Lit Clues

Things Fall Apart

**Okonkwo** of **Umuofia** (100%)

**Kills adopted son Ikemefuna** (71%)

**Disrupts** the **Week of Peace** (41%)

**Son Nwoye converts to Christianity** (35%)

**Defeats wrestler Amalinze the Cat** (35%)

No Longer at Ease

**Sequel** to ***Things Fall Apart*** (100%)

**Corrupt civil servant Obi Okonkwo** (100%)

**Loves osu Clara** (100%)

Gets a **scholarship** from the **Progressive Union** (100%)

**Boss Mr. Green** (100%)

Arrow of God

1. **Priest Ezeulu** (100%)
2. **T.K. Winterbottoim oversees Umuaro** (100%)
3. **Preacher John Goodcountry** **converts** the **village** to **Christianity** (100%)
4. **Tries** to **kill** a sacrificial **python** (100%)

**War** against **Okperi** (50%)

Hell Screen

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1. **Lord of Horikawa** helps **Yoshihide paint** the **Buddhist underworld** (100%)
2. **Daughter Yuzuki** and her **monkey burn** in a **carriage** (100%)
3. **Enemy Abbot of Yokawa** (100%)
4. “**Five Phases of the Transmigration of the Soul**” (100%)
5. **Snake** in a **jar attacks** a **horned owl** (100%)

Rashomon

1. **Namesake Kyoto gate** (100%)
2. **Servant steals a kimono** (100%)
3. **Hag** takes **hair** off of **corpses** to make a **wig** (100%)
4. Has a **pimple** on his right **cheek** (100%)

**Narrator corrects** the statement “**waiting for the rain to stop**” (100%)

***House of the Spirits***

1. Chronicles the **Trueba family** (100%)
2. **Pedro Tercero** (86%)
3. **Clairvoyant**/**Psychic Clara del Valle** (71%)
4. **Marries Esteban** (57%)

**Rosa** has **green hair** (57%)

Winesburg, Ohio

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1. **Journalist George Willard** (100%)
2. **Loves teacher Kate Swift**, who **prays naked** (78%)
3. **Wing Biddlebaum** loves **touching** people in “**Hands**” (78%)
4. Set in the **title small Midwestern town** (44%)
5. **Patriarch Jesse Bentley** (33%)

Little Women

1. **Amy, Beth, Jo, Marmee, and Meg March** (100%)
2. **Marries Professor Bhaer** (75%)
3. **Lawrence family** gives a **piano**/attempts to **marry** several characters (50%)
4. **Beth dies of scarlet fever** (37.5%)

**Hummel family** (37.5%)

Señor Presidente

1. **Miguel Angel Face** (100%)
2. **Lucio Vazquez shoots the Zany** (100%)
3. An **infant starves** after its **mother’s breasts** are **coated** with **lime** (100


1. **Author Iris Chase** (100%)
2. **Husband Richard Griffen rapes her sister** (100%)
3. **Affair with Alex Thomas** (100%)
4. **Laura** commits **suicide** by **driving** off a **bridge** (67%)
4. **Housekeeper Rennie** (67%)
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6. **Camila marries** a character’s  **former employer** (50%

**Parody** of **Manuel Estrada Cabrera** (50%)

Blind Assassin

1. **Author Iris Chase** (100%)
2. **Husband Richard Griffen rapes her sister** (100%)
3. **Affair with Alex Thomas** (100%)
4. **Laura** commits **suicide** by **driving** off a **bridge** (67%)

**Housekeeper Rennie** (67%)

Handmaid’s Tale

1. **Offred** (91%)
2. Set in the dystopian **Republic of Gilead** (91%)
3. Televangelist **Serena Joy** is the **Commander’s wife** (73%)
4. Has an **affair** with **chauffeur Nick** (73%)

**Mayday** resistance (55%)

Oryx and Crake

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1. **Jimmy**/**Snowman** is the **last human** on Earth (100%)
2. **RejoovenEsense** engineers the “**Children**” **race** (100%)
3. The **JUVE virus** is hidden in **BlyssPluss pills** (100%)
4. **Meet** on the **child pornography** site **HottTotts** (100%)
5. Takes his **nickname** from **Extinctathon** (100%)

Emma

1. **George Knightley marries matchmaking Miss Woodhouse** (100%)
2. **Frank Churchill and Jane Fairfax** are secretly **engaged** (100%)
3. **Protagonist** tries to **match Harriet Smith** with a **husband** other than **Robert Martin** (91%)
4. **Mr. Elton marries Augusta Hawkins** rather than **Harriet** (55%)

