Memorize these and recognize 33.0% of all English Literature clues.
| # | Answer | Count | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | D.H. Lawrence | 8 | "Sea and Sardinia" is a travel book by this "Sons and Lovers" author |
| 2 | George Eliot | 7 | Dorlcote Mill in her book "The Mill on the Floss" resembles Arbury Mill, where she played as a child |
| 3 | Jane Austen | 7 | Emma interferes with the romances of her vapid friend Harriet in this woman's novel "Emma" |
| 4 | Virginia Woolf | 6 | "Jacob's Room" & "A Room of One's Own" are by this member of the Bloomsbury Group |
| 5 | Robinson Crusoe | 6 | In 1719 Daniel Defoe wrote "The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of" this character |
| 6 | Charles Dickens | 6 | His lesser-known Christmas stories include "The Chimes" & "The Cricket on the Hearth" |
| 7 | William Shakespeare | 6 | The longest word ever in a London Times crossword, 27 letters, was from his "Love's Labor's Lost" |
| 8 | The Pilgrim's Progress | 6 | Bunyan work in which you'd find the Slough of Despond |
| 9 | Paradise Lost | 5 | This epic poem by Milton is the story of Adam & Eve's fall from grace |
| 10 | Rudyard Kipling | 5 | He returned to India at age 17 in 1882 & worked as a journalist; he published his first poems in 1886 |
| 11 | Geoffrey Chaucer | 5 | For a greatt writer, he couldn't spell to save his life, as in his line about "the hooly blisful martir" |
| 12 | Thomas Hardy | 4 | His novel "The Mayor of Casterbridge" opens near the village of Weydon-Priors in Upper Wessex |
| 13 | The Time Machine | 4 | Chapters in this H.G. Wells novel include "In the Golden Age" & "The Sunset of Mankind" |
| 14 | Somerset Maugham | 4 | He served up "Cakes and Ale", a 1930 satire of English literary life |
| 15 | Lady Chatterley's Lover | 4 | An early version of this D.H. Lawrence novel was published in 1972 as "John Thomas and Lady Jane" |
| 16 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 4 | You down with E.B.B., this poet who wrote "The Sleep" & "The Soul's Expression"? |
| 17 | David Copperfield | 4 | In a Dickens novel Mr. Murdstone is the cruel, tightfisted stepfather of this character |
| 18 | Beowulf | 4 | 50 years after slaying a monster & its mother, the hero of this Old English poem must battle a dragon |
| 19 | Agatha Christie | 4 | She dedicated her book "The Mirror Crack'd" to Margaret Rutherford, who played Miss Marple in several films |
| 20 | The Compleat Angler | 4 | The alternate title of this Izaak Walton work is "The Contemplative Man's Recreation" |
| 21 | Oliver Twist | 4 | Since the beadle named his waifs alphabetically, this character came between Swubble & Unwin |
| 22 | Sir Walter Scott | 4 | Loch Katrine provides the setting for his narrative poem "The Lady of the Lake" |
| 23 | (Henry) Fielding | 4 | This "Tom Jones" author's title heroine "Amelia" was based on his late wife, Charlotte |
| 24 | Lord Byron | 3 | Passionate & a bit on the dark side, "The Giaour" in a poem by this lord & romantic is truly a him-ic hero |
| 25 | Jane Eyre | 3 | In this novel, Mr. Rochester "has a fine bass voice, and an excellent taste for music" |
| 26 | A Room with a View | 3 | In the first chapter of this E.M. Forster book, Lucy comments, "I want so to see the Arno" |
| 27 | 1984 | 3 | "Only the Thought Police mattered" is a line from this Orwell novel |
| 28 | "The Charge of the Light Brigade" | 3 | This Tennyson poem was published in the Examiner a few weeks after the October 1854 event |
| 29 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 3 | J.L. Lowes' 1927 study of this author was title "The Road to Xanadu" |
| 30 | Graham Greene | 3 | His spy novels sure are manly: "The Third Man", "Our Man in Havana" & "The Human Factor" |
| 31 | Benjamin Disraeli | 3 | This prime minister completed only 9 chapters of his novel "Falconet" before his 1881 death |
| 32 | Women in Love | 2 | As the title suggests, this D.H. Lawrence novel recounts the romantic affairs of sisters Gudrun & Ursula |
| 33 | Vanity Fair | 2 | At the end of this novel, the contents of the note that George secretly gave Becky Sharp are finally revealed |
| 34 | Treasure Island | 2 | Squire Trelawney outfits the schooner Hispaniola & hires its crew in this 1883 tale |
| 35 | Tom Jones | 2 | Squire Allworthy finds a baby in his bed one night—the title character of this 1749 novel by Henry Fielding |
| 36 | the Cheshire cat | 2 | This disappearing feline in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" tells Alice that "We're all mad here" |
| 37 | The Canterbury Tales | 2 | Harry Bailly, host of the Tabard Inn, initiates the storytelling competition in this work |
| 38 | Oscar Wilde | 2 | He wrote a novel about the selfish Dorian Gray & a fairy tale about "The Selfish Giant" |
| 39 | Noel Coward | 2 | This playwright, a "Blithe Spirit", wrote his "Chelsea Buns" poems under the pen name Hernia Whittlebot |
| 40 | Napoleon | 2 | ( Cheryl of the Clue Crew is at the Orange County Fair.) I'm waiting for the big race with Porkbiscuit, Pig-O-War & this pig who led the revolt at "An... |
| 41 | Latin | 2 | In England, up to the 9th century, most prose was written in this language |
| 42 | John Donne | 2 | Leader of the metaphysical poets, he said the bell "tolls for thee" |
| 43 | Italy | 2 | In "A Room with a View", the view isn't of England but of this country |
| 44 | Howards End | 2 | In 1910 E.M. Forster published this novel about British social divisions told through the Wilcox & Schlegel families |
| 45 | H.G. Wells | 2 | In 1914's "The World Set Free", he wrote of a war in 1958 involving atomic bombs |
| 46 | Gulliver's Travels | 2 | Satire in which Swift attacked the hypocrisy he saw in kings, teachers, & courtiers |
| 47 | Father Brown | 2 | G.K. Chesterton is remembered for creating this mild-mannered priest & detective |
| 48 | Byron | 2 | This lord's poem "The Prisoner of Chillon" is based on the 16th C. imprisonment of Francois de Bonnivard |
| 49 | Amis | 2 | It's the last name of father & son novelists Kingsley & Martin |
| 50 | Alice in Wonderland | 2 | When this heroine shrinks, she falls into a pool of tears she'd shed when she was 9 feet tall |
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