Author Biography: cseanymph

Want to make her an offer she can't refuse? Some heroes come straight out with the crucial question: others go at it in a more roundabout way. Can you recognise these proposals from well-known literary works?

This quiz will test you on basic facts about one of the most famous documents in English history: the Domesday Book, or simply Domesday Book as it is more correctly known among historians.

Literature's pages are full of heart-broken damsels who waited in vain for their lovers. Can you answer these questions about eight forsaken maidens, finishing with a couple of forsaken men?

After playing and greatly enjoying VBookWorm's quiz on "Keep The Aspidistra Flying", I was inspired to create this quiz about another of George Orwell's early novels, "A Clergyman's Daughter". Hope you enjoy it.

For anyone who enjoyed my first quiz How Much Do You Know About "Vanity Fair?" Thackeray keeps the twists and turns of the plot going up to the very end, so here are ten more questions on this ever-fascinating book.

Charles Dickens combines melodrama, comedy and serious themes in this impressive work centred around the Dombey family.

The Conways' lives over nineteen years are shown in the most famous of J.B. Priestley's time plays.

Hilaire Belloc's "Cautionary Verses" are a wicked and witty satire on the early nineteenth century moral tales for young sinners.

The third book in E. Nesbit's series about the four children Anthea, Cyril, Robert and Jane and their magic adventures with the Psammead takes the reader back to fascinating ancient civilisations. How many of these questions can you answer correctly?

Not only for children, but for all those Railway people who love E. Nesbit's classic story. My questions are strictly on the book only.

A masterpiece of Victorian fiction, William Thackeray's 'novel without a hero' is packed with unforgettable characters. My questions on some of the finer details of this very long book are fairly tricky.