Famous Novels
Instructions: How well do you know the world's most celebrated novels and their authors?
- 1.
Who wrote 'Pride and Prejudice,' published in 1813?
ACharlotte BrontëBEmily BrontëCGeorge EliotDJane Austen - 2.
What is the setting of Herman Melville's 'Moby-Dick'?
AThe California gold rushBA New England farmCThe American frontierDThe whaling industry at sea - 3.
Which Russian author wrote 'War and Peace'?
AAnton ChekhovBIvan TurgenevCFyodor DostoevskyDLeo Tolstoy - 4.
In Charles Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities,' which two cities are featured?
ALondon and DublinBLondon and RomeCParis and ViennaDLondon and Paris - 5.
Who wrote 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
AJorge Luis BorgesBGabriel García MárquezCPablo NerudaDIsabel Allende - 6.
Which novel by Harper Lee won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961?
ATo Kill a MockingbirdBGone with the WindCThe Color PurpleDThe Grapes of Wrath - 7.
Who wrote 'The Great Gatsby,' set in the Jazz Age of the 1920s?
AWilliam FaulknerBJohn SteinbeckCErnest HemingwayDF. Scott Fitzgerald - 8.
Which Charlotte Brontë novel features the governess Jane and her employer Mr. Rochester?
AJane EyreBVilletteCWuthering HeightsDAgnes Grey - 9.
Who wrote 'Don Quixote,' often called the first modern novel?
APedro Calderón de la BarcaBMiguel de CervantesCFederico García LorcaDLope de Vega - 10.
Which novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky explores the psychology of a murderer named Raskolnikov?
ACrime and PunishmentBNotes from UndergroundCThe IdiotDThe Brothers Karamazov - 11.
Which 1847 novel by Emily Brontë is set on the Yorkshire moors?
AJane EyreBMiddlemarchCTess of the d'UrbervillesDWuthering Heights - 12.
Who wrote 'The Old Man and the Sea,' a novella about a Cuban fisherman?
AErnest HemingwayBJohn SteinbeckCJack LondonDMark Twain - 13.
Which Victor Hugo novel is set during the June Rebellion in Paris in 1832?
ANinety-ThreeBLes MisérablesCThe Hunchback of Notre-DameDThe Man Who Laughs - 14.
Who wrote '1984,' a dystopian novel about totalitarian surveillance?
AGeorge OrwellBRay BradburyCH.G. WellsDAldous Huxley - 15.
Which novel by Margaret Mitchell, set during the Civil War, won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize?
AGone with the WindBThe Color PurpleCLittle WomenDBeloved
Answer Key
Jane Austen published 'Pride and Prejudice' in 1813. The novel follows Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy and remains one of the most beloved works in English literature.
'Moby-Dick' (1851) follows Captain Ahab's obsessive quest to hunt a great white whale. The novel draws heavily on Melville's own experience aboard whaling ships.
Leo Tolstoy published 'War and Peace' between 1865 and 1869. The epic novel follows several aristocratic Russian families during the Napoleonic Wars.
'A Tale of Two Cities' (1859) is set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. Its opening line, 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,' is among the most famous in literature.
Gabriel García Márquez published this landmark of magical realism in 1967. The novel chronicles seven generations of the Buendía family in the fictional town of Macondo.
'To Kill a Mockingbird' addresses racial injustice in the American South through the eyes of young Scout Finch. It has sold over 40 million copies worldwide.
F. Scott Fitzgerald published 'The Great Gatsby' in 1925. The novel explores themes of wealth, class, and the American Dream through narrator Nick Carraway and the mysterious Jay Gatsby.
'Jane Eyre' (1847) is a groundbreaking novel of a woman's quest for independence and love. Charlotte Brontë originally published it under the pen name Currer Bell.
Miguel de Cervantes published 'Don Quixote' in two parts (1605 and 1615). The tale of a deluded knight and his squire Sancho Panza is considered a founding work of Western literature.
'Crime and Punishment' (1866) follows the impoverished student Raskolnikov who murders a pawnbroker and struggles with guilt. It is one of the greatest psychological novels ever written.
'Wuthering Heights' tells the passionate and destructive love story of Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. It was Emily Brontë's only novel, published under the pen name Ellis Bell.
Ernest Hemingway published 'The Old Man and the Sea' in 1952. The story of Santiago's epic battle with a giant marlin helped win him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
'Les Misérables' (1862) follows ex-convict Jean Valjean through decades of upheaval in France. Hugo's epic novel examines justice, poverty, and redemption.
George Orwell published '1984' in 1949. The novel introduced concepts like Big Brother, Newspeak, and thoughtcrime that have become part of everyday language.
'Gone with the Wind' (1936) follows Scarlett O'Hara through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Margaret Mitchell's only published novel sold millions of copies and was adapted into a legendary 1939 film.