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Which of these novels (in part) was written in prison ?

Crime and punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes

Count of Monte Christo - Alexander Dumas

1984 - George Orwell

Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Cervantes was jailed two or three times, and he claims in his prologue to Don Quixote that his great mock-romance was "begotten in a prison". Confined to a cell, the author's imagination wanders with his crack-brained knight over the dusty roads of Spain.

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Which famous novel was rejected by a number of publishers, so eventually its author had to pay the cost for publication himself?

Ulysses (Joyce)

The Trial (Kafka)

In Search of Lost Time (Proust)

The Name of the Rose (Eco)

Phillip K. Dick, author of SF novels that have been made into numerous films ("Blade Runner", "Minority Report", "Paycheck") denied the existence of a certain person. Who was that person?

Albert Einstein

Which institution awards the Pulitzer prize?

Swedish Royal Academy

Columbia University

Which of these books is considered the first prose pornography in the history of literature ?

The 120 Days of Sodom - Marquis de Sade

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokova

Fanny Hill - John Cleland

Venus in Furs - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch