The Sunday Times/Faber Literary Quiz

[phoenixxx]

All ready? My early thoughts:

FRUIT (2) Peach (James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl)

AEROPLANES (3) Hungarian (The English Patient)
(5) Philip Swallow and Morris Zapp (David Lodge story)

PICTURES (4) Rebecca Miller
(5) Julian Barnes
I am happy to stand corrected. All contributions welcome.

[Postumus]

Hi Phoenixx, arisen again. Thanks for those, I can add: Pictures 5, Julian Barnes;Fruit 1, Birkin (I think) in Women in Love; Battles 2, Cleopatra.

[bigmoosey]

Hi, the few I have found are:

Bodily Oddities
2. King Richard III
5. Dr. Julius Gorner (Devil may care, James Bond)

Fruit.
4. Snow White

Trains
3. Mrs. McGillicuddy (4:50 from Paddington, Agatha Christie)

[phoenixxx]

Well done - it looks like we're on a roll! I think the 'Women in Love' reference may be Gerald Crich but I'm not 100% sure.

[bigmoosey]

Hi Phoenixxx,

I think the fig reference was by DH lawrence in his poem Figs at site: www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Lawrence/figs.htm

[patrickwhite]

Boats 2 sounds like Pincher Martin by William Golding.
Trains 2 is from Chesil Beach by MacEwan. Can't recall character's name but will find it. The male protagonist's mother as I recall.

[patrickwhite]

Is Bodily Oddities 4 Silas Wegg in Our Mutual Friend ?

[patrickwhite]

Last one before bed!
Bodily Oddities 1 is Griffin/The Invisible Man
in The Invisible Man by HG Wells

[phoenixxx]

Yes - have checked 'Figs' and you are correct Bigmoosey, well done.

[Eslite]

Good bets but not definites

Picture 1 JG Ballard
Picture 2 Norman Lewis
Picture 6 Ferdinand Mount
Trains 5 Mabel Warren (Stamboul Train)
Boats 5 Carl Hiaasen book?
Prisons 1 Barnaby Rudge
Prisons 2 Michaelis (The Secret Agent)
Prisons 3 Jeanie Deans (The Heart of Midlothian)
Criminals 3 Guido Franceschini (The Ring and the Book)Aeroplanes 4 Jamie Graham (The Empire of the Sun)
Madhouses 3 Susan Trinder (Fingersmith)
Madhouses 4 Marquis de Sade
Battles 4 ? (Vanity Fair)
Battles 5 The War Between the Tates (Alison Lurie)

[slaney]

Can only add..
Prisons 5. Irene Ruddock..A Lady of Letters/Alan Bennett

[patrickwhite]

Boats 5 is The Liverpool Merchant in Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth

[whiskypriest]

Greetings all. Grateful thanks to the contributions already made. Mine are:

FRUIT 3 - Andrew Marvell
FRUIT 5 - Mrs Elton (Emma)
BOATS 3 - Henleigh Grandcourt (Daniel Deronda)
PRISONS 4 - Amanda 'Pinnie' Pynsent (The Princess Casamassima)
CRIMINALS 1 - Shelley
CRIMINALS 2 Vittoria Corobona (The White Devil)
MADHOUSES 1 - Walter Hartwright (The Woman in White)
BATTLES 1 - Billy Prior (The Ghost Road)
BATTLES 4 - Peggy O'Dowd (Vanity Fair)

Apologies if I've repeated any that you already have.

[goodfriday]

Battles 3. I think this could be King Arthur, in which case the answer would be Malory (Morte d'Arthur) or Tennyson (Morte d'Arthur or Idylls of the King). Can anyone confirm?

[phoenixxx]

I cannot find reference to the shortest day, goodfriday. Other thoughts I had were Harold and his eye or Rufus in the New Forest. However, I do not know if these are recorded in fiction. Anyone help?

[yellow11]

harold died oct 14th i think!

[phoenixxx]

21/22 December is the shortest day so whoever died around that time!

[Brookline]

Thanks to everyone for some I'd never have remembered/worked out! A few extra possibles/probables to add to the mix:

Fruit 5: Mrs Elton (Emma)

Trains 4: Amedee Fleurissoire ( Les Caves du Vatican, by Gide)

Boats 1: Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
Boats 4: Yank (The Hairy Ape , Eugene O'Neill)

Criminals 4: Captain Macheath?

I also agree that King Arthur was traditionally wounded at the time of the 'winter solstice', so he's likely to be the subject of Battles:3

[goodfriday]

I'm going for Tennyson (Idylls of the King) for Battles 3. Anyone fancy reading the section on the Passing of Arthur, to see if they agree with me?

[whiskypriest]

I agree with you wholeheartedly, Good Friday.
"That day when the great light of heaven/Burned at his lowest in the rolling year" has to be the shortest day. Top marks!

[whiskypriest]

CRIMINALS 5 - Peer Gynt
PICTURES 3 - Julia Blackburn