Packet 8: Tossup 8

A critic from this country who quipped “Fish are born to fly, and everywhere they swim” is the subject of Aileen Kelly’s The Discovery of Chance. A critic from this country wrote a harsh letter that claims the public is forgiving for a bad book (15[1])“but never for a (15[1])pernicious one.” The memoir (15[1])My Past and Thoughts is by a writer from this country who coined the phrase “Genghis Khan with the telegraph.” A collection of essays on this country’s (*) 19th-century thinkers inspired Tom Stoppard to portray (10[1])the editor of The Contemporary in The Coast of Utopia. (10[6])An (10[1])author (10[2])from this country (-5[1])failed to express “one big thing” in his (10[1])theory (10[3]-5[1])of history (10[2])according to Isaiah (10[1])Berlin. (10[1]-5[2])For 10 points, (10[3]-5[2])“The Hedgehog (10[1])and the Fox” (-5[1])comments on a (10[1])Christian anarchist (10[1])from what country who wrote Resurrection, (10[2])The Kreutzer (10[2])Sonata, (10[1])and War (10[1])and (10[1])Peace? (10[1])■END■ (10[8])

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