This Anthony Burgess novel stars a criminal named Alex who is forcibly brainwashed into reformation, with destructive results.

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The term "dystopia" plays off of the earlier term "utopia," which describes an ideal society. This author and adviser to Henry VIII coined "utopia" for the title of a 1516 work.

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Karl Marx co-wrote an 1848 "manifesto" that lends its name to this political philosophy.

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This man collaborated with Marx on The Communist Manifesto and financially supported Marx with his other projects.

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These texts lend their name to the period from around 1500 BC to around 500 BC on the Indian subcontinent. Name these religious texts, two of which are named "Atharva" and "Sama."

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There are this many Vedas. It is also the number of canonical Christian gospels.

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A number of texts have been called the "fifth Veda," including this epic poem attributed to Vyasa that includes the Bhagavad Gita.

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The protagonist of this 1726 novel visits the land of Blefuscu, which is at war with the equally tiny Lilliput. Name this Jonathan Swift novel about a surgeon's fantastic voyages.

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Name this epic that describes "Man's first disobedience" while seeking to "justify the ways of God to men."

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This blind English poet wrote Paradise Lost.

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Although John Milton sought to "justify the ways of God," this British poet claimed that Milton was "of the Devil's party without knowing it." His epic Milton includes the section "And did those feet in ancient time."

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The title event of this story takes place in June, at a time when "corn" will "be heavy soon." Name this story by Shirley Jackson, in which the title event is "won" by Tessie Hutchinson.

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In "The Lottery," Tessie is killed in this manner. In the Book of Acts, Stephen is put to death in this manner.

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The title of Shirley Jackson's last novel proclaims that "we have always lived in" one of these places. A figure known as K. visits a village in a novel with this title by Franz Kafka.

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This poem describes children who "were nestled all snug in their beds, / while visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads." Name this poem set during a time in which "not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse."

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"A Visit from St. Nicholas" was written by an author with this surname. A more recent author with this surname wrote the graphic novels Watchmen and V for Vendetta.

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Most of "A Visit from St. Nicholas" is written in anapestic tetrameter, a meter in which each line has this many syllables.

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This man wrote about childhood memories evoked by a madeleine cookie in Swann's Way. What Frenchman wrote the seven-volume Remembrance of Things Past?

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A 1689 publication by John Locke is titled “Two Treatises” of this subject. The first such treatise attacked the idea of the divine right of kings while the second outlined the natural rights of the individual.

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