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Novels by Wikipedia description #2 - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 26 times
- The average score is 9 of 15
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| The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922. | The Great Gatsby | 96%
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| Shortly before completion of the second draft, Orwell vacillated between two titles: The Last Man in Europe, an early title, and [title]. | Nineteen Eighty-Four | 92%
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| The plot and characters are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family, her neighbors and an event that occurred near her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, in 1936, when she was ten. | To Kill a Mockingbird | 92%
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| The book is noted for "changing the course of children's literature" in the United States for the "deeply felt portrayal of boyhood". It is also known for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | 88%
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| [novel] is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell". | Wuthering Heights | 83%
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| Alice Liddell recalled that she asked Carroll to write it down: unlike other stories he had told her, this one she wanted to preserve. | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | 79%
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| Margaret Mitchell's personal collection of nearly 70 foreign language translations of her novel was given to the Atlanta Public Library after her death. | Gone With the Wind | 71%
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| The title refers to a fictional bureaucratic stipulation that embodies illogical and immoral reasoning. | Catch-22 | 50%
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| Originally published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, the novel is considered a founding work of Western literature and the first modern novel. | Don Quixote | 50%
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| Hampton Fancher and David Peoples wrote a loose cinematic adaptation that became the film Blade Runner, released in 1982, featuring several of the novel's characters. | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | 46%
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| Trains are a motif throughout the novel, with several major plot points taking place either on passenger trains or at stations in Saint Petersburg or elsewhere in Russia. | Anna Karenina | 42%
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| Rushdie also coined the word chutnification in the book to describe the adoption of Indian elements into the English language or culture. | Midnight's Children | 38%
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| A censored version, with several chapters cut by editors, was published posthumously in Moscow magazine in 1966–1967 by his widow Elena Bulgakova. | The Master and Margarita | 29%
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| Hemingway's family hated it. Distressed that she could not face the criticism at her local book study class, where it was said that her son was "prostituting a great ability .... to the lowest uses," his mother, Grace Hemingway, expressed her displeasure in a letter to him | The Sun Also Rises | 29%
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| Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka called the novel "the first novel in English which spoke from the interior of the African character, rather than portraying the African as an exotic, as the White man would see him." | Things Fall Apart | 29%
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