Literature
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Who are on the pictures?

Who is on the picture? 1)

 

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616, English)
Milton, John (1608-1674, English)
Burns, Robert (1759-1796, Scottish)

 

Who is on the picture? 2)

 

Villon, François (1431- 1465?, French)
Racine, Jean (1939-1699, French)
Moliere - Jean Baptiste Poquelin (1622-1673, French)

 

Who is on the picture? 3)

 

Henry Miller (1891-1980, US)
Arthur Miller (1915....US)
Salinger, Jerome David (1919-....US)

 

Who is on the picture? 4)

 

Schiller, Friedrich (1759-1805, German)
Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856, German )
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, von (1749-1832, German)

 

Who is on the picture? 5)

 

Petrarch ( Petrarca, Francesco) (1304 -1374, Italian)
Dante, Alighieri (1265-1321, Italian)
Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375, Italian)

 

 

Whose poems are these?

6) A Toccata of Galuppi Barrett-Browning, Elisabeth (1806-1861, English)
Browning, Robert (1812-1889, English)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834, English)

 

7) John Anderson, my jo, John Burns, Robert (1759-1796, Scottish)
Blake, William (1757-1827, English)
Byron, George Gordon, Lord(1788-1824, English)

 

8) Chanson d'automne (Autumn Song) Rimbaud, Arthur (1856-1891, French)
Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867, French)
Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896, French)

 

9) I Hear America Singing Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882,US)
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849, US)
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892, US)

 

10) Drückende Luft (Depressive Atmosphere)

 

 

Dauthendey, Max (1867-1918, German)
George, Stefan (1868-1933, German)
Dehmel, Richard (1863-1920, German)
 

From whose book are the following movie adaptations made?

11) War and Peace
War and Peace 1956
Directed by King Vidor
Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer, Henry Fonda
Tolstoy, (Leo) Lev Nikolayevich (1828-1910, Russian)
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovitch (1860-1904, Russian)
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich (1821-1881, Russian) 
12) From Whom the Bell Tolls
From Whom the Bell Tolls 1943
Directed by Sam Wood
Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman
Dos Passos, John (Roderogo) (1896-1970,US)
Hemingway, Ernest (Miller) (1899-1961, US)
Jones, James (1921-1977, US)
13) The Blue Angel
The Blue Angel 1930
Directed by Josef von Sternberg
Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich
Klaus Mann (1906-1949, German)
Heinrich Mann (1871-1950, German)
Thomas Mann (1875-1955, German)
14) The Gambler
The Gambler 1997
Directed by Károly Makk
Michael Gambon, Jodhi May
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich (1821-1881, Russian)
Pushkin, Alexander Sergeyevich (1799-1837, Russian)
Mickiewicz, Adam ( 1798-1855, Polish)
15) The Misérables
The Misérables 1995
Directed by Claude Lelouch
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Annie Girardot, Michel Boujenah
Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850, French)
Zola Emile (1840-1902, French)
Hugo, Victor (Marie) (1802-1885, French)
16) Adorable Julia   (The original novel titel is: Theatre)
Adorable Julia 1962
Directed by Alfred Weidenmann
Lili Palmer, Charles Boyer, Jean Sorel
Maugham, William Somerset (1874-1965, born in Paris, English)
Greene, (Henry) Graham (1904-1991, English)
Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973, English)
17) The Condemned of Altona
The Condemned of Altona 1962
Directed by Vittorio de Sica
Sophia Loren, Maximilian Schell, Fredrich March
Dürrenmatt, (Duerrenmatt) Friedrich (1921-1990,  Swiss)
Weiss, Peter (Ulrich) (1916-1982, German)
Sartre, Jean-Paul, (1905-1980, French)
18) The Leopard
The Leopard 1963
Directed by Luchino Visconti
Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon
Moravia, Alberto (1907-1990, Italian)
Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi, duca di Palma (1896-1957, Italian)
Marinetti, Filippo (Tommaso) Emilio (1876-1944, Italian)
19) 2001: Space Odyssey
Space.jpg (6991 bytes) 1968
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood
Clarke, Arthur C (1917 - , English/American)
Asimov, Isaac (1920-1992, Russian/American)
Lem, Stanislaw (1921- , Polish)
20) Sphinx
Sphinx.jpg (4072 bytes) 1981
Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Frank Langella, Lesley-Anne Down, John Gielgud
King, Stephen (1947 - , American )
Cook, Robin ( 1940 - , American )
Follett, Ken (1949 - , English )