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« Reply #960 on: August 30, 2010, 11:29:55 AM »


Welcome to Author! Author!  

This is a game in which the contestants match their wits with a  challenger, who suggests a character in literature, non- fiction or fiction. The challenger may or may not provide more clues, his prerogative,, and never more than one a day.


Once a day the challenger will say if the guesses are correct or not. The winning contestant gets lots of acclaim and the chance to pose the next challenge. If he does not want to post a new challenge he can say so and whoever does can begin a new game.

Of course you could look these up on google in an instant, what challenge is that? The  idea is to rack one's brain to try to remember where this particular character appeared and who wrote about him/ her. Should be great fun.

The challenger also has the option not to mention the name of the character, but only a description.


Authors used so far:

Author, Book, Character, Challenger, Post#

Atwood, Margaret, The Blind Assassin, Gumtree, #277
Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice, Mary Bennett, #158
Baum, L. Frank, The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy, JoanK, #342
Blackmore, Richard, Lorna Doone, Lorna Doone, Frybabe, #462
Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff, Gumtree, #252
Buchan, John, 39 steps, Richard Hannay, PatH, #396
Carroll, Louis, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice, JoanK, # 426
Cervantes, Don Quijote, Don Quijote, PatH, #701
Christie, Agatha, Hastings, JoanK, # 127
Christie, Agatha, Death on the Nile, Hercule Poirot, JoanK, #752
Clancy, Tom, Hunt for Red October, Frybabe, #553
Collins, Wilkie, The Moonstone, Rachel Verinder, PatH, #311
Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness, Marlow, Gumtree, #226
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, Study in Scarlet, Dr. Watson, PatH, #380
Dumas, Alexandre pere, The Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan, PatH, #939, 941
Eliot, George, Daniel Deronda, Gumtree, #190
Eliot, T. S., Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, Bustopher Jones, PatH, #110
Essex, Karen, Leonardo's Swans, Isabella d'Este, Mippy, #591
Galsworthy, John, The Forsyte Saga, Irene, PatH, #615,620
George, Elizabeth, Lynley and Havers, Tomereader1, #168
Grey, Zane, Riders of the Purple Sage, Frybabe, #294, 299
Henry, O. Mammon and the Archer, Anthony Rockwall, Ginny  #537
James, Henry, Wings of a Dove, Kidsal, #83
Keller, Helen, The Story of my Life, Anne Sullivan, JoanK #958
Lagerlof, Selma, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, Nils Holgersson, JudeS #899
LeFanu, Sheridan, Carmilla, roshanarose, #769
Melville, Herman, Moby-Dick, the whale, PatH, #482
Milton, John, Paradise Lost, Frybabe, #413
Mitford, Nancy, roshanarose, #839, 840
O’Brian, Patrick, Master and Commander, Jack Aubrey, JudeS, #319
Orwell, George, Frybabe, #97
Peterson, Roger Tory, Field guide to the Eastern Birds, Mockingbird, JoanK #202
Rand, Ayn, We the Living, Frybabe, #498, 502
Scott, Sir Walter, Ivanhoe, Ginny, #602
Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein, the monster, PatH, #451
Smith, Alexander McCall, Mma Ramotswe, JudeS, #145
Spark, Muriel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Miss Brodie, Gumtree, #671, 672
Steinbeck , John, Journal of a Novel, Gumtree, #53, 60
Stoker, Bram, Dracula, Jonathan Harker, JudeS, #631, 632
Stone, Irving, Depths of Glory, Camille Pisarro, Gumtree, #802
Tolkien, J. R. R., Lord of the Rings, Frodo, PatH, #238, 241
Trollope, Joanna, The Best of Friends, Sophie, Mippy, #218
Tyler, Anne, Digging to America, Maryam Yazdan,Mippy, #735
Vreeland, Susan, The Forest Lover, Emily Carr, Mippy, #364
Weir, Alison, Innocent Traitor, Lady Jane Gray, roshanrose, #883
Wethers, Beck, Left for Dead, Ginny, #29
Windsor, Kathleen, Forever Amber, Amber, Traude, #927, 928
Xenophon, Frybabe, #173



















My epiphany came when Joan K gave Patty Duke's name.  The break-through scene  at the water pump in the movie is etched in my mind.  It was a miracle.