**Miss Bates** (55%)

Northanger Abbey

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1. **Catherine Morland marries Henry Tilney** (100%)
2. **Isabella Thorpe** **introduces** the protagonist to **Gothic novels** (100%)
3. **Isabella rejects James for General Frederick** (67%)
4. Trip to **Bath** (67%)
5. ***The Castle of Wolfenbach*** and ***Mysterious Warnings*** (33%)

Pride and Prejudice

1. **Elizabeth Bennet marries Fitzwilliam Darcy** (100%)
2. **Jane Bennet marries Charles Bingley** (86%)
3. **Lydia Bennet marries George Wickham** (81%)
4. **William Collins marries Charlotte Lucas** (71%)

**Lady Catherine de Bourgh** (57%)

Sense and Sensibility

1. **Elinor and Marianne Dashwood** (100%)
2. **John Willoughby’s infidelity** and other equivalents (93%)
3. **Protagonists marry Colonel Brandon and Edward Ferrars** (86%)
4. **Lucy Steele leaves Edward** for his brother **Robert** (79%)

Takes place at **John Middleton’s Barton Cottage**/Park (57%)

Peter Carey

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1. Wrote ***Oscar and Lucinda*** (100%)
2. Wrote ***Illywhacker***, which is **narrated** by **Herbert Badgery** (100%)
3. Wrote of **gamblers betting** on the **transportation** of a **glass house** (75%)
4. Wrote of **Bob McCorkle** in ***My Life as a Fake***, based on the **Ern Malley hoax** (50%)
5. Wrote a retelling of ***Great Expectations***, ***Jack Maggs*** (50%)

Thomas Keneally

1. Wrote ***Schindler’s Ark*** (100%)
2. Wrote about a **half-Aborigine** in ***The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith*** (100%)
3. Wrote of **Usaph Bumpass** in **Stonewall Jackson**’s army in ***Confederates*** (100%)
4. **Cheated** on by a **girl** from the Home of Wayward Girls (100%)

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Wrote ***A Commonwealth of Thieves*** about the “**Improbable Birth**” of his **home country** (50%)

Patrick White

1.  Wrote about the **title explorer** and **Laura Trevelyan** in ***Voss*** (100%)
2. Wrote about the **painter Hurtle Duffield** in ***The Vivisector*** (87.5%)
3. Wrote about **Mordecai Himmelfarb** in ***Riders in the Chariot*** (50%)
4. Meets **Kathy Volkov** (37.5%)

Wrote of a character who takes on **three different names starting with E** in ***The Twyborn Affair*** (37.5%

(The) Fire Next Time

1. Sections “**My Dungeon Shook**” and “**Down at the Cross**” (100%)
2. “**The Problem of the 20th Century is the problem of the color line**” (100%)
3. “**What will happen to all that beauty?**” (100%)
4. Divided into two “**letters**”: “**to the author’s nephew**” and “**from a region in the author’s mind**” (100%)

**Rejects** the teachings of **Elijah Muhammad** (100%)

Giovanni’s Room

1. **David** has an **affair** with the **title Italian bar worker** in **Paris** (100%)
2. **Strangles Guillaume** and is **sentenced** to **death** (100%)
3. **Proposes** to **Hella** (100%)
4. Goes to have **wine** and **oysters** at **Les Halles** (100%)

Has first **homosexual** encounter with **Joey** (50%)

***Go Tell It on the Mountain***

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1. **John Grimes** (100%)
2. **Preacher stepfather Gabriel** (100%)
3. **Dead brother Roy**/Royal (100%)
4. Takes place on the **protagonist’s fourteenth birthday** (100%)
5. Section “**Prayers of the Saints**” (50%)

Cousin Bette

1. **Title character Lisbeth Fischer** (100%)
2. **Adeline**’s new **Hulot family** is **ruined** (100%)
3. **Mademoiselle Marneffe breaks up Hortense and Steinbock** (100%)
4. **Debt collector Grasset** (100%)

**Agathe seduces the Baron** (100%)

Eugnènie Grandet

1. **Marries Monsieur Cruchot** (100%)
2. **Abandoned** by **beloved cousin Charles** after giving him **gold coins** (100%)
3. Rebels against **father Felix** (100%)
4. First **translation** of **Fyodor Dostoyevsky** (100%)

**Slave trader marries Mademoiselle D’Aubrion** (100%)

Père Goriot

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1. **Befriends Bianchon and  Eugene de Rastignac** (100%)
2. **Bankrupted** by **daughters Anastasie and Delphine** (80%)
3. **Vautrin kills Victorine Taillefer’s brother** (80%)
4. **Sells** the **Restaud** family **diamonds** for **Maxime de Trailles** (80%)
5. **Boarding house Maison Vauquer** (60%)

