UK's writers and literature Flashcards

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Who wrote Animal Farm

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George Orwell

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Who wrote The Canterbury Tales

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Who wrote Jane Eyre

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Charlotte Bronte

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Who wrote Robinson Crusoe

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Daniel Defoe

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Who wrote Tess of the D’Ubervilles

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Thomas Hardy

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Who wrote Wuthering Heights

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Emily Bronte

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Who wrote A Tale of two cities

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Charles Dickens

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Who wrote To the lighthouse

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Virginia Woolf

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Who wrote The hound of the Baskervilles

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Who wrote Silas Marner

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George Eliot

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Who wrote Frankenstein

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Mary Shelley

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Who wrote Pride and Prejudice

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Jane Austen

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Who wrote Vanity Fair

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William Makepeace Thackeray

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Who wrote The jungle book

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Rudyard Kipling

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Who wrote Lady Chatterley’s Lover

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D.H. Lawrence

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Who wrote The war of the worlds

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H G Wells

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Who wrote Room with a view

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E M Foster

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Who wrote Brideshead Revisited

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Evelyn Waugh

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Who wrote Brace new world

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Aldous Huxley

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Who wrote Alice in the Wonderland (❤️)

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Lewis Carroll

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Who wrote The Heart of the Matter

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Graham Greene

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Who wrote The End of the Affair

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Graham Greene

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Who wrote The Confidential Agent

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Graham Greene

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Who wrote The Third Man

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Graham Greene

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Who wrote Lord of The Flies
William Golding
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Who wrote Free Fall
William Golding
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Who wrote Colonel Jack
Daniel Defoe
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Who wrote Capitan Singleton
Daniel Defoe
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Who wrote Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
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Who wrote Decline and Fall
Evelyn Waugh
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Who wrote Miss (Jane) Marple
Agatha Christie
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Who wrote A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh
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Who wrote The Chronicles of Narnia
Clive Staples Lewis
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Who wrote The Allegory of Love
Clive Staples Lewis
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Who wrote Till We Have Faces
Clive Staples Lewis
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Who wrote The Space Trilogy
Clive Staples Lewis
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Who wrote Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
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Who wrote Heart Of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
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Who wrote The Last Man
Mary Shelley
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Who wrote The nigger of the 'Narcissus'
Joseph Conrad
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Who wrote Mathilda
Mary Shelley
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Who wrote Cloudsley
Mary Shelley
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Who wrote Sons and Lovers
David Herbert Lawrence
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Who wrote The Rainbow
David Herbert Lawrence
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Who wrote Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth
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Who wrote Poems in Two Volumes
William Wordsworth
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Who wrote About a Boy
Nick Hornby
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Who wrote High Fidelity
Nick Hornby
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Who wrote Blood Brothers
Willy Russell
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Who wrote The Curious Incident of the Dogin the Night-time
Mark Haddon
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Who wrote An Inspector Calls
John Boynton Priestley
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Who wrote Let People Sing
John Boynton Priestley
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Who wrote Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
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Who wrote An Artist of the Floating Worls
Kazuo Ishiguro
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Who wrote When We Are Orphans
Kazuo Ishiguro
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Who wrote A Taste of Honey
Shelagh Delaney
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Who wrote The White Bus
Shelagh Delaney
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Who wrote Dance With a Stranger
Shelagh Delaney
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Who wrote The Woman in Black
Susan Hill
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Who wrote The Mist in the Mirror
Susan Hill
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Who wrote Look Homeward Angel
Thomas Wolfe
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Who wrote Of Time and the River
Thomas Wolfe
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Who wrote Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll
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Who wrote The Grass is Singing
Doris Lessing
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Who wrote Children of Violence
Doris Lessing
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Who wrote The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing
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Who wrote The Hobbit
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
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Who wrote The Lord Of The Rings
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
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Who wrote The Good Terrorist
Doris Lessing
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Who wrote The Silmarillion
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
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Who wrote Wuthering Heights
Emily Jane Bronte
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Who wrote The Tempest
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote Two Gentlemen of Verona
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote The Merry Wives of Windsor
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote Measure for Measure
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote The Comedy of Errors
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote Much Ado about Nnothing
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote Love's Labour's Last
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote The Winter's Tale
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote Pericles Prince of Tyre
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote The Two Noble Kinsmen
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote Troilus and Cressida
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote Titus Andonicus
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote Romeo and Julliet
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote Timon of Athens
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote Macbeth
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote Hamlet
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote King Lear
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote Othello
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote Anthony and Cleopatra
William Shakespeare
93
Who wrote Cymbeline
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote King John
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote Richard II
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote Henry IV
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote Henry V
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote Henry VI
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote Richard III
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote Henry VIII
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
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Who wrote Earthly Powers
Anthony Burgess
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Who wrote The Sherlock Holmes series
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
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Who wrote Of Human Bondage
William Somerset Maugham
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Who wrote The Moon and Sixpence
William Somerset Maugham
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Who wrote Sense ans Sensibility
Jane Austen
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Who wrote Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
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Who wrote Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
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Who wrote Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
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Who wrote To The Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
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Who wrote Orlando
Virginia Woolf
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Who wrote Night and Day
Virginia Woolf
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Who wrote Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
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Who wrote Tess of the d'Uberville's
Thomas Hardy
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Who wrote The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot
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Who wrote Silas Marner
George Eliot
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Who wrote 1984
George Orwell
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Who wrote Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
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Who wrote Shirley
Charlotte Bronte
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Who wrote The Proffesor
Charlotte Bronte
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Who wrote A Room With a View
Edward Morgan Forster
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Who wrote A Passage to India
Edward Morgan Forster
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Who said "Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love"
Jane Austen
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Who said "One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well"
Virginia Woolf
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Who said "The world is indeed full of peril and there are many dark places. But still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the grater"
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
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Who said "There's nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"
William Skahespeare
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Who said "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"
William Shakespeare
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Who said "We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is a rounded with a sleep"
William Shakespeare
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Who said "One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others"
Lewis Carroll
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Who said "Hardships often prepare ordinary people, for an extraordinary destiny"
Clive Staples Lewis
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Who said "No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only makes it for happiness, the good he seeks"
Mary Shelley