JoanK

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« Reply #961 on: August 30, 2010, 02:58:40 PM »
I don't think anyone who saw that scene will ever forget it!

I actually saw a woman who must have had similar disabilities. I was riding the subway, when a beautiful young woman, obviously, blind got on, accompanied by two young men who were helping her. They all sat. The men appeared to be deaf, they were "talking" in sign language. Then one would turn, and sign to the woman on her palm, just as Sullivan did to Keller.

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« Reply #962 on: August 30, 2010, 03:11:55 PM »
OK, Traude;  you're it!

straudetwo

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« Reply #963 on: August 30, 2010, 10:12:34 PM »
Thank you, JoanK.   Will have something ready tomorrow.


straudetwo

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« Reply #964 on: August 31, 2010, 10:50:28 PM »
Challenge

The author was a renowned novelist, essayist and critic associated with the Realism movement.

The novel is focused on relationships and conflicts.  Two characters stand out from the rest.

straudetwo

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« Reply #965 on: September 01, 2010, 07:05:28 PM »
2.

The novel was first published in serial form and based on a story told to the author by a friend.

It became a play and, eventually,  a film.   

roshanarose

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« Reply #966 on: September 01, 2010, 09:12:53 PM »
I am thinking D.H. Lawrence "Women in Love".
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?  - Plato

straudetwo

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« Reply #967 on: September 01, 2010, 10:15:51 PM »
Roshanarose,  sorry, not Women in Love.

Both the novel and its author antedate Lawrence by a few decades.

straudetwo

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« Reply #968 on: September 03, 2010, 09:59:51 AM »
3.

The author was a prodigious writer and literary critic.
His fiction work has been compared to impressionist painting.

The characters in this novel display traits as old as mankind :  among them greed, betrayal, and cruelty.
The movie garnered seven Academy Awards.




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« Reply #969 on: September 03, 2010, 02:51:27 PM »
Doesn't really fit, but when you said "impressionist painting", I thought of James Joyce.

straudetwo

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« Reply #970 on: September 03, 2010, 05:23:03 PM »
JoanK,  sorry, not James Joyce.  Joyce was from the era of Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolfe.
The author we are looking for here was older.

In fact, "our" author published the novel in question around the time Virginia Woolfe was born.  

roshanarose

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« Reply #971 on: September 03, 2010, 10:38:37 PM »
straude - I am a little confused here.  You say the author and novel "antedate" D H Lawrence by a couple of decades, but Lawrence was born around the same time as Virginia Woolfe, and you are saying that the author is "older" than Woolfe.  Did you mean "predate"?  I am using the example that  "antebellum" means after the war. 
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?  - Plato

Gumtree

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« Reply #972 on: September 04, 2010, 06:21:34 AM »
Woolf was born around 1882 ? which gets us into the era. George Eliot died in 1880 ? or thereabouts so don't suppose it was her. There were so many realist novelists active all over the place in that period - are we talking English, American or European ?
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« Reply #973 on: September 04, 2010, 10:30:33 AM »
Gumtree,  good to see you.
Your linguistic question hinges on antedate and is easy to solve.  

The verb antedate is based on the Latin adverb ante = before.  
Hence antedate and predate are synonymous.

Similarly,  antebellum means before the Civil War.
After the Civil War would be postbellum.
Other examples  with "ante" are antecedent and antechamber.

I am anxious to make sure everything is clear before continuing with the next hint.
Thank you










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« Reply #974 on: September 04, 2010, 11:22:00 AM »
Thanks Traude - As usual your erudite linguistic note leaves no doubt on the issue - but I fear there is a question of mistaken identity - it was Roshanarose who raised the matter.

