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Who of the following wrote a play or novel entitled "Dr. Faustus?"
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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."
Who said this, and where?
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Christa Wolf's novel, No Place on Earth ("Kein Ort. Nirgends" in the original), concerns the imaginary meeting between the author Karoline von Günderrode and which famous German poet?
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Thomas Mann's novel Lotte in Weimar was written in response to a famous work of German literature by which classic writer?
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What is the sorrow of Goethe's Young Werther?
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"It is among the finest inventions of the human mind; every prudent master of a house should introduce it into his economy."
A character in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship says this of which particular invention?
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30 times (19.5%) |
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Who does the main character marry in the Second Part of Goethe's Faust?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust Part 2
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As a writer, 19th century philosopher and literary critic George Henry Lewes is probably best known for his biography of ...
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Which very famous nineteenth century philosopher penned The Twilight of the Idols which word-plays upon Wagner's opera, "The Twilight of the Gods"?
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Of the following works by the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which of them is not a play?
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Who describes our first frail mother, when he tells us that women are formed for "softness" and "sweet attractive grace?"
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Which poet gave the following explanation on one of his own works, and which work is he referring to?
"I intended to delineate the feelings of one of the last of the Greek religious philosophers, one of the family of Orpheus and Musaeus, having survived his fellows, living on into a time when the habits of Greek thought and feeling had begun fast to change, character to dwindle, the influence of the Sophists to prevail. Into the feelings of a man so situated there entered much that we are accustomed to consider as exclusively modern (...) What those who are familiar only with the great monuments of early Greek genius suppose to be its exclusive characteristics, have disappeared; the calm, the cheerfulness, the disinterested objectivity have disappeared: the dialogue of the mind with itself has commenced; modem problems have presented themselves; we hear already the doubts, we witness the discouragement, of Hamlet and of Faust."
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Arguably the shortest written exchange ever was that between Victor Hugo and his publisher, following the publication of Les Misérables, with Hugo enquiring with a simple "?" about the book's success, and his publisher responding: "!"
A hot contender for the second shortest exchange, however, is that following a bet between two friends who would be able to write the shortest letter in Latin. Thus, the first man wrote: "Eo rus" -- "I am going to the countryside." His friend responded: "I" -- "Go!" ... and had won the bet.
While this story is primarily associated with two Roman senators, it was later co-opted by a minor 18th century playwright for an alleged exchange with one of his country's most famous poets and philosophers.
Who was the 18th century playwright, and who his famous countryman?
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Who wrote the "Sorrows of Young Werther"?
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Which of the following is NOT an epistolary novel?
("NOVEL" -- i.e.: a work of fiction -- being the operative word here ...)
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Of whom did Friedrich Nietzsche declare in his essay 'Schopenhauer as Educator':
"That such a man wrote has truly augmented the joy of living on this Earth"?
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Fill in the missing name in this statement by Thomas Mann:
"In _________, Germany had experienced something of the order of a birth of poetry from the spirit of cricitism."
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Fill in the missing name in this statement by Thomas Mann:
"Even the last of the species can with modest pride recognize his own affliction, his own happiness in __________"
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Which modern German author declared himself to be "Goethe's mythical heir, walking in his traces"?
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24 times (29.6%) |
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Which famous writer claimed the following?
"If one wants to leave something worthwhile to posterity, it must be confessions; one must show oneself as an individual, with all one's thoughts and opinions."
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