The Bayeux Tapestry's lower borders cryptically depict several of his fables including the fox & the crow

In The Grapes of Wrath this family takes a road trip from Oklahoma to California

This character took the hookah out of its mouth and addressed (Alice) in a languid sleepy voice

He worked at the custom house in Salem in the 1840s; The Custom House is an essay at the start of one of his novels

In a Stowe novel he tells Uncle Tom I'm your church now...you've got to be as I say

In Lord of the Rings Frodo is a hobbit & Gimli is one of these

In Paradise Lost this character disguises himself as a cherub to sneak into the Garden of Eden

Not Fog nor Cloud but this is Lolita's last name in Nabokov's lecherous classic

This 1913 George Bernard Shaw play was based on an ancient Greek myth recounted by Ovid

In Gulliver's Travels a race of talking horses called Houyhnhnms have enslaved humanlike beings called these

Samuel Johnson said When a man is tired of this city that contains his only surviving residence he is tired of life

In an 1850 novel she refuses to name the father of her daughter Pearl & spends 3 hours on the pillory

The opera Les Troyens or The Trojans by Berlioz was based on this ancient Roman epic

Don't make house calls is the message of A Country Doctor one of this Prague writer's eerie tales

Fred Peloux is known by the single name Cheri in a 1920 novel by this single-named Frenchwoman

A sonnet typically has this many lines with 10 syllables in each one

Flamingos are used as croquet mallets in this Lewis Carroll work

This 18th c. novel has wordy chapter titles like Containing a Conversation which Mr. Jones Had with Himself

Hughenden is not a typical author's home; this resident was British prime minister an earl & a hugely popular writer

This Irish-born Nobel Prize-winning playwright earned the Croix de Guerre for helping the French Resistance

Daniel Defoe claimed that this shipwreck classic was an allegory of his own life

This 1961 novel by Joseph Heller takes place on the island of Pianosa

If you're from Narnia you may know this author wrote some poetry under the pen name Clive Hamilton

This lyrical drama by Percy Shelley takes license with Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound

This Wilde guy gives his soul to remain young while his picture reflects his descent into debauchery