16/1 £50 book tokens and goody bag

lilias

17.d) Lady Carlotta (pretending to be a governess named Miss Hope) in Saki's story "The Schartz-Metterklume Method"

lilias

17.e) “Several languages did understand / But now lay sick and speechless on his pillow”?

The tutor Pedrillo in Lord Byron's "Don Juan"

naso

16 a) "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy
b) "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams
c) "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
d) "1984" by George Orwell
e) "Look Back in Anger" by John Osborne

19 a) "The Lodger" by Marie Belloc Lowndes
b) "Voices from Things Growing in a Churchyard" by Thomas Hardy (poem), in "Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses"
c) "The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James
d) "Mr. Bowling Buys a Newspaper" by Donald Henderson ??
e) "The Black Prince" by Iris Murdoch ??

18 c) "On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year" by George Gordon, Lord Byron
e) "The Lotos-Eaters" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

20 b) "Put Out More Flags" by Evelyn Waugh

naso

List of everyone's answers so far, so we can see where the gaps are:

1 a) Othello by William Shakespeare
b) Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister by Robert Browning
c) Enderby Trilogy
d) Native Son
e) Alms for Oblivion

2 a) "Christabel" Samuel Taylor Coleridge answer = The night is chilly but not dark
b) "Essay on Man" Alexander Pope - ans = man is not a fly
c) "Stealing" Carol Ann Duffy - ans = a snowman
d) "The Ghost" Walter de la Mare - ans = I who was beautiful
e) "The Hill" Edgar Lee Masters - ans = all, all are sleeping on the hill

3 a) Persuasion by Jane Austen
b)
c) A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
d) The Winters Tale
e) Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

4 a) John Donne
b) Joseph Conrad
c) Alexander Pope
d) E M Forster
e) F Scott Fitzgerald

5 a) Sir Gawain
b) George Sherston
c) Sir Andrew
d) Edward Fairfax Rochester
e) Velvet Brown

6a) (fictional female) Mary Grath, Novel = Middlemarch
b) Sandy Stranger (Sister Helena), novel = The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
c) Jane Symons, novel = The Remains Of The Day
d) Daisy Perowne, novel = Saturday
e) Violet Wechsler, novel = What I Loved

7 a) William Wordsworth
b) The Blessed Damozel
c) Robert Stewart (Viscount Castlereagh)
d) Burbank
e)

8 a) Edward Thomas
b) Anthony Burgess
c) James Boswell
d) Anne Bronte
e) Lord Byron

9 a)
b) WALDEN Or Life In The Woods by Henry David Thoreau
c) Eustacia (In the return of the native,book 3, chapter 3)
d) Bad Sir Brian Botany” in When We Were Very Young, A. A. Milne
e) James Stevens (The Butler in The Remains Of The Day)

10 a)
b) A London Zoo Keeper (in a book called "The Old Men At The Zoo" by Angus Wilson)
c)
d)
e)

11 a)
b) can only find Captain Whalley in Joseph Conrad's "End of the Tether"
c) Gloucester, addressed by Lear in King Lear
d) Think this is Blind Pew in Treasure Island
e) Think that this is Robert in Raymond Carver's story "Cathedral"

12 a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

13 a) Philip Larkin
b) The Convict (in Great Expectations)
c) Tom & Huck (in Huckleberry finn)
d)
e)

14 a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

15 a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

16 a) "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy
b) "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams
c) "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
d) "1984" by George Orwell
e) "Look Back in Anger" by John Osborne

17 a) Mr Squeers in Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby
b) Eve, in Marianne Moore's "Marriage"
c)
d) Lady Carlotta (pretending to be a governess named Miss Hope) in Saki's story "The Schartz-Metterklume Method"
e) The tutor Pedrillo in Lord Byron's "Don Juan"

18 a)
b)
c) "On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year" by George Gordon, Lord Byron
d)
e) "The Lotos-Eaters" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

19 a) "The Lodger" by Marie Belloc Lowndes
b) "Voices from Things Growing in a Churchyard" by Thomas Hardy (poem), in "Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses"
c) "The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James
d) "Mr. Bowling Buys a Newspaper" by Donald Henderson ??
e) "The Black Prince" by Iris Murdoch ??

20 a)
b) "Put Out More Flags" by Evelyn Waugh
c)
d)
e)

silverangel35

Naso...You have 7d for Burbank, it should be 7 e

silverangel35

10 d = Esmeralda (From The Wasp Factory)

NOSONDDU

3b. the sisters are bugging me - by the way I know it's Miranda, Perdita and Cordelia was the youngest. Is that a help to anyone else?

lilias

11.a) a) kept chicken as pets?
Think that this is Mrs. Stoke-d'Urberville in Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"

silverangel35

Anyone worried about this part that is stated on the comp page??

"Preference will be shown to entries compiled without use of the internet"

Does that mean they dont expect anyone to get them all right without the internet?? And how would they know ??

kirsteenatom

wow great work everyone!

Kirsteen