#9009, aired 2024-01-04 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1,200 (Daily Double): This 19th century author of adventure novels suffered from tuberculosis & moved to the South Seas for his health, dying in Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson |
#2, aired 2022-10-02 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $200: The original version of this novel made vampires seem a real threat; an editor said people are jumpy from Jack the Ripper--go easy Dracula |
#2, aired 2022-10-02 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $400: This Mark Twain hero says, "Now, Old Jim, you're a free man again, and I bet you won't ever be a slave no more" Huckleberry Finn |
#2, aired 2022-10-02 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $600: In this Jane Austen novel, Elizabeth is the favorite daughter of Mr. Bennet, but airheaded Lydia is her mom's choice Pride and Prejudice |
#2, aired 2022-10-02 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $800: This 1851 novel mentions New Zealand Tom & Don Miguel, 2 famous contemporaries of the title sea creature Moby-Dick |
#2, aired 2022-10-02 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $1000: France's 1812 invasion of Russia is the subject of this sprawling Tolstoy novel War and Peace |
#8200, aired 2020-04-10 | LITERARY GENRES $1600: Penguin has a line of regency romance novels that are set during the regency of the soon-to-be George IV, in this century the 19th century |
#8123, aired 2019-12-25 | FACE THE AUTHOR $400: Many of the events of his novels were based on his own experiences as a 19th century sailor and whaler Melville |
#7702, aired 2018-02-20 | OF DIMES $1000: Popular & cheap books of the late 19th century were called dime novels in the United States & by this other coin term in the UK penny dreadfuls |
#7605, aired 2017-10-06 | 19th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Martha Finley wrote 28 novels about Elsie, a virtuous Southern girl who lives on these including the Oaks & Roselands plantations |
#7343, aired 2016-07-13 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $800: This 19th century author of coming of age novels was featured on a 1940 postage stamp Louisa May Alcott |
#7258, aired 2016-03-16 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS BY QUOTE $200: "I shall fix some things she like not--garlic and a crucifix--and so seal up the door of the tomb" Dracula |
#7258, aired 2016-03-16 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS BY QUOTE $600: "...fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom!" The Scarlet Letter |
#7258, aired 2016-03-16 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS BY QUOTE $800: "She was only beginning to realize... she was... on her way home to grandfather, and would see the mountains" Heidi |
#7258, aired 2016-03-16 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS BY QUOTE $1000: "'Jarndyce of'" this residence, "said Mr. Kenge. 'A dreary name', said the Lord Chancellor" Bleak House |
#7258, aired 2016-03-16 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS BY QUOTE $1,800 (Daily Double): "'That's a fine death!' said Napoleon as he gazed at Bolkonsky" War and Peace |
#6971, aired 2014-12-29 | NOVELS BY CHAPTER $600: Set in the 15th century, but written in the 19th:
"A Bird's Eye View of Paris" The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
#6772, aired 2014-02-11 | 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: In 1893 this British man published his "initial" book, a "text-book of biology"; many sci-fi novels followed H.G. Wells |
#6772, aired 2014-02-11 | 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: Before "Downton Abbey", there was this, the shortest of Jane Austen's 6 major novels Northanger Abbey |
#6603, aired 2013-05-08 | THE BOOK BOOK $1200: 5 women & 1 man form a title "Book Club" that reads the novels of this 19th century woman Jane Austen |
#6461, aired 2012-10-22 | 19th CENTURY FEMALE AUTHORS $800: Many of her novels dealt with slavery, including "Dred" & a certain 1852 bestseller (Harriet Beecher) Stowe |
#6149, aired 2011-05-12 | COLORFUL 19th CENTURY LIT $2000: In 1872 he published the first of his Wessex novels "Under the Greenwood Tree" (Thomas) Hardy |
#5990, aired 2010-10-01 | 19th CENTURY LIT $1200: Known for his gloomy novels, this Brit also published 9 volumes of rhyming verse starting in 1898 Thomas Hardy |
#5013, aired 2006-05-31 | HOT "BUN"s $1000: Born Edward Z.C. Judson, he was the originator of the 19th century dime novels, many featuring Buffalo Bill Cody Ned Buntline |
#4777, aired 2005-05-17 | NOVELS $1200: In "The Master", Colm Tóibín enters the mind of this great 19th & 20th century novelist Henry James |
#4751, aired 2005-04-11 | NOVELS OF THE PAST $2000: It's the second name of Taras, a 16th century Cossack in a 19th century Gogol novel Bulba |
#4336, aired 2003-06-09 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $200: Huckleberry Finn is introduced, carrying a dead cat, in chapter 6 of this novel Tom Sawyer |
#4336, aired 2003-06-09 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $400: The brooding Dmitri is the oldest of the title characters in this 1879 work The Brothers Karamazov |
#4336, aired 2003-06-09 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $600: Character who (ironically) remarks, "I shall grow old, and horrible... but this picture will remain always young" Dorian Gray |
#4336, aired 2003-06-09 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $800: He wasn't at ease writing 1896's "An Outcast of the lslands" in English, but by "Lord Jim", he had the knack Joseph Conrad |
#4336, aired 2003-06-09 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $1000: Stendhal's "The Charterhouse of" this place is set in a prince's court in northern Italy Parma |
#4271, aired 2003-03-10 | HISTORICAL NOVELS $600: "The Conqueror" by Gertrude Atherton fictionalizes the life of this early 19th century dueling victim Alexander Hamilton |
#4170, aired 2002-10-18 | 19th CENTURY LIT $1200: His 1842 novel "Dead Souls" is considered one of the greatest novels in the Russian language Nikolai Gogol |
#3810, aired 2001-03-09 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $100: Louisa May Alcott based the main characters in this novel on herself & 3 sisters Little Women |
#3810, aired 2001-03-09 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $200: The mysterious Fedallah, a harpooner in this 1851 novel, is a Zoroastrian Moby Dick |
