This author wrote during Queen Victoria's reign in England and fathered ten children.
Who is Charles Dickens?
100
Walt Whitman spent his entire life writing and revising this collection of poetry.
What is Leaves of Grass?
100
This literary genre is usually fiction that involves otherworldly people and places and can suspend reality.
What is fantasy?
100
This is a theme in which man struggles against things such as sexual and material drives and even against the aging process.
What is Man vs. Nature?
100
These three epic fantasy films were based on J. R. R. Tolkien's three-volume novel, and were released in theaters in 2001, 2002, and 2003, respectively.
What is The Lord of the Rings Trilogy?
200
Best known for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, this author became alienated from her fellow ethnic group and died in poverty.
Who is Zora Neal Hurston?
200
Written by French author Jules Verne, this work is about a man who makes a monetary wager about transportation in 1872.
What is Around the World in Eighty Days?
200
This genre demonstrates a useful truth, sometimes referred to as a moral, in which animals are depicted as humans.
What is a fable?
200
This is a theme in which characters accept a tough situation and work through it to turn it into a triumph.
What is Overcoming Adversity?
200
Starring Gillian Anderson, this movie was produced in 2005 and was based on the Dickens novel of the same name about the injustices of the English legal system in the 19th century.
What is Bleak House?
300
A crater on the moon was named by an Apollo astronaut after one of this author's works.
Who is Ray Bradbury?
300
Paralleling her own experiences with depression, this novel, written by Sylvia Plath, follows a woman's path into mental illness.
What is The Bell Jar?
300
Fictional stories told in either prose or verse, this genre uses dialogue and action to express human conflict and emotion and is best used in theatrical performances.
What is drama?
300
This theme shows that despite the challenges along the way, sacrifices and hard work pay off in the end.
What is Sacrifices Bring Reward?
300
This novel was adapted six times to T.V. and film, most recently in 2005 into a film starring Keira Knightley and Donald Sutherland.
What is Pride and Prejudice?
400
This author's legal name is Samuel B. Clemens.
Who is Mark Twain?
400
A collection of twelve short stories, this work follows the detective work of a man and his friend and was first published in 1892.
What is The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes?
400
A genre in which historical settings are used to tell stories about fictional characters and events.
What is historical fiction?
400
This is the idea that love conquers all.
What is Love is the Worthiest of Pursuits?
400
This novel was adapted to film five times for an English audience and once each in Spain, Egypt, India, France, the USSR, Japan, Portugal, Argentina, and Turkey and is a suspenseful tale of revenge.
What is The Count of Monte Cristo?
500
This author was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1921.
Who is Edith Wharton?
500
This was the only published novel written by playwright Oscar Wilde and depicts the moral decline of a young man into depravity.
What is The Picture of Dorian Gray?
500
This genre presents factual information and text in the format of a story.
What is narrative nonfiction?
500
This is the theme in which man struggles to understand divinity but finds satisfaction elusive and difficult.
What is Man vs God?
500
This movie is based upon George Orwell's novel of the same name about a post-atomic dystopian English society that is controlled by a governmental entity known as Big Brother and was released to theaters in the same year as its title suggests.