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British Literary Classics

Name the Author - surnames will do!!
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Last updated: July 15, 2023
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JA
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
CD
Dombey & Son
Charles Dickens
WS
Measure For Measure
William Shakespeare
VW
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
GO
Animal Farm
George Orwell
JJ
Dubliners
James Joyce
JKR
A Casual Vacancy
J.K. Rowling
JRRT
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
AC
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
GE
The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot
CB
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
LC
The Hunting of the Snark
Lewis Carroll
OW
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
SACD
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
EB
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
RD
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl
MS
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
EMF
A Passage to India
E.M. Forster
RLS
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
AH
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
JS
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
TH
Far From the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
DHL
Sons and Lovers
D.H. Lawrence
HGW
The Time Machine
H.G. Wells
EW
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
GC
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
IM
Atonement
Ian McEwan
GG
Brighton Rock
Graham Greene
PP
His Dark Materials
Philip Pullman
MA
London Fields
Martin Amis
EB
Five Go To Smuggler's Top
Enid Blyton
JM
Paradise Lost
John Milton
CSL
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
DA
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
MH
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
FHB
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson-Burnett
DdM
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
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AAM
The House at Pooh Corner
A.A. Milne
JJM
Me Before You
Jo Jo Moyes
PGW
Blandings Castle
P.G. Wodehouse
SG
Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons
JG
The Forsyte Saga
John Galsworthy
WC
The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins
AT
Barchester Towers
Anthony Trollope
AB
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
MS
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
IM
Under the Net
Iris Murdoch
JW
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson
KA
Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis
HM
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
KG
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
DD
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
HF
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding
WMT
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray
JC
Hollywood Wives
Jackie Collins
BP
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter
IF
Casino Royale
Ian Fleming
TH
The Iron Man
Ted Hughes
ELJ
Fifty Shades of Grey
E.L. James
JA
Kane and Abel
Jeffrey Archer
AB
The Lady in the Van
Alan Bennett
JLC
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
John le Carre
ED
Room
Emma Donoghue
SF
Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks
KF
The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett
FF
The Odessa File
Frederick Forsyth
JH
All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot
LL
Cider with Rosie
Laurie Lee
VM
Wire in the Blood
Val McDermid
MM
War Horse
Michael Morpurgo
NS
A Town Like Alice
Nevil Shute
JW
The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham
WG
Poldark
Winston Graham
HF
Bridget Jones Diary
Helen Fielding
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Level 73
Jul 9, 2018
Oh Lord. It’s TolkIEn.
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Level 50
Jul 10, 2018
Oops - corrected now. Thank you.
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Level 69
Jul 10, 2018
Still doesn't work... Fun quiz though!
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Level 50
Jul 10, 2018
I honestly have changed it, I think the computer is just catching up - technology, eh?!
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Level 80
Jan 7, 2020
your quiz just isn't very good, let's be honest
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Level 50
Jan 7, 2020
Well, its a shame you think that, because the other comments have been positive. Maybe you are not too familiar with English literature, in which case this is not the quiz for you.
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Level 50
Jul 12, 2018
Technology has now caught up
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Level 49
Jul 15, 2023
Could you possibly allow for the entry of surnames only?
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Level 50
Jul 15, 2023
Surnames will now suffice!! Thanks for the suggestion - you now get quite a few done for you!