/lit/ - Literature

A good title is a must. But good chapter titles are cool too, and there are more of them. Here are a hundred to identify. Some non-fiction, some translations. One or two bits of rubbish. Some titles of parts, subsections etc. Chapter numbers given in square brackets when they appear in the text. No author appears more than once. One collaborative work attributed to the principal author only.

Any resemblance to the quiz posted last night is purely coincidental.

Authors:
Edwin A. Abbott, Douglas Adams, Richard Adams, Louise May Alcott, J. G. Ballard, J. M. Barrie, John Barth, Richard Brautigan, Charlotte Bronte, Steven Brust, John Buchan, Frances Hodgson Burnett, William Burroughs, Robert Burton, Orson Scott Card, Italo Calvino, Lewis Carroll, Miguel de Cervantes, G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Charles Darwin, Samuel R. Delaney, Charles Dickens, Joan Didion, Isak Dinesen, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Lord Dunsany, Umberto Eco, Bret Easton Ellis, James Ellroy, Richard Feynman, Helen Fielding, Henry Fielding, Ian Fleming, William Gass, William Gibson, William Golding, Kenneth Grahame, Gunter Grass, D. H. Lawrence, William Lindsay Gresham, H. Rider Haggard, Dashiell Hammett, Thomas Hardy, Joel Chandler Harris, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joseph Heller, Robert A. Heinlein, Adolf Hitler, Anthony Hope, Victor Hugo, Jerome K. Jerome, Franz Kafka, Immanuel Kant, Rudyard Kipling, Stanislaw Lem, Gaston Leroux, C. S. Lewis, Jack London, Norm Macdonald, Thomas Mann, Cormac McCarthy, Herman Melville, A. A. Milne, L. M. Montgomery, Cheikh Nefzaoui, Friedrich Nietzsche, Boris Pasternak, Mervyn Peake, Terry Pratchett, E. Annie Proulx, Thomas Pynchon, Francois Rabelais, Ayn Rand, Carl Sagan, Dorothy L. Sayers, Hubert Selby Jr., Oswald Spengler, John Steinbeck, Robert Louis Stevenson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jonathan Swift, William Makepeace Thackeray, Flora Thompson, Hunter S. Thompson, Henry David Thoreau, J. R. R. Tolkien, Anthony Trollope, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Voltaire, Kurt Vonnegut, David Foster Wallace, H. G. Wells, Irvine Welsh, E. B. White, Geoffrey Willans, Gene Wolfe

Hints on request.

1)
Before Breakfast

[Chapter 1]


2)
"He Fixes Radios By Thinking!"

[Part 1, Chapter 1]


3)
Year Of The Depend Adult Undergarment


4)
Man's Excellency, Fall, Miseries, Infirmities; The Causes Of Them

[The First Partition, The First Section, Member, Subsection]


5)
The Science Of Deduction

[Part 1, Chapter 2]


6)
Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

[Chapter Two]


7)
The Skag Boys, Jean–Claude Van Damme And Mother Superior


8)
THE ANGEL

In which our Hero experiences Hope, the Greatest Gift — The Bacon Sandwich of Regret — Sombre Reflections on Capital Punishment from the Hangman — Famous Last Words — Our Hero Dies — Angels, conversations about — Inadvisability of Misplaced Offers regarding Broomsticks — An Unexpected Ride — A World Free of Honest Men — A Man on the Hop — There is Always a Choice

[Chapter One]


9)
The Five-o'clock Express

[Part 1, Chapter 1]


10)
Concerning What Happened To Our Knight When He Left The Inn

[Chapter IV]

>>21524368
You are among the last good effortposters on /lit/. God bless

11)
The Tale of the Man Who Was Too Lazy to Fail

[Chapter II]


12)
The Meaning Of Numbers

[Volume 1, Chapter 2]


13)
Which The Genteel Reader Is Recommended To Skip, Low Persons Being Here Introduced

