6) Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)

Middle English

Canterbury Tales (1380) – travelling pilgrims have a storytelling contest to pass the time.

7) Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Davis Copperfield (1850) – autobiographical, treatment of 19^th century children

Oliver Twist (1838) “unspeakable crime of asking for more gruel” - Oliver Twist, also known as The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse. An early example of the social novel, the book calls the public's attention to various contemporary evils, including the Poor Law, child labour and the recruitment of children as criminals. Dickens mocks the hypocrisies of his time by surrounding the novel's serious themes with sarcasm and dark humour.

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick club - is the first novel by Charles Dickens.

The Old Curiosity shop

Dombey and son

Great Expectations

A Christmas Carol

A Tale of two cities

8) Nick Hornby

About a Boy – book in the end og the 19^th century

Fever Pitch (from a point of view of Arsenal fan)

31 songs

He was also a columnist for several newspapers

How to be good

A long way down – about 4 people who accidently met each other on the top of the skyscraper , they were intending to commit a suicide

Slam

Juliet Naked – it’s written by a music fan.

9) Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Novelist, poet, short – story writer. Spent his youth in India.

1907 – Nobel Prize in Literature

The Jungle Book

Kim (1901)

The Light that Failed (1890)

Many short stories

Poetry

10) D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

Time of literary freedom

Sons and lovers (1913)- a partly autobiographical novel about a young man’s Oedipal relationship with his mother

11) John Milton (1608-1674)

Paradise Lost (1633)

12) W. Shakespeare (1564-1616)

comedies – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1594), Twelfth Night (1600), As You Like It (1600), Much Ado About Nothing(1599)

tragedies - Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, and Macbeth

historical plays - King Henry VI, The Tragedy of King Richard III, The Life and Death of King John.

13) George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Irish playwright

Pygmalion (1913) - Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled(грязную) Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer(вид) of gentility(аристократизм), the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable (безупречная) speech. The play is a sharp lampoon (пасквиль) of the rigid (застойная) British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence.

The musical comedy “My fair lady”

Heartbreak house

14) Mary Shelly(1797 - 1854) – Frankenstein (1818) – the only book. The modern Prometeus. Frankenstein – a surname of a man(Victor) who created the monster(the creature)

and Percy Bysshe Shelly(1792-1822)(poet and humanist)

15) Sue Townsend (b. 2 april 1946)

The secret Dairy of Adrian Mole, aged 13 ¾ (1982)

The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

16) J. Swift (1667-1745)

Irish-born English satirist

Guliver’s Travel (1726) – political and social satire.

17) Oscar Wilde (1854- 1900)

An Irish-born poet, novelist, playwright

The importance of being Earnest (1895)

The Happy Prince

Picture of Dorian Gray

18) William Wordswoth (1770-1850)

Along with Samuel Coleridge was an early leader of English Romanticism.