"M" in Literature by HensleyB

The murder of Ryuji at the hands of a group of adolescent boys is the implied ending of what author's "The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea"?

"Lives of Girls and Women" and "Runaway" are among the short story collections of what "master of the contemporary short story" whose work is often set in Huron County, Ontario?

A real life game between Honinbō Shūsai and Minoru Kitani was the inspiration for what 1951 novel in which that game occurs over six months?

The sequel to "Myra Breckinridge," what novel by Gore Vidal famously replaced profane terms with the names of Supreme Court justices in protest of a 1973 anti-pornography ruling?

Identify the "she" in the excerpt from a play below.

To all the daemons of the air
In witness of these things; how she
Who slew them, will not suffer me
To gather up my babes, nor bear
To earth their bodies; whom, O stone
Of women, would I ne'er had known
Nor gotten, to be slain by thee!

What figure of speech is being employed in the adage "The pen is mightier than the sword" in which "pen" stands in for writing and "sword" stands in for military force?

Jimmie Johnson, brother of the title character, tells his mother his sister is dead at the end of which novel that ends with the mother exclaiming, "Oh, yes, I'll fergive her! I'll fergive her!"?

Spanning the time between the Gilded Age and the Jazz Age, what John Dos Passos novel has been described as an "expressionistic picture of New York"?

Alceste, the title character, loves Célimène and decides to exile himself from society after she rejects his marriage proposal in what play?

Identify the Sylvia Plath poem from the excerpt below.

I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

Set over the course of the 1989-1990 academic year, what sprawling novel set in the American Midwest features such characters as Earl Butz (a boar), Governor O.T. Early (who proposes funding cuts at the titular university), and Loren Stroop (a farmer who always wears a bulltproof vest)?

The quote "A good Booke is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose to a life beyond life" is derived from which author's "Areopagitica"?