/lit/ - Literature

>>23469599

>10) I want to say this is from Dracula (at the start when the solicitor is staying in the castle) except that it's in first person and refers to a house.
The first part of Dracula is in first-person (most of it is, being letters or journals), but there's no Bram Stoker in the authors list.

All the rest are right:

>41) Javert from Les Miserables?

>55) Pyramus and Thisbe from Metamorphoses
If it's a mulberry tree it has to be P&T.

>63) Either The Silmarillion or Children of Hurin
The Silmarillion.

>72) The Count of Monte Cristo

>>23450118

These are right but you're not the first:
>26) Catcher in the Rye
>32) The Sound and the Fury
>39) Of Mice and Men

These are right and you are:
>12) The Dead (final story from Dubliners)
>88) Deliverance? Have only seen the movie ngl
The film is pretty close to the book except that the film's ending suggests more PTSD. The book is narrated by Ed (Jon Voight) and at the end he's basically not too guilty about what they did, and he says Lewis is a good guy, which he is.

>99) Flowers for Algernon
>100) One Hundred Years of Solitude

>(I see what you did here OP)
Catch-22 and 1984 have been found as well.

>>23358294

A goodly haul here. Some have already been found:
>3 - Whitman
>11 - Shelley
>14 - T. S. Eliot
>33 - Dickinson
>44 - William Carlos Williams
>47 - Dylan Thomas
>59 - Keats
>73 - Burns
>89 - Eliot
>92 - Yeats


A couple aren’t right:

>6 - Dickinson
It’s a poem, but not Emily D.

>18 - George Herbert: "something attempted, something [understood]" - Prayer (???)
Right phrase, but no GH in the authors list. This is a word-for-word quotation.


But lots are right and you’re first:

>2 - Keats: "A thing of beauty [is] a joy forever" - Endymion
Right. Very famous opening line.

>13 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Let me count the ways"
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways . . ” Mediocre sonnet, but a killer opening line.

>15 - Pope: "Fools rush in [where angels fear to tread]" - Essay on Criticism (?)
Correct. “Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead, / For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” Everyone, quite correctly, forgets the context and the first line of the couplet and just remembers the good bit.

>16 - Keats: "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness" - To Autumn
Right. Another first line.

>17 - Tennyson: "Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all"
Right. Mangled but still unmistakeable.

>24 - Milton: "justify the ways of God to man" - Paradise Lost
Right.

>42 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "weave a circle round him thrice" - Kubla Khan
Right.

>48 - Pope: "Hope springs eternal [in the human breast] "
"Hope springs eternal in the human breast: / Man never *is*, but always *to be* blessed." Essay on Man.

>49 - Sidney: "With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the sky"
Right. 150 years later Larkin contributed another take.

>52 - Browning: "God's in his heaven,/ All's right with the world" - Pippa Passes
Of course. I’m going to go on posting this until people like it.

>62 - Keats - Ode to a Nightingale
Right.

>81 - Kipling: "keep [your] head when all about [you are] losing theirs, and blaming it on [you]"
Of course. ‘If.’ Another opening line. I thought this would be among the first to go.

>98 - Arnold: "And we are here as on a darkling plain" - Dover Beach
Right.

>99 - Chaucer: "This lyf so short, this craft so long to lerne" (not sure about spelling) - The Parliament of Fowles
Correct. The book is the original (enormous) version of ‘Look Homeward, Angel!’.

>>23287578
Another good haul.

>6) is Flannery O Connor
Correct. She called the peacock the "king of birds".

>86) is A something Johnson, british poet whose name I can't remember but he seemed fat in his portrait
Right. Ben Jonson.

>92) If it isn't O Henry then I'll be darned
It's him. (The girl has $1.87 left in "The Gift Of The Magi".)

>68) Sounds like the guy who wrote the Devil's Dictionary. Bierce?
Ambrose Bierce, right.

>44) is Exupery. He was flying a P38
Correct. He was miles off course, which is why the original search didn't find him.

>23) Is Shakespeare. (iykyk)
Correct. Ben Jonson the guy with the book.


>Some of these are absolutely hilarious.
I like #22. It might just have won her over instantly.

>>23213101

>2) The Accidental Tourist
Correct, Anne Tyler. Not a heavyweight work but it's not terrible.

>22) Emily Dickinson
Correct.

>46) Little Women
Louise May herself. A name-rich passage of course.

>76) Pale Fire
Correct. As above, ‘John Shade’ is a help.

