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Edith Wharton's novel The Glimpses of the Moon derives its title from William Shakespeare's ...
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The family of which famous author is rumored to have inspired the phrase "Keeping up with the Joneses"?
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Who wrote this?
"(W)hy is poetry wholly an elderly taste? When I was twenty I could not for the life of me read Shakespeare for pleasure; now it lights me as I walk to think I have two acts of King John tonight, and shall next read Richard the Second. It is poetry that I want now -- long poems. I want the concentration and the romance, and the words all glued together, fused, glowing; having no time to waste any more on prose. When I was twenty I liked Eighteenth Century prose; now it's poetry I want, so I repeat like a tipsy sailor in the front of a public house."
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Nick and __________ are newlyweds at the start of Edith Wharton's The Glimpses of the Moon
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The Awkward Age of Innocence?
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Which word connects the titles of books by J.M. Coetzee, Henry James, Ben Marcus and Edith Wharton?
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52 times (49.1%) |
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Which word connects the titles of books by V.S. Naipaul, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mark Z. Danielewski, Isabel Allende, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edith Wharton?
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168 times |
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143 times (76.1%) |
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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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What is the obligation that Lily Bart becomes obsessed with fulfilling by the end of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth?
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Who are the bestselling authors pictured?
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