'Call me Ishmael' is the first line of which American classic?
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Ayatollah Khomeini, former supreme leader of Iran, issued a fatwa against which writer in 1989
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Victor Hugo's LES MISERABLES is set during the French Revolution
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Finish the sentence: Don Quixote is considered by literary historians to be one of the most important books of all time, and it is often cited as the first modern n..........
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Which Russian writer wrote CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
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ARABIAN NIGHTS is a collection of folk tales told by Sherazade to postone her own execution.
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The Little Mermaid was written by Hans Christian Andersen. Which European capital has a statue of the mermaid in honour of Andersen?
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TEN THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU is based on a play by
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Name two books written by Roald Dahl:
The Witches, BFG, Charlie and the chocolate factory, Matilda, Revolting Rhymes, Magic Finger, George's Marvelous Medicine, James and the giant peach...
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J.M Coetzee is one of the six Africans to have won the Nobel prize in Literature. What country is he from?
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The Canadian Margaret Atwood, writer of THE HANDMAID'S TALE won the Nobel prize for literature last year.
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All of Dickens major novels were published serially, in monthly (or weekly) installments.
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'To be or not to be' is part of a soliloquy out of Shakespeare's