Question
Charles Dickens' youngest son, who bore the unfortunate nickname "Plorn," was named for this author. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this English author who convinced Dickens to write a happier ending for Great Expectations. The lovers Glaucus and Ione appear in his novel The Last Days of Pompeii.
ANSWER: Edward Bulwer-Lytton [or Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton; or Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens]
[10e] Bulwer-Lytton is more famous for the oft-mocked opening line of his novel Paul Clifford, which proclaims, "It was a…night" with these two classically Gothic qualities. Name both.
ANSWER: dark AND stormy [reject synonyms]
[10m] Bulwer-Lytton wrote the play Not So Bad As We May Seem for a charity event, with a cast including Dickens and this author. This man wrote about the switching of Laura Fairlie and Anne Catherick in The Woman in White.
ANSWER: Wilkie Collins [or William Wilkie Collins]
<Literature - British Literature - Long Fiction>
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| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 37 | 12.97 | 87% | 38% | 5% |