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British Novels Flashcards

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“1801 – I have just returned from a visit to my landlord – the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with” is the opening line in which novel by Emily Bronte?

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WUTHERING HEIGHTS

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Who wrote the novels Heart of Midlothian Rob Roy Ivanhoe and Waverley?

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WALTER SCOTT

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Dorothy L. Sayers is best known for her mysteries set between World War I and World War II that feature which English aristocrat and amateur sleuth?

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(LORD) PETER WIMSEY

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Which series of novels by Anthony Trollope were more commonly known (before the BBC television adaptation in 1974) as the Parliamentary Novels?

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PALLISER NOVELS

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Which 2012 novel by J. K. Rowling is set in a West Country town called Pagford?

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THE CASUAL VACANCY

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Published anonymously in 1811 what was the first of the six Jane Austen novels?

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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles was the first Agatha Christie novel featuring which detective?

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HERCULE POIROT

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What is the name of the first novel in the Raj Quartet written by Paul Scott in 1966?

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THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN

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Among the most famous adaptations of which novel is the 1938 radio broadcast that was narrated and directed by Orson Welles – it was presented as a news bulletin and led to panic by some listeners who had believed the events described in the program were real?

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THE WAR OF THE WORLDS

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Bathsheba Everdene Gabriel Oak and Sergeant Frank Troy are characters in which Thomas Hardy novel?

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FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD

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17-year-old David Balfour is the central character and narrator of which novel by Robert Louis Stevenson?

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KIDNAPPED

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Who is the title character in the Anne Bronte novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall?

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HELEN GRAHAM

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Which 1868 epistolary novel by Wilkie Collins is generally considered the first full length detective novel in the English language?

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THE MOONSTONE

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Savrola is the only major fictional work of which Nobel Prize winning author?

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WINSTON CHURCHILL

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Becky Sharp is the main character in which satirical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray?

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VANITY FAIR

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Who is best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady and Sir Charles Grandison?

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SAMUEL RICHARDSON

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What is the epigraph to E.M. Forster’s novel Howards End?

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ONLY CONNECT

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Which 1924–1928 tetralogy of novels by Ford Madox Ford is mainly set in England and the Western Front of the First World War?

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PARADE’S END

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Who is the central character in the House of Cards trilogy of political thrillers written by Michael Dobbs?

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FRANCIS URQUHART

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Lucy Snowe is the protagonist of which novel by Charlotte Bronte?

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VILLETTE

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What nickname did John le Carré use for MI6 in his espionage novels?

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THE CIRCUS

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Published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915 what is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Arthur Conan Doyle?

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THE VALLEY OF FEAR

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Which Scottish crime writer is best known for a series of suspense novels featuring Dr. Tony Hill?

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VAL MCDERMID

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“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there” is the opening line in which novel by L. P. Hartley?

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THE GO-BETWEEN

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What is the full title of the novel written by Mary Shelley that tells the story of a young scientist who creates a grotesque creature in a scientific experiment?

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FRANKENSTEIN; OR THE MODERN PROMETHEUS

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A Parliamentary Affair was the first novel written by which former Conservative Junior Health minister in 1994?

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EDWINA CURRIE

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The Watsons and Sanditon are unfinished novels by which author?

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JANE AUSTEN

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The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole is generally regarded as the first novel in which literary genre?

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GOTHIC NOVEL

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Who is the protagonist of the Sword of Honour trilogy by Evelyn Waugh?

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GUY CROUCHBACK

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Which novel by Rose Tremain won the Orange Prize in 2008?

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THE ROAD HOME

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What is the name of the James Bond continuation novel written by Sebastian Faulks which was published in 2008 on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ian Fleming?

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DEVIL MAY CARE

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A Moment of War is a semi-autobiographical novel by Laurie Lee which covers his time as a combatant in which war?

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SPANISH CIVIL WAR

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Who wrote The Line of Beauty which won the 2004 Man Booker Prize?

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ALAN HOLLINGHURST

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George Orwell wrote most of Nineteen Eighty-Four on which Scottish island despite being seriously ill with tuberculosis?

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JURA

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What is the name of Maggie Tulliver’s brother in the George Eliot novel The Mill on the Floss?

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TOM

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Sometimes known as ‘The Queen of the Criminal Underworld. Novels’ whose novels include Dangerous Lady The Jump The Take and The Runaway?

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MARTINA COLE

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Who is the author of the series of romantic novels known as the Rutshire Chronicles?

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JILLY COOPER

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What products does James Wormold sell in the Graham Greene novel Our Man in Havana?

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VACUUM CLEANERS

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In The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles Sarah Woodruff lives in which English coastal town as a disgraced woman?

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LYME REGIS

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Which novel by D. H. Lawrence follows three generations of the Brangwen family and was prosecuted in an obscenity trial in 1915 as a result of which 1011 copies were seized and burnt?

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THE RAINBOW

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What is the name of the dog in the Jerome K. Jerome novel Three Men in a Boat?

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MONTMORENCY

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“It was the day my grandmother exploded” is the opening line in which Iain Banks novel?

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THE CROW ROAD

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What was the first novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell which is subtitled ‘A Tale of Manchester Life’?

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MARY BARTON

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In which Thomas Hardy novel does Dick Dewy become romantically entangled with Fancy Day?

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UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE

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Which novel by Ann Radcliffe is a favourite of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey?

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THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO

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Who wrote the comic political novel Seventy-Two Virgins published in 2004?

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BORIS JOHNSON

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What is unusual about the chapter numbers in Mark Haddon’s novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time?

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THEY ARE PRIME NUMBERS

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In 1969 who became the first winner of the Booker Prize for his novel Something to Answer For?

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P H NEWBY

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Who wrote the novel The Wimbledon Poisoner which was adapted for television in 1994 by the BBC?

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NIGEL WILLIAMS

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“But already it was impossible to say which was which” is the last line in which novel by George Orwell?

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ANIMAL FARM

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