol Fugard.;;(The) Road to Mecca
Literature;;One work of this author begins with a section narrated by the author in which he declares his hatred of the characters he has created and concludes with a section narrated by a man watching over his sick wife.  In addition to that work about Edgar and the clairvoyant Ella Bend Hess, The Same Person, More Vital Data, and Household Apples are among the sections of one story by this author which includes such characters as the cat Mr. Tick, Uncle Halley, and the narrator's elderly neighbor Billy Holsclaw.  This author of Cartesian Sonata wrote a novel in which Jethro Furber leads a campaign against the protagonist following the hanging of Henry Pimber.  Another novel by this author follows a history professor who writes Guilt and Innocence in Hitler's Germany, William Frederick Kohler.  FTP, name this author of In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, Omensetter's Luck, and The Tunnel.;;(William) (H(.)) Gass
Literature;;Shortly before his death, one character in this work hallucinates the ghost of a man he killed as he returns drunk from an adulterous affair with a friend's wife.  Another character coordinates a cat attack which kills a child of which she is envious.  The protagonist meets a foreign monk who strangely eats meat at a banquet and offers him a box shaped like a penis, and the protagonist dies when he ejaculates blood and his scrotum bursts after he is given an overdose of aphrodisiac pills by his wife.  In an earlier scene, the protagonist ties another character to a bedpost and tosses the titular object into her vagina.  Taking its characters from Outlaws of the Marsh, Pang Chunmei and Pan Jinlian are among the wives of playboy Ximen Qing in, FTP, what Ming era Chinese novel titled for a fruit?.;;(The) Plum in the Golden Vase|(The) Golden Lotus|Jin Ping Mei
Literature;;One character in this story comments that "it's a nice thing, when a man can do nothing with his money but make a beast of himself" after mentioning to his daughter that he is getting remarried.  Another character complains that he cannot see after accusing his sister of intentionally cooking dinner slowly.  Another character visits a couple whose accents she imitates, the Rigleys, to discover that her husband was not at the pub Prince of Wales.  After her mother-in-law arrives and explains how parents must make allowances for flaws like alcoholism, they are informed by a worker that the protagonist's husband was smothered when he was trapped by a cave-in in the coal mines.  FTP, name this short story in which a worker carries in the body of Elizabeth Bates's husband and knocks a vase of the titular flowers from a table, a work of D. H. Lawrence.;;Odour of Chrysanthemums
Literature;;In one of this man's poems, the subject heeds the falling of acorns and chestnuts, attains "peace beneath the peaceful sky", and is compared to a "tender bud" which withered in an attempt to blossom in the snow.  Another of his poem's describes a time when "Georgius Secundus was then alive" and compares the popping of a bubble to the fate of its subject "That was built in such a logical way / It ran a hundred years to a day".  Another of his poems describes a man who had a Roman nose but was cut down by "the pruning-knife of time" and ridicules his three-cornered hat before the narrator encourages the future youth to do the same to him if he ends up on an "old forsaken bough".  FTP, name this American poet of Under the Violets, The Deacon's Masterpiece, and The Last Leaf, who wrote the line "Build me more stately mansions, O my soul" in his poem The Chambered Nautilus.;;(Oliver) (Wendell) Holmes (Sr(.))
Literature;;One character in this work ridicules another's love of peacock tongue as a delicacy and always places a book which he does not read beside his pillow every night before sleeping, and another character in this work carries an "iron fan" which is actually a traditional weapon used for cracking helmets.  The protagonist's only romantic interest is proclaimed dead at the beginning of the third chapter, in which the central household is visited by Waverhouse and Mrs. Nose, who tries to arrange a marriage between her daughter and one of the teacher's former students.  In the end, Kangetsu Mizushima does not marry Mrs. Kaneda's daughter, and the protagonist becomes intoxicated from sipping beer and drowns in a barrel.  FTP, name this novel about Sensei Kushami's pet, a work of Natsume Soseki.;;I Am a Cat|Wagahai wa Neko de aru
Literature;;One character in this work raises a siege led by Friedebrand against a woman accused of killing her lover Eisenhart whom he later marries, Queen Belakane.  That character is called twice to Alexandria to fight for Baruch, and the second time he is killed in battle, shortly before the birth of his son by Queen Herzeleide.  Another character woos Antikonie and is unable to fight Gramoflanz after he is wounded by the protagonist.  The protagonist meets and wins honor with his half-brother who fathers Prester John, Feirefis, travels to the land of the Fisher King, and carries the challenge of the Red Knight.  Following a son of Gamuret, FTP, name this epic poem about a knight who meets Gawain, searches for the Holy Grail, and father Lohengrin, written by Wolfram von Eschenbach.;;Parzival
Literature;;Near the beginning of this work, the protagonist reads the story of a queen who prayed to Juno and had it revealed to her that her husband had drowned at sea in a great storm.  In addition to reading the story of Alcyone and Ceyx, the protagonist views a royal hunt led by Emperor Octavian and is led astray deep into the forest in pursuit of a young hound.  Another character in this work laments losing a game of chess to Fortune, which he explains more clearly with his cry "Now that I know my lady bright / Whom I have loved with all my might / Is far from me, and dead and gone".  That knight in black is met by the protagonist in a dream.  Written in memory of Blanche, the wife of John of Gaunt, FTP, name this long poem by Geoffrey Chaucer.;;(The) Book of the Duchess
Literature;;One of this author's characters is written out of the family Bible by his father Jakob and persuaded not to commit suicide by his friend Kappie.  One of this author's novels contains series of letters by an undercover Nazi, a "Proud White Christian Woman", and Justice Department official Gabriel van Onselen.  That novel also includes a school headmaster who leaves teaching to enter politics and a woman who is repeatedly arrested for entering a library, Robert Mansfield and Prem Bodasingh.  This author of a novel about Pieter van Vlaanderen and the play Sponono also wrote a novel in which Gertrude turns to prostitution and Absalom's moral destruction by Johannesburg grieves his father Stephen.  FTP, name this author of the short story collection Tales from a Troubled Land and the novels Ah, But Your Land is Beautiful, Too Late the Phalarope, and Cry, the Beloved Country.;;(Alan) Paton
Literature;;One character in this work takes another to live in the Will of God Manor, and another character whose father is an exile from Fascist Spain cannot support himself with his psychology degree and takes up photography.  That character later causes another to leave her lover Captain Gustavo Morante.  The action in this work is begun by the disappearance of several members of the Sindicato Agricola, and one of the central characters is shot after discovering a secret burial ground of the executed political dissidents.  Evangelina Ranquileo subsequently disappears after accusing Juan de Dios Ramirez of being responsible.  FTP, name this novel in which Irene Beltran and Francisco Leal investigate the titular entities, a work of Isabel Allende.;;Of Love and Shadows|De Amor y de Sombra
Literature;;One work of this author relates a story of a volcanic eruption killing the ruler of a fictitious island, leading to revolution, and another work of this author is written as a sequence of eight dreams in which money won in a card game allows Serafima and Golubkov to return to Russia.  In one of this author's plays, the protagonist repeatedly asks who wrote the titular play after its ending is altered by Panfilovich to meet the demands of Savva Lukich.  In addition to Flight and that play about the playwright Dymogatsky, The Crimson Island, he wrote a play in which Talberg abandons his wife Yelena as the Germans retreat from Kiev and Alexei dies covering the retreat of a group of White cadets.  FTP, name this Russian playwright of Days of the Turbins, also known for novels such as Black Snow and The Master and Margarita.;;(Mikhail) Bulgakov
Literature;;One character in this work asks a woman on the street to lace her shoes for her and earlier dances with a scarecrow after mistaking it for a man.  When offered some pennies out of another character's purse, one character replies "Five pennies is a nickel" and then expresses a desire to purchase a paper windmill.  Earlier, that character steals another nickel dropped by a hunter who chases off a big black dog using a gun and his own dog.  Upon arrival in town, the protagonist reveals that she has forgotten why she made her trip before receiving a bottle of medicine for her grandson's throat.  FTP, name this story in which Phoenix Jackson travels along the titular trail, a work of Eudora Welty.;;(A) Worn Path
Literature;;This author reflected on his diagnosis with a detached retina and unrequited love for the daughter of an insurance salesman in the chapter Love and the War of one work, and in another, Janet Finlayson screams that a plane crash in Lisbon was divine punishment against the families of the victims, who include the sister of Paul Waterford.  In addition to Sprightly Running and Young Shoulders, he wrote a novel in which the playing of trombone player Percy Brett inspires Jeremy, a piano player in a seedy club who deserted his father Alfred Coleman.  The protagonist's window-washing business ends with the arrest of his partner Ern Ollershaw and the protagonist falls in love with Veronica before becoming a joke writer in this author's novel about Charles Lumley.  FTP, name this author of Strike the Father Dead and Hurry on Down, a member of the Angry Young Men.;;(John) Wain
Literature;;Early in this work, one character is given a signal book by his fiancee, with whom he later plots to ambush a building which is infiltrated by another character disguised as a peddler.  Minor characters in this work include Alice Dunscombe, who is in love with one character but cannot marry him due to her political views.  Another character wishes to rescue Cecilia and Katherine from St. Ruth's Abbey, where they live with Colonel Howard.  A violent storm destroys the Ariel, killing Christopher Dillon and Long Tom Coffin, who manages to save Lieutenant Barnstable.  In the end, only Edward Griffith knows the identity of the title character.  FTP, name this novel in which the title character is actually John Paul Jones, a work of James Fenimore Cooper.;;(The) Pilot
Literature;;One character created by this man slaps her fiance when she discovers his affair with a servant girl, and another character created by this man is a politician who commits suicide when he is not given a promised diplomatic appointment based on Ole Richter.  This author who described Alf and Svava in A Gauntlet wrote such other plays as Geography and Love, Between the Battles, and the aforementioned Paul Lange and Tora Parsberg.  In one novel, the protagonist marries Eli, the daughter of his father's rival Baard Boen, and in another, Gunnar and Yngve Vold are among the suitors of Petra, the title character.  A pastor's paralyzed wife briefly walks before dying in her husband's embrace in his play about Klara and Adolf Sang.  FTP, name this author of Arne, The Fisher Maiden, and Beyond Our Power, a noted Norwegian.;;(Bjornstjerne) Bjornson
Literature;;In one work by this author, a proposal from Walter Henderson causes Roger Hamley to be dumped by Cynthia Kirkpatrick, although he is then picked up by Molly Gibson, and in another, the title character contracts a fatal illness from Mr. Donne, who is actually the youth who took her to Wales as a girl, Bellingham.  In addition to Wives and Daughters and Ruth, this author wrote a novel in which Lady Glenmire is denounced for her engagement to a doctor by Mrs. Jamieson and also includes the characters Miss Matty Jenkyns and Mary Smith.  In another novel, Will's testimony concerning the murder of Henry Carson saves his cousin Jem Wilson, who is in love with the title character.  FTP, name this author of Cranford and Mary Barton.;;(Elizabeth) Gaskell
Literature;;One poem in this collection declares that the addressee's book "strangely swept familiar forms long banished", and another poem in this collection states "The spell which the Master taught me / In my terror no more will come" and begins "I've called the pale dead round me / Full oft by magic night".  Those poems are a sonnet To H. S. and the concluding poem of the section entitled Dream-Pictures.  This collection which includes Fresco Sonnets to Christian S. also contains The Wounded Knight, The Mountain Echo, and Song of the Ducats in its section Romances.  Other sections of this collection include Lyrical Intermezzo, The Homeward Journey, and The Harz Journey.  This collection concludes with two free verse cycles including the poems The Gods of Greece, Twilight, and Storm.  Having the final section The North Sea, FTP, name this poetry collection, a major work of Heinrich Heine.;;Book of Songs|Buch der Lieder
Literature;;In one of this author's novels, a lecture of Dona Vera inspires Eric to learn about the Mexican silver mines which his Cornish grandfather worked in, and in another novel which sounds substantially more interesting, Ila Das is raped and murdered and Raka is so attracted to forest fires that she decides to light one.  In addition to The Zigzag Way and Fire on the Mountain, this author wrote a short story in which Ravi's excitement over victory in a game of hide-and-seek turns to disappointment when everyone forgets about him and he realizes that no one loves him.  Describing the sisters Tara and Bim Das in another work, FTP, name this Indian author of In Custody, Games at Twilight, and Clear Light of Day, a relative of the author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, her daughter Kiran.;;Anita Desai
Literature;;One character in this work splits another's head with an axe for attempting to possess his wife, and another character seeks revenge after his father is blinded for refusing to give up his best oxen.  Near the end of this work, the protagonist meets Johannes Parricida, whom he denies refuge, and after the death of Count von Attinghausen, his nephew Rudenz changes allegiances and wins the love of Bertha.  Arnold Melcthal is one of the chief agitators at a meeting called by Walter Furst, and the protagonist of this work is arrested for refusing to salute a hat.  At the beginning of this work, the protagonist ferries Baumgarten across Lake Lucerne in a storm, and he eventually obtains justice by fatally shooting the bailiff Gessler.  FTP, name this play about the titular Swiss crossbowman, a work of Friedrich Schiller.;;Wilhelm Tell|William Tell
Literature;;One poem by this man laments being turned into an ass by "The little boy" who "Turn'd Io to a cow, Narcissus to a flower" in order "to show his might and power", and the title character of another declares "This heat of hope, or cold of fear / My foolish heart could never bear".  In addition to The Metamorphosis and The Careless Lover, another poem by this man relates how "good old BenBid them remember how he had purg'd the stage / Of errors, that had lasted many an age" at a meeting where "There was Lucan's translator too" and "Apollo himself was at it, they say".  Another poem concludes "This cannot take her / If of herself she will not love / Nothing can make her / The devil take her".  The author of A Session of the Poets, FTP, name this poet who wrote the plays Brennoralt, The Goblins, and Aglaura, which contains the song "Why so pale and wan, fond lover?", a noted Cavalier.;;(John) Suckling
Literature;;In one work, this man critiques Catharine MacKinnon to show the contradiction between the political liberalism of feminists and their initiatives to suppress pornography and analyzes the case study of Lady Chatterly's Lover to argue the futility of the title action.  In addition to Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship, he wrote about the enigmatic Vercueil becoming the driver for the cancer-stricken Mrs. Curren in his novel Age of Iron.  His other novels include one in which Anya is hired to type essays for the collection Strong Opinions by Senor C and one including the desertion of Warrant Officer Mandel before the return of the torture specialist Colonel Joll.  A packet of pumpkin seeds are the lone possession of one of his characters, a harelipped gardener from Cape Town.  FTP, name this author of Diary of a Bad Year, Waiting for the Barbarians, and Life and Times of Michael K.;;(J(.)) (M(.)) Coetzee
Literature;;This work was the subject of a series of lectures by the author of Garden Twilights and The Golden Mountains, and this work provided the basis of the plot of the short story The End.  Near the beginning of this work, one character is drafted into the army by a judge who he refused to vote for.  After being reunited with his sons, the protagonist meets Picardia, the son of a former policeman who endured the tortures of the Indians with him, Cruz, and the protagonist of this work has a singing contest with the brother of a black man who he was hunted for killing years earlier.  Discussed by Leopoldo Lugones in El Payador, this work falls into the same genre as Ricardo Guiraldes' novel Don Segundo Sombra.  Ending with the title character laying down his guitar forever, FTP, name this epic poem by Jose Hernandez.;;(The) (Gaucho) Martin Fierro|(The) (Departure) (of) Martin Fierro|(The) (Return) (of) Martin Fierro|(El) (Gaucho) Martin Fierro|(La) (Vuelta) (de) Martin Fierro
