Sunday Times/Faber Literary Quiz

[phoenixxx]

Are we all ready? At first glance it looks a stinker! Blondes 4: Bruce Gold? Drinks 3 is Alice Picture 1 is Michael Palin

[whiskypriest]

Deaths 4 - the Widow of Ephesus (Petronius)

[goodfriday]

Boobies 4 is Lord Foppington in The Relapse by John Vanbrugh (the heiress is Lady Hoyden)

[michealk]

thanks whiskey priest for all your help. i just query dates 1. could it be the good german by jospeh kanon?

[michealk]

i also think Cymbeline is correct for Boobies 1.

[goodfriday]

Green Tea by Sheridan Le Fanu is Drinks 1. Not sure if this is part of a bigger book of short stories, or the name of the character who drank the tea, but will look up.

what's happened to RaytheGrey this year?

[monaghan]

Some great answers - glad there are some classicists around - agree Dates One must be Girls of Slender means as def. set between VE and VJ day. The Good German I think starts in July 45 with the Potsdam Conference. I'm racking my brain about the shilling in the meter Departure - it does seem familiar.

[Aschenbach]

We've already got that goodfriday Don't know where RaytheGrey (or newby) are this year - maybe they're just stumped for answers

The plot of Hanif Kureishi's Intimacy (published by Faber) sounds like Departures 2 - not sure

I thought the European writer and 'profitable victory' could be a reference to Dostoevsky's novella The Gambler (photo too recent?) it implies some kind of wager

I'm not sure of the Alice In Wonderland beverage. Doesn't she drink from a bottle to shrink and then eats mushrooms to 'lose stature'?

[michealk]

i think aurelio zen in endgames is probable for deaths 1

[michealk]

sorry departures 1

[goodfriday]

Could Departures 2 be Christian in The Pilgrim's Progress?

[whiskypriest]

Super stuff, Good Friday. You've now made a good Tuesday! Departures 2 is definitely Christian in Pilgrim's Progress.

[Aschenbach]

GOODBYE - by Alun Lewis

So we must say Goodbye, my darling,
And go, as lovers go, for ever;
Tonight remains, to pack and fix on labels
And make an end of lying down together.

I put a final shilling in the gas,
And watch you slip your dress below your knees
And lie so stlil I hear your rustling comb
Modulate the autumn in the trees.

[LG123]

Hi all - i'm a little behind this year, but it looks like we're doing pretty well!

Here's my first contribution - Births 2 is Felicity Smith in 'The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith' by Peter Carey.

[LG123]

Also another - Arrivals 5 is Graham Greene (The Man Within).

[whiskypriest]

Deaths 5 is Conrad in 'The Castle of Otranto' by Horace Walpole.

[whiskypriest]

Thanks for solving the Births 2 question LG123. It was really niggling me. 'Tristram Smith' is one seriously creepy novel!

[LG123]

I think Picture 4 might be Joseph Conrad (wrote a book called Victory), and I was thinking that Picture 6 was Don Foster, who wrote a book about being a literary Detective. Neither certain though.

[goodfriday]

Thanks, whiskypriest. With a name like Good Friday, I should have known the answer to that one, shouldn't I? But then, by that yardstick, so should you!

[LG123]

Marriages 1 definitely Mrs Elton in Emma

[goodfriday]

Could Marriages 4 be John Bold, who married Eleanor Harding in The Warden? Don't know where they married, however.