What author wrote nonsense poems about the Snark and the Jabberwock, and also wrote of the Cheshire cat and the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland?

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Sicily's Messina is the setting of which Shakespeare play in which Claudio, Hero, Beatrice, and Benedick see a big deal made of an unfounded rumor?

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He won a National Book Award for a novel about John Grady Cole, All the Pretty Horses. Name this contemporary American author, who later won a Pulitzer Prize for his post-apocalyptic novel The Road.

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Cormac McCarthy wrote this novel set on the Mexican border that features the killer Anton Shihgur; it was made into a film by the Coen brothers.

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This author wrote about a Roman murder trial in his epic poem The Ring and the Book. Name this Victorian poet of "Porphyria's Lover" who married fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett.

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While visiting the beach with Marie Cardona, Meursault kills an Arab in this Albert Camus novel.

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This Jean-Paul Sartre play featuring Ines, Estelle, and Garcin includes the declaration "Hell is other people."

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One work by this author follows the adventures of Axel and Otto Lidenbrock, while another features a valet named Passepartoo and his fastidious employer Phileas Fogg. Name this French author of Around the World in Eighty Days.

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What author, who wrote about Juvenal Urbino and his wife Fermina Daza in Love in the Time of Cholera, also wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude?

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When this man was 40, his father sent Eliezer to find a wife for him from Bethuel's family. This mas lived to be 180 after marrying Rebekah. Jacob and Esau were the children of what son that Abraham was ready to sacrifice?

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Its title character is a Gayut who is mortally wounded fighting a dragon. Name this Anglo-Saxon epic, part of which is set in a hall named Heorot.

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This descendant of Cain is the first monster killed by Beowulf. Beowulf also kills this monster's mother.

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This American author wrote a play that depicts the morphine addiction of Mary Tyrone. What Nobel laureate wrote Desire Under the Elms and Long Day's Journey into Night?

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This author described Clayton Riddell's search for his son Johnny in his novel Cell. It and The Shining are by what author of horror novels?

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While speaking at meetings, characters in this novel hold a conch shell. Ralph leads boys who are stranded on an island in what novel by William Golding?

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What author wrote about an impending abortion in "Hills Like White Elephants" and about the Cuban fisherman Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea?

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A novel by this author depicts the Nautilus, a craft piloted by Captain Nemo. Name this author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

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In which comedy by William Shakespeare do four Athenian lovers get caught up in the schemes of the mischievous fairy Puck?

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In which comedy by William Shakespeare does Petruchio vow to woo the fiery Kate so other men may marry her biddable sister Bianca??

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