#3810, aired 2001-03-09 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $300: This character dozes at the tea party in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" Dormouse |
#3810, aired 2001-03-09 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $400: This Dickens villain who teaches boys to steal may have been based on a real criminal, Isaac Solomons Fagin |
#3810, aired 2001-03-09 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $500: In 1893 this author published "Catriona", a sequel to "Kidnapped" Robert Louis Stevenson |
#3799, aired 2001-02-22 | FIRST NOVELS $300: This 19th century New Englander later tried to destroy all the copies of his anonymous first novel, "Fanshawe" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
#3782, aired 2001-01-30 | FAMOUS FACES $600: This Englishman's detailed & highly popular novels examined 19th century social conditions Charles Dickens |
#3709, aired 2000-10-19 | 19th CENTURY LIT $2,001 (Daily Double): Frenchman famous for realistic novels & for an open letter published Jan 13, 1898 Emile Zola (J'Accuse) |
#3570, aired 2000-02-25 | HISTORICAL NOVELS $400: A 19th century novel by John Esten Cooke enhanced the legend of this playful daughter of Powhatan Pocahontas |
#3294, aired 1998-12-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: In 1860 Erastus Beadle began publishing a series of novels that sold for this price 10 cents |
#2832, aired 1996-12-17 | 19TH CENTURY AUTHORS $400: His monumental collection "La Comedie Humaine" encompasses about 90 novels & stories Honore De Balzac |
#2814, aired 1996-11-21 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $200: Near the end of this novel Long John Silver steals some of the booty & is never heard from again Treasure Island |
#2814, aired 1996-11-21 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $400: The title of this Victor Hugo novel could be translated as "The Wretches" Les Miserables |
#2814, aired 1996-11-21 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $600: Surely you know that "Shirley" was a later novel by this "Jane Eyre" author Charlotte Bronte |
#2814, aired 1996-11-21 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $800: Isabel Archer is the heroine of this 1881 novel by Henry James The Portrait of a Lady |
#2814, aired 1996-11-21 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $1000: Dostoyevsky wrote "The Brothers Karamazov" & this Russian wrote "Fathers and Sons" Turgenev |
#1459, aired 1990-12-27 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: "Dead Souls" has been called one of the greatest novels ever written in this language Russian |
#1337, aired 1990-05-29 | NOVELS $400: Great 19th century Russian novelist whose book "The Possessed" is also known as "The Devils" Dostoyevsky |
#1272, aired 1990-02-27 | FRENCH AUTHORS $400: His 19th century novels such as "The Mysterious Island" foretold the submarine, the aqua lung & TV Jules Verne |
#881, aired 1988-06-06 | 19TH CENTURY LITERATURE $600: He lived till 1928 but wrote all his novels, including "Tess of the d'Urbervilles", in the 1800s Thomas Hardy |
#443, aired 1986-05-21 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $200: Popular reading materials of 19th century were 2-cent newspapers & trashy "novels" at this price a dime |
#306, aired 1985-11-11 | 19TH CENTURY NOVELS $200: Of all his books, he said “David Copperfield” was his “favourite child” Charles Dickens |
#306, aired 1985-11-11 | 19TH CENTURY NOVELS $400: The “official” title of “Alice In Wonderland” Alice's Adventures In Wonderland |
#306, aired 1985-11-11 | 19TH CENTURY NOVELS $600: Henry James novel whose New York setting is its title Washington Square |
#306, aired 1985-11-11 | 19TH CENTURY NOVELS $800: For over 50 years, one of these was “The Man Without A Country's” home ship |
#306, aired 1985-11-11 | 19TH CENTURY NOVELS $1,000 (Daily Double): Captain Nemo “dies” in both these Jules Verne novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea & The Mysterious Island |
#8696, aired 2022-09-12 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: "This bell was named Marie... alone in the southern tower, with her sister Jacqueline, a bell of lesser size", says this novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
#8530, aired 2021-12-10 | 19th CENTURY BRITISH AUTHORS: She called herself "the daughter of two persons of distinguished literary celebrity" in an introduction to one of her novels (Mary) Shelley |
#8213, aired 2020-04-29 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: Its first line ends, "the period was so far like the present period... for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only" A Tale of Two Cities |
#8003, aired 2019-05-29 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: The author of this tale dedicated the novel to British philosopher William Godwin, her father Frankenstein |
#7980, aired 2019-04-26 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: The title character of this 1841 novel says he got his name because he kills bucks & does, but not people The Deerslayer |
#7916, aired 2019-01-28 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: Ambrose Bierce, a Civil War veteran, said of this 1895 book, the author "knows nothing of war, yet he is drenched in blood" The Red Badge of Courage |
#7310, aired 2016-05-27 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: "The Gold Bug", Edgar Allan Poe's story about the search for Captain Kidd's buried loot, helped inspire this 1883 novel Treasure Island |
#6197, aired 2011-07-19 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: This novel's first epilogue says, "The activity of Alexander or of Napoleon cannot be called useful or harmful" War and Peace |
#5575, aired 2008-11-28 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: Its title refers to an imaginary place where things like "honors, preferments... silver, gold, pearls" are sold Vanity Fair |
#5519, aired 2008-09-11 | LINES FROM 19th CENTURY NOVELS: "My two natures had memory in common, but all other faculties were most unequally shared between them" Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde |
#4405, aired 2003-10-31 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: In Chapter 1 of this novel, we find "a vast, ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light" Dracula |
#2600, aired 1995-12-15 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: Book 1, Chapter 4 of this 1880 work is entitled "The Third Son Alyosha" The Brothers Karamazov |