Authors From Titles 0

Question 1

Odyssey; Illiad (9th century BC)

Answer 1

Homer

Question 2

The Aeneid (c.19 BC)

Answer 2

Virgil

Question 3

The Divine Comedy (1314-21) [Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso]

Answer 3

Dante

Question 4

The Canterbury Tales (1387-1400)

Answer 4

Geoffrey Chaucer

Question 5

Don Quixote (1605 and 1615)

Answer 5

Miguel de Cervantes

Question 6

Paradise Lost (1667)

Answer 6

John Milton

Question 7

Robinson Crusoe (1719)

Answer 7

Daniel Defoe

Question 8

Gulliver’s Travels (1726)

Answer 8

Jonathan Swift

Question 9

Candide (1758)

Answer 9

Voltaire

Question 10

Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey (1811-1818)

Answer 10

Jane Austen

Question 11

Rip Van Winkle (1818); The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820)

Answer 11

Washington Irving

Question 12

Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations (1838-1861)

Answer 12

Charles Dickens

Question 13

Annabel Lee, The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum (1840-1849)

Answer 13

Edgar Allan Poe

Question 14

The Scarlet Letter (1850); The House of the Seven Gables (1851)

Answer 14

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 15

Moby-Dick (1851); Billy Budd (1891; not published until 1924)

Answer 15

Herman Melville

Question 16

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

Answer 16

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 17

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865); Through the Looking Glass (1871)

Answer 17

Lewis Carroll

Question 18

War and Peace (1865-69); Anna Karenina (1877)

Answer 18

Leo Tolstoy

Question 19

Crime and Punishment (1866); The Brothers Karamazov (1880)

Answer 19

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Question 20

Peer Gynt (1867); A Doll’s House (1879); Hedda Gabler (1890)

Answer 20

Henrik Ibsen

Question 21

Little Women (1868); Little Men (1871)

Answer 21

Louisa May Alcott

Question 22

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870); Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)

Answer 22

Jules Verne

Question 23

Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, The Prince & the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1876-89)

Answer 23

Mark Twain

Question 24

Treasure Island (1883); Kidnapped (1886)

Answer 24

Robert Louis Stevenson

Question 25

Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891); Jude the Obscure (1894)

Answer 25

Thomas Hardy

Question 26

The War of the Worlds (1894); The Time Machine (1895)

Answer 26

H.G. Wells

Question 27

The Jungle Book (1894); Kim (1901)

Answer 27

Rudyard Kipling

Question 28

Uncle Vanya, The Seagull, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard (1897-1904)

Answer 28

Anton Chekhov

Question 29

Lord Jim (1900); The Heart of Darkness (1902)

Answer 29

Joseph Conrad

Question 30

The Metamorphosis (1916); The Trial (1926)

Answer 30

Franz Kafka

Question 31

The Waste Land (1922)

Answer 31

T.S. Eliot

Question 32

Ulysses (1922); Finnegans Wake (1939)

Answer 32

James Joyce

Question 33

The Great Gatsby (1925); Tender is the Night (1934)

Answer 33

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 34

The Sun Also Rises (1926); A Farewell to Arms (1929); For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

Answer 34

Ernest Hemingway

Question 35

The Sound and the Fury (1929); Absalom, Absalom! (1936)

Answer 35

William Faulkner

Question 36

Of Mice and Men (1937); The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

Answer 36

John Steinbeck

Question 37

The Hobbit (1937); The Lord of the Rings (1954-56) [The Fellowship of the Ring, Two Towers, Return of the King]

Answer 37

J. R. R. Tolkien

Question 38

Animal Farm (1945); 1984 (1948)

Answer 38

George Orwell

Question 39

The Cat in the Hat (1957); How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1957); Green Eggs and Ham (1960)

Answer 39

Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel)

Question 40

Cat’s Cradle (1963); Slaughterhouse Five (1969)

Answer 40

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.