Literature - Books & Titles

Question 1

Charles Dickens wrote it after a trip to America in just a few weeks

Answer 1

A Christmas Carol (1843)

Question 2

Charles Dickens semi-autobiographical novel

Answer 2

David Copperfield (1850)

Question 3

William Makepeace Thackeray’s most famous novel

Answer 3

Vanity Fair

Question 4

Charlotte Brontë’s novel

Answer 4

Jane Eyre (1847)

Question 5

Emily Brontë’s novel

Answer 5

Wuthering Heights

Question 6

Anne Brontë’s novel

Answer 6

Agnes Grey

Question 7

George Eliot’s novel “the vile outpourings of a lewd woman’s mind”

Answer 7

Adam Bede

Question 8

Anne Bronë’s “utterly unfit to be put into the hands of girls”

Answer 8

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Question 9

Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel about the realities of industrialization

Answer 9

Mary Barton

Question 10

Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel about fallen women

Answer 10

Ruth

Question 11

George Eliot’s most famous novel

Answer 11

Middlemarch (1871-72)

Question 12

George Meredith’s later works which marked a shift towards exploring modern social issues, character psychology and novel form

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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859)

Question 13

George Meredith’s novels which gave him fame

Answer 13

The Egoist, Diana of the Crossways

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George Meredith’s novel influenced by his personal experiences

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Evan Harrington (1861)

Question 15

Thomas Hardy’s novels in the county of Wessex

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Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) and the Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)

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Thomas Hardy’s novels with outcast characters who challenge societal norms

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Tess of D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure

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Thomas Hardy’s poems

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Wessex Poems (1898)

Question 18

Henry James works

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The American (1876), The Europeans (1878) and The Portrait of a Lady (1881)

Question 19

Lewis Carroll’s novels

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871)

Question 20

Oscar Wilde’s first theatre hit

Answer 20

Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892)

Question 21

Oscar Wilde’s final work

Answer 21

The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

Question 22

Oscar Wildes tales published in 1888

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The Happy Prince and Other Tales and The Canterville Ghost

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Oscar Wilde’s plays in 1895

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An Ideal Husband, and the Importance of Being Earnest

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Oscar Wilde’s only novel

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The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)

Question 25

Oscar Wilde's tales of 1891

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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories, and A House of Pomegranates

Question 26

G.B. Shaw's last full-length play

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Buoyant Billions (1849)

Question 27

G.B. Shaw's most well-known work

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Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898)

Question 28

Plays within Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898)

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Widowers' Houses and Mrs. Warren's Profession

Question 29

G.B. Shaw's play with the concept of "life force"

Answer 29

Man and Superman

Question 30

G.B. Shaw's witty study of class distinction

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Pygmalion (1912-1913)

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G.B. Shaw's play set during the war about the disillusionment of the upper-classes in the pre-war years

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Heartbreak House (1913-1921)

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G.B. Shaw's plays about religion

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Back to Methuselah (1921) and St. Joan

Question 33

Herman Melville's novel about sailors

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Moby Dick (1851)

Question 34

Herman Melville's second novel

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Pierre (1852)

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Herman Melville's early novel

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Typee (1843)

Question 36

Herman Melville's novels about his disillusionment with human hypocrisy

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The Confidence-Man (1857)

Question 37

Herman Melville's novels about the war

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Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866)

Question 38

Edgar Allan Poe's collection of grotesque style

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Tales of the Arabesque and the Grotesque (1840)

Question 39

Popular story within Tales of the Arabesque and the Grotesque (1840)

Answer 39

The Fall of the House of Usher

Question 40

Edgar Allan Poe's works after his wife suffered tuberculosis

Answer 40

The Masque of the Red Death (1842) and the Raven (1845)

Question 41

Edgar Allan Poe's major works

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The Premature Burial, Ligeia, The Cask of Amontadillo and the Fall of the House of Usher

Question 42

Edgar Allan Poe's detective story

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The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Question 43

Walt Whitman's most famous collection of poems

Answer 43

Leaves of Grass (1855)

Question 44

Leaves of Grass' 1st section

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Inscriptions

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Leaves of Grass' 2nd section

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Children of Adam

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Leaves of Grass' 3rd section

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Calamus

Question 47

Walt Whitman's autobiography

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Specimen Days and Collect

Question 48

Walt Whitman's last work

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Good-Bye, My Fancy (1891)

Question 49

Mark Twain's novel after a pleasure trip to Europe

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The Innocents Abroad (1869)

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Mark Twain's most famous works

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)

Question 51

Mark Twain's book about his childhood

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Life On The Mississippi (1883)

Question 52

Mark Twain's essays and romances (non-personal expierences)

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The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Joan of Arc

Question 53

Henry James' first short story

Answer 53

A Tragedy of Errors

Question 54

Henry James' first novel (serial)

Answer 54

Watch and Ward (1871)

Question 55

Henry James' first novel

Answer 55

Roderick Hudson (1875)

Question 56

Henry James' novel about a young American woman who becomes a victim of provincialism during her travels in Europe

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The Portrait of a Lady (1881)

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Hugh Macdiarmid

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In Memoriam James Joyce (1955), A Clyack-Sheaf (1969)

Question 58

Philip Larkin

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The Less Deceived (1955)

Question 59

Ted Hughes

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The Hawk in the Rain (1957), Selected Poems

Question 60

Tony Harrison

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V (1985)

Question 61

Seamus Heany

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Death of a Naturalist (1966)

Question 62

Samuel Becket

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Waiting for Godot

Question 63

John James Osborne

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Look Back in Anger

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Harold Pinter

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The Birthday Party (1958), The Dumb Waiter (1960), The Caretaker (1960)

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Tom Stoppard

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Rosencratz and Guilderstern Are Dead (1964-65)

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William Gerald Golding

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Lord of the Flies (1954)

Question 67

Graham Greene

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Battlefield (1934), England Made Me (1935), Brighton Rock (1938)

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George Orwell

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Animal Farm (1945)

Question 69

JRR Tolkien

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The Hobbit (1937), The Lord of the Rings (1954-55)