Scrambled Stories

[Bitterfly]

I should be working but I can't resist....

[I]1. the adventures of the inept knight and his humble squire. - Don Quijote
2. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom - Ulysses
3. this book was harpooned at the time of its 1851 publication by critics - Moby Dick? (nice joke!)
4. beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. - Mme Bovary
5. the voice of reason is provided by Mr. Knightly - Emma
9. Tristam Shanty one of the central jokes of the novel that he cannot explain anything simply, that he must make explanatory diversions to add context and colour to his tale, hmmm, Tristram Shandy?
10. It portrays the downfall (already announced in the subtitle, Decline of a family) of a wealthy mercantile family of Lübeck over four generations. Buddenbrooks
12. about a young boy growing up in the antebellum South on the Mississippi River in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. Tom Sawyer?
13. the narrator and protagonist, Humbert Humbert, becoming obsessed with a 12-year-old girl - Lolita
15. it has yellow, watery eyes, translucent skin, black lips, long black hair and is around 8 feet (2.4 m) in height. Frankenstein
16. Carfax Abbey was his hiding place. Dracula
17. "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" - Rebecca
18. She received her education at Lowood School. - Jane Eyre
19. His father had died six months before he was born, and seven years later, his mother marries Mr Edward Murdstone: - David Copperfield
20. "Please, sir, I want some more." - Oliver Twist?

[Pendragon]

I should be working but I can't resist....

[I]1. the adventures of the inept knight and his humble squire. - Don Quijote
2. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom - Ulysses
3. this book was harpooned at the time of its 1851 publication by critics - Moby Dick? (nice joke!)
4. beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. - Mme Bovary
5. the voice of reason is provided by Mr. Knightly - Emma
9. Tristam Shanty one of the central jokes of the novel that he cannot explain anything simply, that he must make explanatory diversions to add context and colour to his tale, hmmm, Tristram Shandy?
10. It portrays the downfall (already announced in the subtitle, Decline of a family) of a wealthy mercantile family of Lübeck over four generations. Buddenbrooks
12. about a young boy growing up in the antebellum South on the Mississippi River in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. Tom Sawyer?
13. the narrator and protagonist, Humbert Humbert, becoming obsessed with a 12-year-old girl - Lolita
15. it has yellow, watery eyes, translucent skin, black lips, long black hair and is around 8 feet (2.4 m) in height. Frankenstein
16. Carfax Abbey was his hiding place. Dracula
17. "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" - Rebecca
18. She received her education at Lowood School. - Jane Eyre
19. His father had died six months before he was born, and seven years later, his mother marries Mr Edward Murdstone: - David Copperfield
20. "Please, sir, I want some more." - Oliver Twist?

Right on all of them, and I cannot believe I did that on #9!

[PabloQ]

7. Huckleberry Finn (has to be)
11. Vanity Fair
14. Clarissa

[Bitterfly]

Right on all of them, and I cannot believe I did that on #9!

You must be slipping.

6. War and Peace?
8. The Decameron?

[Pendragon]

You must be slipping.

6. War and Peace?
8. The Decameron?

No, no. Proper names, recall...

[Pendragon]

7. Huckleberry Finn (has to be)
11. Vanity Fair
14. Clarissa

7 and 14, absolutely.

11: No, a lady here.

[Bitterfly]

8. I'm not in the habit of using words like bawdy or rollicking, but if you look them up in the dictionary, you should see a picture of this book - Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a woman of pleasure?

[Pendragon]

8. I'm not in the habit of using words like bawdy or rollicking, but if you look them up in the dictionary, you should see a picture of this book - Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a woman of pleasure?

Quite so!

[Pendragon]

For the record, 11 was Moll Flanders

New List: All these are top 100 novels and all clues are direct quotes or book seller blurbs.

1. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess. The Great Gadsby
2. A tale of the Compson family's pathology and love and incest and general tragedy. The Sound and the Fury
3. This splendid novel is set in the tumultuous Soviet Union of the 1930s during the treason trials Darkness at noon
4. In this novel that bond is reciprocated by a son whose entire being is directed by, even dependent on mom.
5. "Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto. Brave New World
6. Airstrip One is part of the vast political entity Oceania 1984
7. Revolves around various members of the Ramsay family during visits to their summer residence
8. The heroine is the strange young girl, Mick Kelly
9. Revealed the pain of a black man's existence in a white world. The Invisible Man
10. The novel examines the midlife crisis of Eugene Henderson, an unhappy millionaire. Henderson the Rain King
11. Depicts the strange, secret lives of the inhabitants of a small town. Winesberg, Ohio
12. What really happened in the Marabar caves? A Passage to India
13. Recounts the continental journey of Louis Lambert Strether--a fifty-something man of the world.The Ambassadors
14. Transformed the conventional "fallen woman" story into a bold and truly innovative piece of fiction when it appeared in 1900.
15. Jack Burden is the former newspaperman who learns from Gov. Willie Stark. All the King's Men
16. Set during World War II in a bleak area of West Africa, the novel concerns the moral dilemmas facing Scobie. The Heart of the Matter
17. The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the state’s most remote white-water river awaits. Deliverance
18. Written in gritty, journalistic detail, the story follows a platoon of Marines who are stationed on the Japanese-held island of Anopopei. The Naked and the Dead
19. The novel is based on the lives of Bishop Jean Baptiste L'Amy and his vicar Father Joseph Machebeut.
20. Alex, the protagonist, has a passion for classical music and is a member of a vicious teenage gang. A Clockwork Orange

[PabloQ]

1 The Beautiful and Damned
5 Animal Farm
6 1984
13 The Ambassadors
15 All the King's Men
17. Deliverance
20 A Clockwork Orange

[Pendragon]

1 The Beautiful and Damned
5 Animal Farm
6 1984
13 The Ambassadors
15 All the King's Men
17. Deliverance
20 A Clockwork Orange

1: Gad, no!
5: Brave try, but no.
6, 13, 15, 17, 20 Yes indeed!

[Pendragon]

Um, BUMP?

[PabloQ]

1. The Great Gatsby
9. Invisible Man
18. The Naked and the Dead

[Pendragon]

1. The Great Gatsby
9. Invisible Man
18. The Naked and the Dead

1: Gad, yes!
9: True dat!
18: Of Course!

[djy78usa]

2. A tale of the Compson family's pathology and love and incest and general tragedy. The Sound and the Fury

3. This splendid novel is set in the tumultuous Soviet Union of the 1930s during the treason trials Darkness at Noon

5. "Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto. Brave New World

12. What really happened in the Marabar caves? A Passage to India

16. Set during World War II in a bleak area of West Africa, the novel concerns the moral dilemmas facing Scobie. The Heart of the Matter