To cheat at bets in this novel, a character kills blue-bottle flies and attaches them to specific lumps of sugar. This novel banally catalogs part of a ninety-nine-page-long list of furniture a character buys for a party at which Lieutenant Brigge promises a miracle. This novel ends as the title character marvels at a goose hovering over the head of her husband, (15[1])(*) Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine. A different author's collection of eight poems set in Constantinople inspired the setting where this novel's title character writes The Oak Tree, a poem published 300 years later with the help of Nick Greene. For 10 points, Vita Sackville-West was the basis for the title character of what Virginia Woolf novel, in which the title character awakens in the 20th century as a woman? ■END■