Name that Author!

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Fifth Business
The Manticore
World of Wonders


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The ever-didactic, but always delightful Robertson Davies

Ada,
Pninn,
Cold FIre

 

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Fifth Business
The Manticore
World of Wonders


The thread is somewhat dependent on participant's willingness to list titles that ought to be reasonably recognizable. If one's object is simply to stump readers, it wouldn't take a lot of effort. I have little doubt of anyone's ability to do just that should they choose to do so.

Nice to see a Canadian touch...

Robertson Davies

OK, Stella, you won this round.

 

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The ever-didactic, but always delightful Robertson Davies

Ada,
Pninn,
Cold FIre

Vladimir Nabokov

Next:

Babel 17
The Einstein Intersection
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

 

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Vladimir Nabokov

Next:

Babel 17
The Einstein Intersection
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

Samuel Delany,

and I do so enjoy the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (that's the one I recognized...


an easy one,


Typee
Omoo
The Confidence Man

 

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Samuel Delany,

and I do so enjoy the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (that's the one I recognized...


an easy one,


Typee
Omoo
The Confidence Man

Herman Melville

 

[oggbashan]

Another one:

The Spanish Bride
An Infamous Army
The Toll-Gate

and many others...

Og

 

[Kitty_Schrödinger]

Another one:

The Spanish Bride
An Infamous Army
The Toll-Gate

and many others...

Og

I think it's Georgette Heyer.

 

[Tarakin]

Another one:

The Spanish Bride
An Infamous Army
The Toll-Gate

and many others...

Og

The Troll Gate is Loving Wifes and the Infamous Army are the readers there

 

[oggbashan]

I think it's Georgette Heyer.

And you are right.

Og

 

[Kitty_Schrödinger]

And you are right.

Og

yey!

The Good Apprentice,
Nuns and Soldiers
The Black Prince and many others!

Again should be easy, as author was mentioned in the press recently a lot

 

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yey!

The Good Apprentice,
Nuns and Soldiers
The Black Prince and many others!

Again should be easy, as author was mentioned in the press recently a lot

Iris Murdoch was in the news recently? I didn't notice.


The Dead Father
Snow White
The Balloon