Literature;;One character in this work is revealed to have slept with his host when he reclaims his purse after leaving it on her bed, and another character in this work is accused of stealing money for gambling until it is learned that he spent the whole night fishing so that the company could have a decent meal.  One character climactically drops a pot containing a symbolic thistle, smashing the pot to pieces and miraculously preserving the flower.  Another character is disappointed when he learned that a famous diplomat's wish for a dedication in his copy of the Conversation Pieces for Women was made up by another character, and the commemoration of a Jesuit who opposed the Inquisition initially causes controversy.  After being evicted from the Black Horse, the company obtains lodging when one character announces that he is bringing a group of plague victims.  FTP, name this novel in which Libuschka and Gelnhausen provide aid to a group of poets called together by Simon Dach in the year 1647, a work of Gunter Grass.;;(The) Meeting at Telgte|Das Treffen in Telgte
Literature;;In one work by this man, one character cannot bear the smell of funeral flowers and her children die in an embrace after one of them sets fire to the house.  In another work, Fischer attempts to elope with Agnes but is caught at the train station by Karl Fredrik, and that work concludes with The Gentleman announcing that he is leaving The Silent House.  His novels include one in which Carlsson moves to the farm of the widow Flod and one in which the protagonist is hired by the publisher Smith and joins his friends in the titular cafe.  In addition to that novel about Arvid Falk, he wrote a play in which the old man is forced to hang himself in a closet and another in which Captain Adolf dies in a strait jacket the arms of his old nurse.  FTP, name this author of The Pelican, The Natives of Hemso, The Ghost Sonata, and The Father.;;(August) Strindberg
Literature;;One poem by this man tells its addressee "the spring shall bloom, but not for you" and states "'Tis far better to die than bear / the torments of another year", while another of his poems describes the safe havens of birds, squirrels, and wolves before detailing the bursting of mountains against an unguided barque.  In addition to Plato to Theon and The Hurricane, he wrote a poem which states "If nothing once, you nothing lose" and laments the "unpitying frosts" which will kill the subject as gay as the flowers of Eden.  In another poem, he states "The hunter still the deer pursues" and warns "No fraud upon the dead commit".  FTP, name this American poet of The Wild Honeysuckle and The Indian Burying Ground.;;(Philip) Freneau
Literature;;One character created by this author survives a shipwreck and has an affair with her husband's brother Garnet and the escaped murderer Jack Chance, and another character created by this author follows her lover to Spain when he leaves her to join the Loyalists.  In addition to those works about Ellen Roxborough and Elyot and Eden Standish, in one work by this author, the protagonist is purchased as a child from his parents, becomes a successful artist, takes in his impoverished hunchbacked sister, and dies after he is abandoned by a woman who wishes to become a wealthy concert pianist, Kathy Volkov.  In another work, one character is delivered from the Nazis to Israel but leaves in order to work in Mr. Rosetree's factory.  In addition to those novels about Hurtle Duffield Courtney and Mordecai Himmelfarb, he wrote a novel in which Laura Trevelyan is the love object of the titular explorer, who endeavors to cross the continent.  FTP, name this Australian author of A Fringe of Leaves, The Vivisector, Riders in the Chariot, and Voss.;;(Patrick) White
Literature;;The family of the protagonist of this work loses most of their money when the father invests his savings with a sea merchant whose ship is then wrecked.  One character in this work flirts with and judges a series of men by their wealth after her debutante ball, rejects the rector Mr. Hatfield, and eventually marries Thomas Ashby.  A visit from Uncle Robson prompts the protagonist to crush young birds with a stone in order to prevent them from having their legs and wings pulled off by the sadistic Tom.  After being fired from that job, the protagonist takes a new job where she meets her future husband, the curate Edward Weston.  FTP, name this novel whose title character works for the Murrays and Bloomfields as a governess, a work of Anne Bronte.;;Agnes Grey
Literature;;According to one legend, verses from this work were placed in an urn and drawn in order to determine how this work's author was to be buried.  In one poem in this work, the poet uses the analogy of his lover as a hunter who threw his heart into the sea, causing him to weep tears of blood, and in another, the poet states that he does not wish to be a hypocrite and confesses that of all earth's treasures, he loves a cup of wine the most.  Translated in 1903 by Richard le Gallienne, this work was first translated into English by Sir William Jones in 1771.  The last stanza of most of the poems in this collection contains the poet's name, and many of the poems in this collection reference the poet's hometown of Shiraz.  FTP, name this collection of ghazals written by a man whose pen name references his great memory, Hafez.;;(The) Divan|(The) Diwan|(Hafez's) Divan|Divan (i(-)Hafiz)
Literature;;One character in this work relates his experience in a Turkish hospital where the doctor complained that he was sure to die but kept on living and wasting space.  Another character in this work is an old man who sings "Raise high the victory" and dances while scraping a violin holding the middle of the bow.  That character is encountered after the narrator is invited to dinner after shooting a snipe on private property.  The host of the dinner relates the story of how his wife died and he was unable to shed a tear until he saw a fly crawling on her eye.  At this story's conclusion, it is revealed that the title character has run off with his sister-in-law Olga.  FTP, name this story contained between The District Doctor and The Peasant Proprietor Osyanikov in the collection A Sportsman's Sketches, a work of Ivan Turgenev.;;My Neighbor Radilov|Moy Sosed Radilov
Literature;;One character in this work is asked to wear a white dress symbolizes purity at a rally partially addressing the castration of a black man, and that character earlier had a hysterectomy after contracting a venereal disease.  Another character sees his rival's mistress Miss Lucy in a cocktail lounge and has a confrontation with his lover's brother Tom Junior.  The protagonist of this work tape records a conversation in order to blackmail another character into getting him a good film role.  Shortly before the protagonist briefly faces Heavenly, his lost love, Princess Kosmonopolis arrives high on drugs.  FTP, name this play which concludes with Boss Finley's men entering a hotel room for Chance Wayne, a work of Tennessee Williams.;;Sweet Bird of Youth
Literature;;One character in this work makes a contract with his wife which designates Wednesday and Saturday as the days for making love and is a member of the Amateur Orchestra of the Sons of Orpheus, in which capacity he plays a solo bassoon lullaby for his wife at one concert.  The protagonist is aided in one venture by the whore Dionisia and harangued by her mother Rozilda.  One character's funeral draws a remarkable portion of the population of Bahia after he dies while cross-dressing and dancing the samba.  Following a woman who founds her namesake Cooking School of Savor and Art, FTP, name this novel in which the protagonist marries Teodoro Madureira after the death of Vadinho, a work of Jorge Amado.;;Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands|Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos
Literature;;One character in this play addresses the problem of stagnant water by recommending that the citizens drink wine because "water is quite unwholesome" and responds to complaints of bread made of chaff by stating "very good food too, I give it to my horses".  When it is suggested that one character in this play was tempted by a devil, that character responds "We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell".  Another character in this work decides to leave a dagger and letter on the breast of a sleeping victim whom he refuses to kill despite the urgings of Moranzone.  After murdering her husband Simone, the protagonist frames her lover Guido Ferranti for the crime.  FTP, name this play in which the title character Beatrice dies poisoning herself, a work of Oscar Wilde.;;(The) Duchess of Padua
Literature;;In one work of this man, the sloop Story is the primary home of Peter and his wife pregnant with twin's, and that work's character Franklin Talbott is an adaptation of a former CIA agent and novelist who goes sailing in another of his works, Fenwick Scott Key Turner.  In another work, Jayda and Sindbad are exiled and Princess Yasmin marries the title character Simon Behler.  In addition to The Tidewater Tales, Sabbatical, and The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor, this author wrote a novel in which the protagonist spends forty weeks imprisoned in the Nether Campus and enters the belly of WESCAC three times presented as tapes recorded by Billy Bocksfuss.  In another novel, the Macks attend the titular performance at the harbor with Todd Andrews.  FTP, name this author of Giles Goat-Boy and The Floating Opera who wrote about the adventures of Ebenezer Cooke in The Sot-Weed Factor.;;(John) Barth
Literature;;In this work, two characters befriend each other when they sit on the same bench and notice that they have both written their names inside their hats.  One character in this work breaks off his engagement when his fiancee demands some of his land in exchange for her hand in marriage.  A discussion of miracles leads one character to argue with Abbe Jeufroy, and another character contracts a venereal disease from the servant Melie.  At one point, the central household attempts to adopt and educate the children Victor and Victorine but end up sending them away.  Near the beginning of this work, the protagonists decide to buy a farm and move to the country after one of the title characters inherits a large sum from his supposed uncle.  FTP, name this incomplete novel following the titular pair of copying clerks, a work of Gustave Flaubert.;;Bouvard and Pecuchet|Bouvard et Pecuchet
Literature;;The protagonist of this work is irritated when his friend mentions his incomplete poem London Pleasures.  He also writes the poetry collection Mice and laments that he has never seen a single customer at McKechnie's bookshop take it out of its shelf.  After receiving a fifty dollar check from an American literary journal, the protagonist gives five pounds to his sister Julia, goes to a seedy hotel where he fails to have sex with two prostitutes, and ends up in jail.  Although he begins by declaring war on the "money god", the protagonist eventually accepts the encouragement of Philip Ravelston and marries his pregnant girlfriend Rosemary Waterlow.  FTP, name this novel following Gordon Comstock, a work of George Orwell.;;Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Literature;;One character in this work gets another character in trouble when he presents a stolen dog as a gift and works as an altar boy for an alcoholic priest.  The protagonist is thrown off of a train after he pulls the emergency brake and cannot pay the fine and enrages a doctor by showing up to a medical examination in a wheelchair and crutches.  In addition to serving the aforementioned Otto Katz, the protagonist triumphs when he discovers his harsh superior drunk in a brothel, Lieutenant Dub.  Before serving under Lieutenant Lukas, the protagonist is arrested and eventually sent to a mental asylum for asserting that Germans and Turks stick together and claiming that Serbia and Russia will help Austria in the war.  FTP, name this novel by Jaroslav Hasek.;;(The) Good Soldier Svejk|(The) Good Soldier Schweik|Osudy dobreho vojaka Svejka za svetove valky
Literature;;Near the end of this work, two characters joke about tourists who "goat-to-pack" and "goat-to-bed" and a man walking on the beach with a "goat-tee".  In this work, one character throws a dead parrot in a take-out box across the room at another character, asking if he plans on eating it here or to go.  One character in this work examines the shoeless footprint that one character leaves in the dirt around a table, and it is later revealed that that character's son was killed in car crash caused by his alcoholic wife Ellen.  One character in this work advocates "classical" acting, while another adopts "Creole" acting.  FTP, name this play in which the white Harry Trewe and black Jackson Phillip exchange roles in acting out Robinson Crusoe, a work of Derek Walcott.;;Pantomime
Literature;;One character in this work surprisingly doubles the pay of one of his workers after a manager urges his firing and explains to another character that he liked the picture with the same name as that character's poem better because it said the best that could be said on the subject.  Another character in this work is killed when he falls into an open hatch on a ship after a crewmember explains the efficiency of a mechanical packing method to him.  In this work, Dyke's gun misfires when he attempts to shoot S. Behrman, Annixter is killed in a gunfight, and the betrayal of Lyman ruins the powerful ranch owner Magnus Derrick.  The Toilers is the eventual product of the inspiration found in the west by the poet Presley.  FTP, name this novel in which the Pacific and Southwestern Railroad is likened to the titular creature, a work of Frank Norris.;;(The) Octopus
Literature;;One character created by this author fantasizes about swallowing her babies whole and throwing them from cliffs to break every bone in their bodies, has a stepmother who tries to kill her with a poisoned necklace, and conflicts with her husband Philip's first wife Moira.  In addition to Xuela Claudette Richardson, this author created a character who is instructed how to grow okra and not to walk like a slut on Sundays.  This author's other characters include one who is cared for by her grandmother Ma Chess and rebels against her mother by befriending the Red Girl.  A short story by this author includes In the Dark, Wingless, and Girl.  FTP, name this author of Autobiography of My Mother, At the Bottom of the River, and Annie John.;;(Jamaica) Kincaid
Literature;;One poem by this man declares "Monody shall not wake the mariner" and describes a man who from a ledge watched "The dice of drowned men's bones", and another poem by this man mentions a "tribunal monarch of the air / Whose thighs embronzes earth" and begins by describing "The bell-rope that gathers God at dawn".  Loose pains crown the title location of another poem from which the narrator saw "death's stare in slow survey".  In addition to At Melville's Tomb, The Broken Tower, and Quaker Hill, he wrote a poem stating "Only in darkness is thy shadow clear", addressing a structure which is "Sleepless as the river under thee".  FTP, name this American poet of the collections White Buildings and The Bridge.;;(Hart) Crane
Literature;;This work refers to one action that "would move tears and pity in the most savage and inhuman breast" and mentions a fifteen-year-old girl "who was crucified for an attempt to poison the emperor", and this work refers to Francois Rabelais as an "eminent French physician" before implying that sexual intercourse takes place most frequently around Lent.  The author mentions how "we differ even from Laplanders, and the inhabitants of Topinamboo" to attack his countrymen's lack of patriotism, and this work praises Protestants who leave the country rather than "pay tithes against their conscience to an idolatrous Episcopal curate".  "Admirable gloves for ladies, and summer-boots for fine gentlemen" are mentioned as one product of a plan which would create a "gain of eight shillings sterling per annum" for "constant breeders" and "bring great custom to taverns".  FTP, name this work stating that babies are "a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food", a satiric attack on the economic oppression of Ireland written by Jonathan Swift.;;(A) Modest Proposal
Literature;;One character in this work is ignored by the passersby when he sits on the steps of a train station and sings his improvised song "Poor Pope John", and that character calls himself a "Jewish Yankee" to insult his mother after his sister in killed on antiaircraft duty.  The protagonist is outraged when he reads about the honors bestowed on a man who had accused him of being a defeatist and led the local Hitler Youth group during World War II, Herbert Kalick.  Sommerwild and Kinkel are among the characters that the protagonist blames for his abandonment for Heribert Zupfner by his lover Marie Derkum.  Beginning with Hans Schnier injured after performing his act while drunk, FTP, name this novel by Heinrich Boll.;;(The) Clown|Ansichten eines Clowns
Literature;;In a lecture, one character in this work asserts that the Wedding Guest undergoes a form of psychoanalysis and the Ancient Mariner says nothing important in Coleridge's poem.  Another character in this work brings hogs into the restaurant Chez Robert and afterwards takes a baboon to the opera.  Carl Peterson walks out on one character who states that homosexuality is a political crime and attempts to test him for it, and many characters in this work eat Black Meat, the flesh of a giant aquatic centipede.  Another character works for Islam Incorporated, where he conducts experiments producing mindless humans called INDs.  That character, Dr. Benway, works in Interzone along with compulsive drug addict Bill Lee.  FTP, name this novel by William S. Burroughs.;;Naked Lunch