(The) Adventures of Augie March

1. “**An American, Chicago born**” (100%)
2. **Falconed**/Hunted in **Mexico** with **Thea Fenchel** (100%)
3. Gets **back together** with **Stella** (100%)
4. **Assists Einhorn with finances** (100%)

**Escapes** the MacManus **shipwreck** with **Bateshaw** (100%)

Herzog

1. **Protagonist Moses** writes imaginary and real **letters** to **celebrities**, **family**, and **friends** (100%)
2. **Protagonist** is **jailed** when the **police** find him with his **father’s unlicensed pistol** in a **car accident** (100%)
3. **Wife Madeleine** has an **affair** with **Valentine Gersbach** (100%)
4. Has a **custodial battle** for **daughter June**/**Junie** (100%)

Character writes book ***Romanticism and Christianity*** (50%)

Seize the Day

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1. **Titled** by a **Horace** expression (100%)
2. **Maurice Valence and Dr. Tamkin con Tommy Wilhelm** (100%)
3. **Tommy** meets his **father Dr. Adler** for **breakfast** at the **Gloriana Hotel** (100%)
4. **Escorts Mr. Rappaport** (100%)
5. **Loses seven hundred dollars investing in lard stocks** (100%)

(The) Devil’s Dictionary

1. Defines a **lawyer** as “**one skilled in circumventing the law**” (50%)
2. Describes **conservatives** as men “**who are enamored of existing evils**”, as opposed to **Liberals**, “**who wish to replace them with others**” (50%)
3. Quotes **poets Jambrach Holobom** and **Father Gassalasca Jape** (50%)
4. Originally titled “**The Cynic’s Word Book**” (50%)

Claims that **Benjamin Franklin** was **eaten** by cannibals in the **Sandwich Islands** (50%)

(An) Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

1. **Peyton Farquhar dreams** while he is being **hanged** (100%)
2. Tries to **burn** the **title structure**/anything about **flammable driftwood** (100%)
3. **Escapes gunfire** by **swimming** down a river (80%)
4. Character is **revealed** to be a **Federal scout** (60%)

Realizes a “**stunning blow**”/”**searing pain**” on the back of his **neck** (60%)

(The) Aleph

1. Named for a **point** from which **everything** in the **universe** can be **seen** (100%)
2. **Basement** of **Carlos Argentino Daneri** (100%)
3. **Death** of **Beatriz Viterbo** (83%)
4. **Landlords** **Zungri** and **Zunino** (50%)

**Pillar** in a **mosque** in **Cairo,  Egypt** (50%)

(The) Garden of Forking Paths

1. **Sinologist Stephen Albert** is **killed** by the **German spy Yu Tsun** (100%)
2. **Arrested** by **Richard Madden** (100%)
3. **Title novel** written by **ancestor Ts’ui Pen** at the **Pavilion of Limpid Solitude** (75%)
4. **Hypothetical reactions** of **Fang** to a **stranger** at his **door** (75%)

Takes a **train** to **Ashgrove** (75%)

(The) Library of Babel

1. Composed of an **infinite** number of **hexagonal rooms** (100%)
2. **Narrator’s best** book is ***The Combed Thunderclap*** (100%)
3. Pilgrims **searched** for the ***Vindications*** (100%)
4. Narrator owns ***The Plaster Cramp*** (50%)

The “**Purifiers**” hunted for the “**Crimson Hexagon**” (50%)

Fahrenheit 451

1. **Fireman Guy Montag burns books** (100%)
2. **Protagonist kills his boss Captain Beatty** (100%)
3. **Professor Faber** helps the protagonist **escape** from the **Mechanical Hound** (71%)
4. **Clarisse McClellan** (71%)

Protagonist recites “**Dover Beach**” (43%)

(The) Martian Chronicles

1. Set on a certain **fourth planet** from the sun (100%)
2. Tells of an **automated house** burning down in “**There Will Come Soft Rains**” (100%)
3. Includes **dreams** about astronauts **visiting from Earth** in “**Ylla**” (100%)
4. **William Stendahl** kills guests in “**Usher II**” (100%)

**Captain Wilder** leads the **Fourth Expedition** (100%)

Something Wicked This Way Comes

1. **Jim Nightshade** and **Will Halloway** ride a **carousel through time** (100%)
2. **Mr. Cooger** and the **Illustrated Man Mr. Dark** run a **carnival** (100%)
3. Set in **Green Town, Illinois** (100%)
4. **Librarian Charles shoots the Dust Witch** (100%)

