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This work was NOT originally published in the 20th Century ?

Correct answer: B. Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"

A. Henry James's "The Ambassadors"
B. Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"
C. E.M. Forster's "A Room With A View"
D. Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway"

Explanation

Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles was published in 1891, so it belongs to the nineteenth century. The other novels were first published in the twentieth century: The Ambassadors in 1903, A Room with a View in 1908, and Mrs Dalloway in 1925.

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