Literature: titles

On this page, each answer is the title of a particular work of literature.

It won't always be necessary to give the author's name – but they're included here for completeness.

See also Characters – which covers questions of the type "In which book did (such–and–such a character) first appear?"

Author			Title
(Anonymous)	Epic poem from Mesopotamia, parts of which date from around 2000 BC: one of the earliest known works of fiction		The Epic of Gilgamesh
(Anonymous)	Manuscript of 254 poems and dramatic texts, dating from the 11th to 13th centuries – many of them bawdy, irreverent, and satirical; found in 1803 in the Benedictine monastery of Benediktbeuern (Beuern), Bavaria, and now housed in the Bavarian State Library in Munich; 24 of them were famously set to music in 1936 by the Munich–born composer Carl Orff		Carmina Burana
Richard Adams	Narrated by Dandelion; Hazel, Blackberry, Fiver et al defeat General Woundwort and settle at		Watership Down
	The inhabitants of Sandalford Warren moved to
	Rowf and Snitter were		The Plague Dogs
	His third novel (published in 1974): title character is a giant bear		Shardik
Harrison Ainsworth	Popularised the story of Dick Turpin's mythical ride from London to York		Rookwood
Jeffrey Archer	His third novel (second in the Kane and Abel trilogy): tells the story of Florentyna Kane, the daughter of Abel Rosnovski, who becomes the first female president of the USA		The Prodigal Daughter
	Title is the English translation of a Latin phrase (primus inter pares), which refers to someone who is accorded unofficial respect, traditionally owing to their seniority in office, within a group where all members officially have similar status		First Among Equals
Margaret Atwood	Set in the near future in the fictional republic of Gilead, roughly situated in what is now known as New England		The Handmaid's Tale
Jane Austen	Fanny Price is the heroine of		Mansfield Park
	The first novel that she finished, but only published posthumously; title is the name of the home of the Tilney family		Northanger Abbey
	First Impressions was the original title of		Pride and Prejudice
	Left unfinished at her death; her original title was The Brothers, or The Three Brothers; completed and dramatised by Andrew Davies for ITV in 2019		Sanditon
	Her first novel: Elinor and Marianne was a preliminary study for		Sense and Sensibility
	Follows the three Dashwood sisters (Elinor, Marianne and Margaret) as they move with their widowed mother from the estate on which they grew up (Norland Park) to their new home (Barton Cottage)
Lieut. Gen. Robert Baden Powell	A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship is the subtitle of		Scouting for Boys
R. M. Ballantyne	Ralph, Jack and Peterkin are castaways in		The Coral Island
J. M. Barrie	The Boy who Would Not Grow Up is the alternative title of		Peter Pan
H. E. Bates	Title comes from Shakespeare's Sonnet 18		The Darling Buds of May
Samuel Beckett	Tramps Vladimir and Estragon are the two main characters in (play)		Waiting for Godot
Harriet Beecher Stowe	Life Among the Lowly is the subtitle of		Uncle Tom's Cabin
	Said (by Wikipedia) to be the second–best–selling book of the 19th century, after the Bible
R. D. Blackmore	Narrated by John (Jan) Ridd – tells the story of his forbidden love; subtitled A Romance of Exmoor		Lorna Doone
Giovanni Boccaccio	Stories told over ten days by ten young people fleeing from plague–stricken Florence		The Decameron
Ray Bradbury	Set in a future America, where books are banned and any that are found are burnt by 'firemen'		Fahrenheit 451
	Title is the temperature at which paper burns
	Title comes from Shakespeare's Macbeth (see Agatha Christie)		Something Wicked This Way Comes
Anne Bronte	Helen Graham – more properly known as Helen Huntingdon – is the protagonist and title character of		The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Charlotte Bronte	Eponymous narrator suffers a traumatic education at Lowood Institution, and is employed by Mr. Rochester of Thornfield Hall, as tutor to his ward		Jane Eyre
	Bertha Mason is the mysterious first wife (who, we eventually discover, is violently insane) of the character that the eponymous narrator eventually marries
	Set in 1812, features a Luddite riot; some critics believe that the title character and the central character (Caroline Helstone) are based on the author's sisters, Emily and Anne (respectively)		Shirley
John Buchan	Protagonist goes on the run in the Scottish borders, being the prime suspect in a murder that took place in his flat "near Portland Place", in London		The Thirty–Nine Steps
