UK's writers and literature Flashcards

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Who wrote Animal Farm

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George Orwell

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Who wrote The Canterbury Tales

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Who wrote Jane Eyre

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Charlotte Bronte

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Who wrote Robinson Crusoe

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Daniel Defoe

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Who wrote Tess of the D’Ubervilles

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Thomas Hardy

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Who wrote Wuthering Heights

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Emily Bronte

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Who wrote A Tale of two cities

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Charles Dickens

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Who wrote To the lighthouse

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Virginia Woolf

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Who wrote The hound of the Baskervilles

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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10
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Who wrote Silas Marner

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George Eliot

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11
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Who wrote Frankenstein

A

Mary Shelley

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Who wrote Pride and Prejudice

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Jane Austen

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13
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Who wrote Vanity Fair

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William Makepeace Thackeray

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14
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Who wrote The jungle book

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Rudyard Kipling

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15
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Who wrote Lady Chatterley’s Lover

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D.H. Lawrence

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16
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Who wrote The war of the worlds

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H G Wells

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17
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Who wrote Room with a view

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E M Foster

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18
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Who wrote Brideshead Revisited

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Evelyn Waugh

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19
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Who wrote Brace new world

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Aldous Huxley

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20
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Who wrote Alice in the Wonderland (❤️)

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Lewis Carroll

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21
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Who wrote The Heart of the Matter

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Graham Greene

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22
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Who wrote The End of the Affair

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Graham Greene

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23
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Who wrote The Confidential Agent

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Graham Greene

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24
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Who wrote The Third Man

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Graham Greene

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25
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Who wrote Lord of The Flies

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William Golding

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26
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Who wrote Free Fall

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William Golding

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27
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Who wrote Colonel Jack

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Daniel Defoe

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28
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Who wrote Capitan Singleton

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Daniel Defoe

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29
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Who wrote Murder on the Orient Express

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Agatha Christie

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30
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Who wrote Decline and Fall

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Evelyn Waugh

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31
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Who wrote Miss (Jane) Marple

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Agatha Christie

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32
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Who wrote A Handful of Dust

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Evelyn Waugh

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33
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Who wrote The Chronicles of Narnia

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Clive Staples Lewis

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34
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Who wrote The Allegory of Love

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Clive Staples Lewis

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35
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Who wrote Till We Have Faces

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Clive Staples Lewis

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36
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Who wrote The Space Trilogy

A

Clive Staples Lewis

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37
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Who wrote Lord Jim

A

Joseph Conrad

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38
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Who wrote Heart Of Darkness

A

Joseph Conrad

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39
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Who wrote The Last Man

A

Mary Shelley

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40
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Who wrote The nigger of the ‘Narcissus’

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Joseph Conrad

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41
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Who wrote Mathilda

A

Mary Shelley

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42
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Who wrote Cloudsley

A

Mary Shelley

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43
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Who wrote Sons and Lovers

A

David Herbert Lawrence

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44
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Who wrote The Rainbow

A

David Herbert Lawrence

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45
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Who wrote Lyrical Ballads

A

William Wordsworth

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46
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Who wrote Poems in Two Volumes

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William Wordsworth

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47
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Who wrote About a Boy

A

Nick Hornby

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48
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Who wrote High Fidelity

A

Nick Hornby

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49
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Who wrote Blood Brothers

A

Willy Russell

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50
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Who wrote The Curious Incident of the Dogin the Night-time

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Mark Haddon

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51
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Who wrote An Inspector Calls

A

John Boynton Priestley

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52
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Who wrote Let People Sing

A

John Boynton Priestley

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53
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Who wrote Never Let Me Go

A

Kazuo Ishiguro

54
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Who wrote An Artist of the Floating Worls

A

Kazuo Ishiguro

55
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Who wrote When We Are Orphans

A

Kazuo Ishiguro

56
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Who wrote A Taste of Honey

A

Shelagh Delaney

57
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Who wrote The White Bus

A

Shelagh Delaney

58
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Who wrote Dance With a Stranger

A

Shelagh Delaney

59
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Who wrote The Woman in Black

A

Susan Hill

60
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Who wrote The Mist in the Mirror

A

Susan Hill

61
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Who wrote Look Homeward Angel

A

Thomas Wolfe

62
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Who wrote Of Time and the River

A

Thomas Wolfe

63
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Who wrote Jabberwocky

A

Lewis Carroll

64
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Who wrote The Grass is Singing

A

Doris Lessing

65
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Who wrote Children of Violence

