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1. I like to hold on to 'classics' like these in case the kids want to read them when they're older. Which of these famous 20th century titles was published first?
2. The author of "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", which is in our kids' bookcase, is also represented on the grown-ups' side (often an arbitrary distinction!). Which of these novels did s/he also write?
3. I'm not sure why I've kept this Dickens novel - I didn't enjoy it at all! The opening lines are "Now, what I want is, Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else."
4. "The Makioka Sisters" is the story of a merchant family in decline in pre-war Osaka and deals with issues of pride, duty, and tradition as the family attempts to arrange a suitable marriage for the stubborn Yukiko. Who wrote it?
5. Umberto Eco's best known work, "The Name of the Rose" was made into a movie starring Sean Connery. That novel's on my shelf, as are the following works of fiction and non-fiction . Which one was not written by Eco?
6. I still have my old high school and university poetry anthologies. One of my favourites, of the poems we studied, begins:
"Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, Lady, were no crime."
Who's the poet?
7. The following authors are all represented on my shelves. Which of one of them has not won the Nobel Prize for Literature?
8. Returning to my schooldays...I've still got lots of texts from my Speech and Drama lessons, including the following four. Which of them was written by Spanish playwright Federico Garcia Lorca?
9. I have a book of short stories by writers such as Steel Rudd, Hal Porter and Peter Carey. Complete the title of this collection: "The Penguin Book of _________Short Stories".
10. We started the quiz, with 'which was published first?' We'll end by moving forward a few decades and asking 'which of the following novels was published last?'
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