**Mr. Electrico** (100%)

Agnes Grey

1. A **governess** finds **love** with **Edward Weston** (100%)
2. Employed/**Fired** by the **Bloomfields** (100%)
3. **Rosalie married Sir Thomas Ashby** after leaving **Horton Lodge** (100%)
4. **Hugh Meltham** and **Broadley Wilson** (100%)

Formerly known as ***Passages in the Life of an Individual*** (100%)

***The Tenant of Wildfell Hall***

1. **Title character Helen Graham marries Gilbert Markham** (100%)
2. **Frederick Lawrence**, who is thought to be having an **affair** with the **main character**, is **revealed** to be her **brother** (100%)
3. **Marriage** to **Arthur Huntingdon** (67%)
4. **Letter** to **Jack Halford** (67%)

**Affair** with **Annabella**/**Lady** **Lowborough** (67%)

***Jane Eyre***

1. **Title governess** falls in **love** with her **employer Edmund Rochester** (100%)
2. **Insane Bertha Mason burns down Thornfield** (94%)
3. Finds **shelter** with her **cousin St. John Rivers** (41%)
4. **Grace Poole** is **blamed** for strange events **caused** by her **patient** (**Bertha Mason**) (41%)

**Blanche Ingram** (29%)

Wuthering Heights

1. **Catherine Earnshaw loves Heathcliff** (95%)
2. **Thrushcross Grange** (84%)
3. **Narrated by Nelly Dean and Mr. Lockwood** (74%)
4. **Marries Edgar Linton** (68%)

**Hindley Earnshaw abuses the protagonist** (63%)

***(The) Master and Margarita***

1. The **devil**/**Satan visits Moscow** **disguised** as **Woland** (100%)
2. Writes a **novel** about **Pontius Pilate** (69%)
3. **Cat Behemoth** (62%)
4. **Head** of **MASSOLIT Berlioz** is **decapitated** by a **streetcar** (62%)

Magic show at **Variety Theater** (46%)

Pilgrim’s Progress

1. **Christian journeys** from the **City of Destruction** to the **Celestial City** (100%)
2. **Judge Hate-Good executes Faithful at Vanity Fair** (100%)
3. **Fights** the **demon Apollyon** in the **Valley of Humiliation** (75%)
4. Gets **stuck** in the **Slough of Despond** (37.5%)

Passes through the **Wicket Gate** (37.5%)

A Clockwork Orange

1. **Ludovico Technique** (93%)
2. Language **Nadsat** (75%)
3. Visits **Korova Milkbar** (75%)
4. **Protagonist teenager Alex** (71%)

**Loves** the **music** of **Beethoven**/**Ludwig Van** (71%)

(The) Fall

1. **Narrated** from **Mexico City Bar** in **Amsterdam** by **Jean-Baptiste Clamence** (100%)
2. Obtained ***The Just Judges*** from the ***Ghent Altarpiece*** (75%)
3. **Failed** to **prevent** a **woman jumping** off the **Pont Royal Bridge** (75%)
4. **Asks** a **man** to **move** his stalled **motorcycle** (75%)

Compares the **circles of Amsterdam** to **Hell** (50%)

(The) Plague

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1. **Protagonist Dr. Bernard Rieux** (100%)
2. **Thousands of rats die** in the streets of **Oran** (87.5%)
3. **Father Paneloux delivers sermons** (75%)
4. **Smuggler Cottard** (75%)
5. **Journalist Raymond Rambert** tries to **escape** (75%)

(The) Stranger

1. **Meursault** is **executed** for **shooting** an **Arab** on the **beach** (100%)
2. Friend **Raymond Sintes** (87%)
3. Opens with the **protagonist** **emotionlessly** attending his **mother’s funeral** (73%)
4. **Girlfriend Marie Cardona** (67%)

Eats at **Celeste’s cafe** (60%)

(The) Baron in the Trees

1. **Cosimo Piovasco** lives in the forest **canopy** (100%)
2. **Refuses** a **snail** soup from his **sister Battista** (100%)
3. Adopts the **dachshund Ottimo Massimo** (100%)
4. **Meets** a group of **exiled Spaniards** (100%)

Narrated by **brother Biagio** (50%)

(The) Cloven Viscount

1. Begins when a **cannonball** **hits** **Medardo of Terralba** (100%)
2. Wants to **reconcile** “**The Good ‘Un**” and “**The Bad ‘Un**” (100%)
3. **Dr. Trelawney heals** the **title husband** of **Pamela** (100%)
4. **Lepers** live in **Pratofungo** (100%)