Literature;;Near the beginning of this work, an old mastiff howls sixteen times in answer to the clock, and later, while sleeping, that mastiff makes an angry moan, surprising one character who has never heard the dog yell before.  After being given a cordial wine by a character whose mother made it from wild flowers, one character in this work exclaims "Off, woman, off! this hour is mine".  Earlier, that character collapses and is carried through a gate by another character.  A dream concerning a bright green snake coiled around a dove is related by Bracy, who wishes to wander the woods in search of evil before delivering a message to Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine.  Near the end of this poem, the protagonist is reprimanded by Sir Leoline for demanding that he expel Lady Geraldine, who has put a curse on her in her sleep.  FTP, name this unfinished long poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.;;Christabel
Literature;;In one of this author's works, one character is given a greyhound named Lindy after Charles Lindbergh and another character is given an uncensored version of Arabian Nights, and in another work by this author, the protagonists' neighbors the Stolzes move back to Nazi Germany.  The protagonist of one work by this author tries to excavate a swimming pool in the hopes of seeing his daughter-in-law in a swimsuit, and the protagonist of another work attends a dance at the El Dorado Club and works as a waitress at the Diamond Cafe.  In addition to those novels about Tokusuke Utsugi and a character who moves in with Joji Kawai, Diary of a Mad Old Man and Naomi, he wrote a novel in which The Love Suicides at Amijima is viewed by O-Hisa and the estranged couple Misako and Kaname and a novel in which Yukiko has trouble finding suitors due to a blemish over her eye.  FTP, name this Japanese author of Some Prefer Nettles and The Makioka Sisters.;;(Junichiro) Tanizaki
Literature;;One author from this country wrote the play The Dolls and the novel Private Affairs in addition to a poem written as a short play in which he declares he is constructing the poem with a room for the soul that will be cheap to live in.  In addition to that author of The Winter Palace, another author from this country wrote the novels The Dark Angel and The Secret of the Kingdom in addition to a novel set during the 18th dynasty following Akhenaten's physician Sinuhe.  In addition to that author of The Egyptian, another author from this country wrote People in the Summer Night and a novel in which Ville is paralyzed when he is hit with a rail by Kalle, the son of Rina and the herdsman Jussi Toivola.  FTP, name this country home to Paavo Haavikko, Mika Waltari, and the author of Meek Heritage, Frans Sillanpaa.;;Finland
Literature;;This work concludes with a fantasy in which a ship's captain speaks in fourteen languages as he recognizes a town by the flowers planted on the cliffs.  That occurs after the villagers of that town decide to build their houses with stronger floors, wider doors, and higher ceilings.  When visitors from neighboring villages bring flowers for a special occasion, they return to their villages and bring back more flowers.  The women of the town make ill-fashioned pants from a piece of sail and are ridiculed for their weeping by the men until one of them removes a handkerchief from the title character's face.  FTP, name this short story which begins with the title character being discovered by children after washing ashore, a work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.;;(The) Handsomest Drowned Man in the World|El Abogado Mas Hermosa del Mundo
Literature;;In one work by this author, the protagonist feigns religiosity in order to arrange meetings with her lover disguised as a Latin teacher, and another of this author's works concludes with the bloody body of Amnon displayed on a table spread for a banquet.  Ines is courted by Dona Juana disguised as the title character in another work.  In addition to those plays, Marta la Piadosa, Tamar's Revenge, and Don Gil of the Green Breeches, he wrote a play in which the son of the exiled duke Pedro de Coimbra changes his name to Dionis in order to court Magdalena and one in which the protagonist is aided by his uncle Pedro, seduces the peasant Aminta, and pulls the beard of and invites to dinner Don Gonzalo's statue.  FTP, name this Spanish playwright of The Trickster of Seville.;;(Tirso) (de) Molina
Literature;;In one work by this author, Vera is seduced by the revolutionary Volokhov, much to the distress of a character who falls in love with his cousin Marfinka, Boris Pavlovich Raisky.  Another of his works ends with the protagonist returning to Saint Petersburg determined to copy his uncle Pyotr's career.  In addition to that novel about Alexander Aduyev, this author wrote a novel in which the protagonist cannot control his valet Zakhar, enlists Tarantyev to find him a new apartment when his landlord needs to use his for a relative, and horrifies his friend Andrey Stolz with his refusal to leave his house or do anything.  FTP, name this Russian novelist of The Precipice, A Common Story, and Oblomov.;;(Ivan) Goncharov
Literature;;In one poem by this author, the narrator wishes that the title figure be reborn as his son and asks that he can look after his family as the title figure did.  In another poem, the protagonist travels to a sacred waterfront in pursuit of a white elephant.  This poet of Prayer to the Dead Father wrote a poem in which quotes Ezra Pound with the repeating line "the mortar is not yet dry" and a poem which describes a dream "smoldering in a cave" and asks the earth to unbind him.  Much of his work of this poet of Siren and Elegy for Alto was published in the literary journal Black Orpheus.  FTP, name this poet of Heavensgate, Limits, and Path of Thunder.;;(Christopher) Okigbo
Literature;;One of this author's works features the first appearance of Don Juan in English literature, and one reworking of a Shakespeare play by this author gives the title character two mistresses, Melissa and Evandra.  In addition to The Libertine and The History of Timon of Athens, the Man-Hater, the misanthropes Emilia and Stanford are confronted by the arrogant dramatist Sir Positive At-all in another of his plays.   Yet another play features the merchants Bisket and Fribble and sees Mrs. Woodly sleep with the rakes Rains and Bevil, who pursue the honorable girls Lucia and Carolina.  This author of The Sullen Lovers and Epsom-Wells was depicted as waging "immortal war with wit" and "mature in dullness from his tender years" in a poem by one of his contemporaries.  FTP, name this English playwright attacked by John Dryden in his poem Mac Flecknoe.;;(Thomas) Shadwell
Literature;;One character in this work is an author gives the key to his apartment to another character and asks him to arrange his notebooks for publication as he recovers from being hit by a car, and another character is suggested to have gone to nurse one of the protagonist's former lovers with breast cancer, Pola.  For a time, the protagonist lives with his former lover Gekrepten, and the protagonist's lover leaves him after the death of her son Rocamodour.  The protagonist fears that his lover will have an affair with Osip Gregorovius, a fellow member of the Serpent Club.  Concluding with the protagonist perched on a windowsill, the protagonist of this work is cared for by Talita and Traveler, although he never finds his lost mistress La Maga.  FTP, name this novel about Horacio Oliveira which can be read beginning with Chapter 73, a work of Julio Cortazar.;;Hopscotch|Rayuela
Literature;;One character in this work recalls inflicting bodily pain on herself in order to practice controlling the movements of her face, and another character in this work compares his sexual conquests to the military victories of Frederick the Great.  In the lead-up to her marriage, one character in this work writes confiding letters to her friend Sophie Carnay, and another character enters the order of the Knights of Malta after killing another in a duel, causing Madame Tourvel to die of grief.  Earlier, Gercourt is abandoned by Cecile, who is simultaneously involved with Danceny and Valmont.  In the end, smallpox permanently disfigures the villainous Marquise de Merteuil.  FTP, name this epistolary novel written by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.;;Dangerous Liaisons|Dangerous Acquaintances|Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Literature;;In one work by this author, a frame story set in the frozen world of Arcturus details the defeat of an evil scribe by Sophie, Eros, and Fable.  That story is told by a man the protagonist sees a picture of himself with in an unfinished book written by a hermit, and the protagonist of that work falls in love with a girl whose face he dreams in a blue flower, Mathilde.  In addition to that novel featuring Friedrich von Hohenzollern and Klingsohr, he wrote a poem in which the narrator claims to die in holy rapture repeatedly and another poem in which the world is reborn with the death of a singer who dies in his youth.  Another poem which blesses the endless slumber and describes floating to the heavenly shore is entitled Longing for Death.  That work by this author of To a Falling Leaf and Devotional Songs was written in response to the death of Sophie von Kuhn.  FTP, name this German poet of Heinrich von Ofterdingen and Hymns to the Night.;;Novalis|(Friedrich) (von) Hardenberg
Literature;;One of this author's works begins with the steamship the Votaress launching for Louisville, and in another one of this author's works, General Brodnax obtains a command for his nephew Adolphe Irby, who is put in charge of the titular group of guns cast by his other nephew.  In addition to Gideon's Band and Kincaid's Battery, he wrote a work in which the title character endures accusations of witchcraft in order to protect the secrecy of the leprosy of his brother Jacques and another work in which Ursin Lemaitre gives up piracy for banking in order to marry Olive, whose mother swears that she is the daughter of a white woman in order to legalize the marriage.  In one of his novels, the protagonist commits suicide when he is rejected by Palmyre, a freed slave who attempts to use voodoo to get revenge on his uncle Agricola Fusilier.  FTP, name this author who included Jean-ah Poquelin and Madame Delphine in his collection Old Creole Days and penned the novel The Grandissimes.;;(George) (Washington) Cable
Literature;;This work's prologue relates how the narrator paid a visit to a friend after hearing he had been afflicted with a dread disease but was relieved to find that it was actually the friend's younger brother, who had since recovered.  The narrator of this work frequently comments on whether the moon is out or not and dislikes the look given him by his neighbor's dog.  When he cannot sleep, he carefully reads a history which has no dates in it and repeatedly sees the phrase "Eat People!" written in between the lines and asks his brother why he had to join with the others who were determined to cannibalize him.  FTP, name this short story by Lu Xun which shares its name with a work of Nikolai Gogol.;;Diary of a Madman|(A) Madman's Diary|Kuangren Riji
Literature;;Plays written by this man include one following the self-centered Professor Hoadley and one in which the Announcer describes the titular event caused by the dictator the Conqueror.  His other works include the sonnet sequence The Happy Marriage and a long poem about a fertility ritual described in The Golden Bough, The Pot of Earth.  The memories of Bernal Diaz recreate the story of Cortes's destruction of the Aztec empire in his poem Conquistador.  One of his plays includes the circus vendors Zuss and Nickles and sees the title character refuse to be comforted by the priest Zophar after the deaths of all of his children.  Concluding another poem with the line "A poem should not mean / but be", FTP, name this author of the poem Ars Poetica and the verse-play J. B.;;(Archibald) MacLeish
Literature;;One character in this work is employed by Mrs. Saddletree, whose son attempts to defend her when she is brought to trial, and another character is out for vengeance on the man who betrayed her daughter, Madge Wildfire.  The patronage of the Duke of Argyle allows one character to marry the minister Reuben Butler after she meets a man who instigates the hanging of a man who fires into the crowd at the execution of the smuggler Andrew Wilson, John Porteous.  That character eventually saves his lover, who was incarcerated for killing her child, though that child was actually given to an outlaw by Meg Murdockson.  In the end, Geordie Robertson is stabbed by his own son while searching for him in Scotland.  FTP, name this novel following Jeanie and Effie Deans, a work of Sir Walter Scott.;;(The) Heart of Midlothian
Literature;;The narrator of this poem recites the first two couplets of a song which he continuously makes puns on and begins "Flower o' the broom / Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!"  The narrator urges the listener to "not mistake an idle word / Spoke in a huff" after angrily shouting "Hang the fools!", and he concludes one section of this poem by stating "my lesson learned / The value and significance of flesh / I can't unlearn ten minutes afterward".  The narrator recalls how "They tried me with their books" when he first joined the Carmelites, and the criticism "Faces, arms, legs, and bodies like the true / As much as pea and pea! it's devil's game!" is used to reprimand him for a style which prompts the defacing of one of his paintings.  The narrator states "You need not clap your torches to my face" upon his apprehension by watchmen and tells them that he is "one, sir, who is lodging with a friendMaster-aCosimo of the Medici".  FTP, name this dramatic monologue contained in the collection Men and Women and delivered by the titular Renaissance painter, a work of Robert Browning.;;Fra Lippo Lippi
Literature;;Characters in this novel include a priest who believes in masturbation as a religious practice, a Jehovah's Witness who tries to castrate himself to avert charges of rape, and an exterminator of rats whose sister was eaten by rodents in the jungle.  In this novel, Eliana faints at her wedding to Antunez, and it is discovered that she was impregnated by her brother by her uncle Alberto Quinteros.  The protagonist of this work is disappointed when he discovers a medium of seances working as a notary in a bank, and the revelation that one character's wife is a prostitute explains why he constantly vilifies Argentinians.  Two characters in this novel continually attempt to find a mayor who will marry them despite one of them being underage.  FTP, name this novel in which Mario studies under Pedro Camacho, one of the title characters, a work a Mario Vargas Llosa.;;Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter|La Tia Julia y el Escribidor
Literature;;The first review ever published of this work recommends it to the Bowery Theatre as a prime subject for a ballet and suggests that the dancers could occasionally be scattered by a bout of combat with the Happars.  Early in this work, the protagonist contracts a disease which causes his leg to swell and cannot be treated.  The protagonist of this work refers to a central lounging shed as the Ti, attends the Feast of the Calabashes, and enjoys boating on the lake with Fayaway.  An Australian officer is contacted by the taboo man Marnoo in order to help the protagonist, but he is closely watched by Kory-Kory.  After deserting the Dolly, the protagonist's companion Toby disappears while seeking medical aid for him, and the protagonist is detained in his house during a ceremonial feast where the natives engage in cannibalism.  Detailing Tom's captivity among the titular tribe, FTP, name this novel, the prequel to Omoo and the first of Herman Melville.;;Typee
Literature;;In one of this man's poems, the titular structure complains when a pulpit is built for the Prophet, who used to speak atop it, and in another, a corrupt vizier sends scrolls containing different religious decrees to the separated tribes of Christians.  This author of those poems about the "moaning pillar" and the "Jewish king who killed Christians" has notably been translated by Reynold Nicholson and James Redhouse, and he was heavily influenced by the author of The Conference of the Birds, Farid ud-din Attar.  Another work inspired by the author of a namesake Maqalat is a series of short lyrics called ghazals.  FTP, name this poet of The Divan of Shams of Tabriz and Spiritual Couplets, a noted Sufi.;;(Jalal) (al(-)Din) Rumi|(Mawlana) (Jalal) (al(-)Din) (Muhammad) Balkhi
Literature;;In one of this man's plays, several guests remove their bags to reveal Nazi uniforms and thieves on leashes are brought by Baron Firulet and Count Szarm to a ball held by the fashion designer Master Fior, and in another, King Ignatius plots the title character's death choking on a bone after Prince Philip breaks his engagement with her.  In addition to Operetta and Ivona, Princess of Burgundia, two older men visiting the estate of Hippolytus S. scheme to make a couple of the younger Henia and Karol in one of his novels.  Another novel set in Argentina sees the homosexual Gonzalo attempt to seduce Ignacy.  The narrator and his friend Fuchs discover a hanging sparrow, and the narrator hangs Lena's cat in distress in another novel by this author of Pornografia.  Writing about Johnnie Kowalski in another novel, FTP, name this Polish author of Trans-Atlantyk, Kosmos, and Ferdydurke.;;(Witold) Gombrowicz
Literature;;Images in this poem include "fire green as grass" and "The night above the dingle starry".  The narrator of this poem states that "the sabbath rang slowly / In the pebbles of the holy streams" after characterizing himself as "green and golden", "huntsman and herdsman", and "prince of the apple towns".  The narrator then remarks that "My wishes raced through the house high hay" and describes a place where "it was all / Shining, it was Adam and maiden", and this poem concludes "Time held me green and dying / Though I sang in my chains like the sea".  FTP, name this poem describing feeling "happy as the grass was green" during childhood by the title location, a work of Dylan Thomas.;;Fern Hill
