‘We die of words’, said Robert Conquest. An exaggeration perhaps but still it’s nice to cut through the verbiage occasionally. Here are one hundred works to identify, reduced to their essentials.

Points to note:

— The colour scheme is vaguely consistent (blue = marry, red = kill, etc) but only vaguely.

— Arrows labelled with nouns point towards the noun (a ‘child’ arrow points to the child). A verb arrow points from subject to object, so a ‘kill’ arrow from A to B means A kills B.

— Minor characters, subplots etc are perforce omitted.

— Important solitary activities (ponder philosophically, die of old age, etc) are lost. The exception is suicide, represented in the obvious way.

— Main characters will tend to be central & well-connected but there are exceptions.

— There’s no temporal information: you aren’t told *when* anything happened. Children are generally presented below their parents, so the flow will tend to be ‘downward = forward in time’, but this should not be relied upon too heavily.

— ‘Marry’ can mean a couple marry during the work or that they are married from the beginning.

— ‘Romantic’ covers a wide range, from high-minded yearning to more utilitarian physiological interactions. (Rape gets its own label, though.) A one-way ‘romantic’ arrow from A to B means A has unrequited feelings for B.

— Grey oval border = the single narrator of a first-person work. (WARNING: This just means that IF he is there, he has a border. At least one very tangential narrator is omitted entirely.)

— Some diagrams are sure to fit works I didn’t intend. If (when) this happens I will just have to say, “OK, but I didn’t mean that”. Hopefully there’s only one way all hundred authors can be accounted for, making the quiz as a whole unambiguous.

— The emphasis is on major, well-known works. But there are quite a few short stories in there. (And one opera.)

— A couple of famous tale collections are represented by just a single tale. (But one such is represented as a whole.)


Hints on request.

Author List

This should be considered less an optional extra and more an integral part of the quiz: hence, no spoiler tags. One work is attributed to its translator.


Aeschylus, Edward Albee, Louisa M. Alcott, Poul Anderson, V. C. Andrews, Jane Austen

Samuel Beckett, J. L. Borges, Flann O’Brien, Emily Bronte, Robert Browning, Richard Burto

James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Geoffrey Chaucer, Anton Chekhov, Agatha Christie, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad

Roald Dahl, Don DeLillo, Philip K. Dick, Charles Dickens, James Dickey, Isak Dinesen, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas

George Eliot, Euripides

William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gustav Flaubert, John Ford

J. W. von Goethe, Robert Graves

Oakley Hall, Dashiell Hammett, Helene Hanff, Thomas Hardy, L. P. Hartley, Robert A. Heinlein, Ernest Hemingway, O. Henry, Homer, Victor Hugo

Henrik Ibsen

John Keats, Thomas Kyd

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Giuseppe Di Lampedusa, John Lanchester, D. H. Lawrence

Thomas Malory, Thomas Mann, G. G. Marquez, Daphne Du Maurier, Cormac McCarthy, Carson McCullers, Larry McMurtry, Yukio Mishima, Margaret Mitchell, Moses, Alice Munro, Iris Murdoch

Vladimir Nabokov

Ovid

Boris Pasternak, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Portis, Marcel Proust, Alexander Pushkin

Samuel Richardson, Damon Runyon

Rafael Sabatini, Saki, J. D. Salinger, Samuel (prophet), Walter Scott, Robert W. Service, Peter Shaffer, William Shakespeare, G. B. Shaw, Sophocles, John Steinbeck, Bram Stoker

Donna Tartt, Brandon Thomas, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope, Ivan Turgenev

Virgil

Richard Wagner, Evelyn Waugh, Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, John Williams, P. G. Wodehouse, Virginia Woolf

Richard Yates

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>>25483037
I have no clue what is going on but I will guess the image 13 with a woman poisoning all her kids is Medea

And the gang of kids in 14 killing the lover is Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea

>>25483050
Is 21 the twist to Murder on Orient Express?