**Chickens tied** to a **terrace** represent **diarrhea** (100%)

If on a winter’s night a traveler

1. **Loves Ludmilla** (89%)
2. **Protagonist** “you, **the reader**” (78%)
3. **Translator Ermes Marana** (67%)
4. Written in the **Cimmerian language** (67%)

**Professor Uzzi-Tuzzi** (67%)

Invisible Cities

1. **Kublai Khan** and **Marco Polo**’s **discussions** (100%)
2. “**Continuous**” and “**Hidden**” are included in the **eleven types** of the **title entities** (100%)
3. **Berenice**, **Octavia**, and/or **Theodora** (100%)
4. Takes place in an **imperial garden** (67%)

Uses **sign language** before **learning Tatar** (67%)

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

1. **Holly Golightly** (100%)
2. **Mag Wildwood marries Rusty Trawler** (80%)
3. **Gangster Sally Tomato** (60%)
4. Formerly **married** to **Doc Holiday** (60%)

**Wakes** up **Mr. Yunioshi** to **let** her **into** the **apartment** (60%)

In Cold Blood

1. **Murder** of the **Clutter Family** (100%)
2. **Execution** of **Dick Hickock** and **Perry Smith** (100%)
3. **Floyd Wells** tells of a **safe** (100%)
4. **Beverly** and **Eveanna**

**Bobby Rupp** (100%)

***Other Voices, Other Rooms***

1. **Protagonist Joel Knox** (100%)
2. **Idabel Thompkins** is **based** on **Harper Lee** (100%)
3. **Crossdressing Cousin Randolph** (100%)
4. Set at **Skully’s Landing** (100%)

**Boxer Pepe Sanchez** (100%)

Death Comes for the Archbishop

1. **Father Jean Marie Latour**’s experiences/revivals/travels in **New Mexico** (100%)
2. **Warned** of the **murderer Buck Scales** by his **wife Magdalena** (100%)
3. Friend **Father Joseph Valliant** (80%)
4. Befriends/Lives with **Kit Carson** (80%)

**Antonio Jose Martinez** instigates a **revolt** of the **Taos** Indians (40%)

My Antonia

1. **Shimerda Family** (100%)
2. **Jim Burden**’s narration and/or **relationship**/friendship with **title character** (100%)
3. **Marries Anton Cuzak** (100%)
4. **Black Hawk, Nebraska** (67%)

**Abused** by **Larry Donovan** and/or **Wick Cutter** (67%)

O Pioneers!

1. **Alexandra Bergson** (100%)
2. **Marries Carl Linstrum** (100%)
3. **Emil Sinclair** and **Marie Shabata** are **murdered** by **Frank Shabata** (100%)
4. **Hermit/Recluse Crazy Ivar** (100%)

**Appendicitis kills Amedee Chevalier** (60%)

The Song of the Lark

1. **Opera Singer Thea Kronberg** (87.5%)
2. **Doctor Archie** (37.5%)
3. Town of **Moonstone, Colorado** (25%)
4. **Moved by titular Jules Breton painting** (12.5%)

**Ray Kennedy** (12.5%)

Don Quixote

1. Accompanied by **Sancho Panza** (100%)
2. **Loves Dulcinea** (81%)
3. **Attacks windmills** believing them to be **giants** (62%)
4. **Rides horse Rocinante** (54%)

**Defeated** by the **Knight of the White Moon** (54%)

Exemplary Novels

1. Tells of a **hallucination** of the **foibles** of humanity in “**The Conversation of the Dogs**” (100%)
2. Contains “**The Deceitful Marriage**” (100%)
3. Tells of **Rodolfo marrying**/**raping Leocadia** in “**The Force of Blood**” (100%)
4. Tells of a love **potion** that causes **delusions** in “**The Glass Graduate**” (100%)

**Lawyer Tomas Rodaja** (100%)

(The) Canterbury Tales

1. Knight/”**Knight’s Tale**”/anything really about a knight (100%)
2. Wife of Bath/”**Wife of Bath’s Tale**” (71%)
3. **Arcite** and **Palamon fight** over **Emily** (52%)
4. **Journey** to the **shrine** of **Saint Thomas Becket** (38%)

Set at the **Tabard Inn** at **Southwark** (29%)

(The) House of Fame

1. **Jove** **sends** a **gigantic golden eagle** to **bring** the speaker to the **title location** (100%)
2. **Glass temple of Venus** (100%)
3. **Brass plates** inscribed with the ***Aeneid*** (100%)
4. **Ends** after the **speaker sees** a **man** “**whom he had no business seeing, but who seemed to be commanding great respect**” (100%)

