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Which word is missing from the D.H.Lawrence novel 'Sons and ...'?

Lovers Click to see the answer

Which of these is one of the characters in 'Lord Of The Flies'?

Piggy

Which of these is the title of a Shakespeare play?

Hamlet

Who wrote 'The Awakening'?

Kate Chopin

Lorna Doone' is set in which part of England?

South West

What is the first name of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?

Victor

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Difficulty: Easy
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Who wrote 'Winnie and Wolf', a fictionalisation of the relationship between Winifred Wagner and Adolf Hitler?

AN Wilson Click to see the answer

Who wrote 'Journey to the Center of the Earth'?

Jules Verne

Where in Britain was The French Lieutenant's Woman set?

Lyme Regis

Who created the magical world of Narnia?

CS Lewis

Who wrote The Secret Seven series of books?

Enid Blyton

What present-day country is the setting for Shakespeare's play 'Hamlet'?

Denmark

Which drug was Sherlock Holmes addicted to?

Opium

Which of these is a novel by Isaac Asimov?

I Robot

What was the title of the pastoral elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats in 1821?

Adonaïs

Questions: 12
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Where was 'Gulliver's Travels' writer Jonathan Swift born?

Dublin Click to see the answer

Who wrote 'Pilgrim's Progress'?

John Bunyan

What was the profession of George Eliot's 'Silas Marner'?

Weaver

Which French writer created 'The Miser' called Harpagon?

Moliere

Which classic story features a place called Never Never Land?

Peter Pan

Who wrote the novel '101 Dalmations'?

Dodie Smith

What was the name of Bertie Woosters butler?

Jeeves

Which writer's quote: 'If a man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve the man but deteriorate the cat'?

Mark Twain

Where is the play Hamlet set?

Denmark

Which character in 'Oliver Twist' owns a dog called Bullseye?

Bill Sikes

Which novel's central male character is Humbert Humbert?

Lolita

Which of these is NOT a creature from 'Lord Of The Rings'?

Gremlin

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Who wrote the classics 'The Odyssey' and 'The Iliad'?

Homer Click to see the answer

Who wrote the classic novel 'Emma'?

Jane Austen

Whose ghost appears in Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar'?

Caesar

Who wrote 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'?

Mark Twain

Which of these is NOT a heroine in a Shakespeare play?

Vanessa

When did H.G.Wells write about his 'Time Machine'?

1890s

Who was the young hero of 'Treasure Island'?

Jim Hawkins

What is the profession of the title character in the novel 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'?

Teacher

What is the name of Shakespeare's simple constable in 'Measure For Measure'?

Elbow

What is the first name of Sherlock Holmes' adversary Professor Moriarty?

James

Who wrote 'White Fang'?

Jack London

Which Shakespeare play includes the monster Caliban?

The Tempest

Which of these Charlotte Bronte novels was published first ?

Jane Eyre

Which Shakespeare King was killed at Pontefract Castle?

Richard III

Who wrote 'The Darling Buds of May', serialised on TV starring David Jason?

HE Bates

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Who wrote 'The Call of the Wild'?

Jack London Click to see the answer

As in Dostoevsky's novel, how many 'Brothers Karamazov' are there?

3

What pen name does Rupert Allason use when writing his spy novels?

Nigel West

What color was David Copperfield's hair in the Dicken novel?

Red

Who wrote 'Pride and Prejudice'?

Jane Austen

What is the name of the farm in 'Animal Farm'?

Manor Farm

What is the first name of Sherlock Holmes's older brother?

Mycroft

Which place was ruled by Shakespeare's King Lear?

Britain

Who wrote 'Fifty Shades of Grey'?

E. L. James

Which name became popular for girls after the publication of 'Peter Pan'?

Wendy

Who wrote the classic book 'Anna Karenina'?

Leo Tolstoy

Thomas Malory's 'Le Morte d'Arthur' was published in which century?

15th

Which of the Bronte sisters wrote 'Agnes Grey'?

