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		GREATEST LITERATURE CONTEST #19 Death by literature Who died? Name the character in these GREAT DEATH SCENES. You could win one of the books! Instructions on entering are below. Hint: All the works are discussed on the website.
			1	One of the most famous deaths in English lit, this Dickens character went up in flames—spontaneously.
			2	Hemingway's hero sacrificed himself, holding off the Spanish soldiers to let his lover and the republicans get away.
			3	Drawn to a beautiful youth, the writer stayed in the watery Italian city too long and caught a deadly disease.
			4	After winning the woman of his lifelong yearning, the millionaire is shot by a garage keeper in Fitzgerald's novel.
			5	Despite dying on the first page, the English explorer spends most of the novel going on adventures up a long, long river on a planet far, far away.
			6	She's killed by her husband in a jealous rage over her alleged adultery, although she's completely innocent, in Shakespeare's tragedy.
			7	After being chased three times around the city he was defending, the hero stood to face his attacker but his end came due to a chink in his armour.
			8	He foresees his death but doesn't die, at least not yet on this Christmas eve.
			9	She's got an afternoon—her last afternoon—to remember her entire life in the south before, during and after the American Civil War.
			10	The holy man is cut down in church by the king's men in a ponderous drama.
		The prizes: Your choice from several of these books (telling you their titles would give away some of the answers), as well as from among many other selections in our other stock of the greatest literature of all time. Prizes will go to three entrants drawn from those with the most correct answers. Note: We don't always get enough winners with all answers right, so it's worth entering even if you aren't sure of them all! To enter: Send an email to contest@EditorEric.com by April 30, 2008, listing your answers from 1 to 10. Winners will be notified by email and announced on this site. To practise your literary trivia skills, try the previous contests listed on the left.