"R" in Literature by HensleyB

Written in the anuṣṭubh meter, what epic poem attributed to Valmiki is traditionally divided into seven kāndās?

The 1871 poem "The Drunken Boat" was a work of what poet who included it in a letter introducing himself to Paul Verlaine?

Part of the epic poem "Orlando Furioso" revolves around the love between the Christian knight Bradamante and what Saracen warrior who converts to Christianity in order to marry her?

"American Pastoral," a novel that tells of the collapse of Swede's American dream and the descent of his daughter Merry into political radicalism, is a work of what author?

Lucy Honeychurch is the protagonist of what novel that ends with her eloping to Florence with George Emerson?

What play memorably opens with the unlikely event of a tossed coin coming up heads over ninety times in a row, causing one of the title characters to question his reality?

Name the character created by Tobias Smollett who goes on adventures around with world with his friend Hugh Strap and who marries Narcissa at the end of the novel in which he appears.

Evelyn Nesbit, Harry Houdini, JP Morgan, Booker T. Washington, and Henry Ford are among the historical figures who appear in what 1975 novel set in New York City whose principal fictional characters are known simply by "Mother," "Father," "the little boy," and "Mother's Younger Brother"?

Saleem Sinai, Gibreel Farishta, Saladin Chamcha, and Maximilian Ophuls are among the characters created by what novelist?

It looked like a good thing: but wait till I tell you. We were down South, in Alabama--Bill Driscoll and myself-when this kidnapping idea struck us. It was, as Bill afterward expressed it, 'during a moment of temporary mental apparition'; but we didn't find that out till later.

So begins what short story?

The lines below have been excerpted from a poem by what poet?

“Oh,” cried Lizzie, “Laura, Laura,
You should not peep at goblin men.”
Lizzie cover’d up her eyes,
Cover’d close lest they should look;

The following text has been excerpted from which short story?

A small orange colored reptile, of the lizard or chameleon species, chanced to be creeping along the path, just at the feet of Beatrice. It appeared to Giovanni--but, at the distance from which he gazed, he could scarcely have seen anything so minute--it appeared to him, however, that a drop or two of moisture from the broken stem of the flower descended upon the lizard's head. For an instant, the reptile contorted itself violently, and then lay motionless in the sunshine. Beatrice observed this remarkable phenomenon, and crossed herself, sadly, but without surprise; nor did she therefore hesitate to arrange the fatal flower in her bosom. There it blushed, and almost glimmered with the dazzling effect of a precious stone, adding to her dress and aspect the one appropriate charm, which nothing else in the world could have supplied. But Giovanni, out of the shadow of his window, bent forward and shrank back, and murmured and trembled.