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This San Franciscan author was born in 1876, dying just 40 years later in Glen Ellen, California. Brought up in San Francisco in poverty, who is this author of "The Call of the Wild" (1903), "The Sea Wolf" (1904) and "White Fang" (1907)?
What is Jack London
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Atticus Finch's daughter in Harper Collin's "To Kill A Mockingbird."
Who is Scout.
100
Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
What is "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" J. K. Rowling
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Who is William Shakespeare
100
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Who is Mark Twain
200
This author was born in Germantown, Philadelphia in 1832 and died in Boston in 1888. She wrote "Flower Fables" in 1855 and "Little Men" in 1871. Who is she?
Who is Louisa May Alcott
200
Which famous character proposes to and is rejected by Elizabeth Bennet in "Pride and Prejudice." He is the cousin of Mr. Bennet, and is the clergyman at the Hunsford parsonage near Rosing’s Park.
Who is Mr. Collins
200
What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.
What is "Romeo and Juliet" William Shakespeare
200
By the shore of Gitchie Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited.
Who is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
200
Mary Ann Evans
Who is George Elliot
300
Born and raised in New York City, this author wrote "Catcher In the Rye" (1951).
Who is J. D. Salinger
300
This famous character is an orphan who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse, for the book calls the public's attention to child labor. This character's most famous line is "Please sir, I want some more."
Who is Oliver Twist
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
300
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
Who is Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken"
300
Stephen King
Who is Richard Bachman
400
Who is the author is the author of "Jane Eyre"?
Who is Charlotte Bronte
400
The protagonist of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness."
Who is Charles Marlow
400
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
What is "1984" George Orwell
400
Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness. 'T is the majority
Who is Emily Dickinson
400
C. S. Lewis
Who is Clive Hamilton
500
Who wrote "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina"?
Who is Leo Tolstoy
500
Protagonist of Earnest Hemingway's "In Our Time" short story series.
Who is Nick Adams.
500
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
What is "A Tale of Two Cities" Charles Dickens
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O, WILD West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
Who is Percy Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Who is Lewis Carroll
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