16/1 £50 book tokens and goody bag

NOSONDDU

has anyone got an account with amazon.com?

I put in words Miranda, Perdita, Cordelia - they listed books the 6th of which is


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Excerpt - page 100: "... Cordelia's sisters, Perdita and Miranda, are beautiful and accomplished. Cordelia, by comparison, is the youngest ..."

they won't let me access as I haven't an account

kirsteenatom

Cordelia is the name of an Atwood character in Cats Eye and I seem to remember that she had two older sisters who were always waxing their legs and trying to look more beautiful.

I'll eat my hat if it isn't that book - the only one I recognised without searching for it!!!

Kirsteen

kirsteenatom

I know i know 14c, but I can't pin it down - it's definitely something I've read before... It sounds a bit Oscar Wilde like, hopefully I'll have a brainwave soon

Kirsteen

smartie1976

12c. Frank Crutchley (Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy L Sayers)

12e? - Lucy, from Forsters Room With a View.

13d? - Lady brenda last (A handful of dust, Evelyn Waugh)

14c. Oscar Wilde wrote this, Lady Bracknell speaks about Lady Dumbleton in The Importance Of Being Earnest (3rd Act).

kirsteenatom

12b is a Thomas Hardy novel - just not sure which one! I think its Tess of Tess of the D'Urbervilles can someone check this?

kirsteenatom

12e is a Room with a View - E M Forster (Lucy Honeychurch

kirsteenatom

This is a bit of a reach as I don't have enough information to pin it down properly but a possibility for 13d is

[FONT=&quot]Dr Messengers wife in a Handful of Dust by Waugh[/FONT]

NOSONDDU

Robert Frost wrote a poem think it was "Out Out" where a young boy is left with a buzz saw and kills himself but no name is given so don't think this is correct. I have searched and searched but nothing else. Here's the poem

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/850.html

smartie1976

14e Prince Alexander (matthew Arnold's "tristram and Iseult")

kirsteenatom

14e

Prince Alexander, Prince Philips peerless son, who carried the great war from Macedon into the Soudan's realm and thunder'd on to die at thirty five in Babylon.

From Tristram and Iseult by Matthew Arnold