Name a classic novel written before 1950

20 different answers

Most common answers

1. 1Pride and Prejudice21%
2. 2Wuthering Heights16%
3. 3Dracula15%
4. 4Nineteen Eighty-Four13%
5. 5The Great Gatsby8%
6. 6Jane Eyre4%
7. 7The Hobbit4%
8. 8Moby-Dick3%
9. 9Ulysses3%
10. 10The Grapes of Wrath2%
11. 11Dom Casmurro1%
12. 12Don Quixote1%
13. 13Great Expectations1%
14. 14Kidnapped1%
15. 15Of Mice and Men1%

Given by one player

• Dom Casmurro
• Don Quixote
• Great Expectations
• Kidnapped
• Of Mice and Men
• Oliver Twist
• Sunset Song
• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
• The Trial
• Treasure Island

Accepted, but nobody said them

• A Christmas Carol
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
• A Farewell to Arms
• A Handful of Dust
• A Hero of Our Time
• A Passage to India
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• A Room with a View
• A Study in Scarlet
• A Tale of Two Cities
• Absalom, Absalom!
• Adam Bede
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Against Nature
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• All Quiet on the Western Front
• All the King's Men
• Amerika
• An American Tragedy
• And Then There Were None
• Animal Farm
• Anna Karenina
• Anne of Green Gables
• Around the World in Eighty Days
• Arrowsmith
• As I Lay Dying
• At Swim-Two-Birds
• Babbitt
• Barchester Towers
• Beau Geste
• Bel-Ami
• Ben-Hur
• Bleak House
• Brave New World
• Brideshead Revisited
• Buddenbrooks
• Caleb Williams
• Candide
• Cannery Row
• Captain Blood
• Clarissa
• Cold Comfort Farm
• Cousin Bette
• Crime and Punishment
• Cry, the Beloved Country
• Daisy Miller
• Daniel Deronda
• David Copperfield
• Dead Souls
• Death Comes for the Archbishop
• Death in Venice
• Decline and Fall
• Demian
• Demons
• Doctor Faustus
• Elmer Gantry
• Emma
• Erewhon
• Ethan Frome
• Eugénie Grandet
• Evelina
• Far from the Madding Crowd
• Father Goriot
• Fathers and Sons
• Finnegans Wake
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Frankenstein
• Germinal
• Godan
• Gone with the Wind
• Good-bye, Mr. Chips
• Gulliver's Travels
• Guy Mannering
• Hard Times
• Heart of Darkness
• Heidi
• Howards End
• Hunger
• I Capture the Castle
• In Search of Lost Time
• Ivanhoe
• Jacob's Room
• Journey to the Center of the Earth
• Journey to the End of the Night
• Jude the Obscure
• Kenilworth
• King Solomon's Mines
• Kristin Lavransdatter
• L'Assommoir
• Lady Chatterley's Lover
• Les Liaisons Dangereuses
• Les Misérables
• Light in August
• Little Dorrit
• Little Women
• Lost Horizon
• Madame Bovary
• Main Street
• Mansfield Park
• Middlemarch
• Moll Flanders
• Mrs Dalloway
• Murder on the Orient Express
• My Ántonia
• Nana
• Native Son
• Nausea
• New Grub Street
• Nicholas Nickleby
• Northanger Abbey
• Notes from Underground
• O Pioneers!
• Oblomov
• Of Human Bondage
• Orlando
• Our Mutual Friend
• Pamela
• Passing
• Persuasion
• Peter and Wendy
• Quo Vadis
• Rebecca
• Rob Roy
• Robinson Crusoe
• Salammbô
• Scaramouche
• Scoop
• Sense and Sensibility
• Sentimental Education
• She: A History of Adventure
• Siddhartha
• Silas Marner
• Sister Carrie
• Sons and Lovers
• Steppenwolf
• Studs Lonigan
• Swann's Way
• Tarzan of the Apes
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles
• The Adventures of Pinocchio
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• The Age of Innocence
• The Antiquary
• The Awakening
• The Big Sleep
• The Blue Lagoon
• The Bostonians
• The Brothers Karamazov
• The Call of the Wild
• The Castle
• The Castle of Otranto
• The Charterhouse of Parma
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• The Custom of the Country
• The Fountainhead
• The Four Feathers
• The Glass Bead Game
• The Golden Bowl
• The Good Earth
• The Good Soldier
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
• The Heart of Midlothian
• The Heart of the Matter
• The Hound of the Baskervilles
• The House of Mirth
• The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
• The Idiot
• The Invisible Man
• The Island of Doctor Moreau
• The Jungle
• The Last of the Mohicans
• The Little Prince
• The Lost World
• The Loved One
• The Magic Mountain
• The Maltese Falcon
• The Man in the Iron Mask
• The Man Who Was Thursday
• The Master and Margarita
• The Mayor of Casterbridge
• The Metamorphosis
• The Mill on the Floss
• The Monk
• The Moon and Sixpence
• The Moonstone
• The Mysteries of Udolpho
• The Naked and the Dead
• The Old Curiosity Shop
• The Ox-Bow Incident
• The Pearl
• The Phantom of the Opera
• The Pickwick Papers
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• The Plague
• The Portrait of a Lady
• The Power and the Glory
• The Prince and the Pauper
• The Princess of Clèves
• The Prisoner of Zenda
• The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
• The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
• The Rainbow
• The Razor's Edge
• The Red and the Black
• The Red Badge of Courage
• The Red Pony
• The Return of the Native
• The Scarlet Letter
• The Scarlet Pimpernel
• The Sea-Wolf
• The Secret Garden
• The Sign of the Four
• The Song of the Lark
• The Sorrows of Young Werther
• The Sound and the Fury
• The Stranger
• The Sun Also Rises
• The Swiss Family Robinson
• The Talisman
• The Thirty-Nine Steps
• The Three Musketeers
• The Time Machine
• The Turn of the Screw
• The Vicar of Wakefield
• The War of the Worlds
• The Waves
• The Way of All Flesh
• The Way We Live Now
• The Wind in the Willows
• The Wings of the Dove
• The Woman in White
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• Their Eyes Were Watching God
• Through the Looking-Glass
• Titus Groan
• To Have and Have Not
• To the Lighthouse
• Tom Jones
• Tortilla Flat
• Tristram Shandy
• Tropic of Cancer
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Under the Volcano
• Vanity Fair
• Vile Bodies
• War and Peace
• Washington Square
• Waverley
• We
• Where Angels Fear to Tread
• White Fang
• Winesburg, Ohio
• Women in Love

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