Mikhail Bulgakov	Said to have inspired the Rolling Stones song Sympathy for the Devil		The Master and Margarita
Anthony Burgess	'Nadsat' is a fictional 'argot' used by the principal characters in		A Clockwork Orange
Francis Hodgson Burnett	Title character is heir to the Earl of Dorincourt		Little Lord Fauntleroy
Edgar Rice Burroughs	John Clayton and Jane Porter are the leading characters in (series)		Tarzan
Lewis Carroll	The Jabberwock appears in		Through the Looking Glass
Miguel de Cervantes	Lady Dulcinea de Toboso appears in		Don Quixote
Henri Charrière	1969: highly fictionalised memoir about his incarceration in and escape from the French penal colony of French Guiana; filmed in 1973, with Steve McQueen in the central (title) role		Papillon
Gabriel Chevalier	About the controversy arising from the building of a public urinal		Clochemerle
Erskine Childers	A minor Foreign Office official (Carruthers) is invited on a yachting holiday by an acquaintance (Davies); they uncover a German plot to invade Britain		The Riddle of the Sands
Agatha Christie	Title comes from Shakespeare's Macbeth (see Ray Bradbury)		By the Pricking of my Thumbs
Arthur C. Clarke	Short story on which 2001: a Space Odyssey was based		The Sentinel
John Cleland	Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure: original title of		Fanny Hill
Eoin Colfer	"Official" sixth part of Douglas Adams's Hitch–Hiker trilogy, published in 2009 (30th anniversary of the original)		And Another Thing ...
Suzanne Collins	"Young adult" book and film trilogy, set in the future totalitarian state of Panem; central character Katniss Everdeen; Catching Fire and Mockingjay are the second and third volumes		The Hunger Games
Wilkie Collins	Anne Catherick is the title character of		The Woman in White
Joseph Conrad	Novella (1899) about a voyage up the Congo River, in the heart of Africa; the narrator, Marlow, tells of his obsession with the ivory trader Kurtz, to friends aboard a boat anchored on the Thames in London, creating a parallel between London and Africa as places of darkness		Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad	Inspired by a 1907 attempt to blow up the Greenwich Observatory		The Secret Agent
Dante Alighieri	Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso: collectively entitled		The Divine Comedy
Roald Dahl	Sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory		The Great Glass Elevator
Charles Darwin	His second major book on evolutionary theory – considers the origins of the human species		The Descent of Man
Louis de Bernières	Antonia was the name of		Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Daniel Defoe	Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk		Robinson Crusoe
Colin Dexter	Republished in 1999 as "the last Inspector Morse book"		The Remorseful Day
Baroness D'Orczy	Title character was Sir Percy Blakeney		The Scarlet Pimpernel
Fyodr Dostoevsky	Raskolnikoff: impoverished student, central character of		Crime and Punishment
Alexandre Dumas (fils)	Inspired by Marie Duplessis, who died of tuberculosis in 1847		Camille
Alexandre Dumas (père)	1845 sequel to The Three Musketeers (1844)		Twenty Years After
Daphne du Maurier	Named after a real public house in Cornwall		Jamaica Inn
Nell Dunn	1963 short story collection: adapted by the author for BBC TV's Wednesday Play (1968); title also used by Squeeze for a 1979 album track which reached No. 2 when released as a single		Up the Junction
George Eliot	Tells of infanticide in the village of Hayslope		Adam Bede
	Tom and Maggie Tulliver are the central characters of		The Mill on the Floss
	Subtitled A Study of Provincial Life		Middlemarch
William Faulkner	Title is from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land		A Handful of Dust
	Title was inspired by a line in Shakespeare's Macbeth		The Sound and the Fury
Bruce Feirstein	1982 bestseller: subtitled A Guidebook to All that is Truly Masculine		Real Men Don't Eat Quiche
F. Scott FitzGerald	Title character – a mysterious millionaire living in the fictional town of West Egg, on New York's Long Island – is obsessed with the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan		The Great Gatsby
	Spoiler alert: the title character is shot dead by George Wilson, a garage owner, who believes he (the title character) has killed his wife Myrtle in a car accident
	Nick Carraway is the narrator of
	Title comes from Keats's Ode to a Nightingale		Tender is the Night