Sees **Homer, Josephus, and Virgil** atop **metal pillars** (100%)

(A) Parliament of Fowls

1. **Title meeting** in which **birds** **argue** over their **mates** (100%)
2. Set on **St. Valentine’s Day** (100%)
3. **Nature** moderates a **debate** over who should **marry** the “**formal eagle**” (100%)
4. Written in **rhyme royal** (100%)

**Speaker guided** to the **Temple of Venus** by **Scipio Africanus** (100%)

Murder on the Orient Express

1. **12** people **stab Samuel Ratchett** to death (100%)
2. **Cassetti kidnapped and killed Daisy Armstrong** (100%)
3. **Monsieur Bouc** (100%)
4. **Natalia Dragomiroff** and **Hector MacQueen** (50%)

“**Ce n’est rien. Je me suis trompe.**” (50%)

Murder of Roger Ackroyd

1. **Narrator kills the title character** (100%)
2. **Dr. James Sheppard** (100%)
3. **Stepson Ralph Paton** (100%)
4. Since-removed **Dictaphone** (100%)

**Flora’s ring** (100%)

(The) Awakening

1. **Edna Pontellier** (100%)
2. **Rejected by Robert Lebrun** and **drowns herself** (100%)
3. **Affair with Alcee Arobin** (93%)
4. **Pianist Mademoiselle Reisz** (87%)

**Husband Leonce** (53%)

Desiree’s Baby

1. **Armand Aubigny exiles his wife** (100%)
2. Stuff involving **hidden black heritage** causing conflict (100%)
3. Bruns a **corbeille**, a **willow crib**, and **velvet gowns** (100%)
4. **Abandoned** at a **pillar** by a **band of Texans** (100%)

**Adopted** by the **Valmondes** (67%)

Disgrace

1. **Professor David Lurie loses** his **job** after having an **affair** with **student Melanie Isaacs** (100%)
2. **Daughter Lucy** is **raped** (100%)
3. **Chamber opera** ***Byron in Italy*** (57%)
4. **Prostitute Soraya** (57%)

Has an **affair** with **Bev Shaw** in an **animal shelter** (57%)

(The) Life and Times of Michael K

1. **Title harelipped gardener** (100%)
2. Spreads ashes of **mother Anna** at **Visagies Farm** (100%)
3. **Doctors** at **Camp Kenilworth** (75%)
4. **Plants pumpkins** (75%)

Has relations with **December’s sister** at **Sea Point** (75%)

Waiting for the Barbarians

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1. A **magistrate** is tortured by **Colonel Joll** (100%)
2. Cleans/Bathes wounded **girl** in **almond oil** (100%)
3. Freed by **Warrant Officer Mandel** (83%)
4. Takes its title from a **Cavafy poem** (67%)
5. Has a **recurring dream** of a **hooded child** playing in **snow** (67%)

***The Deerslayer*****: The First War Path**

1. **Natty Bumppo** gets the **title nickname** for his **first kill** (100%)
2. **First chronological**/**Last written** work of the **Leatherstocking Tales** (100%)
3. Hetty/Judith/Tom **Hutter** (100%)
4. **Glimmerglass Lake** (100%)

**Rescued** by **Captain Warley** (100%)

The Last of the Mohicans

1. **Natty Bumppo** (100%)
2. **Magua kidnaps Colonel Munro’s daughters Alice and Cora** (100%)
3. **Chingachgook** (**the last of the Mohicans/titular character**) (80%)
4. **Uncas** (**father** of Chingachgook) (80%)

**David Gamut** tries to teach **beavers psalms** (40%)

Heart of Darkness

1. **Sailor Charlie Marlow** travels to the Belgian **Congo** to find the **ivory trader Kurtz** (100%)
2. “**The horror! The horror!**” (87%)
3. Postscript reads “**Exterminate all the brutes!**” (67%)
4. A **Russian** called “**Harlequin**” writes **Cyrillic** in a **book** (47%)

Takes place **aboard** the **Nellie** (33%)

Lord Jim

1. **Title character abandons** the sinking **Patna** (100%)
2. Gets a **job** at a **trading post** in **Patusan** (100%)
3. **Murdered** by **Doramin** in **revenge** for the **death** of his **son Dain Waris** (100%)
4. **Betrayed** by **Cornelius** and **Gentleman Brown** (100%)

Falls in **love** with **Jewel** (50%)

