Literary quiz

[Goddlefrood]

> > 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.

Goddlefrood:

The song is by Kate Bush, I knew this one as it happened, 
being a some time afficionado of Ms. Bush's wrok.

> > 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.

Goddlefrood:

Heart of Midlothian is a football club based in Edinburgh. They 
have traditioanlly won the Scottish FA Cup every fifty years and 
are the Scots team I follow when inclined towards the North.

> > 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.

Goddlefrood:

May well be Lucan, although Appian is I think published by 
Oxford. That part I did check to make sure of some answers. 
My explanation for the 25 reference in the question is in an 
earlier post.

> > 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.

Goddlefrood:

Then I must say she's unlikely to have read Daphnis & Chloe, 
which does not contain the original of the legend of Orpheus 
in the Underworld (the opera referred to in the clue)

>SSS:
> 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)?

Goddlefrood:

Well, I did enjoy Appian's Civil Wars ;-), which is why I 
inclined to it as the answer.

Vanity Fair is a very good read, funny in parts and interesting 
for its depiction of mid-Victorian London.

My two penn'orth.