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Classic Novels and Authors

Whales, windmills and haunted moors await. Match the great novels to the pens behind them and prove your bookshelf is more than decoration.

🧠 General Knowledge medium 20 questions ~7 min

What this quiz asks

Who wrote "Pride and Prejudice"?
Who wrote "Don Quixote", the tale of a would-be knight who battles windmills?
Which novel follows Captain Ahab's obsessive hunt for a white whale?
Which Irish writer created Count Dracula in his novel of 1897?
Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, trained as a medical doctor.
Which Russian novelist wrote "War and Peace"?
Select ALL of these novels written by Charles Dickens.
What is the name of the bell-ringer in Victor Hugo's "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame"?
Was "George Orwell" a pen name?
In what year was F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" published?
Who wrote "The Count of Monte Cristo"?
In "Jane Eyre", who is the brooding master of Thornfield Hall?
In Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein is the name of the creature.
Order these novels by when they were first published, earliest first.
Which American author created Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn?
Select ALL of these novels that were written by women.
In which fictional town is Gabriel García Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" set?
Which Portuguese novelist wrote "The Maias" (Os Maias), published in 1888?
In Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment", what is the name of the student who commits the crime?
Which French author wrote the seven-volume novel "In Search of Lost Time"?