>>23062420
>>23063538

Some could be right and are right, although others already got there:

>19. Orwell
>56. Freud
>65. Burton/ Arabian Nights
>74. The Bible


And some could be right and are right and you're the first:

>9. Joyce
Ulysses. Bloom thinking about one thing and another, but mostly the one thing.

>15. Austen
Northanger Abbey. Catherine is so sweet.

>21. Bierce
Devil's Dictionary. No-one seems to know this these days which is a pity since there's lots of good sound common sense in there.

>23. Bukowski
Factotum.

>78. Celine
Journey to the End of the Night.

>>23027291
All correct. I'm gonna need more animated girls (I try to give animated gifs when people get lots of answers at once).

>30 is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Of course. Hunter S. Thompson.

>36 is The Martian
Andy Weir. Opening line, so people should recognize this even if they just read the first paragraph in the bookshop and put it back.

>38 is Infinite Jest
Correct, David Foster Meme himself.

>89 might be Catch-22?
Might be and is. Idealistic young WASP meets Mediterranean working girl; comedy culture clash ensues.

>>22997969
>You've put effort into this thread so it deserves a reply. Even if this is all copied from somewhere.
All my quizzes are guaranteed made from scratch with the freshest ingredients.


Another goodly haul; just one slip-up.


>5) IT
>14) Dracula
>32) Jabberwocky
37) The Chamber of Secrets
All correct although you were beaten to the punch by Duck Anon.


>9) Call of Cthulhu
Of course. If it's eldritch and indescribable, it's gotta be Howard Philips.

>10) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Right. Washington Irving. The Headless Horseman being the monster in question. I guess "Ichabod" isn't too common a name.

>31) The House on the Borderland
Correct, William Hope Hodgson. The evil swine-creature. (I mean WHH wrote the book, not WHH was a swine creature.)

>34) I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Right, Harlan Ellison. No-one said our monsterse have to be organic. AM is its name.

>46) The Wendigo
Correct. Algernon Blackwood. He wrote all sorts of monster stuff, apparently (werewolves etc).

>55) The Terror
Right, Dan Simmons. (A bit of a departure from Hyperion.) The monster hasn't got a name as I recall. It's just a giant snow monster.

>60) The Tempest
Nope, "Prospero" notwithstanding.

>82) Who Goes There?
Right, John W. Campbell. The short story that was filmed as "The Thing". Again, a no-name monster IIRC. It's just called "The Alien".

>96) Revelation
Right. The "666" beast. Author is John The Divine, as I'm sure all good devout /lit/ anons know.

>>22736287
>>22736291

And we're off!


>47 is Josef K. of Kafka's Trial
Correct.

>Some weird intuitive sense tells me that this is Socrates in Phaedo
>(forgot to mention that the Plato/Socrates one is 56)
Correct. So he thought that life was a sickness and death the cure, eh?

>83 is Snowden in Catch-22
It sure is. Joseph Heller said in an interview that he got the idea for "I'm cold" from King Lear ("Poor Tom's a-cold").

>89 is obviously Hamlet
Nothing's obvious these days, sadly, But yes, it is.


A fine 4/4 to get things moving.

>>22704627
And we're off to a fine start.

>3) Catcher in the Rye
>4) Atlas Shrugged, right?
>14) T.S. Eliot's Prufrock
>20) Moby Dick
>26) American Psycho
>44) The Hobbit
>56) The Importance of Being Earnest
>68) Catch-22?
>75) Paradise Lost (and epigraph in Frankenstein)
>84) Le Morte D'Arthur

All correct. Milton is in the author list, Mary Shelley isn't, so it's Paradise Lost for #75, but Frankenstein has to be worth a valuable BONUS PRIZE.

Catch-22 is parodying someone (who is also in there).

#84 was one of the harder ones, I thought. With short nondescript things like this there's always the danger someone will find a legitimate alternative answer (although the Author List makes it less likely, I guess).

>>22625428

Another good haul. All correct, more or less.


>7 reads like Faulkner, so I think it's TSATF
Good guess, insofar as it's a guess. Celebrity = John Malkovich.

>12 sounds like Dante. Gonna play the odds and guess it's Inferno (being the most popular one)
Dante, yes. Inferno, no. The clue is in the bit about ascending a mountain. It's Purgatorio. Several celebrities have gone for this, not surprisingly. Luciano Pavarotti is the guy I chose. (Perhaps guessable, given he's Italian.)

