LIT

Dubula organizes a bus boycott, and the protagonist walks in solidarity, in this novel

Cry, the Beloved Country

Arthur Jarvis, an Abraham Lincoln admirer, is killed before finishing "The Truth About Native Crime" in this novel

Cry, the Beloved Country

Mr. Carmichael takes a case pro deo in this novel

Cry, the Beloved Country

Theophilus Msimangu writes the protagonist that his sister Gertrude is sick in this novel

Cry, the Beloved Country

A boy asks for milk, the protagonist says children die without it, and milk is later delivered to Ndotsheni in this novel

Cry, the Beloved Country

This novel opens with the "lovely road" from Ixopo to Carisbrooke and warns "Destroy it and man is destroyed"

Cry, the Beloved Country

Matthew and Johannes Pafuri are acquitted of murder, and Matthew is the protagonist's nephew, in this novel

Cry, the Beloved Country

The protagonist visits a colony of blind people who weave baskets in this novel

Cry, the Beloved Country

Father Vincent marries Absalom to his pregnant girlfriend in this novel

Cry, the Beloved Country

Napoleon Letsitsi, an agricultural demonstrator, plants flagged sticks in the ground in this novel

Cry, the Beloved Country

Unferth taunts the hero about losing a seven-day swimming contest to Breca in this poem

Beowulf

Unferth lends the sword Hrunting, which fails against Grendel's mother, in this poem

Beowulf

The hero uses a giants' sword engraved with the flood, which melts in monster blood, in this poem

Beowulf

Wiglaf is the only companion who stays to help the hero fight the dragon in this poem

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J.R.R. Tolkien's lecture "The Monsters and the Critics" defends the literary merit of this poem

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Maria Dahvana Headley's translation of this poem begins with the word "Bro!"

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Seamus Heaney's translation of this poem renders its opening word "hwaet" as "So!"

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John Gardner's novel Grendel retells this poem from the monster's point of view

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This poem opens with the ship burial of Shield Sheafson

Beowulf

This poem survives in the Nowell Codex, also called Cotton MS Vitellius A XV

Beowulf

Milo Minderbinder's M&M Enterprises sells chocolate-covered Egyptian cotton and buys eggs at 7 cents to sell at 5 in this novel

Catch-22

A character signs censored letters "Washington Irving," triggering a C.I.D. investigation, in this novel

Catch-22

An IBM machine promotes Major Major Major to Major, making him Major Major Major Major, in this novel

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Snowden repeatedly says "I'm cold" before dying, and the protagonist sits naked in a tree at his funeral, in this novel

Catch-22

Orr stuffs crabapples in his cheeks and later escapes to Sweden in this novel

Catch-22

Hungry Joe tries to take nude photos while pretending to work for Life magazine in this novel

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A Henry Fonda look-alike is promoted to Major and avoids his officers by jumping out of windows in this novel

Catch-22

McWatt flies too low and kills Kid Sampson, then crashes his plane into a mountain, in this novel

Catch-22

Nately's whore stabs the protagonist in revenge for Nately's death in this novel

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The protagonist falls in love with the chaplain and has a liver pain "just short of jaundice" in this novel

Catch-22