I'm still no closer to the answer to this quiz!
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JoanK

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« Reply #975 on: September 04, 2010, 02:21:06 PM »
"Serial form" makes me think of Dickens. was he that late?

straudetwo

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« Reply #976 on: September 04, 2010, 02:31:29 PM »
Gumtree and Roshanarose,  my apologies.
 
To blame is my worsening eyesight  caused by macular degeneration.  It is being checked frequently.  I read very carefully, but sometimes do not see the first and/or the last letters of a word and must backtrack.  In this case, however, I should have been more attentive to senders' names. I am sorry.

Back soon with a new clue.


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« Reply #977 on: September 04, 2010, 04:17:36 PM »
4.  The author emphasized the structural importance of the point(s) of view in fiction.

The protagonists in the novel in question demonstrate that the dichotomy between innocence and experience can lead to irreparable conflict.

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« Reply #978 on: September 04, 2010, 05:16:41 PM »
JoanK,  sorry, not Dickens. 

But here's the answer to Gumtree's question in # 972.  The author was American.
This is bound to help.

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« Reply #979 on: September 05, 2010, 09:36:51 AM »
This is a really good quiz.  Too bad I'm stumped.

Gumtree

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« Reply #980 on: September 05, 2010, 10:57:58 AM »
I am too PatH - stumped that is.

Traude - I understand treatment for macular degeneration is improving rapidly these days and I'm sure you're in good hands in that respect.

The fact of it being an American Author doesn't help me one bit- 19C American contains some of the many gaps in my reading ...

 I feel I should know this  - late 19thC - realist - point of view - impressionist - published in serial form - tale based on a story told to author by a friend.... Grrr..oan  - What is it???
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« Reply #981 on: September 05, 2010, 12:11:21 PM »
The only American that keeps running through my head is Henry James. So I am putting his name out there just to get it out of my head.

Gumtree

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« Reply #982 on: September 05, 2010, 01:17:35 PM »
And you could well be right -if so, would the book be Washington Square ?
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« Reply #983 on: September 05, 2010, 01:32:03 PM »
Thank you for still being here.  I had no intention to make this into a Gordian knot  :'(

But Frybabe got it!!  es, the author is Henry James, born in America,  an expat like Edith Wharton. He lived in Europe for the last forty years of his life and became a British subject one year before his death.

What remains to be determined is the novel.  Here is another clue.

5.  The dynamics of power between the two main characters is uneven. One is a tyrant, the other the victim.  There's a collision of wills and the balance is reversed.

roshanarose

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« Reply #984 on: September 06, 2010, 12:41:12 AM »
Straude - Please forgive me.  I shouldn't be such a smarta##.  Thanks for clearing up that one for me.
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?  - Plato

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« Reply #985 on: September 06, 2010, 08:52:22 AM »
There are at least four of James's novels that made it to the movies that I know about, but I didn't think any of them got that many awards.

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« Reply #986 on: September 06, 2010, 12:24:10 PM »
Roshanarose,  please don't be concerned. Everything is fine.

Frybabe,  we are close.  The next clue will do it.

6.  A plain, shy girl clashes with her domineering, sardonic father when he stops her from her one chance at happiness.  She never forgives him, even after finding out that his judgment of her suitor was accurate.  The suitor returns after the father's death, and she is prepared.  

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« Reply #987 on: September 06, 2010, 12:31:10 PM »
Traude: I think you missed my post #1516
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« Reply #988 on: September 06, 2010, 01:32:55 PM »
Gumtree,   oh my word!   I swear I did not see the post, or else I would not have gone on.
I am so very sorry.   And mortified. 



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« Reply #989 on: September 06, 2010, 05:30:08 PM »
it's  the time to end  this literary puzzling effort properly.  
It was fun for me, and I can only hope you have forgiven me for my visual deficiencies, and for delaying the proper announcement of the puzzle solvers.    Thank you for your great sleuthing.  

I've been in this circle for only a short time and find it refreshing and rewarding.  Every new challenge is a shot in the dark - so to speak.  So it is remarkable, even wondrous,  how quickly the responses produce the solution.

