E:30/04 50 Oxford World Classics - quiz

sandstormer

11. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

sandstormer

13)????dates are civil war dates aren't they??? but I haven't a clue what the answer is
I got to go and pick myDS up will check back later good luck everyone it's been fun trying to solve this one together hasn't it?

SparkyMark

1 Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
2 Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
3 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
4 Heart of Midlothian by Sir Walter Scott
5 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
6 Washington Square by Henry James
7 Walden by Henry David Thoreau
8 Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
9 Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott
10 Moby !!!!!! by Herman Melville
11 Symposium by Plato
12 Metamorphoses by Ovid
13 Civil War by Lucan
14 Daphnis and Chloe by Longus
15 The Politics by Aristotle
16 Nana by Emile Zola
17 Dead Souls by N.V. Gogol
18 The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante
19 Indiana by George Sand
20 The Idiot by F.M. Dostoevsky

(THANKS TO ALL POSTERS ABOVE & BELOW THIS POST)

enigmaL

sandstormer wrote: »

11. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

I think the answer to this is Symposium and not The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

"Every man is a poet when he is in love" comes from Plato's Symposium which is also a book written by Muriel Spark (the former Miss Camberg) see wiki here.

Thanks for putting me in the right direction though :T

enigmaL

SparkyMark wrote: »

The one's I've found the books for (Titles & Authors) -

13 Civil War by Lucan
OR The Civil War by Julius Caesar? (It is ancient/classic after all!)

Great post :T

I'd say it was Lucan since he only lived to 25 whereas Caesar lived longer.

SparkyMark

Thanks

Q4 is going to take some time

Datrys

Could Question 4 be:
Heart of Midlothian - Sir Walter Scott

As Heart of Midlothian (Hearts) have won the Scottish cup in: 1906, 1956, 1998, 2006 ..

The problem is they also won it in 1998?

SparkyMark

Awesome, I've been looking AGES & couldn't find it..


Following from kippers answer:

kipper wrote: »

12: The Metamorphosis

Could Q12 be Metamorphoses by Ovid?

kipper_2-2

SparkyMark wrote: »

Following from kippers answer:



Could Q12 be Metamorphoses by Ovid?

I got the answer from this

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

SparkyMark

Now I'm not usually one to question authority (:D), but the reason I thought it was the other one is because Metamorphoses at Wikipedia says it:

describes the creation and history of the world

and that

It is written in dactylic hexameter

Pretty much what the question on the Times site is asking for