Literature Quiz

See how many of the most important works by universally acclaimed authors you can name!
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Last updated: June 7, 2014
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Homer
The Odyssey
Sophocles
Oedipus Rex
Ovid
Metamorphoses
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Cantenbury Tales
Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy
William Shakespeare
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Othello
Molière
The Miser
Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote de la Mancha
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Life is a Dream
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Voltaire
Candide, or the optimist
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust
Lord Byron
Don Juan
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Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
Honoré de Balzac
La Comedie Humaine
Charlotte Brönte
Jane Eyre
Emily Brönte
Wuthering Heights
Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
Fyodor Dostoievsky
Crime and Punishment
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Jean-Paule Sartre
Nausea
Albert Camus
The Stranger
Franz Kafka
The Trial
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Hermann Hesse
Steppenwolf
Stendhal
The Red and the Black
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Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
Henrik Ibsen
A Doll's House
James Joyce
Ulysses
Federico García Lorca
Gypsy Ballads
Jorge Luis Borges
Ficciones
George Orwell
1984
Jose Saramago
Blindness
Mario Vargas Llosa
The Time of the Hero
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Juan Rulfo
Pedro Páramo
Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits
Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernesto Sábato
The Tunnel
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Level 85
Jun 6, 2014
"Odyssey", not "Oddissey". The choices of which works to list for Shakespeare (and some other authors) seems rather arbitrary.
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Level 38
Jun 6, 2014
It's the Picture not portrait of dorian gray
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Level 13
Jun 6, 2014
Odyssey and Dorian Gray names were corrected. This is what happens when you read them as works in translation. >.>
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Level 22
Jun 18, 2014
Thank you for that quizz which is fun but I do not really agree with your choices. For me the most famous novel of Camus is definitly "La peste", for Sartre it is probably "Huis clos" and for Shakespeare I would have say "Romeo and Juliet". And "La comédie humaine" is not a book it's all of the novels writen by Balzac! You have to choose (you can pick La peau de chagrin). And I almost thing that is the same for the divine comedy (I would have pick the Inferno).
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Level 60
Aug 9, 2014
I agree, choices are arbitrary, I gave up after typing about 5 Shakespearean plays, same problem with Dickens and Ibsen. It didn't accept 100 years of solitude and requires definite articles (which most quizzes don't). Great idea, could be fun but the instructions/clues need tightening up a bit.
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Level 79
Sep 2, 2015
I'm glad I persisted with guessing Shakespeare's finest plays until I hit the right one. However, I do feel that The House of Bernarda Alba is very much Lorca's greatest work, rivalled only by Blood Wedding.
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Level 74
Mar 14, 2017
Choices are too arbitrary. This quiz would have been great if you listed the works and we had to name the author.