>>25483035
>3)
I see a guy killing his dad and marrying his mom
Oedipus Rex

>>25483055
>46
Fuck I can't remember their names but is this the Metamorphoses story about the king that cuts off his wife's sister's tongue so she can't talk after he rapes her but she communicates by writing in the dirt and they feed him his son?

I love these threads

>>>25483060
Is 80 Julius Caesar by Shakespeare? I forget all the details but the triumvirate and suicides and defeat all fit, I think.

>>25483037
Actually I think 16 might actually be Medea not 13 as posted above.

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>>25483085
50% here:

>I have no clue what is going on but I will guess the image 13 with a woman poisoning all her kids is Medea
Medea is certainly famous for killing her children, but this isn't her. (Too many children for a start, plus the other stuff doesn't really fit.)

>And the gang of kids in 14 killing the lover is Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea
This one is correct. Yukio Mishima. Book ends with Ryuji drinking the tea sort of fatalistically, whilst thinking about something else. I think we’re meant to assume he dies.

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>>25483090
>Is 21 the twist to Murder on Orient Express?
Correct. Agatha Christie. Twelve passangers all kill Ratchett. The other relationships are the one guy who gets a job as R.'s secretary to organize things, the married Russian couple, the princess with her maid, and the English couple who are secretly in love.

>67
Hamlet
Siblings brothers One kills his brother and marries his wife ie the starting action
The wife accidentally kills herself as the Queen drinks the poison cup unknowingly
Hamlet is the child
Polonius is the man at the bottom that Hamlet kills
Polonius has 2 kids
Hamlet kills the son in a fight and Ophelia kills herself

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>>25483106

>3)
>I see a guy killing his dad and marrying his mom
>Oedipus Rex
Correct, Sophocles. Plus the mother (Jocasta) kills herself when the awful truth emerges.

>>25483061
I am going to guess the family line in 81 is the part of the Bible where it talks about people begat people for several lines
Or 100 Years of Solitude
Probably 100 Years of Solitude

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>>25483124
>46
>is this the Metamorphoses story about the king that cuts off his wife's sister's tongue so she can't talk after he rapes her but she communicates by writing in the dirt and they feed him his son?
Sure is. Ovid.

King = Tereus
Wife = Procne
Sister = Philomela
Son = Itys

The only correction is that Philomela doesn't write in the dirt. That's Lavinia after suffering a similar fate in Titus Andronicus, IIRC. Philomela weaves a tapestry showing what happened to her and sends it to her sister.

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>>25483133
>Is 80 Julius Caesar by Shakespeare? I forget all the details but the triumvirate and suicides and defeat all fit, I think.
You're not a million miles away but it isn't Shakespeare and it isn't a work about Julius Caesar.

>97
Is this fucking Waiting for Godot?

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>>25483139
>Actually I think 16 might actually be Medea not 13 as posted above.
Correct. She has just two sons. And she also kills Jason's new bride-to-be (Glauce) and Glauce’s father (Creon) while she's about it. (Sends them golden garments which burst into flames when donned.)

Creon banishes Medea in the first act because he knows she's going to be a threat. She begs a day's grace and uses it to organize her revenge. He was right about the threat part, he just underestimated how proactive she was going to be.

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>>25483182
>67
>Hamlet
Correct. That’s Shakespeare out the way early.

>Siblings brothers One kills his brother and marries his wife ie the starting action
>The wife accidentally kills herself as the Queen drinks the poison cup unknowingly
Right, that's the standard interpretation, although some people play it that she deliberately kills herself seeing what's happened.

>Hamlet is the child
>Polonius is the man at the bottom that Hamlet kills
>Polonius has 2 kids
>Hamlet kills the son in a fight and Ophelia kills herself
All good. (It's sort of ambiguous whether O. deliberately kills herself or just drowns from general absent-mindedness, maybe.)