Literature;;One character in this work bleeds to death after having an abortion performed upon discovering her husband's affair shortly after Daria contracts syphilis and drowns herself.  In this work, the desertion of the officer Bunchuk takes place after one character saves the life of a man whose wife he had had an affair with, Stepan.  That character supports the execution of Podtielkov, and his sister Dunia marries the man who killed his brother, Koshevoi.  The protagonist is alone after the death of Aksinia and returns to Tatarsk.  Following the brothers Piotra and Gregor Melekhov, FTP, name this novel about a Cossack rebellion joining the White Army in the region around the titular river, a work of Mikhail Sholokhov.;;And Quiet Flows the Don|(The) Don Flows Home to Sea|(The) Silent Don|Tikhii Don
Literature;;One poem by this author states that "Everything is mine, and everything will be taken from me", and another declares that the title feeling "is my inheritance".  This author of the essay collection The Clenched Fist and the poetry collection which includes the aforementioned It is Most Beautiful at Twilight, Anguish wrote a play in which an executioner rips the heads off of dolls and another in which Nazis shoot black players in a jazz band and the title character crucifies Christ.  In addition to The Secret of Heaven and The Hangman, he wrote a novel in which a one-armed man drowns clutching a laurel branch as the title character has sex with a black goat.  His other novels include one in which the title character is enslaved along with Sahak and tries to set fire to Rome and one which follows a character who poisons Lodovico and Don Riccardo and reports Giovanni's affair with Angelica to the Prince, the twenty-six inch tall Piccoline.  FTP, name this author of The Sybil, Barabbas, and The Dwarf.;;(Par) Lagerkvist
Literature;;After one character's lover in this work dies in a car crash, he is asked to be the godfather of his previous lover's son who is named after him.  In a comic episode reminiscent of Seinfeld, one character in this work demands that his lover choose between him and her cat Charlemagne.  That lover has a homosexual brother, Ed, who briefly has an affair with a character whose arrest inspires her to become a lawyer, Phil Weiss.  Near the beginning of this work, Janet Hayakawa convinces the protagonist to use a personals column to find love, resulting in his relationship with Liz Dorati.  Following John Brown and written in the same meter as Eugene Onegin, FTP, name this novel in verse set in San Francisco written by Vikram Seth.;;(The) Golden Gate
Literature;;In one novel of this name, the memory of Conselheiro Vale overshadows his son, who falls in love with his half-sister when she is taken into the family household.  In addition to that novel following Estacio, another novel of this name includes such characters as the barbarian chief King Coel, the eunuch Marcias, and the plotters Fausta and Eusebius.  In that novel, the protagonist meets Bishop Macarius in the Holy Land while searching for the True Cross following her son's conversion to Christianity.  That novel was published before its author's Men at Arms and after The Loved One.  FTP, give this female name which is the shared title of novels by Joachim Maria Machado de Assis and Evelyn Waugh.;;Helena
Literature;;In one work by this author, the protagonist is rescued by Billy Sanders after being accused of murdering a carpetbagger who refers to blacks as "niggeroes" and tells them that the Southerners are planning to strip them of their right to vote, Gilbert Hotchkiss.  In addition to that novel narrated by Cephas, another work by this author follows a character who wrestles with Salem after refusing to sell her last pie and helps Perdue fight the Gossett boys.  In addition to Gabriel Tolliver and The Chronicles of Aunt Minervy Ann, he wrote a story in which the title character breaks into jail only to find that Berrien Cozart is dead.  In another story, a turtle wins a race by placing his family members at various points on the track, outsmarting his competitor who cannot differentiate them, Brer Rabbit.  FTP, name this author of Balaam and His Master and Tales of Uncle Remus.;;(Joel) (Chandler) Harris
Literature;;One work by this author concludes with one of the title characters decreeing the destruction of clocks and calendars, and that character is searched for by King Peter after earlier fleeing the kingdom of Popo along with Valerio.  A visit from Christoph Kaufmann angers the protagonist, who is in the care of Johann Oberlin, in another work by this author.  In addition to Leonce and Lena and Lenz, he wrote a play in which the protagonist flirts with the prostitute Marion while ignoring his fall from grace in the Committee of Public Safety and another play in which the protagonist is beaten by the Drum Major and dreams of a knife before stabbing his lover Marie.  FTP, name this German playwright of Danton's Death and Woyzeck.;;(Georg) Buchner
Literature;;In this work, the revolutionary Blue is the object of affection of two rival sisters, one of whom shoots the head of an acting troupe, Sunay.  One character in this work writes a set of twenty poems, but only writes down nineteen, performing the twentieth onstage in a variety show, prompting Necip to rise to his feet to be immediately shot down in connection with a military coup.  That character also claims to be investigating a series of suicides by schoolgirls who refused to remove their headscarves in school while secretly romancing his old love Ypek.  A character with the same name as the author then travels to Kars to investigate that friend's death and also falls in love with Ypek.  FTP, name this novel in which the title event isolates the poet Ka in the town of Kars for three days, a work of Orhan Pamuk.;;Snow|Kar
Literature;;One character in this work is devoted to her master because he hired her after she was repeatedly turned down due to her ugliness, and that character later marries the estate's gamekeeper.  Another character in this work delivers a letter in which, unbeknownst to him, his father declares that he is bankrupt and will soon commit suicide.  The protagonist is given winter and summer dresses by her mother every birthday and given a single gold coin by her father, who then demands to see the accumulated total from all the birthdays.  That gold is later given to her foppish cousin to travel to India.  The protagonist marries Monsieur Cruchot after releasing that cousin Charles to marry rich.  FTP, name this novel about the daughter of a rich miser from The Human Comedy, a work of Honore de Balzac.;;Eugenie Grandet
Literature;;One character in this poem is described as having "cheeks like the dawn of day" and a "bosom white as the hawthorn buds / That ope in the month of May".  That character later asks another the meaning of the ringing of church bells and thinks of Christ at the Lake of Galilee.  Another character recalls that the moon had a golden ring the night before and draws a scornful laugh from the character he addresses.  The question "I see a gleaming light / O say, what may it be?" is not answered because the addressee is a frozen corpse, and the speaker of the question is stuck lashed to a mast as the titular ship travels towards the reef of Norman's woe.  FTP, name this poem detailing the destruction of the titular schooner by a hurricane, a work of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.;;(The) Wreck of the Hesperus
Literature;;One author from this country wrote the novels The Relic and The City and the Mountains as well as a work in which Sebastian uses a policeman to provoke a heart attack in a tyrannical maid who is blackmailing her mistress with love letters to her cousin.  In addition to that author of that novel about Juliana and Luiza, another author from this country wrote a series of fourteen sonnets depicted the passion from Christ's perspective and a noted "factless autobiography".  This country which produced the aforementioned authors of Cousin Bazilio, The Stations of the Cross, and The Book of Disquietude also produced an author who wrote a work in which the title character refuses to sacrifice a lamb to satisfy God and learns shepherding from Pastor, as well as a work including Joana Carda and Maria Guavaira, who continually unravels a sock as the Pyrenees crack and the Iberian peninsula floats away.  FTP, name this country home to Jose Maria de Eca de Queiroz and Fernando Pessoa, as well as the author of The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and The Stone Raft, Jose Saramago.;;Portugal
Literature;;One character in this work praises his young wife with J.J.C., meaning large breasts, and is inspired by the tales of a World War II soldier who fought in Burma and makes comments foreshadowing another character's consumption of urine.  In one scene, the protagonist of this work escapes execution when the executioner runs out of ammunition.  That executioner, Manmuswak, first meets the protagonist in his favorite palm-wine bar, the African Upwine Bar, where the protagonist also meets his girlfriend Agnes.  Upon returning to his hometown of Dukana, the villagers attempt to kill him in the belief that he is a ghost.  Following the soldier Mene, who fights for and against the Republic of Biafra, FTP, name this "Novel in Rotten English", a work of Ken Saro-Wiwa.;;Sozaboy
Literature;;In this work, the protagonist's wife becomes willing to accept an apartment without a number due to her fascination with a black janitor.  One character in this work is rejected by Alma Leighton after expressing interest in the charity worker Margaret Vance and is dismissed by a girl who wishes to marry him only until receiving her father's approval, Christine.  Another character in this work is killed by a stray bullet during a streetcar strike while trying to defend a one-handed socialist whom his father had recently fired after fighting with him at a dinner party.  Before moving to Paris after the death of his son Conrad, Mr. Dryfoos sells the literary magazine Every Other Week to the protagonist and Mr. Fulkerson.  FTP, name this novel following Basil March, a work of William Dean Howells.;;(A) Hazard of New Fortunes
Literature;;One character in this work calls his companion a philosopher after he kisses an executioner on both cheeks and relates the story of how Socrates courteously accepted the cup of hemlock.  Another character has a brother who died in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake after leaving the Carmelites.  That character tells an extremely detailed tale of how he was wounded in knee and is disconcerted when his new horse repeatedly leads him to gibbets.  An innkeeper's wife tells the story of Madame de La Pommeraye's failed plot for revenge on the Marquis des Arcis.  Concluding with the title character's release from jail after his master kills a man in a duel, FTP, name this novel by Denis Diderot.;;Jacques the Fatalist (and) (his) (Master)|Jacques le Fataliste (et) (Son) (Maitre)
Literature;;In this work, a portrait of one character's grandfather sighs and removes itself from its frame, and three drops of blood falling from the nose of a statue is taken as a sign that two characters should not marry.  A birthmark revealing one character to be the son of the priest is discovered shortly before an execution which is interrupted by the arrival of the Knight of the Gigantic Saber.  The grandson of Ricardo accidentally stabs his daughter Matilda in the chapel, and the action of this novel begins when Conrad is crushed by a giant helmet.  In the end, the giant Prince Alfonso reveals that Theodore is the true heir, allowing him to marry Isabella and forcing Manfred to abdicate.  FTP, name this Gothic novel by Horace Walpole.;;(The) Castle of Otranto
Literature;;Characters created by this author include one who has his life story told in a series of flashbacks as he walks from his car to his old apartment and back and an underwater tunnel worker who survives a cave-in named McGlathery.  In one novel, Etta returns home after the suicide of her brother Stewart and stroke of her mother Benecia to find that her father believes he has betrayed his Quaker faith.  In addition to that novel about Solon Barnes, those aforementioned stories, The Old Neighborhood and St. Columba and the River, were contained in the collection Chains.  The protagonist is fired in the midst of his affair with Suzanne Dale in his novel about the artist Eugene Witla, and the protagonist of another novel receives a confession of love from Lester Kane on his deathbed.  This author's other works include a trilogy about a man who has an affair with Berenice Fleming and fails to bribe the city council into passing his bill establishing a transportation commission in Chicago, Frank Cowperwood.  Other novels by this author include one about a lover of Charles Drouet and George Hurstwood and one about a man who causes Roberta Alden to drown when he hits her with his camera.  FTP, name this American novelist of The Bulwark, Jennie Gerhardt, The Titan, and An American Tragedy.;;(Theodore) Dreiser
Literature;;The protagonist of this work quotes the poem "Suggest to your lord, attendants, that he wear his hat" upon a visit to a pine grove, and one character in this work relates a story about farmers who, upset about people destroying their grain, shoved the Fern-print Rock off of the mountain on which it stood.  A group of characters in this work decorate their hats with deutzia flowers in order to "adjust their dress" on a special occasion, and one character gives the protagonist and his friend pairs of straw sandals as a farewell gift, prompting the protagonist to write the line "Let us bind sweet-flags to our feet".  At the beginning of this work, one character puts on a black robe and shaves his head before departing with the protagonist, and that character later writes "what foods do worshippers eat at Kisakata?"  FTP, name this travelogue containing a large number of haiku, a work of Matsuo Basho.;;The Narrow Road of the Interior|The Narrow Road to the Interior|The Narrow Road of the Deep North|The Narrow Road to the Deep North|Oko no Hosmichi
Literature;;In one scene in this play, one character enters a room and immediately notes that someone has taken his specially made cheese roll, prompting another character to admit to it but refuse to apologize because he took it deliberately.  One character in this play offers another a glass of water with sexual implications, but then drinks it and claims she was just thirsty, and another character falls unconscious after relating how two passengers in his cab had sexual intercourse.  In this play, Joey is a boxer, Lenny is a pimp, and Max is a retired butcher and the family patriarch.  Multiple family members are affected by their desire for Teddy's wife Ruth, a former model.  FTP, name this play which features an unannounced arrival in the central household, a work of Harold Pinter.;;(The) Homecoming
Literature;;The protagonist of this work flees his home after accidentally shooting his uncle and later continually listens to a tape recording played by Padilla.  The protagonist's first love Regina is hanged by revolutionary troops, and his only childhood friend is the mulatto servant Lunero.  The protagonist's son Lorenzo dies fighting in the Spanish Civil War, for which he is blamed by his wife Catalina, whom he meets after visiting her father to inform him of how his son, the idealist Gonzalo Bernal, is killed by a Villista firing squad.  The protagonist economically ruins his neighbors at Perales in order to seize their land and later refuses to tell his family where he has put his will.  FTP, name this novel in which the titular tycoon reflects on the moral corruption of his life while lying on his deathbed, a work of Carlos Fuentes.;;(The) Death of Artemio Cruz|La Muerte de Artemio Cruz
Literature;;One character in this work is an enchantress who turns fifty soldiers into fish and imprisons them in her castle, though she is later seduced by the man who rescues them.  Sophronia and Olindo are both condemned to be burned at the stake for stealing a statue, and another character is ordered to deliver the sword of the Prince of Denmark to a character who is banished for killing Gernando in a joust.  Erminia steals one character's armor in order to attend a wounded enemy, and one army in this work is repeatedly defeated after offending Argantes.  After one character sets fire to a siege tower, she is killed by an enemy soldier who is in love with her.  Featuring the combat of Tancred and Clorinda outside the walls of the titular city, FTP, name this epic poem written by Torquato Tasso.;;Jerusalem Delivered|Gerusalemme Liberata
Literature;;One poem in this collection counts "lightfoot boys" and "rose-lipt girls" among the golden friends for whom the poet mourns, and another poem describes a flower which "has not long to stay / And dies on Easter day".  Another poem details the narrator's wish to enlist in the army after his lover tells him to "go where you are wanted, for you are not wanted here".  In addition to The Lent Lily and The New Mistress, this collection includes a poem which states "And while the sun and moon endure / Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure" and instructs its addressee to "Look into the pewter pot / To see the world as the world's not".  Another poem in this collection comments that "early though the laurel grows / It withers quicker than the rose" and begins "The time you won your town the race / We chaired you through the market-place".  FTP, name this poetry collection including Terence, This is Stupid Stuff and To an Athlete Dying Young, a work of A. E. Housman.;;(A) Shropshire Lad
