Great Writers Trivia
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Meet the masters with great writers trivia on Hemingway, Twain, Tolstoy, Woolf, Kafka, Dostoevsky, and more literary giants. Their lives were often as dramatic as their novels, full of adventure, rivalry, and genius on deadline. Sharpen your pencil and see if your author knowledge earns a place in the canon.
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- The Life and Works of Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Life and Works of Charles Dickens
- The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe
- The Life and Works of Ernest Hemingway
- The Life and Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Life and Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Life and Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Life and Works of JRR Tolkien
- The Life and Works of Leo Tolstoy
- The Life and Works of Mark Twain
- The Life and Works of Oscar Wilde
- The Life and Works of Walt Whitman
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This brilliant detective, known for his deerstalker cap and pipe, lives at 221B Baker Street in London.
- Sherlock Holmes
- Auguste Dupin
- Philip Marlowe
- Hercule Poirot
This novel begins with the famous line "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Great Expectations
- Oliver Twist
- David Copperfield
This American author penned the famous poem featuring a bird that repeats "Nevermore."
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Herman Melville
- Washington Irving
This 1952 novella tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who hooks a giant marlin in the Gulf Stream.
- A Farewell to Arms
- The Old Man and the Sea
- The Sun Also Rises
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
The decade most associated with F. Scott Fitzgerald's literary career and the era he helped define with his writing.
- The 1900s
- The 1910s
- The 1920s
- The 1930s
This tormented university student murders an old pawnbroker with an axe, believing himself to be an extraordinary man above moral law.
- Raskolnikov
- Prince Myshkin
- Alyosha Karamazov
- Stavrogin
This German writer's two-part dramatic work, considered his masterpiece, tells of a scholar who makes a deal with the devil for unlimited knowledge and pleasure.
- Elective Affinities
- The Sorrows of Young Werther
- Faust
- Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
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This powerful golden band, forged in the fires of a volcano, is the central object of Tolkien's most famous trilogy.
- The Ring of Barahir
- The One Ring
- Narya
- Nenya
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