Anne

Which Scottish King did Shakespeare write about?

Macbeth

Who wrote 'Sense and Sensibility'?

Jane Austen

What was the middle name of the doggerel poet William McGonagall?

Topaz

Of which book did Joseph Conrad write 'Melville knows nothing of the sea'?

Moby Dick

Who wrote 'Black Beauty'?

Anna Sewell

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Which Danish prince did Shakespeare write about?

Hamlet Click to see the answer

What was the original title of Moby Dick?

The Whale

Who wrote 'Doctor Zhivago'?

Pasternak

Whose second novel, 'Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee', concerns three young Asian women growing up in Britain?

Meera Syal

Who wrote 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'?

Mark Twain

Which author created 'The Invisible Man'?

H.G.Wells

Which of these is the name of Winston Smith's girlfriend in '1984'?

Julia

Who wrote 'Lolita'?

Nabokov

Who is the author of the science-fiction novel 'Gridlinked'?

Neal Asher

Which biblical character did Charlton Heston play in 'The Ten Commandments'?

Moses

According to Shakespeare, 'All's Well That ...' what?

Ends Well

Who wrote the classic book '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'?

Jules Verne

What was the name of Hamlet's father?

Hamlet

Which of the Bronte sisters was the oldest?

Charlotte

Who wrote the play 'School For Scandal'?

Sheriden

Thornfield Hall is central to which classic novel?

Jane Eyre

Who's missing from the title of the Dickens novel 'The Mystery of ...'?

Edwin Drood

Which Shakespeare play is the basis for the movie 'Ran'?

King Lear

What is the name of Winston's girlfriend in the novel '1984'?

Julia

Which year was the setting for Graham Greene's classic novel 'Brighton Rock'?

1938

What kind of animal is the Jungle Book's Baloo?

Bear

What's the name of Atticus Finch's daughter in the novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?

Scout

What is the first name of the founder of The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency in the novels by Alexander McCall Smith?

Precious

Where did Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen come from?

Verona

Sir Percy Blakeney was also known secretly as 'The Scarlet'?

Pimpernel

One of the pigs in Orwell's 'Animal Farm' is called ...?

Napoleon

What is the name of the family of sisters in 'Pride and Prejudice'?

Bennett

Who wrote 'The Time Machine'?

H G Wells

Which color is missing from the classic novel: 'The ... Pimpernel'?

Scarlet

What was the name of Captain Hook's ship in 'Peter Pan'?

Jolly Roger

Which part of England is the setting for the novel Lorna Doone?

Exmoor

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Who wrote 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'?

Oscar Wilde Click to see the answer

Who wrote 'The Red Badge of Courage'?

Stephen Crane

The release of 'Lady Chaterley's Lover' by DH Lawrence led to which publisher being tried in 1960 under the Obscenity Act?

Penguin Books

Which writer created the Scrooge character?

Charles Dickens

Who wrote 'Through the Looking Glass'?

Lewis Carroll

Who wrote 'Jungle Book'?

Rudyard Kipling

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Who wrote about the 'Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders'?

Daniel Defoe Click to see the answer

Who wrote the classic novel 'Gulliver's Travels'?

Jonathon Swift

Who wrote 'The Woman in White'?

Wilkie Collins

Who wrote 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination'?

Edgar Allen Poe

Who wrote 'A Christmas Carol'?

Charles Dickens

Which auther wrote the well-known novels, 'A Passage To India' and 'A Room With A View'?

E.M. Forster

Who wrote 'War and Peace'?

Leo Tolstoy

Who wrote 'Middlemarch'?

George Eliot

Who wrote 'The Prisoner of Zenda'?

Anthony Hope

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Who wrote The Napoleon of Notting Hill?

G. K. Chesterton Click to see the answer

Which gay icon's memoirs are called 'The Naked Civil Servant'?

Quentin Crisp

Of whom did Norman Mailer say 'The greatest mind ever to stay in prep school'?

J.D.Salinger

Who wrote the book 'Midnight's Children' which was awarded the 'Best of the Booker' in 2008?