Gustave Flaubert	The story of Emma Roualt, the unfaithful wife of a doctor, who takes arsenic after being refused money by her lover		Madame Bovary
Ian Fleming	The first James Bond novel		Casino Royale
Frederick Forsyth	Tells how a journalist hunts down a Nazi war criminal		The Odessa File
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué	Fairy story about a water nymph who marries a knight in order to gain a mortal soul, on the condition that he must never see her on Saturdays when she reverts to her mermaid shape; hugely popular in the 19th century – mentioned in Little Women; subject of operas by Hoffmann and Tchaikovsky (and many other adaptations)		Undine
Sir James Fraser	Wide–ranging comparative study of mythology and religion, first published 1890		The Golden Bough
Stella Gibbons	Aunt Ada Doom was permanently traumatised by seeing "something nasty in the woodshed" as a child		Cold Comfort Farm
William Golding	Tells the story of a group of schoolboys, stranded on a desert island following a plane crash, who descend into savagery as their attempts to govern themselves end in failure		Lord of the Flies
	Title is a translation of the Hebrew phrase that's the origin of the word Beelzebub
Oliver Goldsmith	The Mistakes of a Night: alternate title of (play)		She Stoops to Conquer
	Dr. Primrose is the eponymous narrator of		The Vicar of Wakefield
Kenneth Grahame	Pink Floyd took the title of their first album, Piper at the Gates of Dawn, from a chapter in		The Wind in the Willows
Graham Greene	James Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, becomes an MI6 agent to help pay for the demands of his extravagant daughter – and proceeds to fabricate stories to send back to London, as he has no real ones		Our Man in Havana
	1932 novel, published in the USA as Orient Express		Stamboul Train
	Features a love triangle between British journalist Thomas Fowler, American CIA agent Alden Pyle, and a young Vietnamese woman named Phuong		The Quiet American
Mark Haddon	First published in 2003, in separate editions for adults and children: won the Whitbread Book Awards for Best Novel and Book of the Year, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize		The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night–Time
	Took its title from a remark made by Sherlock Holmes in a short story entitled Silver Blaze
	First–person narrator describes himself as "a mathematician with some behavioural difficulties"; chapter numbers are all prime numbers, rather than the more conventional 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.
H. Rider Haggard	Story of an African queen who has discovered the secret of eternal life		She
Alex Haley	Subtitled The Saga of an American Family (first published 1976)		Roots
Thomas Hardy	His first published novel		Desperate Remedies
	The central character is named Cytherea, after a young woman her father fell in love with but who fled the country when he proposed marriage
	Subtitled A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented		Tess of the D'Urbervilles
	Title character has an illegitimate son, after (probably) being raped by the libertine Alec, and names him Sorrow
	Title character is arrested at Stonehenge, and hanged for murdering the father of her illegitimate son
	Subtitled A Matter of Character		The Mayor of Casterbridge
	John Loveday's musical instrument is "silenced for ever upon one of the bloody battlefields of Spain"		The Trumpet–Major
	His last novel (not counting The Well–Beloved, which was serialised three years earlier but not published in book form until two years later)		Jude the Obscure
	Arabella Donn, a pig farmer's daughter, begins her seduction of the title character by throwing "the characteristic part of a barrow–pig" at him
Joseph Heller	1961: title entered the English language to mean a situation from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions		Catch–22
	Closing Time (1995) is a sequel to
Ernest Hemingway	1932 (non–fiction) book: looks at the history, traditions and appeal of bullfighting		Death in the Afternoon
	Story of a love affair between US Lieutenant Frederic Henry and English nurse Catherine Barkley; based on the author's experiences as an ambulance driver during World War I		A Farewell to Arms
	Set in the Spanish Civil War; title comes from John Donne's Devotions		For Whom the Bell Tolls
	Santiago: central character of		The Old Man and the Sea
Nick Hornby	The book that made his name: published in 1992, a memoir of the trials, tribulations and traumas that resulted from his following Arsenal FC from childhood into his early thirties		Fever Pitch
