How Well Do You Know Your "Classics"?

[BeautifulBurnout]

Fun little literary quiz here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6906540.stm).

I got 6 - tsk tsk. Could do better :p

[sanakan]

2 pts - purly through guessing :)

pfff... i don't call those books classics :p
only the "russians", but i read those in german, so i didn't know them either.

[froopy seal]

2 pts - purly through guessing :)

pfff... i don't call those books classics :p
only the "russians", but i read those in german, so i didn't know them either.3 points through guessing. So, at least I'm a better guesser than you are. :p

I've always hated the denomination as "classics" of certain books which are regarded must-reads by Boards of Education, but really give nothing to me. I couldn't name a single book I read in school and truly liked; most were just filed as "irrelevant" and "old-fashioned".

[Skie]

5 through guessing.

[Rog]

3 through guessing.......

[froopy seal]

3 through guessing.......And I wasn't even drunk...

[King of Snake]

3 points through guessing. So, at least I'm a better guesser than you are. :p

I've always hated the denomination as "classics" of certain books which are regarded must-reads by Boards of Education, but really give nothing to me. I couldn't name a single book I read in school and truly liked; most were just filed as "irrelevant" and "old-fashioned".

me too, I was just happy that I could read stuff like Lord Of The Rings and Dune for my english list :)

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

4 in the guessing club.

[GforGroove]

I think the only author that it's a classic in this quizz is James Joyce..
I didnt knew much.. but i was shoked of the definiton of "classic" by BBC

Emily Bronté!!!!! uy.. is like Flowers in the Attic of last century no?
.. terrible classics really.

[grady]

Got 4, and two of the four was via guessing.