Russian Classsics
He wrote War and Peace.
Who is Leo Tolstoy?
Charles Dickens’ tale of a miserly transformation.
What is A Christmas Carol?
This author of Les Misérables championed social justice.
Who is Victor Hugo?
This tale begins with Gregor Samsa waking up as an insect.
What is The Metamorphosis?
Orwell’s 1984 introduced this omnipresent authoritarian figure.
Who is Big Brother?
This 17th-century novel by Miguel de Cervantes is often called the first modern novel and follows a delusional knight-errant.
What is Don Quixote?
This Dostoevsky novel explores morality through Raskolnikov.
What is Crime and Punishment?
Jane Eyre falls in love with this brooding estate owner.
Who is Mr. Rochester?
This character’s pursuit of romantic fantasies leads to her downfall in Gustave Flaubert’s most famous novel.
Who is Emma Bovary?
This author of Steppenwolf explored the split self and Eastern mysticism.
Who is Hermann Hesse?
This Irish novel follows a single day in Leopold Bloom’s life.
What is Ulysses?
Swift’s fantastical travels critiqued Enlightenment excess in this novel.
What is Gulliver’s Travels?
DAILY DOUBLE
He was the male protagonist in Nabokov’s controversial novel about a middle-aged man and a young girl?
This Hardy novel tells the tragic story of a young woman betrayed by her social class and family heritage.
What is Tess of the d'Urbervilles?
This satirical author created the nihilist figure Candide.
Who is Voltaire?
Günter Grass’s novel features a boy who refuses to grow after age three.
What is The Tin Drum?
DAILY DOUBLE
His novel, Atonement (2001), received considerable acclaim; Time magazine named it the best novel of 2002, and it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
This 1900 novel by Joseph Conrad exposed imperial horrors in Africa.
What is Heart of Darkness?
This novel by Ivan Turgenev deals with the generational clash and the idea of the “superfluous man.”
What is Fathers and Sons?
This author’s major work is a detailed study of provincial life and society in 19th-century England, centered around the fictional town of Middlemarch.
Who is George Eliot?
Running to seven volumes, "In Search of Lost Time" follows the narrator's recollections of childhood and experiences into adulthood in late 19th-century and early 20th-century high-society France.
Who is Proust?
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain is set in this alpine institution.
What is a tuberculosis sanatorium?
This British author created the dystopian world of Brave New World.
Who is Aldous Huxley?
The Sorrows of Young Werther inspired this 18th-century literary movement.
What is Sturm und Drang?
This epic poem by Alexander Pushkin is considered the foundation of modern Russian literature.
What is Eugene Onegin?
This Brontë novel features shifting identities and unreliable narrators.
What is Wuthering Heights?
The Stranger is a key text in this existentialist’s body of work.
Who is Albert Camus?
This epic poem by Goethe tells the story of a scholar who makes a pact with the devil.
What is Faust?
This Irish playwright wrote Waiting for Godot, a key work of the Theatre of the Absurd.
Who is Samuel Beckett?
This book had a significant anti-war impact by becoming an international sensation that provided a realistic, harrowing depiction of the disillusionment and trauma experienced by soldiers in World War I.
What is All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque?
Translated from Spanish in 1970, this novel by Gabriel García Márquez chronicles seven generations of the Buendía family in the town of Macondo.
Translated from Spanish in 1970, this novel by Gabriel García Márquez chronicles seven generations of the Buendía family in the town of Macondo.