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Literature
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Study notes: make the connections
Learn authors with one anchor work
Start with Austen, Dickens, Stevenson and Hardy, then add detectives, modern novels and poetry. Use an author’s other works to strengthen the connection.
Names in a multiple-choice list can all be real authors. Recall the exact work, rather than choosing the most familiar name.
| Remember the link | Key fact |
|---|---|
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen Austen’s novels explore family relationships and marriage. |
| Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen. |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens Dickens wrote Oliver Twist and Great Expectations. |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens Great Expectations is one of Dickens’s best-known novels. |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson Stevenson wrote Treasure Island and Kidnapped. |
| Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson Stevenson’s fiction includes Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. |
| Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy Hardy often wrote about rural society. |
| Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure is one of Hardy’s novels. |
| the Sherlock Holmes stories | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Conan Doyle was a Scottish doctor and the creator of Sherlock Holmes. |
| Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh Waugh wrote satirical fiction as well as Brideshead Revisited. |
| Lucky Jim | Kingsley Amis Lucky Jim is a well-known novel by Kingsley Amis. |
| Brighton Rock | Graham Greene Greene’s fiction often reflects religious concerns. |
| Our Man in Havana | Graham Greene Our Man in Havana is a novel by Graham Greene. |
| the Harry Potter series | J K Rowling Rowling’s Harry Potter books became internationally successful. |
| The Lord of the Rings | J R R Tolkien Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings. |
| the James Bond novels | Ian Fleming Fleming created the fictional agent James Bond. |
| Paradise Lost | John Milton Milton’s poetry was influenced by his religious beliefs. |
| The Daffodils | William Wordsworth Wordsworth’s poetry was often inspired by nature. |
| The Tyger | William Blake The Tyger is a poem by William Blake. |
| She Walks in Beauty | Lord Byron She Walks in Beauty is a poem by Lord Byron. |
| Anthem for Doomed Youth | Wilfred Owen Owen wrote about the First World War from experience. |
| Home Thoughts from Abroad | Robert Browning Home Thoughts from Abroad is by Robert Browning. |
Handbook reference: Chapter 4: A modern, thriving society — Arts and culture. These are original revision notes, not a reproduction of the handbook.
Three quick study checks
Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?
Jane Austen
Austen’s novels explore family relationships and marriage.
Which work was written by Jane Austen?
Pride and Prejudice
Austen’s novels explore family relationships and marriage.
Who wrote Sense and Sensibility?
Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen.