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British Literature

19 answers | 65 clues

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Jane Austen 7x 28.6% stumper $814 avg J:1 DJ:6

J $500 1998 In 1816 she revised her "Northanger Abbey"; she originally planned to publish it in 1803

DJ $1,000 1995 Her novel "Northanger Abbey" is the story of a Gothic novel fan who has a wild imagination

DJ $600 1993 Her unfinished novel "The Watsons" is regarded by some as an early version of "Emma"

Virginia Woolf 6x $1,040 avg J:1 DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $400 1990 Don't be afraid to tell us that she's the lady who wrote "Mrs. Dalloway" & published it in 1925

J $1,000 2010 In her 1929 feminist essay "A Room of One's Own", she paid tribute to women writers

FJ 2002 Literary history was shaped in 1905 when this female author moved from 22 Hyde Park to 46 Gordon Square

Robinson Crusoe 6x $200 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:2

DJ $200 2001 In 1719 Daniel Defoe wrote "The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of" this character

FJ 2017 Much of this novel takes place on the island of Despair, off the coast of South America, from 1659 to 1686

FJ 2012 This title character of an 18th century novel was the son of a man named Kreutznaer, but his name gets Anglicized

Charles Dickens 6x 16.7% stumper $467 avg J:1 DJ:5

DJ $200 1995 His friend Edward Bulwer Lytton convinced him to change the original ending of "Great Expectations"

DJ $800 1989 His lesser-known Christmas stories include "The Chimes" & "The Cricket on the Hearth"

J $200 1991 Some Americans were extremely offended by this author's views of the U.S. in "Martin Chuzzlewit"

Thomas Hardy 4x $800 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1986 Victorian novelist who often set his gloomy tales in "Wessex County"

DJ $1,000 1987 He gave up writing novels after the public's shocked reaction to "Jude the Obscure"

DJ $800 1995 His novel "The Mayor of Casterbridge" opens near the village of Weydon-Priors in Upper Wessex

The Time Machine 4x 25.0% stumper $1,575 avg DJ:4

DJ $700 DD 2001 H.G. Wells subtitled this 1895 classic "An Invention"

DJ $1,000 DD 2022 Chapters in this H.G. Wells novel include "In the Golden Age" & "The Sunset of Mankind"

DJ $1,200 2015 This 1895 H.G. Wells book was subtitled "An Invention"

David Copperfield 4x 25.0% stumper $500 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 1995 Dickens thought about calling this novel "The Copperfield Survey of the World as it Rolled"

DJ $1,000 1994 Betsey Trotwood is the eccentric but kindhearted great-aunt of this Charles Dickens character

DJ $400 2002 In a Dickens novel Mr. Murdstone is the cruel, tightfisted stepfather of this character

Oliver Twist 4x $400 avg DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $200 1996 On his ninth birthday, this Dickens orphan is taken to live at the main work house by Mr. Bumble

DJ $800 1988 Since the beadle named his waifs alphabetically, this character came between Swubble & Unwin

FJ 1994 Penguin's edition of this 1830's classic includes a glossary of thieves' slang

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Jane Eyre 3 1984 3 Treasure Island 2 Napoleon 2 H.G. Wells 2 Gulliver's Travels 2 Robert Louis Stevenson 2 Pride and Prejudice 2 John Milton 2 Jonathan Swift 2 J.R.R. Tolkien 2

Poetry

17 answers | 58 clues

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George Eliot 7x 42.9% stumper $629 avg DJ:7

DJ $200 1985 Masculine pen name of Mary Ann Evans

DJ $600 1995 This British author modeled Adam Bede on her own father

DJ $1,000 1990 Dinah Morris, a Methodist preacher, agrees to marry Adam Bede at the end of this author's novel

Paradise Lost 5x 33.3% stumper $667 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:2

J $200 2011 In this epic poem about leaving heaven, John Milton created Pandemonium, the capital of Hell

DJ $1,600 DD 1995 As stated in Book 1, the theme of this epic poem is the fall of man through disobedience

FJ 2023 It says, "The mind is its own place, & in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same"

Rudyard Kipling 5x $500 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $200 1985 This author of "The Jungle Book" lived in Vermont for 4 years

DJ $600 1989 His character, Mowgli, 1st appeared in a book called "Many Intentions"

DJ $1,000 DD 2001 He returned to India at age 17 in 1882 & worked as a journalist; he published his first poems in 1886

Geoffrey Chaucer 5x 40.0% stumper $820 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $100 1998 The "Book of the Duchesse" is an elegy for the Duchess of Lancaster by this author of "The Canterbury Tales"

DJ $800 2001 Famous for a set of bawdy stories, he was the first to be buried in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner

DJ $1,000 DD 1989 This 14th century author was the 1st poet buried in Westminster Abbey

Elizabeth Barrett Browning 4x $650 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 2022 You down with E.B.B., this poet who wrote "The Sleep" & "The Soul's Expression"?

DJ $600 1985 Her father assumed the name Barrett when he inherited slave plantations in the West Indies

J $800 2010 Her title "Sonnets from the Portuguese" referred to her husband's nickname for her

Beowulf 4x $600 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 2008 After slaying Grendel, the title character of this epic poem becomes King of the Geats & rules for 50 years

DJ $800 2022 50 years after slaying a monster & its mother, the hero of this Old English poem must battle a dragon

DJ $400 1990 The 1st major work of English literature, this poem about a brave hero is by author or authors unknown

Sir Walter Scott 4x 25.0% stumper $800 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 1984 The Romantic period ended in 1832 with the death of this author of "Ivanhoe"

DJ $800 1996 Loch Katrine provides the setting for his narrative poem "The Lady of the Lake"

DJ $1,000 1990 His last novel, "Staying On", told the story of two minor characters in his "Raj Quartet"

Worth Knowing (10)

Lord Byron 3 "The Charge of the Light Brigade" 3 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 3 Benjamin Disraeli 3 Noel Coward 2 John Donne 2 Italy 2 Byron 2 (Christopher) Marlowe 2 Mary Shelley 2

Other

17 answers | 50 clues

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D.H. Lawrence 8x $650 avg DJ:8

DJ $200 1989 In "Women in Love" he continued the story of Ursula that began in "The Rainbow"

DJ $600 1997 He wrote his semi-autobiographical novel "Sons and Lovers" in part as a tribute to his mother

DJ $1,000 1995 "Paul Morel" was his working title for the novel "Sons and Lovers"

Should-Know (4)

Somerset Maugham 4x 25.0% stumper $1,100 avg DJ:4

DJ $800 2001 His 1919 novel "The Moon and Sixpence" was turned into an opera in 1957

DJ $2,000 2006 He served up "Cakes and Ale", a 1930 satire of English literary life

DJ $800 1990 His novel "The Moon and Sixpence" is based on Gauguin, but the hero is British, not French

Lady Chatterley's Lover 4x $667 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $400 2024 Due to obscenity charges, this last D.H. Lawrence novel wasn't published in full in London until 1960

DJ $1,200 2005 An early version of this D.H. Lawrence novel was published in 1972 as "John Thomas and Lady Jane"

FJ 1995 Though not named in the title, Oliver Mellors is the title character of this 1928 novel

The Compleat Angler 4x 33.3% stumper $567 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

DJ $400 2015 The quiet joys of fishing are described in Izaak Walton's 1653 work "The Compleat" this

DJ $1,000 1995 The alternate title of this Izaak Walton work is "The Contemplative Man's Recreation"

FJ 1993 In this 1653 work, Piscator tries to convince Venator, a hunter, that fishing is the better sport

(Henry) Fielding 4x $800 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $800 1995 He wrote his 1742 novel "Joseph Andrews" "In imitation of the manner of Cervantes"

DJ $1,200 2002 His wife Charlotte was the model for Sophia in "Tom Jones" & for the heroine of "Amelia"

DJ $600 1995 This "Tom Jones" author's title heroine "Amelia" was based on his late wife, Charlotte

Worth Knowing (12)

A Room with a View 3 Graham Greene 3 Women in Love 2 Vanity Fair 2 Tom Jones 2 The Canterbury Tales 2 Latin 2 Howards End 2 Amis 2 Samuel Butler 2 E.M. Forster 2 Charles Lamb 2

Shakespeare

3 answers | 12 clues

Should-Know (2)

William Shakespeare 6x $317 avg J:1 DJ:5

DJ $200 1987 Thomas Bowdler was famous for deleting the "obscenities" in this playwright's works

DJ $800 1993 Anthony Burgess' "Nothing Like the Sun" is a novel about this Elizabethan playwright

DJ $400 1988 The longest word ever in a London Times crossword, 27 letters, was from his "Love's Labor's Lost"

Agatha Christie 4x 25.0% stumper $925 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $100 1991 The alternate title of her "Murder on the Orient Express" is "Murder on the Calais Coach"

DJ $3,000 DD 1990 After Shakespeare she's the most widely translated English author

DJ $200 1999 She dedicated her book "The Mirror Crack'd" to Margaret Rutherford, who played Miss Marple in several films

Worth Knowing (1)

Ben Jonson 2

Children's Literature

4 answers | 12 clues

Should-Know (1)

The Pilgrim's Progress 6x $1,080 avg DJ:5 FJ:1

DJ $600 1995 John Bunyan said this book "will direct thee to the Holy Land, if thou wilt its directions understand"

DJ $1,000 1993 Part II of this allegory deals with the journey of Christian's wife & children to the Celestial City

FJ 1990 "From this world to that which is to come" completes the title of this 1678 work

Worth Knowing (3)

the Cheshire cat 2 Oscar Wilde 2 Alice in Wonderland 2

Mystery / Thriller

1 answers | 2 clues

Worth Knowing (1)

Father Brown 2

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