Name That Novel: Slate Quiz of Lame Review Lines

Photo illustration by Juliana Jiménez

Photo illustration by Juliana Jiménez

Slate posted a great quiz this morning: you read a line from a contemporary review of a classic novel, and you have to choose which great work of literature was dismissed by it. This is the “dream” of a critic: for your words to be immortalized by how wrong you were about a historical hit. Work hazards.

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