/lit/ - Literature

Progress so far, 42/100:


1) Great Expectations
3) Three Men in a Boat
6) The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
7) Tom Sawyer
10) The Three Musketeers

12) The Dead
15) Moby Dick
16) Eugene Onegin
17) Gravity's Rainbow
19) The Jew of Malta

21) Waiting For Godot
22) Catch-22
26) Catcher In The Rye
27) Antigone
28) A Confederacy Of Dunces
29) The Importance Of Being Earnest

32) The Sound And The Fury
39) Of Mice And Men
40) The Aeneid

41) Paradise Lost
44) At Swim-Two-Birds
48) The Old Man and the Sea
49) The Remains of the Day
50) Shadow Over Innsmouth

54) A Scanner Darkly
58) Lord of the Rings

62) A Scandal In Bohemia
70) Anna Karenina

71) Jane Eyre
74) The Andromeda Strain
75) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
79) Faust Part I

81) Slaughterhouse Five
83) Brave New World
84) 1984
87) Shogun
88) Deliverance

91) A Sentimental Journey
93) The Brothers Karamazov
96) Arthur Gordon Pym
99) Flowers for Algernon
100) One Hundred Years of Solitude

>>23358294

>felt like I mainly only got the obvious ones.
One man's obvious is another man's obscure. You got quite a few I thought would be among the first to go.

There are two main ways these can be tricky:
— The poem is not well-known.
— The poem is well-known but the quotation is well-hidden (mangled, only subtly alluded to, etc).

And one rarer way:
— The quotation is well-known but people don’t know it's from a poem. (It sounds like a proverb or something.)

I think most people can spot the key phrases most of the time, even when they’re not signalled. There’s usually a shift of tone when authors start quoting.

Of the unanswered ones, I think these have a reasonably famous quotation presented reasonably plainly:

4, 7, 34, 46, 50, 64, 66, 78, 82

Bump. A couple of hints:

5, 42, 60, 74 wrote (primarily or exclusively) non-fiction.

22, 24, 40, 42, 43, 51, 52, 73, 87, 90, 93, 94, 100 wrote (primarily or exclusively) in languages other than English.

>>23169335
So it seems. I didn't think it was that bad.


A couple of hints, anyway, to keep things going:

Female authors:
6, 12, 13, 23, 24, 26, 29, 33, 38, 42, 45, 54, 57, 61, 68, 80, 89, 91, 98

Nobel Laureate authors:
1, 19, 37, 52, 61, 82

Bump. A few random hints:

Female authors: #11, #15, #58

Short stories: #20, #24, #33, #43, #81 [novella], #85, #90

#63 & #64 are the same original language
#89 & #98 are the same original language

In #2, the ‘two females under one roof’ who are going to cause trouble are computers.

Bump.

We're about 2/3rds done. Still some fairly well-known works unidentified.

A couple of hints:
Female authors: 44, 50, 54, 67
Short stories: 40, 44, 54, 62, 63, 65, 69, 78, 80

>>22736449
I don't see Carson McCullers in the author list, so . . .

Bump. Current progress: 26/100

I tried to mix the tricky and less tricky answers; there are just two blocks now (31-40 & 91-100) without any answers. A few hints for these:

— 32, 33 & 92 are /lit/ meme authors

— 93 & 96 are female authors

— there are two title drops (both short stories from the USA)

Bump.

A hint:
4, 6, 10, 14, 39, 60, 84, 89 are female authors.
(Not a huge hint, admittedly, especially since some have already been identified.)

I also just noticed, the author of #66 isn't included in the list at the beginning. Mea culpa.

