English Literature

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1 D.H. Lawrence 8x

2 George Eliot 7x

3 Jane Austen 7x

4 Virginia Woolf 6x

5 Robinson Crusoe 6x

6 Charles Dickens 6x

7 William Shakespeare 6x

8 The Pilgrim's Progress 6x

9 Paradise Lost 5x

10 Rudyard Kipling 5x

11 Geoffrey Chaucer 5x

12 Thomas Hardy 4x

13 The Time Machine 4x

14 Somerset Maugham 4x

15 Lady Chatterley's Lover 4x

16 Elizabeth Barrett Browning 4x

17 David Copperfield 4x

18 Beowulf 4x

19 Agatha Christie 4x

20 The Compleat Angler 4x

21 Oliver Twist 4x

22 Sir Walter Scott 4x

23 (Henry) Fielding 4x

24 Lord Byron 3x

25 Jane Eyre 3x

26 A Room with a View 3x

27 1984 3x

28 "The Charge of the Light Brigade" 3x

29 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 3x

30 Graham Greene 3x

31 Benjamin Disraeli 3x

32 Women in Love 2x

33 Vanity Fair 2x

34 Treasure Island 2x

35 Tom Jones 2x

36 the Cheshire cat 2x

37 The Canterbury Tales 2x

38 Oscar Wilde 2x

39 Noel Coward 2x

40 Napoleon 2x

41 Latin 2x

42 John Donne 2x

43 Italy 2x

44 Howards End 2x

45 H.G. Wells 2x

46 Gulliver's Travels 2x

47 Father Brown 2x

48 Byron 2x

49 Amis 2x

50 Alice in Wonderland 2x

Sample Clues

"Sea and Sardinia" is a travel book by this "Sons and Lovers" author

D.H. Lawrence

Dorlcote Mill in her book "The Mill on the Floss" resembles Arbury Mill, where she played as a child

George Eliot

Emma interferes with the romances of her vapid friend Harriet in this woman's novel "Emma"

Jane Austen

"Jacob's Room" & "A Room of One's Own" are by this member of the Bloomsbury Group

Virginia Woolf

In 1719 Daniel Defoe wrote "The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of" this character

Robinson Crusoe

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Other 185

D.H. Lawrence (8) The Pilgrim's Progress (5) Somerset Maugham (4) Lady Chatterley's Lover (4) (Henry) Fielding (4) The Compleat Angler (4) Robinson Crusoe (4) Graham Greene (3) Sir Walter Scott (3) A Room with a View (3)

British Literature 92

Jane Austen (7) Charles Dickens (6) Virginia Woolf (6) The Time Machine (4) David Copperfield (4) Rudyard Kipling (4) Thomas Hardy (4) Geoffrey Chaucer (2) J.R.R. Tolkien (2) H.G. Wells (2)

Poetry 67

George Eliot (7) Elizabeth Barrett Browning (4) Beowulf (4) Geoffrey Chaucer (3) Lord Byron (3) "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (3) Mary Shelley (2) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2) Byron (2) Paradise Lost (2)

Shakespeare 13

William Shakespeare (6) Ben Jonson (2) that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays (1) The Comedy of Errors (1) King Lear (1) Agatha Christie (1) bowdlerizing (1)

Children's Literature 11

Alice in Wonderland (2) children (1) the Cheshire cat (1) Brideshead (1) James M. Barrie (1) Peter Pan (1) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1) Oscar Wilde (1) the Brontes (1) Pilgrim's Progress (1)

Mystery / Thriller 9

Agatha Christie (3) Father Brown (1) P.D. James (1) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1) Death on the Nile (1) Arthur Conan Doyle (1) Wimsey (1)