The Literary Pocket Puzzle Book: 120 Classic Conundrums for Book Lovers

By Neil Somerville

Make a literary escape into the pages of a puzzle book!

Are you bursting with literary knowledge that you’d like to put to the test? Or do you just want a moment’s distraction filling in a Harry Potter- or Lord of the Rings-themed crossword puzzle, looking up the names of Charles Dickens’s characters in a word search, or completing a Jane Austen sudoku puzzle?

The Literary Pocket Puzzle Book offers puzzles of varying difficulty levels and literary themes that will amuse, excite, and inform. This handy, portable pocket-sized book features 120 craft conundrums that will keep you scratching your head over famous author pen names and obscure literary terms as you exercise your knowledge on Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Marcel Proust, Henry James, and James Joyce. These puzzles include:

Anagrams and cryptograms
Crosswords and word searches
Riddles and quizes
Sudoku
And many more!

For all book-loving puzzle solvers or puzzle-loving book readers, The Literary Pocket Puzzle Book is the perfect avenue to unwind, or be challenged.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Skyhorse
• Release date: Oct 4, 2016
• ISBN: 9781510710788

Neil Somerville

Neil Somerville has been writing the bestselling ‘Your Chinese Horoscope’ series since 1987 and, as his readers have discovered, these are no ordinary Horoscope books. Although they do contain predictions they also give much encouraging advice and this is what attracted Neil to Chinese horoscopes so many years ago. They are a great indicator of trends to come and, once aware of these, it is possible to adapt and benefit from this knowledge.

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INTRODUCTION

According to the French author La Rochefoucauld:

‘The ocean of literature is _____.’

• without limit

• a continual surprise

• always worth trawling

Whether to amuse, entertain, excite or inform, books offer so much to so many. They can also be a friend, sometimes an escape, and among their pages are many wonders.

In The Literary Pocket Puzzle Book you can glory in books, ponder over the quirks of famous writers, tackle mystery sudokus, coded crosswords, criss crosses and word searches as well as deliberate over the meanings of words such as palimpsest and squib.

There is much here that I hope will delight with literary puzzles to literally puzzle over. The answer to the above is: ‘The ocean of literature is without limit’ and, whether right or wrong, let the puzzling begin.

Have fun.

Neil Somerville

1

ANAGRAMS: DETECTIVE WRITERS

Unscramble the words to detect the names of writers famed for their detective fiction. Who are they?

1 Or handout larceny

2 Emerging nooses

3 Or manhandled cry

4 Past major tense

5 At a high rise act

2

MYSTERY SUDOKU

Complete the grid so that every row, column and 3x3 box contains the letters EGIKLNOTU in any order. One row or column contains the seven-letter name of a writer.

Who is it?

3

WORD SEARCH: POETS

Ralph Waldo Emerson declared, ‘Poets are not to be seen.’ With the following great names well hidden in the grid, now is the time to seek them out.

Angelou

Arnold

Basho

Belloc

Blake

Brecht

Brooke

Byron

Dante

Frost

Goethe

Goldsmith

Homer

Keats

Milton

Noyes

Poe

Pope

Shakespeare

Shelley

Tennyson

Thomas

Virgil

Yeats

4

WRITERS’ TALK

The following are incomplete quotes from Isaac Asimov, Samuel Beckett and Matthew Arnold. Complete the quotes with each author’s exact words.

1 ‘The one absolute requirement for me to write… is