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GREATEST
LITERATURE CONTEST #9
What great
literary works conclude (All the works are mentioned in Editor Eric's commentaries on this website.) Winners and answers below. |
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| Last line | Hint | ||||||||||
| 1 | So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. | So ends the story of a "great" guy. | |||||||||
| 2 | ...I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. | Not many readers get this far in what many critics consider the greatest novel of the twentieth century. | |||||||||
| 3 | "I've done you before, haven't I?" it said. | The third novel in a spacey trilogy that includes five books. | |||||||||
| 4 | As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free. |
Eric's favourite play (the obligatory Shakespeare question). | |||||||||
| 5 | I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her. | Not as great an ending as the hero had once expected, but he'll take it. | |||||||||
| 6 | Are there any questions? | A tale that concludes with a handy report to an academic conference. | |||||||||
| 7 | "I'm going to build a boat and sail up The River! Want to come along?" | The first entry in another trilogy creating a world that couldn't be contained in three books. | |||||||||
| 8 | Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead. | Picture young Dedalus addressing his artful dad. | |||||||||
| 9 | So, boy, take her; and as you have been mistaken in the mistress, my wish is, that you may never be mistaken in the wife. | The last golden words smithed by the playwright before the epilogues. | |||||||||
| 10 | The old man was dreaming about the lions. | The Old Man and the Jungle? The Old Man and the Savannah? | |||||||||
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The winners are Clay Omainsky of Mobile, Alabama (our second consecutive winner from that obviously very literate city); Sabina Edwards of Delisle, Saskatchewan; and M.Y. Simamp of West Chester, Pennsylvania. Our known winners have chosen as prizes respectively the books The Mayor of Casterbridge, To Your Scattered Bodies Go and Midnight's Children. Answers: 1. The Great Gatsby 2. Ulysses 3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 4. The Tempest 5. Great Expectations 6. The Handmaid's Tale 7. To Your Scattered Bodies Go 8. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 9. She Stoops to Conquer 10. The Old Man and the Sea |
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