Literature;;The central figure of this poem has uses an "imperious gesture" to fling down one of the central images which is then stamped on by "small firm feet".  The analogy of how a "lighted matchsends out brilliant flickering tongues to every side" is used to describe the "hasty, heated rhythms" of a figure who "With a fierce glancesets her hair alight".  That figure has arms which "appear like serpents striking" and "fans her dress into passionate flames".  Describing the title character performing the flamenco, FTP, name this poem by Rainer Maria Rilke.;;Spanish Dancer|Spanische Tanzerin
Literature;;In one work by this author, many characters chop down trees as the Song of the Dark narrates the creation of the world as sung by the Old Singer.  In another of his works, over the course of ten years, the Carpenter and the Old Man with Glasses stay in the company which the Silent Man leaves early.  The narrator travels with the French woman Sylvie after being abandoned by Margarethe in another novel by this author.  The author of Wild Man, The Bus Stop, and One Man's Bible, FTP, name this author of a novel narrated by "I", "you", "he", and "she" as they travel to the title location, Soul Mountain.;;Gao (Xingjian)
Literature;;In one work of this author, Martha Foote works at the Senate Hotel, where the actress Geisha McCoy becomes hysterical out of fear for her son fighting overseas.  That story, The Three of Them, was collected along with Shore Leave and The Tough Guy in her collection Cheerful by Request.  The protagonist makes an effort to include her Indian daughter-in-law at social events in her novel about Sabra Cravat, and Luz is the domineering sister of Bick Benedict in her novel following Leslie Lynnton.  In addition to Cimarron and Giant, Roelf Pool disappoints Dirk when he hangs out with Dallas O'Mara and Selina in her novel about the Dejong family.  Writing about Captain Andy and Parthenia Hawkes in another work, FTP, name this member of the Algonquin Round Table and author of So Big and Show Boat.;;(Edna) Ferber
Literature;;In one of this man's works, a servant takes up the role of a reincarnation of Nostradamus after usurping the position of the title character by convincing him that he himself is dead.  In addition to that work in which Dr. Godspeak is overthrown by Alaba, he wrote a work in which the protagonist's wife is seduced by his twin brother and his farm is destroyed by a flood, leading him to confront the Priest of the Serpent.  This author of Requiem for a Futurologist who wrote about the Kadiye and Igwezu in The Swamp Dwellers wrote a work in which Segi and Daodu lead a rebellion against the titular president, as well as one in which a village chief feigns impotence in order to seduce a village girl as she celebrates with his wife Sadiku.  FTP, name this playwright of Kongi's Harvest who wrote of the schoolteacher Lakunle's delusional love for Sidi in The Lion and the Jewel.;;(Wole) Soyinka
Literature;;In one scene in this play, the invocation of the queen's name causes all of the characters onstage to drop their swords, and in another scene, one character comes on stage, sits down, shakes his head, gets up, and goes off stage.  Early on, a French musician and Italian musician have a conversation with one of the central characters in which no one understands each other, and a later scene sees Beefeater kill Whiskerandos in a duel.  In the first act, one character identifies himself as a "practitioner in panegyric" and the central household receives a visit from Sir Fretful Plagiary.  FTP, name this play in which Mr. Sneer and Mr. Dangle view a rehearsal of a tragedy by Mr. Puff, a work of Richard Sheridan.;;(The) Critic
Literature;;In one of this author's works, a peasant accidentally sells a clay statue to an American tourist, a storyteller lights a lamp to signal to the villagers when he has prepared a story but eventually loses his memory and spends the rest of his life in silence.  In one novel by this author, Ravi partially causes the failure of a film created by the title character Sampath, who befriends the editor of The Banner, Srinivas.  Other novels by this author of Under the Banyan Tree include one in which a manager of a family planning clinic, Daisy, is the object of affection of Raman, and one in which the dancer Rosie has a brief affair with Railway Rajan.  FTP, name this Indian author of The Printer of Malgudi, The Painter of Signs, and The Guide.;;(R(.)) (K(.)) Narayan
Literature;;In one work by this author, the protagonist dies after being beaten by the watchman Stach for trying to steal a violin, and in another, the protagonist uses his affairs with Mrs. Davis and Klara Hilst to arouse the jealousy of Anielka.  In addition to Janko the Musician and that novel written as the diary of Leon Ploszowski, Without Dogma, he wrote a novel in which Tugai Bey is convinced by Hmelnitski not to execute Pan Yan Skshetuski set during the rebellion of the Cossack Brotherhood of the Saitch.  In another novel by this author, Petronius bleeds to death, Nero is stabbed by a slave, and Vinicius and Lygia escape to Sicily.  FTP, name this Polish novelist of With Fire and Sword and Quo Vadis.;;(Henryk) Sienkiewicz
Literature;;This man's works for theatre include one about a conqueror who is betrayed by the Princess of Burgundy and one about the Spanish inquisitor Munebraga.  A schedule is created which sets aside three days a week for repentance by a man who writes The Testament of Compulsory Salvation, Vicar Dooley, in a work in which Campbell pursues the entertainer Didi.  This author of the plays Attila and The Fires of Saint Dominic also wrote a work in which the Day of Unanimity sees the reelection of the Benefactor of the One State and a plot to take over the Integral results in the lobotomy of D-503.  FTP, name this Russian author of The Islanders and a novel which Ayn Rand "borrowed" some ideas from, We.;;(Yevgeny) Zamyatin
Literature;;The narrator of this work is disappointed when his Chinese creeper is infested with worms, and after he and his horse eat apples which taste like ground, he decides that he is not in fairy land yet.  The narrator claims that the reason another character does not believe that the sun gilds her house is that she is inside it when it does.  The dog Tray is an imaginary pet seen in a shadow, and one character's mysterious brother is out all day and only comes home to sleep.  That character points to the narrator's house, claims that someone happy must live there, and expresses the wish to one day travel there, but the narrator does not reveal that it is his house and he visited hers after viewing it repeatedly from the titular structure.  FTP, name this short story which titles a collection containing The Lightning-Rod Man and The Bell-Tower, a work of Herman Melville.;;(The) Piazza
Literature;;Two characters in this work are scattered with swords while Chispa sings a bawdy song when they attempt to seduce another character by serenading her, and one character in this work feigns a fight with his superior as a pretense for fleeing to the attic of a house.  Another character in this work is romanced by the awkward Nuno and Don Mendo, and her brother Juan is jailed for fighting with a superior after he rapes her.  A battle between Don Lope's soldiers and villagers is prevented with the arrival of Philip II.  In the end, it is decided that Isabel will become a nun, and Don Alvaro is strangled in jail.  FTP, name this play in which Pedro Crespo is elected to the titular position, a work of Pedro Calderon de la Barca.;;(The) Mayor of Zalamea|El Alcalde de Zalamea
Literature;;In one poem by this author, the narrator reaches out in the night to find her lover gone and cold as dew, and that poem begins with the lines "Love, if I weep it will not matter / And if you laugh I shall not care".  Another poem states "My soul is all but out of me" and tells the addressee "I cannot hold thee close enough".  In addition to The Dream and God's World, she wrote a poem which the narrator wakes to find his mother "Looking nineteen / And not a day older" and frozen dead and relates the creation of clothes for a king's son.  Another poem by this author states "Safe upon the rock the ugly houses stand / Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand".  FTP, name this poet of The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver and Renascence who wrote of a candle that burns at both ends in the opening poem of A Few Figs from Thistles.;;(Edna) (St(.)) (Vincent) Millay
Literature;;In one poem by this man, Golconda's ruler and pearls of Ormuz are among the dreams of a Princess who is guarded by a hundred Negroes with a hundred lances, and in another, a sailor who has witnessed the typhoons of the China sea is accompanied by a cricket in his guitar playing.  In addition to Sonatina and that poem which begins by describing the sea as a vast silvered mirror, this poet addresses a figure that can only be reached by other men through the Bible or Walt Whitman's poetry and asserts "You are the United States".  Those aforementioned poems are entitled Symphony in Grey Major and To Roosevelt.  FTP, name this poet of Prosas Profanas and Azul, a founder of Modernismo and native of Nicaragua.;;(Ruben) Dario
Literature;;In one of this author's short stories, the protagonist attempts to break the ice of a small pond in order to throw himself in to do penance for halting his pilgrimage, but he is stopped by a girl whom he claims God has chosen as the instrument of his torture.  That story about Shulamith and Zerouja Nebouch, The Angel of Death, was contained along with Haman and Esther and The Feast of the Elect in his collection Jewish Tales.  In a novel by this author, one character relates the story of the ox of Dionysius to another before leaving him for Alexis Papadopolis.  That novel about the relationship between Severin von Kusiemski and Wanda von Dunajew was contained in the Love section of his incomplete cycle The Legacy of Cain.  FTP, name this Austrian author of Venus in Furs who lends his name to the sexual practice of gratification through receiving pain.;;(Leopold) (Ritter) (von) Sacher(-)Masoch
Literature;;In one of this author's works, a storyteller in an inn describes a town full of women dressed in black where there are no schools, inns, or restaurants, and in another, a rainstorm drowns the cow La Serpentina, ruining Tacha's hopes of avoiding prostitution.  In another work, Natalia forces her sick husband Tanilo to complete a pilgrimage to the titular town in the hope that he will die on the way.  In addition to Luvina, Because We Are So Poor, and Talpa, Father Renteria opposes the title character of another work by this author, who marries Susana San Juan and is stabbed to death by his son Abundio Martinez.  In that novel, Juan Preciado travels to the town of ghosts Comala in search of his father.  FTP, name this Mexican author of The Burning Plain and Pedro Paramo.;;(Juan) Rulfo
Literature;;One character in this work receives a letter from Venice, recognizes the handwriting, and burns it without opening it.  That letter is written by a character whose death is announced by telegram days earlier.  After arriving in England accompanied by Susan Shepherd, the protagonist visits Sir Luke Strett, who informs her that she has only a matter of months to live.  One character learns that the protagonist rejected Lord Mark in the belief of his insincerity through Mrs. Stringham.  In the end, after unsuccessfully plotting to marry the protagonist for her money and use it to remarry once she died, Merton Densher refuses to marry Kate Croy with the money the protagonist willingly leaves them.  FTP, name this novel following Milly Theale written by Henry James.;;(The) Wings of the Dove
Literature;;When one character in this work states that he does not recognize another character's name, that character replies that he is well known in Ennis.  One character in this work sings the song Johnny Hart, and that character is corrected on the line "Her gown she wore was stained with gore" when he sings Granuaile, after which he discovers that the character who corrected him also knows Shan Bhean Bhocht and Green on the Cape.  After reflecting on how easily he could have had another character's place if he had not married and sworn to protect English law, one character willingly hides another's hat and wig.  FTP, name this play in which the Sergeant allows an escaped convict to go free despite a hundred-pound reward, a work of Lady Gregory named for an Irish ballad sung as a signal of rebellion.;;(The) Rising of the Moon
Literature;;One author from this country wrote a novel detailing a railway workers' strike led by Beaugosse and Bakayoko as well as a novel in which Sereen Mada cures the businessman El Hadji of his impotence.  Another author from this country wrote a work in the form of a message sent to Aissatou from Ramatoulaye.  In addition to those authors of God's Bits of Wood, Xala, and So Long a Letter, another author from this country wrote the poetry collection Nocturnes and included Prayer to the Masks and Black Woman in his first poetry collection Shadow Songs.  FTP, name this country home to Ousmane Sembene, Mariama Ba, and Leopold Senghor.;;Senegal
Literature;;At the beginning of this work, the protagonist goes to collect five rubles only to discover that the man who owes him is not at home, and then is not permitted to buy on credit from a fur dealer.  After spending his twenty kopecks on vodka, the protagonist passes a man who is freezing to death on the road and takes him as an apprentice.  The stranger appears to make a mistake by making funeral slippers instead of boots for a nobleman until a message arrives and informs the household that the nobleman has suddenly died.  Later, they meet a woman who cared for twin girls after their father was killed by a tree and their mother died in childbirth.  After learning that the living god is the titular entity, Michael smiles for a third time because he has achieved forgiveness from God for refusing to take a woman's soul and ascends into heaven.  FTP, name this short story about the poor cobbler Simon, a work of Leo Tolstoy.;;What Men Live By|(if) (someone) (tries) (to) (give) (the) (Russian) (title) (smack) (them) (and) (demand) (a) (translation)
Literature;;One character created by this author is given a white silk shirt embroidered with the golden hair of his beloved before he captures the treacherous Count Angres.  That character who marries Soredamors fathers a son who is aided by the artisan John and sorceress Thessala in escaping with his love Fenice.  Another character created by this author is whipped by a dwarf during the hunt for the white stag and fights Guivret the Little.  In another work, the protagonist becomes the protector of the magic spring after avenging his cousin Calogrenant and marrying Lady Laudine.  FTP, name this author of Cliges and Erec and Enide who wrote of the titular "knight of the lion" in Yvain, a medieval French poet.;;Chretien (de) (Troyes)
Literature;;One poem by this man concludes with the image of a flickering life being blown out like a candle while addressing a "power more near my life than life itself" which is "missed in the commonplace of miracle".  Another poem describes a figure whose "heart stood still / Like a frozen waterfall" before tossing a piece of gold to leper.  His other works include one in which Birdofredum Sawin loses an eye and an arm in war and has his letters turned into poetry by Hosea and one in which chickens led by Tityrus Griswold are marched past Phoebus Apollo.  FTP, name this American poet of The Cathedral, The Vision of Sir Launfal, The Biglow Papers, and A Fable for Critics.;;(James) (Russell) Lowell
Literature;;One character in this work hides his money so well that his family cannot find it after he drowns diving into a pond after his son.  The protagonist of this work clashes with WC Tuttle and is born with six fingers on each hand, and he briefly prospers as a reporter in Port of Spain after earlier working at a rum shop while being supported by his Aunt Tara.  The protagonist then works as an itinerant sign painter before moving into Hanuman House, and while living in The Chase, the protagonist runs a food shop and his son Anand is born.  After being evicted by Mrs. Tulsi, the protagonist makes a bad purchase from a clerk.  FTP, name this novel in which Mohun finally buys the title structure, a work of     V. S. Naipaul.;;(A) House for Mr(.) Biswas
Literature;;At the end of this work, one character moves to Germany to translate Chinese medical texts into German, and another character in this work loses most prospective suitors after marrying a policeman who already had a wife and children.  Two characters in this work meet after one of them kills a snake which is attacking two birds belonging to a woman whom he bows to every time he passes her house.  That woman is taken as a mistress by a moneylender who is dissatisfied with his ugly wife Otsune, Suezo.  After meeting Ishihara by a pond, the protagonist loses his last chance to speak to Otama.  FTP, name this novel in which Okada kills one of the titular animals with a rock written by Mori Ogai.;;(The) Wild Geese|Gan
Literature;;This poem which mentions "the rainbow of the salt sand-wave" and "the wealth of globed peonies" advises that "if thy mistress some rich anger shows / Emprison her soft hand, and let her rave / And feed deep, deep upon her peerless eyes".  This poem which concludes "His soul shall taste the sadness of her might / And be among her cloudy trophies hung" describes a figure which "hides the green hill in an April shroud" and "has her sovran shrine" in "the very temple of Delight".  Beginning "No, no! go not to Lethe, neither twist / Wolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine", FTP, name this poem which instructs the reader to "glut thy sorrow on a morning rose", a work of John Keats.;;Ode on Melancholy
