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What exact year did Miguel de Cervantes publish the second part of Don Quixote?
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Which epic poem opens with 'Sing in me Muse'?
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What precise word appears first in the original 1603 Quarto of Hamlet after the title dramatis personae?
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What precise year did Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights first appear under the name Ellis Bell?
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Which book begins with 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'?
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Who wrote The Catcher in the Rye?
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Which American novel features a man on a raft with Jim?
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Which children's book features a spider named Charlotte?
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Which detective lives at 221B Baker Street?
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Which Victorian novel was released in monthly parts beginning in 1847?
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Which Chilean poet won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971?
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Which Chinese novel is also known as The Dream of the Red Chamber?
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Who created the wizarding school Hogwarts?
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Which Japanese author wrote Norwegian Wood?
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Which novel is set during a plague in a French Algerian town?
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Who is the author of Beloved?
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Which city hosted the first publication of Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red in 1998?
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Which novel features the fireman Guy Montag?
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Who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird?
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Which American play earned a Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1949?
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Who wrote The Call of the Wild?
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Which book features the line 'So it goes'?
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Which Irish novel opens with 'stately, plump Buck Mulligan'?
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Who wrote The Alchemist that became a global bestseller?
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Which novel begins with the line 'Call me Ishmael'?
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Which novel follows Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy?
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Which Latin epic provided the phrase 'arma virumque cano'?
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How many lines are in Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?
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Which novel centers on a young governess at Thornfield Hall?
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Who penned The Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes first stories?
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Which classic begins with a rabbit hole adventure?
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Which American novel is structured as thirty-three chapters narrated by Nick Carraway?
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Which book series features Katniss Everdeen?
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Which London publisher issued the first edition of Jane Eyre in three volumes?
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How many books comprise Homer's Odyssey in the standard division?
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How many cantos comprise Dante's Inferno?
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Which novel features a conch shell symbolizing order?
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Which periodical first printed The Waste Land in the United Kingdom in 1922?
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Which poet composed The Waste Land in 1922?
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Which detective first appeared in The Mysterious Affair at Styles?
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Which playwright authored Waiting for Godot?
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Which American publisher issued the first edition of The Sound and the Fury in 1929?
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Which press issued the original 1855 Leaves of Grass with twelve poems?
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Which literary magazine first published Ernest Hemingway's 'Big Two Hearted River' in 1925?
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How many tales are in Boccaccio's Decameron in the canonical count?
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Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?
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In what month and year did the first installment of Dickens' Bleak House appear?
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Which Indian novel won the Booker Prize in 1997?
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In which city is Romeo and Juliet primarily set?
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Which Latin American novel features the town of Macondo?
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Which American poet wrote 'Because I could not stop for Death'?
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What exact original print run number did the first edition of The Hobbit have in 1937?
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Which novel follows the adventures of the orphan Pip?
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Who wrote The Hobbit?
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Who created the character Hercule Poirot?
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Which playwright wrote Death of a Salesman?
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What is the precise word count of the authorized 1611 King James Bible Genesis chapter one in English?
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Who wrote the 1939 novel If This Is a Man in Italian later translated as Survival in Auschwitz?
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Which author created Narnia?
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Which city saw the first complete publication of James Joyce's Ulysses on February 2 1922?
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Who wrote The Divine Comedy?
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Which Spanish novel from 1605 features the knight of the sorrowful face?
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What exact day, month, and year did the first folio of Shakespeare appear in London?
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Which printer produced the 1925 first edition dust jacket for The Great Gatsby credited with the iconic eyes artwork?
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In what year was The Great Gatsby first published in the United States?
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Which poet wrote 'O Captain My Captain' in tribute to Abraham Lincoln?
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Which Gothic novel introduced the vampire Count Dracula?
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What exact number of chapters are in Herman Melville's Moby Dick excluding epilogue?
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Which satire subtitled 'A Tale of a Tub' was penned by an Irish writer?
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What is the surname of the family in Little Women?
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Which Booker winner from 1981 features the character Saleem Sinai?
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Which poet is associated with Beowulf in a modern acclaimed translation?
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Which poem did Edgar Allan Poe sell to The American Review in 1845 for nine dollars?
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Which American author wrote The Color Purple?
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Which novel is set on the island of Utopia named by its author?
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Which journal first published Sylvia Plath's poem 'Lady Lazarus' in 1965 posthumously?
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Who wrote Crime and Punishment?
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Which modernist writer self-published Spring and All in 1923 from Contact Publishing Company?
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Which periodical printed Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway in novel form with Hogarth Press in 1925 handled by which printers?
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What is the exact year of first publication for Clarissa by Samuel Richardson in seven volumes?
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Which Caribbean novel won the 1971 Booker Prize?
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Which author wrote the short story 'The Lottery' first published in The New Yorker in 1948?
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Who is the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray?
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In what exact year did Jorge Luis Borges publish Ficciones as a combined volume?
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Which Russian novel was first published in serial form in The Russian Messenger?
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What exact year did Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart first appear in the Heinemann African Writers Series?
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Which South American writer authored The Aleph and Other Stories?
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Which magazine printed 'The Lottery' on June 26, 1948?
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Who wrote The Old Man and the Sea?
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What is the name of the whale hunted by Ahab?
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Which work by Mary Shelley appeared in 1818?
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How many chapters make up the first edition of The Wind Up Bird Chronicle in Japanese across its original volumes?
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Which novel coined the term 'Big Brother'?
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Which Paris-based publisher released Samuel Beckett's Molloy in French in 1951?
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How many numbered cantos are in Ezra Pound's The Cantos published across his lifetime?
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Which novel introduced the character Atticus Finch?
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What precise year did Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar first appear under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas?
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What is the exact subtitle on the first edition title page of Frankenstein in 1818?
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Which press first issued T.S. Eliot's Prufrock and Other Observations in 1917?
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What is the title of the first book in The Lord of the Rings?
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Which classic American novel was originally titled 'The Whale' on its title page?
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Which Greek tragedian authored the Oresteia trilogy in the fifth century BCE?
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Which author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954?
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In what exact year did Seamus Heaney's Beowulf translation win the Whitbread Book of the Year?
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Which science fiction classic was first serialized in All the Year Round in 1864?
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Which play includes the stage direction 'Exit pursued by a bear'?
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Which university press published the first complete English translation of The Tale of Genji by Arthur Waley in book form beginning 1925?
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Which Shakespeare play includes the line 'All the world's a stage'?
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Which novel won the inaugural Man Booker Prize in 1969?
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Who wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude?
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Which American novel features the green light across the bay?
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Who authored The Little Prince?
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Which French novel features the city of Rouen as a central setting?
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What exact number of nights frame the tales in The Thousand and One Nights according to the standard title?
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Which African novel is often cited as the first major English language novel from sub-Saharan Africa?
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Which dystopian novel imagines engineered castes named Alpha and Beta?
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Which press printed the first edition of Walt Whitman's 1860 Leaves of Grass with the Children of Adam cluster?
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Which dystopian novel introduced the slogan 'War is Peace'?
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In which year did Margaret Atwood publish The Handmaid's Tale?
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Which poet wrote the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass at his own expense?
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Which novel centers on the courtship of Bathsheba Everdene?
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