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British Literature # 4

Can you answer these questions about English literature?
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Ebeneezer Scrooge appears in which Charles Dickens story?
A Christmas Carol
Who wrote the 1898 poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol?
Oscar Wilde
What kind of animal is Beatrix Potter’s Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle?
Hedgehog
Whose plays include Look Back In Anger and The Entertainer?
John Osbourne
In Arthurian legend, what is the name of King Arthur’s sword?
Excalibur
Who wrote the novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four?
George Orwell
“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink” is the start of which 1948 novel?
I Capture the Castle
Which writer created the fictional character James Bond?
Ian Fleming
The Lord of the Rings is set in which fantasy world?
Middle-earth
Which playwright won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005?
Harold Pinter
Who wrote The Gruffalo, first published in 1999?
Julia Donaldson
Which Shakespeare play contains the ‘To be or not to be’ speech?
Hamlet
Who wrote 728 books, mostly romances, between 1925 and 2000?
Dame
Barbara Cartland
What was the name of Zadie Smith’s award-winning debut novel?
White Teeth
Which Welsh poet died, aged 39, in New York City in 1953?
Dylan Thomas
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