Literature and Film
There are eight films for 7 books by this author who wrote of the wizarding world.
Who is JK Rowling
Poet of "The road not taken"
Who was Robert Frost
Consistently ranked among the greatest romances in literary history, this book follows Elizabeth Bennet and her relationship with the aloof Mr. Darcy
What is Pride and Prejudice
Who was Leo Tolstoy
The Shakespeare play that revolves around a fatal romance in the city of Verona.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
A novel was released concurrently with this film which is Stanley Kubrick's most famous work.
What is 2001: A Space Odyssey
Amanda Gorman recited this poet's work "The Hill we Climb" at Biden's inauguration, she also wrote I Know why the Caged Bird Sings
Who was Maya Angelou
Scholars claim that this monumental work was orally transmitted and carries the dark age memories of a gigantic war during the Mycenean age
What is The Iliad
In this book Raskolnikov attempts to justify his murder of an elderly pawnbroker
What is Crime and Punishment
In this play, which takes place in a sweltering New York City room, the 8th juror is among a certain number of irate men.
What is 12 Angry Men
Thomas Dixon's The Klansmen inspired this controversial movie
What is Birth of a Nation
This was the language used to by such poets as Hafez, Ferdowsi, Saadi, and the most translated poet of all time, a certain sufi mystic from Konya.
What is Persian
This author wrote about how the lazy Abel Whittle is shaken out of bed to work in the fields
Who was Thomas Hardy
This title Doctor, who was played by Omar Sharif in a 1966 movie, has an affair with Tonya amid the Russian civil war in Boris Pasternak's most famous novel
Who is Dr. Yuri Andreyevich Zhivago
This dashing but proboscis Gascon competes for a lady's love with the handsome Christian in an 1897 play
Who is Cyrano De Bergerac
This novella was far surpassed in fame by a movie which centers around the exploits of an Alumnus who is enticed to dive into the plastics industry
What is The Graduate
Who was Sappho
Though today many publishers feature a large Terrestrial microfauna on the cover of this book, Franz Kafka did not intend his book to be about insectoids but rather about dehumanization.
What is The Metamorphosis
This Russian born author depicted Humbert Humbert's obsession with Dolores in Lolita
Who was Vladimir Nabokov
Who was Aristophanes
The inspiration for a Ridley Scott film starring Harrison Ford (Is a reading option in philosophy class)
What is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
I recently read poet's "We aren't serious at 17", he also wrote the "Drunken Boat" and "A Season in Hell"
Who was Arthur Rimbaud
A character in this work screams "The horror, The horror" as he dies. That character, Kurtz, heads an african outpost.
What is The Heart of Darkness
First published in Novy Mir, it details the daily gulag life of the title character and was written by Ivan Solzhenitsyn, the same author of The Gulag Archipelago
What is A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The title character of this German play, which was based of the same source material as a certain Christopher Marlow play, makes a shady deal with a devilish character named Mephistopheles.
what is Faust