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Quiz: Rather Difficult Quiz about Literary Characters (English and American Literature)

Here I lay bare my paltry knowlegde:

2. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
3. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
4. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
6. The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
16. The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe
19. Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
25. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
35. Lolita, Vladimir Nabakov
40. William Wilson, Edgar Allan Poe
45. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
49. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

4/26/2005 View
Favourite James Stewart Character

Stewart's rendering of "Scottie" Ferguson in Vertigo is possibly his greatest--as far as his serious portrayals go. In that respect, however, one can't fairly determine which work was his greatest, as he was equally brilliant in highly variegated genres.

3/22/2005 View