I'm going to guess 99 and the man with many wives he killed was Bluebeard

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>>25483195
>I am going to guess the family line in 81 is the part of the Bible where it talks about people begat people for several lines
>Or 100 Years of Solitude
>Probably 100 Years of Solitude
Yeah it's G. G. Marcia. Would be harder if I asked for all the names but that would be a bit harsh.

The family tree is much more luxuriant of course but I just trimmed off everything except the main line. At the end Aureliano Babilonia falls in love with his aunt, Amaranta Úrsula, not knowing she's his aunt. They have a baby with a pig's tail, ending the family, as per the prophecy of doom.

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>>25483243

>97
>Waiting for Godot?
Of course. Samuel Beckett. Lucky & Pozzo connected by a rope, although the style changes (in Act I P. has L. on a leash; in Act II L. leads P. who has gone blind).

The central figure = the boy that comes along and tells V. and E. that Godot won't be arriving today, but is expected tomorrow.

>>25483273
>I'm going to guess 99 and the man with many wives he killed was Bluebeard
The Bluebeard story does sort of fit but it's not meant to be him. (There's no Charles Perrault in the author list, and that's the main accepted original version I think.)

As mentioned in the preamble we're bound to hit the occasional plausible alternative answer.

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4) Pride and Prejudice
19) Rebecca
35) True Grit
41) Lonesome Dove? I'm not sure if everything fits, but I would believe Woodrow and Gus in the top left, Newt as the probable child, and Lorena in the middle, for example.
49) Could this be Heinlein? Or is incestuous sci-fi the wrong interpretation?

>>25483037
17. F. O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds

>>25483035
The only Wilkie Collins work I've read was about stealing a big diamond and I see a diamond in 8 so I'll lock in my guess for this

2) Dracula
6) Eugene Onegin
63) Doctor Zhivago

>>25483058
Is 62 Gift of the Magi by O Henry?

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>>25483343
All good here. Our first multiple-correct-answers post, and therefore our first animated girl!

>4) Pride and Prejudice
Five sisters is a big pointer. Mr. Collins proposes to Elizabeth, gets refused, and promptly tries again, more successfully, with her friend.

>19) Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier. Mrs Danvers has the thing for Rebecca. Nothing too obvious but it's definitely there. In the Hitchcock film, IIRC, they had to change the key plot point (Maxim shooting R.) because you couldn't have someone getting away with murder.

>35) True Grit
Of course. Charles Portis. Films tend to be easier.

>41) Lonesome Dove? I'm not sure if everything fits, but I would believe Woodrow and Gus in the top left, Newt as the probable child, and Lorena in the middle, for example.
Right. The trio of friends where two kill the third is where Call & Gus hang Jake Spoon after he falls in with cattle-thieves. The centre girl is indeed Lorena. She gets kidnapped by Blue Duck and rescued by Gus and then goes and lives with Clara. Wanz kills himself out of despair, knowing she will never love him or even just let him look after her.

>49) Could this be Heinlein? Or is incestuous sci-fi the wrong interpretation?
It's Heinlein all right but can someone name the work?

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>>25483370
>17. F. O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds
Hmm. Yeah, OK, I can see this sort of fits, but only if you cut away 99% of the book. Another author fits this picture better and another picture fits that author better.

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>>25483439
>The only Wilkie Collins work I've read was about stealing a big diamond and I see a diamond in 8 so I'll lock in my guess for this
Correct. ‘The Moonstone’. Maybe making the central object an actual diamond was too big a giveaway.

The cousins-with-romantic-involvement are Rachel (who receives the cursed diamond on her 18th birthday) and Franklin Blake, who investigates the theft. He actually stole it while in a trance and doesn't realize it. Rosanna Spearman is the servant who falls in love with Franklin, covers up for him and kills herself.

Godfrey is the guy who genuinely steals the diamond but the three Brahmans polish him off and get it back, so everyone is happy. Except Rosanna and Godfrey of course.

>>25483680
98 it is then (I was doubting between those two but didn't remember all the details; I see now it's right and should add back up to some of that 99%: besides the student, Trellis and Furriskey: Sheila, Orlick, etc.).

