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Darn, I've only read #5 😅! (view spoiler) And I think (from seeing the film) that #7 is (view spoiler). Really want to read this one, and inter's review only reinforced this.
Merci pour le quiz!
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Two others I chose for key words (Hardy, Brontë). For the last two I just closed my eyes and picked.
1. Elizabeth Bowen: The Death of the Heart (view spoiler)
2. Charlotte Brontë: Villette (view spoiler)
3. J.L. Carr: A Month in the Country (view spoiler)
4. Joseph Conrad: Nostromo (view spoiler)
5. William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying (view spoiler)
6. Thomas Hardy: The Trumpet-Major (view spoiler)
7. Christopher Isherwood: A Single Man (view spoiler)
8. Henry James: The Europeans (view spoiler)
9. Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano (view spoiler)
10. Hilary Mantel: Fludd (view spoiler)
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😂Transatlantic thought transference!
All the answers given so far are correct.
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1. Elizabeth Bowen: The Death of the Heart
2. Charlotte Brontë: Villette
3. J.L. Carr: A Month in the Country
4. Joseph Conrad: Nostromo
5. William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying
6. Thomas Hardy: The Trumpet-Major
7. Christopher Isherwood: A Single Man
8. Henry James: The Europeans
9. Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano
10. Hilary Mantel: Fludd
a. On Wednesday, the bishop came in person.
b. In the days of high-waisted and muslin-gowned women, when the vast amount of soldiering going on in the country was a cause of much trembling to the sex, there lived in a village near the Wessex coast two ladies of good report, though unfortunately of limited means.
c. The mountain chains traverse the republic roughly from north to south, forming between them a number of valleys and plateaux.
d. When the train stopped, I stumbled out, nudging and kicking the kitbag before me.
e. Waking up begins with saying am and now.
f. That morning’s ice, no more than a brittle film, had cracked and was now floating in segments.
g. A narrow grave-yard in the heart of a bustling, indifferent city, seen from the windows of a gloomy-looking inn, is at no time an object of enlivening suggestion; and the spectacle is not at its best when the mouldy tombstones and funereal umbrage have received the ineffectual refreshment of a dull, moist snow-fall.
h. My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton.
i. Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file.
j. In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Suraco � the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity � had never been commercially anything more important than a coasting port with a fairly large local trade in ox-hides and indigo.