Thursday, January 13, 2022

Bookish puzzle for you

Can you figure out the real titles of these five reworded classics?
  1. The Geezer and the Caribbean
  2. An Elm Develops from a Sapling Where the Dodgers Once Played
  3. While I Was in Bed Croaking
  4. The Muscadines Belonging to Anger
  5. Tremendous Anticipations
I'll put the answers in the comments for you.  But here's the REAL question:  Have you read any of these five classics?  Now take a look at the illustration at the top that shows eleven classics above — have you read any of those?  Clicking on the picture should enlarge it, but here's the list of books for you:
  1. The Red Badge of Courage ~ by Stephen Crane, 1895
  2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ~ by James Joyce, 1916
  3. Aesop's Fables ~ by Aesop (of course), who is believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE
  4. Oedipus the King (also known as Oedipus Rex) ~ by Sophocles, circa 429 BCE
  5. The Aeneid ~ by Virgil, between 29 and 19 BCE
  6. Little Women ~ by Louisa May Alcott, published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869
  7. Ivanhoe ~ by Sir Walter Scott, published in three volumes in 1819
  8. The Republic ~ by Plato, circa 375 BC 
  9. Wuthering Heights ~ by Emily Brontë, 1847
  10. Two Plays: The Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters ~ by Anton Chekhov, 1904 for the first and 1901 for the other 
  11. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ~ by Mark Twain, published in the UK in December 1884 and in the USA in February 1885

1 comment:

Bonnie Jacobs said...

Here are the actual titles:
1. The Old Man and the Sea ~ by Ernest Hemingway, 1952
2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ~ by Betty Smith, 1943
3. As I Lay Dying ~ by William Faulkner, 1930
4. Grapes of Wrath ~ by John Steinbeck, 1939
5. Great Expectations ~ by Charles Dickens, 1861