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Penguin Book Quiz

From The Very Hungry Caterpillar to Ulysses

Häftad, Engelska, 2019, 12-15 år

143 kr

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LOOKING FOR A GIFT FOR THE BOOKWORM IN YOUR LIFE? THIS QUIZ BOOK IS IT!Which Haruki Murakami novel shares its title with a Beatles song? In Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, what is Charlie's surname? What is heavy-drinking Rachel Watson known as in the title of a 21st-century bestseller? And what do you get if you add the number of Bennet sisters in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice to the number of Karamazov brothers in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov?With four hundred questions covering books from literary classics to modern bestsellers, through iconic children's books and books you say that you've read but really you haven't, The Penguin Book Quiz is as appropriate for making you look well-read at a party as it is for a book-loving family to tuck into after Christmas dinner: it's as enjoyable to read as it is to play.Featuring the work of everyone from Antony Beevor to Zadie Smith, books from The Very Hungry Caterpillar to Ulysses, and with movie, music, television, theatre and literary references abounding, this entertaining quiz tickles the fancy (and the brains) of light and heavy readers alike.Answers:- Norwegian Wood- Bucket- The Girl on the Train- Eight (five sisters, three brothers)'Unceasingly enormous fun' Alan Connor, author of The Joy of Quiz'I'll definitely be buying copies of this book as gifts' Emma Healey, author of Elizabeth is Missing'The greatest social lubricant since the invention of alcohol' John Preston, author of A Very English Scandal

Penguin Book Quiz

From The Very Hungry Caterpillar to Ulysses

AvJames Walton

E-bok

Engelska, 2019, 12-15 år

102 kr

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THE PERFECT QUIZ BOOK FOR BOOKWORMS!Which Haruki Murakami novel shares its title with a Beatles song? In Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, what is Charlie's surname? What is heavy-drinking Rachel Watson known as in the title of a 21st-century bestseller? And what do you get if you add the number of Bennet sisters in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice to the number of Karamazov brothers in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov?With four hundred questions covering books from literary classics to modern bestsellers, through iconic children's books and books you say that you've read but really you haven't, The Penguin Book Quiz is as appropriate for a making you look well-read at a party as it is for a book-loving family to tuck into after Christmas dinner: it's as enjoyable to read as it is to play.Featuring the work of everyone from Antony Beevor to Zadie Smith, books from The Very Hungry Caterpillar to Ulysses, and with movie, music, television and literary references abound, this entertaining quiz tickles the fancy (and the brains) of light and heavy readers alike.Answers:- Norwegian Wood- Bucket- The Girl on the Train- Eight (five sisters, three brothers)

Abandoned Soliloquies

AvJames Walton

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

202 kr

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Who Killed Iago?

A Book of Fiendishly Challenging Literary Quizzes

AvJames Walton

E-bok

Engelska, 2009

100 kr

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A masterful collection of mindboggling questions guaranteed to have bibliophiles wracking their brains.This engaging and stimulating book of quizzes will test readers'' knowledge of classic and contemporary literature. From Charlotte Brontë to Chinua Achebe, hidden double entendres to famous opening lines, Who Killed Iago? runs the gamut and challenges even the most avid readers. Readers can flex their literary muscle with questions such as: ? In Pride and Prejudice, what is Mr. Darcy''s first name? ? Which classic novel of the Second World War begins: "It was love at first sight"? ? In Chaucer''s Canterbury Tales, how many times has the Wife of Bath been married? ? In the Harry Potter novels, what are the first four names of Professor Dumbledore? ? In Othello, who kills Iago?

Scamp

AvJames Walton

E-bok

Engelska, 2013

10 kr

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Scamp walked across the bridge. He didn't understand where he was going, but he did it. There was an old black and white dog waiting. He assumed it must be waiting for him. There was no one else around. He felt alone and in need of a friend. He walked up to the stranger, but he did look familiar. He needed to introduce himself. He wanted to explain to someone.You look friendly. Do you mind me talking to you? I'm new here. Were you waiting for me? Let me introduce myself, and tell you my short story. I'm Scamp, a Shih Tzu. I was born in Thailand and remember little of my early life.The stranger just laid there, his head resting on his outstretched paws. He knew the newcomer needed to talk. There was time for everything. He remembered when he crossed the bridge.Scamp sensed he should carry on.Scamp recounts his short life to his new friend, and learns that he will be reunited. Old Scamp is a wise old dog.