Literature;;This character is first introduced at his grandfather's funeral, whose death prompts his family to sell their estate.  In one work, this character falls in love with the prostitute who is eventually found dead with a slit throat, Magdalena, and dies in a violent fight with her pimp Eduardo.  In addition to that work in which he befriends Billy Parham, this character falls in love with the daughter of Don Hector, Alejandra, kills an assassin sent for him by Perez while incarcerated, and loses Jimmy Blevins in a lightning storm.  In that novel, this character travels to Mexico along with Lacey Rawlins.  FTP, name this cowboy who appears in Cities of the Plain, the protagonist of Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses.;;John (Grady) Cole
Literature;;In one work by this man, one character buys old violins, plays them once, and promptly takes them apart and is devastated by the death of his daughter Antonie, and in another, the title character solves a mystery regarding a goldsmith who is so obsessed with his creations that he murders his customers to get them back, Cardillac.  Abraham Liscov adopts the title character and teaches music to Johannes Kreisler in another work by this man.  In addition to Councillor Krespel, Mademoiselle de Scudery, and The Life and Opinions of Kater Murr, he wrote a story in which Nathanael jumps from the tower of city hall after Lothar saves his fiancee Clara from him and a novel in which Count Victorin and Medardus partake of the titular beverage.  FTP, name this German author of The Sandman, The Serapion Brethren, and The Devil's Elixir.;;(E(.)) (T(.)) (A(.)) Hoffmann
Literature;;One character in this work travels to Rome in a vain attempt to persuade the bishops to canonize one of her ancestors, after which she visits a Swiss sanatorium and returns home to look for the ancestor's bones, and another character in this work imagines himself as a paper-mache head, a phallus, and a mute child.  Mother Benita cares for an orphan who is believed to give birth as a virgin, Iris Mateluna.  After the insane Ines gives birth to a son, Emperatriz is hired by her husband who drowns in a lake while staying at La Rinconada, Jeronimo de Azcoitia.  Narrated by Humberto Penaloza, FTP, name this novel in which the deformed Boy is surrounded by freaks so that he does not become aware of his own ugliness, a work of Jose Donoso.;;(The) Obscene Bird of Night|El Obsceno Parajo de la Noche
Literature;;One work by this author is a sequence of poems including Ecce Homo, Peace in War, and several named for body parts of Jesus on the cross including Crown, Forehead, and Eyes.  Joaquin Monegro arranges for the title character to paint the portrait of Helena and feels that he has been betrayed when they become lovers in one novel, and Lazaro assists the title character in his spiritual work in another narrated by Angela Carballino.  In one novel, this man depicts himself asserting his dominance over the protagonist as his creator and shows the piano teacher Eugenia abuse the helpless Augusto Perez.  FTP, name this Spanish author of The Christ of Velazquez, Abel Sanchez, Saint Manuel Bueno, Martyr, and Mist, a member of the Generation of '98.;;(Miguel) (de) Unamuno (y) (Jugo)
Literature;;This author wrote a hilarious number of nonfiction books about alcohol, including On Drink, How's Your Glass?: A Quizzical Look at Drinks and Drinking, and Everyday Drinking: The Distilled "this man".  In one novel by this author, the ghost of Dr. Underhill haunts the inn owned by Maurice Allington, and in another, Charlie Norris is forced to walk down a dark road at night by Alun Weaver.  The protagonist tries to abandon Margaret Peel and attacks Professor Welch in a public lecture in his novel about James Dixon.  FTP, name this British author of The Green Man, The Old Devils, and Lucky Jim, a relative of the author of Money, his son Martin.;;Kingsley Amis
Literature;;This poem references prostitutes "whose girdles tinkle as they dance" who cast glances "like a long row of honey-makers" and "the mountain whose sides are shaded with mango trees" that will "attain a conditionworthy to be contemplated by the god-pair".  One character in this poem is described as having "the color of her lips destroyed by the heat of her sighs", and the protagonist of this poem describes how he will untie the top knot of his wife's hair and lives "northward of the palace of the Lord of Wealth".  The protagonist of this poem is a Yaksha in exile who wishes to inform his wife of his welfare and enlists the title figure.  Addressing the title figure as "changer of shape at will", "prime minister of Indra", and "watergiver", FTP, name this lyric poem by Kalidasa.;;(The) Cloud Messenger|Megha Duta
Literature;;At the age of sixteen, the protagonist of this work falls in love with a blond girl his own age, but when he sees her kissing another boy, he renounces love forever.  Early in this work, the protagonist learns from his sisters that the city's new military governor has recently arrived.  At a performance of Lohengrin, he tries to pick up the fan of the woman next to him when she drops it and is shocked when she forces him to look away with her stare.  After confessing his love to Frau von Rinnlingen and being harshly rejected, the protagonist drowns himself in a lake.  In the conversation beforehand, he explained how he was dropped on the floor as an infant by an alcoholic nurse and permanently crippled.  FTP, name this short story by Thomas Mann.;;Little Herr Friedemann|Der Kleine Herr Friedemann
Literature;;In response to the assertion "You're a Christian!" one character in this work replies "I know which end is up and I wasn't born yesterday and I know where I'm going!"  One character in this work conceals a flask of whiskey in a hollowed out book and carries a briefcase containing pornographic pictures.  The protagonist's mother refuses to say that her daughter is a philosopher, and the protagonist annoys another character with her vague musings in response to his insistence that she say she loves him.  The protagonist's mother gives the titular characterization to Mrs. Freeman and her family.  FTP, name this short story in which Bible salesman Manley Pointer steals the wooden leg of Hulga Hopewell, a work of Flannery O'Connor.;;Good Country People
Literature;;One character in this work is briefly involved with his employer's daughter Orchid, and that character is briefly engaged to two women at the same time before Madeline Fox angrily abandons him.  The protagonist is forced to resign from one post after ordering the demolition of the McCandless tenements, and he marries Joyce Lanyon after his first wife dies after smoking a half-used cigarette.  On that trip to St. Hubert, the protagonist's mentor Gustave Sondelius dies and the protagonist does not keep his promise to Max Gottlieb to keep a control group of patients without treatment.  FTP, name this novel whose protagonist meets his future wife Leora Tozer on an errand to the Zenith City Hospital, a work of Sinclair Lewis.;;Arrowsmith
Literature;;One stanza of this poem claims that "Philomel becometh dumb" and "The rest complains of cares to come" after stating that "Time drives the flocks from field to fold / When rivers rage and rocks grow cold".  Another stanza warns that "A honey tongue, a heart of gall / Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall".  The phrase "In folly ripe, in reason rotten" is used to describe "thy beds of roses", "thy posies", and an assortment of things which "Soon break, soon wither" and are "soon forgotten".  The penultimate stanza declares "Thy belt of straw and ivy buds / Thy coral clasps and amber studs / All these in me no means can move / To come to thee and be thy love".  FTP, name this poem by Sir Walter Raleigh, a response to Christopher Marlowe's poem The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.;;(The) Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
Literature;;In one work of this author, an eighty-nine year old woman shocks the attendants of the central party by spitting on the floor, and in another, the sight of a blind man chewing gum destroys Anna's sense of security.  Those stories, Happy Birthday and Love, were contained in the same collection as Preciousness and The Imitation of the Rose.  In one novel by this author, the protagonist is fleeing a hotel and stays at a farm where he meets Ermelinda and Vitoria, and in another, the protagonist is surprised to discover that her maid Janair hates her and kills and eats a cockroach living in her wardrobe.  This author of the aforementioned novel about Martim also wrote a work in which the protagonist is killed in a hit-and-run after having her fortune told by Madame Carlota and has her story written by Rodrigo S. M.  Writing about Macabea in that work, FTP, name this author of the short story collection Family Ties and the novels The Apple in the Dark, The Passion According to G. H., and The Hour of the Star.;;(Clarice) Lispector
Literature;;When the narrator of this poem mentions that the moon is hanging low, he comments "O I think it is heavy with love, with love".  One stanza mentions a sinking aria, "strange tears down the cheeks coursing", and "the fierce old mother incessantly moaning".  Near the end of this poem, the narrator relates how the sea repeatedly whispered to him the "delicious word" death.  The narrator recalls being careful not to disturb the "solitary guest from Alabama", the he-bird guarding "four light-green eggs spotted with brown" after the she-bird disappeared one day and never returned.  The titular phrase is followed by lines referencing "the Ninth-month midnight" and "the mockingbird's throat, the musical shuttle".  FTP, name this poem from Leaves of Grass written by Walt Whitman.;;Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Literature;;At the beginning of this play, the chorus is waiting and states that the protagonist has been gone for seven years.  In one monologue, the protagonist explains the gift of peace "not as the world gives" and emphasizes how St. Stephen's Day is celebrated immediately after Christmas.  After relating how he was saved at Sandwich by the Dean of Salisbury, the protagonist meets four tempters, one of whom tells him to become chancellor again and the last of whom tells him to become a martyr.  The central event occurs after the arrival of four knights sent by Henry II.  FTP, name this play depicting the death of Thomas Becket, a work of T. S. Eliot.;;Murder in the Cathedral
Literature;;One of this author's characters hits his head on a hearthstone and foams at the mouth after breaking through the door of his home in an enraged determination to kill his wife after fantasizing her sexual intercourse with another man.  In one of this author's works, the murder of the white farmer Howlands, for whom Ngotho is forced to work, results in the imprisonment and torture of the innocent Njoroge, and in another, Thoni is driven to suicide by her second husband returning from the city, the title character Remi.  In addition to Weep Not, Child and The Black Hermit, a wedding being called off upon discovery of the bride's pregnancy results in the loss of a prized one and a half acres of land belonging to Kiguunda in his play I Will Marry When I Want.  His other works include one in which the Christian idealism of Godfrey Munira leads him to burn down Wanja's brothel and one in which a rally for Karanja is used as an opportunity for Mugo to admit his betrayal of Kihika.  FTP, name this author of Petals of Blood and A Grain of Wheat, a preeminent author from Kenya.;;Ngugi (wa) (Thiong'o)|(James) Ngugi
Literature;;The second stanza of this poem describes a city with a square where the subject used to sing, a tall house where the marriage bed was blessed by sons and daughters of the subject, a spinning shed, and red towers.  The fourth stanza of this poem suggests that the subject is too insignificant for any concern and asks who will grieve for her.  This poem begins by describing a figure following the track of God's shining agent over a black mountain.  FTP, name this poem by Anna Akhmatova about a woman whose single glance caused her to be turned into a pillar of salt.;;Lot's Wife|Lotova Zhena
Literature;;In one novel by this author, the protagonist becomes the apprentice of Apu, that's right, Apu, after leaving Damodar's gang in the hopes of winning Apu's daughter Nalini as his bride, and in another, the protagonist stalks his wife after discovering a picture of another man in her trunk and is upset by her using the family's silver cups to pay the Swami.  In addition those novels about Ravi and Sarojini and Dandekar, this author wrote a novel in which Biswas criticizes another character's friendship with the foreign doctor Kenny and the leper Puli is adopted by the couple Nathan and Rukmani.  FTP, name this Indian author of A Handful of Rice, A Silence of Desire, and Nectar in a Sieve.;;(Kamala) Markandaya|(Kamala) (Purnaiya) Taylor
Literature;;In one work of this author, the protagonist causes controversy for allowing a schoolboy to read a poem describing his homosexual feelings and is raped by a man she meets at a party thrown by Sheila Trask.  Along with that novel about Monica Jensen, this author wrote a story in which the crazed Allen Weinstein attends the Shakespeare classes of Sister Irene before drowning himself in Canada.  In addition to Solstice and In the Region of Ice, convicted murderer Jean-Pierre commits another murder after his release is secured by Leah in another novel by this author.  Describing how Arnold Friend gradually intimidates Connie into coming for ride with him in another story, FTP, name this American author of Bellefleur and Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?.;;(Joyce) (Carol) Oates
Literature;;In one work by this man, the protagonist is released from an insane asylum and forgives a character who rapes his own daughter Lizasha.  That work, Masks, is the sequel to a work in which the German spy Eduard Mandro uses a candle to burn out Professor Korobkin's eye.  Kudayarov selects the peasant Matryona as the mother of the revolutionary messiah, causing Katya Gugolevo to be abandoned by Daryalsky in one novel by this author.  In another, Lippanchenko is murdered by Dudkin after ordering the protagonist to use a bomb concealed in a sardine tin to kill his own father.  Writing about Nikolai Ableukhov in that work, FTP, name this Russian author of Moscow, The Silver Dove, and Petersburg.;;(Andrei) Bely
Literature;;In one poem, this author wrote that "Once, as child, out in a field of sheep / Thomas Hardy pretended to be dead" and another describes an alcoholic who is shot dead while out on a curfew.  Another poem by this author describes a figure with a "pointed skin cap", "mild pods ofeye-lids", and a "peat-brown head".  In addition to From Lightenings, Casualty, and The Tollund Man.  The narrator brings another man "milk in a bottle / Corked sloppily with paper" in a poem which begins "Between my finger and my thumb / The squat pen rests as snug as a gun".  Writing about the wonders of planting potatoes in that poem, FTP, name this poet of The Haw Lantern and Station Island who including his poem Digging in the volume Death of a Naturalist.;;(Seamus) Heaney
Literature;;One character in this work writes a list of the sixty most beautiful women in his city and finds that his romantic interest's name stands ninth on the list.  That character has a dream in which another character wears nothing but a red cloth and eats his flaming heart, prompting another character to leave weeping.  After twice pretending to love a different woman to hide his true feelings, the protagonist is snubbed by his beloved while passing her on the street.  Written by the author of Convivio, FTP, name this autobiographical collection of prose and poetry inspired by Beatrice Portinari and written by Dante Alighieri.;;La Vita Nuova|(The) New Life
Literature;;One scandal in this work is caused after a search carried out following the discovery of a sexual image embroidered on a purse, and it is interpreted as a bad omen when a begonia tree blooms out of season by the protagonist's pavilion.  Near the end of this work, the protagonist places seventh in the Imperial Examinations and leaves as a bodhisattva in the company of a Buddhist monk and Daoist priest who had saved him from illness when his coffin had already been made.  The protagonist's true love is a reincarnation of a crimson flower brought into life in order to repay him with tears, Lin Daiyu.  Jia Baoyu is born with a piece of jade in his mouth in, FTP, what classical Chinese novel written by Cao Xueqin?.;;Dream of the Red Chamber|Red Chamber Dream|(A) Dream of Red Mansions|Story of the Stone|Record of the Stone|Hong Lou Meng|Shi Tou Ji
Literature;;In this work, one character breaks into a great smile at the word "Goodbye" of the mournful song This Life is Weary.  The narrator of this work comments that roses are the only flowers that impress people because they are the only ones people are sure to know, and one character in this work is impressed when another sniffs a sprig of lavender.  At one point, the protagonist asks her brother "Isn't life-" but cannot finish the question, to which he replies, "Isn't it, darling?"  Early in this work, the protagonist regrets grabbing a piece of bread and butter, and later, she carries a basket to the Scotts' house after Mr. Scott is thrown from his horse and killed, prompting her to attempt to call off the titular event.  FTP, name this short story about Laura Sheridan, a work of Katherine Mansfield.;;(The) Garden Party
Literature;;One character in this novel sends her husband a photograph with her lover's face circled to tell him that their marriage is over, though when he returns to gather his possessions two years later, they conceive their only child.  Another character travels to London with that son after his luggage business fails.  The central couple is alarmed by their daughter Annie's failure to marry, which is explained when she is revealed to a lesbian.  The protagonist is blamed by Didymus and Sibongile when their daughter Mpho is impregnated by her assistant Oupa.  In the end, Ivan's marriage falls apart and Bennet's wife tells him that she does not miss him.  FTP, name this novel about Vera Stark written by Nadine Gordimer.;;None to Accompany Me
