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Great Literature #50

Match the title to its author(s).

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The Holy Terrors
1929 (Les Enfants terribles)
The House of Ulloa
1886 (Los pazos de Ulloa)
Simplicius Simplicissimus
1668 (Der abentheuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch)
Rickshaw Boy
1937 (骆驼祥子)
The Outsider
1926
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
1768
The Time of the Doves
1962 (La plaça del Diamant)
Requiem
1963 (Реквием)
Lost Horizon
1933
Northanger Abbey
1818
Elective Affinities
1809 (Die Wahlverwandtschaften)
Joseph Andrews
1742 (The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams)
Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing
1826 (Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts)
Norwegian Wood
1987 (ノルウェイの森)
The Voyage of the Beagle
1839 (Journal and Remarks)
L’assommoir
1876, published serially; 1877, in book form
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
1819-1821, serially, in two volumes (Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr nebst fragmentarischer Biographie des Kapellmeisters Johannes Kreisler in zufälligen Makulaturblättern)
Them
1969
Hyperion
1797-1799, serially, in two volumes (Hyperion; oder, Der Eremit in Griechenland
The Country of the Pointed Firs
1896
Anna Akhmatova
Charles Darwin
E. T. A. Hoffmann
Émile Zola
Emilia Pardo Bazán
Friedrich Hölderlin
H. P. Lovecraft
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
Haruki Murakami
Henry Fielding
James Hilton
Jane Austen
Jean Cocteau
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Joseph von Eichendorff
Joyce Carol Oates
Lao She
Laurence Stern
Mercè Rodoreda
Sarah Orne Jewett
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Level 89
Aug 23, 2024
I found out today that Hyperion is not by Dan Simmons or John Keats.
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Level 76
Aug 23, 2024
Well, technically what you found out is that those two hacks are nothing but copycats. ;-)