Salman Rushdie

Who wrote 'Jayne Eyre'?

Charlotte Bronte

Man Friday appears in which classic book?

Robinson Crusoe

Who wrote 'Robinson Crusoe'?

Daniel Defoe

Who wrote 'Great Expectations'?

Charles Dickens

Which rotund character is the most famous creation of Frank Richards?

Billy Bunter

Who wrote 'The Man in the Iron Mask'?

Alexandre Dumas

Who wrote 'The Moonstone'?

Wilkie Collins

Bill Sikes and Fagin are characters from which Dickens novel?

Oliver Twist

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Who wrote 'The Importance of being Earnest'?

Oscar Wilde Click to see the answer

Name the Graham Greene novel that features the character Harry Lime?

The Third Man

Who wrote 'Lord Jim'?

Joseph Conrad

Who wrote 'The Phantom of the Opera'?

Gaston Leroux

Who wrote the book 'Trainspotting'?

Irvine Welsh

Who wrote about 'Tristram Shandy'?

Laurence Sterne

Who wrote 'Lord of the Flies'?

William Golding

Who wrote 'Lorna Doone'?

R D Blackmore

Who wrote the classic book 'Tom Jones'?

Henry Fielding

Name the main character in Orwell's '1984'?

Winston Smith

Which is the correct name of the Jane Austen novel?

Mansfield Park

Who wrote 'Silas Marner'?

George Eliot

Who wrote 'Les Misérables'?

Victor Hugo

Which of these is J.P.Donleavy's most famous novel?

The Ginger Man

Which of literature's great heroines was originally to be called 'Pansy'?

Scarlett O'Hara

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Who wrote 'Oliver Twist'?

Charles Dickens Click to see the answer

Who wrote 'Heart of Darkness'?

Joseph Conrad

Who wrote 'Rights of Man'?

Thomas Paine

Who wrote 'David Copperfield'?

Charles Dickens

Which of the following is from C.S.Lewis's collection of Narnia stories?

Prince Caspian

Which of these is the title of one of the poems from T.S.Eliot's 'Four Quartets'?

Little Gidding

Which classic novel ends: 'So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past'?

The Great Gatsby

Who wrote the book 'The Executioner's Song'?

Norman Mailer

Who wrote 'Bleak House'?

Charles Dickens

Paul Morel is the main character in which DH Lawrence novel?

Sons and Lovers

NOT a book written by George Orwell?

Brighton Rock

Which of these DH Lawrence novels was published first?

Sons And Lovers

Which French writer wrote 'The Plague'?

Albert Camus

Which author created the character Phileas Fogg?

Jules Verne

Bullseye the dog appears in which Dickens novel?

Oliver Twist

Which of these great literary works was written in the Tudor Period?

Twelfth Night

Which celebrated poet penned the opening line, 'Father, father, where are you going?'?

William Blake

Who wrote 'Far from the Madding Crowd'?

Thomas Hardy

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Who is the illustrator mosy closely associated with Roald Dahl?

Quentin Blake Click to see the answer

Who wrote about 'Three Men in a Boat'?

Jerome K Jerome

As in the title of the BBC adaptation and in the Dickens novel itself, how is Amy Dorrit better known?

Little Dorrit

Who wrote 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'?

L Frank Baum

Boz' was the psuedonym of which writer?

Charles Dickens

Who wrote 'Barchester Towers'?

Anthony Trollope

Who wrote 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'?

Thomas Hardy

Which 19th century French writer created Athos, Porthos and Aramis?

Alexandre Dumas

Who wrote the classic 'The Age of Innocence?'

Edith Wharton

Bill and Nancy are characters from which Dickens novel?

Oliver Twist

Which 'bear of little brain' was the most famous creation of A.A. Milne?

Winnie-the-Pooh

Middlemarch' was written by which of the following?

George Eliot

Who wrote 'Wuthering Heights'?

Emily Bronte

Who wrote The Man who was Thursday?

