Portmanteau Novels - Statistics

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novel #1	Portmanteau	novel #2	% Correct
Margaret Mitchell's only novel published in her lifetime, following Scarlett O'Hara before, during, and after the Civil War	Gone with the Wind in the Willows	a classic children's novel about animals trying to help their motorcar-obsessed friend out of trouble	65%
a novel set in the near-future theonomic state of Gilead, which has overthrown the United States government	The Handmaid's Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens's historical fiction novel set in in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution	65%
Tom Wolfe's drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City	The Bonfire of the Vanity Fair	Thackeray novel set during the Napoleonic wars and sharing a name with a magazine	53%
Hemingway's story of Santiago, an aging fisherman, and his long struggle to catch a giant marlin	The Old Man and the Sea of Monsters	the second novel in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series	47%
the debut novel of Irish writer James Joyce about religious and intellectual awakening of Joyce's fictional alter ego	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mansfield Park	the story of Fanny Price, who is sent to live with wealthy relatives at an estate for which the novel is named	41%
a dystopian novel about a world in which people are constantly consuming soma, a happiness-producing drug	Brave New World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War	a zombie horror novel adapted into a 2013 film starring Brad Pitt	35%
the story of a voyage along the Congo River that also serves as the basis for the film Apocalypse Now	Heart of Darkness at Noon	Arthur Koestler's novel following an Old Bolshevik who is arrested, imprisoned, and tried for treason	35%
an 1860 mystery novel involving a young woman who is falsely incarcerated in an asylum by her husband	The Woman in White Teeth	Zadie Smith's debut novel, focusing on the lives of two wartime friends in London	35%
a dystopian satirical novel written in Nadsat, a fictional slang spoken by teenagers in the future	A Clockwork Oranges are not the Only Fruit	a coming-of-age story about a lesbian who grows up in an English Pentecostal community	29%
the coming-of-age story of the four March sisters in 19th century New England	Little Women in Love	a novel following the loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters in the 1910s	29%
a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" prevalent in 1960s Kerala, India	The God of Small Things Fall Apart	the debut novel of Nigerian author Chinua Achebe,depicting life in pre-colonial Igobland, part of modern Nigeria	29%
Dickens's 1853 novel centered on a long-running legal case in the Court of Chancery	Bleak House of Mirth	the story of Lily Bart, a well-born but impoverished woman belonging to New York City's high society in the 1890s	24%
a novel about the relationships of an American man living in Paris, including one with Giovanni, whom he meets at a gay bar	Giovanni's Room with a View	E. M. Forster novel about wealthy Miss Lucy Honeychurch who falls for a supposed socialist on a trip to Italy	24%
a 2005 science fiction novel by Kazuo Ishiguro that takes place in an alternate reality in which mass human cloning is authorised and performed	Never Let Me Go Tell it on the Mountain	a 1953 semi-autobiographical novel by James Baldwin about a teenager in Harlem	24%
an originally serialized novel about a spirited young American heiress who falls victim to a suitor's schemes after rejecting two others	The Portrait of a Lady Chatterley's Lover	D.H. Lawrence's last novel, the target of bans for depicting a relationship between a working-class man and an upper-class woman	24%

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