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Who wrote the novel "Moby Dick"?

Jules Verne

Mark Twain

Charles Dickens

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. William Faulkner confessed he wished he had written the book himself, and D. H. Lawrence called it "one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world" and "the greatest book of the sea ever written". Its opening sentence, "Call me Ishmael", is among world literature's most famous

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Which famous novel was rejected by a number of publishers, so eventually its author had to pay the cost for publication himself?

Ulysses (Joyce)

The Trial (Kafka)

In Search of Lost Time (Proust)

The Name of the Rose (Eco)

Phillip K. Dick, author of SF novels that have been made into numerous films ("Blade Runner", "Minority Report", "Paycheck") denied the existence of a certain person. Who was that person?

Albert Einstein

Which institution awards the Pulitzer prize?

Swedish Royal Academy

Columbia University

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