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7/3/2025, 12:29:34 PM
>>24516933
ANSWERS
1. Sylvia Plath, ‘The Applicant’
2. Damon Runyon, ‘Tobias The Terrible’
3. William Shakespeare, ‘Antony And Cleopatra’
4. Robert Burton, ‘Anatomy Of Melancholy’
5. George Eliot, ‘The Mill On The Floss’
6. William Hazlitt, ‘On Wit And Humour’
7. William Vollmann, ‘The Rainbow Stories: Yellow Rose’
8. Homer, ‘The Iliad’
9. Thomas Carlyle, ‘Sartor Resartus’
10. Charlotte Bronte, ‘Villette’
11. Renata Adler, ‘Speedboat’
12. John Keats, ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’
13. John Gardner, ‘Grendel’
14. Lewis Carroll, ‘Alice In Wonderland’
15. Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Hound Of The Baskervilles’
16. Anne Sexton, ‘Hurry Up Please It’s Time’ (‘The Death Notebooks’)
17. Cormac McCarthy, ‘Suttree’
18. Lucia Berlin, ‘Wait A Minute’ (‘A Manual For Cleaning Women’)
19. John Milton, ‘Paradise Lost’
20. Charles Dickens, ‘Great Expectations’
21. Zbigniew Herbert, ‘Hermes, Dog and Star’
22. Alfred Lord Tennyson, ‘The Princess’
23. John Bunyan, ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’
24. Manuel Puig, ‘Kiss Of The Spider Woman’
25. Terry Pratchett, ‘Reaper Man’
26. William Gibson, ‘Neuromancer’
27. H. W. Longfellow, ‘The Wreck Of The Hesperus’
28. Laurie Lee, ‘Cider With Rosie’
29. John Donne, ‘A Valediction: Of Weeping’
30. Tove Jansson, ‘Moominsummer Madness’
31. D. H. Lawrence, ‘The Rainbow’
32. Diogenes Laertius, ‘Lives And Opinions Of The Eminent Philosophers: Solon’
33. Dante Alighieri, ‘The Divine Comedy: Inferno’
34. R. A. Lafferty, ‘Funnyfingers’
35. Charles Montagu Doughty, ‘Travels In Arabia Deserta’
36. St. Augustine, ‘Confessions’
37. William McGonagall, ‘The Battle Of Corunna’
38. Samuel Richardson, ‘Clarissa’
39. P. B. Shelley, ‘Adonais: An Elegy On The Death Of John Keats’
40. Thomas Harris, ‘The Silence Of The Lambs’
41. Samuel Beckett, ‘The Unnameable’
42. Tom Robbins, ‘Even Cowgirls Get The Blues’
43. Frank Herbert, ‘Dune’
44. Ted Hughes [tr.], ‘Tales From Ovid’
45. Thomas Wolfe, ‘Look Homeward, Angel’
46. Patricia Highsmith, Notebooks
47. David Markson, ‘Wittgenstein’s Mistress’
48. Jerome K. Jerome, ‘Three Men In A Boat’
49. Wallace Stevens, 'Another Weeping Woman'
50. Lawrence Durrell, ‘Mountolive’
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ANSWERS
1. Sylvia Plath, ‘The Applicant’
2. Damon Runyon, ‘Tobias The Terrible’
3. William Shakespeare, ‘Antony And Cleopatra’
4. Robert Burton, ‘Anatomy Of Melancholy’
5. George Eliot, ‘The Mill On The Floss’
6. William Hazlitt, ‘On Wit And Humour’
7. William Vollmann, ‘The Rainbow Stories: Yellow Rose’
8. Homer, ‘The Iliad’
9. Thomas Carlyle, ‘Sartor Resartus’
10. Charlotte Bronte, ‘Villette’
11. Renata Adler, ‘Speedboat’
12. John Keats, ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’
13. John Gardner, ‘Grendel’
14. Lewis Carroll, ‘Alice In Wonderland’
15. Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Hound Of The Baskervilles’
16. Anne Sexton, ‘Hurry Up Please It’s Time’ (‘The Death Notebooks’)
17. Cormac McCarthy, ‘Suttree’
18. Lucia Berlin, ‘Wait A Minute’ (‘A Manual For Cleaning Women’)
19. John Milton, ‘Paradise Lost’
20. Charles Dickens, ‘Great Expectations’
21. Zbigniew Herbert, ‘Hermes, Dog and Star’
22. Alfred Lord Tennyson, ‘The Princess’
23. John Bunyan, ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’
24. Manuel Puig, ‘Kiss Of The Spider Woman’
25. Terry Pratchett, ‘Reaper Man’
26. William Gibson, ‘Neuromancer’
