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Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar was originally published in 1963 under which pseudonym?
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Who is the narrator in Never Let Me Go?
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Peter Carey has won the Booker Prize twice. Which two novels did he win with?
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• After being expelled from convent school, they dream of the bright lights of Dublin - and are rewarded with bad luck and bad sex; marry for the wrong reasons; but continue to fight the expectations forced upon 'girls' of every era to become brave new women. – change to: After being expelled from convent school, they dream of the bright lights of Dublin – and are rewarded with bad luck and bad sex. They marry for the wrong reasons but continue to fight the expectations forced upon 'girls' of every era to become brave new women. – What book is this describing?
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‘Many kinds of contraband got passed round our school: cigarettes, drugs, porn mags, video nasties, every now and then some poor fool’s diary – but books were not considered hot property. The Buddha of Suburbia changed all that. It was moving surreptitiously around our History class . . .’ Who wrote these words of The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi?
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On receiving an early copy, Evelyn Waugh remarked 'If these stories are in fact the work of a young lady, they are indeed remarkable. – What work was being described?
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What year was Vernon God Little published?
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Exceptionally Hard Classic Books Quiz
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