Errmm . . . The Straight Dope by Cecil Adams?
This one is Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde .
I’ll offer up some myself when I have the time.
No, but not a bad guess (and not too far from the truth either…)
Zev Steinhardt
Got it!
Is this Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying?
The Stranger by Albert Camus
:smack: it is of course The Outsider (French: L’Etranger).
Ok, I’ll offer up some. The first two are fairly easy.
sp1: ‘What’s is going to be then, eh?’
sp2: Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns
driven time and again off course, once he had plundered
the hallowed heights of [city].
sp3: My Father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of Five Sons. He sent me to Emanuel-Colledge in Cambridge, at Fourteen Years old, where I resided three Years, and applyed my self close to my Studies:…
sp4: This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.
Poop, the only one I didn’t proof read.
sp1 should be:
‘What’s it going to be then, eh?’
Z11: John Grisham. The one about the jury in a tobbaco trial. “The Runaway Jury”?
Pal1: “There were prodigies and portents enough, One-Eye says. We must blame ourselves for misinterpreting them. One-Eye’s handicap in no way impairs his marvelous hindsight.”
I know I’ve read this one… Could it be the first book about the Black Company, about a mercenary company in an ancient Rome-ish fantasy setting? I’ve no idea what the author or title of the book is.
PM4 - “Mr [name] lived in 1872 at No 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814.”
I looked at this one yesterday, when I was thinking about a contribution to this thread 
[name] = Phileas Fogg. “Around the world in eighty days” by Jules Verne.
A couple of new ones:
HA1: “On the first day of September, 1974, a child was born to Murray Jacob Katz, a celibate Jewish recluse living across the bay from Atlantic City, New Jersey, and island metropolis then famous for its hotels, its boardwalk, its Miss America Pageant, and its seminal role in the invention of Monopoly.”
(For a free hint: Similarities to stories about another child of a Jewish virgin are not coincidental.)
HA2: “There is a similarity, if I may be permitted an excursion into tenuous metaphor, between the feel of a chilly breeze and the feel of a knife’s blade, as either is laid across the back of the neck. I can call up memories of both, if I work at it.”
Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift
Nice job, you got it. I know that one would have stumped me.
A Clockwork Orange? I’m guessing, because my copy seems to have gone missing.
Homer’s Odyssey. I re-read it just this summer.
So is no one going to have a go at my #3? (Or the rest, for that matter?)
Jude the Obscure?
One of Hardy’s, anyway.
Regards,
Shodan
The Maltese Falcon, the character being Sam Spade.
That would be Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon.
–Cliffy
Two correct simulposts on The Maltese Falcon!
“An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money.”
–Cliffy
Only Begotten Daughter, by James Morrow. I am also having trouble coming up with any that are not terribly obvious or hopelessly obscure. There seem to be plenty of open ones, so I will reserve my turn for later.