Literature;;The protagonist of this work is encouraged to read by Campbell Kitchen, the wife of an actress who employs her as a maid, Clere Sloane.  The protagonist rooms in the same boarding house as Jasmine Griffith and initially works as a maid for the white actress Arline Strange.  Studying at USC, the protagonist hopes to find a more racially accepting society after being indoctrinated in ideas of mulatto superiority by her grandmother Maria Lightfoot.  In Harlem, her prejudices are challenged by her abusive lover, the hustler Alva, and this novel begins at the high school graduation of the protagonist, Emma Lou Morgan.  Written by the author of Infants of the Spring and subtitled "A Novel of Negro Life", FTP, name this novel written by Wallace Thurman.;;(The) Blacker the Berry
Literature;;In this work, one character is seduced while wearing her mistress's lingerie, and another character is told by his wife that she will not bear his child in fear of passing on his mediocrity and constantly compares himself to Wagner.  The protagonist of this work is seduced by Bonadea and has a twin sister named Agathe.  The Great Idea is the driving force behind the Collateral Campaign, which is sponsored by Diotima and Arnheim.  Moosbrugger's murder of a prostitute eventually drives Clarisse insane, unable to be helped by her husband Walter, and the protagonist decides to take a year off from life.  Set in Kakania and following the title character Ulrich, FTP, name this incomplete novel by Robert Musil.;;(The) Man Without Qualities|Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften
Literature;;One character in this work is rejected by his lover after amassing considerable gambling debts in Paris but is forgiven when Monsieur Du Pont proves he did it to help some friends.  While burning letters at the command of her father, the protagonist discovers a portrait which a servant tells her is of the Marquise de Villeroi.  The protagonist of this work recognizes a nun as Lady Laurentini after recognizing her from a portrait, and earlier, she discovers blood on the steps of a tower in which her aunt dies after refuses to sign over her estates to her husband.  The protagonist is abducted twice by Count Morano, who is wounded in a sword fight, but in the end, the protagonist marries Valancourt and Signor Montoni is captured by the Venetian authorities.  Following Emily St. Aubert, FTP, name this Gothic novel by Ann Radcliff.;;(The) Mysteries of Udolpho
Literature;;In one work by this author, Gustav is saved from being executed by Kongo Hoango by Toni, whom he shoots in the belief that she is a traitor, and in another, the title character dies after falling from her crutches while being moved by the Marquis, who sets fire to his castle in distress when her ghost haunts the room.  Achilles is slain by an Amazon chieftain in one play by this author.  This author of The Engagement in Santo Domingo and The Beggarwoman of Locarno also wrote a work in which Frederick William allows the title character to pursue Natalie and be proclaimed the hero of the Battle of Fehrbellin.  Count F claims paternity of Giulietta's son and eventually marries her in another work of this author.  FTP, name this German author of Penthesilea, The Prince of Homburg, and The Marquise of O.;;(Heinrich) (von) Kleist
Literature;;One character in this work orders another to cut down the Great Tree of the family estate which will pass to her son, Groby.  The protagonist of this work refuses leave to a Canadian soldier who he knows will be killed by his wife's lover if he returns and is reprimanded for getting his uniform dirty after digging himself and another man out after being covered in dirt by an explosion.  Edith Ethel Duchemin marries the protagonist's money-borrowing friend Macmaster, and after the protagonist returns from war, he finds his brother Mark paralyzed by a stroke.  In the end, the protagonist unites with Valentine Wannop as his wife Sylvia leaves him for General Campion.  Following Christopher Tietjens and including the novels Some Do Not, A Man Could Stand Up, and The Last Post, FTP, name this tetralogy by Ford Madox Ford.;;Parade's End
Literature;;One character in this play declares that Asians are bright yellow, leading others to question whether the Asians they know are real or not.  Another character states that it is in a cat's nature to catch mice even if it has no paws after asserting that Socrates was a cat as evidenced by his mortality, foreshadowing the death of another character's pet.  The protagonist comments that the decision to build a wooden staircase must have angered Mr. Papillon, and Botard is criticized for arguing using cliches by Dudard.  Dudard's departure leaves the protagonist alone with Daisy, and they subsequently hear loud trumpeting when they pick up the phone and turn on the radio.  FTP, name this play in which Berenger refuses to change like the rest of the characters, a work of Eugene Ionesco.;;Rhinoceros
Literature;;This poem mentions a marble fountain which produces the perpetual sound of splashing water drops and states that "the sliding of the water / Seems the stroking of a dear / Hand upon her".  One character in this poem is described as a "heavy-booted lover" whose coat buttons bruise the body of his beloved as he embraces her, and this poem makes repeated mention of squills, daffodils, and the narrator's "stiff, brocaded gown".  The narrator states "In a month he would have been my husband" after relating how she received a message stating that Lord Hartwell had been killed in combat, and this poem concludes by asking "Christ! What are [the titular entities] for?"  Appearing in the collection Men, Women, and Ghosts, FTP, name this poem by Amy Lowell.;;Patterns
Literature;;One of this author's poems concludes "In the twilight, smoke from a fire cooking supper / rises from only very few houses" and describes figures who "lovingly share a drink" and whose "words 'please, could you give' are scarcely audible".  In addition to Beggars: Husband and Wife, this man states "I keep you there / on the horizon of my heart" in a poem which declares the titular object "of no return departs" and "travels between you and me", and in another poem he asserts "We can't sink into our graves yet" and repeats the line "We are alive / as the snow flurries".  One novel by this author traces fifty-three encounters between gurus in the form of people, animals, and supernatural creatures and a monk who attains bodhisattva status, Sudhana.  Those aforementioned poems, A Boat and Today, appear in a collection whose title poem reads "Wake up / understanding is a joy / There can be no sadness / said the rainy road / when I looked out after three drinks" at the titular location.  FTP, name this author of Little Pilgrim, Ten Thousand Lives, and The Three Way Tavern, a noted poet from South Korea.;;Ko (Un)
Literature;;One character in this work is told by her mother that her appearance alone guarantees her success as an actress and holds out for higher pay from the rich neighborhood family which employs her after they send her out for firewood in the middle of the night.  The false testimony of the landlady for the one-eyed Motes is used by Justice von Wehrhahn, who is preoccupied with convicting Doctor Fleischer of slander against him.  Leontine is rehired when Kruger apologizes, unaware that the central family receives a payoff of ninety-nine crowns after stealing from him.  In the end, the contraband-shipping boatman Wulkow walks free and Frau Wolff is commended for her honor.  FTP, name this comedy in which the titular article of clothing is not found, a work of Gerhart Hauptmann.;;(The) Beaver Coat|Der Biberpelz
Literature;;After having his clothes stolen, this character dons a purple bedsheet and climbs a tree in pursuit of the thief, only to find that the tree's trunk had been sawed in preparation for him.  In one scene, this character is given a zoot suit at a party which is interrupted by the intrusion of a Sherman Tank which is stopped when he wrestles the driver out of the vehicle.  This character gains heroic status by delivering a kilogram of hashish in an event known as the Potsdam Pickup, and he is brought to a tremendous orgasm during sexual intercourse with a girl who sings "On the Good Ship Lollipop".  In another scene, this character hallucinates escaping a gang of black men who try to shove cream up his asshole by crawling down a toilet, a plan which goes awry when the toilet is flushed while he is in the pipes.  FTP, name this character who dons a helmet and green cape to assume the guise of Raketemensch, or Rocketman.;;Tyrone Slothrop
Literature;;While traveling in Italy, the protagonist of this work kisses a carriage driver and fruitlessly searches for him afterwards, and in another scene, the protagonist takes another character to collect eels from the basin of a drained pond.  The protagonist of this work goes poaching with Alcide, a member of a group of incestuous farm workers called Heurtevents.  This novel's narration is framed in a letter from the protagonist's friend attempting to secure him a government position.  The Arab boy Moktir is among the romantic interests of the protagonist, whose wife suffers a miscarriage while he is spending the night with Menalque.  The protagonist hides his bloody handkerchief from his wife to conceal his tuberculosis, the same disease which later kills Marceline as he forces her to travel.  FTP, name this novel following the title character Michel written by Andre Gide.;;(The) Immoralist|L'Immoraliste
Literature;;One character in this work relates a story about an orgy taking place in a pool on a moonless night and invites another character to come to one because the girls will not care what he looks like.  The protagonist of this work is unnerved by his lover Renee's discussion of his penis, and he refuses to consult a doctor when his marriage with Helga does not produce any children.  The protagonist is reassigned after advocating the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem, and later he is arrested for espionage after it is revealed that his lover is passing diplomatic secrets to the Chinese government and, more surprisingly, that she is a man.  FTP, name this play about the relationship between Gallimard and the opera singer Song Liling written by David Henry Hwang.;;M(.) Butterfly
Literature;;In one scene in this work, the decapitated corpse of an enemy commander who attempted to retreat is hung from a bush and the roadsides are lined with heads of enemy soldiers.  That event follows the defeat of a brutal commander who force marches his troops all the way to the battlefield and attacks immediately before being shot down in a cavalry charge.  A small force under Lieutenant Manuel de Silva is summoned by the magistrate of Joazeiro and is easily routed, followed by the destruction of a formal contingent led by Major Febronio de Brito.  After Marshal Carlos Machado de Bittencourt improves the efficiency of the government supply lines, the army under General Guimaraes begins to deal heavy damage to the jaguncos, and in the end, Canudos is captured and every defender is killed.  FTP, name this novel in which the religious fanatic Antonio Conselheiro leads the titular uprising, a work of Euclides da Cunha.;;Rebellion in the Backlands|Os Sertoes
Literature;;In this work, one group of characters is alarmed to find a log used to cross a river is missing as they travel from their winter home to their summer home.  One character in this work cannot explain to the others the smell of smoke coming from a nearby island, and that character utilizes his strong sense of smell again in detecting the poison on barbed arrows.  After feeding fungus to Tanakil, Liku is sacrificed to promote a good hunt, and Vivani takes the New One as her own child, causing her to be distrusted by Tuami.  After Fa disappears, Lok curls up on Mal's grave to die alone.  FTP, name this novel depicting the destruction of a tribe of Neanderthals by homo sapiens written by William Golding.;;(The) Inheritors
Literature;;This play concludes with one character shouting for champagne over the voices of a couple whose argument causes that character to exclaim "Now, domestic bliss is off to a running start!"  Another character in this play leaves the stage complaining of heart pains and later faints, causing another character to declare him dead when he won't drink from a glass of water.  An argument over whether Dasher or Splasher is a better hunting dog continues to delay the titular event after an earlier fight over which family is the rightful owner of Bullock Fields.  FTP, name this "Joke in One Act" in which Chubukov sees his daughter eventually consent to marry their neighbor Lomov, a work of Anton Chekhov.;;(The) Proposal|(A) Marriage Proposal|Predlozhenie
Literature;;In one work by this author, Pascual, the scheming husband of Lulu, steals the property of her father Procopio, causing him to have a fatal heart attack.  In addition to that novel about the Vasquez Prado family, this author wrote a novel in which General Malacara is used to gain passes from a leading political figure by Marta Reyes Tellez.  In another, controversy over Whitey Margarito's whipping of a starving villager causes the prostitute La Pintada to stab Camila.  That novel also sees Luis Cervantes join the rebels of the Indian Demetrio Macias before they crushed following the defeat of Pancho Villa.  FTP, name this Mexican author of The Trials of a Respectable Family, The Flies, and The Underdogs.;;(Mariano) Azuela
Literature;;In one work of this author, one character travels to India in search of his wife's reincarnation and another character is haunted by memories of eating human flesh to survive the war.  In another, Gaston Bonaparte dies after being kidnapped while preventing a gangster from killing his intended victim.  In addition to Deep River and Wonderful Fool, Lord Ishida sends the protagonist as an envoy to New Spain in another work by this man.  In addition to that novel about Rokuemon Hasekura, his other novels include one in which the cruel scientific stance taken on treatment given to terminal cancer patients like Aiko by Eiichi shocks Eiichi's father Ozu and one in which Ferreira forces Sebastian Rodrigues to trample on the fumie, an engraving of the Virgin Mary.  FTP, name this Japanese author of The Samurai, When I Whistle, and Silence.;;(Shusaku) Endo|(Paul) Endo
Literature;;This poet stated that "my mother will bear arms / and urge me to topple a government" in a poem beginning "For each hair on man, there is / a ledger in which the account / will be written".  In addition to writing On Being Told of Torture, in one poem, this man stated that "the drink offering has dried up in the harmattan" and "the yam feast has been eaten by mice" after relating how "the gods are crying, my father's gods are crying" and proclaiming "Christ has risen!"  The title poem of one of his collections asks "Sew the old days for us, our fathers / That we can wear them under our new garment", while the title poem of another collection declares "this dreary half life is over / our dream will be born at noon".  This poet of Easter Dawn also authored the novel This Earth, My Brother, and his major collections of verse are The House by the Sea, Night of My Blood, and Rediscovery and Other Poems.  FTP, name this poet from Ghana.;;(Kofi) Awoonor
Literature;;Stage directions in this play instruct one character to "contemptuously" speak his mocking line "Yesliterature, literature", and another character in this play laments "How can we understand each other if the words I use have the sense and value that I expect them to have, but whoever is listening to me inevitably thinks that those same words have a different sense and value?"  Various hats, coats, and scarves are collected and hung on some racks for the purpose of attracting one character who is never satisfied with another character's sewing.  One character in this work instructs her mother to "Scream, as you screamed then!" as she embraces a man who is buying her as a prostitute, and another character drowns in a garden fountain shortly before the boy staring at her shoots himself.  Beginning with the Stage Hand hammering in nails, FTP, name this play featuring Madame Pace, the Father, and the Stepdaughter, a work of Luigi Pirandello.;;Six Characters in Search of an Author|Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore
Literature;;One character in this play claims that he would sooner lose his right hand than dismiss another character from his service unless that character petitioned him to do so.  The first argument in this play occurs between Alcander and Pisaro, representative friends of the two male leads who later engage in a sword fight when one of them pretends to leave town and discovers the other with his bride.  In the first scene, one character is promoted to replace Orgilius, the father of his betrothed.  After declaring that she will not share her husband's bed, Erminia is permitted to marry Prince Philander and Princess Galatea reveals her secret love for General Alcippus.  FTP, name this play by Aphra Behn.;;(The) Forced Marriage(:) (Or(,)) (The) (Jealous) (Bridegroom)
Literature;;One author of this surname wrote the prose works Dialogues of the Gods and Confessions in Elysium, the satirical novel The Abderiten, and an epic poem in which Huon is shipwrecked and Titania quarrels with the titular king of the fairies.  In addition to that German poet of Oberon, Christoph Martin, a novel of this name features the ventriloquist Carwin, who pranks several central characters, and a series of murders by a man who is acting on his hallucinations of the voice of God commanding him.  That novel sees the protagonist relate the story of her father's spontaneous combustion and Catharine Pleyel's murder by her husband Theodore.  FTP, name this surname which titles a novel subtitled "The Transformation" written by Charles Brockden Brown.;;Wieland
