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What synonym for poison cure completes this Karl Marx quote: 'The only ___ to mental suffering is physical pain.'
This French model and sex symbol was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir's essay, 'The Lolita Syndrome'
A period of decay and decline marked by senility, as possibly suffered by King Lear
A Puccini opera based on a play by Carlo Gozzi about its title princess
Greek playwright who wrote 'The Frogs' and 'Lysistrata'
This is the first reindeer mentioned in Clement Moore's 'A Visit From Saint Nicholas'
Senseless talk or writing, that lent its name to a word game
The family name of sisters Elinor and Marianne, in Jane Austen's 'Sense and Sensibility'
Like the societies in 'Brave New World' and '1984'
Greek historian, the 'Father of History,' noted for writing 'The Histories'
Absurdist Beckett play with Vladimir and Estragon
Doris Leslie's book '___ Flight' has this green August birthstone filling the blank
The Devil in Goethe's 'Faust'
Website with the tagline 'News for nerds, stuff that matters'
Author of plays such as 'Arcadia' and 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead'
The author of 'The Maltese Falcon' and 'The Thin Man'
Gertrude's Act 3 Scene 2 complaint: 'The lady ___ protest too much'
A usually short interesting story
This author's 'The Berlin Stories' became the musical 'Cabaret'
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Sporcle Puzzle Hunt: Literature Quiz

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