Over the past few months I have posted two entries of a game called “Name That Book”.  The rules were quite simple:  I quoted the first sentence of a book, and you, the player, were to name the book being quoted.

This time I’m changing the game a bit.  I will quote from the end of the book instead of the beginning.  In some cases, I am quoting only the last sentence.  Other times I am including more than the last sentence. I may even quote a few paragraphs.

Of course, no quiz is complete without a few clues, and these should be very helpful: 

• I am not quoting from any ending Notes, Appendix or Afterword.  Quotes come from the end of the main body of the work.  If a book’s Epilogue is central to the story, I may quote from it.

• Some of the books or stories in this quiz were also included in the previous quizzes. If you did not see those previous quizzes, or simply need to jog your memory, click here and here.  

• If I am not using the same book or story, I am quoting the same author that was used in the previous quizzes.  However, I can’t make it too obvious, so I am also including two exceptions to that rule.  So…

• There are two books or stories in this quiz whose authors did not appear previously.  Both are very well known.  In fact, you have probably read them, and have certainly seen movies that were inspired by them.

• Finally, since the previous quizzes each included one short story, there will also be a short story on this one.

1.  “Bruce Herrod is now presumed dead, the twelfth casualty of the season.”

2.  “He rode with the sun coppering his face and the red wind blowing out of the west across the evening land and the small desert birds flew chittering among the dry bracken and horse and rider and horse passed on and their long shadows passed in tandem like the shadow of a single being.  Passed and paled into the darkening land, the world to come.”

3.  “It’s funny.  Don’t ever tell anybody anything.  If you do, you start missing everybody.”

4.  “The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.  Nor should we now seek to define precisely the exact terms of ultimate union.”

5.  “There was a loud blast as of many trumpets!  There was a discordant hum of human voices!  There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders!  The fiery walls rushed back!  An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss.  It was that of General Lasalle.  The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies.  The French army had entered Toledo.”

6.  “On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last.  It was the devious cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.

“FINIS”

7.  “‘Come!’ the voice booms, but commanding me now:  Come, My son!  I turn in surrender.

“Surely I come quickly.  Amen.

 “Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

 “Oh how bright and fair the morning star…”

8.  “In a moment she felt quieter.  She put his hand on the table and stroked his fingers with hers.  After all, he was only a boy.  She saw that the collar of his shirt was wrinkled under his jacket.

“‘Never you mind, honey,’ she said quietly, reaching under the jacket and carefully straightening out the collar, ‘Honey, never you mind…’”

9.  “The sun was now right down upon the mountain top, and the red gleams fell upon my face, so that it was bathed in rosy light.  With one impulse the men sank on their knees and a deep and earnest ‘Amen’ broke from all as their eyes followed the pointing of his finger.  The dying man spoke: --

“‘Now God be thanked that all has not been in vain!  See!  The snow is not more stainless than her forehead!  The curse has passed away!'

“And, to our bitter grief, with a smile and in silence, he died, a gallant gentleman.”

10.  “When Margaret grows up she will have a daughter, who is to be Peter’s mother in turn; and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.”

There you go...answers will be posted on Sunday!