20th Century Lit Fic
The original title of The Secret History.
What is The God of Illusions?
The global event that is the setting for Ian McEwan's Atonement.
What is The Second World War?
The Picture of Dorian Gray, which tells the story of a man who sells his soul for eternal youth, is the only novel by this Irish writer
Who is Oscar Wilde?
The famous American poet, most know for his poem featuring the line
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by..."
Who is Robert Frost?
Sylvia Plath published The Bell Jar under this pseudonym.
Who is Victoria Lucas?
The dare that makes Charlie kiss Sam in the Perks of Being A Wallflower
What is "Kiss the prettiest girl in the room"?
Stephen King's bestselling novel was his third novel ever published and established him in the Horror genre.
What is The Shining?
It is rumoured that this poet consummated his relationship with a famous Horror author in a cemetery.
Who is Percy B Shelley?
In The Children’s Bach, the claustrophobically named street Dexter and Athena live on.
What is Bunker Street?
The thing Pudge 'collects' in Looking for Alaska.
What are people's last words?
In Neil Gaiman's Coraline, an animal that finds it's way through a world where buttons do more than hold clothes together.
What is The Cat?
This poet underwent an extreme religious conversion in 1927.
Who is T. S. Elliot?
The two families forced into cohabitation in Cloudstreet.
Who are the Pickles and the Lambs?
The painting that inspires Sam and Sadie's first professional game in Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.
What is The Great Wave off Kanagawa (or just The Great Wave)?
A thirsty old man who lives in castle invites some people over for dinner before he goes to England on holiday.
Who is Dracula?
This poet was fond of writing profound poetry on scraps of paper, the backs of letters, and even chocolate wrappers.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
Helen Garner writes that this instrument, played by Athena, is found in her kitchen under the portrait of her husband’s father.
What is a piano?
The name of the painting on the cover of my Year of Rest and Relaxation.
What is "Portrait of a Young Woman in White"?
This seminal Gothic novel was written by Mary Godwin on a trip to Lake Geneva with her stepsister and future husband.
What is Frankenstein?
The only novel published by this poet explored the consequences of electric shock therapy, closely modelled off the poet’s own experiences.
Who is Sylvia Plath?