From Island to Island

Today’s questions are all about literature.

One

What geographic feature is the third word in the title of a 1973 work by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn?


See question two. William Blake: Christian Reading in His Book, The Pilgrim’s Progress.
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Two

In what century was The Pilgrim’s Progress first published?


Three

Digital Fortress (1998) and Deception Point (2001) were the first novels of an author better known for a series of books, some of which have been made into films, featuring an academic protagonist. Who is this author, who is the academic protagonist, what novel published in 2000 is the first in the series, and what, published in 2025, is the most recent?


Four

What author’s work includes a Mr. and Mrs. Maggot who live at Bamfurlong?


Five

HARI SELDON … born in the 11,988th year of the Galactic Era: died 12,069. The dates are more commonly given in terms of the current Foundational Era as -79 to the year 1 F.E.

The Psychohistorians, which is part I of a book published in 1951, opens its first chapter with the above quote. What is the title of the book, and who was its author?


Good luck! I’ll post the answers later.


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