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The classic literature quiz

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The classic literature quiz

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Emily Bronte famously wrote Wuthering Heights and Charlotte Bronte wrote Jane Eyre. But what did their other sister Anne write?

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In which Jane Austen novel is Fanny Price the heroine?

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In which fictional county are many of Anthony Trollope’s best-loved novels set?

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What’s the opening line of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy?

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Which novelist popularised the phrases “U” and “non-U”, meaning upper and middle class?

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Under what name did Mary Anne Evans write novels?

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Which classic novel has the subtitle: “A Novel Without A Hero”?

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Which author divided his own fiction into three categories: “Novels Of Character And Environment”, “Romance And Fantasy” and “Novels Of Ingenuity”?

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"The publisher asked me to write a girl's book. I said I'd try. Now I plod away, although I don't enjoy this sort of thing.” Who said this about which book?

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How many novels did the three Bronte sisters write between them?

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What’s Mrs Dalloway’s first name in the novel by Virginia Woolf?

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What is the subtitle of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein?

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For what do EM Forster’s initials stand?

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“In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice I've been turning over in my mind ever since.” So starts which novel?

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What is the name of the house that’s the main setting in Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca?

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What was Harper Lee’s original title for To Kill A Mockingbird?

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Which Charles Dickens hero is widely acknowledged to be a self-portrait by the author?

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Zadie Smith’s 2005 novel On Beauty is a homage to and modern retelling of which classic?

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Constance Reid is the heroine of which novel?