Bump. A random hint:

The following authors are introducing their own books (* = already answered):

King Alfred, Charlotte Bronte, Art Buchwald, Joseph Conrad, e. e. cummings, William Faulkner, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Harris, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Thomas Hobbes, Victor Hugo, Henry James, Tove Jansson, Jerome K. Jerome*, Jack Kerouac, Pierre Simon de Laplace, Herman Melville, John Milton, Michel de Montaigne, Vladimir Nabokov*, Isaac Newton, Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Pater, Thomas Pynchon, Francois Rabelais, Edmund Spenser, Laurence Sterne, Jonathan Swift, J. M. Synge, W. M. Thackeray, Dylan Thomas, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman*, Oscar Wilde*, P. G. Wodehouse, William Wordsworth

Two are introducing their own translations of someone else's poetry:

Ezra Pound, Dorothy L. Sayers

Bump.

Random hint:
15, 16, 29, 31, 36, 39, 46, 47, 61, 63, 64, 72 are female authors.

(Also 79, but that's been answered.)

Bump.

Hints for those still unsolved.

Female speakers: 24, 26, 32, 45, 48, 52, 63, 68, 69, 76, 80, 81, 91, 93, 94, 100

Non-human: 1, 14, 28 [probably], 62, 65, 78, 79 [sort of], 80 [sort of], 87, 88, 92

>>22368311
>>22368345
If you have a rough idea what passage is being referred to, you can look it up on the inter-web.

Answers found so far:

Couples:
4 & 77 — Romeo & Juliet ('Romeo & Juliet', Shakespeare)
9 & 79 — Medea & Jason ('Medea', Euripedes)
15 & 54 — Brunnhilde & Siegfriend ('Die Walkure' & 'Siegfried', Richard Wagner)
31 & 51 — Chani & Paul ('Dune' & 'Dune:Messiah', Frank Herbert)
47 & 58 — Pyramus & Thisbe ('Metamorphoses', Ovid)
80 & 97 — Lancelot & Guinevere ('The Once and Future King', T. H. White & 'Idylls of the King', Tennyson)

Individuals / Books:
1 — Laura ('Still Life', Noel Coward)
2 — George Smiley ('Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy', John Le Carré)
3 — Sammy Mountjoy ('Free Fall', William Golding)
5 — James Bond ('From Russia With Love', Ian Fleming)
6 — Alicia Western ('Stella Maris', Cormac McCarthy)
7 — 'Isabella, or the Pot of Basil', John Keats
8 — Madeline Bassett ('Right Ho, Jeeves', P. G. Wodehouse)
10 — 'Stoner', John Williams
11 — 'The Sound and the Fury', William Faulkner
12 — Héloise du Paraclet (letter to Peter Abelard)
13 — 'The Thought Fox', Ted Hughes
14 — 'The Maltese Falcon', Dashiell Hammett
17 — King Henry ('A Man For All Seasons', Robert Bolt)
18 — Criseyde ('Troilus & Criseyde', Geoffrey Chaucer)
44 — Leander ('Hero & Leander', Christopher Marlowe)
85 — Dido ('Didio & Aeneas', after Virgil)

We're about half-way now. A few random hints:

9 & 17 are /lit/ meme authors.

32 & 37 are fantasy novels.

16 & 76 are detective thrillers.

10 & 43 are children's classics.

58 & 83 are stage plays.

39 & 66 are short stories.

21 & 90 are science fiction novels.

>>21431528
Someone got Frank Herbert (Dune, #49) so just the other thirteen to go. Cormac McCarthy & John Williams are /lit/ meme works. Some of the other authors only wrote one book anyone's heard about.

>>21276886
>43. Paul Clifford? I don't recognize the specific insult, but Dummie talks like that.
Not right, but not a bad guess. It's a similar setting. (I think swapping "v" and "w" was a thing in Victorian Cockney dialect.)

>59. I don't remember where it's from, but is definitely Oscar Wilde.
That's definitely possible.

>>21222909
Maybe it needs a few more answers but checking the details of the answers already found might help.

These are non-fiction:
5, 9, 19, 21, 31, 41, 55, 59, 71, 81, 95

And these are on the border between fiction and non-fiction:
29, 35, 66