Welcome back to Book Break!
We are here for another round of Guess the Classic.
Last month, I got 18 out of 20,
so this time you've said you upped the difficulty.
Yeah, yeah, I think they're a little harder this time.
OK, little bit nervous, but let's give it a go.
So do play along with us,
and put anything in the comments if you manage to beat me to get the right answers.
Let's see how you do.
OK, are you ready?
Yep.
Number 1.
I'm stuck already!
OK...
So something in France.
Mmhmm.
Um...
Flower like
like
pretty flowers
not like baking flour.
Flower like a plant, flower.
Like a flower
A flower is the title
but it's also a secret identity.
I'm giving you so many clues on your first one!
You're giving me so many clues,
OK we'll come back to it.
I need to get warmed up.
Number 2.
Something Italian, that one.
So we've got something French, something Italian.
OK, all right.
Is that...
Master and Margarita?
Yes, you got your first one right!
Tulliver.
Don't know what that is.
It was quite a hard one this one, sorry.
OK, river ...
siblings ...
Is Tulliver a character?
It's the last name of the siblings.
OK.
So this is not a book I've read.
What's a book about siblings?
Is it going to be something like ... Tuck Everlasting?
This is classics, Emma.
That's a classic!
OK I don't know.
Um ... War and Peace?
No, um ...
Something Russian.
Yeah but think of communism.
But a novel?
No, a classic.
Ohhhhh, oh!
Marx.
Yeah, what's the name of it?
The, um, Communist Manifesto.
Yes well done!
We got there, we got there.
You're saying so many words I don't know.
I thought this was an easy one!
How many books have Lilliput, Laputa and talking horses in them?
Well I guess just one that I haven't read!
I haven't read it either to be fair.
What's got talking horses in it?
I know we do The Little Wooden Horse but noone's called Lilliput or Laputa
whatever it was you said in that.
Black Beauty?
No.
I don't know.
Talking horses.
Do they not talk?
No! No.
I haven't read that either.
OK, we'll move on.
Now this one I think is a hard one.
They've all been hard!
Someone's going to get poisoned?
No.
This book has one of the most famous opening lines ever.
We'll come back to it and you can give me the clue of the line.
OK, I might not be able to remember the line correctly,
I'll try my best.
Number 8.
Um, OK, it's going to be
is it one of the ones about dogs?
White Fang, um, Call of the Wild
Yes, The Call of the Wild, yes.
Um, number 9.
This whole video's been in another language!
Oh come on!
Come on.
Um, is that a Shakespeare one?
No.
So Aramis, Athos and Porthos are the characters that the name of the book is.
Uhh, The Three Musketeers.
Yes!
Oh! Pinocchio!
Yes, Pinocchio.
Well done.
The Lamb?
Yeah.
The lamb, not just lamb.
is it a children's one?
Five Children and It.
Yes, well done, well done.
Lucky guess, I don't know what that's about.
A Psammead, who's like a wish fairy
and who lives in a sandpit.
Is that It?
Yes, that's the It.
Jekyll and Hyde?
Yes.
The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Yes, so sorry. Get the right title.
Chateau D'If is making me think it's going to be The Count of Monte Cristo?
It is The Count of Monte Cristo, well done!
Anne of Green Gables.
Yes.
Finally one I've actually read.
Is it a Dickens book?
Nope.
OK, come back to that one.
That must be Moby Dick.
Yes.
Only got that one from Ishmael.
The Odyssey!
Yes, well done.
I thought you would get that one.
Yeah, know that one.
Great Gatsby.
Yes.
Is it The Hound of the Baskervilles?
OK number 20, last one.
Um, Othello.
Whew, OK.
I warmed up, got there in the end.
You got them.
OK, do you want to go back and ...
Yeah, so I've got 14 so far, 6 to go.
I'm going to need some clues.
OK, so the first one was
the name of the flower is the title of the book.
And it's also the name of the secret identity.
Why can't I think of this?
Daisy.
Rose.
Poppy.
It's like a slightly unusual flower, maybe.
Aargh, I don't think I know that one.
OK, give up?
Yep.
The Scarlet Pimpernel.
Ohhhhhhh, ok.
I didn't even know a pimpernel was a flower.
There you go.
OK.
It's a nonfiction.
The Borgias were kind of around the 15th and 16th centuries.
No idea.
OK.
It's The Prince, by Macchiavelli.
Oh Macchiavelli, OK, OK.
It's a very, very sad book
written by a woman under a man's name.
George Eliot?
Mmhmm.
Oh god, I haven't read any George Eliot.
I don't know.
OK, The Mill on the Floss.
Ohhh, ok.
It's like, the saddest book. It doesn't let up.
It's just a punch in the heart after another punch in the heart.
Anyway, I'm not over that.
I won't read that one then!
Lilliput is a place.
Lilliput! It's Gulliver's Travels!
Yes, yes.
Suddenly I was like, I have heard that word before!
I knew you, I knew you would have heard them.
So this is the one I think is hard.
Mmhmm.
And this is the one with the really famous opening line.
I think the opening line, I think, is
The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.
Oh, that is very famous.
Don't know what that's from though.
It's kind of about an affair
and
a little boy.
Oh no that's a little girl.
The Henry James one.
It's not, um, I know the book you mean.
That's Maisie. Yeah OK.
What Maisie saw, it's not that.
I don't know.
OK, it is The Go-Between.
Ohhh, ok.
You should give it a read.
So you may notice at this point that we did miss one out.
We actually forgot to go back and solve
But with a few little clues over g-chat from Elle, which I will show you here
I did figure it out.
And the answer of course was North and South.
So I didn't do as well this time round.
No, but you kind of, you did OK.
They were harder.
I think they were harder.
Well, I'm interested to see how you guys did.
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