X refers to opium dreams. Opium was widely used by 18th-19th century English writers. Y, one of the most famous opium users, incorporated opium imagery into works like Kubla Khan. X is opium dreams and Y is Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

1. • 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.

2. • “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.

3. • 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?

4. • 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?

5. 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).

6. • 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.

7. • 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.

8. • "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?

9. • "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?

10. CONNECT.

11. • “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.”

12. • 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.

13. • 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.

14. • 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.