Practice question · Put in order
Arrange the six set works in order of publication.
- A Doll’s House (1879)
- The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)
- The Gambler (1866)
- Candide (1759)
- The Trial (1925)
- Madame Bovary (1857)
Hints
- The two eighteenth-century works come first.
- The Trial was written in 1914–15 but published in 1925.
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- Candide (1759)
- The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)
- Madame Bovary (1857)
- The Gambler (1866)
- A Doll’s House (1879)
- The Trial (1925)
Why
The order matters for the instruments: epistolary immersion precedes free indirect discourse, which precedes interior compulsion, which precedes Kafka’s procedural nightmare. Each technique needed the previous one to exist.
Practise Six Set Books: Candide to A Doll’s House
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