[Chapter XVIII]


14)
Painted Faces and Long Hair

[Chapter 4]


15)
The Knights Of The Joyous Venture


16)
An Unknown Species Of Whale

[Book I, Chapter VII]


17)
Severe Birthday-Related Thirties Panic


18)
The Whip-Man

[Chapter Five]


19)
A New Use For A Tea-Table

[Chapter IX]


20)
BOO TO SIR or ARE MASTERS NESESSESSARY?
All masters are weeds and love the Kane — Warning: some masters are keen — Masters are swankpots — Masters are sloppy and like gurls.

[Chapter 2]

21)
What I Heard in the Apple Barrel

[Part 2, Chapter 11]


22)
Why I Write Such Excellent Books

[Chapter 4]


23)
When I Felt The Bullet Enter My Heart

[Chapter 114]


24)
How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice that Eat his Peaches

[Volume III, Chapter 61]


25)
Where 'The Wild Asses Quench Their Thirst'

[Chapter XCVI]


26)
Who Stole the Tarts?

[Chapter 11]


27)
AFTER NONES

In which there is a visit to the scriptorium, and a meeting with many scholars, copyists, and rubricators, as well as an old blind man who is expecting the Antichrist.


28)
The Grand Inquisitor

[Book V, Chapter V]


29)
“He Disagreed With Something That Ate Him”

[Chapter 14]


30)
Rouletabille Has Drawn a Circle Between the Two Bumps on His Forehead

[Chapter XVIII]

31)
At the Theatre — German Ideal — At the Opera — The Orchestra — Howlings and Wailings — A Curious Play — One Season of Rest — The Wedding Chorus — Germans fond of the Opera — Funerals Needed — A Private Party — What I Overheard — A Gentle Girl — A Contribution-Box — Unpleasantly Conspicuous

[Chapter IX]


32)
The Story Of The King's Lettuce

[Part 1, Chapter 15]


33)
Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners

[Volume I, Chapter V]


34)
The Inconveniences Of Following A Pretty Woman Through The Streets In The Evening

[Volume I, Book II, Chapter IV]


35)
Taking an Uzi to the Gym


36)
The Savage In The Immigrant’s House


37)
Speaker for the Dead

[Chapter 15]


38)
The Interior of a Heart

[Chapter XI]


39)
Adventures of the Two Travellers, with Two Girls, Two Monkeys, and the Savages called Oreillons

[Chapter XVI]


40)
TOP 25 WEEKEND UPDATE JOKES OF ALL TIME
(in no particular order)

[Chapter 30]

41)
George is introduced to work. — Heathenish instincts of tow-lines. — Ungrateful conduct of a double-sculling skiff. — Towers and towed. — A use discovered for lovers. — Strange disappearance of an elderly lady. — Much haste, less speed. — Being towed by girls: exciting sensation. — The missing lock or the haunted river. — Music. — Saved!

[Chapter IX]


42)
Savage Lucy . . . "Teeth Like Baseballs, Eyes Like Jellied Fire"

[Part 1, Chapter 3]


43)
Riddles In The Dark

[Chapter 5]


44)
The Unconscious Imitated By A Cheesecake

[Book 2, Chapter 5]


45)
Midnight In The Rue Jules Verne

[Part Three]


46)
A Half-Sunday Homage To A Whole Leonardo Da Vinci


47)
The Face Without Pain Or Fear Or Guilt

[Part 2, Chapter 9]


48)
Why Windows Are Important To Me

[Chapter 6]


49)
Why Mr. Possum has no Hair on his Tail

[Chapter XXVII]


50)
Why monks are the outcasts of the world; and wherefore some have bigger noses than others.

