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Between the Classic Covers

Meet the authors, characters and imaginary places that have made lasting homes on bookshelves.

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Meet the authors, characters and imaginary places that have made lasting homes on bookshelves. Take ten thoughtfully chosen questions at your own pace. Each answer comes with a short explanation to help you connect the facts and remember something new.

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Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?

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1. Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?

  • Jane Austen
  • Charlotte Brontë
  • George Eliot
  • Mary Shelley
Reveal answer and explanation

Jane Austen — Austen's novel follows Elizabeth Bennet and examines marriage, class and judgment.

2. Which author created Sherlock Holmes?

  • Agatha Christie
  • Wilkie Collins
  • Charles Dickens
  • Arthur Conan Doyle
Reveal answer and explanation

Arthur Conan Doyle — Doyle introduced the detective Holmes in A Study in Scarlet.

3. Who wrote The Hobbit?

  • Lewis Carroll
  • Jules Verne
  • J. R. R. Tolkien
  • C. S. Lewis
Reveal answer and explanation

J. R. R. Tolkien — Tolkien's novel follows Bilbo Baggins on a journey with a company of dwarves.

4. Which novel features the character Captain Ahab?

  • The Old Man and the Sea
  • Moby-Dick
  • Treasure Island
  • Robinson Crusoe
Reveal answer and explanation

Moby-Dick — Herman Melville's Ahab obsessively pursues the white whale Moby Dick.

5. Who wrote Frankenstein?

  • Mary Shelley
  • Bram Stoker
  • Emily Brontë
  • Ann Radcliffe
Reveal answer and explanation

Mary Shelley — Mary Shelley's novel explores creation, responsibility and isolation.

6. Which fictional land is reached through a wardrobe in a C. S. Lewis novel?

  • Oz
  • Middle-earth
  • Neverland
  • Narnia
Reveal answer and explanation

Narnia — The wardrobe leads to Narnia in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

7. Who wrote the play Hamlet?

  • Ben Jonson
  • Oscar Wilde
  • William Shakespeare
  • Christopher Marlowe
Reveal answer and explanation

William Shakespeare — Shakespeare's tragedy centers on a Danish prince confronting his father's death.

8. Which author wrote Journey to the Centre of the Earth?

  • Daniel Defoe
  • Jules Verne
  • H. G. Wells
  • Robert Louis Stevenson
Reveal answer and explanation

Jules Verne — Verne's adventure follows an expedition into a fictional subterranean world.

9. In which novel does a girl follow a white rabbit into a strange world?

  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  • Little Women
  • The Secret Garden
  • Heidi
Reveal answer and explanation

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll's Alice follows the White Rabbit into a fantastical world.

10. Who wrote Don Quixote?

  • Dante Alighieri
  • Victor Hugo
  • Leo Tolstoy
  • Miguel de Cervantes
Reveal answer and explanation

Miguel de Cervantes — Cervantes' novel follows an idealistic reader of romances and his companion Sancho Panza.

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