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In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, what is the name of Hester's daughter?
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In The Scarlet Letter, what is the name of the protagonist's daughter?
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Who said "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation?"
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What American writer had an ancestor who was a judge at the Salem witch trials?
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Of which American author (whom he greatly admired) did Henry James publish a critical study in 1879, one which proved rather controversial in the USA?
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Which of the following authors are thought to have said "I can't sleep" as their last words?
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In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables, what is Holgrave's profession?
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Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a biography of which US President?
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Who is the "Black Man that haunts the forest round about us" in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlett Letter?
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609 times (36.0%) |
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In the short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, what is Dr. Heidegger's Experiment?
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By what nickname did Nathaniel Hawthorne call his wife?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun is about the consequences of ___________?
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40 times (7.6%) |
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To whom did Herman Melville write: "I shall leave the world, I feel, with more satisfaction for having come to know you. Knowing you persuades me more than the Bible of our immortality"?
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Which 19th-century American writer once exclaimed that he would rather "be damned to John Bunyan's heaven" than read Henry James's novel, The Bostonians?
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Which late 19th century writer is responsible for writing the short stories: "The Ransom of Red Chief" and "The Last Leaf"? Nathaniel HawthorneO. HenryCharles Dickens
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"It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility."
This passage is from a book by which author?
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Who wrote a lengthy, flattering letter to Walt Whitman on the first publication of Leaves of Grass, saying: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career"?
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Which writer wrote., " The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
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Which author and abolitionist refused to pay a tax and spent a short time in jail?
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How did Nathaniel Hawthorne find his inspiration for his novel The Scarlet Letter?
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stendhal, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Which colour links all four writers?
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Whose figure is being described here, and by whom/ in what book?
"It stood right at the seawardmost end, apparently leaning against an old cannon-barrel up-ended as a bollard. Its clothes were black. The wind moved them, but the figure stood motionless, staring, staring out to sea, more like a living memorial to the drowned, a figure from myth, than any fragment of the petty provincial day."
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in the The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthornewhat is the actually letter?
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Which word connects the titles of books by V.S. Naipaul, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mark Z. Danielewski, Isabel Allende, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edith Wharton?
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My Kinsman,
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Which novelist, whom he greatly admired, did Henry James describe as being "so multitudinous, so complex, so far-spreading, so suggestive, so portentous ... that the imagination, oppressed and overwhelmed, shrinks from any attempt to grasp it whole"?
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