• X is a phrase which alludes to the dreams experienced by smokers of opium pipes. Opiates were widely used by the English literati in the 18th and 19th centuries. Y was one of the best known users, and it would be difficult to claim that the imagery in surreal works like Kubla Khan owed nothing to opium. ‘An albatross around one’s neck’ is also a phrase that has been taken from Y’s works.

Identify X and Y.

• “And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be ____________ and all.”

The part blanked out is also the name of the novel this quote has been taken from. Name it.

• The pen name of this author means “the second mark on the line that measured depth signified two fathoms, or twelve feet—safe depth for the steamboat” and famously, his life was punctuated by the passing of the Halley’s Comet. In addition, he was also the first author to submit a typed manuscript to a publisher.

Who is the author?

• Southern American poet, novelist and literary critic Robert Penn Warren wrote "All the King's Men" in 1946. The novel won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In fact, he is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry. On what is the book's title based?

Whose name is blacked out? When asked to sum up his work, he said his central doctrine was "the infinitude of the private man." And he is also well known as the friend and mentor of fellow Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau (whose name is also engraved).

• Noel Coward wrote his play _______ in seven days, staying in a hotel room in Wales after his own London apartment and office were destroyed in the Blitz. The title is from a famous poem by P.B. Shelley whose verses are:"Hail to thee, _______! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it; Pourest thy full heart;"

• Name the play.

• The name of this novel has been taken from the Shakespearean play, The Tempest and in the novel’s dystopic world, people are divided into castes named after the Greek alphabet. The book was banned in India in 1967 with the author being accused of being a "pornographer."

Name the book and author.

• "The Grapes Of Wrath"- 'Battle Hymn of The Republic'

• "Of Mice And Men" - 'The Iliad'• "East Of Eden" - 'The Bible'• "The Winter of our Discontent" –

‘Shakespeare’

Which is incorrectly matched? Who is the author of these works?

• "Nine Tomorrows", published in the US in 1959 and the UK in 1963, features nine short stories and two pieces of comic verse written by this pioneering science-fiction author over the course of 1956 to 1958. Two of his favourite stories, "The Last Question" and "The Ugly Little Boy" are featured in the book. Who is he?

CONNECT.

• “He sat by John Thornton’s fire, a broadbreasted dog, white-fanged and long-furred; but behind him were the shades of all manner of dogs, half-wolves and wild wolves, urgent and prompting, tasting the savor of the meat he ate, thirsting for the water he drank, scenting the wind with him, listening with him and telling him the sounds made by the wild life in the forest, dictating his moods, directing his actions, lying down to sleep with him when he lay down, and dreaming with him and beyond him and becoming themselves the stuff of his dreams.”

• The paragraph before has been taken from a famous work by Jack London. Name it. Also name the other work by Jack London which is considered the thematic mirror (or opposite) of the one from which this quote is taken.

• I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that — everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V.

• The aforementioned was the suicide note by a famous author to her husband, Leonard, before she drowned herself. She was also the member of a group of intellectuals which shares its name with a very famous publishing house.

Name the author and the publishing house.