27. H. W. Longfellow, ‘The Wreck Of The Hesperus’
28. Laurie Lee, ‘Cider With Rosie’
29. John Donne, ‘A Valediction: Of Weeping’
30. Tove Jansson, ‘Moominsummer Madness’
31. D. H. Lawrence, ‘The Rainbow’
32. Diogenes Laertius, ‘Lives And Opinions Of The Eminent Philosophers: Solon’
33. Dante Alighieri, ‘The Divine Comedy: Inferno’
34. R. A. Lafferty, ‘Funnyfingers’
35. Charles Montagu Doughty, ‘Travels In Arabia Deserta’
36. St. Augustine, ‘Confessions’
37. William McGonagall, ‘The Battle Of Corunna’
38. Samuel Richardson, ‘Clarissa’
39. P. B. Shelley, ‘Adonais: An Elegy On The Death Of John Keats’
40. Thomas Harris, ‘The Silence Of The Lambs’
41. Samuel Beckett, ‘The Unnameable’
42. Tom Robbins, ‘Even Cowgirls Get The Blues’
43. Frank Herbert, ‘Dune’
44. Ted Hughes [tr.], ‘Tales From Ovid’
45. Thomas Wolfe, ‘Look Homeward, Angel’
46. Patricia Highsmith, Notebooks
47. David Markson, ‘Wittgenstein’s Mistress’
48. Jerome K. Jerome, ‘Three Men In A Boat’
49. Wallace Stevens, 'Another Weeping Woman'
50. Lawrence Durrell, ‘Mountolive’
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6/21/2025, 11:54:58 AM
>>24484312
>10. Daniel Woodrell, Tomato Red
Right. A rare ‘not Winter’s Bone’ DW offering.
>27. Tony Burgess, Nothing like the Sun-- his Shakespeare/Dark Lady novel
Correct.
>88. William Trevor, 'The Room'
Right. Definitely one of the hardest since /lit/ doesn't talk about WT and this isn’t one of his most famous stories either. Basically, an expensive prostitute is murdered and a man is suspected because he paid her with a cheque. His wife gives him an alibi although she isn’t quite certain whether he might have done it.
>78.
>Greene
>‘Jubilee’
Right. Another hard obscure short story. Typically sleazy GG milieu. (The main character is a fading male prostitute. He sees a woman in a bar who he hopes might be a client. It turns she’s an ex-prostitute who made it big and retired. She sees him for what he is immediately.)
>85.
>Thurber-esque
Not all that Thurber-esque, is it? A lot more explicit than Thurber would ever be. And not really funny either.
>Updike, 'Transaction'-- a Christmas story, actually
Correct. Obscure short story #3. Not surprising these were the last to go.
I think this wraps it up. That’s three in a row. Time to up the difficulty, perhaps.
>10. Daniel Woodrell, Tomato Red
Right. A rare ‘not Winter’s Bone’ DW offering.
>27. Tony Burgess, Nothing like the Sun-- his Shakespeare/Dark Lady novel
Correct.
>88. William Trevor, 'The Room'
Right. Definitely one of the hardest since /lit/ doesn't talk about WT and this isn’t one of his most famous stories either. Basically, an expensive prostitute is murdered and a man is suspected because he paid her with a cheque. His wife gives him an alibi although she isn’t quite certain whether he might have done it.
>78.
>Greene
>‘Jubilee’
Right. Another hard obscure short story. Typically sleazy GG milieu. (The main character is a fading male prostitute. He sees a woman in a bar who he hopes might be a client. It turns she’s an ex-prostitute who made it big and retired. She sees him for what he is immediately.)
>85.
>Thurber-esque
Not all that Thurber-esque, is it? A lot more explicit than Thurber would ever be. And not really funny either.
>Updike, 'Transaction'-- a Christmas story, actually
Correct. Obscure short story #3. Not surprising these were the last to go.
I think this wraps it up. That’s three in a row. Time to up the difficulty, perhaps.
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