[Book I, Chapter XL]

51)
The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton

[Chapter XXIX]


52)
What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton

[Chapter 12]


53)
Turkish Delight

[Chapter IV]


54)
The Minor Apocrypha


55)
Digression in Praise of Digressions

[Section 7]


56)
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

[Chapter 7]


57)
“In Which the Plot, Behaving in Much Manner Of a Soup to which Corn Starch Has been Added, Begins, at Last, to Thicken”

[Chapter 11]


58)
In Which a Charade Is Acted Which May or May Not Puzzle the Reader

[Chapter LI]


59)
In which the yo-yo string is revealed as a state of mind.

[Chapter Thirteen]


60)
In Which Piglet Is Entirely Surrounded By Water

[Chapter IX]

61)
My Little Boy Is Having Difficulties


62)
The Last Streetcar, or Adoration of a Preserving-Jar


63)
Gladiatorial

[Chapter XX]


64)
Diana is Invited to Tea with Tragic Results

[Chapter XVI]


65)
Another cantina, another advisor — Monte — A knifing — The darkest corner of the tavern the most conspicuous — The sereno — Riding north — The meatcamp — Grannyrat — Under the Animas peaks — A confrontation and a killing — Another anchorite, another dawn.

[VIII]


66)
Bloody Christmas

[Part One]


67)
Twig Technology


68)
A Full Peal Of Kent Treble Bob Major

[Part IV]


69)
The Pond in Winter


70)
The Grease Spot On A Hungarian Passport

[Part III, Chapter 4]

71)
Card Twenty-Two: The Hanged Man


72)
An essay to prove that an author will write the better for having some knowledge of the subject on which he writes.

[Book XIV, Chapter 1]


73)
Of Our Methods Of Recognizing One Another

[Chapter 5]


74)
“Give Me A Black Goat!”

[Chapter XIX]


75)
The Dutch Cringle

[Chapter 13]


76)
The Law of Club and Fang

[Chapter II]


77)
'Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay!'

[Chapter XXXVII]


78)
The Strong Man is Mightiest Alone

[Vol. II, Ch. 8]


79)
Tralala

[Part IV]


80)
On The Carpet Of Leaves Illuminated By The Moon

81)
The Unaccountable Conduct Of Professor De Worms

[Chapter VII]


82)
STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE

Bears on natural selection. The term used in a wide sense. Geometrical powers of increase. Rapid increase of naturalised animals and plants. Nature of the checks to increase. Competition universal. Effects of climate. Protection from the number of individuals. Complex relations of all animals and plants throughout nature. Struggle for life most severe between individuals and varieties of the same species; often severe between species of the same genus. The relation of organism to organism the most important of all relations.

[CHAPTER III]


83)
The Refrigerator in the Sky

[Part III, Chapter 34]


84)
I Can't Get That Monster Out Of My Mind


85)
The Sundry Names Given To The Sexual Parts Of Men

[Chapter VIII]


86)
The One-Delta Isomer

[Chapter 12]


87)
How Danny Was Ensnared By A Vacuum-Cleaner And How Danny's Friends Rescued Him

[Chapter 9]


88)
The Anathēmata: a plague journal

[Part VIII]


89)
Do You Believe In Fairies?


90)
And Horses Took Them Home

91)
"If They Hang You"

[Chapter XX]


92)
Laurie Makes Mischief, And Jo Makes Peace


93)
Of the Impossibility of an Ontological Proof of the Existence of God

[Part I, Second Part, Second Division, Book II, Chapter III, Section IV]


94)
A Squeeze of the Hand

[Chapter 94]


95)
The Poet Wonders Whether the Course of Human History Is a Progress, a Drama, a Retrogression, a Cycle, an Undulation, a Vortex, a Right- or Left-Handed Spiral, a Mere Continuum, or What Have You. Certain Evidence Is Brought Forward, but of an Ambiguous and Inconclusive Nature

[Volume III, Chapter 18]


96)
Various Parties Converging on the Sea

[Chapter X]


97)
The Unicorn Comes In The Starlight

[Chapter XVII]


98)
Of Course, A Female!