Nostromo

1. **Title Italian** (100%)
2. “**Incorruptible**” **Capataz de Cargadores** (100%)
3. Set in **Costaguana**, South America (100%)
4. **Charles Gould** runs the San Tome **mine** in **Sulaco** (100%)

**Martin Decoud** commits **suicide** after **hiding silver** on Great Isabel Island (100%)

(The) Secret Agent

1. **Winnie stabs Adolf Verloc** (100%)
2. **Mentally challenged Stevie** is **killed** at the **Greenwich Observatory bombing** (100%)
3. **Chief Inspector Heat** (100%)
4. **Comrade Ossipon** (100%)

**Michaelis is arrested** (50%)

(The) Black Riders and Other Lines

1. Wrote of the “**clang and clang of spear and shield**” from those who “**came from the sea**” (100%)
2. Wrote of “**a creature, naked, bestial… in the desert**” (100%)
3. Depicted “**three little birds in a row**” **mocking** a man because “**he thinks he can sing**” (100%)
4. Wrote of someone who “**saw a man pursuing the horizon**” (100%)

“**Yes, I have a thousand tongues,/And nine and ninety-nine lie**” (100%)

(The) Blue Hotel

1. **Pat Scully**’s title establishment (100%)
2. Murder of **the Swede** (100%)
3. First shown in ***The Monster and Other Stories*** (100%)
4. Set in **Fort Romper, Nebraska** (100%)

**Mr. Blanc confesses to Bill** (100%)

(The) Blue Hotel

1. **Jack Potter’s return** (100%)
2. **Scratchy Wilson** (100%)
3. Sees **protagonist’s wife** in **San Antonio** (100%)
4. “**Amused and superior grin**” (100%)

“**Finest meal in the world**” (100%)

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1. **Jack Potter’s return** (100%)
2. **Scratchy Wilson** (100%)
3. Sees **protagonist’s wife** in **San Antonio** (100%)
4. “**Amused and superior grin**” (100%)

“**Finest meal in the world**” (100%)

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

1. **Protagonist** resorts to **prostitution** (100%)
2. **Nellie seduces her boyfriend Pete** (100%)
3. **Brother** and **mother Jimmie** and **Mary kick** her **out** (100%)
4. **Devil’s Row** and **Rum Alley** (100%)

“**I’ll forgive her!**” (100%)

(The) Open Boat

1. **Billie the oiler drowns**, while the **cook**, the **correspondent**, and the **captain** are **rescued** (100%)
2. “**Funny they don’t see us!**” (100%)
3. Remembers lines from **Caroline Norton**’s “**Bingen on the Rhine**” (100%)
4. Based on the **sinking** of the **Commodore** (50%)

Begins with the line “**None of them knew the color of the sky**” (50%)

***(The) Red Badge of Courage***

1. **Civil War soldier Henry Fleming** (100%)
2. Witnesses the **death of Jim Conklin** (100%)
3. Travels with a “**Tattered Man/Soldier**” (87.5%)
4. Cared for by **Tom Wilson** (87.5%)

Suffers a **minor head injury** (50%)

***Moll Flanders***

1. **Title con woman** (100%)
2. Has an **affair**, **marries Jemy**, and **marries a banker** (100%)
3. **Leaves Virginia** for **England** (100%)
4. **Marries** her own **brother**

**Avoided execution** at Newgate by “**pleading her belly**” (100%)

Robinson Crusoe

1. **Befriends** the **cannibal Friday** (100%)
2. **Escapes** with the **slave Xury** (50%)
3. Based on **Alexander Selkirk** (36%)
4. Lives on the “**Island of Despair**” (36%)

**Fights** off **wolves** in the **Pyrenees** (36%)

(The) Shortest Way with the Dissenters

1. **Argues** for **sanctions** against **Nonconformists** in **England** (100%)
2. Poem “**Hymn to the Pillory**”
3. Caused **author** to be **mocked** for **three days** at **Charing Cross** (100%)
4. Caused the **author** to be **imprisoned** for **libel** (100%)

**Criticized** the “**fatal leniency**” that allowed the **settling** of **New England** (100%)

(A) Christmas Carol

1. **Ebenezer Scrooge** (100%)
2. Crippled **Tiny Tim** (100%)
3. Visited by the **three spirits of Christmas** (100%)
4. Set at the **home** of the **Cratchit family** (100%)

**Fezziwig’s warehouse** (100%)

David Copperfield

1. **Marries Agnes Wickfield** (89%)
2. **Mr. Micawber exposes Uriah Heep** (89%)
3. Sent to **boarding school** at **Salem House** after **biting** his **stepfather Edward Murdstone** (67%)
4. **Marries Dora Spenlow** (67%)

