Sunday Times/Faber Literary Quiz

[phoenixxx]

Hi all

That time of year again...

My early contribution is the pictures section:

1. Dorothy Edwards
2. Frances Partridge
3. Alison Uttley
4. Joan Bakewell
5. William Golding
6. Muriel Spark

Any offers?

[Flapwing]

Parties 1: Lawrence in Abigail's party by Mike Leigh
Teachers 1: Hector in History Boys by Alan Bennett

[Flapwing]

Perhaps War 4 could be 'Young British Soldier' by Rudyard Kipling - although it is the women who 'execute' him.

[maxwellmarsh]

I think Shops 4 is The Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton

[goodfriday]

Author's Deaths 1. is Emile Zola

[goodfriday]

Hello All - this is one of my favourite ways of spending August Bank Holiday. Messages 4. the poem in question is 'How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix' (Robert Browning) but the question seems to be asking who "I" is. Does anyone know?

[sarumite]

Not a contribution I'm afraid ... just to say that I was privileged to have William Golding as an English tutor during my time at Grammar School in the late 1950's.

[maxwellmarsh]

Authors' Deaths 2 is Aeschylus and 3 is Henrik Ibsen

[Portia1564]

This is my first post on this site!

I think the answer to War 4 is more likely to be He Fell Among Thieves by Sir Henry Newbolt.

With regard to Messages 4, Browning did not name the third and only rider to reach Aix. So the answer is The Narrator of How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix.

[Eslite2]

Message 3: Stella Bradshaw (An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge)
Fraud 1: Augustus Melmotte (The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope)
Curses 5: V.S. Naipaul (A Half Life)
Injuries 1: Razumov ( Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad)
Injuries 4: The Siege of Krishnapur (J.G. Farrell)
Deaths 4: Anton Chekhov, Raymond Carver (Errand)

[patrickwhite]

Hey All
War 5 is Owen Meaney in A Prayer For Owen Meaney by John Irving
Could Shops 2 be Winston Smith & Julia in Nineteen Eighty Four? Or is it way off? Will check it when I get home.

[patrickwhite]

Shops 3 is Alfred Polly in The History Of Mr Polly by HG Wells

[maxwellmarsh]

Isn't War 5 John Wheelwright rather than Owen Meany - I think Owen Meany does the severing.

I think War 3 might be the angels in the battle of heaven in Paradise Lost.

[patrickwhite]

^ Hey Maxwellmarsh!
You are quite correct! John W is the answer. Serve me right for not checking the novel!

[patrickwhite]

Authors' Deaths 5 is Simon Gray who died of an abdominal aortic aneurysm and not cancer.

[patrickwhite]

Teachers 1 is Douglas Hector in The History Boys by Alan Bennett

[Flapwing]

Shops 5: Our Mutual Friend by Dickens - Mr Venus, anatomical craftsman, keeps 'Hindoo' babies in jars. eeggh - shudder, shudder.

[Flapwing]

Curses 2: Michael Henchard in Hardy's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' persuades the choir to sing Psalm 109 to curse Donald Farfrae.

[slaney]

Curses 4 - the Lady of Shalott