Multiple choice

Which of the following sequences is correct?

  1. Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond, Middlemarch, The Return of the Native

  2. Henry Esmond, Vanity Fair, Middlemarch, The Return of the Native

  3. Middlemarch, The Return of the Native, Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond

  4. The Return of the Native, Middlemarch, Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond
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Explanation

The correct chronological order is: Vanity Fair (1847-48) by Thackeray, Henry Esmond (1852) by Thackeray, Middlemarch (1871-72) by George Eliot, The Return of the Native (1878) by Thomas Hardy. This spans mid to late Victorian period literature.

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