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D.H. Lawrence's name is?
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What name is shared by the authors of The Time Machine, The Rainbow and Dune?
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In the scandalous and once-banned D.H. Lawrence book, what is the name of Lady Chatterley's Lover?
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Which of these is NOT a book by D.H. Lawrence?
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Lawrence's "The Rainbow" is about three generations of what family?
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96 times (17.1%) |
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Which novelist became friends with Henry James after sending him one of his novels in 1896 with a letter, saying that James's characters had stood "consoling by my side under many skies. They have lived with me, faithful and serene--with the bright serenity of Immortals. And to you thanks are due for such glorious companionship"?
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With which famous writer was Lucia, the daughter of James Joyce, infatauted (though her love was not returned, which caused relations between her father and the said writer to sour)?
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Which writer was responsible for introducing the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy to the English-speaking world during the 1920s?
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"The Ladybird" is a short novel by which Modernist author?
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Of whom did Grahame Greene declare: "He is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare in the history of poetry"?
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In D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Constance runs away with?
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Of which Southern writer did Graham Greene write: "__________ and perhaps Mr Faulkner are the only writers since the death of D.H. Lawrence with an original poetic sensibility. I prefer __________ to Mr Faulkner because she writes more clearly; I prefer her to D.H. Lawrence because she has no message"?
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At a famous trial, about which book did the prosecutor invite the jury to ask themselves: "Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?"
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This 1915 novel by D.H. Lawrence -- the prequel to Women in Love -- was confiscated by the police and banned almost immediately upon its publication for its unabashed description of (particularly: female) sexuality.
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The Rainbow?
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242 times (41.6%) |
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57 times (9.8%) |
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Which book did Virginia Woolf call "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people"?
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236 times |
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Which two writers were exact contemporaries, in that they were both born in the year 1882 and both died in 1941?
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"I gave Bert sex; I had to. He was over at our house struggling with a poem he couldn't finish, so I took him upstairs and gave him sex. He came downstairs and finished that verse in twenty-five minutes."
Reportedly the words of Alice Dax about the day a young writer lost his virginity. Who was the twenty-two year-old she knew as Bert?
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Who was called by Anatole France "the greatest intellectual force in the English-speaking world"?
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Who wrote this in his obituary of George Bernard Shaw?
"I never went to see him -- out of kindness. For I was convinced, and still am, that he had never read a line of mine, and that would have embarrassed him as well as me."
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70 times |
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Who asked the following:
"What is the point of writing if it is not an intellectual and moral endeavour to encompass a problematic ego?"
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Which famous writer claimed the following?
"If one wants to leave something worthwhile to posterity, it must be confessions; one must show oneself as an individual, with all one's thoughts and opinions."
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58 times |
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Fathers and Sons and Lovers?
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108 times |
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