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Name the Author (British & Irish Literature) 🇬🇧 🇮🇪

Based on the work, please try to name the author
It is worth noting that, although some of the authors featured in this quiz might not be considered strictly "British" or "Irish", most of them were born, spent a significant portion of their lives, and/or had a strong multifaceted connection with the territory corresponding to the modern-day United Kingdom, Ireland, and other English-speaking nations. Additionally, in terms of vernacular affinity, it could be reasonably assumed that they wrote primarily (more often than not exclusively) in the English language (including archaic variations of it). All things considered, while their mentioning could be understandably debatable, it would also be justified to a certain degree.
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Work
Author
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
Agnes Grey, a Novel
Anne Brontë
Ivanhoe
Walter Scott
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
Tess of the d'Urbevilles
Thomas Hardy
Borstal Boy
Brendan Behan
Tam o' Shanter (Poem)
Robert Burns
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Guide to the Lakes
William Wordsworth
Don Juan (Poem)
Lord Byron | George Gordon Byron
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
The Way We Live Now
Anthony Trollope
A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Poem)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
The Pursuit of Love
Nancy Mitford
Endymion (Poem)
John Keats
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Peter Pan
J.M. Barrie
Gaudy Night
Dorothy L. Sayers
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
The Country Girls
Edna O'Brien
The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
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Author
Normal People
Sally Rooney
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Idylls of the King (Poem)
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Atonement
Ian McEwan
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Evelyn Waugh
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Good Behaviour
Molly Keane
My Last Duchess (Poem)
Robert Browning
Light a Penny Candle
Maeve Binchy
The Code of the Woosters
P.G. Wodehouse
The Tower
W. B. Yeats
The Waves
Virginia Woolf
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
William Blake
De Profundis
Oscar Wilde
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
The Vicar of Wakefield
Oliver Goldsmith
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
The Hollow Men (Poem)
T.S. Eliot
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
The Chronicles of Narnia
C.S. Lewis
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Laurence Sterne
Paradise Lost (Poem)
John Milton
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe
George Eliot | Mary Ann Evans
The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
Brooklyn
Colm Tóibín
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8 Comments
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Level 71
Jun 9, 2016
Would be better if each author was only featured once...
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Level 83
Jun 10, 2025
Thank you very much for the feedback, your suggestion has been taken into consideration.
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Level 67
Nov 27, 2017
For Lyrical Ballads, you should allow either Coleridge or Wordsworth. I typed one, then other, then "Wordsworth and Coleridge", and none worked... I also agree with Allbert that it would be better to feature each author once. Good to see poets though!
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Level 83
Jun 10, 2025
Thank you very much for the kind feedback. Your suggestion has been taken into consideration and the necessary corrections have been applied.
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Level 84
Apr 10, 2019
A good quiz - nicely challenging. But like previous commentators I'd prefer to see authors mentioned once. Leaves room for the inclusion of others who are noticeably absent. It's a shame, for instance, not to have included (hmm, let me see...) Hardy, Trollope, Wodehouse and Waugh.
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Level 83
Jun 10, 2025
Thank you very much for the kind feedback. Your suggestion has been taken into consideration.
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Level 66
Mar 29, 2026
Fun but tough! Missed a few I've read myself because too little time, too foggy a brain. I particularly liked that you didn’t always use the most famous work of an author. Nice job!
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Level 83
Mar 29, 2026
Thank you very much for the kind feedback. I am glad you enjoyed it.