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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564 –

1616) was an English poetand playwright, widelyregarded as the greatest

writer in the Englishlanguage and the world'spreeminent dramatist. Heis often called England's

national poet and the "Bardof Avon" (or simply "TheBard").



His surviving works consist

of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, twolong narrative poems, andseveral other poems. Hisplays have been translated

into every major livinglanguage, and are performedmore often than those of anyother playwright.

Historical playsGreat comediesGreat tragedies



Historical plays:Henry Ⅳ Richard III

Henry Ⅴ Henry VIII



Great comedies:• The Merchant of Venice• As You Like It• Twelfth Night• A Midsummer Night

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Great tragedies:HamletOthello

King Lear Macbeth



Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745) wasan Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist,political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for the Tories) and

poet.Swift is probably the foremostprose satirist in the Englishlanguage, and is less wellknown for his poetry. Swiftoriginally published all of his works under pseudonyms oranonymously.He is also known for being amaster of satire.

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Gulliver’s Travels

The First VoyageIn the first part Gulliver describes his

shipwreck in Lilliput where the tallestpeople were 6 inches high. The two partiesin this country were distinguished by theuse of high and low heels, Swift satirizesthe Tories and the Whigs in England.

Religious disputes were laughed at inaccount of a problem which divided thepeople: ―Should eggs be broken at the bigend or the little end? ‖



Gulliver’s Travels

The Second VoyageThe voyage to Brobdingnag is described in this

part. Gulliver now found himself a dwarfamong men 60 feet in height. The Kingregarded Europe as if it were an anthill.The Third Voyage

The third part is a satire on philosophers andprojectors who were given to dwelling in the air,like the inhabitants of the Flying Island.



Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe (1659/1661 —

1731) was an English writer, journalist, andpamphleteer, who gainedenduring fame for his

novel Robinson Crusoe .Defoe is notable for beinga prolific and versatile writer, he wrote more thanfive hundred books,

pamphlets, and journalson various topics(including politics, crime,religion, marriage,psychology and the

supernatural).



Robinson Crusoe When Robinson is 19, he runs away from homeand sets out to sea. After many adventures onthe sea, he settles down in Brazil. But the call ofthe sea is so strong that he embarks on another voyage to Africa. A frightful storm changes the course of the ship

and it is wrecked off the coast of anuninhabited island. Of all the ship ’ s crewRobinson alone escapes to the shore.



Robinson Crusoe Many years go by. One day Robinson discoversthe imprint of a man ’ s foot on the sand. Then helearns that the island is occasionally visited by

some cannibals who come to celebrate their victories over their enemies and to eat theircaptives. Robinson happens to see one suchcelebration and manages to save one of the victims, this man, named Friday by Robinson,proves to be a clever young Negro. An English ship drops anchor off the island, thecaptain takes Robinson and Friday to England.



Jane Austen

Jane Austen(1775-1817), is afamous English novelist. With detail, Austenportrayed the quiet, day-to-day life of members ofthe upper middle class.Her works combine

romantic comedy withsocial satire andpsychological insight.



Her major works :Pride and PrejudiceSense and SensibilityEmma Northanger Abbey Mansfield ParkPersuasion



His Major works:Oliver Twist A Tale of Two CitiesGreat ExpectationsDavid Copperfield



Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941) wasan English novelist andessayist, regarded as one of the

foremost modernist literaryfigures of the twentiethcentury.During the interwar period,

Woolf was a significant figurein London literary society anda member of the BloomsburyGroup.



She sometimes used the ―stream ofconsciousness ‖ technique.

▶Stream of Consciousness is a psychological termindicating the flux of conscious andsubconscious thoughts and impressionsmoving in the mind at any given timeindependently of the person ’ s will.

▶ In the 20th century, under the influence ofFleud ’ s theory of psychological analysis , anumber of writers adopted the Stream ofConsciousness as a method of novel writing.



Virginia Woolf

Her most famous worksinclude the novels MrsDalloway (1925),To theLighthouse (1927) andOrlando (1928), and thebook-length essay A Room ofOne's Own (1929), with itsfamous dictum, "a womanmust have money and aroom of her own if she is to write fiction."



Agatha Christie is afamous English writer.She was born on the 15 th ofSeptember 1890 inEngland. Agatha didn t go to schooland got her education athome.

In 1914 she got married.She took part in the First World War. She was a

nurse.

Agatha Christie – “Queen of Crime ”



Agatha Christie began to writedetective stories in 1920.Her first novel was “TheMysterious Affair at Styles”She became famous in 1926. Agatha Christie wrote 68novels, 17 plays and more than

a hundred stories.

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Mark TwainSamuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),better known by his pen name MarkTwain , was an American author and humorist. He

wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) andits sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885),thelatter often called "the Great American Novel.Twain began his career writing light, humorous verse,but evolved into a chronicler of the vanities,hypocrisies and murderous acts of mankind. At mid-career, with Huckleberry Finn , he combined richhumor, sturdy narrative and social criticism. Twain was a master at rendering colloquial speech andhelped to create and popularize a distinctive American literature built on American themes andlanguage. Many of Twain's works have beensuppressed at times for various reasons .Twain was born shortly after a visit by Halley's Comet,and he predicted that he would "go out with it," too.He died the day following the comet's subsequentreturn. He was lauded as the "greatest American

humorist of his age ,“ and William Faulkner calledTwain "the father of American literature.



The Adventures of Tom SawyerThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by MarkTwain is an 1876 novel about a young boygrowing up along the Mississippi River. The storyis set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg,inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twainlived.

