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What "rock" did Graham Greene write about?
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In Graham Greene's The End of The Affair, Sarah leaves her lover for:
The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
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In Graham Greene's The End of the Affair, the narrator discovers why his lover left him:
The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
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Who was so impressed with Beryl Markham's memoir West with the Night that he commented "She can write rings around all of us?"
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132 times (45.1%) |
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Graham Greene's "The Power and the Glory" happens in which country?
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321 times (23.9%) |
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"A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists
is that novelists are trying to write the truth
and journalists are trying to write fiction."
Who said this?
The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
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Who wrote the novel A Bend in the River which starts with this line: "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it"?
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450 times |
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Which one of these writers hasn't been honored by the organization "Mystery Writers of America"?
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Herman Melville's last novel, Billy Budd, Sailor, was turned into an opera with music by Benjamin Britten in 1951. Which famous novelist helped turning the novel into a libretto; in fact, he originally inspired Britten to consider the Melville work for an opera?
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Which of the following Graham Greene novels is set in England?
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 What did "our man in Havana" sell?Graham Greene
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In Brighton Rock, who is Pinkie?
Graham Greene
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50 times (45.0%) |
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Of which Southern writer did Graham Greene write: "__________ and perhaps Mr Faulkner are the only writers since the death of D.H. Lawrence with an original poetic sensibility. I prefer __________ to Mr Faulkner because she writes more clearly; I prefer her to D.H. Lawrence because she has no message"?
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Graham Greene's The Quiet American is set in what country?
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753 times |
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483 times (44.7%) |
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Who is thought to have first adapted the term 'epiphany' to secular use in his writings, to signify a sudden radiance and relevation?
(Epiphany originally was meant by Christian thinkers to signify a manifestation of God's presence in the world.)
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315 times (36.8%) |
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Which author, upon rereading one of his works a few years after it was written, declared himself "appalled" by it and, in the preface to a later edition, appended the explanation that the novel had been written during
"a bleak period of present privation and threatening disaster — the period of soya beans and Basic English — and in consequence the book is infused with a kind of gluttony, for food and wine, for the splendours of the recent past, and for rhetorical and ornamental language which now, with a full stomach, I find distasteful."
(Note: Notwithstanding the author's own assessment, the novel in question has long come to be considered a classic of British literature and is included, inter alia, in Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels.)
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One of the last works of this author was a treatise called J'accuse ou ______ côté ombre, in which he chastised the local government of a large city near which he was living at the time for its complicity with organized crime. Ostracized for the treatise's publication, the author was eventually proven right posthumously when the city's (former) mayor was found guilty of corruption three years after the author's 1991 death.
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The Swiss town of Vevey can boast of an impressive list of famous past residents. Which of the following, however, is NOT one of them?
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The publication of this novel arguably engendered the shortest exchange in literary history, when the author (staying abroad) cabled to his publisher, inquiring about the novel's sales: "?" -- and the publisher responded: "!"
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In the late 1960s, Graham Greene discovered the work of a South African novelist in which he at once discovered affinities. Apropos one of this author's works, Greene wrote in the New York Times:
"________ will not find an instant audience; his/her novels are too original for that. They tease, they trouble, they elude. His/her audience will be the audience that only a good writer can merit, an audience which assembles slowly from far away in ones and twos; while the big book club motor-coaches hurtle down the highway towards oblivion, the rumor spreads that here an addition will be found to the literature of our time."
Greene and the author in question remained friends and visited each other on occasion. Who is this great South African novelist?
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Who remarked, upon having read Nicholas Nickleby (albeit on the eve of WWII):
"How unreal Dickens is! Jazz-band sentimentality."
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In 1961 Luciano Pavarotti made his debut as Rodolfo in "La Boheme". In the cast was another young man who made his debut as Colline. The latter was the son of which famous novelist?
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29 times (33.7%) |
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The Original of Laura: A Novel in Fragments is the long-awaited unfinished novel of which great writer, set to be published in November of 2009?
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If Camus' was first, and Greene's were third and tenth, while Bellow's was dangling, DeLillo's was falling and Dick's was in a high castle - whose was Thursday?
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