Literary quiz

[Susan Albrecht]

Goddlefrood:
> So far I've got the first 7 and am working through the rest.
> 
> Those answers so far:
> 
> 1. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
SSS:  I had this one
 
> 2. Night and Day - Virginia Woolf
SSS:  I had the title but didn't (eek) recognize it as a Woolf novel.

> 3. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
SSS:  Wow, this is a surprise.  I didn't know, so tried to Google the clue about the 1st hit in the UK for a woman.  You must have found a different title than I did.

> 4. Heart of Midlothian - Sir Walter Scott
SSS:  Can you tell me how you got this one, Gav?  A friend of mine had all but #3 and #4, so I'm curious what clue did it for you in picking HoM?  I knew it wasn't world cup soccer because "regularly every 50 years" isn't divisible by 4, which is the WC schedule, right?  But then I got lost.
 
> 5. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
SSS:  I guessed correctly on this one

> 6. Washington Square - Henry James
SSS:  Got this after a Google search. :)

> 7. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
SSS:  Ditto  

> 8. Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain
SSS:  I guessed incorrectly on this one

> 9. Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
SSS:  Oy.  Like Alla, I did not know the story of her quick rise out of poverty.

> 10. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
SSS:  Got it but had to cheat by looking up the characters, since I have never actually read MD.

> 11. Symposium - Plato
SSS:  Had no clue

> 12. The Metamorphoses - Ovid
SSS:  I guessed incorrectly on this, but once explained it felt so obvious.

> 13. The Civil Wars - Appian
SSS:  I had the title easily but was unsure of the author.  A friend of mine suggested Lucan rather than Appian.  So I checked with her, and the reason she knew it was Lucan is that the Appian CW is not in the Oxford World Classic list, while the Lucan is.

> 14. The Consolation of Philosophy - Boetius
SSS:  I did not get this, but again, a friend of mine differs in her deduction.  She proposes Daphnis & Chloe.  In fact, she is pretty sure about this as fitting the clue better and also because it's in the list of OWC titles.

> 15. The Politics - Aristotle
SSS:  Got this one, once I reminded myself of the first quote

> 16. Nana - Emile Zola (Thanks xuxu)
SSS:  I had NO idea so, yes, thanks xuxu

> 17. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
SSS:  Needed Alla for this

> 18. The Divine Comedy - Dante
SSS:  This one was the one I was most sure of

> 19. Indiana- George Sand
SSS:  Another I was sure of 

> 20. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
SSS:  Needed Alla again :)  A friend explained to me that the question mark after the clue was to indicate that it's not *clear* in the book whether the title refers to this character.  Is that so?

It's a little embarrassing how few of these I have read. :-|  Are there any of you who have read some of these and would recommend to me which is/are your fav(s)?

Siriusly Snapey Susan, who hopes this will post because OTC has been really acting up this morning