>22 is Catch-22 (I feel like it's always 22)
I might have had it once or twice before. Can't remember if it was #22 though. Celebrity = Billy Connolly.

>59 is Ulysses; I think this comes from Proteus.
A very popular choice, maybe third after Proust & Tolstoy. (The dictionary might have been third actually.) Celebrity = Seamus Heaney. (Again guessable because of the nationality, maybe.)


>This is a good one. How many of these have you made now?
It feels like hundreds but I think it's about 35.

>>22601550

A good start, mostly on the ball:

>6) Picture of Dorian Gray
>11) Three Men in a Boat
>13) Pale Fire
>70) Leaves of Grass? One of the American transcendentalists, at least.
All correct, and all written by the actual author of the work (Pale Fire being a bit of a joke preface).

>10) Confederacy of Dunces
>74) To the Lighthouse
Also correct, although these are introductions written by someone else. Maybe some other anon can say who?

>28) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?
Nope, a different Thompson. (And the person writing the introduction is on the borderline of "someone we might conceivably want to listen to".)

>>22549568

5) Father Mapple's pulpit from Moby Dick
9) Lolita
Correct.

18) Sounds like H.P. Lovecraft, though I definitely won't know which work.
Yes, it's HPL. One of the half-dozen most well-known stories I would say. Maybe someone else can identify it.

23) Closing line of the Great Gatsby
Of course.

27) Song of Hiawatha
Correct. Longfellow. The only major poem that ever used this rhythm as far as I know.

45) T.S. Eliot's The Hollow Men
Right.

>>22473201
Yep, almost all correct.


>10) Gollum during the Riddles in the Dark?
>Oh wait, 10 wouldn't make sense as Gollum's first words, but I'm sure it's the same book, so it must be Smaug.
Right, Smaug. Talking to Bilbo who is invisible, hence the "smell".


>13) I know I've read this before but I can't place it. Maybe I've read too many 19th-century British works with governesses.
True, every Victorian heroine was a governess, because that was all you could be. Hint: this work isn't a novel.


>23) Ignatius Reilly and his precious geometry.
Hmm, it does sound exactly like Ignatius now I look at it. Geometry and all. Not him, though, sorry. That's a red herring I didn't intend.


>38) Someone shouting for Tom Sawyer? It's been nearly 20 years since I read the book, so I can't say who was saying this.
Correct, Tom Sawyer. Someone will nail the character perhaps. As you might say.


>47) Captain Ahab speaking to himself.
Correct.


>50) Is this Magwitch to Pip?
It sure is.


>75) Pangloss? Sounds like someone from Candide, at very least.
Correct. "All's for the best in this best of all possible worlds."

>>22403179
Ah, another cute anime girl to kidnap and carry off to my cabin in the woods. Excellent, excellent.

Most of these are right:


>15 hamlet caviar to the generals
Correct.

"The play, I remember, pleased not the million, 'twas caviare to the general."

(Another cutesy one since it's basically punning on the original.)


>34 Hamlet dog days
Correct.

Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.


>40 Othello vaulting ambition
Right phrase, wrong play.


>43 Hamlet Cruel to be kind
Correct.

I must be cruel, only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.


>46 Merchant of Venice devil cite scripture
Correct.

. . . . Mark you this, Bassanio,
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.


>56 King Lear Sharper serpants tooth
55 not 56, but yes, it's King Lear:

. . . . If she must teem,
Create her child of spleen, that it may live
And be a thwart disnatur'd torment to her.
Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth,
With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks,
Turn all her mother's pains and benefits
To laughter and contempt, that she may feel
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!


>57 Othello Heart sleeve
Correct. Iago basically saying he *won't* do this, because he doesn't want to reveal himself and make himself vulnerable:

For when my outward action doth demonstrate
The native act and figure of my heart
In complement extern, 'tis not long after
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.


>59 Romeo Juliet Burning Daylight
>62 Tempest Strange bedfellows
>83 Hamlet constant north star
In all these you have the right phrase, but wrong play.


>93 Julius Caesar Unkindest cut
Correct.

This was the most unkindest cut of all;
For when the noble Caesar saw him stab,
Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms,
Quite vanquish'd him.


>97 Macbeth wyrd = weird sisters
Yes, wyrd = weird. (The whole book is basically a parody of Macbeth.) But there's a specific reference in the text. It's slightly tricky because it's playing cute games (like #15), twisting the original for humorous effect.


>98 Tempest Merrily Merrily Ariel
Correct.

Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

>>22371264
Yes, these are correct. Let's see the words, though:


1)
And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.

