/lit/ - Literature

>>23012104
>50)
>the only Anne Rice option.
>Interview with a Vampire Lestat series I'd wager.
Correct. Louis de Pointe du Lac.

>>23012119
>67
>Tove Jansson.
>I can only guess Moomins?
Also correct. The Groke, from Finn Family Moomintroll.

>>22397539
>21 - "little brief authority" (?)
Could be. Someone needs to step in with some more information.

>22 - "Exit Pursued by a [Bear]" - stage direction in The Winter's Tale
Correct.

>24 - "[Age] can not wither [her] nor custom stale [her] infinite [variety]" - Enobarbus in Antony and Cleopatra
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety. Other women cloy
The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry
Where most she satisfies; for vilest things
Become themselves in her, that the holy priests
Bless her when she is riggish.

>25 - "Sceptered Isle" - John of Gaunt in Richard II
This royal throne of kings, this scept'red isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war...

>26 - "Angels and ministers of grace defend us" - Hamlet (?)
Correct. He does keep popping up. Maybe I should have tried to spread them out a bit more democratically.

>27 - "mirror up to nature" - Hamlet in Hamlet
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show Virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.

>28 - "the play's the thing" - Hamlet in Hamlet
. . . . I'll have grounds
More relative than this. The play's the thing
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.
[A sort of smart-aleck allusion since "play" is a pun. Every bridge book ever written says this.]

30 - "working-day world" (?)
Correct; again we need someone to step in with a title. I was surprised how many entries this play had, actually.

>>21615982
>13) Jane Eyre
>29) Lost Horizon
Correct.

>>21429171
>44 is Their Eyes Were Watching God
Right. "Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board." A famous first line although not so many have read the book I guess.