| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS $800: Charles Ryder recalls members of the Marchmain family in this place "Revisited" Brideshead |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS $1200: Like her more famous novel, her "Villette" was also published under the name Currer Bell Charlotte Brontë |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS $1600: Michael Cunningham's "The Hours" is a "contemporary retelling of" this Virginia Woolf novel Mrs. Dalloway |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS $2000: The women in his "Women in Love" are Ursula & Gudrun, who first appeared in "The Rainbow" D.H. Lawrence |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS $9,000 (Daily Double): Seen here is a cover for one of the earlier editions of this Wells novel The Invisible Man |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | BRITISH NOVELS' FIRST LINES $400: A Christie mystery: "It was 5:00 on a winter's morning in Syria. Alongside the platform at Aleppo stood the train..." Murder on the Orient Express |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | BRITISH NOVELS' FIRST LINES $800: 1813: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a... fortune, must be in want of a wife" Pride and Prejudice |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | BRITISH NOVELS' FIRST LINES $1200: E.M. Forster: "Except for the Marabar Caves... the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary" A Passage to India |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | BRITISH NOVELS' FIRST LINES $1600: 1962: "'What's it going to be then, eh?' There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs" A Clockwork Orange |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | BRITISH NOVELS' FIRST LINES $2000: Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The often parodied "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents" Paul Clifford |
| #6280, aired 2011-12-30 | BRITISH NOVELS BY CHARACTERS $400: Charles Marlow &
Mr. Kurtz Heart of Darkness |
| #6280, aired 2011-12-30 | BRITISH NOVELS BY CHARACTERS $800: Cedric the Saxon,
Rebecca,
Lady Rowena Ivanhoe |
| #6280, aired 2011-12-30 | BRITISH NOVELS BY CHARACTERS $1200: Charles Ryder,
Lord & Lady Marchmain Brideshead Revisited |
| #6280, aired 2011-12-30 | BRITISH NOVELS BY CHARACTERS $2000: Christian,
Evangelist,
Mr. Worldly Wiseman Pilgrim's Progress |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | BRITISH NOVELS $200: This Charlotte Bronte heroine is treated as little better than a servant by her aunt, Mrs. Reed Jane Eyre |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | BRITISH NOVELS $400: Like Paul Morel, the hero of his "Sons and Lovers", this author was the son of a coal miner (D.H.) Lawrence |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | BRITISH NOVELS $600: The title of this William Golding novel is a translation of the Hebrew Ba'al Zevuv Lord of the Flies |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | BRITISH NOVELS $800 (Daily Double): In this E.M. Forster novel, Dr. Aziz & Mrs. Moore meet in a mosque A Passage to India |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | BRITISH NOVELS $1000: This author cruelly portrayed his father as Theobald Pontifex in "The Way of all Flesh" Samuel Butler |
| #1741, aired 1992-03-09 | BRITISH NOVELS $200: Of Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding & Tom Jones, the one who wrote the other 2 Henry Fielding |
| #1741, aired 1992-03-09 | BRITISH NOVELS $400: Both his "Victory" & "Lord Jim" have been called "Hamletesque" (Joseph) Conrad |
| #1741, aired 1992-03-09 | BRITISH NOVELS $600: Bernard Marx works at the Hatchery and Conditioning Centre in this futuristic tale Brave New World |
| #1741, aired 1992-03-09 | BRITISH NOVELS $800: In 1972 Frederick Forsyth pulled out this "file" on former SS officers The Odessa File |
| #1741, aired 1992-03-09 | BRITISH NOVELS $1000: This 1819 Sir Walter Scott novel could also be called "Wilfred", the character's first name Ivanhoe |
| #1220, aired 1989-12-15 | BRITISH NOVELS $200: "A Study in Scarlet" was this famous sleuth's 1st published adventure Sherlock Holmes |
| #1220, aired 1989-12-15 | BRITISH NOVELS $400: This Defoe character spent 28 yrs., 2 mo. & 19 days on an unknown island off the coast of South America Robinson Crusoe |
| #1220, aired 1989-12-15 | BRITISH NOVELS $600: This Calcutta-born English novelist not only wrote "Vanity Fair", he illustrated it as well William (Makepeace) Thackeray |
| #1220, aired 1989-12-15 | BRITISH NOVELS $800 (Daily Double): In her novel, two sisters, Elinor & Marianne Dashwood, represent "Sense & Sensibility" Jane Austen |
| #1220, aired 1989-12-15 | BRITISH NOVELS $800: This Dickens hero quits his job as a tutor, takes the half-wit Smike with him & becomes an actor Nicholas Nickleby |
| #622, aired 1987-04-28 | BRITISH NOVELS $200: Published in 1898, this Wells novel had its biggest impact when adapted by another Welles in 1938 The War of the Worlds |
| #622, aired 1987-04-28 | BRITISH NOVELS $400: In just over a century after 1st publication, it's said there were 160 editions of this John Bunyan classic Pilgrim's Progress |
| #622, aired 1987-04-28 | BRITISH NOVELS $600: Wilfred is the 1st name of the title character in this novel by Sir Walter Scott Ivanhoe |
| #622, aired 1987-04-28 | BRITISH NOVELS $800: Revolted by his own decadence, he stabs his own picture & dies as a result Dorian Gray |
| #622, aired 1987-04-28 | BRITISH NOVELS $1000: As stated in the book's title, Tom Jones started out life as one of these a foundling |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | 1960s BRITISH NOVELS: The author of this novel said of the last chapter left off U.S. editions, "My young thuggish protagonist grows up" A Clockwork Orange |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | BRITISH NOVELS: Midway through this 1928 novel, the title character briefly takes "their" instead of his or her Orlando |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | BRITISH NOVELS: A laboratory known as the House of Pain is on Noble's Isle, the title setting of this novel The Island of Doctor Moreau |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS: The title character of this novel says of his home, "The wind breathes cold through the broken battlements and casements" Dracula |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS: A preface to this novel calls it "a loud hee-haw at all who yearn for utopia...& a pretty good fable in the Aesop tradition" Animal Farm |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | BRITISH NOVELS: The title of this 1908 novel is an allusion to the hotel in Florence where the novel starts & ends the next year A Room with a View |
| #7271, aired 2016-04-04 | BRITISH NOVELS: Local legend says that Top Withens, the Yorkshire farmhouse seen here, may have been an inspiration for this novel Wuthering Heights |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | BRITISH NOVELS: In some countries the subtitle "A Contemporary Satire" was used for this 1945 parable Animal Farm |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | BRITISH NOVELS: Stephen King borrowed the name of his fictional town Castle Rock from this 1950s novel that greatly influenced him Lord of the Flies |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | BRITISH NOVELS: Fittingly, this Thomas Hardy character is introduced near the Pure Drop Inn Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| #4535, aired 2004-04-30 | 18th CENTURY BRITISH NOVELS: This title person asks a pile of money, "What art thou good for?... one of those knives is worth all this heap" Robinson Crusoe |
| #4025, aired 2002-02-15 | 20th CENTURY BRITISH NOVELS: The phrase that's the title of this novel comes from the translation of the Hebrew word Beelzebub Lord of the Flies |
| #2825, aired 1996-12-06 | BRITISH NOVELS: This 1895 novel is subtitled "An Invention" The Time Machine |