	Features a record shop called Championship Vinyl		High Fidelity
Aldous Huxley	Set in the year 632 AF (After Ford)		Brave New World
	Title is from a line in Shakespeare's The Tempest
	Centrifugal bumblepuppy, Riemann surface tennis and escalator squash are fictional sports mentioned in
Washington Irving	Schoolmaster Ichabod Crane is pursued by a headless horseman (short story)		The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Jerome K. Jerome	Subtitled To say nothing of the dog		Three Men in a Boat
	Harris, George and Jay are
	Sequel to Three Men in a Boat (using a German word for a journey without an end, i.e. a round trip)		Three Men on the Bummel
James Jones	About life in the US Navy before Pearl Harbor; published 1951; title comes from Kipling's ballad Gentlemen Rankers		From Here to Eternity
James Joyce	1939 comic novel (his last major work): opening line is a sentence fragment, which continues from the unfinished closing line Features the dreams and nightmares of Dublin tavern keeper H. C. Earwhicker		Finnegan's Wake
James Joyce	Takes place entirely in Dublin on 16th June 1904; said to be based on Homer's Odyssey		Ulysses
Thomas Kenneally	1982 Booker Prize winner, on which the film Schindler's List was based		Schindler's Ark
Ludovic Kennedy	1961: the story of the murders committed by John Christie, and the conviction and execution of Timothy Evans for them		Ten Rillington Place
Stephen King	1974: his first published work – telling the story of a girl with telekinetic powers		Carrie
	1981: the title character is a rabid St. Bernard dog		Cujo
	1983: features a reanimated zombie cat called Winston Churchill (or Church for short)		Pet Sematery
	1986: the titular "ancient cosmic evil" usually appears in the form of Pennywise the (Dancing) Clown		It
	1999 (short story – filmed in 2007 starring John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson): title is the number of a New York hotel room		1408
Charles Kingsley	Gave its name to a seaside town in North Devon		Westward Ho!
Rudyard Kipling	How the whale got his throat, How the camel got his hump, How the rhinoceros got his skin, How the leopard got his spots, The Elephant's child (how the elephant got his trunk), The cat that walked by himself, and others: collective title		The Just So stories
	Title character is an elf, borrowed from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, who declares himself "the oldest Old Thing in England"		Puck of Pook's Hill
Stieg Larsson	Originally published in Swedish with a title that translates as Men Who Hate Women		The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
	Swedish title translates as "the castle in the air that got blown up" (third novel in the Millennium trilogy)		The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
D. H. Lawrence	Central character is an amateur flautist, the flute being a metaphor for the biblical reference in the title		Aaron's Rod
	Original title Tenderness; first published (privately) in Italy in 1928, then in France and Australia in 1929; an expurgated edition was published in the UK in 1932, and the full version by Penguin in 1960, resulting in a famous obscenity trial		Lady Chatterley's Lover
	Tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family, from the 1840s to 1905; Ursula Brangwen (the central character of Women in Love) first appeared in		The Rainbow
	Better–known sequel to the above: tells the story of sisters Gudrun and Ursula Brangwen, and their respective relationships with school inspector Rupert Birkin and coal–mine heir Gerald Crich		Women in Love
Harper Lee	Title completes the advice given to the narrator by her father: "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em. But remember, it's a sin ... "		To Kill a Mockingbird
	"First draft" of the above – probably not intended for publication, but controversially published in July 2015 and described as a "prequel"; author died in February 2016		Go Set a Watchman
Gaston Leroux	Title character is known only as Erik; a singer named Christine Daaé is the other central character		The Phantom of the Opera
Anita Loos	The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady is the subtitle of		Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
	Sequel to the above		But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
Richard Mabey	Influential guide to Britain's wild foods, first published in 1972, and since described as "a modern culinary classic": reflects ever–increasing eco–awareness and popular interest in finding different, and more natural, sources of food		Food for Free
