Classic Novels & Novelists Trivia Word Search

This American author of gothic short stories and macabre verse wrote The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart.

This Irish author wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray.

This delusional Spanish nobleman sets out on knightly adventures, famously tilting at windmills.

1984's protagonist, who works rewriting history at the Ministry of Truth, is named this.

Shakespeare's Danish prince famously contemplates a skull and a fateful choice in a play named after him.

This American author wrote Beloved, a haunting novel about the legacy of slavery.

Slaughterhouse-Five's protagonist becomes "unstuck in time," reliving moments from his life out of order; he's named this.

This eccentric, jilted bride in Great Expectations still wears her wedding dress decades later.

Romeo's beloved, from the rival House of Capulet, is named this.

This Spanish author wrote the classic novel Don Quixote.

Peter Pan's magical island home, where children never age, is called this.

This Scottish author created the boy who never grows up in Peter Pan.

This American author wrote The Old Man and the Sea and A Farewell to Arms.

This shipwrecked sailor spends 28 years alone on a deserted island in Defoe's novel named after him.

The mysterious, wealthy title character of Fitzgerald's most famous novel is named this.

This Scottish author wrote Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

This curious young girl follows a white rabbit down a hole into a fantastical world.

This English author created Winnie-the-Pooh and the Hundred Acre Wood.

The Catcher in the Rye's cynical, alienated teenage narrator is named this.

A Wrinkle in Time's determined young protagonist is named this.

Homer's epic about a hero's ten-year journey home after the Trojan War is titled this.

Emily and Charlotte, novelist sisters who wrote Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, share this surname.

The centuries-old Transylvanian vampire count at the heart of Stoker's novel is named this.

The Grapes of Wrath follows this migrant family fleeing the Dust Bowl for California.

Frankenstein's monster-creating scientist has this first name.

Robinson Crusoe's companion on the island, rescued from cannibals, is named after the day they met.

This French author wrote Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

Shakespeare's star-crossed young lover from the House of Montague is named this.

The tiny people who capture Gulliver on his first voyage live on this fictional island.

This mischievous boy, Huck Finn's friend, gives his name to an earlier Twain novel.

The obsessed sea captain who hunts the white whale in Moby-Dick is named this.

The Victorian novelist known by the pen name George Eliot, author of Middlemarch, was in fact a woman; her real surname is the answer.

Pride and Prejudice's sharp-witted protagonist is named this.

This English author wrote The Wind in the Willows, featuring Mole, Ratty, and Toad.

Great Expectations' orphaned protagonist, raised by his blacksmith brother-in-law, is named this.

This ship's surgeon finds himself among six-inch-tall people, then among giants, in Swift's satirical novel.

To Kill a Mockingbird's author is Harper '_ _ _.'

This American author wrote the darkly comic, time-hopping novel Slaughterhouse-Five.

This Irish author wrote the vampire novel Dracula.

This English author wrote Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, pioneering stream-of-consciousness narration.

This English author, writing under a pen name, created Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Crime and Punishment's Russian author is known by the first name '_ _ _ _ _ _.'

Hamlet's tragic love interest, who drowns after losing her father and her sanity, is named this.

The Scarlet Letter's protagonist, forced to wear a scarlet "A" for adultery, is named this.

Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a formerly enslaved woman haunted by her past is titled this.

Les Misérables follows this ex-convict as he seeks redemption while pursued by a relentless inspector.

This English author wrote the dystopian novel Brave New World.

This American author wrote Invisible Man, exploring identity and race in 20th-century America.

This orphaned governess falls for the brooding Mr. Rochester in a novel named after her: Jane '_ _ _ _.'

This author wrote A Wrinkle in Time, in which a young girl travels through space to rescue her father.

This English author wrote Robinson Crusoe, based partly on a real castaway's story.

This vain young man stays eternally youthful while his portrait ages and reveals his moral corruption.

This miserly, ghost-visited protagonist of A Christmas Carol eventually reforms his ways.

This American author wrote The Grapes of Wrath, chronicling the Dust Bowl migration.

This ancient Greek poet is traditionally credited with composing the Iliad and the Odyssey.

This English author wrote the dystopian novels 1984 and Animal Farm.

This English author wrote Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility.

This American author wrote The Catcher in the Rye.

Gatsby's unattainable love interest, married to the brutish Tom, is named this.

Victor Hugo's tragic bell-ringer, Quasimodo, lives high in the towers of this famous medieval Parisian cathedral.

This English author wrote Frankenstein at just eighteen years old.

A respectable doctor secretly transforms into a violent alter ego in Stevenson's famous novella; the doctor's surname is this.

The Count of Monte Cristo's protagonist, seeking revenge after wrongful imprisonment, was originally named '_ _ _ _ _ _' Dantès.

Wuthering Heights' brooding, vengeful anti-hero is named Heath'_ _ _ _ _.'

This American author wrote the whale-hunting epic Moby-Dick.

Fahrenheit 451's protagonist, a book-burning fireman who begins to question his job, is named Guy this.

This grinning, fading feline guides Alice through a fantastical world in Lewis Carroll's novel.

This American author wrote The Scarlet Letter, set in Puritan New England.

Scout's principled lawyer father in To Kill a Mockingbird is named this.

Elizabeth Bennet's proud, wealthy love interest in Pride and Prejudice is Mr. this.

Wuthering Heights' willful heroine, torn between two very different suitors, is named this.

This English author created Middle-earth in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

A Kansas farm girl swept away by a tornado into a magical land is named this.

This orphan boy famously asks for more gruel in a workhouse in a Dickens novel named after him.

This English author wrote A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations.

The mysterious, vengeful submarine captain in Verne's undersea adventure is named this.

Mark Twain's young protagonist rafts down the Mississippi with the enslaved man Jim.

The Great Gatsby is narrated by this Midwestern transplant, Gatsby's neighbor.

This mischievous fairy causes romantic chaos with a magic flower in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

The brooding, secretive love interest in Jane Eyre, hiding a secret in his attic, is named this.

This Irish author wrote the satirical adventure novel Gulliver's Travels.

This American author wrote Fahrenheit 451, about a future where books are burned.

The exiled sorcerer-duke who controls a magical island in Shakespeare's The Tempest is named this.

Moby-Dick's narrator, who survives the doomed voyage, introduces himself with a famous three-word command.

This Russian author wrote the sprawling epics War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

This French author wrote Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

Dorothy's loyal little dog, who accompanies her to the Land of Oz, is named this.

This American poet and memoirist wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

The reluctant hobbit hero of Tolkien's first Middle-earth novel is named this.

Poe's tale about a crumbling, doomed aristocratic family is titled The Fall of the House of this.

This American author wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.

This honey-loving bear of "very little brain" lives in the Hundred Acre Wood.

This young solicitor's visit to Transylvania sets Dracula's plot in motion; his journal entries open the novel.

Animal Farm's power-hungry pig, who gradually becomes indistinguishable from the humans, is named this.

The Metamorphosis's protagonist, who wakes up transformed into a giant insect, is named this.

To Kill a Mockingbird's young narrator, who watches her father defend a wrongly accused man, is named this.

Shakespeare's Scottish general is driven to murder a king by prophecy and ambition in a play often called "the Scottish play."

This French author wrote The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.

This American author created the magical land of Oz in a series beginning with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Homer's epic about the final weeks of the Trojan War is titled this.