World Novels Flashcards
Published in 1869 which novel by Leo Tolstoy follows the lives of the Bolkonsky and Rostov families as Napoleon’s armies sweep across Europe?
WAR AND PEACE
In which novel by Miguel de Cervantes does the title character who has a squire named Sancho Panza attack windmills that he believes to be ferocious giants?
DON QUIXOTE
In 1989 the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwa ordering Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie following the publication of which novel?
THE SATANIC VERSES
Jean Valjean Javert Fantine and Cosette are characters in which 1862 novel by Victor Hugo?
LES MISERABLES
Following on from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire what is the third novel in the Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson?
THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNETS’ NEST
The debut novel of Monica Ali is named after which street at the heart of London’s Bangladeshi community?
BRICK LANE
Which novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is named after the siblings Alexei Dmitry and Ivan?
THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
Andrea Camilleri’s detective novels are set on Sicily and feature which character who was first shown on British television in 2008?
INSPECTOR MONTALBANO
Which novel by Erich Remarque a German veteran of World War I describes the German soldiers’ extreme physical and mental stress during the war?
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Who gained international fame as a novelist of the magical realism movement with novels including One Hundred Years of Solitude?
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
What is the title of title of Honoré de Balzac’s multi-volume collection of novels depicting French society in the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy?
LA COMEDIE HUMAINE
Born in South Africa who was the first writer to be awarded the Booker Prize twice: first for Life & Times of Michael K in 1983 and again for Disgrace in 1999?
J M COETZEE
In which novel by Leo Tolstoy does the title character the lover of Count Vronsky commit suicide by throwing herself under the carriage of a passing train?
ANNA KARENINA
Which work by Joseph Conrad follows Charles Marlow as he recounts his adventure into the Congo to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary?
HEART OF DARKNESS
Which chivalrous Englishman is The Scarlet Pimpernel in the novel of the same name by Baroness Orczy?
SIR PERCY BLAKENEY
Edmond Dantes is imprisoned in which island fortress in The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (pere)?
CHATEAU D’IF
Which novel by Umberto Eco is full of esoteric references to Kabbalah alchemy and conspiracy theory?
FOUCAULT’S PENDULUM
Madame Bovary was the debut novel of which French author?
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Which Guatemalan novelist wrote The Banana Trilogy and was awarded the 1967 Nobel Prize in Literature?
MIGUEL ANGEL ASTURIAS
Which series of novels by Gunter Grass consists of The Tin Drum Cat and Mouse and Dog Years?
DANZIG TRILOGY
In Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky which character formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash?
RASKOLNIKOV
Khaled Hosseini the author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns was born in which country?
AFGHANISTAN
Thomas Mann won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929 principally for which novel which chronicles the decline of a wealthy German merchant family?
BUDDENBROOKS
The Edible Woman was the first novel by which Canadian author who is also the inventor and developer of the longpen remote signing device?
MARGARET ATWOOD
Which Australian author is best known for the Booker Prize-winning novels Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang?
PETER CAREY
Banned in France upon publication which novel by Antoine Prevost has been made into operas by Auber Massenet and Puccini?
MANON LESCAUT
What is the surname of Anita who wrote The Village by the Sea and her daughter Kirin who wrote The Inheritance of Loss?
DESAI
Which novel by Milan Kundera details the circumstances of life for artists and intellectuals in Czechoslovakia in the wake of the Prague Spring and the subsequent invasion by the USSR?
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING
In The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka what is the name of the travelling salesman who awakes at the start of the story to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect?
GREGOR SAMSA
Which novel by Albert Camus tells the story of an alienated man Meursault who eventually commits a murder and waits to be executed?
THE STRANGER (OR THE OUTSIDER)
Set in northern France in the 1860s Germinal by Emile Zola is a harsh and realistic story of a strike by workers in which industry?
COAL MINING
The Wallander novels of Hennink Mankell are set in and around which town 56 km south-east of Malmo?
YSTAD
An anagram of the author’s name Vivian Darkbloom is a character in which novel of 1955 which was adapted into a film in 1962 starring James Mason?
LOLITA
Which Nigerian author wrote Half of a Yellow Sun which tells the story of the Biafran War and won the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction?
CHIMANANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
Born in New Zealand who is best known for her creation of Inspector Roderick Alleyn a gentleman detective who works for the Metropolitan Police?
NGAIO MARSH
Which Hungarian-born novelist wrote the anti-totalitarian work Darkness at Noon?
ARTHUR KOESTLER
The purpose of which 1842 novel by Nikolai Gogol was to demonstrate the flaws and faults of the Russian mentality and character and was published under the title The Adventures of Chichikov?
DEAD SOULS
Which novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn details Imperial Russia’s defeat in the Battle of Tannenberg?
Aug-14
The Alchemist is the best known work of Paulo Coelho who was born in which country?
BRAZIL
What is the pen name of Marie-Henri Beyle who is best known for the novels The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma?
STENDAHL
Which novel by Nigerian author Ben Okri follows Azaro an ‘abiku’ or spirit child?
THE FAMISHED ROAD
Made into a film in 1993 for which novel did Kazuo Ishiguro win the 1989 Man Booker Prize?
THE REMAINS OF THE DAY
Born in Istanbul whose novels include The Museum of Innocence My Name Is Red and Snow?
ORHAN PAMUK
The title of which 1958 novel by Chinua Achebe which follows the life of Okonkwo an Igbo leader comes from a line in W. B. Yeats’ poem The Second Coming?
THINGS FALL APART
Who is the author of A Suitable Boy a 1349-page novel set in a newly post-independence post-partition India?
VIKRAM SETH
A satire of Stockholm society which 1879 novel by August Strindberg has been described as the first modern Swedish novel?
THE RED ROOM
In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu) is a 4215 page novel by Marcel Proust which was initially published in how many volumes?
SEVEN
The title of which dystopian novel written by Haruki Murakami is a reference to a work by George Orwell?
1Q84
Nadja published by André Breton is one of the iconic works of the French surrealist movement and begins with which question?
WHO AM I?
Which French novelist wrote The Bridge over the River Kwai and Planet of the Apes?
PIERRE BOULLE
