- OUT ALL NIGHT
a. Edward Thomas. “A Private”.
b. Abraham Cowley. “On the Death of Mr. William Hervey”.
c. James Boswell. Life of Samuel Johnson.
d. W. H. Davies. The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp.
e. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield. - TEARS
a. P. G. Wodehouse. The Code of the Woosters.
b. Alfred Lord Tennyson. The Devil and the Lady.
c. Robert Burton. The Anatomy of Melancholy.
d. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
e. Henry Howarth Bashford. Augustus Carp, Esq., By Himself. - CHAIRS
a. T. S. Eliot. The Waste Land.
b. Eliza Cook. “The Old Arm-Chair”.
c. Washington Irving. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent..
d. Bernard Shaw. “My Front Room”.
e. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair. - SPIDERS
a. Tony Harrison. “Following Pine”.
b. Robert Southey. “To a Spider”.
c. Alexander Pope. An Essay on Man.
d. Thomas Hood. “The Haunted House”.
e. M. R. James. “The Ash Tree”. - TOO FAST
a. James Thurber. “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”.
b. Laurence Sterne. A Sentimental Journey.
c. William Cowper. “The Diverting History of John Gilpin”.
d. E. M. Forster. Howards End.
e. Thomas Hardy. Tess of the D’Urbervilles. - SHIRTS
a. F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby.
b. Evelyn Waugh. Basil Seal Rides Again.
c. Elizabeth Jane Howard. Odd Girl Out.
d. W. H. Davies. Later Days.
e. Malcolm Bradbury. Eating People is Wrong. - COLD
a. Apsley Cherry-Garrard. The Worst Journey in the World.
b. Helen Dunmore. The Siege.
c. Jack London. “To build a fire”.
d. Harold Macmillan. The Blast of War, 1939–1945.
e. A. E. Housman. “The night is freezing fast”. - MONOCLES
a. Dorothy Sayers. Gaudy Night.
b. P. G. Wodehouse. Leave It to Psmith.
c. F .Scott Fitzgerald. Tender Is the Night.
d. Evelyn Waugh. Men at Arms.
e. John Wain. Hurry on Down. - NUNS
a. Carol Shields. Larry’s Party.
b. Truman Capote. Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
c. Aldous Huxley. After Many a Summer.
d. Hilary Mantel. Wolf Hall.
e. Matthew Lewis. The Monk. - KNEELING
a. William Shakespeare. King Lear.
b. Emily Dickinson. “Exclusion”.
c. W. H. Auden. “O what is that sound”.
d. Anthony Trollope. The Way We Live Now.
e. Angus Wilson. No Laughing Matter. - WHO …
a. Fanny Robin. Thomas Hardy. Far from the Madding Crowd.
b. Timofey Pnin. Vladimir Nabokov. Pnin.
c. Norman. Angus Wilson. “The Wrong Set”.
d. Parson Adams. Henry Fielding. Joseph Andrews.
e. Gertrude. William Shakespeare. Hamlet. - EARTHQUAKES
a. Jamie McKendrick. “Earthquake”.
b. William Shakespeare. Macbeth.
c. Joan Didion. The Year of Magical Thinking.
d. John Donne. “A Valediction: Forbidding mourning”.
e. “Saki”. When William Came. - BASED ON WHICH REAL PEOPLE?
a. Thomas Hardy. W. Somerset Maugham. Cakes and Ale.
b. Leigh Hunt. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
c. Ottoline Morrell. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love.
d. Humphry Repton (or possibly “Capability” Brown). Thomas Love Peacock. Headlong Hall.
e. John Middleton Murry. Aldous Huxley. Point Counter Point. - LAUGHTER
a. William Shakespeare. Twelfth Night.
b. Evelyn Waugh. Unconditional Surrender.
c. T. S. Eliot. “Mr. Apollinax”.
d. R. S. Thomas. “An Old Woman”.
e. Saba Holland. A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. - CLOCKS
a. Rupert Brooke. “The Old Vicarage, Grantchester”.
b. John Banville. The Book of Evidence.
c. Joseph Conrad. Typhoon.
d. Laurence Sterne. Tristram Shandy.
e. Robert Lowell. “Fall 1961”. - BIRD NAMES IN FICTION
a. Thomas Harris. The Silence of the Lambs.
b. David Lodge. Changing Places, etc.
c. Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird.
d. Tom Stoppard. Arcadia.
e. Leslie Charteris. The Saint and Mr. Teal. - “MY FATHER … ”
a. E. M. Forster. A Room with a View.
b. Louis MacNeice. “Autobiography”.
c. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
d. Edmund Gosse. Father and Son.
e. V. S. Pritchett. “Sense of Humour”. - DUST
a. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
b. Rupert Brooke. “The Great Lover”.
c. Elizabeth Jennings. “Dust”.
d. G. K. Chesterton. “The Praise of Dust”.
e. T. S. Eliot. “Little Gidding”. - HILLS
a. Edward Thomas. The Icknield Way.
b. Bernard O’Donoghue. “Beara Skylines”.
c. William Cobbett. Rural Rides.
d. Ernest Hemingway. “Hills Like White Elephants”.
e. Alexander Pope. An Essay on Criticism. - THE SIMPLE LIFE
a. W. B. Yeats. “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”.
b. Anna Wickham. “Domestic economy”.
c. Robert Graves. Good-bye to All That.
d. Jerome K. Jerome. Three Men in a Boat.
e. William Shakespeare. As You Like It.
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