{"id":2171,"date":"2009-06-22T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=2171"},"modified":"2009-06-21T21:07:54","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T05:07:54","slug":"what-do-these-books-have-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/reading\/authors\/what-do-these-books-have-in-common\/","title":{"rendered":"What do these books have in common?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Maurice Bendrix, <em>The Ambitious Host<\/em><\/li>\n<li>D. B. Caulfield, <em>The Secret Goldfish<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Vivian Darkbloom, <em>My Cue<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Nicholas de Selby, <em>Country Album<\/em>Gwendolen Erme, <em>Deep Down, Overmastered<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Andrew Hibbard, <em>The Chasm of the Mind<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Robin Penrose, <em>Domestic Angels and Unfortunate Females: Woman as Sign and Commodity in Victorian Fiction<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Boris Alekseyevich Trigorin, <em>Days and Nights<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Harriet Vane, <em>Murder By Degrees<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Answer after the break . . .<!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>All are imaginary titles catalogued in the <a href=\"http:\/\/invislib.blogspot.com\/\">Invisible Library<\/a> project, which sounds like it ought to be by Borges but is actually part of an exhibition planned for the <a href=\"http:\/\/tenderpixel.com\/exhibitions.html\">Tenderpixel Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Bendrix title appears in Graham Greene&#8217;s <em>The End of the Affair<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Caulfield is from J.D. Salinger&#8217;s <em>The Catcher in the Rye<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Darkbloom is from Vladimir Nabokov&#8217;s <em>Lolita<\/em><\/li>\n<li>de Selby is Flann O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s <em>The Third Policeman<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Hibbard is from Rex Stout&#8217;s <em>The League of Frightened Men<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Penrose is from David Lodge&#8217;s <em>Nice Work<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Trigorin is from Anton Chekhov&#8217;s <em>The Seagull<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Vane is in Dorothy Sayers&#8217; <em>Strong Poison <\/em>and others<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It must be said that the list is rather imbalanced at the moment, with some obvious omisions and a great deal of Gilbert Sorrentino and Anthony Powell.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maurice Bendrix, The Ambitious Host D. B. Caulfield, The Secret Goldfish Vivian Darkbloom, My Cue Nicholas de Selby, Country AlbumGwendolen Erme, Deep Down, Overmastered Andrew Hibbard, The Chasm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2171"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2176,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions\/2176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}