Alistair MacLean	Inspired by the Battle of Leros – part of the unsuccessful attempt by the Allies in 1943 to take the Dodecanese Islands from Italian forces		The Guns of Navarone
Madonna	Controversial photo–book, published 1992		Sex
Thomas Mann	Life of German composer Adrian Leverkuhn, "as told by a friend"		Dr. Faustus
Hilary Mantel	Sequel to Wolf Hall – Man Booker winner 2013		Bring Up the Bodies
Captain Maryatt	Edward, Humphrey, Alice and Elizabeth Bedford		Children of the New Forest
W. Somerset Maugham	Early (1908) novel featuring occultist Oliver Haddo – a caricature of Aleister Crowley, who accused Maugham of plagiarism (in a review written under the pseudonym Oliver Haddo)		The Magician
Compton Mackenzie	Based on the real life wrecking of the SS Politician off Eriskay in 1941		Whisky Galore
Herman Melville	Title under which Moby–Dick was first published, in London in 1851 – subsequently used as a subtitle		The Whale
	1924 novella, set on board HMS Indomitable, in the aftermath of the Spithead and Nore mutinies, during the French Revolutionary Wars (1797); Benjamin Britten wrote an opera based on it in 1952, to celebrate the Festival of Britain		Billy Budd
Spike Milligan	1963 comic novel, about a fictional Irish village split into two by partition		Puckoon
John Milton	Prose tragedy whose title character was "Eyeless in Gaza" (giving Aldous Huxley the title of his novel)		Samson Agonistes
Margaret Mitchell	Title comes from a poem by Ernest Dowson; working title was Ba Ba Black Sheep		Gone with the Wind
Sir Thomas More	Title is the name of an imaginary island – now a byword for a perfect society		Utopia
Vladimir Nabokov	Dolores Haze is the full name of the title character of		Lolita
Michael Ondaatje	Hungarian aristocrat and explorer László Almásy served as the basis for the title character in (1992 award–winning novel, filmed in 1996)		The English Patient
Baroness Orczy	Sir Percy Blakeney is better known as		The Scarlet Pimpernel
George Orwell	His first novel (1934): partly inspired by his experiences as a colonial policeman		Burmese Days
	Based on his experiences in the Spanish Civil War		Homage to Catalonia
	Described in its title (or subtitle) as "a fairy story"		Animal Farm
	TV shows Big Brother and Room 101 got their titles from		Nineteen Eighty–Four
	Britain is referred to as Airstrip One, in
	The Last Man in Europe was one of the titles considered for
Mervyn Peake	Trilogy (1946–59): named after the sprawling, decaying, Gothic–style castle where the family of the hero (and title character of the first novel) has lived since time immemorial; also the title of the second novel		Gormenghast
Sylvia Plath	Semi–autobiographical novel: published 1963, under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, a month before her suicide; first published under her real name 1966; not published in the USA until 1972. Title refers to her being trapped by depression, struggling for breath		The Bell Jar
Marcel Proust	Swann's Way is the title of the first of seven parts of		In Search of Lost Time (a.k.a. In Remembrance of Things Past)
Terry Pratchett	The sixth Discworld novel, and the first to feature the three witches Esmerelda 'Granny' Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Magrat Garlick (Granny Weatherwax had previously appeared in Equal Rites, the third novel)		Wyrd Sisters
Erich Maria Remarque	English title of Im Westen Nichts Neues (literally Nothing New in the West) – a harrowing novel of the First World War, first published in 1928 as a serial (book form 1929); banned by the Nazis; sequel Der Weg Zurück (The Road Back – 1930–1)		All Quiet on the Western Front
Jean Rhys	1966 prequel to Jane Eyre; tells the story of Bertha Mason, Mr Rochester's first wife – known in this book as Antoinette Cosway		Wide Sargasso Sea
Salman Rushdie	Title refers to a section of the Quran that allows intercessory prayers to be made to three Pagan Meccan goddesses; publication caused outrage among some Muslims, who saw it as mocking their faith, prompting Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (then Supreme Leader of Iran) to issue a fatwā calling for Rushdie's death, on 14 February 1989		The Satanic Verses
Sir Walter Scott	Title character marries Rose, the daughter of Baron Bradwardine, after being rejected by the passionate Flora Mac–Ivor		Waverley
	Named after Edinburgh's Tolbooth jail		Heart of Midlothian
	Robin Hood and Little John appear in		Ivanhoe
	Scott created the name Cedric, by accident, in
	Title character makes his first appearance at a jousting tournament in Ashby–de–la–Zouch, Leicestershire
