Question
In this novel, whose sections include one titled “To Whom Do You Beautifully Belong?,” the protagonist says of an author that “we wouldn’t have realized… that he’d seen right through us.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this novel in which the protagonist has an affair with the Lebanese millionaire Wani. This novel by Alan Hollinghurst follows the gay man Nick Guest in 1980s Britain.
ANSWER: The Line of Beauty
[10e] “To Whom Do You Beautifully Belong?” is a quote by this author, whom Nick is writing his thesis on. Nick is working on a screenplay of The Spoils of Poynton, a novel by this author of The Turn of the Screw.
ANSWER: Henry James
[10m] The Line of Beauty references a scene in which this character is surprised to see her husband seated while Madame Merle is standing. This Henry James character is the protagonist of The Portrait of a Lady.
ANSWER: Isabel Archer [or Isabel Archer]
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