Packet 10: Bonus 4

Elizabeth Hardwick remarked that this novel “sometimes seems to belong to editorial history rather than to the annals of American literature.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Maxwell Perkins trimmed at least 66,000 words from what bildungsroman? This novel, whose reputation waned across the 20th century, follows the young writer Eugene Gant in the fictional city of Altamont.
ANSWER: Look Homeward, Angel (by Thomas Wolfe)
[10h] Look Homeward, Angel’s opening proem begins with this punctuation. This punctuation notoriously appears in The Great Gatsby when Nick recalls, “I was standing beside his bed and he was sitting up between the sheets.”
ANSWER: ellipsis [or ellipses; accept three dots or three periods; reject “period”]
[10e] Hardwick notes that Thomas Wolfe fatigue began to set in around Of Time and the River, which follows Eugene’s continuing life at this school. Quentin Compson jumps in a river while attending this northern university.
ANSWER: Harvard University
<Editors, American Literature> | S. Playoffs 10 (Editors 10)

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2416.67100%25%42%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
CambridgeUCLA001010E
Chicago ANorthwestern A0101020HE
Columbia AStanford A10101030MHE
Columbia BStanford B0101020HE
CornellMaryland B001010E
GeorgetownIllinois B0101020HE
HarvardNYU A1001020ME
Illinois ATexas1001020ME
MichiganGeorgia Tech A0101020HE
NYU BGeorgia Tech B0101020HE
North CarolinaPurdue1001020ME
Ohio StateJohns Hopkins0101020HE
Penn StateVirginia10101030MHE
PittsburghMinnesota001010E
RutgersBruin001010E
SwarthmoreBrown0101020HE
Toronto AMaryland A001010E
Toronto BBritish Columbia001010E
UC Berkeley AVirginia Tech1001020ME
UC Berkeley BIndiana001010E
UCFChicago B001010E
VanderbiltMIT0101020HE
WashUGeorgia Tech C001010E
WaterlooNorthwestern B001010E

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TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Main Site2026-04-17✓2416.67100%25%42%