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Who is the "good soldier" in the title of Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier"?
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85 times (17.6%) |
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After parodying his work and style in one of his publications, a certain novelist wrote in a contrite letter to Henry James: "To you literature like painting is an end, to me literature like architecture is a means, it has a use." Who was the novelist in question?
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142 times |
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39 times (19.5%) |
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Ford Madox Ford changed his name during the First World War to that under which he is now best remembered. As what was he born?
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Which novelist claimed (probably untruthfully) to have been the inspiration for Merton Densher in Henry James's novel, The Wings of the Dove, on the basis that they were both "longish, leanish, fairish"?
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Which two writers were exact contemporaries, in that they were both born in the year 1882 and both died in 1941?
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In Cynthia Ozick's remarkable tale, 'Dictation' (in her eponymous collection of 2008) we find Henry James having the following thoughts after reading the first novel of which fellow writer?
"James saw something extraordinary in it, even beyond the robustness of style and subject: he saw shrewdness, he saw fervency, he saw intuition, he saw authority; he saw, in rougher circumstances, humanity. In a way, he saw a psychological simulacrum of himself..."
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36 times |
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14 times (19.2%) |
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Iris Murdoch's apprentice, Doris Lessing's terrorist, Ford Madox Ford's soldier and Damon Galgut's doctor were all what?
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34 times |
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17 times (35.4%) |
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17 times (35.4%) |
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