They Created Me by the Book! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Leo Tolstoy

The novel "Anna Karenina" was published in chapter form from 1873 to 1877 in the newspaper "The Russian Messenger". Only in 1878 was it published in a book form. In 2007, Time Magazine did a popular survey on 125 authors, and "Anna Karenina" was considered the best book ever written.

Answer: W. Somerset Maugham

Mildred Rogers is the leading female figure in the novel "Of Human Bondage" written by William Somerset Maugham, published in 1915. The title of the book is the same in part IV of Spinoza's book "Ethics: Of Bondage or the Strengh of the Emotions", where Spinoza discusses how difficult it is for people to control their emotions.

Answer: Edith Wharton

Ellen Olenska is one of the central characters in Edith Wharton's novel "The Age of Inocence", which was released in 1920. The novel shows the customs of New York in the late 19th century. The author won in 1921 the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, becoming the first woman to receive this honor.

Answer: Boris Pasternak

Lara is the central figure of the novel "Doctor Zhivago" authored by the Russian writer and poet Boris Pasternak. The book was released in 1957 in Italy and later in the rest of the world; in the Soviet Union it was published only in 1987. The author was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958, an award that Boris Pasternak was compelled to reject. Both the book and the movie became a worldwide success.

Answer: Graham Greene

Sarah Miles, her husband Henry Miles and the writer Maurice Bendrix are the central characters in Graham Greene's novel "The End of the Affair". Some people think that God is the fourth character in this novel. The book was released in 1951 and the characters Sarah and Bendrix are based on the author's life and his lover at that time, Catherine Waleton, to whom Greene dedicated the book.

Answer: Gustave Flaubert

Emma Bovary is the central character in the novel "Madame Bovary" by French author Gustave Flaubert. The work was first published in chapters in the "Revue de Paris" in 1856. Both the author and the publisher were target of a government prosecution that considered the work obscene; both were acquitted and the novel appeared in a book form in 1857. "Madame Bovary" is considered the main work of Flaubert.

Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hester Prynne is the main personage in the work "The Scarlet Letter: A Romance" published in 1850 and considered the masterpiece of the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. When it was released in 1850, it was one of the first mass-produced books in America.

Answer: D. H. Lawrence

Constance Reid is the fruit of the imagination of the English writer D. H. Lawrence. She came to the world through the novel "Lady Chatterly's Lover" , first published in Italy. The book became famous for dealing with the physical and the emotional relationship between a married women of the upper class and a man of the working class.

In 1960, Penguin Books published an unexpurgated edition of the book for the first time in the United Kingdom. The company was sued under "Obscene Public Act in 1959".

The publisher was considered innocent, and the book was a success, partly due to publicity given by the judgement.

Answer: Charlotte Brontė

"Jane Eyre" - the novel bears the name of the heroine - was written by Charlotte Brontė and published in England under the pen name Currer Bell in 1847. The story is told by Jane herself, and shows the psychological and moral development of the main character through time.

Answer: Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie is an English author who specialized in crime novels. Her main detectives are Miss Jane Marple and Hercule Poirot. Miss Marple is an elderly woman who lives alone in St. Mary Mead village and achieves her professional success due her feminine intuition. "The Murder at the Vicarage" was the first novel in which the detective appeared; on the whole she appeared in 12 novels and in 20 short stories.