"A" in Literature by HensleyB

Although 1925's "Dark Laughter" was the only bestseller of his lifetime, what author is better remembered today for a work whose characters include the paranoid Doctor Parcival, Standard Oil agent Joe Welling, and reporter George Willard?

Chinua Achebe's "Africa Trilogy" consists of "Things Fall Apart," "No Longer at Ease," and what third novel?

What placename fills the blank in the excerpt from an Edward Thomas poem below?

Yes. I remember ___
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat, the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.

Born in the Roman colony of Numidia, what writer described the adventures of Lucius who accidentally turns himself into a donkey?

The interactions between Peter and Jerry on a Central Park bench form the basis of a one-act play by which playwright?

A widow's efforts to marry off her daughter Frederica and to acquire a new husband for herself drives the plot of whose epistolary novel "Lady Susan"?

Juliet's exclamation "O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die" is an example of what figure of speech in which a character addresses someone not present or a personified object or idea?

Dikaiopolis manages to secure a private peace treaty with the Spartans in what play, the earliest surviving work of Aristophanes?

William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying" revolves around the request of which member of the Bundren family to be buried in her hometown of Jefferson, Mississippi?

Married couple Stan and Charmaine spend every other month in prison as part of the Positron Project in 2015's "The Heart Goes Last," a novel by what Booker Prize-winning author?

"Shimerda" is the last name of what title character of a 1918 novel, the third in a notable trilogy?

"The Nose," "Autumn Mountain," and "In a Grove" are among the works of what master of the short story and namesake of a literary prize?