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#	Answer	Count	Sample Clue
1	Don Quixote	4	Chapter 8 of this 17th century work begins, "They came in sight of thirty, forty windmills"
2	War and Peace	3	Tolstoy's first full-length novel, it includes a cast of more than 500 characters
3	Voltaire	3	He wrote about the devastating 1755 Lisbon earthquake in a 1756 poem & in his classic novel "Candide"
4	Thomas Mann	3	Heinrich Mann, this novelist's brother, wrote the novel on which the film "The Blue Angel" was based
5	The Brothers Karamazov	3	In a Dostoyevsky novel, they are Dmitri, Ivan & Alyosha
6	Sanskrit	3	A collection of animal stories from India, the "Panchatantra" was originally written in this ancient language
7	Goethe	3	This "Faust" author is the hero of Thomas Mann's novel "The Beloved Returns"
8	Crime and Punishment	3	In this 1866 Russian novel, a poor student named Raskolnikov kills an old woman pawnbroker
9	China	3	Credited to Luo Guanzhong, "All Men Are Brothers" is a famous tale about an outlaw gang of this country
10	The Prince	3	The last chapter of this 16th century work is "An Exhortation to Liberate Italy from the Barbarians"
11	Leo Tolstoy	3	His 1st published story, "Childhood", appeared in 1852 while he was in the Russian army
12	Zorba	2	Last name of the life-loving Alexis, "the Greek" in a novel by Nikos Kazantzakis
13	The Tin Drum	2	The German title of this Gunter Grass novel is "Die Blechtrommel"
14	the Divine Comedy	2	St. Bernard guides Dante during the final leg of his journey in this epic work
15	the Count of Monte Cristo	2	Buried treasure found on an islet in the Tuscan Archipelago makes this character wealthy
16	South Africa	2	Because it was dedicated to the schoolchildren of Soweto, the 1980 book "Fire Flames" was banned in this country
17	Sir Walter Scott	2	The defense of Douglas Castle in 1306 is the subject of this Edinburgh native's 1832 novel "Castle Dangerous"
18	Siddhartha	2	Hermann Hesse's novel of a young Indian's search for reality; its title is one of the names of Buddha
19	Quo Vadis	2	Written by a Pole, this "Narrative of the Time of Nero" has a Latin question as its title
20	Pride and Prejudice	2	Under the title "First Impressions", the 1st version of this J. Austen novel was rejected by a publisher in 1797
21	New Zealand	2	An actress before she turned to mystery novels, Dame Ngaio Marsh was born in Christchurch in this country
22	Japan	2	"The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion" & "The Marioka Sisters" are classics from this Asian country
23	James Joyce	2	This Irishman's famous stream-of-consciousness technique was inspired by Edouard Dujardin
24	French	2	Language in which Oscar Wilde originally wrote "Salome"
25	Daniel Defoe	2	In 1703 this "Robinson Crusoe" author offended each side in a religious dispute & was sentenced to Newgate Prison
26	Chaucer	2	His poem "The Legend of Good Women" is less famous than his "Canterbury Tales"
27	Cervantes	2	Born in 1547, this Spanish author always craved the fame of his contemporary Lope de Vega
28	Argentina	2	"Heartbreak Tango" was the second novel by Manuel Puig, one of this country's most famous authors
29	William Faulkner	2	His 1930 novel "As I Lay Dying" is divided into 59 short monologues
30	The Turn of the Screw	2	In this Henry James tale, a governess is in charge of 2 children who are controlled by evil ghosts
31	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	2	A Paris crowd selects this character as King of Fools for the Epiphany celebrations of 1482
32	Madame Bovary	2	Scandalous antics of this Flaubert heroine include reading trashy novels & getting frisky in a moving carriage
33	Fyodor Dostoevsky	2	His "The Brothers Karamazov" was translated into English in 1912, 32 years after it was 1st published
34	Arthur Conan Doyle	2	Though he also wrote historical romances, he's best known for stories of 221B Baker Street
35	Albert Camus	2	In 1956 he published "La Chute", or "The Fall"; the next year he won the Nobel Prize for Literature