Authors From Titles 1

Question 1

Oedipus Rex (c.430 BC)

Answer 1

Sophocles

Question 2

The Decameron (1348-53)

Answer 2

Giovanni Boccaccio

Question 3

The Fairie Queene (1589-96)

Answer 3

Edmund Spenser

Question 4

The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678; 84)

Answer 4

John Bunyan

Question 5

The Rape of the Lock (1714)

Answer 5

Alexander Pope

Question 6

Tom Jones (1749)

Answer 6

Henry Fielding

Question 7

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1797)

Answer 7

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question 8

Faust (Part I - 1808; Part II - 1831)

Answer 8

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Question 9

Frankenstein (1818)

Answer 9

Mary Shelley

Question 10

Ode on a Grecian Urn (1819)

Answer 10

John Keats

Question 11

Leatherstocking Tales (1823-41) [The Pioneers, Last of the Mohicans, Prairie, Pathfinder, Deerslayer]

Answer 11

James Fenimore Cooper

Question 12

The Pickwick Papers (1836-37)

Answer 12

Charles Dickens

Question 13

The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)

Answer 13

Edgar Allan Poe

Question 14

The Three Musketeers (1844)

Answer 14

Alexandre Dumas

Question 15

Jane Eyre (1847)

Answer 15

Charlotte Brontë

Question 16

Wuthering Heights (1847)

Answer 16

Emily Brontë

Question 17

Vanity Fair (1848)

Answer 17

William Makepeace Thackeray

Question 18

Madame Bovary (1857)

Answer 18

Gustave Flaubert

Question 19

Fathers and Sons (1862)

Answer 19

Ivan Turgenev

Question 20

Les Misérables (1862)

Answer 20

Victor Hugo

Question 21

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1867)

Answer 21

Mark Twain

Question 22

Middlemarch (1872)

Answer 22

George Eliot

Question 23

The Return of the Native (1878)

Answer 23

Thomas Hardy

Question 24

The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

Answer 24

Oscar Wilde

Question 25

Death in Venice (1911)

Answer 25

Thomas Mann

Question 26

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1911)

Answer 26

T.S. Eliot

Question 27

Remembrance of Things Past (1913-27) [7 vols: Swann’s Way, Within a Budding Grove, Guermantes Way, Cities of the Plain, The Captive, The Sweet Cheat Gone, Time Regained]

Answer 27

Marcel Proust

Question 28

Main Street (1920)

Answer 28

Sinclair Lewis

Question 29

An American Tragedy (1925)

Answer 29

Theodore Dreiser

Question 30

As I Lay Dying (1930)

Answer 30

William Faulkner

Question 31

Brave New World (1932)

Answer 31

Aldous Huxley

Question 32

All the King’s Men (1946)

Answer 32

Robert Penn Warren

Question 33

Death of a Salesman (1949)

Answer 33

Arthur Miller

Question 34

The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

Answer 34

Ernest Hemingway

Question 35

Waiting For Godot (1952)

Answer 35

Samuel Beckett

Question 36

Lolita (1955)

Answer 36

Vladimir Nabokov

Question 37

Long Day’s Journey Into Night (pub. 1956)

Answer 37

Eugene O’Neill

Question 38

Things Fall Apart (1958)

Answer 38

Chinua Achebe

Question 39

Catch-22 (1961)

Answer 39

Joseph Heller

Question 40

One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)

Answer 40

Gabriel García Márquez