Literature
It begins, "Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember"
Don Quixote
Washington Irving's tale of this farmer who takes a big snooze was based on a German folktale
Rip Van Winkle
O this little town of Pennsylvania is home to Lehigh University & Moravian College
Bethlehem
Mollie the mare is a minor character in this George Orwell novel
Animal Farm
It is an engraving for the 12th & final segment of the Edmund Spenser work known as "The Shepheardes" this
Calendar
Willa Cather's novel about this title girl is set around the town of Black Hawk, Nebraska
My Antonia
Created to serve the University of North Carolina, it's nicknamed the "Southern Part of Heaven"
Chapel Hill
The first words of this faded southern belle are "They told me to take a streetcar named Desire"
Blanche DuBois
In an S.E. Hinton novel, Motorcycle Boy tries to free the aquarium dwellers he calls these, the book's title
Rumble Fish
The title of this first Philip Marlowe novel is a euphemism for death
The Big Sleep
Have a ball at Ball State University, located in this city northeast of Indianapolis
Muncie
This 1944 Charles Jackson novel about a chronic alcoholic won 4 Oscars when it came to the big screen a year later
The Lost Weekend
The title domicile of this Hawthorne novel is halfway down Pyncheon Street
The House of the Seven Gables
4 Chinese women meet regularly to play Mah-jongg & to talk about life & their children in this 1989 Amy Tan novel
The Joy Luck Club
Let's raise a glass of bubbly to these 2 adjoining cities, home to the University of Illinois
Champaign and Urbana
Her 1948 novel "Peony" told the story of a Jewish family living in China in the 1800s
Pearl Buck
Hilary Mantel's trilogy about Tudor royals is named for this residence
Wolf Hall
In 1997 this famously reclusive author published a fictionalized tale of surveyors "Mason & Dixon"
(Thomas) Pynchon
The main campus for Montana State University is in this city that's named for a wagon master & trail guide
Bozeman
Some of this American poet's "Pisan Cantos" was penned in 1945 while he was in prison for fascist radio broadcasts
(Ezra) Pound