"L" in Literature by HensleyB

Barabbas, the man released by Pontius Pilate instead of Jesus, is the title character of a 1950 novel by which Nobel Laureate?

Which poet penned the following immortal lines?

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.

The detective Joseph Rouletabille, who appeared in "The Mystery of the Yellow Room" among other novels, is a creation of which author who is also known for a novel that was adapted into a Tony-winning musical?

Dr. Juvenal Urbino's death from a fall allows Florentino and Fermina to realize their lifelong affection for each other in what novel?

Identify the woman whose transformation is described below.

Left to herself, the serpent now began
To change; her elfin blood in madness ran,
Her mouth foam’d, and the grass, therewith besprent,
Wither’d at dew so sweet and virulent;

What name did Catullus use to refer to his lover, believed to be Claudia Metelli Celeris, in his poetry?

What is the first name of the mentally disabled man's whose death by a gunshot in the back of the head occurs at the end of the novella "Of Mice and Men"?

"The Sons of La Malinche," "From Independence to the Revolution," and "The Day of the Dead" are among the nine sections of what essay published in 1950?

Identify the George Meredith poem that begins with the following lines:

He rises and begins to round,
He drops the silver chain of sound
Of many links without a break,
In chirrup, whistle, slur and shake,
All intervolv’d and spreading wide,
Like water-dimples down a tide
Where ripple ripple overcurls
And eddy into eddy whirls;

What right-wing party of "Naked Lunch" is (ostensibly) named for its attempts to gain power by eliminating all non-supporters?

The tour guide Mr. Kapasi, who works weekdays in a doctor's office and who develops a romantic interest in Mrs. Das, is the title character of a short story by what author?

The Byronic Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin is the protagonist, title character, and, in the third part, narrator of a novel by what author?