G. K. Chesterton

Who wrote 'A Tale of Two Cities'?

Charles Dickens

Which of these Evelyn Waugh books was published before the other two?

Decline And Fall

Which of these Dickens novels was published first?

Oliver Twist

Who wrote 'Moby Dick'?

Herman Melville

Which of these HG Wells novels was published first?

The Time Machine

Which British actor starred as Fagin in David Lean's classic adaptation of Dickens' 'Oliver Twist'?

Alec Guinness

Which novella by Ian McEwan opens in June 1962 on Edward and Florence's wedding day?

On Chesil Beach

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Who wrote 'The Deerslayer'?

James Fenimore Cooper Click to see the answer

Which Dickens novel features an escaped convict as one of the central characters?

Great Expectations

Which classic novel ends: 'After all, tomorrow is another day'?

Gone With The Wind

Who wrote 'A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys'?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Who wrote 'King Solomon's Mines'?

Henry Rider Haggard

Who wrote the classic book 'The Prince'?

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Which of these is a title of a Harry Potter book?

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Click to see the answer

Which of these Dickens novels was published last?

Great Expectations

After all, tomorrow is another day' are the last words spoken in which classic movie?

Gone With The Wind

Which is the only Shakespeare play that mentions America?

Comedy Of Errors

Who wrote 'Tales From the Arabian Nights'?

Richard Francis Burton

Who wrote the classic novel 'Kidnapped'?

Robert Louis Stevenson

What is the correct title of the classic Dickens novel?

David Copperfield

Which novel hears the savage chanting 'Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!'?

Lord of the Flies

Which of the following is a 1902 novel by A.E.W. Mason?

The Four Feathers

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Pip is the hero of which Dickens novel?

Great Expectations Click to see the answer

Who wrote 'Crime and Punishment'?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Who wrote the novel 'Cashel Byron's Profession'?

George Bernard Shaw

Who wrote 'The Last of the Mohicans'?

James Fenimore Cooper

Who wrote 'Ivanhoe'?

Sir Walter Scott

Who wrote the novel 'Waverley'?

Sir Walter Scott

Who wrote 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'?

Robert Louis Stevenson

Who wrote 'Nightmare Abbey'?

Thomas Love Peacock

Who wrote 'The Scarlet Letter'?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Who wrote 'The Brothers Karamazov'?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Which of these is a novel by Charles Dickens?

Great Expectations

Which Katharine McMahon novel, featuring the character Rosa Barr, is set amid the Crimean War?

The Rose Of Sebastopol

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Who wrote the classic novel 'Rebecca'?

Daphne du Maurier Click to see the answer

Who wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

O Henry' was the pen-name of which writer?

William Sydney Porter

Who created the character Sherlock Holmes?

Arthur Conan Doyle

Who wrote 'Don Quixote'?

Miguel de Cervantes

Which of these is the correct title of a Dickens novel?

Great Expectations

Who wrote about 'The Princess and the Goblin'?

George MacDonald

Who wrote 'Little Women'?

Louisa May Alcott

Who wrote 'Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys'?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Who wrote the classic book 'Walden'?

Henry David Thoreau

Who wrote 'Little Lord Fauntleroy'?

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Who wrote the book 'Allan Quatermain'?

Henry Rider Haggard

Which writer's last play was 'The Tempest' in 1611?

William Shakespeare

Which Dickens novel features Wackford Squeers?

Nicholas Nickleby

The musical 'West Side Story' is based on which Shakespeare play?

Romeo and Juliet

Who wrote 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'?

Arthur Conan Doyle

Who wrote 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'?

Arthur Conan Doyle

Which Shakespeare play features Shylock?

Merchant Of Venice

Which of the following was a Dickensian character?

Nicholas Nickleby

Which Dickens novel features the characters Tiny Tim and Ebeneezer Scrooge?

A Christmas Carol

Who wrote 'Vanity Fair'?

William Makepeace Thackeray

Who wrote about 'The Princess and Curdie'?

George MacDonald

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