Befriends housekeeper **Clara Peggotty** (44%)

Great Expectations

1. About the **orphan Pip** (100%)
2. **Miss Havisham** (87.5%)
3. **Falls in love with Estella** (81%)
4. **Herbert Pocket** (75%)

**Benefactor/Convict Abel Magwitch** (69%)

Oliver Twist

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1. **The Artful Dodger** (100%)
2. **Bill Sikes kills his girlfriend Nancy** (100%)
3. **Fagin leads** a group of boy **pickpockets** (87.5%)
4. “**Please, sir, I want some more**” (75%)
5. **Employed** by the **undertaker Mr. Sowerberry** (75%)

(A) Tale of Two Cities

1. **Sydney Carton** **sacrifices** himself to **save Charles Darnay** (100%)
2. **Dr. Manette’s daughter Lucie** (69%)
3. **Miss Pross shoots Madame DeFarge** (69%)
4. “**It was the best of times, it was the worst of times**” (46%)

**Marquis St. Evrémonde** (46%)

Out of Africa

1. **Memoir** of a **coffee plantation** in **Ngong Hills, Kenya** (100%)
2. **Lover Denys Finch-Hatton dies** (100%)
3. **Dances** called **ngomas** (100%)
4. Section “**From an Immigrant’s Notebook**” (100%)

**Two lions** gather on the **grave** of a **plane-crash-killed** **safari** partner

(The) Big Money

1. The **pilot Charlie Anderson** (X%) dies after descending into **alcoholism** (X%)
2. **Margo Dowling** becomes a **movie star** (X%)
3. Contains **“Camera Eye”** sections (X%)
4. Ends with section **“Vag”** (X%)

An Austrian **polo player** in this novel named **Max murders** the **Cuban Tony** (X%)

(The) Brothers Karamazov

1. **Alexei**/**Alyosha**, **Dmitri**, and **Ivan** are the **title siblings** (100%)
2. **Father Zossima** (100%)
3. **Smerdyakov’s murder** of **Fyodor** (92%)
4. Features the **Parable of the Grand Inquisitor** (58%)

**Grushenka** and **Katerina** (42%)

Crime and Punishment

1. **Raskolnikov murders** a **pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna** and her **sister Lizaveta** (100%)
2. **Confesses to prostitute Sonya Marmeladov** (63%)
3. **Pyotr Luzhin** gets **engaged** to the **protagonist’s sister Dunya** (58%)
4. **Svidrigailov** commits **suicide** (58%)

**Detective Porfiry Petrovich** (47%)

(The) Idiot

1. **Epileptic Prince Myshkin** (92%)
2. **Friend Rogozhin murders Nastasya Filipovna** (100%)
3. **Rejects Aglaya Yepanchin** (92%)
4. **Servant Ganya** (46%)

**Returns** from a Swiss **sanatorium** (46%)

Notes from the Underground

1. Attends **Simonov’s dinner** party **for classmate** **Zverkov** (75%)
2. **Prostitute Lisa**/**Liza** (75%)
3. Begins with “**I am a sick man, I am a spiteful man**” (50%)
4. **Refuses** to **see** a **doctor** about his **liver** (50%)

Obsesses over **bumping** into an **officer**/**policeman** (50%)

(An) American Tragedy

1. **Execution of Clyde Griffiths** (100%)
2. **Protagonist drowns Roberta Alden** while in a **canoe** (100%)
3. Plans to **marry** the **wealthy Sondra Finchley** (100%)
4. **Big Bittern Lake** (57%)

Falls in **love** with **Hortense Briggs** (57%)

Jennie Gerhardt

1. **German Lutheran immigrants** (100%)
2. **Relationship** with **Lester Kane** (100%)
3. **Senator Brander fathers Vesta** with the **protagonist** (100%)
4. **Letty Pace** (100%)

**Protagonist** calls herself **Mrs. Stover** (50%)

Sister Carrie

1. **Caroline Meeber** (100%)
2. **Husband George Hurstwood** commits **suicide** in a **flophouse** (100%)
3. **Charles Drouet** (100%)
4. **Lives with Lola** (50%)

Two men watch the play ***Under the Gaslight*** (50%)

(The) Count of Monte Cristo

1. Takes **revenge** on **Danglars**, **Mondego**, and **Villefort** (92%)
2. **Edmond Dantes** (85%)
3. **Educated** by the **Abbe Faria** (54%)
4. **Escapes the Chateau d’If** (69%)

**Loves** **Haydee** and **Mercedes** (46%)