To conclude -
Henry James lived on Washington Square in his youth.  
The story is true.

A  play was staged in 1947,  two years before the movie, The Heiress.
Wendy Hiller appeared on Broadway and Peggy Ashcroft in London.

Olivia de Havilland is unforgettable as Catherine in the 1949 film,  which also starred  Ralph Richardson as the father, and  Montgomery Clift  in the role of laid-back, persistent fortune hunter.  
It was recently rerun on TV and my inspiration for this last challenge.

A remake of the film  (same title) was made in 1961 by  Polish producer/film maker Agnieszka Holland with Jennifer Jason Leigh as Catherine, Albert Finney as her father, and  Ben Chaplin as the hapless fortune hunter, Morris Townsend.  No other salient facts  beyond these statistics, were found.  

Thanks again, and mille pardons for any (missed) typos.
Traude

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« Reply #990 on: September 07, 2010, 01:46:23 PM »
Traude - Thanks for another great quiz - Pl...eeeease don't apologise for anything - your clues were absolutely spot on - I only came up with the title after Frybabe suggested Henry James - then it fell into place.

Frybabe - I'm happy if you'd like to do the honours for the next quiz - I feel that I stole your thunder...

Otherwise I'll rack my brains for a suitable subject - unless anyone else would care to take up the slack.   
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« Reply #991 on: September 07, 2010, 07:30:02 PM »
Well, I'll tell you what Gum, if I thought I was right, I would have kept my mouth shut. With school and my homework, I will be a little slow getting back to people. I might be able to get something together for tomorrow night or Thursday.

Thanks for the quiz, Traude. I've never read James, but heard plenty about him and his novels. Maybe one of them is worth putting up for discussion in future??? The four books I referred to earlier are Washington Square, Daisy Miller, The Turn of the Screw, and The Portrait of a Lady.  I have since learned that there are others that made it to the movies. The Turn of the Screw was also made into an opera. I knew that, but didn't know that Benjamin Britton composed it.

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« Reply #992 on: September 07, 2010, 08:21:36 PM »
Traude, you may be new to this game, but you have quickly mastered the trick of giving clues that should give it away but don't.  That was an excellent game.

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« Reply #993 on: September 08, 2010, 12:33:35 AM »
Onya, Traude :)
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?  - Plato

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« Reply #994 on: September 08, 2010, 06:04:40 AM »
Frybabe Understood -My trouble is that I never learn to keep my mouth shut - I just get carried away with the spirit of the game...

I've got a subject now and just need a little time to prepare a clue or two to get us you started again. Hope to put it up before I go to bed tonight. It should be well over and finished with before Latin starts again next week.
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straudetwo

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« Reply #995 on: September 08, 2010, 08:37:20 AM »
I'm grateful.

Gumtree

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« Reply #996 on: September 08, 2010, 10:49:43 AM »
Well here goes :

AUTHOR: I wrote short stories, a novel, non fiction work, essays, filmscripts and of course my own autobiography however I am chiefly regarded as one of the leading playwrights of my time.

PLAY/CHARACTER: This play is perhaps the most popular and enduring of my author's work.

I am an ordinary man, fairly inarticulate and perhaps a little unimaginative - never quite able to express my real thoughts and feelings. I guess I have never quite discovered just who I am.


I expect a flurry of correct answers by tomorrow = G'nite all :)
Reading is an art and the reader an artist. Holbrook Jackson

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« Reply #997 on: September 08, 2010, 07:37:01 PM »
" A flurry of correct answers ... "

Well, that might be a bit easier if we knew whether the author is still with us.

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« Reply #998 on: September 08, 2010, 09:31:01 PM »
Flurry indeed--Gumtree, you're a starry-eyed optimist.  Anyway, we're not supposed to get it right off.

roshanarose

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« Reply #999 on: September 09, 2010, 02:19:53 AM »
"Goodbye Mr Chips"?
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?  - Plato