/lit/ - Literature

>>21218710
>7) some poem by Yeats
Yep, W.B.Yeats. Probably his most famous poem I guess. I'm sure some other anon will know the title.

>23) some poem Williams
Correct, although there are quite a few authors called WIlliams. This one is the most famous of them I guess. Or the most famous poet anyway.

>33) Invictus
Yup.

>49) Warner
Nope. (Not sure if you meant the writer Alan Warner or if there's a book called Warner? Either way, no.)

>74) The Gold Bug by Poe
Correct.

>99) The Tempest
Correct. Ariel.

>>20564519
I'll do my best.

>>20395518
Yup. No-one will notice this answer tucked away in the middle but of course when the VALUABLE PRIZES are awarded, it's only the first correct answers that qualify.

>>20300284
All right, except —

32) Not Tales of Uncle Remus (although yes, the end is a quotation from it).

37) Not Hemingway. They do go trout-fishing in TSAR but I don't think they feed the trout on port. Hemingway takes his trout-fishing too seriously for japes like that!

48) Sure, but you need the work as well to be eligible for a VALUABLE PRIZE.

>>20268523

23 — Yep. Name was a hint, hehe.
26 — Yep.
28 — Yep. Another name that could have been censored I guess.
31 — Yes. A harder one for sure.
39 — Yes. It's a short story so moderately tricky. It's called "Yesterday", unexcitingly.
65 — Of course. Again the names were a hint I guess.
77 — Yes. The Music Of Erich Zann

There is one Ishiguro but a slightly less well-known piece (short story). Nothing from Lost Horizon. (I would have included it if I had remembered, probably.)

A hint for #100: it's the end of the chapter that #30 comes from. A less well-known work from a guy who wrote a famous dystopia.

>>20248433
All right except 3. It's an opening line from a novel & used to be pretty famous but is probably less famous now. Wilde is in there but his line is a bit more oddball / perverse (as he usually is).

>>20125631
Yes, all correct. 26 and 72 are talking about specific works, but once the author is known, the work is pretty obvious.

>>20087378
All correct except 84. There are 100 questions and 100 different authors, so no author can be repeated. 97 is definitely LotR, so 84 can't be Silmarillion, although it does sound a bit like it. It's science-fiction / fantasy.

>>19948718

17 — Yep. Good old Alex. The language makes this not-too-hard I guess.

24 — Yep. "And how can man die better / Than braving fearful odds / For the ashes of his fathers / And the temples of his gods". It's Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome.

31 — Yep. Filippo Argenti is the bloke. The translation would be hard to nail since it's my own, not published yet.

41 — Correct. Polyphemus getting his comeuppance. Samuel Butler's translation. (I haven't got around to Homer yet.)

42 — Correct. I suppose Scottish dialect + general high spirits point in that direction.

66 — Yes, Victor Hugo. "Humped back" is a clue.

71 — Yep. Miller's tale.

86 — Yep. Good guess though blank verse plus pulling pillars down narrows the list I suppose.

>>19916664
A fine post for once. Well played sir. All true, and a couple of times (Platonistlarpers and Nietzschelarpers) laugh-out-loud funny.

The list could easily be extended.

Listlarpers are insufferable pseuds who think that posting an infographic of a hundred books will somehow make up for having read zero of them.

Polyglotlarpers are insufferable pseuds who think that they, who can only spell "Homer" using copy-and-paste, are morally superior to people who read him in translation.

Tradpoetlarpers are insufferable pseuds who think that sneering at Rupi Kaur makes them defenders of the Western Canon despite the fact that they have read only six lines of rhymed & metered verse in their life and can quote none of them.

>>19908653

2 — Yup. Not just because of the no-inverted-commas speech.

13 — Yup. "Whale-steak" narrows it down I guess. It's Stubb's moment of glory. (Ishmael wouldn't be able to boss the cook around like that, I think. He's only a common seaman.)
18 — Yes. I guess the banker bit is more of a giveaway than the food.
21 — Of course. Prentice's famous banana breakfast.
32 — Yes. That butler's thumb is pretty memorable I guess.
89 — Yes. Squealer at his most Squealerish.
90 — Yes. A tougher one this I thought.
93 — Yep. Fat protagonist plus hotdogs equals what else.
100 — Nope, this is an American author. It does sound a bit like M, though, now you mention it. He had Beethoven's Archduke Trio in Kafka on the Beach, didn't he?

>>19799357

59 — Yep
62 — Yep
92 — More or less. I meant Nag( the one talking). Nagaina is his wife (the one creeping up behind Rikki.)

I thought the English ones might well prove tricky, given most people here are probably American.