99)
A Foggy Night And Morning — Conclusion

[Chapter LVII]


100)
Terminus Est

>>21524374
>3 Wallace
>5 A.C. Doyle
>9 A. Christie
>10 Cervantes
>16 Melville
>24 A. Dumas (lovely pick btw)
>28 F. Dostoevsky
>45 did you give out the answer mistakenly?
>50 Rabelais

>>21524394
>52)
>What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton
War of the Worlds
>57)
>The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
The Wind in the Willows

>>21524398
>65)
>Another cantina, another advisor — Monte — A knifing — The darkest corner of the tavern the most conspicuous — The sereno — Riding north — The meatcamp — Grannyrat — Under the Animas peaks — A confrontation and a killing — Another anchorite, another dawn.
Blood Meridian

>>21524445

>3 Wallace
>5 A.C. Doyle
>10 Cervantes
>24 A. Dumas (lovely pick btw)
>28 F. Dostoevsky
>50 Rabelais
All correct, but to qualify for a VALUABLE PRIZE you'll need to give the works.

>9 A. Christie
Nope. (At least, I hope not. If it is, that's a coincidence.) I suppose this might be sort of a red herring.

>16 Melville
No, sorry. Another mildly sneaky one, maybe.

>45 did you give out the answer mistakenly?
Nope, that's the title. The book isn't by Jules Verne.

>>21524381
>22) Why I Write Such Excellent Books
Nietzsche

>>21524518

>52)
>War of the Worlds
Correct.

>57)
>The Wind in the Willows
Correct. I imagine lots of people know it from the Pink Floyd thing.

>65
>Blood Meridian
Correct. Most of the others were easier since they included references to Glanton or the Judge getting up to mischief.

>>21524548
>22) Why I Write Such Excellent Books
>Nietzsche

Of course. Coming right after "Why I Am So Wise" and "Why I Am So Clever". The three best chapter titles in the history of autobiography.

>>21524572
Oh, you were supposed to give the work. Easy to forget these things when contemplating FN's rhetorical splendour.

>>21524546
3 Infinite Jest
5 A Study in Scarlet
10 Don Quixote
24 Count of Monte Cristo
28 The Brothers Karamazov
50 gargantua and pantagruel

>>21524592
Yes indeed.

>>21524596
what's the prize?

>>21524565
>I imagine lots of people know it from the Pink Floyd thing.
Myself included. I haven't read WitW.

>Most of the others were easier since they included references to Glanton or the Judge getting up to mischief.
It helps that I'm currently reading it.

>>21524624
Don't worry, your name (*) has already been entered for the GRAND BITCOIN PRIZE DRAW.

* To be eligible for a prize, contestants must be over 18, female and two-dimensional.

>>21524413
94 is moby-dick

>>21524739
>94 is moby-dick
It sure is. Squeeze! Squeeze! Squeeze!

>>21524445
This is why #16 can't be Moby Dick.

>>21524374
>7)
>The Skag Boys, Jean–Claude Van Damme And Mother Superior
This is Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting.

>>21524387
>34)
>The Inconveniences Of Following A Pretty Woman Through The Streets In The Evening
Sounds like DFW but just a wild guess.

>>21524387
>37)
>Speaker for the Dead
Ender's Game? Whatever that author's name is.

>>21524393
>43)
>Riddles In The Dark
Das Hobbit by JRR Tolkien.

>>21525597

>7)
>The Skag Boys, Jean–Claude Van Damme And Mother Superior
>This is Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting.
Correct.

>34)
>The Inconveniences Of Following A Pretty Woman Through The Streets In The Evening
>Sounds like DFW but just a wild guess.
Nope. DFW has already been found (#3, Infinite Jest) and no author is repeated.

>37)
>Speaker for the Dead
>Ender's Game? Whatever that author's name is.
Correct, Orson Scott Card. Maybe the last chapter. Another clue, IIRC, is that he used it as the title for the sequel.

