Memorize these and you could recognize 33.0% of all English Literature clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | D.H. Lawrence | 8 | He originally conceived "The Rainbow" & "Women in Love" as one novel called "The Sisters" |
| 2 | George Eliot | 7 | Under this masculine pen name Mary Ann Evans wrote "Adam Bede" |
| 3 | Jane Austen | 7 | Though written much earlier, her "Northanger Abbey" wasn't published until 1818, a year after her death |
| 4 | Virginia Woolf | 6 | The Bloomsbury Group often met at the London home of this author of "To the Lighthouse" |
| 5 | Robinson Crusoe | 6 | In a 1719 sequel he & Friday revisited the island where he was first stranded |
| 6 | Charles Dickens | 6 | His lesser-known Christmas stories include "The Chimes" & "The Cricket on the Hearth" |
| 7 | William Shakespeare | 6 | Thomas Bowdler was famous for deleting the "obscenities" in this playwright's works |
| 8 | The Pilgrim's Progress | 6 | Bunyan work in which you'd find the Slough of Despond |
| 9 | Paradise Lost | 5 | John Milton's sequel to it was "Paradise Regained" |
| 10 | Rudyard Kipling | 5 | This author of "The Jungle Book" lived in Vermont for 4 years |
| 11 | Geoffrey Chaucer | 5 | It's believed that he began writing his unfinished dream-poem "The House of Fame" in the 1370s |
| 12 | Thomas Hardy | 4 | Victorian novelist who often set his gloomy tales in "Wessex County" |
| 13 | The Time Machine | 4 | Society is divided between Eloi & Morlocks in this futuristic H.G. Wells work |
| 14 | Somerset Maugham | 4 | The hero's clubfoot in "Of Human Bondage" represented this author's stammer |
| 15 | Lady Chatterley's Lover | 4 | In 1960 Penguin Books took a risk & printed the full text of this D.H. Lawrence novel to sell in England |
| 16 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 4 | Her father assumed the name Barrett when he inherited slave plantations in the West Indies |
| 17 | David Copperfield | 4 | Chapter 28 of this Dickens novel is entitled "Mr. Micawber's Gauntlet" |
| 18 | Beowulf | 4 | Epic poem that's considered the first great work of English literature |
| 19 | Agatha Christie | 4 | After Shakespeare she's the most widely translated English author |
| 20 | The Compleat Angler | 4 | There have been over 300 editions of this treatise on sport, nature & human conduct by Izaak Walton |
| 21 | Oliver Twist | 4 | Since the beadle named his waifs alphabetically, this character came between Swubble & Unwin |
| 22 | Sir Walter Scott | 4 | This author's favorite of his own novels was "The Antiquary", not "Ivanhoe" |
| 23 | (Henry) Fielding | 4 | He based Squire Allworthy in "Tom Jones" in part on Ralph Allen, a wealthy benefactor |
| 24 | Lord Byron | 3 | 7 stanzas about Daniel Boone are included in his epic poem "Don Juan" |
| 25 | Jane Eyre | 3 | In this Charlotte Bronte novel, Mr. Rochester says, "I meant...to be a bigamist; but fate has out-manoeuvred me" |
| 26 | A Room with a View | 3 | Part of this E.M. Forster novel takes place at the Pensione Bertolini in Italy |
| 27 | 1984 | 3 | 1949 novel about Winston Smith, a Newspeak writer at the Ministry of Truth |
| 28 | "The Charge of the Light Brigade" | 3 | This Tennyson poem was written in 1854, a few weeks after the Crimean War battle it describes |
| 29 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 3 | J.L. Lowes' 1927 study of this author was title "The Road to Xanadu" |
| 30 | Graham Greene | 3 | His spy novels sure are manly: "The Third Man", "Our Man in Havana" & "The Human Factor" |
| 31 | Benjamin Disraeli | 3 | Prime minister who said, "When I want to read a novel, I write one", when George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda" was published |
| 32 | Women in Love | 2 | This D.H. Lawrence novel continued the stories of sisters Ursula & Gudrun Brangwen, who 1st appeared in "The Rainbow" |
| 33 | Vanity Fair | 2 | When this Thackeray novel was serialized in 1847, the author sketched the accompanying illustrations |
| 34 | Treasure Island | 2 | After R.L. Stevenson drew a map with his stepson's paints he was inspired to write this story |
| 35 | Tom Jones | 2 | The full title of a Henry Fielding novel is "The History of" him, "a Foundling" |
| 36 | the Cheshire cat | 2 | "It vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail & ending with the grin" |
| 37 | The Canterbury Tales | 2 | Only 24 of these 120 proposed stories exist, since author & friends never made it back to the Tabard Inn |
| 38 | Oscar Wilde | 2 | "All art is quite useless" is how his introduction to "The Picture of Dorian Gray" ends |
| 39 | Noel Coward | 2 | This playwright, a "Blithe Spirit", wrote his "Chelsea Buns" poems under the pen name Hernia Whittlebot |
| 40 | Napoleon | 2 | Thomas Hardy called his epic work on this emperor "The Dynasts"; "War and Peace" had already been taken |
| 41 | Latin | 2 | Until the late 800s, most prose writers in England wrote in this language |
| 42 | John Donne | 2 | He wrote "Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so" |
| 43 | Italy | 2 | In "A Room with a View", the view isn't of England but of this country |
| 44 | Howards End | 2 | The title of this E.M. Forster novel refers to the house that belonged to Henry Wilcox' first wife |
| 45 | H.G. Wells | 2 | Though famous for his science fiction, his best-selling work was "The Outline of History" |
| 46 | Gulliver's Travels | 2 | This was the only published work by Jonathan Swift for which he received payment--£200 |
| 47 | Father Brown | 2 | G.K. Chesterton is remembered for creating this mild-mannered priest & detective |
| 48 | Byron | 2 | He became a lord at the age of 10, a poet at age 19 |
| 49 | Amis | 2 | It's the last name of father & son novelists Kingsley & Martin |
| 50 | Alice in Wonderland | 2 | Its original title was "Alice Under Ground" |