"Kat" Katczinsky serves as a mentor for the protagonist Paul Baumer [BOY-mur] in this World War I novel.

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This Romantic author's historical dramas set in wartime include his Wallenstein trilogy, about a general in the Thirty Years War.

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The Thirty Years War provides the setting of this Berthold Brecht play whose title character loses her 3 children - Kattrin, Eilif, and Swiss Cheese - in the war.

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Name this Rudyard Kipling poem about a heroic Indian water-carrier.

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This type of event kills the title character of Lolita, Catherine Barkley in A Farewell to Arms, and Catherine Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights.

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Hercules's fourth labor involved capturing one of these animals on Mount Erymanthus.

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Charles Marlow embarks on a mission to find Mr. Kurtz in this author's novel Heart of Darkness.

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Charles Marlow also appears in this Conrad novel about a sailor who abandons the distressed ship Patna.

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This author wrote about Eduard, a married man whose love for the beautiful Ottilie [oh-TEEL-yeh] is compared to a chemical reaction, in the novel Elective Affinities.

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Artemis's follower Callisto was turned into one of these animals.

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Orion represents a warrior who was killed by one of these stinging creatures, which itself became a zodiac constellation.

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According to one story, Pisces represents Aphrodite and Eros, who took the form of fish to flee this monster.

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What ship, launched in the 1790s, is described in the poem "Old Ironsides"?

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"Old Ironsides" was written by this 19th-century poet of "The Last Leaf."

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr also wrote this poem, whose speaker thanks the title "ship of pearl" for its "heavenly message."

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Robert Lebrun [luh-BROON] abruptly ends a summer vacation at Grand Isle, much to the dismay of Edna Pontellier [pahn-tel-YAY], in what novel by Kate Chopin [SHOH-pan]?

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Name this colonel who pays for the education of a "flower" girl after losing a bet.

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An afterword to this 1913 play reveals that Colonel Pickering eventually helps Eliza Doolittle to open her own flower shop.

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This Irish playwright wrote Pygmalion.

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