>>24864780
Basically all good here, although a couple of gaps that need filling:—
>5 is lewis carrol alice in wonderland
Of course. The caterpillar is surprisingly rude, even by the standards of Wonderland. But it does help her out so maybe it has a kind heart underneath the brusque exterior. I think it was supposed to be a portrait of some academic L.C. knew at Oxford.
>is 8 defoe robinson crusoe? reads like it
Sure is. R.C. spends a lot of effort making himself a pipe a bit later on.
>29 is lorna doone blackmore
RIght. John Ridd encountering these new-fangled cigarette things. He's a solid traditional clay pipe man himself of course.
>is 44 ts eliot?
It is, but I think we need the title of the poem, for reasons which will become obvious.
>i'll guess that 52 is fenimore cooper one of his leatherstocking tales idk which one
No-one should be expected to tell one JFC book from another. It's The Last Of The Mohicans.
>100 is mccarthy
Correct, but people who like the passage will surely want to know which book it’s from, so they can go and enjoy the whole thing for themselves.
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>>24831632
>so it's gold! that makes some of these pretty easy
When the overall theme emerges, resistances does tend to crumble a bit . . .
>[61] 1566 First English translation of The Golden Ass (Apuleius)
>[62] 1904 Publication of The Golden Bowl (Henry James)
>[63] 1983 Nobel Prize for William Golding
All good.
>[64] 60,000 - Silver Paid (Instead of Gold) for Ferdowsi for the Shahnameh
>>24831637
>probably “Silver Pieces” instead of “Silver Paid”
Yes, "Silver Pieces" was what I had in mind. Apparently the king of Persia or whatever it was called then promised Ferdowsi a gold piece for every couplet of the poem. He worked on it for years and then it was 60,000 couplets, so he expected 60,000 gold pieces. The king sent a guy off with the money, but the guy took the gold for himself and substituted silver. F. was so insulted to receive only silver that he gave the entire lot away to the nearest beggar or something. The king found out what had happened, (years later may6be?) and tried to give him the gold, but he died just before it arrived.
Maybe it's a well-known story in Iran but I only found out about it because J. L. Borges mentions it in a short story.
>[92] 3 Wishes Granted by the Monkey's Paw (WW Jacobs)
Right. Not impossibly tricky given the author list, maybe, since WWJ is only famous for this one thing.
The anon who suggested ‘3 Witches Gathering at the Meeting Place’ (Macbeth) will hopefully admit this fits it better.
>so it's gold! that makes some of these pretty easy
When the overall theme emerges, resistances does tend to crumble a bit . . .
>[61] 1566 First English translation of The Golden Ass (Apuleius)
>[62] 1904 Publication of The Golden Bowl (Henry James)
>[63] 1983 Nobel Prize for William Golding
All good.
>[64] 60,000 - Silver Paid (Instead of Gold) for Ferdowsi for the Shahnameh
>>24831637
>probably “Silver Pieces” instead of “Silver Paid”
Yes, "Silver Pieces" was what I had in mind. Apparently the king of Persia or whatever it was called then promised Ferdowsi a gold piece for every couplet of the poem. He worked on it for years and then it was 60,000 couplets, so he expected 60,000 gold pieces. The king sent a guy off with the money, but the guy took the gold for himself and substituted silver. F. was so insulted to receive only silver that he gave the entire lot away to the nearest beggar or something. The king found out what had happened, (years later may6be?) and tried to give him the gold, but he died just before it arrived.
Maybe it's a well-known story in Iran but I only found out about it because J. L. Borges mentions it in a short story.
>[92] 3 Wishes Granted by the Monkey's Paw (WW Jacobs)
Right. Not impossibly tricky given the author list, maybe, since WWJ is only famous for this one thing.
The anon who suggested ‘3 Witches Gathering at the Meeting Place’ (Macbeth) will hopefully admit this fits it better.
>>24503786
Two out of three ain’t bad:
>#96
>Emmy
>Amelia Sedley weeps a lot throughout the course of Thackeray's Vanity Fair
She sure does.
>#95
>Vollmann, The Rider section of Poor People
No, but it is a bit like him I guess now I think about it.
>#86
>Isak Dinesen, one of the 7 Gothic Tales
Correct. ‘The Deluge At Norderney’.
Two out of three ain’t bad:
>#96
>Emmy
>Amelia Sedley weeps a lot throughout the course of Thackeray's Vanity Fair
She sure does.
>#95
>Vollmann, The Rider section of Poor People
No, but it is a bit like him I guess now I think about it.
>#86
>Isak Dinesen, one of the 7 Gothic Tales
Correct. ‘The Deluge At Norderney’.
>>24457259
4/4 here to get the ball rolling:
>25
>Catch-22
Correct.
>(seemingly ever-present in these quizzes)
Didn’t think it was that frequent. It hasn't been in the last four or five at least, has it?
>30 — bit of a shot in the dark here, but this feels like Faulkner. Surely one of the major novels, maybe Absalom?
Correct. Charles explaining to Henry about the elite New Orleans courtesans.
>53... Siddhartha?
Right.
>This is The Sot-Weed Factor
Right. Only the first third of the list, but you have to stop somewhere.
>(but I'm pissed I couldn't find Joyce...)
At the risk of sounding smug, I wouldn't call the JJ extract super-obscure. It's certainly not some unpublished letter or anything like that.
4/4 here to get the ball rolling:
>25
>Catch-22
Correct.
>(seemingly ever-present in these quizzes)
Didn’t think it was that frequent. It hasn't been in the last four or five at least, has it?
>30 — bit of a shot in the dark here, but this feels like Faulkner. Surely one of the major novels, maybe Absalom?
Correct. Charles explaining to Henry about the elite New Orleans courtesans.
>53... Siddhartha?
Right.
>This is The Sot-Weed Factor
Right. Only the first third of the list, but you have to stop somewhere.
>(but I'm pissed I couldn't find Joyce...)
At the risk of sounding smug, I wouldn't call the JJ extract super-obscure. It's certainly not some unpublished letter or anything like that.