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GREATEST
LITERATURE CONTEST #11
Where in the world did these works take place? Hint: All the works are discussed on the website. Winners and answers below. |
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| Title | What we're looking for | ||||||||||
| 1 | Ulysses | No, we don't mean the Mediterranean of Homer's Ulysses but the city that Joyce's Leopold Bloom wandered around. | |||||||||
| 2 | The Man in the High Castle | We'll make it easy on you and not ask the states' names in Philip K. Dick's alternative-history novel but only the country as we know it in our own reality. | |||||||||
| 3 | Hamlet | The country in which something is rotten. | |||||||||
| 4 | The Naked and the Dead | The island name in Norman Mailer's famous war novel. | |||||||||
| 5 | The Thirty-Nine Steps | Where John Buchan's hero flees to, just ahead of the cops and the villains. | |||||||||
| 6 | Beowulf | This place again—seems to be a popular setting for bloody old tales. | |||||||||
| 7 | For Whom the Bell Tolls |
Hemingway's Robert Jordan finds his civil war and love in this country. | |||||||||
| 8 | A Town Like Alice | Nevil Shute's second country is where his protagonists also settle. | |||||||||
| 9 | The Tale of Genji | Murasaki Shikibu takes us into a medieval kingdom in this very old land. Just the country name as we know it today. | |||||||||
| 10 | The Shipwrecked Sailor | An even more ancient empire. | |||||||||
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The winners are Ossie Brown of Toronto, Ontario; Loretta Tsing of San Francisco, California; and B.K. Bullard of Montreal, Quebec. Our winners have chosen as prizes respectively the books Hamlet, The Thirty-Nine Steps and A Town Like Alice. Answers: 1. Dublin, Ireland |
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