In this story, two men who are pinned beneath a tree share a wine flask and imagine what it would be like if they “rode into the market square together.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this story in which the reconciliation of the feud between the Znaeym (“z’NAY-um”) and von Gradwitz families is cut short by the one-word sentence “Wolves.”
ANSWER: “The Interlopers”
[10e] “The Interlopers” is by this pseudonymous British author, whose collection Beasts and Super-Beasts also contains the story “The Open Window.”
ANSWER: Saki [or Hector Hugh Munro]
[10h] In a story by Saki with this title, a bachelor entertains three children on a train by describing a “horribly good” girl being eaten by a wolf. An essay by Walter Benjamin with this English title examines the works of Nikolai Leskov.
ANSWER: “The Storyteller”
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