A

Doris Lessing

66
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Who wrote The Golden Notebook

A

Doris Lessing

67
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Who wrote The Hobbit

A

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

68
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Who wrote The Lord Of The Rings

A

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

69
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Who wrote The Good Terrorist

A

Doris Lessing

70
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Who wrote The Silmarillion

A

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

71
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Who wrote Wuthering Heights

A

Emily Jane Bronte

72
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Who wrote The Tempest

A

William Shakespeare

73
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Who wrote Two Gentlemen of Verona

A

William Shakespeare

74
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Who wrote The Merry Wives of Windsor

A

William Shakespeare

75
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Who wrote Measure for Measure

A

William Shakespeare

76
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Who wrote The Comedy of Errors

A

William Shakespeare

77
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Who wrote Much Ado about Nnothing

A

William Shakespeare

78
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Who wrote Love’s Labour’s Last

A

William Shakespeare

79
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Who wrote A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A

William Shakespeare

80
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Who wrote The Winter’s Tale

A

William Shakespeare

81
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Who wrote Pericles Prince of Tyre

A

William Shakespeare

82
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Who wrote The Two Noble Kinsmen

A

William Shakespeare

83
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Who wrote Troilus and Cressida

A

William Shakespeare

84
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Who wrote Titus Andonicus

A

William Shakespeare

85
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Who wrote Romeo and Julliet

A

William Shakespeare

86
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Who wrote Timon of Athens

A

William Shakespeare

87
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Who wrote Julius Caesar

A

William Shakespeare

88
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Who wrote Macbeth

A

William Shakespeare

89
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Who wrote Hamlet

A

William Shakespeare

90
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Who wrote King Lear

A

William Shakespeare

91
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Who wrote Othello

A

William Shakespeare

92
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Who wrote Anthony and Cleopatra

A

William Shakespeare

93
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Who wrote Cymbeline

A

William Shakespeare

94
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Who wrote King John

A

William Shakespeare

95
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Who wrote Richard II

A

William Shakespeare

96
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Who wrote Henry IV

A

William Shakespeare

97
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Who wrote Henry V

A

William Shakespeare

98
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Who wrote Henry VI

A

William Shakespeare

99
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Who wrote Richard III

A

William Shakespeare

100
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Who wrote Henry VIII

A

William Shakespeare

101
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Who wrote A Clockwork Orange

A

Anthony Burgess

102
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Who wrote Earthly Powers

A

Anthony Burgess

103
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Who wrote The Sherlock Holmes series

A

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle

104
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Who wrote Of Human Bondage

A

William Somerset Maugham

105
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Who wrote The Moon and Sixpence

A

William Somerset Maugham

106
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Who wrote Sense ans Sensibility

A

Jane Austen

107
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Who wrote Pride and Prejudice

A

Jane Austen

108
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Who wrote Mansfield Park

A

Jane Austen

109
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Who wrote Mrs Dalloway

A

Virginia Woolf

110
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Who wrote To The Lighthouse

A

Virginia Woolf

111
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Who wrote Orlando

A

Virginia Woolf

112
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Who wrote Night and Day

A

Virginia Woolf

113
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Who wrote Far from the Madding Crowd

A

Thomas Hardy

114
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Who wrote Tess of the d’Uberville’s

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Thomas Hardy

115
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Who wrote The Mill on the Floss

A

George Eliot

116
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Who wrote Silas Marner

A

George Eliot

117
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Who wrote 1984

A

George Orwell

118
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Who wrote Jane Eyre

A

Charlotte Bronte

119
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Who wrote Shirley

A

Charlotte Bronte

120
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Who wrote The Proffesor

A

Charlotte Bronte

121
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Who wrote A Room With a View

A

Edward Morgan Forster

122
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Who wrote A Passage to India

A

Edward Morgan Forster

123
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Who said “Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love”

A

Jane Austen

124
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Who said “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well”

A

Virginia Woolf

125
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Who said “The world is indeed full of peril and there are many dark places. But still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the grater”

A

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

126
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Who said “There’s nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”

A

William Skahespeare

127
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Who said “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”

A

William Shakespeare

128
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Who said “We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is a rounded with a sleep”

A

William Shakespeare

129
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Who said “One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others”

A

Lewis Carroll

130
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Who said “Hardships often prepare ordinary people, for an extraordinary destiny”

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Clive Staples Lewis

131
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Who said “No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only makes it for happiness, the good he seeks”

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Mary Shelley