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>>25483453
3/3 here:

>2) Dracula
Not all the figures have to be human. (There might also be a few gods and things kicking around.) Dracula is bottom centre of course. Successfully corrupts Lucy; tries with Mina but Jonathan & Van H. finish him off and save her.

>6) Eugene Onegin
Right. The key is really the odd relation between Onegin and Tatyana (she falls in love with him, gets rebuffed, then he realizes how great she is and proposes, but too late).

>63) Doctor Zhivago
Not gonna go through all the names here lol. Zhivago & Lara front and centre obviously. Lara's husband killing himself and her mother's boyfriend lusting after her are the key pointers I would say.

>>25483060
71. Chandler, The Big Sleep

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>>25483703
>98 it is then (I was doubting between those two but didn't remember all the details; I see now it's right and should add back up to some of that 99%: besides the student, Trellis and Furriskey: Sheila, Orlick, etc.).
Right. At Swim-Two-Birds the work; Flann O’Brien the author.

Unnamed narrator (ringed) invents Trellis who then invents a bunch of other characters, including a girl (Peggy) so attractive he immediately rapes her, producing Orlick. His characters plot against him when he's asleep but fortunately his housekeeper saves the day by throwing them all on the fire.

I still had to lose a fair bit (the cow, the Good Fairy, the Pooka, etc) but a decent amount is in there.

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>>25483731
>71. Chandler, The Big Sleep
Correct. Philip Marlowe ringed of course, although General Sternwood is in the centre of things in the diagram. The key is one daughter killing the husband of the other I guess.

Owen Taylor, the Sternwood chauffeur, is the guy killed by person or persons unknown. (FWIW, I think the best explanation is that he just drives accidentally into the sea, still groggy from being knocked out by Brody. But it's really a bit of a slip on Chandler's part.)

>>25483715
>Lara's husband killing himself and her mother's boyfriend lusting after her are the key pointers I would say.
The 'half-sibling seeks [woman figure]' part made me think it might be Zhivago lol, then when I inspected the rest of the image everything checked out.
Also
73) The Iliad
75) The Sorrows of Young Werther

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>>25483971
Half-and-half here:

>73) The Iliad
Right. Some people might question the description of Achilles-Patroclus relationship, but it’s my party and I’ll cry ‘friends’ if I want to.

>75) The Sorrows of Young Werther
Hmm . . . some similarities, but it doesn't quite match. The guy killing himself is not the narrator, remember.

>>25483971
>>25484005
I'm trying to wrap my head around The Iliad being #73
I get Paris steals Helen
But I don't recall Helen being romantic to Achilles. And shouldn't Hector then be the bottom right corner but there is no Brother arrow to Paris. And the brother arrow to the top left might be Hector but he doesn't have a kill arrow and I don't recall his wife having romantic feelings for other men and can't figure out who top right corner is

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>>25483465
>OP ignored my post

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>>25484737
>OP ignored my post
Ah yes, I did indeed overlook it. Apologies.

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>>25484737
Better late than never.

>>25483465
>Is 62 Gift of the Magi by O Henry?
Yes it is.

>>25484788
>>25484792
Nice

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>>25484803
Oh I see now. Got my stolen women mixed up

I know DeLillo is on the author list but I don’t think the book is White Noise. None of these have the correct combinations of kids.

Fun thread OP

29 is keats the poem with head in basil my mush

Turns out I don’t remember anything I’ve read.

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>>25485065
>29 is keats the poem with head in basil my mush
Correct. "Isabella and the Pot of Basil".

Same story in Boccaccio (I assume that's where Keats got it) except there she has three evil brothers rather than just two.

>>25485057
>I know DeLillo is on the author list but I don’t think the book is White Noise.
Correct. It isn't.

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I can't locate In Search of Lost Time and I'm going crazy. I swear, if the Proust one is from a minor work like Pleasures and Days I might just track OP down and kill him

>>25485184
None of the full-length works are what I would call obscure. One or two of the short stories might be considered so.

