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GREATEST
LITERATURE CONTEST #20
Name the
fictional counterparts You could win one of the books! Hint: All the works are discussed on the website. |
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| 1 | Lots of Dickens' characters are based on his own life, but none more than the lad who shares his initials in reverse. | ||||||||||
| 2 | Joyce created a portrait of himself as a young man with this character. | ||||||||||
| 3 | Shakespeare broke his staff—I mean, quill—ending his career with this literary wizard. | ||||||||||
| 4 | Readers hit the road with Kerouac—or at least with this heavenly stand-in for the author. | ||||||||||
| 5 | Bonus points for knowing the crazy, charismatic substitute for Kerouac's friend Neal Cassady in the same book. | ||||||||||
| 6 | Partly based on the author's life experiences, partly romantic fantasy, this Brontë character has to contend with a strange, brooding lover and a madwoman in the attic. | ||||||||||
| 7 | Ol' Hem often wrote as though every leading character was himself. But one Hemingway character stands out as having been based on his experiences as a wounded soldier in love with his nurse. | ||||||||||
| 8 | He wasn't exactly Hugh Garner's twin, but this Cabbagetown native showed us the Toronto slum the author grew up in. | ||||||||||
| 9 | Again not exactly the author's literary doppleganger, but Margaret Laurence's author heroine does help us divine some basic truths about the writer's life. | ||||||||||
| 10 | A bit of a trick question: when Pirsig's character is not fixing his motorcycle, he's rhapsodizing philosophically. Much as Pirsig himself does. Hmmm. | ||||||||||
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The prizes: Prizes will go to three entrants drawn from those with the most
correct answers. To enter: Winners will be notified by email
To practise your literary trivia skills, try the previous contests listed on the left. |
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