>43)
>Riddles In The Dark
>Das Hobbit by JRR Tolkien.
Ja, natürlich.

>>21524398
63 is Women in Love by DH Lawrence, one of my favorites. I much prefer S&L, and The Rainbow though

>>21525796
>63 is Women in Love by DH Lawrence
Correct. Sometimes you just have to lock the door and wrestle in front of the fire.

Bedtime bump.

Answers so far:

3) Infinite Jest
5) A Study in Scarlet
7) Trainspotting
10) Don Quixote

22) Nietzsche (work?)
24) Count of Monte Cristo
28) The Brothers Karamazov

37) Ender's Game

43) The Hobbit

50) Gargantua and Pantagruel
52) War of the Worlds
57) The Wind in the Willows

63) Women in Love
65) Blood Meridian

94) Moby-Dick

Hint for the remaining:
6, 13, 17, 33, 36, 47, 64, 68, 70, 75, 77, 84, 92 are female authors.

>>21524378
18) The Trial, Kafka
>>21524406
80) If on a winter's night a traveler, Calvino
>>21524409
82) On the Origin of Species, Darwin

27) Name of the Rose?
41) Three Men and a Boat

>>21526724

>18) The Trial, Kafka
Correct.

>80) If on a winter's night a traveler, Calvino
Right. All a bit tangled but it's sort of a section heading.

>82) On the Origin of Species, Darwin
Correct.

>>21527303
>27) Name of the Rose?
Correct. All the chapters are described by the appropriate prayer, as that's how monks thoughts of time. Dante does this too.

>41) Three Men and a Boat
Pretty much, except they're not just associated with the boat, they're *in* it.

>>21524413
93)
Of the Impossibility of an Ontological Proof of the Existence of God

Kant Critique of Pure Reason

>>21528313
>93)
>Of the Impossibility of an Ontological Proof of the Existence of God
>Kant Critique of Pure Reason
Correct. The clue is the completely autistic number of sections and sub-sections he divides his work into, like the directory structure of a weeb's CUTE_ANIME_GIRLS folder.

>>21526643
22 is ecce homo

>>21524381
26) Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
>>21524394
60) A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh

57) The Pheonix Guards
70) Murder on the Orient Express
thanks for the game op

>>21524387
34 Hunchback of notre-dame
35 American Psycho

>>21528329
>22 is ecce homo
Correct. (You can share the prize with the guy who got Nietzsche.)

>>21528352
>26) Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
>60) A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh
Correct. "I got two thumbs up, one for each of you."

>>21528370
>57) The Pheonix Guards
Correct. Stephen Brust. One of the harder ones I think since I've never seen it mentioned on /lit/. Parodying those chapters in old books that say what's going to happen.

>70) Murder on the Orient Express
Correct. The climactic bit of evidence. I think the anon earlier who guessed Agatha Christie for #9 was thinking of this book.

>>21524374
Number 8 is Terry pratchett, the one about postmen.

>>21524518
>>21524565
>>21526643
Correction — it's #56, not #57 which is Wind in the Willows. I just mindlessly propagated the error :(

>>21528419
>34 Hunchback of notre-dame
Right. When you have volumes, books AND chapters you know it's a big fat novel.

>35 American Psycho
Right. Just a little section heading, not really a big chapter.

>>21528471
>Number 8 is Terry pratchett, the one about postmen.
Correct. Going Postal.

Bump.

Another hint: of those unsolved, 9, 12, 16, 30, 39, 54, 62, 78, 85, 98 are translated works.

>>21524413
>98)
>Of Course, A Female!
The magic mountain

>>21524406
>78)
>The Strong Man is Mightiest Alone
Mein Kampf

>>21524374
>9)
>The Five-o'clock Express
Dr Zhivago

>>21524413
>100. Book of the New Sun
>65. Blood Meridian
>53. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
>43. The Hobbit

I printed out your quiz to play together with my very clever and well-read grandmother, and we enjoyed it immensely. Thank you very much.

