The Post Quiz: Famous Writers, Obscure Works

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The Post Quiz: Famous Writers, Obscure Works

George Orwell, 1943.

You've heard of these famous writers – and you know their famous books. But are you familiar with their lesser-known works? Match the writer to the title.

  1. Kurt Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse Five, but he also wrote. . .
  2. George Orwell wrote 1984, but he also wrote. . .
  3. Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but he also wrote. . .
  4. Philip K Dick wrote Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, but he also wrote. . .
  5. Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn, but he also wrote. . .
  6. Salman Rushdie wrote Midnight's Children, but he also wrote. . .
  7. JD Salinger wrote Catcher in the Rye, but he also wrote. . .
  8. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, but he also wrote. . .
  9. Joseph Heller wrote Catch 22, but he also wrote. . .
  10. Anthony Burgess wrote A Clockwork Orange, but he also wrote. . .
  • The Road to Wigan Pier
  • Grimus
  • Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters
  • Is Shakespeare Dead?
  • Man of Nazareth
  • Happy Birthday, Wanda June
  • The Formulae of Plane Trigonometry
  • Confessions of a Crap Artist
  • The Great Boer War
  • God Knows

Click on the picture below to match the author to his obscure masterpiece.

Author Kurt Vonnegut against a background that recalls his books Player Piano and Slaughterhouse 5
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