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Penelope 
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Not film-buff like you. Love Woopie Goldburg.......
I will think again!!! |
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ralphinlaos
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O.K., here's clue #2:
"Well, she's no better than she should be, that's for sure. I don't know what is happening to this household. A fine gentleman of a husband and here she is traipsin' all over the city with another man . And the little boy, caught right in the middle. The very idea! She'll come to a bad end, that one. You mark my words."
NAME THAT BOOK.
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Penelope
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Let's see....
This second clue sounds like 'Anna Karenina' but since she was called 'Anna' and not 'Dorothy' (ie Hello Dolly) that can't be right.
Am I thinking along the right lines - with the Dorothy?
Same story - different setting......hmmmmm......can you smell burning?
That's my brain.....me thinking........ |
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ralphinlaos
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You're right, Penny! Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. I knew you'd know this one.
And the first clue was a good one - "Hello, Dolly," was Anna's greeting to her sister in law, Dolly.
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Penelope
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I am so puffed up with pride.......
Ask me another!!!!!! |
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ralphinlaos
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As well you should be, Penny (puffed up, that is). But remember what pride goeth before . . .
Next book:
"It's nobody's business but mine; I will decide who inherits my property and who doesn't. But, they are getting suspicious; I'll have to be more discreet."
NAME THAT BOOK!
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Saffron
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| Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens? |
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ralphinlaos
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Sorry, Saffron, it's not "Martin Chuzzlewit" - which, I am ashamed to say, I have never read - even though Dickens is one of my favorites.
Anyway, that first clue was not very good - here's a better clue:
"Handsome, honorable and distinguished/ugly, repugnant and repulsive."
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Penelope
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Saffron has got me thinking in terms of Dickens:
These clues fit 'Bleak House'.
What do you think Saffron? Could be John Galsworthy- Forsyte Saga too.
Anyway - I bet it's one of the Victorians. |
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ralphinlaos
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You're getting close; I was afraid that last clue would give it away.
Ralph |
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