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Books, Cultural Literacy, Dragons, Fiction, Literacy, Major Authors, Minor Works, Test, Writing
Happy Sunday! I hope everyone’s taxes are paid and the little grey cells are well rested.
It has been a busy week and the next promises more of the same. Still, I do not wish to abandon my quixotic quest for cultural literacy entirely.
Today I offer something literary and fun. No need for math here!
Below you will find 17 well-known authors, all with prodigious bibliographies. You will also find the titles of 17 works, less well-known to some, yet each corresponding to an author. Simply match one from column A with one from column B. (Give yourselves bonus points if you can match the author to their picture above.)
AUTHORS:
- Alice Walker
- Anne Rice
- C. S. Lewis
- Charles Dickens
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Henry James
- Herman Melville
- Jane Austen
- Joseph Conrad
- Leo Tolstoy
- Mark Twain
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Oscar Wilde
- Rudyard Kipling
- Virginia Woolf
- Willa Cather
- William Faulkner
WORKS:
a) A Fable
b) Babylon Revisited
c) Captains Courageous
d) Cry to Heaven
e) Dombey and Son
f) Jacob’s Room
g) Mardi: And a Voyage Thither
h) The Mysterious Stranger
i) Northanger Abbey
j) Nostromo
k) Out of the Silent Planet
l) Resurrection
m) The Celestial Railroad
n) The Reluctant Giant
o) The Song of the Lark
p) The Temple of My Familiar
q) Washington Square
Answers will be posted on Wednesday.
Have fun.