# The Literature Feud \[Closed\]

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [May 13, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155 "2008-05-13T12:41:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/41 "2008-05-14T00:07:25Z")

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1. Mr. Darcy
2. Emma Woodhouse
3. White Fang
4. Oliver Twist
5. Pemberley
6. Voldemort
7. Tom Jones
8. Catch-22
9. Mark Twain
10. King Lear

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**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/42 "2008-05-14T00:17:20Z")

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1. Great Gatsby
2. Hester Prynne
3. Ribsy
4. Scout Finch
5. House of Seven Gables
6. Moriarty
7. Robinson Crusoe
8. David Copperfield
9. Dickens
10. Romeo and Juliette

ETA: Prediction- I’m at the bottom!!!

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**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/43 "2008-05-14T00:22:00Z")

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1. Sherlock Holmes
2. Jane Austen
3. Clifford The Big Red Dog
4. Tiny Tim
5. Little House on the Prairie
6. Voldemort
7. The Canterbury Tales
8. 1984
9. Charles Dickens
10. Death of a Salesman

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**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/44 "2008-05-14T00:39:12Z")

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1. Quenton Cassidy
2. Ella Enchanted
3. Old Dan
4. Phoebe Caulfield
5. Pianosa
6. Roger Chillingworth
7. Gulliver’s Travels
8. The Enormous Room
9. Kurt Vonnegut
10. Streetcar Named Desire

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**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/45 "2008-05-14T02:01:58Z")

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1. Sherlock Holmes
2. Elizabeth Bennett
3. Lassie
4. Harry Potter
5. Ankh-Morpork
6. The Sheriff of Nottingham
7. The Canterbury Tales
8. Catch 22
9. Stephen King
10. Romeo and Juliet

What?! No “Name a literary feline character”???!!! 😉

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**Author:** ![Elysium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@Elysium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysium)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/46 "2008-05-14T02:26:43Z")

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1. Healthcliff
2. Jane Eyre
3. Pilot
4. Oliver Twist
5. Thornfield
6. James Moriarty
7. Les Miserables
8. To Kill a Mockinbird
9. Charlotte Bronte
10. A Dolls House

Clearly, this is a Jane Eyre themed response. That’s what happens after you read something recently.

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**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/47 "2008-05-14T03:14:32Z")

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[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn]  
_ **READ THIS!!!** _

[1. Phillip Marlowe  
2. Harriet Vane  
3. Toto  
4. Hans Brinker  
5. Manderley  
6. Hannibal Lecter  
7. Fanny Hill  
8. Slaughterhouse 5  
9. William Goldman  
10. Death of a Salesman

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**Author:** ![Paladud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Paladud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paladud)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/48 "2008-05-14T05:09:55Z")

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1. John Galt
2. Dagny Taggart
3. Cujo
4. Ender Wiggin
5. The House of Usher
6. Murmandamus
7. Robinson Crusoe
8. Neuromancer
9. Edgar Allan Poe
10. Hamlet

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**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/49 "2008-05-14T05:14:45Z")

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1. Heathcliff
2. Jane Eyre
3. The Hound of the Baskervilles
4. Pip
5. Wuthering Heights
6. Iago
7. Jane Eyre
8. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
9. William Faulkner
10. Romeo and Juliet

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**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/50 "2008-05-14T10:01:05Z")

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1. Sherlock Holmes
2. Elizabeth Bennet
3. Snowy the dog
4. Harry Potter
5. Hogwarts
6. Sauron
7. Dante’s inferno
8. 1984
9. Charles Dickens
10. Hamlet  
My GOD was it hard to think of a pre-19th century novel, and I’m not even sure the Inferno counts as it’s actually an epic poem, but it was all I could think of!

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**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/51 "2008-05-14T11:26:07Z")

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**1. Sherlock Holmes  
2. Elizabeth Bennet  
3. Toto  
4. Oliver Twist  
5. Wuthering Heights  
6. Dracula  
7. Pride and Prejudice  
8. 1984  
9. Jane Austen  
10. Macbeth**

Edit: Skipped an answer.

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**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/52 "2008-05-14T11:29:33Z")

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[QUOTE=Kat]  
What?! No “Name a literary feline character”???!!! 😉  
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But if they asked that question, we’d also have to find literary feline character pictures! It’s a rule. No mentions of cats without pictures. 😃

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**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/53 "2008-05-14T11:35:29Z")

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1. Dracula
2. Emma
3. Lassie
4. Tiny Tim
5. Dotheboys Hall
6. Professor Moriarty
7. Robinson Crusoe
8. To Kill a Mockingbird
9. Charles Dickens
10. Romeo and Juliet

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**Author:** ![This\_ll\_Do](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/this_ll_do/32/3023_2.png) [@This\_ll\_Do](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/This_ll_Do)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/54 "2008-05-14T12:23:24Z")

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1. Ahab
2. Catherine Earnshaw
3. Asta
4. Oliver Twist
5. 221B Baker Street
6. Hannibal Lecter
7. _Robinson Crusoe_
8. _Catcher in the Rye_
9. Mark Twain
10. _Macbeth_

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**Author:** ![Purgatory\_Creek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@Purgatory\_Creek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purgatory_Creek)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/55 "2008-05-14T12:52:48Z")

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1. Jubal Harshaw
2. Scarlett O’Hara
3. Ol’ Yeller
4. Christopher Robin
5. The Emerald City
6. Simon Legree
7. The Decameron
8. Gone With the Wind
9. Douglas Adams
10. The Glass Menagerie

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**Author:** ![Svejk\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@Svejk\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Svejk_1)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/56 "2008-05-14T12:59:22Z")

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1. Švejk
2. Anna Karenina
3. Pluto
4. Garp
5. Stepford
6. Ernst Stavro Blofeld
7. Frankenstein
8. Catch 22
9. Charles Bukowski
10. Waiting for Godot

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/57 "2008-05-14T13:09:45Z")

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We need five more…

Thanks everybody for understanding about the answer format. This time scoring will be much easier on me!

There are so many unique answers, too. It will be a low scoring game.

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**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/58 "2008-05-14T13:44:41Z")

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1. Heathcliff
2. Jane Eyer
3. Lassie
4. Olivet Twist
5. London
6. Dracula
7. The Scarlett Letter
8. The Kite Runner
9. Charles Dickens
10. Hamlet  
Oy - Number Seven was hard. I really can’t think of any Novels written prior to the 19th Century.

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**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/59 "2008-05-14T13:46:44Z")

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Come on, Dracula! \<clap clap\>

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**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/60 "2008-05-14T14:02:17Z")

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1. John Carter of Mars
2. Eilonwy
3. Nana from Peter Pan
4. Pollyanna
5. The House of Usher
6. Moriarty
7. Pamela
8. Cold Mountain
9. Willa Cather
10. Camino Real

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