Write Stuff

40 Episodes from the Panel Game of Literary Correctness

AvJames Walton

Ljudbok

Engelska, 2024

187 kr

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Highlights from the light-hearted literary quiz chaired by James Walton

The Write Stuff is the book-based panel show that takes a witty and whimsical look at well-known authors and their work. Host James Walton challenges the erudite contestants with tricky literary teasers, which they endeavour to answer using a combination of knowledge and guesswork.

Each episode is themed around an ‘Author of the Week’, who is the subject of the introductory rounds in which the panellists read out favourite quotations from their writing and field questions about their life. Among the intervening rounds are ‘Connections’, ‘Odd One Out’, a music round, an archive round and a fast-paced, fingers-on-buzzers round of general literary knowledge. And for the rib-tickling finale, the contestants are tasked with penning parodies in the style of the chosen author, resulting in comic gems such as Jerome K Jerome’s ‘Three Men on a Club 18-30 Holiday’, a hardboiled crime novel in the style of Virginia Woolf, and a Twitter thread by Jane Eyre.

Collected here are 40 of the finest episodes from the show’s 17 series, featuring iconic writers from Jane Austen and Charles Dickens to James Joyce, Anton Chekhov, William Wordsworth and John Milton. Pitting their wits against each other are the fiercely competitive team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh, aided by celebrity guests including Stephen Fry, Miles Kington, Philippa Gregory, Sue Limb, Simon Brett, Lynne Truss, John O’Farrell, Natalie Haynes and Mark Billingham. Also included is a Christmas special, filled with festive quizzing and seasonally themed pastiches.

Clever, funny and decidedly unstuffy, this knockabout show is a must for bookworms, bibliophiles and anyone who enjoys mixing some laughter with their literature.

Production credits

Compiled, written and presented by James Walton

Produced by John Rolph, Katie Marsden, Dawn Ellis, Alexandra Smith and Sam Michell

Readers: Rachel Atkins, Beth Chalmers and Becky Hindley

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on the following dates:

Jane Austen 31 July 1998

DH Lawrence 28 August 1998

Charles Dickens 4 September 1998

Arthur Conan Doyle 14 July 1999

The Brontë Sisters 21 July 1999

James Joyce 28 July 1999

Oscar Wilde 11 August 1999

William Wordsworth 11 April 2001

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 10 April 2002

Virginia Woolf 17 April 2002

George Orwell 2 April 2003

Dylan Thomas 12 May 2004

Rudyard Kipling 26 May 2004

Alexander Pope 9 June 2004

Samuel Pepys 16 June 2004

The Write Stuff at Christmas 29 December 2004

Lord Byron 25 May 2005

John Milton 22 June 2005

Charles Dickens 29 June 2005

Henry James 19 June 2006

Thomas Hardy 17 July 2006

F Scott Fitzgerald 9 April 2007

John Keats 16 April 2007

Jonathan Swift 7 April 2008

Hans Christian Andersen 14 April 2008

George Eliot 28 April 2004

DH Lawrence 3 November 2008

Marcel Proust 19 October 2010

Daniel Defoe 27 January 2012

Gustav Flaubert 3 February 2012

HG Wells 24 February 2012

The Brontës 12 May 2013

Mark Twain 19 May 2013

Greek Tragedy 26 May 2013

William Blake 9 June 2013

Gerald Manley Hopkins 19 October 2014

Jerome K Jerome 26 October 2014

Henry Fielding 2 November 2014

Virginia Woolf 9 November 2014

Snail Mail Cursive

AvJames Walton

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

232 kr

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Beltin'

AvJames Walton

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

82 kr

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Unstill Mosaics

The Book of Love, Loss, and Longing

AvJames Walton

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

159 kr

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Vision and Vacancy

The Fictions of J.S. Le Fanu

AvJames Walton

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

868 kr

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Underlying the melodrama and moralism, the orthodoxy and mysticism of Uncle Silas, W. J. Mc Cormack has discovered a 'sinister vacancy from which authority has withdrawn'. The remark might be applied to the whole body of Sheridan Le Fanu's fiction. "Vision and Vacancy" follows the course of his attraction to the void, and his resistance to it, from the beginning to the end of his career. By placing his work within the appropriate contexts of early apparition narrative and modern ghost story, English and Continental novel, Walton's study provides not only the most thorough account of the richness of his techniques but shows how cosmopolitan influences were an inescapable condition of his (Anglo-) Irishness.

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James Walton – författare

Penguin Book Quiz

Penguin Book Quiz

Abandoned Soliloquies

Who Killed Iago?

Scamp

Write Stuff

Snail Mail Cursive

Beltin'

Unstill Mosaics

Vision and Vacancy

Mina sidor

Mina sidor

Hjälp

Hjälp

Om Bokus

Om Bokus

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Populärt

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