>>25485220
Lock your doors and windows

>>25483037
17 - Borges, The Circular Ruin
>>25483052
37 - Prophet Samuel, 2 Samuel, the bit about King David and Bathsheba
>>25483676
The Heinlein work is All You Zombies

>>25483052
34 is of mice and men. The “accidentally” gives it away a little too easily

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>>25485403
3/3 here.

>17 - Borges, The Circular Ruin
Right. Narrator discovers at the end that someone else dreamed HIM up, I've seen it several times since in sic-fi.

I was expecting the short stories to be trickier simply because there are so many for any given author. But a decent number have already fallen.

>37 - Prophet Samuel, 2 Samuel, the bit about King David and Bathsheba
2 Samuel 11. Uriah the unfortunate husband who gets between David and a hot babe.

>The Heinlein work is All You Zombie
All You Zombies, right. I could have had several more arrows (kidnaps as child, seduces, etc).

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>>25485432
>34 is of mice and men.
Right. Steinbeck.

>The “accidentally” gives it away a little too easily
Several of those little details I added because I was worried about diagrams fitting several works (especially diagrams with only a few characters). But perhaps I overdid it.

>>25483037
20 - Joseph and his brothers, Thomas Mann

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>>25485692
>20 - Joseph and his brothers, Thomas Mann
Haha, interesting. Not entirely wrong but not what I had in mind, and there’s a simpler and better fit.

>>25485712
Didn't see Moses at first, Genesis it is then. Mann is 58, The Magic Mountain.

>>25483050
28 - Turgenyev, Fathers and Sons?

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>>25485727
>Didn't see Moses at first, Genesis it is then.
Right. Genesis 29-30. Just the story of Jacob, Leah and Rachel basically.

>Mann is 58, The Magic Mountain.
Also good. Hans in the middle with all the ideologies competing for his soul.

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>>25485795
>28 - Turgenyev, Fathers and Sons?
Correct. Arkady and Bazarov the friends in the middle row. Katya and Anna below them, Nikolay & Pavel above them.

>>25483037
15 - Wagner, The Valkyrie

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>>25485984
>15 - Wagner, The Valkyrie
Correct. Wotan at the top, another non-human male to counterbalance Dracula. Siegmund & Sieglinde the doomed twins, Hunding the husband, Brunnhilde of course is Wotan's favourite little girl.

>96
I'm thinking the following:
Married couple: Agamemnon and Clytemnestra
Father killing daughter is Iphigenia sacrifice
Wife and lover revenge to kill Agamemnon and his slave captive Cassandra
I want to say this is the Oresteia

>86
I can't pin down the exact story but I am thinking:
>narrator
Watson
>his friend
Sherlock Holmes
>someone employs him
>exonerates
>suicide wife
>employee and romance
A man's wife kills herself and the husband's mistress who works as a maid or something is accused of the murder
The man hires Holmes who deduces the wife killed herself and the mistress is innocent.
I think I recall a story where someone shot themselves on a bridge so the gun fell into the river making the suicide seem like a murder

70 is Lolita

Arthur Gordon Pym by Poe has a segment with them on a boat and resorting to cannibalism although there are a lot of other parts to it
-53

>50
Man on man rape
I'm saying Deliverance
>Salinger on author list
I recall exactly 2 things about Catcher in the Rye. Asshole narrator and he rapes his sister
40 and 33 are the only choices I see where the narrator has a sister and I don't recall half a dozen murders I'm that book
So 40 is Catcher in the Rye (I'll assume you forgot the rape arrow)

>>25483050
>>25483055
23 - The Leopard, Lampedusa.
44 - The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky

>>25483037
11 - Gone with the wind, Mitchell.