Literature;;At the age of twelve, the protagonist of this work farts beside his friend's coffin to show his indifference, and he also recalls an incident from childhood in which he and his cousin Gene killed a boy in a gang fight and were simply forgiven by his Aunt Caroline, who gave them rye bread.  The protagonist's father dies from withdrawal after giving up alcohol, and the protagonist befriends a man who renounces both of the men who are possibly his father, Roy Hamilton.  The protagonist's lover Valeska commits suicide after their brief affair while he works hiring and firing crazed messengers along with the clerks Kronski and Hymie at the Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company.  The protagonist declares his wish to become a hermaphrodite after relating his fantasies about the Dark Lady, Mara, a reworking from an earlier novel of the narrator's unseen wife Mona.  FTP, name this sequel to Tropic of Cancer written by Henry Miller.;;Tropic of Capricorn
Literature;;Near the end of this work, the protagonist becomes ill and repeatedly dreams of the ghosts of family members.  The protagonist of this work is acclaimed for killing a hyena that attacks a village girl and is visited by a snake while bathing in a river.  The slaying of a madman earns the protagonist the favor of Dingiswayo, whose daughter Noliwa he marries, though when he is instructed to make medicine from the blood of his son and wife, he kills both of them.  He defeats both Zwide and his father's heir Mfokanzana with the aid of the evil pair Ndlebe and Malunga, who are agents of the sorcerer Isanusi, but after killing his own mother Nandi, he is stabbed to death by his own soldiers.  FTP, name this novel by Thomas Mofolo depicting a prominent Zulu ruler.;;Chaka
Literature;;In one work by this author, the Traveler discovers false beards in the possession of the overseer of the Baron's estate, thus proving that the overseer robbed the Baron and not members of the titular group.  In another, the titular Swiss patriot is executed for leading a revolt in Bern.  In addition to The Jews and Samuel Henzi, this author wrote a play in which the protagonist pretends to have lost her fortune in order to help Major von Tellheim feel better and a play in which Count Appiani is assassinated for refusing to leave the title character to Prince Gonzaga's designs.  The young Templar Conrad von Stauffen is spared due to his resemblance to Saladin's dead brother, who is revealed to be the father of Recha, the adopted daughter of the title character.  FTP, name this German playwright of Minna von Barnhelm, Emilia Galotti, and Nathan the Wise.;;(Gotthold) Lessing
Literature;;Near the beginning of this work, McCrimmon warns that breakthroughs in gene engineering and international relations are unwanted after Grierson discusses the protagonist's latest development.  The protagonist founds Political Rectitude Committees to counter the work of Political Action Committees, takes over arms manufacturers to disband their activities, and is hired by Harvard following a study on refrigerator pricing.  The protagonist is investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission after he makes fortunes by use of his Index of Irrational Expectations, a forecasting model for unjustified optimism and pessimism.  Following Marjie and Montgomery Marvin, FTP, name this novel written by John Kenneth Galbraith.;;(A) Tenured Professor
Literature;;One character in this work is alarmed when he hears the clear tone of new bell in the church and goes for a ride in his son's car after learning that he no longer works on the railroad for extra money.  That character is unnerved when the escape of a black panther causes all of the townspeople to carry rifles.  One character divorces and remarries twice in only a few weeks, and fishing is the favorite hobby of a pair of blind eunuchs.  Along with Koby and Loby, the gum-chewing hit men Toby and Roby are servants of a woman who fell to prostitution after perjury by the protagonist in a paternity case.  FTP, name this play in which Armenian Oil multimillionaire Claire Zachanassian restores the wealth of Guellen in exchange for the murder of Alfred Ill, a work of Friedrich Durrenmatt.;;(The) Visit|Der Besuch der alten Dame
Literature;;In one novel by this author, Alexis Dubrovsky founds a ranch for lepers and Miguel Vera is hired to train a group of rebels by Kirito.  In another novel by this author, one character steals government property to support his pregnant Indian girlfriend and another character has an affair with his ancient rich neighbor Juana Esquivel.  In that novel, the protagonist has a dog named Sultan, is opposed by governor Bernardo Velazco, executes Pilar the Black, and dictates the Perpetual Circle to his secretary Policarpo Patino.  By the end of that novel, the dictator Dr. Francia is sentenced to death.  FTP, name this novelist of The Son of Man and I, the Supreme.;;(Augusto) Roa Bastos
Literature;;One character in this work receives threatening phone calls from a voice which is later revealed to be his own, and early in this work the Soviet Union announces that the last capitalist society will be bankrupt by 2050.  The protagonist of this work spies on an accountant who is murdered in the apartment of a secretary who was paid to have an abortion at a special hospital.  That man, Tsuchida Susuma, is later revealed to have been killed by the protagonist's assistant at the Institute for Computer Technique, Tanomogi.  Professor Yamamoto explains a secret plan to create a race of mutant humans called aquans to the protagonist before having him assassinated.  FTP, name this novel narrated by Professor Katsumi in which the titular change in climate is predicted to cover the Earth's surface in water, a work of Kobo Abe.;;Inter Ice Age 4|Daiyon Kampyoki
Literature;;In one work by this author, the protagonist discovers that she is the daughter of the maid Sarah Leeson after inheriting the fortune of Captain Treverton.  In addition to that novel about Rosamond Frankland, this author wrote a novel in which Magdalen and Nora are revealed to be illegitimate children after the murder of their father Andrew Vanstone.  His other novels include one in which Percival dies in a fire while burning church records proving his illegitimacy and Laura Fairlie is married by Walter Hartright and one in which John Herncastle steals the titular Hindu diamond.  FTP, name this English novelist of The Dead Secret, No Name, The Woman in White, and The Moonstone.;;(Wilkie) Collins
Literature;;In one work by this author, a philosopher silences a slave by having him thrown off of a boat and then pulled back up, demonstrating that the slave did not know the safety of the boat until he tasted the experience of drowning.  In another work by this author, the narrator is forced to worship a statue all night which raises its hand in the morning, but the narrator discovers a man mechanically controlling the statue and kills him by throwing him in a well and dropping a rock on his head.  Famous quotes by this poet include "The sons of Adam are limbs of each other / Having been created of one essence" and "Whatever is produced in haste goes quickly to waste".  FTP, name this Persian poet of The Orchard and The Rose Garden.;;Sa'di|(Mosharrif) (od(-)Din) (bin) (Moslih) (od(-)Din) Abdullah
Literature;;One character in this work writes confidential letters to her friend Graciosa, and the protagonist writes similar letters to his friend Silvio.  One character refuses to play Rosalind in an amateur production of the protagonist's favorite play, As You Like It.  After a riding accident, the page Isnabel is revealed to be a woman, causing that character to be jealous of her and her perceived affair with her master.  After de C takes him around town to look for a lover, the protagonist pursues and wins Rosette.  In the end, Monsieur d'Albert experiences perfect love with Theodore de Serannes, who is actually the cross-dressing title character.  FTP, name this novel by Theophile Gautier.;;Mademoiselle de Maupin
Literature;;In one novel written by this man, one character disguises himself as a servant to win a cakewalk, and that novel also sees the deaths of George McBane and Polly Ochiltree.  In addition to that novel in which Dr. Miller's hospital is burned down by a mob, he wrote a work in which the protagonist is rejected by her fiance when he discovers that she has black heritage.  Along with that novel about George Tryon and Rena Walden, he wrote a short story in which the former slave Uncle Julius McAdoo ruins the soil of his property and advises the narrator not to buy part of the plantation.  FTP, name this author of The Marrow of Tradition and The House Behind the Cedars who included The Goophered Grapevine in his collection The Conjure Woman.;;(Charles) Chesnutt
Literature;;In one work by this author, college professor Kofi Baako rises to political prominence, the drummer Gort protests the banning of steel bands backed by Piggy Piggott.  In addition to that novel including Forest Reserve native Fola, he wrote a work in which the painter Ivan has a vision of the Lady of the House of Trade and Justice and the commandant captains the ship Reconnaissance on an illegal colonizing mission.  Trumper becomes racially aware after a visit to America in another novel by this author which ends with G. leaving to become a teacher in Trinidad.  FTP, name this novelist of Season of Adventure, Natives of My Person, and In the Castle of My Skin who hails from Barbados.;;(George) Lamming
Literature;;One poem concerning one of these states "I gave a fervent welcome to the sight" and describes how the narrator chose "to bear it with me through the night" because his love had never seen one and concludes with the line "Oh! Joy it was for her, and joy for me".  This subject of Among All the Lovely Things My Love Had Been states that "Yet thus upbraided, I may show / What favours do attend me here / Till, like thyself, I disappear" in another poem in which it instructs its antagonist to "Abate this unbecoming pride / or with a less uneasy luster shine".  Yet another poem states that these "portend / No War, nor Princes funeral", but they cannot help the narrator "Since Juliana here is come / For she my mind hath so displac'd / That I shall never find my home".  FTP, name these creatures, one of which reprimands a star in Wordsworth's poem The Pilgrim's Dream, which are also addressed as "Ye living lamps, by whose dear light / The Nightingale does sit so late" by the Mower in a poem by Andrew Marvell.;;Glow(-)Worms
Literature;;The protagonist of this work journeys to Zadonsk to donate money to the monks in the hope of currying favor with God.  The oldest recorded ancestor of the central family in this work is called The Gypsy and is torn apart by dogs, and the family's grandfather is notorious for pillaging churches.  The protagonist of this work renews contact with his brother after discovering a volume of poetry he wrote and makes him the overseer of his estate at Durnovka.  The abusive Rodka is poisoned by his wife who sexually arouses the protagonist, a peasant girl only referred to as The Bride.  Detailing the lives of Kuzma and Tikhon Kusloff, FTP, name this novel by Ivan Bunin.;;(The) Village|Derevnya
Literature;;In one play written by this man, the central conspiracy is revealed by Livilla, who is in a love triangle with Sejanus and the title character who plots against Tiberius.  Another play written by this man includes the braggart Chasteaufort and has a plot revolving around Chariot's father attempting to force him out of Paris so that he can marry Genevotte.  In addition to The Death of Agrippina and that play about Granger, The Pedant Outwitted, this author wrote a novel in which the protagonist ties bottles of dew around his waist and floats over to Quebec, from where he ties himself to a rocket and promptly leaves Earth.  FTP, name this French author who wrote about Dyrcona in The Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon and Sun and was notably depicted with a very long nose in a play by Edmund Rostand.;;Cyrano de Bergerac
Literature;;One character in this work is introduced when he rescues the protagonist's daughter after she is thrown from her horse into a stream.  After Ephraim Jenkinson cheats the protagonist out of a horse and the protagonist's son Moses of his money, he meets the protagonist in jail along with the protagonist's other son, who is jailed for attacking another character who demands rent payments from his father after his house burns down, sending him to debtors' prison.  In the end, the protagonist's son George marries Arabella Wilmot, and Mr. Burchell marries the protagonist's daughter Sophia after he is revealed to be the uncle of Squire Thornhill.  FTP, name this novel following the title character Dr. Primrose, a work of Oliver Goldsmith.;;(The) Vicar of Wakefield
Literature;;One brief poem by this man notes "My name shall not be known from my writing / sick, growing old, I must yield up my post", and another concludes with the line "I have no strength to right the universe".  This poet asks "Oh, when shall the blazing skies of summer pass / That his will may exult in the meeting of wind and rain" in a poem which states "Thus were they hewn, rooted in nothingness / Their inverted reflections hung in shaking waters".  In addition to Writing of My Feelings Traveling by Night, Spending the Night in a Tower by the River, and Thousand League Pool, he wrote a poem which states "Our neighbors are filling the wall / so deeply moved they're sobbing too" upon his return to the titular location.  That poem describes events following the writing of a poem which states "She watches alone from her chamber / While faraway I think lovingly on daughters and sons".  That poem asks "When shall we lean in the empty window" as the light is "drying traces of tears".  FTP, name this poet of Chiang Village and Moonlit Night.;;Du (Fu)|Tu (Fu)
Literature;;In one work by this author, the creative writing teacher Manny Gumbiner succeeds a woman who died shortly after leaving the job, Camille Turner Batterson.  That work begins by describing Constance Morgan's last day as secretary to a character whose South African wife Pamela pretends to be British, Dwight Robbins.  In addition to that novel set at Benton College, one poem by this man begins with the line "Far off, above the plain of summer dries / The great loops of hangars sway like hills" and depicts a mother visiting her son on an air base, while another poem begins "From my mother's sleep I fell into the State" and frankly concludes "When I died they washed me outwith a hose".  FTP, name this American poet of Pictures from an Institution, 2nd Air Force, and The Death of the Ball-Turret Gunner.;;(Randall) Jarrell
Literature;;This character is first introduced staring into a mirror between her knees after washing her hair, and after visiting a railway station and asking for the time table, she loses interest in her lover.  In one scene, she discovers another woman with her lover and responds by biting her, and while bathing in a river, she chases that character, Nancy, into hostile territory where she is captured by natives.  She then rescues Nancy by seducing Chief Ofubara, who proposes to her and then gives her wads of money.  Her other lovers include Uncle Taiwo and the teacher Freddie Namme.  A worker at the nightclub Tropicana, FTP, name this aging prostitute living in Lagos, the title character of a novel by Cyprian Ekwensi.;;Jagua Nana
Literature;;One of this author's poems laments that "all December's mire is stained with blood / And treachery lurks behind the Brumaire fogs" and concludes with a description of "Corsica's Niobe" of whom "No one of all her tragic-fated offspring / Wafted by death, is borne unto her bosom".  Another poem by this author describes a place where "used to dance / The beauteous women, and in triumph home / Returned the Consuls with their captive kings".  In addition to On the Death of the Prince Imperial and In the Piazza of San Petronio, this author wrote a poem whose addressee "hastat Mentana / On Peter and on Caesar set thy foot" and is called to "tell Palermo's taleUnto Camillus in the Capitol", as well as a poem in which he states he will "Pass to the Council of Shades" and asks the titular city to "shed thine azure round me" and "Illumine me with sunlight".  FTP, To Giuseppe Garibaldi and Rome are works of what Italian poet, the author of the collection Barbarian Odes?.;;(Giosue) Carducci
Literature;;One character in this play lies motionless on the ground, refusing to pick himself up since he did not knock himself down, and another character in this work is placed in a convent because her father does not like the prospect of marrying off six daughters.  Nicholas loses his desire for Alizon Eliot after his brother Humphrey no longer wants her, which works out because Alizon runs off and marries the Mayor of Cool Clary Hebble Tyson's clerk, Richard.  The title character, Jennet Jourdemayne, is accused of turning old Skipps into a dog and falls in love with a man who refuses to stop confessing murders out of his desire to be hanged, Thomas Mendip.  FTP, name this play by Christopher Fry.;;(The) Lady's Not for Burning
Literature;;After becoming a preacher, the protagonist of this work is pelted with rocks as he baptizes himself and Ethelred Brantley, and he discusses Bible passages with a woman whom he kills in order to prove his strength, Margaret Whitehead.  The protagonist has a homosexual foray with Willis after he is apprenticed to a carpenter by Samuel after impressing him by stealing a book in order to teach himself to read, an ability which earns him a whipping from Thomas Moore.  After Will kills Joseph Travis, the title character is sentenced to hang by Jeremiah Cobb and is visited by Thomas Gray.  FTP, name this novel largely told through the memories of an imprisoned leader of a slave revolt, a work of William Styron.;;(The) Confessions of Nat Turner