Name the original book
Original FiveLetterWords practice. This is separate from the publisher's daily puzzle.
Group characters by the cited original book, rather than an actor, a recent film or a shared personality trait. Full character names keep ordinary words such as LION or SILVER from doing all the work. The sources and worked solution identify the editions.
Select four entries to check a group.
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Worked solution
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
ALICE · HATTER · DORMOUSE · CHESHIRE CAT
These four characters appear in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Check Chapters VI–VII; this grouping makes no claim about later screen adaptations.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
DOROTHY · SCARECROW · TIN WOODMAN · COWARDLY LION
These four characters appear in L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). Check Chapters III–VI; this grouping makes no claim about later screen adaptations.
The Jungle Book
MOWGLI · BAGHEERA · BALOO · SHERE KHAN
These four characters appear in Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book (1894). Check Mowgli’s Brothers; this grouping makes no claim about later screen adaptations.
Treasure Island
JIM HAWKINS · LONG JOHN SILVER · BEN GUNN · BILLY BONES
These four characters appear in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (1883). Check Chapters I–III, VIII and XV; this grouping makes no claim about later screen adaptations.
Ambiguity and review notes
Agent review checked each named character in the cited original work. The four work labels provide the intended partition; occupations, animal species and adaptations are not the rule. Character spelling and full names are preserved, and no modern film artwork or dialogue is used.
Sources, attribution and reuse
Dictionary-derived explanations identified below are original paraphrases adapted under the stated licence. Original board arrangements and mechanical checks are identified separately; the sources do not endorse this exercise.
- Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), original text via Project Gutenberg
ALICE, HATTER, DORMOUSE, CHESHIRE CAT are characters in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865); relevant passages: Chapters VI–VII.
Public-domain original text; original factual summary.Original character-to-book selection and explanation. No modern adaptation, artwork or edition introduction reused.
- Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book (1894), original text via Project Gutenberg
MOWGLI, BAGHEERA, BALOO, SHERE KHAN are characters in Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book (1894); relevant passages: Mowgli’s Brothers.
Public-domain original text; original factual summary.Original character-to-book selection and explanation. No modern adaptation, artwork or edition introduction reused.
- L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), original text via Project Gutenberg
DOROTHY, SCARECROW, TIN WOODMAN, COWARDLY LION are characters in L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900); relevant passages: Chapters III–VI.
Public-domain original text; original factual summary.Original character-to-book selection and explanation. No modern adaptation, artwork or edition introduction reused.
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (1883), original text via Project Gutenberg
JIM HAWKINS, LONG JOHN SILVER, BEN GUNN, BILLY BONES are characters in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (1883); relevant passages: Chapters I–III, VIII and XV.
Public-domain original text; original factual summary.Original character-to-book selection and explanation. No modern adaptation, artwork or edition introduction reused.
- Library of Congress, bibliographic record or collection account
Library of Congress describes the 1865 printing of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and the subsequent 1866 issue.
Bibliographic facts; original summary.Only publication-date metadata is summarized; no image, prose passage or full record reproduced.
- Library of Congress, bibliographic record or collection account
Library of Congress records Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book as published by Macmillan in 1894.
Bibliographic facts; original summary.Only publication-date metadata is summarized; no image, prose passage or full record reproduced.
- Library of Congress, bibliographic record or collection account
Library of Congress records The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum as a 1900 publication.
Bibliographic facts; original summary.Only publication-date metadata is summarized; no image, prose passage or full record reproduced.
- Library of Congress, bibliographic record or collection account
Library of Congress dates this original Treasure Island edition by Robert Louis Stevenson to 1883.
Bibliographic facts; original summary.Only publication-date metadata is summarized; no image, prose passage or full record reproduced.
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