According to an October 2012 article publishedin Smithsonian magazine, Twain named hisfictional character after a San Francisco fireman

whom he met in June 1863. The real Tom Sawyer was a local hero, famous for rescuing 90passengers after a shipwreck. The two remainedfriendly during Twain's three-year stay in SanFrancisco, often drinking and gambling together. Tom Sawyer was modeled on Twain as a child,

with traces of two schoolmates, John Briggs and Will Bowen. The book also introduced in asupporting role Huckleberry Finn, based onTwain's boyhood friend Tom Blankenship.



F. Scott FitzgeraldFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24,1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author

of novels and short stories, whose works are theparadigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term hecoined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "LostGeneration" of the 1920s. He finished fournovels: This Side of Paradise , The Beautiful andDamned ,The Great Gatsby (his most famous),

and Tender Is the Night . A fifth, unfinishednovel, The Love of the Last Tycoon , was publishedposthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many shortstories that treat themes of youth and promise along with age and despair.Fitzgerald's work has been adapted into films manytimes. His short story, "The Curious Case ofBenjamin Button", was the basis for a 2008

film.Tender is the Night was filmed in 1962, andmade into a television miniseries in 1985. TheBeautiful and Damned was filmed in 1922 and2010.The Great Gatsby has been the basis fornumerous films of the same name, spanning nearly90 years; 1926, 1949, 1974, 2000, and 2013adaptations. In addition, Fitzgerald's own life from1937 to 1940 was dramatized in 1958 in Beloved

Infidel .



The Great GatsbyThe Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel writtenby American author F. Scott Fitzgerald thatfollows a cast of characters living in the

fictional town of West Egg onprosperous Long Island in the summer of1922. The story primarily concerns the

young and mysterious millionaire JayGatsby and his quixotic passion for thebeautiful Daisy Buchanan. Considered tobe Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The GreatGatsby explores themes of decadence,idealism, resistance to change, socialupheaval, and excess, creating a portrait ofthe Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties thathas been described as a cautionary taleregarding the American Dream.

The book has remained popular since World War II, leading to numerous stageand film adaptations. The Great Gatsby is

widely considered to be a lite rary classicand a contender for the title " Great

American Novel ". The book is consistentlyranked among the gre atest worksof American literature .

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Ernest Miller HemingwayErnest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899– July 2,1961) was an American author and journalist. Hiseconomical and understated style had a stronginfluence on 20th-century fiction, while his life ofadventure and his public image influenced latergenerations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s,and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hepublished seven novels, six short story collections,

and two non-fiction works. Three novels, fourcollections of short stories, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of Americanliterature.Shortly after the publication of The Old Man andthe Sea in 1952, Hemingway went on safari to

Africa, where he was almost killed in twosuccessive plane crashes that left him in pain or illhealth for much of the rest of his life. Hemingwayhad permanent residences in Key West,Florida (1930s) and Cuba (1940s and 1950s), and in1959, he bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho, wherehe committed suicide in the summer of 1961.



The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the Sea is a novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba,and published in 1952. It was the last major work offiction to be produced by Hemingway andpublished in his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it centers upon Santiago, an agingfisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far outin the Gulf Stream. The Old Man and the Sea wasawarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to

the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature toHemingway in 1954.Hemingway wanted to use the story of the old man,Santiago, to show the honor in struggle and to drawbiblical parallels to life in his modern world. Possiblybased on the character of Gregorio Fuentes,Hemingway had initially planned to use Santiago's

story, which became The Old Man and the Sea , aspart of an intimacy between mother and son andalso the fact of relationships that cover most of thebook relate to the Bible.Hemingway mentions the real life experience of anold fisherman almost identical to that of Santiagoand his marlin in On the Blue Water: A Gulf Stream

Letter (Esquire , April 1936).



Herman MelvilleHerman Melville (August 1, 1819– September 28, 1891) was an American

writer of novels, short stories andpoetry. His contributions to the Westerncanon are the whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851); the short work Bartleby, theScrivener (1853) about a clerk in a WallStreet office; the slave shipnarrative Benito Cereno (1855); and BillyBudd, Sailor , left unfinished at his deathand published in 1924. When he died in1891, Melville was almost completelyforgotten. It was not until the "MelvilleRevival" in the early 20th century thathis work won recognition,

especially Moby-Dick , which was hailedas one of the literary masterpieces ofboth American and world literature. He

was the first writer to have his workscollected and published by the Libraryof America.



Moby-Dick Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) is the sixthbook by American writer Herman Melville. The

work is an epic sea-story of Captain Ahab's voyagein pursuit of Moby Dick, a great white whale. Itinitially received mixed reviews and at Melville'sdeath in 1891 was remembered, if at all, as achildren's sea adventure, but now is consideredone of the Great American Novels and a leading work of American Romanticism.

The opening line, "Call me Ishmael," is one of themost recognizable opening lines in Westernliterature. Ishmael then narrates the voyage of the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ahab has one purpose: revenge on Moby Dick, aferocious, enigmatic white whale which on aprevious voyage destroyed Ahab's ship andsevered his leg at the knee. The detailed andrealistic descriptions of whale hunting and theprocess of extracting whale oil, as well as lifeaboard ship among a culturally diverse crew, aremixed with exploration of class and social status,good and evil, and the existence of God.Melville uses a wide range of styles and literarydevices ranging from lists and catalogsto Shakespearean stage directions soliloquies

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