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>>25486518

>96
>I'm thinking the following:
>Married couple: Agamemnon and Clytemnestra
>Father killing daughter is Iphigenia sacrifice
>Wife and lover revenge to kill Agamemnon and his slave captive Cassandra
>I want to say this is the Oresteia
All correct. It is indeed Aeschylus, except it's specifically Agamemnon rather than all three plays. (Doing the whole Oresteia would have to include Orestes killing Clytemnestra etc).

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>>25486551

>86
>I can't pin down the exact story but I am thinking:
>narrator
>Watson
>his friend
>Sherlock Holmes
>someone employs him
>exonerates
>suicide wife
>employee and romance
>A man's wife kills herself and the husband's mistress who works as a maid or something is accused of the murder
>The man hires Holmes who deduces the wife killed herself and the mistress is innocent.
>I think I recall a story where someone shot themselves on a bridge so the gun fell into the river making the suicide seem like a murder
All good. It's ‘The Problem Of Thor Bridge’, from the last collection, ‘The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes’.

Holmes duplicates the wife's actions by tying a weight on a string to a revolver and hanging it over the edge of the bridge and letting go so the weapon is pulled into the water. They find a little chip on the bridge coping-stone and there's an identical mark next to it made from the actual suicide. One of the best theatrical reveals in detective fiction.

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>>25486556
>70 is Lolita
It is. Quilty's relationship with L. is always a bit unclear.

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>>25486597

>53
>Arthur Gordon Pym by Poe has a segment with them on a boat and resorting to cannibalism
Correct. Edgar Allan Poe.

>although there are a lot of other parts to it
Yeah, usually I tried to avoid just picking one little bit of a big work but I think the cannibalism is what people remember.

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>>25486619
One correct. One so not-correct it deserves a special prize for not-correctness.

>50
>Man on man rape
>I'm saying Deliverance
Right. James Dickey. Maybe I should have called the two mountain men rapists "friends" but who knows? Not sure co-rapists have to be friends. I think brothers is pretty likely.

Also, as in the film, Ed isn't sure if the guy he kills is the second man, nor whether the second man actually killed Drew.


>Salinger on author list
>I recall exactly 2 things about Catcher in the Rye. Asshole narrator and he rapes his sister
He rapes, kills and eats her, doesn't he? And of course she's not the only one he rapes. There's his room-mate at boarding-school for a start. Not to mention his teacher. You just have to read between the lines.

>40 and 33 are the only choices I see where the narrator has a sister and I don't recall half a dozen murders I'm that book
You're quite right, #33 is NOT Catcher In The Rye.

>So 40 is Catcher in the Rye (I'll assume you forgot the rape arrow)

A delightful theory, but . . .

— If it's CITR, the central female is Phoebe. She's about ten years old. But in the diagram she is married AND has a romantic relationship on the side.
— Her husband kills himself.
— What's with all those animals?

So, nope. Not CITR. I'll even give you some bonus information and say it’s not Salinger either.


Now to find a cute anime girl befitting these two answers. How about Asuka clapping sarcastically?

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>>25486807

>23 - The Leopard, Lampedusa.
Right. Wacky silhouettes always a help. Concetta ‘cherishes’ Bendico after death by keeping him stuffed in her bedroom.

>44 - The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky
Also right. "Illegitimate son murders father then commits suicide" is what grabs the attention. (Interestingly this is not the only question featuring that particular trope.)

Negro, I'm impressed, do you do all this shit by hand? I'm trying to think of ways to automate this but I can just think of having an llm parse a whole fucking book one by one and extracting the graph in some way. That would be super cool though

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>>25486824
>11 - Gone with the wind, Mitchell.
Correct. A lot of nondescript symmetry (Scarlett has three husbands and one child with each) but I guess the unrequited romantic yearning for Ashley is the real clincher.

(Maybe "unrequited" was not entirely right. IIRC, Ashley does lust after her a bit but is ashamed of that and suppresses it. He certainly doesn't feel about her the way she feels about him, though.)

>>25486914
Yeah it was all by hand. LibreOffice Draw.

