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    The Literary Pocket Puzzle Book: 120 Classic Conundrums for Book Lovers
    The Literary Pocket Puzzle Book: 120 Classic Conundrums for Book Lovers
    The Literary Pocket Puzzle Book: 120 Classic Conundrums for Book Lovers
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    The Literary Pocket Puzzle Book: 120 Classic Conundrums for Book Lovers

    By Neil Somerville

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    Make a literary escape into the pages of a puzzle book!

    Are you bursting with literary knowledge that you’d like to put to the test? Or do you just want a moment’s distraction filling in a Harry Potter- or Lord of the Rings-themed crossword puzzle, looking up the names of Charles Dickens’s characters in a word search, or completing a Jane Austen sudoku puzzle?

    The Literary Pocket Puzzle Book offers puzzles of varying difficulty levels and literary themes that will amuse, excite, and inform. This handy, portable pocket-sized book features 120 craft conundrums that will keep you scratching your head over famous author pen names and obscure literary terms as you exercise your knowledge on Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Marcel Proust, Henry James, and James Joyce. These puzzles include:

    Anagrams and cryptograms
    Crosswords and word searches
    Riddles and quizes
    Sudoku
    And many more!

    For all book-loving puzzle solvers or puzzle-loving book readers, The Literary Pocket Puzzle Book is the perfect avenue to unwind, or be challenged.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyhorse
    Release dateOct 4, 2016
    ISBN9781510710788
    The Literary Pocket Puzzle Book: 120 Classic Conundrums for Book Lovers
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    Neil Somerville

    Neil Somerville has been writing the bestselling ‘Your Chinese Horoscope’ series since 1987 and, as his readers have discovered, these are no ordinary Horoscope books. Although they do contain predictions they also give much encouraging advice and this is what attracted Neil to Chinese horoscopes so many years ago. They are a great indicator of trends to come and, once aware of these, it is possible to adapt and benefit from this knowledge.

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      The Literary Pocket Puzzle Book - Neil Somerville

      INTRODUCTION

      According to the French author La Rochefoucauld:

      ‘The ocean of literature is _____.’

      • without limit

      • a continual surprise

      • always worth trawling

      Whether to amuse, entertain, excite or inform, books offer so much to so many. They can also be a friend, sometimes an escape, and among their pages are many wonders.

      In The Literary Pocket Puzzle Book you can glory in books, ponder over the quirks of famous writers, tackle mystery sudokus, coded crosswords, criss crosses and word searches as well as deliberate over the meanings of words such as palimpsest and squib.

      There is much here that I hope will delight with literary puzzles to literally puzzle over. The answer to the above is: ‘The ocean of literature is without limit’ and, whether right or wrong, let the puzzling begin.

      Have fun.

      Neil Somerville

      1

      ANAGRAMS: DETECTIVE WRITERS

      Unscramble the words to detect the names of writers famed for their detective fiction. Who are they?

      1 Or handout larceny

      2 Emerging nooses

      3 Or manhandled cry

      4 Past major tense

      5 At a high rise act

      2

      MYSTERY SUDOKU

      Complete the grid so that every row, column and 3x3 box contains the letters EGIKLNOTU in any order. One row or column contains the seven-letter name of a writer.

      Who is it?

      3

      WORD SEARCH: POETS

      Ralph Waldo Emerson declared, ‘Poets are not to be seen.’ With the following great names well hidden in the grid, now is the time to seek them out.

      Angelou

      Arnold

      Basho

      Belloc

      Blake

      Brecht

      Brooke

      Byron

      Dante

      Frost

      Goethe

      Goldsmith

      Homer

      Keats

      Milton

      Noyes

      Poe

      Pope

      Shakespeare

      Shelley

      Tennyson

      Thomas

      Virgil

      Yeats

      4

      WRITERS’ TALK

      The following are incomplete quotes from Isaac Asimov, Samuel Beckett and Matthew Arnold. Complete the quotes with each author’s exact words.

      1 ‘The one absolute requirement for me to write… is

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