"B" in Literature by HensleyB

The erotic novel "Josephine Mutzenbacher – The Life Story of a Viennese Whore, as Told by Herself" is often attributed to Felix Salten, an author perhaps better remembered for what 1923 novel that would later be adapted into a Disney animated classic?

The 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded principally for the writing of what German-language novel?

What Restoration era novelist and playwright's "Oroonoko" drew on her experience in Suriname (reportedly) working as a spy for Charles II?

The Bessie Head Literature Awards exist in part to encourage literary development in what country?

The hairless Judge Holdren, a teenager known as the "the kid," and scalphunter John Joel Glanton are among the principal characters in what novel?

What poet penned the lines below?

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.

What author's satirical "The Master and Margarita" recounts a visit by the devil to the atheistic Soviet Union?

In a 1979 novel, the Indian shopkeeper Salim sets up shop in a town in the heart of Africa that is situated in what titular location?

An army of crabs sent by Zeus prevents the total destruction of the losing side in what ancient comic parody of the "Iliad"?

This 1972 novel, a classic of Chicano literature, is narrated by seven year old Antonio who is guided through the transition from childhood to adolescence by the titular "curandera."

Who is the "he" in the excerpt from Shakespeare below?

[T]is much he dares;
And, to that dauntless temper of his mind,
He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour
To act in safety. There is none but he
Whose being I do fear: and, under him,
My Genius is rebuked; as, it is said,
Mark Antony's was by Caesar.

Stanley Webber, who lives in a boarding house run by Meg and Petey, is the subject of the titular event in what play whose other characters include the menacing strangers Goldberg and McCann?