The fun part was working out how to arrange the diagrams as compactly as possible with no arrows crossing. That's the part that would be easiest to automate. There are bound to be programs where you give a list of nodes and a list of connections and it works out the best layout. It's basically what circuit design is, isn't it? Millions of transistors all connected on a silicon chip and you can't have any connections crossing. It's probably an NP-complete problem so I'm sure it's all automated now.

>>25483055
Could 47 be In Search of Lost Time? Swann as the narrators family friend, Odette as his baby mama with a questionable past and Gilberte as the childhood crush.

>>25483057
57 looks like Werther; Narrator blowing his brains out and Lotte looking after her siblings.

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>>25486959

>Could 47 be In Search of Lost Time? Swann as the narrators family friend, Odette as his baby mama with a questionable past and Gilberte as the childhood crush.
All correct. Marcel Proust it is. Hopefully Proust Search Anon
>>25485184
>>25485248
will read this and be placated and I can unlock my doors and windows.

>57 looks like Werther; Narrator blowing his brains out and Lotte looking after her siblings.
Also correct. J. W. von Goethe.

>>25483060
80 is Augustus, John Williams.

is 75 bride of lammermoor by scott
if not then any hints on the scott one

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>>25487017
>80 is Augustus, John Williams.
Right. Augustus central, Julia his daughter, Anthony & Cleopatra the suicides at top left.

>>25487033

>is 75 bride of lammermoor by scott
Nope. I suppose it sort of fits partly (basic romantic triangle plus messages) but BOL narrator is not really involved in the action. Also the climax is Lucy stabbing her husband and it would be perverse to say the least to omit that entirely.

>if not then any hints on the scott one
It's not a novel.

>>25487038
>Anthony
Antony even.

>>25487044
>its not a novel
30 is lady of the lake by scott then? with the ring right?

>>25483052
32 seems like Mme Bovary. Emma cucks Charles a couple of times then offs herself.

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>>25487094
>30 is lady of the lake by scott then? with the ring right?
Correct. Ellen of Douglas in the middle, James V top right, etc.

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>>25487119
>32 seems like Mme Bovary. Emma cucks Charles a couple of times then offs herself.
Correct. Flaubert.

>>25483052
31 - Nora at the center in A Doll's House by Ibsen.

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>>25487432
>31 - Nora at the center in A Doll's House by Ibsen.
Correct. Krogstad doing the blackmailing, Rank yearning hopelessly off to the right.

>>25483061
83 has to be Les Miserables by Hugo. Javert persecuting Valjean, Valjean saving Cosette from the Thenardiers, Eponine pining for Marius, etc...

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>>25487718
>83 has to be Les Miserables by Hugo. Javert persecuting Valjean, Valjean saving Cosette from the Thenardiers, Eponine pining for Marius, etc...
Correct. Might be guessable just from the top left corner (A persecutes B then kills self) but plenty of extra stuff surely guarantees uniqueness.

>>25483035
1 - Is this the Aenid? Dido and Aeneas to the left, the Latin tribes he fights later to the right.

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>>25488049
>1 - Is this the Aenid? Dido and Aeneas to the left, the Latin tribes he fights later to the right.
Virgil, correct. Lavinia the girl he finally marries after ditching Dido. Turnus the guy he kills. Amata kills herself because she had her heart set on Turnus as a son-in-law (who knows what's going on there?)

>>25483058
I spent a lot of time looking for Wuthering Heights (Brontë), and I think it has to be 69. Catherine and Heathcliffe connected by the red arrow, they marry siblings and their kids are briefly married before Heathcliffe's son dies and Cathy remarries.

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>>25490349
>I spent a lot of time looking for Wuthering Heights (Brontë), and I think it has to be 69.
Correct.

Catherine and Heathcliffe connected by the red arrow, they marry siblings and their kids are briefly married before Heathcliffe's son dies and Cathy remarries.
Right. Of course technically it's got a first-person narrator (Lockwood). Could have included him as Heathcliff's tenant but he isn't really anything to do with the story so better off omitted I think.