— Genesis 45:18


3)
And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

— Job 1:7


4)
And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

— 2 Kings 2:11


5)
If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

— Luke 11:11-13


6)
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.

— 2 Chronicles 34:2


8)
The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.

— 1 Corinthians 15:47


9)
For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves...

— Romans 2:14


10)
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

— Matthew 10:30 [also Luke 12:7]

>>21741889

>5) The Right Stuff (book by Tom Wolfe, film by Philip Kaufman)
Correct. Quite work-out-able I guess (subject-matter & names).

>58) No Country for Old Men (book by Cormac McCarthy, film by Joel and Ethan Coen)
Correct. Moss with the hitch-hiker. Omitted from the film (they shouldn't have).

>93) The Shining (book by Stephen King, film by Stanley Kubrick)
Of course.


All present and correct. A strong contender for a Valuable Prize!

>>21677462
The Duck Man returns. Or even Ducks Man in the plural.


>47 and 58: Pyramus and Thisbe. Ovid, right?
Correct. Lions, mulberry bushes, absurd double-suicides.


>54 feels like Wagner. Siegfried getting his sword forged? Is 15 Brunhilde on her rock?
Both correct. Siegfried & Die Walkure respectively.

>(I was expecting the Wagner to be Tristan and Isolde, so this caught me off guard.)
That would have been too easy. (I was tempted to go for Siegmund & Sieglinde from Die Walkure, but I already had enough brother-sister incest.)


>80 is Lancelot caught by Morded et al. in Guinevere's chamber. The passage reads too modern to be Le Morte d'Arthur and I don't see Malory in the list, but T. H. White is there, so it must be Once and Future King.
Correct.

>97 sounds like Guinevere soon after,
Correct.

>but I don't know what work this is.
It's a pretty mainstream version. Probably just going through the authors list for people who wrote in blank verse will get there. It's not translated.

>>21613647
>24 is Wodehouse
Correct. The Code of the Woosters, as it happens, but all PGW books are identical anyway.

>41 moby dick
>70 sounds like hitchhiker's guide
Correct.

>98 sounds like faust
Right. Would fit any version but Goethe is the only appropriate guy in the author list so we'll go with him.

>>21524592
Yes indeed.

>>21423838
Yes, 8/8. At this rate we'll have them all done by bed-time.

>38 is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?”

>40 is One Hundred Years of Solitude
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

>45 is The Waste Land
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.

>57 is The Raven
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore —
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

>62 is The Tyger
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

>79 is Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert."

>87 is The Cantos
And then went down to the ship,
Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea, and
We set up mast and sail on that swart ship,
Bore sheep aboard her, and our bodies also
Heavy with weeping, and winds from sternward
Bore us out onward with bellying canvas,
Circe’s this craft, the trim-coifed goddess.

>91 is Great Expectations
My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.

>>21272714

>1.) Moby Dick
Correct. Leaving Starbuck uncensored would have been a bit of a giveaway.

>2.) The Book of Revelation
Correct, although someone else got there first.

>4.) ... E.E. Cummings?
Yes, the distinctive eec style. Normally we like a title but he generally doesn't do titles. That one is just called "Ode" (from the collection "Is 5").

>5.) The Catcher in the Rye
Correct, although others got there already.

>8.) Romeo and Juliet?
Right author, wrong work.

>15) That’s Henry IV (who could forget the inimitable Falstaff?)
Of course.

>22.) Slothrop in Gravity’s Rainbow
Correct. Major Marvy on the receiving end.

>24.) Is this Fowles’ Magus?
Nope. The author is like Fowles in some ways. In other ways she isn't, haha.

>47.) Ulysses’s Circe section (damn you’re good at these selections)
Correct, a bit of Joycean punning.

>51.) A Confederacy of Dunces
Of course. Fortuna + the horrors of getting a job can only be one thing.

>89) I get Raymond Chandler from this
Nope. RC is elsewhere. This is a famous line from a famous short story. (In theory, a /lit/ favourite.)

>77) Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy”?
No, SP is elsewhere. But this is someone who (in my opinion) shamelessly copied her, so a natural mistake.

>91.) That’s clearly from one of the Gospels
Sure is, but we'll need specifics before we award the VALUABLE PRIZE.

>>21220327
All correct. Others got some of them but the Terry Pratchett is all yours. (Yes, it's The Truth.)

The overall theme should be emerging now, I guess.

>>20395652
Yup, all correct.