Hubert Selby Jr.	1964 novel: successfully prosecuted for obscenity in the UK, but cleared on an appeal launched by lawyer and writer John Mortimer		Last Exit to Brooklyn
Sellars and Yeatman	Contains 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2 Genuine Dates		1066 and All That
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	1818: subtitled A Modern Prometheus; originated in a challenge laid down by Lord Byron during a holiday in Switzerland (1816)		Frankenstein
Richard B. Sheridan	Mrs. Malaprop first appeared in (play)		The Rivals
Joe Simpson	Award–winning (non–fiction) climbing narrative, about a harrowing descent from Siula Grande in the Andes in 1985: filmed in 2003, featuring interviews with the author and his two expedition companions		Touching the Void
John Steinbeck	Based on the story of Cain and Abel		East of Eden
	Title comes from a Burns poem		Of Mice and Men
Robert Louis Stevenson	Inspired by the true story of William Brodie (hanged 1788)		Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
	The Sea Cook: original title of		Treasure Island
	Foremast Hill, Mizzenmast Hill and Spyglass Hill appear on
	Inspired by the Appin Murder, a real–life event that took place on the west coast of Scotland in 1752		Kidnapped
	The brig Covenant is wrecked on the notorious Torran Rocks, off the Isle of Mull
	Sequel to the above		Catriona
Josephine Tey	1951 novel that attempted to rehabilitate Richard III		Daughter of Time
W. M. Thackeray	Subtitled A Novel Without a Hero		Vanity Fair
Flora Thompson	Published posthumously in 1948: title is a quotation from Wordsworth's After–Thought to his series of sonnets on the River Duddon		Still Glides the Stream
Hunter S. Thompson	1971 'roman à clef': based on the author's experiences while writing a piece for Rolling Stone magazine about a Mexican–American television journalist, shot dead by police during an anti–Vietnam War demonstration in Los Angeles in 1970; illustrated by Ralph Steadman; subtitled A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream		Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
J. R. R. Tolkien	There and Back Again is the subtitle of		The Hobbit
	His last major work: a collection of his writings about the history and mythology of Middle–Earth, edited by his son Christopher and published posthumously in 1977		The Silmarillion
Leo Tolstoy	Story of a married woman's passion for Count Vronsky, a dashing young cavalry officer, and her tragic fate		Anna Karenina
	Title character throws herself under a train as her lover departs with another woman
Mark Twain	Begins with the title character faking his own death in order to escape from his drunken father		The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Gore Vidal	Controversial 1968 novel about a young, sexually aggressive woman who turns out to be a transsexual		Myra Breckinridge
Alice Walker	Takes the form of a series of letters, written to God by a 14–year–old girl named only as Celie, about persistent and shocking abuse by her stepfather Alphonso		The Color Purple
Horace Walpole	His most famous work: often described as the first Gothic novel		The Castle of Otranto
Sarah Waters	Her third novel (2002): title is said (by Wikipedia) to be a slang term for a midwife or a pickpocket		Fingersmith
Evelyn Waugh	The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is the subtitle of		Brideshead Revisited
	Paul Pennyfeather is the unfortunate hero of		Decline and Fall
	A Novel About Journalists is the subtitle of		Scoop
H. G. Wells	Short story: title comes from a quotation from Desiderus Erasmus – often wrongly attributed to Wells himself		The Country of the Blind
Oscar Wilde	Title of a long letter written from prison to his former lover Lord Alfred Douglas		De profundis
	His only novel: the story of a beautiful and hedonistic young man, whose portrait ages with every sin he commits		The Picture of Dorian Gray
Henry Williamson	Published in 1927, filmed in 1979, subtitled His Joyful Water–Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers		Tarka the Otter
Jeanette Winterson	Semi–autobiographical novel about growing up in Accrington, Lancashire (1985 – serialised on BBC2 in 1990)		Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Kit Williams	1979 picture book that sparked a UK–wide treasure hunt, and inspired a genre: the author and illustrator had hidden a jewelled golden hare, and the book (allegedly) gave clues to its whereabouts		Masquerade

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