World Literature
The world is full of stories, and this category contains multitudes. If you know your Hesse from your Hosseini and your Adichie from your Allende, these World Literature questions are the ones for you.
WHAT WAS CHARLES DICKENS LAST (UNFINISHED) NOVEL?
Name the author who created Hannibal Lecter?
Sir Wilfred is the real name of which eponymous character?
Zane Grey the western writer had what initial profession?
SHE DIED AT 28 BUT HER BOOK ON HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT FAMOUS?
WHICH SOMERSET MAUGHN NOVEL IS CONSIDERED AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL?
Name the science fiction writer who lived in Sri Lanka?
Sissy Jupe was adopted by Thomas Gradgrind in which Dickens novel?
ACCORDING TO THE YELLOW PAGES AD WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE BOOK SUPPOSEDLY WRITTEN BY J R HARTLEY?
THE HALF WIT SMIKE APPEARS IN WHICH DICKENS NOVEL?
WHO CREATED THE CHILDREN’S LAND OF NARNIA AND LION WITCH WARDROBE?
O’Henry created which western character in a short story?
There were two authors of the ‘Communist Manifesto’, which was first published 1848? Karl MARX was one. Who was the other?
ALLS WELL THAT ENDS WELL THE ORIGINAL TITLE OF WHICH CLASSIC NOVEL?
THE SEA COOK WAS THE ORIGINAL TITLE OF WHAT FAMOUS NOVEL?
WHO IS KANGA’S SON IN THE WINNIE-THE-POOH STORIES?
WHO WROTE THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK?
Paul Morel was a character in which classic novel?
Thomas Caneery, writer of Schlinders Ark, comes from what country?
CAPTAIN YOSSARIAN IS THE MAIN CHARACTER IN WHICH TWENTIETH CENTURY NOVEL?
WHAT ARE THE TWO CITIES IN THE CHARLES DICKENS NOVEL A TALE OF TWO CITIES?
Whose epitaph reads Lived a philosopher died a Christian?
WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!’ IS THE LAST LINE OF WHICH WORK?
PG Woodhouse’s books’ character Bertie Wooster used what London Club?
To Who did writer John le Carre dedicate his 1991 spy thriller The SecretPilgrim?
With which animals did Hannibal cross the Alps to Rome?
WHAT AUTHOR MOVED SOME 56 TIMES IN THE SIX MONTHS AFTER HE WAS ISSUED A DEATH THREAT?
WHO SAID THE QUICKEST WAY OF ENDING A WAR IS TO LOSE IT?
WHAT IS LOLITA’S SURNAME IN VLADIMERE NABOKOV’S NOVEL?
Pine Eyes is the literal translation of which characters name?
Under what title do we know the book that was originally published as Murder in the Calais Coach?
ENID BLYTON CHARACTER NAME CHANGED TO WHITE BEARD FOR PC USA?
WHAT AUTHOR WROTE THE NOVEL THE LOST WORLD?
WHO WAS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH DR. JEKYLL IN ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON’S CLASSIC NOVEL?
WHO REJECTED THE 1964 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE?
Pooh loves honey but which creature loves watercress?
Who’s first book was “Down and Out in Paris and London”?
FOUR IRISHMEN HAVE WON THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE. WHO?
WHAT DOES THE REFERENCE BOOK CROCKFORDS LIST?
WHO WAS THE WOMAN TO SHERLOCK HOLMES?
CARLO COLLODI WROTE A STORY ABOUT A WOODEN PUPPET WHICH BECAME HUMAN. WHAT IS ITS TITLE?
Quilp (a dwarf) is a character in which Dickens novel?
Named for its abundance of plant life, this inlet was the site of Captain Cook’s first landing in Australia. What is its name?
HOW FAR UNDER THE SEA WERE JULES VERNE’S EXPLORERS?
WHAT FICTIONAL CHARACTER WAS “THE NAPOLEON OF CRIME”?
WHO WROTE THE 18TH-CENTURY NOVELS THE ADVENTURES OF PEREGRINE PICKLE AND THE ADVENTURES OF RODERICK RANDOM?
Captain Flint buried his treasure where ( Ben Gunn dug it up )?
R D Blackmore wrote which classic novel?
Whose biography is over 8.5 million words long?
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