>>21530089
>98)
>Of Course, A Female!
>The magic mountain

>>21530116
>78)
>The Strong Man is Mightiest Alone
>Mein Kampf

>>21530124
>9)
>The Five-o'clock Express
>Dr Zhivago

All correct. Translated works can be harder since people might have read slightly different phrasings.

>>21530132
>100. Book of the New Sun
>65. Blood Meridian
>53. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
>43. The Hobbit
Yes, all correct. Other people had already got 65 & 43 but the other two are yours.

>>21530134
Good stuff. These quizzes are meant to be tackled by a group, really. I imagine they would be very hard for just one or two people.

If you thought this was just a one-off, there are many others in the archives. Only one has been fully completed so far:
https://archived.moe/lit/thread/21423044
(From Christmas last year.)

>>21524394
Is 59 V?

>>21524406
72 -- Tom Jones

>>21524409
81: The Man who was Thursday, GK Chesterton.

Mind giving a hint for which one Peake is?

>>21531432
>Is 59 V?
It is.

>>21531436
>72 -- Tom Jones
Correct. ("Book XIV" is a hint it's a really long novel.)

>>21531455
>81: The Man who was Thursday, GK Chesterton.
Correct.

>Mind giving a hint for which one Peake is?
It's zoological.

Managed most of the first twenty, this was very fun.
1. Charlotte's Web
2. Feynman's sutobiography
3. Infinite jest
4. Anatomy of melancholy
5. Sherlock holmes
6. The secret garden
7. Trainspotting
8. Going postal (I saw this one before starting. I am a cheater.)
9. Dr zhivago
10. Don Quixote
11. Time enough for love
12.
13. Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
14. Lord of the flies
15. Puck of pook's hill
16. 20,000 leagues under the sea
17. Bridget Jones's diary
18. The trial
19. The prisoner of zenda
20.
You are too clever for me, quizmaster.

>>21533096
A good number here. Will this be the second quiz to get completed?

>3. Infinite jest
>5. Sherlock holmes
>7. Trainspotting
>8. Going postal (I saw this one before starting. I am a cheater.)
>9. Dr zhivago
>10. Don Quixote
>18. The trial
Correct, although others got them already. (5 = A Study in Scarlet)

>1. Charlotte's Web
Correct. E. B. White. (Same guy who did Elements of Style IIRC.)

>2. Feynman's sutobiography
Correct. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" (Normally we like a title but this was close enough.)

>4. Anatomy of melancholy
Correct. Robert Burton. A book with more quotations in than any other hundred books.

>6. The secret garden
Correct. Frances Hodgson Burnett. We're now on 2/13 female authors. (Someone got Agatha Christie already.)

>11. Time enough for love
Correct. Robert Heinlein. TEFL is a bit of a mixed bag but I thought this chapter & the one about the guy going out into the wilderness with his wife were pretty good.

>13. Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
Correct. Another female author nailed. As you might say.

>14. Lord of the flies
Correct, William Golding.

>15. Puck of pook's hill
Correct. Kipling.

>16. 20,000 leagues under the sea
Correct. Misdirection, maybe. (Someone thought it was Moby Dick.)

>17. Bridget Jones's diary
Correct. A bit trashy, but never mind. We're on 4/13 female authors!

>19. The prisoner of zenda
Correct. Anthony Hope. Memorable if you've read it; pretty hard if you haven't. (Hero gets trapped at night in a summer-house by armed enemies. He picks up a heavy tea-table by its base and charges out, using it as a bullet-proof shield.)

>>21524374
2) Richard Feynman

>>21533455
Correct, although someone already got it.

>>21524387
is 40 Norm Macdonald?

>>21533539
It is, yes. I could insist on a title, but then I'd be a real jerk. It's "Based On A True Story".